- 07 Sep, 2005 40 commits
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Karsten Wiese authored
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> This speeds up directory reads for large FAT partitions, if the buffercache has to be filled from the drive. Following values were taken from: $ time find path_to_freshly_mounted_fat > /dev/null on an otherwise idle system. FAT with 16KB Clusters on IDE attached drive: Factor 2 FAT with 32KB Clusters on USB2 attached drive: Factor 10 (!) Its less than 1/10 slower, if the buffercache is uptodate. The patch introduces the new function fat_dir_readahead(). fat_dir_readahead() calls sb_breadahead() to readahead a whole cluster, if the requested sector is the first one in a cluster. It is usefull to do this, because on FAT directories occupy whole clusters, with the exception of FAT12/FAT16 root dirs. Readahead is only done, if the cluster's first sector is not uptodate to avoid overhead, when the buffer cache is already uptodate. Note that under memory pressure, the maximal byte count wasted (read: has to be red from disk twice) is 1 cluster's size. Thats 64KB. fat_dir_readahead() is called from fat__get_entry(). There is also an unrelated cleanup at one spot: if (bh) brelse(bh); is replaced with: brelse(bh); brelse() can handle NULL pointer arguments by itself. Signed-off-by:Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by:
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Thomas Koeller authored
Change the sequence of operations performed during module loading to flush the instruction cache before module parameters are processed. If a module has parameters of an unusual type that cannot be handled using the standard accessor functions param_set_xxx and param_get_xxx, it has to to provide a set of accessor functions for this type. This requires module code to be executed during parameter processing, which is of course only possible after the icache has been flushed. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Waychison authored
Change the /proc/sysvipc/shm|sem|msg files to use the generic seq_file implementation for struct ipc_ids. Signed-off-by:
Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Waychison authored
The following two patches convert /proc/sysvipc/* to use seq_file. This gives us the following: - Self-consistent IPC records in proc. - O(n) reading of the files themselves. This patch: Add a generic method for ipc types to be displayed using seq_file. This patch abstracts out seq_file iterating over struct ipc_ids into ipc/util.c Signed-off-by:
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Bruce Allan authored
When registering an RPC cache, cache_register() always sets the owner as the sunrpc module. However, there are RPC caches owned by other modules. With the incorrect owner setting, the real owning module can be removed potentially with an open reference to the cache from userspace. For example, if one were to stop the nfs server and unmount the nfsd filesystem, the nfsd module could be removed eventhough rpc.idmapd had references to the idtoname and nametoid caches (i.e. /proc/net/rpc/nfs4.<cachename>/channel is still open). This resulted in a system panic on one of our machines when attempting to restart the nfs services after reloading the nfsd module. The following patch adds a 'struct module *owner' field in struct cache_detail. The owner is further assigned to the struct proc_dir_entry in cache_register() so that the module cannot be unloaded while user-space daemons have an open reference on the associated file under /proc. Signed-off-by:
Bruce Allan <bwa@us.ibm.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by:
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Tobias Klauser authored
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() This patch includes dma-mapping.h explicitly because it caused errors on some architectures otherwise. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details Signed-off-by:
Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by:
Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Signed-off-by:
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Steven Pratt authored
We don't reset the cache hit count until after readahead does a successful readahead. This seems to leave a corner case open where we miss in cache, but don't restart the readhead right away. Signed-off-by:
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
Seems pointless to require .c files to test CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG and conditionally define DEBUG before including <linux/pnp.h>. Just test CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG directly in pnp.h. Signed-off-by:
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Williamson authored
Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> When using a time interpolator that is susceptible to jitter there's potentially contention over a cmpxchg used to prevent time from going backwards. This is unnecessary when the caller holds the xtime write seqlock as all readers will be blocked from returning until the write is complete. We can therefore allow writers to insert a new value and exit rather than fight with CPUs who only hold a reader lock. Signed-off-by:Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Stelian Pop authored
Remove old obsolete event. Signed-off-by:
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Erik Waling authored
Newer Sony VAIO models (VGN-S480, VGN-S460, VGN-S3XP etc) use a new method to initialize the SPIC device. The new way to initialize (and disable) the device comes directly from the AML code in the _CRS, _SRS and _DIS methods from the DSDT table. This patch adds support for the new models. Signed-off-by:
Erik Waling <erikw@acc.umu.se> Signed-off-by:
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Zhigang Huo authored
These no longer have any users. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
this is the last serial driver not using initcalls. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <jeff@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
this gets rid of the last two explicit initializations in misc.c Signed-off-by:
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
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Christoph Hellwig authored
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Avery, Brian authored
I passed init=/mylinuxrc to the kernel on the command line. The kernel silently dropped down to exec /sbin/init. It turned out that /mylinuxrc had improper permissions. Without any warning message from the kernel that something was wrong it took awhile to find the issue. The patch below adds a warning. Signed-off-by:
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Mark Bellon authored
If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however, /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts (a "good thing" in some environments) the tools don't write anything - they assume the kernel will take care of things. While the quota options are sent down to the kernel via the mount system call and the file system codes handle them properly unfortunately there is no code to echo the quota strings into /proc/mounts and the quota tools fail in the symlink case. The attached patchs modify the EXT[2|3] and JFS codes to add the necessary hooks. The show_options function of each file system in these patches currently deal with only those things that seemed related to quotas; especially in the EXT3 case more can be done (later?). Jan Kara also noted the difficulty in moving these changes above the FS codes responding similarly to myself to Andrew's comment about possible VFS migration. Issue summary: - FS codes have to process the entire string of options anyway. - Only FS codes that use quotas must have a show_options function (for quotas to work properly) however quotas are only used in a small number of FS. - Since most of the quota using FS support other options these FS codes should have the a show_options function to show those options - and the quota echoing becomes virtually negligible. Based on feedback I have modified my patches from the original: JFS a missing patch has been restored to the posting EXT[2|3] and JFS always use the show_options function - Each FS has at least one FS specific option displayed - QUOTA output is under a CONFIG_QUOTA ifdef - a follow-on patch will add a multitude of options for each FS EXT[2|3] and JFS "quota" is treated as "usrquota" EXT3 journalled data check for journalled quota removed EXT[2|3] mount when quota specified but not compiled in - no changes from my original patch. I tested the patch and the codes warn but - still mount. With all due respection I believe the comments otherwise were a - misread of the patch. Please reread/test and comment. XFS patch removed - the XFS team already made the necessary changes EXT3 mixing old and new quotas are handled differently (not purely exclusive) - if old and new quotas for the same type are used together the old type is silently depricated for compatability (e.g. usrquota and usrjquota) - mixing of old and new quotas is an error (e.g. usrjquota and grpquota) Signed-off-by:Mark Bellon <mbellon@mvista.com> Acked-by:
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Russell King authored
Ensure that sound/arm/Makefile is sanely organised so that additions to it don't break all other patches out there. This means I only have to adjust the line numbers in my patch queue rather than having to re-generate by hand those which touch this file. Signed-off-by:
Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
ISAPNP, PNPBIOS, and PNPACPI all had their own kmalloc wrappers that reimplemented kcalloc(). Remove the wrappers and just use kcalloc() directly. Note that this also removes the PNPBIOS error message when the kmalloc fails. Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Ritz authored
ToPIC95 brides (and maybe some other too) require to use the ExCA registers to power up the socket if a 16bit card is pluged. allow socket drivers to set a flag so that yenta does just that. also clean up yenta_get_status() a bit to use the new yenta_get_power() function. Side note: ToPIC97 bridges (at least in Rev.5 i have) don't require this. Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net> said: According to the mail that David Hinds received from a Toshiba engineer, ToPIC95 and 97 do require this, and ToPIC100 does not. Maybe you have a later revision. For all chips, 16-bit cards can be enabled through ExCA. So doesn't it make sense just to make this the default behavior for all Toshiba chips, to avoid corner cases showing up later? Daniel responded: I disagree with ryan to change anything for topic97 bridges. they work. and I couldn't find (read google) any report of a topic97 breaking on applying power with the CB registers. I'm having several toshba notebooks at work (and home) with topic95,97,100 bridges. Only the ones with a topic95 didn't work. Signed-off-by:
Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Signed-off-by:
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H. J. Lu authored
The size of auxiliary vector is fixed at 42 in linux/sched.h. But it isn't very obvious when looking at linux/elf.h. This patch adds AT_VECTOR_SIZE so that we can change it if necessary when a new vector is added. Because of include file ordering problems, doing this necessitated the extraction of the AT_* symbols into a standalone header file. Signed-off-by:
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Marcelo Tosatti authored
Simple patch to radix_tree_tag_get() to return different values for non present node and tag unset. The function is not used by any in-kernel callers (yet), but this information is definitely useful. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
- There is frequent use of indirections in the radix code. This patch removes those indirections, makes the code more readable and allows the compilers to generate better code. - Removing indirections allows the removal of several casts. - Removing indirections allows the reduction of the radix_tree_path size from 3 to 2 words. - Use pathp-> consistently. - Remove unnecessary tmp variable in radix_tree_insert - Separate the upper layer processing from the lowest layer in __lookup() in order to make it easier to understand what is going on and allow compilers to generate better code for the loop. Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Machek authored
This adds support for powering Zaurus's video up and down. PDA without screen is kind of useless, so it is quite important... I'll have to figure out how to really control the frontlight, because LCD without that is quite hard to read. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
All users have been converted. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Osterlund authored
Jens: ->bi_set is totally unnecessary bloat of struct bio. Just define a proper destructor for the bio and it already knows what bio_set it belongs too. Peter: Fixed the bugs. Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ralf Baechle authored
Local symbols generated by gcc start with a `$'; no point in including them in the kernel. Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make needlessly global functions static - journal.c: remove the unused global function __journal_internal_check and move the check to journal_init - remove the following write-only global variable: - journal.c: current_journal - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL: - journal.c: journal_recover Signed-off-by:Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Rothwell authored
When I first wrote the compat layer patches, I was somewhat cavalier about the definition of compat_uid_t and compat_gid_t (or maybe I just misunderstood :-)). This patch makes the compat types much more consistent with the types we are being compatible with and hopefully will fix a few bugs along the way. compat type type in compat arch __compat_[ug]id_t __kernel_[ug]id_t __compat_[ug]id32_t __kernel_[ug]id32_t compat_[ug]id_t [ug]id_t The difference is that compat_uid_t is always 32 bits (for the archs we care about) but __compat_uid_t may be 16 bits on some. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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Bodo Eggert authored
In sound/isa/Kconfig, select ISAPNP and depend on ISAPNP are intermixed, resulting in funny behaviour. (Soundcarts get selectable if other soundcards are selected). This patch changes the "depend on ISAPNP"s to select. Signed-Off-By:
Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
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John McCutchan authored
Bypass an inotify-related fastpath spinlock and several function calls on systems which have no inotify watches registered. Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Uses of RCU for dynamically changeable NMI handlers need to use the new rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer() facilities. This change makes it clear that these uses are safe from a memory-barrier viewpoint, but the main purpose is to document exactly what operations are being protected by RCU. This has been tested on x86 and x86-64, which are the only architectures affected by this change. Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
The attached patch prevents oopses interleaving with characters from other printks on other CPUs by only breaking the lock if the oops is happening on the machine holding the lock. It might be better if the oops generator got the lock and then called an inner vprintk routine that assumed the caller holds the lock, thus making oops reports "atomic". Signed-Off-By:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
Move some more frequently read variables that showed up during some of our performance tests as sometimes ending up in hot cachelines to the read_mostly section. Fix: Move the __read_mostly from before hpet_usec_quotient to follow the variable like the other uses of __read_mostly. Signed-off-by:
Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by:
Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by:
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Paulo Marques authored
This patch changes the way the compression algorithm works. The base algorithm is similiar to the previous but we force the compressed token size to 2. Having a fixed size compressed token allows for a lot of optimizations, and that in turn allows this code to run over *all* the symbols faster than it did before over just a subset. Having it work over all the symbols will make it behave better when symbols change positions between passes, and the "inconsistent kallsyms" messages should become less frequent. In my tests the compression ratio was degraded by about 0.5%, but the results will depend greatly on the number of symbols to compress. Signed-off-by:
Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tom Zanussi authored
Here's the latest version of relayfs, against linux-2.6.11-mm2. I'm hoping you'll consider putting this version back into your tree - the previous rounds of comment seem to have shaken out all the API issues and the number of comments on the code itself have also steadily dwindled. This patch is essentially the same as the relayfs redux part 5 patch, with some minor changes based on reviewer comments. Thanks again to Pekka Enberg for those. The patch size without documentation is now a little smaller at just over 40k. Here's a detailed list of the changes: - removed the attribute_flags in relay open and changed it to a boolean specifying either overwrite or no-overwrite mode, and removed everything referencing the attribute flags. - added a check for NULL names in relayfs_create_entry() - got rid of the unnecessary multiple labels in relay_create_buf() - some minor simplification of relay_alloc_buf() which got rid of a couple params - updated the Documentation In addition, this version (through code contained in the relay-apps tarball linked to below, not as part of the relayfs patch) tries to make it as easy as possible to create the cooperating kernel/user pieces of a typical and common type of logging application, one where kernel logging is kicked off when a user space data collection app starts and stops when the collection app exits, with the data being automatically logged to disk in between. To create this type of application, you basically just include a header file (relay-app.h, included in the relay-apps tarball) in your kernel module, define a couple of callbacks and call an initialization function, and on the user side call a single function that sets up and continuously monitors the buffers, and writes data to files as it becomes available. Channels are created when the collection app is started and destroyed when it exits, not when the kernel module is inserted, so different channel buffer sizes can be specified for each separate run via command-line options. See the README in the relay-apps tarball for details. Also included in the relay-apps tarball are a couple examples demonstrating how you can use this to create quick and dirty kernel logging/debugging applications. They are: - tprintk, short for 'tee printk', which temporarily puts a kprobe on printk() and writes a duplicate stream of printk output to a relayfs channel. This could be used anywhere there's printk() debugging code in the kernel which you'd like to exercise, but would rather not have your system logs cluttered with debugging junk. You'd probably want to kill klogd while you do this, otherwise there wouldn't be much point (since putting a kprobe on printk() doesn't change the output of printk()). I've used this method to temporarily divert the packet logging output of the iptables LOG target from the system logs to relayfs files instead, for instance. - klog, which just provides a printk-like formatted logging function on top of relayfs. Again, you can use this to keep stuff out of your system logs if used in place of printk. The example applications can be found here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dprobes/relay-apps.tar.gz?download From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> avoid lookup_hash usage in relayfs Signed-off-by:
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
This patch adds a new kernel debug feature: CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP. When enabled then per-CPU watchdog threads are started, which try to run once per second. If they get delayed for more than 10 seconds then a callback from the timer interrupt detects this condition and prints out a warning message and a stack dump (once per lockup incident). The feature is otherwise non-intrusive, it doesnt try to unlock the box in any way, it only gets the debug info out, automatically, and on all CPUs affected by the lockup. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By:
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jakub Jelinek authored
ATM pthread_cond_signal is unnecessarily slow, because it wakes one waiter (which at least on UP usually means an immediate context switch to one of the waiter threads). This waiter wakes up and after a few instructions it attempts to acquire the cv internal lock, but that lock is still held by the thread calling pthread_cond_signal. So it goes to sleep and eventually the signalling thread is scheduled in, unlocks the internal lock and wakes the waiter again. Now, before 2003-09-21 NPTL was using FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal to avoid this performance issue, but it was removed when locks were redesigned to the 3 state scheme (unlocked, locked uncontended, locked contended). Following scenario shows why simply using FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal together with using lll_mutex_unlock_force in place of lll_mutex_unlock is not enough and probably why it has been disabled at that time: The number is value in cv->__data.__lock. thr1 thr2 thr3 0 pthread_cond_wait 1 lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock) 0 lll_mutex_unlock (cv->__data.__lock) 0 lll_futex_wait (&cv->__data.__futex, futexval) 0 pthread_cond_signal 1 lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock) 1 pthread_cond_signal 2 lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock) 2 lll_futex_wait (&cv->__data.__lock, 2) 2 lll_futex_requeue (&cv->__data.__futex, 0, 1, &cv->__data.__lock) # FUTEX_REQUEUE, not FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE 2 lll_mutex_unlock_force (cv->__data.__lock) 0 cv->__data.__lock = 0 0 lll_futex_wake (&cv->__data.__lock, 1) 1 lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock) 0 lll_mutex_unlock (cv->__data.__lock) # Here, lll_mutex_unlock doesn't know there are threads waiting # on the internal cv's lock Now, I believe it is possible to use FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal, but it will cost us not one, but 2 extra syscalls and, what's worse, one of these extra syscalls will be done for every single waiting loop in pthread_cond_*wait. We would need to use lll_mutex_unlock_force in pthread_cond_signal after requeue and lll_mutex_cond_lock in pthread_cond_*wait after lll_futex_wait. Another alternative is to do the unlocking pthread_cond_signal needs to do (the lock can't be unlocked before lll_futex_wake, as that is racy) in the kernel. I have implemented both variants, futex-requeue-glibc.patch is the first one and futex-wake_op{,-glibc}.patch is the unlocking inside of the kernel. The kernel interface allows userland to specify how exactly an unlocking operation should look like (some atomic arithmetic operation with optional constant argument and comparison of the previous futex value with another constant). It has been implemented just for ppc*, x86_64 and i?86, for other architectures I'm including just a stub header which can be used as a starting point by maintainers to write support for their arches and ATM will just return -ENOSYS for FUTEX_WAKE_OP. The requeue patch has been (lightly) tested just on x86_64, the wake_op patch on ppc64 kernel running 32-bit and 64-bit NPTL and x86_64 kernel running 32-bit and 64-bit NPTL. With the following benchmark on UP x86-64 I get: for i in nptl-orig nptl-requeue nptl-wake_op; do echo time elf/ld.so --library-path .:$i /tmp/bench; \ for j in 1 2; do echo ( time elf/ld.so --library-path .:$i /tmp/bench ) 2>&1; done; done time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-orig /tmp/bench real 0m0.655s user 0m0.253s sys 0m0.403s real 0m0.657s user 0m0.269s sys 0m0.388s time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-requeue /tmp/bench real 0m0.496s user 0m0.225s sys 0m0.271s real 0m0.531s user 0m0.242s sys 0m0.288s time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-wake_op /tmp/bench real 0m0.380s user 0m0.176s sys 0m0.204s real 0m0.382s user 0m0.175s sys 0m0.207s The benchmark is at: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00001.txt Older futex-requeue-glibc.patch version is at: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00002.txt Older futex-wake_op-glibc.patch version is at: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00003.txt Will post a new version (just x86-64 fixes so that the patch applies against pthread_cond_signal.S) to libc-hacker ml soon. Attached is the kernel FUTEX_WAKE_OP patch as well as a simple-minded testcase that will not test the atomicity of the operation, but at least check if the threads that should have been woken up are woken up and whether the arithmetic operation in the kernel gave the expected results. Acked-by:Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp> Signed-off-by:
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