Dave Peterson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:38 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] EDAC: switch to kthread_ API
This patch was originally posted by Christoph Hellwig (see
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/14/331):
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> Use the kthread_ API instead of opencoding lots of hairy code for kernel
> thread creation and teardown, including tasklist_lock abuse.
>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> Cc: <dave_peterson@pobox.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:37 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - M105 USB DECT adapter
And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
This patch adds the connection-specific module "usb_gigaset", the hardware
driver for Gigaset base stations connected via the M105 USB DECT adapter. It
contains the code for handling probe/disconnect, AT command/response
transmission, and call setup and termination, as well as handling asynchronous
data transfers, PPP framing, byte stuffing, and flow control.
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:36 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - isochronous data handler
And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
This patch adds the payload data handler for the connection-specific module
"bas_gigaset". It contains the code for handling isochronous data transfers,
HDLC framing and flow control.
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:34 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - direct USB connection
And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
This patch adds the main source file of the connection-specific module
"bas_gigaset", the hardware driver for Gigaset base stations connected
directly to the computer via USB. It contains the code for handling
probe/disconnect, AT command/response transmission, and call setup and
termination.
This patch adds the procfs interface to the gigaset module. The procfs
interface provides access to status information and statistics about the
Gigaset devices. If the drivers are built with the debugging option it also
allows to change the amount of debugging output on the fly.
This patch adds the isdn4linux subsystem interface to the gigaset module. The
isdn4linux subsystem interface handles requests from and notifications to the
isdn4linux subsystem.
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:29 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - common module
And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
This patch adds the common include file for the Siemens Gigaset drivers,
providing definitions used by all of the Gigaset ISDN driver source files. It
also adds the main source file of the gigaset module which manages common
functions not specific to the type of connection to the device.
Hansjoerg Lipp [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:28 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - Kconfigs and Makefiles
And: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
The following patches add drivers for the Siemens Gigaset 3070 family of ISDN
DECT PABXes connected via USB, either directly or over a DECT link using a
Gigaset M105 or compatible DECT data adapter. The devices are integrated as
ISDN adapters within the isdn4linux framework, supporting incoming and
outgoing voice and data connections, and also as tty devices providing access
to device specific AT commands.
Supported devices include models 3070, 3075, 4170, 4175, SX205, SX255, and
SX353 from the Siemens Gigaset product family, as well as the technically
identical models 45isdn and 721X from the Deutsche Telekom Sinus series.
Supported DECT adapters are the Gigaset M105 data and the technically
identical Gigaset USB Adapter DECT, Sinus 45 data 2, and Sinus 721 data (but
not the Gigaset M34 and Sinus 702 data which advertise themselves as CDC-ACM
devices).
These drivers have been developed over the last four years within the
SourceForge project http://sourceforge.net/projects/gigaset307x/. They are
being used successfully in several installations for dial-in Internet access
and for voice call switching with Asterisk.
This is our second attempt at submitting these drivers, taking into account
the comments we received to our first submission on 2005-12-11.
The patch set adds three kernel modules:
- a common module "gigaset" encapsulating the common logic for
controlling the PABX and the interfaces to userspace and the
isdn4linux subsystem.
- a connection-specific module "bas_gigaset" which handles
communication with the PABX over a direct USB connection.
- a connection-specific module "usb_gigaset" which does the same
for a DECT connection using the Gigaset M105 USB DECT adapter.
We also have a module "ser_gigaset" which supports the Gigaset M101 RS232 DECT
adapter, but we didn't judge it fit for inclusion in the kernel, as it does
direct programming of a i8250 serial port. It should probably be rewritten as
a serial line discipline but so far we lack the neccessary knowledge about
writing a line discipline for that.
The drivers have been working with kernel releases 2.2 and 2.4 as well as 2.6,
and although we took efforts to remove the compatibility code for this
submission, it probably still shows in places. Please make allowances.
This patch:
Prepare the kernel build infrastructure for addition of the Gigaset ISDN
drivers. It creates a Makefile and Kconfig file for the Gigaset driver and
hooks them into those of the isdn4linux subsystem. It also adds a MAINTAINERS
entry for the driver.
This patch depends on patches 2 to 9 of the present set, as without the actual
source files, activating the options added here will cause the kernel build to
fail.
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for sparc64
Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.
The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers. In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().
The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.
I could not test this patch for sparc64.
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for ia64
Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.
The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers. In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().
The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy<anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for powerpc64
Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.
The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers. In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().
The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for x86_64
Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.
The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers. In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().
The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for i386
Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.
The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers. In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().
The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
bibo,mao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:21 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobe handler: discard user space trap
Currently kprobe handler traps only happen in kernel space, so function
kprobe_exceptions_notify should skip traps which happen in user space.
This patch modifies this, and it is based on 2.6.16-rc4.
Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
bibo mao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:20 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kretprobe instance recycled by parent process
When kretprobe probes the schedule() function, if the probed process exits
then schedule() will never return, so some kretprobe instances will never
be recycled.
In this patch the parent process will recycle retprobe instances of the
probed function and there will be no memory leak of kretprobe instances.
Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> 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@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Masami Hiramatsu [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:19 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kretprobe: kretprobe-booster
In normal operation, kretprobe makes a target function return to trampoline
code. A kprobe (called trampoline_probe) has been inserted in the trampoline
code. When the kernel hits this kprobe, it calls kretprobe's handler and it
returns to the original return address.
Kretprobe-booster removes the trampoline_probe. It allows the trampoline code
to call kretprobe's handler directly instead of invoking kprobe. The
trampoline code returns to the original return address.
(changelog from Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> - thanks ;))
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> 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> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Masami Hiramatsu [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:17 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: kprobes-booster
Current kprobe copies the original instruction at the probe point and replaces
it with a breakpoint instruction (int3). When the kernel hits the probe
point, kprobe handler is invoked. And the copied instruction is single-step
executed on the copied buffer (not on the original address) by kprobe. After
that, the kprobe checks registers and modify it (if need) as if the
instructions was executed on the original address.
My proposal is based on the fact there are many instructions which do NOT
require the register modification after the single-step execution. When the
copied instruction is a kind of them, kprobe just jumps back to the next
instruction after single-step execution. If so, why don't we execute those
instructions directly?
With kprobe-booster patch, kprobes will execute a copied instruction directly
and (if need) jump back to original code. This direct execution is executed
when the kprobe don't have both post_handler and break_handler, and the copied
instruction can be executed directly.
I sorted instructions which can be executed directly or not;
- Call instructions are NG(can not be executed directly).
We should correct the return address pushed into top of stack.
- Indirect instructions except for absolute indirect-jumps
are NG. Those instructions changes EIP randomly. We should
check EIP and correct it.
- Instructions that change EIP beyond the range of the
instruction buffer are NG.
- Instructions that change EIP to tail 5 bytes of the
instruction buffer (it is the size of a jump instruction).
We must write a jump instruction which backs to original
kernel code in the instruction buffer.
- Break point instruction is NG. We should not touch EIP and
pass to other handlers.
- Absolute direct/indirect jumps are OK.- Conditional Jumps are NG.
- Halt and software-interruptions are NG. Because it will stay on
the instruction buffer of kprobes.
- Prefixes are NG.
- Unknown/reserved opcode is NG.
- Other 1 byte instructions are OK. But those instructions need a
jump back code.
- 2 bytes instructions are mapped sparsely. So, in this release,
this patch don't boost those instructions.
>From Intel's IA-32 opcode map described in IA-32 Intel Architecture Software
Developer's Manual Vol.2 B, I determined that following opcodes are not
boostable.
- 0FH (2byte escape)
- 70H - 7FH (Jump on condition)
- 9AH (Call) and 9CH (Pushf)
- C0H-C1H (Grp 2: includes reserved opcode)
- C6H-C7H (Grp11: includes reserved opcode)
- CCH-CEH (Software-interrupt)
- D0H-D3H (Grp2: includes reserved opcode)
- D6H (Reserved)
- D8H-DFH (Coprocessor)
- E0H-E3H (loop/conditional jump)
- E8H (Call)
- F0H-F3H (Prefixes and reserved)
- F4H (Halt)
- F6H-F7H (Grp3: includes reserved opcode)
- FEH-FFH(Grp4,5: includes reserved opcode)
Kprobe-booster checks whether target instruction can be boosted (can be
executed directly) at arch_copy_kprobe() function. If the target instruction
can be boosted, it clears "boostable" flag. If not, it sets "boostable" flag
-1. This is disabled status. In resume_execution() function, If "boostable"
flag is cleared, kprobe-booster measures the size of the target instruction
and sets "boostable" flag 1.
In kprobe_handler(), kprobe checks the "boostable" flag. If the flag is 1, it
resets current kprobe and executes instruction buffer directly instead of
single stepping.
When unregistering a boosted kprobe, it calls synchronize_sched()
after "int3" is removed. So we can ensure followings after
the synchronize_sched() called.
- interrupt handlers are finished on all CPUs.
- instruction buffer is not executed on all CPUs.
And we can release the boosted kprobe safely.
And also, on preemptible kernel, the booster is not enabled where the kernel
preemption is enabled. So, there are no preempted threads on the instruction
buffer.
The description of kretprobe-booster:
====================================
In the normal operation, kretprobe make a target function return to trampoline
code. And a kprobe (called trampoline_probe) have been inserted at the
trampoline code. When the kernel hits this kprobe, it calls kretprobe's
handler and it returns to original return address.
Kretprobe-booster patch removes the trampoline_probe. It allows the
tram\18poline code to call kretprobe's handler directly instead of invoking
kprobe. And tranpoline code returns to original return address.
This new trampoline code stores and restores registers, so the kretprobe
handler is still able to access those registers.
Current kprobe has about 1.3 usec/probe(*) overhead, and kprobe-booster patch
reduces it to 0.6 usec/probe(*). Also current kretprobe has about 2.0
usec/probe(*) overhead. Kprobe-booster patch reduces it to 1.3 usec/probe(*),
and the combination of both kprobe-booster patch and kretprobe-booster patch
reduces it to 0.9 usec/probe(*).
I expect the combination of both patches can reduce half of a probing
overhead.
Performance numbers strongly depend on the processor model.
Andrew Morton wrote:
> These preempt tricks look rather nasty. Can you please describe what the
> problem is, precisely? And how this code avoids it? Perhaps we can find
> something cleaner.
The problem is how to remove the copied instructions of the
kprobe *safely* on the preemptable kernel (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y).
Kprobes basically executes the following actions;
(1)int3
(2)preempt_disable()
(3)kprobe_prehandler()
(4)copied instructioin(single step)
(5)kprobe_posthandler()
(6)preempt_enable()
(7)return to the original code
During the execution of copied instruction, preemption is
disabled (from step (2) to (6)).
When unregistering the probes, Kprobe waits for RCU
quiescent state by using synchronize_sched() after removing
int3 instruction.
Thus we can ensure the copied instruction is not executed.
On the other hand, kprobe-booster executes the following actions;
(1)int3
(2)preempt_disable()
(3)kprobe_prehandler()
(4)preempt_enable() <-- this one is added by my patch
(5)copied instruction(direct execution)
(6)jmp back to the original code
The problem is that we have no way to prevent preemption on
step (5) or (6). We cannot call preempt_disable() after step (6),
because there are no rooms to do that. Thus, some other
processes may be preempted at step(5) or (6) on preemptable kernel.
And I couldn't find the easy way to ensure that other processes'
stack do *not* have the address of them. (I thought some way
to do that, but those are very costly.)
So currently, I simply boost the kprobe only when the probe
point is already preemption disabled.
> Also, the patch adds a preempt_enable() but I don't see a corresponding
> preempt_disable(). Am I missing something?
It is corresponding to the preempt_disable() in the top of
kprobe_handler().
I copied the code of kprobe_handler() here:
static int __kprobes kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
struct kprobe *p;
int ret = 0;
kprobe_opcode_t *addr = NULL;
unsigned long *lp;
struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb;
/*
* We don't want to be preempted for the entire
* duration of kprobe processing
*/
preempt_disable(); <-- HERE
kcb = get_kprobe_ctlblk();
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> 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> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Masami Hiramatsu [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:13 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: clean up resume_execute()
Clean up kprobe's resume_execute() for i386 arch.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> 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> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:12 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field
The nanosleep cleanup allows to remove the data field of hrtimer. The
callback function can use container_of() to get it's own data. Since the
hrtimer structure is anyway embedded in other structures, this adds no
overhead.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:11 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove nsec_t typedef
nsec_t predates ktime_t and has mostly been superseded by it. In the few
places that are left it's better to make it explicit that we're dealing with
64 bit values here.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:10 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove it_real_value calculation from proc/*/stat
Remove the it_real_value from /proc/*/stat, during 1.2.x was the last time it
returned useful data (as it was directly maintained by the scheduler), now
it's only a waste of time to calculate it. Return 0 instead.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:08 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: simplify nanosleep
nanosleep is the only user of the expired state, so let it manage this itself,
which makes the hrtimer code a bit simpler. The remaining time is also only
calculated if requested.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:06 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: pass current time to hrtimer_forward()
Pass current time to hrtimer_forward(). This allows to use the softirq time
in the timer base when the forward function is called from the timer callback.
Other places pass current time with a call to timer->base->get_time().
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:05 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: optimize softirq runqueues
The hrtimer softirq is called from the timer softirq every tick. Retrieve the
current time from xtime and wall_to_monotonic instead of calling
base->get_time() for each timer base. Store the time in the base structure
and provide a hook once clock source abstractions are in place and to keep the
code open for new base clocks.
Based on a patch from: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:04 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: multi-block get_block()
Mingming Cao recently added multi-block allocation support for ext3,
currently used only by DIO. I added support to map multiple blocks for
mpage_readpages(). This patch add support for ext3_get_block() to deal
with multi-block mapping. Basically it renames ext3_direct_io_get_blocks()
as ext3_get_block().
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:02 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ->get_blocks() support
Now that get_block() can handle mapping multiple disk blocks, no need to have
->get_blocks(). This patch removes fs specific ->get_blocks() added for DIO
and makes it users use get_block() instead.
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:01 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] map multiple blocks for mpage_readpages()
This patch changes mpage_readpages() and get_block() to get the disk mapping
information for multiple blocks at the same time.
b_size represents the amount of disk mapping that needs to mapped. On the
successful get_block() b_size indicates the amount of disk mapping thats
actually mapped. Only the filesystems who care to use this information and
provide multiple disk blocks at a time can choose to do so.
No changes are needed for the filesystems who wants to ignore this.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:00 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] change buffer_head.b_size to size_t
Increase the size of the buffer_head b_size field (only) for 64 bit platforms.
Update some old and moldy comments in and around the structure as well.
The b_size increase allows us to perform larger mappings and allocations for
large I/O requests from userspace, which tie in with other changes allowing
the get_block_t() interface to map multiple blocks at once.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:59 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Adjust reservation window size for mblocks
Optimize the block reservation and the multiple block allocation: with the
knowledge of the total number of blocks ahead, set or adjust the reservation
window size properly (based on the number of blocks needed) before block
allocation happens: if there isn't any reservation yet, make sure the
reservation window equals to or greater than the number of blocks needed,
before create an reservation window; if a reservation window is already
exists, try to extends the window size to match the number of blocks to
allocate. This could increase the possibility of completing multiple blocks
allocation in a single request, as blocks are only allocated in the range of
the inode's reservation window.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:57 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: support multiple blocks allocation in ext3_new_block()
Change ext3_try_to_allocate() (called via ext3_new_blocks()) to try to
allocate the requested number of blocks on a best effort basis: After
allocated the first block, it will always attempt to allocate the next few(up
to the requested size and not beyond the reservation window) adjacent blocks
at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add support for multiple block allocation in ext3-get-blocks().
Look up the disk block mapping and count the total number of blocks to
allocate, then pass it to ext3_new_block(), where the real block allocation is
performed. Once multiple blocks are allocated, prepare the branch with those
just allocated blocks info and finally splice the whole branch into the block
mapping tree.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:55 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Mapping multiple blocks at a once
Currently ext3_get_block() only maps or allocates one block at a time. This
is quite inefficient for sequential IO workload.
I have posted a early implements a simply multiple block map and allocation
with current ext3. The basic idea is allocating the 1st block in the existing
way, and attempting to allocate the next adjacent blocks on a best effort
basis. More description about the implementation could be found here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel&m=112162230003522&w=2
The following the latest version of the patch: break the original patch into 5
patches, re-worked some logicals, and fixed some bugs. The break ups are:
[patch 1] Adding map multiple blocks at a time in ext3_get_blocks()
[patch 2] Extend ext3_get_blocks() to support multiple block allocation
[patch 3] Implement multiple block allocation in ext3-try-to-allocate
(called via ext3_new_block()).
[patch 4] Proper accounting updates in ext3_new_blocks()
[patch 5] Adjust reservation window size properly (by the given number
of blocks to allocate) before block allocation to increase the
possibility of allocating multiple blocks in a single call.
Tests done so far includes fsx,tiobench and dbench. The following numbers
collected from Direct IO tests (1G file creation/read) shows the system time
have been greatly reduced (more than 50% on my 8 cpu system) with the patches.
1G file DIO write:
2.6.15 2.6.15+patches
real 0m31.275s 0m31.161s
user 0m0.000s 0m0.000s
sys 0m3.384s 0m0.564s
1G file DIO read:
2.6.15 2.6.15+patches
real 0m30.733s 0m30.624s
user 0m0.000s 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.748s 0m0.380s
Some previous test we did on buffered IO with using multiple blocks allocation
and delayed allocation shows noticeable improvement on throughput and system
time.
This patch:
Add support of mapping multiple blocks in one call.
This is useful for DIO reads and re-writes (where blocks are already
allocated), also is in line with Christoph's proposal of using getblocks() in
mpage_readpage() or mpage_readpages().
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Takashi Sato [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:54 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2TB files: change type of kstatfs entries
This fix was proposed by Trond Myklebust. He says: The type "sector_t" is
heavily tied in to the block layer interface as an offset/handle to a block,
and is subject to a supposedly block-specific configuration option:
CONFIG_LBD. Despite this, it is used in struct kstatfs to save a couple of
bytes on the stack whenever we call the filesystems' ->statfs().
So kstatfs's entries related to blocks are invalid on statfs64 for a network
filesystem which has more than 2^32-1 blocks when CONFIG_LBD is disabled.
- struct kstatfs
Change the type of following entries from sector_t to u64.
f_blocks
f_bfree
f_bavail
f_files
f_ffree
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Takashi Sato [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:52 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2TB files: add blkcnt_t
Add blkcnt_t as the type of inode.i_blocks. This enables you to make the size
of blkcnt_t either 4 bytes or 8 bytes on 32 bits architecture with CONFIG_LSF.
- CONFIG_LSF
Add new configuration parameter.
- blkcnt_t
On h8300, i386, mips, powerpc, s390 and sh that define sector_t,
blkcnt_t is defined as u64 if CONFIG_LSF is enabled; otherwise it is
defined as unsigned long.
On other architectures, it is defined as unsigned long.
- inode.i_blocks
Change the type from sector_t to blkcnt_t.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Takashi Sato [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:51 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2TB files: st_blocks is invalid when calling stat64
This patch series fixes the following problems on 32 bits architecture.
o stat64 returns the lower 32 bits of blocks, although userland st_blocks
has 64 bits, because i_blocks has only 32 bits. The ioctl with FIOQSIZE has
the same problem.
o As Dave Kleikamp said, making >2TB file on JFS results in writing an
invalid block number to disk inode. The cause is the same as above too.
o In generic quota code dquot_transfer(), the file usage is calculated from
i_blocks via inode_get_bytes(). If the file is over 2TB, the change of
usage is less than expected. The cause is the same as above too.
o As Trond Myklebust said, statfs64's entries related to blocks are invalid
on statfs64 for a network filesystem which has more than 2^32-1 blocks with
CONFIG_LBD disabled. [PATCH 3/3]
We made patches to fix problems that occur when handling a large filesystem
and a large file. It was discussed on the mails titled "stat64 for over 2TB
file returned invalid st_blocks".
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:50 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use mempool_create_slab_pool()
Modify well over a dozen mempool users to call mempool_create_slab_pool()
rather than calling mempool_create() with extra arguments, saving about 30
lines of code and increasing readability.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:48 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kzalloc allocator
This patch changes a mempool user, which is basically just a wrapper around
kzalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather than its own
wrapper function, removing duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:48 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add kzalloc allocator
Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kzalloc/kfree allocator
This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace a mempool-backed
kzalloc allocator. It is also very likely that there will be more users in
the future.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:47 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kmalloc allocator
This patch changes several mempool users, all of which are basically just
wrappers around kmalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather
than their own wrapper function, removing a bunch of duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:46 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add kmalloc allocator
Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kmalloc/kfree allocator
This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed kmalloc allocators in several places in the kernel. It is also
very likely that there will be more users in the future.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:44 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add page allocator
This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed page allocators in 2 places in the kernel. It is also likely
that there will be more users in the future.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Sesterhenn [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:37 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix compilation for sound/oss/vwsnd.c
Fix compilation for sound/oss/vwsnd.o, by moving li_destroy() above
li_create()
sound/oss/vwsnd.c:275: warning: conflicting types for â\80\98li_destroyâ\80\99
sound/oss/vwsnd.c:275: error: static declaration of â\80\98li_destroyâ\80\99 follows non-static declaration
sound/oss/vwsnd.c:264: error: previous implicit declaration of â\80\98li_destroyâ\80\99 was here
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:36 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Update documentation for BLK_DEV_INITRD to match current usage
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Zdenek Pavlas <pavlas@nextra.cz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:33 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ads7846: sparc32 warning fix
drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c: In function `ads7846_read12_ser':
drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c:207: warning: implicit declaration of function `disable_irq'
drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c:209: warning: implicit declaration of function `enable_irq'
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:32 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove fixup_cpu_present_map()
Since the addition of boot_cpu_init(), fixup_cpu_present_map() has been a
no-op. That's because fixup_cpu_present_map() won't touch cpu_present_map if
it has any bits set, and boot_cpu_init() sets a bit.
So remove fixup_cpu_present_map().
A consequence of this (actually of the boot_cpu_init() change) is that the
architecture _must_ populate cpu_present_map itself (probably in
smp_prepare_cpus()). fixup_cpu_present_map() won't do it any more.
If the architecture doesn't do this, it'll only bring up a single CPU.
The other side effect (though less serious) is that smp_prepare_boot_cpu() no
longer needs to mark the boot cpu in the online and present maps -
boot_cpu_init() does that for everyone (to make early printks work).
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:31 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] tlclk: fix handling of device major
tlclk calls register_chrdev() and permits register_chrdev() to allocate the
major, but it promptly forgets what that major was. So if there's no hardware
present you still get "telco_clock" appearing in /proc/devices and, I assume,
an oops reading /proc/devices if tlclk was a module.
Fix.
Mark, I'd suggest that that we not call register_chrdev() until _after_ we've
established that the hardware is present.
Cc: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Stephen Rothwell [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:27 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] create struct compat_timex and use it everywhere
We had a copy of the compatibility version of struct timex in each 64 bit
architecture. This patch just creates a global one and replaces all the
usages of the old ones.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andy Adamson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:26 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] NFSD4: return conflict lock without races
Update the NFSv4 server to use the new posix_lock_file_conf() interface.
Remove unnecessary (and race-prone) posix_test_file() calls.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Lockd and the NFSv4 server both exercise a race condition where
posix_test_lock() is called either before or after posix_lock_file() to
deal with a denied lock request due to a conflicting lock.
Remove the race condition for the NFSv4 server by adding a new conflicting
lock parameter to __posix_lock_file() , changing the name to
__posix_lock_file_conf().
Keep posix_lock_file() interface, add posix_lock_conf() interface, both
call __posix_lock_file_conf().
[akpm@osdl.org: Put the EXPORT_SYMBOL() where it belongs] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Dumazet [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:24 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables
I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat. So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.
This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing. RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Corey Minyard [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:22 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ipmi: Increment driver version to v39.0
Need to increment the version number because of the new PCI and sysfs
capabilities of the driver. People maintaining things for distros have
asked that I do this after interface or major functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Corey Minyard [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:21 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ipmi: add full sysfs support
Add full driver model support for the IPMI driver. It links in the proper
bus and device support.
It adds an "ipmi" driver interface that has each BMC discovered by the
driver (as a device). These BMCs appear in the devices/platform directory.
If there are multiple interfaces to the same BMC, the driver should
discover this and will only have one BMC entry. The BMC entry will have
pointers to each interface device that connects to it.
The device information (statistics and config information) has not yet been
ported over to the driver model from proc, that will come later.
This work was based on work by Yani Ioannou. I basically rewrote it using
that code as a guide, but he still deserves credit :).
[bunk@stusta.de: make ipmi_find_bmc_guid() static] Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Corey Minyard [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:20 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ipmi: add generic PCI handling
Modify the PCI hanling code for the IPMI driver to use the new method of
tables and registering, and adds more generic PCI handling for IPMI.
Unfortunately, this required a rather large rework of the way the driver
did detection so it would be more event-driven.
[bunk@stusta.de: make a struct static] Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:18 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make address_space_operations->invalidatepage return void
The return value of this function is never used, so let's be honest and
declare it as void.
Some places where invalidatepage returned 0, I have inserted comments
suggesting a BUG_ON.
[akpm@osdl.org: JBD BUG fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: rework for git-nfs]
[akpm@osdl.org: don't go BUG in block_invalidate_page()] Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:12 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] sem2mutex: fs/
Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Cc: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Bjorn Helgaas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:08 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structure
Almost all users of the table addresses from the EFI system table want
physical addresses. So rather than doing the pa->va->pa conversion, just keep
physical addresses in struct efi.
This fixes a DMI bug: the efi structure contained the physical SMBIOS address
on x86 but the virtual address on ia64, so dmi_scan_machine() used ioremap()
on a virtual address on ia64.
This is essentially the same as an earlier patch by Matt Tolentino:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112130292316281&w=2
except that this changes all table addresses, not just ACPI addresses.
Matt's original patch was backed out because it caused MCAs on HP sx1000
systems. That problem is resolved by the ioremap() attribute checking added
for ia64.
Bjorn Helgaas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:07 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] DMI: only ioremap stuff we actually need
dmi_scan_machine() tries to ioremap 0x10000 (64K) bytes, even though it only
looks at the first 32 bytes or so. If the SMBIOS table is near the end of a
memory region, the ioremap() may fail when it shouldn't.
This is in the efi_enabled path, so it really only affects ia64 at the moment.
Bjorn Helgaas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:06 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ia64: ioremap: check EFI for valid memory attributes
Check the EFI memory map so we can use the correct memory attributes for
ioremap(). Previously, we always used uncacheable access, which blows up on
some machines for regular system memory.
Pass the size, not a pointer to the size, to efi_mem_attribute_range().
This function validates memory regions for the /dev/mem read/write/mmap paths.
The pointer allows arches to reduce the size of the range, but I think that's
unnecessary complexity. Simplifying it will let me use
efi_mem_attribute_range() to improve the ia64 ioremap() implementation.
Matt Domsch [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:03 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c
Enable DMI table parsing on ia64.
Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of i386
dmi_scan.c on x86_64. dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or
memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found.
This patch adds equivalent changes for ia64 as to what is in the x86_64
tree. In addition, I reworked the DMI detection, such that on EFI-capable
systems, it uses the efi.smbios pointer to find the table, rather than
brute-force searching from 0xF0000. On non-EFI systems, it continues the
brute-force search.
My test system, an Intel S870BN4 'Tiger4', aka Dell PowerEdge 7250, with
latest BIOS, does not list the IPMI controller in the ACPI namespace, nor
does it have an ACPI SPMI table. Also note, currently shipping Dell x8xx
EM64T servers don't have these either, so DMI is the only method for
obtaining the address of the IPMI controller.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Vivek Goyal [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:02 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: export: memory more than 4G through /proc/iomem
Currently /proc/iomem exports physical memory also apart from io device
memory. But on i386, it truncates any memory more than 4GB. This leads to
problems for kexec/kdump.
Kexec reads /proc/iomem to determine the system memory layout and prepares a
memory map based on that and passes it to the kernel being kexeced. Given the
fact that memory more than 4GB has been truncated, new kernel never gets to
see and use that memory.
Kdump also reads /proc/iomem to determine the physical memory layout of the
system and encodes this informaiton in ELF headers. After a crash new kernel
parses these ELF headers being used by previous kernel and vmcore is prepared
accordingly. As memory more than 4GB has been truncated, kdump never sees
that memory and never prepares ELF headers for it. Hence vmcore is truncated
and limited to 4GB even if there is more physical memory in the system.
This patch exports memory more than 4GB through /proc/iomem on i386.
Jan Beulich [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:01 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: pass proper trap numbers to die chain handlers
Pass the trap number causing the call to notify_die() to the die
notification handler chain in a number of instances. Also, honor the
return value from the handler chain invocation in die() as, through a
debugger, the fault may have been fixed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-By: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:36:59 +0000 (01:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: "make isoimage" support; FDINITRD= support; minor cleanups
Add a "make isoimage" to i386 and x86-64, which allows the automatic
creation of a bootable CD image. It also adds an option FDINITRD= to
include an initrd of the user's choice in generated floppy- or CD boot
images. Finally, some minor cleanups of the image generation code.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
James Bottomley [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:36:59 +0000 (01:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add flush_kernel_dcache_page() API
We have a problem in a lot of emulated storage in that it takes a page from
get_user_pages() and does something like
kmap_atomic(page)
modify page
kunmap_atomic(page)
However, nothing has flushed the kernel cache view of the page before the
kunmap. We need a lightweight API to do this, so this new API would
specifically be for flushing the kernel cache view of a user page which the
kernel has modified. The driver would need to add
flush_kernel_dcache_page(page) before the final kunmap.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
James Bottomley [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:36:57 +0000 (01:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add API for flushing Anon pages
Currently, get_user_pages() returns fully coherent pages to the kernel for
anything other than anonymous pages. This is a problem for things like
fuse and the SCSI generic ioctl SG_IO which can potentially wish to do DMA
to anonymous pages passed in by users.
The fix is to add a new memory management API: flush_anon_page() which
is used in get_user_pages() to make anonymous pages coherent.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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