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2007-08-22[POWERPC] Copy over headers from arch/ppc to arch/powerpc that we needKumar Gala
To build arch/powerpc without including asm-ppc/ we need these files in asm-powerpc/ Moved some headers under arch/powerpc/platforms if they were only used by platform or driver files and fixed up the source file includes to match the new locations Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-08-22[POWERPC] Split out iSeries specific exception macrosStephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-22[POWERPC] Move the exception macros into a header fileStephen Rothwell
It makes head_64.S a bit more readable and will allow us to move the iSeries exceptions elsewhere. This also removes the last line of the comment: * The following macros define the code that appears as * the prologue to each of the exception handlers. They * are split into two parts to allow a single kernel binary * to be used for pSeries and iSeries. * LOL. One day... - paulus Anything is possible. :-) Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-22[POWERPC] Move iSeries startup code out of head_64.SStephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-22[POWERPC] Use strcasecmp() rather than strncasecmp() when determining device ↵Scott Wood
node compatibility The current code assumes "foo-bar" must always be compatible with a node compatible with "foo", which breaks device trees where this is not so. The "case" part is also wrong according to Open Firmware, but it's more likely to have drivers and/or device trees depending on it, and thus needs to be handled more carefully. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-22[POWERPC] Add clrbits8 and setbits8Scott Wood
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-22[POWERPC] iSeries: Clean up lparmap messStephen Rothwell
We need to have xLparMap in head_64.S so that it is at a fixed address (because the linker will not resolve (address & 0xffffffff) for us). But the assembler miscalculates the KERNEL_VSID() expressions. So put the confusing expressions into asm-offsets.c. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-20[POWERPC] 40x decrementer fixesJosh Boyer
Allow generic_calibrate_decr to work for 40x platforms. Given that the hardware behavior is identical, this also changes the set_dec function to reload the PIT on 40x to match the behavior 44x currently has. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-08-20[POWERPC] 40x MMUJosh Boyer
Add MMU definitions for 40x platforms. Also fixes two warnings in 40x_mmu.c. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2007-08-17[POWERPC] Tidy up CONFIG_PPC_MM_SLICES codeStephen Rothwell
This removes some of the #ifdefs from .c files. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-17[POWERPC] Remove get_property and device_is_compatibleStephen Rothwell
They were only needed for backwards compatibility and all in tree uses have now been changed. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-17[POWERPC] Update lmb.h include protection to ASM_POWERPCBecky Bruce
This file was protected by _PPC64_LMB_H, which is confusing, as the 32-bit code also uses the lmb these days. Changed to _ASM_POWERPC_LMB_H. Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-17[POWERPC] Implement atomic{, 64}_{read, write}() without volatileSegher Boessenkool
Instead, use asm() like all other atomic operations already do. Also use inline functions instead of macros; this actually improves code generation (some code becomes a little smaller, probably because of improved alias information -- just a few hundred bytes total on a default kernel build, nothing shocking). Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-17[POWERPC] pseries: Eliminate global error_log_cnt variableLinas Vepstas
Eliminate the use of error_log_cnt as a global var shared across different directories. Pass it as a parameter instead. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> ---- Respin of earlier patch, with the CONFIG_PSERIES junk removed from the header file. arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 10 +++++----- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c | 7 ++++--- include/asm-powerpc/nvram.h | 6 ++++-- 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-17[POWERPC] Replace a few #defines with empty inline functionsSegher Boessenkool
...so that GCC doesn't complain about unused variables in the callers of these. Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-13[NET]: Share correct feature code between bridging and bondingHerbert Xu
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8797 shows that the bonding driver may produce bogus combinations of the checksum flags and SG/TSO. For example, if you bond devices with NETIF_F_HW_CSUM and NETIF_F_IP_CSUM you'll end up with a bonding device that has neither flag set. If both have TSO then this produces an illegal combination. The bridge device on the other hand has the correct code to deal with this. In fact, the same code can be used for both. So this patch moves that logic into net/core/dev.c and uses it for both bonding and bridging. In the process I've made small adjustments such as only setting GSO_ROBUST if at least one constituent device supports it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-12sched: make global code staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes the following needlessly global code static: - arch_reinit_sched_domains() - struct attr_sched_mc_power_savings - struct attr_sched_smt_power_savings Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-12Pull processor into release branchLen Brown
2007-08-11Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] Fix size check for hugetlbfs [POWERPC] Fix initialization and usage of dma_mask [POWERPC] Fix more section mismatches in head_64.S [POWERPC] Revert "[POWERPC] Add 'mdio' to bus scan id list for platforms with QE UEC" [POWERPC] PS3: Update ps3_defconfig [POWERPC] PS3: Remove text saying PS3 support is incomplete [POWERPC] PS3: Fix storage probe logic [POWERPC] cell: Move SPU affinity init to spu_management_of_ops [POWERPC] Fix potential duplicate entry in SLB shadow buffer
2007-08-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: BLOCK: Hide the contents of linux/bio.h if CONFIG_BLOCK=n sysace: HDIO_GETGEO has it's own method for ages drivers/block/cpqarray.c: better error handling and kmalloc + memset conversion to k[cz]alloc drivers/block/cciss.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc Clean up duplicate includes in drivers/block/ Fix remap handling by blktrace [PATCH] remove mm/filemap.c:file_send_actor()
2007-08-11i386: Use global flag to disable broken local apic timer on AMD CPUs.Andi Kleen
The Averatec 2370 and some other Turion laptop BIOS seems to program the ENABLE_C1E MSR inconsistently between cores. This confuses the lapic use heuristics because when C1E is enabled anywhere it seems to affect the complete chip. Use a global flag instead of a per cpu flag to handle this. If any CPU has C1E enabled disabled lapic use. Thanks to Cal Peake for debugging. Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11i386: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issueAndi Kleen
Commit 19d36ccdc34f5ed444f8a6af0cbfdb6790eb1177 "x86: Fix alternatives and kprobes to remap write-protected kernel text" uses code which is being patched for patching. In particular, paravirt_ops does patching in two stages: first it calls paravirt_ops.patch, then it fills any remaining instructions with nop_out(). nop_out calls text_poke() which calls lookup_address() which calls pgd_val() (aka paravirt_ops.pgd_val): that call site is one of the places we patch. If we always do patching as one single call to text_poke(), we only need make sure we're not patching the memcpy in text_poke itself. This means the prototype to paravirt_ops.patch needs to change, to marshal the new code into a buffer rather than patching in place as it does now. It also means all patching goes through text_poke(), which is known to be safe (apply_alternatives is also changed to make a single patch). AK: fix compilation on x86-64 (bad rusty!) AK: fix boot on x86-64 (sigh) AK: merged with other patches Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11x86_64: Don't mark __exitcall as __coldAndi Kleen
gcc currently doesn't support attributes on types, so we can't use it function pointers. This avoids some warnings on a gcc 4.3 build. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11changing include/asm-generic/pgtable.h for non-mmuGreg Ungerer
There are some parts of include/asm-generic/pgtable.h that are relevant to the non-mmu architectures. To make it easier to include this from them I would like to ifdef the relevant parts. Without this there is a handful of functions that are referenced in here that are not defined on many non-mmu architectures. They could be defined out of course, as an alternative approach. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11finish i386 and x86-64 sysdata conversionMuli Ben-Yehuda
This patch finishes the i386 and x86-64 ->sysdata conversion and hopefully also fixes Riku's and Andy's observed bugs. It is based on Yinghai Lu's and Andy Whitcroft's patches (thanks!) with some changes: - introduce pci_scan_bus_with_sysdata() and use it instead of pci_scan_bus() where appropriate. pci_scan_bus_with_sysdata() will allocate the sysdata structure and then call pci_scan_bus(). - always allocate pci_sysdata dynamically. The whole point of this sysdata work is to make it easy to do root-bus specific things (e.g., support PCI domains and IOMMU's). I dislike using a default struct pci_sysdata in some places and a dynamically allocated pci_sysdata elsewhere - the potential for someone indavertantly changing the default structure is too high. - this patch only makes the minimal changes necessary, i.e., the NUMA node is always initialized to -1. Patches to do the right thing with regards to the NUMA node can build on top of this (either add a 'node' parameter to pci_scan_bus_with_sysdata() or just update the node when it becomes known). The patch was compile tested with various configurations (e.g., NUMAQ, VISWS) and run-time tested on i386 and x86-64. Unfortunately none of my machines exhibited the bugs so caveat emptor. Andy, could you please see if this fixes the NUMA issues you've seen? Riku, does this fix "pci=noacpi" on your laptop? Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Cc: <riku.seppala@kymp.net> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11timer: remove clockevents_unregister_notifierMiao Xie
I find a function(clockevents_unregister_notifier) which is not called by anything in tree. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11RCU: Remove prototype for nonexistent function synchronize_idle()Josh Triplett
synchronize_idle() sounds like an interesting function, but we don't actually have it, so don't prototype it. Introduced in commit 9b06e818985d139fd9e82c28297f7744e1b484e1, in 2005. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11hex_dump: add missing "const" qualifiersAlan Stern
Add missing "const" qualifiers to the print_hex_dump_bytes() library routines. (akpm: rumoured to fix some compile warning somewhere) Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11fix serial buffer memory leakAlan Cox
Patch c5c34d4862e18ef07c1276d233507f540fb5a532 (tty: flush flip buffer on ldisc input queue flush) introduces a race condition which can lead to memory leaks. The problem can be triggered when tcflush() is called when data are being pushed to the line discipline driver by flush_to_ldisc(). flush_to_ldisc() releases tty->buf.lock when calling the line discipline receive_buf function. At that poing tty_buffer_flush() kicks in and sets both tty->buf.head and tty->buf.tail to NULL. When flush_to_ldisc() finishes, it restores tty->buf.head but doesn't touch tty->buf.tail. This corrups the buffer queue, and the next call to tty_buffer_request_room() will allocate a new buffer and overwrite tty->buf.head. The previous buffer is then lost forever without being released. (Thanks to Laurent for the above text, for finding, disgnosing and reporting the bug) - Use tty->flags bits for the flush status. - Wait for the flag to clear again before returning - Fix the doc error noted - Fix flush of empty queue leaving stale flushpending [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11Remove unused struct proc_dir_entry::setAlexey Dobriyan
After /proc/sys rewrite it was left unused. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11FRV: connect up fallocateDavid Howells
Connect up the fallocate() system call. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11BLOCK: Hide the contents of linux/bio.h if CONFIG_BLOCK=nDavid Howells
Hide the contents of linux/bio.h if CONFIG_BLOCK=n as there shouldn't be compiled code that uses it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-08-11Fix remap handling by blktraceAlan D. Brunelle
This patch provides more information concerning REMAP operations on block IOs. The additional information provides clearer details at the user level, and supports post-processing analysis in btt. o Adds in partition remaps on the same device. o Fixed up the remap information in DM to be in the right order o Sent up mapped-from and mapped-to device information Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-08-11[PATCH] remove mm/filemap.c:file_send_actor()Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the no longer used file_send_actor(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-08-10[POWERPC] Fix initialization and usage of dma_maskBenjamin Herrenschmidt
powerpc has a couple of bugs in the usage of dma_masks that tend to break when drivers explicitly try to set a 32-bit mask for example. First, the code that generates the pci devices from the OF device-tree doesn't initialize the mask properly, then our implementation of set_dma_mask() was trying to validate the -previous- mask value, not the one passed in as an argument. This fixes these problems. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-10[POWERPC] cell: Move SPU affinity init to spu_management_of_opsAndre Detsch
This patch moves affinity initialization code from spu_base.c to a new spu_management_of_ops function (init_affinity), which is empty in the case of PS3. This fixes a linking problem that was happening when compiling for PS3. Also, some small code style changes were made. Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-08-09Fix Alpha O_CLOEXEC definitionRichard Henderson
The default definition in asm-generic conflicts with Alpha's O_DIRECT, so, like several other arches, it needs to be redefined. Signed-off-by: Richard Hendersion <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-09Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: SUNRPC: Replace flush_workqueue() with cancel_work_sync() and friends NFS: Replace flush_scheduled_work with cancel_work_sync() and friends SUNRPC: Don't call gss_delete_sec_context() from an rcu context NFSv4: Don't call put_rpccred() from an rcu callback NFS: Fix NFSv4 open stateid regressions NFSv4: Fix a locking regression in nfs4_set_mode_locked() NFS: Fix put_nfs_open_context SUNRPC: Fix a race in rpciod_down()
2007-08-09hexdump: use const notationArtem Bityutskiy
Trivial fix: mark the buffer to hexdump as const so callers could avoid casting their const buffers when calling print_hex_dump(). The patch is really trivial and I suggest to consider it as a fix (it fixes GCC warnings) and push it to current tree. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-09Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 * 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [TCP]: H-TCP maxRTT estimation at startup [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: add symbolic dependency on IPv4 conntrack [NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: return EEXIST instead of EINVAL for existing nat'ed conntracks [NETFILTER]: ipt_recent: avoid a possible NULL pointer deref in recent_seq_open() [NET] net/core/utils: fix sparse warning [NetLabel]: add missing rcu_dereference() calls in the LSM domain mapping hash table [PATCH] mac80211: don't allow scanning in monitor mode [PATCH] mac80211: Fix sparse error for sta_last_seq_ctrl_read [PATCH] mac80211: use do { } while (0) for multi-line macros [PATCH] mac80211: missing dev_put in ieee80211_master_start_xmit
2007-08-09Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 * 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Fix memory leak when cpu hotplugging. [SPARC64]: Do not assume sun4v chips have load-twin/store-init support. [SPARC64]: Fix hard-coding of cpu type output in /proc/cpuinfo on sun4v. [SPARC]: Centralize find_in_proplist() instead of duplicating N times.
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->pick_next_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->pick_next_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->dequeue_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->dequeue_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->enqueue_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->enqueue_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from print_cfs_rq()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from print_cfs_rq(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: fix bug in balance_tasks()Peter Williams
There are two problems with balance_tasks() and how it used: 1. The variables best_prio and best_prio_seen (inherited from the old move_tasks()) were only required to handle problems caused by the active/expired arrays, the order in which they were processed and the possibility that the task with the highest priority could be on either. These issues are no longer present and the extra overhead associated with their use is unnecessary (and possibly wrong). 2. In the absence of CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED being set, the same this_best_prio variable needs to be used by all scheduling classes or there is a risk of moving too much load. E.g. if the highest priority task on this at the beginning is a fairly low priority task and the rt class migrates a task (during its turn) then that moved task becomes the new highest priority task on this_rq but when the sched_fair class initializes its copy of this_best_prio it will get the priority of the original highest priority task as, due to the run queue locks being held, the reschedule triggered by pull_task() will not have taken place. This could result in inappropriate overriding of skip_for_load and excessive load being moved. The attached patch addresses these problems by deleting all reference to best_prio and best_prio_seen and making this_best_prio a reference parameter to the various functions involved. load_balance_fair() has also been modified so that this_best_prio is only reset (in the loop) if CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is set. This should preserve the effect of helping spread groups' higher priority tasks around the available CPUs while improving system performance when CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED isn't set. Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: simplify move_tasks()Peter Williams
The move_tasks() function is currently multiplexed with two distinct capabilities: 1. attempt to move a specified amount of weighted load from one run queue to another; and 2. attempt to move a specified number of tasks from one run queue to another. The first of these capabilities is used in two places, load_balance() and load_balance_idle(), and in both of these cases the return value of move_tasks() is used purely to decide if tasks/load were moved and no notice of the actual number of tasks moved is taken. The second capability is used in exactly one place, active_load_balance(), to attempt to move exactly one task and, as before, the return value is only used as an indicator of success or failure. This multiplexing of sched_task() was introduced, by me, as part of the smpnice patches and was motivated by the fact that the alternative, one function to move specified load and one to move a single task, would have led to two functions of roughly the same complexity as the old move_tasks() (or the new balance_tasks()). However, the new modular design of the new CFS scheduler allows a simpler solution to be adopted and this patch addresses that solution by: 1. adding a new function, move_one_task(), to be used by active_load_balance(); and 2. making move_tasks() a single purpose function that tries to move a specified weighted load and returns 1 for success and 0 for failure. One of the consequences of these changes is that neither move_one_task() or the new move_tasks() care how many tasks sched_class.load_balance() moves and this enables its interface to be simplified by returning the amount of load moved as its result and removing the load_moved pointer from the argument list. This helps simplify the new move_tasks() and slightly reduces the amount of work done in each of sched_class.load_balance()'s implementations. Further simplification, e.g. changes to balance_tasks(), are possible but (slightly) complicated by the special needs of load_balance_fair() so I've left them to a later patch (if this one gets accepted). NB Since move_tasks() gets called with two run queue locks held even small reductions in overhead are worthwhile. [ mingo@elte.hu ] this change also reduces code size nicely: text data bss dec hex filename 39216 3618 24 42858 a76a sched.o.before 39173 3618 24 42815 a73f sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-08[SPARC64]: Do not assume sun4v chips have load-twin/store-init support.David S. Miller
Check the cpu type in the OBP device tree before committing to using the optimized Niagara memcpy and memset implementation. If we don't recognize the cpu type, use a completely generic version. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>