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    • Artem Bityutskiy's avatar
      This patch adds new operation to struct super_operations - sync_inodes, · 700f8105
      Artem Bityutskiy authored 
      generic implementaion and changes fs-writeback.c:sync_sb_inodes() to call
filesystem's sync_inodes if it is defined or generic implementaion otherwise.
This new operation allows filesystem to decide itself what to flush.

Reiser4 flushes dirty pages on basic of atoms, not of inodes.  sync_sb_inodes
used to call address space flushing method (writepages) for every dirty inode.
 For reiser4 it caused having to commit atoms unnecessarily often.  This
turned into substantial slowdown.  Having this method helped to fix that
problem.
Signed-off-by: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      700f8105
    • Edward Shishkin's avatar
      In accordance with reiser4 transactional model every dirty page should be · 79465f4f
      Edward Shishkin authored 
      "captured" by some atom.  However, outside reiser4 context dirty page can
not be captured in some cases, as it is accompanied with specific work
(jnode creation, etc).  Reiser4 recognizes such "anonymous" pages (i.e. 
pages that were dirtied outside of reiser4) by the tag
PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY.  Pages dirtied inside reiser4 context are not tagged
at all: we don't need this.  Indeed, once page is dirtied and captured, it
is attached to a jnode (a special header to keep a track of transactions).

reiser4_set_page_dirty_internal() was the internal reiser4 function that
set dirty bit without tagging the page.  Having such internal function led
to real problems (incorrect task io accounting, etc.  because of not
updating this internal "friend").

Solution:

The following patch adds a core library function that sets a dirty bit
without tagging the page.

Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin<edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      79465f4f
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    • Albin Tonnerre's avatar
      This is the second part of patch. This part includes: · 171ca857
      Albin Tonnerre authored 
       - changes to ach/arch/boot/Makefile to make it easier to add new
   compression types
 - new piggy.lzo.S necessary for lzo compression
 - changes in arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c to allow the use of lzo or
   gzip, depending on the config
 - Kconfig support
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlbin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      171ca857
    • Albin Tonnerre's avatar
      This is the first part of the lzo patch The lzo compressor is worse than · 605dd428
      Albin Tonnerre authored 
      gzip at compression, but faster at extraction.  Here are some figures for
an ARM board I'm working on:

Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo
gzip  1.61Mo 0.72s
lzo   1.75Mo 0.48s

So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's
much faster to extract, at least in that case.

This version applies to kernel 2.6.31-rc3

This part contains:
 - Makefile routine to support lzo compression
 - Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in
   compressed kernels
 - wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one
   block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here
 - config dialog for kernel compression
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlbin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      605dd428
    • Albin Tonnerre's avatar
      When unaligned accesses are required for uncompressing a kernel (such as · cb340f3a
      Albin Tonnerre authored 
      for LZO decompression on ARM in a patch that follows), including
<linux/kernel.h> causes issues as it brings in a lot of things that are
not available in the decompression environment.

However, those files apparently use nothing from <linux/kernel.h>, all
they need is the declaration of types such as u32 or u64, so
<linux/types.h> should be enough
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlbin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      cb340f3a
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    • Nils Carlson's avatar
      The periodic interrupt from drivers/char/hpet.c does not work correctly, · 749c5af1
      Nils Carlson authored 
      both when using the periodic capability of the hardware and while
emulating the periodic interrupt (when hardware does not support periodic
mode).

With timers capable of periodic interrupts, the comparator field is first
set with the period value followed by set of hidden accumulator, which has
the side effect of overwriting the comparator value.  This results in
wrong periodicity for the interrupts.  For, periodic interrupts to work,
following steps are necessary, in that order.

* Set config with Tn_VAL_SET_CNF bit

* Write to hidden accumulator, the value written is the time when the
  first interrupt should be generated

* Write compartor with period interval for subsequent interrupts
  (http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf )

When emulating periodic timer with timers not capable of periodic
interrupt, driver is adding the period to counter value instead of
comparator value, which causes slow drift when using this emulation.

Also, driver seems to add hpetp->hp_delta both while setting up periodic
interrupt and while emulating periodic interrupts with timers not capable
of doing periodic interrupts.  This hp_delta will result in slower than
expected interrupt rate and should not be used while setting the interval.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNils Carlson <nils.carlson@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      749c5af1
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    • Renzo Davoli's avatar
      There are two useless lines in fs/char_dev.c. · 0061edb0
      Renzo Davoli authored 
      In register_chrdev there is a loop to change all '/' into '!' in the
kernel object name.
This code is useless as the same substitution is in kobject_set_name_vargs in
lib/kobject.c:
228         /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
229         while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
230                 s[0] = '!';

kobject_set_name_vargs is called by kobject_set_name.
kobject_set_name is called just above the useless loop.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRenzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      0061edb0
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    • Lai Jiangshan's avatar
      _cpu_down() changes the current task's affinity and then recovers it at · ce8acbd2
      Lai Jiangshan authored 
      the end.

It has two problems:

1) The recovery of the current tasks's cpus_allowed will fail under
   some conditions.

   # grep Cpus_allowed_list /proc/$$/status
   Cpus_allowed_list:      0-3

   # taskset -pc 2 $$
   pid 29075's current affinity list: 0-3
   pid 29075's new affinity list: 2

   # grep Cpus_allowed_list /proc/$$/status
   Cpus_allowed_list:      2

   # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online

   # grep Cpus_allowed_list /proc/$$/status
   Cpus_allowed_list:      0

   Here, the Cpus_allowed_list was originally "2" and has become
   "0-1,3" after cpu #2 is offlined.

   This "Cpus_allowed_list:      0" is incorrect.

2) If the current task is a userspace task, the user may change its
   cpu-affinity during the CPU hot-unplugging.  This change can be
   overwritten when _cpu_down() changes the current task's affinity.


Fix all this by not changing the current tasks's affinity.  Instead we
create a kernel thread to do the work.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      ce8acbd2
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    • Oleg Nesterov's avatar
      sys_delete_module() can set MODULE_STATE_GOING after · 1504e6b5
      Oleg Nesterov authored 
      search_binary_handler() does try_module_get().  In this case
set_binfmt()->try_module_get() fails but since none of the callers
check the returned error, the task will run with the wrong old
->binfmt.

The proper fix should change all ->load_binary() methods, but we can
rely on fact that the caller must hold a reference to binfmt->module
and use __module_get() which never fails.
Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      1504e6b5