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2006-03-08Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge: powerpc: Fix various syscall/signal/swapcontext bugs [PATCH] powerpc: incorrect rmo_top handling in prom_init [PATCH] powerpc: Fix incorrect pud_ERROR() message [PATCH] powerpc: Expose SMT and L1 icache snoop userland features [PATCH] powerpc: Fix windfarm_pm112 not starting all control loops [PATCH] powerpc: Fix old g5 issues with windfarm powerpc32: Fix timebase synchronization on 32-bit powermacs powerpc: Turn off verbose debug output in powermac platform functions powerpc: Fix might-sleep warning in program check exception handler
2006-03-08[PATCH] i386: port ATI timer fix from x86_64 to i386 IIAndi Kleen
ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled. This is because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU ends up processing it twice. This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0. I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds options to enable/disable too) Ported over from a similar x86-64 change. I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI. Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone. Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] fix kexec asmMichael Matz
While testing kexec and kdump we hit problems where the new kernel would freeze or instantly reboot. The easiest way to trigger it was to kexec a kernel compiled for CONFIG_M586 on an athlon cpu. Compiling for CONFIG_MK7 instead would work fine. The patch fixes a few problems with the kexec inline asm. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] fix file countingDipankar Sarma
I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc. The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up with a very fragmented slab - llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 587730 0 758844 At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following patch I fixes this problem. This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock. Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user. Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] rcu batch tuningDipankar Sarma
This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches. There are two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch (blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark, qlowmark). By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value. If the input RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX. Setting batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot. If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems anyway. Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the batch limit is set to the default. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] percpu_counter_sum()Andrew Morton
Implement percpu_counter_sum(). This is a more accurate but slower version of percpu_counter_read_positive(). We need this for Alex's speedup-ext3_statfs patch and for the nr_file accounting fix. Otherwise these things would be too inaccurate on large CPU counts. Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] __get_unaligned() gcc-4 fixAtsushi Nemoto
If the 'ptr' is a const, this code cause "assignment of read-only variable" error on gcc 4.x. Use __u64 instead of __typeof__(*(ptr)) for temporary variable to get rid of errors on gcc 4.x. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] powerpc: restore eeh_add_device_late() prototype stubMark Fasheh
We fixed this: arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c: In function `eeh_add_device_tree_late': arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:901: warning: implicit declaration of function `eeh_add_device_late' arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c: At top level: arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:918: error: conflicting types for 'eeh_add_device_late' arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:901: error: previous implicit declaration of 'eeh_add_device_late' was here make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.o] Error 1 But we forgot the !CONFIG_EEH stub. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08Mark the pipe file operations staticLinus Torvalds
They aren't used (nor even really usable) outside of pipe.c anyway Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08powerpc: Fix various syscall/signal/swapcontext bugsPaul Mackerras
A careful reading of the recent changes to the system call entry/exit paths revealed several problems, plus some things that could be simplified and improved: * 32-bit wasn't testing the _TIF_NOERROR bit in the syscall fast exit path, so it was only doing anything with it once it saw some other bit being set. In other words, the noerror behaviour would apply to the next system call where we had to reschedule or deliver a signal, which is not necessarily the current system call. * 32-bit wasn't doing the call to ptrace_notify in the syscall exit path when the _TIF_SINGLESTEP bit was set. * _TIF_RESTOREALL was in both _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK and _TIF_PERSYSCALL_MASK, which is odd since _TIF_RESTOREALL is only set by system calls. I took it out of _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK. * On 64-bit, _TIF_RESTOREALL wasn't causing the non-volatile registers to be restored (unless perhaps a signal was delivered or the syscall was traced or single-stepped). Thus the non-volatile registers weren't restored on exit from a signal handler. We probably got away with it mostly because signal handlers written in C wouldn't alter the non-volatile registers. * On 32-bit I simplified the code and made it more like 64-bit by making the syscall exit path jump to ret_from_except to handle preemption and signal delivery. * 32-bit was calling do_signal unnecessarily when _TIF_RESTOREALL was set - but I think because of that 32-bit was actually restoring the non-volatile registers on exit from a signal handler. * I changed the order of enabling interrupts and saving the non-volatile registers before calling do_syscall_trace_leave; now we enable interrupts first. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-07[ARM] 3352/1: DSB required for the completion of a TLB maintenance operationCatalin Marinas
Patch from Catalin Marinas Chapter B2.7.3 in the latest ARM ARM (with v6 information) states that the completion of a TLB maintenance operation is only guaranteed by the execution of a DSB (Data Syncronization Barrier, formerly Data Write Barrier or Drain Write Buffer). Note that a DSB is only needed in the flush_tlb_kernel_* functions since the completion is guaranteed by a mode change (i.e. switching back to user mode) for the flush_tlb_user_* functions. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-06[PATCH] Increase max kmalloc size for very large systemsJack Steiner
Systems with extemely large numbers of nodes or cpus need to kmalloc structures larger than is currently supported. This patch increases the maximum supported size for very large systems. This patch should have no effect on current systems. (akpm: why not just use alloc_pages() for sysfs_cpus?) Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06[PATCH] memory-hotplug compile fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:53: warning: 'struct page' declared inside parameter list (akpm: I tossed in a couple more possibly-needed-sometime struct decls too) Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06[PATCH] s390: fix compile with VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=nJan Blunck
When CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined compiling fails with an undefined reference to account_vtime(). Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06[PATCH] fix next_timer_interrupt() for hrtimerTony Lindgren
Also from Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Function next_timer_interrupt() got broken with a recent patch 6ba1b91213e81aa92b5cf7539f7d2a94ff54947c as sys_nanosleep() was moved to hrtimer. This broke things as next_timer_interrupt() did not check hrtimer tree for next event. Function next_timer_interrupt() is needed with dyntick (CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ, VST) implementations, as the system can be in idle when next hrtimer event was supposed to happen. At least ARM and S390 currently use next_timer_interrupt(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06[PATCH] i4l: add new PCI IDs for HFC-S PCIKarsten Keil
Add new PCI IDs for HFC-S PCI based ISDN TA 'Primux II S0' and 'Primux II S0' from Gerdes AG Signed-off-by: Martin Bachem <info@colognechip.com> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-04[SPARC64]: Mark __ex_table section correctly.David S. Miller
We must use the "a" (allocate) attribute every time we emit an entry into the __ex_table section. For consistency, use "a" instead of #alloc which is some Solaris compat cruft GNU as provides on Sparc. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-03[PATCH] powerpc: Fix incorrect pud_ERROR() messageDavid Gibson
The powerpc pud_ERROR() function misleadingly prints a message indicating a pmd error. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-03[PATCH] powerpc: Expose SMT and L1 icache snoop userland featuresBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch makes userland aware of the icache snoop capability of the POWER5 (and possibly others in the future) and of SMT capabilities. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-02[PATCH] reiserfs: fix unaligned bitmap usageJeff Mahoney
The bitmaps associated with generation numbers for directory entries are declared as an array of ints. On some platforms, this causes alignment exceptions. The following patch uses the standard bitmap declaration macros to declare the bitmaps, fixing the problem. Originally from Takashi Iwai. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-01Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01[PATCH] fix build breakage in eeh.c in 2.6.16-rc5-git5Greg KH
This patch should fixe a problem with eeh_add_device_late() not being defined in the ppc64 build process, causing the build to break. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-01[PATCH] pcmcia: Add macro to match PCMCIA cards by numeric ID and first ↵Pavel Roskin
vendor string This is needed to distinguish Intersil and non-Intersil cards with numeric ID 0x0156, 0x0002. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-02-28Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
2006-02-28[PATCH] Add mm->task_size and fix powerpc vdsoBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch adds mm->task_size to keep track of the task size of a given mm and uses that to fix the powerpc vdso so that it uses the mm task size to decide what pages to fault in instead of the current thread flags (which broke when ptracing). (akpm: I expect that mm_struct.task_size will become the way in which we finally sort out the confusion between 32-bit processes and 32-bit mm's. It may need tweaks, but at this stage this patch is powerpc-only.) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-28[IA64] sysctl option to silence unaligned trap warningsJes Sorensen
Allow sysadmin to disable all warnings about userland apps making unaligned accesses by using: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap Rather than having to use prctl on a process by process basis. Default behaivour leaves the warnings enabled. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-28Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
2006-02-28[MIPS] Fix build error on processors that don's support copy-on-write.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-28[PATCH] powerpc: fix dynamic PCI probe regressionJohn Rose
Some hotplug driver functions were migrated to the kernel for use by EEH in commit 2bf6a8fa21570f37fd1789610da30f70a05ac5e3. Previously, the PCI Hotplug module had been changed to use the new OFDT-based PCI probe when appropriate: 5fa80fcdca9d20d30c9ecec30d4dbff4ed93a5c6 When rpaphp_pci_config_slot() was moved from the rpaphp driver to the new kernel function pcibios_add_pci_devices(), the OFDT-based probe stuff was dropped. This patch restores it. Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-27Revert "[PATCH] x86_64: Only do the clustered systems have unsynchronized ↵Linus Torvalds
TSC assumption on IBM systems" This reverts commit 13a229abc25640813f1480c0478dfc6bdbc1c19e. Quoth Andi: "After some consideration and feedback from various people it turns out this wasn't that good an idea. It has some problems and needs more work. Since it was only an optimization anyways it's best to just back it out again for now." Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-27[IA64-SGI] Make number of TIO nodes configurableJack Steiner
Make the limit for the number of TIO nodes a function of the number of C/M nodes in the system instead of a hardcoded constant. The number of TIO nodes should be the same as the number of C/M nodes. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-27[NETFILTER]: Restore {ipt,ip6t,ebt}_LOG compatibilityPatrick McHardy
The nfnetlink_log infrastructure changes broke compatiblity of the LOG targets. They currently use whatever log backend was registered first, which means that if ipt_ULOG was loaded first, no messages will be printed to the ring buffer anymore. Restore compatiblity by using the old log functions by default and only use the nf_log backend if the user explicitly said so. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27[IPSEC]: Kill post_input hook and do NAT-T in esp_input directlyHerbert Xu
The only reason post_input exists at all is that it gives us the potential to adjust the checksums incrementally in future which we ought to do. However, after thinking about it for a bit we can adjust the checksums without using this post_input stuff at all. The crucial point is that only the inner-most NAT-T SA needs to be considered when adjusting checksums. What's more, the checksum adjustment comes down to a single u32 due to the linearity of IP checksums. We just happen to have a spare u32 lying around in our skb structure :) When ip_summed is set to CHECKSUM_NONE on input, the value of skb->csum is currently unused. All we have to do is to make that the checksum adjustment and voila, there goes all the post_input and decap structures! I've left in the decap data structures for now since it's intricately woven into the sec_path stuff. We can kill them later too. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-27[MIPS] Fix atomic*_sub_if_positive return value.Ralf Baechle
Reported and initial fix by Thomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com>, rewritten by me. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-27[MIPS] SMP: Fix initialization order bug.Ralf Baechle
A recent change requires cpu_possible_map to be initialized before smp_sched_init() but most MIPS platforms were initializing their processors in the prom_prepare_cpus callback of smp_prepare_cpus. The simple fix of calling prom_prepare_cpus from one of the earlier SMP initialization hooks doesn't work well either since IPIs may require init_IRQ() to have completed, so bit the bullet and split prom_prepare_cpus into two initialization functions, plat_smp_setup which is called early from setup_arch and plat_prepare_cpus called where prom_prepare_cpus used to be called. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-27[MIPS] Use "=R" constraint to avoid compiler errors in cmpxchg().Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-26[SPARC64]: Make cpu_present_map available earlier.David S. Miller
The change to kernel/sched.c's init code to use for_each_cpu() requires that the cpu_possible_map be setup much earlier. Set it up via setup_arch(), constrained to NR_CPUS, and later constrain it to max_cpus in smp_prepare_cpus(). This fixes SMP booting on sparc64. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-26[SPARC64]: Implement futex_atomic_op_inuser().David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-26[PATCH] x86_64: Move the SMP time selection earlierAndi Kleen
SMP time selection originally ran after all CPUs were brought up because it needed to know the number of CPUs to decide if it needs an MP safe timer or not. This is not needed anymore because we know present CPUs early. This fixes a couple of problems: - apicmaintimer didn't always work because it relied on state that was set up time_init_gtod too late. - The output for the used timer in early kernel log was misleading because time_init_gtod could actually change it later. Now always print the final timer choice Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-26[PATCH] x86_64: Fix the additional_cpus=.. optionAndi Kleen
It didn't set up the CPU possible map early enough, so the option didn't actually work. Noticed by Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-26[PATCH] x86_64: Only do the clustered systems have unsynchronized TSC ↵Andi Kleen
assumption on IBM systems Big Unisys systems have multiple clusters too, but they have an synchronized TSC. I'm using the SMBIOS to check for vendor == IBM. Cc: Chris McDermott <lcm@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Protasevich, Natalie" <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-26[PATCH] x86_64: fix USER_PTRS_PER_PGDJan Beulich
The value, while currently unused in the native kernel, was off by one. Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-26[PATCH] x86_64: no_iommu removal in pci-gart.cJon Mason
In previous versions of pci-gart.c, no_iommu was used to determine if IOMMU was disabled in the GART DMA mapping functions. This changed in 2.6.16 and now gart_xxx() functions are only called if gart is enabled. Therefore, uses of no_iommu in the GART code are no longer necessary and can be removed. Also, it removes double deceleration of no_iommu and force_iommu in pci.h and proto.h, by removing the deceleration in pci.h. Lastly, end_pfn off by one error. Tested (along with patch 1/2) on dual opteron with gart enabled, iommu=soft, and iommu=off. Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds
2006-02-24[PATCH] flags parameter for linkatUlrich Drepper
I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition. The name. Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does. Even if somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot change this because it would break the ABI. But the fact remains that some application might want this behavior. We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the behavior. For this we could use the new linkat interface which would need a new flags parameter. If the new parameter is AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new behavior could be invoked. I do not want to introduce such a patch now. But we could add the parameter now, just don't use it. The patch below would do this. Can we get this late patch applied before the release more or less fixes the syscall API? Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24[PATCH] x86: fix broken SMP boot sequenceJames Bottomley
Recent GDT changes broke the SMP boot sequence if the booting CPU is numbered anything other than zero. There's also a subtle source of error in that the boot time CPU now uses cpu_gdt_table (which is actually the GDT for booting CPUs in head.S). This patch fixes both problems by making GDT descriptors themselves allocated from a per_cpu area and switching to them in cpu_init(), which now means that cpu_gdt_table is exclusively used for booting CPUs again. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24[PATCH] Kprobes causes NX protection fault on i686 SMPPrasanna S Panchamukhi
Fix a problem seen on i686 machine with NX support where the instruction could not be single stepped because of NX bit set on the memory pages allocated by kprobes module. This patch provides allocation of instruction solt so that the processor can execute the instruction from that location similar to x86_64 architecture. Thanks to Bibo and Masami for testing this patch. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24[PATCH] m32r: fix and update for gcc-4.0Hirokazu Takata
Fix and update for gcc-4.0. - arch/m32r/kernel/signal.c: Change type of the 8th parameter of sys_rt_sigsuspend() from 'struct pt_regs' to 'struct pt_regs *'. This functions make use of the 'regs' parameter to return status value, but gcc-4.0 optimizes and removes it as a dead code. Functions, sys_sigaltstack() and sys_rt_sigreturn(), have also modified. - arch/m32r/lib/usercopy.c, include/asm-m32r/uaccess.h: Add early-clobber constraints('&') to output values of asm statements; these constraints seems to be required for gcc-4.0 register assignment. Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-23Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-02-24[PATCH] powerpc: Fix runlatch performance issuesAnton Blanchard
The runlatch SPR can take a lot of time to write. My original runlatch code would set it on every exception entry even though most of the time this was not required. It would also continually set it in the idle loop, which is an issue on an SMT capable processor. Now we cache the runlatch value in a threadinfo bit, and only check for it in decrementer and hardware interrupt exceptions as well as the idle loop. Boot on POWER3, POWER5 and iseries, and compile tested on pmac32. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>