- 08 5月, 2007 15 次提交
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
This is a new slab allocator which was motivated by the complexity of the existing code in mm/slab.c. It attempts to address a variety of concerns with the existing implementation. A. Management of object queues A particular concern was the complex management of the numerous object queues in SLAB. SLUB has no such queues. Instead we dedicate a slab for each allocating CPU and use objects from a slab directly instead of queueing them up. B. Storage overhead of object queues SLAB Object queues exist per node, per CPU. The alien cache queue even has a queue array that contain a queue for each processor on each node. For very large systems the number of queues and the number of objects that may be caught in those queues grows exponentially. On our systems with 1k nodes / processors we have several gigabytes just tied up for storing references to objects for those queues This does not include the objects that could be on those queues. One fears that the whole memory of the machine could one day be consumed by those queues. C. SLAB meta data overhead SLAB has overhead at the beginning of each slab. This means that data cannot be naturally aligned at the beginning of a slab block. SLUB keeps all meta data in the corresponding page_struct. Objects can be naturally aligned in the slab. F.e. a 128 byte object will be aligned at 128 byte boundaries and can fit tightly into a 4k page with no bytes left over. SLAB cannot do this. D. SLAB has a complex cache reaper SLUB does not need a cache reaper for UP systems. On SMP systems the per CPU slab may be pushed back into partial list but that operation is simple and does not require an iteration over a list of objects. SLAB expires per CPU, shared and alien object queues during cache reaping which may cause strange hold offs. E. SLAB has complex NUMA policy layer support SLUB pushes NUMA policy handling into the page allocator. This means that allocation is coarser (SLUB does interleave on a page level) but that situation was also present before 2.6.13. SLABs application of policies to individual slab objects allocated in SLAB is certainly a performance concern due to the frequent references to memory policies which may lead a sequence of objects to come from one node after another. SLUB will get a slab full of objects from one node and then will switch to the next. F. Reduction of the size of partial slab lists SLAB has per node partial lists. This means that over time a large number of partial slabs may accumulate on those lists. These can only be reused if allocator occur on specific nodes. SLUB has a global pool of partial slabs and will consume slabs from that pool to decrease fragmentation. G. Tunables SLAB has sophisticated tuning abilities for each slab cache. One can manipulate the queue sizes in detail. However, filling the queues still requires the uses of the spin lock to check out slabs. SLUB has a global parameter (min_slab_order) for tuning. Increasing the minimum slab order can decrease the locking overhead. The bigger the slab order the less motions of pages between per CPU and partial lists occur and the better SLUB will be scaling. G. Slab merging We often have slab caches with similar parameters. SLUB detects those on boot up and merges them into the corresponding general caches. This leads to more effective memory use. About 50% of all caches can be eliminated through slab merging. This will also decrease slab fragmentation because partial allocated slabs can be filled up again. Slab merging can be switched off by specifying slub_nomerge on boot up. Note that merging can expose heretofore unknown bugs in the kernel because corrupted objects may now be placed differently and corrupt differing neighboring objects. Enable sanity checks to find those. H. Diagnostics The current slab diagnostics are difficult to use and require a recompilation of the kernel. SLUB contains debugging code that is always available (but is kept out of the hot code paths). SLUB diagnostics can be enabled via the "slab_debug" option. Parameters can be specified to select a single or a group of slab caches for diagnostics. This means that the system is running with the usual performance and it is much more likely that race conditions can be reproduced. I. Resiliency If basic sanity checks are on then SLUB is capable of detecting common error conditions and recover as best as possible to allow the system to continue. J. Tracing Tracing can be enabled via the slab_debug=T,<slabcache> option during boot. SLUB will then protocol all actions on that slabcache and dump the object contents on free. K. On demand DMA cache creation. Generally DMA caches are not needed. If a kmalloc is used with __GFP_DMA then just create this single slabcache that is needed. For systems that have no ZONE_DMA requirement the support is completely eliminated. L. Performance increase Some benchmarks have shown speed improvements on kernbench in the range of 5-10%. The locking overhead of slub is based on the underlying base allocation size. If we can reliably allocate larger order pages then it is possible to increase slub performance much further. The anti-fragmentation patches may enable further performance increases. Tested on: i386 UP + SMP, x86_64 UP + SMP + NUMA emulation, IA64 NUMA + Simulator SLUB Boot options slub_nomerge Disable merging of slabs slub_min_order=x Require a minimum order for slab caches. This increases the managed chunk size and therefore reduces meta data and locking overhead. slub_min_objects=x Mininum objects per slab. Default is 8. slub_max_order=x Avoid generating slabs larger than order specified. slub_debug Enable all diagnostics for all caches slub_debug=<options> Enable selective options for all caches slub_debug=<o>,<cache> Enable selective options for a certain set of caches Available Debug options F Double Free checking, sanity and resiliency R Red zoning P Object / padding poisoning U Track last free / alloc T Trace all allocs / frees (only use for individual slabs). To use SLUB: Apply this patch and then select SLUB as the default slab allocator. [hugh@veritas.com: fix an oops-causing locking error] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various stupid cleanups and small fixes] Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> 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
Rename file_ra_state.prev_page to prev_index and file_ra_state.offset to prev_offset. Also update of prev_index in do_generic_mapping_read() is now moved close to the update of prev_offset. [wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn: fix it] Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> 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
Introduce ra.offset and store in it an offset where the previous read ended. This way we can detect whether reads are really sequential (and thus we should not mark the page as accessed repeatedly) or whether they are random and just happen to be in the same page (and the page should really be marked accessed again). Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: NNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 David Rientjes 提交于
Adds /proc/pid/clear_refs. When any non-zero number is written to this file, pte_mkold() and ClearPageReferenced() is called for each pte and its corresponding page, respectively, in that task's VMAs. This file is only writable by the user who owns the task. It is now possible to measure _approximately_ how much memory a task is using by clearing the reference bits with echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs and checking the reference count for each VMA from the /proc/pid/smaps output at a measured time interval. For example, to observe the approximate change in memory footprint for a task, write a script that clears the references (echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs), sleeps, and then greps for Pgs_Referenced and extracts the size in kB. Add the sizes for each VMA together for the total referenced footprint. Moments later, repeat the process and observe the difference. For example, using an efficient Mozilla: accumulated time referenced memory ---------------- ----------------- 0 s 408 kB 1 s 408 kB 2 s 556 kB 3 s 1028 kB 4 s 872 kB 5 s 1956 kB 6 s 416 kB 7 s 1560 kB 8 s 2336 kB 9 s 1044 kB 10 s 416 kB This is a valuable tool to get an approximate measurement of the memory footprint for a task. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] [mpm@selenic.com: rename for_each_pmd] Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Borislav Petkov 提交于
Introduce a macro for suppressing gcc from generating a warning about a probable uninitialized state of a variable. Example: - spinlock_t *ptl; + spinlock_t *uninitialized_var(ptl); Not a happy solution, but those warnings are obnoxious. - Using the usual pointlessly-set-it-to-zero approach wastes several bytes of text. - Using a macro means we can (hopefully) do something else if gcc changes cause the `x = x' hack to stop working - Using a macro means that people who are worried about hiding true bugs can easily turn it off. Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andy Whitcroft 提交于
Generally we work under the assumption that memory the mem_map array is contigious and valid out to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block of pages, ie. that if we have validated any page within this MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block we need not check any other. This is not true when CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is set and we must check each and every reference we make from a pfn. Add a pfn_valid_within() helper which should be used when scanning pages within a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block when we have already checked the validility of the block normally with pfn_valid(). This can then be optimised away when we do not have holes within a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block of pages. Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: NBob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
Add proper prototypes in include/linux/slab.h. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls. I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7 possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in block2mtd. All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return with a !uptodate page. Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Minimum gcc version is 3.2 now. However, with likely profiling, even modern gcc versions cannot always eliminate the call. Replace the placeholder functions with the more conventional empty static inlines, which should be optimal for everyone. Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
Add a proper prototype for hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() in include/linux/hugetlb.h. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: NWilliam Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux idiomatic pagetable walking code in every place that a sequence of PTEs must be accessed. Although this interface is intended to be useful in a wide range of situations, it is currently used specifically by several Xen subsystems, for example: to ensure that pagetables have been allocated for a virtual address range, and to construct batched special pagetable update requests to map I/O memory (in ioremap()). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning, unpleasantly] Signed-off-by: NIan Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: NChristian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@waste.org> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 David Gibson 提交于
At present, the serial core always allows setserial in userspace to change the port address, irq and base clock of any serial port. That makes sense for legacy ISA ports, but not for (say) embedded ns16550 compatible serial ports at peculiar addresses. In these cases, the kernel code configuring the ports must know exactly where they are, and their clocking arrangements (which can be unusual on embedded boards). It doesn't make sense for userspace to change these settings. Therefore, this patch defines a UPF_FIXED_PORT flag for the uart_port structure. If this flag is set when the serial port is configured, any attempts to alter the port's type, io address, irq or base clock with setserial are ignored. In addition this patch uses the new flag for on-chip serial ports probed in arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c, and for other hard-wired serial ports probed by drivers/serial/of_serial.c. Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Thomas Koeller 提交于
Add support for the integrated serial ports of the MIPS RM9122 processor and its relatives. The patch also does some whitespace cleanup. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: NThomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Marc St-Jean 提交于
Serial driver patch for the PMC-Sierra MSP71xx devices. There are three different fixes: 1 Fix for DesignWare APB THRE errata: In brief, this is a non-standard 16550 in that the THRE interrupt will not re-assert itself simply by disabling and re-enabling the THRI bit in the IER, it is only re-enabled if a character is actually sent out. It appears that the "8250-uart-backup-timer.patch" in the "mm" tree also fixes it so we have dropped our initial workaround. This patch now needs to be applied on top of that "mm" patch. 2 Fix for Busy Detect on LCR write: The DesignWare APB UART has a feature which causes a new Busy Detect interrupt to be generated if it's busy when the LCR is written. This fix saves the value of the LCR and rewrites it after clearing the interrupt. 3 Workaround for interrupt/data concurrency issue: The SoC needs to ensure that writes that can cause interrupts to be cleared reach the UART before returning from the ISR. This fix reads a non-destructive register on the UART so the read transaction completion ensures the previously queued write transaction has also completed. Signed-off-by: NMarc St-Jean <Marc_St-Jean@pmc-sierra.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Pekka Enberg 提交于
This introduce krealloc() that reallocates memory while keeping the contents unchanged. The allocator avoids reallocation if the new size fits the currently used cache. I also added a simple non-optimized version for mm/slob.c for compatibility. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] Acked-by: NJosef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Acked-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 06 5月, 2007 4 次提交
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由 Ralf Baechle 提交于
CC fs/nfs/nfsroot.o fs/nfs/nfsroot.c:131: error: tokens causes a section type conflict make[2]: *** [fs/nfs/nfsroot.o] Error 1 This is due to mixing const and non-const content in the same section which halfway recent gccs absolutely hate. Fixed by dropping the const. Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Sergei Shtylyov 提交于
Get rid of the 'pio_speed' member of 'ide_drive_t' that was only used by this driver by storing the PIO mode timings in the 'drive_data' instead -- this allows us to greatly simplify the process of "reloading" of the chip's timing register and do it right in sl82c150_dma_off_quietly() and to get rid of two extra arguments to config_for_pio() -- which got renamed to sl82c105_tune_pio() and now returns a PIO mode selected, with ide_config_drive_speed() call moved into the tuneproc() method, now called sl82c105_tune_drive() with the code to set drive's 'io_32bit' and 'unmask' flags in its turn moved to its proper place in the init_hwif() method. Also, while at it, rename get_timing_sl82c105() into get_pio_timings() and get rid of the code in it clamping cycle counts to 32 which was both incorrect and never executed anyway... Signed-off-by: NSergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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由 Jiri Benc 提交于
Add generic IEEE 802.11 definitions. Signed-off-by: NJiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
People treating the *_pid fields in netlink as a process ID has caused endless confusion over the years. The fact that our own netlink.h does this only adds to the confusion. So here is a patch to change the comments to refer to it as the port ID which hopefully will make it clear what the purpose of the fields really is. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 05 5月, 2007 6 次提交
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由 Geert Uytterhoeven 提交于
Convert kmap_atomic() in the non-highmem case from a macro to a static inline function, for better type-checking and the ability to pass void pointers instead of struct page pointers. Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Finn Thain 提交于
Sync the nubus defines with the latest code in the mac68k repo. Some of these are needed for DP8390 driver update in the next patch. Signed-off-by: NFinn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Roman Zippel 提交于
Add missing disable/enable irq variant Signed-off-by: NRoman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Michael Schmitz 提交于
Atari keyboard and mouse support. (reformating and Kconfig fixes by Roman Zippel) Signed-off-by: NMichael Schmitz <schmitz@debian.org> Signed-off-by: NRoman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jamal Hadi Salim 提交于
Aggregate the SPD info TLVs. Signed-off-by: NJamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Jamal Hadi Salim 提交于
Aggregate the SAD info TLVs. Signed-off-by: NJamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 04 5月, 2007 3 次提交
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由 Pavel Emelianov 提交于
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using first_netdev()/next_netdev(). Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: NKirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Michael Chan 提交于
Add PCI ID and code to support the 5709 Serdes PHY. Signed-off-by: NMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Michael Chan 提交于
Add 2.5G supported and advertising bit definitions. 2.5G is supported by the bnx2 driver. Signed-off-by: NMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 03 5月, 2007 12 次提交
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由 Patrick McHardy 提交于
Consolidate the common push/pull sequences into a few helper functions. Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Jorge Boncompte 提交于
While porting some changes of the 2.6.21-rc7 pptp/proto_gre conntrack and nat modules to a 2.4.32 kernel I noticed that the gre_key function returns a wrong pointer to the GRE key of a version 0 packet thus corrupting the packet payload. The intended behaviour for GREv0 packets is to act like nf_conntrack_proto_generic/nf_nat_proto_unknown so I have ripped the offending functions (not used anymore) and modified the nf_nat_proto_gre modules to not touch version 0 (non PPTP) packets. Signed-off-by: NJorge Boncompte <jorge@dti2.net> Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Patrick McHardy 提交于
Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtype for callers that don't want a reference but some data from the device and thus need to take the rtnl anyway. Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Fix skbuff.h kernel-doc: linux-2.6.21-git4//include/linux/skbuff.h:316): No description found for parameter 'transport_header' Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Make the match_*() functions take a const pointer to the options table and make strings pointers in the options table const too. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
As we no longer emulate in userspace, this is meaningless. We don't compute it on SVM anyway. Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
It is illegal not to return from a pio or mmio request without completing it, as mmio or pio is an atomic operation. Therefore, we can simplify the userspace interface by avoiding the completion indication. Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
These are really helpful when migrating an floating point app to another machine. Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
With this, we can specify that accesses to one physical memory range will be remapped to another. This is useful for the vga window at 0xa0000 which is used as a movable window into the (much larger) framebuffer. Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
The current string pio interface communicates using guest virtual addresses, relying on userspace to translate addresses and to check permissions. This interface cannot fully support guest smp, as the check needs to take into account two pages at one in case an unaligned string transfer straddles a page boundary. Change the interface not to communicate guest addresses at all; instead use a buffer page (mmaped by userspace) and do transfers there. The kernel manages the virtual to physical translation and can perform the checks atomically by taking the appropriate locks. Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
This allows us to store offsets in the kernel/user kvm_run area, and be sure that userspace has them mapped. As offsets can be outside the kvm_run struct, userspace has no way of knowing how much to mmap. Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
Allow a special signal mask to be used while executing in guest mode. This allows signals to be used to interrupt a vcpu without requiring signal delivery to a userspace handler, which is quite expensive. Userspace still receives -EINTR and can get the signal via sigwait(). Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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