Add core support for the Kendin/Micrel KS8695 processor family.

It is an ARM922-T based SoC with integrated USART, 4-port Ethernet
Switch, WAN Ethernet port, and optional PCI Host bridge, etc.
 http://www.micrel.com/page.do?page=product-info/sys_on_chip.jsp

This patch is based on earlier patches from Lennert Buytenhek, Ben
Dooks and Greg Ungerer posted to the arm-linux-kernel mailing list in
March 2006;  and Micrel's 2.6.9 port.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Add support for the Atmel AT91SAM9RL-EK development board.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Define SZ_512, SZ_256 and SZ_16 in asm-arm/sizes.h.
Remove the definitions from the at91*_devices.c files.

(Dependent on ARM patch #4370/2)
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Add support for Atmel's new AT91SAM9RL range of processors.
Includes similar peripherals as other AT91SAM9 processors, but with a
High-speed USB controller and various sizes of internal SRAM.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Enable devices to signal interrupts via PCI memory cycles.

rev6:
* fix enable/disable typo, Michael Ellerman

rev5:
* fix up ack, enable, and disable for iop13xx_msi_chip

rev4:
* move smp compile fix to separate patch
* use dynamic_irq_init in create_irq()
* hookup mask/unmask routines in iop13xx_msi_chip

rev3:
* change msi.c to use linux/smp.h instead of asm/smp.h
* call dynamic_irq_cleanup at destroy_irq time

rev2:
* destroy_irq did not take the full 128 bits of msi_irq_in_use into account
* added missing '&' for calls to test_and_set_bit and clear_bit

[ebiederm@xmission.com: review comments/suggestions]
[dan.j.williams@intel.com: cleanups/forward port to 2.6-git]
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Wolstenholme <daniel.e.wolstenholme@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Remove the apparently useless config option GENERIC_BUST_SPINLOCK,
since nothing in the source tree refers to it.
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Add base kernel support for the TI DaVinci platform.

This patch only includes interrupts, timers, CPU identification,
serial support and basic power and sleep controller init.  More
drivers to come.
Signed-off-by: NKevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

This patch adds a small driver responsible for configuring the UART used
for the bluetooth chip and for enabling the bluetooth chipset.
Additionnaly, can trigger a led if the H1940 led driver is enabled.
Signed-off-by: NArnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Signed-off-by: NBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

This adds the ac97 clock to the s3c2443 machine files. It seems to
have been simply missed out previously.
Signed-off-by: NGraeme Gregory <gg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: NBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

This update for trizeps4 SoM contains:
- support for new TFT on more recent ConXS evalboard
- correct partition of flash device
- update of "trizeps4_defconfig"

Signed-off-by: Jrgen Schindele (linux@schindele.name)
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Building on the previous two ecard infrastructure changes, this patch
fixes the pata_icside build errors caused by the recent libata changes.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Add devres ecardm_iomap() and ecardm_iounmap() for Acorn expansion
cards.  Convert all expansion card drivers to use them.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Rather than having every driver fiddle about setting its private
IRQ operations and data, provide a helper function to contain
this functionality in one place.

Arrange to remove the driver-private IRQ operations and data when
the device is removed from the driver, and remove the driver
private code to do this.

This fixes potential problems caused by drivers forgetting to
remove these hooks.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

In 9d6a8c5c we changed posix_test_lock
to modify its single file_lock argument instead of taking separate input
and output arguments.  This makes it no longer safe to set the output
lock's fl_type to F_UNLCK before looking for a conflict, since that
means searching for a conflict against a lock with type F_UNLCK.

This fixes a regression which causes F_GETLK to incorrectly report no
conflict on most filesystems (including any filesystem that doesn't do
its own locking).

Also fix posix_lock_to_flock() to copy the lock type.  This isn't
strictly necessary, since the caller already does this; but it seems
less likely to cause confusion in the future.

Thanks to Doug Chapman for the bug report.
Signed-off-by: N"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: NDoug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
  [WATCHDOG] MTX-1 Watchdog driver
  [WATCHDOG] s3c2410_wdt - initialize watchdog irq resource  
  [WATCHDOG] Kconfig menuconfig patch
  [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c: Port to the new device driver model
  [WATCHDOG] use mutex instead of semaphore in Berkshire USB-PC Watchdog driver
  [WATCHDOG] the scheduled removal of the i8xx_tco watchdog driver
  [WATCHDOG] Semi-typical watchdog bug re early misc_register()
  [WATCHDOG] add support for the w83627thf chipset.

A small regression appears to have been introduced in the recent patch
"cleanup compat ioctl handling", which was included in Linus' tree after
2.6.20.

siocdevprivate_ioctl() is no longer defined if CONFIG_NET is undefined,
whereas previously it was a dummy function in this case.

This causes compilation with CONFIG_COMPAT but without CONFIG_NET to fail.

fs/compat_ioctl.c: In function `compat_sys_ioctl':
fs/compat_ioctl.c:3571: warning: implicit declaration of function `siocdevprivate_ioctl'

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/input/misc/ixp4xx-beeper.c: In function 'ixp4xx_spkr_event':
drivers/input/misc/ixp4xx-beeper.c:54: error: 'input_dev' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/input/misc/ixp4xx-beeper.c:54: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/input/misc/ixp4xx-beeper.c:54: error: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: NFrederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (24 commits)
  [POWERPC] Fix compile error with kexec and CONFIG_SMP=n
  [POWERPC] Split initrd logic out of early_init_dt_scan_chosen() to fix warning
  [POWERPC] Fix warning in hpte_decode(), and generalize it
  [POWERPC] Minor pSeries IOMMU debug cleanup
  [POWERPC] PS3: Fix sys manager build error
  [POWERPC] Assorted janitorial EEH cleanups
  [POWERPC] We don't define CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
  [POWERPC] pmu_sys_suspended is only defined for PPC32
  [POWERPC] Fix incorrect calculation of I/O window addresses
  [POWERPC] celleb: Update celleb_defconfig
  [POWERPC] celleb: Fix parsing of machine type hack command line option
  [POWERPC] celleb: Fix PCI config space accesses to subordinate buses
  [POWERPC] celleb: Fix support for multiple PCI domains
  [POWERPC] Wire up sys_utimensat
  [POWERPC] CPM_UART: Removed __init from cpm_uart_init_portdesc to fix warning
  [POWERPC] User rheap from arch/powerpc/lib
  [POWERPC] 83xx: Fix the PCI ranges in the MPC834x_MDS device tree.
  [POWERPC] 83xx: Fix the PCI ranges in the MPC832x_MDS device tree.
  [POWERPC] CPM_UART: cpm_uart_set_termios should take ktermios, not termios
  [POWERPC] Change rheap functions to use ulongs instead of pointers
  ...

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Use alloc_pci_dev() in PCI bus probes.
  [SPARC64]: Bump PROMINTR_MAX to 32.
  [SPARC64]: Fix recursion in PROM tree building.
  [SERIAL] sunzilog: Interrupt enable before ISR handler installed
  [SPARC64] PCI: Consolidate PCI access code into pci_common.c

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  acpi,msi-laptop: Fall back to EC polling mode for MSI laptop specific EC commands
  sony-laptop: rename SONY_LAPTOP_OLD to a more meaningful SONYPI_COMPAT
  asus-laptop: version bump and lindent
  asus-laptop: fix light sens init
  asus-laptop: add GPS support
  asus-laptop: notify ALL events
  ACPICA: Lindent
  ACPI: created a dedicated workqueue for notify() execution
  Revert "ACPICA: fix AML mutex re-entrancy"
  Revert "Execute AML Notify() requests on stack."
  Revert "ACPICA: revert "acpi_serialize" changes"
  ACPI: delete un-reliable concept of cooling mode
  ACPI: thermal trip points are read-only

* 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (138 commits)
  firewire: Convert OHCI driver to use standard goto unwinding for error handling.
  firewire: Always use parens with sizeof.
  firewire: Drop single buffer request support.
  firewire: Add a comment to describe why we split the sg list.
  firewire: Return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY for out of memory cases in queuecommand.
  firewire: Handle the last few DMA mapping error cases.
  firewire: Allocate scsi_host up front and allocate the sbp2_device as hostdata.
  firewire: Provide module aliase for backwards compatibility.
  firewire: Add to fw-core-y instead of assigning fw-core-objs in Makefile.
  firewire: Break out shared IEEE1394 constant to separate header file.
  firewire: Use linux/*.h instead of asm/*.h header files.
  firewire: Uppercase most macro names.
  firewire: Coding style cleanup: no spaces after function names.
  firewire: Convert card_rwsem to a regular mutex.
  firewire: Clean up comment style.
  firewire: Use lib/ implementation of CRC ITU-T.
  CRC ITU-T V.41
  firewire: Rename fw-device-cdev.c to fw-cdev.c and move header to include/linux.
  firewire: Future proof the iso ioctls by adding a handle for the iso context.
  firewire: Add read/write and size annotations to IOC numbers.
  ...
Acked-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [S390] update default configuration.
  [S390] Kconfig: no wireless on s390.
  [S390] Kconfig: use common Kconfig files for s390.
  [S390] Kconfig: common config options for s390.
  [S390] Kconfig: unwanted menus for s390.
  [S390] Kconfig: menus with depends on HAS_IOMEM.
  [S390] Kconfig: refine depends statements.
  [S390] Avoid compile warning.
  [S390] qdio: re-add lost perf_stats.tl_runs change in qdio_handle_pci
  [S390] Avoid sparse warnings.
  [S390] dasd: Fix modular build.
  [S390] monreader inlining cleanup.
  [S390] cio: Make some structures and a function static.
  [S390] cio: Get rid of _ccw_device_get_device_number().
  [S390] fix subsystem removal fallout

On 09-05-2007 21:10, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
...
> On a 64 bit system, converting pointer to int causes unnecessary
> compiler warning, and intermediate long conversion was to avoid that.
> I will have to rephrase my comment to remove 32 bit value and use int,
> as that is what the function returns.

So, this patch reverts all changes done by my previous patch.

I apologize for my wrong comment about "logical error" here.

Cc: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

  CC      drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.o
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c: In function 'at91_i2c_probe':
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c:213: warning: implicit declaration of function 'IS_ERR'
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Make i2c-at91 register as i2c adapter zero (none of these chips seem to
have more than one TWI controllers) to let it kick in any board-specific
device declarations; also make it hotplug/coldplug.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When a raid1 has only one working drive, we want read error to propagate up
to the filesystem as there is no point failing the last drive in an array.

Currently the code perform this check is racy.  If a write and a read a
both submitted to a device on a 2-drive raid1, and the write fails followed
by the read failing, the read will see that there is only one working drive
and will pass the failure up, even though the one working drive is actually
the *other* one.

So, tighten up the locking.
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In preparation for struct class_device -> struct device input core
conversion, switch to using input_dev->dev.parent when specifying device
position in sysfs tree.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This was in SLUB in order to head off trouble while the nr_cpu_ids
functionality was not merged.  Its merged now so no need to still have this.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Otherwise people get asked about SLUB_DEBUG even if they have another
slab allocator enabled.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This reverts commit c9ccf30d.

Entering the kernel at startup_32 without passing our real mode data in
%esi, and without guaranteeing that physical and virtual addresses are
identity mapped makes head.S impossible to maintain.

The only user of this infrastructure is lguest which is not merged so
nothing we currently support will break by removing this over designed
nightmare, and only the pending lguest patches will be affected.  The
pending Xen patches have a different entry point that they use.

We are currently discussing what Xen and lguest need to do to boot the
kernel in a more normal fashion so using startup_32 in this weird manner is
clearly not their long term direction.

So let's remove this code in head.S before it causes brain damage to people
trying to maintain head.S

Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

From commit 7d054817:
> According to the PXA27x developer's manual, we shall do so.

We shall also at least compile test our changes.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix gcc warning and Oops that it causes:

fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c:161: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
[ 2776.204120] OCFS2 Node Manager 1.3.3
[ 2776.211729] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, modprobe/4424
[ 2776.214269]  lock: ffff810021c8fe18, .magic: ffffffff, .owner: /6394416, .owner_cpu: 0
[ 2776.217864] [ 2776.217865] Call Trace:
[ 2776.219662]  [<ffffffff803426c8>] spin_bug+0x9e/0xe9
[ 2776.221921]  [<ffffffff803427bf>] _raw_spin_lock+0x23/0xf9
[ 2776.224417]  [<ffffffff8051acf4>] _spin_lock+0x9/0xb
[ 2776.226676]  [<ffffffff8033c3b1>] kobject_shadow_add+0x98/0x1ac
[ 2776.229367]  [<ffffffff8033c4d0>] kobject_add+0xb/0xd
[ 2776.231665]  [<ffffffff8033c4df>] kset_add+0xd/0xf
[ 2776.233845]  [<ffffffff8033c5a6>] kset_register+0x23/0x28
[ 2776.236309]  [<ffffffff8808ccb7>] :ocfs2_nodemanager:mlog_sys_init+0x68/0x6d
[ 2776.239518]  [<ffffffff8808ccee>] :ocfs2_nodemanager:o2cb_sys_init+0x32/0x4a
[ 2776.242726]  [<ffffffff880b80a6>] :ocfs2_nodemanager:init_o2nm+0xa6/0xd5
[ 2776.245772]  [<ffffffff8025266c>] sys_init_module+0x1471/0x15d2
[ 2776.248465]  [<ffffffff8033f250>] simple_strtoull+0x0/0xdc
[ 2776.250959]  [<ffffffff8020948e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Since it is referenced by memmap_init_zone (which is __meminit) via the
early_pfn_in_nid macro when CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES is set (which
basically means PowerPC 64).

This removes a section mismatch warning in those circumstances.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Reduce debugging noise generated by AF_RXRPC.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Further fixes for AFS write support:

 (1) The afs_send_pages() outer loop must do an extra iteration if it ends
     with 'first == last' because 'last' is inclusive in the page set
     otherwise it fails to send the last page and complete the RxRPC op under
     some circumstances.

 (2) Similarly, the outer loop in afs_pages_written_back() must also do an
     extra iteration if it ends with 'first == last', otherwise it fails to
     clear PG_writeback on the last page under some circumstances.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

AFS write support fixes:

 (1) Support large files using the 64-bit file access operations if available
     on the server.

 (2) Use kmap_atomic() rather than kmap() in afs_prepare_page().

 (3) Don't do stuff in afs_writepage() that's done by the caller.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix right shift count >= width of type]
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We keep on getting "right shift count >= width of type" warnings when doing
things like

	sector_t s;

	x = s >> 56;

because with CONFIG_LBD=n, s is only 32-bit.  Similar problems can occur with
dma_addr_t's.

So add a simple wrapper function which code can use to avoid this warning.
The above example would become

	x = upper_32_bits(s) >> 24;

The first user is in fact AFS.

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: "Cameron, Steve" <Steve.Cameron@hp.com>
Cc: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <Mike.Miller@hp.com>
Cc: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Avoid atomic overhead in slab_alloc and slab_free

SLUB needs to use the slab_lock for the per cpu slabs to synchronize with
potential kfree operations.  This patch avoids that need by moving all free
objects onto a lockless_freelist.  The regular freelist continues to exist
and will be used to free objects.  So while we consume the
lockless_freelist the regular freelist may build up objects.

If we are out of objects on the lockless_freelist then we may check the
regular freelist.  If it has objects then we move those over to the
lockless_freelist and do this again.  There is a significant savings in
terms of atomic operations that have to be performed.

We can even free directly to the lockless_freelist if we know that we are
running on the same processor.  So this speeds up short lived objects.
They may be allocated and freed without taking the slab_lock.  This is
particular good for netperf.

In order to maximize the effect of the new faster hotpath we extract the
hottest performance pieces into inlined functions.  These are then inlined
into kmem_cache_alloc and kmem_cache_free.  So hotpath allocation and
freeing no longer requires a subroutine call within SLUB.

[I am not sure that it is worth doing this because it changes the easy to
read structure of slub just to reduce atomic ops.  However, there is
someone out there with a benchmark on 4 way and 8 way processor systems
that seems to show a 5% regression vs.  Slab.  Seems that the regression is
due to increased atomic operations use vs.  SLAB in SLUB).  I wonder if
this is applicable or discernable at all in a real workload?]
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>