1. 05 3月, 2008 4 次提交
  2. 19 2月, 2008 5 次提交
  3. 10 2月, 2008 6 次提交
  4. 09 2月, 2008 2 次提交
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      CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables. · 2f569afd
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390.  These sub-page
      page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization
      instruction with KVM.  The SIE instruction requires that the page tables
      have 256 page table entries (pte) followed by 256 page status table entries
      (pgste).  The pgstes are only required if the process is using the SIE
      instruction.  The pgstes are updated by the hardware and by the hypervisor
      for a number of reasons, one of them is dirty and reference bit tracking.
      To avoid wasting memory the standard pte table allocation should return
      1K/2K (31/64 bit) and 2K/4K if the process is using SIE.
      
      Problem: Page size on s390 is 4K, page table size is 1K or 2K.  That means
      the s390 version for pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a struct
      page.  Trouble is that with the CONFIG_HIGHPTE feature on x86 pte_alloc_one
      cannot return a pointer to a pte either, since that would require more than
      32 bit for the return value of pte_alloc_one (and the pte * would not be
      accessible since its not kmapped).
      
      Solution: The only solution I found to this dilemma is a new typedef: a
      pgtable_t.  For s390 pgtable_t will be a (pte *) - to be introduced with a
      later patch.  For everybody else it will be a (struct page *).  The
      additional problem with the initialization of the ptl lock and the
      NR_PAGETABLE accounting is solved with a constructor pgtable_page_ctor and
      a destructor pgtable_page_dtor.  The page table allocation and free
      functions need to call these two whenever a page table page is allocated or
      freed.  pmd_populate will get a pgtable_t instead of a struct page pointer.
       To get the pgtable_t back from a pmd entry that has been installed with
      pmd_populate a new function pmd_pgtable is added.  It replaces the pmd_page
      call in free_pte_range and apply_to_pte_range.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2f569afd
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      proc: seqfile convert proc_pid_status to properly handle pid namespaces · df5f8314
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      Currently we possibly lookup the pid in the wrong pid namespace.  So
      seq_file convert proc_pid_status which ensures the proper pid namespaces is
      passed in.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: another build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s390 build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix task_name() output]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build]
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      df5f8314
  5. 08 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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      Introduce flags for reserve_bootmem() · 72a7fe39
      Bernhard Walle 提交于
      This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the
      BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions
      between crashkernel area and already used memory.
      
      This patch:
      
      Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE.
      If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already
      has been reserved in the past.  This is to avoid conflicts.
      
      Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition
      inside reserve_bootmem_core().
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
      Signed-off-by: NBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      72a7fe39
  6. 06 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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      timerfd: new timerfd API · 4d672e7a
      Davide Libenzi 提交于
      This is the new timerfd API as it is implemented by the following patch:
      
      int timerfd_create(int clockid, int flags);
      int timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags,
      		    const struct itimerspec *utmr,
      		    struct itimerspec *otmr);
      int timerfd_gettime(int ufd, struct itimerspec *otmr);
      
      The timerfd_create() API creates an un-programmed timerfd fd.  The "clockid"
      parameter can be either CLOCK_MONOTONIC or CLOCK_REALTIME.
      
      The timerfd_settime() API give new settings by the timerfd fd, by optionally
      retrieving the previous expiration time (in case the "otmr" parameter is not
      NULL).
      
      The time value specified in "utmr" is absolute, if the TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME bit
      is set in the "flags" parameter.  Otherwise it's a relative time.
      
      The timerfd_gettime() API returns the next expiration time of the timer, or
      {0, 0} if the timerfd has not been set yet.
      
      Like the previous timerfd API implementation, read(2) and poll(2) are
      supported (with the same interface).  Here's a simple test program I used to
      exercise the new timerfd APIs:
      
      http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test2.c
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix m68k build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha, arm, blackfin, cris, m68k, s390, sparc and sparc64 builds]
      [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: fix s390]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 more]
      Signed-off-by: NDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4d672e7a
  7. 05 2月, 2008 8 次提交
  8. 03 2月, 2008 4 次提交
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      remove Documentation/smp.txt · 03502faa
      Adrian Bunk 提交于
      After seeing the filename I'd have expected something about the
      implementation of SMP in the Linux kernel - not some notes on kernel
      configuration and building trivialities noone would search at this
      place.
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      03502faa
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      Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig · 125e5645
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      Move the instrumentation Kconfig to
      
      arch/Kconfig for architecture dependent options
        - oprofile
        - kprobes
      
      and
      
      init/Kconfig for architecture independent options
        - profiling
        - markers
      
      Remove the "Instrumentation Support" menu. Everything moves to "General setup".
      Delete the kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation file.
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      125e5645
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      Add HAVE_KPROBES · 3f550096
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      Linus:
      
      On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have
      internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like
      
              depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32
      
      really shouldn't exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation.
      
      It would be much better to do
      
              depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
      
      in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just
      have a
      
              bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                      default y
      
      in *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical,
      and is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no
      clue - and don't care - about which architecture is supposed to support
      which interface...
      
      Changelog:
      
      Actually, I know I gave this as the magic incantation, but now that I see
      it, I realize that I should have told you to just use
      
              config KPROBES_SUPPORT
                      def_bool y
      
      instead, which is a bit denser.
      
      We seem to use both kinds of syntax for these things, but this is really
      what "def_bool" is there for...
      
      - Use HAVE_KPROBES
      - Use a select
      
      - Yet another update :
      Moving to HAVE_* now.
      
      - Update ARM for kprobes support.
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      3f550096
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      Add HAVE_OPROFILE · 42d4b839
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      Linus:
      On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have
      internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like
      
              depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32
      
      really shouldn't exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation.
      
      It would be much better to do
      
              depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
      
      in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just
      have a
      
              bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                      default y
      
      in *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical,
      and is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no
      clue - and don't care - about which architecture is supposed to support
      which interface...
      
      Changelog:
      
      Actually, I know I gave this as the magic incantation, but now that I see
      it, I realize that I should have told you to just use
      
              config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                      def_bool y
      
      instead, which is a bit denser.
      
      We seem to use both kinds of syntax for these things, but this is really
      what "def_bool" is there for...
      
      Changelog :
      
      - Moving to HAVE_*.
      - Add AVR32 oprofile.
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      42d4b839
  9. 29 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  10. 26 1月, 2008 8 次提交