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2006-02-21[MIPS] Fixes for uaccess.h with gcc >= 4.0.1Atsushi Nemoto
It seems current get_user() incorrectly sign-extend an unsigned int value on 64bit kernel. I think this is because '(__typeof__(val))' cast in final assignment. I suppose the cast should be '(__typeof__(*(addr))'. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-21Merge branch 'fixes.b8' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bird
2006-02-21Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds
2006-02-21[PATCH] m32r: __cmpxchg_u32 fixHirokazu Takata
This patch fixes a bug of include/asm-m32r/system.h:__cmpxchg_u32(). static __inline__ unsigned long __cmpxchg_u32(volatile unsigned int *p, unsigned int old, unsigned int new); In __cmpxchg_u32(), the "old" value must not be changed to the previous "*p" value. But the former code modifies the previous "*p" value. A deadlock at _atomic_dec_and_lock sometimes happened due to this bug. Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-21[PATCH] s390: revert dasd eer moduleHeiko Carstens
Revert dasd eer module until we have a common understanding of how the interface should be. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-21[PATCH] Fix compile for CONFIG_SYSVIPC=n or CONFIG_SYSCTL=nStephen Rothwell
The compat syscalls are added to sys_ni.c since they are not defined if the above CONFIG options are off. Also, nfs would not build with CONFIG_SYSCTL off. Noticed by Arthur Othieno. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-21[PATCH] Fix undefined symbols for nommu architectureLuke Yang
Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-21[PATCH] suspend-to-ram: allow video options to be set at runtimePavel Machek
Currently, acpi video options can only be set on kernel command line. That's little inflexible; I'd like userland s2ram application that just works, and modifying kernel command line according to whitelist is not fun. It is better to just allow s2ram application to set video options just before suspend (according to the whitelist). This implements sysctl to allow setting suspend video options without reboot. (akpm: Documentation updates for this new sysctl are pending..) Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-21[PATCH] Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocationChristoph Lameter
Some allocations are restricted to a limited set of nodes (due to memory policies or cpuset constraints). If the page allocator is not able to find enough memory then that does not mean that overall system memory is low. In particular going postal and more or less randomly shooting at processes is not likely going to help the situation but may just lead to suicide (the whole system coming down). It is better to signal to the process that no memory exists given the constraints that the process (or the configuration of the process) has placed on the allocation behavior. The process may be killed but then the sysadmin or developer can investigate the situation. The solution is similar to what we do when running out of hugepages. This patch adds a check before we kill processes. At that point performance considerations do not matter much so we just scan the zonelist and reconstruct a list of nodes. If the list of nodes does not contain all online nodes then this is a constrained allocation and we should kill the current process. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-19[PATCH] powerpc: remove duplicate exportsOlaf Hering
A few symbols are exported twice, remove them from ppc_ksyms.c Remove users of sys_ctrler in arch/ppc/ WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol '__delay' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol '__up' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol '__down' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol '__down_interruptible' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'sys_ctrler' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'strncat' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'strncmp' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'strchr' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'strrchr' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'strnlen' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'strpbrk' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'memscan' previous definition was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: duplicate symbol 'strstr' previous definition was in vmlinux Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-18[PATCH] iomap_copy fallout (m68k)Al Viro
added __raw_writel(), sanitized include order in iomap_copy.c Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-18[PATCH] m68k: restore disable_irq_nosync()Al Viro
Patch claiming to remove enable_irq_nosync() had left it alive but killed disable_irq_nosync() instead... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-17[PATCH] powerpc: Fix accidentally-working typo in __pud_free_tlbDavid Gibson
One of the parameters to the __pud_free_tlb() macro for powerpc is incorrect (see patch) . We get away with it by accident, because the one place the macro is called, the second parameter is a variable named "pud". Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.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>
2006-02-17[PATCH] s390: additional_cpus parameterHeiko Carstens
Introduce additional_cpus command line option. By default no additional cpu can be attached to the system anymore. Only the cpus present at IPL time can be switched on/off. If it is desired that additional cpus can be attached to the system the maximum number of additional cpus needs to be specified with this option. This change is necessary in order to limit the waste of per_cpu data structures. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17[PATCH] i386: fix singlestepping though a syscallChuck Ebbert
Do not mask TIF_SINGLESTEP bit in _TIF_WORK_MASK. Masking this stopped do_notify_resume() from being called when it should have been. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17[PATCH] Provide an interface for getting the current tick lengthPaul Mackerras
This provides an interface for arch code to find out how many nanoseconds are going to be added on to xtime by the next call to do_timer. The value returned is a fixed-point number in 52.12 format in nanoseconds. The reason for this format is that it gives the full precision that the timekeeping code is using internally. The motivation for this is to fix a problem that has arisen on 32-bit powerpc in that the value returned by do_gettimeofday drifts apart from xtime if NTP is being used. PowerPC is now using a lockless do_gettimeofday based on reading the timebase register and performing some simple arithmetic. (This method of getting the time is also exported to userspace via the VDSO.) However, the factor and offset it uses were calculated based on the nominal tick length and weren't being adjusted when NTP varied the tick length. Note that 64-bit powerpc has had the lockless do_gettimeofday for a long time now. It also had an extremely hairy routine that got called from the 32-bit compat routine for adjtimex, which adjusted the factor and offset according to what it thought the timekeeping code was going to do. Not only was this only called if a 32-bit task did adjtimex (i.e. not if a 64-bit task did adjtimex), it was also duplicating computations from kernel/timer.c and it wasn't clear that it was (still) correct. The simple solution is to ask the timekeeping code how long the current jiffy will be on each timer interrupt, after calling do_timer. If this jiffy will be a different length from the last one, we then need to compute new values for the factor and offset used in the lockless do_gettimeofday. In this way we can keep xtime and do_gettimeofday in sync, even when NTP is varying the tick length. Note that when adjtimex varies the tick length, it almost always introduces the variation from the next tick on. The only case I could see where adjtimex would vary the length of the current tick is when an old-style adjtime adjustment is being cancelled. (It's not clear to me why the adjustment has to be cancelled immediately rather than from the next tick on.) Thus I don't see any real need for a hook in adjtimex; the rare case of an old-style adjustment being cancelled can be fixed up at the next tick. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
2006-02-17Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
2006-02-17[PATCH] x86_64: Disable tsc when apicpmtimer is activeAndi Kleen
Otherwise it has no effect anyways. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17[PATCH] x86_64: Add boot option to disable randomized mappings and cleanupAndi Kleen
AMD SimNow!'s JIT doesn't like them at all in the guest. For distribution installation it's easiest if it's a boot time option. Also I moved the variable to a more appropiate place and make it independent from sysctl And marked __read_mostly which it is. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-16[ARM] 3339/1: ARM EABI: make unmuxed syscalls visibleNicolas Pitre
Patch from Nicolas Pitre With EABI the multiplex sys_ipc and sys_socketcall syscalls are unavailable and their support code even removed from the compiled kernel, and the new unmuxed syscalls must be used instead. Make those syscall numbers visible. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-16Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-02-16[ARM] Fix SMP initialisation oopsRussell King
A change to the SMP initialisation caused the following oops: CPU1: Booted secondary processor CPU1: D VIPT write-back cache CPU1: I cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 256 sets CPU1: D cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 256 sets <7>Calibrating delay loop... 83.14 BogoMIPS (lpj=415744) <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000001c ... PC is at enqueue_task+0x1c/0x64 LR is at activate_task+0xcc/0xe4 SMP initialisation now requires cpu_possible_map to be initialised in setup_arch(). Move this from smp_prepare_cpus() to smp_init_cpus() and call it from our setup_arch() if CONFIG_SMP is enabled. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-16Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15[PATCH] hrtimer: fix multiple macro argument expansionRoman Zippel
For two macros the arguments were expanded twice, change them to inline functions to avoid it. 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>
2006-02-15[PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.hMichael S. Tsirkin
Make new MADV_REMOVE, MADV_DONTFORK, MADV_DOFORK consistent across all arches. The idea is to make it possible to use them portably even before distros include them in libc headers. Move common flags to asm-generic/mman.h Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15[PATCH] neofb: avoid resetting display config on unblank (v2)Christian Trefzer
There were two mistakes in the register-read-on-(un)blank approach. - First, without proper register (un)locking the value read back will always be zero, and this is what I missed entirely until just now. Due to this, the logic could not be verified at all and I tried some bogus checks which are completely stupid. - Second, the LCD status bit will always be set to zero when the backlight has been turned off. Reading the value back during unblank will disable the LCD unconditionally, regardless of the state it is supposed to be in, since we set it to zero beforehand. So this is what we do now: - create a new variable in struct neofb_par, and use that to determine whether to read back registers (initialized to true) - before actually blanking the screen, read back the register to sense any possible change made through Fn key combo - use proper neoUnlock() / neoLock() to actually read something - every call to neofb_blank() determines if we read back next time: blanking disables readback, unblanking (FB_BLANK_UNBLANK) enables it This should give us a nice and clean state machine. Has been thoroughly tested on a Dell Latitude CPiA / NM220 Chip docked to a C/Dock2 with attached CRT in all possible combinations of LCD/CRT on/off. I changed the config via Fn key, let the console blank, unblanked by keypress - works flawlessly. Signed-off-by: Christian Trefzer <ctrefzer@gmx.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15[NETFILTER]: Don't invoke okfn in CONFIG_NETFILTER=n variant of nf_hook()Patrick McHardy
nf_hook() is supposed to call the netfilter hook and return control of the packet back to the caller in case it may pass, the okfn is only used for queueing. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-15Pull fix-cpu-possible-map into release branchTony Luck
2006-02-15[XFRM]: Fix SNAT-related crash in xfrm4_output_finishPatrick McHardy
When a packet matching an IPsec policy is SNATed so it doesn't match any policy anymore it looses its xfrm bundle, which makes xfrm4_output_finish crash because of a NULL pointer dereference. This patch directs these packets to the original output path instead. Since the packets have already passed the POST_ROUTING hook, but need to start at the beginning of the original output path which includes another POST_ROUTING invocation, a flag is added to the IPCB to indicate that the packet was rerouted and doesn't need to pass the POST_ROUTING hook again. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-15[IA64] ia64: simplify and fix udelay()hawkes@sgi.com
The original ia64 udelay() was simple, but flawed for platforms without synchronized ITCs: a preemption and migration to another CPU during the while-loop likely resulted in too-early termination or very, very lengthy looping. The first fix (now in 2.6.15) broke the delay loop into smaller, non-preemptible chunks, reenabling preemption between the chunks. This fix is flawed in that the total udelay is computed to be the sum of just the non-premptible while-loop pieces, i.e., not counting the time spent in the interim preemptible periods. If an interrupt or a migration occurs during one of these interim periods, then that time is invisible and only serves to lengthen the effective udelay(). This new fix backs out the current flawed fix and returns to a simple udelay(), fully preemptible and interruptible. It implements two simple alternative udelay() routines: one a default generic version that uses ia64_get_itc(), and the other an sn-specific version that uses that platform's RTC. Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-15[IA64-SGI] enforce proper ordering of callouts by XPCDean Nelson
Fix XPC so that it does not deliver any messages until the connected callout has returned, as well as, prevent the disconnected callout to occur before the disconnecting callout has returned. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-15[IA64-SGI] fix the size of __sn_cnodeid_to_nasidDean Roe
The __sn_cnodeid_to_nasid array was incorrectly sized at MAX_NUMNODES. On a large system, this array could overflow. The following patch corrects this by defining it to MAX_COMPACT_NODES. Signed-off-by: Dean Roe <roe@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-15[IA64] remove obsolete corporate addressJes Sorensen
Remove obsolete SGI address Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-15[IA64-SGI] sn2 minor fixes and cleanupsJes Sorensen
General SN2 code cleanup: - Do not initialize global variables to zero - Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc+memset - Check kmalloc return values - Do not obfuscate spin lock calls - Remove some unused code - Various formatting cleanups Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-15[PATCH] fix zap_thread's ptrace related problemsOleg Nesterov
1. The tracee can go from ptrace_stop() to do_signal_stop() after __ptrace_unlink(p). 2. It is unsafe to __ptrace_unlink(p) while p->parent may wait for tasklist_lock in ptrace_detach(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15[NETFILTER]: Fix xfrm lookup after SNATPatrick McHardy
To find out if a packet needs to be handled by IPsec after SNAT, packets are currently rerouted in POST_ROUTING and a new xfrm lookup is done. This breaks SNAT of non-unicast packets to non-local addresses because the packet is routed as incoming packet and no neighbour entry is bound to the dst_entry. In general, it seems to be a bad idea to replace the dst_entry after the packet was already sent to the output routine because its state might not match what's expected. This patch changes the xfrm lookup in POST_ROUTING to re-use the original dst_entry without routing the packet again. This means no policy routing can be used for transport mode transforms (which keep the original route) when packets are SNATed to match the policy, but it looks like the best we can do for now. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-15[PATCH] FRV: Use virtual interrupt disablementDavid Howells
Make the FRV arch use virtual interrupt disablement because accesses to the processor status register (PSR) are relatively slow and because we will soon have the need to deal with multiple interrupt controls at the same time (separate h/w and inter-core interrupts). The way this is done is to dedicate one of the four integer condition code registers (ICC2) to maintaining a virtual interrupt disablement state whilst inside the kernel. This uses the ICC2.Z flag (Zero) to indicate whether the interrupts are virtually disabled and the ICC2.C flag (Carry) to indicate whether the interrupts are physically disabled. ICC2.Z is set to indicate interrupts are virtually disabled. ICC2.C is set to indicate interrupts are physically enabled. Under normal running conditions Z==0 and C==1. Disabling interrupts with local_irq_disable() doesn't then actually physically disable interrupts - it merely sets ICC2.Z to 1. Should an interrupt then happen, the exception prologue will note ICC2.Z is set and branch out of line using one instruction (an unlikely BEQ). Here it will physically disable interrupts and clear ICC2.C. When it comes time to enable interrupts (local_irq_enable()), this simply clears the ICC2.Z flag and invokes a trap #2 if both Z and C flags are clear (the HI integer condition). This can be done with the TIHI conditional trap instruction. The trap then physically reenables interrupts and sets ICC2.C again. Upon returning the interrupt will be taken as interrupts will then be enabled. Note that whilst processing the trap, the whole exceptions system is disabled, and so an interrupt can't happen till it returns. If no pending interrupt had happened, ICC2.C would still be set, the HI condition would not be fulfilled, and no trap will happen. Saving interrupts (local_irq_save) is simply a matter of pulling the ICC2.Z flag out of the CCR register, shifting it down and masking it off. This gives a result of 0 if interrupts were enabled and 1 if they weren't. Restoring interrupts (local_irq_restore) is then a matter of taking the saved value mentioned previously and XOR'ing it against 1. If it was one, the result will be zero, and if it was zero the result will be non-zero. This result is then used to affect the ICC2.Z flag directly (it is a condition code flag after all). An XOR instruction does not affect the Carry flag, and so that bit of state is unchanged. The two flags can then be sampled to see if they're both zero using the trap (TIHI) as for the unconditional reenablement (local_irq_enable). This patch also: (1) Modifies the debugging stub (break.S) to handle single-stepping crossing into the trap #2 handler and into virtually disabled interrupts. (2) Removes superseded fixup pointers from the second instructions in the trap tables (there's no a separate fixup table for this). (3) Declares the trap #3 vector for use in .org directives in the trap table. (4) Moves irq_enter() and irq_exit() in do_IRQ() to avoid problems with virtual interrupt handling, and removes the duplicate code that has now been folded into irq_exit() (softirq and preemption handling). (5) Tells the compiler in the arch Makefile that ICC2 is now reserved. (6) Documents the in-kernel ABI, including the virtual interrupts. (7) Renames the old irq management functions to different names. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15[PATCH] FRV: Miscellaneous fixesDavid Howells
Make various alterations and fixes to the FRV arch: (1) Resyncs the FRV system call collection with the i386 arch. (2) Discards __iounmap() as it's not used. (3) Fixes the use of the SWAP/SWAPI instruction to get the arguments the right way around in atomic.h, and also to get the asm constraints correct. (4) Moves copy_to/from_user_page() to asm/cacheflush.h to be consistent with other archs. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15[PATCH] sched: revert "filter affine wakeups"Chen, Kenneth W
Revert commit d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6: [PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups Apparently caused more than 10% performance regression for aim7 benchmark. The setup in use is 16-cpu HP rx8620, 64Gb of memory and 12 MSA1000s with 144 disks. Each disk is 72Gb with a single ext3 filesystem (courtesy of HP, who supplied benchmark results). The problem is, for aim7, the wake-up pattern is random, but it still needs load balancing action in the wake-up path to achieve best performance. With the above commit, lack of load balancing hurts that workload. However, for workloads like database transaction processing, the requirement is exactly opposite. In the wake up path, best performance is achieved with absolutely zero load balancing. We simply wake up the process on the CPU that it was previously run. Worst performance is obtained when we do load balancing at wake up. There isn't an easy way to auto detect the workload characteristics. Ingo's earlier patch that detects idle CPU and decide whether to load balance or not doesn't perform with aim7 either since all CPUs are busy (it causes even bigger perf. regression). Revert commit d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6, which causes more than 10% performance regression with aim7. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15[PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORKMichael S. Tsirkin
Currently, copy-on-write may change the physical address of a page even if the user requested that the page is pinned in memory (either by mlock or by get_user_pages). This happens if the process forks meanwhile, and the parent writes to that page. As a result, the page is orphaned: in case of get_user_pages, the application will never see any data hardware DMA's into this page after the COW. In case of mlock'd memory, the parent is not getting the realtime/security benefits of mlock. In particular, this affects the Infiniband modules which do DMA from and into user pages all the time. This patch adds madvise options to control whether memory range is inherited across fork. Useful e.g. for when hardware is doing DMA from/into these pages. Could also be useful to an application wanting to speed up its forks by cutting large areas out of consideration. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15[PATCH] fix x86 topology export in sysfs for subarchitecturesJames Bottomley
The correct way to export hyperthreading based functions is to predicate them on CONFIG_X86_HT. Without this, the topology exporting patch breaks the build on all non-PC x86 subarchitectures. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15[PATCH] NLM: Fix the NLM_GRANTED callback checksTrond Myklebust
If 2 threads attached to the same process are blocking on different locks on different files (maybe even on different servers) but have the same lock arguments (i.e. same offset+length - actually quite common, since most processes try to lock the entire file) then the first GRANTED call that wakes one up will also wake the other. Currently when the NLM_GRANTED callback comes in, lockd walks the list of blocked locks in search of a match to the lock that the NLM server has granted. Although it checks the lock pid, start and end, it fails to check the filehandle and the server address. By checking the filehandle and server IP address, we ensure that this only happens if the locks truly are referencing the same file. 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>
2006-02-15[PATCH] jbd: revert checkpoint list changesMark Fasheh
This patch reverts commit f93ea411b73594f7d144855fd34278bcf34a9afc: [PATCH] jbd: split checkpoint lists This broke journal_flush() for OCFS2, which is its method of being sure that metadata is sent to disk for another node. And two related commits 8d3c7fce2d20ecc3264c8d8c91ae3beacdeaed1b and 43c3e6f5abdf6acac9b90c86bf03f995bf7d3d92 with the subjects: [PATCH] jbd: log_do_checkpoint fix [PATCH] jbd: remove_transaction fix These seem to be incremental bugfixes on the original patch and as such are no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14[IA64] Count disabled cpus as potential hot-pluggable CPUsAshok Raj
Have a facility to account for potentially hot-pluggable CPUs. ACPI doesnt give a determinstic method to find hot-pluggable CPUs. Hence we use 2 methods to assist. - BIOS can mark potentially hot-pluggable CPUs as disabled in the MADT tables. - User can specify the number of hot-pluggable CPUs via parameter additional_cpus=X The option is enabled only if ACPI_CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y which enables the physical hotplug option. Without which user can still use logical onlining and offlining of CPUs by enabling CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y Adds more bits to cpu_possible_map for potentially hot-pluggable cpus. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-14[MIPS] Fix CPU type bitmasks for MIPS III, IV and V.Maciej W. Rozycki
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-14[MIPS] Get rid of kludgery needed to keep stdargs of old compilers working.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-14[MIPS] More uaccess.h fixes with gcc >= 4.0.1.Ralf Baechle
From Richard Sandiford <richard@codesourcery.com>: This patch caused a miscompilation of the restore_gp_regs() block in restore_sigcontext(). This was in a 32-bit kernel compiled with GCC CVS head. restore_gp_regs() copies 64-bit user fields into 32-bit variables, and in this combination, the new __get_user_asm_ll32() clobbers too many registers. It says: /* * Get a long long 64 using 32 bit registers. */ { \ __asm__ __volatile__( \ "1: lw %1, (%3) \n" \ "2: lw %D1, 4(%3) \n" \ " move %0, $0 \n" \ "3: .section .fixup,\"ax\" \n" \ "4: li %0, %4 \n" \ " move %1, $0 \n" \ " move %D1, $0 \n" \ " j 3b \n" \ " .previous \n" \ " .section __ex_table,\"a\" \n" \ " " __UA_ADDR " 1b, 4b \n" \ " " __UA_ADDR " 2b, 4b \n" \ " .previous \n" \ : "=r" (__gu_err), "=&r" (val) \ : "0" (0), "r" (addr), "i" (-EFAULT)); \ } and this requires val (%1) to be a 64-bit value. In the case I saw, gcc was using $3 for the 32-bit val, and wasn't expecting $4 to be clobbered. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-14[MIPS] Add protected_blast_icache_range, blast_icache_range, etc.Atsushi Nemoto
Add blast_xxx_range(), protected_blast_xxx_range() etc. for common use. They are built by __BUILD_BLAST_CACHE_RANGE(). Use protected_cache_op() macro for various protected_ routines. Output code should be logically same. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-14[MIPS] Fold non-__mips64 case into CONFIG_32BIT case.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>