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* [PATCH] parport: move PP_MAJOR from ppdev.h to major.hRene Herman2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | Today I wondered about /dev/parport<n> after not seeing anything in drivers/parport register char-major-99. Having PP_MAJOR in include/linux/major.h would've allowed me to more quickly determine that it was the ppdev driver driving these. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inotify: lock avoidance with parent watch status in dentryNick Piggin2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previous inotify work avoidance is good when inotify is completely unused, but it breaks down if even a single watch is in place anywhere in the system. Robin Holt notices that udev is one such culprit - it slows down a 512-thread application on a 512 CPU system from 6 seconds to 22 minutes. Solve this by adding a flag in the dentry that tells inotify whether or not its parent inode has a watch on it. Event queueing to parent will skip taking locks if this flag is cleared. Setting and clearing of this flag on all child dentries versus event delivery: this is no in terms of race cases, and that was shown to be equivalent to always performing the check. The essential behaviour is that activity occuring _after_ a watch has been added and _before_ it has been removed, will generate events. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/params.c: make param_array() staticAdrian Bunk2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | param_array() in kernel/params.c can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove MODULE_PARMRusty Russell2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as unused. It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the most unloved drivers anyway. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] constify tty flip buffer handlingThomas Koeller2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | Add a couple of 'const' qualifiers to the TTY flip buffer APIs, where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flagOleg Drokin2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flag, to indicate that file is being opened for execution. This is useful for distributed filesystems to maintain consistent behavior for returning ETXTBUSY when opening for write and execution happens on different nodes. akpm: Needed by Lustre at present. I assume their objective to to work towards being able to install Lustre on an unmodified distro kernel, which seems sane. It should have zero runtime cost. Trond and Chuck indicate that NFS4 can probably use this too, for the same thing. Steven says it's also on the GFS todo list. Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reiserfs: fix transaction overflowingAlexander Zarochentzev2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a bug in reiserfs truncate. A transaction might overflow when truncating long highly fragmented file. The fix is to split truncation into several transactions to avoid overflowing. Signed-off-by: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Cc; Charles McColgan <cm@chuck.net> Cc: Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com> Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fs/inode.c: make iprune_mutex staticAdrian Bunk2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | There's no reason for iprune_mutex being global. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Small cleanup in quota.hJan Kara2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | Remove unused quota flag. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] jbd: embed j_commit_timer in journal structAndrew Morton2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | The kjournald timer is currently on the kernel thread's stack and the journal structure points at it. Save a pointer hop by moving the timer into the journal structure. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc callsPekka Enberg2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | As suggested by Eric Dumazet, optimize kzalloc() calls that pass a compile-time constant size. Please note that the patch increases kernel text slightly (~200 bytes for defconfig on x86). Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: introduce kmem_cache_zalloc allocatorPekka Enberg2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | Introduce a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc. The allocator already exits in XFS and there are potential users for it so this patch makes the allocator available for the general public. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocatorsAl Viro2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sys_alarm() unsigned signed conversion fixupThomas Gleixner2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | alarm() calls the kernel with an unsigend int timeout in seconds. The value is stored in the tv_sec field of a struct timeval to setup the itimer. The tv_sec field of struct timeval is of type long, which causes the tv_sec value to be negative on 32 bit machines if seconds > INT_MAX. Before the hrtimer merge (pre 2.6.16) such a negative value was converted to the maximum jiffies timeout by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion. It's not clear whether this was intended or just happened to be done by the timeval_to_jiffies code. hrtimers expect a timeval in canonical form and treat a negative timeout as already expired. This breaks the legitimate usage of alarm() with a timeout value > INT_MAX seconds. For 32 bit machines it is therefor necessary to limit the internal seconds value to avoid API breakage. Instead of doing this in all implementations of sys_alarm the duplicated sys_alarm code is moved into a common function in itimer.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-03-24
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [PATCH] libata: Remove dependence on host_set->dev for SAS [PATCH] libata: ata_scsi_ioctl cleanup [PATCH] libata: ata_scsi_queuecmd cleanup [libata] export ata_dev_pair; trim trailing whitespace [PATCH] libata: add ata_dev_pair helper [PATCH] Make libata not powerdown drivers on PM_EVENT_FREEZE. [PATCH] libata: make ata_set_mode() responsible for failure handling [PATCH] libata: use ata_dev_disable() in ata_bus_probe() [PATCH] libata: implement ata_dev_disable() [PATCH] libata: check if port is disabled after internal command [PATCH] libata: make per-dev transfer mode limits per-dev [PATCH] libata: add per-dev pio/mwdma/udma_mask [PATCH] libata: implement ata_unpack_xfermask() [libata] Move some bmdma-specific code to libata-bmdma.c [libata sata_uli] kill scr_addr abuse [libata sata_nv] eliminate duplicate codepaths with iomap [libata sata_nv] cleanups: convert #defines to enums; remove in-file history [libata sata_sil24] cleanups: use pci_iomap(), kzalloc()
| * [PATCH] libata: Remove dependence on host_set->dev for SASBrian King2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove some of the dependence on the host_set struct in preparation for supporting SAS HBAs. Adds a struct device pointer to the ata_port struct. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
| * [PATCH] libata: add ata_dev_pair helperAlan Cox2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
| * [PATCH] Make libata not powerdown drivers on PM_EVENT_FREEZE.Nigel Cunningham2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At the moment libata doesn't pass pm_message_t down ata_device_suspend. This causes drives to be powered down when we just want a freeze, causing unnecessary wear and tear. This patch gets pm_message_t passed down so that it can be used to determine whether to power down the drive. Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> drivers/scsi/libata-core.c | 5 +++-- drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c | 4 ++-- drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 2 +- include/linux/libata.h | 4 ++-- include/scsi/scsi_host.h | 2 +- 5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
| * [PATCH] libata: add per-dev pio/mwdma/udma_maskTejun Heo2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add per-dev pio/mwdma/udma_mask. All transfer mode limits used to be applied to ap->*_mask which unnecessarily restricted other devices sharing the port. This change will also benefit later EH speed down and hotplug. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* | [PATCH] strndup_user()Davi Arnaut2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings from userspace. Also we avoid common pitfalls like userspace modifying the final \0 after the strlen_user(). Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanupsIngo Molnar2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing softirq-context (timer) dependencies. This means that if the softlockup watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task. (the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup phase and does small style fixes) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] ide: Allow IDE interface to specify its not capable of 32-bit operationsKumar Gala2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In some embedded systems the IDE hardware interface may only support 16-bit or smaller accesses. Allow the interface to specify if this is the case and don't allow the drive or user to override the setting. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Secure Digital Host Controller id and regsPierre Ossman2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Class code and register definitions for the Secure Digital Host Controller standard. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fsync: extract internal codeAndrew Morton2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull the guts out of do_fsync() - we can use it elsewhere. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixesAndrew Morton2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need set_page_dirty() to return true if it actually transitioned the page from a clean to dirty state. This wasn't right in a couple of places. Do a kernel-wide audit, fix things up. This leaves open the possibility of returning a negative errno from set_page_dirty() sometime in the future. But we don't do that at present. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited: take nr_pages argAndrew Morton2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Modify balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() so that it can take a number-of-pages-which-I-just-dirtied argument. For msync(). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fadvise(): write commandsAndrew Morton2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add two new linux-specific fadvise extensions(): LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: start async writeout of any dirty pages between file offsets `offset' and `offset+len'. Any pages which are currently under writeout are skipped, whether or not they are dirty. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: wait upon writeout of any dirty pages between file offsets `offset' and `offset+len'. By combining these two operations the application may do several things: LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push some or all of the dirty pages at the disk. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push all of the currently dirty pages at the disk. LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT, LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE, LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: push all of the currently dirty pages at the disk, wait until they have been written. It should be noted that none of these operations write out the file's metadata. So unless the application is strictly performing overwrites of already-instantiated disk blocks, there are no guarantees here that the data will be available after a crash. To complete this suite of operations I guess we should have a "sync file metadata only" operation. This gives applications access to all the building blocks needed for all sorts of sync operations. But sync-metadata doesn't fit well with the fadvise() interface. Probably it should be a new syscall: sys_fmetadatasync(). The patch also diddles with the meaning of `endbyte' in sys_fadvise64_64(). It is made to represent that last affected byte in the file (ie: it is inclusive). Generally, all these byterange and pagerange functions are inclusive so we can easily represent EOF with -1. As Ulrich notes, these two functions are somewhat abusive of the fadvise() concept, which appears to be "set the future policy for this fd". But these commands are a perfect fit with the fadvise() impementation, and several of the existing fadvise() commands are synchronous and don't affect future policy either. I think we can live with the slight incongruity. Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] abstract type/size specification for assemblyJan Beulich2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide abstraction for generating type and size information of assembly routines and data, while permitting architectures to override these defaults. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: "Russell King" <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache optimizationsPaul Jackson2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The hooks in the slab cache allocator code path for support of NUMA mempolicies and cpuset memory spreading are in an important code path. Many systems will use neither feature. This patch optimizes those hooks down to a single check of some bits in the current tasks task_struct flags. For non NUMA systems, this hook and related code is already ifdef'd out. The optimization is done by using another task flag, set if the task is using a non-default NUMA mempolicy. Taking this flag bit along with the PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB flag bits added earlier in this 'cpuset memory spreading' patch set, one can check for the combination of any of these special case memory placement mechanisms with a single test of the current tasks task_struct flags. This patch also tightens up the code, to save a few bytes of kernel text space, and moves some of it out of line. Due to the nested inlines called from multiple places, we were ending up with three copies of this code, which once we get off the main code path (for local node allocation) seems a bit wasteful of instruction memory. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache implementationPaul Jackson2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide the slab cache infrastructure to support cpuset memory spreading. See the previous patches, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset memory spreading. This patch provides a slab cache SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag. If set in the kmem_cache_create() call defining a slab cache, then any task marked with the process state flag PF_MEMSPREAD will spread memory page allocations for that cache over all the allowed nodes, instead of preferring the local (faulting) node. On systems not configured with CONFIG_NUMA, this results in no change to the page allocation code path for slab caches. On systems with cpusets configured in the kernel, but the "memory_spread" cpuset option not enabled for the current tasks cpuset, this adds a call to a cpuset routine and failed bit test of the processor state flag PF_SPREAD_SLAB. For tasks so marked, a second inline test is done for the slab cache flag SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, and if that is set and if the allocation is not in_interrupt(), this adds a call to to a cpuset routine that computes which of the tasks mems_allowed nodes should be preferred for this allocation. ==> This patch adds another hook into the performance critical code path to allocating objects from the slab cache, in the ____cache_alloc() chunk, below. The next patch optimizes this hook, reducing the impact of the combined mempolicy plus memory spreading hooks on this critical code path to a single check against the tasks task_struct flags word. This patch provides the generic slab flags and logic needed to apply memory spreading to a particular slab. A subsequent patch will mark a few specific slab caches for this placement policy. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cpuset memory spread page cache implementation and hooksPaul Jackson2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the page cache allocation calls to support cpuset memory spreading. See the previous patch, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset memory spreading. On systems without cpusets configured in the kernel, this is no change. On systems with cpusets configured in the kernel, but the "memory_spread" cpuset option not enabled for the current tasks cpuset, this adds a call to a cpuset routine and failed bit test of the processor state flag PF_SPREAD_PAGE. On tasks in cpusets with "memory_spread" enabled, this adds a call to a cpuset routine that computes which of the tasks mems_allowed nodes should be preferred for this allocation. If memory spreading applies to a particular allocation, then any other NUMA mempolicy does not apply. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cpuset memory spread basic implementationPaul Jackson2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch provides the implementation and cpuset interface for an alternative memory allocation policy that can be applied to certain kinds of memory allocations, such as the page cache (file system buffers) and some slab caches (such as inode caches). The policy is called "memory spreading." If enabled, it spreads out these kinds of memory allocations over all the nodes allowed to a task, instead of preferring to place them on the node where the task is executing. All other kinds of allocations, including anonymous pages for a tasks stack and data regions, are not affected by this policy choice, and continue to be allocated preferring the node local to execution, as modified by the NUMA mempolicy. There are two boolean flag files per cpuset that control where the kernel allocates pages for the file system buffers and related in kernel data structures. They are called 'memory_spread_page' and 'memory_spread_slab'. If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_page' is set, then the kernel will spread the file system buffers (page cache) evenly over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is running. If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_slab' is set, then the kernel will spread some file system related slab caches, such as for inodes and dentries evenly over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is running. The implementation is simple. Setting the cpuset flags 'memory_spread_page' or 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the per-process flags PF_SPREAD_PAGE or PF_SPREAD_SLAB, respectively, for each task that is in the cpuset or subsequently joins that cpuset. In subsequent patches, the page allocation calls for the affected page cache and slab caches are modified to perform an inline check for these flags, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation. The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple. It uses the value of a per-task rotor cpuset_mem_spread_rotor to select the next node in the current tasks mems_allowed to prefer for the allocation. This policy can provide substantial improvements for jobs that need to place thread local data on the corresponding node, but that need to access large file system data sets that need to be spread across the several nodes in the jobs cpuset in order to fit. Without this patch, especially for jobs that might have one thread reading in the data set, the memory allocation across the nodes in the jobs cpuset can become very uneven. A couple of Copyright year ranges are updated as well. And a couple of email addresses that can be found in the MAINTAINERS file are removed. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanupAdrian Bunk2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | include/linux/platform.h contained nothing that was actually used except the default_idle() prototype, and is therefore removed by this patch. This patch does the following with the platform specific default_idle() functions on different architectures: - remove the unused function: - parisc - sparc64 - make the needlessly global function static: - arm - h8300 - m68k - m68knommu - s390 - v850 - x86_64 - add a prototype in asm/system.h: - cris - i386 - ia64 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Represent dirty_*_centisecs as jiffies internallyBart Samwel2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make that the internal values for: /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs are stored as jiffies instead of centiseconds. Let the sysctl interface do the conversions with full precision using clock_t_to_jiffies, instead of doing overflow-sensitive on-the-fly conversions every time the values are used. Cons: apparent precision loss if HZ is not a multiple of 100, because of conversion back and forth. This is a common problem for all sysctl values that use proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies. (There is only one other in-tree use, in net/core/neighbour.c.) Signed-off-by: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] bitmap: region cleanupPaul Jackson2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> says: This patch set implements a number of patches to clean up and restructure the bitmap region code, in addition to extending the interface to support multiword spanning allocations. The current implementation (before this patch set) is limited by only being able to allocate pages <= BITS_PER_LONG, as noted by the strategically positioned BUG_ON() at lib/bitmap.c:752: /* We don't do regions of pages > BITS_PER_LONG. The * algorithm would be a simple look for multiple zeros in the * array, but there's no driver today that needs this. If you * trip this BUG(), you get to code it... */ BUG_ON(pages > BITS_PER_LONG); As I seem to have been the first person to trigger this, the result ends up being the following patch set with the help of Paul Jackson. The final patch in the series eliminates quite a bit of code duplication, so the bitmap code size ends up being smaller than the current implementation as an added bonus. After these are applied, it should already be possible to do multiword allocations with dma_alloc_coherent() out of ranges established by dma_declare_coherent_memory() on x86 without having to change any of the code, and the SH store queue API will follow up on this as the other user that needs support for this. This patch: Some code cleanup on the lib/bitmap.c bitmap_*_region() routines: * spacing * variable names * comments Has no change to code function. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] vfs: MS_VERBOSE should be MS_SILENTTheodore Ts'o2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The meaning of MS_VERBOSE is backwards; if the bit is set, it really means, "don't be verbose". This is confusing and counter-intuitive. In addition, there is also no way to set the MS_VERBOSE flag in the mount(8) program in util-linux, but interesting, it does define options which would do the right thing if MS_SILENT were defined, which unfortunately we do not: #ifdef MS_SILENT { "quiet", 0, 0, MS_SILENT }, /* be quiet */ { "loud", 0, 1, MS_SILENT }, /* print out messages. */ #endif So the obvious fix is to deprecate the use of MS_VERBOSE and replace it with MS_SILENT. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] add sys_unshare to syscalls.hArnd Bergmann2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All architecture independent system calls should be declared in syscalls.h, add the one that is missing. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-03-23
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (45 commits) [PATCH] Restore channel setting after scan. [PATCH] hostap: Fix memory leak on PCI probe error path [PATCH] hostap: Remove dead code (duplicated idx != 0) [PATCH] hostap: Fix unlikely read overrun in CIS parsing [PATCH] hostap: Fix double free in prism2_config() error path [PATCH] hostap: Fix ap_add_sta() return value verification [PATCH] hostap: Fix hw reset after CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE timeout [PATCH] wireless/airo: cache wireless scans [PATCH] wireless/airo: define default MTU [PATCH] wireless/airo: clean up printk usage to print device name [PATCH] WE-20 for kernel 2.6.16 [PATCH] softmac: remove function_enter() [PATCH] skge: version 1.5 [PATCH] skge: compute available ring buffers [PATCH] skge: dont free skb until multi-part transmit complete [PATCH] skge: multicast statistics fix [PATCH] skge: rx_reuse called twice [PATCH] skge: dont use dev_alloc_skb for rx buffs [PATCH] skge: align receive buffers [PATCH] sky2: dont need to use dev_kfree_skb_any ...
| * \ Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Jeff Garzik2006-03-23
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
| | * | [PATCH] WE-20 for kernel 2.6.16Jean Tourrilhes2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is version 20 of the Wireless Extensions. This is the completion of the RtNetlink work I started early 2004, it enables the full Wireless Extension API over RtNetlink. Few comments on the patch : o totally driver transparent, no change in drivers needed. o iwevent were already RtNetlink based since they were created (around 2.5.7). This adds all the regular SET and GET requests over RtNetlink, using the exact same mechanism and data format as iwevents. o This is a Kconfig option, as currently most people have no need for it. Surprisingly, patch is actually small and well encapsulated. o Tested on SMP, attention as been paid to make it 64 bits clean. o Code do probably too many checks and could be further optimised, but better safe than sorry. o RtNetlink based version of the Wireless Tools available on my web page for people inclined to try out this stuff. I would also like to thank Alexey Kuznetsov for his helpful suggestions to make this patch better. Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'blktrace' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2006-03-23
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'blktrace' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: [PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23 [PATCH] relay: consolidate sendfile() and read() code [PATCH] relay: add sendfile() support [PATCH] relay: migrate from relayfs to a generic relay API
| * | | | [PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23Jens Axboe2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
| * | | | [PATCH] relay: migrate from relayfs to a generic relay APIJens Axboe2006-03-23
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Original patch from Paul Mundt, sysfs parts removed by me since they were broken. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-03-23
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6: (36 commits) [PATCH] hwmon: add required idr locking [PATCH] I2C: hwmon: Rename register parameters [PATCH] I2C: Drop unneeded i2c-dev.h includes [PATCH] I2C: i2c-ixp4xx: Add hwmon class [PATCH] I2C: i2c-piix4: Add Broadcom HT-1000 support [PATCH] I2C: i2c-amd756-s4882: Improve static mutex initialization [PATCH] I2C: i2c-ali1535: Drop redundant mutex [PATCH] i2c: Cleanup isp1301_omap [PATCH] i2c: Fix i2c-ite name initialization [PATCH] i2c: Drop the i2c-frodo bus driver [PATCH] i2c: Optimize core_lists mutex usage [PATCH] w83781d: Don't reset the chip by default [PATCH] w83781d: Document the alarm and beep bits [PATCH] w83627ehf: Refactor the sysfs interface [PATCH] hwmon: Support the Pentium M VID code [PATCH] hwmon: Add support for the Winbond W83687THF [PATCH] hwmon: f71805f semaphore to mutex conversions [PATCH] hwmon: Semaphore to mutex conversions [PATCH] i2c: Semaphore to mutex conversions, part 3 [PATCH] i2c: Semaphore to mutex conversions, part 2 ...
| * | | | [PATCH] I2C: i2c-piix4: Add Broadcom HT-1000 supportMartin Devera2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add Broadcom HT-1000 south bridge's PCI ID to i2c-piix driver. Note that at least on Supermicro H8SSL it uses non-standard SMBHSTCFG = 3 and standard values like 0 or 9 causes hangup. Signed-off-by: Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | [PATCH] i2c: Drop the i2c-frodo bus driverJean Delvare2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Drop the i2c-frodo bus driver. It isn't referenced by the build system, and depends on code which was never included in 2.6 kernels. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | [PATCH] i2c: Semaphore to mutex conversions, part 2Ingo Molnar2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | semaphore to mutex conversion. the conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. build tested. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | [PATCH] hwmon: Refactor SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR_2Jim Cromie2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch refactors SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR_2 macro, following pattern set by SENSOR_ATTR. First it creates a new macro SENSOR_ATTR_2() which expands to an initialization expression, then it uses that in SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR_2, which declares and initializes a struct sensor_device_attribute_2. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | [PATCH] hwmon: Allow sensor attributes arraysJim Cromie2006-03-23
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch refactors SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR macro. First it creates a new macro SENSOR_ATTR() which expands to an initialization expression, then it uses that in SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR, which declares and initializes a struct sensor_device_attribute. IOW, SENSOR_ATTR() imitates __ATTR() in include/linux/device.h. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-03-23
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (49 commits) [PATCH] acpiphp: fix acpi_path_name [PATCH] ibmphp: remove TRUE and FALSE [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: add common acpi functions to core [PATCH] PCI: kzalloc() conversion in drivers/pci [PATCH] acpiphp: Scan slots under the nested P2P bridge [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: SN: Fix cleanup on hotplug removal of PPB [PATCH] shpchp: cleanup bus speed handling [PATCH] PCI: fix pci_request_region[s] arg [PATCH] PCI: Provide a boot parameter to disable MSI [PATCH] PCI: the scheduled removal of PCI_LEGACY_PROC [PATCH] PCI: cpqphp_ctrl.c: board_replaced(): remove dead code [PATCH] acpiphp: fix bridge handle [PATCH] acpiphp - slot management fix - V4 [PATCH] acpi: remove dock event handling from ibm_acpi [PATCH] acpiphp: add dock event handling [PATCH] acpi: export acpi_bus_trim [PATCH] acpiphp: add new bus to acpi [PATCH] PCI: Move pci_dev_put outside a spinlock [PATCH] PCI: PCI/Cardbus cards hidden, needs pci=assign-busses to fix [PATCH] PCI: fix problems with MSI-X on ia64 ...
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