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215 Commits

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Jan Engelhardt
872e2be7c4 [SPARC]: Constify function pointer tables.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-22 18:29:20 -08:00
David S. Miller
000775c50a [SPARC]: Make gettimeofday() monotonic again.
When we switched away from the optimized C version
things stopped being monotonic.

The problem is that if we run this with interrupts disabled, we can
see the interrupt pending because the counter reached the limit value.
When this happens the counter has bit 31 set, and the low bits start
counting again from zero.

Reported by Martin Habets.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-12 21:52:15 -08:00
Joe Perches
5b2afff23a [SPARC32]: Spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-20 13:55:45 -08:00
Julia Lawall
b127aa8baf [SPARC]: Add missing of_node_put
There should be an of_node_put when breaking out of a loop that iterates
using for_each_node_by_type.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-05 05:38:00 -08:00
Joe Perches
794b26e060 [SPARC]: Add missing "space"
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-05 05:37:58 -08:00
Lucas Woods
9c969ffe1f [SPARC]: Remove duplicate includes.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Woods <woodzy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-06 21:23:11 -08:00
David S. Miller
64d329eec0 [SPARC32]: __inline__ --> inline
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-27 00:17:01 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
7c2399756a [SPARC, XEN, NET/CXGB3] use irq_handler_t where appropriate
Rather than hand-rolling our own prototype, make the code more
future-proof by using the standard irq_handler_t typedef.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2007-10-23 19:53:17 -04:00
Jens Axboe
58b053e4ce Update arch/ to use sg helpers
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-22 21:19:59 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
19c5870c0e Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks (arch code)
One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log.
There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes
so for arch/xxx files.

It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the
printks in arch code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
b488893a39 pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user
This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.

The idea is:
 - all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
   or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
 - when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
   should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
 - when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
   should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
   task's namespace the global one is to be used;
 - when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
   the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
5c45708352 [SPARC/64]: Consolidate of_register_driver
Also of_unregister_driver.  These will be shortly also used by the
PowerPC code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 21:17:42 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
cba4fbbff2 remove include/asm-*/ipc.h
All asm/ipc.h files do only #include <asm-generic/ipc.h>.

This patch therefore removes all include/asm-*/ipc.h files and moves the
contents of include/asm-generic/ipc.h to include/linux/ipc.h.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Jens Axboe
0912a5db0e SPARC: sg chaining support
This updates the sparc iommu/pci dma mappers to sg chaining.

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 11:27:32 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell
a2cd15586e [SPARC/64]: Move of_platform_driver initialisations: arch/sparc{,64}.
We no longer initialise the name field of the of_platform_driver, but
use the name field of the embedded device_driver's name field instead.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-13 21:53:12 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
fa7744dbb6 [SPARC/64]: Prepare to remove of_platform_driver name.
The name field of of_platform_driver is just copied into the
included device_driver.  By not overriding an already initialised
device_driver name, we can convert the drivers over time to stop using
the of_platform_driver name.

Also we were not copying the owner field from of_platform_driver, so do
the same with it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-13 21:53:11 -07:00
Robert Reif
e8dd16129f [SPARC32]: Add irqflags.h to sparc32 and use it from generic code.
Added asm-sparc/irqflags.h and moved irq related code from system.h to it.
Renamed local_irq functions to raw_local_irq in irq.c.
Modified system.h to include linux/irqflags.h which includes asm/irqflags.h.
Added TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT to Kconfig.debug.

This is the first step in adding IRQ-flags state tracing as outlined in
Documentation/irqflags-tracing.txt.  These changes should be harmless
because they just move things around and rename them.

The next step is making the lowlevel entry code modifications which
to be honest are beyond my capabilities at this point.

Boot tested on an ss20 running an SMP kernel.

Signed-off-by: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-13 21:53:11 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
bcbe40ebdd [SPARC]: beautify vmlinux.lds
Make vmlinux.lds almost readable.
When going through the file fixed the following:
- Use PAGE_SIZE as replacement for hardcoded 4096
- Moves label definitions inside {} to avoid ld alignment
  that may be added between label and section

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-13 21:53:10 -07:00
David S. Miller
9c908f97d0 [SPARC]: Fix EBUS use of uninitialized variable.
If of_get_property() fails, it returns NULL and the 'len'
parameter is undefined.  So we need to explicitly set len
to zero in such cases.

Noticed by Al Viro.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-27 13:09:28 -07:00
Robert Reif
3ac4c949e0 [SPARC32]: Remove iommu from struct sbus_bus and use archdata like sparc64.
Signed-off-by: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-10 15:52:06 -07:00
David S. Miller
46bcea7751 [SPARC]: Centralize find_in_proplist() instead of duplicating N times.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-07 18:46:36 -07:00
David S. Miller
0a808a3131 [SPARC32]: Fix modular build of floppy driver.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-03 14:08:42 -07:00
David S. Miller
f623f388e4 [SPARC]: Fix serial console node string creation.
The string setting code depends upon the original value of the
"skip" variable, not the one that gets modified by the node
traversal loop.

Based upon a patch by Mark Fortescue.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-30 00:27:37 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
4e950f6f01 Remove fs.h from mm.h
Remove fs.h from mm.h. For this,
 1) Uninline vma_wants_writenotify(). It's pretty huge anyway.
 2) Add back fs.h or less bloated headers (err.h) to files that need it.

As result, on x86_64 allyesconfig, fs.h dependencies cut down from 3929 files
rebuilt down to 3444 (-12.3%).

Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and (sigh):

alpha              arm-mx1ads        mips-bigsur          powerpc-ebony
alpha-allnoconfig  arm-neponset      mips-capcella        powerpc-g5
alpha-defconfig    arm-netwinder     mips-cobalt          powerpc-holly
alpha-up           arm-netx          mips-db1000          powerpc-iseries
arm                arm-ns9xxx        mips-db1100          powerpc-linkstation
arm-assabet        arm-omap_h2_1610  mips-db1200          powerpc-lite5200
arm-at91rm9200dk   arm-onearm        mips-db1500          powerpc-maple
arm-at91rm9200ek   arm-picotux200    mips-db1550          powerpc-mpc7448_hpc2
arm-at91sam9260ek  arm-pleb          mips-ddb5477         powerpc-mpc8272_ads
arm-at91sam9261ek  arm-pnx4008       mips-decstation      powerpc-mpc8313_rdb
arm-at91sam9263ek  arm-pxa255-idp    mips-e55             powerpc-mpc832x_mds
arm-at91sam9rlek   arm-realview      mips-emma2rh         powerpc-mpc832x_rdb
arm-ateb9200       arm-realview-smp  mips-excite          powerpc-mpc834x_itx
arm-badge4         arm-rpc           mips-fulong          powerpc-mpc834x_itxgp
arm-carmeva        arm-s3c2410       mips-ip22            powerpc-mpc834x_mds
arm-cerfcube       arm-shannon       mips-ip27            powerpc-mpc836x_mds
arm-clps7500       arm-shark         mips-ip32            powerpc-mpc8540_ads
arm-collie         arm-simpad        mips-jazz            powerpc-mpc8544_ds
arm-corgi          arm-spitz         mips-jmr3927         powerpc-mpc8560_ads
arm-csb337         arm-trizeps4      mips-malta           powerpc-mpc8568mds
arm-csb637         arm-versatile     mips-mipssim         powerpc-mpc85xx_cds
arm-ebsa110        i386              mips-mpc30x          powerpc-mpc8641_hpcn
arm-edb7211        i386-allnoconfig  mips-msp71xx         powerpc-mpc866_ads
arm-em_x270        i386-defconfig    mips-ocelot          powerpc-mpc885_ads
arm-ep93xx         i386-up           mips-pb1100          powerpc-pasemi
arm-footbridge     ia64              mips-pb1500          powerpc-pmac32
arm-fortunet       ia64-allnoconfig  mips-pb1550          powerpc-ppc64
arm-h3600          ia64-bigsur       mips-pnx8550-jbs     powerpc-prpmc2800
arm-h7201          ia64-defconfig    mips-pnx8550-stb810  powerpc-ps3
arm-h7202          ia64-gensparse    mips-qemu            powerpc-pseries
arm-hackkit        ia64-sim          mips-rbhma4200       powerpc-up
arm-integrator     ia64-sn2          mips-rbhma4500       s390
arm-iop13xx        ia64-tiger        mips-rm200           s390-allnoconfig
arm-iop32x         ia64-up           mips-sb1250-swarm    s390-defconfig
arm-iop33x         ia64-zx1          mips-sead            s390-up
arm-ixp2000        m68k              mips-tb0219          sparc
arm-ixp23xx        m68k-amiga        mips-tb0226          sparc-allnoconfig
arm-ixp4xx         m68k-apollo       mips-tb0287          sparc-defconfig
arm-jornada720     m68k-atari        mips-workpad         sparc-up
arm-kafa           m68k-bvme6000     mips-wrppmc          sparc64
arm-kb9202         m68k-hp300        mips-yosemite        sparc64-allnoconfig
arm-ks8695         m68k-mac          parisc               sparc64-defconfig
arm-lart           m68k-mvme147      parisc-allnoconfig   sparc64-up
arm-lpd270         m68k-mvme16x      parisc-defconfig     um-x86_64
arm-lpd7a400       m68k-q40          parisc-up            x86_64
arm-lpd7a404       m68k-sun3         powerpc              x86_64-allnoconfig
arm-lubbock        m68k-sun3x        powerpc-cell         x86_64-defconfig
arm-lusl7200       mips              powerpc-celleb       x86_64-up
arm-mainstone      mips-atlas        powerpc-chrp32

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-29 17:09:29 -07:00
David S. Miller
0c0d345e25 [SPARC]: Add missing NOTES section.
This fixes boot failures when the build-id LD option is
actually used, because without it we end up with multiple
PT_LOAD sections which the SILO boot loader cannot handle.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24 13:24:34 -07:00
Al Viro
86ac92ee69 [SPARC32]: missing exports
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24 13:24:33 -07:00
Al Viro
0f516813ce [SPARC32]: Take enable_irq/disable_irq out of line.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-21 19:19:38 -07:00
Al Viro
32231a66b4 [SPARC32]: clean include/asm-sparc/irq.h
Move stuff used only by arch/sparc/kernel/* into arch/sparc/kernel/irq.h
and into individual files in there (e.g. macros internal to sun4m_irq.c,
etc.)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-21 19:18:57 -07:00
Mark Fortescue
196bffa5dc [SPARC32]: Fix rounding errors in ndelay/udelay implementation.
__ndelay and __udelay have not been delayung >= specified time.
The problem with __ndelay has been tacked down to the rounding of the
multiplier constant. By changing this, delays > app 18us are correctly
calculated.
The problem with __udelay has also been tracked down to rounding issues.
Changing the multiplier constant (to match that used in sparc64) corrects
for large delays and adding in a rounding constant corrects for trunctaion
errors in the claculations.
Many short delays will return without looping. This is not an error as there
is the fixed delay of doing all the maths to calculate the loop count.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-21 19:17:41 -07:00
David S. Miller
3d6e470236 [SPARC]: Make sure dev_archdata is filled in for all devices.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 17:13:42 -07:00
David S. Miller
c73fcc846c [SPARC]: Fix serial console device detection.
The current scheme works on static interpretation of text names, which
is wrong.

The output-device setting, for example, must be resolved via an alias
or similar to a full path name to the console device.

Paths also contain an optional set of 'options', which starts with a
colon at the end of the path.  The option area is used to specify
which of two serial ports ('a' or 'b') the path refers to when a
device node drives multiple ports.  'a' is assumed if the option
specification is missing.

This was caught by the UltraSPARC-T1 simulator.  The 'output-device'
property was set to 'ttya' and we didn't pick upon the fact that this
is an OBP alias set to '/virtual-devices/console'.  Instead we saw it
as the first serial console device, instead of the hypervisor console.

The infrastructure is now there to take advantage of this to resolve
the console correctly even in multi-head situations in fbcon too.

Thanks to Greg Onufer for the bug report.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 16:59:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2cb7e71422 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/ofcons
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/ofcons:
  Create drivers/of/platform.c
  Create linux/of_platorm.h
  [SPARC/64] Rename some functions like PowerPC
  Begin consolidation of of_device.h
  Begin to consolidate of_device.c
  Consolidate of_find_node_by routines
  Consolidate of_get_next_child
  Consolidate of_get_parent
  Consolidate of_find_property
  Consolidate of_device_is_compatible
  Start split out of common open firmware code
  Split out common parts of prom.h
2007-07-20 09:18:08 -07:00
David S. Miller
bc5a2e64a1 [SPARC]: Add sys_fallocate() entries.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-19 21:26:47 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
3f23de10f2 Create drivers/of/platform.c
and populate it with the common parts from PowerPC and Sparc[64].

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 14:25:51 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
37b7754aab [SPARC/64] Rename some functions like PowerPC
This is to make the of merge easier.  Also rename of_bus_type.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 14:24:53 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
f85ff3056c Begin to consolidate of_device.c
This moves all the common parts for the Sparc, Sparc64 and PowerPC
of_device.c files into drivers/of/device.c.

Apart from the simple move, Sparc gains of_match_node() and a call to
of_node_put in of_release_dev().  PowerPC gains better recovery if
device_create_file() fails in of_device_register().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:39:59 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
1ef4d4242d Consolidate of_find_node_by routines
This consolidates the routines of_find_node_by_path, of_find_node_by_name,
of_find_node_by_type and of_find_compatible_device.  Again, the comparison
of strings are done differently by Sparc and PowerPC and also these add
read_locks around the iterations.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:39:06 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
d1cd355a5e Consolidate of_get_next_child
This adds a read_lock around the child/next accesses on Sparc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:34:26 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
e679c5f445 Consolidate of_get_parent
This requires creating dummy of_node_{get,put} routines for sparc and
sparc64.  It also adds a read_lock around the parent accesses.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:32:58 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
581b605a83 Consolidate of_find_property
The only change here is that a readlock is taken while the property list
is being traversed on Sparc where it was not taken previously.

Also, Sparc uses strcasecmp to compare property names while PowerPC
uses strcmp.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:32:24 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
0081cbc373 Consolidate of_device_is_compatible
The only difference here is that Sparc uses strncmp to match compatibility
names while PowerPC uses strncasecmp.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:29:51 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
97e873e5c8 Start split out of common open firmware code
This creates drivers/of/base.c (depending on CONFIG_OF) and puts
the first trivially common bits from the prom.c files into it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 13:28:41 +10:00
Fenghua Yu
5fb7dc37dc define new percpu interface for shared data
per cpu data section contains two types of data.  One set which is
exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu,
but also shared by remote cpus.  In the current kernel, these two sets are
not clearely separated out.  This can potentially cause the same data
cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in
unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus.

One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per
cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end.  Because of the padding at
both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the
interface to achieve this is not clean.

This patch:

Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked
as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data
elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local
only data and remotely accessed data cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
bcdcd8e725 Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPS
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as
tainted.  Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the
tainted kernel.  This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the
calltraces.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson  -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
0437e109e1 sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing code
the SMP load-balancer uses the boot-time migration-cost estimation
code to attempt to improve the quality of balancing. The reason for
this code is that the discrete priority queues do not preserve
the order of scheduling accurately, so the load-balancer skips
tasks that were running on a CPU 'recently'.

this code is fundamental fragile: the boot-time migration cost detector
doesnt really work on systems that had large L3 caches, it caused boot
delays on large systems and the whole cache-hot concept made the
balancing code pretty undeterministic as well.

(and hey, i wrote most of it, so i can say it out loud that it sucks ;-)

under CFS the same purpose of cache affinity can be achieved without
any special cache-hot special-case: tasks are sorted in the 'timeline'
tree and the SMP balancer picks tasks from the left side of the
tree, thus the most cache-cold task is balanced automatically.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:51:57 +02:00
Krzysztof Helt
42e2826478 [SPARC32]: Removes mismatch section warnigs in sparc time.c file
This patch removes mismatch section warnings in the
sparc/kernel/time.c file.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-29 02:49:16 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
ca967258b6 all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-generic
With this consolidation we can now modify the .data
section definition in one spot for all archs.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
7664709b44 all-archs: consolidate .text section definition in asm-generic
Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
Robert Reif
19fce2b966 [SPARC32]: Fix sparc32 kdebug changes.
Fix recent kdebug changes to compile on sparc32.

Signed-off-by: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-14 03:22:08 -07:00
David S. Miller
8354c5b726 [SPARC]: Wire up signalfd/timerfd/eventfd syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-11 22:06:51 -07:00