- 25 9月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
This debloats a bit the general config menu and make these config options easier to find. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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- 17 8月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
S390, ia64 and powerpc all define their own version of CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING. Generalize the config and its description to a single place to avoid duplication. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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- 15 8月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
This reverts commit bacef661. This commit has been found to cause serious regressions on a number of ASUS machines at the least. We probably need to provide a 1:1 map in addition to the EFI virtual memory map in order for this to work. Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Reported-and-bisected-by: NJérôme Carretero <cJ-ko@zougloub.eu> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120805172903.5f8bb24c@zougloub.eu
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- 01 8月, 2012 3 次提交
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由 Jiang Liu 提交于
When hotadd_new_pgdat() is called to create new pgdat for a new node, a fallback zonelist should be created for the new node. There's code to try to achieve that in hotadd_new_pgdat() as below: /* * The node we allocated has no zone fallback lists. For avoiding * to access not-initialized zonelist, build here. */ mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex); build_all_zonelists(pgdat, NULL); mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex); But it doesn't work as expected. When hotadd_new_pgdat() is called, the new node is still in offline state because node_set_online(nid) hasn't been called yet. And build_all_zonelists() only builds zonelists for online nodes as: for_each_online_node(nid) { pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid); build_zonelists(pgdat); build_zonelist_cache(pgdat); } Though we hope to create zonelist for the new pgdat, but it doesn't. So add a new parameter "pgdat" the build_all_zonelists() to build pgdat for the new pgdat too. Signed-off-by: NJiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NXishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Keping Chen <chenkeping@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
Sanity: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR -> CONFIG_MEMCG CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM -> CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM [mhocko@suse.cz: fix missed bits] Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@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 Aneesh Kumar K.V 提交于
Implement a new controller that allows us to control HugeTLB allocations. The extension allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and enforces the controller limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The charge/uncharge calls will be added to HugeTLB code in later patch. Support for cgroup removal will be added in later patches. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB_RES_CTLR/CONFIG_MEMCG_HUGETLB/g] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CONFIG_MEMCG_HUGETLB/CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB/g] Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@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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- 27 7月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Jim Cromie 提交于
main.c has initcall_level_names[] for parse_args to print in debug messages, add comments to keep them in sync with initcalls defined in init.h. Also add "loadable" into comment re not using *_initcall macros in modules, to disambiguate from kernel/params.c and other builtins. Signed-off-by: NJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Acked-by: NBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 23 7月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
... and schedule_work() for interrupt/kernel_thread callers (and yes, now it *is* OK to call from interrupt). We are guaranteed that __fput() will be done before we return to userland (or exit). Note that for fput() from a kernel thread we get an async behaviour; it's almost always OK, but sometimes you might need to have __fput() completed before you do anything else. There are two mechanisms for that - a general barrier (flush_delayed_fput()) and explicit __fput_sync(). Both should be used with care (as was the case for fput() from kernel threads all along). See comments in fs/file_table.c for details. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 10 7月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Will Deacon 提交于
The audit tools support only EABI userspace and, since there are no AUDIT_ARCH_* defines for the ARM OABI, it makes sense to allow syscall auditing on ARM only for EABI at the moment. Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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- 08 6月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Borislav Petkov 提交于
9fb48c74 ("params: add 3rd arg to option handler callback signature") added similar lines to dmesg: initlevel:0=early, 4 registered initcalls initlevel:1=core, 31 registered initcalls initlevel:2=postcore, 11 registered initcalls initlevel:3=arch, 7 registered initcalls initlevel:4=subsys, 40 registered initcalls initlevel:5=fs, 30 registered initcalls initlevel:6=device, 250 registered initcalls initlevel:7=late, 35 registered initcalls but they don't contain any info for the general user staring at dmesg. I'm very doubtful the count of initcalls registered per level helps anyone so drop that output completely. Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Commit 026cee00 "params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parameters" set old-style module parameters to level 0. And we call those level 0 calls where we used to, early in start_kernel(). We also loop through the initcall levels and call the levelled module_params before the corresponding initcall. Unfortunately level 0 is early_init(), so we call the standard module_param calls twice. (Turns out most things don't care, but at least ubi.mtd does). Change the level to -1 for standard module_param calls. Reported-by: NBenoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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- 06 6月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
Other than ix86, x86-64 on EFI so far didn't set the {g,s}et_wallclock accessors to the EFI routines, thus incorrectly using raw RTC accesses instead. Simply removing the #ifdef around the respective code isn't enough, however: While so far early get-time calls were done in physical mode, this doesn't work properly for x86-64, as virtual addresses would still need to be set up for all runtime regions (which wasn't the case on the system I have access to), so instead the patch moves the call to efi_enter_virtual_mode() ahead (which in turn allows to drop all code related to calling efi-get-time in physical mode). Additionally the earlier calling of efi_set_executable() requires the CPA code to cope, i.e. during early boot it must be avoided to call cpa_flush_array(), as the first thing this function does is a BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()). Also make the two EFI functions in question here static - they're not being referenced elsewhere. Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Tested-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FBFBF5F020000780008637F@nat28.tlf.novell.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 01 6月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
There have been new compression algorithms added without updating nearby relevant descriptive text that refers to (a) the number of compression algorithms and (b) the most recent one. Fix these inconsistencies. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Reported-by: <qasdfgtyuiop@gmail.com> Cc: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 H Hartley Sweeten 提交于
The init/mount.o source files produce a number of sparse warnings of the type: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) expected char [noderef] <asn:1>*dev_name got char *name This is due to the syscalls expecting some of the arguments to be user pointers but they are being passed as kernel pointers. This is harmless but adds a lot of noise to a sparse build. To limit the noise just disable the sparse checking in the relevant source files, but still display a warning so that the user knows this has been done. Since the sparse checking has been disabled we can also remove the __user __force casts that are scattered thru the source. Signed-off-by: NH Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 22 5月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Sigh, I missed to check which architecture Kconfig files actually include the core Kconfig file. There are a few which did not. So we broke them. Instead of adding the includes to those, we are better off to move the include to init/Kconfig like we did already with irqs and others. This does not change anything for the architectures using the old style periodic timer mode. It just solves the build wreckage there. For those architectures which use the clock events infrastructure it moves the include of the core Kconfig file to "General setup" which is a way more logical place than having it at random locations specified by the architecture specific Kconfigs. Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@glx-um.de> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
During early boot, when the scheduler hasn't really been fully set up, we really can't do blocking allocations because with certain (dubious) configurations the "might_resched()" calls can actually result in scheduling events. We could just make such users always use GFP_ATOMIC, but quite often the code that does the allocation isn't really aware of the fact that the scheduler isn't up yet, and forcing that kind of random knowledge on the initialization code is just annoying and not good for anybody. And we actually have a the 'gfp_allowed_mask' exactly for this reason: it's just that the kernel init sequence happens to set it to allow blocking allocations much too early. So move the 'gfp_allowed_mask' initialization from 'start_kernel()' (which is some of the earliest init code, and runs with preemption disabled for good reasons) into 'kernel_init()'. kernel_init() is run in the newly created thread that will become the 'init' process, as opposed to the early startup code that runs within the context of what will be the first idle thread. So by the time we reach 'kernel_init()', we know that the scheduler must be at least limping along, because we've already scheduled from the idle thread into the init thread. Reported-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 16 5月, 2012 12 次提交
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Add a new internal Kconfig option UIDGID_CONVERTED that is true when the selected Kconfig options have been converted to be user namespace safe, and guard USER_NS and guard the UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECK options with it. This keeps innocent kernel users from having the choice to enable the user namespace in the cases where it is known not to work. Most of the rest of the conversions are simple and straight forward but their sheer number means it is good not to count on having them all done and reviwed before thinking of merging this code. Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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- 06 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Sasha Levin 提交于
Currently, we'll try mounting any device who's major device number is UNNAMED_MAJOR as NFS root. This would happen for non-NFS devices as well (such as 9p devices) but it wouldn't cause any issues since mounting the device as NFS would fail quickly and the code proceeded to doing the proper mount: [ 101.522716] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. [ 101.534499] VFS: Mounted root (9p filesystem) on device 0:18. Commit 6829a048102a ("NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT") introduced retries when mounting NFS root, which means that now we don't immediately fail and instead it takes an additional 90+ seconds until we stop retrying, which has revealed the issue this patch fixes. This meant that it would take an additional 90 seconds to boot when we're not using a device type which gets detected in order before NFS. This patch modifies the NFS type check to require device type to be 'Root_NFS' instead of requiring the device to have an UNNAMED_MAJOR major. This makes boot process cleaner since we now won't go through the NFS mounting code at all when the device isn't an NFS root ("/dev/nfs"). Signed-off-by: NSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 05 5月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Now that all archs except ia64 are converted, replace the config and let the ia64 select CONFIG_ARCH_INIT_TASK Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085035.867948914@linutronix.de
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
All archs define init_task in the same way (except ia64, but there is no particular reason why ia64 cannot use the common version). Create a generic instance so all archs can be converted over. The config switch is temporary and will be removed when all archs are converted over. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085034.092585287@linutronix.de
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- 01 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Jim Cromie 提交于
Add a 3rd arg, named "doing", to unknown-options callbacks invoked from parse_args(). The arg is passed as: "Booting kernel" from start_kernel(), initcall_level_names[i] from do_initcall_level(), mod->name from load_module(), via parse_args(), parse_one() parse_args() already has the "name" parameter, which is renamed to "doing" to better reflect current uses 1,2 above. parse_args() passes it to an altered parse_one(), which now passes it down into the unknown option handler callbacks. The mod->name will be needed to handle dyndbg for loadable modules, since params passed by modprobe are not qualified (they do not have a "$modname." prefix), and by the time the unknown-param callback is called, the module name is not otherwise available. Minor tweaks: Add param-name to parse_one's pr_debug(), current message doesnt identify the param being handled, add it. Add a pr_info to print current level and level_name of the initcall, and number of registered initcalls at that level. This adds 7 lines to dmesg output, like: initlevel:6=device, 172 registered initcalls Drop "parameters" from initcall_level_names[], its unhelpful in the pr_info() added above. This array is passed into parse_args() by do_initcall_level(). CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Acked-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 26 4月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Robert Richter 提交于
Renaming remaining PERF_COUNTERS options into PERF_EVENTS. Think we can get rid of PERF_COUNTERS now. Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333643084-26776-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 25 4月, 2012 3 次提交
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由 Chris Metcalf 提交于
Commit 026cee00 had the side-effect of dropping the '=' from the unknown boot arguments that are passed to init as environment variables. This is because parse_args() puts a NUL in the string where the '=' was when it passes the "param" and "val" pointers to the parsing subfunctions. Previously, unknown_bootoption() was the last parse_args() subfunction to run, and it carefully put back the '=' character. Now the ignore_unknown_bootoption() is the last one to run, and it wasn't doing the necessary repair, so the envp params ended up with the embedded NUL and were no longer seen as valid environment variables by init. Tested-by: NWoody Suwalski <terraluna977@gmail.com> Acked-by: NPawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Signed-off-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
Commit #0209f649 (rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout) set an upper limit of 16 on the leaf-level fanout for the rcu_node tree. This was needed to reduce lock contention that was induced by the synchronization of scheduling-clock interrupts, which was in turn needed to improve energy efficiency for moderate-sized lightly loaded servers. However, reducing the leaf-level fanout means that there are more leaf-level rcu_node structures in the tree, which in turn means that RCU's grace-period initialization incurs more cache misses. This is not a problem on moderate-sized servers with only a few tens of CPUs, but becomes a major source of real-time latency spikes on systems with many hundreds of CPUs. In addition, the workloads running on these large systems tend to be CPU-bound, which eliminates the energy-efficiency advantages of synchronizing scheduling-clock interrupts. Therefore, these systems need maximal values for the rcu_node leaf-level fanout. This commit addresses this problem by introducing a new kernel parameter named RCU_FANOUT_LEAF that directly controls the leaf-level fanout. This parameter defaults to 16 to handle the common case of a moderate sized lightly loaded servers, but may be set higher on larger systems. Reported-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reported-by: NDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
The old text confused real-time applications with real-time threads, so that you pretty much needed to understand how this kernel configuration parameter worked to understand the help text. This commit therefore attempts to make the help text human-readable. Reported-by: NJörn Engel <joern@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 20 4月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 David Daney 提交于
Define a config variable BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT to control build time sorting of the kernel's exception table. Patch Makefile to do the sorting when BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT is selected. Signed-off-by: NDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334872799-14589-4-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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- 08 4月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Make it possible to easily switch between strong mandatory type checks and relaxed type checks so that the code can easily be tested with the type checks and then built with the strong type checks disabled so the resulting code can be used. Require strong mandatory type checks when enabling the user namespace. It is very simple to make a typo and use the wrong type allowing conversions to/from userspace values to be bypassed by accident, the strong type checks prevent this. Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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- 01 4月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
... implemented that way since the next commit will leave it almost alone in ext2_fs.h - most of the file (including struct ext2_super_block) is going to move to fs/ext2/ext2.h. 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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