- 10 Mar, 2006 11 commits
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Christian Ehrhardt authored
Currently the code tries up to spin_retry times to grab a lock using the cs instruction. The cs instruction has exclusive access to a memory region and therefore invalidates the appropiate cache line of all other cpus. If there is contention on a lock this leads to cache line trashing. This can be avoided if we first check wether a cs instruction is likely to succeed before the instruction gets actually executed. Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@de.ibm.com> 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>
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Max Asbock authored
The kobject_put() can free the memory at *cmd, but cmd->lock points to a persistent lock that is not freed with cmd. Signed-off-by: Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com> Cc: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com> Cc: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
If the process has already set PF_MALLOC and is already using current->reclaim_state then do not try to reclaim memory from the zone. This is set by kswapd and/or synchrononous global reclaim which will not take it lightly if we zap the reclaim_state. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sig.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NeilBrown authored
- wrong test for 'is this a BARRIER bio' - not freeing on all possible paths. - using r1_bio after freeing it. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
/usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/mm/rmap.c: In function `page_referenced_one': /usr/src/ctest/git/kernel/mm/rmap.c:354: warning: implicit declaration of function `rwsem_is_locked' Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
arch/sh/Kconfig shouldn't source non-existing Kconfig files. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
Fix some bugs in mtd/jffs2 on 64bit platform. The MEMGETBADBLOCK/MEMSETBADBLOCK ioctl are not listed in compat_ioctl.h. And some variables in jffs2 are declared as uint32_t but used to hold size_t values. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ivan Kokshaysky authored
Fix a lockup which was introduced during the conversion to the generic IRQ framework. Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jean Delvare authored
ERR_PTR() is supposed to be passed a negative value. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.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>
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Doug Warzecha authored
smi_data_buf_free() references dcdbas_pdev when calling dma_free_coherent(). In dcdbas_exit(), smi_data_buf_free() is called after platform_device_unregister(dcdbas_pdev). This patch moves platform_device_unregister(dcdbas_pdev) after smi_data_buf_free() in dcdbas_exit(). Signed-off-by: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Hugh Dickins authored
Remove two early-development BUG_ONs from page_add_file_rmap. The pfn_valid test (originally useful for checking that nobody passed an artificial struct page) comes too late, since we already have the struct page. The PageAnon test (useful when anon was first distinguished from file rmap) prevents ->nopage implementations from reusing ->mapping, which would otherwise be available. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 09 Mar, 2006 14 commits
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Ralf Baechle authored
Some people still haven't heared that fp in the kernel is forbidden. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
This is gluing the build of cirrusfb but really the mess that would need cleaning and fixing is <video/vga.h> and <linux/vt_buffer.h> ... Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Found by make buildcheck. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
At times gcc will place bits of __exit functions into .rodata. If compiled into the kernle itself we used to discard .exit.text - but not the bits left in .rodata. While harmless this did at times result in a large number of warnings. So until gcc fixes this, discard .exit.text at runtime. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
In case a particular system doesn't support highmem the runtime checks will ensure nothing bad is going to happen. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards. When: June 2006 Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no users have complained indicating there is no more need for these boards. This should really be considered a last call. Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge: powerpc: Fix various syscall/signal/swapcontext bugs [PATCH] powerpc: incorrect rmo_top handling in prom_init [PATCH] powerpc: Fix incorrect pud_ERROR() message [PATCH] powerpc: Expose SMT and L1 icache snoop userland features [PATCH] powerpc: Fix windfarm_pm112 not starting all control loops [PATCH] powerpc: Fix old g5 issues with windfarm powerpc32: Fix timebase synchronization on 32-bit powermacs powerpc: Turn off verbose debug output in powermac platform functions powerpc: Fix might-sleep warning in program check exception handler
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Andi Kleen authored
The low level PCI DMA mapping functions should handle it in most cases. This should fix problems with depleting the DMA zone early. The old code used precious GFP_DMA memory in many cases where it was not needed. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled. This is because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU ends up processing it twice. This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0. I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds options to enable/disable too) Ported over from a similar x86-64 change. I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI. Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone. Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NET] compat ifconf: fix limits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: Merge branch 'work-fixes' V4L/DVB (3413): Typos grab bag of the month V4L/DVB (3403): Workaround to fix initialization for Nexus CA Merge branch 'work-fixes' V4L/DVB (3395): Fixed Pinnacle 300i DVB-T support V4L/DVB (3399): ELSA EX-VISION 500TV: fix incorrect PCI subsystem ID V4L/DVB (3382): Fix stv0297 for qam128 on tt c1500 (saa7146) V4L/DVB (3300a): Removing personal email from DVB maintainers V4L/DVB (3385): Dvb: fix __init/__exit section references in av7110 driver V4L/DVB (3378): Restore power on defaults of tda9887 after tda8290 probe V4L/DVB (3354): Fix maximum for the saturation and contrast controls. V4L/DVB (3352): Cxusb: fix lgdt3303 naming V4L/DVB (3348): Fixed saa7134 ALSA initialization with multiple cards V4L/DVB (3347): Pinnacle PCTV 40i: add filtered Composite2 input V4L/DVB (3341): Upstream sync - make 2 structs static V4L/DVB (3340): Make a struct static V4L/DVB (3337): Drivers/media/dvb/frontends/mt312.c: cleanups V4L/DVB (3336): Bt8xx documentation authors fix
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Randy Dunlap authored
A recent change to compat. dev_ifconf() in fs/compat_ioctl.c causes ifconf data to be truncated 1 entry too early when copying it to userspace. The correct amount of data (length) is returned, but the final entry is empty (zero, not filled in). The for-loop 'i' check should use <= to allow the final struct ifreq32 to be copied. I also used the ifconf-corruption program in kernel bugzilla #4746 to make sure that this change does not re-introduce the corruption. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 08 Mar, 2006 15 commits
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Michael Matz authored
While testing kexec and kdump we hit problems where the new kernel would freeze or instantly reboot. The easiest way to trigger it was to kexec a kernel compiled for CONFIG_M586 on an athlon cpu. Compiling for CONFIG_MK7 instead would work fine. The patch fixes a few problems with the kexec inline asm. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Matt Mackall authored
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Tested-by: Anders K. Pedersen <akp@cohaesio.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jack Steiner authored
kmem_cache_init() incorrectly assumes that the cache_cache object will fit in an order 0 allocation. On very large systems, this is not true. Change the code to try larger order allocations if order 0 fails. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Latchesar Ionkov authored
Miscellaneous fixes related to accessing uninitialized variables or memory that was already freed. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Shaohua Li authored
The x86_model calculation also applies for family 6. early_cpu_detect does the right thing, but generic_identify misses. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Horst Hummel authored
DASD allows to open a device as soon as gendisk is registered, which means the device is a fake device (capacity=0) and we do know nothing about blocksize and partitions at that point of time. In case the device is opened by someone, the bdev and inode creation is done with the fake device info and the following partition detection code is just using the wrong data. To avoid this modify the DASD state machine to make sure that the open is rejected until the device analysis is either finished or an unformatted device was detected. Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Martin Schwidefsky authored
The message limit on the iucv connect call for the smsg module is too low. Therefore increase the smsg message limit to 255. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Gerald Schaefer authored
strnlen_user is supposed to return then length count + 1 if no terminating \0 is found, and it should return 0 on exception. Found by David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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David Woodhouse authored
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Dipankar Sarma authored
I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc. The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up with a very fragmented slab - llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 587730 0 758844 At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following patch I fixes this problem. This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock. Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user. Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Dipankar Sarma authored
This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches. There are two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch (blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark, qlowmark). By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value. If the input RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX. Setting batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot. If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems anyway. Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the batch limit is set to the default. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Implement percpu_counter_sum(). This is a more accurate but slower version of percpu_counter_read_positive(). We need this for Alex's speedup-ext3_statfs patch and for the nr_file accounting fix. Otherwise these things would be too inaccurate on large CPU counts. Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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GOTO Masanori authored
Fix i386 nmi_watchdog that does not meet watchdog timeout condition. It does not hit die_nmi when it should be triggered, because the current nmi_watchdog_tick in arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c never count up alert_counter like this: void nmi_watchdog_tick (struct pt_regs * regs) { if (last_irq_sums[cpu] == sum) { alert_counter[cpu]++; <- count up alert_counter, but if (alert_counter[cpu] == 5*nmi_hz) die_nmi(regs, "NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP"); alert_counter[cpu] = 0; <- reset alert_counter This patch changes it back to the previous and working version. This was found and originally written by Kohta NAKASHIMA. (akpm: also uninline write_watchdog_counter(), saving 184 byets) Signed-off-by: GOTO Masanori <gotom@sanori.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
If the 'ptr' is a const, this code cause "assignment of read-only variable" error on gcc 4.x. Use __u64 instead of __typeof__(*(ptr)) for temporary variable to get rid of errors on gcc 4.x. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Idle threads should have a sane ->timestamp value, to avoid init kernel thread(s) from inheriting it and causing miscalculations in try_to_wake_up(). Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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