Eric Dumazet [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:16 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] reduce sizeof(struct file)
Now that RCU applied on 'struct file' seems stable, we can place f_rcuhead
in a memory location that is not anymore used at call_rcu(&f->f_rcuhead,
file_free_rcu) time, to reduce the size of this critical kernel object.
The trick I used is to move f_rcuhead and f_list in an union called f_u
The callers are changed so that f_rcuhead becomes f_u.fu_rcuhead and f_list
becomes f_u.f_list
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Randy Dunlap [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:15 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] clarify menuconfig /(search) help text
Add explicit text about
- where menuconfig '/' (search) searches for strings,
- that substrings are allowed, and
- that regular expressions are supported.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The first two hunks of the patch really belongs in patch 1, but I missed
them on the first pass and instead of redoing all 3 patches I stuck them in
this one.
Removes a few pointless register keywords. register is merely a compiler
hint that access to the variable should be optimized, but gcc (3.3.6 in my
case) generates the exact same code with and without the keyword, and even
if gcc did something different with register present I think it is doubtful
we would want to optimize access to these variables - especially since this
is generic library code and there are supposed to be optimized versions in
asm/ for anything that really matters speed wise.
(akpm: iirc, keyword register is a gcc no-op unless using -O0)
[PATCH] Don't uselessly export task_struct to userspace in core dumps
task_struct is an internal structure to the kernel with a lot of good
information, that is probably interesting in core dumps. However there is
no way for user space to know what format that information is in making it
useless.
I grepped the GDB 6.3 source code and NT_TASKSTRUCT while defined is not
used anywhere else. So I would be surprised if anyone notices it is
missing.
In addition exporting kernel pointers to all the interesting kernel data
structures sounds like the very definition of an information leak. I
haven't a clue what someone with evil intentions could do with that
information, but in any attack against the kernel it looks like this is the
perfect tool for aiming that attack.
So since NT_TASKSTRUCT is useless as currently defined and is potentially
dangerous, let's just not export it.
(akpm: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> "would be amazed" if anything was
using NT_TASKSTRUCT).
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Use alloc_percpu to allocate workqueues locally
This patch makes the workqueus use alloc_percpu instead of an array. The
workqueues are placed on nodes local to each processor.
The workqueue structure can grow to a significant size on a system with
lots of processors if this patch is not applied. 64 bit architectures with
all debugging features enabled and configured for 512 processors will not
be able to boot without this patch.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Garzik [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:01:51 +0000 (15:01 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove some more check_region stuff
Removed some more references to check_region().
I checked these changes into the 'checkreg' branch of
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git
The only valid references remaining are in:
drivers/scsi/advansys.c
drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c
sound/oss/pss.c
Remove last vestiges of ide_check_region()
drivers/char/specialix: trim trailing whitespace
drivers/char/specialix: eliminate use of check_region()
Remove outdated and unused references to check_region()
[sound oss] remove check_region() usage from cs4232, wavfront
[netdrvr eepro] trim trailing whitespace
[netdrvr eepro] remove check_region() usage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
TIOCSTART and TIOCSTOP are defined in asm/ioctls.h and asm/termios.h by
various architectures but not actually implemented anywhere but in the IRIX
compatibility layer, so remove their COMPATIBLE_IOCTL from parisc, ppc64
and sparc64.
Move the TIOCSLTC COMPATIBLE_IOCTL to common code, guided by an ifdef to
only show up on architectures that support it (same as the code handling it
in tty_ioctl.c), aswell as it's brother TIOCGLTC that wasn't handled so
far.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] cfq-iosched: move tasklist walk to elevator.c
We're trying to get rid of as much as possible tasklist walks, or at
least moving them to core code. This patch falls into the second
category.
Instead of walking the tasklist in cfq-iosched move that into
elv_unregister. The added benefit is that with this change the as
ioscheduler might be might unloadable more easily aswell.
The new code uses read_lock instead of read_lock_irq because the
tasklist_lock only needs irq disabling for writers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
James Lamanna [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:16 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: [kv]free() checking cleanup
Signed-off-by: James Lamanna <jlamanna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Kara [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:16 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: Fix unmapped buffers in transaction's lists
Fix the problem (BUG 4964) with unmapped buffers in transaction's
t_sync_data list. The problem is we need to call filesystem's own
invalidatepage() from block_write_full_page().
block_write_full_page() must call filesystem's invalidatepage(). Otherwise
following nasty race can happen:
proc 1 proc 2
------ ------
- write some new data to 'offset'
=> bh gets to the transactions data list
- starts truncate
=> i_size set to new size
- mpage_writepages()
- ext3_ordered_writepage() to 'offset'
- block_write_full_page()
- page->index > end_index+1
- block_invalidatepage()
- discard_buffer()
- clear_buffer_mapped()
- commit triggers and finds unmapped buffer - BOOM!
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dmitry Torokhov [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:14 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] smsc-ircc2: PM cleanup - do not close device when suspending
smsc-ircc2 - avoid closing network device when suspending; just release
interrupt and disable DMA ourselves. Also make sure to reset chip when
resuming.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] i386: use -mcpu, not -mtune, for GCCs older than 3.4
I just noted that -mtune is used, which is only supported on recent GCCs; by
reading http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html, you see "-mcpu has been
renamed to -mtune.", so for GCC < 3.4 we're not using any specific tuning in
the appropriate cases. However -mcpu is deprecated, so use -mtune when
possible.
This was introduced by commit e9d4dce954a60dc23dd1d967766ca2347b780e54 of the
old tree (between 2.6.10-rc3 and 2.6.10) by Linus Torvalds, to remove the use
of -march, since that could trigger gcc using SSE on its own. But no
attention was used about using -mcpu vs. -mtune.
And btw, the old 2.6.4 code (for instance) was:
cflags-$(CONFIG_MPENTIUMII) += $(call check_gcc,-march=pentium2,-march=i686)
cflags-$(CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII) += $(call check_gcc,-march=pentium3,-march=i686)
cflags-$(CONFIG_MPENTIUMM) += $(call check_gcc,-march=pentium3,-march=i686)
cflags-$(CONFIG_MPENTIUM4) += $(call check_gcc,-march=pentium4,-march=i686)
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK, it's now defined (only if needed) by the
underlying arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu. Leave it only for x86_64. Even there, it's
totally wrong, as they even have the code to support XCHG_ADD.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make UML share the underlying cpu-specific tuning done on i386.
Actually, for now many config options aren't used a lot - but that can be done
later. Also, UML relies on GCC optimization for things like memcpy and such
more than i386, so specifying the correct -march and -mtune should be enough.
Later, we may want to correct some other stuff.
For instance, since FPU context switching, for us, is done (at least
partially, i.e. between our kernelspace and userspace) by the host, we may
allow usage of FPU operations by GCC. This doesn't hold for kernelspace vs.
kernelspace, but we don't support preemption.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hirokazu Takata [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:06 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] m32r: SMC91x driver update
Update SMC91x driver for m32r.
- Remove needless NONCACHE_OFFSET adjustment.
> [PATCH 2.6.14-rc4] m32r: NONCACHE_OFFSET in _port2addr
> Change _port2addr() not to add NONCACHE_OFFSET.
> Adding NONCACHE_OFFSET requires needless address adjusting by a driver
> using ioremap() like a SMC91x driver.
- Fix lots of warnings as following:
/usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/drivers/net/smc91x.c: In function `smc_reset':
/usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/drivers/net/smc91x.c:324: warning: passing arg 2 of `_outw' makes integer from pointer without a cast
/usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/drivers/net/smc91x.c:325: warning: passing arg 2 of `_outw' makes integer from pointer without a cast
/usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/drivers/net/smc91x.c:341: warning: passing arg 2 of `_outw' makes integer from pointer without a cast
/usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/drivers/net/smc91x.c:342: warning: passing arg 2 of `_outw' makes integer from pointer without a cast
:
/usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/drivers/net/smc91x.c:1915: warning: passing arg 1 of `_inw' makes integer from pointer without a cast
/usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/drivers/net/smc91x.c:1915: warning: passing arg 1 of `_inw' makes integer from pointer without a cast
Hirokazu Takata [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:04 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] m32r: NONCACHE_OFFSET in _port2addr
Change _port2addr() not to add NONCACHE_OFFSET. Adding NONCACHE_OFFSET
requires needless address adjusting by a driver using ioremap() like a
SMC91x driver.
Shaohua Li [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:01 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] introduce .valid callback for pm_ops
Add pm_ops.valid callback, so only the available pm states show in
/sys/power/state. And this also makes an earlier states error report at
enter_state before we do actual suspend/resume.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek<pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The following patch simplifies the progress meter in disk.c:free_some_memory()
and makes disk.c:pm_suspend_disk() call device_resume() explicitly in the
suspend path.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] swsusp: get rid of unnecessary wrapper function
The following patch merges two functions in a trivial way.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] swsusp: move snapshot functionality to separate file
The following patch moves the functionality of swsusp related to creating and
handling the snapshot of memory to a separate file, snapshot.c
This should enable us to untangle the code in the future and eventually to
implement some parts of swsusp.c in the user space.
The patch does not change the code.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The following patch makes swsusp use PG_nosave and PG_nosave_free flags to
mark pages that should be freed after the state of the system has been
restored from the image (or in case of an error during suspend).
This allows us to avoid storing metadata in swap twice and to reduce the
amount of memory needed by swsusp. Additionally, it allows us to simplify
the code by removing a couple of functions that are no longer necessary.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ashok Raj [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:54 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] create and destroy cpufreq sysfs entries based on cpu notifiers
cpufreq entries in sysfs should only be populated when CPU is online state.
When we either boot with maxcpus=x and then boot the other cpus by echoing
to sysfs online file, these entries should be created and destroyed when
CPU_DEAD is notified. Same treatement as cache entries under sysfs.
We place the processor in the lowest frequency, so hw managed P-State
transitions can still work on the other threads to save power.
Primary goal was to just make these directories appear/disapper dynamically.
There is one in this patch i had to do, which i really dont like myself but
probably best if someone handling the cpufreq infrastructure could give
this code right treatment if this is not acceptable. I guess its probably
good for the first cut.
- Converting lock_cpu_hotplug()/unlock_cpu_hotplug() to disable/enable preempt.
The locking was smack in the middle of the notification path, when the
hotplug is already holding the lock. I tried another solution to avoid this
so avoid taking locks if we know we are from notification path. The solution
was getting very ugly and i decided this was probably good for this iteration
until someone who understands cpufreq could do a better job than me.
(akpm: export cpucontrol to GPL modules: drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c now
does lock_cpu_hotplug())
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ashok Raj [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:50 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] create and destroy cache sysfs entries based on cpu notifiers
cpu cache entries should be populated only when cpu is online and removed
when they are logically offlined.
Without which entries are not removed when cpu is offlined, or dont appear
when we boot with maxcpus=1 and then kick the rest of the cpus via echo 1
to the sysfs online file.
- Changed __devinit to __cpuinit for consistency.
- Changed sysfs_driver_register to register_cpu_notifier.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ashok Raj [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:49 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] introduce get_cpu_sysdev() to retrieve a sysfs entry for a cpu.
Some modules creating sysfs entries under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/
need to know the parent sysfs entry to make devices under them. This will
just return the sysfs entry for a given cpu.
sysfs entries showing under each cpu sysfs can be easily created if such
entries can be created by registering a sysfs driver for cpuclass. The
issue is when the entry is created the CPU may not be online, hence we
would need to defer the creation until the online notification comes.
Current users: cache entries for Intel CPU's and cpufreq subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Magnus Damm [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:48 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: srat on non-acpi hw fix
This patch adds a check for the return value of acpi_find_root_pointer().
Without this patch systems without ACPI support such as QEMU crashes when
booting a NUMA kernel with CONFIG_ACPI_SRAT=y.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] i386 mpparse: Only ignore lapic information we can't store
After staring at mpparse.c for a little longer I noticed that when we hit
our limit of num_processors we are filtering out information about other
processors that we can still store.
This patch just reorders the code so we store everything we can.
This should avoid the incorrect warning about our boot CPU not being listed
by the BIOS that we are now getting in the kexec on panic case, and it
should allow us to detect all apicid conflicts even when our physical
number of cpus exceeds maxcpus.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Vivek Goyal [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:46 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] kdump/i386: apic verification failure fix
o Removes the unnecessary call to local_irq_disable().
o Kdump was failing while second kernel was coming up. Check for presence
of boot cpu apic id was failing in (apic_id_registered), hence hitting
BUG().
o This should not have failed because before calling setup_local_APIC(), it is
ensured that even if BIOS has not reported boot cpu, then hard set the
prence of it. Problem happens because of usage of hard_smp_processor_id()
which is hardcoded to zero in case of non SMP kernel. In kdump case second
kernel can boot on a cpu whose boot cpu id is not zero.
o Using boot_cpu_physical_apicid instead to hard set the presence of boot cpu.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] i386 kexec-on-panic: Don't shutdown the apics.
It is dangerous to shutdown the apics in machine_crash_shutdown.
With my previous patch to initialize apics in init_IRQ we should be able to
boot a kernel without this. As long as we reinitialize the APICs we don't
care what state they were in during bootup.
This should make machine_crash_shutdown noticeably more reliable.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
All kinds of ugliness exists because we don't initialize
the apics during init_IRQs.
- We calibrate jiffies in non apic mode even when we are using apics.
- We have to have special code to initialize the apics when non-smp.
- The legacy i8259 must exist and be setup correctly, even
when we won't use it past initialization.
- The kexec on panic code must restore the state of the io_apics.
- init/main.c needs a special case for !smp smp_init on x86
In addition to pure code movement I needed a couple
of non-obvious changes:
- Move setup_boot_APIC_clock into APIC_late_time_init for
simplicity.
- Use cpu_khz to generate a better approximation of loops_per_jiffies
so I can verify the timer interrupt is working.
- Call setup_apic_nmi_watchdog again after cpu_khz is initialized on
the boot cpu.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] i386 nmi_watchdog: Merge check_nmi_watchdog fixes from x86_64
The per cpu nmi watchdog timer is based on an event counter. idle cpus
don't generate events so the NMI watchdog doesn't fire and the test to see
if the watchdog is working fails.
- Add nmi_cpu_busy so idle cpus don't mess up the test.
- kmalloc prev_nmi_count to keep kernel stack usage bounded.
- Improve the error message on failure so there is enough
information to debug problems.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] i386 io_apic.c: Memorize at bootup where the i8259 is connected
Currently we attempt to restore virtual wire mode on reboot, which only
works if we can figure out where the i8259 is connected. This is very
useful when we kexec another kernel and likely helpful when dealing with a
BIOS that make assumptions about how the system is setup.
Since the acpi MADT table does not provide the location where the i8259 is
connected we have to look at the hardware to figure it out.
Most systems have the i8259 connected the local apic of the cpu so won't be
affected but people running Opteron and some serverworks chipsets should be
able to use kexec now.
In addition this patch removes the hard coded assumption that the io_apic
that delivers isa interrups is always known to the kernel as io_apic 0. As
there does not appear to be anything to guarantee that assumption is true.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is platform code update for ES7000: disables IRQ overrides for the
recent ES7000 (Rascal/Zorro), cleans up the compile warning. The patch
only affects the ES7000 subarch.
Signed-off-by: <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com> Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:37 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] fixup bogus e820 entry with mem=
This was reported because someone was getting oopses reading /proc/iomem.
It was tracked down to a zero-sized 'struct resource' entry which was
located right at 4GB.
You need two conditions to hit this bug: a BIOS E820_RAM area starting at
exactly the boundary where you specify mem= (to get a zero-sized entry),
and for the legacy_init_iomem_resources() loop to skip that resource (which
only happens at exactly 4G).
I think the killing zero-sized e820 entry is the easiest way to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Similar problem has been reported before here:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/def4ca19dbc3cd4/5cffbf349f2c87a4?tvc=2&q=Aleksey+Gorelov&hl=en#5cffbf349f2c87a4
and was related to bug in BIOS reporting 82C686 router compatible to 586.
I suspect BIOS on this board has similar issue: reports VT8235 router to be
compatible with 586 one - which is obviously not true. Patch from the link
above has already incorporated in both 2.6 & 2.4 series, but might not work
in this particular case.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] x86: bug fix in P6 Machine check initialization
Make P6 MCA initialization code complaint with guidelines in IA-32 SDM
Vol3. Bank 0 control register should not be set by OS and clear status
registers on all banks on reset.
This will prevent false MCE alarms on the systems that has some non-MCE
information left-over in MC0_STATUS on reboot.
Zachary Amsden [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:33 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: bogus tls from gdt
The per-CPU initialization code is copying in bogus data into
thread->tls_array. Note that it copies &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu), not
&per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN). That is totally broken
and unnecessary. Make the initialization explicitly NULL.
[PATCH] x86: hot plug CPU to support physical add of new processors
The patch allows physical bring-up of new processors (not initially present
in the configuration) from facilities such as driver/utility implemented on
a platform. The actual method of making processors available is up to the
platform implementation.
Signed-off-by: Natalie Protasevich <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial internal version of Venki's cpuid(4) deterministic cache parameter
identification patch used static arrays of size MAX_CACHE_LEAVES. Final patch
which made to the base used dynamic array allocation, with this
MAX_CACHE_LEAVES limit hunk still in place.
cpuid(4) already has a mechanism to find out the number of cache levels
implemented and there is no need for this hardcoded MAX_CACHE_LEAVES limit.
So remove the MAX_CACHE_LEAVES limit from the routine which calculates the
number of cache levels using cpuid(4)
Shaohua Li [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:28 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] FPU context corrupted after resume
mxcsr_feature_mask_init isn't needed in suspend/resume time (we can use
boot time mask). And actually it's harmful, as it clear task's saved
fxsave in resume. This bug is widely seen by users using zsh.
(akpm: my eyes. Fixed some surrounding whitespace mess)
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Beulich [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:27 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: cmpxchg improvements
This adjusts i386's cmpxchg patterns so that
- for word and long cmpxchg-es the compiler can utilize all possible
registers
- cmpxchg8b gets disabled when the minimum specified hardware architectur
doesn't support it (like was already happening for the byte, word, and
long ones).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] i386 and x86_64 TSC set_cyc2ns_scale imprecision
I just found out that some precision is unnecessarily lost in the
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:set_cyc2ns_scale function. It uses a
cpu_mhz parameter when it could use a cpu_khz. In the specific case of an
Intel P4 running at 3001.171 Mhz, the truncation to 3001 Mhz leads to an
imprecision of 19 microseconds per second : this is very sad for a timer with
nearly nanosecond accuracy.
Fix the x86_64 architecture too.
Cc: george anzinger <george@mvista.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
James Morris [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:22 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] SELinux: canonicalize getxattr()
This patch allows SELinux to canonicalize the value returned from
getxattr() via the security_inode_getsecurity() hook, which is called after
the fs level getxattr() function.
The purpose of this is to allow the in-core security context for an inode
to override the on-disk value. This could happen in cases such as
upgrading a system to a different labeling form (e.g. standard SELinux to
MLS) without needing to do a full relabel of the filesystem.
In such cases, we want getxattr() to return the canonical security context
that the kernel is using rather than what is stored on disk.
The implementation hooks into the inode_getsecurity(), adding another
parameter to indicate the result of the preceding fs-level getxattr() call,
so that SELinux knows whether to compare a value obtained from disk with
the kernel value.
We also now allow getxattr() to work for mountpoint labeled filesystems
(i.e. mount with option context=foo_t), as we are able to return the
kernel value to the user.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Garzik [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:41:29 +0000 (06:41 -0500)]
[libata] fix legacy IDE probing
ata_pci_init_one() receives an array of struct ata_port_info. Recent
updates to the code had always obtained port information from
array element 0, rather than array element N.
Change to avoid hardcoding port_info[0], thereby restoring proper
hardware information to secondary legacy ports.
Jeff Garzik [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:44:42 +0000 (04:44 -0500)]
[libata] change ata_qc_complete() to take error mask as second arg
The second argument to ata_qc_complete() was being used for two
purposes: communicate the ATA Status register to the completion
function, and indicate an error. On legacy PCI IDE hardware, the latter
is often implicit in the former. On more modern hardware, the driver
often completely emulated a Status register value, passing ATA_ERR as an
indication that something went wrong.
Now that previous code changes have eliminated the need to use drv_stat
arg to communicate the ATA Status register value, we can convert it to a
mask of possible error classes.
This will lead to more flexible error handling in the future.
John Hawkes [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:17:01 +0000 (18:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] mm: wider use of for_each_*cpu()
In 'mm' change the explicit use of a for-loop using NR_CPUS into the
general for_each_cpu() constructs. This widens the scope of potential
future optimizations of the general constructs, as well as takes advantage
of the existing optimizations of first_cpu() and next_cpu(), which is
advantageous when the true CPU count is much smaller than NR_CPUS.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Remove policy contextualization from mbind
Policy contextualization is only useful for task based policies and not for
vma based policies. It may be useful to define allowed nodes that are not
accessible from this thread because other threads may have access to these
nodes. Without this patch strange memory policy situations may cause an
application to fail with out of memory.
Example:
Let's say we have two threads A and B that share the same address space and
a huge array computational array X.
Thread A is restricted by its cpuset to nodes 0 and 1 and thread B is
restricted by its cpuset to nodes 2 and 3.
Thread A now wants to restrict allocations to the first node and thus
applies a BIND policy on X to node 0 and 2. The cpuset limits this to node
0. Thus pages for X must be allocated on node 0 now.
Thread B now touches a page that has never been used in X and faults in a
page. According to the BIND policy of the vma for X the page must be
allocated on page 0. However, the cpuset of B does not allow allocation on
0 and 1. Now the application fails in alloc_pages with out of memory.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Implement sys_* do_* layering in the memory policy layer.
- Do a separation between do_xxx and sys_xxx functions. sys_xxx functions
take variable sized bitmaps from user space as arguments. do_xxx functions
take fixed sized nodemask_t as arguments and may be used from inside the
kernel. Doing so simplifies the initialization code. There is no
fs = kernel_ds assumption anymore.
- Split up get_nodes into get_nodes (which gets the node list) and
contextualize_policy which restricts the nodes to those accessible
to the task and updates cpusets.
- Add comments explaining limitations of bind policy
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:56 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug: call setup_per_zone_pages_min after hotplug
From: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>
> I found the tests does not work well with Dave's patchset.
> I've found the followings:
>
> - setup_per_zone_pages_min() calls should be added in
> capture_page_range() and online_pages()
> - lru_add_drain() should be called before try_to_migrate_pages()
The following patch deals with the first item.
Signed-off-by: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:55 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug: move section_mem_map alloc to sparse.c
This basically keeps up from having to extern __kmalloc_section_memmap().
The vaddr_in_vmalloc_area() helper could go in a vmalloc header, but that
header gets hard to work with, because it needs some arch-specific macros.
Just stick it in here for now, instead of creating another header.
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