litmus2008.git/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S, branch master

i386: prepare shared kernel/syscall_table.S

2007-10-11T09:12:00+00:00

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-18T01:42:44+00:00

fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow
applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system.
Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature will need
to support an inode operation called ->fallocate().
Applications can use this feature to avoid fragmentation to certain
level and thus get faster access speed. With preallocation, applications
also get a guarantee of space for particular file(s) - even if later the
the system becomes full.

Currently, glibc provides an interface called posix_fallocate() which
can be used for similar cause. Though this has the advantage of working
on all file systems, but it is quite slow (since it writes zeroes to
each block that has to be preallocated). Without a doubt, file systems
can do this more efficiently within the kernel, by implementing
the proposed fallocate() system call. It is expected that
posix_fallocate() will be modified to call this new system call first
and incase the kernel/filesystem does not implement it, it should fall
back to the current implementation of writing zeroes to the new blocks.
ToDos:
1. Implementation on other architectures (other than i386, x86_64,
   and ppc). Patches for s390(x) and ia64 are already available from
   previous posts, but it was decided that they should be added later
   once fallocate is in the mainline. Hence not including those patches
   in this take.
2. Changes to glibc,
   a) to support fallocate() system call
   b) to make posix_fallocate() and posix_fallocate64() call fallocate()

Signed-off-by: Amit Arora

signal/timer/event: eventfd wire up x86 arches

2007-05-11T15:29:37+00:00

This patch wires the eventfd system call to the x86 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signal/timer/event: timerfd wire up x86 arches

2007-05-11T15:29:36+00:00

This patch wires the timerfd system call to the x86 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signal/timer/event: signalfd wire up x86 arches

2007-05-11T15:29:36+00:00

This patch wires the signalfd system call to the x86 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

utimensat implementation

2007-05-08T18:15:18+00:00

Implement utimensat(2) which is an extension to futimesat(2) in that it

a) supports nano-second resolution for the timestamps
b) allows to selectively ignore the atime/mtime value
c) allows to selectively use the current time for either atime or mtime
d) supports changing the atime/mtime of a symlink itself along the lines
   of the BSD lutimes(3) functions

For this change the internally used do_utimes() functions was changed to
accept a timespec time value and an additional flags parameter.

Additionally the sys_utime function was changed to match compat_sys_utime
which already use do_utimes instead of duplicating the work.

Also, the completely missing futimensat() functionality is added.  We have
such a function in glibc but we have to resort to using /proc/self/fd/* which
not everybody likes (chroot etc).

Test application (the syscall number will need per-arch editing):

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

#define __NR_utimensat 280

#define UTIME_NOW       ((1l << 30) - 1l)
#define UTIME_OMIT      ((1l << 30) - 2l)

int
main(void)
{
  int status = 0;

  int fd = open("ttt", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666);
  if (fd == -1)
    error (1, errno, "failed to create test file \"ttt\"");

  struct stat64 st1;
  if (fstat64 (fd, &st1) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  struct timespec t[2];
  t[0].tv_sec = 0;
  t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
  t[1].tv_sec = 0;
  t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  struct stat64 st2;
  if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("atim not reset to zero");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("mtim not reset to zero");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (status != 0)
    goto out;

  t[0] = st1.st_atim;
  t[1].tv_sec = 0;
  t[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != st1.st_atim.tv_sec
      || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != st1.st_atim.tv_nsec)
    {
      puts ("atim not set");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("mtim changed from zero");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (status != 0)
    goto out;

  t[0].tv_sec = 0;
  t[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
  t[1] = st1.st_mtim;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != st1.st_atim.tv_sec
      || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != st1.st_atim.tv_nsec)
    {
      puts ("mtim changed from original time");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != st1.st_mtim.tv_sec
      || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != st1.st_mtim.tv_nsec)
    {
      puts ("mtim not set");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (status != 0)
    goto out;

  sleep (2);

  t[0].tv_sec = 0;
  t[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
  t[1].tv_sec = 0;
  t[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  struct timeval tv;
  gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec <= st1.st_atim.tv_sec
      || st2.st_atim.tv_sec > tv.tv_sec)
    {
      puts ("atim not set to NOW");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec <= st1.st_mtim.tv_sec
      || st2.st_mtim.tv_sec > tv.tv_sec)
    {
      puts ("mtim not set to NOW");
      status = 1;
    }

  if (symlink ("ttt", "tttsym") != 0)
    error (1, errno, "cannot create symlink");

  t[0].tv_sec = 0;
  t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
  t[1].tv_sec = 0;
  t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "tttsym", t, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  if (lstat64 ("tttsym", &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "lstat failed");

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("symlink atim not reset to zero");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("symlink mtim not reset to zero");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (status != 0)
    goto out;

  t[0].tv_sec = 1;
  t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
  t[1].tv_sec = 1;
  t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
  if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, fd, NULL, t, 0) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");

  if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
    error (1, errno, "fstat failed");

  if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 1 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("atim not reset to one");
      status = 1;
    }
  if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 1 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
    {
      puts ("mtim not reset to one");
      status = 1;
    }

  if (status == 0)
     puts ("all OK");

 out:
  close (fd);
  unlink ("ttt");
  unlink ("tttsym");

  return status;
}

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing i386 syscall table entry]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] epoll_pwait()

2006-10-11T18:14:21+00:00

Implement the epoll_pwait system call, that extend the event wait mechanism
with the same logic ppoll and pselect do.  The definition of epoll_pwait
is:

int epoll_pwait(int epfd, struct epoll_event *events, int maxevents,
                 int timeout, const sigset_t *sigmask, size_t sigsetsize);

The difference between the vanilla epoll_wait and epoll_pwait is that the
latter allows the caller to specify a signal mask to be set while waiting
for events.  Hence epoll_pwait will wait until either one monitored event,
or an unmasked signal happen.  If sigmask is NULL, the epoll_pwait system
call will act exactly like epoll_wait.  For the POSIX definition of
pselect, information is available here:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/select.html

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86: Add portable getcpu call

2006-09-26T08:52:28+00:00

For NUMA optimization and some other algorithms it is useful to have a fast
to get the current CPU and node numbers in user space.

x86-64 added a fast way to do this in a vsyscall. This adds a generic
syscall for other architectures to make it a generic portable facility.

I expect some of them will also implement it as a faster vsyscall.

The cache is an optimization for the x86-64 vsyscall optimization. Since
what the syscall returns is an approximation anyways and user space
often wants very fast results it can be cached for some time.  The norma
methods to get this information in user space are relatively slow

The vsyscall is in a better position to manage the cache because it has direct
access to a fast time stamp (jiffies). For the generic syscall optimization
it doesn't help much, but enforce a valid argument to keep programs
portable

I only added an i386 syscall entry for now. Other architectures can follow
as needed.

AK: Also added some cleanups from Andrew Morton

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

[PATCH] sys_move_pages: 32bit support (i386, x86_64)

2006-06-23T14:42:53+00:00

sys_move_pages() support for 32bit (i386 plus x86_64 compat layer)

Add support for move_pages() on i386 and also add the compat functions
necessary to run 32 bit binaries on x86_64.

Add compat_sys_move_pages to the x86_64 32bit binary layer.  Note that it is
not up to date so I added the missing pieces.  Not sure if this is done the
right way.

[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86: wire up vmsplice syscall

2006-05-26T18:55:46+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds