Takashi Iwai [Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:38:39 +0000 (15:38 +0200)]
[ALSA] ak4114 - Fix possible Oops with callbacks
ak4114 code may trigger Oops when the parameters are changed without
call of snd_ak4114_build(). Now it checks the existence of kctl
element, and the workq is triggered after building the necessary
kcontrols.
Also, did some code clean up.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Rene Herman [Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:23:53 +0000 (15:23 +0200)]
[ALSA] es1968 - Fix stuttering capture
Looks like the buffer size for the stereo capture has to be a
power of two. Now added a constraint to buffer bytes.
Also removed unnecessary #if 0 lines.
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Takashi Iwai [Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:14:35 +0000 (15:14 +0100)]
[ALSA] hda-intel - Probe additional slots only if necessary
Probing the codec slots on ATI controller causes problems on some
devices like Acer laptops. On these devices, reading from codec
slot 3 results in the communication failure with the codec chip.
Meanwhile, some laptops (e.g. Gateway) have the codec connection
only on slot 3, and probing this slot is mandatory for them.
The patch improves the probing robustness. The additional slots
are now checked only when no codecs are found in the primary three
slots.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Rene Herman [Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:05:06 +0000 (12:05 +0100)]
[ALSA] Fix alsa-devel ML address
This replaces all occurences of alsa-devel@lists.s[ource]f[orge].net
that a simple recursive grep found in the current HG ALSA repos by
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org.
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
David Brownell [Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:54:04 +0000 (11:54 +0100)]
[ALSA] fix SND_SOC Kconfig
The new ALSA 'SOC' support has bogus Kconfig ... it should
not be presenting anything AT91-related except on AT91,
or anything PXA-related except on PXA. Right now, x86
sees both of those menus, as do all other platforms.
This patch removes needless Kconfig layering, and the
related inappropriate choice presentation.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Julian Cable [Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:44:40 +0000 (11:44 +0100)]
[ALSA] hdsp - Add support for fine tuning of sample rate support to HDSP 9632
Add 'DDS Sample Rate Offset' control. Allows values in Hz from -5000 to +5000.
The value is added to the nominal sample rate and written to the DDS register.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:42:18 +0000 (11:42 +0100)]
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix Macmini and Macbook pin configs
Original idea from Nicolas Boichat <nicolas@boichat.ch>.
The pin configurations of Macmini and MacBook (1st generation, at least)
seem identical with MacBook Pro (1st generation).
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
The ad1816a driver fails if the mpu401 driver has been loaded first. This
patch against linux 2.6.20 fixes it by just ignoring the MPU-401 device in
that case, so that the rest of the sound card can be used. The ad1816a
driver already handles the MPU-401 device being unavailable due to lack of
resources in the same way.
Ralf Baechle [Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:31:08 +0000 (15:31 +0100)]
[ALSA] ice1712: build fixes
CC [M] sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.o
sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.c:290: error: snd_ice1712_mixer_digmix_route_ac97 causes a section type conflict
sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.c:1630: error: snd_ice1712_eeprom causes a section type conflict
...
Gcc like its __devinitdata readable not const, it seems. An alternative
fix would be to remove the __devinitdata attribute but that would result
in slight runtime bloat.
Ralf Baechle [Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:29:47 +0000 (15:29 +0100)]
[ALSA] hda_intel: build fix
CC [M] sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.o
sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1508: error: position_fix_list causes a section type conflict
Gcc like its __devinitdata readable not const, it seems. An alternative
fix would be to remove the __devinitdata attribute but that would result
in slight runtime bloat.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
John Utz [Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:30:06 +0000 (12:30 +0100)]
[ALSA] ac97 - Smart 5.1 for VIA 1617a codec
This patch provides a single 8 way enum called 'Smart 5.1 Select' with
some reasonable names for each enum that allows the user to choose
which of the 8 possible settings for vt1617a's version of what via
calls 'Smart 5.1'.
Signed-off-by: John Utz <john.utz@dmx.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Tobin Davis [Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:39:01 +0000 (11:39 +0100)]
[ALSA] hda-codec - Conexant improvements
This patch further improves on the Conexant Audio driver.
Adds support for Fujistu Siemens Si1520 series laptops.
Adds support for mic/line in on CX20549 based systems (aka 5045).
removes duplicated or unused controls (gpio, spdif) from test model.
Signed-off-by: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Clemens Ladisch [Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:30:16 +0000 (08:30 +0100)]
[ALSA] Kconfig: fix FW_LOADER dependencies
Move the FW_LOADER dependencies out of the *_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL entries
because these drivers use the firmware loader regardless of whether
there is an in-kernel firmware image.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Remy Bruno [Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:08:46 +0000 (19:08 +0100)]
[ALSA] hdspm - Support for Master mode of AES32 and recent MADI
The current MADI driver was found not to completely work, at least on recent
MADI cards (rev 204), in particular at 96kHz. This patch solves this:
* Add support of DDS feature
* Channel map fixed
* Channel/rate rules fixed
* DMA allocation fixed (need to alloc for all channels and not only for the
used ones)
Full support for AES32 master mode was added:
* Add support of DDS feature
* Channel map fixed
* Channel/rate rules fixed
Signed-off-by: Remy Bruno <remy.bruno@trinnov.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
[ALSA] echoaudio - increase sleep time at loading firmware
The new ASIC code needs more time to set up.
(Note: the driver still works fine with the old firmware after this change.
The opposite is not true.)
From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:07:21 +0000 (16:07 +0100)]
[ALSA] mpu401 - Add MPU401_INFO_UART_ONLY bitflag
Added MPU401_INFO_UART_ONLY bitflag to avoid issueing UART_ENTER command
at opening streams. Some devices support only UART mode and give errors
to UART_ENTER.
A new module option, uart_enter, is added to snd-mpu401 driver.
For UART-only devices, set uart_enter=0.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:52:53 +0000 (12:52 +0100)]
[ALSA] Add snd_pcm_group_for_each_entry() for code cleanup
Added a new macro snd_pcm_group_for_each_entry() just for code cleanup.
Old macros, snd_pcm_group_for_each() and snd_pcm_group_substream_entry(),
are removed.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Rene Herman [Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:07:50 +0000 (13:07 +0100)]
[ALSA] gusextreme: set codec_flag
The gusextreme driver neglects to set the gus->codec_flag meaning
snd_gf1_pcm_new() allocates a second 'PCM Playback Volume' control,
which makes the driver fail to load.
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
J. Bruce Fields [Thu, 10 May 2007 22:38:43 +0000 (18:38 -0400)]
locks: fix F_GETLK regression (failure to find conflicts)
In 9d6a8c5c213e34c475e72b245a8eb709258e968c we changed posix_test_lock
to modify its single file_lock argument instead of taking separate input
and output arguments. This makes it no longer safe to set the output
lock's fl_type to F_UNLCK before looking for a conflict, since that
means searching for a conflict against a lock with type F_UNLCK.
This fixes a regression which causes F_GETLK to incorrectly report no
conflict on most filesystems (including any filesystem that doesn't do
its own locking).
Also fix posix_lock_to_flock() to copy the lock type. This isn't
strictly necessary, since the caller already does this; but it seems
less likely to cause confusion in the future.
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
[WATCHDOG] MTX-1 Watchdog driver
[WATCHDOG] s3c2410_wdt - initialize watchdog irq resource
[WATCHDOG] Kconfig menuconfig patch
[WATCHDOG] pcwd.c: Port to the new device driver model
[WATCHDOG] use mutex instead of semaphore in Berkshire USB-PC Watchdog driver
[WATCHDOG] the scheduled removal of the i8xx_tco watchdog driver
[WATCHDOG] Semi-typical watchdog bug re early misc_register()
[WATCHDOG] add support for the w83627thf chipset.
Simon Horman [Thu, 10 May 2007 18:51:11 +0000 (11:51 -0700)]
Allow compat_ioctl.c to compile without CONFIG_NET
A small regression appears to have been introduced in the recent patch
"cleanup compat ioctl handling", which was included in Linus' tree after
2.6.20.
siocdevprivate_ioctl() is no longer defined if CONFIG_NET is undefined,
whereas previously it was a dummy function in this case.
This causes compilation with CONFIG_COMPAT but without CONFIG_NET to fail.
fs/compat_ioctl.c: In function `compat_sys_ioctl':
fs/compat_ioctl.c:3571: warning: implicit declaration of function `siocdevprivate_ioctl'
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/input/misc/ixp4xx-beeper.c: In function 'ixp4xx_spkr_event':
drivers/input/misc/ixp4xx-beeper.c:54: error: 'input_dev' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/input/misc/ixp4xx-beeper.c:54: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/input/misc/ixp4xx-beeper.c:54: error: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 10 May 2007 20:32:24 +0000 (13:32 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (24 commits)
[POWERPC] Fix compile error with kexec and CONFIG_SMP=n
[POWERPC] Split initrd logic out of early_init_dt_scan_chosen() to fix warning
[POWERPC] Fix warning in hpte_decode(), and generalize it
[POWERPC] Minor pSeries IOMMU debug cleanup
[POWERPC] PS3: Fix sys manager build error
[POWERPC] Assorted janitorial EEH cleanups
[POWERPC] We don't define CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
[POWERPC] pmu_sys_suspended is only defined for PPC32
[POWERPC] Fix incorrect calculation of I/O window addresses
[POWERPC] celleb: Update celleb_defconfig
[POWERPC] celleb: Fix parsing of machine type hack command line option
[POWERPC] celleb: Fix PCI config space accesses to subordinate buses
[POWERPC] celleb: Fix support for multiple PCI domains
[POWERPC] Wire up sys_utimensat
[POWERPC] CPM_UART: Removed __init from cpm_uart_init_portdesc to fix warning
[POWERPC] User rheap from arch/powerpc/lib
[POWERPC] 83xx: Fix the PCI ranges in the MPC834x_MDS device tree.
[POWERPC] 83xx: Fix the PCI ranges in the MPC832x_MDS device tree.
[POWERPC] CPM_UART: cpm_uart_set_termios should take ktermios, not termios
[POWERPC] Change rheap functions to use ulongs instead of pointers
...
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC64]: Use alloc_pci_dev() in PCI bus probes.
[SPARC64]: Bump PROMINTR_MAX to 32.
[SPARC64]: Fix recursion in PROM tree building.
[SERIAL] sunzilog: Interrupt enable before ISR handler installed
[SPARC64] PCI: Consolidate PCI access code into pci_common.c
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 10 May 2007 20:30:34 +0000 (13:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
acpi,msi-laptop: Fall back to EC polling mode for MSI laptop specific EC commands
sony-laptop: rename SONY_LAPTOP_OLD to a more meaningful SONYPI_COMPAT
asus-laptop: version bump and lindent
asus-laptop: fix light sens init
asus-laptop: add GPS support
asus-laptop: notify ALL events
ACPICA: Lindent
ACPI: created a dedicated workqueue for notify() execution
Revert "ACPICA: fix AML mutex re-entrancy"
Revert "Execute AML Notify() requests on stack."
Revert "ACPICA: revert "acpi_serialize" changes"
ACPI: delete un-reliable concept of cooling mode
ACPI: thermal trip points are read-only
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 10 May 2007 20:29:36 +0000 (13:29 -0700)]
Merge branch 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (138 commits)
firewire: Convert OHCI driver to use standard goto unwinding for error handling.
firewire: Always use parens with sizeof.
firewire: Drop single buffer request support.
firewire: Add a comment to describe why we split the sg list.
firewire: Return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY for out of memory cases in queuecommand.
firewire: Handle the last few DMA mapping error cases.
firewire: Allocate scsi_host up front and allocate the sbp2_device as hostdata.
firewire: Provide module aliase for backwards compatibility.
firewire: Add to fw-core-y instead of assigning fw-core-objs in Makefile.
firewire: Break out shared IEEE1394 constant to separate header file.
firewire: Use linux/*.h instead of asm/*.h header files.
firewire: Uppercase most macro names.
firewire: Coding style cleanup: no spaces after function names.
firewire: Convert card_rwsem to a regular mutex.
firewire: Clean up comment style.
firewire: Use lib/ implementation of CRC ITU-T.
CRC ITU-T V.41
firewire: Rename fw-device-cdev.c to fw-cdev.c and move header to include/linux.
firewire: Future proof the iso ioctls by adding a handle for the iso context.
firewire: Add read/write and size annotations to IOC numbers.
...
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 10 May 2007 18:50:51 +0000 (11:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] update default configuration.
[S390] Kconfig: no wireless on s390.
[S390] Kconfig: use common Kconfig files for s390.
[S390] Kconfig: common config options for s390.
[S390] Kconfig: unwanted menus for s390.
[S390] Kconfig: menus with depends on HAS_IOMEM.
[S390] Kconfig: refine depends statements.
[S390] Avoid compile warning.
[S390] qdio: re-add lost perf_stats.tl_runs change in qdio_handle_pci
[S390] Avoid sparse warnings.
[S390] dasd: Fix modular build.
[S390] monreader inlining cleanup.
[S390] cio: Make some structures and a function static.
[S390] cio: Get rid of _ccw_device_get_device_number().
[S390] fix subsystem removal fallout
timer: revert parenthesis fix in tbase_get_deferrable() etc
On 09-05-2007 21:10, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
...
> On a 64 bit system, converting pointer to int causes unnecessary
> compiler warning, and intermediate long conversion was to avoid that.
> I will have to rephrase my comment to remove 32 bit value and use int,
> as that is what the function returns.
So, this patch reverts all changes done by my previous patch.
I apologize for my wrong comment about "logical error" here.
Alexey Dobriyan [Thu, 10 May 2007 10:15:58 +0000 (03:15 -0700)]
i2c-at91: compile fix (IS_ERR)
CC drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.o
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c: In function 'at91_i2c_probe':
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c:213: warning: implicit declaration of function 'IS_ERR'
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Brownell [Thu, 10 May 2007 10:15:52 +0000 (03:15 -0700)]
i2c-at91 supports new-style i2c drivers
Make i2c-at91 register as i2c adapter zero (none of these chips seem to
have more than one TWI controllers) to let it kick in any board-specific
device declarations; also make it hotplug/coldplug.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
NeilBrown [Thu, 10 May 2007 10:15:50 +0000 (03:15 -0700)]
md: avoid a possibility that a read error can wrongly propagate through md/raid1 to a filesystem.
When a raid1 has only one working drive, we want read error to propagate up
to the filesystem as there is no point failing the last drive in an array.
Currently the code perform this check is racy. If a write and a read a
both submitted to a device on a 2-drive raid1, and the write fails followed
by the read failing, the read will see that there is only one working drive
and will pass the failure up, even though the one working drive is actually
the *other* one.
So, tighten up the locking.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dmitry Torokhov [Thu, 10 May 2007 10:15:47 +0000 (03:15 -0700)]
drivers/hwmon: switch to using input_dev->dev.parent
In preparation for struct class_device -> struct device input core
conversion, switch to using input_dev->dev.parent when specifying device
position in sysfs tree.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Entering the kernel at startup_32 without passing our real mode data in
%esi, and without guaranteeing that physical and virtual addresses are
identity mapped makes head.S impossible to maintain.
The only user of this infrastructure is lguest which is not merged so
nothing we currently support will break by removing this over designed
nightmare, and only the pending lguest patches will be affected. The
pending Xen patches have a different entry point that they use.
We are currently discussing what Xen and lguest need to do to boot the
kernel in a more normal fashion so using startup_32 in this weird manner is
clearly not their long term direction.
So let's remove this code in head.S before it causes brain damage to people
trying to maintain head.S
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen Rothwell [Thu, 10 May 2007 10:15:27 +0000 (03:15 -0700)]
early_pfn_to_nid needs to be __meminit
Since it is referenced by memmap_init_zone (which is __meminit) via the
early_pfn_in_nid macro when CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES is set (which
basically means PowerPC 64).
This removes a section mismatch warning in those circumstances.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Howells [Thu, 10 May 2007 10:15:23 +0000 (03:15 -0700)]
AFS: further write support fixes
Further fixes for AFS write support:
(1) The afs_send_pages() outer loop must do an extra iteration if it ends
with 'first == last' because 'last' is inclusive in the page set
otherwise it fails to send the last page and complete the RxRPC op under
some circumstances.
(2) Similarly, the outer loop in afs_pages_written_back() must also do an
extra iteration if it ends with 'first == last', otherwise it fails to
clear PG_writeback on the last page under some circumstances.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
slub: support concurrent local and remote frees and allocs on a slab
Avoid atomic overhead in slab_alloc and slab_free
SLUB needs to use the slab_lock for the per cpu slabs to synchronize with
potential kfree operations. This patch avoids that need by moving all free
objects onto a lockless_freelist. The regular freelist continues to exist
and will be used to free objects. So while we consume the
lockless_freelist the regular freelist may build up objects.
If we are out of objects on the lockless_freelist then we may check the
regular freelist. If it has objects then we move those over to the
lockless_freelist and do this again. There is a significant savings in
terms of atomic operations that have to be performed.
We can even free directly to the lockless_freelist if we know that we are
running on the same processor. So this speeds up short lived objects.
They may be allocated and freed without taking the slab_lock. This is
particular good for netperf.
In order to maximize the effect of the new faster hotpath we extract the
hottest performance pieces into inlined functions. These are then inlined
into kmem_cache_alloc and kmem_cache_free. So hotpath allocation and
freeing no longer requires a subroutine call within SLUB.
[I am not sure that it is worth doing this because it changes the easy to
read structure of slub just to reduce atomic ops. However, there is
someone out there with a benchmark on 4 way and 8 way processor systems
that seems to show a 5% regression vs. Slab. Seems that the regression is
due to increased atomic operations use vs. SLAB in SLUB). I wonder if
this is applicable or discernable at all in a real workload?]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Olaf Hering [Sat, 5 May 2007 21:17:13 +0000 (23:17 +0200)]
firewire: Provide module aliase for backwards compatibility.
This patch loads fw-sbp2 if sbp2 is still in the config file. So one can
go back and forth between releases without worry about the root
filesystem drivers.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Existing mkinitrd scripts still have to be adapted, unless they grok
module aliases.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Ivo van Doorn [Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:17:04 +0000 (16:17 +0200)]
CRC ITU-T V.41
This will add the CRC calculation according
to the CRC ITU-T V.41 to the kernel lib/ folder.
This code has been derived from the rt2x00 driver,
currently found only in the wireless-dev tree, but
this library is generic and could be used by more
drivers who currently use their own implementation.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Also useful for the new firewire stack.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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