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19 years ago[PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup
john stultz [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:01:42 +0000 (15:01 -0800)]
[PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup

Create a macro shift_right() that avoids the numerous ugly conditionals in the
NTP code that look like:

        if(a < 0)
                b = -(-a >> shift);
        else
                b = a >> shift;

Replacing it with:

        b = shift_right(a, shift);

This should have zero effect on the logic, however it should probably have
a bit of testing just to be sure.

Also replace open-coded min/max with the macros.

Signed-off-by : John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] TIOC* compat ioctl handling
Christoph Hellwig [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:01:41 +0000 (15:01 -0800)]
[PATCH] TIOC* compat ioctl handling

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] Add kthread_stop_sem()
Alan Stern [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:01:40 +0000 (15:01 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add kthread_stop_sem()

Enhance the kthread API by adding kthread_stop_sem, for use in stopping
threads that spend their idle time waiting on a semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cfq-iosched: move tasklist walk to elevator.c
Christoph Hellwig [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:01:39 +0000 (15:01 -0800)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] introduce setup_timer() helper
Oleg Nesterov [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:01:38 +0000 (15:01 -0800)]
[PATCH] introduce setup_timer() helper

Every user of init_timer() also needs to initialize ->function and ->data
fields.  This patch adds a simple setup_timer() helper for that.

The schedule_timeout() is patched as an example of usage.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] little de_thread() cleanup
Oleg Nesterov [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:01:37 +0000 (15:01 -0800)]
[PATCH] little de_thread() cleanup

Trivial, saves one 'if' branch in de_thread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs: [kv]free() checking cleanup
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] ext3: Fix unmapped buffers in transaction's lists
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] smsc-ircc2: PM cleanup - do not close device when suspending
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] ide-scsi highmem cleanup
Andrew Morton [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:13 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] ide-scsi highmem cleanup

It's not necessary to test PageHighmem in here - kmap_atomic() does the right
thing.

Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] s390, ccw - export modalias
Bastian Blank [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:12 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390, ccw - export modalias

This patch exports modalias for ccw devices.

So you can do:
  modprobe `echo /sys/device/path_to_device/modalias`
and the proper driver will automatically be loaded by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] s390: export ipl device parameters
Heiko Carstens [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:11 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: export ipl device parameters

Sysfs interface to export ipl device parameters.  Dependent on the ipl type
the interface will look like this:

- ccw ipl:

/sys/firmware/ipl/device
 /ipl_type

- fcp ipl:

/sys/firmware/ipl/binary_parameter
 /bootprog
 /br_lba
 /device
 /ipl_type
 /lun
 /scp_data
 /wwpn

- otherwise (unknown that is):

/sys/firmware/ipl/ipl_type

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] s390: 3270 fullscreen view
Richard Hitt [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:10 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: 3270 fullscreen view

      Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Fix fullscreen view of the 3270 device driver.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hitt <rbh00@utsglobal.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] i386: use -mcpu, not -mtune, for GCCs older than 3.4
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:09 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] uml: remove old UM_FASTCALL, and make the thing work again
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:08 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: remove old UM_FASTCALL, and make the thing work again

This was used in the old dark age of 2.4, ARCH_CFLAGS doesn't work any more
since some time, and UM_FASTCALL was never used in 2.6.

Instead, reintroduce the thing more properly now, directly in
include/asm-um/linkage.h.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] uml: fix "reuse i386 cpu optimizations"
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:07 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: fix "reuse i386 cpu optimizations"

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] uml: reuse i386 cpu-specific tuning
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:07 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: reuse i386 cpu-specific tuning

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] m32r: SMC91x driver update
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

Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] m32r: NONCACHE_OFFSET in _port2addr
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.

Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] m32r: fix #if warnings
Hirokazu Takata [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:04 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] m32r: fix #if warnings

Fix warnings for #if directives.

Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] m32r: remove unused instructions
Hirokazu Takata [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:02 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] m32r: remove unused instructions

Remove unused instructions for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Naoto Sugai <sugai@isl.melco.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] introduce .valid callback for pm_ops
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: two simplifications
Rafael J. Wysocki [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:01 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: two simplifications

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: get rid of unnecessary wrapper function
Rafael J. Wysocki [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:00:00 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: cleanups
Pavel Machek [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:59 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: cleanups

Reduce number of ifdefs somehow, and fix whitespace a bit.  No real code
changes.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: remove unneccessary includes
Pavel Machek [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:58 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: remove unneccessary includes

Cleanup comments and remove unneccessary includes.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: rework memory freeing on resume
Rafael J. Wysocki [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:58 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: rework memory freeing on resume

The following patch makes swsusp use the PG_nosave and PG_nosave_free flags to
mark pages that should be freed in case of an error during resume.

This allows us to simplify the code and to use swsusp_free() in all of the
swsusp's resume error paths, which makes them actually work.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: reduce the use of global variables
Rafael J. Wysocki [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:57 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: reduce the use of global variables

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: move snapshot functionality to separate file
Rafael J. Wysocki [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:56 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: rework image freeing
Rafael J. Wysocki [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:55 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: rework image freeing

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] create and destroy cpufreq sysfs entries based on cpu notifiers
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] Remove cpu_sys_devices in cpufreq subsystem.
Ashok Raj [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:52 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] Remove cpu_sys_devices in cpufreq subsystem.

cpu_sys_devices is redundant with the new API get_cpu_sysdev().  So nuking
this usage since its not needed.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] create and destroy cache sysfs entries based on cpu notifiers
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] introduce get_cpu_sysdev() to retrieve a sysfs entry for a cpu.
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] i386: srat on non-acpi hw fix
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] i386 mpparse: Only ignore lapic information we can't store
Eric W. Biederman [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:47 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump/i386: apic verification failure fix
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86: inline spin_unlock if !CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK and !CONFIG_PREEMPT
Ingo Molnar [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:44 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: inline spin_unlock if !CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK and !CONFIG_PREEMPT

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Clean up mtrr compat ioctl code
Brian Gerst [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:44 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] Clean up mtrr compat ioctl code

Handle 32-bit mtrr ioctls in the mtrr driver instead of the ia32
compatability layer.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86: vmx cpu feature detection
Kamble, Nitin A [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:43 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: vmx cpu feature detection

If VMX feature is available in the CPU, this patch will make it visible in
the /proc/cpuinfo with the cpuid detection.

Signed-Off-By: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] i386 kexec-on-panic: Don't shutdown the apics.
Eric W. Biederman [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:42 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] i386: move apic init in init_IRQs
Eric W. Biederman [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:41 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: move apic init in init_IRQs

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] i386 nmi_watchdog: Merge check_nmi_watchdog fixes from x86_64
Eric W. Biederman [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:40 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] i386 io_apic.c: Memorize at bootup where the i8259 is connected
Eric W. Biederman [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:39 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] ES7000 platform update
Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:38 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] ES7000 platform update

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86: when L3 is present show its size in /proc/cpuinfo
Venkatesh Pallipadi [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:38 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: when L3 is present show its size in /proc/cpuinfo

The code that prints the cache size assumes that L3 always lives in chipset
and is shared across CPUs.  Which is not really true.

I think all the cachesizes reported by cpuid are in the processor itself.
The attached patch changes the code to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fixup bogus e820 entry with mem=
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] asus vt8235 router buggy bios workaround
aleksey_gorelov@phoenix.com [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:36 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] asus vt8235 router buggy bios workaround

Hopefully fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5235

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86: bug fix in P6 Machine check initialization
Venkatesh Pallipadi [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:35 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[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.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86: add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt
Zachary Amsden [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:34 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt

Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt.  Callee must already
have the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86: bogus tls from gdt
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.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86: hot plug CPU to support physical add of new processors
Natalie Protasevich [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:32 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] i386: little pgtable.h consolidation vs 2/3level
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:31 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: little pgtable.h consolidation vs 2/3level

Join together some common functions (pmd_page{,_kernel}) over 2level and
3level pages.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] intel_cacheinfo: remove MAX_CACHE_LEAVES limit
Siddha, Suresh B [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:30 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] intel_cacheinfo: remove MAX_CACHE_LEAVES limit

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)

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86: initialise tss->io_bitmap_owner to something
Bart Oldeman [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:29 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: initialise tss->io_bitmap_owner to something

There exists a field io_bitmap_owner in the TSS that is only checked, but
never set to anything else but NULL.

Signed-off-by: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] FPU context corrupted after resume
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86: cmpxchg improvements
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] i386 and x86_64 TSC set_cyc2ns_scale imprecision
Mathieu Desnoyers [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:25 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] SELinux: remove unecessary size_t checks in selinuxfs
Davi Arnaut [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:24 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] SELinux: remove unecessary size_t checks in selinuxfs

This patch removes a bunch of unecessary checks for (size_t < 0) in
selinuxfs.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] selinux-canonicalize-getxattr-fix
Andrew Morton [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:23 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] selinux-canonicalize-getxattr-fix

security/selinux/hooks.c: In function `selinux_inode_getxattr':
security/selinux/hooks.c:2193: warning: unused variable `sbsec'

Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] SELinux: canonicalize getxattr()
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] SELinux: convert to kzalloc
James Morris [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:21 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] SELinux: convert to kzalloc

This patch converts SELinux code from kmalloc/memset to the new kazalloc
unction.  On i386, this results in a text saving of over 1K.

Before:
text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
86319    4642   15236  106197   19ed5 security/selinux/built-in.o

After:
text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
85278    4642   15236  105156   19ac4 security/selinux/built-in.o

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] CONFIG_IA32
Brian Gerst [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:20 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] CONFIG_IA32

Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386.  This allows selecting options that only apply
to 32-bit systems.

(X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32
(X86 ||  X86_64) becomes X86

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Remove redundant configs.o
Brian Gerst [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:18 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
[PATCH] Remove redundant configs.o

Since CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC already depends on CONFIG_IKCONFIG, adding
configs.o again is redundant.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoMerge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik...
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:47:58 +0000 (14:47 -0800)]
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev

19 years ago[PATCH] NFS: Remove unbalanced spin_unlock() calls from nfs_refresh_inode()
Trond Myklebust [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:38:25 +0000 (17:38 -0500)]
[PATCH] NFS: Remove unbalanced spin_unlock() calls from nfs_refresh_inode()

Doh!

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years agoFix PIIX4 SMB region size
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:40:07 +0000 (14:40 -0800)]
Fix PIIX4 SMB region size

Petr Vandrovec correctly points out that the SMB region of the PIIX4 is
just 16 bytes, not 32.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[libata] use dev_printk() throughout drivers
Jeff Garzik [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:39:11 +0000 (14:39 -0500)]
[libata] use dev_printk() throughout drivers

A few drivers were not following the standard meme of printing out
their driver name and version at module load time; this is fixed
as well.

19 years ago[libata ata_piix] fix native mode probe, after recent updates
Jeff Garzik [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:57:31 +0000 (07:57 -0500)]
[libata ata_piix] fix native mode probe, after recent updates

19 years ago[libata ata_piix] use dev_printk() where appropriate
Jeff Garzik [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:42:18 +0000 (06:42 -0500)]
[libata ata_piix] use dev_printk() where appropriate

19 years ago[libata] fix legacy IDE probing
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.

19 years ago[libata] change ata_qc_complete() to take error mask as second arg
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.

19 years agoMerge branch 'master'
Jeff Garzik [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:56:31 +0000 (01:56 -0500)]
Merge branch 'master'

19 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:48:06 +0000 (21:48 -0700)]
Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

19 years ago[PATCH] mm/filemap.c:filemap_populate(): move export.
Nikita Danilov [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:17:02 +0000 (18:17 -0700)]
[PATCH] mm/filemap.c:filemap_populate(): move export.

move EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_populate) to the proper place: just after
function itself: it's easy to miss that function is exported otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] mm: wider use of for_each_*cpu()
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] Remove policy contextualization from mbind
Christoph Lameter [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:17:00 +0000 (18:17 -0700)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] Implement sys_* do_* layering in the memory policy layer.
Christoph Lameter [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:59 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug: ppc64 specific hot-add functions
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:58 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug: ppc64 specific hot-add functions

Here is a set of ppc64 specific patches that at least allow
compilation/booting with the following configurations:

FLATMEM
SPARSEMEN
SPARSEMEM + MEMORY_HOTPLUG

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug: i386 addition functions
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:57 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug: i386 addition functions

Adds the necessary for non-NUMA hot-add of highmem to an existing zone on
i386.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug: call setup_per_zone_pages_min after hotplug
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug: move section_mem_map alloc to sparse.c
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.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lion Vollnhals <webmaster@schiggl.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:54 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions

This adds generic memory add/remove and supporting functions for memory
hotplug into a new file as well as a memory hotplug kernel config option.

Individual architecture patches will follow.

For now, disable memory hotplug when swsusp is enabled.  There's a lot of
churn there right now.  We'll fix it up properly once it calms down.

Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: zone span seqlock
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:53 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: zone span seqlock

See the "fixup bad_range()" patch for more information, but this actually
creates a the lock to protect things making assumptions about a zone's size
staying constant at runtime.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: node_size_lock
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:52 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: node_size_lock

pgdat->node_size_lock is basically only neeeded in one place in the normal
code: show_mem(), which is the arch-specific sysrq-m printing function.

Strictly speaking, the architectures not doing memory hotplug do no need this
locking in show_mem().  However, they are all included for completeness.  This
should also make any future consolidation of all of the implementations a
little more straightforward.

This lock is also held in the sparsemem code during a memory removal, as
sections are invalidated.  This is the place there pfn_valid() is made false
for a memory area that's being removed.  The lock is only required when doing
pfn_valid() operations on memory which the user does not already have a
reference on the page, such as in show_mem().

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug prep: fixup bad_range()
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:52 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug prep: fixup bad_range()

When doing memory hotplug operations, the size of existing zones can obviously
change.  This means that zone->zone_{start_pfn,spanned_pages} can change.

There are currently no locks that protect these structure members.  However,
they are rarely accessed at runtime.  Outside of swsusp, the only place that I
can find is bad_range().

So, split bad_range() up into two pieces: one that needs to be locked and
anther that doesn't.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug prep: __section_nr helper
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:51 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug prep: __section_nr helper

A little helper that we use in the hotplug code.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug prep: break out zone initialization
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:50 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug prep: break out zone initialization

If a zone is empty at boot-time and then hot-added to later, it needs to run
the same init code that would have been run on it at boot.

This patch breaks out zone table and per-cpu-pages functions for use by the
hotplug code.  You can almost see all of the free_area_init_core() function on
one page now.  :)

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] memory hotplug prep: kill local_mapnr
Dave Hansen [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:49 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] memory hotplug prep: kill local_mapnr

The following series implements memory hot-add for ppc64 and i386.  There are
x86_64 and ia64 implementations that will be submitted shortly as well,
through the normal maintainers.

This patch:

local_mapnr is unused, except for in an alpha header.  Keep the alpha one,
kill the rest.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] .text page fault SMP scalability optimization
Andrea Arcangeli [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:48 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] .text page fault SMP scalability optimization

We had a problem on ppc64 where with more than 4 threads a large system
wouldn't scale well while faulting in the .text (most of the time was spent
in the kernel despite it was an userland compute intensive app).  The
reason is the useless overwrite of the same pte from all cpu.

I fixed it this way (verified on an older kernel but the forward port is
almost identical).  This will benefit all archs not just ppc64.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] hugetlb: overcommit accounting check
Adam Litke [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:47 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] hugetlb: overcommit accounting check

Basic overcommit checking for hugetlb_file_map() based on an implementation
used with demand faulting in SLES9.

Since demand faulting can't guarantee the availability of pages at mmap
time, this patch implements a basic sanity check to ensure that the number
of huge pages required to satisfy the mmap are currently available.
Despite the obvious race, I think it is a good start on doing proper
accounting.  I'd like to work towards an accounting system that mimics the
semantics of normal pages (especially for the MAP_PRIVATE/COW case).  That
work is underway and builds on what this patch starts.

Huge page shared memory segments are simpler and still maintain their
commit on shmget semantics.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] hugetlb: demand fault handler
Adam Litke [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:46 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] hugetlb: demand fault handler

Below is a patch to implement demand faulting for huge pages.  The main
motivation for changing from prefaulting to demand faulting is so that huge
page memory areas can be allocated according to NUMA policy.

Thanks to consolidated hugetlb code, switching the behavior requires changing
only one fault handler.  The bulk of the patch just moves the logic from
hugelb_prefault() to hugetlb_pte_fault() and find_get_huge_page().

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] hugetlb: remove repeated code
Krishnakumar R [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:45 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] hugetlb: remove repeated code

Clean up some repeated code related to HugeTLB.  hugetlb_zero_setup would
have already allocated the file->f_op.

Signed-off-by: Krishnakumar. R <rkrishnakumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cleanup hugelbfs_forget_inode
Christoph Hellwig [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:45 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] cleanup hugelbfs_forget_inode

Reformat hugelbfs_forget_inode and add the missing but harmless
write_inode_now call.  It looks the same as generic_forget_inode now except
for the call to truncate_hugepages instead of truncate_inode_pages.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kill hugelbfs_do_delete_inode
Christoph Hellwig [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:44 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] kill hugelbfs_do_delete_inode

hugetlbfs_do_delete_inode is the same as generic_delete_inode now, so remove
it in favour of the latter.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] hugetlbfs: clean up hugetlbfs_delete_inode
Christoph Hellwig [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:43 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] hugetlbfs: clean up hugetlbfs_delete_inode

Make hugetlbfs looks the same as generic_detelte_inode, fixing a bunch of
missing updates to it at the same time.  Rename it to
hugetlbfs_do_delete_inode and add a real hugetlbfs_delete_inode that
implements ->delete_inode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] hugetlbfs: move free_inodes accounting
Christoph Hellwig [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:42 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] hugetlbfs: move free_inodes accounting

Move hugetlbfs accounting into ->alloc_inode / ->destroy_inode.  This keeps
the code simpler, fixes a loeak where a failing inode allocation wouldn't
decrement the counter and moves hugetlbfs_delete_inode and
hugetlbfs_forget_inode closer to their generic counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] mm: update comments to pte lock
Hugh Dickins [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:41 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] mm: update comments to pte lock

Updated several references to page_table_lock in common code comments.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] mm: fix rss and mmlist locking
Hugh Dickins [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:41 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] mm: fix rss and mmlist locking

A couple of oddities were guarded by page_table_lock, no longer properly
guarded when that is split.

The mm_counters of file_rss and anon_rss: make those an atomic_t, or an
atomic64_t if the architecture supports it, in such a case.  Definitions by
courtesy of Christoph Lameter: who spent considerable effort on more scalable
ways of counting, but found insufficient benefit in practice.

And adding an mm with swap to the mmlist for swapoff: the list is well-
guarded by its own lock, but the list_empty check now has to be repeated
inside it.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] mm: split page table lock
Hugh Dickins [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:16:40 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] mm: split page table lock

Christoph Lameter demonstrated very poor scalability on the SGI 512-way, with
a many-threaded application which concurrently initializes different parts of
a large anonymous area.

This patch corrects that, by using a separate spinlock per page table page, to
guard the page table entries in that page, instead of using the mm's single
page_table_lock.  (But even then, page_table_lock is still used to guard page
table allocation, and anon_vma allocation.)

In this implementation, the spinlock is tucked inside the struct page of the
page table page: with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case it overflows - which it would in
the case of 32-bit PA-RISC with spinlock debugging enabled.

Splitting the lock is not quite for free: another cacheline access.  Ideally,
I suppose we would use split ptlock only for multi-threaded processes on
multi-cpu machines; but deciding that dynamically would have its own costs.
So for now enable it by config, at some number of cpus - since the Kconfig
language doesn't support inequalities, let preprocessor compare that with
NR_CPUS.  But I don't think it's worth being user-configurable: for good
testing of both split and unsplit configs, split now at 4 cpus, and perhaps
change that to 8 later.

There is a benefit even for singly threaded processes: kswapd can be attacking
one part of the mm while another part is busy faulting.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>