- 11 5月, 2007 40 次提交
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由 David L Stevens 提交于
When an IPv6 router is forwarding a packet with a link-local scope source address off-link, RFC 4007 requires it to send an ICMPv6 destination unreachable with code 2 ("not neighbor"), but Linux doesn't. Fix below. Signed-off-by: NDavid L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Vlad Yasevich 提交于
The socket API draft is unclear about whether to include the chunk header or not. Recent discussion on the sctp implementors mailing list clarified that the chunk header shouldn't be included, but the error parameter header still needs to be there. Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Vlad Yasevich 提交于
I broke the non-wildcard case recently. This is to fixes it. Now, explictitly bound addresses can ge retrieved using the API. Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Vlad Yasevich 提交于
SCTP was checking for NULL when trying to detect hmac allocation failure where it should have been using IS_ERR. Also, print a rate limited warning to the log telling the user what happend. Signed-off-by: NVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
Urgent events may be delayed if we already have a non-urgent event queued for that device. This patch changes this by making sure that an urgent event is always looked at immediately. I've replaced the LW_RUNNING flag by LW_URGENT since whether work is scheduled is already kept track by the work queue system. The only complication is that we have to provide some exclusion for the setting linkwatch_nextevent which is available in the actual work function. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
When the jiffies wrap around or when the system boots up for the first time, down events can be delayed indefinitely since we no longer update linkwatch_nextevent when only urgent events are processed. This patch fixes this by setting linkwatch_nextevent when a wrap-around occurs. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Krishna Kumar 提交于
Optimize teql_enqueue so that it first checks limits before enqueing. Signed-off-by: NKrishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Geert Uytterhoeven 提交于
| CC net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.o | In file included from linux/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c:31: | include2/asm/delay.h: In function '__const_udelay': | include2/asm/delay.h:33: error: 'loops_per_jiffy' undeclared (first use in this function) | include2/asm/delay.h:33: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once | include2/asm/delay.h:33: error: for each function it appears in.) Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> 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
Currently all link carrier events are delayed by up to a second before they're processed to prevent link storms. This causes unnecessary packet loss during that interval. In fact, we can achieve the same effect in preventing storms by only delaying down events and unnecssary up events. The latter is defined as up events when we're already up. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Herbert Xu 提交于
These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the network subsystem as it manages the carrier status. So it now makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather than allocating it on demand. In fact, this is necessary because we can't tolerate a memory allocation failure since that means we'd have to potentially throw a link up event away. It also simplifies the code greatly. In doing so I discovered a subtle race condition in the use of singleevent. This race condition still exists (and is somewhat magnified) without singleevent but it's now plugged thanks to an smp_mb__before_clear_bit. Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Marcel Holtmann 提交于
A trivial fix to (what looks like) an unintentional fall-through in the HCI line discipline. Signed-off-by: NOhad Ben-Cohen <ohad@bencohen.org> Signed-off-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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由 Marcel Holtmann 提交于
Normally a serial Bluetooth device is opened, TIOSETD'ed to N_HCI line discipline, HCIUARTSETPROTO'ed and finally closed. In case the device fails to HCIUARTSETPROTO, closing it produces a NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: NOhad Ben-Cohen <ohad@bencohen.org> Signed-off-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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由 Marcel Holtmann 提交于
Adding HCIUARTGETDEVICE makes it possible to get the HCI device number that is attached to a given serial device. This is required during the initialization process of some Bluetooth chips. Signed-off-by: NOhad Ben-Cohen <ohad@bencohen.org> Signed-off-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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由 Marcel Holtmann 提交于
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. Also, do not access input_dev->private directly, use helpers and do not use kfree() on input device, use input_free_device() instead. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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由 J. Bruce Fields 提交于
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>
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 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.
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由 Simon Horman 提交于
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>
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由 Frederik Deweerdt 提交于
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>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* '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 ...
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 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
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* '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
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* '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>
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git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* '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
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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>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
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>
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由 David Brownell 提交于
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>
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由 NeilBrown 提交于
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>
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由 Dmitry Torokhov 提交于
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>
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
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>
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
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>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
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>
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由 Russell King 提交于
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>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
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>
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由 Stephen Rothwell 提交于
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>
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由 David Howells 提交于
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>
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由 David Howells 提交于
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>
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由 David Howells 提交于
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>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
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>
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
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>
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由 Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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