Hans de Goede [Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:42:59 +0000 (16:42 +0100)]
hwmon: (fschmd) Read voltage scaling factors from BIOS DMI
This patch adds support to the fschmd driver for reading the voltage scaling
factors from BIOS DMI tables, as specified in the Siemens datasheet.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Jean Delvare [Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:13:42 +0000 (23:13 +0100)]
hwmon: Let the user override the detected Super-I/O device ID
While it is possible to force SMBus-based hardware monitoring chip
drivers to drive a not officially supported device, we do not have this
possibility for Super-I/O-based drivers. That's unfortunate because
sometimes newer chips are fully compatible and just forcing the driver
to load would work. Instead of that we have to tell the users to
recompile the kernel driver, which isn't an easy task for everyone.
So, I propose that we add a module parameter to all Super-I/O based
hardware monitoring drivers, letting advanced users force the driver
to load on their machine. The user has to provide the device ID of a
supposedly compatible device. This requires looking at the source code or
a datasheet, so I am confident that users can't randomly force a driver
without knowing what they are doing. Thus this should be relatively safe.
As you can see from the code, the implementation is pretty simple and
unintrusive.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Jean Delvare [Sun, 4 Nov 2007 22:44:52 +0000 (23:44 +0100)]
hwmon: (gl520sm) Put register addresses in arrays
This allows for some code refactoring, making the binary slightly
smaller. This is also required to use dynamic sysfs callbacks for
voltage and temperature files.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Jean Delvare [Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:58:21 +0000 (21:58 +0100)]
hwmon: (lm90) Use generic i2c reads during detection
As indirectly reported by Olof Johansson, the lm90 driver uses a
custom i2c read function even during detection, at which point we
don't know yet what device we're talking with. It would make more
sense to only use the generic i2c read function at this point, so
that we don't log irrelevant errors on misdetection.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Jean Delvare [Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:02:24 +0000 (14:02 +0200)]
hwmon: (gl518sm) Fix the reported fan speed
The fan speeds reported by the gl518sm driver are twice as much as they
should. It's currently reporting the number of pulses per minute, not
rotations per minute, while typical fans emit two pulses per rotation.
This explains why all reports with this driver had very high speed
values (between 9000 to 12000 RPM). Odd that nobody ever actually
complained about this bug.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Jean Delvare [Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:46:17 +0000 (17:46 +0200)]
hwmon: (gl518sm) Don't create sysfs files for missing features
The early revisions of the GL518SM do not report voltage values for
the first 3 voltage channels. We should not create sysfs attributes
for these missing features.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Jean Delvare [Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:45:08 +0000 (17:45 +0200)]
hwmon: (gl518sm) Various cleanups
* Drop history, it doesn't belong there
* Drop unused struct member
* Drop bogus struct member comment
* Drop unused driver ID
* Rename new_client to client
* Drop redundant initializations to 0
* Drop useless cast
* Drop trailing space
* Fix comment
* Drop duplicate comment
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Jean Delvare [Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:14:11 +0000 (21:14 +0200)]
hwmon: (adm1025) Various cleanups
* Whitespace cleanups
* Constify scaling constants
* Fold long lines
* Drop redundant initializations to 0
* Rename new_client to just client
* Use sysfs_create_group()
* Drop a useless comment
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Jean Delvare [Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:22:22 +0000 (15:22 +0200)]
hwmon: (lm87) Add support for the Analog Devices ADM1024
It happens that the Analog Devices ADM1024 is fully compatible with
the National Semiconductor LM87, so support for the former can easily
be added to the lm87 driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Since <linux/log2.h> already supplies a power-of-two test, there's no
point in having this source file redefine it again.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Jean Delvare [Sun, 7 Oct 2007 10:25:46 +0000 (12:25 +0200)]
hwmon: (lm78/w83781d) Probe fewer I2C addresses
We've never seen any device supported by the lm78 or w83781d driver at
addresses 0x20-0x27, so let's stop probing these addresses. Extra probes cost
time, and have potential for confusing or misdetecting other I2C devices.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:21:02 +0000 (13:21 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6:
BKL-removal: Implement a compat_ioctl handler for JFS
BKL-removal: Use unlocked_ioctl for jfs
Jesse Barnes [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:15:20 +0000 (11:15 -0800)]
i915: Fix GR register array size off-by-one bug
Make sure we have enough room for all the GR registers or we'll end up
clobbering the AR index register (which should actually be harmless
unless the BIOS is making an assumption about it).
Andi Kleen [Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:58:51 +0000 (16:58 -0600)]
BKL-removal: Use unlocked_ioctl for jfs
Convert jfs_ioctl over to not use the BKL. The only potential race
I could see was with two ioctls in parallel changing the flags
and losing the updates. Use the i_mutex to protect against this.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
It's possible that the caller of sysfs_remove_group messed up and passed in an attribute group that was not really registered to this kobject. But don't panic for such a foolish error, spit out a warning about what happened, and continue on our way safely.
The original patch breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines. The path to
the firmware file for the dell_rbu driver changes, which breaks all of
the userspace tools which rely on it.
Note that this patch re-introduces a problem with i2c name collision
that was previously fixed by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The "whole_disk" attribute was not properly converted in the block
device conversion earlier, and if the file is read, bad things can
happen. This patch fixes this, making the attribute an empty one,
preserving the original functionality.
Many thanks to David Miller for finding this, and pointing me in the
proper place within the block code to look.
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC32]: Use regsets in arch_ptrace().
[SPARC64]: Use regsets in arch_ptrace().
[SPARC32]: Use regsets for ELF core dumping.
[SPARC64]: Use regsets for ELF core dumping.
[SPARC64]: Remove unintentional ptrace debugging messages.
[SPARC]: Move over to arch_ptrace().
[SPARC]: Remove PTRACE_SUN* handling.
[SPARC]: Kill DEBUG_PTRACE code.
[SPARC32]: Add user regset support.
[SPARC64]: Add user regsets.
[SPARC64]: Fix booting on non-zero cpu.
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:20:31 +0000 (10:20 -0800)]
Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (120 commits)
[MTD] Fix mtdoops.c compilation
[MTD] [NOR] fix startup lock when using multiple nor flash chips
[MTD] [DOC200x] eccbuf is statically defined and always evaluate to true
[MTD] Fix maps/physmap.c compilation with CONFIG_PM
[MTD] onenand: Add panic_write function to the onenand driver
[MTD] mtdoops: Use the panic_write function when present
[MTD] Add mtd panic_write function pointer
[MTD] [NAND] Freescale enhanced Local Bus Controller FCM NAND support.
[MTD] physmap.c: Add support for multiple resources
[MTD] [NAND] Fix misparenthesization introduced by commit 78b65179...
[MTD] [NAND] Fix Blackfin NFC ECC calculating bug with page size 512 bytes
[MTD] [NAND] Remove wrong operation in PM function of the BF54x NFC driver
[MTD] [NAND] Remove unused variable in plat_nand_remove
[MTD] Unlocking all Intel flash that is locked on power up.
[MTD] [NAND] at91_nand: Make mtdparts option can override board info
[MTD] mtdoops: Various minor cleanups
[MTD] mtdoops: Ensure sequential write to the buffer
[MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue
[MTD] mtdoops: Add further error return code checking
[MTD] [NOR] Test devtype, not definition in flash_probe(), drivers/mtd/devices/lart.c
...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:45:14 +0000 (09:45 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds:
leds: Add HP Jornada 6xx driver
leds: Remove the now uneeded ixp4xx driver
leds: Add power LED to the wrap driver
leds: Fix led-gpio active_low default brightness
leds: hw acceleration for Clevo mail LED driver
leds: Add support for hardware accelerated LED flashing
leds: Standardise LED naming scheme
leds: Add clevo notebook LED driver
The recently introduced page walker (walk_page_range()) calls pgd_offset with a
const struct mm_struct pointer, causing the following compile warning on m68k:
mm/pagewalk.c:111: warning: passing argument 1 of 'pgd_offset' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Make the `mm' parameter of the inline function pgd_offset() const to shut it
up.
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:07:16 +0000 (09:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'drm-patches' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-patches' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: (22 commits)
drm: add initial r500 drm support
radeon: setup the ring buffer fetcher to be less agressive.
drm: fixup some of the ioctl function exit paths
drm: the drm really should call pci_set_master..
i915: Add chipset id for Intel Integrated Graphics Device
drm: cleanup DRM_DEBUG() parameters
drm/i915: add support for E7221 chipset
drm: don't cast a pointer to pointer of list_head
mga_dma: return 'err' not just zero from mga_do_cleanup_dma()
drm: add _DRM_DRIVER flag, and re-order unload.
drm: enable udev node creation
drm: Make DRM_IOCTL_GET_CLIENT return EINVAL when it can't find client #idx.
drm: move drm_mem_init to proper place in startup sequence
drm: call driver load function after initialising AGP
drm: Fix ioc32 compat layer
drm: fd.o bug #11895: Only add the AGP base to map offset if the caller didn't.
i915: add suspend/resume support
drm: update DRM sysfs support
drm: Initialize the AGP structure's base address at init rather than enable.
drm: move two function extern into the correct block
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] Add missing printk levels to e_powersaver
[CPUFREQ] Fix sparse warning in powernow-k8
[CPUFREQ] Support Model D parts and newer in e_powersaver
[CPUFREQ] Powernow-k8: Update to support the latest Turion processors
[CPUFREQ] fix configuration help message
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8 print pstate instead of fid/did for family 10h
[CPUFREQ] Eliminate cpufreq_userspace scaling_setspeed deadlock
[CPUFREQ] gx-suspmod.c: use boot_cpu_data instead of current_cpu_data
[CPUFREQ] fix incorrect comment on show_available_freqs() in freq_table.c
[CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq: Add missing "space"
[CPUFREQ] arch/x86: Add missing "space"
[CPUFREQ] Remove pointless Kconfig dependancy
Jiri Slaby [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:16:45 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
Char: mxser, ioctl cleanup
- remove dead MOXA_GET_CONF (always returned -ENXIO)
- remove useless MOXA_GET_CUMAJOR (unused)
- use get/put_user instead of copy_from/to_user for simple types
- cleanup TIOCMIWAIT -- return -ERESTARTSYS on signal, move condition into
separate function
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jiri Slaby [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:16:42 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
Char: mxser, remove special baudrate processing
Let the special baudrate processing on the tty layer. Also remove
set/get_special_rate ioctls introduced in commit f64c84a1668930d1ca2b7dbaa92146c2139cb508, since it is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jiri Slaby [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:16:40 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
Char: serial167, remove bottomhalf
- Cy_EVENT_OPEN_WAKEUP is simple wake_up
- Cy_EVENT_HANGUP is wake_up + tty_hangup, which schedules its own work
- Cy_EVENT_WRITE_WAKEUP is tty_wakeup which may be called directly too
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jiri Slaby [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:16:39 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
Char: stallion, remove bottomhalf
- tty_hangup schedules a bottomhalf itself, tty_wakeup doesn't need it
- call the CD code (part of work handler previously) directly from the code
(it wakes somebody up or calls tty_hangup at worse)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jiri Slaby [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:16:36 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
Char: stallion, fix compiler warnings
Don't emit warnings on 64 bit platforms from min(). sizeof() on those
is not uint, neither 2 pointers difference, cast it to uint by min_t in
both cases.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jiri Slaby [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:16:33 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
Char: rocket, printk cleanup
- add KERN_ level to each print
- change some levels appropriately
- add \n at the ends where missing
- change two complex printks into dev_info, where the original info is
printed automatically
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Frank Sorenson [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:16:31 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
i8k: Inspiron E1705 fix
Needs the following in order to work correctly on my Inspiron E1705:
Add DMI Product name to i8k for Dell MP061 hardware (Inspiron 9400/E1705)
Signed-off-by: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com> Cc: Bradley Smith <bradjsmith@btinternet.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bradley Smith [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:16:30 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
I8K: add i8k driver to the x86_64 Kconfig
Adds i8k driver to the x86_64 Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Bradley Smith <bradjsmith@btinternet.com> Cc: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bradley Smith [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:16:27 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
I8K: allow i8k driver to be built on x86_64 systems
Adds #if clause and additional inline assembly so that the driver
builds on x86_64 systems.
Signed-off-by: Bradley Smith <bradjsmith@btinternet.com> Cc: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add cmpxchg_local to sparc, move __cmpxchg to system.h
Move cmpxchg and add cmpxchg_local to system.h.
Use the new generic cmpxchg_local (disables interrupt).
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Gunnar Larisch [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:16:22 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
Add cmpxchg_local to ppc
Add a local processor version of cmpxchg for ppc.
Implements __cmpxchg_u32_local and uses it for 32 bits cmpxchg_local.
It uses the non NMI safe cmpxchg_local_generic for 1, 2 and 8 bytes
cmpxchg_local.
Signed-off-by: Gunnar Larisch <gl@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is for Mathieu Desnoyers's include/asm-m32r/local.h.
Applying the new include/asm-m32r/local.h, inclusion of linux/sched.h
is needed to fix a build error of arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c.
<-- snip -->
...
CC arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.o
/project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c: In function 'do_boot_cpu':
/project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:279: error: implicit declaration of function 'fork_idle'
/project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:279: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
/project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:283: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:289: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:290: error: implicit declaration of function 'task_thread_info'
/project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:290: error: invalid type argument of '->'
/project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c: In function 'start_secondary':
/project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:429: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpu_init'
make[2]: *** [arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.o] Error 1
<-- snip -->
the #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ should cover the default condition, or it may cause
bad parameter to be silently missed.
To make it work correctly, we have to remove the ifdef CONFIG SMP surrounding
__xchg_called_with_bad_pointer declaration. Thanks to Adrian Bunk for detecting
this.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
cmpxchg_local and cmpxchg64_local will use the architecture specific
__cmpxchg_local_u32 for 32 bits arguments, and use the generic
__cmpxchg_local_generic for 8, 16 and 64 bits arguments.
Add cmpxchg_local, cmpxchg64 and cmpxchg64_local to ia64
Add the primitives cmpxchg_local, cmpxchg64 and cmpxchg64_local to ia64. They
use cmpxchg_acq as underlying macro, just like the already existing ia64
cmpxchg().
Changelog:
ia64 cmpxchg_local coding style fix
Quoting Keith Owens:
Which makes it absolutely clear that they are the same code. With your
patch, humans have to do a string compare of two defines to see if they
are the same.
Note cmpxchg is *not* a performance win vs interrupt disable / enable on IA64.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use the new generic cmpxchg_local (disables interrupt) for 8, 16 and 64 bits
arguments. Use the 32 bits cmpxchg available on the architecture for 32 bits
arguments.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add cmpxchg_local to blackfin, replace __cmpxchg by generic cmpxchg
Use the new generic cmpxchg_local (disables interrupt). Also use the generic
cmpxchg as fallback if SMP is not set since nobody seems to know why __cmpxchg
has been implemented in assembly in the first place thather than in plain C.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: Michael Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add cmpxchg_local to asm-generic for per cpu atomic operations
Emulates the cmpxchg_local by disabling interrupts around variable modification.
This is not reentrant wrt NMIs and MCEs. It is only protected against normal
interrupts, but this is enough for architectures without such interrupt sources
or if used in a context where the data is not shared with such handlers.
It can be used as a fallback for architectures lacking a real cmpxchg
instruction.
For architectures that have a real cmpxchg but does not have NMIs or MCE,
testing which of the generic vs architecture specific cmpxchg is the fastest
should be done.
asm-generic/cmpxchg.h defines a cmpxchg that uses cmpxchg_local. It is meant to
be used as a cmpxchg fallback for architectures that do not support SMP.
* Patch series comments
Using cmpxchg_local shows a performance improvements of the fast path goes from
a 66% speedup on a Pentium 4 to a 14% speedup on AMD64.
In detail:
Tested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Measurements on a Pentium4, 3GHz, Hyperthread.
SLUB Performance testing
========================
1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
Tested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Measurements on a AMD64 2.0 GHz dual-core
In this test, we seem to remove 10 cycles from the kmalloc fast path.
On small allocations, it gives a 14% performance increase. kfree fast
path also seems to have a 10 cycles improvement.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:15:57 +0000 (00:15 -0800)]
Sanitize the type of struct user.u_ar0
struct user.u_ar0 is defined to contain a pointer offset on all
architectures in which it is defined (all architectures which define an
a.out format except SPARC.) However, it has a pointer type in the headers,
which is pointless -- <asm/user.h> is not exported to userspace, and it
just makes the code messy.
Redefine the field as "unsigned long" (which is the same size as a pointer
on all Linux architectures) and change the setting code to user offsetof()
instead of hand-coded arithmetic.
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