- 16 9月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Petr Tesarik 提交于
Tony's fix (f574c843) has a small bug, it incorrectly uses "r3" as a scratch register in the first of the two unlock paths ... it is also inefficient. Optimize the fast path again. Signed-off-by: NPetr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 10 9月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Tony Luck 提交于
When ia64 converted to using ticket locks, an inline implementation of trylock/unlock in fsys.S was missed. This was not noticed because in most circumstances it simply resulted in using the slow path because the siglock was apparently not available (under old spinlock rules). Problems occur when the ticket spinlock has value 0x0 (when first initialised, or when it wraps around). At this point the fsys.S code acquires the lock (changing the 0x0 to 0x1. If another process attempts to get the lock at this point, it will change the value from 0x1 to 0x2 (using new ticket lock rules). Then the fsys.S code will free the lock using old spinlock rules by writing 0x0 to it. From here a variety of bad things can happen. Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 18 8月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles correctly on ARM: arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel(). do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as const should be fine. Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match. This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 14 8月, 2010 2 次提交
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由 Tony Luck 提交于
Three new syscalls for 2.6.36: prlimit64, fanotify_init and fanotify_mark. Wire up the ia64 syscall table for them. Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but aren't. The list includes: (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes syscalls and some mount syscalls. (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above. (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 11 8月, 2010 2 次提交
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由 FUJITA Tomonori 提交于
dma_get_cache_alignment returns the minimum DMA alignment. Architectures defines it as ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN (formally ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN). So we can unify dma_get_cache_alignment implementations. Note that some architectures implement dma_get_cache_alignment wrongly. dma_get_cache_alignment() should return the minimum DMA alignment. So fully-coherent architectures should return 1. This patch also fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.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 Miklos Szeredi 提交于
Switch ia64/perfmon to using the d_dname() instead of relying on __d_path() to prepend the name of the root dentry to the path. CC: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> CC: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 10 8月, 2010 2 次提交
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由 Suresh Siddha 提交于
Workqueues are now initialized as part of the early_initcall(). So they are available for use during cold boot process aswell. Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
Define stubs for the numa_*_id() generic percpu related functions for non-NUMA configurations in <asm-generic/topology.h> where the other non-numa stubs live. Fixes ia64 !NUMA build breakage -- e.g., tiger_defconfig Back out now unneeded '#ifndef CONFIG_NUMA' guards from ia64 smpboot.c Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Tested-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 31 7月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Ben Hutchings 提交于
commit 2ca1af9aa3285c6a5f103ed31ad09f7399fc65d7 "PCI: MSI: Remove unsafe and unnecessary hardware access" changed read_msi_msg_desc() to return the last MSI message written instead of reading it from the device, since it may be called while the device is in a reduced power state. However, the pSeries platform code really does need to read messages from the device, since they are initially written by firmware. Therefore: - Restore the previous behaviour of read_msi_msg_desc() - Add new functions get_cached_msi_msg{,_desc}() which return the last MSI message written - Use the new functions where appropriate Acked-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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- 27 7月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 John Stultz 提交于
update_vsyscall() did not provide the wall_to_monotoinc offset, so arch specific implementations tend to reference wall_to_monotonic directly. This limits future cleanups in the timekeeping core, so this patch fixes the update_vsyscall interface to provide wall_to_monotonic, allowing wall_to_monotonic to be made static as planned in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-7-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 22 7月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Arnd Bergmann 提交于
The ioctl function in this driver does not do anything that requires the BKL, so make it use unlocked_ioctl. Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 07 7月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Arnd Bergmann 提交于
The ioctl function in this driver does not do anything that requires the BKL, so make it use unlocked_ioctl. Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 29 6月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Define WQ_MAX_ACTIVE and create keventd with max_active set to half of it which means that keventd now can process upto WQ_MAX_ACTIVE / 2 - 1 works concurrently. Unless some combination can result in dependency loop longer than max_active, deadlock won't happen and thus it's unnecessary to check whether current_is_keventd() before trying to schedule a work. Kill current_is_keventd(). (Lockdep annotations are broken. We need lock_map_acquire_read_norecurse()) Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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- 22 6月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Sam Ravnborg 提交于
Use the same style as used for C code in vmlinux.lds.h. This is the same format as have been gradually introduced for other architectures in the kernel. This patch do not introduce any functional changes. Note: Use "git diff -w" to supress whitespace noise. Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 28 5月, 2010 5 次提交
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由 Tony Luck 提交于
In commit 0ac0c0d0 cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node() Jack Steiner fixed a problem with too many small tasks being assigned to node 0. Copy his code to ia64 to avoid build error. arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c:641: error: ‘cpu_to_node_map’ undeclared (first use in this function) In commit 3bccd996 numa: ia64: use generic percpu var numa_node_id() implementation Lee Schermerhorn added some set_numa_node() calls - but these only work on CONFIG_NUMA=y configurations. Surround the calls with #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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由 Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
Enable 'HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES' by default when NUMA configured on ia64. Initialize percpu 'numa_mem' variable when starting secondary cpus. Generic initialization will handle the boot cpu. Nothing uses 'numa_mem_id()' yet. Subsequent patch with modify slab to use this. Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.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 Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
ia64: Use generic percpu implementation of numa_node_id() + intialize per cpu 'numa_node' + remove ia64 cpu_to_node() macro; use generic + define CONFIG_USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID when NUMA configured Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.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 FUJITA Tomonori 提交于
sync_single_range_for_cpu and sync_single_range_for_device hooks in swiotlb_dma_ops are unnecessary because sync_single_for_cpu and sync_single_for_device are used there. Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Oleg Nesterov 提交于
Preparation to make task->signal immutable, no functional changes. It doesn't matter which pointer we check under tasklist to ensure the task was not released, ->signal or ->sighand. But we are going to make ->signal refcountable, change the code to use ->sighand. Note: this code doesn't need this check and tasklist_lock at all, it should be converted to use lock_task_sighand(). And, the code under SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED check looks wrong. Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 19 5月, 2010 2 次提交
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由 Akinobu Mita 提交于
Replace open-coded rate limiting logic with __ratelimit(). Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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由 Julia Lawall 提交于
Use set_cpus_allowed_ptr rather than set_cpus_allowed. Signed-off-by: NJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 05 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
There are a number of cases where the current code makes the assumption that isa irqs identity map to the first 16 acpi global system intereupts. In most instances that assumption is correct as that is the required behaviour in dual i8259 mode and the default behavior in ioapic mode. However there are some systems out there that take advantage of acpis interrupt remapping for the isa irqs to have a completely different mapping of isa_irq to gsi. Introduce acpi_isa_irq_to_gsi to perform this mapping explicitly in the code that needs it. Initially this will be just the current assumed identity mapping to ensure it's introduction does not cause regressions. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> LKML-Reference: <1269936436-7039-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 30 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
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- 15 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Alex Chiang 提交于
Now that the early _PDC evaluation path knows how to correctly evaluate _PDC on only physically present processors, there's no need for the processor driver to evaluate it later when it loads. To cover the hotplug case, push _PDC evaluation down into the hotplug paths. Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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- 13 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 John Stultz 提交于
This patch converts the ia64 architecture to use the generic read_persistent_clock and update_persistent_clock interfaces, reducing the amount of arch specific code we have to maintain, and allowing for further cleanups in the future. I have not built or tested this patch, so help from arch maintainers would be appreciated. Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1267675049-12337-8-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 08 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Emese Revfy 提交于
Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: NEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Acked-by: NMatt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: NMaciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Acked-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 07 3月, 2010 3 次提交
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由 Daisuke HATAYAMA 提交于
The current ELF dumper implementation can produce broken corefiles if program headers exceed 65535. This number is determined by the number of vmas which the process have. In particular, some extreme programs may use more than 65535 vmas. (If you google max_map_count, you can find some users facing this problem.) This kind of program never be able to generate correct coredumps. This patch implements ``extended numbering'' that uses sh_info field of the first section header instead of e_phnum field in order to represent upto 4294967295 vmas. This is supported by AMD64-ABI(http://www.x86-64.org/documentation.html) and Solaris(http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/). Of course, we are preparing patches for gdb and binutils. Signed-off-by: NDaisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.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 Daisuke HATAYAMA 提交于
elf_core_dump() and elf_fdpic_core_dump() use #ifdef and the corresponding macro for hiding _multiline_ logics in functions. This patch removes #ifdef and replaces ELF_CORE_EXTRA_* by corresponding functions. For architectures not implemeonting ELF_CORE_EXTRA_*, we use weak functions in order to reduce a range of modification. This cleanup is for my next patches, but I think this cleanup itself is worth doing regardless of my firnal purpose. Signed-off-by: NDaisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.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 Rik van Riel 提交于
The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking workloads. Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent process and all its child processes. In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one of the 1000 processes. However, the current rmap code needs to walk them all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page. This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of 1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on the anon_vma lock. This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of thousands. Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive than AIM7, but they are catching up. This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA. At fork time, each child process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be instantiated. The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children. This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000 child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system. This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from O(N) to 2. The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations. This means vma_adjust can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures. This in turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions. A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under "the" anon_vma lock. To prevent the rmap code from walking up an incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag. This bit flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic values for the same bitflag. Some test results: Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running >99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the pageout code. With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users. This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in system time. The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 03 3月, 2010 7 次提交
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由 Denys Vlasenko 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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由 Denys Vlasenko 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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由 Denys Vlasenko 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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由 Denys Vlasenko 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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由 Denys Vlasenko 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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由 Tim Abbott 提交于
Signed-off-by: NTim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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由 Tim Abbott 提交于
Signed-off-by: NTim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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- 27 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Frans Pop 提交于
ia64 parts of system wide cleanup to drop trailing whitespace from lines in message strings. Signed-off-by: NFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 26 2月, 2010 2 次提交
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由 Alex Chiang 提交于
Simplify the makefile slightly by always building acpi-ext.o when CONFIG_ACPI is turned on. Yes, this adds a little bloat to the other configs, but not much: text data bss dec hex filename 839 41 0 880 370 arch/ia64/kernel/acpi-ext.o Before: text data bss dec hex filename 10952753 1299212 1334241 13586206 cf4f1e vmlinux After: text data bss dec hex filename 10953739 1299084 1334241 13587064 cf5278 vmlinux (gdb) p 13587064 - 13586206 $2 = 858 Seems like a small price to pay for the benefit of not having to think so hard about the multitude of ia64 configs when reading code/Makefiles. Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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由 Alex Chiang 提交于
The following commit broke the ia64 sim_defconfig build: 3b2b84c0b81108a9a869a88bf2beeb5a95d81dd1 ACPI: processor: driver doesn't need to evaluate _PDC This is because it added: +#include <acpi/processor.h> To arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c. Unfortunately, the ia64_simdefconfig does not turn on CONFIG_ACPI, and we get build errors. The fix described in $subject seems to be the most sensible way to untangle the mess. The other issue is that acpi_get_sysname() is required for all configs, most of which define CONFIG_ACPI, but are not CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC. Turn it into an inline to cover the "non generic" ia64 configs; to prevent a duplicate definition build error, we need to wrap the definition in acpi.o inside an #ifdef. Finally, move the pm_idle and pm_power_off exports into process.c (which is always built), similar to other architectures, and allow the sim defconfig to link. Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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