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* [PATCH] sched: revert "filter affine wakeups"Chen, Kenneth W2006-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert commit d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6: [PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups Apparently caused more than 10% performance regression for aim7 benchmark. The setup in use is 16-cpu HP rx8620, 64Gb of memory and 12 MSA1000s with 144 disks. Each disk is 72Gb with a single ext3 filesystem (courtesy of HP, who supplied benchmark results). The problem is, for aim7, the wake-up pattern is random, but it still needs load balancing action in the wake-up path to achieve best performance. With the above commit, lack of load balancing hurts that workload. However, for workloads like database transaction processing, the requirement is exactly opposite. In the wake up path, best performance is achieved with absolutely zero load balancing. We simply wake up the process on the CPU that it was previously run. Worst performance is obtained when we do load balancing at wake up. There isn't an easy way to auto detect the workload characteristics. Ingo's earlier patch that detects idle CPU and decide whether to load balance or not doesn't perform with aim7 either since all CPUs are busy (it causes even bigger perf. regression). Revert commit d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6, which causes more than 10% performance regression with aim7. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] compound page: no access_process_vm checkHugh Dickins2006-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | The PageCompound check before access_process_vm's set_page_dirty_lock is no longer necessary, so remove it. But leave the PageCompound checks in bio_set_pages_dirty, dio_bio_complete and nfs_free_user_pages: at least some of those were introduced as a little optimization on hugetlb pages. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] prevent recursive panic from softlockup watchdogJan Beulich2006-02-10
| | | | | | | | | When panic_timeout is zero, suppress triggering a nested panic due to soft lockup detection. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: remove smpniceNick Piggin2006-02-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I don't think the code is quite ready, which is why I asked for Peter's additions to also be merged before I acked it (although it turned out that it still isn't quite ready with his additions either). Basically I have had similar observations to Suresh in that it does not play nicely with the rest of the balancing infrastructure (and raised similar concerns in my review). The samples (group of 4) I got for "maximum recorded imbalance" on a 2x2 SMP+HT Xeon are as follows: | Following boot | hackbench 20 | hackbench 40 -----------+----------------+---------------------+--------------------- 2.6.16-rc2 | 30,37,100,112 | 5600,5530,6020,6090 | 6390,7090,8760,8470 +nosmpnice | 3, 2, 4, 2 | 28, 150, 294, 132 | 348, 348, 294, 347 Hackbench raw performance is down around 15% with smpnice (but that in itself isn't a huge deal because it is just a benchmark). However, the samples show that the imbalance passed into move_tasks is increased by about a factor of 10-30. I think this would also go some way to explaining latency blips turning up in the balancing code (though I haven't actually measured that). We'll probably have to revert this in the SUSE kernel. Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] do_sigaction: cleanup ->sa_mask manipulationOleg Nesterov2006-02-09
| | | | | | | Clear unblockable signals beforehand. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sys_signal: initialize ->sa_maskOleg Nesterov2006-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | Pointed out by Linus Torvalds. sys_signal() forgets to initialize ->sa_mask. ( I suspect arch/ia64/ia32/ia32_signal.c:sys32_signal() also needs this fix ) Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/sys.c NULL noise removalAl Viro2006-02-07
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] timer.c NULL noise removalAl Viro2006-02-07
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] remove bogus asm/bug.h includes.Al Viro2006-02-07
| | | | | | | A bunch of asm/bug.h includes are both not needed (since it will get pulled anyway) and bogus (since they are done too early). Removed. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare filesJANAK DESAI2006-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the file descriptor structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy information from the current, shared, structure. Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare vmJANAK DESAI2006-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If vm structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy information from the current, shared, structure. Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare namespaceJANAK DESAI2006-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the namespace structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy information from the current, shared, structure. Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare filesystem infoJANAK DESAI2006-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If filesystem structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy information from the current, shared, structure. Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: system call handler functionJANAK DESAI2006-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sys_unshare system call handler function accepts the same flags as clone system call, checks constraints on each of the flags and invokes corresponding unshare functions to disassociate respective process context if it was being shared with another task. Here is the link to a program for testing unshare system call. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/audit/unshare_test.c?download Please note that because of a problem in rmdir associated with bind mounts and clone with CLONE_NEWNS, the test fails while trying to remove temporary test directory. You can remove that temporary directory by doing rmdir, twice, from the command line. The first will fail with EBUSY, but the second will succeed. I have reported the problem to Ram Pai and Al Viro with a small program which reproduces the problem. Al told us yesterday that he will be looking at the problem soon. I have tried multiple rmdirs from the unshare_test program itself, but for some reason that is not working. Doing two rmdirs from command line does seem to remove the directory. Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix build failure in recent pm_prepare_* changes.Rafael J. Wysocki2006-02-07
| | | | | | | | Fix compilation problem in PM headers. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] module: strlen_user() race fixAndrew Morton2006-02-07
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] swsusp: kill unneeded/unbalanced bio_getPavel Machek2006-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove unneeded bio_get() which would cause a bio leak - Writing doesn't dirty pages. Reading dirties pages. - We should dirty the pages after the IO completion, not before (Busy-waiting for disk I/O completion isn't very polite.) Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] missing license tag in intermoduleDave Jones2006-02-05
| | | | | | | | | It may suck something awful, but it shouldn't taint the kernel. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.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] sched: only print migration_cost once per bootChuck Ebbert2006-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | migration_cost prints after every CPU hotplug event. Make it print only once at boot. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.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] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUsEric Dumazet2006-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | percpu_data blindly allocates bootmem memory to store NR_CPUS instances of cpudata, instead of allocating memory only for possible cpus. As a preparation for changing that, we need to convert various 0 -> NR_CPUS loops to use for_each_cpu(). (The above only applies to users of asm-generic/percpu.h. powerpc has gone it alone and is presently only allocating memory for present CPUs, so it's currently corrupting memory). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uninline __sigqueue_free()Andrew Morton2006-02-03
| | | | | | | Five callsites. I dunno how all this crap got back in there :( Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset: fix sparse warningRandy Dunlap2006-02-03
| | | | | | | | | kernel/cpuset.c:644:38: warning: non-ANSI function declaration of function 'cpuset_update_task_memory_state' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Normalize timespec for negative values in ns_to_timespecGeorge Anzinger2006-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | - In case of a negative nsec value the result of the division must be normalized. - Remove inline from an exported function. Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@wildturkeyranch.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entriesKeith Owens2006-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When one module exports a function symbol and another module uses that symbol then kallsyms shows the symbol twice. Once from the consumer with a type of 'U' and once from the provider with a type of 't' or 'T'. On most architectures, both entries have the same address so it does not matter which one is returned by kallsyms_lookup_name(). But on architectures with function descriptors, the 'U' entry points to the descriptor, not to the code body, which is not what we want. IA64 # grep -w qla2x00_remove_one /proc/kallsyms a000000208c25ef8 U qla2x00_remove_one [qla2300] <= descriptor a000000208bf44c0 t qla2x00_remove_one [qla2xxx] <= function body Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries in modules. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Kprobes: Fix deadlock in function-return probesAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli2006-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When two function-return probes are inserted on kfree()[1] and the second on say, sys_link()[2], and later [2] is unregistered, we have a deadlock as kfree is called with the kretprobe_lock held and the function-return probe on kfree will also try to grab the same lock. However, we can move the kfree() during unregistration to outside the spinlock as we are sure that no instances from the free list will be used after synchronized_sched() returns during the unregistration process. Thanks to Masami Hiramatsu for spotting this. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/kprobes.c: fix a warning #ifndef ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBESAdrian Bunk2006-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | kernel/kprobes.c:353: warning: 'pre_handler_kretprobe' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-02-02
|\ | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
| *---------. [ACPI] merge 3549 4320 4485 4588 4980 5483 5651 acpica asus fops pnpacpi ↵Len Brown2006-01-24
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | branches into release Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | | | | | * | [ACPI] SMP S3 resume: evaluate _WAK after INITDavid Shaohua Li2005-11-30
| | | | | |/ / | | | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On SMP resume from S3, we reset (INIT) the non-boot processors to boot them cleanly. But the BIOS needs to execute _WAK after INIT in order to properly initialized these processors upon resume. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5651 Signed-off-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | | * | | | [ACPI] fix reboot upon suspend-to-diskAlexey Starikovskiy2005-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4320 Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] zone_reclaim: configurable off node allocation period.Christoph Lameter2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the zone_reclaim code has a fixed window of 30 seconds of off node allocations should a local zone have no unused pagecache pages left. Reclaim will be attempted again after this timeout period to avoid repeated useless scans for memory. This is also useful to established sufficiently large off node allocation chunks to relieve the local node. It may be beneficial to adjust that time period for some special situations. For example if memory use was exceeding node capacity one may want to give up for longer periods of time. If memory spikes intermittendly then one may want to shorten the time period to reduce the number of off node allocations. This patch allows just that.... 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: minor fixesChristoph Lameter2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - If we only reclaim nr_pages then its okay to stay on node. Switch from > to >= for the comparison. - vm_table[] entry for zone_reclaim_mode is a bit screwed up. - Add empty lines around shrink_zone to show that this is the central function to be called. 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] swsusp: do not change log level during suspend/resumeRafael J. Wysocki2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Prevent the kernel from setting the log level to 10 unconditionally during suspend/resume which was needed in the past for debugging, but generally is undesirable. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] sys_sched_getaffinity() & hotplugJack Steiner2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change sched_getaffinity() so that it returns a bitmap that indicates the legally schedulable cpus that a task is allowed to run on. Without this patch, if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is enabled, sched_getaffinity() unconditionally returns (at least on IA64) a mask with NR_CPUS bits set. This conveys no useful infornmation except for a kernel compile option. This fixes a breakage we obseved running recent kernels. We have MPI jobs that use sched_getaffinity() to determine where to place their threads. Placing them on non-existant cpus is problematic :-) Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] kernel/posix-timers.c: remove do_posix_clock_notimer_create()Adrian Bunk2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This function is neither used nor has any real contents. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] hrtimers: set correct initial expiry time for relative SIGEV_NONE timersThomas Gleixner2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The expiry time for relative timers with SIGEV_NONE set was never updated to the correct value. Pointed out by George Anzinger. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] hrtimers: add back lost credit linesThomas Gleixner2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At some point we added credits to people who actively helped to bring k/hr-timers along. This was lost in the big code revamp. Add it back. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] hrtimers: cleanups and simplificationsGeorge Anzinger2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up the interface to hrtimers by changing the init code to pass the mode as well as the clock. This allow the init code to select the correct base and eliminates extra timer re-init code in posix-timers. We also simplify the restart interface nanosleep use. Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] hrtimers: fix posix-timer requeue raceakpm@osdl.org2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Steven Rostedtrostedt@goodmis.org <rostedt@goodmis.org> CPU0 expires a posix-timer and runs the callback function. The signal is queued. After releasing the posix-timer lock and before returning to hrtimer_run_queue CPU0 gets interrupted. CPU1 delivers the queued signal and rearms the timer. CPU0 comes back to hrtimer_run_queue and sets the timer state to expired. The next modification of the timer can result in an oops, because the state information is wrong. Keep track of state = RUNNING and check if the state has been in the return path of hrtimer_run_queue. In case the state has been changed, ignore a restart request and do not touch the state variable. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] hrtimers: fix oldvalue return in setitimerThomas Gleixner2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This resolves bugzilla bug#5617. The oldvalue of the timer was read after the timer was cancelled, so the remaining time was always zero. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] hrtimers: fix possible use of NULL pointer in posix-timersThomas Gleixner2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixup the conversion of posix-timers to hrtimers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] hrtimers: fixup itimer conversionThomas Gleixner2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The itimer conversion removed the locking which protects the timer and variables in the shared signal structure. Steven Rostedt found the problem in the latest -rt patches. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] swsusp: use bytes as image size unitsRafael J. Wysocki2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make swsusp use bytes as the image size units, which is needed for future compatibility. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] "Fix uidhash_lock <-> RXU deadlock" fixAndrew Morton2006-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I get storms of warnings from local_bh_enable(). Better-tested patches, please. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] rcu_torture_lock deadlock fixIngo Molnar2006-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rcu_torture_lock is used in a softirq-unsafe manner, but it is also taken by rcu_torture_cb(), which may execute in softirq-context, resulting in potential deadlocks. The fix is to acquire rcu_torture_lock in a softirq-safe manner. With this fix applied, the rcu-torture code passes validation. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] fix uidhash_lock <-> RCU deadlockIngo Molnar2006-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | RCU task-struct freeing can call free_uid(), which is taking uidhash_lock - while other users of uidhash_lock are softirq-unsafe. The fix is to always take the uidhash_spinlock in a softirq-safe manner. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] Fix boot-time slowdown for measure_migration_costIngo Molnar2006-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reduces the amount of time the migration cost calculations cost during bootup. Based on numbers by Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | | | Don't try to "validate" a non-existing timeval.Linus Torvalds2006-01-31
|/ / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | settime() with a NULL timeval is silly but legal. Noticed by Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> 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] 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>