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Christoph Lameter
dc85da15d4 [PATCH] NUMA policies in the slab allocator V2
This patch fixes a regression in 2.6.14 against 2.6.13 that causes an
imbalance in memory allocation during bootup.

The slab allocator in 2.6.13 is not numa aware and simply calls
alloc_pages().  This means that memory policies may control the behavior of
alloc_pages().  During bootup the memory policy is set to MPOL_INTERLEAVE
resulting in the spreading out of allocations during bootup over all
available nodes.  The slab allocator in 2.6.13 has only a single list of
slab pages.  As a result the per cpu slab cache and the spinlock controlled
page lists may contain slab entries from off node memory.  The slab
allocator in 2.6.13 makes no effort to discern the locality of an entry on
its lists.

The NUMA aware slab allocator in 2.6.14 controls locality of the slab pages
explicitly by calling alloc_pages_node().  The NUMA slab allocator manages
slab entries by having lists of available slab pages for each node.  The
per cpu slab cache can only contain slab entries associated with the node
local to the processor.  This guarantees that the default allocation mode
of the slab allocator always assigns local memory if available.

Setting MPOL_INTERLEAVE as a default policy during bootup has no effect
anymore.  In 2.6.14 all node unspecific slab allocations are performed on
the boot processor.  This means that most of key data structures are
allocated on one node.  Most processors will have to refer to these
structures making the boot node a potential bottleneck.  This may reduce
performance and cause unnecessary memory pressure on the boot node.

This patch implements NUMA policies in the slab layer.  There is the need
of explicit application of NUMA memory policies by the slab allcator itself
since the NUMA slab allocator does no longer let the page_allocator control
locality.

The check for policies is made directly at the beginning of __cache_alloc
using current->mempolicy.  The memory policy is already frequently checked
by the page allocator (alloc_page_vma() and alloc_page_current()).  So it
is highly likely that the cacheline is present.  For MPOL_INTERLEAVE
kmalloc() will spread out each request to one node after another so that an
equal distribution of allocations can be obtained during bootup.

It is not possible to push the policy check to lower layers of the NUMA
slab allocator since the per cpu caches are now only containing slab
entries from the current node.  If the policy says that the local node is
not to be preferred or forbidden then there is no point in checking the
slab cache or local list of slab pages.  The allocation better be directed
immediately to the lists containing slab entries for the allowed set of
nodes.

This way of applying policy also fixes another strange behavior in 2.6.13.
alloc_pages() is controlled by the memory allocation policy of the current
process.  It could therefore be that one process is running with
MPOL_INTERLEAVE and would f.e.  obtain a new page following that policy
since no slab entries are in the lists anymore.  A page can typically be
used for multiple slab entries but lets say that the current process is
only using one.  The other entries are then added to the slab lists.  These
are now non local entries in the slab lists despite of the possible
availability of local pages that would provide faster access and increase
the performance of the application.

Another process without MPOL_INTERLEAVE may now run and expect a local slab
entry from kmalloc().  However, there are still these free slab entries
from the off node page obtained from the other process via MPOL_INTERLEAVE
in the cache.  The process will then get an off node slab entry although
other slab entries may be available that are local to that process.  This
means that the policy if one process may contaminate the locality of the
slab caches for other processes.

This patch in effect insures that a per process policy is followed for the
allocation of slab entries and that there cannot be a memory policy
influence from one process to another.  A process with default policy will
always get a local slab entry if one is available.  And the process using
memory policies will get its memory arranged as requested.  Off-node slab
allocation will require the use of spinlocks and will make the use of per
cpu caches not possible.  A process using memory policies to redirect
allocations offnode will have to cope with additional lock overhead in
addition to the latency added by the need to access a remote slab entry.

Changes V1->V2
- Remove #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA by moving forward declaration into
  prior #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA section.

- Give the function determining the node number to use a saner
  name.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:18 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
1743660b91 [PATCH] Zone reclaim: proc override
proc support for zone reclaim

This patch creates a proc entry /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode that may be
used to override the automatic determination of the zone reclaim made on
bootup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
9eeff2395e [PATCH] Zone reclaim: Reclaim logic
Some bits for zone reclaim exists in 2.6.15 but they are not usable.  This
patch fixes them up, removes unused code and makes zone reclaim usable.

Zone reclaim allows the reclaiming of pages from a zone if the number of
free pages falls below the watermarks even if other zones still have enough
pages available.  Zone reclaim is of particular importance for NUMA
machines.  It can be more beneficial to reclaim a page than taking the
performance penalties that come with allocating a page on a remote zone.

Zone reclaim is enabled if the maximum distance to another node is higher
than RECLAIM_DISTANCE, which may be defined by an arch.  By default
RECLAIM_DISTANCE is 20.  20 is the distance to another node in the same
component (enclosure or motherboard) on IA64.  The meaning of the NUMA
distance information seems to vary by arch.

If zone reclaim is not successful then no further reclaim attempts will
occur for a certain time period (ZONE_RECLAIM_INTERVAL).

This patch was discussed before. See

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113519961504207&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113408418232531&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113389027420032&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113380938612205&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Nick Piggin
053837fce7 [PATCH] mm: migration page refcounting fix
Migration code currently does not take a reference to target page
properly, so between unlocking the pte and trying to take a new
reference to the page with isolate_lru_page, anything could happen to
it.

Fix this by holding the pte lock until we get a chance to elevate the
refcount.

Other small cleanups while we're here.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2149bcabc5 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2006-01-18 15:19:40 -08:00
David S. Miller
27a7b0415f Merge git://tipc.cslab.ericsson.net/pub/git/tipc 2006-01-18 14:23:54 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
83933af472 [CPUFREQ] convert remaining cpufreq semaphore to a mutex
This one fell through the automation at first because it initializes the
semaphore to locked, but that's easily remedied

Signed-off-by:  Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c |   37 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
 include/linux/cpufreq.h   |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
2006-01-18 13:53:45 -08:00
Alon Bar-Lev
d9004eb466 [SERIAL] Add 8250 support for Decision Computer International Co. PCCOM2
There is a new device which is look like:

	Serial controller: Decision Computer International Co. PCCOM2 (rev 02) (prog-if 02 [16550])
	0700: 6666:0004 (rev 02) (prog-if 02)
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 177
	Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
	I/O ports at e880 [size=128]
	I/O ports at e400 [size=256]

It has two 16550A, and is not listed in kernel, although the
manufacturer clams that it is supported...

I've created the following patch, it only add the new PCI id and the
card to the repository, it seems to work.

Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-18 11:47:33 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
728c7763e7 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev 2006-01-17 19:47:31 -08:00
Alan Cox
8d238e0124 [PATCH] libata: Fix heuristic typos add LBA48PIO flag and support code, add IRQ flag for next diff
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 19:37:45 -05:00
Per Liden
33a9c4da5a [TIPC] Move ethernet protocol id to linux/if_ether.h
Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
2006-01-18 00:45:15 +01:00
Per Liden
16cb4b333c [TIPC] Updated link priority macros
Added macros for min/default/max link priority in tipc_config.h.
Also renamed TIPC_NUM_LINK_PRI to TIPC_MEDIA_LINK_PRI since that
is a more accurate description of what it is used for.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
2006-01-18 00:45:15 +01:00
Alan Cox
1bc4ccfff8 [PATCH] libata: add a function to decide if we need iordy
This ought to be simple but for PIO2 we have to poke around the drive
data to get it 100% correct.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 08:25:39 -05:00
David S. Miller
8243126c5e [NET]: Make second arg to skb_reserved() signed.
Some subsystems, such as PPP, can send negative values
here.  It just happened to work correctly on 32-bit with
an unsigned value, but on 64-bit this explodes.

Figured out by Paul Mackerras based upon several PPP crash
reports.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 02:54:21 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
e0069caede [NETFILTER] ip6tables: remove unused definitions
These definitions ware used for only internal use in kernel <= 2.6.13,
which had not introduced the unified parser of IPv6 extension header yet.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 02:39:19 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
9343e79a7b [IPV6]: Preserve procfs IPV6 address output format
Procfs always output IPV6 addresses without the colon
characters, and we cannot change that.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 02:10:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d669af9d5a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-01-16 23:20:01 -08:00
Matt Tolentino
c09b42404d [PATCH] x86_64: add __meminit for memory hotplug
Add __meminit to the __init lineup to ensure functions default
to __init when memory hotplug is not enabled.  Replace __devinit
with __meminit on functions that were changed when the memory
hotplug code was introduced.

Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:18:35 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
f87fd4c2a0 [PATCH] add /sys/fs
This patch adds an empty /sys/fs, which filesystems can use.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:29 -08:00
kogiidena
9d44190eae [PATCH] sh: kexec() support
This adds kexec() support for SH.

Signed-off-by: kogiidena <kogiidena@eggplant.ddo.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: <fastboot@lists.osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:27 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
168678233c [AGPGART] Semaphore to Mutex conversion.
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-16 20:53:46 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
f87d09be8c Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-01-16 08:39:30 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
3f02d072d4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-01-15 16:43:29 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
d04ae27bae Merge branch 'work' 2006-01-15 21:01:27 -02:00
Tyler Trafford
436eddd035 V4L/DVB (3365): i2c ids for upd64031a saa717x upd64083 wm8739
- Add i2c ids for drivers: upd64031a saa717x upd64083 wm8739

Signed-off-by: Tyler Trafford <tatrafford@comcast.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-15 09:02:44 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
650eec5e04 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2006-01-14 19:44:39 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
a9df3d0f31 [PATCH] When CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, allow gcc4 to control inlining
If optimizing for size (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE), allow gcc4 compilers
to decide what to inline and what not - instead of the kernel forcing gcc
to inline all the time.  This requires several places that require to be
inlined to be marked as such, previous patches in this series do that.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:16 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
652050aec9 [PATCH] mark several functions __always_inline
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

Mark a number of functions as 'must inline'.  The functions affected by this
patch need to be inlined because they use knowledge that their arguments are
constant so that most of the function optimizes away.  At this point this
patch does not change behavior, it's for documentation only (and for future
patches in the inline series)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:15 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
40fc55cb69 [PATCH] Make __always_inline actually force always inlining
This patch is the first in a series that tries to optimize the kernel in terms
of size (and thus cache behavior, both cpu and pagecache).

This first patch changes __always_inline to be a forced inline instead of the
"regular" inline it was on everything except alpha.  This forced inline
matches the intention of the define better as a matter of documentation.
There is no change in behavior by this patch, since "inline" currently is
mapped to a forced inline anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:15 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
216d526c89 [PATCH] fbdev: Sanitize ->fb_mmap prototype
No need for a file argument.  If we'd really need it it's in vma->vm_file
already.  gbefb and sgivwfb used to set vma->vm_file to the file argument, but
the kernel alrady did that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:15 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
67a6680d64 [PATCH] fbdev: Sanitize ->fb_ioctl prototype
The ioctl and file arguments to ->fb_mmap are totally unused and there's not
reason a driver should need them.

Also update the ->fb_compat_ioctl prototype to be the same as ->fb_mmap.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:14 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
d063389ecf [PATCH] smbfs: remove kmalloc wrapper
Remove the remaining kmalloc() wrapper bits from fs/smbfs/.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:13 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
44db77f33c [PATCH] ncpfs: remove kmalloc wrapper
Remove remaining kmalloc wrapper bits from fs/ncpfs/.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:12 -08:00
Paul Jackson
505970b96e [PATCH] cpuset oom lock fix
The problem, reported in:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5859

and by various other email messages and lkml posts is that the cpuset hook
in the oom (out of memory) code can try to take a cpuset semaphore while
holding the tasklist_lock (a spinlock).

One must not sleep while holding a spinlock.

The fix seems easy enough - move the cpuset semaphore region outside the
tasklist_lock region.

This required a few lines of mechanism to implement.  The oom code where
the locking needs to be changed does not have access to the cpuset locks,
which are internal to kernel/cpuset.c only.  So I provided a couple more
cpuset interface routines, available to the rest of the kernel, which
simple take and drop the lock needed here (cpusets callback_sem).

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:10 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky
1f1c12afe5 [PATCH] s390: cputime misaccounting
finish_arch_switch needs to update the user cpu time as well, not just the
system cpu time.  Otherwise the partial user cpu time of a process that is
stored in the lowcore will be (mis-)accounted to the next process.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:09 -08:00
Robin Holt
7339ff8302 [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies
Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable to disproportionately
decrease the available memory on a particular node.  Since there's no telling
what sort of application (e.g.  dd/cp/cat) might be dropping large files
there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate default behavior for their
site's situation.

Introduce a tmpfs mount option which allows specifying a memory policy and
a second option to specify the nodelist for that policy.  With the default
policy, tmpfs will behave as it does today.  This patch adds support for
preferred, bind, and interleave policies.

The default policy will cause pages to be added to tmpfs files on the node
which is doing the writing.  Some jobs expect a single process to create
and manage the tmpfs files.  This results in a node which has a
significantly reduced number of free pages.

With this patch, the administrator can specify the policy and nodes for
that policy where they would prefer allocations.

This patch was originally written by Brent Casavant and Hugh Dickins.  I
added support for the bind and preferred policies and the mpol_nodelist
mount option.

Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
852cf918dc [PATCH] Fix for CONFIG_NUMA without CONFIG_SWAP
Some people apparently run CONFIG_NUMA without CONFIG_SWAP.  The migration
code currently depends on swap.  This patch provides a set of inline
fallback functions so that the kernel properly compiles.  However, calls to
migration functions will fail.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
b0a9499c3d [PATCH] sched: add new SCHED_BATCH policy
Add a new SCHED_BATCH (3) scheduling policy: such tasks are presumed
CPU-intensive, and will acquire a constant +5 priority level penalty.  Such
policy is nice for workloads that are non-interactive, but which do not
want to give up their nice levels.  The policy is also useful for workloads
that want a deterministic scheduling policy without interactivity causing
extra preemptions (between that workload's tasks).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:25:20 -08:00
Patrick Gefre
2d0cfb5279 [PATCH] Altix: ioc3 serial support
Add driver support for a 2 port PCI IOC3-based serial card on Altix boxes:

This is a re-submission.  On the original submission I was asked to
organize the code so that the MIPS ioc3 ethernet and serial parts could be
used with this driver.  Stanislaw Skowronek was kind enough to provide the
shim layer for this - thanks Stanislaw.  This patch includes the shim layer
and the Altix PCI ioc3 serial driver.  The MIPS merged ioc3 ethernet and
serial support is forthcoming.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:25:20 -08:00
Neil Horman
7170be5f58 [PATCH] convert /proc/devices to use seq_file interface
A Christoph suggested that the /proc/devices file be converted to use the
seq_file interface.  This patch does that.

I've obxerved one or two installation that had sufficiently large sans that
they overran the 4k limit on /proc/devices.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:25:19 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3235798804 Fix "stuct", "strut", "struc" typos
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-15 02:12:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
12dbf3fc4d Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2006-01-14 12:16:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
61b7efddc5 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spi-2.6 2006-01-14 10:43:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3e2b32b693 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 2006-01-14 10:42:40 -08:00
Moore, Eric
6d5b0c315e [SCSI] fusion - adding support for FC949ES
Add software recognition for the new LSI Logic Fibre Channel controller.

Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-14 10:55:04 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
87530db5ec Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-13 21:24:55 -08:00
Andrew Morton
5d870c8e21 [PATCH] spi: remove fastcall crap
gcc4 generates warnings when a non-FASTCALL function pointer is assigned to a
FASTCALL one.  Perhaps it has taste.

Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:56 -08:00
Vitaly Wool
8275c642cc [PATCH] spi: use linked lists rather than an array
This makes the SPI core and its users access transfers in the SPI message
structure as linked list not as an array, as discussed on LKML.

From: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>

  Updates including doc, bugfixes to the list code, add
  spi_message_add_tail().  Plus, initialize things _before_ grabbing the
  locks in some cases (in case it grows more expensive).  This also merges
  some bitbang updates of mine that didn't yet make it into the mm tree.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Pervushin <dpervushin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:56 -08:00
Mike Lavender
2f9f762879 [PATCH] spi: M25 series SPI flash
This was originally a driver for the ST M25P80 SPI flash.  It's been
updated slightly to handle other M25P series chips.

For many of these chips, the specific type could be probed, but for now
this just requires static setup with flash_platform_data that lists the
chip type (size, format) and any default partitioning to use.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Mike Lavender <mike@steroidmicros.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:55 -08:00
David Brownell
9904f22a72 [PATCH] spi: add spi_bitbang driver
This adds a bitbanging spi master, hooking up to board/adapter-specific glue
code which knows how to set and read the signals (gpios etc).

This code kicks in after the glue code creates a platform_device with the
right platform_data.  That data includes I/O loops, which will usually
come from expanding an inline function (provided in the header).  One goal
is that the I/O loops should be easily optimized down to a few GPIO register
accesses, in common cases, for speed and minimized overhead.

This understands all the currently defined protocol tweaking options in the
SPI framework, and might eventually serve as as reference implementation.

  - different word sizes (1..32 bits)
  - differing clock rates
  - SPI modes differing by CPOL (affecting chip select and I/O loops)
  - SPI modes differing by CPHA (affecting I/O loops)
  - delays (usecs) after transfers
  - temporarily deselecting chips in mid-transfer

A lot of hardware could work with this framework, though common types of
controller can't reach peak performance without switching to a driver
structure that supports pipelining of transfers (e.g.  DMA queues) and maybe
controllers (e.g.  IRQ driven).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:55 -08:00
David Brownell
2e5a7bd978 [PATCH] spi: ads7836 uses spi_driver
This updates the ads7864 driver to use the new "spi_driver" struct, and
includes some minor unrelated cleanup.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:55 -08:00
David Brownell
0c868461fc [PATCH] SPI core tweaks, bugfix
This includes various updates to the SPI core:

  - Fixes a driver model refcount bug in spi_unregister_master() paths.

  - The spi_master structures now have wrappers which help keep drivers
    from needing class-level get/put for device data or for refcounts.

  - Check for a few setup errors that would cause oopsing later.

  - Docs say more about memory management.  Highlights the use of DMA-safe
    i/o buffers, and zero-initializing spi_message and such metadata.

  - Provide a simple alloc/free for spi_message and its spi_transfer;
    this is only one of the possible memory management policies.

Nothing to break code that already works.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:55 -08:00
David Brownell
b885244eb2 [PATCH] spi: add spi_driver to SPI framework
This is a refresh of the "Simple SPI Framework" found in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1
which makes the following changes:

  * There's now a "struct spi_driver".  This increase the footprint
    of the core a bit, since it now includes code to do what the driver
    core was previously handling directly.  Documentation and comments
    were updated to match.

  * spi_alloc_master() now does class_device_initialize(), so it can
    at least be refcounted before spi_register_master().  To match,
    spi_register_master() switched over to class_device_add().

  * States explicitly that after transfer errors, spi_devices will be
    deselected.  We want fault recovery procedures to work the same
    for all controller drivers.

  * Minor tweaks:  controller_data no longer points to readonly data;
    prevent some potential cast-from-null bugs with container_of calls;
    clarifies some existing kerneldoc,

And a few small cleanups.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:54 -08:00
David Brownell
1d6432fe10 [PATCH] spi: mtd dataflash driver
This is a conversion of the AT91rm9200 DataFlash MTD driver to use the
lightweight SPI framework, and no longer be AT91-specific.  It compiles
down to less than 3KBytes on ARM.

The driver allows board-specific init code to provide platform_data with
the relevant MTD partitioning information, and hotplugs.

This version has been lightly tested.  Its parent at91_dataflash driver has
been pretty well banged on, although kernel.org JFFS2 dataflash support was
acting broken the last time I tried it.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:54 -08:00
David Brownell
ffa458c1bd [PATCH] spi: ads7846 driver
This is a driver for the ADS7846 touchscreen sensor, derived from
the corgi_ts and omap_ts drivers.  Key differences from those two:

  - Uses the new SPI framework (minimalist version)
  - <linux/spi/ads7846.h> abstracts board-specific touchscreen info
  - Sysfs attributes for the temperature and voltage sensors
  - Uses fewer ARM-specific IRQ primitives

The temperature and voltage sensors show up in sysfs like this:

  $ pwd
  /sys/devices/platform/omap-uwire/spi2.0
  $ ls
  bus@          input:event0@ power/        temp1         vbatt
  driver@       modalias      temp0         vaux
  $ cat modalias
  ads7846
  $ cat temp0
  991
  $ cat temp1
  1177
  $

So far only basic testing has been done.  There's a fair amount of hardware
that uses this sensor, and which also runs Linux, which should eventually
be able to use this driver.

One portability note may be of special interest.  It turns out that not all
SPI controllers are happy issuing requests that do things like "write 8 bit
command, read 12 bit response".  Most of them seem happy to handle various
word sizes, so the issue isn't "12 bit response" but rather "different rx
and tx write sizes", despite that being a common MicroWire convention.  So
this version of the driver no longer reads 12 bit native-endian words; it
reads 16-bit big-endian responses, then byteswaps them and shifts the
results to discard the noise.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:54 -08:00
David Brownell
8ae12a0d85 [PATCH] spi: simple SPI framework
This is the core of a small SPI framework, implementing the model of a
queue of messages which complete asynchronously (with thin synchronous
wrappers on top).

  - It's still less than 2KB of ".text" (ARM).  If there's got to be a
    mid-layer for something so simple, that's the right size budget.  :)

  - The guts use board-specific SPI device tables to build the driver
    model tree.  (Hardware probing is rarely an option.)

  - This version of Kconfig includes no drivers.  At this writing there
    are two known master controller drivers (PXA/SSP, OMAP MicroWire)
    and three protocol drivers (CS8415a, ADS7846, DataFlash) with LKML
    mentions of other drivers in development.

  - No userspace API.  There are several implementations to compare.
    Implement them like any other driver, and bind them with sysfs.

The changes from last version posted to LKML (on 11-Nov-2005) are minor,
and include:

  - One bugfix (removes a FIXME), with the visible effect of making device
    names be "spiB.C" where B is the bus number and C is the chipselect.

  - The "caller provides DMA mappings" mechanism now has kerneldoc, for
    DMA drivers that want to be fancy.

  - Hey, the framework init can be subsys_init.  Even though board init
    logic fires earlier, at arch_init ... since the framework init is
    for driver support, and the board init support uses static init.

  - Various additional spec/doc clarifications based on discussions
    with other folk.  It adds a brief "thank you" at the end, for folk
    who've helped nudge this framework into existence.

As I've said before, I think that "protocol tweaking" is the main support
that this driver framework will need to evolve.

From: Mark Underwood <basicmark@yahoo.com>

  Update the SPI framework to remove a potential priority inversion case by
  reverting to kmalloc if the pre-allocated DMA-safe buffer isn't available.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
69eebed240 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2006-01-13 15:28:10 -08:00
Joe Perches
46b86a2da0 [NET]: Use NIP6_FMT in kernel.h
There are errors and inconsistency in the display of NIP6 strings.
	ie: net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c

There are errors and inconsistency in the display of NIPQUAD strings too.
	ie: net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ftp.c

This patch:
	adds NIP6_FMT to kernel.h
	changes all code to use NIP6_FMT
	fixes net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
	adds NIPQUAD_FMT to kernel.h
	fixes net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ftp.c
	changes a few uses of "%u.%u.%u.%u" to NIPQUAD_FMT for symmetry to NIP6_FMT

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-13 14:29:07 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
25cd6aa0aa Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-01-14 09:15:28 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
e2862f6a83 [SERIAL] convert uart_state.sem to uart_state.mutex
semaphore to mutex conversion.

the conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

build and boot tested.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-13 21:37:07 +00:00
Russell King
4031bbe4bb [PATCH] Add ide_bus_type probe and remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:10 -08:00
Russell King
594c8281f9 [PATCH] Add bus_type probe, remove, shutdown methods.
Add bus_type probe, remove and shutdown methods to replace the
corresponding methods in struct device_driver.  This matches
the way we handle the suspend/resume methods.

Since the bus methods override the device_driver methods, warn
if a device driver is registered whose methods will not be
called.

The long-term idea is to remove the device_driver methods entirely.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:04 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
67daf5f11f [PATCH] Increase AT_VECTOR_SIZE
On PowerPC, we want to be able to provide an AT_PLATFORM aux table
entry to userspace, so that glibc can choose optimized libraries for
the processor we're running on.  Unfortunately that would be the 21st
aux table entry on powerpc, meaning that the aux table including the
terminating null entry would overflow the mm->saved_auxv[] array,
leading to userland programs segfaulting.

This increases the size of the mm->saved_auxv array to be large enough
to accommodate an AT_PLATFORM entry on powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-13 09:12:21 -08:00
Dave C Boutcher
898b5395e9 [PATCH] powerpc: Add/remove/update properties in /proc/device-tree
Add support to the proc_device_tree file for removing
and updating properties.  Remove just removes the
proc file, update changes the data pointer within
the proc file.  The remainder of the device-tree
changes occur elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-13 21:02:13 +11:00
Harald Welte
2e4e6a17af [NETFILTER] x_tables: Abstraction layer for {ip,ip6,arp}_tables
This monster-patch tries to do the best job for unifying the data
structures and backend interfaces for the three evil clones ip_tables,
ip6_tables and arp_tables.  In an ideal world we would never have
allowed this kind of copy+paste programming... but well, our world
isn't (yet?) ideal.

o introduce a new x_tables module
o {ip,arp,ip6}_tables depend on this x_tables module
o registration functions for tables, matches and targets are only
  wrappers around x_tables provided functions
o all matches/targets that are used from ip_tables and ip6_tables
  are now implemented as xt_FOOBAR.c files and provide module aliases
  to ipt_FOOBAR and ip6t_FOOBAR
o header files for xt_matches are in include/linux/netfilter/,
  include/linux/netfilter_{ipv4,ipv6} contains compatibility wrappers
  around the xt_FOOBAR.h headers

Based on this patchset we're going to further unify the code,
gradually getting rid of all the layer 3 specific assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-12 14:06:43 -08:00
Per Liden
9da1c8b694 [TIPC] Update of file headers
The copyright statements from different parts of Ericsson
have been merged into one.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
2006-01-12 14:06:38 -08:00
Per Liden
9ea1fd3c1a [TIPC] License header update
The license header in each file now more clearly state that this
code is licensed under a dual BSD/GPL. Before this was only
evident if you looked at the MODULE_LICENSE line in core.c.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
2006-01-12 14:06:36 -08:00
Per Liden
ea714ccda5 [TIPC] Moved configuration interface into tipc_config.h
Restored the old tipc_config.h to get a cleaner division between the
interfaces used by normal TIPC users and TIPC administration utilities.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
2006-01-12 14:06:35 -08:00
Per Liden
1dba974333 [TIPC] Use dynamically allocated family id with NETLINK_GENERIC
Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
2006-01-12 14:06:32 -08:00
Per Liden
b97bf3fd8f [TIPC] Initial merge
TIPC (Transparent Inter Process Communication) is a protocol designed for
intra cluster communication. For more information see
http://tipc.sourceforge.net

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
2006-01-12 14:06:31 -08:00
Kumar Gala
4d3248a29c [PATCH] gianfar: Use new PHY_ID_FMT macro
Make the driver produce the string used by phy_connect and have board specific
code pass the integer mii bus id and phy device id for the specific controller
instance.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:31:52 -05:00
Kumar Gala
a4d00f179f [PATCH] phy: Added a macro to represent the string format used to match a phy device
Add the PHY_ID_FMT macro to ensure that the format of the id string used by a
driver to match to its specific phy is consistent between the mdio_bus and the
driver.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:31:52 -05:00
Kumar Gala
1d5326774c [PATCH] gianfar mii: Use proper resource for MII memory region
We can now have the gianfar mii platform device have a proper resource for the
IO memory region for its registers.  Previously we passed this information
that the platform_data structure because we couldn't handle overlapping memory
regions for platform devices.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:31:51 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
bf785ee0ae Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2006-01-12 12:23:49 -08:00
Jens Axboe
ba027def7b [PATCH] Revert ide softirq handling
There's a problem with the REQ_BLOCK_PC handling as well (bad ->data_len
handling) where it could actually complete a request ahead of time.  I
suggest we just back this out for now, I will resubmit it later when I'm
fully confident in it.

This reverts commit 8672d57138

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 12:00:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
661dd5c840 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/hrtimer-2.6 2006-01-12 10:22:11 -08:00
Moore, Eric
8e32ca49ef [SCSI] raid_class.c - adding RAID10 and RAID10 defines
Adding defines for RAID10 and RAID50 levels, in preparation
of adding RAID Transport support in the mpt fusion drivers.
(BTW: IME is RAID10, and IM is RAID1).

Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-12 11:35:15 -06:00
Al Viro
9fc658763b [PATCH] missing helper - task_stack_page()
Patchset annotates arch/* uses of ->thread_info.  Ones that really are about
access of thread_info of given process are simply switched to
task_thread_info(task); ones that deal with access to objects on stack are
switched to new helper - task_stack_page().  A _lot_ of the latter are
actually open-coded instances of "find where pt_regs are"; those are
consolidated into task_pt_regs(task) (many architectures actually have such
helper already).

Note that these annotations are not mandatory - any code not converted to
these helpers still works.  However, they clean up a lot of places and have
actually caught a number of bugs, so converting out of tree ports would be a
good idea...

As an example of breakage caught by that stuff, see i386 pt_regs mess - we
used to have it open-coded in a bunch of places and when back in April Stas
had fixed a bug in copy_thread(), the rest had been left out of sync.  That
required two followup patches (the latest - just before 2.6.15) _and_ still
had left /proc/*/stat eip field broken.  Try ps -eo eip on i386 and watch the
junk...

This patch:

new helper - task_stack_page(task).  Returns pointer to the memory object
containing task stack; usually thread_info of task sits in the beginning
of that object.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:50 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
d7102e95b7 [PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups
)

From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>

Track the last waker CPU, and only consider wakeup-balancing if there's a
match between current waker CPU and the previous waker CPU.  This ensures
that there is some correlation between two subsequent wakeup events before
we move the task.  Should help random-wakeup workloads on large SMP
systems, by reducing the migration attempts by a factor of nr_cpus.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:50 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
198e2f1811 [PATCH] scheduler cache-hot-autodetect
)

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch.

The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is
unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this:

- I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache
  measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means
  that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT
  distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks
  the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows
  whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot
  time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption
  is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain
  distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems,
  and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems.

  [ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this
    assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with
    the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to
    the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first
    see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ]

Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring
the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable
up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with
L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often
have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem:

- Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and
  sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration
  cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of
  cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which
  occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the
  'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for
  the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs.

  This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two
  CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost
  will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share
  any caches.

(The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source
for details.)

Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune
migration behavior.

Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection:

	migration_cost=1000,2000,3000

will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values.

Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or
decrease) the autodetected values:

	migration_factor=120

will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to
tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is
cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying
migration_factor=0.

I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3
P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good:

Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache):

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]
 [00]:     -     1.7(1)
 [01]:   1.7(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008)
 ---------------------

Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even
though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs.

Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache):

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]    [02]    [03]
 [00]:     -     0.4(1)  0.0(0)  0.4(1)
 [01]:   0.4(1)    -     0.4(1)  0.0(0)
 [02]:   0.0(0)  0.4(1)    -     0.4(1)
 [03]:   0.4(1)  0.0(0)  0.4(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514)
 ---------------------

Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT
siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory
system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs.

8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]:

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]    [02]    [03]    [04]    [05]    [06]    [07]
 [00]:     -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [01]:  19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [02]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [03]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [04]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [05]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [06]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1)
 [07]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756)
 ---------------------

This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the
migration cost is 19 msecs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:50 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
c9db4fa115 [hrtimer] Enforce resolution as lower limit of intervals
Roman Zippel pointed out that the missing lower limit of intervals
leads to an accounting error in the overrun count. Enforce the lower
limit of intervals to resolution in the timer forwarding code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-01-12 11:47:34 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
e2787630c1 [hrtimer] Change resolution storage to ktime_t format
Change the storage format of the per base resolution to ktime_t to
make it easier accessible in the hrtimers code.

Change the resolution from (NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ) to TICK_NSEC as Roman
pointed out. TICK_NSEC is closer to the real resolution.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-01-12 11:36:14 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
288867ec5c [hrtimer] Remove listhead from hrtimer struct
The list_head in the hrtimer structure was introduced for easy access
to the first timer with the further extensions of real high resolution
timers in mind, but it turned out in the course of development that
it is not necessary for the standard use case. Remove the list head
and access the first expiry timer by a datafield in the timer base.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-01-12 11:25:54 +01:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
79f12614a6 [PATCH] x86_64: Inclusion of ScaleMP vSMP architecture patches - vsmp_arch
Introduce vSMP arch to the kernel.

This patch:
1. Adds CONFIG_X86_VSMP
2. Adds machine specific macros for local_irq_disabled, local_irq_enabled
   and irqs_disabled
3. Writes to the vSMP CTL device to indicate kernel compiled with CONFIG_VSMP

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalemp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalemp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:05:01 -08:00
Andi Kleen
819a692804 [PATCH] x86_64: Handle unknown node (-1) in alloc_pages_node
Following kmalloc_node.

Needed for another patch to return -1 for unknown nodes in x86-64.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: kiran@scalex86.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
[ Changed 0 to numa_node_id() on suggestion by Christoph Lameter ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:51 -08:00
Andi Kleen
e992867445 [PATCH] x86_64: Generalize DMI and enable for x86-64
Some people need it now on 64bit so reuse the i386 code for
x86-64. This will be also useful for future bug workarounds.

It is a bit simplified there because there is no need
to do it very early on x86-64. This means it doesn't need
early ioremap et.al. We run it as a core initcall right now.

I hope it's not needed for early setup.

I added a general CONFIG_DMI symbol in case IA64 or someone
else wants to reuse the code later too.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:04:51 -08:00
Andi Kleen
1f6818b90d [PATCH] x86_64: Minor GFP_DMA32 comment fix
Pretty obvious

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:11 -08:00
Randy.Dunlap
c59ede7b78 [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;

- Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used
	(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
	mm/, security/, & sound/;
	many more drivers/ to go)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
e16885c5ad [PATCH] uninline capable()
Uninline capable().  Saves 2K of kernel text on a generic .config, and 1K on a
tiny config.  In addition it makes the use of capable more consistent between
CONFIG_SECURITY and !CONFIG_SECURITY

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S
df019b1d8b [PATCH] kprobes: fix unloading of self probed module
When a kprobes modules is written in such a way that probes are inserted on
itself, then unload of that moudle was not possible due to reference
couning on the same module.

The below patch makes a check and incrementes the module refcount only if
it is not a self probed module.

We need to allow modules to probe themself for kprobes performance
measurements

This patch has been tested on several x86_64, ppc64 and IA64 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:12 -08:00
Paul Jackson
4eac915d02 [PATCH] mm: gfp_atomic comments
Clarify in comments that GFP_ATOMIC means both "don't sleep" and "use
emergency pools", hence both ALLOC_HARDER and ALLOC_HIGH.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:09 -08:00
David Woodhouse
a4fc7ab1d0 [PATCH] fix/simplify mutex debugging code
Let's switch mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed() to take (addr, len) as
arguments instead, since all its callers were just calculating the 'to'
address for themselves anyway... (and sometimes doing so badly).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 08:14:16 -08:00
David S. Miller
a8b9ee7396 [MUTEX]: linux/mutex.h needs linux/linkage.h too
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-11 00:15:16 -08:00
Helge Deller
8039de10aa [PARISC] Add __read_mostly section for parisc
Flag a whole bunch of things as __read_mostly on parisc. Also flag a few
branches as unlikely() and cleanup a bit of code.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-10 20:35:03 -05:00
Patrick McHardy
9d28026b7e [NETFILTER]: Remove unused function from NAT protocol helpers
->print and ->print_range are not used (and apparently never were).

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 12:54:34 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
bb94aa169e [NETFILTER]: net/ipv[46]/netfilter.c cleanups
Don't wrap entire file in #ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER, remove a few
unneccessary includes.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 12:54:29 -08:00
Andrew Victor
1e6c9c2878 [ARM] 3242/2: AT91RM9200 support for 2.6 (Serial)
Patch from Andrew Victor

This patch adds support to the 2.6 kernel series for the Atmel
AT91RM9200 processor.

This patch is the Serial driver.

This version uses the newly re-written GPL'ed hardware headers.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-10 16:59:27 +00:00
Oleg Nesterov
69a0b31579 [PATCH] rcu: join rcu_ctrlblk and rcu_state
This patch moves rcu_state into the rcu_ctrlblk. I think there
are no reasons why we should have 2 different variables to control
rcu state. Every user of rcu_state has also "rcu_ctrlblk *rcp" in
the parameter list.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:42:50 -08:00
Anton Blanchard
c8d52465f9 [PATCH] Work around ppc64 compiler bug
In the process of optimising our per cpu data code, I found a ppc64
compiler bug that has been around forever. Basically the current
RELOC_HIDE can end up trashing r30. Details of the bug can be found at

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25572

This bug is present in all compilers before 4.1. It is masked by the
fact that our current per cpu data code is inefficient and causes
other loads that end up marking r30 as used.

A workaround identified by Alan Modra is to use the =r asm constraint
instead of =g.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
[ Verified that this makes no real difference on x86[-64] */
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:32:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
dd49f96777 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2006-01-10 08:28:53 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
4c29c4c5f2 [PATCH] include/linux/sched.h: no need to guard the normalize_rt_tasks() prototype
There's no need to guard the normalize_rt_tasks() prototype with an #ifdef
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:02 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
a547dfe956 [PATCH] char/isicom: More whitespaces and coding style
Wrap all the code to 80 chars on a line.
`}\nelse' changed to `} else'.
Clean whitespaces in header file.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:01 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
e65c1db19f [PATCH] char/isicom: Firmware loading
Firmware loading via hotplug added.
Cleanup firmware old-way fields in header file.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:01 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
aaa246ea78 [PATCH] char/isicom: Other little changes
Move some code from one place to another.  Get rid of ugly ifdefs in code in
next p[patches, so here create functions and macros to enable it.  Rename some
functions and align some code to 80 chars.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Alan Cox
33f0f88f1c [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp
The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.

This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
kernel cycles between them as before.

When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.

For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).

Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.

The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.

I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.

Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real.  That means a lot of
the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
more.

Description:

tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification].  It
does now also return the number of chars inserted

There are also

tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)

which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
found.  This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
transfer.

and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)

to insert a string of characters and flags

For a smart interface the usual code is

    len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
    tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);

More description!

At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty.  This is causing a
lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)

I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
dynamically allocated buffers.  This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
data suddenely materialise and need storing.

So far so good.  Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*.  Several of them also
call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides.  This will all
break.  Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
but others need more.

At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
be needed now is a good time to say

 int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)

Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
zero).  At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative.  (ie if you
call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space.  The
other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
more efficient way when you know block sizes.

 int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)

As before insert a character if there is room.  Now returns 1 for success, 0
for failure.

 int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)

Insert a block of non error characters.  Returns the number inserted.

 int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)

Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added.  Returns a buffer
pointer in strptr and the length available.  This allows for hardware that
needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:59 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
87c2ce3b93 [PATCH] lib/zlib*: cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- #if 0 the following unused functions:
  - zlib_deflate/deflate.c: zlib_deflateSetDictionary
  - zlib_deflate/deflate.c: zlib_deflateParams
  - zlib_deflate/deflate.c: zlib_deflateCopy
  - zlib_inflate/infblock.c: zlib_inflate_set_dictionary
  - zlib_inflate/infblock.c: zlib_inflate_blocks_sync_point
  - zlib_inflate/inflate_sync.c: zlib_inflateSync
  - zlib_inflate/inflate_sync.c: zlib_inflateSyncPoint
- remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
  - zlib_deflate/deflate_syms.c: zlib_deflateCopy
  - zlib_deflate/deflate_syms.c: zlib_deflateParams
  - zlib_inflate/inflate_syms.c: zlib_inflateSync
  - zlib_inflate/inflate_syms.c: zlib_inflateSyncPoint

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:57 -08:00
Martin Waitz
0863afb32b [PATCH] DocBook: fix kernel-doc comments
Fix typos in comments to remove kernel-doc warnings.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:53 -08:00
Antonino A. Daplas
c549dc6422 [PATCH] nvidiafb: Add support for some pci-e chipsets
Chipsets with PCI device ids & 0xf0 == 0x00f0 has their actual chipset type in
offset 0x1800 of the mmio space.  Add support for this.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:49 -08:00
Antonino A. Daplas
2b4f2f4b01 [PATCH] vesafb: Drop blank hook
From: Bugzilla Bug 5351

"After resuming from S3 (suspended while in X), the LCD panel stays black .
 However, the laptop is up again, and I can SSH into it from another
machine.

I can get the panel working again, when I first direct video output to the
CRT output of the laptop, and then back to LCD (done by repeatedly hitting
Fn+F5 buttons on the Toshiba, which directs output to either LCD, CRT or
TV) None of this ever happened with older kernels."

This bug is due to the recently added vesafb_blank() method in vesafb.  It
works with CRT displays, but has a high incidence of problems in laptop
users.  Since CRT users don't really get that much benefit from hardware
blanking, drop support for this.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:42 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
0498b63504 [PATCH] kprobes: fix build breakage
The following patch (against 2.6.15-rc5-mm3) fixes a kprobes build break
due to changes introduced in the kprobe locking in 2.6.15-rc5-mm3.  In
addition, the patch reverts back the open-coding of kprobe_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Anil S Keshavamurthy
e597c2984c [PATCH] kprobes: arch_remove_kprobe
Currently arch_remove_kprobes() is only implemented/required for x86_64 and
powerpc.  All other architecture like IA64, i386 and sparc64 implementes a
dummy function which is being called from arch independent kprobes.c file.

This patch removes the dummy functions and replaces it with
#define arch_remove_kprobe(p, s)	do { } while(0)

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Anil S Keshavamurthy
49a2a1b83b [PATCH] kprobes: changed from using spinlock to mutex
Since Kprobes runtime exception handlers is now lock free as this code path is
now using RCU to walk through the list, there is no need for the
register/unregister{_kprobe} to use spin_{lock/unlock}_isr{save/restore}.  The
serialization during registration/unregistration is now possible using just a
mutex.

In the above process, this patch also fixes a minor memory leak for x86_64 and
powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Matt Helsley
d1c0b8f835 [PATCH] Remove getnstimestamp()
Remove getnstimestamp() in favor of ktime.h's ktime_get_ts()

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:39 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
becf8b5d00 [PATCH] hrtimer: convert posix timers completely
- convert posix-timers.c to use hrtimers

- remove the now obsolete abslist code

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:39 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
97735f25d2 [PATCH] hrtimer: switch clock_nanosleep to hrtimer nanosleep API
Switch clock_nanosleep to use the new nanosleep functions in hrtimer.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:38 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
10c94ec16d [PATCH] hrtimer: create hrtimer nanosleep API
introduce the hrtimer_nanosleep() and hrtimer_nanosleep_real() APIs.  Not yet
used by any code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:38 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
2ff678b8da [PATCH] hrtimer: switch itimers to hrtimer
switch itimers to a hrtimers-based implementation

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:38 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
c0a3132963 [PATCH] hrtimer: hrtimer core code
hrtimer subsystem core.  It is initialized at bootup and expired by the timer
interrupt, but is otherwise not utilized by any other subsystem yet.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:37 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
97fc79f97b [PATCH] hrtimer: introduce ktime_t time format
- introduce ktime_t: nanosecond-resolution time format.

- eliminate the plain s64 scalar type, and always use the union.
  This simplifies the arithmetics. Idea from Roman Zippel.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:37 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
f8f46da3b4 [PATCH] hrtimer: introduce nsec_t type and conversion functions
- introduce the nsec_t type

- basic nsec conversion routines: timespec_to_ns(), timeval_to_ns(),
  ns_to_timespec(), ns_to_timeval().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:37 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
5f82b2b77e [PATCH] hrtimer: create and use timespec_valid macro
add timespec_valid(ts) [returns false if the timespec is denorm]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:36 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
2a69897194 [PATCH] hrtimer: coding style and white space cleanup 2
style/whitespace/macro cleanups of posix-timers.h

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:36 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
a924b04dde [PATCH] hrtimer: make clockid_t arguments const
add const arguments to the posix-timers.h API functions

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:36 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
57a558757b [PATCH] hrtimer: coding style and white space cleanup
style and whitespace cleanup of the rest of time.h.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:36 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
1ad106ca18 [PATCH] hrtimer: coding style clean up of clock constants
clean up the CLOCK_ portions of time.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:36 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
0c4f6eeca9 [PATCH] hrtimer: remove unused clock constants
remove unused CLOCK_ constants from time.h

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:35 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
f4818900fa [PATCH] hrtimer: clean up mktime and make arguments const
add 'const' to mktime arguments, and clean it up a bit

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:35 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
753be62227 [PATCH] hrtimer: deinline mktime and set_normalized_timespec
mktime() and set_normalized_timespec() are large inline functions used in many
places: deinline them.

From: George Anzinger, off-by-1 bugfix

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:35 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
5cca7619a5 [PATCH] hrtimer: move div_long_long_rem out of jiffies.h
move div_long_long_rem() from jiffies.h into a new calc64.h include file, as
it is a general math function useful for other things than the jiffy code.
Convert it to an inline function

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:35 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
fc33a7bb9c [PATCH] per-mountpoint noatime/nodiratime
Turn noatime and nodiratime into per-mount instead of per-sb flags.

After all the preparations this is a rather trivial patch.  The mount code
needs to treat the two options as per-mount instead of per-superblock, and
touch_atime needs to be changed to check the new MNT_ flags in addition to
the MS_ flags that are kept for filesystems that are always
noatime/nodiratime but not user settable anymore.  Besides that core code
only nfs needed an update because it's leaving atime updates to the server
and thus sets the S_NOATIME flag on every inode, but needs to know whether
it's a real noatime mount for an getattr optimization.

While we're at it I've killed the IS_NOATIME/IS_NODIRATIME macros that were
only used by touch_atime.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:34 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
e6a6d2efcb [PATCH] sanitize building of fs/compat_ioctl.c
Now that all these entries in the arch ioctl32.c files are gone [1], we can
build fs/compat_ioctl.c as a normal object and kill tons of cruft.  We need a
special do_ioctl32_pointer handler for s390 so the compat_ptr call is done.
This is not needed but harmless on all other architectures.  Also remove some
superflous includes in fs/compat_ioctl.c

Tested on ppc64.

[1] parisc still had it's PPP handler left, which is not fully correct
    for ppp and besides that ppp uses the generic SIOCPRIV ioctl so it'd
    kick in for all netdevice users.  We can introduce a proper handler
    in one of the next patch series by adding a compat_ioctl method to
    struct net_device but for now let's just kill it - parisc doesn't
    compile in mainline anyway and I don't want this to block this
    patchset.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:33 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
bdff071dbf [PATCH] __deprecated_for_modules the lookup_hash() prototype
This patch __deprecated_for_modules the lookup_hash() prototype.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:31 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
869243a0f6 [PATCH] remove update_atime
All callers use touch_atime now which takes a vfsmount and allows us to
implement per-mount noatime.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:31 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
870f481793 [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time
To allow various options to work per-mount instead of per-sb we need a
struct vfsmount when updating ctime and mtime.  This preparation patch
replaces the inode_update_time routine with a file_update_atime routine so
we can easily get at the vfsmount.  (and the file makes more sense in this
context anyway).  Also get rid of the unused second argument - we always
want to update the ctime when calling this routine.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:30 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
e0ad7b073e [PATCH] move xattr permission checks into the VFS
)

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

The xattr code has rather complex permission checks because the rules are very
different for different attribute namespaces.  This patch moves as much as we
can into the generic code.  Currently all the major disk based filesystems
duplicate these checks, while many minor filesystems or network filesystems
lack some or all of them.

To do this we need defines for the extended attribute names in common code, I
moved them up from JFS which had the nicest defintions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:29 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
5be196e5f9 [PATCH] add vfs_* helpers for xattr operations
Add vfs_getxattr, vfs_setxattr and vfs_removexattr helpers for common checks
around invocation of the xattr methods.  NFSD already was missing some of the
checks and there will be more soon.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

(James, I haven't touched selinux yet because it's doing various odd things
and I'm not sure how it would interact with the security attribute fallbacks
you added.  Could you investigate whether it could use vfs_getxattr or if not
add a __vfs_getxattr helper to share the bits it is fine with?)

For NFSv4: instead of just converting it add an nfsd_getxattr helper for the
code shared by NFSv2/3 and NFSv4 ACLs.  In fact that code isn't even
NFS-specific, but I'll wait for more users to pop up first before moving it to
common code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:29 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
720e1a9f1c [PATCH] kexec: increase max segment limit
)

From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

- In some cases, the number of segments, on a kexec load, exceeds the
  existing cap of 8.  This patch increases the KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX limit from 8
  to 16.

Signed-off-by: Rachita Kothiyal <rachita@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:28 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
cc57165874 [PATCH] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers
- In case of system crash, current state of cpu registers is saved in memory
  in elf note format.  So far memory for storing elf notes was being allocated
  statically for NR_CPUS.

- This patch introduces dynamic allocation of memory for storing elf notes.
  It uses alloc_percpu() interface.  This should lead to better memory usage.

- Introduced based on Andi Kleen's and Eric W. Biederman's suggestions.

- This patch also moves memory allocation for elf notes from architecture
  dependent portion to architecture independent portion.  Now crash_notes is
  architecture independent.  The whole idea is that size of memory to be
  allocated per cpu (MAX_NOTE_BYTES) can be architecture dependent and
  allocation of this memory can be architecture independent.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:26 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
df2e71fb91 [PATCH] dump_thread() cleanup
)

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

- create one common dump_thread() prototype in kernel.h

- dump_thread() is only used in fs/binfmt_aout.c and can therefore be
  removed on all architectures where CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not
  available

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:25 -08:00
David Howells
0ad42352c0 [PATCH] Add list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse()
Add list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse() to linux/list.h

This is needed by unmerged cachefs and be an as-yet-unreviewed
device_shutdown() fix.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:24 -08:00
Ben Gardner
e329113ca4 [PATCH] i386: GPIO driver for AMD CS5535/CS5536
A simple driver for the CS5535 and CS5536 that allows a user-space program
to manipulate GPIO pins.  The CS5535/CS5536 chips are Geode processor
companion devices.

Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:24 -08:00
David S. Miller
8b4ad5e3ff [MUTEX]: linux/mutex-debug.h needs linux/linkage.h
For FASTCALL() define.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-09 21:38:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
977127174a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 2006-01-09 18:41:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
80c0531514 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/mutex-2.6 2006-01-09 17:31:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a457aa6c2b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-01-09 17:06:53 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
11b751ae8c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to completion: drivers/block/loop.c
convert the block loop device from semaphores to completions.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:27 -08:00
Aleksey Makarov
f36d4024ca [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to completion: IDE ->gendev_rel_sem
The patch changes semaphores that are initialized as
locked to complete().

Source: MontaVista Software, Inc.

Modified-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

The following patch is from Montavista.  I modified it slightly.
Semaphores are currently being used where it makes more sense for
completions.  This patch corrects that.

Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <amakarov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:27 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
7892f2f48d [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, sb->s_lock
This patch converts the superblock-lock semaphore to a mutex, affecting
lock_super()/unlock_super(). Tested on ext3 and XFS.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:25 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
1b1dcc1b57 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
de5097c2e7 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, more debugging code
more mutex debugging: check for held locks during memory freeing,
task exit, enable sysrq printouts, etc.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
2006-01-09 15:59:21 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
408894ee4d [PATCH] mutex subsystem, debugging code
mutex implementation - add debugging code.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
2006-01-09 15:59:20 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
6053ee3b32 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, core
mutex implementation, core files: just the basic subsystem, no users of it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
2006-01-09 15:59:19 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
711a660dc2 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, add typecheck_fn(type, function)
add typecheck_fn(type, function) to do type-checking of function
pointers.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(made it typeof() based, instead of typedef based.)

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1fd5a46dd6 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2006-01-09 15:12:52 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
5406958860 s/assoicated/associated/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:09:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
8e9c238c38 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-mmc 2006-01-09 15:08:33 -08:00
Pierre Ossman
7225b3fd0b [MMC] Indicate that R1/R1b contains command opcode
Some controllers actually check the first byte of the response (most
don't).  This byte contains the command opcode for R1/R1b and all 1:s
for other types. The difference must be indicated to the controller
so it knows which reply to expect.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
2006-01-09 22:51:46 +00:00
Herbert Xu
5cb1454b86 [CRYPTO] Allow multiple implementations of the same algorithm
This is the first step on the road towards asynchronous support in
the Crypto API.  It adds support for having multiple crypto_alg objects
for the same algorithm registered in the system.

For example, each device driver would register a crypto_alg object
for each algorithm that it supports.  While at the same time the
user may load software implementations of those same algorithms.

Users of the Crypto API may then select a specific implementation
by name, or choose any implementation for a given algorithm with
the highest priority.

The priority field is a 32-bit signed integer.  In future it will be
possible to modify it from user-space.

This also provides a solution to the problem of selecting amongst
various AES implementations, that is, aes vs. aes-i586 vs. aes-padlock.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:15:37 -08:00
Russell King
788ee7b098 [MMC] Add DATA_MULTI flag
Some hosts need to know that a transfer will be multi-block.
Add a data flag to indicate multiple data block transfers.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-09 21:12:17 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
f17578decc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-01-09 13:03:58 -08:00
linas
392a1ce761 [PATCH] PCI Error Recovery: header file patch
Various PCI bus errors can be signaled by newer PCI controllers.
Recovering from those errors requires an infrastructure to notify
affected device drivers of the error, and a way of walking through a
reset sequence.  This patch adds a set of callbacks to be used by error
recovery routines to notify device drivers of the various stages of
recovery.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:21 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
ac7dc65ac0 [PATCH] PCI: Export pci_cfg_space_size
The powerpc PCI code sets up the PCI tree without doing config space
accesses in most cases, from the firmware tree. However, it still wants
to call pci_cfg_space_size() under some conditions, thus it needs to
be made non-static (though I don't see a point to export it to modules).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:19 -08:00
Kristen Accardi
ffeff788d6 [PATCH] pci: store PCI_INTERRUPT_PIN in pci_dev
Store the value of the INTERRUPT_PIN in the pci_dev structure
so that it can be retrieved later.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:13 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6150c32589 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-09 10:03:44 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
677517771b [PATCH] rcu: uninline __rcu_pending()
__rcu_pending() is rather fat and called twice from rcu_pending().

rcu_pending() has multiple callers, and not that small too.

This patch uninlines both of them.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09 09:35:44 -08:00
Michael Krufky
5e453dc757 V4L/DVB (3269): ioctls cleanups.
- Now, all internal ioctls are at v4l2-common.h
- removed unused ioctl at saa6752hs.h
- all debug ioctl code moved to v4l2-common.c
- removed duplicated stuff from other cards

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:32:31 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
e2688f00dc Merge branch 'blk-softirq' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
Manual merge for trivial #include changes
2006-01-09 09:26:40 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
21dcd8ccd7 V4L/DVB (3234): Included advanced debug option to tvp5150.c
- Included advanced debug option to tvp5150.c
- Now, advanced debug info is the first item at V4L menu.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:37 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9bb13a6dc3 V4L/DVB (3233): Fixed API to set I2S speed control
- Created a new ioctl to control I2S speed. Old calls to an
inadequate V4L2 API replaced.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:37 -02:00
Andrew de Quincey
36cb557a2f DVB (2444): Implement frontend-specific tuning and the ability to disable zigzag
- Implement frontend-specific tuning and the ability to disable zigzag

Signed-off-by: Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:07 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
f3c5987a38 V4L (0987): Added Secam L' std on tda9887 and common macros moved to videodev2.h
- Added SECAM L' video standard
- Common std macros moved to videodev2.h

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:00 -02:00
Arnd Bergmann
0d0fbf8152 V4L (926_2): Moves compat32 functions from fs to v4l subsystem
This moves the 32 bit ioctl compatibility handlers for
Video4Linux into a new file and adds explicit calls to them
to each v4l device driver.

Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any code handling
the v4l2 ioctls, so quite often the code goes through two
separate conversions, first from 32 bit v4l to 64 bit v4l,
and from there to 64 bit v4l2. My patch does not change
that, so there is still much room for improvement.

Also, some drivers have additional ioctl numbers, for
which the conversion should be handled internally to
that driver.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:24:57 -02:00
Jens Axboe
8672d57138 [IDE] Use the block layer deferred softirq request completion
This patch makes IDE use the new blk_complete_request() interface.
There's still room for improvement, as __ide_end_request() really
could drop the lock after getting HWGROUP->rq (why does it need to
hold it in the first place? If ->rq access isn't serialized, we are
screwed anyways).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 16:03:35 +01:00
Jens Axboe
1aea6434ee [SCSI] Kill the SCSI softirq handling
This patch moves the SCSI softirq handling to the block layer version.
There should be no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 16:03:03 +01:00
Jens Axboe
ff856bad67 [BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: Enable out-of-order request completions through softirq
Request completion can be a quite heavy process, since it needs to
iterate through the entire request and complete the bio's it holds.
This patch adds blk_complete_request() which moves this processing
into a dedicated block softirq.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 16:02:34 +01:00
Jens Axboe
356cebea11 [BLOCK] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()
It's a broken interface, it's done way too late. And apparently it triggers
slab problems in recent kernels as well (most likely after the generic dispatch
code was merged). So kill it, ide-cd is the only user of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 15:30:20 +01:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt
769db45b73 make elv_try_merge() static, kill the dead declaration of
elv_try_last_merge().

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 14:44:15 +01:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
730745a5c4 [PATCH] 1/5 powerpc: Rework PowerMac i2c part 1
This is the first part of a rework of the PowerMac i2c code. It
completely reworks the "low_i2c" layer. It is now more flexible,
supports KeyWest, SMU and PMU i2c busses, and provides functions to
match device nodes to i2c busses and adapters.

This patch also extends & fix some bugs in the SMU driver related to i2c
support and removes the clock spreading hacks from the pmac feature code
rather than adapting them to the new API since they'll be replaced by
the platform function code completely in patch 3/5

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:47:16 +11:00
Andrew Morton
ef9ceab282 [PATCH] remove semicolons from save_flags()
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:08 -08:00
Jan Blunck
6a878184c2 [PATCH] Eliminate __attribute__ ((packed)) warnings for gcc-4.1
Since version 4.1 the gcc is warning about ignored attributes. This patch is
using the equivalent attribute on the struct instead of on each of the
structure or union members.

GCC Manual:
  "Specifying Attributes of Types

   packed
    This attribute, attached to struct or union type definition, specifies
    that
    each member of the structure or union is placed to minimize the memory
    required. When attached to an enum definition, it indicates that the
    smallest integral type should be used.

    Specifying this attribute for struct and union types is equivalent to
    specifying the packed attribute on each of the structure or union
    members."

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:07 -08:00
Marko Kohtala
d8a3349667 [PATCH] parport: bring back an unused phase for ppdev ioctl
Earlier fix removed unused phase, but that changed the values for other
phases.  Since these are exposed to userspace through ppdev, it is safer
not to change them.  Restore the unused phase value.

Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:07 -08:00
Brian Gerst
7e7f358c8f [PATCH] Split out screen_info from tty.h
This makes it possible for boot code to use screen_info without dragging in
all of tty.h.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:05 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
a12dea7af9 [PATCH] PTRACE_SYSEMU is only for i386 and clashes with other ptrace codes of other archs
PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP} is actually arch specific, for now, and the
current allocated number clashes with a ptrace code of frv, i.e.
PTRACE_GETFDPIC.  I should have submitted this much earlier, anyway we get no
breakage for this.

CC: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:04 -08:00
Andrew Morton
349aef0bc4 [PATCH] shrink struct page
Reduce the size of the pageframe for NR_CPUS>4, CONFIG_PREEMPT back to the
minimal size by unionising both ->private and ->mapping with the pagetable
lock.

It uses an anonymous struct and hence requires gcc-3.x.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:04 -08:00
Benjamin LaHaise
59d9136b98 [PATCH] aio: reorder kiocb structure elements to make sync iocb setup faster
Reorder members of the kiocb structure to make sync kiocb setup faster.  By
setting the elements sequentially, the write combining buffers on the CPU
are able to combine the writes into a single burst, which results in fewer
cache cycles being consumed, freeing them up for other code.  This results
in a 10-20KB/s[*] increase on the bw_unix part of LMbench on my test
system.

* The improvement varies based on what other patches are in the system,
  as there are a number of bottlenecks, so this number is not absolutely
  accurate.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:03 -08:00
Andrew Morton
a136564702 [PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers.

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

    Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2.

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:02 -08:00
Andrew Morton
fd285bb54d [PATCH] Abandon gcc-2.95.x
There's one scsi driver which doesn't compile due to weird __VA_ARGS__ tricks
and the rather useful scsi/sd.c is currently getting an ICE.  None of the new
SAS code compiles, due to extensive use of anonymous unions.  The V4L guys are
very good at exploiting the gcc-2.95.x macro expansion bug (_why_ does each
driver need to implement its own debug macros?) and various people keep on
sneaking in anonymous unions, which are rather nice.

Plus anonymous unions are rather useful.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:02 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
f867bac654 [PATCH] remove unused blkp field in percpu_data
I found that blkp field was not used in kernel tree.

As most of the times NR_CPUS is a power of two and kmalloc() memory blocks
too, this extra field basically doubles the memory space allocated in
__alloc_percpu() to store the 'struct percpu_data'

(for example, if NR_CPUS=8 on i386, kmalloc(4*8+4) returns a 64 bytes block
instead of a 32 bytes block after this patch)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:59 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
e78c9a004a [PATCH] fs: remove s_old_blocksize from struct super_block
This patch inlines the single user of struct super_block field
s_old_blocksize and removes the field.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:59 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
5160ee6fc8 [PATCH] shrink dentry struct
Some long time ago, dentry struct was carefully tuned so that on 32 bits
UP, sizeof(struct dentry) was exactly 128, ie a power of 2, and a multiple
of memory cache lines.

Then RCU was added and dentry struct enlarged by two pointers, with nice
results for SMP, but not so good on UP, because breaking the above tuning
(128 + 8 = 136 bytes)

This patch reverts this unwanted side effect, by using an union (d_u),
where d_rcu and d_child are placed so that these two fields can share their
memory needs.

At the time d_free() is called (and d_rcu is really used), d_child is known
to be empty and not touched by the dentry freeing.

Lockless lookups only access d_name, d_parent, d_lock, d_op, d_flags (so
the previous content of d_child is not needed if said dentry was unhashed
but still accessed by a CPU because of RCU constraints)

As dentry cache easily contains millions of entries, a size reduction is
worth the extra complexity of the ugly C union.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:58 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
bf066c7db7 [PATCH] shared mounts: cleanup
Small cleanups in shared mounts code.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:56 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
a885c8c431 [PATCH] Add block_device_operations.getgeo block device method
HDIO_GETGEO is implemented in most block drivers, and all of them have to
duplicate the code to copy the structure to userspace, as well as getting
the start sector.  This patch moves that to common code [1] and adds a
->getgeo method to fill out the raw kernel hd_geometry structure.  For many
drivers this means ->ioctl can go away now.

[1] the s390 block drivers are odd in this respect.  xpram sets ->start
    to 4 always which seems more than odd, and the dasd driver shifts
    the start offset around, probably because of it's non-standard
    sector size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:54 -08:00
George Anzinger
71fabd5e48 [PATCH] sigaction should clear all signals on SIG_IGN, not just < 32
While rooting aroung in the signal code trying to understand how to fix the
SIG_IGN ploy (set sig handler to SIG_IGN and flood system with high speed
repeating timers) I came across what, I think, is a problem in sigaction()
in that when processing a SIG_IGN request it flushes signals from 1 to
SIGRTMIN and leaves the rest.  Attempt to fix this.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
David Howells
b5f545c880 [PATCH] keys: Permit running process to instantiate keys
Make it possible for a running process (such as gssapid) to be able to
instantiate a key, as was requested by Trond Myklebust for NFS4.

The patch makes the following changes:

 (1) A new, optional key type method has been added. This permits a key type
     to intercept requests at the point /sbin/request-key is about to be
     spawned and do something else with them - passing them over the
     rpc_pipefs files or netlink sockets for instance.

     The uninstantiated key, the authorisation key and the intended operation
     name are passed to the method.

 (2) The callout_info is no longer passed as an argument to /sbin/request-key
     to prevent unauthorised viewing of this data using ps or by looking in
     /proc/pid/cmdline.

     This means that the old /sbin/request-key program will not work with the
     patched kernel as it will expect to see an extra argument that is no
     longer there.

     A revised keyutils package will be made available tomorrow.

 (3) The callout_info is now attached to the authorisation key. Reading this
     key will retrieve the information.

 (4) A new field has been added to the task_struct. This holds the
     authorisation key currently active for a thread. Searches now look here
     for the caller's set of keys rather than looking for an auth key in the
     lowest level of the session keyring.

     This permits a thread to be servicing multiple requests at once and to
     switch between them. Note that this is per-thread, not per-process, and
     so is usable in multithreaded programs.

     The setting of this field is inherited across fork and exec.

 (5) A new keyctl function (KEYCTL_ASSUME_AUTHORITY) has been added that
     permits a thread to assume the authority to deal with an uninstantiated
     key. Assumption is only permitted if the authorisation key associated
     with the uninstantiated key is somewhere in the thread's keyrings.

     This function can also clear the assumption.

 (6) A new magic key specifier has been added to refer to the currently
     assumed authorisation key (KEY_SPEC_REQKEY_AUTH_KEY).

 (7) Instantiation will only proceed if the appropriate authorisation key is
     assumed first. The assumed authorisation key is discarded if
     instantiation is successful.

 (8) key_validate() is moved from the file of request_key functions to the
     file of permissions functions.

 (9) The documentation is updated.

From: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>

    Build fix.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
David Howells
017679c4d4 [PATCH] keys: Permit key expiry time to be set
Add a new keyctl function that allows the expiry time to be set on a key or
removed from a key, provided the caller has attribute modification access.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
NeilBrown
4a30131e7d [PATCH] Fix some problems with truncate and mtime semantics.
SUS requires that when truncating a file to the size that it currently
is:
  truncate and ftruncate should NOT modify ctime or mtime
  O_TRUNC SHOULD modify ctime and mtime.

Currently mtime and ctime are always modified on most local
filesystems (side effect of ->truncate) or never modified (on NFS).

With this patch:
  ATTR_CTIME|ATTR_MTIME are sent with ATTR_SIZE precisely when
    an update of these times is required whether size changes or not
    (via a new argument to do_truncate).  This allows NFS to do
    the right thing for O_TRUNC.
  inode_setattr nolonger forces ATTR_MTIME|ATTR_CTIME when the ATTR_SIZE
    sets the size to it's current value.  This allows local filesystems
    to do the right thing for f?truncate.

Also, the logic in inode_setattr is changed a bit so there are two return
points.  One returns the error from vmtruncate if it failed, the other
returns 0 (there can be no other failure).

Finally, if vmtruncate succeeds, and ATTR_SIZE is the only change
requested, we now fall-through and mark_inode_dirty.  If a filesystem did
not have a ->truncate function, then vmtruncate will have changed i_size,
without marking the inode as 'dirty', and I think this is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:52 -08:00
David Howells
788540141f [PATCH] Permit multiple inclusion of linux/pagevec.h
Make it possible to include linux/pagevec.h multiple times without
incurring errors due to duplicate definitions.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:52 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
6b9c7ed848 [PATCH] use ptrace_get_task_struct in various places
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: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:51 -08:00
Tom Zanussi
761da5c88a [PATCH] relayfs: cleanup, change relayfs_file_* to relay_file_*
This patch renames relayfs_file_operations to relay_file_operations, and the
file operations themselves from relayfs_XXX to relay_file_XXX, to make it more
clear that they refer to relay files.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:51 -08:00
Tom Zanussi
e6c08367b8 [PATCH] relayfs: add support for global relay buffers
This patch adds the optional is_global outparam to the create_buf_file()
callback.  This can be used by clients to create a single global relayfs
buffer instead of the default per-cpu buffers.  This was suggested as being
useful for certain debugging applications where it's more convenient to be
able to get all the data from a single channel without having to go to the
bother of dealing with per-cpu files.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:50 -08:00