Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:13 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] msync(MS_SYNC): don't hold mmap_sem while syncing
It seems bad to hold mmap_sem while performing synchronous disk I/O. Alter
the msync(MS_SYNC) code so that the lock is released while we sync the file.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:12 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling
It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application
dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller
to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller.
The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just
discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied. (Otherwise it
wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up).
It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying
those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem.
We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too.
We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing. It doesn't
seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long.
Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC. MS_SYNC will be syncing all the
dirty pages anyway.
We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always
has. We can fix that up...
The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in
taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:11 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixes
We need set_page_dirty() to return true if it actually transitioned the page
from a clean to dirty state. This wasn't right in a couple of places. Do a
kernel-wide audit, fix things up.
This leaves open the possibility of returning a negative errno from
set_page_dirty() sometime in the future. But we don't do that at present.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Dumazet [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:10 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] HOTPLUG_CPU: avoid hitting too many cachelines in recalc_bh_state()
Instead of using for_each_cpu(i), we can use for_each_online_cpu(i).
When a CPU goes offline (ie removed from online map), it might have a non
null bh_accounting.nr, so this patch adds a transfer of this counter to an
online CPU counter.
We already have a hotcpu_notifier, (function buffer_cpu_notify()), where we
can do this bh_accounting.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
OPL3_HW_OPL3_PC98 #define isn't used anywhere; previously in
sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_lib.c and sound/isa/cs423x/pc98.c, the latter of which
went away with the rest of PC98 subarch.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hugh Dickins [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:06 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] shmdt: check address alignment
SUSv3 says the shmdt() function shall fail with EINVAL if the value of
shmaddr is not the data segment start address of a shared memory segment:
our sys_shmdt needs to reject a shmaddr which is not page-aligned.
Does it have the potential to break existing apps?
Hugh says
"sys_shmdt() just does the wrong (unexpected) thing with a misaligned
address: it'll fail on what you might expect it to succeed on, and only
succeed on what it should definitely fail on.
"That is, I think it behaves as if shmaddr gets rounded up, when the only
understandable behaviour would be if it rounded it down.
"Which does mean you'd have to be devious to see anything but EINVAL from
a misaligned shmaddr there, so it's not terribly important."
Andrew Morton [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:04 +0000 (03:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] fadvise(): write commands
Add two new linux-specific fadvise extensions():
LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: start async writeout of any dirty pages between file
offsets `offset' and `offset+len'. Any pages which are currently under
writeout are skipped, whether or not they are dirty.
LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: wait upon writeout of any dirty pages between file
offsets `offset' and `offset+len'.
By combining these two operations the application may do several things:
LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push some or all of the dirty pages at the disk.
LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push all of the currently dirty
pages at the disk.
LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE, LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: push all
of the currently dirty pages at the disk, wait until they have been written.
It should be noted that none of these operations write out the file's
metadata. So unless the application is strictly performing overwrites of
already-instantiated disk blocks, there are no guarantees here that the data
will be available after a crash.
To complete this suite of operations I guess we should have a "sync file
metadata only" operation. This gives applications access to all the building
blocks needed for all sorts of sync operations. But sync-metadata doesn't fit
well with the fadvise() interface. Probably it should be a new syscall:
sys_fmetadatasync().
The patch also diddles with the meaning of `endbyte' in sys_fadvise64_64().
It is made to represent that last affected byte in the file (ie: it is
inclusive). Generally, all these byterange and pagerange functions are
inclusive so we can easily represent EOF with -1.
As Ulrich notes, these two functions are somewhat abusive of the fadvise()
concept, which appears to be "set the future policy for this fd".
But these commands are a perfect fit with the fadvise() impementation, and
several of the existing fadvise() commands are synchronous and don't affect
future policy either. I think we can live with the slight incongruity.
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I had trouble understanding working out whether filemap_fdatawrite_range()'s
`end' parameter describes the last-byte-to-be-written or the last-plus-one.
Clarify that in comments.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Beulich [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:19 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO
As a foundation for reliable stack unwinding, this adds a config option
(available to all architectures except IA64 and those where the module
loader might have problems with the resulting relocations) to enable the
generation of frame unwind information.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alex Tomas [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:16 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] fast ext3_statfs
Under I/O load it may take up to a dozen seconds to read all group
descriptors. This is what ext3_statfs() does. At the same time, we already
maintain global numbers of free inodes/blocks. Why don't we use them instead
of group reading and summing?
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:12 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset: remove useless local variable initialization
Remove a useless variable initialization in cpuset __cpuset_zone_allowed().
The local variable 'allowed' is unconditionally set before use, later on
in the code, so does not need to be initialized.
Not that it seems to matter to the code generated any, as the compiler
optimizes out the superfluous assignment anyway.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:12 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset: memory_spread_slab drop useless PF_SPREAD_PAGE check
The hook in the slab cache allocation path to handle cpuset memory
spreading for tasks in cpusets with 'memory_spread_slab' enabled has a
modest performance bug. The hook calls into the memory spreading handler
alternate_node_alloc() if either of 'memory_spread_slab' or
'memory_spread_page' is enabled, even though the handler does nothing
(albeit harmlessly) for the page case
Fix - drop PF_SPREAD_PAGE from the set of flag bits that are used to
trigger a call to alternate_node_alloc().
The page case is handled by separate hooks -- see the calls conditioned on
cpuset_do_page_mem_spread() in mm/filemap.c
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:11 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset: don't need to mark cpuset_mems_generation atomic
Drop the atomic_t marking on the cpuset static global
cpuset_mems_generation. Since all access to it is guarded by the global
manage_mutex, there is no need for further serialization of this value.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:09 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache hooks
Change the kmem_cache_create calls for certain slab caches to support cpuset
memory spreading.
See the previous patches, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset
memory spreading, and cpuset_mem_spread_slab_cache for the slab cache support
for memory spreading.
The slab caches marked for now are: dentry_cache, inode_cache, some xfs slab
caches, and buffer_head. This list may change over time. In particular,
other file system types that are used extensively on large NUMA systems may
want to allow for spreading their directory and inode slab cache entries.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The hooks in the slab cache allocator code path for support of NUMA
mempolicies and cpuset memory spreading are in an important code path. Many
systems will use neither feature.
This patch optimizes those hooks down to a single check of some bits in the
current tasks task_struct flags. For non NUMA systems, this hook and related
code is already ifdef'd out.
The optimization is done by using another task flag, set if the task is using
a non-default NUMA mempolicy. Taking this flag bit along with the
PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB flag bits added earlier in this 'cpuset
memory spreading' patch set, one can check for the combination of any of these
special case memory placement mechanisms with a single test of the current
tasks task_struct flags.
This patch also tightens up the code, to save a few bytes of kernel text
space, and moves some of it out of line. Due to the nested inlines called
from multiple places, we were ending up with three copies of this code, which
once we get off the main code path (for local node allocation) seems a bit
wasteful of instruction memory.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Provide the slab cache infrastructure to support cpuset memory spreading.
See the previous patches, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset
memory spreading.
This patch provides a slab cache SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag. If set in the
kmem_cache_create() call defining a slab cache, then any task marked with the
process state flag PF_MEMSPREAD will spread memory page allocations for that
cache over all the allowed nodes, instead of preferring the local (faulting)
node.
On systems not configured with CONFIG_NUMA, this results in no change to the
page allocation code path for slab caches.
On systems with cpusets configured in the kernel, but the "memory_spread"
cpuset option not enabled for the current tasks cpuset, this adds a call to a
cpuset routine and failed bit test of the processor state flag PF_SPREAD_SLAB.
For tasks so marked, a second inline test is done for the slab cache flag
SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, and if that is set and if the allocation is not
in_interrupt(), this adds a call to to a cpuset routine that computes which of
the tasks mems_allowed nodes should be preferred for this allocation.
==> This patch adds another hook into the performance critical
code path to allocating objects from the slab cache, in the
____cache_alloc() chunk, below. The next patch optimizes this
hook, reducing the impact of the combined mempolicy plus memory
spreading hooks on this critical code path to a single check
against the tasks task_struct flags word.
This patch provides the generic slab flags and logic needed to apply memory
spreading to a particular slab.
A subsequent patch will mark a few specific slab caches for this placement
policy.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:06 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache format
Rewrap the overly long source code lines resulting from the previous
patch's addition of the slab cache flag SLAB_MEM_SPREAD. This patch
contains only formatting changes, and no function change.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mark file system inode and similar slab caches subject to SLAB_MEM_SPREAD
memory spreading.
If a slab cache is marked SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, then anytime that a task that's
in a cpuset with the 'memory_spread_slab' option enabled goes to allocate
from such a slab cache, the allocations are spread evenly over all the
memory nodes (task->mems_allowed) allowed to that task, instead of favoring
allocation on the node local to the current cpu.
The following inode and similar caches are marked SLAB_MEM_SPREAD:
The choice of which slab caches to so mark was quite simple. I marked
those already marked SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT, except for fs/xfs, dentry_cache,
inode_cache, and buffer_head, which were marked in a previous patch. Even
though SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT is for a different purpose, it marks the same
potentially large file system i/o related slab caches as we need for memory
spreading.
Given that the rule now becomes "wherever you would have used a
SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT slab cache flag before (usually the inode cache), use
the SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag too", this should be easy enough to maintain.
Future file system writers will just copy one of the existing file system
slab cache setups and tend to get it right without thinking.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:04 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread page cache implementation and hooks
Change the page cache allocation calls to support cpuset memory spreading.
See the previous patch, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset memory
spreading.
On systems without cpusets configured in the kernel, this is no change.
On systems with cpusets configured in the kernel, but the "memory_spread"
cpuset option not enabled for the current tasks cpuset, this adds a call to a
cpuset routine and failed bit test of the processor state flag PF_SPREAD_PAGE.
On tasks in cpusets with "memory_spread" enabled, this adds a call to a cpuset
routine that computes which of the tasks mems_allowed nodes should be
preferred for this allocation.
If memory spreading applies to a particular allocation, then any other NUMA
mempolicy does not apply.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:03 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread basic implementation
This patch provides the implementation and cpuset interface for an alternative
memory allocation policy that can be applied to certain kinds of memory
allocations, such as the page cache (file system buffers) and some slab caches
(such as inode caches).
The policy is called "memory spreading." If enabled, it spreads out these
kinds of memory allocations over all the nodes allowed to a task, instead of
preferring to place them on the node where the task is executing.
All other kinds of allocations, including anonymous pages for a tasks stack
and data regions, are not affected by this policy choice, and continue to be
allocated preferring the node local to execution, as modified by the NUMA
mempolicy.
There are two boolean flag files per cpuset that control where the kernel
allocates pages for the file system buffers and related in kernel data
structures. They are called 'memory_spread_page' and 'memory_spread_slab'.
If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_page' is set, then the
kernel will spread the file system buffers (page cache) evenly over all the
nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put
those pages on the node where the task is running.
If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_slab' is set, then the
kernel will spread some file system related slab caches, such as for inodes
and dentries evenly over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to
use, instead of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is
running.
The implementation is simple. Setting the cpuset flags 'memory_spread_page'
or 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the per-process flags PF_SPREAD_PAGE or
PF_SPREAD_SLAB, respectively, for each task that is in the cpuset or
subsequently joins that cpuset. In subsequent patches, the page allocation
calls for the affected page cache and slab caches are modified to perform an
inline check for these flags, and if set, a call to a new routine
cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation.
The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple. It uses the value of a
per-task rotor cpuset_mem_spread_rotor to select the next node in the current
tasks mems_allowed to prefer for the allocation.
This policy can provide substantial improvements for jobs that need to place
thread local data on the corresponding node, but that need to access large
file system data sets that need to be spread across the several nodes in the
jobs cpuset in order to fit. Without this patch, especially for jobs that
might have one thread reading in the data set, the memory allocation across
the nodes in the jobs cpuset can become very uneven.
A couple of Copyright year ranges are updated as well. And a couple of email
addresses that can be found in the MAINTAINERS file are removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:16:00 +0000 (03:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpuset cleanup not not operators
Since the test_bit() bit operator is boolean (return 0 or 1), the double not
"!!" operations needed to convert a scalar (zero or not zero) to a boolean are
not needed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] cpusets: only wakeup kswapd for zones in the current cpuset
If we get under some memory pressure in a cpuset (we only scan zones that
are in the cpuset for memory) then kswapd is woken up for all zones. This
patch only wakes up kswapd in zones that are part of the current cpuset.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:58 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] rcutorture: tag success/failure line with module parameters
A long-running rcutorture test can overflow dmesg, so that the line
containing the module parameters is lost. Although it is usually possible
to retrieve this information from the log files, it is much better to just
tag it onto the final success/failure line so that it may be easily found.
This patch does just that.
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
include/linux/platform.h contained nothing that was actually used except
the default_idle() prototype, and is therefore removed by this patch.
This patch does the following with the platform specific default_idle()
functions on different architectures:
- remove the unused function:
- parisc
- sparc64
- make the needlessly global function static:
- arm
- h8300
- m68k
- m68knommu
- s390
- v850
- x86_64
- add a prototype in asm/system.h:
- cris
- i386
- ia64
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Beulich [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:54 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] tvec_bases too large for per-cpu data
With internal Xen-enabled kernels we see the kernel's static per-cpu data
area exceed the limit of 32k on x86-64, and even native x86-64 kernels get
fairly close to that limit. I generally question whether it is reasonable
to have data structures several kb in size allocated as per-cpu data when
the space there is rather limited.
The biggest arch-independent consumer is tvec_bases (over 4k on 32-bit
archs, over 8k on 64-bit ones), which now gets converted to use dynamically
allocated memory instead.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:52 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs/9p/: possible cleanups
- mux.c: v9fs_poll_mux() was inline but not static resuling in needless
object size bloat
- mux.c: remove all "inline"s: gcc should know best what to inline
- #if 0 the following unused global functions:
- 9p.c: v9fs_v9fs_t_flush()
- conv.c: v9fs_create_tauth()
- mux.c: v9fs_mux_rpcnb()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:50 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] rcu_process_callbacks: don't cli() while testing ->nxtlist
__rcu_process_callbacks() disables interrupts to protect itself from
call_rcu() which adds new entries to ->nxtlist.
However we can check "->nxtlist != NULL" with interrupts enabled, we can't
get "false positives" because call_rcu() can only change this condition
from 0 to 1.
Bart Samwel [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:50 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] Range checking in do_proc_dointvec_(userhz_)jiffies_conv
When (integer) sysctl values are in either seconds or centiseconds, but
represented internally as jiffies, the allowable value range is decreased.
This patch adds range checks to the conversion routines.
For values in seconds: maximum LONG_MAX / HZ.
For values in centiseconds: maximum (LONG_MAX / HZ) * USER_HZ.
(BTW, does anyone else feel that an interface in seconds should not be
accepting negative values?)
Bart Samwel [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:49 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] Represent laptop_mode as jiffies internally
Make that the internal value for /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode is stored as
jiffies instead of seconds. Let the sysctl interface do the conversions,
instead of doing on-the-fly conversions every time the value is used.
Add a description of the fact that laptop_mode doubles as a flag and a
timeout to the comment above the laptop_mode variable.
are stored as jiffies instead of centiseconds. Let the sysctl interface do
the conversions with full precision using clock_t_to_jiffies, instead of
doing overflow-sensitive on-the-fly conversions every time the values are
used.
Cons: apparent precision loss if HZ is not a multiple of 100, because of
conversion back and forth. This is a common problem for all sysctl values
that use proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies. (There is only one other in-tree
use, in net/core/neighbour.c.)
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:46 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] bitmap: region restructuring
Restructure the bitmap_*_region() operations, to avoid code duplication.
Also reduces binary text size by about 100 bytes (ia64 arch). The original
Bottomley bitmap_*_region patch added about 1000 bytes of compiled kernel text
(ia64). The Mundt multiword extension added another 600 bytes, and this
restructuring patch gets back about 100 bytes.
But the real motivation was the reduced amount of duplicated code.
Tested by Paul Mundt using <= BITS_PER_LONG as well as power of
2 aligned multiword spanning allocations.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Mundt [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:45 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] bitmap: region multiword spanning support
Add support to the lib/bitmap.c bitmap_*_region() routines
For bitmap regions larger than one word (nbits > BITS_PER_LONG). This removes
a BUG_ON() in lib bitmap.
I have an updated store queue API for SH that is currently using this with
relative success, and at first glance, it seems like this could be useful for
x86 (arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c) as well. Particularly for anything using
dma_declare_coherent_memory() on large areas and that attempts to allocate
large buffers from that space.
Paul Jackson also did some cleanup to this patch.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:44 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] bitmap: region cleanup
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> says:
This patch set implements a number of patches to clean up and restructure the
bitmap region code, in addition to extending the interface to support
multiword spanning allocations.
The current implementation (before this patch set) is limited by only being
able to allocate pages <= BITS_PER_LONG, as noted by the strategically
positioned BUG_ON() at lib/bitmap.c:752:
/* We don't do regions of pages > BITS_PER_LONG. The
* algorithm would be a simple look for multiple zeros in the
* array, but there's no driver today that needs this. If you
* trip this BUG(), you get to code it... */
BUG_ON(pages > BITS_PER_LONG);
As I seem to have been the first person to trigger this, the result ends up
being the following patch set with the help of Paul Jackson.
The final patch in the series eliminates quite a bit of code duplication, so
the bitmap code size ends up being smaller than the current implementation as
an added bonus.
After these are applied, it should already be possible to do multiword
allocations with dma_alloc_coherent() out of ranges established by
dma_declare_coherent_memory() on x86 without having to change any of the code,
and the SH store queue API will follow up on this as the other user that needs
support for this.
This patch:
Some code cleanup on the lib/bitmap.c bitmap_*_region() routines:
* spacing
* variable names
* comments
Has no change to code function.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:34 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove a
duplicate of ARRAY_SIZE. Some trailing whitespaces are also deleted.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Rossman [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:30 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: CEX2A crt message length
Undetected edge case for CRT messages to CEX2A caused length to be too short,
thus truncating the message. The solution was to check a different variable
which actually determines which key type is being used.
Increment version number in z90main.c to correct level of 1.3.3, fix copyright
year and add comment about bitlength limit of CEX2A.
Signed-off-by: Eric Rossman <edrossma@us.ibm.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>
Stefan Bader [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:29 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: 3590 tape driver
Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.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>
Michael Holzheu [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:28 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: fix endless retry loop in tape driver
If a tape device is assigned to another host, the interrupt for the assign
operation comes back with deferred condition code 1. Under some conditions
this can lead to an endless loop of retries. Check if the current request is
still in IO in deferred condition code handling and prevent retries when the
request has already been cancelled.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.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>
Michael Holzheu [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:27 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: tape operation abortion leads to panic
When a request is aborted because of a signal, we currently stop the request
via csh, but we do not wait for the interrupt of csh in any case. We free the
request structure and therefore when the interrupt for the csh operation is
presented, the request object is no longer valid and an invalid callback
pointer is used.
To fix this wait until the interrupt for csh arrives and until
wait_event_interruptible() does not return -ERESTARTSYS.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.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>
Stefan Bader [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:26 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: tape retry flooding by deferred CC in interrupt
If a deferred CC happens there will be lots of messages, because the retry is
done immediatly in the interrupt handler which can be too fast. To avoid this
requeue the request and schedule the queue to be processed.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.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>
Stefan Weinhuber [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:25 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: dasd extended error reporting
The DASD extended error reporting is a facility that allows to get detailed
information about certain problems in the DASD I/O. This information can be
used to implement fail-over applications that can recover these problems.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.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>
Horst Hummel [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:24 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: random values in result of BIODASDINFO2
Use kzalloc to get a zeroed buffer for the structure returned to user space by
the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl. Not all fields are set up, e.g. the read_devno is
missing.
Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.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>
dasd_cmd just implements three ioctls which are wrappers around functionality
in the core kernel or other modules. When merging those into dasd_mod they
just add 22 lines of code which is far less than the amount of code removed in
the last two patches, and which doesn't spill into another 4k pages when build
modular, while removing a 128lines module.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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>
[PATCH] s390: use normal switch statement for ioctls in dasd_ioctlc
Add an ->ioctl method to the dasd_discipline structure. This allows to apply
the same kind of cleanups the last patch applied to dasd_ioctl.c to
dasd_eckd.c (the only dasd discipline with special ioctls) aswell.
Again lots of code removed. During auditing the ioctls I found two fishy
return value propagations from copy_{from,to}_user, maintainers please check
those, I've marked them with XXX comments.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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>
[PATCH] s390: use normal switch statement for ioctls in dasd_ioctlc
Handle ioctls implemented in dasd_ioctl through the normal switch statement
that most drivers use instead of the awkward dasd_ioctl_no_register routine.
This avoids searching a linear list on every call to dasd_ioctl(), and allows
to give the various ioctl implementation functions sane prototypes, aswell as
moving the check for bdev->bd_disk->private_data from the individual functions
to dasd_ioctl. (I think it can't actually every be NULL, but let's keep that
for later)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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>
Michael Ryan [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:17 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: cpu up retries
Retry starting of new cpu if sigp restart returns condition code 2 (busy).
Signed-off-by: Michael Ryan <ryan@funsoft.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>
Cornelia Huck [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:13 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: cio documentation update
Update documentation of the common I/O layer:
- Add MSS-specific example.
- Add more information on ccwgroup devices.
- Add channel path type attribute.
- Fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.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>
Cornelia Huck [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:12 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: wrong interrupt delivered for hsch() or csch()
When cio waits for the interrupt for a basic sense, interrupts for hsch() or
csch() issued in the meantime are wrongly counted as interrupts for the basic
sense and the accumulated irb is passed to the device driver. In
ccw_device_w4sense(), check for clear or halt function in the irb and pass the
irb for the csch() or hsch() to the device driver.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.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>
Akinobu Mita [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:11 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86_64: {set,clear,test}_bit() related cleanup and pci_mmcfg_init() fix
While working on these patch set, I found several possible cleanup on x86-64
and ia64.
akpm: I stole this from Andi's queue.
Not only does it clean up bitops. It also unrelatedly changes the prototype
of pci_mmcfg_init() and removes its arch_initcall(). It seems that the wrong
two patches got joined together, but this is the one which has been tested.
This patch fixes the current x86_64 build error (the pci_mmcfg_init()
declaration in arch/i386/pci/pci.h disagrees with the definition in
arch/x86_64/pci/mmconfig.c)
This also means that x86_64's pci_mmcfg_init() gets called in the same (new)
manner as x86's: from arch/i386/pci/init.c:pci_access_init(), rather than via
initcall.
The bitops cleanups came along for free.
All this worked OK in -mm testing (since 2.6.16-rc4-mm1) because x86_64 was
tested with both patches applied.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Theodore Ts'o [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:10 +0000 (03:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] vfs: MS_VERBOSE should be MS_SILENT
The meaning of MS_VERBOSE is backwards; if the bit is set, it really means,
"don't be verbose". This is confusing and counter-intuitive.
In addition, there is also no way to set the MS_VERBOSE flag in the
mount(8) program in util-linux, but interesting, it does define options
which would do the right thing if MS_SILENT were defined, which
unfortunately we do not:
Patrick McHardy [Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:44:15 +0000 (00:44 +0100)]
[PATCH] W1: Remove incorrect MODULE_ALIAS
The w1 netlink socket is created by a hardware specific driver calling
w1_add_master_device, so there is no point in including a module alias
for netlink autoloading in the core.
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:04:33 +0000 (14:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] w1: misc cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- declarations for global code belong into header files
- w1.c: #if 0 the unused struct w1_slave_device
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6:
NTFS: 2.1.27 - Various bug fixes and cleanups.
NTFS: Semaphore to mutex conversion.
NTFS: Handle the recently introduced -ENAMETOOLONG return value from
NTFS: Add a missing call to flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in
NTFS: Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_index_inode() where we
NTFS: Improve comments on file attribute flags in fs/ntfs/layout.h.
NTFS: Limit name length in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_nlstoucs() to maximum
NTFS: Remove all the make_bad_inode() calls. This should only be called
NTFS: Add support for sparse files which have a compression unit of 0.
NTFS: Fix comparison of $MFT and $MFTMirr to not bail out when there are
NTFS: Use buffer_migrate_page() for the ->migratepage function of all ntfs
NTFS: Fix a buggette in an "should be impossible" case handling where we
NTFS: Fix an (innocent) off-by-one error in the runlist code.
NTFS: Fix two compiler warnings on Alpha. Thanks to Andrew Morton for
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:24:24 +0000 (16:24 -0800)]
Merge branch 'blktrace' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'blktrace' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
[PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23
[PATCH] relay: consolidate sendfile() and read() code
[PATCH] relay: add sendfile() support
[PATCH] relay: migrate from relayfs to a generic relay API
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