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2012-01-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm * 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm: (207 commits) ARM: 7267/1: Remove BUILD_BUG_ON from asm/bug.h ARM: 7269/1: mach-sa1100: fix sched_clock breakage ARM: 7198/1: arm/imx6: add restart support for imx6q ARM: restart: remove the now empty arch_reset() ARM: restart: remove comments about adding code to arch_reset() ARM: restart: lpc32xx & u300: remove unnecessary printk ARM: restart: plat-samsung: remove plat/reset.h and s5p_reset_hook ARM: restart: w90x900: use new restart hook ARM: restart: Versatile Express: use new restart hook ARM: restart: versatile: use new restart hook ARM: restart: u300: use new restart hook ARM: restart: tegra: use new restart hook ARM: restart: spear: use new restart hook ARM: restart: shark: use new restart hook ARM: restart: sa1100: use new restart hook ARM: 7252/1: restart: S5PV210: use new restart hook ARM: 7251/1: restart: S5PC100: use new restart hook ARM: 7250/1: restart: S5P64X0: use new restart hook ARM: 7266/1: restart: S3C64XX: use new restart hook ARM: 7265/1: restart: S3C24XX: use new restart hook ... Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/mm/init.c due to removal of memblock_init() clashing with the movement of the sorting of the meminfo array.
2012-01-07Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (185 commits) powerpc: fix compile error with 85xx/p1010rdb.c powerpc: fix compile error with 85xx/p1023_rds.c powerpc/fsl: add MSI support for the Freescale hypervisor arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rmu.c: introduce missing kfree powerpc/fsl: Add support for Integrated Flash Controller powerpc/fsl: update compatiable on fsl 16550 uart nodes powerpc/85xx: fix PCI and localbus properties in p1022ds.dts powerpc/85xx: re-enable ePAPR byte channel driver in corenet32_smp_defconfig powerpc/fsl: Update defconfigs to enable some standard FSL HW features powerpc: Add TBI PHY node to first MDIO bus sbc834x: put full compat string in board match check powerpc/fsl-pci: Allow 64-bit PCIe devices to DMA to any memory address powerpc: Fix unpaired probe_hcall_entry and probe_hcall_exit offb: Fix setting of the pseudo-palette for >8bpp offb: Add palette hack for qemu "standard vga" framebuffer offb: Fix bug in calculating requested vram size powerpc/boot: Change the WARN to INFO for boot wrapper overlap message powerpc/44x: Fix build error on currituck platform powerpc/boot: Change the load address for the wrapper to fit the kernel powerpc/44x: Enable CRASH_DUMP for 440x ... Fix up a trivial conflict in arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h due to the additional sparse-checking code for cputime_t.
2012-01-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1958 commits) net: pack skb_shared_info more efficiently net_sched: red: split red_parms into parms and vars net_sched: sfq: extend limits cnic: Improve error recovery on bnx2x devices cnic: Re-init dev->stats_addr after chip reset net_sched: Bug in netem reordering bna: fix sparse warnings/errors bna: make ethtool_ops and strings const xgmac: cleanups net: make ethtool_ops const vmxnet3" make ethtool ops const xen-netback: make ops structs const virtio_net: Pass gfp flags when allocating rx buffers. ixgbe: FCoE: Add support for ndo_get_fcoe_hbainfo() call netdev: FCoE: Add new ndo_get_fcoe_hbainfo() call igb: reset PHY after recovering from PHY power down igb: add basic runtime PM support igb: Add support for byte queue limits. e1000: cleanup CE4100 MDIO registers access e1000: unmap ce4100_gbe_mdio_base_virt in e1000_remove ...
2012-01-06Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits) x86: Fix atomic64_xxx_cx8() functions x86: Fix and improve cmpxchg_double{,_local}() x86_64, asm: Optimise fls(), ffs() and fls64() x86, bitops: Move fls64.h inside __KERNEL__ x86: Fix and improve percpu_cmpxchg{8,16}b_double() x86: Report cpb and eff_freq_ro flags correctly x86/i386: Use less assembly in strlen(), speed things up a bit x86: Use the same node_distance for 32 and 64-bit x86: Fix rflags in FAKE_STACK_FRAME x86: Clean up and extend do_int3() x86: Call do_notify_resume() with interrupts enabled x86/div64: Add a micro-optimization shortcut if base is power of two x86-64: Cleanup some assembly entry points x86-64: Slightly shorten line system call entry and exit paths x86-64: Reduce amount of redundant code generated for invalidate_interruptNN x86-64: Slightly shorten int_ret_from_sys_call x86, efi: Convert efi_phys_get_time() args to physical addresses x86: Default to vsyscall=emulate x86-64: Set siginfo and context on vsyscall emulation faults x86: consolidate xchg and xadd macros ...
2012-01-06Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (106 commits) perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in description perf script: Kill script_spec__delete perf top: Fix a memory leak perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper perf session: Remove impossible condition check perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variable perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section perf report: Accept fifos as input file perf tools: Moving code in some files perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_session perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown features perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_ops perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two. perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM. perf tools: Fix truncated annotation perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pid perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads ...
2012-01-06Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits) cpu: Export cpu_up() rcu: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_boost() return value Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled" docs: Additional LWN links to RCU API rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state rcu: Add rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw() rcu: Make rcutorture test for hotpluggability before offlining CPUs driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel rcu: Remove redundant rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declaration rcu: Adaptive dyntick-idle preparation rcu: Keep invoking callbacks if CPU otherwise idle rcu: Irq nesting is always 0 on rcu_enter_idle_common rcu: Don't check irq nesting from rcu idle entry/exit rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle() rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end ...
2012-01-06Merge branch 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timer: Use debugobjects to catch deletion of uninitialized timers timer: Setup uninitialized timer with a stub callback debugobjects: Extend to assert that an object is initialized debugobjects: Be smarter about static objects
2012-01-05Merge branch 'devel-stable' into for-linusRussell King
Conflicts: arch/arm/kernel/setup.c arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-kota2.c
2012-01-04Merge commit 'v3.2-rc7' into x86/asmIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Update from -rc4 to -rc7. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
2011-12-27bonding: document undocumented active_slave sysfs entry.Nicolas de Pesloüan
v2, based on Jay's review. I kept the 'link must be up' part, because this is enforced in the code. Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-26KVM: Don't automatically expose the TSC deadline timer in cpuidJan Kiszka
Unlike all of the other cpuid bits, the TSC deadline timer bit is set unconditionally, regardless of what userspace wants. This is broken in several ways: - if userspace doesn't use KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, and doesn't emulate the TSC deadline timer feature, a guest that uses the feature will break - live migration to older host kernels that don't support the TSC deadline timer will cause the feature to be pulled from under the guest's feet; breaking it - guests that are broken wrt the feature will fail. Fix by not enabling the feature automatically; instead report it to userspace. Because the feature depends on KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, which we cannot guarantee will be called, we expose it via a KVM_CAP_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER and not KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID. Fixes the Illumos guest kernel, which uses the TSC deadline timer feature. [avi: add the KVM_CAP + documentation] Reported-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> Tested-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-12-25KVM: Device assignment permission checksAlex Williamson
Only allow KVM device assignment to attach to devices which: - Are not bridges - Have BAR resources (assume others are special devices) - The user has permissions to use Assigning a bridge is a configuration error, it's not supported, and typically doesn't result in the behavior the user is expecting anyway. Devices without BAR resources are typically chipset components that also don't have host drivers. We don't want users to hold such devices captive or cause system problems by fencing them off into an iommu domain. We determine "permission to use" by testing whether the user has access to the PCI sysfs resource files. By default a normal user will not have access to these files, so it provides a good indication that an administration agent has granted the user access to the device. [Yang Bai: add missing #include] [avi: fix comment style] Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Bai <hamo.by@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-12-25KVM: Remove ability to assign a device without iommu supportAlex Williamson
This option has no users and it exposes a security hole that we can allow devices to be assigned without iommu protection. Make KVM_DEV_ASSIGN_ENABLE_IOMMU a mandatory option. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-12-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c Just two overlapping changes, one added an initialization of a local variable, and another change added a new local variable. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-23packet: fix typo in packet_mmap.txtWei Yongjun
Just fixed typo of sample code in packet_mmap.txt Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-23Partial revert "Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory Controller"Glauber Costa
This reverts commit e5671dfae59b165e2adfd4dfbdeab11ac8db5bda. After a follow up discussion with Michal, it was agreed it would be better to leave the kmem controller with just the tcp files, deferring the behavior of the other general memory.kmem.* files for a later time, when more caches are controlled. This is because generic kmem files are not used by tcp accounting and it is not clear how other slab caches would fit into the scheme. We are reverting the original commit so we can track the reference. Part of the patch is kept, because it was used by the later tcp code. Conflicts are shown in the bottom. init/Kconfig is removed from the revert entirely. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> CC: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> CC: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> CC: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> CC: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Conflicts: Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt mm/memcontrol.c Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-21stmmac: update the driver's documentation (Dec-2011)Giuseppe CAVALLARO
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-20Merge commit 'v3.2-rc6' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Update with the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-20net: doc: fix many typos in scaling.txtShan Wei
Fix some trivial typos. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-20Merge branch 'for-tip' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into perf/core
2011-12-14Merge branch 'rcu/next' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
2011-12-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: ceph: add missing spin_unlock at ceph_mdsc_build_path() ceph: fix SEEK_CUR, SEEK_SET regression crush: fix mapping calculation when force argument doesn't exist ceph: use i_ceph_lock instead of i_lock rbd: remove buggy rollback functionality rbd: return an error when an invalid header is read ceph: fix rasize reporting by ceph_show_options
2011-12-13Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-mergeDavid S. Miller
2011-12-13Display current tcp memory allocation in kmem cgroupGlauber Costa
This patch introduces kmem.tcp.usage_in_bytes file, living in the kmem_cgroup filesystem. It is a simple read-only file that displays the amount of kernel memory currently consumed by the cgroup. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: Hiroyouki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-13tcp buffer limitation: per-cgroup limitGlauber Costa
This patch uses the "tcp.limit_in_bytes" field of the kmem_cgroup to effectively control the amount of kernel memory pinned by a cgroup. This value is ignored in the root cgroup, and in all others, caps the value specified by the admin in the net namespaces' view of tcp_sysctl_mem. If namespaces are being used, the admin is allowed to set a value bigger than cgroup's maximum, the same way it is allowed to set pretty much unlimited values in a real box. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: Hiroyouki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-13tcp memory pressure controlsGlauber Costa
This patch introduces memory pressure controls for the tcp protocol. It uses the generic socket memory pressure code introduced in earlier patches, and fills in the necessary data in cg_proto struct. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujtisu.com> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-13socket: initial cgroup code.Glauber Costa
The goal of this work is to move the memory pressure tcp controls to a cgroup, instead of just relying on global conditions. To avoid excessive overhead in the network fast paths, the code that accounts allocated memory to a cgroup is hidden inside a static_branch(). This branch is patched out until the first non-root cgroup is created. So when nobody is using cgroups, even if it is mounted, no significant performance penalty should be seen. This patch handles the generic part of the code, and has nothing tcp-specific. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujtsu.com> CC: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-13Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory ControllerGlauber Costa
This patch lays down the foundation for the kernel memory component of the Memory Controller. As of today, I am only laying down the following files: * memory.independent_kmem_limit * memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes (currently ignored) * memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes (always zero) Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> CC: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> CC: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> CC: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> CC: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-12Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
2011-12-11docs: Additional LWN links to RCU APIKees Cook
Tyler Hicks pointed me at an additional article on RCU and I figured it should probably be mentioned with the others. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11doc: Add load/store guarantees to Documentation/atomic-ops.txtPaul E. McKenney
An IRC discussion uncovered many conflicting opinions on what types of data may be atomically loaded and stored. This commit therefore calls this out the official set: pointers, longs, ints, and chars (but not shorts). This commit also gives some examples of compiler mischief that can thwart atomicity. Please note that this discussion is relevant to !SMP kernels if CONFIG_PREEMPT=y: preemption can cause almost as much trouble as can SMP. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
2011-12-11rcu: Add rcutorture CPU-hotplug capabilityPaul E. McKenney
Running CPU-hotplug operations concurrently with rcutorture has historically been a good way to find bugs in both RCU and CPU hotplug. This commit therefore adds an rcutorture module parameter called "onoff_interval" that causes a randomly selected CPU-hotplug operation to be executed at the specified interval, in seconds. The default value of "onoff_interval" is zero, which disables rcutorture-instigated CPU-hotplug operations. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11rcu: Add rcutorture system-shutdown capabilityPaul E. McKenney
Although it is easy to run rcutorture tests under KVM, there is currently no nice way to run such a test for a fixed time period, collect all of the rcutorture data, and then shut the system down cleanly. This commit therefore adds an rcutorture module parameter named "shutdown_secs" that specified the run duration in seconds, after which rcutorture terminates the test and powers the system down. The default value for "shutdown_secs" is zero, which disables shutdown. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11rcu: Add documentation for raw SRCU read-side primitivesPaul E. McKenney
Update various files in Documentation/RCU to reflect srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(). Credit to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting use of the existing _raw suffix instead of the earlier bulkref names. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11rcu: Document failing tick as cause of RCU CPU stall warningPaul E. McKenney
One of lclaudio's systems was seeing RCU CPU stall warnings from idle. These turned out to be caused by a bug that stopped scheduling-clock tick interrupts from being sent to a given CPU for several hundred seconds. This commit therefore updates the documentation to call this out as a possible cause for RCU CPU stall warnings. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11rcu: Track idleness independent of idle tasksPaul E. McKenney
Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for CONFIG_NO_HZ=y. But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing. A more fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required. This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service, so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration. Similarly, rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked at the end of an idle-loop iteration. This allows the idle task to use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used. Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts. This patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions and interrupt entry/exit transitions. It is presumed that userspace upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution (though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall). The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating. Overflow is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter. This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246). In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11lockdep: Update documentation for lock-class leak detectionPaul E. McKenney
There are a number of bugs that can leak or overuse lock classes, which can cause the maximum number of lock classes (currently 8191) to be exceeded. However, the documentation does not tell you how to track down these problems. This commit addresses this shortcoming. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-09Merge branch 'iommu/fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu * 'iommu/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: MAINTAINERS: Update amd-iommu F: patterns iommu/amd: Fix typo in kernel-parameters.txt iommu/msm: Fix compile error in mach-msm/devices-iommu.c Fix comparison using wrong pointer variable in dma debug code
2011-12-09Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix lost speaker volume controls ALSA: hda/realtek - Create "Bass Speaker" for two speaker pins ALSA: hda/realtek - Don't create extra controls with channel suffix ALSA: hda - Fix remaining VREF mute-LED NID check in post-3.1 changes ALSA: hda - Fix GPIO LED setup for IDT 92HD75 codecs ASoC: Provide a more complete DMA driver stub ASoC: Remove references to corgi and spitz from machine driver document ASoC: Make SND_SOC_MX27VIS_AIC32X4 depend on I2C ASoC: Fix dependency for SND_SOC_RAUMFELD and SND_PXA2XX_SOC_HX4700 ASoC: uda1380: Return proper error in uda1380_modinit failure path ASoC: kirkwood: Make SND_KIRKWOOD_SOC_OPENRD and SND_KIRKWOOD_SOC_T5325 depend on I2C ASoC: Mark WM8994 ADC muxes as virtual ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix Oops in alc_mux_select() ALSA: sis7019 - give slow codecs more time to reset
2011-12-07wireless: disable wext sysfs by defaultJohannes Berg
This code has been on the list to remove for a long time, so disable it by default, add a warning to its Kconfig, and schedule it for removal in 3.5. The only known dependency, hal, has not required it since its 0.5.12 release, which was in early 2009 and hal has since been deprecated completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-07rbd: remove buggy rollback functionalityJosh Durgin
This doesn't interact with resizing well, since it doesn't set the size of the device to the size at the snapshot. It's also an expensive operation to be synchronous. Rollback can still be done with the userspace rbd tool. Signed-off-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@dreamhost.com>
2011-12-07oprofile, s390: Add event interface to the System z hardware sampling moduleAndreas Krebbel
With this patch the OProfile Basic Mode Sampling support for System z is enhanced with a counter file system. That way hardware sampling can be configured using the user space tools with only little modifications. With the patch by default new cpu_types (s390/z10, s390/z196) are returned in order to indicate that we are running a CPU which provides the hardware sampling facility. Existing user space tools will complain about an unknown cpu type. In order to be compatible with existing user space tools the `cpu_type' module parameter has been added. Setting the parameter to `timer' will force the module to return `timer' as cpu_type. The module will still try to use hardware sampling if available and the hwsampling virtual filesystem will be also be available for configuration. So this has a different effect than using the generic oprofile module parameter `timer=1'. If the basic mode sampling is enabled on the machine and the cpu_type=timer parameter is not used the kernel module will provide the following virtual filesystem: /dev/oprofile/0/enabled /dev/oprofile/0/event /dev/oprofile/0/count /dev/oprofile/0/unit_mask /dev/oprofile/0/kernel /dev/oprofile/0/user In the counter file system only the values of 'enabled', 'count', 'kernel', and 'user' are evaluated by the kernel module. Everything else must contain fixed values. The 'event' value only supports a single event - HWSAMPLING with value 0. The 'count' value specifies the hardware sampling rate as it is passed to the CPU measurement facility. The 'kernel' and 'user' flags can now be used to filter for samples when using hardware sampling. Additionally also the following file will be created: /dev/oprofile/timer/enabled This will always be the inverted value of /dev/oprofile/0/enabled. 0 is not accepted without hardware sampling. Signed-off-by: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2011-12-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
2011-12-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: net: Silence seq_scale() unused warning ipv4:correct description for tcp_max_syn_backlog pasemi_mac: Fix building as module netback: Fix alert message. r8169: fix Rx index race between FIFO overflow recovery and NAPI handler. r8169: Rx FIFO overflow fixes. ipv4: Fix peer validation on cached lookup. ipv4: make sure RTO_ONLINK is saved in routing cache iwlwifi: change the default behavior of watchdog timer iwlwifi: do not re-configure HT40 after associated iwlagn: fix HW crypto for TX-only keys Revert "mac80211: clear sta.drv_priv on reconfiguration" mac80211: fill rate filter for internal scan requests cfg80211: amend regulatory NULL dereference fix cfg80211: fix race on init and driver registration
2011-12-06ipv4:correct description for tcp_max_syn_backlogPeter Pan(潘卫平)
Since commit c5ed63d66f24(tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning), sysctl_max_syn_backlog is determined by tcp_hashinfo->ehash_mask, and the minimal value is 128, and it will increase in proportion to the memory of machine. The original description for tcp_max_syn_backlog and sysctl_max_syn_backlog are out of date. Changelog: V2: update description for sysctl_max_syn_backlog Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <panweiping3@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06iommu/amd: Fix typo in kernel-parameters.txtSedat Dilek
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2011-12-06Merge branch 'fix/asoc' into for-linusTakashi Iwai
2011-12-06Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Add these cherry-picked commits so that future changes on perf/core don't conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05Merge branch 'vmalloc' of git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/linux into ↵Russell King
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