- 23 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
The ring-buffer benchmark threads run on nice 0 by default, using up a lot of CPU time and slowing down the system: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1024 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 95.3 0.0 4:01.67 rb_producer 1023 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 93.5 0.0 2:54.33 rb_consumer 21569 mingo 40 0 14852 1048 772 R 3.6 0.1 0:00.05 top 1 root 40 0 4080 928 668 S 0.0 0.0 0:23.98 init Renice them to +19 to make them less intrusive. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by:Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 19 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Josh Stone authored
Commit 61613521 moved the power tracing to include/trace/events/, but left the old header behind. No one is using the old header, and its declarations are now incorrect, so it should be removed. Signed-off-by:
Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1258578415-14752-1-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 17 Nov, 2009 3 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
If the user has an older version of objcopy, that can not handle converting local symbols to global and vice versa, then some functions will not be part of the dynamic function tracer. The current code in recordmcount.pl will print a warning in this case. Unfortunately, there exists lots of files that may have this issue with older objcopys and this will cause a warning for every file compiled with this issue. This patch solves this overwhelming output by creating a .tmp_quiet_recordmcount file on the first instance the warning is encountered. The warning will not print if this file exists. The temp file is deleted at the beginning of the compile to ensure that the warning will happen once again on new compiles (because the issue is still present). Reported-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Prevent build warning when CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER is not set. Signed-off-by:
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4AF24381.5060307@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
With the change of the way we process commits. Where a commit only happens at the outer most level, and that we don't need to worry about a commit ending after the rb_start_commit() has been called, the code use to grab the commit page before the tail page to prevent a possible race. But this race no longer exists with the rb_start_commit() rb_end_commit() interface. Signed-off-by:
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- 12 Nov, 2009 2 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
Disabling interrupts in trace_clock_local takes quite a performance hit to the recording of traces. Using perf top we see: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local 1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event 784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next 579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit 440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id 117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock 103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data 28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday 22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq 14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc 11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday Where trace_clock_local is 40% of the tracing, and the time for recording a trace according to ring_buffer_benchmark is 210ns. After converting the interrupts to preemption disabling we have from perf top: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 1084 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 1277.00 - 16.8% : native_read_tsc 1148.00 - 15.1% : rb_reserve_next_event 896.00 - 11.8% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 688.00 - 9.1% : __rb_reserve_next 664.00 - 8.8% : rb_end_commit 563.00 - 7.4% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 508.00 - 6.7% : _spin_unlock_irq 365.00 - 4.8% : debug_smp_processor_id 321.00 - 4.2% : trace_clock_local 303.00 - 4.0% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 273.00 - 3.6% : native_sched_clock 122.00 - 1.6% : trace_recursive_unlock 113.00 - 1.5% : sched_clock 101.00 - 1.3% : ring_buffer_event_data 53.00 - 0.7% : tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick Where trace_clock_local drops from 40% to only taking 4% of the total time. The trace time also goes from 210ns down to 179ns (31ns). I talked with Peter Zijlstra about the impact that sched_clock may have without having interrupts disabled, and he told me that if a timer interrupt comes in, sched_clock may report a wrong time. Balancing a seldom incorrect timestamp with a 15% performance boost, I'll take the performance boost. Acked-by:Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
The ring_buffer_benchmark does a gettimeofday after every write to the ring buffer in its measurements. This adds the overhead of the call to gettimeofday to the measurements and does not give an accurate picture of the length of time it takes to record a trace. This was first noticed with perf top: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 679 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 1673.00 - 27.8% : trace_clock_local 806.00 - 13.4% : do_gettimeofday 590.00 - 9.8% : rb_reserve_next_event 554.00 - 9.2% : native_read_tsc 431.00 - 7.2% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 365.00 - 6.1% : __rb_reserve_next 355.00 - 5.9% : rb_end_commit 322.00 - 5.4% : getnstimeofday 268.00 - 4.5% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 262.00 - 4.4% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 113.00 - 1.9% : read_tsc 91.00 - 1.5% : debug_smp_processor_id 69.00 - 1.1% : trace_recursive_unlock 66.00 - 1.1% : ring_buffer_event_data 25.00 - 0.4% : _spin_unlock_irq And the length of each write to the ring buffer measured at 310ns. This patch adds a new module parameter called "write_interval" which is defaulted to 50. This is the number of writes performed between timestamps. After this patch perf top shows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local 1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event 784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next 579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit 440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id 117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock 103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data 28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday 22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq 14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc 11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday do_gettimeofday dropped from 13% usage to a mere 0.4%! (using the default 50 interval) The measurement for each timestamp went from 310ns to 210ns. That's 100ns (1/3rd) overhead that the gettimeofday call was introducing. Signed-off-by:
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- 02 Nov, 2009 3 commits
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Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli authored
For as long as kretprobes have existed, we've allocated NR_CPUS instances of kretprobe_instance structures. With the default value of CONFIG_NR_CPUS increasing on certain architectures, we are potentially wasting kernel memory. See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10839#c3 for more details. Use a saner num_possible_cpus() instead of NR_CPUS for allocation. Signed-off-by:
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <20091030135310.GA22230@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Li Zefan authored
____ftrace_check_##name() is used for compile-time check on F_printk() only, so it should be marked as __unused instead of __used. Signed-off-by:
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4AEE2D01.4010305@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Li Zefan authored
I wrote some code which is used as compile-time checker, and the code should be elided after compile. So I need to annotate the code as "always unused", compared to "maybe unused". Signed-off-by:
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- 29 Oct, 2009 9 commits
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Li Hong authored
If a weak function is used as a relocation reference for mcount callers and that function is overridden, it will cause ftrace to fail at run time. The current code should prevent a weak function from being used, but if one is, the code should exit with an error to fail at compile time. Signed-off-by:
Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091028050743.GH30758@uhli> Signed-off-by:
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Li Hong authored
Move all the condition validations into the function update_funcs(). Also update_funcs should not die if $ref_func is undefined for there may be more than one valid section in an object file. Signed-off-by:
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Li Hong authored
Add a variable to contain the regex needed to find weak functions in the 'nm' output. This will allow other archs to easily override it. Also rename the regex variable $nm_regex to $local_regex to be more descriptive. Signed-off-by:
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Li Hong authored
Move the mcount section check to the beginning of the objdump read loop. This makes the code easier to follow since the search for the mcount section is performed first before the mcount callers are processed. Signed-off-by:
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Li Hong authored
The current logic to check objcopy's version is incorrect. This patch fixes the algorithm and disables the use of local functions as a reference if the objcopy version does not support static to global conversions. Also remove some usused variables. Signed-off-by:
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Li Hong authored
The ftrace.c file may reference the mcount function and this may interfere with the recordmcount.pl processing. To avoid this, the code does not process the kernel/trace/ftrace.o. But currently the check is against a relative path. This patch modifies the check to succeed if the path is an absolute path. Signed-off-by:
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Li Hong authored
The number of arguments passed into recordmcount.pl is 10, but the code checks if only 7 are passed in. Signed-off-by:
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Li Hong authored
The documentation currently says we will use the first function in a section as a reference. The actual algorithm is: choose the first global function we meet as a reference. If there is none, choose the first local one. Change the documentation to be consistent with the code. Also add several other clarifications. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge reason: Pick up fixes and move base from -rc1 to -rc5. Signed-off-by:
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- 24 Oct, 2009 4 commits
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Jiri Olsa authored
The cpu argument is not used inside the rb_time_stamp() function. Plus fix a typo. Signed-off-by:
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jiri Olsa authored
Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a comment. Signed-off-by:
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Jiri Olsa authored
trace_seq_printf() return value is a little ambiguous. It currently returns the length of the space available in the buffer. printf usually returns the amount written. This is not adequate here, because: trace_seq_printf(s, ""); is perfectly legal, and returning 0 would indicate that it failed. We can always see the amount written by looking at the before and after values of s->len. This is not quite the same use as printf. We only care if the string was successfully written to the buffer or not. Make trace_seq_printf() return 0 if the trace oversizes the buffer's free space, 1 otherwise. Signed-off-by:
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Jiri Olsa authored
Instead of directly updating filp->f_pos we should update the *ppos argument. The filp->f_pos gets updated within the file_pos_write() function called from sys_write(). Signed-off-by:
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- 22 Oct, 2009 8 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: move virtrng_remove to .devexit.text move virtballoon_remove to .devexit.text virtio_blk: Revert serial number support virtio: let header files include virtio_ids.h virtio_blk: revert QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT addition
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (21 commits) niu: VLAN_ETH_HLEN should be used to make sure that the whole MAC header was copied to the head buffer in the Vlan packets case KS8851: Fix ks8851_set_rx_mode() for IFF_MULTICAST KS8851: Fix MAC address write order KS8851: Add soft reset at probe time net: fix section mismatch in fec.c net: Fix struct inet_timewait_sock bitfield annotation tcp: Try to catch MSG_PEEK bug net: Fix IP_MULTICAST_IF bluetooth: static lock key fix bluetooth: scheduling while atomic bug fix tcp: fix TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT retrans calculation tcp: reduce SYN-ACK retrans for TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT tcp: accept socket after TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT period Revert "tcp: fix tcp_defer_accept to consider the timeout" AF_UNIX: Fix deadlock on connecting to shutdown socket ethoc: clear only pending irqs ethoc: inline regs access vmxnet3: use dev_dbg, fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK=n virtio_net: use dev_kfree_skb_any() in free_old_xmit_skbs() be2net: fix support for PCI hot plug ...
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Uwe Kleine-König authored
The function virtrng_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define it using __devexit. Signed-off-by:
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by:
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Uwe Kleine-König authored
The function virtballoon_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define it using __devexit. Signed-off-by:
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
This reverts "Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a". Turns out that virtio_pci, lguest and s/390 all have an 8 bit limit on virtio config space, so noone could ever use this. This is coming back later in a cleaner form. Signed-off-by: -
Christian Borntraeger authored
Rusty, commit 3ca4f5ca virtio: add virtio IDs file moved all device IDs into a single file. While the change itself is a very good one, it can break userspace applications. For example if a userspace tool wanted to get the ID of virtio_net it used to include virtio_net.h. This does no longer work, since virtio_net.h does not include virtio_ids.h. This patch moves all "#include <linux/virtio_ids.h>" from the C files into the header files, making the header files compatible with the old ones. In addition, this patch exports virtio_ids.h to userspace. CC: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
It seems like the addition of QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT caueses major performance regressions for Fedora users: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509383 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505695 while I can't reproduce those extreme regressions myself I think the flag is wrong. Rationale: QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT expands to QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT which casus the queue unplugged immediately. This is not a good behaviour for at least qemu and kvm where we do have significant overhead for every I/O operations. Even with all the latested speeups (native AIO, MSI support, zero copy) we can only get native speed for up to 128kb I/O requests we already are down to 66% of native performance for 4kb requests even on my laptop running the Intel X25-M SSD for which the QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT was designed. If we ever get virtio-blk overhead low enough that this flag makes sense it should only be set based on a feature flag set by the host. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Joyce Yu authored
niu: VLAN_ETH_HLEN should be used to make sure that the whole MAC header was copied to the head buffer in the Vlan packets case Signed-off-by:
Joyce Yu <joyce.yu@sun.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 21 Oct, 2009 9 commits
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git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notifyLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: dnotify: ignore FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD inotify: fix coalesce duplicate events into a single event in special case inotify: deprecate the inotify kernel interface fsnotify: do not set group for a mark before it is on the i_list
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/inputLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: hp_sdc_rtc - fix test in hp_sdc_rtc_read_rt() Input: atkbd - consolidate force release quirks for volume keys Input: logips2pp - model 73 is actually TrackMan FX Input: i8042 - add Sony Vaio VGN-FZ240E to the nomux list Input: fix locking issue in /proc/bus/input/ handlers Input: atkbd - postpone restoring LED/repeat rate at resume Input: atkbd - restore resetting LED state at startup Input: i8042 - make pnp_data_busted variable boolean instead of int Input: synaptics - add another Protege M300 to rate blacklist
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: Prevent kvm_init from corrupting debugfs structures KVM: MMU: fix pointer cast KVM: use proper hrtimer function to retrieve expiration time
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dmLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: dm snapshot: allow chunk size to be less than page size dm snapshot: use unsigned integer chunk size dm snapshot: lock snapshot while supplying status dm exception store: fix failed set_chunk_size error path dm snapshot: require non zero chunk size by end of ctr dm: dec_pending needs locking to save error value dm: add missing del_gendisk to alloc_dev error path dm log: userspace fix incorrect luid cast in userspace_ctr dm snapshot: free exception store on init failure dm snapshot: sort by chunk size to fix race
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Increase TEST_SUSPEND_SECONDS to 10 so the warning in suspend_test_finish() doesn't annoy the users of slower systems so much. Also, make the warning print the suspend-resume cycle time, so that we know why the warning actually triggered. Patch prepared during the hacking session at the Kernel Summit in Tokyo. Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Uwe Kleine-König authored
This fixes a compile bug introduced in 6ef297f8 (ARM: 5720/1: Move MMCI header to amba include dir) That commit moved arch/arm/include/asm/mach/mmc.h to include/linux/amba/mmci.h. Just removing the include was enough. Signed-off-by:
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Acked-by:
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Acked-by:
Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'sh/for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: sh: Kill off stray HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS reference. sh: Remove BKL from landisk gio. sh: disabled cache handling fix. sh: Fix up single page flushing to use PAGE_SIZE.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: crypto: aesni-intel - Fix irq_fpu_usable usage crypto: padlock-sha - Fix stack alignment
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Yinghai Lu authored
Fix a (small) memory leak in one of the error paths of the NFS mount options parsing code. Regression introduced in 2.6.30 by commit a67d18f8 (NFS: load the rpc/rdma transport module automatically). Reported-by:
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Reported-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by:
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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