- 22 10月, 2007 8 次提交
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由 Keshavamurthy, Anil S 提交于
This patch supports the upcomming Intel IOMMU hardware a.k.a. Intel(R) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O Architecture and the hardware spec for the same can be found here http://www.intel.com/technology/virtualization/index.htm FAQ! (questions from akpm, answers from ak) > So... what's all this code for? > > I assume that the intent here is to speed things up under Xen, etc? Yes in some cases, but not this code. That would be the Xen version of this code that could potentially assign whole devices to guests. I expect this to be only useful in some special cases though because most hardware is not virtualizable and you typically want an own instance for each guest. Ok at some point KVM might implement this too; i likely would use this code for this. > Do we > have any benchmark results to help us to decide whether a merge would be > justified? The main advantage for doing it in the normal kernel is not performance, but more safety. Broken devices won't be able to corrupt memory by doing random DMA. Unfortunately that doesn't work for graphics yet, for that need user space interfaces for the X server are needed. There are some potential performance benefits too: - When you have a device that cannot address the complete address range an IOMMU can remap its memory instead of bounce buffering. Remapping is likely cheaper than copying. - The IOMMU can merge sg lists into a single virtual block. This could potentially speed up SG IO when the device is slow walking SG lists. [I long ago benchmarked 5% on some block benchmark with an old MPT Fusion; but it probably depends a lot on the HBA] And you get better driver debugging because unexpected memory accesses from the devices will cause a trappable event. > > Does it slow anything down? It adds more overhead to each IO so yes. This patch: Add support for early detection and parsing of DMAR's (DMA Remapping) reported to OS via ACPI tables. DMA remapping(DMAR) devices support enables independent address translations for Direct Memory Access(DMA) from Devices. These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables and includes pci device scope covered by these DMA remapping device. For detailed info on the specification of "Intel(R) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O Architecture" please see http://www.intel.com/technology/virtualization/index.htmSigned-off-by: NAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
With 64KB blocksize, a directory entry can have size 64KB which does not fit into 16 bits we have for entry length. So we store 0xffff instead and convert the value when read from / written to disk. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
Simplify the vfs_cap_data structure. Also fix get_file_caps which was declaring __le32 v1caps[XATTR_CAPS_SZ] on the stack, but XATTR_CAPS_SZ is already * sizeof(__le32). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Yasunori Goto 提交于
Fix a panic due to access NULL pointer of kmem_cache_node at discard_slab() after memory online. When memory online is called, kmem_cache_nodes are created for all SLUBs for new node whose memory are available. slab_mem_going_online_callback() is called to make kmem_cache_node() in callback of memory online event. If it (or other callbacks) fails, then slab_mem_offline_callback() is called for rollback. In memory offline, slab_mem_going_offline_callback() is called to shrink all slub cache, then slab_mem_offline_callback() is called later. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: locking fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Yasunori Goto 提交于
Current memory notifier has some defects yet. (Fortunately, nothing uses it.) This patch is to fix and rearrange for them. - Add information of start_pfn, nr_pages, and node id if node status is changes from/to memoryless node for callback functions. Callbacks can't do anything without those information. - Add notification going-online status. It is necessary for creating per node structure before the node's pages are available. - Move GOING_OFFLINE status notification after page isolation. It is good place for return memory like cache for callback, because returned page is not used again. - Make CANCEL events for rollingback when error occurs. - Delete MEM_MAPPING_INVALID notification. It will be not used. - Fix compile error of (un)register_memory_notifier(). Signed-off-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Updates for version 2.07 of the boot protocol. This includes: load_flags.KEEP_SEGMENTS- flag to request/inhibit segment reloads hardware_subarch - what subarchitecture we're booting under hardware_subarch_data - per-architecture data The intention of these changes is to make booting a paravirtualized kernel work via the normal Linux boot protocol. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Bryan Wu 提交于
Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
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- 21 10月, 2007 11 次提交
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Blackfin arch: use "char bfin_board_name[]" rather than "char *bfin_board_name" per discussion on lkml as the former uses less storage Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
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由 Bryan Wu 提交于
Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
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由 Michael Hennerich 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMichael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
New kind of audit rule predicates: "object is visible in given subtree". The part that can be sanely implemented, that is. Limitations: * if you have hardlink from outside of tree, you'd better watch it too (or just watch the object itself, obviously) * if you mount something under a watched tree, tell audit that new chunk should be added to watched subtrees * if you umount something in a watched tree and it's still mounted elsewhere, you will get matches on events happening there. New command tells audit to recalculate the trees, trimming such sources of false positives. Note that it's _not_ about path - if something mounted in several places (multiple mount, bindings, different namespaces, etc.), the match does _not_ depend on which one we are using for access. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Kicks the watch out without dropping it. Called under ->inotify_mutex Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Get a snapshot of a subtree, creating private clones of vfsmounts for all its components and release such snapshot resp. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
makes caller simpler *and* allows to scan ancestors Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Kyle McMartin 提交于
get_rtc_time, in the case that PDC returns that the battery is bad, returns an unmodified rtc_time arg to the caller, which then uses uninitialized values. Fix this by memset-ing the arg with zeroes, so it will at least be cleared if we return failure. Spotted by John David Anglin. Signed-off-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
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- 20 10月, 2007 21 次提交
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由 Jason Uhlenkott 提交于
Fix an argument name in do_sys_open()'s prototype. Signed-off-by: NJason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Rolf Eike Beer 提交于
Typo: depricated -> deprecated Signed-off-by: NRolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Mike Anderson 提交于
This patch adds support for the dm_path_event dm_send_event functions which create and send udev events. Signed-off-by: NMike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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由 Mike Anderson 提交于
This patch adds a function to obtain a copy of a mapped device's name and uuid. Signed-off-by: NMike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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由 Milan Broz 提交于
Make size of dm_ioctl struct always 312 bytes on all supported architectures. This change retains compatibility with already-compiled code because it uses an embedded offset to locate the payload that follows the structure. On 64-bit architectures there is no change at all; on 32-bit we are increasing the size of dm-ioctl from 308 to 312 bytes. Currently with 32-bit userspace / 64-bit kernel on x86_64 some ioctls (including rename, message) are incorrectly rejected by the comparison against 'param + 1'. This breaks userspace lvrename and multipath 'fail_if_no_path' changes, for example. (BTW Device-mapper uses its own versioning and ignores the ioctl size bits. Only the generic ioctl compat code on mixed arches checks them, and that will continue to accept both sizes for now, but we intend to list 308 as deprecated and eventually remove it.) Signed-off-by: NMilan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org> Cc: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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由 Stefan Richter 提交于
These don't appear anywhere else in the kernel anymore. Signed-off-by: NStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Acked-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Dave Young 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Serge Hallyn 提交于
Update the security_socket_peersec documentation in include/linux/security.h. security_socket_peersec has been split into two functions - _stream and _dgram, with new capabilities. Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Julio M. Merino Vidal 提交于
The include/asm-powerpc/paca.h file has a prototype for a function that does not exist any more; its name is setup_boot_paca. This function was removed in commit 4ba99b97, so its prototype should have been removed at that time too. Signed-off-by: NJulio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@ac.upc.edu> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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* Rename struct ide_pci_device_s to struct ide_port_info. * Remove ide_pci_device_t typedef. While at it: * Fix __ide_pci_register_driver() comment. * Fix aec62xx_init_one() comment. * Remove unused 'cds' field from ide_hwgroup_t. Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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* Add hwif->ack_intr hook and use it instead of hwif->hw.ack_intr. * Add missing brackets to cris-v32 and powerpc ide_ack_intr() macros. Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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* hwif->hwif_data contains pointer to struct expansion_card so use ec->dma directly instead of caching it in hwif->hw.dma. * Remove no longer needed hw_regs_t.dma and NO_DMA define. Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Add CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT to drivers/ide/Kconfig and use it instead of defining IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT in <arch/ide.h>. Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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There is better documentation for these functions in drivers/ide/. Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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* Add ide_find_port() helper. * Convert icside, rapide and ide_platform host drivers to use it. Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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* Add ide_device_add() helper and convert host drivers to use it instead of open-coded variants. * Make ide_pci_setup_ports() and do_ide_setup_pci_device() take 'u8 *idx' argument instead of 'ata_index_t *index'. * Remove no longer needed ata_index_t. * Unexport probe_hwif_init() and make it static. * Unexport ide_proc_register_port(). There should be no functionality changes caused by this patch (sgiioc4.c: ide_proc_register_port() requires hwif->present to be set and it won't be set if probe_hwif_init() fails). Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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* Add ->fixup method to ide_hwif_t. * Set hwif->fixup in ide_pci_setup_ports() to d->fixup. * Use hwif->fixup in probe_hwif(). * Use probe_hwif_init() instead of probe_hwif_init_with_fixup() in ide_setup_pci_device(). * Add 'fixup' argument to ide_register_hw() and use it to set hwif->fixup, update all ide_register_hw() users accordingly. * Convert ide-cs/delkin_cb host drivers to use ide_register_hw(). * Restore hwif->fixup in ide_hwif_restore(). * Remove ide_register_hw_with_fixup(), probe_hwif_init_with_fixup() and 'fixup' argument from probe_hwif(). Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Add IDE_HFLAG_{IO_32BIT,UNMASK_IRQS} host flag to tell ide_pci_setup_ports() to set drive->{io_32bit,unmask} for both drives on the interface. Convert amd74xx, sl82c105 and via82cxxx host drivers to use these new host flags. While at it: * Add IDE_HFLAGS_AMD define (amd74xx host driver). * Add IDE_HFLAGS_VIA define (via82cxxx host driver). Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Add IDE_HFLAG_RQSIZE_256 host flag to tell ide_pci_setup_ports() to set hwif->rqsize to 256 sectors. Convert pdc202xx_old host driver to use it. Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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