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  1. 23 Oct, 2005 1 commit
  2. 18 Oct, 2005 1 commit
  3. 30 Sep, 2005 3 commits
  4. 17 Sep, 2005 1 commit
  5. 09 Sep, 2005 3 commits
    • Dipankar Sarma's avatar
      [PATCH] files: files struct with RCU · ab2af1f5
      Dipankar Sarma authored
      Patch to eliminate struct files_struct.file_lock spinlock on the reader side
      and use rcu refcounting rcuref_xxx api for the f_count refcounter.  The
      updates to the fdtable are done by allocating a new fdtable structure and
      setting files->fdt to point to the new structure.  The fdtable structure is
      protected by RCU thereby allowing lock-free lookup.  For fd arrays/sets that
      are vmalloced, we use keventd to free them since RCU callbacks can't sleep.  A
      global list of fdtable to be freed is not scalable, so we use a per-cpu list.
      If keventd is already handling the current cpu's work, we use a timer to defer
      queueing of that work.
      
      Since the last publication, this patch has been re-written to avoid using
      explicit memory barriers and use rcu_assign_pointer(), rcu_dereference()
      premitives instead.  This required that the fd information is kept in a
      separate structure (fdtable) and updated atomically.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ab2af1f5
    • Benjamin LaHaise's avatar
      [PATCH] aio: kiocb locking to serialise retry and cancel · ac0b1bc1
      Benjamin LaHaise authored
      Implement a per-kiocb lock to serialise retry operations and cancel.  This
      is done using wait_on_bit_lock() on the KIF_LOCKED bit of kiocb->ki_flags.
      Also, make the cancellation path lock the kiocb and subsequently release
      all references to it if the cancel was successful.  This version includes a
      fix for the deadlock with __aio_run_iocbs.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin LaHaise <bcrl@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ac0b1bc1
    • Wendy Cheng's avatar
      [PATCH] change io_cancel return code for no cancel case · 8f58202b
      Wendy Cheng authored
      Note that other than few exceptions, most of the current filesystem and/or
      drivers do not have aio cancel specifically defined (kiob->ki_cancel field
      is mostly NULL).  However, sys_io_cancel system call universally sets
      return code to -EAGAIN.  This gives applications a wrong impression that
      this call is implemented but just never works.  We have customer inquires
      about this issue.
      
      Changed by Benjamin LaHaise to EINVAL instead of ENOSYS
      Signed-off-by: default avatarS. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarBenjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8f58202b
  6. 05 Sep, 2005 1 commit
    • Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso's avatar
      [PATCH] uml: fixes performance regression in activate_mm and thus exec() · 1e40cd38
      Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
      Normally, activate_mm() is called from exec(), and thus it used to be a
      no-op because we use a completely new "MM context" on the host (for
      instance, a new process), and so we didn't need to flush any "TLB entries"
      (which for us are the set of memory mappings for the host process from the
      virtual "RAM" file).
      
      Kernel threads, instead, are usually handled in a different way.  So, when
      for AIO we call use_mm(), things used to break and so Benjamin implemented
      activate_mm().  However, that is only needed for AIO, and could slow down
      exec() inside UML, so be smart: detect being called for AIO (via
      PF_BORROWED_MM) and do the full flush only in that situation.
      
      Comment also the caller so that people won't go breaking UML without
      noticing.  I also rely on the caller's locks for testing current->flags.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      CC: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      1e40cd38
  7. 29 Jun, 2005 1 commit
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  9. 25 Apr, 2005 1 commit
  10. 16 Apr, 2005 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4