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* [PATCH] ieee80211: Add LEAP authentication typeZhu Yi2006-01-27
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Hong Liu <hong.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* [PATCH] ieee80211: Fix A band min and max channel definitionsZhu Yi2006-01-27
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Hong Liu <hong.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-01-20
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| * [NETFILTER] x_tables: Make XT_ALIGN align as strictly as necessary.David S. Miller2006-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Or else we break on ppc32 and other 32-bit platforms. Based upon a patch from Harald Welte. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sridhar/lksctp-2.6David S. Miller2006-01-19
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| | * [SCTP]: Fix couple of races between sctp_peeloff() and sctp_rcv().Sridhar Samudrala2006-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Validate and update the sk in sctp_rcv() to avoid the race where an assoc/ep could move to a different socket after we get the sk, but before the skb is added to the backlog. Also migrate the skb's in backlog queue to new sk when doing a peeloff. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
| | * [SCTP]: Fix machine check/connection hang on IA64.Vlad Yasevich2006-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sctp_unpack_cookie used an on-stack array called digest as a result/out parameter in the call to crypto_hmac. However, hmac code (crypto_hmac_final) assumes that the 'out' argument is in virtual memory (identity mapped region) and can use virt_to_page call on it. This does not work with the on-stack declared digest. The problems observed so far have been: a) incorrect hmac digest b) machine check and hardware reset. Solution is to define the digest in an identity mapped region by kmalloc'ing it. We can do this once as part of the endpoint structure and re-use it when verifying the SCTP cookie. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
| | * [SCTP]: Fix bad sysctl formatting of SCTP timeout values on 64-bit m/cs.Vlad Yasevich2006-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change all the structure members that hold jiffies to be of type unsigned long. This also corrects bad sysctl formating on 64 bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
| | * [SCTP]: Fix sctp_cookie alignment in the packet.Vlad Yasevich2006-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On 64 bit architectures, sctp_cookie sent as part of INIT-ACK is not aligned on a 64 bit boundry and thus causes unaligned access exceptions. The layout of the cookie prameter is this: |<----- Parameter Header --------------------|<--- Cookie DATA -------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | param type (16 bits) | param len (16 bits) | sig [32 bytes] | cookie.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The cookie data portion contains 64 bit values on 64 bit architechtures (timeval) that fall on a 32 bit alignment boundry when used as part of the on-wire format, but align correctly when used in internal structures. This patch explicitely pads the on-wire format so that it is properly aligned. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-01-20
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| * | | [SPARC]: Add support for *at(), ppoll, and pselect syscalls.David S. Miller2006-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This also includes by necessity _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support, which actually resulted in a lot of cleanups. The sparc signal handling code is quite a mess and I should clean it up some day. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [SPARC]: sparc32 needs PROMDEV_{I,O}RSC defines too.David S. Miller2006-01-19
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-01-20
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| * | [IA64] Fix bug in ia64 specific down() functionZoltan Menyhart2006-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > The memory order semantics for include/asm-ia64/semaphore.h:down() > doesn't look right. It is using atomic_dec_return, which eventually > translate into ia64_fetch_and_add() that uses release semantics. > Shouldn't it use acquire semantics? Use ia64_fetchadd() instead of atomic_dec_return() Acked-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * | [IA64] Zonelists for nodes without cpusJack Steiner2006-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a node runs out of memory, ensure that memory on nodes w/o cpus is used before using memory on nodes with cpus. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * | [IA64-SGI] sn2 mutex conversionJes Sorensen2006-01-17
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Migrate sn2 code to use mutex and completion events rather than semaphores. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Acked-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support codeAlan Cox2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a subset of the bluesmoke project core code, stripped of the NMI work which isn't ready to merge and some of the "interesting" proc functionality that needs reworking or just has no place in kernel. It requires no core kernel changes except the added scrub functions already posted. The goal is to merge further functionality only after the core code is accepted and proven in the base kernel, and only at the point the upstream extras are really ready to merge. From: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com> This converts EDAC to sysfs and is the final chunk neccessary before EDAC has a stable user space API and can be considered for submission into the base kernel. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] EDAC: atomic scrub operationsAlan Cox2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | EDAC requires a way to scrub memory if an ECC error is found and the chipset does not do the work automatically. That means rewriting memory locations atomically with respect to all CPUs _and_ bus masters. That means we can't use atomic_add(foo, 0) as it gets optimised for non-SMP This adds a function to include/asm-foo/atomic.h for the platforms currently supported which implements a scrub of a mapped block. It also adjusts a few other files include order where atomic.h is included before types.h as this now causes an error as atomic_scrub uses u32. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Add pselect/ppoll system calls on i386David Woodhouse2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the sys_pselect6() and sys_poll() calls to the i386 syscall table. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Add pselect/ppoll system call implementationDavid Woodhouse2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following implementation of ppoll() and pselect() system calls depends on the architecture providing a TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag in the thread_info. These system calls have to change the signal mask during their operation, and signal handlers must be invoked using the new, temporary signal mask. The old signal mask must be restored either upon successful exit from the system call, or upon returning from the invoked signal handler if the system call is interrupted. We can't simply restore the original signal mask and return to userspace, since the restored signal mask may actually block the signal which interrupted the system call. The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag deals with this by causing the syscall exit path to trap into do_signal() just as TIF_SIGPENDING does, and by causing do_signal() to use the saved signal mask instead of the current signal mask when setting up the stack frame for the signal handler -- or by causing do_signal() to simply restore the saved signal mask in the case where there is no handler to be invoked. The first patch implements the sys_pselect() and sys_ppoll() system calls, which are present only if TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined. That #ifdef should go away in time when all architectures have implemented it. The second patch implements TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for the PowerPC kernel (in the -mm tree), and the third patch then removes the arch-specific implementations of sys_rt_sigsuspend() and replaces them with generic versions using the same trick. The fourth and fifth patches, provided by David Howells, implement TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FR-V and i386 respectively, and the sixth patch adds the syscalls to the i386 syscall table. This patch: Add the pselect() and ppoll() system calls, providing core routines usable by the original select() and poll() system calls and also the new calls (with their semantics w.r.t timeouts). Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] uml: use generic sys_rt_sigsuspendJeff Dike2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the generic sys_rt_sigsuspend. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] uml: add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK supportJeff Dike2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK. I copy the i386 handling of the flag. sys_sigsuspend is also changed to follow i386. Also a bit of cleanup - turn an if into a switch get rid of a couple more emacs formatting comments Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpcDavid Woodhouse2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement the TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag in the new arch/powerpc kernel, for both 32-bit and 64-bit system call paths. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for i386David Howells2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK as added by David Woodhouse's patch entitled: [PATCH] 2/3 Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc [PATCH] 3/3 Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend It does the following: (1) Declares TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for i386. (2) Invokes it over to do_signal() when TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set. (3) Makes do_signal() support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, using the signal mask saved in current->saved_sigmask. (4) Discards sys_rt_sigsuspend() from the arch, using the generic one instead. (5) Makes sys_sigsuspend() save the signal mask and set TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK rather than attempting to fudge the return registers. (6) Makes sys_sigsuspend() return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than looping intrinsically. (7) Makes setup_frame(), setup_rt_frame() and handle_signal() return 0 or -EFAULT rather than true/false to be consistent with the rest of the kernel. Due to the fact do_signal() is then only called from one place: (8) Makes do_signal() no longer have a return value is it was just being ignored; force_sig() takes care of this. (9) Discards the old sigmask argument to do_signal() as it's no longer necessary. (10) Makes do_signal() static. (11) Marks the second argument to do_notify_resume() as unused. The unused argument should remain in the middle as the arguments are passed in as registers, and the ordering is specific in entry.S Given the way do_signal() is now no longer called from sys_{,rt_}sigsuspend(), they no longer need access to the exception frame, and so can just take arguments normally. This patch depends on sys_rt_sigsuspend patch. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRVDavid Howells2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK as added by David Woodhouse's patch entitled: [PATCH] 2/3 Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc [PATCH] 3/3 Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend It does the following: (1) Declares TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRV. (2) Invokes it over to do_signal() when TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set. (3) Makes do_signal() support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, using the signal mask saved in current->saved_sigmask. (4) Discards sys_rt_sigsuspend() from the arch, using the generic one instead. (5) Makes sys_sigsuspend() save the signal mask and set TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK rather than attempting to fudge the return registers. (6) Makes sys_sigsuspend() return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than looping intrinsically. (7) Makes setup_frame(), setup_rt_frame() and handle_signal() return 0 or -EFAULT rather than true/false to be consistent with the rest of the kernel. Due to the fact do_signal() is then only called from one place: (8) Make do_signal() no longer have a return value is it was just being ignored; force_sig() takes care of this. (9) Discards the old sigmask argument to do_signal() as it's no longer necessary. This patch depends on the FRV signalling patches as well as the sys_rt_sigsuspend patch. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend()David Woodhouse2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag allows us to have a generic implementation of sys_rt_sigsuspend() instead of duplicating it for each architecture. This provides such an implementation and makes arch/powerpc use it. It also tidies up the ppc32 sys_sigsuspend() to use TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: x86_64Ulrich Drepper2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wire up the x86_64 syscalls. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: i386Ulrich Drepper2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wire up the x86 syscalls Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: coreUlrich Drepper2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here is a series of patches which introduce in total 13 new system calls which take a file descriptor/filename pair instead of a single file name. These functions, openat etc, have been discussed on numerous occasions. They are needed to implement race-free filesystem traversal, they are necessary to implement a virtual per-thread current working directory (think multi-threaded backup software), etc. We have in glibc today implementations of the interfaces which use the /proc/self/fd magic. But this code is rather expensive. Here are some results (similar to what Jim Meyering posted before). The test creates a deep directory hierarchy on a tmpfs filesystem. Then rm -fr is used to remove all directories. Without syscall support I get this: real 0m31.921s user 0m0.688s sys 0m31.234s With syscall support the results are much better: real 0m20.699s user 0m0.536s sys 0m20.149s The interfaces are for obvious reasons currently not much used. But they'll be used. coreutils (and Jeff's posixutils) are already using them. Furthermore, code like ftw/fts in libc (maybe even glob) will also start using them. I expect a patch to make follow soon. Every program which is walking the filesystem tree will benefit. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] nfsd4: rename lk_stateownerJ. Bruce Fields2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One of the things that's confusing about nfsd4_lock is that the lk_stateowner field could be set to either of two different lockowners: the open owner or the lock owner. Rename to lk_replay_owner and add a comment to make it clear that it's used for whichever stateowner has its sequence id bumped for replay detection. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] svcrpc: save and restore the daddr field when request deferredJ. Bruce Fields2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The server code currently keeps track of the destination address on every request so that it can reply using the same address. However we forget to do that in the case of a deferred request. Remedy this oversight. >From folks at PolyServe. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] nfsd: check error status from nfsd_sync_dirYAMAMOTO Takashi2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change nfsd_sync_dir to return an error if ->sync fails, and pass that error up through the stack. This involves a number of rearrangements of error paths, and care to distinguish between Linux -errno numbers and NFSERR numbers. In the 'create' routines, we continue with the 'setattr' even if a previous sync_dir failed. This patch is quite different from Takashi's in a few ways, but there is still a strong lineage. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] add missing syscall declarationsArnd Bergmann2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All standard system calls should be declared in include/linux/syscalls.h. Add some of the new additions that were previously missed. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] uml: remove leftover from patch revertalPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I added this line to share this file with UML, but now it's no longer shared so remove this useless leftover. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] uml: add __raw_writel definitionJeff Dike2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add implementations of the write* and __raw_write* functions. __raw_writel is needed by lib/iocopy.c, which shouldn't be used in UML, but which is unconditionally linked in anyway. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] NUMA policies in the slab allocator V2Christoph Lameter2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a regression in 2.6.14 against 2.6.13 that causes an imbalance in memory allocation during bootup. The slab allocator in 2.6.13 is not numa aware and simply calls alloc_pages(). This means that memory policies may control the behavior of alloc_pages(). During bootup the memory policy is set to MPOL_INTERLEAVE resulting in the spreading out of allocations during bootup over all available nodes. The slab allocator in 2.6.13 has only a single list of slab pages. As a result the per cpu slab cache and the spinlock controlled page lists may contain slab entries from off node memory. The slab allocator in 2.6.13 makes no effort to discern the locality of an entry on its lists. The NUMA aware slab allocator in 2.6.14 controls locality of the slab pages explicitly by calling alloc_pages_node(). The NUMA slab allocator manages slab entries by having lists of available slab pages for each node. The per cpu slab cache can only contain slab entries associated with the node local to the processor. This guarantees that the default allocation mode of the slab allocator always assigns local memory if available. Setting MPOL_INTERLEAVE as a default policy during bootup has no effect anymore. In 2.6.14 all node unspecific slab allocations are performed on the boot processor. This means that most of key data structures are allocated on one node. Most processors will have to refer to these structures making the boot node a potential bottleneck. This may reduce performance and cause unnecessary memory pressure on the boot node. This patch implements NUMA policies in the slab layer. There is the need of explicit application of NUMA memory policies by the slab allcator itself since the NUMA slab allocator does no longer let the page_allocator control locality. The check for policies is made directly at the beginning of __cache_alloc using current->mempolicy. The memory policy is already frequently checked by the page allocator (alloc_page_vma() and alloc_page_current()). So it is highly likely that the cacheline is present. For MPOL_INTERLEAVE kmalloc() will spread out each request to one node after another so that an equal distribution of allocations can be obtained during bootup. It is not possible to push the policy check to lower layers of the NUMA slab allocator since the per cpu caches are now only containing slab entries from the current node. If the policy says that the local node is not to be preferred or forbidden then there is no point in checking the slab cache or local list of slab pages. The allocation better be directed immediately to the lists containing slab entries for the allowed set of nodes. This way of applying policy also fixes another strange behavior in 2.6.13. alloc_pages() is controlled by the memory allocation policy of the current process. It could therefore be that one process is running with MPOL_INTERLEAVE and would f.e. obtain a new page following that policy since no slab entries are in the lists anymore. A page can typically be used for multiple slab entries but lets say that the current process is only using one. The other entries are then added to the slab lists. These are now non local entries in the slab lists despite of the possible availability of local pages that would provide faster access and increase the performance of the application. Another process without MPOL_INTERLEAVE may now run and expect a local slab entry from kmalloc(). However, there are still these free slab entries from the off node page obtained from the other process via MPOL_INTERLEAVE in the cache. The process will then get an off node slab entry although other slab entries may be available that are local to that process. This means that the policy if one process may contaminate the locality of the slab caches for other processes. This patch in effect insures that a per process policy is followed for the allocation of slab entries and that there cannot be a memory policy influence from one process to another. A process with default policy will always get a local slab entry if one is available. And the process using memory policies will get its memory arranged as requested. Off-node slab allocation will require the use of spinlocks and will make the use of per cpu caches not possible. A process using memory policies to redirect allocations offnode will have to cope with additional lock overhead in addition to the latency added by the need to access a remote slab entry. Changes V1->V2 - Remove #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA by moving forward declaration into prior #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA section. - Give the function determining the node number to use a saner name. 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] Zone reclaim: proc overrideChristoph Lameter2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | proc support for zone reclaim This patch creates a proc entry /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode that may be used to override the automatic determination of the zone reclaim made on bootup. 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] Zone reclaim: Reclaim logicChristoph Lameter2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some bits for zone reclaim exists in 2.6.15 but they are not usable. This patch fixes them up, removes unused code and makes zone reclaim usable. Zone reclaim allows the reclaiming of pages from a zone if the number of free pages falls below the watermarks even if other zones still have enough pages available. Zone reclaim is of particular importance for NUMA machines. It can be more beneficial to reclaim a page than taking the performance penalties that come with allocating a page on a remote zone. Zone reclaim is enabled if the maximum distance to another node is higher than RECLAIM_DISTANCE, which may be defined by an arch. By default RECLAIM_DISTANCE is 20. 20 is the distance to another node in the same component (enclosure or motherboard) on IA64. The meaning of the NUMA distance information seems to vary by arch. If zone reclaim is not successful then no further reclaim attempts will occur for a certain time period (ZONE_RECLAIM_INTERVAL). This patch was discussed before. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113519961504207&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113408418232531&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113389027420032&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113380938612205&w=2 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] mm: migration page refcounting fixNick Piggin2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Migration code currently does not take a reference to target page properly, so between unlocking the pte and trying to take a new reference to the page with isolate_lru_page, anything could happen to it. Fix this by holding the pte lock until we get a chance to elevate the refcount. Other small cleanups while we're here. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> 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] scsi_transport_spi build fixAndrew Morton2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On alpha: In file included from drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.h:59, from drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw.c:40: include/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.h:57: error: field `dv_mutex' has incomplete type Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds2006-01-18
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| * | [SERIAL] Add 8250 support for Decision Computer International Co. PCCOM2Alon Bar-Lev2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a new device which is look like: Serial controller: Decision Computer International Co. PCCOM2 (rev 02) (prog-if 02 [16550]) 0700: 6666:0004 (rev 02) (prog-if 02) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 177 Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] I/O ports at e880 [size=128] I/O ports at e400 [size=256] It has two 16550A, and is not listed in kernel, although the manufacturer clams that it is supported... I've created the following patch, it only add the new PCI id and the card to the repository, it seems to work. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2006-01-18
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| * \ \ Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-upstreamRussell King2006-01-18
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| | * | | ARM: OMAP: 1/4 Fix clock framework to use clk_enable/disableTony Lindgren2006-01-17
| | | |/ | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes OMAP clock framework to use clk_enable/disable instead of clk_use/unuse as specified in include/linux/clk.h. Instances of clk_use/unuse are renamed to clk_enable/disable, and references clk_use/unuse are removed. Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
| * | | [ARM] 3267/1: PXA27x SSP controller register definesDavid Vrabel2006-01-18
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from David Vrabel PXA27x SSP controller has a few different registers, including SCR (serial clock rate) in SSCR0. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-01-18
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| * \ \ Merge git://tipc.cslab.ericsson.net/pub/git/tipcDavid S. Miller2006-01-18
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| | * | [TIPC] Move ethernet protocol id to linux/if_ether.hPer Liden2006-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
| | * | [TIPC] Updated link priority macrosPer Liden2006-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added macros for min/default/max link priority in tipc_config.h. Also renamed TIPC_NUM_LINK_PRI to TIPC_MEDIA_LINK_PRI since that is a more accurate description of what it is used for. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
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