1. 08 9月, 2005 4 次提交
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      [PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove verify_area() from various uaccess.h headers · 97de50c0
      Jesper Juhl 提交于
      Remove the deprecated (and unused) verify_area() from various uaccess.h
      headers.
      Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      97de50c0
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      [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups · 36d57ac4
      H. J. Lu 提交于
      The size of auxiliary vector is fixed at 42 in linux/sched.h.  But it isn't
      very obvious when looking at linux/elf.h.  This patch adds AT_VECTOR_SIZE
      so that we can change it if necessary when a new vector is added.
      
      Because of include file ordering problems, doing this necessitated the
      extraction of the AT_* symbols into a standalone header file.
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      36d57ac4
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      [PATCH] compat: be more consistent about [ug]id_t · 202e5979
      Stephen Rothwell 提交于
      When I first wrote the compat layer patches, I was somewhat cavalier about
      the definition of compat_uid_t and compat_gid_t (or maybe I just
      misunderstood :-)).  This patch makes the compat types much more consistent
      with the types we are being compatible with and hopefully will fix a few
      bugs along the way.
      
      	compat type		type in compat arch
      	__compat_[ug]id_t	__kernel_[ug]id_t
      	__compat_[ug]id32_t	__kernel_[ug]id32_t
      	compat_[ug]id_t		[ug]id_t
      
      The difference is that compat_uid_t is always 32 bits (for the archs we
      care about) but __compat_uid_t may be 16 bits on some.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      202e5979
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      [PATCH] FUTEX_WAKE_OP: pthread_cond_signal() speedup · 4732efbe
      Jakub Jelinek 提交于
      ATM pthread_cond_signal is unnecessarily slow, because it wakes one waiter
      (which at least on UP usually means an immediate context switch to one of
      the waiter threads).  This waiter wakes up and after a few instructions it
      attempts to acquire the cv internal lock, but that lock is still held by
      the thread calling pthread_cond_signal.  So it goes to sleep and eventually
      the signalling thread is scheduled in, unlocks the internal lock and wakes
      the waiter again.
      
      Now, before 2003-09-21 NPTL was using FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal
      to avoid this performance issue, but it was removed when locks were
      redesigned to the 3 state scheme (unlocked, locked uncontended, locked
      contended).
      
      Following scenario shows why simply using FUTEX_REQUEUE in
      pthread_cond_signal together with using lll_mutex_unlock_force in place of
      lll_mutex_unlock is not enough and probably why it has been disabled at
      that time:
      
      The number is value in cv->__data.__lock.
              thr1            thr2            thr3
      0       pthread_cond_wait
      1       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      0       lll_mutex_unlock (cv->__data.__lock)
      0       lll_futex_wait (&cv->__data.__futex, futexval)
      0                       pthread_cond_signal
      1                       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      1                                       pthread_cond_signal
      2                                       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      2                                         lll_futex_wait (&cv->__data.__lock, 2)
      2                       lll_futex_requeue (&cv->__data.__futex, 0, 1, &cv->__data.__lock)
                                # FUTEX_REQUEUE, not FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE
      2                       lll_mutex_unlock_force (cv->__data.__lock)
      0                         cv->__data.__lock = 0
      0                         lll_futex_wake (&cv->__data.__lock, 1)
      1       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      0       lll_mutex_unlock (cv->__data.__lock)
                # Here, lll_mutex_unlock doesn't know there are threads waiting
                # on the internal cv's lock
      
      Now, I believe it is possible to use FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal,
      but it will cost us not one, but 2 extra syscalls and, what's worse, one of
      these extra syscalls will be done for every single waiting loop in
      pthread_cond_*wait.
      
      We would need to use lll_mutex_unlock_force in pthread_cond_signal after
      requeue and lll_mutex_cond_lock in pthread_cond_*wait after lll_futex_wait.
      
      Another alternative is to do the unlocking pthread_cond_signal needs to do
      (the lock can't be unlocked before lll_futex_wake, as that is racy) in the
      kernel.
      
      I have implemented both variants, futex-requeue-glibc.patch is the first
      one and futex-wake_op{,-glibc}.patch is the unlocking inside of the kernel.
       The kernel interface allows userland to specify how exactly an unlocking
      operation should look like (some atomic arithmetic operation with optional
      constant argument and comparison of the previous futex value with another
      constant).
      
      It has been implemented just for ppc*, x86_64 and i?86, for other
      architectures I'm including just a stub header which can be used as a
      starting point by maintainers to write support for their arches and ATM
      will just return -ENOSYS for FUTEX_WAKE_OP.  The requeue patch has been
      (lightly) tested just on x86_64, the wake_op patch on ppc64 kernel running
      32-bit and 64-bit NPTL and x86_64 kernel running 32-bit and 64-bit NPTL.
      
      With the following benchmark on UP x86-64 I get:
      
      for i in nptl-orig nptl-requeue nptl-wake_op; do echo time elf/ld.so --library-path .:$i /tmp/bench; \
      for j in 1 2; do echo ( time elf/ld.so --library-path .:$i /tmp/bench ) 2>&1; done; done
      time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-orig /tmp/bench
      real 0m0.655s user 0m0.253s sys 0m0.403s
      real 0m0.657s user 0m0.269s sys 0m0.388s
      time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-requeue /tmp/bench
      real 0m0.496s user 0m0.225s sys 0m0.271s
      real 0m0.531s user 0m0.242s sys 0m0.288s
      time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-wake_op /tmp/bench
      real 0m0.380s user 0m0.176s sys 0m0.204s
      real 0m0.382s user 0m0.175s sys 0m0.207s
      
      The benchmark is at:
      http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00001.txt
      Older futex-requeue-glibc.patch version is at:
      http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00002.txt
      Older futex-wake_op-glibc.patch version is at:
      http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00003.txt
      Will post a new version (just x86-64 fixes so that the patch
      applies against pthread_cond_signal.S) to libc-hacker ml soon.
      
      Attached is the kernel FUTEX_WAKE_OP patch as well as a simple-minded
      testcase that will not test the atomicity of the operation, but at least
      check if the threads that should have been woken up are woken up and
      whether the arithmetic operation in the kernel gave the expected results.
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NYoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      4732efbe
  2. 05 9月, 2005 5 次提交
  3. 30 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  4. 24 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  5. 02 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  6. 28 7月, 2005 3 次提交
  7. 27 7月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Add emergency_restart() · 7c903473
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      When the kernel is working well and we want to restart cleanly
      kernel_restart is the function to use.   But in many instances
      the kernel wants to reboot when thing are expected to be working
      very badly such as from panic or a software watchdog handler.
      
      This patch adds the function emergency_restart() so that
      callers can be clear what semantics they expect when calling
      restart.  emergency_restart() is expected to be callable
      from interrupt context and possibly reliable in even more
      trying circumstances.
      
      This is an initial generic implementation for all architectures.
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      7c903473
  8. 30 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  9. 26 6月, 2005 5 次提交
  10. 24 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] streamline preempt_count type across archs · dcd497f9
      Jesper Juhl 提交于
      The preempt_count member of struct thread_info is currently either defined
      as int, unsigned int or __s32 depending on arch.  This patch makes the type
      of preempt_count an int on all archs.
      
      Having preempt_count be an unsigned type prevents the catching of
      preempt_count < 0 bugs, and using int on some archs and __s32 on others is
      not exactely "neat" - much nicer when it's just int all over.
      
      A previous version of this patch was already ACK'ed by Robert Love, and the
      only change in this version of the patch compared to the one he ACK'ed is
      that this one also makes sure the preempt_count member is consistently
      commented.
      Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      dcd497f9
  11. 22 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] smp_processor_id() cleanup · 39c715b7
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      This patch implements a number of smp_processor_id() cleanup ideas that
      Arjan van de Ven and I came up with.
      
      The previous __smp_processor_id/_smp_processor_id/smp_processor_id API
      spaghetti was hard to follow both on the implementational and on the
      usage side.
      
      Some of the complexity arose from picking wrong names, some of the
      complexity comes from the fact that not all architectures defined
      __smp_processor_id.
      
      In the new code, there are two externally visible symbols:
      
       - smp_processor_id(): debug variant.
      
       - raw_smp_processor_id(): nondebug variant. Replaces all existing
         uses of _smp_processor_id() and __smp_processor_id(). Defined
         by every SMP architecture in include/asm-*/smp.h.
      
      There is one new internal symbol, dependent on DEBUG_PREEMPT:
      
       - debug_smp_processor_id(): internal debug variant, mapped to
                                   smp_processor_id().
      
      Also, i moved debug_smp_processor_id() from lib/kernel_lock.c into a new
      lib/smp_processor_id.c file.  All related comments got updated and/or
      clarified.
      
      I have build/boot tested the following 8 .config combinations on x86:
      
       {SMP,UP} x {PREEMPT,!PREEMPT} x {DEBUG_PREEMPT,!DEBUG_PREEMPT}
      
      I have also build/boot tested x64 on UP/PREEMPT/DEBUG_PREEMPT.  (Other
      architectures are untested, but should work just fine.)
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      39c715b7
  12. 05 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] s390: uml ptrace fixes · c5c3a6d8
      Bodo Stroesser 提交于
      To make UML build and run on s390, I needed to do these two little
      changes:
      
      1) UML includes some of the subarch's (s390) headers. I had to
         change one of them with the following one-liner, to make this
         compile. AFAICS, this change doesn't break compilation of s390
         itself.
      
      2) UML needs to intercept syscalls via ptrace to invalidate the syscall,
         read syscall's parameters and write the result with the result of
         UML's syscall processing. Also, UML needs to make sure, that the host
         does no syscall restart processing. On i386 for example, this can be
         done by writing -1 to orig_eax on the 2nd syscall interception
         (orig_eax is the syscall number, which after the interception is used
         as a "interrupt was a syscall" flag only.
         Unfortunately, s390 holds syscall number and syscall result in gpr2 and
         its "interrupt was a syscall" flag (trap) is unreachable via ptrace.
         So I changed the host to set trap to -1, if the syscall number is changed
         to an invalid value on the first syscall interception.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c5c3a6d8
  13. 04 5月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] asm/signal.h unification · b1ecb4c3
      Al Viro 提交于
      New file - asm-generic/signal.h.  Contains declarations of
      __sighandler_t, __sigrestore_t, SIG_DFL, SIG_IGN, SIG_ERR and default
      definitions of SIG_BLOCK, SIG_UNBLOCK and SIG_SETMASK.
      
      asm-*/signal.h switched to including it.  The only exception is
      asm-parisc/signal.h that wants its own declaration of __sighandler_t;
      that one is left as-is.
      
      asm-ppc64/signal.h required one more thing - unlike everybody else it
      used __sigrestorer_t instead of usual __sigrestore_t.  PPC64 switched to
      common spelling.
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b1ecb4c3
  14. 01 5月, 2005 6 次提交
  15. 20 4月, 2005 2 次提交
  16. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4