Jens Axboe [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:49:39 +0000 (14:49 +0200)]
[PATCH] CFQ io scheduler: scheduler switch oops
If cfq is managing a queue and a new scheduler is later selected, it is
possible for the cfqd unplug_work work to be queued after the kblockd
work struct has been flushed. The problem is the ordering of
cfq_shutdown_timer_wq() and blk_put_queue() in cfq_put_cfqd(). The
latter may rearm the work, leaving cfq_kick_queue() with dead data.
Jens Axboe [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:56:24 +0000 (10:56 +0200)]
[PATCH] CFQ io scheduler updates
- Adjust slice values
- Instead of one async queue, one is defined per priority level. This
prevents kernel threads (such as reiserfs/x and others) that run at
higher io priority from conflicting with others. Previously, it was a
coin toss what io prio the async queue got, it was defined by who
first set up the queue.
- Let a time slice only begin, when the previous slice is completely
done. Previously we could be somewhat unfair to a new sync slice, if
the previous slice was async and had several ios queued. This might
need a little tweaking if throughput suffers a little due to this,
allowing perhaps an overlap of a single request or so.
- Optimize the calling of kblockd_schedule_work() by doing it only when
it is strictly necessary (no requests in driver and work left to do).
- Correct sync vs async logic. A 'normal' process can be purely async as
well, and a flusher can be purely sync as well. Sync or async is now a
property of the class defined and requests pending. Previously writers
could be considered sync, when they were really async.
- Get rid of the bit fields in cfqq and crq, use flags instead.
Jens Axboe [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:55:49 +0000 (10:55 +0200)]
[PATCH] Fix cfq_find_next_crq()
In cfq_find_next_crq(), cfq tries to find the next request by choosing
one of two requests before and after the current one. Currently, when
choosing the next request, if there's no next request, the next
candidate is NULL, resulting in selection of the previous request. This
results in weird scheduling. Once we reach the end, we always seek
backward.
The correct behavior is using the first request as the next candidate.
cfq_choose_req() already has logics for handling wrapped requests.
Jens Axboe [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:55:12 +0000 (10:55 +0200)]
[PATCH] Update cfq io scheduler to time sliced design
This updates the CFQ io scheduler to the new time sliced design (cfq
v3). It provides full process fairness, while giving excellent
aggregate system throughput even for many competing processes. It
supports io priorities, either inherited from the cpu nice value or set
directly with the ioprio_get/set syscalls. The latter closely mimic
set/getpriority.
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 28 May 2005 23:17:29 +0000 (01:17 +0200)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h
when calling pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask()
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Tobias Klauser [Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:49:08 +0000 (23:49 +0200)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/sx8.c: Use the DMA_{64, 32}BIT_MASK constants
Use the DMA_{64,32}BIT_MASK constants from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask()
These patches include dma-mapping.h explicitly because it caused errors
on some architectures otherwise.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
pageexec [Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:00:19 +0000 (16:00 -0700)]
[IPVS]: Fix for overflows
From: <pageexec@freemail.hu>
$subject was fixed in 2.4 already, 2.6 needs it as well.
The impact of the bugs is a kernel stack overflow and privilege escalation
from CAP_NET_ADMIN via the IP_VS_SO_SET_STARTDAEMON/IP_VS_SO_GET_DAEMON
ioctls. People running with 'root=all caps' (i.e., most users) are not
really affected (there's nothing to escalate), but SELinux and similar
users should take it seriously if they grant CAP_NET_ADMIN to other users.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ismail Donmez [Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:32:52 +0000 (15:32 -0700)]
[PATCH] Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt: Make documentation nicer
Patch indents dmfe.txt to look like other docs. It adds a tip about CNET
cards using Davicom chipsets. Also it removes parts where it refers to how
to build driver out-of-kernel which seems to be cruft from times where the
driver was out of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@kde.org.tr> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] defxx: Use irqreturn_t for the interrupt handler
This is a fix for the interrupt handler in the defxx driver to use
irqreturn_t. Beside the obvious fix of returning a proper status at all,
it actually checks board registers as appropriate for determining if an
interrupt has been recorded in the bus-specific interface logic.
The patch also includes an obvious one-line fix for SET_NETDEV_DEV needed
for the EISA variation, for which I've decided there is no point in sending
separately.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:32:59 +0000 (15:32 -0700)]
[PATCH] dmfe warning fix
drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c: In function `dmfe_parse_srom':
drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c:1805: warning: passing arg 1 of `__le16_to_cpup' from incompatible pointer type
drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c:1817: warning: passing arg 1 of `__le32_to_cpup' from incompatible pointer type
drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c:1817: warning: passing arg 1 of `__le32_to_cpup' from incompatible pointer type
This is basically a guess:
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2) netlink_autobind() needs to propagate the error return from
netlink_insert(). Otherwise, callers will not see the error
as they should and thus try to operate on a socket with a zero pid,
which is very bad.
However, it should not propagate -EBUSY. If two threads race
to autobind the socket, that is fine. This is consistent with the
autobind behavior in other protocols.
So bug #1 above, combined with this one, resulted in hangs
on netlink_sendmsg() calls to the rtnetlink socket. We'd try
to do the user sendmsg() with the socket's pid set to zero,
later we do a socket lookup using that pid (via the value we
stashed away in NETLINK_CB(skb).pid), but that won't give us the
user socket, it will give us the rtnetlink socket. So when we
try to wake up the receive queue, we dive back into rtnetlink_rcv()
which tries to recursively take the rtnetlink semaphore.
Thanks to Jakub Jelink for providing backtraces. Also, thanks to
Herbert Xu for supplying debugging patches to help track this down,
and also finding a mistake in an earlier version of this fix.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andreas Mohr [Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:47:43 +0000 (16:47 -0700)]
[PATCH] pcnet_cs.c: IRQ handler optimization
During some performance diagnostics I stumbled on this slightly wasteful
code in pcnet_cs.c which I made the patch included at the bottom for (two
minor comment fixes included).
Improvement:
instead of *always* calculating
lea 0x2c0(%edx),%ebx
and then additionally doing the
mov %edx,0xc0(%ebx)
addition *if we need it*,
we now do the *whole* calculation of
mov %edx,0x380(%ebx)
*only* if we need it.
This even manages to save us a whole 16-byte alignment buffer loss
in this compilation case.
Result: slightly improves IRQ handler performance in both shared and
non-shared IRQ case, which should make my rusty P3/700 a slight bit happier.
Magnus Damm [Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:05:50 +0000 (20:05 +0200)]
[PATCH] arlan: module parameter fixes
Make sure the code compiles with and without ARLAN_ENTRY_EXIT_DEBUGGING.
Only provide parameter descriptions when parameters are defined.
Remove "arlan_"-prefix to shape up built-in parameter names:
[PATCH] net/sis900: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() instead of custom
macros.
This patch includes dma-mapping.h explicitly because it caused errors
on some architectures otherwise.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
The spin loop in 8139cp is limited to 100 iterations when pulling hardware
stats. There is no allowance for processor speed so on a fast machine, the
stats may not be available that fast. Also, if the board doesn't return
soon enough make sure turn the address back off to prevent later updates
when memory has gone away.
Jay Vosburgh [Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:54:11 +0000 (17:54 -0400)]
bonding: xor/802.3ad improved slave hash
Add support for alternate slave selection algorithms to bonding
balance-xor and 802.3ad modes. Default mode (what we have now: xor of
MAC addresses) is "layer2", new choice is "layer3+4", using IP and port
information for hashing to select peer.
Originally submitted by Jason Gabler for balance-xor mode;
modified by Jay Vosburgh to additionally support 802.3ad mode. Jason's
original comment is as follows:
The attached patch to the Linux Etherchannel Bonding driver modifies the
driver's "balance-xor" mode as follows:
- alternate hashing policy support for mode 2
* Added kernel parameter "xmit_policy" to allow the specification
of different hashing policies for mode 2. The original mode 2
policy is the default, now found in xmit_hash_policy_layer2().
* Added xmit_hash_policy_layer34()
This patch was inspired by hashing policies implemented by Cisco,
Foundry and IBM, which are explained in
Foundry documentation found at:
http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/sribcg/Trunking.html#112750
Signed-off-by: Jason Gabler <jygabler@lbl.gov> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
[PATCH] ARM: 2757/1: remove ixdp2400_init_irq from ixdp2800 code
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
Compiling one kernel that supports both ixdp2400 and ixdp2800 gives
an error, as a copy of the ixdp2400 irq init routing accidentally
ended up in ixdp2800.c somehow.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Add a mapping for the ixp2400 and ixp2800 msf unit. The msf is the
ixp2000's 'media and switch fabric' unit, which handles the networking
part of the chip.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
All ixdp platforms currently have a cpld mapped in at 0xfafff000.
Since this address is not 1M-aligned, a regular page mapping will be
used instead of a section mapping, which opens up the possibility of
triggering ixp2400 erratum #66 as we only do the XCB=101 workaround
thing for section mappings.
There is still a lot of space higher up in the virtual memory map
for 1M mappings, so move the cpld mapping to 0xfe000000 and make it
1M big so that a section mapping will be used for it.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Adrian Bunk [Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:27:22 +0000 (03:27 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove redundant info from SubmittingPatches
Since the Trivial Patch Monkey is mentioned both in steps 4. and 5., I
removed it from step4 (Select e-mail destination), since it should go under
'Select your CC list'.
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:
frozen(process) Check for frozen process
freezing(process) Check if a process is being frozen
freeze(process) Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
thaw_process(process) Restart process
frozen_process(process) Process is frozen now
2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
kernel sources except sched.h
3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver
4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.
5. Some whitespace cleanup
6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
PF_FROZEN).
This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:36 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] list_for_each_entry: fs-dquot.c
Make code more readable with list_for_each_entry_safe.
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Maximilian Attems <janitor@sternwelten.at> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] serial/68328serial: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() in send_break() to
guarantee the task delays as expected. Change @duration's units to
milliseconds, and modify arguments in callers appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] serial/68360serial: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() in send_break() to
guarantee the task delays as expected. Change @duration's units to
milliseconds, and modify arguments in callers appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:30 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove duplicate file in Documentation/networking
The files wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain
the exact same information (diff between the two shows no document is "Linux
WAN Router Utilities Package" and therefor the name wan-router.txt is more
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:29 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove duplicate file in Documentation/networking (00-INDEX)
wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain the exact
same information (diff between the two shows no
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX as pointed out by Randy Dunlap.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:27 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/cmpci: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:27 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/es1370: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:26 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/es1371: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:25 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/esssolo1: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
J.A. Magallon [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:22 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Kill signed chars
scripts/ is full of mismatches between char* params an signed char* arguments,
and viceversa. gcc4 now complaints loud about this. Patch below deletes all
those 'signed'.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:18 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/hisax/: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove the compiled but unused st5481_hdlc.{c,h}
- kill enternow.h
- enternow_pci.c: kill InByte/OutByte/BYTE
- isdnl2.c: kill FreeSkb
- remove or #if 0 the following unused functions:
- config.c: IsdnCardState
- ipacx.c: ipacx_new_ph
- ipacx.c: dch_bh
- ipacx.c: setup_ipacx
- isdnl2.c: IsRR
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Kai Germaschewski <kai@germaschewski.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:16 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/ip2*: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- i2cmd.c: #if 0 the unused function i2cmdUnixFlags
- i2cmd.c: make the needlessly global funciton i2cmdBaudDef static
- ip2main.c: remove dead code that wasn't reachable due to an #ifdef
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:15 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] kfree cleanups for drivers/firmware/
Here's a patch with kfree() cleanups for drivers/firmware/efivars.c Patch
removes redundant NULL checks before kfree and also makes a small
whitespace cleanup - moves two statements on same line to separate lines.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:11 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] change the SOUND_PRIME handling
SOUND_PRIME (for OSS) is a tristate.
This doesn't make much sense if most users are checking for
SOUND_PRIME!=0.
This patch changes the semantics of SOUND_PRIME to being a limit for all
OSS modules, IOW: SOUND_PRIME=m does now say that all OSS drivers can
only be modular.
As a side effect, since SOUND_PRIME already depends on SOUND, there's no
longer a reason for drivers depending on SOUND_PRIME to additionally
depend on SOUND.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:10 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove the following unused global functions:
- blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn
- __blk_attempt_remerge
- remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
- blk_phys_contig_segment
- blk_hw_contig_segment
- blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn
- __blk_attempt_remerge
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:06 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] fs/jffs/: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global functions static
- provide some debugging helper functions only for appropriate
values of CONFIG_JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:04 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/nvram.c: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make the needlessly global function __nvram_set_checksum static
- #if 0 the unused global function nvram_set_checksum
- remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL's for both functions
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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