1. 13 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  2. 11 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  3. 10 1月, 2006 2 次提交
  4. 09 1月, 2006 5 次提交
  5. 07 1月, 2006 4 次提交
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      [PATCH] frv: improve signal handling · fef2b580
      David Howells 提交于
      The attached patch improves the signal handling:
      
       (1) It makes do_signal() static as it isn't called from anywhere outside of
           the arch code.
      
       (2) It removes the regs argument to all the static functions within that file,
           using __frame instead (which is the same thing held in a global register).
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      fef2b580
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      [PATCH] FRV: Implement futex operations for FRV · 5c40f7f3
      David Howells 提交于
      The attached patch implements futex operations for the FRV architecture. The
      operations are applicable to both MMU and no-MMU modes; though the EFAULT
      handling will be a little bit of wasted space on the latter.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5c40f7f3
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      [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 · d3cb4871
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      Several counters already have the need to use 64 atomic variables on 64 bit
      platforms (see mm_counter_t in sched.h).  We have to do ugly ifdefs to fall
      back to 32 bit atomic on 32 bit platforms.
      
      The VM statistics patch that I am working on will also make more extensive
      use of atomic64.
      
      This patch introduces a new type atomic_long_t by providing definitions in
      asm-generic/atomic.h that works similar to the c "long" type.  Its 32 bits
      on 32 bit platforms and 64 bits on 64 bit platforms.
      
      Also cleans up the determination of the mm_counter_t in sched.h.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      d3cb4871
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      [PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing store · f6b3ec23
      Badari Pulavarty 提交于
      Here is the patch to implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE) - which frees up a
      given range of pages & its associated backing store.  Current
      implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return
      -ENOSYS.
      
      "Some app allocates large tmpfs files, then when some task quits and some
      client disconnect, some memory can be released.  However the only way to
      release tmpfs-swap is to MADV_REMOVE". - Andrea Arcangeli
      
      Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their bufferpool
      (shared memory segments) - without writing back to disk/swap space.
      
      This feature is also useful for supporting hot-plug memory on UML.
      
      Concerns raised by Andrew Morton:
      
      - "We have no plan for holepunching!  If we _do_ have such a plan (or
        might in the future) then what would the API look like?  I think
        sys_holepunch(fd, start, len), so we should start out with that."
      
      - Using madvise is very weird, because people will ask "why do I need to
        mmap my file before I can stick a hole in it?"
      
      - None of the other madvise operations call into the filesystem in this
        manner.  A broad question is: is this capability an MM operation or a
        filesytem operation?  truncate, for example, is a filesystem operation
        which sometimes has MM side-effects.  madvise is an mm operation and with
        this patch, it gains FS side-effects, only they're really, really
        significant ones."
      
      Comments:
      
      - Andrea suggested the fs operation too but then it's more efficient to
        have it as a mm operation with fs side effects, because they don't
        immediatly know fd and physical offset of the range.  It's possible to
        fixup in userland and to use the fs operation but it's more expensive,
        the vmas are already in the kernel and we can use them.
      
      Short term plan &  Future Direction:
      
      - We seem to need this interface only for shmfs/tmpfs files in the short
        term.  We have to add hooks into the filesystem for correctness and
        completeness.  This is what this patch does.
      
      - In the future, plan is to support both fs and mmap apis also.  This
        also involves (other) filesystem specific functions to be implemented.
      
      - Current patch doesn't support VM_NONLINEAR - which can be addressed in
        the future.
      Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f6b3ec23
  6. 04 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  7. 29 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] FRV: Make the FRV arch work again · 8080f231
      David Howells 提交于
      The attached patch implements a bunch of small changes to the FRV arch to
      make it work again.
      
      It deals with the following problems:
      
       (1) SEM_DEBUG should be SEMAPHORE_DEBUG.
      
       (2) The argument list to pcibios_penalize_isa_irq() has changed.
      
       (3) CONFIG_HIGHMEM can't be used directly in #if as it may not be defined.
      
       (4) page->private is no longer directly accessible.
      
       (5) linux/hardirq.h assumes asm/hardirq.h will include linux/irq.h
      
       (6) The IDE MMIO access functions are given pointers, not integers, and so
           get type casting errors.
      
       (7) __pa() is passed an explicit u64 type in drivers/char/mem.c, but that
           can't be cast directly to a pointer on a 32-bit platform.
      
       (8) SEMAPHORE_DEBUG should not be contingent on WAITQUEUE_DEBUG as that no
           longer exists.
      
       (9) PREEMPT_ACTIVE is too low a value.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8080f231
  8. 14 11月, 2005 2 次提交
  9. 07 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  10. 31 10月, 2005 2 次提交
  11. 28 10月, 2005 1 次提交
  12. 22 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Remove unused var from asm/futex.h · 676067cf
      Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 提交于
      As recently done by Russell King for ARM, commit
      4732efbe introduces a generic asm/futex.h copied
      along most arches, which includes a "-ENOSYS support" to be changed if needed.
      However, it includes an unused var (taken from the "real" version) which GCC
      warns about.
      
      Remove it from all arches having that file version (i.e. same GIT id).
      $ git-diff-tree -r HEAD
      and
      $ git-ls-tree  -r HEAD include/|grep 9feff4ce1424bc390608326240be369eb13aa648
      
      may be more interesting than looking at the patch itself, to make sure I've
      just copied the arm header to all other archs having the original dummy version
      of this file.
      
      Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      676067cf
  13. 13 9月, 2005 1 次提交
  14. 08 9月, 2005 8 次提交
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      [PATCH] Clean up struct flock64 definitions · 8d286aa5
      Stephen Rothwell 提交于
      This patch gathers all the struct flock64 definitions (and the operations),
      puts them under !CONFIG_64BIT and cleans up the arch files.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8d286aa5
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      [PATCH] Clean up struct flock definitions · 5ac353f9
      Stephen Rothwell 提交于
      This patch just gathers together all the struct flock definitions except
      xtensa into asm-generic/fcntl.h.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5ac353f9
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      [PATCH] Clean up the fcntl operations · 1abf62af
      Stephen Rothwell 提交于
      This patch puts the most popular of each fcntl operation/flag into
      asm-generic/fcntl.h and cleans up the arch files.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      1abf62af
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      [PATCH] Clean up the open flags · e64ca97f
      Stephen Rothwell 提交于
      This patch puts the most popular of each open flag into asm-generic/fcntl.h
      and cleans up the arch files.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e64ca97f
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      [PATCH] Create asm-generic/fcntl.h · 9317259e
      Stephen Rothwell 提交于
      This set of patches creates asm-generic/fcntl.h and consolidates as much as
      possible from the asm-*/fcntl.h files into it.
      
      This patch just gathers all the identical bits of the asm-*/fcntl.h files into
      asm-generic/fcntl.h.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NYoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9317259e
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      [PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove verify_area() from various uaccess.h headers · 97de50c0
      Jesper Juhl 提交于
      Remove the deprecated (and unused) verify_area() from various uaccess.h
      headers.
      Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      97de50c0
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      [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups · 36d57ac4
      H. J. Lu 提交于
      The size of auxiliary vector is fixed at 42 in linux/sched.h.  But it isn't
      very obvious when looking at linux/elf.h.  This patch adds AT_VECTOR_SIZE
      so that we can change it if necessary when a new vector is added.
      
      Because of include file ordering problems, doing this necessitated the
      extraction of the AT_* symbols into a standalone header file.
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      36d57ac4
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      [PATCH] FUTEX_WAKE_OP: pthread_cond_signal() speedup · 4732efbe
      Jakub Jelinek 提交于
      ATM pthread_cond_signal is unnecessarily slow, because it wakes one waiter
      (which at least on UP usually means an immediate context switch to one of
      the waiter threads).  This waiter wakes up and after a few instructions it
      attempts to acquire the cv internal lock, but that lock is still held by
      the thread calling pthread_cond_signal.  So it goes to sleep and eventually
      the signalling thread is scheduled in, unlocks the internal lock and wakes
      the waiter again.
      
      Now, before 2003-09-21 NPTL was using FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal
      to avoid this performance issue, but it was removed when locks were
      redesigned to the 3 state scheme (unlocked, locked uncontended, locked
      contended).
      
      Following scenario shows why simply using FUTEX_REQUEUE in
      pthread_cond_signal together with using lll_mutex_unlock_force in place of
      lll_mutex_unlock is not enough and probably why it has been disabled at
      that time:
      
      The number is value in cv->__data.__lock.
              thr1            thr2            thr3
      0       pthread_cond_wait
      1       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      0       lll_mutex_unlock (cv->__data.__lock)
      0       lll_futex_wait (&cv->__data.__futex, futexval)
      0                       pthread_cond_signal
      1                       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      1                                       pthread_cond_signal
      2                                       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      2                                         lll_futex_wait (&cv->__data.__lock, 2)
      2                       lll_futex_requeue (&cv->__data.__futex, 0, 1, &cv->__data.__lock)
                                # FUTEX_REQUEUE, not FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE
      2                       lll_mutex_unlock_force (cv->__data.__lock)
      0                         cv->__data.__lock = 0
      0                         lll_futex_wake (&cv->__data.__lock, 1)
      1       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      0       lll_mutex_unlock (cv->__data.__lock)
                # Here, lll_mutex_unlock doesn't know there are threads waiting
                # on the internal cv's lock
      
      Now, I believe it is possible to use FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal,
      but it will cost us not one, but 2 extra syscalls and, what's worse, one of
      these extra syscalls will be done for every single waiting loop in
      pthread_cond_*wait.
      
      We would need to use lll_mutex_unlock_force in pthread_cond_signal after
      requeue and lll_mutex_cond_lock in pthread_cond_*wait after lll_futex_wait.
      
      Another alternative is to do the unlocking pthread_cond_signal needs to do
      (the lock can't be unlocked before lll_futex_wake, as that is racy) in the
      kernel.
      
      I have implemented both variants, futex-requeue-glibc.patch is the first
      one and futex-wake_op{,-glibc}.patch is the unlocking inside of the kernel.
       The kernel interface allows userland to specify how exactly an unlocking
      operation should look like (some atomic arithmetic operation with optional
      constant argument and comparison of the previous futex value with another
      constant).
      
      It has been implemented just for ppc*, x86_64 and i?86, for other
      architectures I'm including just a stub header which can be used as a
      starting point by maintainers to write support for their arches and ATM
      will just return -ENOSYS for FUTEX_WAKE_OP.  The requeue patch has been
      (lightly) tested just on x86_64, the wake_op patch on ppc64 kernel running
      32-bit and 64-bit NPTL and x86_64 kernel running 32-bit and 64-bit NPTL.
      
      With the following benchmark on UP x86-64 I get:
      
      for i in nptl-orig nptl-requeue nptl-wake_op; do echo time elf/ld.so --library-path .:$i /tmp/bench; \
      for j in 1 2; do echo ( time elf/ld.so --library-path .:$i /tmp/bench ) 2>&1; done; done
      time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-orig /tmp/bench
      real 0m0.655s user 0m0.253s sys 0m0.403s
      real 0m0.657s user 0m0.269s sys 0m0.388s
      time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-requeue /tmp/bench
      real 0m0.496s user 0m0.225s sys 0m0.271s
      real 0m0.531s user 0m0.242s sys 0m0.288s
      time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-wake_op /tmp/bench
      real 0m0.380s user 0m0.176s sys 0m0.204s
      real 0m0.382s user 0m0.175s sys 0m0.207s
      
      The benchmark is at:
      http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00001.txt
      Older futex-requeue-glibc.patch version is at:
      http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00002.txt
      Older futex-wake_op-glibc.patch version is at:
      http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00003.txt
      Will post a new version (just x86-64 fixes so that the patch
      applies against pthread_cond_signal.S) to libc-hacker ml soon.
      
      Attached is the kernel FUTEX_WAKE_OP patch as well as a simple-minded
      testcase that will not test the atomicity of the operation, but at least
      check if the threads that should have been woken up are woken up and
      whether the arithmetic operation in the kernel gave the expected results.
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NYoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      4732efbe
  15. 05 9月, 2005 2 次提交
  16. 30 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  17. 27 7月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Add emergency_restart() · 7c903473
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      When the kernel is working well and we want to restart cleanly
      kernel_restart is the function to use.   But in many instances
      the kernel wants to reboot when thing are expected to be working
      very badly such as from panic or a software watchdog handler.
      
      This patch adds the function emergency_restart() so that
      callers can be clear what semantics they expect when calling
      restart.  emergency_restart() is expected to be callable
      from interrupt context and possibly reliable in even more
      trying circumstances.
      
      This is an initial generic implementation for all architectures.
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      7c903473
  18. 28 6月, 2005 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] PCI: fix up errors after dma bursting patch and CONFIG_PCI=n · bb4a61b6
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      With CONFIG_PCI=n:
      
      In file included from include/linux/pci.h:917,
                       from lib/iomap.c:6:
      include/asm/pci.h:104: warning: `enum pci_dma_burst_strategy' declared inside parameter list
      include/asm/pci.h:104: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want.
      include/asm/pci.h: In function `pci_dma_burst_advice':
      include/asm/pci.h:106: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
      include/asm/pci.h:106: `PCI_DMA_BURST_INFINITY' undeclared (first use in this function)
      include/asm/pci.h:106: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
      include/asm/pci.h:106: for each function it appears in.)
      make[1]: *** [lib/iomap.o] Error 1
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      bb4a61b6
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      [PATCH] PCI: DMA bursting advice · e24c2d96
      David S. Miller 提交于
      After seeing, at best, "guesses" as to the following kind
      of information in several drivers, I decided that we really
      need a way for platforms to specifically give advice in this
      area for what works best with their PCI controller implementation.
      
      Basically, this new interface gives DMA bursting advice on
      PCI.  There are three forms of the advice:
      
      1) Burst as much as possible, it is not necessary to end bursts
         on some particular boundary for best performance.
      
      2) Burst on some byte count multiple.  A DMA burst to some multiple of
         number of bytes may be done, but it is important to end the burst
         on an exact multiple for best performance.
      
         The best example of this I am aware of are the PPC64 PCI
         controllers, where if you end a burst mid-cacheline then
         chip has to refetch the data and the IOMMU translations
         which hurts performance a lot.
      
      3) Burst on a single byte count multiple.  Bursts shall end
         exactly on the next multiple boundary for best performance.
      
         Sparc64 and Alpha's PCI controllers operate this way.  They
         disconnect any device which tries to burst across a cacheline
         boundary.
      
         Actually, newer sparc64 PCI controllers do not have this behavior.
         That is why the "pdev" is passed into the interface, so I can
         add code later to check which PCI controller the system is using
         and give advice accordingly.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      e24c2d96
  19. 24 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] streamline preempt_count type across archs · dcd497f9
      Jesper Juhl 提交于
      The preempt_count member of struct thread_info is currently either defined
      as int, unsigned int or __s32 depending on arch.  This patch makes the type
      of preempt_count an int on all archs.
      
      Having preempt_count be an unsigned type prevents the catching of
      preempt_count < 0 bugs, and using int on some archs and __s32 on others is
      not exactely "neat" - much nicer when it's just int all over.
      
      A previous version of this patch was already ACK'ed by Robert Love, and the
      only change in this version of the patch compared to the one he ACK'ed is
      that this one also makes sure the preempt_count member is consistently
      commented.
      Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      dcd497f9
  20. 04 5月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] asm/signal.h unification · b1ecb4c3
      Al Viro 提交于
      New file - asm-generic/signal.h.  Contains declarations of
      __sighandler_t, __sigrestore_t, SIG_DFL, SIG_IGN, SIG_ERR and default
      definitions of SIG_BLOCK, SIG_UNBLOCK and SIG_SETMASK.
      
      asm-*/signal.h switched to including it.  The only exception is
      asm-parisc/signal.h that wants its own declaration of __sighandler_t;
      that one is left as-is.
      
      asm-ppc64/signal.h required one more thing - unlike everybody else it
      used __sigrestorer_t instead of usual __sigrestore_t.  PPC64 switched to
      common spelling.
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b1ecb4c3
  21. 01 5月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] misc verify_area cleanups · e49332bd
      Jesper Juhl 提交于
      There were still a few comments left refering to verify_area, and two
      functions, verify_area_skas & verify_area_tt that just wrap corresponding
      access_ok_skas & access_ok_tt functions, just like verify_area does for
      access_ok - deprecate those.
      
      There was also a few places that still used verify_area in commented-out
      code, fix those up to use access_ok.
      
      After applying this one there should not be anything left but finally
      removing verify_area completely, which will happen after a kernel release
      or two.
      Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e49332bd