- 31 Mar, 2006 40 commits
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Con Kolivas authored
Alterations to the pipe code in the kernel made it possible for relative starvation to occur with tasks that slept waiting on a pipe getting unfair priority bonuses even if they were otherwise fully cpu bound so the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE flag was introduced which prevented any change to sleep_avg while sleeping waiting on a pipe. This change also leads to the converse though, preventing any priority boost from occurring in truly interactive tasks that wait on pipes. Convert the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE flag to set sleep_type to SLEEP_NONINTERACTIVE which will allow a linear bonus to priority based on sleep time thus allowing interactive tasks to get high priority if they sleep enough. Signed-off-by:
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Con Kolivas authored
The activated flag in task_struct is used to track different sleep types and its usage is somewhat obfuscated. Convert the variable to an enum with more descriptive names without altering the function. Signed-off-by:
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Jack Steiner authored
Currently, count_active_tasks() calls both nr_running() & nr_interruptible(). Each of these functions does a "for_each_cpu" & reads values from the runqueue of each cpu. Although this is not a lot of instructions, each runqueue may be located on different node. Depending on the architecture, a unique TLB entry may be required to access each runqueue. Since there may be more runqueues than cpu TLB entries, a scan of all runqueues can trash the TLB. Each memory reference incurs a TLB miss & refill. In addition, the runqueue cacheline that contains nr_running & nr_uninterruptible may be evicted from the cache between the two passes. This causes unnecessary cache misses. Combining nr_running() & nr_interruptible() into a single function substantially reduces the TLB & cache misses on large systems. This should have no measureable effect on smaller systems. On a 128p IA64 system running a memory stress workload, the new function reduced the overhead of calc_load() from 605 usec/call to 324 usec/call. Signed-off-by:
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by:
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Dimitri Sivanich authored
It seems that run_hrtimer_queue() is calling get_softirq_time() more often than it needs to. With this patch, it only calls get_softirq_time() if there's a pending timer. Signed-off-by:
Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Replace the nanosleep private sleeper functionality by the generic hrtimer sleeper. Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
The removal of the data field in the hrtimer structure enforces the embedding of the timer into another data structure. nanosleep now uses a private implementation of the most common used timer callback function (simple task wakeup). In order to avoid the reimplentation of such functionality all over the place a generic hrtimer_sleeper functionality is created. Signed-off-by:
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Richard Purdie authored
Add an LED trigger for IDE disk activity to the ide-disk driver. Signed-off-by:
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Acked-by:
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Richard Purdie authored
Ensure ide-taskfile.c calls any driver specific end_request function if present. Signed-off-by:
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Richard Purdie authored
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Dirk Opfer authored
Adds LED drivers for LEDs found on the Sharp Zaurus c6000 model (tosa). Signed-off-by:
Dirk Opfer <dirk@opfer-online.de> Signed-off-by:
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John Bowler authored
NEW_LEDS support for ixp4xx boards where LEDs are connected to the GPIO lines. This includes a new generic ixp4xx driver (leds-ixp4xx-gpio.c name "IXP4XX-GPIO-LED") Signed-off-by:
John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org> Signed-off-by:
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Richard Purdie authored
Adds an LED driver for LEDs exported by the Sharp LOCOMO chip as found on some models of Sharp Zaurus. Signed-off-by:
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Richard Purdie authored
Adds LED drivers for LEDs found on the Sharp Zaurus c7x0 (corgi, shepherd, husky) and cxx00 (akita, spitz, borzoi) models. Signed-off-by:
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Richard Purdie authored
Add an LED trigger for the charger status as found on the Sharp Zaurus series of devices. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Richard Purdie authored
Add an example of a complex LED trigger in the form of a generic timer which triggers the LED its attached to at a user specified frequency and duty cycle. Signed-off-by:
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Richard Purdie authored
Add support for LED triggers to the LED subsystem. "Triggers" are events which change the state of an LED. Two kinds of trigger are available, simple ones which can be added to exising code with minimum disruption and complex ones for implementing new or more complex functionality. Signed-off-by:
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Richard Purdie authored
Add the foundations of a new LEDs subsystem. This patch adds a class which presents LED devices within sysfs and allows their brightness to be controlled. Signed-off-by:
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Richard Purdie authored
The LED class/subsystem takes John Lenz's work and extends and alters it to give what I think should be a fairly universal LED implementation. The series consists of several logical units: * LED Core + Class implementation * LED Trigger Core implementation * LED timer trigger (example of a complex trigger) * LED device drivers for corgi, spitz and tosa Zaurus models * LED device driver for locomo LEDs * LED device driver for ARM ixp4xx LEDs * Zaurus charging LED trigger * IDE disk activity LED trigger * NAND MTD activity LED trigger Why? ==== LEDs are really simple devices usually amounting to a GPIO that can be turned on and off so why do we need all this code? On handheld or embedded devices they're an important part of an often limited user interface. Both users and developers want to be able to control and configure what the LED does and the number of different things they'd potentially want the LED to show is large. A subsystem is needed to try and provide all this different functionality in an architecture independent, simple but complete, generic and scalable manner. The alternative is for everyone to implement just what they need hidden away in different corners of the kernel source tree and to provide an inconsistent interface to userspace. Other Implementations ===================== I'm aware of the existing arm led implementation. Currently the new subsystem and the arm code can coexist quite happily. Its up to the arm community to decide whether this new interface is acceptable to them. As far as I can see, the new interface can do everything the existing arm implementation can with the advantage that the new code is architecture independent and much more generic, configurable and scalable. I'm prepared to make the conversion to the LED subsystem (or assist with it) if appropriate. Implementation Details ====================== I've stripped a lot of code out of John's original LED class. Colours were removed as LED colour is now part of the device name. Multiple colours are to be handled as multiple led devices. This means you get full control over each colour. I also removed the LED hardware timer code as the generic timer isn't going to add much overhead and is just as useful. I also decided to have the LED core track the current LED status (to ease suspend/resume handling) removing the need for brightness_get implementations in the LED drivers. An underlying design philosophy is simplicity. The aim is to keep a small amount of code giving as much functionality as possible. The major new idea is the led "trigger". A trigger is a source of led events. Triggers can either be simple or complex. A simple trigger isn't configurable and is designed to slot into existing subsystems with minimal additional code. Examples are the ide-disk, nand-disk and zaurus-charging triggers. With leds disabled, the code optimises away. Examples are nand-disk and ide-disk. Complex triggers whilst available to all LEDs have LED specific parameters and work on a per LED basis. The timer trigger is an example. You can change triggers in a similar manner to the way an IO scheduler is chosen (via /sys/class/leds/somedevice/trigger). So far there are only a handful of examples but it should easy to add further LED triggers without too much interference into other subsystems. Known Issues ============ The LED Trigger core cannot be a module as the simple trigger functions would cause nightmare dependency issues. I see this as a minor issue compared to the benefits the simple trigger functionality brings. The rest of the LED subsystem can be modular. Some leds can be programmed to flash in hardware. As this isn't a generic LED device property, I think this should be exported as a device specific sysfs attribute rather than part of the class if this functionality is required (eg. to keep the led flashing whilst the device is suspended). Future Development ================== At the moment, a trigger can't be created specifically for a single LED. There are a number of cases where a trigger might only be mappable to a particular LED. The addition of triggers provided by the LED driver should cover this option and be possible to add without breaking the current interface. A CPU activity trigger similar to that found in the arm led implementation should be trivial to add. This patch: Add some brief documentation of the design decisions behind the LED class and how it appears to users. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
One of the LEDs driver files wants to use this. Probably drivers/mtd/maps/ipaq-flash.c wants to convert as well - right now it'll be tainting the kernel. Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org> Cc: "'Richard Purdie'" <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by:
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Add TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT needed by the userland suspend tool to get the current value of kmsg_redirect from the kernel so that it can save it and restore it after resume. Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
Fix a few memory leaks in drivers/isdn/sc/ioctl.c::sc_ioctl() Signed-off-by:
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Tobias Klauser authored
Delete two useless kmalloc wrappers and use kmalloc/kzalloc. Some weird NULL checks are also simplified. Signed-off-by:
Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by:
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Trond Myklebust authored
sys_flock() currently has a race which can result in a double free in the multi-thread case. Thread 1 Thread 2 sys_flock(file, LOCK_EX) sys_flock(file, LOCK_UN) If Thread 2 removes the lock from inode->i_lock before Thread 1 tests for list_empty(&lock->fl_link) at the end of sys_flock, then both threads will end up calling locks_free_lock for the same lock. Fix is to make flock_lock_file() do the same as posix_lock_file(), namely to make a copy of the request, so that the caller can always free the lock. This also has the side-effect of fixing up a reference problem in the lockd handling of flock. Signed-off-by:
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Amy Griffis authored
IN_DELETE events are no longer generated for the removal of a file from a watched directory. This seems to be a result of clearing DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED in d_delete() directly before calling fsnotify_nameremove(). Assuming the flag doesn't need to be cleared before dentry_iput(), this should do the trick. Signed-off-by:
Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Acked-by:
Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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OGAWA Hirofumi authored
Since these names on old MSDOS is used as device, so, current fat driver doesn't allow a user to create those names. But many OSes and even Windows can create those names actually, now. This patch removes the reserved name check. Signed-off-by:
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Fix memory migration so that it works regardless of what cpuset the invoking task is in. If a task invoked a memory migration, by doing one of: 1) writing a different nodemask to a cpuset 'mems' file, or 2) writing a tasks pid to a different cpuset's 'tasks' file, where the cpuset had its 'memory_migrate' option turned on, then the allocation of the new pages for the migrated task(s) was constrained by the invoking tasks cpuset. If this task wasn't in a cpuset that allowed the requested memory nodes, the memory migration would happen to some other nodes that were in that invoking tasks cpuset. This was usually surprising and puzzling behaviour: Why didn't the pages move? Why did the pages move -there-? To fix this, temporarilly change the invoking tasks 'mems_allowed' task_struct field to the nodes the migrating tasks is moving to, so that new pages can be allocated there. Signed-off-by:Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Fix unsafe reference to a tasks mm struct, by moving the reference inside of a convenient nearby properly guarded code block. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Fix cpuset comment involving case of a tasks cpuset pointer being NULL. Thanks to "the_top_cpuset_hack", this code no longer sees NULL task->cpuset pointers. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
local_t's were defined to be unsigned. This increases confusion because atomic_t's are signed. The patch goes through and changes all implementations to use signed longs throughout. Also, x86-64 was using 32-bit quantities for the value passed into local_add() and local_sub(). Fixed. All (actually, both) existing users have been audited. (Also s/__inline__/inline/ in x86_64/local.h) Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by:
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Steffen Klassert authored
The "3c59x: use mii_check_media" patch introduced a netif_carrier_off in vortex_up. 10base2 stoped working because of this. This is removed. Tx/Rx reset is back in vortex_up because the 3c900B-Combo stops working after changing from half duplex to full duplex when Tx/Rx reset is done with vortex_timer. Also brought back some mii stuff to be sure that it does not break something else. Thanks to Pete Clements <clem@clem.clem-digital.net> for reporting and testing. Signed-off-by:
Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
The pre-2.6.16 patch "3c59x collision statistics fix" accidentally caused vortex_error() to not run iowrite16(TxEnable, ioaddr + EL3_CMD) if we got a maxCollisions interrupt but MAX_COLLISION_RESET is not set. Thanks to Pete Clements <clem@clem.clem-digital.net> for reporting and testing. Acked-by:
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Trond Myklebust authored
The help text says that if you select CONFIG_LBD, then it will automatically select CONFIG_LFS. That isn't currently the case, so update the text. - Get rid of the cruft in the help text mentioning CONFIG_LBD - Tell unsure users to select CONFIG_LFS. - Remove the `default n'. Signed-off-by:
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KaiGai Kohei authored
I noticed a bug on the process accounting facility. In multi-threading process, some data would be recorded incorrectly when the group_leader dies earlier than one or more threads. The attached patch fixes this problem. See below. 'bugacct' is a test program that create a worker thread after 4 seconds sleeping, then the group_leader dies soon. The worker thread consume CPU/Memory for 6 seconds, then exit. We can estimate 10 seconds as etime and 6 seconds as stime + utime. This is a sample program which the group_leader dies earlier than other threads. The results of same binary execution on different kernel are below. -- accounted records -------------------- | btime | utime | stime | etime | minflt | majflt | comm | original | 13:16:40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.10 | 171 | 0 | bugacct | patched | 13:20:21 | 5.83 | 0.18 | 10.03 | 32776 | 0 | bugacct | (*) bugacct allocates 128MB memory, thus 128MB / 4KB = 32768 of minflt is appropriate. -- Test results in original kernel ------ $ date; time -p ./bugacct Tue Mar 28 13:16:36 JST 2006 <- But pacct said btime is 13:16:40 real 10.11 <- But pacct said etime is 6.10 user 5.96 <- But pacct said utime is 0.00 sys 0.14 <- But pacct said stime is 0.00 $ -- Test results in patched kernel ------- $ date; time -p ./bugacct Tue Mar 28 13:20:21 JST 2006 real 10.04 user 5.83 sys 0.19 $ In the original 2.6.16 kernel, pacct records btime, utime, stime, etime and minflt incorrectly. In my opinion, this problem is caused by an assumption that group_leader dies last. The following section calculates process running time for etime and btime. But it means running time of the thread that dies last, not process. The start_time of the first thread in the process (group_leader) should be reduced from uptime to calculate etime and btime correctly. ---- do_acct_process() in kernel/acct.c: /* calculate run_time in nsec*/ do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime); run_time = (u64)uptime.tv_sec*NSEC_PER_SEC + uptime.tv_nsec; run_time -= (u64)current->start_time.tv_sec*NSEC_PER_SEC + current->start_time.tv_nsec; ---- The following section calculates stime and utime of the process. But it might count the utime and stime of the group_leader duplicatly and ignore the utime and stime of the thread dies last, when one or more threads remain after group_leader dead. The ac_utime should be calculated as the sum of the signal->utime and utime of the thread dies last. The ac_stime should be done also. ---- do_acct_process() in kernel/acct.c: jiffies = cputime_to_jiffies(cputime_add(current->group_leader->utime, current->signal->utime)); ac.ac_utime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(jiffies)); jiffies = cputime_to_jiffies(cputime_add(current->group_leader->stime, current->signal->stime)); ac.ac_stime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(jiffies)); ---- The part of the minflt/majflt calculation has same problem. This patch solves those problems, I think. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: -
Andrew Morton authored
Remove the recently-added LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE and LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT fadvise() additions, do it in a new sys_sync_file_range() syscall instead. Reasons: - It's more flexible. Things which would require two or three syscalls with fadvise() can be done in a single syscall. - Using fadvise() in this manner is something not covered by POSIX. The patch wires up the syscall for x86. The sycall is implemented in the new fs/sync.c. The intention is that we can move sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and perhaps sys_sync() into there later. Documentation for the syscall is in fs/sync.c. A test app (sync_file_range.c) is in http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz. The available-to-GPL-modules do_sync_file_range() is for knfsd: "A COMMIT can say NFS_DATA_SYNC or NFS_FILE_SYNC. I can skip the ->fsync call for NFS_DATA_SYNC which is hopefully the more common." Note: the `async' writeout mode SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE will turn synchronous if the queue is congested. This is trivial to fix: add a new flag bit, set wbc->nonblocking. But I'm not sure that we want to expose implementation details down to that level. Note: it's notable that we can sync an fd which wasn't opened for writing. Same with fsync() and fdatasync()). Note: the code takes some care to handle attempts to sync file contents outside the 16TB offset on 32-bit machines. It makes such attempts appear to succeed, for best 32-bit/64-bit compatibility. Perhaps it should make such requests fail... Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by:
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Corey Minyard authored
Convert the remaining semaphores to mutexes in the IPMI driver. The watchdog was using a semaphore as a real semaphore (for IPC), so the conversion there required adding a completion. Signed-off-by:
Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by:
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Corey Minyard authored
Tidy up various coding standard things, mostly removing the space after !, but also break some long lines and fix a few other spacing inconsistencies. Also fixes some bad error reporting when deleting an IPMI user. Signed-off-by:
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Corey Minyard authored
Matt Domsch noticed a startup race with the IPMI kernel thread, it was possible (though extraordinarly unlikely) that a message could come in before the upper layer was ready to handle it. This patch splits the startup processing of an IPMI interface into two parts, one to get ready and one to actually start the processes to receive messages from the interface. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Alan sayeth "Based on Linus original comments about _GPL we should export tty_insert_flip_char as EXPORT_SYMBOL because it used to be EXPORT_SYMBOL equivalent (trivial inline). The other features are new extensions are were not available to drivers before so need not be provided except as _GPL functionality as far as I can see." Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6294 Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Philippe Vouters <Philippe.Vouters@laposte.net> Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
EDAC_752X uses pci_scan_single_device(), which is only available if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled, so limit this driver with HOTPLUG. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by:
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OGAWA Hirofumi authored
The boot cmdline is parsed in parse_early_param() and parse_args(,unknown_bootoption). And __setup() is used in obsolete_checksetup(). start_kernel() -> parse_args() -> unknown_bootoption() -> obsolete_checksetup() If __setup()'s callback (->setup_func()) returns 1 in obsolete_checksetup(), obsolete_checksetup() thinks a parameter was handled. If ->setup_func() returns 0, obsolete_checksetup() tries other ->setup_func(). If all ->setup_func() that matched a parameter returns 0, a parameter is seted to argv_init[]. Then, when runing /sbin/init or init=app, argv_init[] is passed to the app. If the app doesn't ignore those arguments, it will warning and exit. This patch fixes a wrong usage of it, however fixes obvious one only. Signed-off-by:
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