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Stephen Rothwell
0d77e5a2c2 [PATCH] compat: introduce compat_time_t
This patch is based on work by Carlos O'Donell and Matthew Wilcox.  It
introduces/updates the compat_time_t type and uses it for compat siginfo
structures.  I have built this on ppc64 and x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:32 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
e539c23314 [PATCH] kprobes: Temporary disarming of reentrant probe for sparc64
This patch includes sparc64 architecture specific changes to support temporary
disarming on reentrancy of probes.

Signed-of-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:25 -07:00
Rusty Lynch
7e1048b11c [PATCH] Move kprobe [dis]arming into arch specific code
The architecture independent code of the current kprobes implementation is
arming and disarming kprobes at registration time.  The problem is that the
code is assuming that arming and disarming is a just done by a simple write
of some magic value to an address.  This is problematic for ia64 where our
instructions look more like structures, and we can not insert break points
by just doing something like:

*p->addr = BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION;

The following patch to 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 adds two new architecture dependent
functions:

     * void arch_arm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
     * void arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)

and then adds the new functions for each of the architectures that already
implement kprobes (spar64/ppc64/i386/x86_64).

I thought arch_[dis]arm_kprobe was the most descriptive of what was really
happening, but each of the architectures already had a disarm_kprobe()
function that was really a "disarm and do some other clean-up items as
needed when you stumble across a recursive kprobe." So...  I took the
liberty of changing the code that was calling disarm_kprobe() to call
arch_disarm_kprobe(), and then do the cleanup in the block of code dealing
with the recursive kprobe case.

So far this patch as been tested on i386, x86_64, and ppc64, but still
needs to be tested in sparc64.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:21 -07:00
Wolfgang Wander
1363c3cd86 [PATCH] Avoiding mmap fragmentation
Ingo recently introduced a great speedup for allocating new mmaps using the
free_area_cache pointer which boosts the specweb SSL benchmark by 4-5% and
causes huge performance increases in thread creation.

The downside of this patch is that it does lead to fragmentation in the
mmap-ed areas (visible via /proc/self/maps), such that some applications
that work fine under 2.4 kernels quickly run out of memory on any 2.6
kernel.

The problem is twofold:

  1) the free_area_cache is used to continue a search for memory where
     the last search ended.  Before the change new areas were always
     searched from the base address on.

     So now new small areas are cluttering holes of all sizes
     throughout the whole mmap-able region whereas before small holes
     tended to close holes near the base leaving holes far from the base
     large and available for larger requests.

  2) the free_area_cache also is set to the location of the last
     munmap-ed area so in scenarios where we allocate e.g.  five regions of
     1K each, then free regions 4 2 3 in this order the next request for 1K
     will be placed in the position of the old region 3, whereas before we
     appended it to the still active region 1, placing it at the location
     of the old region 2.  Before we had 1 free region of 2K, now we only
     get two free regions of 1K -> fragmentation.

The patch addresses thes issues by introducing yet another cache descriptor
cached_hole_size that contains the largest known hole size below the
current free_area_cache.  If a new request comes in the size is compared
against the cached_hole_size and if the request can be filled with a hole
below free_area_cache the search is started from the base instead.

The results look promising: Whereas 2.6.12-rc4 fragments quickly and my
(earlier posted) leakme.c test program terminates after 50000+ iterations
with 96 distinct and fragmented maps in /proc/self/maps it performs nicely
(as expected) with thread creation, Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads
requires 0.7s system time.

Taking out Ingo's patch (un-patch available per request) by basically
deleting all mentions of free_area_cache from the kernel and starting the
search for new memory always at the respective bases we observe: leakme
terminates successfully with 11 distinctive hardly fragmented areas in
/proc/self/maps but thread creating is gringdingly slow: 30+s(!) system
time for Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads.

Now - drumroll ;-) the appended patch works fine with leakme: it ends with
only 7 distinct areas in /proc/self/maps and also thread creation seems
sufficiently fast with 0.71s for 20000 threads.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Wander <wwc@rentec.com>
Credit-to: "Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (partly)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:16 -07:00
David S. Miller
88314ee73f [SPARC64]: Refine PCI strbuf ctx-based flush.
The initial peek read PIO of the match register is just a waste.
Just do the flush writes first, as that is more efficient.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-31 19:13:52 -07:00
David S. Miller
7c963ad1d1 [SPARC64]: Fix streaming buffer flushing on PCI and SBUS.
Firstly, if the direction is TODEVICE, then dirty data in the
streaming cache is impossible so we can elide the flush-flag
synchronization in that case.

Next, the context allocator is broken.  It is highly likely
that contexts get used multiple times for different dma
mappings, which confuses the strbuf flushing code and makes
it run inefficiently.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-31 16:57:59 -07:00
David S. Miller
816242da37 [SPARC64]: Add boot option to force UltraSPARC-III P-Cache on.
Older UltraSPARC-III chips have a P-Cache bug that makes us disable it
by default at boot time.

However, this does hurt performance substantially, particularly with
memcpy(), and the bug is _incredibly_ obscure.  I have never seen it
triggered in practice, ever.

So provide a "-P" boot option that forces the P-Cache on.  It taints
the kernel, so if it does trigger and cause some data corruption or
OOPS, we will find out in the logs that this option was on when it
happened.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-23 15:52:08 -07:00
David S. Miller
a228dfd5dc [SPARC64]: Fix bad performance side effect of strbuf timeout changes.
The recent change to add a timeout to strbuf flushing had
a negative performance impact.  The udelay()'s are too long,
and they were done in the wrong order wrt. the register read
checks.  Fix both, and things are happy again.

There are more possible improvements in this area.  In fact,
PCI streaming buffer flushing seems to be part of the bottleneck
in network receive performance on my SunBlade1000 box.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-20 11:40:32 -07:00
David S. Miller
4dbc30fb27 [SPARC64]: Add timeouts to streaming buffer synchronization.
If some hardware error occurs and the flush flag never updates,
we will hang forever in these routines.  Add a timeout, and
print out a diagnostic if it is reached.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-11 11:37:00 -07:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt
7cc1712b8a [SPARC]: Remove legacy stuff from cpu_idle().
Currently sparc and sparc64's UP cpu_idle() checks current pid. This
is old time legacy. Now it's paranoia.

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05 14:53:01 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
8edf72ebce [SPARC64]: Kill useless __pte_alloc_one_kernel indirection
warning: untested, but it there's not too much chance for screwups

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05 14:27:56 -07:00
David S. Miller
41832a08fe [SPARC64]: Disable IRQ forwarding.
There is some race whereby IRQs get stuck, the IRQ status
is pending but no processor actually handles the IRQ vector
and thus the interrupt.
 
This is a temporary workaround.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 22:05:43 -07:00
David S. Miller
cee2824f85 [SPARC64]: Fix goal_cpu tracking in retarget_one_irq().
We would never advance the goal_cpu counter like we
should, so all IRQs would go to a single processor.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 22:04:36 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
7ed20e1ad5 [PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal()
Convert most of the current code that uses _NSIG directly to instead use
valid_signal().  This avoids gcc -W warnings and off-by-one errors.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:14 -07:00
Al Viro
ef0299bf8e [PATCH] mostek bogus sparse annotations fixed
void * __iomem foo is not a pointer to iomem - it's an iomem variable
containing void *.  A pile of such guys in arch/sparc64/kernel/time.c,
drivers/sbus/char/rtc.c and include/asm-sparc64/mostek.h turned into
intended void __iomem *. 

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-24 12:28:36 -07:00
David S. Miller
b4bca26c01 [SPARC]: Provide generic ioctls in Sparc RTC driver.
Provide support for drivers/char/rtc.c ioctls in the
Mostek rtc driver as well as the Sparc specific RTCGET
and RTCSET.

This allows userspace to be much less messy.  Currently
util-linux and other spots jump through hoops trying
various ioctl variants until it hits the right one whatever
driver actually being used supports.

Eventually all of this should move over to the genrtc.c
driver, but not today...

While we are here, fix up the register types for sparse.

Thanks to Frans Pop for helping point out this issue.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-21 21:42:34 -07:00
David S. Miller
0ba4da03cc [PATCH] sparc64: Fix stat
Like Alpha, sparc64's struct stat was defined before we had the
nanosecond et al.  fields added.  So like Alpha I have to cons up a
struct stat64 to get this stuff.  I'll work on the glibc bits soon. 

Also, we were forgetting to fill in the nanosecond fields in the sparc
compat stat64 syscalls. 

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-18 15:13:15 -07:00
Jurij Smakov
9c7d3b3a6b [PATCH] sparc64: Fix copy_sigingo_to_user32()
The compat routine to copy over this data structure was not
handling SI_POLL correctly, breaking various fcntl() variants
in compat tasks.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17 18:03:12 -07:00
David S. Miller
dadeafdfc8 [PATCH] sparc64: Reduce ptrace cache flushing
We were flushing the D-cache excessively for ptrace() processing
and this makes debugging threads so slow as to be totally unusable.

All process page accesses via ptrace() go via access_process_vm().
This routine, for each process page, uses get_user_pages().  That
in turn does a flush_dcache_page() on the child pages before we
copy in/out the ptrace request data.

Therefore, all we need to do after the data movement is:

1) Flush the D-cache pages if the kernel maps the page to a different
   color than userspace does.
2) If we wrote to the page, we need to flush the I-cache on older cpus.

Previously we just flushed the entire cache at the end of a ptrace()
request, and that was beyond stupid.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17 18:03:11 -07:00
David S. Miller
fb65b9619b [PATCH] sparc: Fix PTRACE_CONT bogosity
SunOS aparently had this weird PTRACE_CONT semantic which
we copied.  If the addr argument is something other than
1, it sets the process program counter to whatever that
value is.

This is different from every other Linux architecture, which
don't do anything with the addr and data args.

This difference in particular breaks the Linux native GDB support
for fork and vfork tracing on sparc and sparc64.

There is no interest in running SunOS binaries using this weird
PTRACE_CONT behavior, so just delete it so we behave like other
platforms do.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17 18:03:11 -07:00
David S. Miller
961f8bc9fc [PATCH] sparc64: use message queue compat syscalls
A couple message queue system call entries for compat tasks
were not using the necessary compat_sys_*() functions, causing
some glibc test cases to fail.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17 18:03:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00