SLUB: direct pass through of page size or higher kmalloc requests
This gets rid of all kmalloc caches larger than page size. A kmalloc
request larger than PAGE_SIZE > 2 is going to be passed through to the page
allocator. This works both inline where we will call __get_free_pages
instead of kmem_cache_alloc and in __kmalloc.
kfree is modified to check if the object is in a slab page. If not then
the page is freed via the page allocator instead. Roughly similar to what
SLOB does.
Advantages:
- Reduces memory overhead for kmalloc array
- Large kmalloc operations are faster since they do not
need to pass through the slab allocator to get to the
page allocator.
- Performance increase of 10%-20% on alloc and 50% on free for
PAGE_SIZEd allocations.
SLUB must call page allocator for each alloc anyways since
the higher order pages which that allowed avoiding the page alloc calls
are not available in a reliable way anymore. So we are basically removing
useless slab allocator overhead.
- Large kmallocs yields page aligned object which is what
SLAB did. Bad things like using page sized kmalloc allocations to
stand in for page allocate allocs can be transparently handled and are not
distinguishable from page allocator uses.
- Checking for too large objects can be removed since
it is done by the page allocator.
Drawbacks:
- No accounting for large kmalloc slab allocations anymore
- No debugging of large kmalloc slab allocations.
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>
Fengguang Wu [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:36 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
readahead: remove the limit max_sectors_kb imposed on max_readahead_kb
Remove the size limit max_sectors_kb imposed on max_readahead_kb.
The size restriction is unreasonable. Especially when max_sectors_kb cannot
grow larger than max_hw_sectors_kb, which can be rather small for some disk
drives.
Fengguang Wu [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:35 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
readahead: remove the local copy of ra in do_generic_mapping_read()
The local copy of ra in do_generic_mapping_read() can now go away.
It predates readanead(req_size). In a time when the readahead code was called
on *every* single page. Hence a local has to be made to reduce the chance of
the readahead state being overwritten by a concurrent reader. More details
in: Linux: Random File I/O Regressions In 2.6
<http://kerneltrap.org/node/3039>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fengguang Wu [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:34 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
readahead: basic support of interleaved reads
This is a simplified version of the pagecache context based readahead. It
handles the case of multiple threads reading on the same fd and invalidating
each others' readahead state. It does the trick by scanning the pagecache and
recovering the current read stream's readahead status.
The algorithm works in a opportunistic way, in that it does not try to detect
interleaved reads _actively_, which requires a probe into the page cache
(which means a little more overhead for random reads). It only tries to
handle a previously started sequential readahead whose state was overwritten
by another concurrent stream, and it can do this job pretty well.
Negative and positive examples(or what you can expect from it):
2) However, if it's two concurrent reads by two threads, the chance of the
initial sequential readahead be started is huge. Once the first sequential
readahead is started for a stream, this patch will ensure that the readahead
window continues to rampup and won't be disturbed by other streams.
Here stream 1 will start a readahead at page 2, and stream 2 will start its
first readahead at page 1003. From then on the two streams will be served
right.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Will Schmidt [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:18 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group
We have had complaints where a threaded application is left in a bad state
after one of it's threads is killed when we hit a VM: out_of_memory
condition.
Killing just one of the process threads can leave the application in a bad
state, whereas killing the entire process group would allow for the
application to restart, or be otherwise handled, and makes it very obvious
that something has gone wrong.
This change allows the entire process group to be taken down, rather
than just the one thread.
Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andy Whitcroft [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:17 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
ppc64: SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP support
Enable virtual memmap support for SPARSEMEM on PPC64 systems. Slice a 16th
off the end of the linear mapping space and use that to hold the vmemmap.
Uses the same size mapping as uses in the linear 1:1 kernel mapping.
[pbadari@gmail.com: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Equip IA64 sparsemem with a virtual memmap. This is similar to the existing
CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP functionality for DISCONTIGMEM. It uses a PAGE_SIZE
mapping.
This is provided as a minimally intrusive solution. We split the 128TB
VMALLOC area into two 64TB areas and use one for the virtual memmap.
This should replace CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP long term.
[apw@shadowen.org: convert to new helper based initialisation] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
x86_64 uses 2M page table entries to map its 1-1 kernel space. We also
implement the virtual memmap using 2M page table entries. So there is no
additional runtime overhead over FLATMEM, initialisation is slightly more
complex. As FLATMEM still references memory to obtain the mem_map pointer and
SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a compile time constant, SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP should be
superior.
With this SPARSEMEM becomes the most efficient way of handling virt_to_page,
pfn_to_page and friends for UP, SMP and NUMA on x86_64.
[apw@shadowen.org: code resplit, style fixups]
[apw@shadowen.org: vmemmap x86_64: ensure end of section memmap is initialised] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andy Whitcroft [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:14 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
vmemmap: generify initialisation via helpers
Convert the common vmemmap population into initialisation helpers for use by
architecture vmemmap populators. All architecture implementing the
SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP variant supply an architecture specific vmemmap_populate()
initialiser, which may make use of the helpers.
This allows us to clean up and remove the initialisation Kconfig entries.
With this patch there is a single SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE Kconfig option to
indicate use of that variant.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
SPARSEMEM is a pretty nice framework that unifies quite a bit of code over all
the arches. It would be great if it could be the default so that we can get
rid of various forms of DISCONTIG and other variations on memory maps. So far
what has hindered this are the additional lookups that SPARSEMEM introduces
for virt_to_page and page_address. This goes so far that the code to do this
has to be kept in a separate function and cannot be used inline.
This patch introduces a virtual memmap mode for SPARSEMEM, in which the memmap
is mapped into a virtually contigious area, only the active sections are
physically backed. This allows virt_to_page page_address and cohorts become
simple shift/add operations. No page flag fields, no table lookups, nothing
involving memory is required.
The two key operations pfn_to_page and page_to_page become:
By having a virtual mapping for the memmap we allow simple access without
wasting physical memory. As kernel memory is typically already mapped 1:1
this introduces no additional overhead. The virtual mapping must be big
enough to allow a struct page to be allocated and mapped for all valid
physical pages. This vill make a virtual memmap difficult to use on 32 bit
platforms that support 36 address bits.
However, if there is enough virtual space available and the arch already maps
its 1-1 kernel space using TLBs (f.e. true of IA64 and x86_64) then this
technique makes SPARSEMEM lookups even more efficient than CONFIG_FLATMEM.
FLATMEM needs to read the contents of the mem_map variable to get the start of
the memmap and then add the offset to the required entry. vmemmap is a
constant to which we can simply add the offset.
This patch has the potential to allow us to make SPARSMEM the default (and
even the only) option for most systems. It should be optimal on UP, SMP and
NUMA on most platforms. Then we may even be able to remove the other memory
models: FLATMEM, DISCONTIG etc.
[apw@shadowen.org: config cleanups, resplit code etc]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Fix sparsemem_vmemmap init]
[apw@shadowen.org: vmemmap: remove excess debugging]
[apw@shadowen.org: simplify initialisation code and reduce duplication]
[apw@shadowen.org: pull out the vmemmap code into its own file] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andy Whitcroft [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:11 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
sparsemem: record when a section has a valid mem_map
We have flags to indicate whether a section actually has a valid mem_map
associated with it. This is never set and we rely solely on the present bit
to indicate a section is valid. By definition a section is not valid if it
has no mem_map and there is a window during init where the present bit is set
but there is no mem_map, during which pfn_valid() will return true
incorrectly.
Use the existing SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP flag to indicate the presence of a valid
mem_map. Switch valid_section{,_nr} and pfn_valid() to this bit. Add a new
present_section{,_nr} and pfn_present() interfaces for those users who care to
know that a section is going to be valid.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes] Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andy Whitcroft [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:10 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
sparsemem: clean up spelling error in comments
SPARSEMEM is a pretty nice framework that unifies quite a bit of code over all
the arches. It would be great if it could be the default so that we can get
rid of various forms of DISCONTIG and other variations on memory maps. So far
what has hindered this are the additional lookups that SPARSEMEM introduces
for virt_to_page and page_address. This goes so far that the code to do this
has to be kept in a separate function and cannot be used inline.
This patch introduces a virtual memmap mode for SPARSEMEM, in which the memmap
is mapped into a virtually contigious area, only the active sections are
physically backed. This allows virt_to_page page_address and cohorts become
simple shift/add operations. No page flag fields, no table lookups, nothing
involving memory is required.
The two key operations pfn_to_page and page_to_page become:
By having a virtual mapping for the memmap we allow simple access without
wasting physical memory. As kernel memory is typically already mapped 1:1
this introduces no additional overhead. The virtual mapping must be big
enough to allow a struct page to be allocated and mapped for all valid
physical pages. This vill make a virtual memmap difficult to use on 32 bit
platforms that support 36 address bits.
However, if there is enough virtual space available and the arch already maps
its 1-1 kernel space using TLBs (f.e. true of IA64 and x86_64) then this
technique makes SPARSEMEM lookups even more efficient than CONFIG_FLATMEM.
FLATMEM needs to read the contents of the mem_map variable to get the start of
the memmap and then add the offset to the required entry. vmemmap is a
constant to which we can simply add the offset.
This patch has the potential to allow us to make SPARSMEM the default (and
even the only) option for most systems. It should be optimal on UP, SMP and
NUMA on most platforms. Then we may even be able to remove the other memory
models: FLATMEM, DISCONTIG etc.
The current aim is to bring a common virtually mapped mem_map to all
architectures. This should facilitate the removal of the bespoke
implementations from the architectures. This also brings performance
improvements for most architecture making sparsmem vmemmap the more desirable
memory model. The ultimate aim of this work is to expand sparsemem support to
encompass all the features of the other memory models. This could allow us to
drop support for and remove the other models in the longer term.
Below are some comparitive kernbench numbers for various architectures,
comparing default memory model against SPARSEMEM VMEMMAP. All but ia64 show
marginal improvement; we expect the ia64 figures to be sorted out when the
larger mapping support returns.
x86-64 non-NUMA
Base VMEMAP % change (-ve good)
User 85.07 84.84 -0.26
System 34.32 33.84 -1.39
Total 119.38 118.68 -0.59
ia64
Base VMEMAP % change (-ve good)
User 1016.41 1016.93 0.05
System 50.83 51.02 0.36
Total 1067.25 1067.95 0.07
x86-64 NUMA
Base VMEMAP % change (-ve good)
User 30.77 431.73 0.22
System 45.39 43.98 -3.11
Total 476.17 475.71 -0.10
ppc64
Base VMEMAP % change (-ve good)
User 488.77 488.35 -0.09
System 56.92 56.37 -0.97
Total 545.69 544.72 -0.18
Below are some AIM bencharks on IA64 and x86-64 (thank Bob). The seems
pretty much flat as you would expect.
ia64 results 2 cpu non-numa 4Gb SCSI disk
Benchmark Version Machine Run Date
AIM Multiuser Benchmark - Suite VII "1.1" extreme Jun 1 07:17:24 2007
x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft
x86(-64) are the last architectures still using the page fault notifier
cruft for the kprobes page fault hook. This patch converts them to the
proper direct calls, and removes the now unused pagefault notifier bits
aswell as the cruft in kprobes.c that was related to this mess.
I know Andi didn't really like this, but all other architecture maintainers
agreed the direct calls are much better and besides the obvious cruft
removal a common way of dealing with kprobes across architectures is
important aswell.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Travis [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:05 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpu variable
Convert cpu_sibling_map from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a per_cpu
variable. This saves sizeof(cpumask_t) * NR unused cpus. Access is mostly
from startup and CPU HOTPLUG functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Travis [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:04 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
x86: Convert cpu_core_map to be a per cpu variable
This is from an earlier message from 'Christoph Lameter':
cpu_core_map is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS. This means that
we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpu.
If we put the cpu_core_map into the per cpu area then it will be allocated
for each processor as it comes online.
This means that the core map cannot be accessed until the per cpu area
has been allocated. Xen does a weird thing here looping over all processors
and zeroing the masks that are not yet allocated and that will be zeroed
when they are allocated. I commented the code out.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Following suggestions from Alan and Russell moved the may_wake_up checks
to serial_core.c. This time actually tested - it does even work. Could
someone, please, verify, that put_device after device_find_child is
correct?
Also would be nice to test with a Natsemi UART, that can wake up the system,
if such systems exist.
For this you just have to apply the patch below, issue the above "echo"
command to one of your Natsemi port, suspend and resume your system, and
verify that your Natsemi port still works. If you are actually capable of
waking up the system from that port, would be nice to test that as well.
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alan Cox [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:00 +0000 (01:24 -0700)]
8250_pci: Autodetect mainpine cards
Add support for a whole range of boards. Some are partly autodetected but
not fully correctly others (PCI Express notably) not at all. Stick all
the right entries in.
Thanks to Mainpine for information and testing.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
James Bottomley [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:23:55 +0000 (01:23 -0700)]
introduce DMA_MASK_NONE as a signal for unable to do DMA
Some devices are incapable of DMA and need to be recognised as such.
Introduce a NONE dma mask to facilitate this plus an inline function:
is_device_dma_capable() to check this.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Milan Plzik [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:23:49 +0000 (01:23 -0700)]
pxa2xx PCMCIA timing issue on iPAQ H5550
Recently I've been trying to get working PCMCIA interface on H5000 ipaq
series, using dual PCMCIA sleeve. So far things work correctly, but I had
to do one modification to drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_base.c to get the interface
working with orinoco gold PCMCIA card (wired pcnet_cs ethernet card worked
even without this modification).
The issue has something to do with assert time on PCMCIA bus, but I'm not
really sure what -- I found the working value just by trial&error approach.
I'm not sure how is the assert value in pxa2xx_mcxx_asst calculated (I
know, simple formula, but the reason why is it calculated that way is not
obvious for me), neither that my modification is correct. It just works
with iPAQ.
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ralf Baechle [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:23:47 +0000 (01:23 -0700)]
Add assembler equivalents to __init{,date}_refok
I need __INIT_REFOK to fix a MODPOST warning for a few MIPS configs which
have to call init code from .text very early in the game due to bootloader
issues. __INITDATA_REFOK is just for consistency.
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:23:46 +0000 (01:23 -0700)]
slow down printk during boot
Optionally add a boot delay after each kernel printk() call, crudely
measured in milliseconds, with a maximum delay of 10 seconds per printk.
Enable CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY=y and then add (e.g.):
"lpj=loops_per_jiffy boot_delay=100"
to the kernel command line.
It has been useful in cases like "during boot, my machine just reboots or the
screen goes black" by slowing down printk, (and adding initcall_debug), we can
usually see the last thing that happened before the lights went out which is
usually a valuable clue.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: not all architectures implement CONFIG_HZ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix lots of stuff]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/printk.c: make 2 variables static]
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: fix slow down printk on boot compile error] Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:30:19 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
docbook: fix filesystems content
Fix filesystems docbook warnings.
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'name'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'mode'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'parent'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'value'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//include/linux/jbd.h:404): No description found for parameter 'h_lockdep_map'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:30:02 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
docbook: fix usb content
Fix USB docbook warnings.
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//include/linux/usb/gadget.h:487): No description found for parameter 'g'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//include/linux/usb/gadget.h:506): No description found for parameter 'g'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//drivers/usb/core/hub.c:1416): No description found for parameter 'usb_dev'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:08:50 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (95 commits)
[ARM] 4578/1: CM-x270: PCMCIA support
[ARM] 4577/1: ITE 8152 PCI bridge support
[ARM] 4576/1: CM-X270 machine support
[ARM] pxa: Avoid pxa_gpio_mode() in gpio_direction_{in,out}put()
[ARM] pxa: move pxa_set_mode() from pxa2xx_mainstone.c to mainstone.c
[ARM] pxa: move pxa_set_mode() from pxa2xx_lubbock.c to lubbock.c
[ARM] pxa: Make cpu_is_pxaXXX dependent on configuration symbols
[ARM] pxa: PXA3xx base support
[NET] smc91x: fix PXA DMA support code
[SERIAL] Fix console initialisation ordering
[ARM] pxa: tidy up arch/arm/mach-pxa/Makefile
[ARM] Update arch/arm/Kconfig for drivers/Kconfig changes
[ARM] 4600/1: fix kernel build failure with build-id-supporting binutils
[ARM] 4599/1: Preserve ATAG list for use with kexec (2.6.23)
[ARM] Rename consistent_sync() as dma_cache_maint()
[ARM] 4572/1: ep93xx: add cirrus logic edb9307 support
[ARM] 4596/1: S3C2412: Correct IRQs for SDI+CF and add decoding support
[ARM] 4595/1: ns9xxx: define registers as void __iomem * instead of volatile u32
[ARM] 4594/1: ns9xxx: use the new gpio functions
[ARM] 4593/1: ns9xxx: implement generic clockevents
...
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:07:40 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
Merge branch 'locks' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'locks' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
nfsd: remove IS_ISMNDLCK macro
Rework /proc/locks via seq_files and seq_list helpers
fs/locks.c: use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each()
NFS: clean up explicit check for mandatory locks
AFS: clean up explicit check for mandatory locks
9PFS: clean up explicit check for mandatory locks
GFS2: clean up explicit check for mandatory locks
Cleanup macros for distinguishing mandatory locks
Documentation: move locks.txt in filesystems/
locks: add warning about mandatory locking races
Documentation: move mandatory locking documentation to filesystems/
locks: Fix potential OOPS in generic_setlease()
Use list_first_entry in locks_wake_up_blocks
locks: fix flock_lock_file() comment
Memory shortage can result in inconsistent flocks state
locks: kill redundant local variable
locks: reverse order of posix_locks_conflict() arguments
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:06:58 +0000 (14:06 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (42 commits)
[IPV6]: Consolidate the ip6_pol_route_(input|output) pair
[TCP]: Make snd_cwnd_cnt 32-bit
[TCP]: Update the /proc/net/tcp documentation
[NETNS]: Don't panic on creating the namespace's loopback
[NEIGH]: Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNL
[INET]: kmalloc+memset -> kzalloc in frag_alloc_queue
[ISDN]: Fix compile with CONFIG_ISDN_X25 disabled.
[IPV6]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff * in input handlers
[SELINUX]: Update for netfilter ->hook() arg changes.
[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_put
[INET]: Small cleanup for xxx_put after evictor consolidation
[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_evictor
[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_frag_destroy
[INET]: Consolidate xxx_the secret_rebuild
[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_frag_kill
[INET]: Collect common frag sysctl variables together
[INET]: Collect frag queues management objects together
[INET]: Move common fields from frag_queues in one place.
[TG3]: Fix performance regression on 5705.
[ISDN]: Remove local copy of device name to make sure renames work.
...
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:41:39 +0000 (13:41 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (40 commits)
Input: use full RCU API
Input: remove tsdev interface
Input: add support for Blackfin BF54x Keypad controller
Input: appletouch - another fix for idle reset logic
HWMON: hdaps - switch to using input-polldev
Input: add support for SEGA Dreamcast keyboard
Input: omap-keyboard - don't pretend we support changing keymap
Input: lifebook - fix X and Y axis range
Input: usbtouchscreen - add support for GeneralTouch devices
Input: fix open count handling in input interfaces
Input: keyboard - add CapsShift lock
Input: adbhid - produce all CapsLock key events
Input: ALPS - add signature for ThinkPad R61
Input: jornada720_kbd - send MSC_SCAN events
Input: add support for the HP Jornada 7xx (710/720/728) touchscreen
Input: add support for HP Jornada 7xx onboard keyboard
Input: add support for HP Jornada onboard keyboard (HP6XX)
Input: ucb1400_ts - use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible
Input: xpad - fix dependancy on LEDS class
Input: auto-select INPUT for MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN option
...
Resolved conflicts manually in drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c: converting from
a class device to a device and converting to use input-polldev created a
few apparently trivial clashes..
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:31:14 +0000 (13:31 -0700)]
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
[libata] pata_pcmcia: Add additional id string (corsair, 1GB)
libata: prevent devices with blank model names from being DMA blacklisted
ata_piix: SATA 2port controller port map fix
pata_cs5536: ATA driver for Geode companion chip
libata: add ST9160821AS / 3.CCD to NCQ blacklist
libata: fix revalidation issuing after configuration commands
[libata] sata_nv: add SW NCQ support for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61
[libata] pata_sil680: Add MMIO support
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:30:35 +0000 (13:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (35 commits)
xen-netfront: rearrange netfront structure to separate tx and rx
netdev: convert non-obvious instances to use ARRAY_SIZE()
ucc_geth: Fix build break introduced by commit 09f75cd7bf13720738e6a196cc0107ce9a5bd5a0
gianfar: Fix regression caused by new napi interface
gianfar: Cleanup compile warning caused by 0795af57
gianfar: Fix compile regression caused by bea3348e
add new prom.h for AU1x00
update AU1000 get_ethernet_addr()
MIPSsim: General cleanup
Jazzsonic: Fix warning about unused variable.
Remove msic_dcr_read() in axon_msi.c
Use dcr_host_t.base in dcr_unmap()
Add dcr_host_t.base in dcr_read()/dcr_write()
Use dcr_host_t.base in ibm_emac_mal
Update ibm_newemac to use dcr_host_t.base
tehuti: possible leak in bdx_probe
TC35815: Fix build
SAA9730: Fix build
AR7 ethernet
myri10ge: update driver version to 1.3.2-1.287
...
xen-netfront: rearrange netfront structure to separate tx and rx
Keep tx and rx elements separate on different cachelines to prevent
bouncing.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Atari keyboard: incorporate additional review comments:
o Kill reference to source file name
o Return error value from input_register_device() instead of -ENOMEM
Ilpo Järvinen [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:59:43 +0000 (12:59 -0700)]
[TCP]: Make snd_cwnd_cnt 32-bit
Very little point of having 32-bit snd_cnwd if this is not
32-bit as well, as a number of snd_cwnd incrementation formulas
assume that snd_cwnd_cnt can be at least as large as snd_cwnd.
Whether 32-bit is useful was discussed when e0ef57cc56c3c96
was made:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=117218144409825&w=2
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:55:33 +0000 (12:55 -0700)]
[NETNS]: Don't panic on creating the namespace's loopback
When the loopback device is failed to initialize inside the new
namespaces, panic() is called. Do not do it when the namespace
in question is not the init_net.
Plus cleanup the error path a bit.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:55:20 +0000 (12:55 -0700)]
Reinstate lost flush_ioremap_region() fix to pxa2xx-flash driver
Commit 90833fdab89da02fc0276224167f0a42e5176f41 ("[ARM] 4554/1: replace
consistent_sync() with flush_ioremap_region()") introduced a new
"flush_ioremap_region()" function to be used by the MTD mainstone-flash
and lubbock-flash drivers to fix a regression from around 2.6.18.
Those drivers were independently merged into a single driver by Todd
Poynor in commit e644f7d6289456657996df4192de76c5d0a9f9c7 ("[MTD] MAPS:
Merge Lubbock and Mainstone drivers into common PXA2xx driver")
Later, those two commits were merged into the main MTD tree by commit b160292cc216a50fd0cd386b0bda2cd48352c73b ("Merge Linux 2.6.23") by David
Woodhouse, but in that merge, the fix to use flush_iomap_region() got
lost (as it was to files that now no longer existed).
This reinstates the fix in the new driver.
Noticed-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Tested-and-acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:54:15 +0000 (12:54 -0700)]
[NEIGH]: Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNL
The pnigh_lookup is used to lookup proxy entries and to
create them in case lookup failed.
However, the "creation" code does not perform the re-lookup
after GFP_KERNEL allocation. This is done because the code
is expected to be protected with the RTNL lock, so add the
assertion (mainly to address future questions from new network
developers like me :) ).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Denis V. Lunev [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:52:20 +0000 (12:52 -0700)]
[ISDN]: Fix compile with CONFIG_ISDN_X25 disabled.
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:44:56PM +0400, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
Compilation fix. The problem appears after 7c076d1de869256848dacb8de0050a3a390f95df by Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:50:28 +0000 (12:50 -0700)]
[IPV6]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff * in input handlers
With all the users of the double pointers removed from the IPv6 input path,
this patch converts all occurances of sk_buff ** to sk_buff * in IPv6 input
handlers.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:46:16 +0000 (12:46 -0700)]
scsi/gdth: fix crash in gdth_timeout if no gdth controllers found
If the gdth module is loaded (or compiled in), the gdth_timeout function
gets started even if no actual gdth controllers are found b the probing.
That ends up not only being unnecessary, but also causes a crash due to
the function blindly just trying to pick the first entry off the
"gdth_instances" list, and accessing it - which obviously doesn't work
if the list is empty!
Andrew Paprocki [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:43:12 +0000 (15:43 -0400)]
libata: prevent devices with blank model names from being DMA blacklisted
The strn_pattern_cmp routine does not handle a blank name parameter
properly. The only patterns which should match a blank name are "*"
and an explicit "". If the function is passed a blank name in current
code, it will always match against the patt parameter. The bug manifests
itself as the device with the empty model name always matching the first
device in the DMA blacklist, forcing it to revert to PIO mode.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Paprocki <andrew@ishiboo.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
This is a driver for the ATA controller on the Geode CS5536 companion
chip. The PCI device ID for this device was previously claimed by
pata_amd.c but the PIO timings were not correct. This driver also
works around a bug in some BIOSes that handle unaligned access to the
PCI config registers poorly. Finally, the driver allows fallback to
using MSR registers for configuration on BIOSes that are truly
broken.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:41:09 +0000 (02:41 -0700)]
[INET]: Small cleanup for xxx_put after evictor consolidation
After the evictor code is consolidated there is no need in
passing the extra pointer to the xxx_put() functions.
The only place when it made sense was the evictor code itself.
Maybe this change must got with the previous (or with the
next) patch, but I try to make them shorter as much as
possible to simplify the review (but they are still large
anyway), so this change goes in a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:39:14 +0000 (02:39 -0700)]
[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_frag_destroy
To make in possible we need to know the exact frag queue
size for inet_frags->mem management and two callbacks:
* to destoy the skb (optional, used in conntracks only)
* to free the queue itself (mandatory, but later I plan to
move the allocation and the destruction of frag_queues
into the common place, so this callback will most likely
be optional too).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:33:45 +0000 (02:33 -0700)]
[INET]: Collect common frag sysctl variables together
Some sysctl variables are used to tune the frag queues
management and it will be useful to work with them in
a common way in the future, so move them into one
structure, moreover they are the same for all the frag
management codes.
I don't place them in the existing inet_frags object,
introduced in the previous patch for two reasons:
1. to keep them in the __read_mostly section;
2. not to export the whole inet_frags objects outside.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:31:52 +0000 (02:31 -0700)]
[INET]: Collect frag queues management objects together
There are some objects that are common in all the places
which are used to keep track of frag queues, they are:
* hash table
* LRU list
* rw lock
* rnd number for hash function
* the number of queues
* the amount of memory occupied by queues
* secret timer
Move all this stuff into one structure (struct inet_frags)
to make it possible use them uniformly in the future. Like
with the previous patch this mostly consists of hunks like
To address the issue with exporting the number of queues and
the amount of memory occupied by queues outside the .c file
they are declared in, I introduce a couple of helpers.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In making that change, the PCI latency timer and cache line size
registers were not restored after chip reset. On the 5705, the
latency timer gets reset to 0 during chip reset and this causes
very poor performance.
Update version to 3.84.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patrick McHardy [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:48:39 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
[IPV4]: Uninline netfilter okfns
Now that we don't pass double skb pointers to nf_hook_slow anymore, gcc
can generate tail calls for some of the netfilter hook okfn invocations,
so there is no need to inline the functions anymore. This caused huge
code bloat since we ended up with one inlined version and one out-of-line
version since we pass the address to nf_hook_slow.
After:
text data bss dec hex filename 89940091016524 524652 10535185 a0c111 vmlinux
-------------------------------------------------------
-3376
All cases have been verified to generate tail-calls with and without
netfilter. The okfns in ipmr and xfrm4_input still remain inline because
gcc can't generate tail-calls for them.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:47:15 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
[NET]: Avoid copying TCP packets unnecessarily
TCP packets all have writable heads, that is, even though it's cloned, it is
writable up to the end of the TCP header. This patch makes skb_checksum_help
aware of this fact by using skb_clone_writable and avoiding a copy for TCP.
I've also modified the BUG_ON tests to be unsigned. The only case where this
makes a difference is if csum_start points to a location before skb->data.
Since skb->data should always include the header where the checksum field
is (and all currently callers adhere to that), this change is safe and may
uncover bugs later.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:46:08 +0000 (01:46 -0700)]
[NET]: Fix csum_start update in pskb_expand_head
I got confused by the dual nature of the off variable in the
function pskb_expand_head. The csum_start offset should use
nhead instead of off which can change depending on whether we
are using offsets or pointers.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jesper Juhl [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:39:12 +0000 (01:39 -0700)]
[NETLINK]: Don't leak 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create()
The Coverity checker spotted that we'll leak the storage allocated
to 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create() when the
if (!nl_table[unit].registered)
check is false.
This patch avoids the leak.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The Coverity checker spotted that we have already oops'ed if "dst" was
NULL.
Since "dst" being NULL doesn't seem to be possible at this point this
patch removes the NULL check.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org> Acked-by: Noriaki TAKAMIYA <takamiya@po.ntts.co.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:28:47 +0000 (01:28 -0700)]
[IPV6]: Make ipv6_frag_rcv return the same packet
This patch implements the same change taht was done to ip_defrag. It
makes ipv6_frag_rcv return the last packet received of a train of fragments
rather than the head of that sequence.
This allows us to get rid of the sk_buff ** argument later.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:53:15 +0000 (00:53 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *
With all the users of the double pointers removed, this patch mops up by
finally replacing all occurances of sk_buff ** in the netfilter API by
sk_buff *.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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