1. 11 3月, 2010 1 次提交
  2. 27 2月, 2010 23 次提交
  3. 26 2月, 2010 1 次提交
  4. 25 2月, 2010 4 次提交
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      rcu: Use canonical URL for Mathieu's dissertation · 1bd22e37
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      The version numbers change too quickly, so use a canonical URL
      that represents the most recent version.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
      Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
      Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
      Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
      Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
      Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
      Cc: peterz@infradead.org
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
      Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
      LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-16-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1bd22e37
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      rcu: Fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation · 998f2ac3
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
      Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
      Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
      Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
      Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
      Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
      Cc: peterz@infradead.org
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
      Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
      LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-14-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      998f2ac3
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      rcu: Documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU · c598a070
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      Adds a lockdep.txt file and updates checklist.txt and
      whatisRCU.txt to reflect the new lockdep-enabled capabilities of
      RCU.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
      Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
      Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
      Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
      Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
      Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
      Cc: peterz@infradead.org
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
      Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
      LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-13-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c598a070
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      x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot time · 14315592
      Ian Campbell 提交于
      Distros generally (I looked at Debian, RHEL5 and SLES11) seem to
      enable CONFIG_HIGHPTE for any x86 configuration which has highmem
      enabled. This means that the overhead applies even to machines which
      have a fairly modest amount of high memory and which therefore do not
      really benefit from allocating PTEs in high memory but still pay the
      price of the additional mapping operations.
      
      Running kernbench on a 4G box I found that with CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but
      no actual highptes being allocated there was a reduction in system
      time used from 59.737s to 55.9s.
      
      With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y and highmem PTEs being allocated:
        Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
        Elapsed Time 175.396 (0.238914)
        User Time 515.983 (5.85019)
        System Time 59.737 (1.26727)
        Percent CPU 263.8 (71.6796)
        Context Switches 39989.7 (4672.64)
        Sleeps 42617.7 (246.307)
      
      With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but with no highmem PTEs being allocated:
        Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
        Elapsed Time 174.278 (0.831968)
        User Time 515.659 (6.07012)
        System Time 55.9 (1.07799)
        Percent CPU 263.8 (71.266)
        Context Switches 39929.6 (4485.13)
        Sleeps 42583.7 (373.039)
      
      This patch allows the user to control the allocation of PTEs in
      highmem from the command line ("userpte=nohigh") but retains the
      status-quo as the default.
      
      It is possible that some simple heuristic could be developed which
      allows auto-tuning of this option however I don't have a sufficiently
      large machine available to me to perform any particularly meaningful
      experiments. We could probably handwave up an argument for a threshold
      at 16G of total RAM.
      
      Assuming 768M of lowmem we have 196608 potential lowmem PTE
      pages. Each page can map 2M of RAM in a PAE-enabled configuration,
      meaning a maximum of 384G of RAM could potentially be mapped using
      lowmem PTEs.
      
      Even allowing generous factor of 10 to account for other required
      lowmem allocations, generous slop to account for page sharing (which
      reduces the total amount of RAM mappable by a given number of PT
      pages) and other innacuracies in the estimations it would seem that
      even a 32G machine would not have a particularly pressing need for
      highmem PTEs. I think 32G could be considered to be at the upper bound
      of what might be sensible on a 32 bit machine (although I think in
      practice 64G is still supported).
      
      It's seems questionable if HIGHPTE is even a win for any amount of RAM
      you would sensibly run a 32 bit kernel on rather than going 64 bit.
      Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1266403090-20162-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      14315592
  5. 24 2月, 2010 2 次提交
  6. 23 2月, 2010 3 次提交
    • B
      IPv6: better document max_addresses parameter · e79dc484
      Brian Haley 提交于
      Andrew Morton wrote:
      >> >From ip-sysctl.txt file in kernel documentation I can see following description
      >> for max_addresses:
      >> max_addresses - INTEGER
      >>         Number of maximum addresses per interface.  0 disables limitation.
      >>         It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would
      >>         be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of
      >>         autoconfigured addresses.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      
      >> If this parameter applies only for auto-configured IP addressed, please state
      >> it more clearly in docs or rename the parameter to show that it refers to
      >> auto-configuration.
      
      It did mention autoconfigured in the text, but the below makes it more obvious.
      
      More clearly document IPv6 max_addresses parameter.
      Signed-off-by: NBrian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      e79dc484
    • R
      PCI PM: Make it possible to force using INTx for PCIe PME signaling · c39fae14
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      Apparently, some machines may have problems with PCI run-time power
      management if MSIs are used for the native PCIe PME signaling.  In
      particular, on the MSI Wind U-100 PCIe PME interrupts are not
      generated by a PCIe root port after a resume from suspend to RAM, if
      the system wake-up was triggered by a PME from the device attached to
      this port.  [It doesn't help to free the interrupt on suspend and
      request it back on resume, even if that is done along with disabling
      the MSI and re-enabling it, respectively.]  However, if INTx
      interrupts are used for this purpose on the same machine, everything
      works just fine.
      
      For this reason, add a kernel command line switch allowing one to
      request that MSIs be not used for the native PCIe PME signaling,
      introduce a DMI table allowing us to blacklist machines that need
      this switch to be set by default and put the MSI Wind U-100 into this
      table.
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
      c39fae14
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      PCI PM: PCIe PME root port service driver · c7f48656
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      PCIe native PME detection mechanism is based on interrupts generated
      by root ports or event collectors every time a PCIe device sends a
      PME message upstream.
      
      Once a PME message has been sent by an endpoint device and received
      by its root port (or event collector in the case of root complex
      integrated endpoints), the Requester ID from the message header is
      registered in the root port's Root Status register.  At the same
      time, the PME Status bit of the Root Status register is set to
      indicate that there's a PME to handle.  If PCIe PME interrupt is
      enabled for the root port, it generates an interrupt once the PME
      Status has been set.  After receiving the interrupt, the kernel can
      identify the PCIe device that generated the PME using the Requester
      ID from the root port's Root Status register. [For details, see PCI
      Express Base Specification, Rev. 2.0.]
      
      Implement a driver for the PCIe PME root port service working in
      accordance with the above description.
      
      Based on a patch from Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>.
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
      c7f48656
  7. 21 2月, 2010 1 次提交
    • R
      ARM: allow alignment fault mode to be configured at kernel boot · d944d549
      Russell King 提交于
      Some glibc versions intentionally create lots of alignment faults in
      their gconv code, which if not fixed up, results in segfaults during
      boot.  This can prevent systems booting properly.
      
      There is no clear hard-configurable default for this; the desired
      default depends on the nature of the userspace which is going to be
      booted.
      
      So, provide a way for the alignment fault handler to be configured via
      the kernel command line.
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      d944d549
  8. 19 2月, 2010 3 次提交
  9. 18 2月, 2010 2 次提交