- 29 Oct, 2002 40 commits
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Brian Gerst authored
It was copied from i386 and is unused.
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Christoph Hellwig authored
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Brian Gerst authored
This fixes PTRACE_GETFPREGS to initilize the fpu struct correctly on cpus with fxsr, as well as removing redundant code.
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Alexander Viro authored
- fixes an idiocy with floppy_find() et.al. - they forgot to set *part to 0. As the result, open() on anything other than fd0 had lead to interesting effects... - fixes off-by-1 in set_disk_ro().
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Linus Torvalds authored
implementation. The optimized versions only work for large areas, make sure we don't use them for anything else.
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Linus Torvalds authored
configuration system, and instead just cleanly show the dependency.
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Christoph Hellwig authored
The ifdef <actual cpu selection> is very bad style, we usually introduce feature CONFIG_ options in config.in instead.
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bk://linuxusb.bkbits.net/pci_hp-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
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bk://linuxusb.bkbits.net/pnp-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
into kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/pci_hp-2.5
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Hirofumi Ogawa authored
- cleanup - remove unneeded mark_inode_dirty() in fat_extend_dir()
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Hirofumi Ogawa authored
This removes fat_cvf stuff, and adds printk() level. As far as I know, all the challengers gave up porting of fat_cvf. (This patch from Christoph Hellwig)
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Hirofumi Ogawa authored
This removes the conv option. This option does nothing, now. (This patch from René Scharfe)
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
into kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/pnp-2.5
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Robert Love authored
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http://gkernel.bkbits.net/misc-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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http://gkernel.bkbits.net/net-drivers-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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http://jfs.bkbits.net/linux-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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http://linux-sound.bkbits.net/linux-soundLinus Torvalds authored
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Jaroslav Kysela authored
- ICE1712 - fixed Midiman M-audio Delta1010LT code - fixed typos in comments (es1938, intel8x0) - fixed quirks for Edirol UA-20 and UA-700 (USB driver)
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http://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5Jaroslav Kysela authored
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Jens Axboe authored
Right now, various fields in struct request are just scattered throughout the struct. This makes for bad cache behaviour. This patch puts commonly referenced together fiels in the same cache lines and also removes the prefetches in deadline_merge(). The latter was actually hurting performance here now that struct request is sanely laid out wrt cache. This is worth ~40% less deadline_merge() runtime during disk intensive tests!
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Jens Axboe authored
Move the export to block/scsi_ioctl.c as well.
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Jens Axboe authored
block/scsi_ioctl.c uses scsi_command_size[] to get from opcode to length of cdb, but that is only available with SCSI enabled. Move to block/scsi_ioctl.c from scsi/scsi.c.
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Jens Axboe authored
When someone deleted scsi_merge, they also killed the fixes I sent to you earlier...
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Andrew Morton authored
- add locking comments to do_mmap_pgoff(), filemap.c - used unsigned long for cpu flags in aio.c (Andi) - An x86-64 typo fix from Andi. - Fix a tpyo - Fix an unused var warning in the stack overflow check code - mptlan compile fix (Rasmus Andersen) - Update misleading comment in ia32 highmem.c - "attempting to mount an ext3 fs on a stopped md/raid1 array caused a divide by 0 error in ext3_fill_super. Fix duplicates check already in ext2." - Angus Sawyer <angus.sawyer@dsl.pipex.com> - Someone changed the return type of inl() again! Fix up compiler warnings in 3c59x.c again.
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Andrew Morton authored
There's no need to take down pagecache after performing direct-IO reads from a file or a blockdevice. And when using direct access to a blockdev which has a filesystem mounted it creates unnecessary disturbance of filesystem activity.
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Andrew Morton authored
From Ingo - performance optimization: do not kill threads in the same thread group as the OOM-ing thread. (it's still necessery to scan over every thread though, as it's possible to have CLONE_VM threads in a different thread group - we do not want those to escape the OOM-kill.) - to not let newly created child threads slip out of the group-kill. Note that the 2.4 kernel's OOM handler has the same problem, and it could be the reason why forkbombs occasionally slip out of the OOM kill.
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Andrew Morton authored
shrink_slab() wants to calculate nr_scanned_pages * seeks_per_object * entries_in_slab / nr_lru_pages entries_in_slab and nr_lru_pages can vary a lot. There is a potential for 32-bit overflows. I spent ages trying to avoid corner cases which cause a significant lack of precision while preserving some clarity. Gave up and used do_div(). The code is called rarely - at most once per 128 kbytes of reclaim. The patch adds a tweak to balance_pgdat() to reduce the call rate to shrink_slab() in the case where the zone is just a little bit below pages_high. Also increase SHRINK_BATCH. The things we're shrinking are typically a few hundred bytes, and a batchcount of 128 gives us a minimum of ten pages or so per shrinking callout.
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Andrew Morton authored
There's more work to do on these, for well-aligned copies. Arjan has some stuff for that. First step on that path is to clean the code up, get it uninlined and have a framework for making per-CPU-type decisions.
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Andrew Morton authored
This patch speeds up copy_*_user for some Intel ia32 processors. It is based on work by Mala Anand. It is a good win. Around 30% for all src/dest alignments except 32/32. In this test a fully-cached one gigabyte file was read into an 8192-byte userspace buffer using read(fd, buf, 8192). The alignment of the user-side buffer was altered between runs. This is a PIII. Times are in seconds. User buffer 2.5.41 2.5.41+ patch++ 0x804c000 4.373 4.343 0x804c001 10.024 6.401 0x804c002 10.002 6.347 0x804c003 10.013 6.328 0x804c004 10.105 6.273 0x804c005 10.184 6.323 0x804c006 10.179 6.322 0x804c007 10.185 6.319 0x804c008 9.725 6.347 0x804c009 9.780 6.275 0x804c00a 9.779 6.355 0x804c00b 9.778 6.350 0x804c00c 9.723 6.351 0x804c00d 9.790 6.307 0x804c00e 9.790 6.289 0x804c00f 9.785 6.294 0x804c010 9.727 6.277 0x804c011 9.779 6.251 0x804c012 9.783 6.246 0x804c013 9.786 6.245 0x804c014 9.772 6.063 0x804c015 9.919 6.237 0x804c016 9.920 6.234 0x804c017 9.918 6.237 0x804c018 9.846 6.372 0x804c019 10.060 6.294 0x804c01a 10.049 6.328 0x804c01b 10.041 6.337 0x804c01c 9.931 6.347 0x804c01d 10.013 6.273 0x804c01e 10.020 6.346 0x804c01f 10.016 6.356 0x804c020 4.442 4.366 So `rep;movsl' is slower at all non-cache-aligned offsets. PII is using the PIII alignment. I don't have a PII any more, but I do recall that it demonstrated the same behaviour as the PIII. The patch contains an enhancement (based on careful testing) from Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp>. In cases where source and dest have the same alignment, but that aligment is poor, we do a short copy of a few bytes to bring the two pointers onto a favourable boundary and then do the big copy. And also a bugfix from Hirokazu Takahashi. As an added bonus, this patch decreases the kernel text by 28 kbytes. 22k of this in in .text and the rest in __ex_table. I'm not really sure why .text shrunk so much. These copy routines have no special-case for constant-sized copies. So a lot of uaccess.h becomes dead code with this patch. The next patch which uninlines the copy_*_user functions cleans all that up and saves an additional 5k.
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Andrew Morton authored
From Rik. "this trivial patch, against 2.5-current, exports nr_running and nr_iowait_tasks in /proc/stat. With this patch in vmstat will no longer need to walk all the processes in the system just to determine the number of running and blocked processes."
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Andrew Morton authored
When performing lookups against very sparse trees radix_tree_gang_lookup fails to find nodes "far" to the right of the start point. Because it only understands sparseness in the leaf nodes, not the intermediate nodes. Nobody noticed this because all callers are incrementing the start index as they walk the tree. Change it to terminate the search when it really has inspected the last possible node for the current tree's height.
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Andrew Morton authored
Sort-of-but-not-really from High Dickins. We're doing a lot of buslocked operations in the page allocator just for debug. Plus when they _do_ trigger, there are so many BUG_ONs in there that it's rather hard to work out from user reports which one actually triggered. So redo all that and also print out some more useful info about the page state before taking the machine out. (And yes, we need to take the machine out. Incorrect page handling in there can cause file corruption).
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Andrew Morton authored
Provide a function in core kernel to initialise a file_ra_state structure. Perviously this was all taken care of by the fact that new struct file's are all zeroed out. But now a file_ra_state may be independently allocated, and we don't want users of it to have to know how to initialise it.
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Andrew Morton authored
Mainly from Badari Pulavarty Traditionally we have only supported O_DIRECT I/O at an alignment and granularity which matches the underlying filesystem. That typically means that all IO must be 4k-aligned and a multiple of 4k in size. Here, we relax that so that direct I/O happens with (typically) 512-byte alignment and multiple-of-512-byte size. The tricky part is when a write starts and/or ends partway through a filesystem block which has just been added. We need to zero out the parts of that block which lie outside the written region. We handle that by putting appropriately-sized parts of the ZERO_PAGE into sepatate BIOs. The generic_direct_IO() function has been changed so that the filesystem must pass in the address of the block_device against which the IO is to be performed. I'd have preferred to not do this, but we do need that info at that time so that alignment checks can be performed. If the filesystem passes in a NULL block_device pointer then we fall back to the old behaviour - must align with the fs blocksize. There is no trivial way for userspace to know what the minimum alignment is - it depends on what bdev_hardsect_size() says about the device. It is _usually_ 512 bytes, but not always. This introduces the risk that someone will develop and test applications which work fine on their hardware, but will fail on someone else's hardware. It is possible to query the hardsect size using the BLKSSZGET ioctl against the backing block device. This can be performed at runtime or at application installation time.
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