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This patch provides performance tuning for the "Bulldozer" CPU. With its
shared instruction cache there is a chance of generating an excessive
number of cache cross-invalidates when running specific workloads on the
cores of a compute module.
This excessive amount of cross-invalidations can be observed if cache
lines backed by shared physical memory alias in bits [14:12] of their
virtual addresses, as those bits are used for the index generation.
This patch addresses the issue by clearing all the bits in the [14:12]
slice of the file mapping's virtual address at generation time, thus
forcing those bits the same for all mappings of a single shared library
across processes and, in doing so, avoids instruction cache aliases.
It also adds the command line option "align_va_addr=(32|64|on|off)" with
which virtual address alignment can be enabled for 32-bit or 64-bit x86
individually, or both, or be completely disabled.
This change leaves virtual region address allocation on other families
and/or vendors unaffected.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312550110-24160-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86. reboot: Make Dell Latitude E6320 use reboot=pci
x86, doc only: Correct real-mode kernel header offset for init_size
x86: Disable AMD_NUMA for 32bit for now
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
nilfs2: remove resize from unsupported features list
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (21 commits)
slip: fix wrong SLIP6 ifdef-endif placing
natsemi: fix another dma-debug report
sctp: ABORT if receive, reassmbly, or reodering queue is not empty while closing socket
net: Fix default in docs for tcp_orphan_retries.
hso: fix a use after free condition
net/natsemi: Fix module parameter permissions
XFRM: Fix memory leak in xfrm_state_update
sctp: Enforce retransmission limit during shutdown
mac80211: fix TKIP replay vulnerability
mac80211: fix ie memory allocation for scheduled scans
ssb: fix init regression of hostmode PCI core
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Add new USB ID for Netgear WNA1000M
ath9k: Fix tx throughput drops for AR9003 chips with AES encryption
carl9170: add NEC WL300NU-AG usbid
cfg80211: fix deadlock with rfkill/sched_scan by adding new mutex
ath5k: fix incorrect use of drvdata in PCI suspend/resume code
ath5k: fix incorrect use of drvdata in sysfs code
Bluetooth: Fix memory leak under page timeouts
Bluetooth: Fix regression with incoming L2CAP connections
Bluetooth: Fix hidp disconnect deadlocks and lost wakeup
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Resize feature was supported by the commit 4e33f9eab07e but it was not
reflected to the list of unsupported features in nilfs2.txt file.
This updates the list to fix discrepancy.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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The real-mode kernel header init_size field is located at 0x260 per the field
listing in th e"REAL-MODE KERNEL HEADER" section. It is listed as 0x25c in
the "DETAILS OF HEADER FIELDS" section, which overlaps with pref_address.
Correct the details listing to 0x260.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/541cf88e2dfe5b8186d8b96b136d892e769a68c1.1310441260.git.dvhart@linux.intel.com
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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That file harkens back to the days of the big 2.4 -> 2.6 version jump,
and was based even then on older versions. Some of it is just obsolete,
and Jesper Juhl points out that it talks about kernel versions 2.6 and
should be updated to 3.0.
Remove some obsolete text, and re-phrase some other to not be 2.6-specific.
Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6:
[media] msp3400: fill in v4l2_tuner based on vt->type field
[media] tuner-core.c: don't change type field in g_tuner or g_frequency
[media] cx18/ivtv: fix g_tuner support
[media] tuner-core: power up tuner when called with s_power(1)
[media] v4l2-ioctl.c: check for valid tuner type in S_HW_FREQ_SEEK
[media] tuner-core: simplify the standard fixup
[media] tuner-core/v4l2-subdev: document that the type field has to be filled in
[media] v4l2-subdev.h: remove unused s_mode tuner op
[media] feature-removal-schedule: change in how radio device nodes are handled
[media] bttv: fix s_tuner for radio
[media] pvrusb2: fix g/s_tuner support
[media] v4l2-ioctl.c: prefill tuner type for g_frequency and g/s_tuner
[media] tuner-core: fix tuner_resume: use t->mode instead of t->type
[media] tuner-core: fix s_std and s_tuner
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86:
hp-wmi: fix use after free
dell-laptop - using buffer without mutex_lock
Revert: "dell-laptop: Toggle the unsupported hardware killswitch"
platform-drivers-x86: set backlight type to BACKLIGHT_PLATFORM
thinkpad-acpi: handle HKEY 0x4010, 0x4011 events
drivers/platform/x86: Fix memory leak
thinkpad-acpi: handle some new HKEY 0x60xx events
acer-wmi: fix bitwise bug when set device state
acer-wmi: Only update rfkill status for associated hotkey events
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Since we removed sti()/cli() and related, how about removing it from
Documentation/spinlocks.txt?
Signed-off-by: Muthukumar R <muthur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: conditional resource-reallocation through kernel parameter pci=realloc
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Multiple attempts to dynamically reallocate pci resources have
unfortunately lead to regressions. Though we continue to fix the
regressions and fine tune the dynamic-reallocation behavior, we have not
reached a acceptable state yet.
This patch provides a interim solution. It disables dynamic reallocation
by default, but adds the ability to enable it through pci=realloc kernel
command line parameter.
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Default should be listed at 8 instead of 7.
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add an FS-Cache helper to bulk uncache pages on an inode. This will
only work for the circumstance where the pages in the cache correspond
1:1 with the pages attached to an inode's page cache.
This is required for CIFS and NFS: When disabling inode cookie, we were
returning the cookie and setting cifsi->fscache to NULL but failed to
invalidate any previously mapped pages. This resulted in "Bad page
state" errors and manifested in other kind of errors when running
fsstress. Fix it by uncaching mapped pages when we disable the inode
cookie.
This patch should fix the following oops and "Bad page state" errors
seen during fsstress testing.
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kernel BUG at fs/cachefiles/namei.c:201!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Pid: 5, comm: kworker/u:0 Not tainted 2.6.38.7-30.fc15.x86_64 #1 Bochs Bochs
RIP: 0010: cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles]
RSP: 0018:ffff88002ce6dd00 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: ffff88002ef165f0 RBX: ffff88001811f500 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000100 RDI: 0000000000000282
RBP: ffff88002ce6dda0 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: ffffffff81b3a300
R10: 0000ffff00066c0a R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff88002ae54840
R13: ffff88002ae54840 R14: ffff880029c29c00 R15: ffff88001811f4b0
FS: 00007f394dd32720(0000) GS:ffff88002ef00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00007fffcb62ddf8 CR3: 000000001825f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process kworker/u:0 (pid: 5, threadinfo ffff88002ce6c000, task ffff88002ce55cc0)
Stack:
0000000000000246 ffff88002ce55cc0 ffff88002ce6dd58 ffff88001815dc00
ffff8800185246c0 ffff88001811f618 ffff880029c29d18 ffff88001811f380
ffff88002ce6dd50 ffffffff814757e4 ffff88002ce6dda0 ffffffff8106ac56
Call Trace:
cachefiles_lookup_object+0x78/0xd4 [cachefiles]
fscache_lookup_object+0x131/0x16d [fscache]
fscache_object_work_func+0x1bc/0x669 [fscache]
process_one_work+0x186/0x298
worker_thread+0xda/0x15d
kthread+0x84/0x8c
kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
RIP cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles]
---[ end trace 1d481c9af1804caa ]---
I tested the uncaching by the following means:
(1) Create a big file on my NFS server (104857600 bytes).
(2) Read the file into the cache with md5sum on the NFS client. Look in
/proc/fs/fscache/stats:
Pages : mrk=25601 unc=0
(3) Open the file for read/write ("bash 5<>/warthog/bigfile"). Look in proc
again:
Pages : mrk=25601 unc=25601
Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Radio devices have weird side-effects when used with combined TV/radio
tuners and the V4L2 spec is ambiguous on how it should work. This results
in inconsistent driver behavior which makes life hard for everyone.
Be more strict in when and how the switch between radio and tv mode
takes place and make sure all drivers behave the same.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Handle events 0x4010 and 0x4011 so that we do not pester users about them.
These events report when the thinkpad is docked/undocked to a native
hotplug dock (i.e. one that does not need ACPI handling, nor is represented
in the ACPI device tree). Such docks are based on USB 2.0/3.0, and also
work as port replicators.
We really want a proper dock class to report these, or at least new input
EV_SW events. Since it is not clear which one to use yet, keep reporting
them as vendor-specific ThinkPad events.
WARNING: As defined by the thinkpad-acpi sysfs ABI rules of engagement, the
vendor-specific events will be REMOVED as soon as generic events are made
available (duplicate events are a big problem), with an appropriate update
to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs/event ABI versioning. Userspace is already
prepared to provide easy backwards compatibility for such changes when
convenient to the distro (see acpi-fakekey).
* Event 0x4010: docking to hotplug dock/port replicator
* Event 0x4011: undocking from hotplug dock/port replicator
Typical usecase would be to trigger display reconfiguration.
Reports mention T410, T510, and series 3 docks/port replicators. Special
thanks to Robert de Rooy for his extensive report and analysis of the
situation.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Port_Replicator_Series_3
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Mini_Dock_Series_3
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Mini_Dock_Plus_Series_3
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Mini_Dock_Plus_Series_3_for_Mobile_Workstations
http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=290
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Reported-by: Claudius Hubig <claudiushubig@chubig.net>
Reported-by: Doctor Bill <docbill@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Korte Noack <gbk.noack@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Robert de Rooy <robert.de.rooy@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Sebastian Will <swill@csail.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
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Handle some user interface events from the newer Lenovo models. We are likely
to do something smart with these events in the future, for now, hide the ones
we are already certain about from the user and userspace both.
* Events 0x6000 and 0x6005 are key-related. 0x6005 is not properly identified
yet. Ignore these events, and do not report them.
* Event 0x6040 has not been properly identified yet, and we don't know if it
is important (looks like it isn't, but still...). Keep reporting it.
* Change the message the driver outputs on unknown 0x6xxx events, as all
recent events are not related to thermal alarms. Degrade log level from
ALERT to WARNING.
Thanks to all users who reported these events or asked about them in a number
of mailing lists. Your help is highly appreciated, even if I did took a lot of
time to act on them. For that I apologise.
I will list those that identified the reasons for the events as "reported-by",
and I apologise in advance if I leave anyone out: it was not done on purpose, I
made the mistake of not properly tagging all event report emails separately,
and might have missed some.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Reported-by: Markus Malkusch <markus@malkusch.de>
Reported-by: Peter Giles <g1l3sp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
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All the blkio.throttle.* file names are incorrectly reported without
".throttle" in the documentation. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The list of available general purpose memory allocators in
Documentation/CodingStyle chapter 14 is incomplete. This patch adds
the missing vzalloc() to the list.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
PM / Runtime: Update documentation regarding driver removal
PM: Documentation: fix typo: pm_runtime_idle_sync() doesn't exist.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
hwmon: (k10temp) Update documentation for Fam12h
hwmon-vid: Fix typo in VIA CPU name
hwmon: (f71882fg) Add support for the F71869A
hwmon: Use <> rather than () around my e-mail address
hwmon: (emc6w201) Properly handle all errors
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Add some CPU series IDs and links to the Fam12h datasheets.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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The F71869A is almost the same as the F71869F/E, except that it has
the normal number of temp and pwm zones for a F71882FG derived chip,
rather then the limited number of the F71869F/E.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Max Baldwin <archerseven@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Commit e1866b33b1e89f077b7132daae3dfd9a594e9a1a (PM / Runtime: Rework
runtime PM handling during driver removal) forgot to update the
documentation in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt to match the new
code in drivers/base/dd.c. Update that documentation to match the
code it describes.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
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Replace reference to pm_runtime_idle_sync() in the driver core with
pm_runtime_put_sync() which is used in the code.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer of USB/IP
usb: r8a66597-hcd: fix cannot detect low/full speed device
USB: ehci-ath79: fix a NULL pointer dereference
USB: Add new FT232H chip to drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
usb/isp1760: Fix bug preventing the unlinking of control urbs
USB: Fix up URB error codes to reflect implementation.
xhci: Always set urb->status to zero for isoc endpoints.
xhci: Add reset on resume quirk for asrock p67 host
xHCI 1.0: Incompatible Device Error
USB: don't let errors prevent system sleep
USB: don't let the hub driver prevent system sleep
USB: change maintainership of ohci-hcd and ehci-hcd
xHCI 1.0: Force Stopped Event(FSE)
xhci: Don't warn about zeroed bMaxBurst descriptor field.
USB: Free bandwidth when usb_disable_device is called.
xhci: Reject double add of active endpoints.
USB: TI 3410/5052 USB Serial Driver: Fix mem leak when firmware is too big.
usb: musb: gadget: clear TXPKTRDY flag when set FLUSHFIFO
usb: musb: host: compare status for negative error values
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Commit 4d27e9dcff00a6425d779b065ec8892e4f391661 (PM: Make power
domain callbacks take precedence over subsystem ones) forgot to
update the device power management documentation to take changes
made by it into account. Correct that mistake.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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The part of Documentation/power/devices.txt regarding sysdevs is not
valid any more after commit 2e711c04dbbf7a7732a3f7073b1fc285d12b369d
(PM: Remove sysdev suspend, resume and shutdown operations), so
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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Commit e8665002477f0278f84f898145b1f141ba26ee26 (PM: Allow
pm_runtime_suspend() to succeed during system suspend) removed usage
count increment across system PM.
Update doc to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file
rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y
rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
rcu: Simplify curing of load woes
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Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt mentions that urb->status can be set to
-EXDEV, if the isochronous transfer was not fully completed. However, in
practice, EHCI, UHCI, and OHCI all only set -EXDEV in the individual frame
status, never in the URB status. Those host controller actually always
pass in a zero status to usb_hcd_giveback_urb, and rely on the core to set
the appropriate status value.
The xHCI driver ran into issues with the uvcvideo driver when it tried to
set -EXDEV in urb->status, because the driver refused to submit URBs, and
the userspace camera application's video froze.
Clean up the documentation to reflect the actual implementation.
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Fix format and spelling.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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According to commit 676db4af0430 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to
mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem
is /sys/fs/cgroup. Hence, this should be used in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Instead of listing the architectures that are supported by
kmemleak in Documentation/kmemleak.txt, just refer people to
the list of supported architecutures in lib/Kconfig.debug so
that Documentation/kmemleak.txt does not need more updates
for this.
Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch updates the incomplete documentation concerning the printk
extended format specifiers.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@mpc-data.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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feature-removal-schedule.txt
Commit a77aea92010acf ("cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup") removed the
ns_cgroup but it forgot to remove the related doc in
feature-removal-schedule.txt.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rework text, fit it into 80-cols]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
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: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.
The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.
Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.)
This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md/raid5: remove unusual use of bio_iovec_idx()
md/raid5: fix FUA request handling in ops_run_io()
md/raid5: fix raid5_set_bi_hw_segments
md:Documentation/md.txt - fix typo
md/bitmap: remove unused fields from struct bitmap
md/bitmap: use proper accessor macro
md: check ->hot_remove_disk when removing disk
md: Using poll /proc/mdstat can monitor the events of adding a spare disks
MD: use is_power_of_2 macro
MD: raid5 do not set fullsync
MD: support initial bitmap creation in-kernel
MD: add sync_super to mddev_t struct
MD: raid1 changes to allow use by device mapper
MD: move thread wakeups into resume
MD: possible typo
MD: no sync IO while suspended
MD: no integrity register if no gendisk
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Reported-by: CoolCold <coolthecold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Some USB mass-storage devices have bugs that cause them not to handle
the first READ(10) command they receive correctly. The Corsair
Padlock v2 returns completely bogus data for its first read (possibly
it returns the data in encrypted form even though the device is
supposed to be unlocked). The Feiya SD/SDHC card reader fails to
complete the first READ(10) command after it is plugged in or after a
new card is inserted, returning a status code that indicates it thinks
the command was invalid, which prevents the kernel from retrying the
read.
Since the first read of a new device or a new medium is for the
partition sector, the kernel is unable to retrieve the device's
partition table. Users have to manually issue an "hdparm -z" or
"blockdev --rereadpt" command before they can access the device.
This patch (as1470) works around the problem. It adds a new quirk
flag, US_FL_INVALID_READ10, indicating that the first READ(10) should
always be retried immediately, as should any failing READ(10) commands
(provided the preceding READ(10) command succeeded, to avoid getting
stuck in a loop). The patch also adds appropriate unusual_devs
entries containing the new flag.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Sven Geggus <sven-usbst@geggus.net>
Tested-by: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+linux@gmail.com>
CC: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
CC: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6:
intel-iommu: Fix off-by-one in RMRR setup
intel-iommu: Add domain check in domain_remove_one_dev_info
intel-iommu: Remove Host Bridge devices from identity mapping
intel-iommu: Use coherent DMA mask when requested
intel-iommu: Dont cache iova above 32bit
intel-iommu: Speed up processing of the identity_mapping function
intel-iommu: Check for identity mapping candidate using system dma mask
intel-iommu: Only unlink device domains from iommu
intel-iommu: Enable super page (2MiB, 1GiB, etc.) support
intel-iommu: Flush unmaps at domain_exit
intel-iommu: Remove obsolete comment from detect_intel_iommu
intel-iommu: fix VT-d PMR disable for TXT on S3 resume
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There are no externally-visible changes with this. In the loop in the
internal __domain_mapping() function, we simply detect if we are mapping:
- size >= 2MiB, and
- virtual address aligned to 2MiB, and
- physical address aligned to 2MiB, and
- on hardware that supports superpages.
(and likewise for larger superpages).
We automatically use a superpage for such mappings. We never have to
worry about *breaking* superpages, since we trust that we will always
*unmap* the same range that was mapped. So all we need to do is ensure
that dma_pte_clear_range() will also cope with superpages.
Adjust pfn_to_dma_pte() to take a superpage 'level' as an argument, so
it can return a PTE at the appropriate level rather than always
extending the page tables all the way down to level 1. Again, this is
simplified by the fact that we should never encounter existing small
pages when we're creating a mapping; any old mapping that used the same
virtual range will have been entirely removed and its obsolete page
tables freed.
Provide an 'intel_iommu=sp_off' argument on the command line as a
chicken bit. Not that it should ever be required.
==
The original commit seen in the iommu-2.6.git was Youquan's
implementation (and completion) of my own half-baked code which I'd
typed into an email. Followed by half a dozen subsequent 'fixes'.
I've taken the unusual step of rewriting history and collapsing the
original commits in order to keep the main history simpler, and make
life easier for the people who are going to have to backport this to
older kernels. And also so I can give it a more coherent commit comment
which (hopefully) gives a better explanation of what's going on.
The original sequence of commits leading to identical code was:
Youquan Song (3):
intel-iommu: super page support
intel-iommu: Fix superpage alignment calculation error
intel-iommu: Fix superpage level calculation error in dma_pfn_level_pte()
David Woodhouse (4):
intel-iommu: Precalculate superpage support for dmar_domain
intel-iommu: Fix hardware_largepage_caps()
intel-iommu: Fix inappropriate use of superpages in __domain_mapping()
intel-iommu: Fix phys_pfn in __domain_mapping for sglist pages
Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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No virtio device does this any more, so no need to clutter lguest with it.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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ed16648eb5b86917f0b90bdcdbc857202da72f90 "Move kvm, uml, and lguest
subdirectories" broke the lguest example launcher.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86: (43 commits)
acer-wmi: support integer return type from WMI methods
msi-laptop: fix section mismatch in reference from the function load_scm_model_init
acer-wmi: support to set communication device state by new wmid method
acer-wmi: allow 64-bits return buffer from WMI methods
acer-wmi: check the existence of internal 3G device when set capability
platform/x86:delete two unused variables
support wlan hotkey on Acer Travelmate 5735Z
platform-x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix memory leak
platform/x86: Fix Makefile for intel_mid_powerbtn
platform/x86: Simplify intel_mid_powerbtn
acer-wmi: Delete out-of-date documentation
acerhdf: Clean up includes
acerhdf: Drop pointless dependency on THERMAL_HWMON
acer-wmi: Update MAINTAINERS
wmi: Orphan ACPI-WMI driver
tc1100-wmi: Orphan driver
acer-wmi: does not allow negative number set to initial device state
platform/oaktrail: ACPI EC Extra driver for Oaktrail
thinkpad_acpi: Convert printks to pr_<level>
thinkpad_acpi: Correct !CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_VIDEO warning
...
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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:
ACPI EC: remove redundant code
ACPI: Add D3 cold state
ACPI: processor: fix processor_physically_present in UP kernel
ACPI: Split out custom_method functionality into an own driver
ACPI: Cleanup custom_method debug stuff
ACPI EC: enable MSI workaround for Quanta laptops
ACPICA: Update to version 20110413
ACPICA: Execute an orphan _REG method under the EC device
ACPICA: Move ACPI_NUM_PREDEFINED_REGIONS to a more appropriate place
ACPICA: Update internal address SpaceID for DataTable regions
ACPICA: Add more methods eligible for NULL package element removal
ACPICA: Split all internal Global Lock functions to new file - evglock
ACPI: EC: add another DMI check for ASUS hardware
ACPI EC: remove dead code
ACPICA: Fix code divergence of global lock handling
ACPICA: Use acpi_os_create_lock interface
ACPI: osl, add acpi_os_create_lock interface
ACPI:Fix goto flows in thermal-sys
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
x86 idle: deprecate "no-hlt" cmdline param
x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()
x86 idle: EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle, pm_idle) only when APM demands it
x86 idle: clarify AMD erratum 400 workaround
idle governor: Avoid lock acquisition to read pm_qos before entering idle
cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds
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