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2010-09-07agp/intel: Fix cache control for SandybridgeZhenyu Wang
Sandybridge GTT has new cache control bits in PTE, which controls graphics page cache in LLC or LLC/MLC, so we need to extend the mask function to respect the new bits. And set cache control to always LLC only by default on Gen6. Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
2010-08-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: net/ipv4: Eliminate kstrdup memory leak net/caif/cfrfml.c: use asm/unaligned.h ax25: missplaced sock_put(sk) qlge: reset the chip before freeing the buffers l2tp: test for ethernet header in l2tp_eth_dev_recv() tcp: select(writefds) don't hang up when a peer close connection tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning tcp: Combat per-cpu skew in orphan tests. pxa168_eth: silence gcc warnings pxa168_eth: update call to phy_mii_ioctl() pxa168_eth: fix error handling in prope pxa168_eth: remove unneeded null check phylib: Fix race between returning phydev and calling adjust_link caif-driver: add HAS_DMA dependency 3c59x: Fix deadlock between boomerang_interrupt and boomerang_start_tx qlcnic: fix poll implementation netxen: fix poll implementation bridge: netfilter: fix a memory leak
2010-08-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notifyLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: fsnotify: drop two useless bools in the fnsotify main loop fsnotify: fix list walk order fanotify: Return EPERM when a process is not privileged fanotify: resize pid and reorder structure fanotify: drop duplicate pr_debug statement fanotify: flush outstanding perm requests on group destroy fsnotify: fix ignored mask handling between inode and vfsmount marks fanotify: add MAINTAINERS entry fsnotify: reset used_inode and used_vfsmount on each pass fanotify: do not dereference inode_mark when it is unset
2010-08-28Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 * 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: vgaarb: Wrap vga_(get|put) in CONFIG_VGA_ARB drm/radeon/kms: add missing scratch update in dp_detect drm/modes: Fix CVT-R modeline generation drm: fix regression in drm locking since BKL removal. drm/radeon/kms: remove stray radeon_i2c_destroy drm: mm: fix range restricted allocations drm/nouveau: drop drm_global_mutex before sleeping in submission path drm: export drm_global_mutex for drivers to use drm/nv20: Don't use pushbuf calls on the original nv20. drm/nouveau: Fix TMDS on some DCB1.5 boards. drm/nouveau: Fix backlight control on PPC machines with an internal TMDS panel. drm/nv30: Apply modesetting to the correct slave encoder drm/nouveau: Use a helper function to match PCI device/subsystem IDs. drm/nv50: add dcb type 14 to enum to prevent compiler complaint
2010-08-28NOMMU: Stub out vm_get_page_prot() if there's no MMUDavid Howells
Stub out vm_get_page_prot() if there's no MMU. This was added by commit 804af2cf6e7a ("[AGPGART] remove private page protection map") and is used in commit c07fbfd17e61 ("fbmem: VM_IO set, but not propagated") in the fbmem video driver, but the function doesn't exist on NOMMU, resulting in an undefined symbol at link time. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: pxa27x_keypad - remove input_free_device() in pxa27x_keypad_remove() Input: mousedev - fix regression of inverting axes Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand load Input: hil_kbd - fix compile error USB: drop tty argument from usb_serial_handle_sysrq_char() Input: sysrq - drop tty argument form handle_sysrq() Input: sysrq - drop tty argument from sysrq ops handlers
2010-08-27fanotify: resize pid and reorder structureTvrtko Ursulin
resize pid and reorder the fanotify_event_metadata so it is naturally aligned and we can work towards dropping the packed attributed Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-26vgaarb: Wrap vga_(get|put) in CONFIG_VGA_ARBChris Wilson
Fix link failure without the vga arbitrator. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2010-08-25tcp: Combat per-cpu skew in orphan tests.David S. Miller
As reported by Anton Blanchard when we use percpu_counter_read_positive() to make our orphan socket limit checks, the check can be off by up to num_cpus_online() * batch (which is 32 by default) which on a 128 cpu machine can be as large as the default orphan limit itself. Fix this by doing the full expensive sum check if the optimized check triggers. Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2010-08-24Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: watchdog: Don't throttle the watchdog tracing: Fix timer tracing
2010-08-24guard page for stacks that grow upwardsLuck, Tony
pa-risc and ia64 have stacks that grow upwards. Check that they do not run into other mappings. By making VM_GROWSUP 0x0 on architectures that do not ever use it, we can avoid some unpleasant #ifdefs in check_stack_guard_page(). Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: kobject_uevent: fix typo in comments firmware_class: fix typo in error path kobject: Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header
2010-08-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (29 commits) ARM: imx: fix build failure concerning otg/ulpi USB: ftdi_sio: add product ID for Lenz LI-USB USB: adutux: fix misuse of return value of copy_to_user() USB: iowarrior: fix misuse of return value of copy_to_user() USB: xHCI: update ring dequeue pointer when process missed tds USB: xhci: Remove buggy assignment in next_trb() USB: ftdi_sio: Add ID for Ionics PlugComputer USB: serial: io_ti.c: don't return 0 if writing the download record failed USB: otg: twl4030: fix wrong assumption of starting state USB: gadget: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure USB: gadget: fix composite kernel-doc warnings USB: ssu100: set tty_flags in ssu100_process_packet USB: ssu100: add disconnect function for ssu100 USB: serial: export symbol usb_serial_generic_disconnect USB: ssu100: rework logic for TIOCMIWAIT USB: ssu100: add register parameter to ssu100_setregister USB: ssu100: remove duplicate #defines in ssu100 USB: ssu100: refine process_packet in ssu100 USB: ssu100: add locking for port private data in ssu100 USB: r8a66597-udc: return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails ...
2010-08-24USB: gadget: fix composite kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap
Warning(include/linux/usb/composite.h:284): No description found for parameter 'disconnect' Warning(drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:744): No description found for parameter 'c' Warning(drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:744): Excess function parameter 'cdev' description in 'usb_string_ids_n' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits) netfilter: fix CONFIG_COMPAT support isdn/avm: fix build when PCMCIA is not enabled header: fix broken headers for user space e1000e: don't check for alternate MAC addr on parts that don't support it e1000e: disable ASPM L1 on 82573 ll_temac: Fix poll implementation netxen: fix a race in netxen_nic_get_stats() qlnic: fix a race in qlcnic_get_stats() irda: fix a race in irlan_eth_xmit() net: sh_eth: remove unused variable netxen: update version 4.0.74 netxen: fix inconsistent lock state vlan: Match underlying dev carrier on vlan add ibmveth: Fix opps during MTU change on an active device ehea: Fix synchronization between HW and SW send queue bnx2x: Update bnx2x version to 1.52.53-4 bnx2x: Fix PHY locking problem rds: fix a leak of kernel memory netlink: fix compat recvmsg netfilter: fix userspace header warning ...
2010-08-24Merge branch 'for-upstream/pvhvm' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://xenbits.xensource.com/people/ianc/linux-2.6 * 'for-upstream/pvhvm' of git://xenbits.xensource.com/people/ianc/linux-2.6: xen: pvhvm: make it clearer that XEN_UNPLUG_* define bits in a bitfield xen: pvhvm: rename xen_emul_unplug=ignore to =unnnecessary xen: pvhvm: allow user to request no emulated device unplug
2010-08-24Merge branch 'drm-core-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 * 'drm-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: (33 commits) drm/radeon/kms: fix typo in radeon_compute_pll_gain drm/radeon/kms: try to detect tv vs monitor for underscan drm/radeon/kms: fix sideport detection on newer rs880 boards drm/radeon: fix passing wrong type to gem object create. drm/radeon/kms: set encoder type to DVI for HDMI on evergreen drm/radeon/kms: add back missing break in info ioctl drm/radeon/kms: don't enable MSIs on AGP boards drm/radeon/kms: fix agp mode setup on cards that use pcie bridges drm: move dereference below check drm: fix end of loop test drm/radeon/kms: rework radeon_dp_detect() logic drm/radeon/kms: add missing asic callback assignment for evergreen drm/radeon/kms/DCE3+: switch pads to ddc mode when going i2c drm/radeon/kms/pm: bail early if nothing's changing drm/radeon/kms/atom: clean up dig atom handling drm/radeon/kms: DCE3/4 transmitter fixes drm/radeon/kms: rework encoder handling drm/radeon/kms: DCE3/4 AdjustPixelPll updates drm/radeon: Fix stack data leak drm/radeon/kms: fix GTT/VRAM overlapping test ...
2010-08-24kobject: Break the kobject namespace defs into their own headerDavid Howells
Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header to avoid a header file inclusion ordering problem between linux/sysfs.h and linux/kobject.h. This fixes the build breakage on older versions of gcc. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23xen: pvhvm: make it clearer that XEN_UNPLUG_* define bits in a bitfieldIan Campbell
by defining in terms of (1<<N). XEN_UNPLUG_UNNECESSARY and XEN_UNPLUG_NEVER are only used within the kernel and are not defined as a bit on the unplug IO port. Therefore use a bit which is outside the potentially valid range of the 16 bit IO port. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
2010-08-23xen: pvhvm: rename xen_emul_unplug=ignore to =unnnecessaryIan Campbell
It is not immediately clear what this option causes to become ignored. The actual meaning is that it is not necessary to unplug the emulated devices to safely use the PV ones, even if the platform does not support the unplug protocol. (pressumably the user will only add this option if they have ensured that their domain configuration is safe). I think xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary better captures this. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
2010-08-23xen: pvhvm: allow user to request no emulated device unplugIan Campbell
this allows the user to disable pvhvm and revert to emulated devices in case of a system misconfiguration (e.g. initramfs with only emulated drivers in it). Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
2010-08-23header: fix broken headers for user spaceChangli Gao
__packed is only defined in kernel space, so we should use __attribute__((packed)) for the code shared between kernel and user space. Two __attribute() annotations are replaced with __attribute__() too. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-23fanotify: flush outstanding perm requests on group destroyEric Paris
When an fanotify listener is closing it may cause a deadlock between the listener and the original task doing an fs operation. If the original task is waiting for a permissions response it will be holding the srcu lock. The listener cannot clean up and exit until after that srcu lock is syncronized. Thus deadlock. The fix introduced here is to stop accepting new permissions events when a listener is shutting down and to grant permission for all outstanding events. Thus the original task will eventually release the srcu lock and the listener can complete shutdown. Reported-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: slab: fix object alignment slub: add missing __percpu markup in mm/slub_def.h
2010-08-21workqueue: Add basic tracepoints to track workqueue executionArjan van de Ven
With the introduction of the new unified work queue thread pools, we lost one feature: It's no longer possible to know which worker is causing the CPU to wake out of idle. The result is that PowerTOP now reports a lot of "kworker/a:b" instead of more readable results. This patch adds a pair of tracepoints to the new workqueue code, similar in style to the timer/hrtimer tracepoints. With this pair of tracepoints, the next PowerTOP can correctly report which work item caused the wakeup (and how long it took): Interrupt (43) i915 time 3.51ms wakeups 141 Work ieee80211_iface_work time 0.81ms wakeups 29 Work do_dbs_timer time 0.55ms wakeups 24 Process Xorg time 21.36ms wakeups 4 Timer sched_rt_period_timer time 0.01ms wakeups 1 Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-21mm: make the vma list be doubly linkedLinus Torvalds
It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards in it to find the previous vma. So rather than have to look up the previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it doubly linked instead. Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-21Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand loadKay Sievers
Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which never access the device node will not needlessly load the module, and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally load it. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-08-21USB: drop tty argument from usb_serial_handle_sysrq_char()Dmitry Torokhov
Since handle_sysrq() does not take tty as argument anymore we can drop it from usb_serial_handle_sysrq_char() as well. Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-08-21Input: sysrq - drop tty argument form handle_sysrq()Dmitry Torokhov
Sysrq operations do not accept tty argument anymore so no need to pass it to us. [Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>: fix build breakage in drm code caused by sysrq using bool but not including linux/types.h] [Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>: fix build breakage in s390 keyboadr driver] Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-08-20kfifo: implement missing __kfifo_skip_r()Andrea Righi
kfifo_skip() is currently broken, due to the missing of the internal helper function. Add it. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-20Input: sysrq - drop tty argument from sysrq ops handlersDmitry Torokhov
Noone is using tty argument so let's get rid of it. Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-08-19tracing: Fix timer tracingArjan van de Ven
PowerTOP would like to be able to trace timers. Unfortunately, the current timer tracing is not very useful: the actual timer function is not recorded in the trace at the start of timer execution. Although this is recorded for timer "start" time (when it gets armed), this is not useful; most timers get started early, and a tracer like PowerTOP will never see this event, but will only see the actual running of the timer. This patch just adds the function to the timer tracing; I've verified with PowerTOP that now it can get useful information about timers. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .35.x, .34.x, .33.x LKML-Reference: <4C6C5FA9.3000405@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-19netfilter: fix userspace header warningSam Ravnborg
"make headers_check" issued the following warning: CHECK include/linux/netfilter (64 files) usr/include/linux/netfilter/xt_ipvs.h:19: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h> Fix this by as suggested including linux/types.h. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-19net: add Fast Ethernet driver for PXA168.Sachin Sanap
Signed-off-by: Sachin Sanap <ssanap@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-18Fix the declaration of sys_execve() in asm-generic/syscalls.hDavid Howells
Fix the declaration of sys_execve() in asm-generic/syscalls.h to have various consts applied to its pointers. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: fs: brlock vfsmount_lock fs: scale files_lock lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks tty: fix fu_list abuse fs: cleanup files_lock locking fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock apparmor: use task path helpers fs: dentry allocation consolidation fs: fix do_lookup false negative mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries hostfs ->follow_link() braino hostfs: dumb (and usually harmless) tpyo - strncpy instead of strlcpy remove SWRITE* I/O types kill BH_Ordered flag vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl cramfs: only unlock new inodes fix reiserfs_evict_inode end_writeback second call
2010-08-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: emu10k1 - delay the PCM interrupts (add pcm_irq_delay parameter) ALSA: hda - Fix ALC680 base model capture ASoC: Remove DSP mode support for WM8776 ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Dell Vostro 1220 ALSA: riptide - Fix detection / load of firmware files
2010-08-18Merge branch 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: spi.h: missing kernel-doc notation, please fix of: fix missing headers for of_address_to_resource() in MTD and SysACE drivers of: Fix missing includes ata: update for of_device to platform_device replacement microblaze: Fix of: eliminate of_device->node and dev_archdata->{of,prom}_node microblaze: Fix of/address: Merge all of the bus translation code booting-without-of: Remove nonexistent chapters from TOC, fix numbering
2010-08-18ALSA: emu10k1 - delay the PCM interrupts (add pcm_irq_delay parameter)Jaroslav Kysela
With some hardware combinations, the PCM interrupts are acknowledged before the period boundary from the emu10k1 chip. The midlevel PCM code gets confused and the playback stream is interrupted. It seems that the interrupt processing shift by 2 samples is enough to fix this issue. This default value does not harm other, non-affected hardware. More information: Kernel bugzilla bug#16300 [A copmile warning fixed by tiwai] Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2010-08-18fs: scale files_lockNick Piggin
fs: scale files_lock Improve scalability of files_lock by adding per-cpu, per-sb files lists, protected with an lglock. The lglock provides fast access to the per-cpu lists to add and remove files. It also provides a snapshot of all the per-cpu lists (although this is very slow). One difficulty with this approach is that a file can be removed from the list by another CPU. We must track which per-cpu list the file is on with a new variale in the file struct (packed into a hole on 64-bit archs). Scalability could suffer if files are frequently removed from different cpu's list. However loads with frequent removal of files imply short interval between adding and removing the files, and the scheduler attempts to avoid moving processes too far away. Also, even in the case of cross-CPU removal, the hardware has much more opportunity to parallelise cacheline transfers with N cachelines than with 1. A worst-case test of 1 CPU allocating files subsequently being freed by N CPUs degenerates to contending on a single lock, which is no worse than before. When more than one CPU are allocating files, even if they are always freed by different CPUs, there will be more parallelism than the single-lock case. Testing results: On a 2 socket, 8 core opteron, I measure the number of times the lock is taken to remove the file, the number of times it is removed by the same CPU that added it, and the number of times it is removed by the same node that added it. Booting: locks= 25049 cpu-hits= 23174 (92.5%) node-hits= 23945 (95.6%) kbuild -j16 locks=2281913 cpu-hits=2208126 (96.8%) node-hits=2252674 (98.7%) dbench 64 locks=4306582 cpu-hits=4287247 (99.6%) node-hits=4299527 (99.8%) So a file is removed from the same CPU it was added by over 90% of the time. It remains within the same node 95% of the time. Tim Chen ran some numbers for a 64 thread Nehalem system performing a compile. throughput 2.6.34-rc2 24.5 +patch 24.9 us sys idle IO wait (in %) 2.6.34-rc2 51.25 28.25 17.25 3.25 +patch 53.75 18.5 19 8.75 So significantly less CPU time spent in kernel code, higher idle time and slightly higher throughput. Single threaded performance difference was within the noise of microbenchmarks. That is not to say penalty does not exist, the code is larger and more memory accesses required so it will be slightly slower. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locksNick Piggin
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks This patch introduces "local-global" locks (lglocks). These can be used to: - Provide fast exclusive access to per-CPU data, with exclusive access to another CPU's data allowed but possibly subject to contention, and to provide very slow exclusive access to all per-CPU data. - Or to provide very fast and scalable read serialisation, and to provide very slow exclusive serialisation of data (not necessarily per-CPU data). Brlocks are also implemented as a short-hand notation for the latter use case. Thanks to Paul for local/global naming convention. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18tty: fix fu_list abuseNick Piggin
tty: fix fu_list abuse tty code abuses fu_list, which causes a bug in remount,ro handling. If a tty device node is opened on a filesystem, then the last link to the inode removed, the filesystem will be allowed to be remounted readonly. This is because fs_may_remount_ro does not find the 0 link tty inode on the file sb list (because the tty code incorrectly removed it to use for its own purpose). This can result in a filesystem with errors after it is marked "clean". Taking idea from Christoph's initial patch, allocate a tty private struct at file->private_data and put our required list fields in there, linking file and tty. This makes tty nodes behave the same way as other device nodes and avoid meddling with the vfs, and avoids this bug. The error handling is not trivial in the tty code, so for this bugfix, I take the simple approach of using __GFP_NOFAIL and don't worry about memory errors. This is not a problem because our allocator doesn't fail small allocs as a rule anyway. So proper error handling is left as an exercise for tty hackers. [ Arguably filesystem's device inode would ideally be divorced from the driver's pseudo inode when it is opened, but in practice it's not clear whether that will ever be worth implementing. ] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18fs: cleanup files_lock lockingNick Piggin
fs: cleanup files_lock locking Lock tty_files with a new spinlock, tty_files_lock; provide helpers to manipulate the per-sb files list; unexport the files_lock spinlock. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlockNick Piggin
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small. Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a real parallelism increase. Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical path lookup fastpath. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18remove SWRITE* I/O typesChristoph Hellwig
These flags aren't real I/O types, but tell ll_rw_block to always lock the buffer instead of giving up on a failed trylock. Instead add a new write_dirty_buffer helper that implements this semantic and use it from the existing SWRITE* callers. Note that the ll_rw_block code had a bug where it didn't promote WRITE_SYNC_PLUG properly, which this patch fixes. In the ufs code clean up the helper that used to call ll_rw_block to mirror sync_dirty_buffer, which is the function it implements for compound buffers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18kill BH_Ordered flagChristoph Hellwig
Instead of abusing a buffer_head flag just add a variant of sync_dirty_buffer which allows passing the exact type of write flag required. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18spi.h: missing kernel-doc notation, please fixErnst Schwab
Added comments in kernel-doc notation for previously added struct fields. Signed-off-by: Ernst Schwab <eschwab@online.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-08-18Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: VIDEO: amba clcd: don't disable an already disabled clock ARM: Tighten check for allowable CPSR values ARM: 6329/1: wire up sys_accept4() on ARM ARM: 6328/1: Build with -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm ARM: 6326/1: kgdb: fix GDB_MAX_REGS no longer used
2010-08-18Make do_execve() take a const filename pointerDavid Howells
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles correctly on ARM: arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel(). do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as const should be fine. Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match. This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-17VIDEO: amba clcd: don't disable an already disabled clockRussell King
Fix the clock enable/disable tracking in the AMBA CLCD driver so that the driver doesn't try to disable an already disabled clock, thereby causing the clock (if shared) to become unbalanced. This resolves a problem with CLCD on LPC32xx ARM platforms. Reported-by: Kevin Wells <wellsk40@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>