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* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-12-07
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (156 commits) [PATCH] x86-64: Export smp_call_function_single [PATCH] i386: Clean up smp_tune_scheduling() [PATCH] unwinder: move .eh_frame to RODATA [PATCH] unwinder: fully support linker generated .eh_frame_hdr section [PATCH] x86-64: don't use set_irq_regs() [PATCH] x86-64: check vector in setup_ioapic_dest to verify if need setup_IO_APIC_irq [PATCH] x86-64: Make ix86 default to HIGHMEM4G instead of NOHIGHMEM [PATCH] i386: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [PATCH] x86-64: remove remaining pc98 code [PATCH] x86-64: remove unused variable [PATCH] x86-64: Fix constraints in atomic_add_return() [PATCH] x86-64: fix asm constraints in i386 atomic_add_return [PATCH] x86-64: Correct documentation for bzImage protocol v2.05 [PATCH] x86-64: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc in MTRR code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix numaq build error [PATCH] x86-64: include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h isn't a userspace header [PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinder [PATCH] x86-64: Clarify error message in GART code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix interrupt race in idle callback (3rd try) [PATCH] x86-64: Remove unwind stack pointer alignment forcing again ... Fixed conflict in include/linux/uaccess.h manually Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86: all cpu backtraceAndrew Morton2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a spinlock lockup occurs, arrange for the NMI code to emit an all-cpu backtrace, so we get to see which CPU is holding the lock, and where. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] lockdep: show more details about self-test failuresIngo Molnar2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the locking self-test failures (of 'FAILURE' type) easier to debug by printing more information. 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] lib functions: always build hweight for loadable modulesRandy Dunlap2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Always build hweight8/16/32/64() functions into the kernel so that loadable modules may use them. I didn't remove GENERIC_HWEIGHT since ALPHA_EV67, ia64, and some variants of UltraSparc(64) provide their own hweight functions. Fixes config/build problems with NTFS=m and JOYSTICK_ANALOG=m. Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#19) Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 94 modules WARNING: "hweight32" [fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko] undefined! WARNING: "hweight16" [drivers/input/joystick/analog.ko] undefined! WARNING: "hweight8" [drivers/input/joystick/analog.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 make: *** [modules] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] kernel core: replace kmalloc+memset with kzallocBurman Yan2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() useIngo Molnar2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn, prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add #ifdefs. the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine: text data bss dec hex filename 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.before 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.after [akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix] 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] get_options to allow a hypenated range for isolcpusDerek Fults2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed to command line helper function, get_options. Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a list of cpus. Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> Valid values of <cpu_number> include all cpus, 0 to "number of CPUs in system - 1". This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of cpus on a large system. The kernel isolcpus code would not need any changing to use this feature. To use it, the change would be in the command line format for 'isolcpus=' Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> or <cpu number>-<cpu number> (must be a positive range in ascending order.) or a mixture <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] More list debugging contextDave Jones2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Print the other (hopefully) known good pointer when list_head debugging too, which may yield additional clues. Also fix for 80-columns to win akpm brownie points. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] kconfig: PRINTK_TIME depends on PRINTKRandy Dunlap2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make PRINTK_TIME depend on PRINTK. Only display/offer it if PRINTK is enabled. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] radix-tree: RCU lockless readsideNick Piggin2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make radix tree lookups safe to be performed without locks. Readers are protected against nodes being deleted by using RCU based freeing. Readers are protected against new node insertion by using memory barriers to ensure the node itself will be properly written before it is visible in the radix tree. Each radix tree node keeps a record of their height (above leaf nodes). This height does not change after insertion -- when the radix tree is extended, higher nodes are only inserted in the top. So a lookup can take the pointer to what is *now* the root node, and traverse down it even if the tree is concurrently extended and this node becomes a subtree of a new root. "Direct" pointers (tree height of 0, where root->rnode points directly to the data item) are handled by using the low bit of the pointer to signal whether rnode is a direct pointer or a pointer to a radix tree node. When a reader wants to traverse the next branch, they will take a copy of the pointer. This pointer will be either NULL (and the branch is empty) or non-NULL (and will point to a valid node). [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: bugfixes, comments, simplifications] [clameter@sgi.com: build fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter2006-12-07
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds2006-12-04
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (194 commits) [POWERPC] Add missing EXPORTS for mpc52xx support [POWERPC] Remove obsolete PPC_52xx and update CLASSIC32 comment [POWERPC] ps3: add a default zImage target [POWERPC] Add of_platform_bus support to mpc52xx psc uart driver [POWERPC] typo fix and whitespace cleanup on mpc52xx-uart driver [POWERPC] Fix debug printks for 32-bit resources in the PCI code [POWERPC] Replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [POWERPC] Linkstation / kurobox support [POWERPC] Add the e300c3 core to the CPU table. [POWERPC] ppc: m48t35 add missing bracket [POWERPC] iSeries: don't build head_64.o unnecessarily [POWERPC] iSeries: stop dt_mod.o being rebuilt unnecessarily [POWERPC] Fix cputable.h for combined build [POWERPC] Allow CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT on iSeries [POWERPC] Allow xmon to build on legacy iSeries [POWERPC] Change ppc64_defconfig to use AUTOFS_V4 not V3 [POWERPC] Tell firmware we can handle POWER6 compatible mode [POWERPC] Clean images in arch/powerpc/boot [POWERPC] Fix OF pci flags parsing [POWERPC] defconfig for lite5200 board ...
| * [PATCH] Arch provides generic iomap missing accessorsLinus Torvalds2006-12-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow architectures to provide their own implementation of the big endian MMIO accessors and "repeat" MMIO accessors for use by the generic iomap. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> More-or-less-tested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.hAl Viro2006-12-04
|/ | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-12-01
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (36 commits) Driver core: show drivers in /sys/module/ Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewrite Driver core: platform_driver_probe(), can save codespace driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move() driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent. Driver core: make drivers/base/core.c:setup_parent() static driver core: Introduce device_find_child(). sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated data cpu topology: consider sysfs_create_group return value Driver core: Call platform_notify_remove later ACPI: Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_data Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device Driver core: convert sound core to use struct device Driver core: change mem class_devices to be real devices Driver core: convert fb code to use struct device Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device Driver core: convert mmc code to use struct device Driver core: convert ppdev code to use struct device Driver core: convert PPP code to use struct device Driver core: convert cpuid code to use struct device ...
| * driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.Cornelia Huck2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir(). kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the previous path (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Fix typos in doc and commentsJan Engelhardt2006-11-29
|/ | | | | | | | | Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can spell in more than one correct way, let me know. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2006-10-29
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 3914/1: [Jornada7xx] - Typo Fix in cpu-sa1110.c (b != B) [ARM] 3913/1: n2100: fix IRQ routing for second ethernet port [ARM] Add KBUILD_IMAGE target support [ARM] Fix suspend oops caused by PXA2xx PCMCIA driver [ARM] Fix i2c-pxa slave mode support [ARM] 3900/1: Fix VFP Division by Zero exception handling. [ARM] 3899/1: Fix the normalization of the denormal double precision number. [ARM] 3909/1: Disable UWIND_INFO for ARM (again) [ARM] Add __must_check to uaccess functions [ARM] Add realview SMP default configuration [ARM] Fix SMP irqflags support
| * [ARM] 3909/1: Disable UWIND_INFO for ARM (again)Kevin Hilman2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | According to Daniel Jacobowitz, UNWIND_INFO is not useful on ARM, and in fact doesn't even compile. This patch disables the option for ARM. Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | [PATCH] strstrip remove last blank fixMichael Holzheu2006-10-28
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | strstrip() does not remove the last blank from strings which only consist of blanks. Example: char string[] = " "; strstrip(string); results in " ", but should produce an empty string! The following patch solves this problem: Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] highest_possible_node_id() linkage fixAndrew Morton2006-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Qooting Adrian: - net/sunrpc/svc.c uses highest_possible_node_id() - include/linux/nodemask.h says highest_possible_node_id() is out-of-line #if MAX_NUMNODES > 1 - the out-of-line highest_possible_node_id() is in lib/cpumask.c - lib/Makefile: lib-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpumask.o CONFIG_ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE=y, CONFIG_SMP=n, CONFIG_SUNRPC=y -> highest_possible_node_id() is used in net/sunrpc/svc.c CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT defined and > 0 -> include/linux/numa.h: MAX_NUMNODES > 1 -> compile error The bug is not present on architectures where ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE depends on NUMA (but m32r isn't the only affected architecture). So move the function into page_alloc.c Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/inputLinus Torvalds2006-10-17
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: fm801-gp - handle errors from pci_enable_device() Input: gameport core - handle errors returned by device_bind_driver() Input: serio core - handle errors returned by device_bind_driver() Lockdep: fix compile error in drivers/input/serio/serio.c Input: serio - add lockdep annotations Lockdep: add lockdep_set_class_and_subclass() and lockdep_set_subclass() Input: atkbd - supress "too many keys" error message Input: i8042 - supress ACK/NAKs when blinking during panic Input: add missing exports to fix modular build
| * Lockdep: add lockdep_set_class_and_subclass() and lockdep_set_subclass()Peter Zijlstra2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This annotation makes it possible to assign a subclass on lock init. This annotation is meant to reduce the _nested() annotations by assigning a default subclass. One could do without this annotation and rely on lockdep_set_class() exclusively, but that would require a manual stack of struct lock_class_key objects. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
| * Input: add missing exports to fix modular buildDmitry Torokhov2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* | [PATCH] remove carta_random32Andrew Morton2006-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This library function should be in obj-y and not in lib-y. But when we do that it clashes unpleasantly with the assembly-language implementation in the ia64 architecture. Instead of trying to fix it all up, just remove the generic carta_random32 in the expectation that the recently-made-generic random32() will suffice. If/when perfmon is migrated to random32, ia64's private carta_random32 implementation can also be removed. Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] rename net_random to random32Stephen Hemminger2006-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make net_random() more widely available by calling it random32 akpm: hopefully this will permit the removal of carta_random32. That needs confirmation from Stephane - this code looks somewhat more computationally expensive, and has a different (ie: callee-stateful) interface. [akpm@osdl.org: lots of build fixes, cleanups] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] uml shouldn't do HEADERS_CHECKAl Viro2006-10-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The lack of asm-um/Kbuild is deliberate. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] bitmap: parse input from kernel and user buffersReinette Chatre2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | lib/bitmap.c:bitmap_parse() is a library function that received as input a user buffer. This seemed to have originated from the way the write_proc function of the /proc filesystem operates. This has been reworked to not use kmalloc and eliminates a lot of get_user() overhead by performing one access_ok before using __get_user(). We need to test if we are in kernel or user space (is_user) and access the buffer differently. We cannot use __get_user() to access kernel addresses in all cases, for example in architectures with separate address space for kernel and user. This function will be useful for other uses as well; for example, taking input for /sysfs instead of /proc, so it was changed to accept kernel buffers. We have this use for the Linux UWB project, as part as the upcoming bandwidth allocator code. Only a few routines used this function and they were changed too. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Add carta_random32() library routineStephane Eranian2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a follow-up patch based on the review for perfmon2. This patch adds the carta_random32() library routine + carta_random32.h header file. This is fast, simple, and efficient pseudo number generator algorithm. We use it in perfmon2 to randomize the sampling periods. In this context, we do not need any fancy randomizer. Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Cc: David Mosberger <david.mosberger@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Add CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK option to automatically run 'make ↵David Woodhouse2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | headers_check' In order to encourage people to notice when they break the exported headers, add a config option which automatically runs the sanity checks when building vmlinux. That way, those who use allyesconfig will notice failures. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Disable DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP for s390Heiko Carstens2006-10-11
|/ | | | | | | | | | | We got several false bug reports because of enabled CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP. Disable soft lockup detection on s390, since it doesn't work on a virtualized architecture. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] gfp annotations: radix_tree_rootAl Viro2006-10-10
| | | | | | | | struct radix_tree_root has unused upper bits of ->gfp_mask reused for tags bitmap. Annotated. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] irq_reqs: export __irq_regsAndrew Morton2006-10-06
| | | | | | | | Modules might want this. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells2006-10-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the Linux kernel. The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path (ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()). Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception handling. Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing. I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers. I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile with minimal configurations. This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy. Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one: struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs); And put the old one back at the end: set_irq_regs(old_regs); Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ(). In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary: - update_process_times(user_mode(regs)); - profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs); + update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs())); + profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING); I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself, except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode(). Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers: (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in the input_dev struct. (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs pointer or not. (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type irq_handler_t. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
* fix file specification in commentsUwe Zeisberger2006-10-03
| | | | | | | Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one. Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] low performance of lib/sort.ckeios2006-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | It is a non-standard heap-sort algorithm implementation because the index of child node is wrong . The sort function still outputs right result, but the performance is O( n * ( log(n) + 1 ) ) , about 10% ~ 20% worse than standard algorithm. Signed-off-by: keios <keios.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ referencesArnd Bergmann2006-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The last in-kernel user of errno is gone, so we should remove the definition and everything referring to it. This also removes the now-unused lib/execve.c file that was introduced earlier. Also remove every trace of __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ that still remained in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] introduce kernel_execveArnd Bergmann2006-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The use of execve() in the kernel is dubious, since it relies on the __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ mechanism that stores the result in a global errno variable. As a first step of getting rid of this, change all users to a global kernel_execve function that returns a proper error code. This function is a terrible hack, and a later patch removes it again after the kernel syscalls are gone. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpumask: add highest_possible_node_idGreg Banks2006-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | cpumask: add highest_possible_node_id(), analogous to highest_possible_processor_id(). [pj@sgi.com: fix typo] Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Linux Kernel Dump Test ModuleAnkita Garg2006-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A simple module to test Linux Kernel Dump mechanism. This module uses jprobes to install/activate pre-defined crash points. At different crash points, various types of crashing scenarios are created like a BUG(), panic(), exception, recursive loop and stack overflow. The user can activate a crash point with specific type by providing parameters at the time of module insertion. Please see the file header for usage information. The module is based on the Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool by Fernando <http://lkdtt.sourceforge.net>. This module could be merged with mainline. Jprobes is used here so that the context in which crash point is hit, could be maintained. This implements all the crash points as done by LKDTT except the one in the middle of tasklet_action(). Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] make genpool allocator adhere to kernel-doc standardsDean Nelson2006-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | The exported kernel interfaces of genpool allocator need to adhere to the requirements of kernel-doc. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] LIB: add gen_pool_destroy()Steve Wise2006-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | Modules using the genpool allocator need to be able to destroy the data structure when unloading. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Generic ioremap_page_range: flush_cache_vmapHaavard Skinnemoen2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existing implementation of ioremap_page_range(), which was taken from i386, does this: flush_cache_all(); /* modify page tables */ flush_tlb_all(); I think this is a bit defensive, so this patch changes the generic implementation to do: /* modify page tables */ flush_cache_vmap(start, end); instead, which is similar to what vmalloc() does. This should still be correct because we never modify existing PTEs. According to James Bottomley: The problem the flush_tlb_all() is trying to solve is to avoid stale tlb entries in the ioremap area. We're just being conservative by flushing on both map and unmap. Technically what vmalloc/vfree does (only flush the tlb on unmap) is just fine because it means that the only tlb entries in the remap area must belong to in-use mappings. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: <linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Generic ioremap_page_range: implementationHaavard Skinnemoen2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a generic implementation of ioremap_page_range() in lib/ioremap.c based on the i386 implementation. It differs from the i386 version in the following ways: * The PTE flags are passed as a pgprot_t argument and must be determined up front by the arch-specific code. No additional PTE flags are added. * Uses set_pte_at() instead of set_pte() [bunk@stusta.de: warning fix] ]dhowells@redhat.com: nommu build fix] Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: <linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] list_del-debug fixAndrew Morton2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | These two BUG_ON()s are redundant and undesired: we're checking for this condition further on in the function, only better. Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] rbtree: fixed reversed RB_EMPTY_NODE and rb_next/prevJens Axboe2006-09-30
| | | | | | | The conditions got reserved. Also make rb_next() and rb_prev() check for the empty condition. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* [PATCH] lib/ts_fsm.c: constify structsAndreas Mohr2006-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | Constify two structs. Correct some typos. Compile-tested and run-tested (module inserted) on 2.6.18-rc4-mm3. Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lib/rwsem.c: un-inline rwsem_down_failed_common()Andreas Mohr2006-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Un-inlining rwsem_down_failed_common() (two callsites) reduced lib/rwsem.o on my Athlon, gcc 4.1.2 from 5935 to 5480 Bytes (455 Bytes saved). I thus guess that reduced icache footprint (and better function caching) is worth more than any function call overhead. Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] spinlock_debug: don't recompute (jiffies_per_loop * HZ) in spinloopChuck Ebbert2006-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | In spinlock_debug.c, the spinloops call __delay() on every iteration. Because that is an external function, (jiffies_per_loop * HZ), the loop's iteration limit, gets recomputed every time. Caching it explicitly prevents that. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] list_del debug checkManfred Spraul2006-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | A list_del() debugging check. Has been in -mm for years. Dave moved list_del() out-of-line in the debug case, so this is now suitable for mainline. Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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