- 05 Feb, 2009 3 commits
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
We need to access percpu data fairly early, so set up the percpu registers as soon as possible. We only need to load the appropriate segment register. We already have a GDT, but its hard to change it early because we need to manipulate the pagetable to do so, and that hasn't been set up yet. Also, set the kernel stack when bringing up secondary CPUs. If we don't they all end up sharing the same stack... Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Moving the mmu code from enlighten.c to mmu.c inadvertently broke the 32-bit build. Fix it. Signed-off-by:
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- 04 Feb, 2009 1 commit
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: Bug fix A hunk went missing in the original patch, and callee-save callsites were not marked as returning the upper 32-bit of result, causing Badness. Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 03 Feb, 2009 1 commit
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Yinghai Lu authored
Impact: fix regression with kexec with vmlinux Split data.init into data.init, percpu, data.init2 sections instead of let data.init wrap percpu secion. Thus kexec loading will be happy, because sections will not overlap. Before the patch we have: Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0x200000 There are 6 program headers, starting at offset 64 Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align LOAD 0x0000000000200000 0xffffffff80200000 0x0000000000200000 0x0000000000ca6000 0x0000000000ca6000 R E 200000 LOAD 0x0000000000ea6000 0xffffffff80ea6000 0x0000000000ea6000 0x000000000014dfe0 0x000000000014dfe0 RWE 200000 LOAD 0x0000000001000000 0xffffffffff600000 0x0000000000ff4000 0x0000000000000888 0x0000000000000888 RWE 200000 LOAD 0x00000000011f6000 0xffffffff80ff6000 0x0000000000ff6000 0x0000000000073086 0x0000000000a2d938 RWE 200000 LOAD 0x0000000001400000 0x0000000000000000 0x000000000106a000 0x00000000001d2ce0 0x00000000001d2ce0 RWE 200000 NOTE 0x00000000009e2c1c 0xffffffff809e2c1c 0x00000000009e2c1c 0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024 4 Section to Segment mapping: Segment Sections... 00 .text .notes __ex_table .rodata __bug_table .pci_fixup .builtin_fw __ksymtab __ksymtab_gpl __ksymtab_strings __init_rodata __param 01 .data .init.rodata .data.cacheline_aligned .data.read_mostly 02 .vsyscall_0 .vsyscall_fn .vsyscall_gtod_data .vsyscall_1 .vsyscall_2 .vgetcpu_mode .jiffies 03 .data.init_task .smp_locks .init.text .init.data .init.setup .initcall.init .con_initcall.init .x86_cpu_dev.init .altinstructions .altinstr_replacement .exit.text .init.ramfs .bss 04 .data.percpu 05 .notes After patch we've got: Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0x200000 There are 7 program headers, starting at offset 64 Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align LOAD 0x0000000000200000 0xffffffff80200000 0x0000000000200000 0x0000000000ca6000 0x0000000000ca6000 R E 200000 LOAD 0x0000000000ea6000 0xffffffff80ea6000 0x0000000000ea6000 0x000000000014dfe0 0x000000000014dfe0 RWE 200000 LOAD 0x0000000001000000 0xffffffffff600000 0x0000000000ff4000 0x0000000000000888 0x0000000000000888 RWE 200000 LOAD 0x00000000011f6000 0xffffffff80ff6000 0x0000000000ff6000 0x0000000000073086 0x0000000000073086 RWE 200000 LOAD 0x0000000001400000 0x0000000000000000 0x000000000106a000 0x00000000001d2ce0 0x00000000001d2ce0 RWE 200000 LOAD 0x000000000163d000 0xffffffff8123d000 0x000000000123d000 0x0000000000000000 0x00000000007e6938 RWE 200000 NOTE 0x00000000009e2c1c 0xffffffff809e2c1c 0x00000000009e2c1c 0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024 4 Section to Segment mapping: Segment Sections... 00 .text .notes __ex_table .rodata __bug_table .pci_fixup .builtin_fw __ksymtab __ksymtab_gpl __ksymtab_strings __init_rodata __param 01 .data .init.rodata .data.cacheline_aligned .data.read_mostly 02 .vsyscall_0 .vsyscall_fn .vsyscall_gtod_data .vsyscall_1 .vsyscall_2 .vgetcpu_mode .jiffies 03 .data.init_task .smp_locks .init.text .init.data .init.setup .initcall.init .con_initcall.init .x86_cpu_dev.init .altinstructions .altinstr_replacement .exit.text .init.ramfs 04 .data.percpu 05 .bss 06 .notes Signed-off-by:Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 02 Feb, 2009 2 commits
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Zach says: > Enable/Disable have no clobbers at all. > Save clobbers only return value, %eax > Restore also clobbers nothing. This is precisely compatible with the calling convention, so we can just call them directly without wrapping. (Compile tested only.) Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: bugfix In the 32-bit calling convention, %eax:%edx is used to return 64-bit values. Don't save and restore %edx around wrapped functions, or they can't return a full 64-bit result. Signed-off-by:
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- 31 Jan, 2009 6 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: fix xen booting We need to access percpu data fairly early, so set up the percpu registers as soon as possible. We only need to load the appropriate segment register. We already have a GDT, but its hard to change it early because we need to manipulate the pagetable to do so, and that hasn't been set up yet. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: split out a function, no functional change Xen needs to be able to access percpu data from very early on. For various reasons, it cannot also load the gdt at that time. It does, however, have a pefectly functional gdt at that point, so there's no pressing need to reload the gdt. Split the function to load the segment registers off, so Xen can call it directly. Signed-off-by:
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Brian Gerst authored
Impact: cleanup, prepare for xen boot fix. Xen needs to call this function very early to setup the GDT and per-cpu segments. Remove the call to smp_processor_id() and just pass in the cpu number. Signed-off-by:
Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Cliff Wickman authored
Impact: fix possible tlb mis-flushing on UV uv_flush_send_and_wait() should return a pointer if the broadcast remote tlb shootdown requests fail. That causes the conventional IPI method of shootdown to be used. Signed-off-by:
Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 30 Jan, 2009 27 commits
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: Fix build when CONFIG_PARAVIRT_DEBUG is enabled Fix missed convertion to using callee-saved calls for pud_val, which causes a compile error when CONFIG_PARAVIRT_DEBUG is enabled. Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: Optimization In the native case, pte_val, make_pte, etc are all just identity functions, so there's no need to clobber a lot of registers over them. (This changes the 32-bit callee-save calling convention to return both EAX and EDX so functions can return 64-bit values.) Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: Optimization Functions with the callee save calling convention clobber many fewer registers than the normal C calling convention. Implement variants of PVOP_V?CALL* accordingly. This only bothers with functions up to 3 args, since functions with more args may as well use the normal calling convention. Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: Optimization One of the problems with inserting a pile of C calls where previously there were none is that the register pressure is greatly increased. The C calling convention says that the caller must expect a certain set of registers may be trashed by the callee, and that the callee can use those registers without restriction. This includes the function argument registers, and several others. This patch seeks to alleviate this pressure by introducing wrapper thunks that will do the register saving/restoring, so that the callsite doesn't need to worry about it, but the callee function can be conventional compiler-generated code. In many cases (particularly performance-sensitive cases) the callee will be in assembler anyway, and need not use the compiler's calling convention. Standard calling convention is: arguments return scratch x86-32 eax edx ecx eax ? x86-64 rdi rsi rdx rcx rax r8 r9 r10 r11 The thunk preserves all argument and scratch registers. The return register is not preserved, and is available as a scratch register for unwrapped callee code (and of course the return value). Wrapped function pointers are themselves wrapped in a struct paravirt_callee_save structure, in order to get some warning from the compiler when functions with mismatched calling conventions are used. The most common paravirt ops, both statically and dynamically, are interrupt enable/disable/save/restore, so handle them first. This is particularly easy since their calls are handled specially anyway. XXX Deal with VMI. What's their calling convention? Signed-off-by: -
Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: Optimization Each asm paravirt-ops call says what registers are available for clobbering. This patch makes use of this to selectively save/restore registers around each pvops call. In many cases this significantly shrinks code size. Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: Fix latent bug The clobber is trying to say that anything except RDI is available for clobbering, but actually clobbers everything. This hasn't mattered because the clobbers were basically ignored, but subsequent patches will rely on them. Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: Optimization Several paravirt ops implementations simply return their arguments, the most obvious being the make_pte/pte_val class of operations on native. On 32-bit, the identity function is literally a no-op, as the calling convention uses the same registers for the first argument and return. On 64-bit, it can be implemented with a single "mov". This patch adds special identity functions for 32 and 64 bit argument, and machinery to recognize them and replace them with either nops or a mov as appropriate. At the moment, the only users for the identity functions are the pagetable entry conversion functions. The result is a measureable improvement on pagetable-heavy benchmarks (2-3%, reducing the pvops overhead from 5 to 2%). Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: Cleanup Move remaining mmu-related stuff into mmu.c. A general cleanup, and lay the groundwork for later patches. Signed-off-by:
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H. Peter Anvin authored
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Tejun Heo authored
Impact: fix linker screwup on x86_32 Recent x86_64 zerobased patches introduced PERCPU_VADDR() to put .data.percpu to a predefined address and re-defined PERCPU() in terms of it. The new macro defined one extra symbol, __per_cpu_load, for LMA of the section so that the init data could be accessed. This new symbol introduced the following problems to x86_32. 1. If __per_cpu_load is defined outside of .data.percpu as an absolute symbol, relocation generation for relocatable kernel fails due to absolute relocation. 2. If __per_cpu_load is put inside .data.percpu with absolute address assignment to work around #1, linker gets confused and under certain configurations ends up relocating the symbol against .data.percpu such that the load address gets added on top of already set load address. As x86_32 doesn't use predefined address for .data.percpu, there's no need for it to care about the possibility of __per_cpu_load being different from __per_cpu_start. This patch defines PERCPU() separately so that __per_cpu_load is defined inside .data.percpu so that everything is ordinary linking-wise. Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit de33c8db ("Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED file segments") unified the vma merging of anonymous and file maps to just one place, which simplified the code and fixed a use-after-free bug that could cause an oops. But by doing the merge opportunistically before even having called ->mmap() on the file method, it now compares two different 'vm_flags' values: the pre-mmap() value of the new not-yet-formed vma, and previous mappings of the same file around it. And in doing so, it refused to merge the common file case, which adds a marker to say "I can be made non-linear". This fixes it by just adding a set of flags that don't have to match, because we know they are ok to merge. Currently it's only that single VM_CAN_NONLINEAR flag, but at least conceptually there could be others in the future. Reported-and-acked-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: kernel/irq/handle.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: Remove bogus BUG() check in ext4_bmap() ext4: Fix building with EXT4FS_DEBUG ext4: Initialize the new group descriptor when resizing the filesystem ext4: Fix ext4_free_blocks() w/o a journal when files have indirect blocks jbd2: On a __journal_expect() assertion failure printk "JBD2", not "EXT3-fs" ext3: Add sanity check to make_indexed_dir ext4: Add sanity check to make_indexed_dir ext4: only use i_size_high for regular files ext4: fix wrong use of do_div
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: cfq-iosched: Allow RT requests to pre-empt ongoing BE timeslice block: add sysfs file for controlling io stats accounting Mark mandatory elevator functions in the biodoc.txt include/linux: Add bsg.h to the Kernel exported headers block: silently error an unsupported barrier bio block: Fix documentation for blkdev_issue_flush() block: add bio_rw_flagged() for testing bio->bi_rw block: seperate bio/request unplug and sync bits block: export SSD/non-rotational queue flag through sysfs Fix small typo in bio.h's documentation block: get rid of the manual directory counting in blktrace block: Allow empty integrity profile block: Remove obsolete BUG_ON block: Don't verify integrity metadata on read error
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (29 commits) tulip: fix 21142 with 10Mbps without negotiation drivers/net/skfp: if !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN): inverted logic gianfar: Fix Wake-on-LAN support smsc911x: timeout reaches -1 smsc9420: fix interrupt signalling test failures ucc_geth: Change uec phy id to the same format as gianfar's wimax: fix build issue when debugfs is disabled netxen: fix memory leak in drivers/net/netxen_nic_init.c tun: Add some missing TUN compat ioctl translations. ipv4: fix infinite retry loop in IP-Config net: update documentation ip aliases net: Fix OOPS in skb_seq_read(). net: Fix frag_list handling in skb_seq_read netxen: revert jumbo ringsize ath5k: fix locking in ath5k_config cfg80211: print correct intersected regulatory domain cfg80211: Fix sanity check on 5 GHz when processing country IE iwlwifi: fix kernel oops when ucode DMA memory allocation failure rtl8187: Fix error in setting OFDM power settings for RTL8187L mac80211: remove Michael Wu as maintainer ...
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Paul Larson authored
This fixes a crash observed when non-existant enable_ms function is called for jsm driver. Signed-off-by:
Scott Kilau <Scott.Kilau@digi.com> Signed-off-by:
Paul Larson <pl@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Divyesh Shah authored
This patch adds the ability to pre-empt an ongoing BE timeslice when a RT request is waiting for the current timeslice to complete. This reduces the wait time to disk for RT requests from an upper bound of 4 (current value of cfq_quantum) to 1 disk request. Applied Jens' suggeested changes to avoid the rb lookup and use !cfq_class_rt() and retested. Latency(secs) for the RT task when doing sequential reads from 10G file. | only RT | RT + BE | RT + BE + this patch small (512 byte) reads | 143 | 163 | 145 large (1Mb) reads | 142 | 158 | 146 Signed-off-by:Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
This allows us to turn off disk stat accounting completely, for the cases where the 0.5-1% reduction in system time is important. Signed-off-by: -
Nikanth Karthikesan authored
biodoc.txt mentions that elevator functions marked with * are mandatory, but no function is marked with *. Mark the 3 functions which should be implemented by any io scheduler. Signed-off-by:
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Boaz Harrosh authored
bsg.h in current form is perfectly suitable for user-mode consumption. It is needed together with scsi/sg.h for applications that want to interface with the bsg driver. Currently the few projects that use it would copy it over into the projects. But that is not acceptable for projects that need to provide source and devel packages for distros. This should also be submitted to stable 2.6.28 and 2.6.27 since bsg had a stable API since these Kernels and distro users will need the header for these kernels a swell Signed-off-by:
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Acked-by:
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Jens Axboe authored
This fixes a "regression" from 2.6.28, where the barrier probes that file systems may do would trigger additional end request warnings in dmesg. Signed-off-by: -
Theodore Ts'o authored
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"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Jens Axboe authored
The existing functions for checking bio->bi_rw are badly named. So lets mirror what we do for bio->bi_flags testing, use a properly named function so that it's immediately obvious what is being tested. Maintain compatability names for the old macros, eventually we'll get rid of these. Signed-off-by: -
Jens Axboe authored
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
For some devices (i.e. CFA ATA) we can't reliably detect whether the device is of rotational or non-rotational type so we need to leave the final decision about this setting to the user-space. As a bonus do a minor CodingStyle fixup in queue_nomerges_store(). Suggested-by:
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alberto Bertogli authored
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Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar> Signed-off-by:
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Jens Axboe authored
It can result in a stuck blktrace system, if --kill is used. Signed-off-by:
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