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* resource: add bus number supportBjorn Helgaas2010-03-14
| | | | | | | | Add support for bus number resources. This is for bridges with a range of bus numbers behind them. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_typeEmese Revfy2010-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_opsEmese Revfy2010-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Constify struct kset_uevent_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Revert "lib: build list_sort() only if needed"Linus Torvalds2010-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit a069c266ae5fdfbf5b4aecf2c672413aa33b2504. It turns ou that not only was it missing a case (XFS) that needed it, but perhaps more importantly, people sometimes want to enable new modules that they hadn't had enabled before, and if such a module uses list_sort(), it can't easily be inserted any more. So rather than add a "select LIST_SORT" to the XFS case, just leave it compiled in. It's not all _that_ big, after all, and the inconvenience isn't worth it. Requested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vsprintf: move %pR resource printf_specs off the stackBjorn Helgaas2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | This adds separate I/O and memory specs, so we don't have to change the field width in a shared spec, which then lets us make all the specs const and static, since they never change. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vsprintf: clarify comments for printf_spec flagsBjorn Helgaas2010-03-06
| | | | | | | Add clues about what the SMALL and SPECIAL flags do. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vsprintf.c: Reduce sizeof struct printf_spec from 24 to 8 bytesJoe Perches2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | Reducing the size of struct printf_spec is a good thing because multiple instances are commonly passed on stack. It's possible for type to be u8 and field_width to be s8, but this is likely small enough for now. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfsLinus Torvalds2010-03-06
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs: [LogFS] Change magic number [LogFS] Remove h_version field [LogFS] Check feature flags [LogFS] Only write journal if dirty [LogFS] Fix bdev erases [LogFS] Silence gcc [LogFS] Prevent 64bit divisions in hash_index [LogFS] Plug memory leak on error paths [LogFS] Add MAINTAINERS entry [LogFS] add new flash file system Fixed up trivial conflict in lib/Kconfig, and a semantic conflict in fs/logfs/inode.c introduced by write_inode() being changed to use writeback_control' by commit a9185b41a4f84971b930c519f0c63bd450c4810d ("pass writeback_control to ->write_inode")
| * [LogFS] add new flash file systemJoern Engel2009-11-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a new flash file system. See Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
* | crc32: some minor cleanupsJoakim Tjernlund2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | bitmap: use for_each_set_bit()Akinobu Mita2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace open-coded loop with for_each_set_bit(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | lib: fix first line of kernel-doc for a few functionsBen Hutchings2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The function name must be followed by a space, hypen, space, and a short description. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | lib: build list_sort() only if neededDon Mullis2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Build list_sort() only for configs that need it -- those that don't save ~581 bytes (i386). Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | lib: revise list_sort() header commentDon Mullis2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clarify and correct header comment of list_sort(). Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | lib: more scalable list_sort()Don Mullis2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | XFS and UBIFS can pass long lists to list_sort(); this alternative implementation scales better, reaching ~3x performance gain when list length exceeds the L2 cache size. Stand-alone program timings were run on a Core 2 duo L1=32KB L2=4MB, gcc-4.4, with flags extracted from an Ubuntu kernel build. Object size is 581 bytes compared to 455 for Mark J. Roberts' code. Worst case for either implementation is a list length just over a power of two, and to roughly the same degree, so here are timing results for a range of 2^N+1 lengths. List elements were 16 bytes each including malloc overhead; initial order was random. time (msec) Tatham-Roberts | generic-Mullis-v2 loop_count length | | ratio 4000000 2 206 294 1.427 2000000 3 176 227 1.289 1000000 5 199 172 0.864 500000 9 235 178 0.757 250000 17 243 182 0.748 125000 33 261 196 0.750 62500 65 277 209 0.754 31250 129 292 219 0.75 15625 257 317 235 0.741 7812 513 340 252 0.741 3906 1025 362 267 0.737 1953 2049 388 283 0.729 ~ L1 size 976 4097 556 323 0.580 488 8193 678 361 0.532 244 16385 773 395 0.510 122 32769 844 418 0.495 61 65537 917 454 0.495 30 131073 1128 543 0.481 15 262145 2355 869 0.369 ~ L2 size 7 524289 5597 1714 0.306 3 1048577 6218 2022 0.325 Mark's code does not actually implement the usual or generic mergesort, but rather a variant from Simon Tatham described here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/algorithms/listsort.html Simon's algorithm performs O(log N) passes over the entire input list, doing merges of sublists that double in size on each pass. The generic algorithm instead merges pairs of equal length lists as early as possible, in recursive order. For either algorithm, the elements that extend the list beyond power-of-two length are a special case, handled as nearly as possible as a "rounding-up" to a full POT. Some intuition for the locality of reference implications of merge order may be gotten by watching this animation: http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/merge-sort Simon's algorithm requires only O(1) extra space rather than the generic algorithm's O(log N), but in my non-recursive implementation the actual O(log N) data is merely a vector of ~20 pointers, which I've put on the stack. Long-running list_sort() calls: If the list passed in may be long, or the client's cmp() callback function is slow, the client's cmp() may periodically invoke cond_resched() to voluntarily yield the CPU. All inner loops of list_sort() call back to cmp(). Stability of the sort: distinct elements that compare equal emerge from the sort in the same order as with Mark's code, for simple test cases. A boot-time test is provided to verify this and other correctness requirements. A kernel that uses drm.ko appears to run normally with this change; I have no suitable hardware to similarly test the use by UBIFS. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: style tweaks, fix comment, make list_sort_test __init] Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | lib/string.c: simplify strnstr()André Goddard Rosa2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | lib/string.c: simplify stricmp()André Goddard Rosa2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Removes 32 bytes on core2 with gcc 4.4.1: text data bss dec hex filename 3196 0 0 3196 c7c lib/string-BEFORE.o 3164 0 0 3164 c5c lib/string-AFTER.o Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | lkdtm: add debugfs access and loosen KPROBE tiesSimon Kagstrom2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add adds a debugfs interface and additional failure modes to LKDTM to provide similar functionality to the provoke-crash driver submitted here: http://lwn.net/Articles/371208/ Crashes can now be induced either through module parameters (as before) or through the debugfs interface as in provoke-crash. The patch also provides a new "direct" interface, where KPROBES are not used, i.e., the crash is invoked directly upon write to the debugfs file. When built without KPROBES configured, only this mode is available. Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Cc: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: use the same log level for show_mem()Amerigo Wang2010-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the same log level for printk's in show_mem(), so that those messages can be shown completely when using log level 6. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller2010-02-28
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c
| * \ Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-02-28
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Mark atomic irq ops raw for 32bit legacy x86: Merge show_regs() x86: Macroise x86 cache descriptors x86-32: clean up rwsem inline asm statements x86: Merge asm/atomic_{32,64}.h x86: Sync asm/atomic_32.h and asm/atomic_64.h x86: Split atomic64_t functions into seperate headers x86-64: Modify memcpy()/memset() alternatives mechanism x86-64: Modify copy_user_generic() alternatives mechanism x86: Lift restriction on the location of FIX_BTMAP_* x86, core: Optimize hweight32()
| | * | x86, core: Optimize hweight32()Akinobu Mita2009-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Optimize hweight32 by using the same technique in hweight64. The proof of this technique can be found in the commit log for f9b4192923fa6e38331e88214b1fe5fc21583fcc ("bitops: hweight() speedup"). The userspace benchmark on x86_32 showed 20% speedup with bitmap_weight() which uses hweight32 to count bits for each unsigned long on 32bit architectures. int main(void) { #define SZ (1024 * 1024 * 512) static DECLARE_BITMAP(bitmap, SZ) = { [0 ... 100] = 1, }; return bitmap_weight(bitmap, SZ); } Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1258603932-4590-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com> [ only x86 sets ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER so we do this via the x86 tree] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-02-28
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (44 commits) rcu: Fix accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU rcu: Make non-RCU_PROVE_LOCKING rcu_read_lock_sched_held() understand boot rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU rcu: Export rcu_scheduler_active rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account rcu: Make lockdep_rcu_dereference() message less alarmist sched, cgroups: Fix module export rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information rcu: Fix rcutorture mod_timer argument to delay one jiffy rcu: Fix deadlock in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU stall detection rcu: Convert to raw_spinlocks rcu: Stop overflowing signed integers rcu: Use canonical URL for Mathieu's dissertation rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU rcu: Fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation rcu: Documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU security: Apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses idr: Apply lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() uses radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree vfs: Abstract rcu_dereference_check for files-fdtable use ...
| | * | | rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task informationPaul E. McKenney2010-02-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When RCU detects a grace-period stall, it currently just prints out the PID of any tasks doing the stalling. This patch adds RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE, which enables the more-verbose reporting from sched_show_task(). Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-21-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | idr: Apply lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() usesPaul E. McKenney2010-02-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because idr can be used with any of a number of locks or with any flavor of RCU, just disable the lockdep-based diagnostics. If idr needs diagnostics, the check expression will need to be passed into the relevant idr primitives as an additional argument. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-11-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix treePaul E. McKenney2010-02-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because the radix tree is used with many different locking designs, we cannot do any effective checking without changing the radix-tree APIs. It might make sense to do this later, but only if the RCU lockdep checking proves itself sufficiently valuable. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-10-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | rcu: Introduce lockdep-based checking to RCU read-side primitivesPaul E. McKenney2010-02-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Inspection is proving insufficient to catch all RCU misuses, which is understandable given that rcu_dereference() might be protected by any of four different flavors of RCU (RCU, RCU-bh, RCU-sched, and SRCU), and might also/instead be protected by any of a number of locking primitives. It is therefore time to enlist the aid of lockdep. This set of patches is inspired by earlier work by Peter Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner, and takes the following approach: o Set up separate lockdep classes for RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched. o Set up separate lockdep classes for each instance of SRCU. o Create primitives that check for being in an RCU read-side critical section. These return exact answers if lockdep is fully enabled, but if unsure, report being in an RCU read-side critical section. (We want to avoid false positives!) The primitives are: For RCU: rcu_read_lock_held(void) For RCU-bh: rcu_read_lock_bh_held(void) For RCU-sched: rcu_read_lock_sched_held(void) For SRCU: srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp) o Add rcu_dereference_check(), which takes a second argument in which one places a boolean expression based on the above primitives and/or lockdep_is_held(). o A new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, enables rcu_dereference_check(). This depends on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, and should be quite helpful during the transition period while CONFIG_PROVE_RCU-unaware patches are in flight. The existing rcu_dereference() primitive does no checking, but upcoming patches will change that. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | Merge commit 'v2.6.33' into core/rcuIngo Molnar2010-02-25
| | |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: Update from -rc4 to -final. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | rcu: 1Q2010 update for RCU documentationPaul E. McKenney2010-01-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add expedited functions. Review documentation and update obsolete verbiage. Also fix the advice for the RCU CPU-stall kernel configuration parameter, and document RCU CPU-stall warnings. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12635142581866-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-02-27
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (88 commits) powerpc: Fix lwsync feature fixup vs. modules on 64-bit powerpc: Convert pmc_owner_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert die.lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert tlbivax_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert mpic locks to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert pmac_pic_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert big_irq_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert feature_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert i8259_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert beat_htab_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert confirm_error_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert ipic_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert native_tlbie_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert beatic_irq_mask_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert nv_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc: Convert context_lock to raw_spinlock powerpc/85xx: Add NOR, LEDs and PIB support for MPC8568E-MDS boards powerpc/86xx: Enable VME driver on the GE SBC610 powerpc/86xx: Enable VME driver on the GE PPC9A powerpc/86xx: Add MSI section to GE PPC9A DTS ...
| | * \ \ \ \ Merge commit 'origin/master' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt2010-02-25
| | |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | |/ / / | | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Manual merge of: drivers/char/hvc_console.c drivers/char/hvc_console.h
| | * | | | | lmb: Add lmb_free()Michael Ellerman2010-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can free memory allocated with lmb_alloc() by removing it from the list of reserved LMBs. Rework lmb_remove() to allow that possibility and add lmb_free() which exploits it. BenH: Removed some useless parenthesis Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
| * | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds2010-02-26
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | |_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (187 commits) sh: remove dead LED code for migo-r and ms7724se sh: ecovec build fix for CONFIG_I2C=n sh: ecovec r-standby support sh: ms7724se r-standby support sh: SH-Mobile R-standby register save/restore clocksource: Fix up a registration/IRQ race in the sh drivers. sh: ms7724: modify scan_timing for KEYSC sh: ms7724: Add sh_sir support sh: mach-ecovec24: Add sh_sir support sh: wire up SET/GET_UNALIGN_CTL. sh: allow alignment fault mode to be configured at kernel boot. sh: sh7724: Update FSI/SPU2 clock sh: always enable sh7724 vpu_clk and set to 166MHz on Ecovec sh: add sh7724 kick callback to clk_div4_table sh: introduce struct clk_div4_table sh: clock-cpg div4 set_rate() shift fix sh: Turn on speculative return for SH7785 and SH7786 sh: Merge legacy and dynamic PMB modes. sh: Use uncached I/O helpers in PMB setup. sh: Provide uncached I/O helpers. ...
| | * | | | | Merge branch 'sh/stable-updates'Paul Mundt2010-02-01
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| | * | | | | sh: kmemleak support.Chris Smith2010-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enables support for kmemleak on sh. Signed-off-by: Chris Smith <chris.smith@st.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
| * | | | | | idr: fix a critical misallocation bug, take#2Tejun Heo2010-02-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is retry of reverted 859ddf09743a8cc680af33f7259ccd0fd36bfe9d ("idr: fix a critical misallocation bug") which contained two bugs. * pa[idp->layers] should be cleared even if it's not used by sub_alloc() because it's used by mark idr_mark_full(). * The original condition check also assigned pa[l] to p which the new code didn't do thus leaving p pointing at the wrong layer. Both problems have been fixed and the idr code has received good amount testing using userland testing setup where simple bitmap allocator is run parallel to verify the result of idr allocation. The bug this patch fixes is caused by sub_alloc() optimization path bypassing out-of-room condition check and restarting allocation loop with starting value higher than maximum allowed value. For detailed description, please read commit message of 859ddf09. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Based-on-patch-from: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2010-02-17
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| * | | | | | idr: revert misallocation bug fixTejun Heo2010-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 859ddf09743a8cc680af33f7259ccd0fd36bfe9d tried to fix misallocation bug but broke full bit marking by not clearing pa[idp->layers] and also is causing X failures due to lookup failure in drm code. The cause of the latter hasn't been found yet. Revert the fix for now. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | idr: fix a critical misallocation bugTejun Heo2010-02-02
| | |/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eric Paris located a bug in idr. With IDR_BITS of 6, it grows to three layers when id 4096 is first allocated. When that happens, idr wraps incorrectly and searches the idr array ignoring the high bits. The following test code from Eric demonstrates the bug nicely. #include <linux/idr.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/module.h> static DEFINE_IDR(test_idr); int init_module(void) { int ret, forty95, forty96; void *addr; /* add 2 entries both with 4095 as the start address */ again1: if (!idr_pre_get(&test_idr, GFP_KERNEL)) return -ENOMEM; ret = idr_get_new_above(&test_idr, (void *)4095, 4095, &forty95); if (ret) { if (ret == -EAGAIN) goto again1; return ret; } if (forty95 != 4095) printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, forty95=%d\n", forty95); again2: if (!idr_pre_get(&test_idr, GFP_KERNEL)) return -ENOMEM; ret = idr_get_new_above(&test_idr, (void *)4096, 4095, &forty96); if (ret) { if (ret == -EAGAIN) goto again2; return ret; } if (forty96 != 4096) printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, forty96=%d\n", forty96); /* try to find the 2 entries, noticing that 4096 broke */ addr = idr_find(&test_idr, forty95); if ((int)addr != forty95) printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, after find forty95=%d addr=%d\n", forty95, (int)addr); addr = idr_find(&test_idr, forty96); if ((int)addr != forty96) printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, after find forty96=%d addr=%d\n", forty96, (int)addr); /* really weird, the entry which should be at 4096 is actually at 0!! */ addr = idr_find(&test_idr, 0); if ((int)addr) printk(KERN_ERR "found an entry at id=0 for addr=%d\n", (int)addr); idr_remove(&test_idr, forty95); idr_remove(&test_idr, forty96); return 0; } void cleanup_module(void) { } MODULE_AUTHOR("Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Simple idr test"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); This happens because when sub_alloc() back tracks it doesn't always do it step-by-step while the over-the-limit detection assumes step-by-step backtracking. The logic in sub_alloc() looks like the following. restart: clear pa[top level + 1] for end cond detection l = top level while (true) { search for empty slot at this level if (not found) { push id to the next possible value l++ A: if (pa[l] is clear) failed, return asking caller to grow the tree if (going up 1 level gives more slots to search) continue the while loop above with the incremented l else C: goto restart } adjust id accordingly to the found slot if (l == 0) return found id; create lower level if not there yet record pa[l] and l-- } Test A is the fail exit condition but this assumes that failure is propagated upwared one level at a time but the B optimization path breaks the assumption and restarts the whole thing with a start value which is above the possible limit with the current layers. sub_alloc() assumes the start id value is inside the limit when called and test A is the only exit condition check, so it ends up searching for empty slot while ignoring high set bit. So, for 4095->4096 test, level0 search fails but pa[1] contains a valid pointer. However, going up 1 level wouldn't give any more empty slot so it takes C and when the whole thing restarts nobody notices the high bit set beyond the top level. This patch fixes the bug by changing the fail exit condition check to full id limit check. Based-on-patch-from: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | Merge branches 'amd-iommu/fixes' and 'dma-debug/fixes' into iommu/fixesJoerg Roedel2010-01-22
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| | * | | | lib/dma-debug.c: mark file-local struct symbol static.Thiago Farina2010-01-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | warning: symbol 'filter_fops' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2010-01-23
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| * | | | | Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-01-16
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing/filters: Add comment for match callbacks tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FULL filter matching for PTR_STRING tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_MIDDLE_ONLY filter matching lib: Introduce strnstr() tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY filter matching tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FRONT_ONLY filter matching ftrace: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY function filter tracing/x86: Derive arch from bits argument in recordmcount.pl ring-buffer: Add rb_list_head() wrapper around new reader page next field ring-buffer: Wrap a list.next reference with rb_list_head()
| | * | | | | lib: Introduce strnstr()Li Zefan2010-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It differs strstr() in that it limits the length to be searched in the first string. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B4E8743.6030805@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | | | | zlib: Fix build of powerpc boot wrapperBenjamin Herrenschmidt2010-01-13
| | |_|/ / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit ac4c2a3bbe5db5fc570b1d0ee1e474db7cb22585 broke the build of all powerpc boot wrappers. It attempts to add an include of autoconf.h but used the wrong path for it. It also adds -D__KERNEL__ to our boot wrapper, both things that we pretty much didn't do on purpose so far. We want our boot wrapper to remain independent enough of the kernel for various reasons, one of them being that you can "wrap" an existing kernel at distro install time which allows to ship one kernel image and a set of boot wrappers for different platforms, the wrappers don't have to be built out of the same kernel build tree. It's also incorrect to do what the patch does in our boot environment since we may not have a proper alignment exception handler which means we may not be able to fixup the few cases where an unaligned access will need SW emulation (depends on the core variant, could be when crossing page or segment boundaries for example). This patch fixes it by putting the old code back in and using the new "fancy" variant only when CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set, which happens not to be set on powerpc since we don't include autoconf.h. It also reverts the changes to our boot wrapper Makefile. This means that x86 should, afaik, keep the optimisations since its boot wrapper does include autoconf.h and define __KERNEL__ (though I doubt they make that much different outside of slow embedded processors). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | lib: Introduce generic list_sort functionDave Chinner2010-01-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two copies of list_sort() in the tree already, one in the DRM code, another in ubifs. Now XFS needs this as well. Create a generic list_sort() function from the ubifs version and convert existing users to it so we don't end up with yet another copy in the tree. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | vsnprintf: fix reference for compressed ipv6 addressesUwe Kleine-König2010-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Reported-by: Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | lib/rational.c needs module.hSascha Hauer2010-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | lib/rational.c:62: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib/rational.c:62: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL' lib/rational.c:62: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | Add LZO compression support for initramfs and old-style initrdAlbin Tonnerre2010-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | lib: add support for LZO-compressed kernelsAlbin Tonnerre2010-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch series adds generic support for creating and extracting LZO-compressed kernel images, as well as support for using such images on the x86 and ARM architectures, and support for creating and using LZO-compressed initrd and initramfs images. Russell King said: : Testing on a Cortex A9 model: : - lzo decompressor is 65% of the time gzip takes to decompress a kernel : - lzo kernel is 9% larger than a gzip kernel : : which I'm happy to say confirms your figures when comparing the two. : : However, when comparing your new gzip code to the old gzip code: : - new is 99% of the size of the old code : - new takes 42% of the time to decompress than the old code : : What this means is that for a proper comparison, the results get even better: : - lzo is 7.5% larger than the old gzip'd kernel image : - lzo takes 28% of the time that the old gzip code took : : So the expense seems definitely worth the effort. The only reason I : can think of ever using gzip would be if you needed the additional : compression (eg, because you have limited flash to store the image.) : : I would argue that the default for ARM should therefore be LZO. This patch: The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at extraction. Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on: Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo gzip 1.61Mo 0.72s lzo 1.75Mo 0.48s So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's much faster to extract, at least in that case. This part contains: - Makefile routine to support lzo compression - Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in compressed kernels - wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here - config dialog for kernel compression [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>