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* [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptionsMartin Waitz2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentationPavel Pisa2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our university students again. The documentation could be extended for more sources which are equipped by structured comments for recent 2.6 kernels. I have tried to proceed with that task. I have done that more times from 2.6.0 time and it gets boring to do same changes again and again. Linux kernel compiles after changes for i386 and ARM targets. I have added references to some more files into kernel-api book, I have added some section names as well. So please, check that changes do not break something and that categories are not too much skewed. I have changed kernel-doc to accept "fastcall" and "asmlinkage" words reserved by kernel convention. Most of the other changes are modifications in the comments to make kernel-doc happy, accept some parameters description and do not bail out on errors. Changed <pid> to @pid in the description, moved some #ifdef before comments to correct function to comments bindings, etc. You can see result of the modified documentation build at http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/linux/lkdb-2.6.11.tar.gz Some more sources are ready to be included into kernel-doc generated documentation. Sources has been added into kernel-api for now. Some more section names added and probably some more chaos introduced as result of quick cleanup work. Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Clean-up and bug fix for tdfxfb framebuffer size detectionRichard Drummond2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | Attached is a patch against 2.6.11.7 which tidies up the tdfxfb framebuffer size detection code a little and fixes the broken support for Voodoo4/5 cards. (I haven't tested this on a Voodoo5, however, because I don't have the hardware). Signed-off-by: Richard Drummond <evilrich@rcdrummond.net> Cc: <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fbdev: edid.h cleanupsAdrian Bunk2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | This patch removes some completely unused code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fbdev: Batch cmap changes at driver levelBenjamin Herrenschmidt2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds to the fbdev interface a set_cmap callback that allow the driver to "batch" palette changes. This is useful for drivers like radeonfb which might require lenghtly workarounds on palette accesses, thus allowing to factor out those workarounds efficiently. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reiserfs endianness: sanitize reiserfs_key unionAl Viro2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since we only access reiserfs_key ->u.k_offset_v2 guts in four helper functions, we are free to sanitize those, as long as - layout of the structure is unchanged (it's on-disk object) - behaviour of these helpers is same as before. Patch kills the mess with endianness-dependent bitfields and replaces them with a single __le64. Helpers are switched to straightforward shift/and/or. Benefits: - exact same definitions for little- and big-endian architectures; no ifdefs in sight. - generate the same code on little-endian and improved on big-endian. - doesn't rely on lousy bitfields handling in gcc codegenerator. - happens to be standard C (unsigned long long is not a valid type for a bitfield; it's a gccism and not well-implemented one, at that). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reiserfs endianness: comp_short_keys() cleanupAl Viro2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | comp_short_keys() massaged into sane form, which kills the last place where pointer to in_core_key (or any object containing such) would be cast to or from something else. At that point we are free to change layout of in_core_key - nothing depends on it anymore. So we drop the mess with union in there and simply use (unconditional) __u64 k_offset and __u8 k_type instead; places using in_core_key switched to those. That gives _far_ better code than current mess - on all platforms. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reiserfs endianness: fix endianness bugsAl Viro2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | fixes for a couple of bugs exposed by the above: le32_to_cpu() used on 16bit value and missing conversion in comparison of host- and little-endian values. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reiserfs endianness: annotate little-endian objectsAl Viro2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | little-endian objects annotated as such; again, obviously no changes of resulting code, we only replace __u16 with __le16, etc. in relevant places. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reiserfs endianness: clone struct reiserfs_keyAl Viro2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | struct reiserfs_key cloned; (currently) identical struct in_core_key added. Places that expect host-endian data in reiserfs_key switched to in_core_key. Basically, we get annotation of reiserfs_key users and keep the resulting tree obviously equivalent to original. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] autofs4: bump version numberIan Kent2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | Bump autofs4 version so we know what's going on. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] new valid_signal() functionJesper Juhl2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new function valid_signal() that tests if its argument is a valid signal number. The reasons for adding this new function are: - some code currently testing _NSIG directly has off-by-one errors. Using this function instead avoids such errors. - some code currently tests unsigned signal numbers for <0 which is pointless and generates warnings when building with gcc -W. Using this function instead avoids such warnings. I considered various places to add this function but eventually settled on include/linux/signal.h as the most logical place for it. If there's some reason this is a bad choice then please let me know (hints as to a better location are then welcome of course). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] consolidate sys_shmatStephen Rothwell2005-05-01
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] __attribute__ placement fixesVinay K Nallamothu2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The variable attributes "packed" and "align" when used with struct, should have the following order: struct ... {...} __attribute__((packed)) var; This patch fixes few instances where the variable and attributes are placed the other way around and had no effect. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] misc verify_area cleanupsJesper Juhl2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There were still a few comments left refering to verify_area, and two functions, verify_area_skas & verify_area_tt that just wrap corresponding access_ok_skas & access_ok_tt functions, just like verify_area does for access_ok - deprecate those. There was also a few places that still used verify_area in commented-out code, fix those up to use access_ok. After applying this one there should not be anything left but finally removing verify_area completely, which will happen after a kernel release or two. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] consolidate SIGEV_PAD_SIZEStephen Rothwell2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Discussing with Matthew Wilcox some of his outstanding patches lead me to this patch (among others). The preamble in struct sigevent can be expressed independently of the architecture. Also use __ARCH_SI_PREAMBLE_SIZE on ia64. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE version 2Joe Korty2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE to all architectures. This is to support the upcoming patches for robust mutexes. We normally don't reserve parts of the name/number space for external patches, but robust mutexes are sufficiently popular and important to justify it in this case. Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacementPaul E. McKenney2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The synchronize_kernel() primitive is used for quite a few different purposes: waiting for RCU readers, waiting for NMIs, waiting for interrupts, and so on. This makes RCU code harder to read, since synchronize_kernel() might or might not have matching rcu_read_lock()s. This patch creates a new synchronize_rcu() that is to be used for RCU readers and a new synchronize_sched() that is used for the rest. These two new primitives currently have the same implementation, but this is might well change with additional real-time support. Both new primitives are GPL-only, the old primitive is deprecated. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add deprecated_for_modulesPaul E. McKenney2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | Add a deprecated_for_modules macro that allows symbols to be deprecated only when used by modules, as suggested by Andrew Morton some months back. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] move SA_xxx defines to linux/signal.hStas Sergeev2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch moves the IRQ-related SA_xxx flags (namely, SA_PROBE, SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM and SA_SHIRQ) from all the arch-specific headers to linux/signal.h. This looks like a left-over after the irq-handling code was consolidated. The code was moved to kernel/irq/*, but the flags are still left per-arch. Right now, adding a new IRQ flag to the arch-specific header, like this patch does: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/alsa/alsa-driver/utils/patches/pcsp-kernel-2.6.10-03.diff?rev=1.1 no longer works, it breaks the compilation for all other arches, unless you add that flag to all the other arch-specific headers too. So I think such a clean-up makes sense. Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] clean up kernel messagesMatt Mackall2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | Arrange for all kernel printks to be no-ops. Only available if CONFIG_EMBEDDED. This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and nearly 100k on minimal configs. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Exterminate PAGE_BUGMatt Mackall2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | Remove PAGE_BUG - repalce it with BUG and BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove all kernel BUGsMatt Mackall2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | This patch eliminates all kernel BUGs, trims about 35k off the typical kernel, and makes the system slightly faster. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] nice and rt-prio rlimitsMatt Mackall2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by Chris Wright. The patch implements a simple rlimit ceiling for the RT (and nice) priorities a task can set. The rlimit defaults to 0, meaning no change in behavior by default. A value of 50 means RT priority levels 1-50 are allowed. A value of 100 means all 99 privilege levels from 1 to 99 are allowed. CAP_SYS_NICE is blanket permission. (akpm: see http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/1921.html for tips on integrating this with PAM). Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: remove ioctl32 from dasdcmbCornelia Huck2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | The ioctl32_conversion routines will be deprecated: Remove them from dasd_cmb and handle the three cmb ioctls like all other dasd ioctls. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: allow longer debug feature namesMichael Holzheu2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | The current limitation of 16 characters of the debug feature names turned out to be insufficient. Increase it to 64 characters. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: default storage keyPeter Oberparleiter2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | Provide an easy way to define a non-zero storage key at compile time. This is useful for debugging purposes. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: commentary about forking flagPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | Add some commentary about UML internals, for a strange trick. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: move va_copy conditional defPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | GCC 2.95 uses __va_copy instead of va_copy. Handle it inside compiler.h instead of in a casual file, and avoid the risk that this breaks with a newer compiler (which it could do). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: inline empty procPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | Cleanup: make an inline of this empty proc. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: support AES i586 crypto driverPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We want to make possible, for the user, to enable the i586 AES implementation. This requires a restructure. - Add a CONFIG_UML_X86 to notify that we are building a UML for i386. - Rename CONFIG_64_BIT to CONFIG_64BIT as is used for all other archs - Tell crypto/Kconfig that UML_X86 is as good as X86 - Tell it that it must exclude not X86_64 but 64BIT, which will give the same results. - Tell kbuild to descend down into arch/i386/crypto/ to build what's needed. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: fix oops related to exception tableJeff Dike2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Prevent the kernel from oopsing during the extable sorting, as it can do now, because the extable is in the readonly section of the binary. Jeff says: The exception table turned RO in 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 for some reason. Moving it causes it to land in the writable data section of the binary. Paolo says: This patch fixes a oops on startup, which can be easily triggered by compiling with CONFIG_MODE_TT disabled, and STATIC_LINK either disabled or enabled. The resulting kernel will always Oops on startup, after printing this simple output: I've verified, by binary search on the BitKeeper repository (synced up as of 2.6.12-rc2), starting from the range 2.6.11-2.6.12-rc1, that this bug shows up on BitKeeper revisions in the range [@1.1994.11.168,+inf), i.e. starting from this: [PATCH] lib/sort: Replace insertion sort in exception tables Since UML does not use the exception table, it's likely that insertion sort didn't happen to write anything on the table. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Increase number of e820 entries hard limit from 32 to 128Venkatesh Pallipadi2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The specifications that talk about E820 map doesn't have an upper limit on the number of e820 entries. But, today's kernel has a hard limit of 32. With increase in memory size, we are seeing the number of E820 entries reaching close to 32. Patch below bumps the number upto 128. The patch changes the location of EDDBUF in zero-page (as it comes after E820). As, EDDBUF is not used by boot loaders, this patch should not have any effect on bootloader-setup code interface. Patch covers both i386 and x86-64. Tested on: * grub booting bzImage * lilo booting bzImage with EDID info enabled * pxeboot of bzImage Side-effect: bss increases by ~ 2K and init.data increases by ~7.5K on all systems, due to increase in size of static arrays. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] irq and pci_ids for Intel ICH7DH & ICH7-M DHJason Gaston2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | This patch adds the Intel ICH7DH and ICH7-M DH DID's to the irq.c and pci_ids.h files. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <Jason.d.gaston@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: fix hpet for systems that don't support legacy replacementjohn stultz2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the i386 HPET code assumes the entire HPET implementation from the spec is present. This breaks on boxes that do not implement the optional legacy timer replacement functionality portion of the spec. This patch, which is very similar to my x86-64 patch for the same issue, fixes the problem allowing i386 systems that cannot use the HPET for the timer interrupt and RTC to still use the HPET as a time source. I've tested this patch on a system systems without HPET, with HPET but without legacy timer replacement, as well as HPET with legacy timer replacement. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] CPUID bug and inconsistency fixH. Peter Anvin2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The recent support for K8 multicore was misported from x86-64 to i386, due to an unnecessary inconsistency between the CPUID code. Sure, there is are no x86-64 VIA chips yet, but it should happen eventually. This patch fixes the i386 bug as well as makes x86-64 match i386 in the handing of the CPUID array. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86 reboot: Add reboot fixup for gx1/cs5530aJaya Kumar2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch by Jaya Kumar introduces a generic infrastructure to deal with x86 chipsets with nonstandard reset sequences, and adds support for the Geode gx1/cs5530a chipset. Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayalk@intworks.biz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] check nmi watchdog is brokenJack F Vogel2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A bug against an xSeries system showed up recently noting that the check_nmi_watchdog() test was failing. I have been investigating it and discovered in both i386 and x86_64 the recent change to the routine to use the cpu_callin_map has uncovered a problem. Prior to that change, on an SMP box, the test was trivally passing because all cpu's were found to not yet be online, but now with the callin_map they are discovered, it goes on to test the counter and they have not yet begun to increment, so it announces a CPU is stuck and bails out. On all the systems I have access to test, the announcement of failure is also bougs... by the time you can login and check /proc/interrupts, the NMI count is happily incrementing on all CPUs. Its just that the test is being done too early. I have tried moving the call to the test around a bit, and it was always too early. I finally hit on this proposed solution, it delays the routine via a late_initcall(), seems like the right solution to me. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386/x86_64 segment register access updateH. J. Lu2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new i386/x86_64 assemblers no longer accept instructions for moving between a segment register and a 32bit memory location, i.e., movl (%eax),%ds movl %ds,(%eax) To generate instructions for moving between a segment register and a 16bit memory location without the 16bit operand size prefix, 0x66, mov (%eax),%ds mov %ds,(%eax) should be used. It will work with both new and old assemblers. The assembler starting from 2.16.90.0.1 will also support movw (%eax),%ds movw %ds,(%eax) without the 0x66 prefix. I am enclosing patches for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels here. The resulting kernel binaries should be unchanged as before, with old and new assemblers, if gcc never generates memory access for unsigned gsindex; asm volatile("movl %%gs,%0" : "=g" (gsindex)); If gcc does generate memory access for the code above, the upper bits in gsindex are undefined and the new assembler doesn't allow it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix i386 memcpyDenis Vlasenko2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch shortens non-constant memcpy() by two bytes and fixes spurious out-of-line constant memcpy(). # size vmlinux.org vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 3954591 1553426 236544 5744561 57a7b1 vmlinux.org 3952615 1553426 236544 5742585 579ff9 vmlinux Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ppc64: reverse prediction on spinlock busy loop codeJake Moilanen2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On our raw spinlocks, we currently have an attempt at the lock, and if we do not get it we enter a spin loop. This spinloop will likely continue for awhile, and we pridict likely. Shouldn't we predict that we will get out of the loop so our next instructions are already prefetched. Even when we miss because the lock is still held, it won't matter since we are waiting anyways. I did a couple quick benchmarks, but the results are inconclusive. 16-way 690 running specjbb with original code # ./specjbb 3000 16 1 1 19 30 120 ... Valid run, Score is 59282 16-way 690 running specjbb with unlikely code # ./specjbb 3000 16 1 1 19 30 120 ... Valid run, Score is 59541 I saw a smaller increase on a JS20 (~1.6%) JS20 specjbb w/ original code # ./specjbb 400 2 1 1 19 30 120 ... Valid run, Score is 20460 JS20 specjbb w/ unlikely code # ./specjbb 400 2 1 1 19 30 120 ... Valid run, Score is 20803 Anton said: Mispredicting the spinlock busy loop also means we slow down the rate at which we do the loads which can be good for heavily contended locks. Note: There are some gcc issues with our default build and branch prediction, but a CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY build should emit them correctly. I'm working with Alan Modra on it now. Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ppc64: remove unnecessary includeAnton Blanchard2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | We no longer use any ppcdebug stuff in a.out.h, so remove the define. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ppc64: noexec fixesAnton Blanchard2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There were a few issues with the ppc64 noexec support: The 64bit ABI has a non executable stack by default. At the moment 64bit apps require a PT_GNU_STACK section in order to have a non executable stack. Disable the read implies exec workaround on the 64bit ABI. The 64bit toolchain has never had problems with incorrect mmap permissions (the 32bit has, thats why we need to retain the workaround). With these fixes as well as a gcc fix from Alan Modra (that was recently committed) 64bit apps work as expected. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ppc64: update to use the new 4L headersBenjamin Herrenschmidt2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | This patch converts ppc64 to use the generic pgtable-nopud.h instead of the "fixup" header. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] macintosh/adbhid.c: adb buttons support for aluminium PowerBook G4Andreas Jaggi2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for the special adb buttons of the aluminium PowerBook G4. Signed-off-by: Andreas Jaggi <andreas.jaggi@waterwave.ch> 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] ppc32: refactor FPU exception handlingPaul Mackerras2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Moved common FPU exception handling code out of head.S so it can be used by several of the sub-architectures that might of a full PowerPC FPU. Also, uses new CONFIG_PPC_FPU define to fix alignment exception handling for floating point load/store instructions to only occur if we have a hardware FPU. Signed-off-by: Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@timesys.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] add kmalloc_node, inline cleanupManfred Spraul2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch makes the following function calls available to allocate memory on a specific node without changing the basic operation of the slab allocator: kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags, int node); kmalloc_node(size_t size, unsigned int flags, int node); in a similar way to the existing node-blind functions: kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags); kmalloc(size, flags); kmem_cache_alloc_node was changed to pass flags and the node information through the existing layers of the slab allocator (which lead to some minor rearrangements). The functions at the lowest layer (kmem_getpages, cache_grow) are already node aware. Also __alloc_percpu can call kmalloc_node now. Performance measurements (using the pageset localization patch) yields: w/o patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.27 100 484.2736 12.02 1.97 Wed Mar 30 20:50:43 2005 100 25170.83 91 251.7083 23.12 150.10 Wed Mar 30 20:51:06 2005 200 34601.66 84 173.0083 33.64 294.14 Wed Mar 30 20:51:40 2005 300 37154.47 86 123.8482 46.99 436.56 Wed Mar 30 20:52:28 2005 400 39839.82 80 99.5995 58.43 580.46 Wed Mar 30 20:53:27 2005 500 40036.32 79 80.0726 72.68 728.60 Wed Mar 30 20:54:40 2005 600 44074.21 79 73.4570 79.23 872.10 Wed Mar 30 20:55:59 2005 700 44016.60 78 62.8809 92.56 1015.84 Wed Mar 30 20:57:32 2005 800 40411.05 80 50.5138 115.22 1161.13 Wed Mar 30 20:59:28 2005 900 42298.56 79 46.9984 123.83 1303.42 Wed Mar 30 21:01:33 2005 1000 40955.05 80 40.9551 142.11 1441.92 Wed Mar 30 21:03:55 2005 with pageset localization and slab API patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.19 100 484.1930 12.02 1.98 Wed Mar 30 21:10:18 2005 100 27428.25 92 274.2825 21.22 149.79 Wed Mar 30 21:10:40 2005 200 37228.94 86 186.1447 31.27 293.49 Wed Mar 30 21:11:12 2005 300 41725.42 85 139.0847 41.84 434.10 Wed Mar 30 21:11:54 2005 400 43032.22 82 107.5805 54.10 582.06 Wed Mar 30 21:12:48 2005 500 42211.23 83 84.4225 68.94 722.61 Wed Mar 30 21:13:58 2005 600 40084.49 82 66.8075 87.12 873.11 Wed Mar 30 21:15:25 2005 700 44169.30 79 63.0990 92.24 1008.77 Wed Mar 30 21:16:58 2005 800 43097.94 79 53.8724 108.03 1155.88 Wed Mar 30 21:18:47 2005 900 41846.75 79 46.4964 125.17 1303.38 Wed Mar 30 21:20:52 2005 1000 40247.85 79 40.2478 144.60 1442.21 Wed Mar 30 21:23:17 2005 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] count bounce buffer pages in vmstatKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a patch for counting the number of pages for bounce buffers. It's shown in /proc/vmstat. Currently, the number of bounce pages are not counted anywhere. So, if there are many bounce pages, it seems that there are leaked pages. And it's difficult for a user to imagine the usage of bounce pages. So, it's meaningful to show # of bouce pages. 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] mempool: NOMEMALLOC and NORETRYNick Piggin2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mempools have 2 problems. The first is that mempool_alloc can possibly get stuck in __alloc_pages when they should opt to fail, and take an element from their reserved pool. The second is that it will happily eat emergency PF_MEMALLOC reserves instead of going to their reserved pools. Fix the first by passing __GFP_NORETRY in the allocation calls in mempool_alloc. Fix the second by introducing a __GFP_MEMPOOL flag which directs the page allocator not to allocate from the reserve pool. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] RLIMIT_AS checking fixakpm@osdl.org2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | Address bug #4508: there's potential for wraparound in the various places where we perform RLIMIT_AS checking. (I'm a bit worried about acct_stack_growth(). Are we sure that vma->vm_mm is always equal to current->mm? If not, then we're comparing some other process's total_vm with the calling process's rlimits). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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