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* [PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c: remove the obsolete microcode_ioctlAdrian Bunk2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Docs update: missing files and descriptions for filesystems/00-INDEXJesper Juhl2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ constArjan van de Ven2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inodeArjan van de Ven2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] ia64: const f_ops fixAndrew Morton2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: documentaionKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: i386KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: oprofile.KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: loopback device.KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: fixes for generic partKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: defines for_each_possible_cpuKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Fold select_bits_alloc/free into caller code.Vadim Lobanov2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] use fget_light() in select/pollEric Dumazet2006-03-28
| | | | | | Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Optimize select/poll by putting small data sets on the stackAndi Kleen2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] ide_generic_all_on() warning fixAndrew Morton2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Small fixes backported to old IDE SiS driverAlan Cox2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] ide: AMD756 no host side cable detectionRene Herman2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | >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>
* [PATCH] autofs4: proper prototype for autofs4_dentry_release()Adrian Bunk2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] drivers/block/acsi_slm.c: size_t can't be < 0Alexey Dobriyan2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] remove relayfs_fs.hAndrew Morton2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Philip Gladstone has movedPhilip Gladstone2006-03-28
| | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] fs/fat/: proper prototypes for two functionsAdrian Bunk2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] drivers/block/paride/pd.c: fix an off-by-one errorAdrian Bunk2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Change dash2underscore() return value to charEric Sesterhenn2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] mqueue comment typo fixSerge E. Hallyn2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | (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>
* [PATCH] alpha: make poll flags the same as other architecturesAndrew Morton2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Add oprofile_add_ext_sampleBrian Rogan2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] symversion warning fixAndrew Morton2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] capi: register_chrdev() fixAndrew Morton2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] paride-pt: register_chrdev fixAndrew Morton2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] paride: register_chrdev fixAndrew Morton2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] let BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT depend on BLK_DEV_RAMAdrian Bunk2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] synclink_gt: remove uneeded async codePaul Fulghum2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] synclink_gt add gpio featurePaul Fulghum2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] synclink: remove dead codePaul Fulghum2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Decrapify asm-generic/local.hKyle McMartin2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove some duplicate BCD definitionsMatt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Fix up some RTC whitespace and styleMatt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on AlphaMatt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on SH MPC1211Matt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on SH03Matt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on MIPS-based DECMatt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on MIPS MC146818Matt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on ARMMatt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC MapleMatt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on CHRP (arch/powerpc)Matt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC CHRP (arch/ppc)Matt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on Sparc64Matt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on x86_64Matt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on x86Matt Mackall2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
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