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* [PATCH] x86 microcode: using request_firmware to pull microcodeShaohua Li2006-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using request_firmware to pull ucode from userspace, so we don't need the application 'microcode_ctl' to assist. We name each ucode file according to CPU's info as intel-ucode/family-model-stepping. In this way we could split ucode file as small one. This has a lot of advantages such as selectively update and validate microcode for specific models, better manage microcode file, easily write tools for administerators and so on. with the changes, we should put all intel-ucode/xx-xx-xx microcode files into the firmware dir (I had a tool to split previous big data file into small one and later we will release new style data file). The init script should be changed to just loading the driver without unloading Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-09-26
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (47 commits) Driver core: Don't call put methods while holding a spinlock Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver core Driver core: Fix potential deadlock in driver core PCI: enable driver multi-threaded probe Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probe sysfs: add proper sysfs_init() prototype drivers/base: check errors drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device v4l-dev2: handle __must_check add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK add __must_check to device management code Driver core: fixed add_bind_files() definition Driver core: fix comments in drivers/base/power/resume.c sysfs_remove_bin_file: no return value, dump_stack on error kobject: must_check fixes Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin files Class: add support for class interfaces for devices Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree Driver core: add device_rename function Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properly ...
| * Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver coreAlan Stern2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as783) simplifies the driver core slightly by removing four unnecessary _get and _put methods. It is vital that when a driver is removed from its bus's klist of registered drivers, or when a device is removed from a driver's klist of bound devices, that the klist updates complete synchronously. Otherwise the kernel might try binding an unregistered driver to a newly-registered device, or adding a device to the klist for a new driver before it has been removed from the old driver's klist. Since the removals must be synchronous, they don't need to update any reference counts. Hence the _get and _put methods can be dispensed with. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver core: Fix potential deadlock in driver coreAlan Stern2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a potential deadlock in the driver core. It boils down to the fact that bus_remove_device() calls klist_remove() instead of klist_del(), thereby waiting until the reference count of the klist_node in the bus's klist of devices drops to 0. The refcount can't reach 0 so long as a modprobe process is trying to bind a new driver to the device being removed, by calling __driver_attach(). The problem is that __driver_attach() tries to acquire the device's parent's semaphore, but the caller of bus_remove_device() is quite likely to own that semaphore already. It isn't sufficient just to replace klist_remove() with klist_del(). Doing so runs the risk that the device would remain on the bus's klist of devices for some time, and so could be bound to another driver even after it was unregistered. What's needed is a new way to distinguish whether or not a device is registered, based on a criterion other than whether its klist_node is linked into the bus's klist of devices. That way driver binding can fail when the device is unregistered, even if it is still linked into the klist. This patch (as782) implements the solution, by adding a new bitflag to indiate when a struct device is registered, by testing the flag before allowing a driver to bind a device, and by changing the definition of the device_is_registered() inline. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds the infrastructure for drivers to do a threaded probe, and waits at init time for all currently outstanding probes to complete. A new kernel thread will be created when the probe() function for the driver is called, if the multithread_probe bit is set in the driver saying it can support this kind of operation. I have tested this with USB and PCI, and it works, and shaves off a lot of time in the boot process, but there are issues with finding root boot disks, and some USB drivers assume that this can never happen, so it is currently not enabled for any bus type. Individual drivers can enable this right now if they wish, and bus authors can selectivly turn it on as well, once they determine that their subsystem will work properly with it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * drivers/base: check errorsAndrew Morton2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add lots of return-value checking. <pcornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>: fix bus_rescan_devices()] Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the deviceBrian Walsh2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The platform_notify call for Arm and PPC architectures needs to be called before the driver attaches to the device. The problem only presents itself when hotplugging certain devices while the driver is already loaded. Signed-off-by: Brian Walsh <brian@walsh.ws> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver core: fixed add_bind_files() definitionYoichi Yuasa2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When CONFIG_HOTPLUG is n, add_bind_files() definition is wrong. This patch has fixed it. Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver core: fix comments in drivers/base/power/resume.cDmitry Torokhov2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Driver core: fix comments in drivers/base/power/resume.c Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin filesGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Makes it easier for devices to create and remove binary attribute files so they don't have to call directly into sysfs. This is needed to help with the conversion from struct class_device to struct device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Class: add support for class interfaces for devicesGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When moving class_device usage over to device, we need to handle class_interfaces properly with devices. This patch adds that support. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver core: create devices/virtual/ treeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change creates a devices/virtual/CLASS_NAME tree for struct devices that belong to a class, yet do not have a "real" struct device for a parent. It automatically creates the directories on the fly as needed. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver core: add device_rename functionGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The network layer needs this to convert to using struct device instead of a struct class_device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properlyGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds two new callbacks to the class structure: int (*dev_uevent)(struct device *dev, char **envp, int num_envp, char *buffer, int buffer_size); void (*dev_release)(struct device *dev); And one pointer: struct device_attribute * dev_attrs; which all corrispond with the same thing as the "normal" class devices do, yet this is for when a struct device is bound to a class. Someday soon, struct class_device will go away, and then the other fields in this structure can be removed too. But this is necessary in order to get the transition to work properly. Tested out on a network core patch that converted it to use struct device instead of struct class_device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver core: allow devices in classes to have no parentGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes an oops when a device is attached to a class, yet has no "parent" device. An example of this would be the "lo" device in the network core. We should create a "virtual" subdirectory under /sys/devices/ for these, but no one seems to agree on a proper name for it yet... Oh, and update my copyright on the driver core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver core: add groups support to struct deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is needed for the network class devices in order to be able to convert over to use struct device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * PM: platform_bus and late_suspend/early_resumeDavid Brownell2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Teach platform_bus about the new suspend_late/resume_early PM calls, issued with IRQs off. Do we really need sysdev and friends any more, or can janitors start switching its users over to platform_device so we can do a minor code-ectomy? Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * PM: device_suspend/resume may sleepPavel Machek2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds warning when someone tries them from atomic context. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * PM: no suspend_prepare() phaseDavid Brownell2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the new suspend_prepare() phase. It doesn't seem very usable, has never been tested, doesn't address fault cleanup, and would need a sibling resume_complete(); plus there are no real use cases. It could be restored later if those issues get resolved. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * PM: add kconfig option for deprecated .../power/state filesDavid Brownell2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED config option to control whether or not the /sys/devices/.../power/state files are provided. This will make it easier to get rid of that mechanism when the time comes, and to verify that userspace tools work right without it. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * PM: update docs for writing .../power/stateDavid Brownell2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updates to match current code: - Make writes to the /sys/devices/.../power/state files fail cleanly if the device requires the irqs-off call variants. - Fix comments describing the /sys/devices/.../power/state file writes to match the code; the last several releases have invalidated the previous text. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * PM: issue PM_EVENT_PRETHAWDavid Brownell2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is the first of this series that should actually change any behavior ... by issuing the new event, now tha the rest of the kernel is prepared to receive it. This converts the PM core to issue the new PRETHAW message, which the rest of the kernel is now ready to receive. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * make suspend quieterDavid Brownell2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a goof in Linus' recent PM API updates: don't emit any messages in the typical NOP "already suspended it" late suspend case. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Suspend infrastructure cleanup and extensionLinus Torvalds2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow devices to participate in the suspend process more intimately, in particular, allow the final phase (with interrupts disabled) to also be open to normal devices, not just system devices. Also, allow classes to participate in device suspend. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Driver core: add const to class_createMiguel Ojeda Sandonis2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds const to class_create second parameter, because: struct class { const char * name; /*...*/ } Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * device_create(): make fmt argument 'const char *'Greg Kroah-Hartman2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * class_device_create(): make fmt argument 'const char *'Dmitry Torokhov2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * deprecate PHYSDEV* keysKay Sievers2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | deprecate PHYSDEV* values in the uevent environment These values are no longer needed and inconsistent with the stacking of class devices. The event environment should not carry properties of a parent device. The key PHYSDEVDRIVER is available as DRIVER, PHYDEVBUS is indentical SUBSYSTEM. Class devices should not carry any of these values. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] ZVC: Support NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE / NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLEChristoph Lameter2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the atomic counter for slab_reclaim_pages and replace the counter and NR_SLAB with two ZVC counter that account for unreclaimable and reclaimable slab pages: NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE. Change the check in vmscan.c to refer to to NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE. The intend seems to be to check for slab pages that could be freed. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: make display of highmem counters conditional on ↵Christoph Lameter2006-09-26
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CONFIG_HIGHMEM Do not display HIGHMEM memory sizes if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set. Make HIGHMEM dependent texts and make display of highmem counters optional Some texts are depending on CONFIG_HIGHMEM. Remove those strings and remove the display of highmem counter values if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set. [akpm@osdl.org: remove some ifdefs] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [S390] hypfs comment cleanup.Michael Holzheu2006-09-20
| | | | | | | Correct some comments in the hypervisor filesystem. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [PATCH] /proc/meminfo: don't put spaces in namesAndrew Morton2006-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | None of the other /proc/meminfo lines have a space in the identifier. This post-2.6.17 addition has the potential to break existing parsers, so use an underscore instead (like Committed_AS). Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu hotplug: use hotplug version of registration in late initsChandra Seetharaman2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | Use hotplug version of register_cpu_notifier in late init functions. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Driver core: bus.c cleanupsAdrian Bunk2006-07-12
| | | | | | | | | This patch contains the following cleanups: - make the needlessly global bus_subsys static - #if 0 the unused find_bus() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Driver core: kernel-doc in drivers/base/core.c correctionsHenrik Kretzschmar2006-07-12
| | | | | | | | Corrects the kerneldocs for device_create() and device_destroy() with an eye on coding style, grammar and readability. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Driver core: fix driver-core kernel-docRandy Dunlap2006-07-12
| | | | | | | | | Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//drivers/base/core.c:574): No description found for parameter 'class' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//drivers/base/core.c:574): No description found for parameter 'devt' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//drivers/base/core.c:626): No description found for parameter 'devt' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] don't select CONFIG_HOTPLUGAndrew Morton2006-07-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's useful to be able to turn off CONFIG_HOTPLUG for compile-coverage testing and for section-checking coverage. But a few things go and select CONFIG_HOTPLUG, making it a royal PITA to turn the thing off. It's only turnable offable if CONFIG_EMBEDDED anyway. So let's make those things depend on HOTPLUG, not select it. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds2006-06-30
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt arch/arm26/Kconfig typos Documentation/IPMI typos Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig v9fs: do not include linux/version.h Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes typo fixes: specfic -> specific typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt typo fixes: occuring -> occurring typo fixes: infomation -> information typo fixes: disadvantadge -> disadvantage typo fixes: aquire -> acquire typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanism typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidth fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text smb is no longer maintained Manually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
| * Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | [PATCH] Use Zoned VM Counters for NUMA statisticsChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The numa statistics are really event counters. But they are per node and so we have had special treatment for these counters through additional fields on the pcp structure. We can now use the per zone nature of the zoned VM counters to realize these. This will shrink the size of the pcp structure on NUMA systems. We will have some room to add additional per zone counters that will all still fit in the same cacheline. Bits Prior pcp size Size after patch We can add ------------------------------------------------------------------ 64 128 bytes (16 words) 80 bytes (10 words) 48 32 76 bytes (19 words) 56 bytes (14 words) 8 (64 byte cacheline) 72 (128 byte) Remove the special statistics for numa and replace them with zoned vm counters. This has the side effect that global sums of these events now show up in /proc/vmstat. Also take the opportunity to move the zone_statistics() function from page_alloc.c into vmstat.c. Discussions: V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115048227000002&r=1&w=2 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_bounce to per zone counterChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conversion of nr_bounce to a per zone counter nr_bounce is only used for proc output. So it could be left as an event counter. However, the event counters may not be accurate and nr_bounce is categorizing types of pages in a zone. So we really need this to also be a per zone counter. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_unstable to per zone counterChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conversion of nr_unstable to a per zone counter We need to do some special modifications to the nfs code since there are multiple cases of disposition and we need to have a page ref for proper accounting. This converts the last critical page state of the VM and therefore we need to remove several functions that were depending on GET_PAGE_STATE_LAST in order to make the kernel compile again. We are only left with event type counters in page state. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_writeback to per zone counterChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conversion of nr_writeback to per zone counter. This removes the last page_state counter from arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c so we drop the page_state from there. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_dirty to per zone counterChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes nr_dirty a per zone counter. Looping over all processors is avoided during writeback state determination. The counter aggregation for nr_dirty had to be undone in the NFS layer since we summed up the page counts from multiple zones. Someone more familiar with NFS should probably review what I have done. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagetables to per zone counterChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conversion of nr_page_table_pages to a per zone counter [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_slab to per zone counterChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Allows reclaim to access counter without looping over processor counts. - Allows accurate statistics on how many pages are used in a zone by the slab. This may become useful to balance slab allocations over various zones. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] zoned vm counters: split NR_ANON_PAGES off from NR_FILE_MAPPEDChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current NR_FILE_MAPPED is used by zone reclaim and the dirty load calculation as the number of mapped pagecache pages. However, that is not true. NR_FILE_MAPPED includes the mapped anonymous pages. This patch separates those and therefore allows an accurate tracking of the anonymous pages per zone. It then becomes possible to determine the number of unmapped pages per zone and we can avoid scanning for unmapped pages if there are none. Also it may now be possible to determine the mapped/unmapped ratio in get_dirty_limit. Isnt the number of anonymous pages irrelevant in that calculation? Note that this will change the meaning of the number of mapped pages reported in /proc/vmstat /proc/meminfo and in the per node statistics. This may affect user space tools that monitor these counters! NR_FILE_MAPPED works like NR_FILE_DIRTY. It is only valid for pagecache pages. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagecache to per zone counterChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently a single atomic variable is used to establish the size of the page cache in the whole machine. The zoned VM counters have the same method of implementation as the nr_pagecache code but also allow the determination of the pagecache size per zone. Remove the special implementation for nr_pagecache and make it a zoned counter named NR_FILE_PAGES. Updates of the page cache counters are always performed with interrupts off. We can therefore use the __ variant here. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] zoned vm counters: convert nr_mapped to per zone counterChristoph Lameter2006-06-30
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | nr_mapped is important because it allows a determination of how many pages of a zone are not mapped, which would allow a more efficient means of determining when we need to reclaim memory in a zone. We take the nr_mapped field out of the page state structure and define a new per zone counter named NR_FILE_MAPPED (the anonymous pages will be split off from NR_MAPPED in the next patch). We replace the use of nr_mapped in various kernel locations. This avoids the looping over all processors in try_to_free_pages(), writeback, reclaim (swap + zone reclaim). [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: mc/smt power savings sched policySiddha, Suresh B2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sysfs entries 'sched_mc_power_savings' and 'sched_smt_power_savings' in /sys/devices/system/cpu/ control the MC/SMT power savings policy for the scheduler. Based on the values (1-enable, 0-disable) for these controls, sched groups cpu power will be determined for different domains. When power savings policy is enabled and under light load conditions, scheduler will minimize the physical packages/cpu cores carrying the load and thus conserving power(with a perf impact based on the workload characteristics... see OLS 2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details..) Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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