Kristen Accardi [Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:56:03 +0000 (17:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] acpiphp: add dock event handling
These patches add generic dock event handling to acpiphp. If there are
pci devices that need to be inserted/removed after the dock event, the
event notification will be handed down to the normal pci hotplug event
handler in acpiphp so that new bridges/devices can be enumerated.
Because some dock stations do not have pci bridges or pci devices that
need to be inserted after a dock, acpiphp will remain loaded to handle
dock events even if no hotpluggable pci slots are discovered.
You probably need to have the pci=assign-busses kernel parameter enabled
to use these patches, and you may not allow ibm_acpi to handle docking
notifications and use this patch.
This patch incorporates feedback provided by many.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kristen Accardi [Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:55:58 +0000 (17:55 -0800)]
[PATCH] acpiphp: add new bus to acpi
If we add a new bridge with subordinate busses, we should call make sure
that acpi is notified so that the PRT (if present) can be read and drivers
who have registered on this bus will be notified when it is started.
Also make sure to use the max reserved bus number for the starting the bus
scan.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernhard Kaindl [Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:36:55 +0000 (01:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] PCI: PCI/Cardbus cards hidden, needs pci=assign-busses to fix
"In some cases, especially on modern laptops with a lot of PCI and cardbus
bridges, we're unable to assign correct secondary/subordinate bus numbers
to all cardbus bridges due to BIOS limitations unless we are using
"pci=assign-busses" boot option." -- Ivan Kokshaysky (from a patch comment)
Without it, Cardbus cards inserted are never seen by PCI because the parent
PCI-PCI Bridge of the Cardbus bridge will not pass and translate Type 1 PCI
configuration cycles correctly and the system will fail to find and
initialise the PCI devices in the system.
Reference: PCI-PCI Bridges: PCI Configuration Cycles and PCI Bus Numbering:
http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/tlk/node72.html
The reason for this is that:
``All PCI busses located behind a PCI-PCI bridge must reside between the
secondary bus number and the subordinate bus number (inclusive).''
"pci=assign-busses" makes pcibios_assign_all_busses return 1 and this
turns on PCI renumbering during PCI probing.
Alan suggested to use DMI automatically set assign-busses on problem systems.
The only question for me was where to put it. I put it directly before
scanning PCI bus into pcibios_scan_root() because it's called from legacy,
acpi and numa and so it can be one place for all systems and configurations
which may need it.
AMD64 Laptops are also affected and fixed by assign-busses, and the code is
also incuded from arch/x86_64/pci/ that place will also work for x86_64
kernels, I only ifdef'-ed the x86-only Laptop in this example.
Affected and known or assumed to be fixed with it are (found by googling):
* ASUS Z71V and L3s
* Samsung X20
* Compaq R3140us and all Compaq R3000 series laptops with TI1620 Controller,
also Compaq R4000 series (from a kernel.org bugreport)
* HP zv5000z (AMD64 3700+, known that fixup_parent_subordinate_busnr fixes it)
* HP zv5200z
* IBM ThinkPad 240
* An IBM ThinkPad (1.8 GHz Pentium M) debugged by Pavel Machek
gives the correspondig message which detects the possible problem.
* MSI S260 / Medion SIM 2100 MD 95600
The patch also expands the "try pci=assign-busses" warning so testers will
help us to update the DMI table.
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Grant Grundler [Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:58:29 +0000 (23:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] PCI: fix problems with MSI-X on ia64
Use "unsigned long" when dealing with PCI resources.
The BAR Indicator Register (BIR) can be a 64-bit value
or the resource could be a 64-bit host physical address.
Enables ib_mthca and cciss drivers to use MSI-X on ia64 HW.
Problem showed up now because of new system firmware on one platform.
Symptom will either be memory corruption or MCA.
Second part of this patch deals with "useless" code.
We walk through the steps to find the phys_addr and then
don't use the result. I suspect the intent was to zero
out the respective MSI-X entry but I'm not sure at the moment.
Delete the code inside the #if 0/#endif if it's really
not needed.
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:50:30 +0000 (15:50 -0800)]
[PATCH] PCI: resource address mismatch
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> There are two bogus entries in the BIOS memory map table which are
> conflicting with a prefetchable memory range of the AGP bridge:
>
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
>
> 0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
> Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
> I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
> Memory behind bridge: e7e00000-e7efffff
> Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fec00000-ffcfffff
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes. However, it's pretty clear that the e820 entries are there for a
reason. Probably they are a hack by the BIOS maintainers to keep Windows
from stomping/moving that region, exactly because they want to keep the
bridge where it is (or, it's actually for the BIOS itself - the BIOS
tables are a horrid mess, and BIOS engineers are pretty hacky people:
they'll add random entries to make their own broken algorithms do the
"right thing").
> Starting from 2.6.13, kernel tries to resolve that sort of conflicts,
> so that prefetch window of the bridge and the framebuffer memory behind
> it get moved to 0x10000000.
I think we could (and probably should) solve this another way: consider
the ACPI "reserved regions" from the e820 map exactly the same way that we
do other ACPI hints - they should restrict _new_ allocations, but not
impact stuff we figure out on our own.
Basically, right now we assign _unassigned_ resources at "fs_initcall"
time. If we were to add in the e820 "reserved region" stuff before that
(but after we've done PCI discovery), we'd probably do the right thing.
Right now we do the e820 reserved regions very early indeed: we call
"register_memory()" from setup_arch(). We could move at least part of it
(the part that registers the resources) down a bit.
Here's a test-patch. I'm not saying we should absolutely do this, but it
might be interesting to try...
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: <bjk@luxsci.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[PATCH] PCI: make MSI quirk inheritable from the pci bus
It turns out AMD 8131 quirk only affects MSI for devices behind the 8131 bridge.
Handle this by adding a flags field in pci_bus, inherited from parent to child.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bauke Jan Douma [Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:44:36 +0000 (21:44 +0100)]
[PATCH] PCI: quirk for asus a8v and a8v delux motherboards
On ASUS A8V and A8V Deluxe boards, the onboard AC97 audio controller
and MC97 modem controller are deactivated when a second PCI soundcard
is present. This patch enables them.
Signed-off-by: Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kenji Kaneshige [Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:45:48 +0000 (15:45 -0800)]
[PATCH] shpchp: Fix slot state handling
Current SHPCHP driver doesn't care about the confliction between
hotplug operation via sysfs and hotplug operation via attention
button. So if those ware conflicted, slot could be an unexpected
state.
This patch changes SHPCHP driver to handle slot state properly. With
this patch, slot events are handled according to the current slot
state as shown at the Table below.
Table. Slot States and Event Handling
=========================================================================
Slot State Event and Action
=========================================================================
STATIC - Go to POWERON state if user initiates
(Slot enabled, insertion request via sysfs
Slot disabled) - Go to POWEROFF state if user initiates removal
request via sysfs
- Go to BLINKINGON state if user presses
attention button when the slot is disabled
- Go to BLINKINGOFF state if user presses
attention button when the slot is enabled
Kenji Kaneshige [Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:45:45 +0000 (15:45 -0800)]
[PATCH] shpchp: event handling rework
The event handler of SHPCHP driver is unnecessarily very complex. In
addition, current event handler can only a fixed number of events at
the same time, and some of events would be lost if several number of
events happened at the same time.
This patch simplify the event handler by using 'work queue', and it
also fix the above-mentioned issue.
Ralf Baechle [Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:23:57 +0000 (16:23 +0000)]
[PATCH] PCI: Avoid leaving MASTER_ABORT disabled permanently when returning from pci_scan_bridge.
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:13:21PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > In drivers/pci/probe.c:pci_scan_bridge(), if this is not the first
> > pass (pass != 0) we don't restore the PCI_BRIDGE_CONTROL_REGISTER and
> > thus leave PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_MASTER_ABORT off:
> >
> > int __devinit pci_scan_bridge(struct pci_bus *bus, struct pci_dev * dev, int max, int pass)
> > {
> > ...
> > /* Disable MasterAbortMode during probing to avoid reporting
> > of bus errors (in some architectures) */
> > pci_read_config_word(dev, PCI_BRIDGE_CONTROL, &bctl);
> > pci_write_config_word(dev, PCI_BRIDGE_CONTROL,
> > bctl & ~PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_MASTER_ABORT);
> > ...
> > if ((buses & 0xffff00) && !pcibios_assign_all_busses() && !is_cardbus) {
> > unsigned int cmax, busnr;
> > /*
> > * Bus already configured by firmware, process it in the first
> > * pass and just note the configuration.
> > */
> > if (pass)
> > return max;
> > ...
> > }
> >
> > pci_write_config_word(dev, PCI_BRIDGE_CONTROL, bctl);
> > ...
> >
> > This doesn't seem intentional.
Agreed, looks like an accident. The patch [1] originally came from Kip
Walker (Broadcom back then) between 2.6.0-test3 and 2.6.0-test4. As I
recall it was supposed to fix an issue with with PCI aborts being
signalled by the PCI bridge of the Broadcom BCM1250 family of SOCs when
probing behind pci_scan_bridge. It is undeseriable to disable
PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_MASTER_ABORT in pci_{read,write)_config_* and the
behaviour wasn't considered a bug in need of a workaround, so this was
put in probe.c.
I don't have an affected system at hand, so can't really test but I
propose something like the below patch.
Kenji Kaneshige [Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:05:57 +0000 (10:05 +0900)]
[PATCH] shpchp - Fix incorrect return value of interrupt handler
Current SHPCHP driver has a bug in its interrupt handler which cause
"IRQ #: nobody cared" oops. This problem can be reproduced easily by
the following operation.
# cd /sys/bus/pci/slots/<slot#>
# while true; do echo 1 > attention ; done &
The reason is that when command complete interrupt is raised, current
SHPCHP driver's interrupt handler returns IRQ_NONE regardless of if
the interrupt is handled or not.
Kenji Kaneshige [Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:01:35 +0000 (10:01 +0900)]
[PATCH] pcihp_skeleton.c cleanup
This patch cleans up pcihp_skelton.c as follows.
o Move slot name area into struct slot.
o Replace kmalloc with kzalloc and clean up the arg of sizeof()
o Fix the wrong use of get_*_status() functions.
After you find the maximum value of the subordinate buses below the child
bus, you must fix the parent's subordinate bus number again, otherwise
it may be too small.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Benjamin LaHaise [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:01:08 +0000 (03:01 -0800)]
[PATCH] reduce size of bio mempools
The biovec default mempool limit of 256 entries results in over 3MB of RAM
being permanently pinned, even on systems with only 128MB of RAM. Since
mempool tries to allocate from the system pool first, it makes sense to
reduce the size of the mempool fallbacks to a more reasonable limit of 1-5
entries -- enough for the system to be able to make progress even under
load.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Dumazet [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:01:07 +0000 (03:01 -0800)]
[PATCH] __GENERIC_PER_CPU changes
Now CONFIG_DEBUG_INITDATA is in, initial percpu data
[__per_cpu_start,__per_cpu_end] can be declared as a redzone, and invalid
accesses after boot can be detected, at least for i386.
We can let non possible cpus percpu data point to this 'redzone' instead of
NULL .
NULL was not a good choice because part of [0..32768] memory may be
readable and invalid accesses may happen unnoticed.
If CONFIG_DEBUG_INITDATA is not defined, each non possible cpu points to
the initial percpu data (__per_cpu_offset[cpu] == 0), thus invalid accesses
wont be detected/crash.
This patch also moves __per_cpu_offset[] to read_mostly area to avoid false
sharing.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:01:05 +0000 (03:01 -0800)]
[PATCH] more for_each_cpu() conversions
When we stop allocating percpu memory for not-possible CPUs we must not touch
the percpu data for not-possible CPUs at all. The correct way of doing this
is to test cpu_possible() or to use for_each_cpu().
This patch is a kernel-wide sweep of all instances of NR_CPUS. I found very
few instances of this bug, if any. But the patch converts lots of open-coded
test to use the preferred helper macros.
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eliminate a handful of cache references by keeping current in a register
instead of reloading (helps x86) and avoiding the overhead of a function
call. Inlining eventpoll_init_file() saves 24 bytes. Also reorder file
initialization to make writes occur more sequentially.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:57 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] pause_on_oops command line option
Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.
If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
time. Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.
The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
architectures other than x86 will find it useful.
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arjan van de Ven [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:48 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] fat_lock is used as a mutex, convert it to using the new mutex primitive
The fat code uses the fat_lock always in a mutex way (taking and releasing
the lock in the same function), the patch below converts it into the new
mutex primitive. Please consider this patch for the code.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arjan van de Ven [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:35 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] sem2mutex: jbd, j_checkpoint_mutex
Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arjan van de Ven [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:33 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] sem2mutex: vfs_rename_mutex
Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:31 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] sem2mutex: tty
Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:30 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] sem2mutex: inotify
Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arjan van de Ven [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:24 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] sem2mutex: kernel/
Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Kara [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:17 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix oops in invalidate_dquots()
When quota is being turned off we assumed that all the references to dquots
were already dropped. That need not be true as inodes being deleted are
not on superblock's inodes list and hence we need not reach it when
removing quota references from inodes. So invalidate_dquots() has to wait
for all the users of dquots (as quota is already marked as turned off, no
new references can be acquired and so this is bound to happen rather
early). When we do this, we can also remove the iprune_sem locking as it
was protecting us against exactly the same problem when freeing inodes
icache memory.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kyle McMartin [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:16 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] Move read_mostly definition to asm/cache.h
Seems like needless clutter having a bunch of #if defined(CONFIG_$ARCH) in
include/linux/cache.h. Move the per architecture section definition to
asm/cache.h, and keep the if-not-defined dummy case in linux/cache.h to
catch architectures which don't implement the section.
Verified that symbols still go in .data.read_mostly on parisc,
and the compile doesn't break.
Since early 2.4.x all cdrom drivers implement the block_device methods
themselves, so they can handle additional ioctls directly instead of going
through the cdrom layer.
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>
[PATCH] Avoid taking global tasklist_lock for single threadedprocess at getrusage()
Avoid taking the global tasklist_lock when possible, if a process is single
threaded during getrusage(). Any avoidance of tasklist_lock is good for
NUMA boxes (and possibly for large SMPs). Thanks to Oleg Nesterov for
review and suggestions.
Eric Dumazet [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:12 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] Shrinks sizeof(files_struct) and better layout
1) Reduce the size of (struct fdtable) to exactly 64 bytes on 32bits
platforms, lowering kmalloc() allocated space by 50%.
2) Reduce the size of (files_struct), using a special 32 bits (or
64bits) embedded_fd_set, instead of a 1024 bits fd_set for the
close_on_exec_init and open_fds_init fields. This save some ram (248
bytes per task) as most tasks dont open more than 32 files. D-Cache
footprint for such tasks is also reduced to the minimum.
3) Reduce size of allocated fdset. Currently two full pages are
allocated, that is 32768 bits on x86 for example, and way too much. The
minimum is now L1_CACHE_BYTES.
UP and SMP should benefit from this patch, because most tasks will touch
only one cache line when open()/close() stdin/stdout/stderr (0/1/2),
(next_fd, close_on_exec_init, open_fds_init, fd_array[0 .. 2] being in the
same cache line)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:11 +0000 (03:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_readdir: use generic readahead
Linus points out that ext3_readdir's readahead only cuts in when
ext3_readdir() is operating at the very start of the directory. So for large
directories we end up performing no readahead at all and we suck.
So take it all out and use the core VM's page_cache_readahead(). This means
that ext3 directory reads will use all of readahead's dynamic sizing goop.
Note that we're using the directory's filp->f_ra to hold the readahead state,
but readahead is actually being performed against the underlying blockdev's
address_space. Fortunately the readahead code is all set up to handle this.
Tested with printk. It works. I was struggling to find a real workload which
actually cared.
(The patch also exports page_cache_readahead() to GPL modules)
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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