1. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  2. 30 6月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] genirq: cleanup: merge irq_affinity[] into irq_desc[] · a53da52f
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Consolidation: remove the irq_affinity[NR_IRQS] array and move it into the
      irq_desc[NR_IRQS].affinity field.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      a53da52f
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      [PATCH] genirq: rename desc->handler to desc->chip · d1bef4ed
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      This patch-queue improves the generic IRQ layer to be truly generic, by adding
      various abstractions and features to it, without impacting existing
      functionality.
      
      While the queue can be best described as "fix and improve everything in the
      generic IRQ layer that we could think of", and thus it consists of many
      smaller features and lots of cleanups, the one feature that stands out most is
      the new 'irq chip' abstraction.
      
      The irq-chip abstraction is about describing and coding and IRQ controller
      driver by mapping its raw hardware capabilities [and quirks, if needed] in a
      straightforward way, without having to think about "IRQ flow"
      (level/edge/etc.) type of details.
      
      This stands in contrast with the current 'irq-type' model of genirq
      architectures, which 'mixes' raw hardware capabilities with 'flow' details.
      The patchset supports both types of irq controller designs at once, and
      converts i386 and x86_64 to the new irq-chip design.
      
      As a bonus side-effect of the irq-chip approach, chained interrupt controllers
      (master/slave PIC constructs, etc.) are now supported by design as well.
      
      The end result of this patchset intends to be simpler architecture-level code
      and more consolidation between architectures.
      
      We reused many bits of code and many concepts from Russell King's ARM IRQ
      layer, the merging of which was one of the motivations for this patchset.
      
      This patch:
      
      rename desc->handler to desc->chip.
      
      Originally i did not want to do this, because it's a big patch.  But having
      both "desc->handler", "desc->handle_irq" and "action->handler" caused a
      large degree of confusion and made the code appear alot less clean than it
      truly is.
      
      I have also attempted a dual approach as well by introducing a
      desc->chip alias - but that just wasnt robust enough and broke
      frequently.
      
      So lets get over with this quickly.  The conversion was done automatically
      via scripts and converts all the code in the kernel.
      
      This renaming patch is the first one amongst the patches, so that the
      remaining patches can stay flexible and can be merged and split up
      without having some big monolithic patch act as a merge barrier.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
      [akpm@osdl.org: another build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      d1bef4ed
  3. 28 6月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] node hotplug: register cpu: remove node struct · 76b67ed9
      KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
      With Goto-san's patch, we can add new pgdat/node at runtime.  I'm now
      considering node-hot-add with cpu + memory on ACPI.
      
      I found acpi container, which describes node, could evaluate cpu before
      memory. This means cpu-hot-add occurs before memory hot add.
      
      In most part, cpu-hot-add doesn't depend on node hot add.  But register_cpu(),
      which creates symbolic link from node to cpu, requires that node should be
      onlined before register_cpu().  When a node is onlined, its pgdat should be
      there.
      
      This patch-set holds off creating symbolic link from node to cpu
      until node is onlined.
      
      This removes node arguments from register_cpu().
      
      Now, register_cpu() requires 'struct node' as its argument.  But the array of
      struct node is now unified in driver/base/node.c now (By Goto's node hotplug
      patch).  We can get struct node in generic way.  So, this argument is not
      necessary now.
      
      This patch also guarantees add cpu under node only when node is onlined.  It
      is necessary for node-hot-add vs.  cpu-hot-add patch following this.
      
      Moreover, register_cpu calculates cpu->node_id by cpu_to_node() without regard
      to its 'struct node *root' argument.  This patch removes it.
      
      Also modify callers of register_cpu()/unregister_cpu, whose args are changed
      by register-cpu-remove-node-struct patch.
      
      [Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org: fix it]
      Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBrice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      76b67ed9
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      [PATCH] 64bit resource: change pci core and arch code to use resource_size_t · e31dd6e4
      Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
      Based on a patch series originally from Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      e31dd6e4
  4. 23 6月, 2006 3 次提交
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      [PATCH] fix incorrect SA_ONSTACK behaviour for 64-bit processes · d09042da
      Laurent MEYER 提交于
      - When setting a sighandler using sigaction() call, if the flag
        SA_ONSTACK is set and no alternate stack is provided via sigaltstack(),
        the kernel still try to install the alternate stack.  This behavior is
        the opposite of the one which is documented in Single Unix Specifications
        V3.
      
      - Also when setting an alternate stack using sigaltstack() with the flag
        SS_DISABLE, the kernel try to install the alternate stack on signal
        delivery.
      
      These two use cases makes the process crash at signal delivery.
      Signed-off-by: NLaurent Meyer <meyerlau@fr.ibm.com>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      d09042da
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      [PATCH] Remove duplicate symbol exports on Alpha · 82dcaafc
      Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer 提交于
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'enable_irq' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'disable_irq' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'disable_irq_nosync' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'probe_irq_mask' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'sys_open' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'sys_read' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'strstr' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'memscan' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'memcmp' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'strnlen' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'strncmp' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcmp' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@free.fr>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      82dcaafc
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      [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry · 726c3342
      David Howells 提交于
      Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
      pointer.
      
      This complements the get_sb() patch.  That reduced the significance of
      sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there.  However, NFS does
      require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation.  This permits
      the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.
      
      linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
      successfully.
      
      Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      726c3342
  5. 06 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] alpha: SMP IRQ routing fix · c7d2d28b
      Ivan Kokshaysky 提交于
      From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      
      After removal of fixup_cpu_present_map() function Alpha ended up with an empty
      cpu_present_map, so secondary CPUs on SMP systems are not being started.
      
      Worse, on some platforms we route interrupts to secondary CPUs using
      cpu_possible_map which is still populated properly.  As a result, these
      interrupts go nowhere so the machines like DP264 aren't able to boot even with
      a primary CPU.
      
      Fixed basically by s/cpu_present_mask/cpu_present_map/.
      
      Thanks to Ernst Herzberg for reporting the bug and testing the fix.
      
      Cc: Ernst Herzberg <list-lkml@net4u.de>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c7d2d28b
  6. 11 4月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations · 894b5779
      Kyle McMartin 提交于
      While cleaning up parisc_ksyms.c earlier, I noticed that strpbrk wasn't
      being exported from lib/string.c.  Investigating further, I noticed a
      changeset that removed its export and added it to _ksyms.c on a few more
      architectures.  The justification was that "other arches do it."
      
      I think this is wrong, since no architecture currently defines
      __HAVE_ARCH_STRPBRK, there's no reason for any of them to be exporting it
      themselves.  Therefore, consolidate the export to lib/string.c.
      Signed-off-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      894b5779
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      [PATCH] alpha: SMP boot fixes · 917b1f78
      Brian Uhrain says 提交于
      I've encountered two problems with 2.6.16 and newer kernels on my API CS20
      (dual 833MHz Alpha 21264b processors).  The first is the kernel OOPSing
      because of a NULL pointer dereference while trying to populate SysFS with the
      CPU information.  The other is that only one processor was being brought up.
      I've included a small Alpha-specific patch that fixes both problems.
      
      The first problem was caused by the CPUs never being properly registered using
      register_cpu(), the way it's done on other architectures.
      
      The second problem has to do with the removal of hwrpb_cpu_present_mask in
      arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c.  In setup_smp() in the 2.6.15 kernel sources,
      hwrpb_cpu_present_mask has a bit set for each processor that is probed, and
      afterwards cpu_present_mask is set to the cpumask for the boot CPU.  In the
      same function of the same file in the 2.6.16 sources, instead of
      hwrpb_cpu_present_mask being set, cpu_possible_map is updated for each probed
      CPU.  cpu_present_mask is still set to the cpumask of the boot CPU afterwards.
       The problem lies in include/asm-alpha/smp.h, where cpu_possible_map is
      #define'd to be cpu_present_mask.
      
      Cleanups from: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      
       - cpu_present_mask and cpu_possible_map are essentially the same thing
         on alpha, as it doesn't support CPU hotplug;
       - allocate "struct cpu" only for present CPUs, like sparc64 does.
         Static array of "struct cpu" is just a waste of memory.
      Signed-off-by: NBrian Uhrain <buhrain@rosettastone.com>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      917b1f78
  7. 01 4月, 2006 2 次提交
  8. 29 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 28 3月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes · e041c683
      Alan Stern 提交于
      The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
      protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
      chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:
      
          http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
      
      We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
      classes:
      
      	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
      	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
      
      	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
      	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
      
      We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
      this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
      notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
      really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
      used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
      registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
      explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
      kernel/sys.c.
      
      With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
      links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
      entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
      guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
      idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
      blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
      handle these things in their own way.)
      
      There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
      atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
      a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
      callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
      entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
      had to be changed to avoid it.)
      
      Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
      spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
      entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
      less frequent that calling a chain.
      
      Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
      of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
      
        ATOMIC CHAINS
        -------------
      arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
      arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
      arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
      arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
      drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
      kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
      kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
      net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain
      
        BLOCKING CHAINS
        ---------------
      arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
      arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
      drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
      drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
      drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
      kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
      kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
      kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
      kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
      kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
      net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
      net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
      net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain
      
      It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
      please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
      gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
      used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
      (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
      atomic.)
      
      The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
      material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
      Morton.
      
      [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e041c683
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      [PATCH] unify PFN_* macros · 22a9835c
      Dave Hansen 提交于
      Just about every architecture defines some macros to do operations on pfns.
       They're all virtually identical.  This patch consolidates all of them.
      
      One minor glitch is that at least i386 uses them in a very skeletal header
      file.  To keep away from #include dependency hell, I stuck the new
      definitions in a new, isolated header.
      
      Of all of the implementations, sh64 is the only one that varied by a bit.
      It used some masks to ensure that any sign-extension got ripped away before
      the arithmetic is done.  This has been posted to that sh64 maintainers and
      the development list.
      
      Compiles on x86, x86_64, ia64 and ppc64.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      22a9835c
  10. 27 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 14 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  12. 10 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  13. 08 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] alpha: set cpu_possible_map much earlier · 328c2a8a
      Ivan Kokshaysky 提交于
      All the percpu data structure walkers want cpu_possible_map to be
      initialized early, but alpha instead populated "hwrpb_cpu_present_mask"
      early in setup_smp(), and then initialized cpu_possible_map only much
      later.
      
      Thanks go to Heiko Carstens and Dipankar Sarma for noticing.
      
      This fixes it and we can get rid of hwrpb_cpu_present_mask entirely.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      328c2a8a
  14. 02 2月, 2006 2 次提交
  15. 19 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core · 5590ff0d
      Ulrich Drepper 提交于
      Here is a series of patches which introduce in total 13 new system calls
      which take a file descriptor/filename pair instead of a single file
      name.  These functions, openat etc, have been discussed on numerous
      occasions.  They are needed to implement race-free filesystem traversal,
      they are necessary to implement a virtual per-thread current working
      directory (think multi-threaded backup software), etc.
      
      We have in glibc today implementations of the interfaces which use the
      /proc/self/fd magic.  But this code is rather expensive.  Here are some
      results (similar to what Jim Meyering posted before).
      
      The test creates a deep directory hierarchy on a tmpfs filesystem.  Then
      rm -fr is used to remove all directories.  Without syscall support I get
      this:
      
      real    0m31.921s
      user    0m0.688s
      sys     0m31.234s
      
      With syscall support the results are much better:
      
      real    0m20.699s
      user    0m0.536s
      sys     0m20.149s
      
      The interfaces are for obvious reasons currently not much used.  But they'll
      be used.  coreutils (and Jeff's posixutils) are already using them.
      Furthermore, code like ftw/fts in libc (maybe even glob) will also start using
      them.  I expect a patch to make follow soon.  Every program which is walking
      the filesystem tree will benefit.
      Signed-off-by: NUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5590ff0d
  16. 13 1月, 2006 3 次提交
  17. 12 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  18. 11 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  19. 10 1月, 2006 2 次提交
  20. 09 1月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] Don't attempt to power off if power off is not implemented · 5e38291d
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      The problem.  It is expected that /sbin/halt -p works exactly like
      /sbin/halt, when the kernel does not implement power off functionality.
      
      The kernel can do a lot of work in the reboot notifiers and in
      device_shutdown before we even get to machine_power_off.  Some of that
      shutdown is not safe if you are leaving the power on, and it definitely
      gets in the way of using sysrq or pressing ctrl-alt-del.  Since the
      shutdown happens in generic code there is no way to fix this in
      architecture specific code :(
      
      Some machines are kernel oopsing today because of this.
      
      The simple solution is to turn LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF into
      LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT if power_off functionality is not implemented.
      
      This has the unfortunate side effect of disabling the power off
      functionality on architectures that leave pm_power_off to null and still
      implement something in machine_power_off.  And it will break the build on
      some architectures that don't have a pm_power_off variable at all.
      
      On both counts I say tough.
      
      For architectures like alpha that don't implement the pm_power_off variable
      pm_power_off is declared in linux/pm.h and it is a generic part of our
      power management code, and all architectures should implement it.
      
      For architectures like parisc that have a default power off method in
      machine_power_off if pm_power_off is not implemented or fails.  It is easy
      enough to set the pm_power_off variable.  And nothing bad happens there,
      the machines just stop powering off.
      
      The current semantics are impossible without a flag at the top level so we
      can avoid the problem code if a power off is not implemented.  pm_power_off
      is as good a flag as any with the bonus that it works without modification
      on at least x86, x86_64, powerpc, and ppc today.
      
      Andrew can you pick this up and put this in the mm tree.  Kernels that
      don't compile or don't power off seem saner than kernels that oops or
      panic.  Until we get the arch specific patches for the problem
      architectures this probably isn't smart to push into the stable kernel.
      Unfortunately I don't have the time at the moment to walk through every
      architecture and make them work.  And even if I did I couldn't test it :(
      
      From: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      
          Add pm_power_off() for build fix of arch/m32r/kernel/process.c.
      
      From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
      
          UML build fix
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NHayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org>
      Signed-off-by: NHirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5e38291d
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      [PATCH] use ptrace_get_task_struct in various places · 6b9c7ed8
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      The ptrace_get_task_struct() helper that I added as part of the ptrace
      consolidation is useful in variety of places that currently opencode it.
      Switch them to the common helpers.
      
      Add a ptrace_traceme() helper that needs to be explicitly called, and simplify
      the ptrace_get_task_struct() interface.  We don't need the request argument
      now, and we return the task_struct directly, using ERR_PTR() for error
      returns.  It's a bit more code in the callers, but we have two sane routines
      that do one thing well now.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6b9c7ed8
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    • N
      [PATCH] sched: resched and cpu_idle rework · 64c7c8f8
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Make some changes to the NEED_RESCHED and POLLING_NRFLAG to reduce
      confusion, and make their semantics rigid.  Improves efficiency of
      resched_task and some cpu_idle routines.
      
      * In resched_task:
      - TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the task's runqueue lock held,
        and as we hold it during resched_task, then there is no need for an
        atomic test and set there. The only other time this should be set is
        when the task's quantum expires, in the timer interrupt - this is
        protected against because the rq lock is irq-safe.
      
      - If TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, then we don't need to do anything. It
        won't get unset until the task get's schedule()d off.
      
      - If we are running on the same CPU as the task we resched, then set
        TIF_NEED_RESCHED and no further action is required.
      
      - If we are running on another CPU, and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is *not* set
        after TIF_NEED_RESCHED has been set, then we need to send an IPI.
      
      Using these rules, we are able to remove the test and set operation in
      resched_task, and make clear the previously vague semantics of
      POLLING_NRFLAG.
      
      * In idle routines:
      - Enter cpu_idle with preempt disabled. When the need_resched() condition
        becomes true, explicitly call schedule(). This makes things a bit clearer
        (IMO), but haven't updated all architectures yet.
      
      - Many do a test and clear of TIF_NEED_RESCHED for some reason. According
        to the resched_task rules, this isn't needed (and actually breaks the
        assumption that TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the runqueue lock
        held). So remove that. Generally one less locked memory op when switching
        to the idle thread.
      
      - Many idle routines clear TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG, and only set it in the inner
        most polling idle loops. The above resched_task semantics allow it to be
        set until before the last time need_resched() is checked before going into
        a halt requiring interrupt wakeup.
      
        Many idle routines simply never enter such a halt, and so POLLING_NRFLAG
        can be always left set, completely eliminating resched IPIs when rescheduling
        the idle task.
      
        POLLING_NRFLAG width can be increased, to reduce the chance of resched IPIs.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      64c7c8f8
  24. 31 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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