- 10 Nov, 2007 5 commits
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Rolf Eike Beer authored
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
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Chuck Ebbert authored
[ jdike - Pushing Chuck's patch - see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/16/261 for some history and a test program. UML is also broken without this patch - its processes get SIGBUS from the corrupt 6th argument to mmap being interpretted as a file offset ] When the 32-bit vDSO is used to make a system call, the %ebp register for the 6th syscall arg has to be loaded from the user stack (where it's pushed by the vDSO user code). The native i386 kernel always does this before stopping for syscall tracing, so %ebp can be seen and modified via ptrace to access the 6th syscall argument. The x86-64 kernel fails to do this, presenting the stack address to ptrace instead. This makes the %rbp value seen by 64-bit ptrace of a 32-bit process, and the %ebp value seen by a 32-bit caller of ptrace, both differ from the native i386 behavior. This patch fixes the problem by putting the word loaded from the user stack into %rbp before calling syscall_trace_enter, and reloading the 6th syscall argument from there afterwards (so ptrace can change it). This makes the behavior match that of i386 kernels. Original-Patch-By: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Roland McGrath authored
The addr argument to PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA and PTRACE_SET_THREAD_AREA is not a magic constant. It's derived from the segment register values being used, which are computed originally from the index used with set_thread_area. The value does not need to match what a native i386 kernel would accept. It needs to match the segment selectors that can actually be in use in this 32-bit process. The 64-bit ptrace support for PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA (normally used only on 32-bit processes) is correct, but the 32-bit emulation of ptrace is broken. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Use struct boot_params instead of PARAM + 0xoffsets. Fixes one of many Voyager build problems. arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c:543: error: 'PARAM' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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David Miller authored
compat_exit_robust_list() computes a pointer to the futex entry in userspace as follows: (void __user *)entry + futex_offset 'entry' is a 'struct robust_list __user *', and 'futex_offset' is a 'compat_long_t' (typically a 's32'). Things explode if the 32-bit sign bit is set in futex_offset. Type promotion sign extends futex_offset to a 64-bit value before adding it to 'entry'. This triggered a problem on sparc64 running 32-bit applications which would lock up a cpu looping forever in the fault handling for the userspace load in handle_futex_death(). Compat userspace runs with address masking (wherein the cpu zeros out the top 32-bits of every effective address given to a memory operation instruction) so the sparc64 fault handler accounts for this by zero'ing out the top 32-bits of the fault address too. Since the kernel properly uses the compat_uptr interfaces, kernel side accesses to compat userspace work too since they will only use addresses with the top 32-bit clear. Because of this compat futex layer bug we get into the following loop when executing the get_user() load near the top of handle_futex_death(): 1) load from address '0xfffffffff7f16bd8', FAULT 2) fault handler clears upper 32-bits, processes fault for address '0xf7f16bd8' which succeeds 3) goto #1 I want to thank Bernd Zeimetz, Josip Rodin, and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto for their tireless efforts helping me track down this bug. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 09 Nov, 2007 35 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] IOSAPIC bogus error cleanup [IA64] Update printing of feature set bits [IA64] Fix IOSAPIC delivery mode setting [IA64] XPC heartbeat timer function must run on CPU 0 [IA64] Clean up /proc/interrupts output [IA64] Disable/re-enable CPE interrupts on Altix [IA64] Clean-up McKinley Errata message [IA64] Add gate.lds to list of files ignored by Git [IA64] Fix section mismatch in contig.c version of per_cpu_init() [IA64] Wrong args to memset in efi_gettimeofday() [IA64] Remove duplicate includes from ia32priv.h [IA64] fix number of bytes zeroed by sys_fw_init() in arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c [IA64] Fix perfmon sysctl directory modes
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-schedLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: sched: proper prototype for kernel/sched.c:migration_init() sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing sched: fix copy_namespace() <-> sched_fork() dependency in do_fork sched: clean up the wakeup preempt check, #2 sched: clean up the wakeup preempt check sched: wakeup preemption fix sched: remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT sched: turn off PREEMPT_RESTRICT KVM: fix !SMP build error x86: make nmi_cpu_busy() always defined x86: make ipi_handler() always defined sched: cleanup, use NSEC_PER_MSEC and NSEC_PER_SEC sched: reintroduce SMP tunings again sched: restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc sched: fix delay accounting regression sched: reintroduce the sched_min_granularity tunable sched: documentation: place_entity() comments sched: fix vslice
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (26 commits) sh: remove dead config symbols from SH code sh: Kill off broken snapgear ds1302 code. sh: Add a dummy vga.h. rtc: rtc-sh: Zero out tm value for invalid rtc states. rtc: sh-rtc: Handle rtc_device_register() failure properly. sh: Fix heartbeart on Solution Engine series sh: Remove SCI_NPORTS from sh-sci.h sh: Fix up PAGE_KERNEL_PCC() for nommu. sh: hs7751rvoip: Kill off dead IPR IRQ mappings. sh: hs7751rvoip: irq.c needs linux/interrupt.h. sh: Kill off __{copy,clear}_user_page(). sh: Optimized copy_{to,from}_user_page() for SH-4. sh: Wire up clear_user_highpage(). sh: Kill off the remaining ST40 cruft. superhyway: Handle device_register() retval properly. sh: kgdb sysrq depends on magic sysrq. sh: Add -Werror for clean directories. sh: Fix up kgdb build with modular sh-sci. sh: Export __{s,u}divsi3_i4i on all CPUs. sh: Fix up kgdb-on-NMI branch target. ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] pxa: fix one-shot timer mode [ARM] 4645/1: Cyberpro: Trivial fix to restore 16bpp mode. [ARM] 4644/2: fix flush_kern_tlb_range() in module space [ARM] Allow watchdog drivers to be selected again [ARM] 4633/1: omap build fix when FB enabled [ARM] 4642/2: netX: default config for netx based boards [ARM] 4641/2: netX: fix kobject_name type [ARM] Fix iop3xx macro
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: [LIB] crc32c: Keep intermediate crc state in cpu order
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Add UNPLUG traces to all appropriate places block: fix requeue handling in blk_queue_invalidate_tags() mmc: Fix sg helper copy-and-paste error pktcdvd: fix BUG caused by sysfs module reference semantics change ioprio: allow sys_ioprio_set() value of 0 to reset ioprio setting cfq_idle_class_timer: add paranoid checks for jiffies overflow cfq: fix IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE delays cfq: fix IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE accounting
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (37 commits) [POWERPC] EEH: Make sure warning message is printed [POWERPC] Make altivec code in swsusp_32.S depend on CONFIG_ALTIVEC [POWERPC] windfarm: Fix windfarm thread freezer interaction [POWERPC] Fix si_addr value on low level hash failures [POWERPC] Refresh ppc64_defconfig and enable pasemi-related options [POWERPC] pasemi: Update defconfig [POWERPC] iSeries: Fix ref counting in vio setup [POWERPC] ] Fix memset size error [POWERPC] Fix link errors for allyesconfig [POWERPC] iSeries_init_IRQ non-PCI tidy [POWERPC] Change fallocate to match unistd.h on powerpc [POWERPC] EEH: Avoid crash on null device [POWERPC] EEH: Drivers that need reset trump others [POWERPC] EEH: Clean up comments [POWERPC] Fix off-by-one error in setting decrementer on Book E/4xx (v2) [POWERPC] Fix switch_slb handling of 1T ESID values [POWERPC] Fix build failure when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined [POWERPC] Include udbg.h when using udbg_printf [POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion [POWERPC] Fix sysctl table check failure on PowerMac ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: ocfs2: fix rename vs unlink race [PATCH] Fix possibly too long write in o2hb_setup_one_bio() ocfs2: fix write() performance regression ocfs2: Commit journal on sync writes ocfs2: Re-order iput in ocfs2_drop_dentry_lock ocfs2: Create locks at initially requested level [PATCH] Fix priority mistakes in fs/ocfs2/{alloc.c, dlmglue.c} [2.6 patch] make ocfs2_find_entry_el() static
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Alan Cox authored
The old NO_IRQ define some platforms had was long ago declared obsolete and wrong. FRV should therefore not be re-introducing this, especially as IRQs are usually unsigned in the kernel. The "no IRQ" case is defined to be zero and Linus made this rather clear at the time. arch/frv shows no dependancy on this but it might show up driver fixes needing doing I guess Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Use "is_power_of_2" macro for simplicity. [SPARC]: Remove duplicate includes.
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (44 commits) [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts [INET]: Remove per bucket rwlock in tcp/dccp ehash table. [IPVS]: Synchronize closing of Connections [IPVS]: Bind connections on stanby if the destination exists [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/pt.txt [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/routing.txt [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet [NET]: Remove comx driver docs. [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/Configurable [NET]: Clean proto_(un)register from in-code ifdefs [IPSEC]: Fix crypto_alloc_comp error checking [VLAN]: Fix SET_VLAN_INGRESS_PRIORITY_CMD ioctl [NETNS]: Fix compiler error in net_namespace.c [TTY]: Use tty_mode_ioctl() in network drivers. [TTY]: Fix network driver interactions with TCGET/SET calls. [PKT_SCHED] CLS_U32: Fix endianness problem with u32 classifier hash masks. [NET]: Removing duplicit #includes [NET]: Let USB_USBNET always select MII. [RRUNNER]: Do not muck with sysctl_{r,w}mem_max [DLM] lowcomms: Do not muck with sysctl_rmem_max. ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: firewire: fw-sbp2: fix refcounting
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6: SELinux: add more validity checks on policy load SELinux: fix bug in new ebitmap code. SELinux: suppress a warning for 64k pages.
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David Howells authored
Remove the section annotation on FRV's free_initmem(). It can't be marked __init, lest it free itself. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch adds a proper prototype for migration_init() in include/linux/sched.h Since there's no point in always returning 0 to a caller that doesn't check the return value it also changes the function to return void. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
SMP balancing is done with IRQs disabled and can iterate the full rq. When rqs are large this can cause large irq-latencies. Limit the nr of iterations on each run. This fixes a scheduling latency regression reported by the -rt folks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Tested-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Srivatsa Vaddagiri authored
Sukadev Bhattiprolu reported a kernel crash with control groups. There are couple of problems discovered by Suka's test: - The test requires the cgroup filesystem to be mounted with atleast the cpu and ns options (i.e both namespace and cpu controllers are active in the same hierarchy). # mkdir /dev/cpuctl # mount -t cgroup -ocpu,ns none cpuctl (or simply) # mount -t cgroup none cpuctl -> Will activate all controllers in same hierarchy. - The test invokes clone() with CLONE_NEWNS set. This causes a a new child to be created, also a new group (do_fork->copy_namespaces->ns_cgroup_clone-> cgroup_clone) and the child is attached to the new group (cgroup_clone-> attach_task->sched_move_task). At this point in time, the child's scheduler related fields are uninitialized (including its on_rq field, which it has inherited from parent). As a result sched_move_task thinks its on runqueue, when it isn't. As a solution to this problem, I moved sched_fork() call, which initializes scheduler related fields on a new task, before copy_namespaces(). I am not sure though whether moving up will cause other side-effects. Do you see any issue? - The second problem exposed by this test is that task_new_fair() assumes that parent and child will be part of the same group (which needn't be as this test shows). As a result, cfs_rq->curr can be NULL for the child. The solution is to test for curr pointer being NULL in task_new_fair(). With the patch below, I could run ns_exec() fine w/o a crash. Reported-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
clean up the preemption check to not use unnecessary 64-bit variables. This improves code size: text data bss dec hex filename 44227 3326 36 47589 b9e5 sched.o.before 44201 3326 36 47563 b9cb sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
clean up the wakeup preemption check. No code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 44227 3326 36 47589 b9e5 sched.o.before 44227 3326 36 47589 b9e5 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
wakeup preemption fix: do not make it dependent on p->prio. Preemption purely depends on ->vruntime. This improves preemption in mixed-nice-level workloads. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT. (this is a separate commit so that any regression related to the removal itself is bisectable) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
PREEMPT_RESTRICT was a method aimed at reducing the amount of wakeup related preemption. It has a disadvantage though, it can prevent legitimate wakeups if a task is 'unlucky' to be hit too early by a tick that clears peer_preempt. Now that the wakeup preemption has been cleaned up we dont seem to have excessive preemptions anymore, so this feature can be turned off. (and removed in the next patch) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
fix a !SMP build error: drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c: In function 'kvm_flush_remote_tlbs': drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c:220: error: implicit declaration of function 'smp_call_function_mask' (and also avoid unused function warning related to up_smp_call_function() not making use of the 'func' parameter.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
nmi_cpu_busy() must be available on !SMP too. this is in preparation to a smp_call_function_mask() fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
prepare for up_smp_call_function() to ensure that the 'func' pointer is unused. (which is related to a KVM build fix) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Eric Dumazet authored
1) hardcoded 1000000000 value is used five times in places where NSEC_PER_SEC might be more readable. 2) A conversion from nsec to msec uses the hardcoded 1000000 value, which is a candidate for NSEC_PER_MSEC. no code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 44359 3326 36 47721 ba69 sched.o.before 44359 3326 36 47721 ba69 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Yanmin Zhang reported an aim7 regression and bisected it down to: | commit 38ad464d | Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | Date: Mon Oct 15 17:00:02 2007 +0200 | | sched: uniform tunings | | use the same defaults on both UP and SMP. fix this by reintroducing similar SMP tunings again. This resolves the regression. (also update the comments to match the ilog2(nr_cpus) tuning effect) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Since powerpc started using CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, the deterministic CPU accounting (CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING) has been broken on powerpc, because we end up counting user time twice: once in timer_interrupt() and once in update_process_times(). This fixes the problem by pulling the code in update_process_times that updates utime and stime into a separate function called account_process_tick. If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined, there is a version of account_process_tick in kernel/timer.c that simply accounts a whole tick to either utime or stime as before. If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is defined, then arch code gets to implement account_process_tick. This also lets us simplify the s390 code a bit; it means that the s390 timer interrupt can now call update_process_times even when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is turned on, and can just implement a suitable account_process_tick(). account_process_tick() now takes the task_struct * as an argument. Tested both with and without CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Balbir Singh authored
Fix the delay accounting regression introduced by commit 75d4ef16. rq no longer has sched_info data associated with it. task_struct sched_info structure is used by delay accounting to provide back statistics to user space. also remove direct use of sched_clock() (which is not a valid thing to do anymore) and use rq->clock instead. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
we lost the sched_min_granularity tunable to a clever optimization that uses the sched_latency/min_granularity ratio - but the ratio is quite unintuitive to users and can also crash the kernel if the ratio is set to 0. So reintroduce the min_granularity tunable, while keeping the ratio maintained internally. no functionality changed. [ mingo@elte.hu: some fixlets. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Add a few comments to place_entity(). No code changed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
vslice was missing a factor NICE_0_LOAD, as weight is in weight*NICE_0_LOAD units. the effect of this bug was larger initial slices and thus latency-noisier forks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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George Beshers authored
On Altix (sn2) machines the "Error parsing MADT" message is misleading because the lack of IOSAPIC entries is expected. Since I am sure someone will ask, I have been told that the chance of this changing anytime soon is close to nil. Signed-off-by: George Beshers <gbeshers@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Russ Anderson authored
Newer Itanium versions have added additional processor feature set bits. This patch prints all the implemented feature set bits. Some bit descriptions have not been made public. For those bits, a generic "Feature set X bit Y" message is printed. Bits that are not implemented will no longer be printed. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Kenji Kaneshige authored
Fix the problem that redirect hit bit in I/O SAPIC RTE is set even when it must be disabled (e.g. nointroute boot option is set, CPU hotplug is enabled or percpu vector is enabled). Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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