- 23 Jan, 2007 40 commits
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
while lock-profiling the -rt kernel i noticed weird contention during mmap-intense workloads, and the tracer showed the following gem, in one of our MM hotpaths: threaded-2771 1.... 65us : sys_munmap (sysenter_do_call) threaded-2771 1.... 66us : profile_munmap (sys_munmap) threaded-2771 1.... 66us : blocking_notifier_call_chain (profile_munmap) threaded-2771 1.... 66us : rt_down_read (blocking_notifier_call_chain) ouch! a global rw-semaphore taken in one of the most performance- sensitive codepaths of the kernel. And i dont even have oprofile enabled! All distro kernels have CONFIG_PROFILING enabled, so this scalability problem affects the majority of Linux users. The fix is to enhance blocking_notifier_call_chain() to only take the lock if there appears to be work on the call-chain. With this patch applied i get nicely saturated system, and much higher munmap performance, on SMP systems. And as a bonus this also fixes a similar scalability bottleneck in the thread-exit codepath: profile_task_exit() ... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: [ALSA] Repair snd-usb-usx2y over OHCI
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: NetXen: Use pci_register_driver() instead of pci_module_init() in init_module NetXen: Firmware check modifications ehea: Fixed possible nullpointer access ehea: Added logging off associated errors ehea: Improved logging of permission issues ehea: New method to determine number of available ports ehea: Modified initial autoneg state determination ehea: Fixing firmware queue config issue ehea: Fixed wrong dereferencation PHY: Export phy ethtool helpers modify 3c589_cs to be SMP safe
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'ftape' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6: more ftape removal
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'kill-jffs-prep' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6: Note that JFFS (v1) is to be deleted, in feature-removal-schedule.txt
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Linas Vepstas authored
A flag was recently added to the elevator code to avoid performing an unplug when reuests are being re-queued. The goal of this flag was to avoid a deep recursion that can occur when re-queueing requests after a SCSI device/host reset. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/17/254 However, that fix added the flag near the bottom of a case statement, where an earlier break (in an if statement) could transport one out of the case, without setting the flag. This patch sets the flag earlier in the case statement. I re-discovered the deep recursion recently during testing; I was told that it was a known problem, and the fix to it was in the kernel I was testing. Indeed it was ... but it didn't fix the bug. With the patch below, I no longer see the bug. Signed-off by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeff Chua authored
Seems to be some left-over debug code. Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Horms authored
this patch fills in the portions for ia64 kexec. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: "Zou, Nanhai" <nanhai.zou@intel.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Horms authored
Mohan Kumar suggested making kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz a link to the latest version. I have done this and this patch updates the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Saveliev authored
This patch fixes a confusion reiserfs has for a long time. On release file operation reiserfs used to try to pack file data stored in last incomplete page of some files into metadata blocks. After packing the page got cleared with clear_page_dirty. It did not take into account that the page may be mmaped into other process's address space. Recent replacement for clear_page_dirty cancel_dirty_page found the confusion with sanity check that page has to be not mapped. The patch fixes the confusion by making reiserfs avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped. reiserfs_mmap and reiserfs_file_release are serialized with mutex in reiserfs specific inode. reiserfs_mmap locks the mutex and sets a bit in reiserfs specific inode flags. reiserfs_file_release checks the bit having the mutex locked. If bit is set - tail packing is avoided. This eliminates a possibility that mmapped page gets cancel_page_dirty-ed. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
Currently one can specify an arbitrary node mask to mbind that includes nodes not allowed. If that is done with an interleave policy then we will go around all the nodes. Those outside of the currently allowed cpuset will be redirected to the border nodes. Interleave will then create imbalances at the borders of the cpuset. This patch restricts the nodes to the currently allowed cpuset. The RFC for this patch was discussed at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116793842100004&r=1&w=2Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mark Gross authored
The following patch fixes a few problems with the tlclk driver. * bug in the select_amcb1_transmit_clock * racy read sys call * racy open sys call * use of add_timer where mod_timer would be better * change to the timer data parameter use Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chen, Kenneth W authored
For large size DIO that needs multiple bio, one full page worth of data was lost at the boundary of bio's maximum sector or segment limits. After a bio is full and got submitted. The outer while (nbytes) { ... } loop will allocate a new bio and just march on to index into next page. It just forgets about the page that bio_add_page() rejected when previous bio is full. Fix it by put the rejected page back to pvec so we pick it up again for the next bio. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jamie Lenehan authored
This fixes the SH rtc driver correctly act on the "enabled" flag when setting an alarm. Signed-off-by: Jamie Lenehan <lenehan@twibble.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Avi Kivity authored
If a page is marked as dirty in the guest pte, set_pte_common() can set the writable bit on newly-instantiated shadow pte. This optimization avoids a write fault after the initial read fault. However, if a write fault instantiates the pte, fix_write_pf() incorrectly reports the fault as a guest page fault, and the guest oopses on what appears to be a correctly-mapped page. Fix is to detect the condition and only report a guest page fault on a user access to a kernel page. With the fix, a kvm guest can survive a whole night of running the kernel hacker's screensaver (make -j9 in a loop). Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Avi Kivity authored
The various bit string instructions (bts, btc, etc.) fail to adjust the address correctly if the bit address is beyond BITS_PER_LONG. This bug creeped in as the emulator originally relied on cr2 to contain the memory address; however we now decode it from the mod r/m bits, and must adjust the offset to account for large bit indices. The patch is rather large because it switches src and dst decoding around, so that the bit index is available when decoding the memory address. This fixes workloads like the FC5 installer. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Avi Kivity authored
The kvm mmio read path looks like: 1. guest read faults 2. kvm emulates read, calls emulator_read_emulated() 3. fails as a read requires userspace help 4. exit to userspace 5. userspace emulates read, kvm sets vcpu->mmio_read_completed 6. re-enter guest, fault again 7. kvm emulates read, calls emulator_read_emulated() 8. succeeds as vcpu->mmio_read_emulated is set 9. instruction completes and guest is resumed A problem surfaces if the userspace exit (step 5) also requests an interrupt injection. In that case, the guest does not re-execute the original instruction, but the interrupt handler. The next time an mmio read is exectued (likely for a different address), step 3 will find vcpu->mmio_read_completed set and return the value read for the original instruction. The problem manifested itself in a few annoying ways: - little squares appear randomly on console when switching virtual terminals - ne2000 fails under nfs read load - rtl8139 complains about "pci errors" even though the device model is incapable of issuing them. Fix by skipping interrupt injection if an mmio read is pending. A better fix is to avoid re-entry into the guest, and re-emulating immediately instead. However that's a bit more complex. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Avi Kivity authored
This makes the vmwrite errors on vm shutdown go away. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
The paravirt subsystem is still in flux so all exports from it are definitely internal use only. The APIs around this /will/ change. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Sing the praises of `gcc -W'. Would have prevented that blockdev direct-IO bug. Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
size_t is unsigned. IO errors aren't getting through. Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Venkatesh Pallipadi authored
Commit f2802e7f and its x86 version (b7471c6d) adds nmi_known_cpu() check while parsing boot options in x86_64 and i386. With that, "nmi_watchdog=2" stops working for me on Intel Core 2 CPU based system. The problem is, setup_nmi_watchdog is called while parsing the boot option and identify_cpu is not done yet. So, the return value of nmi_known_cpu() is not valid at this point. So revert that check. This should not have any adverse effect as the nmi_known_cpu() check is done again later in enable_lapic_nmi_watchdog(). Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
export profile_hits() on !SMP too. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Karsten Wiese authored
The previous patch 'Repair snd-usb-usx2y for usb 2.6.18' assumed urb->start_frame roll over beyond MAX_INT for both UHCI & OHCI. This isn't true until now (kernel 2.6.20). Fix this by only looking at the common between OHCI & UHCI Frame number range. This is for mainline and stable kernels >= 2.6.18. Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Amit S. Kale authored
This will use pci_register_driver() instead of pci_module_init(). Signed-off-by: Amit S. Kale <amitkale@netxen.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Amit S. Kale authored
This patch is to make the driver work with multiple minor firmware versions Signed-off-by: Amit S. Kale <amitkale@netxen.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Thomas Klein authored
Fixed possible nullpointer access in event queue processing Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Thomas Klein authored
Added logging of error events associated with a specific queue pair Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Thomas Klein authored
Disabled dump of hcall regs on some permission issues and fixed appropriate misleading logmessages Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Thomas Klein authored
Count OFDT nodes to determine the number of available ports instead of using the possibly outdated value from the hypervisor Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Thomas Klein authored
Logical partitions are not allowed to (try to) set the autonegotiation status. This patch removes the respective function call from the port setup function. Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Thomas Klein authored
Fix to use exactly one queue for incoming packets in all firmware configurations Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Thomas Klein authored
Not only check the pointer against 0 but also the dereferenced value Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Kumar Gala authored
We need to export phy_ethtool_gset and phy_ethtool_sset to allow drivers that use these functions to be built as modules. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch removes some more ftape code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Jeff Garzik authored
It is already noted in Kconfig, but the listing in this file was accidentally forgotten. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Komuro authored
1. EL3WINDOW is always 1 when lock is not held. 2. The second argument of el3_interrupt is 'void *dev_id', not 'struct el3_private *lp'. Signed-off-by: komurojun-mbn@nifty.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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James Bottomley authored
The current PDA code, which went in in post 2.6.19 has a flaw in that it doesn't correctly cycle the GDT and %GS segment through the boot PDA, the CPU PDA and finally the per-cpu PDA. The bug generally doesn't show up if the boot CPU id is zero, but everything falls apart for a non zero boot CPU id. The basically kills voyager which is perfectly capable of doing non zero CPU id boots, so voyager currently won't boot without this. The fix is to be careful and actually do the GDT setups correctly. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (84 commits) [JFFS2] debug.h: include <linux/sched.h> for current->pid [MTD] OneNAND: Handle DDP chip boundary during read-while-load [MTD] OneNAND: return ecc error code only when 2-bit ecc occurs [MTD] OneNAND: Implement read-while-load [MTD] OneNAND: fix onenand_wait bug in read ecc error [MTD] OneNAND: release CPU in cycles [MTD] OneNAND: add subpage write support [MTD] OneNAND: fix onenand_wait bug [JFFS2] use the ref_offset macro [JFFS2] Reschedule in loops [JFFS2] Fix error-path leak in summary scan [JFFS2] add cond_resched() when garbage collecting deletion dirent [MTD] Nuke IVR leftovers [MTD] OneNAND: fix oob handling in recent oob patch [MTD] Fix ssfdc blksize typo [JFFS2] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [MTD] Fix SSFDC build for variable blocksize. [MTD] ESB2ROM uses PCI [MTD] of_device-based physmap driver [MTD] Support combined RedBoot FIS directory and configuration area ...
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