1. 05 9月, 2005 19 次提交
  2. 31 8月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86: pci_assign_unassigned_resources() update · 81d4af13
      Ivan Kokshaysky 提交于
      I had some time to think about PCI assign issues in 2.6.13-rc series.
      
      The major problem here is that we call pci_assign_unassigned_resources()
      way too early - at subsys_initcall level. Therefore we give no chances
      to ACPI and PnP routines (called at fs_initcall level) to reserve their
      respective resources properly, as the comments in drivers/pnp/system.c
      and drivers/acpi/motherboard.c suggest:
      
       /**
        * Reserve motherboard resources after PCI claim BARs,
        * but before PCI assign resources for uninitialized PCI devices
        */
      
      So I moved the pci_assign_unassigned_resources() call to
      pcibios_assign_resources() (fs_initcall), which should hopefully fix a
      lot of problems and make PCIBIOS_MIN_IO tweaks unnecessary.
      
      Other changes:
      - remove resource assignment code from pcibios_assign_resources(), since
        it duplicates pci_assign_unassigned_resources() functionality and
        actually does nothing in 2.6.13;
      - modify ROM assignment code as per Ben's suggestion: try to use firmware
        settings by default (if PCI_ASSIGN_ROMS is not set);
      - set CARDBUS_IO_SIZE back to 4K as it's a wonderful stress test for
        various setups.
      
      Confirmed by Tero Roponen <teanropo@cc.jyu.fi> (who had problems with
      the 4kB CardBus IO size previously).
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      81d4af13
  3. 30 8月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. · 69be8f18
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      It has been reported that the way Linux handles NODEFER for signals is
      not consistent with the way other Unix boxes handle it.  I've written a
      program to test the behavior of how this flag affects signals and had
      several reports from people who ran this on various Unix boxes,
      confirming that Linux seems to be unique on the way this is handled.
      
      The way NODEFER affects signals on other Unix boxes is as follows:
      
      1) If NODEFER is set, other signals in sa_mask are still blocked.
      
      2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal is
      still blocked. (Note: this is the behavior of all tested but Linux _and_
      NetBSD 2.0 *).
      
      The way NODEFER affects signals on Linux:
      
      1) If NODEFER is set, other signals are _not_ blocked regardless of
      sa_mask (Even NetBSD doesn't do this).
      
      2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal being
      handled is not blocked.
      
      The patch converts signal handling in all current Linux architectures to
      the way most Unix boxes work.
      
      Unix boxes that were tested:  DU4, AIX 5.2, Irix 6.5, NetBSD 2.0, SFU
      3.5 on WinXP, AIX 5.3, Mac OSX, and of course Linux 2.6.13-rcX.
      
      * NetBSD was the only other Unix to behave like Linux on point #2. The
      main concern was brought up by point #1 which even NetBSD isn't like
      Linux.  So with this patch, we leave NetBSD as the lonely one that
      behaves differently here with #2.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      69be8f18
  4. 24 8月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] i386: fix incorrect FP signal code · b1daec30
      Chuck Ebbert 提交于
      i386 floating-point exception handling has a bug that can cause error
      code 0 to be sent instead of the proper code during signal delivery.
      
      This is caused by unconditionally checking the IS and c1 bits from the
      FPU status word when they are not always relevant.  The IS bit tells
      whether an exception is a stack fault and is only relevant when the
      exception is IE (invalid operation.) The C1 bit determines whether a
      stack fault is overflow or underflow and is only relevant when IS and IE
      are set.
      Signed-off-by: NChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b1daec30
  5. 20 8月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Mobil Pentium 4 HT and the NMI · cd3716ab
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      I'm trying to get the nmi working with my laptop (IBM ThinkPad G41) and after
      debugging it a while, I found that the nmi code doesn't want to set it up for
      this particular CPU.
      
      Here I have:
      
      $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
      processor       : 0
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 15
      model           : 4
      model name      : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz
      stepping        : 1
      cpu MHz         : 3320.084
      cache size      : 1024 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 2
      core id         : 0
      cpu cores       : 1
      fdiv_bug        : no
      hlt_bug         : no
      f00f_bug        : no
      coma_bug        : no
      fpu             : yes
      fpu_exception   : yes
      cpuid level     : 3
      wp              : yes
      flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
      mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni
      monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr
      bogomips        : 6642.39
      
      processor       : 1
      vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
      cpu family      : 15
      model           : 4
      model name      : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz
      stepping        : 1
      cpu MHz         : 3320.084
      cache size      : 1024 KB
      physical id     : 0
      siblings        : 2
      core id         : 0
      cpu cores       : 1
      fdiv_bug        : no
      hlt_bug         : no
      f00f_bug        : no
      coma_bug        : no
      fpu             : yes
      fpu_exception   : yes
      cpuid level     : 3
      wp              : yes
      flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
      mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni
      monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr
      bogomips        : 6637.46
      
      And the following code shows:
      
      $ cat linux-2.6.13-rc6/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
      
      [...]
      
      void setup_apic_nmi_watchdog (void)
      {
              switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor) {
              case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
                      if (boot_cpu_data.x86 != 6 && boot_cpu_data.x86 != 15)
                              return;
                      setup_k7_watchdog();
                      break;
              case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
                       switch (boot_cpu_data.x86) {
                      case 6:
                              if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model > 0xd)
                                      return;
      
                              setup_p6_watchdog();
                              break;
                      case 15:
                              if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model > 0x3)
                                      return;
      
      Here I get boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x4.  So I decided to change it and
      reboot.  I now seem to have a working NMI.  So, unless there's something know
      to be bad about this processor and the NMI.  I'm submitting the following
      patch.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Acked-by: NZwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Acked-by: NMikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      cd3716ab
  6. 19 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  7. 08 8月, 2005 2 次提交
  8. 07 8月, 2005 2 次提交
  9. 06 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  10. 05 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  11. 02 8月, 2005 3 次提交
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      [PATCH] transmeta: CONFIG_PROC_FS=n build fix · 39bbb07d
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Fix bug found by Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>'s autobuild setup.
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      39bbb07d
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      [PATCH] disable addres space randomization default on transmeta CPUs · cdf32eaa
      Eric Lammerts 提交于
      We know that the randomisation slows down some workloads on Transmeta CPUs
      by quite large amounts.  We think it's because the CPU needs to recode the
      same x86 instructions when they pop up at a different virtual address after
      a fork+exec.
      
      So disable randomization by default on those CPUs.
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      cdf32eaa
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      [PATCH] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim() · 6cb54819
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      This removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now.  While i'm sure Martin is
      trying to solve a real problem, we must not hard-code an incomplete and
      insufficient approach into a syscall, because syscalls are pretty much
      for eternity.  I am quite strongly convinced that this syscall must not
      hit v2.6.13 in its current form.
      
      Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the
      global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!) [ Imagine an
      Oracle installation and a SAP installation on the same NUMA box fighting
      over the 'optimal' setting for this flag. What will they do? Will they
      try to set the flag to their own preferred value every second or so? ]
      
      Secondly, it was added based on a single datapoint from Martin:
      
       http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111763597218177&w=2
      
      where Martin characterizes the numbers the following way:
      
       ' Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so these numbers aren't
         terribly useful except to see that with reclaim the benchmark still
         finishes in a reasonable amount of time. '
      
      in other words: the fundamental problem has likely not been solved, only
      a tendential move into the right direction has been observed, and a
      handful of numbers were picked out of a set of hugely variable results,
      without showing the variability data. How much variance is there
      run-to-run?
      
      I'd really suggest to first walk the walk and see what's needed to get
      stable & predictable kernel compilation numbers on that NUMA box, before
      adding random syscalls to tune a particular aspect of the VM ... which
      approach might not even matter once the whole picture has been analyzed
      and understood!
      
      The third, most important point is that the syscall exposes VM tuning
      internals in a completely unstructured way. What sense does it make to
      have a _GLOBAL_ per-node setting for 'should we go to another node for
      reclaim'? If then it might make sense to do this per-app, via numalib or
      so.
      
      The change is minimalistic in that it doesnt remove the syscall and the
      underlying infrastructure changes, only the user-visible changes.  We
      could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, a'ka
      /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but even that looks quite counterproductive
      when the generic approach is that we are trying to reduce the number of
      external factors in the VM balance picture.
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6cb54819
  12. 30 7月, 2005 7 次提交