Anton Blanchard [Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:00:45 +0000 (12:00 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace code
Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace code now we have proper calltrace
support. Also make MMCRA sihv and sipr bits a variable since they may
change in future cpus. Finally, MMCRA should be a 64bit quantity.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Anton Blanchard [Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:03:17 +0000 (12:03 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support to all powerpc cpus
Add calltrace support for other powerpc cpus. Tested on 7450.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Brian Rogan [Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:57:01 +0000 (11:57 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support
Add oprofile calltrace support to powerpc. Disable spinlock backtracing
now we can use calltrace info.
(Updated to work on both 32bit and 64bit by me).
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:50:52 +0000 (14:50 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: ppc
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes
in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and
possibly buggy.
We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
future.
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:50:51 +0000 (14:50 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: powerpc
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes
in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and
possibly buggy.
We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
future.
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Eugene Surovegin [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:13:12 +0000 (10:13 -0800)]
[PATCH] lock PTE before updating it in 440/BookE page fault handler
Fix 44x and BookE page fault handler to correctly lock PTE before
trying to pte_update() it, otherwise this PTE might be swapped out
after pte_present() check but before pte_uptdate() call, resulting in
corrupted PTE. This can happen with enabled preemption and low memory
condition.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Paul Mackerras [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:24:50 +0000 (13:24 +1100)]
Merge ../linux-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:53:03 +0000 (13:53 -0800)]
Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3388/1: ixp23xx: add core ixp23xx support
[ARM] 3417/1: add support for logicpd pxa270 card engine
[ARM] 3387/1: ixp23xx: add defconfig
[ARM] 3377/2: add support for intel xsc3 core
[ARM] Move ice-dcc code into misc.c
[ARM] Fix decompressor serial IO to give CRLF not LFCR
[ARM] proc-v6: mark page table walks outer-cacheable, shared. Enable NX.
[ARM] nommu: trivial patch for arch/arm/lib/Makefile
[ARM] 3416/1: Update LART site URL
[ARM] 3415/1: Akita: Add missing EXPORT_SYMBOL
[ARM] 3414/1: ep93xx: reset ethernet controller before uncompressing
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:52:37 +0000 (13:52 -0800)]
Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
[SERIAL] Provide Cirrus EP93xx AMBA PL010 serial support.
[SERIAL] amba-pl010: allow platforms to specify modem control method
[SERIAL] Remove obsoleted au1x00_uart driver
[SERIAL] Small time UART configuration fix for AU1100 processor
Lennert Buytenhek [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:18:54 +0000 (21:18 +0100)]
[ARM] 3388/1: ixp23xx: add core ixp23xx support
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
This patch adds support for the Intel ixp23xx series of CPUs. The
ixp23xx is an XSC3 based CPU with 512K of L2 cache, a 64bit 66MHz PCI
interface, two DDR RAM interfaces, QDR RAM interfaces, two gigabit
MACs, two 10/100 MACs, expansion bus, four microengines, a Media and
Switch Fabric unit almost identical to the one on the ixp2400, two
xscale (8250ish) UARTs and a bunch of other stuff.
This patch adds the core ixp23xx support code, and support for the
ADI Engineering Roadrunner, Intel IXDP2351, and IP Fabrics Double
Espresso platforms.
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Lennert Buytenhek [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:08:13 +0000 (21:08 +0100)]
[ARM] 3417/1: add support for logicpd pxa270 card engine
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
Add support for the LogicPD PXA270 Card Engine.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Lennert Buytenhek [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:02:26 +0000 (21:02 +0100)]
[ARM] 3387/1: ixp23xx: add defconfig
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
Add ixp23xx defconfig.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Lennert Buytenhek [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:00:40 +0000 (21:00 +0100)]
[ARM] 3377/2: add support for intel xsc3 core
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
This patch adds support for the new XScale v3 core. This is an
ARMv5 ISA core with the following additions:
- L2 cache
- I/O coherency support (on select chipsets)
- Low-Locality Reference cache attributes (replaces mini-cache)
- Supersections (v6 compatible)
- 36-bit addressing (v6 compatible)
- Single instruction cache line clean/invalidate
- LRU cache replacement (vs round-robin)
I attempted to merge the XSC3 support into proc-xscale.S, but XSC3
cores have separate errata and have to handle things like L2, so it
is simpler to keep it separate.
L2 cache support is currently a build option because the L2 enable
bit must be set before we enable the MMU and there is no easy way to
capture command line parameters at this point.
There are still optimizations that can be done such as using LLR for
copypage (in theory using the exisiting mini-cache code) but those
can be addressed down the road.
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:48:32 +0000 (09:48 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] cpufreq_conservative: keep ignore_nice_load and freq_step values when reselected
[CPUFREQ] powernow: remove private for_each_cpu_mask()
[CPUFREQ] hotplug cpu fix for powernow-k8
[PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: add range check
[PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: keep ignore_nice_load value when it is reselected
[PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: Warn if it cannot run due to too long transition latency
[PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: alternative initialise approach
[PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: make for_each_cpu() safe
[PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: alter default responsiveness
[PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: aligning of codebase with ondemand
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:25:44 +0000 (09:25 -0800)]
Merge branch 'cfq-merge' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'cfq-merge' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
[BLOCK] cfq-iosched: seek and async performance fixes
[PATCH] ll_rw_blk: fix 80-col offender in put_io_context()
[PATCH] cfq-iosched: small cfq_choose_req() optimization
[PATCH] [BLOCK] cfq-iosched: change cfq io context linking from list to tree
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:25:22 +0000 (09:25 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC64]: Implement futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic().
Mattia Dongili [Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:55:55 +0000 (22:55 +0200)]
[CPUFREQ] cpufreq_conservative: keep ignore_nice_load and freq_step values when reselected
Keep the value of ignore_nice_load and freq_step of the conservative
governor after the governor is deselected and reselected.
Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:55 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] compat_sys_futex() warning fix
kernel/futex_compat.c: In function `compat_sys_futex':
kernel/futex_compat.c:140: warning: passing arg 1 of `do_futex' makes integer from pointer without a cast
kernel/futex_compat.c:140: warning: passing arg 5 of `do_futex' makes integer from pointer without a cast
Not sure what Ingo was thinking of here. Put the casts back in.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:54 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] sound: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value casts
Get rid of unnessesary casts of kmalloc() return value in sound/
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:53 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Typo fixes
Fix a lot of typos. Eyeballed by jmc@ in OpenBSD.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:52 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] trivial typos in Documentation/cputopology.txt
Fix a few trivial mistakes in Documentation/cputopology.txt
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:52 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix signed vs unsigned in nmi watchdog
Fix "signed vs unsigned" in nmi_watchdog_tick.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:51 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] vfree does its own NULL check, no need to be explicit in oss/msnd.c
vfree() does it's own NULL checking, no need for explicit check before
calling it.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:50 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] no need to check vfree arg for null in oss/sequencer
There's no need to check pointers for NULL before handing them to vfree().
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:49 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] maestro3 vfree NULL check fixup
vfree() checks for NULL, no need to do it explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:49 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] vfree NULL check fixup for sb_card
There's no need to check the vfree() argument for NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthias Gehre [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:48 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Replace 0xff.. with correct DMA_xBIT_MASK
Replace all occurences of 0xff.. in calls to function pci_set_dma_mask()
and pci_set_consistant_dma_mask() with the corresponding DMA_xBIT_MASK from
linux/dma-mapping.h.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marcelo Feitoza Parisi [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:47 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/scsi/*: use time_after() and friends
They deal with wrapping correctly and are nicer to read.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi <marcelo@feitoza.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marcelo Feitoza Parisi [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:46 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] ide-tape: use time_after(), time_after_eq()
They deal with wrapping correctly and are nicer to read.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi <marcelo@feitoza.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marcelo Feitoza Parisi [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:45 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] nvidia-agp: use time_before_eq()
It deals with wrapping correctly and is nicer to read.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi <marcelo@feitoza.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marcelo Feitoza Parisi [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:44 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/*: use time_after() and friends
They deal with wrapping correctly and are nicer to read.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi <marcelo@feitoza.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:43 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c: remove the obsolete microcode_ioctl
Nowadays, even Debian stable ships a microcode_ctl utility recent enough to no
longer use this ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:43 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Docs update: missing files and descriptions for filesystems/00-INDEX
Add missing files and descriptions to
Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arjan van de Ven [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:42 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const
This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups
The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arjan van de Ven [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:41 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode
Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the
ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do
stuff" with it.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:40 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] ia64: const f_ops fix
Tweak the proc setup code so things work OK with const
proc_dir_entry.proc_fops.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:39 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: documentaion
Replace for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Modifies occurences in documentaion.
for_each_cpu in whatisRCU.txt should be for_each_online_cpu ???
(I'm not sure..)
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:39 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: i386
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
under arch/i386.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:38 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: oprofile.
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:37 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: loopback device.
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:37 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: fixes for generic part
replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu().
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:36 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: defines for_each_possible_cpu
for_each_cpu() is a for-loop over cpu_possible_map. for_each_online_cpu is
for-loop cpu over cpu_online_map. .....for_each_cpu() is not sufficiently
explicit and can lead to mistakes.
This patch adds for_each_possible_cpu() in preparation for the removal of
for_each_cpu().
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Vadim Lobanov [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:35 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fold select_bits_alloc/free into caller code.
Remove an unnecessary level of indirection in allocating and freeing select
bits, as per the select_bits_alloc() and select_bits_free() functions.
Both select.c and compat.c are updated.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:34 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] use fget_light() in select/poll
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andi Kleen [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:33 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Optimize select/poll by putting small data sets on the stack
Optimize select and poll by a using stack space for small fd sets
This brings back an old optimization from Linux 2.0. Using the stack is
faster than kmalloc. On a Intel P4 system it speeds up a select of a
single pty fd by about 13% (~4000 cycles -> ~3500)
It also saves memory because a daemon hanging in select or poll will
usually save one or two less pages. This can add up - e.g. if you have 10
daemons blocking in poll/select you save 40KB of memory.
I did a patch for this long ago, but it was never applied. This version is
a reimplementation of the old patch that tries to be less intrusive. I
only did the minimal changes needed for the stack allocation.
The cut off point before external memory is allocated is currently at
832bytes. The system calls always allocate this much memory on the stack.
These 832 bytes are divided into 256 bytes frontend data (for the select
bitmaps of the pollfds) and the rest of the space for the wait queues used
by the low level drivers. There are some extreme cases where this won't
work out for select and it falls back to allocating memory too early -
especially with very sparse large select bitmaps - but the majority of
processes who only have a small number of file descriptors should be ok.
[TBD: 832/256 might not be the best split for select or poll]
I suspect more optimizations might be possible, but they would be more
complicated. One way would be to cache the select/poll context over
multiple system calls because typically the input values should be similar.
Problem is when to flush the file descriptors out though.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:32 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] ide_generic_all_on() warning fix
drivers/ide/pci/generic.c:45: warning: `ide_generic_all_on' defined but not used
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alan Cox [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:31 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Small fixes backported to old IDE SiS driver
Some quick backport bits from the libata PATA work to fix things found in
the sis driver. The piix driver needs some fixes too but those are way to
large and need someone working on old IDE with time to do them.
This patch fixes the case where random bits get loaded into SIS timing
registers according to the description of the correct behaviour from
Vojtech Pavlik. It also adds the SiS5517 ATA16 chipset which is not
currently supported by the driver. Thanks to Conrad Harriss for loaning me
the machine with the 5517 chipset.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rene Herman [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:30 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] ide: AMD756 no host side cable detection
>From http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=
110304128900342&w=2
AMD756 doesn't support host side cable detection. Do disk side only and
don't advice obsolete options.
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:29 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] autofs4: proper prototype for autofs4_dentry_release()
Add a proper prototype for autofs4_dentry_release() to autofs_i.h.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:28 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/acsi_slm.c: size_t can't be < 0
A size_t can't be < 0.
(akpm: and rw_verify_area() already did that check)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:27 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove relayfs_fs.h
This is obsolete.
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Philip Gladstone [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:27 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Philip Gladstone has moved
I noticed that my email address is four jobs ago.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:26 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs/fat/: proper prototypes for two functions
Add proper prototypes for fat_cache_init() and fat_cache_destroy() in
msdos_fs.h.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:25 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/paride/pd.c: fix an off-by-one error
The Coverity checker found this off-by-one error.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Sesterhenn [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:24 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Change dash2underscore() return value to char
Since dash2underscore() just operates and returns chars, I guess its safe
to change the return value to a char. With my .config, this reduces its
size by 5 bytes.
text data bss dec hex filename
4155 152 0 4307 10d3 params.o.orig
4150 152 0 4302 10ce params.o
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Serge E. Hallyn [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:23 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] mqueue comment typo fix
(akpm: I don't do comment typos patches. This one snuck through by accident)
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:22 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] alpha: make poll flags the same as other architectures
Renumber the recently-added POLLREMOVE and POLLRDHUP to line up with the other
architectures.
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Brian Rogan [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:20 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add oprofile_add_ext_sample
On ppc64 we look at a profiling register to work out the sample address and
if it was in userspace or kernel.
The backtrace interface oprofile_add_sample does not allow this. Create
oprofile_add_ext_sample and make oprofile_add_sample use it too.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:20 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] symversion warning fix
gcc-4.2:
kernel/module.c: In function '__find_symbol':
kernel/module.c:158: warning: the address of '__start___kcrctab', will always evaluate as 'true'
kernel/module.c:165: warning: the address of '__start___kcrctab_gpl', will always evaluate as 'true'
kernel/module.c:182: warning: the address of '__start___kcrctab_gpl_future', will always evaluate as 'true'
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:19 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] capi: register_chrdev() fix
If the user specified `major=0' (odd thing to do), capi.c will use dynamic
allocation. We need to pick up that major for subsequent unregister_chrdev().
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:18 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] paride-pt: register_chrdev fix
If the user specified `major=0' (odd thing to do), pt.c will use dynamic
allocation. We need to pick up that major for subsequent unregister_chrdev().
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:18 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] paride: register_chrdev fix
If the user specified `major=0' (odd thing to do), pg.c will use dynamic
allocation. We need to pick up that major for subsequent unregister_chrdev().
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:17 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] let BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT depend on BLK_DEV_RAM
It's purely cosmetic, but with the patch there's no longer a
BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT setting in the .config if BLK_DEV_RAM=n.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Fulghum [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:16 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] synclink_gt: remove uneeded async code
Remove code in async receive handling that serves no purpose with new tty
receive buffering. Previously this code tried to free up receive buffer
space, but now does nothing useful while making expensive calls.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Fulghum [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:15 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] synclink_gt add gpio feature
Add driver support for general purpose I/O feature of the Synclink GT
adapters.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@micrgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Fulghum [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:14 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] synclink: remove dead code
Remove dead code from synclink driver. This was used previously when the
write method had a from_user flag, which has been removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kyle McMartin [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:11 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Decrapify asm-generic/local.h
Now that Christoph Lameter's atomic_long_t support is merged in mainline,
might as well convert asm-generic/local.h to use it, so the same code can
be used for both sizes of 32 and 64-bit unsigned longs.
akpm sayeth:
Q:
Is there any particular reason why these routines weren't simply
implemented with local_save/restore_flags, if they are only meant to
guarantee atomicity to the local cpu? I'm sure on most platforms this
would be more efficient than using an atomic...
A:
The whole _point_ of local_t is to avoid local_irq_disable(). It's
designed to exploit the fact that many CPUs can do incs and decs in a way
which is atomic wrt local interrupts, but not atomic wrt SMP.
But this patch makes sense, because asm-generic/local.h is just a fallback
implementation for architectures which either cannot perform these
local-irq-atomic operations, or its maintainers haven't yet got around to
implementing them.
We need more work done on local_t in the 2.6.17 timeframe - they're defined as
unsigned long, but some architectures implement them as signed long.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:10 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove some duplicate BCD definitions
Remove some duplicate BCD definitions
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:09 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Fix up some RTC whitespace and style
Fix up some RTC whitespace and style
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:09 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on Alpha
The sync may still be needed for CPU clock calibration but we don't sync in
the regular case.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:08 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on SH MPC1211
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:07 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on SH03
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:06 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on MIPS-based DEC
Move real_year inside the read loop and move the spinlock up as well
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:05 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on MIPS MC146818
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:05 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on ARM
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:04 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC Maple
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:03 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on CHRP (arch/powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:02 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC CHRP (arch/ppc)
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:01 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on Sparc64
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:01 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on x86_64
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:55:58 +0000 (01:55 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on x86
Reading the CMOS clock on x86 and some other arches currently takes up to one
second because it synchronizes with the CMOS second tick-over. This delay
shows up at boot time as well a resume time.
This is the currently the most substantial boot time delay for machines that
are working towards instant-on capability. Also, a quick back of the envelope
calculation (.5sec * 2M users * 1 boot a day * 10 years) suggests it has cost
Linux users in the neighborhood of a million man-hours.
An earlier thread on this topic is here:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/
8a24255215ff6151/
2aa97e66a977653d?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D1To2R-2S7-11%40gated-at.bofh.it#
2aa97e66a977653d
..from which the consensus seems to be that it's no longer desirable.
In my view, there are basically four cases to consider:
1) networked, need precise walltime: use NTP
2) networked, don't need precise walltime: use NTP anyway
3) not networked, don't need sub-second precision walltime: don't care
4) not networked, need sub-second precision walltime:
get a network or a radio time source because RTC isn't good enough anyway
So this patch series simply removes the synchronization in favor of a simple
seqlock-like approach using the seconds value.
Note that for purposes of timer accuracy on wakeup, this patch will cause us
to fire timers up to one second late. But as the current timer resume code
will already sync once (or more!), it's no worse for short timers.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:15:54 +0000 (23:15 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers
This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the
powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism. With this,
board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a
macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened
device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine.
We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of
_machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants. This commit also
changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at
_machine.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Paul Mackerras [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:13:44 +0000 (21:13 +1100)]
ppc: Fix compile error in arch/ppc/lib/strcase.c
Now that the strncasecmp implementation takes a size_t third parameter,
we need to get a definition of size_t from somewhere.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Jens Axboe [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:03:44 +0000 (13:03 +0200)]
[BLOCK] cfq-iosched: seek and async performance fixes
Detect whether a given process is seeky and if so disable (mostly) the
idle window if it is. We still allow just a little idle time, just enough
to allow that process to submit a new request. That is needed to maintain
fairness across priority groups.
In some cases, we could setup several async queues. This is not optimal
from a performance POV, since we want all async io in one queue to perform
good sorting on it. It also impacted sync queues, as async io got too much
slice time.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:42:49 +0000 (23:42 -0800)]
[PATCH] git-powerpc: WARN was a dumb idea
There are at least 14 different implementations of WARN() in the tree already.
The build fails all over the place.
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Stephen Rothwell [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:14:44 +0000 (17:14 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: a couple of trivial compile warning fixes
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Russell King [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:34:05 +0000 (10:34 +0100)]
[ARM] Move ice-dcc code into misc.c
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:24:33 +0000 (10:24 +0100)]
[ARM] Fix decompressor serial IO to give CRLF not LFCR
As per the corresponding change to the serial drivers, arrange
for ARM decompressors to give CRLF. Move the common putstr code
into misc.c such that machines only need to supply "putc" and
"flush" functions.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
David S. Miller [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:00:08 +0000 (01:00 -0800)]
[SPARC64]: Implement futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jens Axboe [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:00:28 +0000 (09:00 +0200)]
[PATCH] ll_rw_blk: fix 80-col offender in put_io_context()
This makes akpm more happy.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Andreas Mohr [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:59:49 +0000 (08:59 +0200)]
[PATCH] cfq-iosched: small cfq_choose_req() optimization
this is a small optimization to cfq_choose_req() in the CFQ I/O scheduler
(this function is a semi-often invoked candidate in an oprofile log):
by using a bit mask variable, we can use a simple switch() to check
the various cases instead of having to query two variables for each check.
Benefit: 251 vs. 285 bytes footprint of cfq_choose_req().
Also, common case 0 (no request wrapping) is now checked first in code.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Jens Axboe [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:59:01 +0000 (08:59 +0200)]
[PATCH] [BLOCK] cfq-iosched: change cfq io context linking from list to tree
On setups with many disks, we spend a considerable amount of time
looking up the process-disk mapping on each queue of io. Testing with
a NULL based block driver, this costs 40-50% reduction in throughput
for 1000 disks.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Paul Mackerras [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:03:19 +0000 (17:03 +1100)]
Merge branch '85xx' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc
Paul Mackerras [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:02:14 +0000 (17:02 +1100)]
Merge branch 'misc' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc
Kumar Gala [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:48:37 +0000 (23:48 -0600)]
powerpc: remove OCP references
OCP isn't used in arch/powerpc and hopefully will never be.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Stephen Rothwell [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:40:58 +0000 (14:40 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: make ISA floppies work again
We used to assume that a DMA mapping request with a NULL dev was for
ISA DMA. This assumption was broken at some point. Now we explicitly
pass the detected ISA PCI device in the floppy setup.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Anton Blanchard [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:08:39 +0000 (14:08 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Fix some initcall return values
Non zero initcalls (except for -ENODEV) have started warning at boot.
Fix smt_setup and init_ras_IRQ.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Mike Kravetz [Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:20:00 +0000 (15:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Workaround for pSeries RTAS bug
A bug in the RTAS services incorrectly interprets some bits in the CR
when called from the OS. Specifically, bits in CR4. The result could
be a firmware crash that also takes down the partition. A firmware
fix is in the works. We have seen this situation when performing DLPAR
operations. As a temporary workaround, clear the CR in enter_rtas().
Note that enter_rtas() will not set any bits in CR4 before calling RTAS.
Also note that the 32 bit version of enter_rtas() should have the same
work around even though the chances of hitting the bug are much smaller
due to the lack of DLPAR on 32 bit kernels. However, my assembly skills
are a bit rusty and the 32 bit code doesn't seem to follow the conventions
for where things should be saved. In addition, I don't have a system
to test 32 bit kernels. Help creating and at least touch testing the
same workaround for 32 bit would be appreciated.
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Arnd Bergmann [Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:27:40 +0000 (21:27 +0200)]
[PATCH] spufs: fix __init/__exit annotations
spufs_init and spufs_exit should be marked correctly so
they can be removed when not needed.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Arnd Bergmann [Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:26:03 +0000 (21:26 +0200)]
[PATCH] powerpc: add hvc backend for rtas
Current Cell hardware is using the console through a set
of rtas calls. This driver is needed to get console
output on those boards.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <abergman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>