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Preparation for pselect and ppoll.
ia32 compat code not tested. :-(
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Minor problem for mainstream. Big problem for checkpoint/restore,
because all the stopped/traced processes are born in this state,
hence they cannot be checkpointed again due to failing unwind.
The problem was identified as assumption in kernel unwind library
that top level frame is different of syscall frame. It is the case
unless process was born with CLONE_STOPPED.
Author: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch adds an optional method for purging the TLB on SN IA64 systems.
The change should not affect any non-SN system.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED macro cleanup, use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead.
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Save and Restore the task's cpus_allowed mask, across the set_cpus_allowed()
in cpu_idle_wait(). Without this, we will endup corrupting task's cpu affinity.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The kexec code wasn't in the kernel when Ken Chen created
this patch (00b65985fb2fc542b855b03fcda0d0f2bab4f442) to
change the mapping of percpu area from a TR to a TC.
Zou Nanhai spotted this extra piece, and Simon Horman
concurred.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Section mismatch: reference to ...
.init.text:prefill_possible_map from .text between 'setup_per_cpu_areas' and 'cpu_init'
.init.text:iosapic_override_isa_irq from .text between 'iosapic_init' and 'iosapic_remove'
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] update memory attribute aliasing documentation & test cases
[IA64] fail mmaps that span areas with incompatible attributes
[IA64] allow WB /sys/.../legacy_mem mmaps
[IA64] make ioremap avoid unsupported attributes
[IA64] rename ioremap variables to match i386
[IA64] relax per-cpu TLB requirement to DTC
[IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8
[IA64] Fix example error injection program
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: pal_mc_error_inject() interface
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Makefile changes
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Driver sysfs interface
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Doc and sample application
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Kernel configuration
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Handle MAP_FIXED in ia64 arch_get_unmapped_area and
hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(), just call prepare_hugepage_range in the later and
is_hugepage_only_range() in the former.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
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>
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My patch: git commit=95235ca2c20ac0b31a8eb39e2d599bcc3e9c9a10 introduced a bug
in IA64 cpuinfo output.
Patch changed the proc_freq from 1HZ resolution to 1KHz resolution, but left
format string unchanged at " %lu.%06lu". Below is the fix.
Thanks to Bjorn for catching this.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch fixes a wrong assumption in ia64 MSI code that IRQ equals
vector.
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Example memory map (from HP sx1000 with VGA enabled):
0x00000 - 0x9FFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access
0xA0000 - 0xBFFFF supports only UC (uncacheable) access
0xC0000 - 0xFFFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access
Some versions of X map the entire 0x00000-0xFFFFF area at once. With the
example above, this mmap must fail because there's no memory attribute that's
safe for the entire area.
Prior to this patch, we performed the mmap with a UC mapping. When X
accessed the WB memory at 0xC0000, it caused an MCA. The crash can happen
when mapping 0xC0000 from either /dev/mem or a /sys/.../legacy_mem file.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Skip clock calibration if cpu being brought online is exactly the same
speed, stepping, etc., as the previous cpu. This significantly reduces
the time to boot very large systems.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The following 'if' statement in ia64_setup_msi_irq() always fails even
if create_irq() returns <0 value, because variable 'irq' is defined as
unsigned int. It would cause invalid memory access.
irq = create_irq();
if (irq < 0)
return irq;
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Clearly should be checking for "val == DIE_INIT_SLAVE_ENTER".
Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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If a system consists of mixed processor types, kmalloc()
can be called before the per-cpu data page is initialized.
If the slab contains sufficient memory, then kmalloc() works
ok. However, if the slabs are empty, slab calls the memory
allocator. This requires per-cpu data (NODE_DATA()) & the
cpu dies.
Also noted by Russ Anderson who had a very similar patch.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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kdump_find_rsvd_region() is only called by
reserve_memory() which is in __init, so it seems that
kdump_find_rsvd_region() should also be in there.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The ptrace misses clearing the syscall trace flag.
The increased syscall overhead is retained after the trace is finished.
This case happens when strace is terminated by force.
Signed-off-by: Akiyama, Nobuyuki <akiyama.nobuyuk@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Grammatical fixes (s/freezed/frozen/)
Make some variables static
Change a C++ "//" comment to "/* ... */"
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Similar to memory error recovery, when a cache error is consumed
by a user process terminate the user instead of crashing the system.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Jack Steiner noticed that duplicate TLB DTC entries do not cause a
linux panic. See discussion:
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0307/6108.html
The current TLB recovery code is recovering from the duplicate itr.d
dropins, masking the underlying problem. This change modifies
the MCA recovery code to look for the TLB check signature of the
duplicate TLB entry and panic in that case.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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On 1.6GHz Montectio Tiger4, the following performance data is measured with
kernel built with defconfig which has NUMA configured:
Fastest sys_getcpu: 502 itc counts.
Fastest fsys_getcpu: 28 itc counts.
fsys_getcpu performance is largly impacted by whether data (node_to_cpu_map
etc) is in cache. It can take fsys_getcpu up to ~150 itc counts in cold
cache case.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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efi_initialize_iomem_resources() is declared in both include/linux/efi.h
and arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c. This patch removes the latter.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Berhhard Walle noted that on his HP rx8640 he ended up with saved_max_pfn
smaller than the highest address of system ram in /proc/iomem and proposed
a patch to base the address on the unrounded and unfiltered EFI memory
map address. Simon Horman and Magnus Damm suggested that the whole test
be moved earlier in the function. This is the combination of both of
these patches.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch fixes boot failure because irq_desc->mask() is NULL.
- Added mask/unmask functions to ia64's irq desc function table.
- rename hw_interrupt_type to irq_chip. hw_interrupt_type is old name.
- Tony: Added same change to arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq.c as pointed out
by Eric Biederman ... mask/unmask functions there can be no-op.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The address where the ELF core header is stored is passed to the secondary
kernel as a kernel command line option. The memory area for this header is
also marked as a separate EFI memory descriptor on ia64.
The separate EFI memory descriptor is at the moment of the type
EFI_UNUSABLE_MEMORY. With such a type the secondary kernel skips over the
entire memory granule (config option, 16M or 64M) when detecting memory.
If we are lucky we will just lose some memory, but if we happen to have
data in the same granule (such as an initramfs image), then this data will
never get mapped and the kernel bombs out when trying to access it.
So this is an attempt to fix this by changing the EFI memory descriptor
type into EFI_LOADER_DATA. This type is the same type used for the kernel
data and for initramfs. In the secondary kernel we then handle the ELF
core header data the same way as we handle the initramfs image.
This patch contains the kernel changes to make this happen. Pretty
straightforward, we reserve the area in reserve_memory(). The address for
the area comes from the kernel command line and the size comes from the
specialized EFI parsing function vmcore_find_descriptor_size().
The kexec-tools-testing code for this can be found here:
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-February/005983.html
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Perfmon associates vmalloc()ed memory with a file descriptor, and installs
a vma mapping that memory. Unfortunately, the vm_file field is not filled
in, so processes with mappings to that memory do not prevent the file from
being closed and the memory freed. This results in use-after-free bugs and
multiple freeing of pages, etc.
I saw this bug on an Altix on SLES9. Haven't reproduced upstream but it
looks like the same issue is there.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Make saved_max_pfn point to max_pfn of entire system.
Without this patch is so that vmcore is zero length on ia64. This is
because saved_max_pfn was wrongly being set to the max_pfn of the crash
kernel's address space, rather than the max_pfg on the physical memory of
the machine - the whole purpose of vmcore is to access physical memory that
is not part of the crash kernel's addresss space.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Sort-Of-Acked-By: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch replaces all instances of "set_native_irq_info(irq, mask)"
with "irq_desc[irq].affinity = mask". The latter form is clearer
uses fewer abstractions, and makes access to this field uniform
accross different architectures.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update.
arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO
Storage class should be before const qualifier
kernel/printk.c: comment fix
update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS.
Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README
kbuild: more doc. cleanups
doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible
drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment
add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC
correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text
fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text
fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text
trivial documentation patch for platform.txt
Fix typos concerning hierarchy
Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore".
Fix misspellings of "agressive".
drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch
Correct trivial typo in log2.h.
Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c.
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Fix "spin_lock_irqrestore" to "spin_unlock_irqrestore."
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86_64/pci/mmconfig.c
drivers/acpi/bay.c
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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acpi_boot_init() is making a bad check on the return
status from acpi_table_parse(). acpi_table_parse() now
returns zero on success, one on failure.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Young <ayoung@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.
I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.
So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This convters the sysctl ctl_tables to use C99 initializers. While I was
looking at it I discovered it was using a portion of the sysctl binary
addresses space under CTL_KERN KERN_OSTYPE which was completely inappropriate.
So I completely removed all of the sysctl binary names, to remove and avoid
the ABI conflict.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The obsolete SA_xxx interrupt flags have been used despite the scheduled
removal. Fixup the remaining users.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 fix]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove in-source externs, linux/init.h is included in all cases.
This is a fixups for "Dynamic kernel command-line" patch.
It also includes some uml __init fixups so that we can __initdata also its
command_line.
Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line.
2. Set command_line as __initdata.
[akpm@osdl.org: move some declarations to the right place]
Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
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>
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Part of long forgotten patch
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/e98e941ce1cf29f6?dmode=source
Since then, m32r grabbed two copies.
Leave s390 copy because of important absence of CONFIG_VT, but remove
references to non-existent timerlist_lock. ia64 also loses timerlist_lock.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Replace appropriate pairs of "kmem_cache_alloc()" + "memset(0)" with the
corresponding "kmem_cache_zalloc()" call.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Update all arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S to not include space for initramfs
when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRAMFS is not selected. This saves another 4 kbytes
on most platfoms (some reserve PAGE_SIZE for initramfs).
Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (41 commits)
Revert "PCI: remove duplicate device id from ata_piix"
msi: Make MSI useable more architectures
msi: Kill the msi_desc array.
msi: Remove attach_msi_entry.
msi: Fix msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors.
msi: Remove msi_lock.
msi: Kill msi_lookup_irq
MSI: Combine pci_(save|restore)_msi/msix_state
MSI: Remove pci_scan_msi_device()
MSI: Replace pci_msi_quirk with calls to pci_no_msi()
PCI: remove duplicate device id from ipr
PCI: remove duplicate device id from ata_piix
PCI: power management: remove noise on non-manageable hw
PCI: cleanup MSI code
PCI: make isa_bridge Alpha-only
PCI: remove quirk_sis_96x_compatible()
PCI: Speed up the Intel SMBus unhiding quirk
PCI Quirk: 1k I/O space IOBL_ADR fix on P64H2
shpchp: delete trailing whitespace
shpchp: remove DBG_XXX_ROUTINE
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The arch hooks arch_setup_msi_irq and arch_teardown_msi_irq are now
responsible for allocating and freeing the linux irq in addition to
setting up the the linux irq to work with the interrupt.
arch_setup_msi_irq now takes a pci_device and a msi_desc and returns
an irq.
With this change in place this code should be useable by all platforms
except those that won't let the OS touch the hardware like ppc RTAS.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (140 commits)
ACPICA: reduce table header messages to fit within 80 columns
asus-laptop: merge with ACPICA table update
ACPI: bay: Convert ACPI Bay driver to be compatible with sysfs update.
ACPI: bay: new driver is EXPERIMENTAL
ACPI: bay: make drive_bays static
ACPI: bay: make bay a platform driver
ACPI: bay: remove prototype procfs code
ACPI: bay: delete unused variable
ACPI: bay: new driver adding removable drive bay support
ACPI: dock: check if parent is on dock
ACPICA: fix gcc build warnings
Altix: Add ACPI SSDT PCI device support (hotplug)
Altix: ACPI SSDT PCI device support
ACPICA: reduce conflicts with Altix patch series
ACPI_NUMA: fix HP IA64 simulator issue with extended memory domain
ACPI: fix HP RX2600 IA64 boot
ACPI: build fix for IBM x440 - CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT
ACPICA: Update version to 20070126
ACPICA: Fix for incorrect parameter passed to AcpiTbDeleteTable during table load.
ACPICA: Update copyright to 2007.
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Instead of pinning per-cpu TLB into a DTR, use DTC. This will free up
one TLB entry for application, or even kernel if access pattern to
per-cpu data area has high temporal locality.
Since per-cpu is mapped at the top of region 7 address, we just need to
add special case in alt_dtlb_miss. The physical address of per-cpu data
is already conveniently stored in IA64_KR(PER_CPU_DATA). Latency for
alt_dtlb_miss is not affected as we can hide all the latency. It was
measured that alt_dtlb_miss handler has 23 cycles latency before and
after the patch.
The performance effect is massive for applications that put lots of tlb
pressure on CPU. Workload environment like database online transaction
processing or application uses tera-byte of memory would benefit the most.
Measurement with industry standard database benchmark shown an upward
of 1.6% gain. While smaller workloads like cpu, java also showing small
improvement.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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