- 26 May, 2010 26 commits
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Chris Wilson authored
We can, by virtue of a vblank interrupt firing in the middle of setting up the unpin work (i.e. after we set the unpin_work field and before we write to the ringbuffer) enter intel_finish_page_flip() prior to receiving the pending flip notification. Therefore we can expect to hit intel_finish_page_flip() under normal circumstances without a pending flip and even without installing the pending_flip_obj. This is exacerbated by aperture thrashing whilst binding the framebuffer References: Bug 28079 - "glresize" causes kernel panic in intel_finish_page_flip. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28079Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Chris Wilson authored
References: Bug 15733 - Crash when accessing nonexistent GTT entries in i915 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15733 On G33 and above, the size of the GTT space is determined by the GMCH control register. Prior to this revision, the size is determined by the size of the aperture. So we must careful to map and fill the appropriate range depending on chipset. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Tobias Klauser authored
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5: The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent feature. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Jesse Barnes authored
Add power monitoring support to the i915 driver for use by the IPS driver. Export the available power info to the IPS driver through a few new inter-driver hooks. When used together, the IPS driver and this patch can significantly increase graphics performance on Ironlake class chips. Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> [anholt: Fixed 32-bit compile. stupid obfuscating div_u64()] Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Adam Jackson authored
Disable the CRT plug interrupt while doing the force cycle, explicitly clear any CRT interrupt we may have generated, and restore when done. Should mitigate interrupt storms from hotplug detection. Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Krzysztof Halasa authored
This doesn't change the clock limits (minimums), i.e. it won't make it output 720x576 PAL nor 720x480 NTSC, but it will work with modes like 1080i etc. (including GLX and textured Xvideo, not sure about the overlay). Tested on i915 + analog VGA, it would be worth checking if newer chips (and which ones) still support interlaced mode. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Daniel J Blueman authored
While investigating Intel i5 Arrandale GPU lockups with -rc4, I noticed a lock imbalance. Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Li Zefan authored
Convert i915_gem_object_clflush to DEFINE_EVENT, and save ~0.5K: text data bss dec hex filename 13204 2732 12 15948 3e4c i915_trace_points.o.orig 12668 2732 12 15412 3c34 i915_trace_points.o No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Jesse Barnes authored
FBC disable on 965 can take long enough to trigger latency checks in the kernel so be sure to timeout after a reasonable period. Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15015. Tested-by: James Ettle <theholyettlz@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Zou Nan hai authored
The BSD (bit stream decoder) ring is used for accessing the BSD engine which decodes video bitstream for H.264 and VC1 on G45+. It is asynchronous with the render ring and has access to separate parts of the GPU from it, though the render cache is coherent between the two. Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Xiang Hai hao <haihao.xiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Zou Nan hai authored
The active list and request list move into the ringbuffer structure, so each can track its active objects in the order they are in that ring. The flushing list does not, as it doesn't matter which ring caused data to end up in the render cache. Objects gain a pointer to the ring they are active on (if any). Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Xiang Hai hao <haihao.xiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Zou Nan hai authored
Introduces a more complete intel_ring_buffer structure with callbacks for setup and management of a particular ringbuffer, and converts the render ring buffer consumers to use it. Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Xiang Hai hao <haihao.xiang@intel.com> [anholt: Fixed up whitespace fail and rebased against prep patches] Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Eric Anholt authored
With the advent of the BSD ring, be clear about which ring this is. The docs are pretty consistent with calling this the Render engine at this point.
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Eric Anholt authored
This is preparation for supporting multiple ringbuffers on Ironlake. The non-copy-and-paste changes are: - de-staticing functions - I915_GEM_GPU_DOMAINS moving to i915_drv.h to be used by both files. - i915_gem_add_request had only half its implementation copy-and-pasted out of the middle of it.
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Chris Wilson authored
The i915's implementation of KMS requires GEM in order to manage the memory and execution domains of the framebuffer and associated resources. By the point at which we detect broken a BIOS and need to disable GEM, we have already registered ourselves as a KMS driver with several subsystems. Rather than introducing a fragile unwind and attempt to continue with UMS, spit out an error and unload the driver. References: [Bug 15754] IP: [<ffffffffa0207589>] drm_mm_search_free+0x49/0x90 [drm] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15754 [drm:i915_driver_load] *ERROR* Detected broken video BIOS with 262140/262144kB of video memory stolen. [drm:i915_driver_load] *ERROR* Disabling GEM. (try reducing stolen memory or updating the BIOS to fix). i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X [drm] set up 255M of stolen space BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffffa0207589>] drm_mm_search_free+0x49/0x90 [drm] PGD 69719067 PUD 69dda067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP last sysfs file: /sys/module/snd_seq_oss/initstate CPU 1 Pid: 867, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.33-ARCH #1 G43Twins-FullHD/To Be Filled By O.E.M. RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0207589>] [<ffffffffa0207589>] drm_mm_search_free+0x49/0x90 [drm] RSP: 0018:ffff8800699f3af8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffffffffff RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: ffff8800693d0f78 RBP: ffff8800699f3b18 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 2222222222222222 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880068de70c0 R13: 0000000000001000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8800689cb000 FS: 00007fa93f4e5700(0000) GS:ffff880001880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000695a0000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process modprobe (pid: 867, threadinfo ffff8800699f2000, task ffff8800694f4740) Stack: ffff880068de73c0 ffff880068de70c0 ffff8800689cb000 0000000000001000 <0> ffff8800699f3b68 ffffffffa0299f63 ffff8800693d0f78 0000120068de70c0 <0> ffff8800689cb000 ffff880068de73c0 ffff880068de70c0 ffff8800689cb000 Call Trace: [<ffffffffa0299f63>] i915_gem_object_bind_to_gtt+0x83/0x360 [i915] [<ffffffffa029a2e5>] i915_gem_object_pin+0xa5/0xb0 [i915] [<ffffffffa029a3c5>] i915_gem_init_ringbuffer+0xd5/0x510 [i915] [<ffffffffa028dbee>] i915_driver_load+0x4ce/0xd00 [i915] [<ffffffffa0205d37>] ? drm_sysfs_device_add+0x87/0xb0 [drm] [<ffffffffa0203363>] ? drm_get_minor+0x1d3/0x330 [drm] [<ffffffffa02037e6>] drm_get_dev+0x326/0x580 [drm] [<ffffffffa02bc0a5>] i915_pci_probe+0x10/0xd0 [i915] [<ffffffff811e98a2>] local_pci_probe+0x12/0x20 [<ffffffff811ea8e0>] pci_device_probe+0x80/0xb0 [<ffffffff8127b12a>] ? driver_sysfs_add+0x5a/0x90 [<ffffffff8127b273>] driver_probe_device+0x93/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8127b413>] __driver_attach+0x93/0xa0 [<ffffffff8127b380>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0xa0 [<ffffffff8127a8f8>] bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0x90 [<ffffffff8127b0c9>] driver_attach+0x19/0x20 [<ffffffff8127a0ad>] bus_add_driver+0xcd/0x2d0 [<ffffffff8127b718>] driver_register+0x78/0x140 [<ffffffff811eab91>] __pci_register_driver+0x51/0xd0 [<ffffffffa02d6000>] ? i915_init+0x0/0x52 [i915] [<ffffffffa01fdc31>] drm_init+0x111/0x120 [drm] [<ffffffff810eb0cd>] ? register_shrinker+0x4d/0x60 [<ffffffffa02d6000>] ? i915_init+0x0/0x52 [i915] [<ffffffffa02d6050>] i915_init+0x50/0x52 [i915] [<ffffffff81002047>] do_one_initcall+0x37/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8108ed17>] sys_init_module+0xd7/0x250 [<ffffffff81009fc2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: eb 29 49 8b 41 28 31 d2 49 f7 f5 85 d2 74 39 44 89 c0 29 d0 48 89 c2 48 01 f2 49 39 d2 73 29 0f 1f 00 49 89 da 4c 89 d3 4d 89 d9 <4d> 8b 19 49 39 f9 41 0f 18 0b 74 2b 4d 8b 51 30 4d 89 cc 49 39 RIP [<ffffffffa0207589>] drm_mm_search_free+0x49/0x90 [drm] RSP <ffff8800699f3af8> CR2: 0000000000000000 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus: squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layout squashfs: fix name reading in squashfs_xattr_get squashfs: constify xattr handlers squashfs: xattr fix sparse warnings squashfs: xattr_lookup sparse fix squashfs: add xattr support configure option squashfs: add new extended inode types squashfs: add support for xattr reading squashfs: add xattr id support
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hidLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: HID: roccat: fix build failure if built as module HID: roccat: propagate special events of roccat hardware to userspace HID: Add the GYR4101US USB ID to hid-gyration HID: fix hid-roccat-kone for bin_attr API change
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: emu10k1: allow high-resolution mixer controls ALSA: pcm: fix delta calculation at boundary wraparound ALSA: hda_intel: fix handling of non-completion stream interrupts ALSA: usb/caiaq: fix Traktor Kontrol X1 ABS_HAT2X axis ALSA: hda: Fix model quirk for Dell M1730 ALSA: hda - iMac9,1 sound fixes ALSA: hda: Use LPIB for Toshiba A100-259 ALSA: hda: Use LPIB for Acer Aspire 5110 ALSA: aw2-alsa.c: use pci_ids.h defines and fix checkpatch.pl noise ALSA: usb-audio: add support for Akai MPD16 ALSA: pcm: fix the fix of the runtime->boundary calculation
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit b3b77c8c, which was also totally broken (see commit 0d2daf5c that reverted the crc32 version of it). As reported by Stephen Rothwell, it causes problems on big-endian machines: > In file included from fs/jfs/jfs_types.h:33, > from fs/jfs/jfs_incore.h:26, > from fs/jfs/file.c:22: > fs/jfs/endian24.h:36:101: warning: "__LITTLE_ENDIAN" is not defined The kernel has never had that crazy "__BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN" model. It's not how we do things, and it isn't how we _should_ do things. So don't go there. Requested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wan ZongShun authored
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
It doesn't work on big-endian - those architectures don't define __LITTLE_ENDIAN. Cc: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
fs/fscache/object-list.c: In function 'fscache_objlist_lookup': fs/fscache/object-list.c:105: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bernd Schmidt authored
Slightly rearrange the logic that determines capabilities and vm_flags. Disable BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT in all cases if the device can't support the protections. Allow private readonly mappings of readonly backing devices. Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan Carpenter authored
The original code called mpol_put(new) while "new" was an ERR_PTR. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Phillip Lougher authored
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
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- 25 May, 2010 14 commits
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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: (63 commits) drivers/net/usb/asix.c: Fix pointer cast. be2net: Bug fix to avoid disabling bottom half during firmware upgrade. proc_dointvec: write a single value hso: add support for new products Phonet: fix potential use-after-free in pep_sock_close() ath9k: remove VEOL support for ad-hoc ath9k: change beacon allocation to prefer the first beacon slot sock.h: fix kernel-doc warning cls_cgroup: Fix build error when built-in macvlan: do proper cleanup in macvlan_common_newlink() V2 be2net: Bug fix in init code in probe net/dccp: expansion of error code size ath9k: Fix rx of mcast/bcast frames in PS mode with auto sleep wireless: fix sta_info.h kernel-doc warnings wireless: fix mac80211.h kernel-doc warnings iwlwifi: testing the wrong variable in iwl_add_bssid_station() ath9k_htc: rare leak in ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_tx_urbs() ath9k_htc: dereferencing before check in hif_usb_tx_cb() rt2x00: Fix rt2800usb TX descriptor writing. rt2x00: Fix failed SLEEP->AWAKE and AWAKE->SLEEP transitions. ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'alpha-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha-2.6: alpha: simplify and optimize sched_find_first_bit alpha: invoke oom-killer from page fault Convert alpha to use clocksources instead of arch_gettimeoffset
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit 480b02df, since Rafael reports that it causes occasional kernel paging request faults in load_module(). Dropping the module lock and re-taking it deep in the call-chain is definitely not the right thing to do. That just turns the mutex from a lock into a "random non-locking data structure" that doesn't actually protect what it's supposed to protect. Requested-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David S. Miller authored
Stephen Rothwell reports the following new warning: drivers/net/usb/asix.c: In function 'asix_rx_fixup': drivers/net/usb/asix.c:325: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size drivers/net/usb/asix.c:354: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size The code just cares about the low alignment bits, so use an "unsigned long" cast instead of one to "u32". Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Sarveshwar Bandi authored
Certain firmware commands/operations to upgrade firmware could take several seconds to complete. The code presently disables bottom half during these operations which could lead to unpredictable behaviour in certain cases. This patch now does all firmware upgrade operations asynchronously using a completion variable. Signed-off-by: Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwarb@serverengines.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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J. R. Okajima authored
The commit 00b7c339 "sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code" modified the behaviour of writing to /proc. Before the commit, write("1\n") to /proc/sys/kernel/printk succeeded. But now it returns EINVAL. This commit supports writing a single value to a multi-valued entry. Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> Reviewed-and-tested-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Filip Aben authored
This patch adds a few new product id's for the hso driver. Signed-off-by: Filip Aben <f.aben@option.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Rémi Denis-Courmont authored
sk_common_release() might destroy our last reference to the socket. So an extra temporary reference is needed during cleanup. Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Turner authored
Search only the first 100 bits instead of 140, saving a couple instructions. The resulting code is about 1/3 faster (40K ticks/1000 iterations down to 30K ticks/1000 iterations). Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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Nick Piggin authored
As explained in commit 1c0fe6e3, we want to call the architecture independent oom killer when getting an unexplained OOM from handle_mm_fault, rather than simply killing current. [mattst88: kill now unused 'survive' label] Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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John Stultz authored
Alpha has a tsc like rpcc counter that it uses to manage time. This can be converted to an actual clocksource instead of utilizing the arch_gettimeoffset method that is really only there for legacy systems with no continuous counter. Further cleanups could be made if alpha converted to the clockevent model. CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Tested-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
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Kay Sievers authored
This adds: alias: devname:<name> to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading of the kernel module when the device node is accessed. Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts. The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory: $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d1-dirty/modules.devname # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading. microcode cpu/microcode c10:184 fuse fuse c10:229 ppp_generic ppp c108:0 tun net/tun c10:200 dm_mod mapper/control c10:235 Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed: $ /sbin/udevd --debug ... static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235 udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666 udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666 A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor numbers. Note: The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance* device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used. This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :) Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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