- 25 Mar, 2006 12 commits
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Christoph Lameter authored
__drain_alien_cache() currently drains objects by freeing them to the (remote) freelists of the original node. However, each node also has a shared list containing objects to be used on any processor of that node. We can avoid a number of remote node accesses by copying the pointers to the free objects directly into the remote shared array. And while we are at it: Skip alien draining if the alien cache spinlock is already taken. Kiran reported that this is a performance benefit. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
slabr_objects() can be used to transfer objects between various object caches of the slab allocator. It is currently only used during __cache_alloc() to retrieve elements from the shared array. We will be using it soon to transfer elements from the alien caches to the remote shared array. Signed-off-by:
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Pekka Enberg authored
Convert mm/ to use the new kmem_cache_zalloc allocator. Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by:
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Pekka Enberg authored
As suggested by Eric Dumazet, optimize kzalloc() calls that pass a compile-time constant size. Please note that the patch increases kernel text slightly (~200 bytes for defconfig on x86). Signed-off-by:
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Pekka Enberg authored
Introduce a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc. The allocator already exits in XFS and there are potential users for it so this patch makes the allocator available for the general public. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alessandro Zummo authored
Add a driver for the on-chip watchdog on the cirrus ep93xx series of ARM CPUs. Signed-off-by:
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
The attached patch optimises d_find_alias() to only take the spinlock if there's anything in the the inode's alias list. If there isn't, it returns NULL immediately. With respect to the superblock sharing patch, this should reduce by one the number of times the dcache_lock is taken by nfs_lookup() for ordinary directory lookups. Only in the case where there's already a dentry for particular directory inode (such as might happen when another mountpoint is rooted at that dentry) will the lock then be taken the extra time. Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
According to the specification the timevals must be validated and an errorcode -EINVAL returned in case the timevals are not in canonical form. This check was never done in Linux. The pre 2.6.16 code converted invalid timevals silently. Negative timeouts were converted by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion to the maximum timeout. hrtimers and the ktime_t operations expect timevals in canonical form. Otherwise random results might happen on 32 bits machines due to the optimized ktime_add/sub operations. Negative timeouts are treated as already expired. This might break applications which work on pre 2.6.16. To prevent random behaviour and API breakage the timevals are checked and invalid timevals sanitized in a simliar way as the pre 2.6.16 code did. Invalid timevals are reported with a per boot limited number of kernel messages so applications which use this misfeature can be corrected. After a grace period of one year the sanitizing should be replaced by a correct validation check. This is also documented in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt The validation and sanitizing is done inside do_setitimer so all callers (sys_setitimer, compat_sys_setitimer, osf_setitimer) are catched. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
alarm() calls the kernel with an unsigend int timeout in seconds. The value is stored in the tv_sec field of a struct timeval to setup the itimer. The tv_sec field of struct timeval is of type long, which causes the tv_sec value to be negative on 32 bit machines if seconds > INT_MAX. Before the hrtimer merge (pre 2.6.16) such a negative value was converted to the maximum jiffies timeout by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion. It's not clear whether this was intended or just happened to be done by the timeval_to_jiffies code. hrtimers expect a timeval in canonical form and treat a negative timeout as already expired. This breaks the legitimate usage of alarm() with a timeout value > INT_MAX seconds. For 32 bit machines it is therefor necessary to limit the internal seconds value to avoid API breakage. Instead of doing this in all implementations of sys_alarm the duplicated sys_alarm code is moved into a common function in itimer.c Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
I seem to have lost this hunk in yesterday's patch. It brings the coming-online CPU's softlockup timer up to date so we don't get false-positive tripups during CPU hot-add. Signed-off-by:
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Andrey Panin authored
Attached patch fixes invalid pointer arithmetic in DMI code to make onboard device discovery working again. akpm: bug has been present since dmi_find_device() was added in 2.6.14. Affects ipmi only (I think) - the symptoms weren't described. akpm: changed to use pointer arithmetic rather than open-coded sizeof. Signed-off-by:
Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 24 Mar, 2006 28 commits
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Horms authored
net: ne2k.c won't compile if pci_clone_list is const f71e1309 which (amongst other things) made pci_clone_list in ne2k-pci.c const causes the following compile error. This patch reverses that portion of that changeset drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c:123: error: pci_clone_list causes a section type conflict ~/ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 (Debian 4.0.3-1) ~/ dpkg gcc-4.0 | grep Version Version: 4.0.3-1 Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au ne2k-pci.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) cee0890cc97247b6a9decd94f5dc0719ac8f0b1b Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Andrew Victor authored
This patch adds support for the Ethernet controller integrated in the Atmel AT91RM9200 SoC processor. Changes since the previous submission (01/02/2006) are: - Make use of the clk.h clock infrastructure. - The multicast hash function is not crc32. [Patch by Pedro Perez] Signed-off-by:
Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [PATCH] libata: Remove dependence on host_set->dev for SAS [PATCH] libata: ata_scsi_ioctl cleanup [PATCH] libata: ata_scsi_queuecmd cleanup [libata] export ata_dev_pair; trim trailing whitespace [PATCH] libata: add ata_dev_pair helper [PATCH] Make libata not powerdown drivers on PM_EVENT_FREEZE. [PATCH] libata: make ata_set_mode() responsible for failure handling [PATCH] libata: use ata_dev_disable() in ata_bus_probe() [PATCH] libata: implement ata_dev_disable() [PATCH] libata: check if port is disabled after internal command [PATCH] libata: make per-dev transfer mode limits per-dev [PATCH] libata: add per-dev pio/mwdma/udma_mask [PATCH] libata: implement ata_unpack_xfermask() [libata] Move some bmdma-specific code to libata-bmdma.c [libata sata_uli] kill scr_addr abuse [libata sata_nv] eliminate duplicate codepaths with iomap [libata sata_nv] cleanups: convert #defines to enums; remove in-file history [libata sata_sil24] cleanups: use pci_iomap(), kzalloc()
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Andrew Morton authored
uevent_seqnum and uevent_helper are only defined if CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y, CONFIG_NET=n. (I stole this back from Greg's tree - it makes allnoconfig work). Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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Davi Arnaut authored
Copies user-space string with strndup_user() and moves the type string duplication code to a function (thus fixing a wrong check on the length of the type.) Signed-off-by:
Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Davi Arnaut authored
Change hand-coded userspace string copying to strndup_user. Signed-off-by:
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Davi Arnaut authored
This patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings from userspace. Also we avoid common pitfalls like userspace modifying the final \0 after the strlen_user(). Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing softirq-context (timer) dependencies. This means that if the softlockup watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task. (the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup phase and does small style fixes) Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Sergey Vlasov authored
If the change of personality does not lead to change of exec domain, __set_personality() returned without releasing the module reference acquired by lookup_exec_domain(). Signed-off-by:
Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa authored
In filesystems with the meta block group flag on, ext3_bg_num_gdb() fails to report the correct number of blocks used to store the group descriptor backups in a given group. It happens because meta_bg follows a different logic from the original ext3 backup placement in groups multiples of 3, 5 and 7. Signed-off-by:
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when it should. I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x.. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
At present the kernel doesn't honour an attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU to zero seconds. But the spec says it should, and that's what 2.4.x does. Fixing this for real would involve some complexity (such as adding a new it-has-been-set flag to the task_struct, and testing that everwhere, instead of overloading the value of it_prof_expires). Given that a 2.4 kernel won't actually send the signal until one second has expired anyway, let's just handle this case by treating the caller's zero-seconds as one second. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Acked-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
- Whitespace cleanups - Make that expression comprehensible. There's a potential logic change here: we do the "is it_prof_expires equal to zero" test after converting it to seconds, rather than doing the comparison between raw cputime_t's. But given that it's in units of seconds anyway, that shouldn't change anything. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock. The only possibly modular users left are: arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c drivers/edac/edac_mc.c fs/binfmt_elf.c which I'll send out fixes for soon. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
- Remove more unused headers - Remove various typedefs - Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong) - Kill use of bcopy - More printk cleanups - Kill true/false - Clean up direct access to pci BARs Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
- Remove more unused headers - Remove various typedefs - Correct type of PaddrP (physical addresses should be ulong) - Kill use of bcopy - More printk cleanups - Kill true/false - Clean up direct access to pci BARs Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
Final polish. There is no more save_flags/cli type locking left. We also no longer use the pcicopy function and file so they can go. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
Third large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get removed and that causes a lot of noise. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
Second large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get removed and that causes a lot of noise. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
First large chunk of code cleanup. The split between this and #3 and #4 is fairly arbitary and due to the message length limit on the list. These patches continue the process of ripping out macros and typedefs while cleaning up lots of 32bit assumptions. Several inlines for compatibility also get removed and that causes a lot of noise. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
More header cleanups, strip out typedefs and remove cruft. There are a lot of magic macros that can go and also a great deal of abuse of volatile that is not needed any more as this patch set cleans up the misuse of pointer access to ISA and PCI space. It now builds cleanly on 64bit, although there is more work left to do Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
After the indent we can now clean up unused code, and fix all myriad cases that don't use readb/writeb properly. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
This is the result of indent -kr -i8 -bri0 -l255 Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
Strip some of the typedef mess out Remove a small subset of unused defines and the like. Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
Fixes for annoying gcc-4.1 compile warnings "value computed not used". Simply cast to void. (akpm: Linus will go ballistic...) Signed-off-by:
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year, after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan to do over the next month. Signed-off-by:
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Kumar Gala authored
In some embedded systems the IDE hardware interface may only support 16-bit or smaller accesses. Allow the interface to specify if this is the case and don't allow the drive or user to override the setting. Signed-off-by:
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by:
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
On architectures like i386, the "Multimedia Capabilities Port drivers" menu is visible, but it can't be visited since it contains nothing usable for !ARCH_SA1100. This patch therefore shows this menu only on ARCH_SA1100. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
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