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* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-01-09
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| * [PATCH] drivers/block: Replace pci_module_init() with pci_register_driver()Richard Knutsson2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace obsolete pci_module_init() with pci_register_driver(). Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to completion: drivers/block/loop.cIngo Molnar2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | convert the block loop device from semaphores to completions. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to completion: SX8Steven Rostedt2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | change SX8 semaphores to completions. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_semJes Sorensen2006-01-09
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds2006-01-09
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| * [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_node addrs/n_addrBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The pre-parsed addrs/n_addrs fields in struct device_node are finally gone. Remove the dodgy heuristics that did that parsing at boot and remove the fields themselves since we now have a good replacement with the new OF parsing code. This patch also fixes a bunch of drivers to use the new code instead, so that at least pmac32, pseries, iseries and g5 defconfigs build. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [BLOCK] CCISS: update for blk softirq completionsJens Axboe2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] cciss: avoid defining useless MAJOR_NR macroChristoph Hellwig2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This sneaked in with one of the updates. 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: Use ARRAY_SIZE macroTobias Klauser2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove a duplicate of ARRAY_SIZE. Some trailing whitespaces are also removed. drivers/block/acsi* has been left out as it's marked BROKEN. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cciss: adds MSI and MSI-X supportMike Miller2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This creates a new function, cciss_interrupt_mode called from cciss_pci_init. This function determines what type of interrupt vector to use, i.e., MSI, MSI-X, or IO-APIC. One noticeable difference is changing the interrupt field of the controller struct to an array of 4 unsigned ints. The Smart Array HW is capable of generating 4 distinct interrupts depending on the transport method in use during operation. These are: #define DOORBELL_INT 0 Used to notify the contoller of configuration updates. We only use this feature when in polling mode. #define PERF_MODE_INT 0 Used when the controller is in Performant Mode. #define SIMPLE_MODE_INT 2 Used when the controller is in Simple Mode (current Linux implementation). #define MEMQ_INT_MODE 3 Not used. When using IO-APIC interrupts these 4 lines are OR'ed together so when any one fires an interrupt an is generated. In MSI or MSI-X mode this hardware OR'ing is ignored. We must register for our interrupt depending on what mode the controller is running. For Linux we use SIMPLE_MODE_INT exclusively at this time. Please consider this for inclusion. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] nbd: remove duplicate assignmenttaneli.vahakangas@netsonic.fi2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <stuartm@connecttech.com> Sent by Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>, who needs to read Documentation/SubmittingPatches.. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Add block_device_operations.getgeo block device methodChristoph Hellwig2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HDIO_GETGEO is implemented in most block drivers, and all of them have to duplicate the code to copy the structure to userspace, as well as getting the start sector. This patch moves that to common code [1] and adds a ->getgeo method to fill out the raw kernel hd_geometry structure. For many drivers this means ->ioctl can go away now. [1] the s390 block drivers are odd in this respect. xpram sets ->start to 4 always which seems more than odd, and the dasd driver shifts the start offset around, probably because of it's non-standard sector size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.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] pktcdvd: Use bd_claim to get exclusive accessPeter Osterlund2006-01-08
|/ | | | | | | | | | Use bd_claim() when opening the cdrom device to prevent user space programs such as cdrecord, hald and kded from interfering with the burning process. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'post-2.6.15' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2006-01-06
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Manual fixup for merge with Jens' "Suspend support for libata", commit ID 9b847548663ef1039dd49f0eb4463d001e596bc3. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [BLOCK] add @uptodate to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn()Tejun Heo2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | add @uptodate argument to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn(). there's no generic way to pass error code to request completion function, making generic error handling of non-fs request difficult (rq->errors is driver-specific and each driver uses it differently). this patch adds @uptodate to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn(). for fs requests, this doesn't really matter, so just using the same uptodate argument used in the last call to end_that_request_first() should suffice. imho, this can also help the generic command-carrying request jens is working on. Signed-off-by: tejun heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-Off-By: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] parport: Kconfig dependency fixesMarko Kohtala2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make drivers that use directly PC parport HW depend on PARPORT_PC rather than HW independent PARPORT. Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] nbd: fix TX/RX race conditionHerbert Xu2006-01-06
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Janos Haar of First NetCenter Bt. reported numerous crashes involving the NBD driver. With his help, this was tracked down to bogus bio vectors which in turn was the result of a race condition between the receive/transmit routines in the NBD driver. The bug manifests itself like this: CPU0 CPU1 do_nbd_request add req to queuelist nbd_send_request send req head for each bio kmap send nbd_read_stat nbd_find_request nbd_end_request kunmap When CPU1 finishes nbd_end_request, the request and all its associated bio's are freed. So when CPU0 calls kunmap whose argument is derived from the last bio, it may crash. Under normal circumstances, the race occurs only on the last bio. However, if an error is encountered on the remote NBD server (such as an incorrect magic number in the request), or if there were a bug in the server, it is possible for the nbd_end_request to occur any time after the request's addition to the queuelist. The following patch fixes this problem by making sure that requests are not added to the queuelist until after they have been completed transmission. In order for the receiving side to be ready for responses involving requests still being transmitted, the patch introduces the concept of the active request. When a response matches the current active request, its processing is delayed until after the tranmission has come to a stop. This has been tested by Janos and it has been successful in curing this race condition. From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Here is an updated patch which removes the active_req wait in nbd_clear_queue and the associated memory barrier. I've also clarified this in the comment. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: <djani22@dynamicweb.hu> Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge http://oss.oracle.com/git/ocfs2Linus Torvalds2006-01-05
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| * [PATCH] add AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, prepend AOP_ to WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATEZach Brown2006-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | readpage(), prepare_write(), and commit_write() callers are updated to understand the special return code AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE in the style of writepage() and WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE. AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE tells the caller that the callee has unlocked the page and that the operation should be tried again with a new page. OCFS2 uses this to detect and work around a lock inversion in its aop methods. There should be no change in behaviour for methods that don't return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE is also prepended with AOP_ for consistency and they are made enums so that kerneldoc can be used to document their semantics. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
* | [PATCH] USB: ub 02 Removed unused variableDaniel Marjamaki2006-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Removed an unused variable Signed-off-by: Daniel Marjamaki <daniel.marjamaki@comhem.se> Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] USB: ub 01 renamePete Zaitcev2006-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename misleading UB_MINORS_PER_MAJOR into UB_PARTS_PER_LUN. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] USB: ub 00 implement retries and resetsPete Zaitcev2006-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement command retries and resets in ub. It is advantageous for users to know if their devices are getting bad. However, failing every I/O is not practical if you have a external USB enclosure with a hard drive. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] USB: remove .owner field from struct usb_driverGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | It is no longer needed, so let's remove it, saving a bit of memory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] USB: drivers/usb/storage/libusualPete Zaitcev2006-01-04
|/ | | | | | | | | This patch adds a shim driver libusual, which routes devices between usb-storage and ub according to the common table, based on unusual_devs.h. The help and example syntax is in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] cciss: fix for deregister_diskMike Miller2005-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds setting our drv->queue = NULL back in deregister_disk. The drv->queue is part of our controller struct. blk_cleanup_queue works only on the queue in the gendisk struct. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cciss: double put_disk()Jens Axboe2005-12-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This undoes the put_disk patch I sent in before. If I had been paying attention I would have seen that we call put_disk from free_hba during driver unload. That's the only time we want to call it. If it's called from deregister disk we may remove the controller (cNd0) unintentionally. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] revert floppy-fix-read-only-handlingAndrew Morton2005-11-23
| | | | | | | | | | This fix causes problems on the very first floppy access - we haven't yet talked to the FDC so we don't know which state the write-protect tab is in. Revert for now. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH 3/3] cciss: add put_disk into cleanup routinesmikem2005-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | Jeff Garzik pointed me to his code to see how to remove a disk from the system _properly_. Well, here it is... Every place we remove disks we are now testing before calling del_gendisk or blk_cleanup_queue and then call put_disk. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* [PATCH 2/3] cciss: bug fix for BIG_PASS_THRUJens Axboe2005-11-18
| | | | | | | | | Applications using CCISS_BIG_PASSTHRU complained that the data written was zeros. The problem is that the buffer is being cleared after the user copy, unless the user copy has failed... Correct that logic. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* [PATCH] cciss_scsi warning fixGrant Coady2005-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c:264: warning: `print_bytes' defined but not used drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c:298: warning: `print_cmd' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] packet writing oops fixPeter Osterlund2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | There is an old bug in the pkt_count_states() function that causes stack corruption. When compiling with gcc 3.x or 2.x it is harmless, but gcc 4 allocates local variables differently, which makes the bug visible. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 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 Torvalds2005-11-11
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| * floppy: relocate devfs commentJames Nelson2005-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | Merge by hand (whitespace conflicts in libata.h)James Bottomley2005-11-10
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| * | [PATCH] add a file_permission helperChristoph Hellwig2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A few more callers of permission() just want to check for a different access pattern on an already open file. This patch adds a wrapper for permission() that takes a file in preparation of per-mount read-only support and to clean up the callers a little. The helper is not intended for new code, everything without the interface set in stone should use vfs_permission() Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [PATCH] drivers/block/pktcdvd.c: remove write-only variable in ↵Gabriel A. Devenyi2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pkt_iosched_process_queue() Found this on Coverty's linux bug database (http://linuxbugsdb.coverity.com). The function pkt_iosched_process_queue makes a call to bdev_get_queue and stores the result but never uses it, so it looks like it can be safely removed. Signed-off-by: Gabriel A. Devenyi <ace@staticwave.ca> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [PATCH] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reasonOlaf Hering2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes almost all inclusions of linux/version.h. The 3 #defines are unused in most of the touched files. A few drivers use the simple KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro, which is unfortunatly in linux/version.h. There are also lots of #ifdef for long obsolete kernels, this was not touched. In a few places, the linux/version.h include was move to where the LINUX_VERSION_CODE was used. quilt vi `find * -type f -name "*.[ch]"|xargs grep -El '(UTS_RELEASE|LINUX_VERSION_CODE|KERNEL_VERSION|linux/version.h)'|grep -Ev '(/(boot|coda|drm)/|~$)'` search pattern: /UTS_RELEASE\|LINUX_VERSION_CODE\|KERNEL_VERSION\|linux\/\(utsname\|version\).h Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [PATCH] fix floppy.c to store correct ro/rw status in underlying gendiskJon Masters2005-11-09
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Evgeny Stambulchik found that doing the following always worked: # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/ mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only # mount -o remount,rw /mnt/floppy # echo $? 0 This is the case because the block device /dev/fd0 is writeable but the floppy disk is marked protected. A fix is to simply have floppy_open mark the underlying gendisk policy according to reality (since the VFS doesn't provide a way for do_remount_sb to inquire as to the current device status). Signed-off-by: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [SCSI] remove Scsi_Device typedefChristoph Hellwig2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* | Merge by hand (conflicts between pending drivers and kfree cleanups)James Bottomley2005-11-08
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| * [SCSI] cciss: scsi error handlingmike.miller@hp.com2005-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds SCSI error handling code to the SCSI portion of the cciss driver. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* | powermac: Use a spinlock in swim3.c (floppy driver) instead of cliPaul Mackerras2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | Merge branch 'block-dir' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2005-11-07
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| * | [BLOCK] Move all core block layer code to new block/ directoryJens Axboe2005-11-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/ related block parts to block/ next. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* | | [PATCH] kfree cleanup: misc remaining driversJesper Juhl2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the remaining misc drivers/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch. Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in misc files in drivers/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org> Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] kernel-docs: fix kernel-doc format problemsRandy Dunlap2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert to proper kernel-doc format. Some have extra blank lines (not allowed immed. after the function name) or need blank lines (after all parameters). Function summary must be only one line. Colon (":") in a function description does weird things (causes kernel-doc to think that it's a new section head sadly). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] as: cooperating processesNick Piggin2005-11-07
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce the notion of cooperating processes (those that submit requests close to one another), and use these statistics to make better choices about whether or not to do anticipatory waiting. Help and analysis from Seetharami Seelam <seelam@cs.utep.edu> Performance testing from Seelam: I set up my system and executed a couple of tests that I used for OLS. I tested with AS, cooperative process patch merged in -mm tree (which I called Nick, below) and the cooperative patch with modifications to as_update_iohist (which I called Seelam). I used a dual-processor (2.28GHz Pentium 4 Xeon) system, with 1 GB main memory and 1 MB L2 cache, running Linux 2.6.9. Only a single processor is used for the experiments. I used 7.2K RPM Maxtor 10GB drive configured with ext2 file system. Experiment 1 (ex1) consists of reading one Linux source trees using find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null. Experiment 2 (ex2) consists of reading two disjoint Linux source trees using find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null. Experiment 3 (ex3) consists of streaming read of a 2GB file in the background and 1 instance of the chunk reads in Experiment 1. Timings for reading the Linux source are shown below: AS Nick Seelam ex1: 0m25.813s 0m27.859s 0m27.640s ex2: 1m11.468s 1m13.918s 1m5.869s ex3: 81m44.352s 10m38.572s 6m47.994s The difference between the numbers in Experiment 3 must be due to the code in as_update_iohist. (akpm: that's not part of this patch. So this patch is "Nick"). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> 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/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds2005-11-04
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| * Merge Paulus' treeStephen Rothwell2005-11-02
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