Generic prep-work for marking the .rodata section readonly:
* Align the rodata section at 4Kb boundary
* call the mark_rodata_ro() function when available
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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>

The attached patch makes the SYSV IPC shared memory facilities use the new
ramfs facilities on a no-MMU kernel.

The following changes are made:

 (1) There are now shmem_mmap() and shmem_get_unmapped_area() functions to
     allow the IPC SHM facilities to commune with the tiny-shmem and shmem
     code.

 (2) ramfs files now need resizing using do_truncate() rather than by modifying
     the inode size directly (see shmem_file_setup()). This causes ramfs to
     attempt to bind a block of pages of sufficient size to the inode.

 (3) CONFIG_SYSVIPC is no longer contingent on CONFIG_MMU.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

With modules, dynamic /dev, and uevents, people really want
CONFIG_HOTPLUG to be enabled in their kernels.  If not, they can still
disable it, but it is discouraged.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

It makes zero sense to have hotplug, but not the netlink
events enabled today. Remove this option and merge the
kobject_uevent.h header into the kobject.h header file.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

sock_init can be done as a core_initcall instead of calling
it directly in init/main.c

Also I removed an out of date #ifdef.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Module versioning support has been stable for a loong time
so let's get rid of the EXPERIMENTAL tag.
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

It was a stupid workaround for the "static inline" vs.
"extern inline" issues of long ago, and it is what causes
schedule() to be inlined like crazy into kernel/sched.c
when -Os is specified.

MIPS and S390 should probably do the same.

Now CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE can be safely used on sparc64
once more.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Also, disable on sparc64 - a number of people report breakage.  Probably
a compiler bug, but it's quite possible that it tickles some latent
kernel problem too.

It still defaults to 'y' everywhere else (when enabled through
EXPERIMENTAL), and Dave Jones points out that Fedora (and RHEL4) has
been building with size optimizations for a long time on x86, x86-64,
ia64, s390, s390x, ppc32 and ppc64.  So it is really only moderately
experimental, but the sparc64 breakage certainly shows that it can
trigger "issues".
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Let's put my money where my mouth is.  Smaller code is almost always
faster, if only because a single I$ miss ends up leaving a lot of cycles
to make up for.  And system software - kernels in particular - are known
for taking more cache misses than most other kinds.

On my random config, this made the kernel about 10% smaller, and lmbench
seems to say that it's pretty uniformly faster too. Your milage may vary.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

KOBJECT_UEVENT=n seems to be a common pitfall for udev users in 2.6.14 .

-mm already contains a bigger patch removing this option that is IMHO
too big for being applied now to 2.6.15-rc.

This patch simply allows KOBJECT_UEVENT=n only if EMBEDDED.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Run idle threads with preempt disabled.

Also corrected a bugs in arm26's cpu_idle (make it actually call schedule()).
How did it ever work before?

Might fix the CPU hotplugging hang which Nigel Cunningham noted.

We think the bug hits if the idle thread is preempted after checking
need_resched() and before going to sleep, then the CPU offlined.

After calling stop_machine_run, the CPU eventually returns from preemption and
into the idle thread and goes to sleep.  The CPU will continue executing
previous idle and have no chance to call play_dead.

By disabling preemption until we are ready to explicitly schedule, this bug is
fixed and the idle threads generally become more robust.

From: alexs <ashepard@u.washington.edu>

  PPC build fix

From: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>

  MIPS build fix
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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>

drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Commit f2b36db6 causes a bootup hang on
at least one machine.  Revert for now until we understand why.  The old
code may be ugly, but it works.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Try to make the INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT help text more readable and
understandable.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

All kinds of ugliness exists because we don't initialize
the apics during init_IRQs.
- We calibrate jiffies in non apic mode even when we are using apics.
- We have to have special code to initialize the apics when non-smp.
- The legacy i8259 must exist and be setup correctly, even
  when we won't use it past initialization.
- The kexec on panic code must restore the state of the io_apics.
- init/main.c needs a special case for !smp smp_init on x86

In addition to pure code movement I needed a couple
of non-obvious changes:
- Move setup_boot_APIC_clock into APIC_late_time_init for
  simplicity.
- Use cpu_khz to generate a better approximation of loops_per_jiffies
  so I can verify the timer interrupt is working.
- Call setup_apic_nmi_watchdog again after cpu_khz is initialized on
  the boot cpu.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Besides freeing initrd memory, also clear out the now dangling pointers to
it, to make sure accidental late use attempts can be detected.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Since early userspace was added, there's no way to override which init to
run from it.  Some people tack on an extra cpio archive with a link from
/init depending on what they want to run, but that's sometimes impractical.

Changing the "init=" to also override the early userspace isn't feasible,
since it is still used to indicate what init to run from disk when early
userspace has completed doing whatever it's doing (i.e.  load filesystem
modules and drivers).

Instead, introduce "rdinit=" and make it override the default "/init" if
specified.
Signed-off-by: NOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

I passed init=/mylinuxrc to the kernel on the command line.  The kernel
silently dropped down to exec /sbin/init.  It turned out that /mylinuxrc
had improper permissions.  Without any warning message from the kernel that
something was wrong it took awhile to find the issue.  The patch below adds
a warning.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch adds a new kernel debug feature: CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP.

When enabled then per-CPU watchdog threads are started, which try to run
once per second.  If they get delayed for more than 10 seconds then a
callback from the timer interrupt detects this condition and prints out a
warning message and a stack dump (once per lockup incident).  The feature
is otherwise non-intrusive, it doesnt try to unlock the box in any way, it
only gets the debug info out, automatically, and on all CPUs affected by
the lockup.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-Off-By: NMatthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: NRichard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch is against 2.6.10, but still applies cleanly. It's just
s/driverfs/sysfs/ in this file.
Signed-off-by: NRolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Of this type, mostly:

CHECK   net/ipv6/netfilter.c
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

If CONFIG_AUTO_LOCALVERSION is set, the user is using a git-based tree, and the
current HEAD is not referred to by any tags in .git/refs/tags/, append -g and
the first 8 characters of the commit to the version string.  This makes it
easier to use git-bisect, and/or to do a daily build, without trampling on your
older, working builds, or accidentally setting up conflicting sets of modules.
Signed-off-by: NRyan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Move initramfs options from Device Drivers | Block Drivers to General Setup
This is a more natural place for this option.

Furthermore separate out intramfs options to usr/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Minor cleanup.

Move things into their include files, remove obsolete includes, fix
indentation, remove obsolete special cases etc.

I also added the per cpu section to asm-generic/sections.h and fixed
init/main.c to use it.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add kerneldoc to kernel/cpuset.c

Fix cpuset typos in init/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: NPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Clarify the KALLSYMS_ALL help text slightly.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

Add PREEMPT to UTS_VERSION where enabled as is done for SMP to make
preempt kernels easily identifiable.
Added SMP PREEMPT as comment in compile.h to force it to be
updated when they change (sam).
Signed-off-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Remove ROOT_DEV after unexporting it in the previous patch, as requested time
ago by Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: NPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

kernel/power/disk.c needs a declaration of name_to_dev_t() in scope.  mount.h
seems like an appropriate choice.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

On system boot up, there was an failure reported to boot.msg:

     <5>Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed

According to initrd(4) man page, step #7 of BOOT-UP OPERATION
is described as below:
          7. If the normal root file has directory /initrd, device
          /dev/ram0 is moved from  /  to  /initrd.   Otherwise  if
          directory  /initrd  does  not  exist device /dev/ram0 is
          unmounted.

We got service calls from customers concerning about this failure message
at boot time.  Many systems do not have /initrd and thus the message can be
changed in the case of non-existing /initrd so that it does not sound like
a failure of the system.
Signed-off-by: NJay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch tweaks idle thread setup semantics a bit: instead of setting
NEED_RESCHED in init_idle(), we do an explicit schedule() before calling
into cpu_idle().

This patch, while having no negative side-effects, enables wider use of
cond_resched()s.  (which might happen in the stock kernel too, but it's
particulary important for voluntary-preempt)
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NDomen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Issue:
Current tsc based delay_calibration can result in significant errors in
loops_per_jiffy count when the platform events like SMIs
(System Management Interrupts that are non-maskable) are present. This could
lead to potential kernel panic(). This issue is becoming more visible with 2.6
kernel (as default HZ is 1000) and on platforms with higher SMI handling
latencies. During the boot time, SMIs are mostly used by BIOS (for things
like legacy keyboard emulation).

Description:
The psuedocode for current delay calibration with tsc based delay looks like
(0) Estimate a value for loops_per_jiffy
(1) While (loops_per_jiffy estimate is accurate enough)
(2)   wait for jiffy transition (jiffy1)
(3)   Note down current tsc (tsc1)
(4)   loop until tsc becomes tsc1 + loops_per_jiffy
(5)   check whether jiffy changed since jiffy1 or not and refine
loops_per_jiffy estimate

Consider the following cases
Case 1:
If SMIs happen between (2) and (3) above, we can end up with a
loops_per_jiffy value that is too low. This results in shorted delays and
kernel can panic () during boot (Mostly at IOAPIC timer initialization
timer_irq_works() as we don't have enough timer interrupts in a specified
interval).

Case 2:
If SMIs happen between (3) and (4) above, then we can end up with a
loops_per_jiffy value that is too high. And with current i386 code, too
high lpj value (greater than 17M) can result in a overflow in
delay.c:__const_udelay() again resulting in shorter delay and panic().

Solution:
The patch below makes the calibration routine aware of asynchronous events
like SMIs. We increase the delay calibration time and also identify any
significant errors (greater than 12.5%) in the calibration and notify it to
user.

Patch below changes both i386 and x86-64 architectures to use this
new and improved calibrate_delay_direct() routine.
Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch modifies the way pagesets in struct zone are managed.

Each zone has a per-cpu array of pagesets.  So any particular CPU has some
memory in each zone structure which belongs to itself.  Even if that CPU is
not local to that zone.

So the patch relocates the pagesets for each cpu to the node that is nearest
to the cpu instead of allocating the pagesets in the (possibly remote) target
zone.  This means that the operations to manage pages on remote zone can be
done with information available locally.

We play a macro trick so that non-NUMA pmachines avoid the additional
pointer chase on the page allocator fastpath.

AIM7 benchmark on a 32 CPU SGI Altix

w/o patches:
Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
    1      484.68  100       484.6769     12.01      1.97   Fri Mar 25 11:01:42 2005
  100    27140.46   89       271.4046     21.44    148.71   Fri Mar 25 11:02:04 2005
  200    30792.02   82       153.9601     37.80    296.72   Fri Mar 25 11:02:42 2005
  300    32209.27   81       107.3642     54.21    451.34   Fri Mar 25 11:03:37 2005
  400    34962.83   78        87.4071     66.59    588.97   Fri Mar 25 11:04:44 2005
  500    31676.92   75        63.3538     91.87    742.71   Fri Mar 25 11:06:16 2005
  600    36032.69   73        60.0545     96.91    885.44   Fri Mar 25 11:07:54 2005
  700    35540.43   77        50.7720    114.63   1024.28   Fri Mar 25 11:09:49 2005
  800    33906.70   74        42.3834    137.32   1181.65   Fri Mar 25 11:12:06 2005
  900    34120.67   73        37.9119    153.51   1325.26   Fri Mar 25 11:14:41 2005
 1000    34802.37   74        34.8024    167.23   1465.26   Fri Mar 25 11:17:28 2005

with slab API changes and pageset patch:

Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
    1      485.00  100       485.0000     12.00      1.96   Fri Mar 25 11:46:18 2005
  100    28000.96   89       280.0096     20.79    150.45   Fri Mar 25 11:46:39 2005
  200    32285.80   79       161.4290     36.05    293.37   Fri Mar 25 11:47:16 2005
  300    40424.15   84       134.7472     43.19    438.42   Fri Mar 25 11:47:59 2005
  400    39155.01   79        97.8875     59.46    590.05   Fri Mar 25 11:48:59 2005
  500    37881.25   82        75.7625     76.82    730.19   Fri Mar 25 11:50:16 2005
  600    39083.14   78        65.1386     89.35    872.79   Fri Mar 25 11:51:46 2005
  700    38627.83   77        55.1826    105.47   1022.46   Fri Mar 25 11:53:32 2005
  800    39631.94   78        49.5399    117.48   1169.94   Fri Mar 25 11:55:30 2005
  900    36903.70   79        41.0041    141.94   1310.78   Fri Mar 25 11:57:53 2005
 1000    36201.23   77        36.2012    160.77   1458.31   Fri Mar 25 12:00:34 2005
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NShobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: NShai Fultheim <Shai@Scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Actually, the real support was added by some earlier patches.  Now we simply
re-enable the config.  option.  I've actually tested it and it works well.
Signed-off-by: NPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Audit now actually requires netlink.  So make it depend on CONFIG_NET, 
and remove the inline dependencies on CONFIG_NET.
Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

This patch is for -mm only.  It should probably be included in git-audit,
and should be forwarded to Linus iff git-audit is.

It updates the audit-syscall-{entry,exit} calls to current -mm.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Arrange for all kernel printks to be no-ops.  Only available if
CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and nearly 100k on minimal
configs.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>