- 22 Jul, 2007 40 commits
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Andi Kleen authored
This implements new vDSO for x86-64. The concept is similar to the existing vDSOs on i386 and PPC. x86-64 has had static vsyscalls before, but these are not flexible enough anymore. A vDSO is a ELF shared library supplied by the kernel that is mapped into user address space. The vDSO mapping is randomized for each process for security reasons. Doing this was needed for clock_gettime, because clock_gettime always needs a syscall fallback and having one at a fixed address would have made buffer overflow exploits too easy to write. The vdso can be disabled with vdso=0 It currently includes a new gettimeofday implemention and optimized clock_gettime(). The gettimeofday implementation is slightly faster than the one in the old vsyscall. clock_gettime is significantly faster than the syscall for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. The new calls are generally faster than the old vsyscall. Advantages over the old x86-64 vsyscalls: - Extensible - Randomized - Cleaner - Easier to virtualize (the old static address range previously causes overhead e.g. for Xen because it has to create special page tables for it) Weak points: - glibc support still to be written The VM interface is partly based on Ingo Molnar's i386 version. Includes compile fix from Joachim Deguara Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
gcc 4.3 supports a new __attribute__((__cold__)) to mark functions cold. Any path directly leading to a call of this function will be unlikely. And gcc will try to generate smaller code for the function itself. Please use with care. The code generation advantage isn't large and in most cases it is not worth uglifying code with this. This patch marks some common error functions like panic(), printk() as cold. This will longer term make many unlikely()s unnecessary, although we can keep them for now for older compilers. BUG is not marked cold because there is currently no way to tell gcc to mark a inline function told. Also all __init and __exit functions are marked cold. With a non -Os build this will tell the compiler to generate slightly smaller code for them. I think it currently only uses less alignments for labels, but that might change in the future. One disadvantage over *likely() is that they cannot be easily instrumented to verify them. Another drawback is that only the latest gcc 4.3 snapshots support this. Unfortunately we cannot detect this using the preprocessor. This means older snapshots will fail now. I don't think that's a problem because they are unreleased compilers that nobody should be using. gcc also has a __hot__ attribute, but I don't see any sense in using this in the kernel right now. But someday I hope gcc will be able to use more aggressive optimizing for hot functions even in -Os, if that happens it should be added. Includes compile fix from Thomas Gleixner. Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
The compiler generally generates reasonable inline code for the simple cases and for the rest it's better for code size for them to be out of line. Also there they can be potentially optimized more in the future. In fact they probably should be in a .S file because they're all pure assembly, but that's for another day. Also some code style cleanup on them while I was on it (this seems to be the last untouched really early Linux code) This saves ~12k text for a defconfig kernel with gcc 4.1. Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Jan asked to always use the builtin memcpy on gcc 4.3 mainline because it should generate better code than the old macro. Let's try it. Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
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David Rientjes authored
In acpi_scan_nodes(), we immediately return -1 if acpi_numa <= 0, meaning we haven't detected any underlying ACPI topology or we have explicitly disabled its use from the command-line with numa=noacpi. acpi_table_print_srat_entry() and acpi_table_parse_srat() are only referenced within drivers/acpi/numa.c, so we can mark them as static and remove their prototypes from the header file. Likewise, pxm_to_node_map[] and node_to_pxm_map[] are only used within drivers/acpi/numa.c, so we mark them as static and remove their externs from the header file. The automatic 'result' variable is unused in acpi_numa_init(), so it's removed. Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Use LOCAL_DISTANCE and REMOTE_DISTANCE in x86_64 ACPI code Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Otherwise smp_affinity would only update after the next interrupt on x86 systems. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Linux 64bit only uses the IO-APIC ID as an internal cookie. In the future there could be some cases where the IO-APIC IDs are not unique because they share an 8 bit space with CPUs and if there are enough CPUs it is difficult to get them that. But Linux needs the io apic ID internally for its data structures. Assign unique IO APIC ids on table parsing. TBD do for 32bit too Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
On x86_64, <asm/ptrace.h> uses __user but doesn't include <linux/compiler.h>. This could lead to build failures. Signed-off-by:
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
Fix a bug introduced with the CLFLUSH changes: we must always flush pages changed in cpa(), not just when they are reverted. Reenable CLFLUSH usage with that now (it was temporarily disabled for .22) Add some BUG_ONs Contains fixes from Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
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Andi Kleen authored
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
Set var->transp.offset and var->transp.length in 32bpp mode to indicate that the 8 otherwise unused bits can be used for transparency. Signed-off-by:
Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by:
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x57106): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:rivafb_setup (between 'rivafb_init' and 'nv3Busy') Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by:
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Nicolas Ferre authored
Fixes STN LCD support for the atmel_lcdfb framebuffer driver. This patch is the result of a work from Jan Altenberg and has been tested on a Hitachi SP06Q002 on at91sam9261ek. It adds a Kconfig switch that enables the proper LCD in the board configuration file (STN or TFT). The switch is used in arch/arm/mach-at91/at91sam9261_devices.c & board-sam9261ek.c as an example. This patch includes the "Fix wrong line_length calculation" little one from Jan and Haavard (submitted earlier). AT91 platform informations are directly submitted trough the at91 maintainer, here : http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/543158Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Hommel authored
This patch adds support for the Simtek STK17TA8 timekeeping chip. The STK17TA8 is quite similar to the DS1553, but differs in register layout and in various control bits in the registers. I chose to make this a new driver to avoid confusion in the code and to not get lost in #ifdefs. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Hommel <thomas.hommel@gefanuc.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by:
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Dale Farnsworth authored
We now read and write the century byte in the max6900 chip. We probably don't need to do so on Linux-only system, but it's necessary when the chip is shared by another OS that uses the century byte. Signed-off-by:
Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by:
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David Brownell authored
Various people have expressed surprise that their modular RTC drivers don't seem to work for initializing the system time at boot. To help avoid such unpleasantness, make the Kconfig text point out that the driver probably needs to be statically linked. Signed-off-by:
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by:
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by:
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
This patch fixes these sparse warnings: drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1742.c:265:2: warning: returning void-valued expression drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1553.c:409:2: warning: returning void-valued expression Signed-off-by:
Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Engelhardt authored
Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first. Signed-off-by:
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Acked-by:
Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Engelhardt authored
Unclutter the ISDN menu a tiny bit by moving ISDN4Linux and the CAPI2.0 layers into their own menu. Signed-off-by:
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Tilman Schmidt authored
Remove a menu statement and several dependencies from the Kconfig files in the drivers/isdn tree as they have become unnecessary by the transformation of CONFIG_ISDN from "menu, config" into "menuconfig". (Modified version of a patch originally proposed by Jan Engelhardt.) Signed-off-by:
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Acked-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x889735): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:scan_boardinfo (between 'spi_register_master' and '__unregister') Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Kerr authored
Reading from the signal{1,2} files requires a spu_acquire_saved, so make these files write-only for contexts created with SPU_CREATE_NOSCHED. Signed-off-by:Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Acked-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
ps3fb: Set FBINFO_READS_FAST to speed up text console scrolling (on average 50%, according to my tests) Signed-off-by:
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by:
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
ps3fb: Shrink the default virtual frame buffer size from 18 to 9 MiB, as nobody really uses the double buffering feature and Linux can use an additional 9 MiB. It can still be overridden on the kernel command line using `ps3fb=18M'. Signed-off-by:
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
ps3fb: VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING must be enabled to make console unbinding work, which is needed to give up all hypervisor resources before reboot or kexec. Signed-off-by:
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Geoff Levand authored
The PS3 bootwrapper files use instructions only available on 64-bit CPUs. Add the code generation directive '.machine "ppc64"' for toolchains configured for 32-bit CPUs. Signed-off-by:
Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by:
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
Add a FLASH ROM Storage Driver for the PS3: - Implemented as a misc character device driver - Uses a fixed 256 KiB buffer allocated from boot memory as the hypervisor requires the writing of aligned 256 KiB blocks Cc: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: -
Geert Uytterhoeven authored
Add a BD/DVD/CD-ROM Storage Driver for the PS3: - Implemented as a SCSI device driver - Uses software scatter-gather with a 64 KiB bounce buffer as the hypervisor doesn't support scatter-gather Cc: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: -
Geert Uytterhoeven authored
Add a Disk Storage Driver for the PS3: - Implemented as a block device driver with a dynamic major - Disk names (and partitions) are of the format ps3d%c(%u) - Uses software scatter-gather with a 64 KiB bounce buffer as the hypervisor doesn't support scatter-gather Cc: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by:Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mariusz Kozlowski authored
allnoconfig results in this: CC arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_32.o In file included from include/asm/tlb.h:60, from arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_32.c:30: include/asm-generic/tlb.h: In function 'tlb_flush_mmu': include/asm-generic/tlb.h:76: error: implicit declaration of function 'release_pages' include/asm-generic/tlb.h: In function 'tlb_remove_page': include/asm-generic/tlb.h:105: error: implicit declaration of function 'page_cache_release' Signed-off-by:Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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Oliver Neukum authored
freezing-of-tasks.txt mentions firmware issues without mentioning the use of the new notifier API to overcome them. Here's an update. Signed-off-by:
Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Acked-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by:
Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by:
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Matt Mackall authored
The version of SLOB in -mm always scans its free list from the beginning, which results in small allocations and free segments clustering at the beginning of the list over time. This causes the average search to scan over a large stretch at the beginning on each allocation. By starting each page search where the last one left off, we evenly distribute the allocations and greatly shorten the average search. Without this patch, kernel compiles on a 1.5G machine take a large amount of system time for list scanning. With this patch, compiles are within a few seconds of performance of a SLAB kernel with no notable change in system time. Signed-off-by:
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Now that arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/fault.c is always built in the kernel there is no need to export handle_mm_fault anymore. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xb6a7): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:find_num_cache_leaves (between 'init_intel_cacheinfo' and 'cache_shared_cpu_map_setup') It could be __init_refok, but gcc >= 4.0 anyway inlines it into the __cpuinit init_intel_cacheinfo(), and IMHO it's too small for "noinline __init". Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
The patch is necessary on one of my boxen, where programming the stop sequence twice leads to PIT malfunction. Sigh ! Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
i386 and sparc64 have the identical code to update the cmos clock. Move it into kernel/time/ntp.c as there are other architectures coming along with the same requirements. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Speedup hrtimer_enqueue by evaluating the rbtree insertion result. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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