[IA64] hotplug/ia64: SN Hotplug Driver - new SN PROM version code
This patch is a rewrite of the code to check the PROM version. The current
code has some deficiences in the way PROM comparisons were made. The minimum
value of PROM that will boot has also been changed to 4.04.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
[IA64] hotplug/ia64: SN Hotplug Driver: moving of header files
This patch moves header files out of the arch/ia64/sn directories and into
include/asm-ia64/sn. These files were being included by other subsystems
and should be under include/asm-ia64/sn.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
[IA64] hotplug/ia64: SN Hotplug Driver: SN IRQ Fixes
This patch fixes the SN IRQ code such that cpu affinity and
Hotplug can modify IRQ values. The sn_irq_info structures are now locked
using a RCU lock mechanism to avoid lock contention in the lost interrupt
WAR code.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Pekka Enberg [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:59:05 +0000 (02:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] freevxfs: minor cleanups
This patch addresses the following minor issues:
- Typo in printk
- Redundant casts
- Use C99 struct initializers instead of memset
- Parenthesis around return value
- Use inline instead of __inline__
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jay Lan [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:59:03 +0000 (02:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Improper initrd failure message at boot time
On system boot up, there was an failure reported to boot.msg:
<5>Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
According to initrd(4) man page, step #7 of BOOT-UP OPERATION
is described as below:
7. If the normal root file has directory /initrd, device
/dev/ram0 is moved from / to /initrd. Otherwise if
directory /initrd does not exist device /dev/ram0 is
unmounted.
We got service calls from customers concerning about this failure message
at boot time. Many systems do not have /initrd and thus the message can be
changed in the case of non-existing /initrd so that it does not sound like
a failure of the system.
Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chris Zankel [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:58:59 +0000 (02:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] xtensa: Removed local copy of zlib and fixed O= support
Removed an unnecessary local copy of zlib (sorry for the add'l traffic).
Fixed 'O=' support (thanks to Jan Dittmer for pointing it out). Some minor
clean-ups in the make files.
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Paris [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:58:51 +0000 (02:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] selinux_sb_copy_data() should not require a whole page
Currently selinux_sb_copy_data requires an entire page be allocated to
*orig when the function is called. This "requirement" is based on the fact
that we call copy_page(in_save, nosec_save) and in_save = orig when the
data is not FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA. This means that if a caller were to call
do_kern_mount with only about 10 bytes of options, they would get passed
here and then we would corrupt PAGE_SIZE - 10 bytes of memory (with all
zeros.)
Currently it appears all in kernel FS's use one page of data so this has
not been a problem. An out of kernel FS did just what is described above
and it would almost always panic shortly after they tried to mount. From
looking else where in the kernel it is obvious that this string of data
must always be null terminated. (See example in do_mount where it always
zeros the last byte.) Thus I suggest we use strcpy in place of copy_page.
In this way we make sure the amount we copy is always less than or equal to
the amount we received and since do_mount is zeroing the last byte this
should be safe for all.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kylene Jo Hall [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:58:50 +0000 (02:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] tpm: fix bug introduced by the /proc/misc
In fixing the /proc/misc problem that was reported last week where the tpm
module name was being obfuscated in /proc/misc I introduced a bug in the
module unloading code. This patch fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patrick Mochel [Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:39:33 +0000 (08:39 -0700)]
[PATCH] Driver core: Use klist_del() instead of klist_remove().
Use klist_del() instead of klist_remove() when unregistering devices.
This will prevent a deadlock when executing a recursive unregister using
device_for_each_child().
Signed-off-by Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[PATCH] driver core: change bus_rescan_devices to return void
No one was looking at the return value of bus_rescan_devices, and it
really wasn't anything that anyone in the kernel would ever care about.
So change it which enabled some counting code to be removed also.
[PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to bind drivers to devices from userspace
This adds a single file, "bind", to the sysfs directory of every driver
registered with the driver core. To bind a device to a driver, write
the bus id of the device you wish to bind to that specific driver to the
"bind" file (remember to not add a trailing \n). If that bus id matches
a device on that bus, and it does not currently have a driver bound to
it, the probe sequence will be initiated with that driver and device.
Note, this requires that the driver itself be willing and able to accept
that device (usually through a device id type table). This patch does
not make it possible to override the driver's id table.
[PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace
This adds a single file, "unbind", to the sysfs directory of every
device that is currently bound to a driver. To unbind the driver from
the device, write anything to this file and they will be disconnected
from each other.
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:17:02 +0000 (15:17 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Replace custom locking code with a spinlock
The hvlpevent_queue (formally ItLpQueue) has a member called xInUseWord
which is used for serialising access to the queue. Because it's a word
(ie. 32 bit) there's a custom 32-bit version of test_and_set_bit() or
thereabouts in ItLpQueue.c.
The xInUseWord is not shared with they hypervisor, so we can replace it
with a spinlock and remove the custom code.
There is also another locking mechanism (ItLpQueueInProcess). This is
redundant because it's only manipulated while the lock's held. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:16:48 +0000 (15:16 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Formatting cleanups in arch/ppc64/kernel/ItLpQueue.c
Just formatting cleanups:
* rename some "nextLpEvent" variables to just "event"
* make code fit in 80 columns
* use brackets around if/else
* use a temporary to make hvlpevent_clear_valid clearer
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:16:28 +0000 (15:16 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Cleanup whitespace in arch/ppc64/kernel/ItLpQueue.c
Just cleanup white space.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:16:18 +0000 (15:16 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Cleanup proc printing of event types
The code that prints event counts by type uses a hand-coded number of tabs
to get the alignment right. Instead use a printf alignment which will allow
allow us to use the event_type strings elsewhere in the future.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:16:09 +0000 (15:16 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Simplify counting of lpevents, remove lpevent_count from paca
Currently there's a per-cpu count of lpevents processed, a per-queue (ie.
global) total count, and a count by event type.
Replace all that with a count by event for each cpu. We only need to add
it up int the proc code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:15:53 +0000 (15:15 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Don't count number of events processed for caller
Currently we count the number of lpevents processed in 3 seperate places.
One of these counters is never read, so just remove it. This means
hvlpevent_queue_process() no longer needs to return the number of events
processed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:15:42 +0000 (15:15 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Rename ItLpQueue_* functions to hvlpevent_queue_*
Now that we've renamed the xItLpQueue structure, rename the functions that
operate on it also.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:15:32 +0000 (15:15 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Rename xItLpQueue to hvlpevent_queue
The xItLpQueue is a queue of HvLpEvents that we're given by the Hypervisor.
Rename xItLpQueue to hvlpevent_queue and make the type struct hvlpevent_queue.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:12:21 +0000 (15:12 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Move definition of xItLpQueue
The xItLpQueue is declared in LparData.c, move it into ItLpQueue.c.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:08:56 +0000 (15:08 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Make two ItLpQueue related functions static
External parties don't need to use ItLpQueue_getNextLpEvent() or
ItLpQueue_clearValid(), they're internal to ItLpQueue.c
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:08:44 +0000 (15:08 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Move xItLpQueue proc code into ItLpQueue.c
Move the code that displays xItLpQueue values in /proc into
ItLpQueue.c.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:08:27 +0000 (15:08 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Move initialisation of xItLpQueue into ItLpQueue.c
The xItLpQueue is initalised manually in iSeries_setup_arch(). Move
this code into ItLpQueue.c for a cleaner separation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:07:57 +0000 (15:07 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Don't pass the pointers to xItLpQueue around
Because there's only one ItLpQueue and we know where it is, ie. xItLpQueue,
there's no point passing pointers to it it around all over the place.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:07:48 +0000 (15:07 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Reorganise the paca initialisation macros
This patch updates the macros that initialise the paca to remove the lpq
parameter. It also rearranges them a bit with the hope of making them a
bit clearer.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:07:33 +0000 (15:07 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Move set_spread_lpevents() into ItLpQueue.c
The only code outside ItLpQueue.c that refers to spread_lpevents is in
set_apread_lpevents(), so move it inside ItLpQueue.c and make spread_lpevents
static.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:07:21 +0000 (15:07 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Spread lpevents by default on iSeries
With the previous patch in place, spreading lpevents by default becomes
a one liner.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Michael Ellerman [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:07:09 +0000 (15:07 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Remove lpqueue pointer from the paca on iSeries
The iSeries code keeps a pointer to the ItLpQueue in its paca struct. But
all these pointers end up pointing to the one place, ie. xItLpQueue.
So remove the pointer from the paca struct and just refer to xItLpQueue
directly where needed.
The only complication is that the spread_lpevents logic was implemented by
having a NULL lpqueue pointer in the paca on CPUs that weren't supposed to
process events. Instead we just compare the spread_lpevents value to the
processor id to get the same behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Jeff Mahoney [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:53:06 +0000 (18:53 -0400)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: enable attrs by default if saf
The following patch enables attrs by default if the reiserfs_attrs_cleared
bit is set in the superblock. This allows chattr-type attrs to be used
without any further action by the user.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Mahoney [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:52:28 +0000 (18:52 -0400)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: Check if attrs are enabled for attr ioctls
ReiserFS currently will allow the user to set/get attrs for files
regardless if they are enabled. The patch checks to see if they are
enabled, and returns -NOTTY if they are not.
ext[23] doesn't need this check because attrs are always enabled.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tony Lindgren [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:59:48 +0000 (19:59 +0100)]
[PATCH] ARM: 2771/1: Dynamic Tick support for OMAP, take 4
Patch from Tony Lindgren
This patch adds support for Dynamic Tick Timer for OMAP.
This patch is an updated version of ARM patch 2642/1 to
make it work with the already integrated generic ARM
dyntick support.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:45:19 +0000 (18:45 +0100)]
[PATCH] Serial: Split 8250 port table (part 2)
Remove legacy ISA serial ports for Accent, Boca, Fourport, Hub6 and MCA
from the architecture specific serial.h include.
The only ports which remain in asm-*/serial.h are the platform specific
entries. These should really be converted by platform maintainers to
use a platform device, such as can be found in
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/isa.c
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:41:51 +0000 (18:41 +0100)]
[PATCH] Serial: Disable OX950 transmitter for flow control
Disable the transmitter whenever we want to prevent characters
being transmitted by flow control. However, if we run out of
characters to send and want to only disable the TX interrupt,
allow that scenario.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Nicolas Pitre [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:10:54 +0000 (18:10 +0100)]
[PATCH] ARM: 2723/2: remove __udivdi3 and __umoddi3 from the kernel
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
Those are big, slow and generally not recommended for kernel code.
They are even not present on i386. So it should be concluded that
one could as well get away with do_div() alone.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Prakash Punnoor [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:13:54 +0000 (14:13 +0200)]
[PATCH] Don't fill up log with atxp1 vcore messages change message
I am using the atxp1 module to change vcore on my NForce2 via userspace
daemon (see punnoor.de).
Currently the atxp1 module will write to the log on every vcore change,
thus filling up my log - which I don't want. I am no kernel coder, but
I guess, this one-liner will change this behaviour in a wanted way, ie
output will be made for debug purposes only.
Hugh Dickins [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:15:40 +0000 (15:15 +0100)]
[PATCH] Fix get_request nastiness
get_request is now expected to be holding on to queue_lock, with interrupts
disabled, when it returns NULL; but one path forgot that, causing all kinds
of nastiness under swap load - badness backtraces, strange failures, BUGs.
Catalin Marinas [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:34:39 +0000 (15:34 +0100)]
[PATCH] ARM: 2769/1: cpu_init() stack setup fix
Patch from Catalin Marinas
The compiler allocates r14 for the stk variable in the __asm__ directive.
This is a shadowed register and gets changed when the mode is changed,
causing random values in the SP register. The patch adds a clobber for
the r14 register.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:15:54 +0000 (15:15 +0100)]
[PATCH] ARM: Convert ARM timer implementations to use readl/writel
Convert ARMs timer implementations to use readl/writel instead of accessing
the registers via a struct.
People have recently asked if accessing timers via a structure is the
"right way" and its not the Linux way. So fix this code to conform to
"The Linux Way"(tm).
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Ben Dooks [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:09:15 +0000 (11:09 +0100)]
[PATCH] ARM: 2764/1: S3C24XX - Common PM functions for Simtec boards
Patch from Ben Dooks
All current S3C24XX implementations from Simtec share the same
requirements for suspend/resume information.
This patch moves the save code out of the mach-bast.c file,
and into it's own so it can be shared by all the current
Simtec S3C24XX implementations.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:42:38 +0000 (09:42 +0100)]
[PATCH] Serial: Adjust serial locking
This patch changes the way serial ports are locked when getting modem
status. This change is necessary because we will need to atomically
read the modem status and take action depending on the CTS status.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Something reverted most of the arch/sparc/Kconfig changes, leaving
arch/sparc/ unconfigurable. This patch re-removes the parts made redundant
by drivers/Kconfig in addition to a mysterious, spurious second instance of
source "mm/Kconfig". cvs strikes again?
Signed-off-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- uv_ratio : allow a ratio of saturation between u and v. If you
have a ratio of 40 and a saturation of 100, usat will be 80 and
vstat 120. Useful to correct a bad color balance.
- full_luma_range : provide a better contrast in using the full
range 0-253 of values instead of 16-253.
- coring : to have a better black level.
- radio range is now defined on tuner-core.c. Cleaning up.
*tuner-core.c:
- some tuner_info msgs will be generated only if insmod opt
tuner_debug enabled.
- Implemented tuner-core support for VIDIO_S_TUNER to allow
changing mono/stereo mode
- Remove unneeded config options.
- I2C_CLIENT_MULTI option removed.
- support for Philips FMD12ME hybrid tuner
- allow to initialize with another tuner
- Move PHILIPS_FMD initialization code to set_type function,
* tda8290:
- Fix dumb error in tda8290 tunning.
- Radio tuner uses high-precision step instead of 62.5 KHz.
*tea5767.c:
- tuner_info msgs will be generated only if insmod tuner option
tuner_debug enabled.
- some cleanups for better reading.
- Radio tuner uses high-precision step instead of 62.5 KHz.
- Changing radio mode stereo/mono for tea5767 working.
*tuner-simple.c:
- TNF9533-D/IF UHF fixup.
- Radio tuners now uses high-precision step instead of 62.5 KHz.
*mt20xx.c:
- Radio tuner uses high-precision step instead of 62.5 KHz.
*tda9887.c:
- tab and blank spaces corrections.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> Signed-off-by: Nickolay V Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alan Cox [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:45:18 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
[PATCH] irqpoll
Anyone reporting a stuck IRQ should try these options. Its effectiveness
varies we've found in the Fedora case. Quite a few systems with misdescribed
IRQ routing just work when you use irqpoll. It also fixes up the VIA systems
although thats now fixed with the VIA quirk (which we could just make default
as its what Redmond OS does but Linus didn't like it historically).
A small number of systems have jammed IRQ sources or misdescribes that cause
an IRQ that we have no handler registered anywhere for. In those cases it
doesn't help.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently in ext3 block reservation code, the global filesystem reservation
tree lock (rsv_block) is hold during the process of searching for a space
to make a new reservation window, including while scaning the block bitmap
to verify if the avalible window has a free block. Holding the lock during
bitmap scan is unnecessary and could possibly cause scalability issue and
latency issues.
This patch tries to address this by dropping the lock before scan the
bitmap. Before that we need to reserve the open window in case someone
else is targetting at the same window. Question was should we reserve the
whole free reservable space or just the window size we need. Reserve the
whole free reservable space will possibly force other threads which
intended to do block allocation nearby move to another block group(cause
bad layout). In this patch, we just reserve the desired size before drop
the lock and scan the block bitmap. This patch fixed a ext3 reservation
latency issue seen on a cvs check out test. Patch is tested with many fsx,
tiobench, dbench and untar a kernel test.
Signed-Off-By: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nick Piggin [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:45:15 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
[PATCH] blk: light iocontext ops
get_io_context needlessly turned off interrupts and checked for racing io
context creations. Both of which aren't needed, because the io context can
only be created while in process context of the current process.
Also, split the function in 2. A light version, current_io_context does not
elevate the reference count specifically, but can be used when in process
context, because the process holds a reference itself.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nick Piggin [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:45:13 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
[PATCH] blk: __make_request efficiency
In the case where the request is not able to be merged by the elevator, don't
retake the lock and retry the merge mechanism after allocating a new request.
Instead assume that the chance of a merge remains slim, and now that we've
done most of the work allocating a request we may as well just go with it.
Also be rid of the GFP_ATOMIC allocation: we've got working mempools for the
block layer now, so let's save atomic memory for things like networking.
Lastly, in get_request_wait, do an initial get_request call before going into
the waitqueue. This is reported to help efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The return value of "match_int" is checked 27 out of 28 times
In lib/parser.c
142 /**
143 * match_int: - scan a decimal representation of an integer from a substring_t
144 * @s: substring_t to be scanned
145 * @result: resulting integer on success
146 *
147 * Description: Attempts to parse the &substring_t @s as a decimal integer. On
148 * success, sets @result to the integer represented by the string and returns 0.
149 * Returns either -ENOMEM or -EINVAL on failure.
150 */
151 int match_int(substring_t *s, int *result)
152 {
153 return match_number(s, result, 0);
154 }
GOTO Masanori [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:45:05 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
[PATCH] headers: include linux/types.h for usb_ch9.h
This patch for usb_ch9.h includes linux/types.h instead of asm/types.h so that
__le16 and so on is explicitly defined. It also cleans up non standard //
comment.
GOTO Masanori [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:45:03 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
[PATCH] headers: enable ppc64 ___arch__swab16 and ___arch__swab32
This patch cleans up asm-ppc64/byteorder.h to enable ___arch__swab16 and
___arch__swab32 which are marked TODO currently. It removes ___arch__swab64
because ppc64 does not have short instruction combinations for swab64, the
recent gcc generates enough smart code that is equivalent to hand assembled
code under my tests.
Signed-off-by: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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