- 17 Oct, 2007 25 commits
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Srivatsa Vaddagiri authored
Child task may be added on a different cpu that the one on which parent is running. In which case, task_new_fair() should check whether the new born task's parent entity should be added as well on the cfs_rq. Patch below fixes the problem in task_new_fair. This could fix the put_prev_task_fair() crashes reported. Reported-by:
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by:
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by:
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Dhaval Giani authored
When CONFIG_SYSFS is not set, CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED fails to build with kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init': (.init.text+0x1488): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys' kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init': (.init.text+0x1490): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys' kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init': (.init.text+0x1480): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys' kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init': (.init.text+0x1494): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys' This patch fixes this build error. Signed-off-by:
Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ken Chen authored
We recently discovered a nasty performance bug in the kernel CPU load balancer where we were hit by 50% performance regression. When tasks are assigned to a subset of CPUs that span across sched_domains (either ccNUMA node or the new multi-core domain) via cpu affinity, kernel fails to perform proper load balance at these domains, due to several logic in find_busiest_group() miss identified busiest sched group within a given domain. This leads to inadequate load balance and causes 50% performance hit. To give you a concrete example, on a dual-core, 2 socket numa system, there are 4 logical cpu, organized as: CPU0 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 0003 groups: 0001 0002 domain 1: span 000f groups: 0003 000c CPU1 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 0003 groups: 0002 0001 domain 1: span 000f groups: 0003 000c CPU2 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 000c groups: 0004 0008 domain 1: span 000f groups: 000c 0003 CPU3 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 000c groups: 0008 0004 domain 1: span 000f groups: 000c 0003 If I run 2 tasks with CPU affinity set to 0x5. There are situation where cpu0 has run queue length of 2, and cpu2 will be idle. The kernel load balancer is unable to balance out these two tasks over cpu0 and cpu2 due to at least three logics in find_busiest_group() that heavily bias load balance towards power saving mode. e.g. while determining "busiest" variable, kernel only set it when "sum_nr_running > group_capacity". This test is flawed that "sum_nr_running" is not necessary same as sum-tasks-allowed-to-run-within-the sched-group. The end result is that kernel "think" everything is balanced, but in reality we have an imbalance and thus causing one CPU to be over-subscribed and leaving other idle. There are two other logic in the same function will also causing similar effect. The nastiness of this bug is that kernel not be able to get unstuck in this unfortunate broken state. From what we've seen in our environment, kernel will stuck in imbalanced state for extended period of time and it is also very easy for the kernel to stuck into that state (it's pretty much 100% reproducible for us). So proposing the following fix: add addition logic in find_busiest_group to detect intrinsic imbalance within the busiest group. When such condition is detected, load balance goes into spread mode instead of default grouping mode. Signed-off-by:
Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Milton Miller authored
It occurred to me this morning that the procname field was dynamically allocated and needed to be freed. I started to put in break statements when allocation failed but it was approaching 50% error handling code. I came up with this alternative of looping while entry->mode is set and checking proc_handler instead of ->table. Alternatively, the string version of the domain name and cpu number could be stored the structs. I verified by compiling CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and checking the allocation counts after taking a cpuset exclusive and back. Signed-off-by: -
Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: WOL bugfix for 3c59x.c skge 1.12 skge: add a debug interface skge: eeprom support skge: internal stats skge: XM PHY handling fixes skge: changing MTU while running causes problems skge: fix ram buffer size calculation gianfar: Fix compile regression caused by 09f75cd7 net: Fix new EMAC driver for NAPI changes bonding: two small fixes for IPoIB support e1000e: don't poke PHY registers to retreive link status e1000e: fix error checks e1000e: Fix debug printk macro tokenring/3c359.c: fixed array index problem [netdrvr] forcedeth: remove in-driver copy of net_device_stats [netdrvr] forcedeth: improved probe info; dev_printk() cleanups forcedeth: fix NAPI rx poll function
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Al Viro authored
AFAICS, fallout from repacing include of blkdev.h with include of bio.h. Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Al Viro authored
This fixes a lost 'key' variable declaration that went missing in a mismerge (commit b981d8b3) Signed-off-by:
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Steffen Klassert authored
Some NICs (3c905B) can not generate PME in power state PCI_D0, while others like 3c905C can. Call pci_enable_wake() with PCI_D3hot should give proper WOL for 3c905B. Signed-off-by:
Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> Tested-by:
Harry Coin <hcoin@n4comm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
version update Signed-off-by:
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Add a debugfs interface to look at internal ring state. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Add ability to read/write EEPROM Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Use internal stats structure Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Change how PHY is managed on SysKonnect fibre based boards. Poll for PHY coming up 1 per second, but use interrupt to detect loss. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Rather than bring network down/up when changing MTU, only need to impact receiver. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
This fixes problems with transmit hangs on older fiber based SysKonnect boards. Adjust ram buffer sizing calculation to make it correct on all boards and make it like the code in sky2 driver. Signed-off-by:
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Li Yang authored
Signed-off-by:
Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
net: Fix new EMAC driver for NAPI changes This fixes the new EMAC driver for the NAPI updates. The previous patch by Roland Dreier (already applied) to do that doesn't actually work. This applies on top of it makes it work on my test Ebony machine. This patch depends on "net: Add __napi_sycnhronize() to sync with napi poll" posted previously. Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jay Vosburgh authored
Two small fixes to IPoIB support for bonding: 1- copy header_ops from slave to bonding for IPoIB slaves 2- move release and destroy logic to UNREGISTER from GOING_DOWN notifier to avoid double release Set bonding to version 3.2.1. Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com> Signed-off-by:
Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Auke Kok authored
Apparently poking the link status registers when autonegotiation is running on the PHY might botch the PHY link on 80003es2lan devices. While this is a very rare condition we can completely avoid it alltogether by just using the MAC link bits to provide the proper information to ethtool. Signed-off-by:
Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Auke Kok authored
Spotted by Joe Perches. Signed-off-by:
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Marcus Meissner authored
The xl_laa array is just 6 bytes long, so we should substract 10 from the index, like is also done some lines above already. Signed-Off-By:
Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Garzik authored
A copy of struct net_device_stats now lives in struct net_device, making in-driver copies a waste of memory. Signed-off-by:Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Jeff Garzik authored
main change: * greatly improve per-NIC probe diagnostic output. Similar to other net drivers, print out MAC address, PHY info, and various hardware and software flags that may be relevant. other changes: * similar to other net drivers, only print the initial version message when we have found at least one board. * don't bother to print error message when pci_enable_device() fails, it will do so for us. * use dev_printk() rather than printk() in nv_probe(). This gives use a standardized output similar to the rest of the kernel, and eliminates the need to manually print out PCI bus id. * use DRV_NAME constant where appropriate * clean struct pci_driver indentation Signed-off-by: -
Ingo Molnar authored
fix the forcedeth NAPI poll function to not emit this warning: [ 186.635916] WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:2166 net_rx_action() [ 186.641351] [<c060d9f5>] net_rx_action+0x145/0x1b0 [ 186.646191] [<c011d752>] __do_softirq+0x42/0x90 [ 186.650784] [<c011d7c6>] do_softirq+0x26/0x30 [ 186.655202] [<c011db48>] local_bh_enable+0x48/0xa0 [ 186.660055] [<c06023e0>] lock_sock_nested+0xa0/0xc0 [ 186.664995] [<c065da16>] tcp_recvmsg+0x16/0xbc0 [ 186.669588] [<c013e94b>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x27b/0x520 [ 186.676001] [<c0601d75>] sock_common_recvmsg+0x45/0x70 [ 186.681202] [<c05ff5df>] sock_aio_read+0x11f/0x140 [ 186.686054] [<c015c086>] do_sync_read+0xc6/0x110 [ 186.690735] [<c012b9b0>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [ 186.696280] [<c060dcfc>] net_tx_action+0x3c/0xe0 [ 186.700961] [<c015c9c2>] vfs_read+0x132/0x140 [ 186.705378] [<c015cd41>] sys_read+0x41/0x70 [ 186.709625] [<c0102b66>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x89 [ 186.714651] ======================= Signed-off-by:
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- 16 Oct, 2007 15 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (33 commits) amd74xx: remove /proc/ide/amd74xx amd74xx/via82cxxx: don't initialize drive->dn sis5513: remove /proc/ide/sis ide: remove CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK ide: add "hdx=nodma" kernel parameter ide: remove hwif->autodma and drive->autodma ide: remove "idex=dma" kernel parameter ide: remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED ide: use PCI_VDEVICE() macro sis5513: clear prefetch and postwrite for ATAPI devices it8213/piix/slc90e66: "de-couple" PIO and UDMA modes ide: unexport noautodma ide: unexport ide_tune_dma ide: remove ->ide_dma_check (take 2) ide-pmac: add PIO autotune fallback to ->ide_dma_check ide-cris: add PIO autotune fallback to ->ide_dma_check sl82c105: add PIO autotune fallback to ->ide_dma_check cs5530/sc1200: add PIO autotune fallback to ->ide_dma_check ide: remove ide_use_fast_pio() ide: remove drive->init_speed zeroing ...
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Al Viro authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6: SELinux: kills warnings in Improve SELinux performance when AVC misses SELinux: improve performance when AVC misses. SELinux: policy selectable handling of unknown classes and perms SELinux: Improve read/write performance SELinux: tune avtab to reduce memory usage
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (25 commits) firewire: fw-cdev: reorder wakeup vs. spinlock firewire: in-code doc updates. firewire: a header cleanup firewire: adopt read cycle timer ABI from raw1394 firewire: fw-ohci: check for misconfigured bus (phyID == 63) firewire: fw-ohci: missing dma_unmap_single firewire: fw-ohci: log posted write errors firewire: fw-ohci: reorder includes firewire: fw-ohci: fix includes firewire: fw-ohci: enforce read order for selfID generation firewire: fw-sbp2: use an own workqueue (fix system responsiveness) firewire: fw-sbp2: expose module parameter for workarounds firewire: fw-sbp2: add support for multiple logical units per target firewire: fw-sbp2: always enable IRQs before calling command ORB callback firewire: fw-core: local variable shadows a global one firewire: optimize fw_core_add_address_handler ieee1394: ieee1394_core.c: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK for spinlock definition ieee1394: csr1212: proper refcounting ieee1394: nodemgr: fix leak of struct csr1212_keyval ieee1394: pcilynx: I2C cleanups ...
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ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds authored
* ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: x86: fix boot error introduced by kbuild
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ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Fix build for CONFIG_SMP=n
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KaiGai Kohei authored
This patch kills ugly warnings when the "Improve SELinux performance when ACV misses" patch. Signed-off-by:
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by:
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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KaiGai Kohei authored
* We add ebitmap_for_each_positive_bit() which enables to walk on any positive bit on the given ebitmap, to improve its performance using common bit-operations defined in linux/bitops.h. In the previous version, this logic was implemented using a combination of ebitmap_for_each_bit() and ebitmap_node_get_bit(), but is was worse in performance aspect. This logic is most frequestly used to compute a new AVC entry, so this patch can improve SELinux performance when AVC misses are happen. * struct ebitmap_node is redefined as an array of "unsigned long", to get suitable for using find_next_bit() which is fasted than iteration of shift and logical operation, and to maximize memory usage allocated from general purpose slab. * Any ebitmap_for_each_bit() are repleced by the new implementation in ss/service.c and ss/mls.c. Some of related implementation are changed, however, there is no incompatibility with the previous version. * The width of any new line are less or equal than 80-chars. The following benchmark shows the effect of this patch, when we access many files which have different security context one after another. The number is more than /selinux/avc/cache_threshold, so any access always causes AVC misses. selinux-2.6 selinux-2.6-ebitmap AVG: 22.763 [s] 8.750 [s] STD: 0.265 0.019 ------------------------------------------ 1st: 22.558 [s] 8.786 [s] 2nd: 22.458 [s] 8.750 [s] 3rd: 22.478 [s] 8.754 [s] 4th: 22.724 [s] 8.745 [s] 5th: 22.918 [s] 8.748 [s] 6th: 22.905 [s] 8.764 [s] 7th: 23.238 [s] 8.726 [s] 8th: 22.822 [s] 8.729 [s] Signed-off-by:Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Paris authored
Allow policy to select, in much the same way as it selects MLS support, how the kernel should handle access decisions which contain either unknown classes or unknown permissions in known classes. The three choices for the policy flags are 0 - Deny unknown security access. (default) 2 - reject loading policy if it does not contain all definitions 4 - allow unknown security access The policy's choice is exported through 2 booleans in selinuxfs. /selinux/deny_unknown and /selinux/reject_unknown. Signed-off-by:
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by:
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Yuichi Nakamura authored
It reduces the selinux overhead on read/write by only revalidating permissions in selinux_file_permission if the task or inode labels have changed or the policy has changed since the open-time check. A new LSM hook, security_dentry_open, is added to capture the necessary state at open time to allow this optimization. (see http://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=118972995207740&w=2) Signed-off-by: Yuichi Nakamura<ynakam@hitachisoft.jp> Acked-by:
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Yuichi Nakamura authored
This patch reduces memory usage of SELinux by tuning avtab. Number of hash slots in avtab was 32768. Unused slots used memory when number of rules is fewer. This patch decides number of hash slots dynamically based on number of rules. (chain length)^2 is also printed out in avtab_hash_eval to see standard deviation of avtab hash table. Signed-off-by: Yuichi Nakamura<ynakam@hitachisoft.jp> Acked-by:
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Jay Fenlason authored
Signed-off-by:
Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> Prompted by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=323411Signed-off-by:
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Yann Dirson authored
Signed-off-by:Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (update)
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Stefan Richter authored
fw_node() is not used (and not useful) outside fw-topology.c. Signed-off-by: -
Stefan Richter authored
This duplicates the read cycle timer feature of raw1394 (added in Linux 2.6.21) in firewire-core's userspace ABI. The argument to the ioctl is reordered though to ensure 32/64 bit compatibility. Signed-off-by:
Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
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