1. 14 11月, 2009 2 次提交
  2. 05 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpu · 3c5d92a0
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      Allow the architecture to request a normal jiffy tick when the system
      goes idle and tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick is called . On s390 the hook is
      used to prevent the system going fully idle if there has been an
      interrupt other than a clock comparator interrupt since the last wakeup.
      
      On s390 the HiperSockets response time for 1 connection ping-pong goes
      down from 42 to 34 microseconds. The CPU cost decreases by 27%.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      3c5d92a0
  3. 05 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation · a092ff0f
      john stultz 提交于
      Accumulating one tick at a time works well unless we're using NOHZ.
      Then it can be an issue, since we may have to run through the loop
      a few thousand times, which can increase timer interrupt caused
      latency.
      
      The current solution was to accumulate in half-second intervals
      with NOHZ. This kept the number of loops down, however it did
      slightly change how we make NTP adjustments. While not an issue
      with NTPd users, as NTPd makes adjustments over a longer period of
      time, other adjtimex() users have noticed the half-second
      granularity with which we can apply frequency changes to the clock.
      
      For instance, if a application tries to apply a 100ppm frequency
      correction for 20ms to correct a 2us offset, with NOHZ they either
      get no correction, or a 50us correction.
      
      Now, there will always be some granularity error for applying
      frequency corrections. However with users sensitive to this error
      have seen a 50-500x increase with NOHZ compared to running without
      NOHZ.
      
      So I figured I'd try another approach then just simply increasing
      the interval. My approach is to consume the time interval
      logarithmically. This reduces the number of times through the loop
      needed keeping latency down, while still preserving the original
      granularity error for adjtimex() changes.
      
      Further, this change allows us to remove the xtime_cache code
      (patch to follow), as xtime is always within one tick of the
      current time, instead of the half-second updates it saw before.
      
      An earlier version of this patch has been shipping to x86 users in
      the RedHat MRG releases for awhile without issue, but I've reworked
      this version to be even more careful about avoiding possible
      overflows if the shift value gets too large.
      Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Reviewed-by: NJohn Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1254525473.7741.88.camel@localhost.localdomain>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a092ff0f
  4. 03 10月, 2009 3 次提交
  5. 02 10月, 2009 3 次提交
  6. 01 10月, 2009 2 次提交
  7. 30 9月, 2009 3 次提交
  8. 29 9月, 2009 2 次提交
  9. 30 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks · 55138e0b
      Theodore Ts'o 提交于
      Work around problems in the writeback code to force out writebacks in
      larger chunks than just 4mb, which is just too small.  This also works
      around limitations in the ext4 block allocator, which can't allocate
      more than 2048 blocks at a time.  So we need to defeat the round-robin
      characteristics of the writeback code and try to write out as many
      blocks in one inode before allowing the writeback code to move on to
      another inode.  We add a a new per-filesystem tunable,
      max_writeback_mb_bump, which caps this to a default of 128mb per
      inode.
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      55138e0b
  10. 28 9月, 2009 3 次提交
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      drm/kms: make fb helper work for all drivers. · 74bf2ad5
      Dave Airlie 提交于
      This initialises the fb helper with the connector helper,
      so that the fb cmdline code works for intel as well.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
      74bf2ad5
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      tty: Fix regressions caused by commit b50989dc · f278a2f7
      Dave Young 提交于
      The following commit made console open fails while booting:
      
      	commit b50989dc
      	Author: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
      	Date:   Sat Sep 19 13:13:22 2009 -0700
      
      	tty: make the kref destructor occur asynchronously
      
      Due to tty release routines run in a workqueue now, error like the
      following will be reported while booting:
      
      INIT open /dev/console Input/output error
      
      It also causes hibernation regression to appear as reported at
      http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14229
      
      The reason is that now there's latency issue with closing, but when
      we open a "closing not finished" tty, -EIO will be returned.
      
      Fix it as per the following Alan's suggestion:
      
        Fun but it's actually not a bug and the fix is wrong in itself as
        the port may be closing but not yet being destructed, in which case
        it seems to do the wrong thing.  Opening a tty that is closing (and
        could be closing for long periods) is supposed to return -EIO.
      
        I suspect a better way to deal with this and keep the old console
        timing is to split tty->shutdown into two functions.
      
        tty->shutdown() - called synchronously just before we dump the tty
        onto the waitqueue for destruction
      
        tty->cleanup() - called when the destructor runs.
      
        We would then do the shutdown part which can occur in IRQ context
        fine, before queueing the rest of the release (from tty->magic = 0
        ...  the end) to occur asynchronously
      
        The USB update in -next would then need a call like
      
             if (tty->cleanup)
                     tty->cleanup(tty);
      
        at the top of the async function and the USB shutdown to be split
        between shutdown and cleanup as the USB resource cleanup and final
        tidy cannot occur synchronously as it needs to sleep.
      
        In other words the logic becomes
      
             final kref put
                     make object unfindable
      
             async
                     clean it up
      Signed-off-by: NDave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
      [ rjw: Rebased on top of 2.6.31-git, reworked the changelog. ]
      Signed-off-by: N"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      [ Changed serial naming to match new rules, dropped tty_shutdown as per
        comments from Alan Stern  - Linus ]
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f278a2f7
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      const: mark struct vm_struct_operations · f0f37e2f
      Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
      * mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const
      * mark vm_ops in AGP code
      
      But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops
      being used.
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f0f37e2f
  11. 27 9月, 2009 2 次提交
  12. 26 9月, 2009 8 次提交
  13. 25 9月, 2009 7 次提交
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      drm/kms: start adding command line interface using fb. · d50ba256
      Dave Airlie 提交于
      [note this requires an fb patch posted to linux-fbdev-devel already]
      
      This uses the normal video= command line option to control the kms
      output setup at boot time. It is used to override the autodetection
      done by kms.
      
      video= normally takes a framebuffer as the first parameter, in kms
      it will take a connector name, DVI-I-1, or LVDS-1 etc. If no output
      connector is specified the mode string will apply to all connectors.
      
      The mode specification used will match down the probed modes, and if
      no mode is found it will add a CVT mode that matches.
      
      video=1024x768 - all connectors match a 1024x768 mode or add a CVT on
      video=VGA-1:1024x768, VGA-1 connector gets mode only.
      
      The same strings as used in current fb modedb.c are used, except I've
      added three more letters, e, D, d, e = enable, D = enable Digital,
      d = disable, which allow a connector to be forced into a certain state.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
      d50ba256
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      NOMMU: Fallback for is_vmalloc_or_module_addr() should be inline · 934831d0
      David Howells 提交于
      The NOMMU fallback for is_vmalloc_or_module_addr() should be static inline,
      not just static, in linux/mm.h.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      934831d0
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      Optimize the ordering of sections in RW_DATA_SECTION. · 1b208622
      Tim Abbott 提交于
      The old RW_DATA_SECTION had INIT_TASK_DATA (which was
      more-than-PAGE_SIZE-aligned), followed by a bunch of small alignment
      stuff, followed by more PAGE_SIZE-aligned stuff, so you wasted memory
      in the middle of .data re-aligning back up to PAGE_SIZE.
      
      This patch sorts the sections by alignment requirements, which should
      pack them essentially optimally.
      Signed-off-by: NTim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
      Reviewed-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1b208622
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      hugetlb_file_setup(): use C, not cpp · e9ea0e2d
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Why macros are always wrong:
      
        mm/mmap.c: In function 'do_mmap_pgoff':
        mm/mmap.c:953: warning: unused variable 'user'
      
      also, move a couple of struct forward-decls outside `#ifdef
      CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE' - it's pointless and frequently harmful to make these
      conditional (eg, this patch needed `struct user_struct').
      
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
      Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
      Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e9ea0e2d
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      genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2) · b8273570
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Similar to commit d136f1bd,
      there's a bug when unregistering a generic netlink family,
      which is caught by the might_sleep() added in that commit:
      
          BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:183
          in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1510, name: rmmod
          2 locks held by rmmod/1510:
           #0:  (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8138283b>] genl_unregister_family+0x2b/0x130
           #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8138270c>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x1c/0x120
          Pid: 1510, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.31-wl #444
          Call Trace:
           [<ffffffff81044ff9>] __might_sleep+0x119/0x150
           [<ffffffff81380501>] netlink_table_grab+0x21/0x100
           [<ffffffff813813a3>] netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x23/0x60
           [<ffffffff81382761>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x71/0x120
           [<ffffffff81382866>] genl_unregister_family+0x56/0x130
           [<ffffffffa0007d85>] nl80211_exit+0x15/0x20 [cfg80211]
           [<ffffffffa000005a>] cfg80211_exit+0x1a/0x40 [cfg80211]
      
      Fix in the same way by grabbing the netlink table lock
      before doing rcu_read_lock().
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      b8273570
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      tunnel: eliminate recursion field · a43912ab
      Eric Dumazet 提交于
      It seems recursion field from "struct ip_tunnel" is not anymore needed.
      recursion prevention is done at the upper level (in dev_queue_xmit()),
      since we use HARD_TX_LOCK protection for tunnels.
      
      This avoids a cache line ping pong on "struct ip_tunnel" : This structure
      should be now mostly read on xmit and receive paths.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      a43912ab
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      Phonet: error on broadcast sending (unimplemented) · 18a1166d
      Rémi Denis-Courmont 提交于
      If we ever implement this, then we can stop returning an error.
      Signed-off-by: NRémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      18a1166d
  14. 24 9月, 2009 2 次提交