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Stephen Hemminger
6756ae4b4e [NET]: Convert RTNL to mutex.
This patch turns the RTNL from a semaphore to a new 2.6.16 mutex and
gets rid of some of the leftover legacy.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:23:58 -08:00
David Basden
0ac81ae34e [IRDA]: TOIM3232 dongle support
Here goes a patch for supporting TOIM3232 based serial IrDA dongles.
The code is based on the tekram dongle code.

It's been tested with a TOIM3232 based IRWave 320S dongle. It may work
for TOIM4232 dongles, although it's not been tested.

Signed-off-by: David Basden <davidb-irda@rcpt.to>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:21:10 -08:00
John Heffner
0e7b13685f [TCP] mtu probing: move tcp-specific data out of inet_connection_sock
This moves some TCP-specific MTU probing state out of
inet_connection_sock back to tcp_sock.

Signed-off-by: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 21:32:58 -08:00
Jörn Engel
231d06ae82 [NET]: Uninline kfree_skb and allow NULL argument
o Uninline kfree_skb, which saves some 15k of object code on my notebook.

o Allow kfree_skb to be called with a NULL argument.

  Subsequent patches can remove conditional from drivers and further
  reduce source and object size.

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 21:28:35 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
4bf07ef3fd [XFRM]: Rearrange struct xfrm_aevent_id for better compatibility.
struct xfrm_aevent_id needs to be 32-bit + 64-bit align friendly.

Based upon suggestions from Yoshifuji.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 21:25:50 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
e55d912f5b [DCCP] feat: Introduce sysctls for the default features
[root@qemu ~]# for a in /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/* ; do echo $a ; cat $a ; done
/proc/sys/net/dccp/default/ack_ratio
2
/proc/sys/net/dccp/default/rx_ccid
3
/proc/sys/net/dccp/default/send_ackvec
1
/proc/sys/net/dccp/default/send_ndp
1
/proc/sys/net/dccp/default/seq_window
100
/proc/sys/net/dccp/default/tx_ccid
3
[root@qemu ~]#

So if wanting to test ccid3 as the tx CCID one can just do:

[root@qemu ~]# echo 3 > /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/tx_ccid
[root@qemu ~]# echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/rx_ccid
[root@qemu ~]# cat /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/[tr]x_ccid
2
3
[root@qemu ~]#

Of course we also need the setsockopt for each app to tell its preferences, but
for testing or defining something other than CCID2 as the default for apps that
don't explicitely set their preference the sysctl interface is handy.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:25:02 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
93ce20928f [DCCP]: Make CCID2 be the default
As per the draft. This fixes the build when netfilter dccp components
are built and dccp isn't. Thanks to Reuben Farrelly for reporting
this.

The following changesets will introduce /proc/sys/net/dccp/defaults/
to give more flexibility to DCCP developers and testers while apps
doesn't use setsockopt to specify the desired CCID, etc.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:23:58 -08:00
Andrea Bittau
60fe62e789 [DCCP]: sparse endianness annotations
This also fixes the layout of dccp_hdr short sequence numbers, problem
was not fatal now as we only support long (48 bits) sequence numbers.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:23:32 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
a193a4abdd [NETFILTER]: Fix skb->nf_bridge lifetime issues
The bridge netfilter code simulates the NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING hook and skips
the real hook by registering with high priority and returning NF_STOP if
skb->nf_bridge is present and the BRNF_NF_BRIDGE_PREROUTING flag is not
set. The flag is only set during the simulated hook.

Because skb->nf_bridge is only freed when the packet is destroyed, the
packet will not only skip the first invocation of NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING, but
in the case of tunnel devices on top of the bridge also all further ones.
Forwarded packets from a bridge encapsulated by a tunnel device and sent
as locally outgoing packet will also still have the incorrect bridge
information from the input path attached.

We already have nf_reset calls on all RX/TX paths of tunnel devices,
so simply reset the nf_bridge field there too. As an added bonus,
the bridge information for locally delivered packets is now also freed
when the packet is queued to a socket.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:23:05 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
91f0ebf7b6 [DCCP] CCID: Improve CCID infrastructure
1. No need for ->ccid_init nor ->ccid_exit, this is what module_{init,exit}
   does and anynways neither ccid2 nor ccid3 were using it.

2. Rename struct ccid to struct ccid_operations and introduce struct ccid
   with a pointer to ccid_operations and rigth after it the rx or tx
   private state.

3. Remove the pointer to the state of the half connections from struct
   dccp_sock, now its derived thru ccid_priv() from the ccid pointer.

Now we also can implement the setsockopt for changing the CCID easily as
no ccid init routines can affect struct dccp_sock in any way that prevents
other CCIDs from working if a CCID switch operation is asked by apps.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:21:44 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
f8cd54884e [IPSEC]: Sync series - core changes
This patch provides the core functionality needed for sync events
for ipsec. Derived work of Krisztian KOVACS <hidden@balabit.hu>

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 19:15:11 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
4277a083ec [NETLINK]: Add netlink_has_listeners for avoiding unneccessary event message generation
Keep a bitmask of multicast groups with subscribed listeners to let
netlink users check for listeners before generating multicast
messages.

Queries don't perform any locking, which may result in false
positives, it is guaranteed however that any new subscriptions are
visible before bind() or setsockopt() return.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
ACKed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim<hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:52:01 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
a242769248 [NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: avoid unneccessary event message generation
Avoid unneccessary event message generation by checking for netlink
listeners before building a message.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:03:59 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
c4b8851392 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: replace IPv4/IPv6 policy match by address family independant version
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:03:40 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
1c524830d0 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: pass registered match/target data to match/target functions
This allows to make decisions based on the revision (and address family
with a follow-up patch) at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:02:15 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
37f9f7334b [NETFILTER]: xt_tables: add centralized error checking
Introduce new functions for common match/target checks (private data
size, valid hooks, valid tables and valid protocols) to get more consistent
error reporting and to avoid each module duplicating them.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:59:06 -08:00
Ian McDonald
ba66c6e8b2 [DCCP]: Set the default CCID according to kernel config selection
Now CCID2 is the default, as stated in the RFC drafts, but we allow
a config where just CCID3 is built, where CCID3 becomes the default.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-03-20 17:56:56 -08:00
John Heffner
5d424d5a67 [TCP]: MTU probing
Implementation of packetization layer path mtu discovery for TCP, based on
the internet-draft currently found at
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pmtud-method-05.txt>.

Signed-off-by: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:53:41 -08:00
Michael Chan
d4d2c558fd [TG3]: Add support for 5714S and 5715S
Add support for 5714S and 5715S.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:47:20 -08:00
Andrea Bittau
afe00251dd [DCCP]: Initial feature negotiation implementation
Still needs more work, but boots and doesn't crashes, even
does some negotiation!

18:38:52.174934  127.0.0.1.43458 > 127.0.0.1.5001: request <change_l ack_ratio 2, change_r ccid 2, change_l ccid 2>
18:38:52.218526  127.0.0.1.5001 > 127.0.0.1.43458: response <nop, nop, change_l ack_ratio 2, confirm_r ccid 2 2, confirm_l ccid 2 2, confirm_r ack_ratio 2>
18:38:52.185398  127.0.0.1.43458 > 127.0.0.1.5001: <nop, confirm_r ack_ratio 2, ack_vector0 0x00, elapsed_time 212>

:-)

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:43:56 -08:00
Andrea Bittau
2a91aa3967 [DCCP] CCID2: Initial CCID2 (TCP-Like) implementation
Original work by Andrea Bittau, Arnaldo Melo cleaned up and fixed several
issues on the merge process.

For now CCID2 was turned the default for all SOCK_DCCP connections, but this
will be remedied soon with the merge of the feature negotiation code.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:41:47 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
e229c2fb33 [LIST]: Introduce list_for_each_entry_from
For iterating over list of given type continuing from existing point.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:19:17 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d8dcffee86 [LIST]: Introduce list_for_each_entry_safe_from
For iterate over list of given type from existing point safe against removal of
list entry.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:18:05 -08:00
Harald Welte
0af5f6c1eb [NETFILTER] nfnetlink_log: add sequence numbers for log events
By using a sequence number for every logged netfilter event, we can
determine from userspace whether logging information was lots somewhere
downstream.

The user has a choice of either having per-instance local sequence
counters, or using a global sequence counter, or both.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:15:11 -08:00
Harald Welte
5ee956125a [NETFILTER] NAT sequence adjustment: Save eight bytes per conntrack
This patch reduces the size of 'struct ip_conntrack' on systems with NAT
by eight bytes.  The sequence number delta values can be int16_t, since
we only support one sequence number modification per window anyway, and
one such modification is not going to exceed 32kB ;)

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:14:12 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
77d2ca3500 [NET]: Reduce size of struct sk_buff on 64 bit architectures
Move skb->nf_mark next to skb->tc_index to remove a 4 byte hole between
skb->nfmark and skb->nfct and another one between skb->users and skb->head
when CONFIG_NETFILTER, CONFIG_NET_SCHED and CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT are enabled.
For all other combinations the size stays the same.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:12:12 -08:00
Stefan Rompf
b00055aacd [NET] core: add RFC2863 operstate
this patch adds a dormant flag to network devices, RFC2863 operstate derived
from these flags and possibility for userspace interaction. It allows drivers
to signal that a device is unusable for user traffic without disabling
queueing (and therefore the possibility for protocol establishment traffic to
flow) and a userspace supplicant (WPA, 802.1X) to mark a device unusable
without changes to the driver.

It is the result of our long discussion. However I must admit that it
represents what Jamal and I agreed on with compromises towards Krzysztof, but
Thomas and Krzysztof still disagree with some parts. Anyway I think it should
be applied.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:09:11 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
09c884d4c3 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen sysctl.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:07:03 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
70ceb4f539 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add experimental support for Route Information Option in RA (RFC4191).
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:06:24 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
52e1635631 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add router_probe_interval sysctl.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:05:47 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
930d6ff2e2 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_rtr_pref sysctl.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:05:30 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
ebacaaa0fd [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add support for Router Preference (RFC4191).
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 17:04:53 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
c4fd30eb18 [IPV6]: ADDRCONF: Add accept_ra_pinfo sysctl.
This controls whether we accept Prefix Information in RAs.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 16:55:26 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
65f5c7c114 [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_defrtr sysctl.
This controls whether we accept default router information
in RAs.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 16:55:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c4a1745aa0 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: (230 commits)
  [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
  [SPARC64]: Fix 2 bugs in huge page support.
  [SPARC64]: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM fix
  [SPARC64]: Optimized TSB table initialization.
  [SPARC64]: Allow CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG to build.
  [SPARC64]: Use SLAB caches for TSB tables.
  [SPARC64]: Don't kill the page allocator when growing a TSB.
  [SPARC64]: Randomize mm->mmap_base when PF_RANDOMIZE is set.
  [SPARC64]: Increase top of 32-bit process stack.
  [SPARC64]: Top-down address space allocation for 32-bit tasks.
  [SPARC64] bbc_i2c: Fix cpu check and add missing module license.
  [SPARC64]: Fix and re-enable dynamic TSB sizing.
  [SUNSU]: Fix missing spinlock initialization.
  [TG3]: Do not try to access NIC_SRAM_DATA_SIG on Sun parts.
  [SPARC64]: First cut at VIS simulator for Niagara.
  [SPARC64]: Fix system type in /proc/cpuinfo and remove bogus OBP check.
  [SPARC64]: Add SMT scheduling support for Niagara.
  [SPARC64]: Fix 32-bit truncation which broke sparsemem.
  [SPARC64]: Move over to sparsemem.
  [SPARC64]: Fix new context version SMP handling.
  ...
2006-03-20 11:57:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c7cace6437 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (150 commits)
  [PATCH] ipw2100: Update version ipw2100 stamp to 1.2.2
  [PATCH] ipw2100: move mutex.h include from ipw2100.c to ipw2100.h
  [PATCH] ipw2100: semaphore to mutexes conversion
  [PATCH] ipw2100: Fix radiotap code gcc warning
  [PATCH] ipw2100: add radiotap headers to packtes captured in monitor mode
  [PATCH] ipw2x00: expend Copyright to 2006
  [PATCH] drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c: fix an array overun
  [PATCH] ieee80211: Don't update network statistics from off-channel packets.
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Update ipw2200 version stamp to 1.1.1
  [PATCH] ipw2200: switch to the new ipw2200-fw-3.0 image format
  [PATCH] ipw2200: wireless extension sensitivity threshold support
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Enables the "slow diversity" algorithm
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Set a meaningful silence threshold value
  [PATCH] ipw2200: export `debug' module param only if CONFIG_IPW2200_DEBUG
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Change debug level for firmware error logging
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Filter unsupported channels out in ad-hoc mode
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix ipw_sw_reset() implementation inconsistent with comment
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix rf_kill is activated after mode change with 'disable=1'
  [PATCH] ipw2200: remove the WPA card associates to non-WPA AP checking
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Add signal level to iwlist scan output
  ...
2006-03-20 10:30:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a90779bfc8 Merge branch 'block-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/block
* 'block-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/block:
  [PATCH] fix rmmod problems with elevator attributes, clean them up
  [PATCH] elevator_t lifetime rules and sysfs fixes
  [PATCH] noise removal: cfq-iosched.c
  [PATCH] don't bother with refcounting for cfq_data
  [PATCH] fix sysfs interaction and lifetime rules handling for queues
  [PATCH] regularize blk_cleanup_queue() use
  [PATCH] fix cfq_get_queue()/ioprio_set(2) races
  [PATCH] deal with rmmod/put_io_context() races
  [PATCH] stop elv_unregister() from rogering other iosched's data, fix locking
  [PATCH] stop cfq from pinning queue down
  [PATCH] make cfq_exit_queue() prune the cfq_io_context for that queue
  [PATCH] fix the exclusion for ioprio_set()
  [PATCH] keep sync and async cfq_queue separate
  [PATCH] switch to use of ->key to get cfq_data by cfq_io_context
  [PATCH] stop leaking cfq_data in cfq_set_request()
  [PATCH] fix cfq hash lookups
  [PATCH] fix locking in queue_requests_store()
  [PATCH] fix double-free in blk_init_queue_node()
  [PATCH] don't do exit_io_context() until we know we won't be doing any IO
2006-03-20 10:28:51 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
d378aca6ec Merge branch 'master' 2006-03-20 04:38:03 -05:00
David S. Miller
02fd473bd4 [SPARC64]: Add SUN4V Hypervisor Console driver.
Since it can do things like BREAK and HUP, we implement
this as a serial uart driver.

This still needs interrupt probing code, as I haven't figured
out how interrupts will work or be probed for on SUN4V yet.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:12:18 -08:00
Michael Chan
4a29cc2e50 [TG3]: 40-bit DMA workaround part 2
The 40-bit DMA workaround recently implemented for 5714, 5715, and
5780 needs to be expanded because there may be other tg3 devices
behind the EPB Express to PCIX bridge in the 5780 class device.

For example, some 4-port card or mother board designs have 5704 behind
the 5714.

All devices behind the EPB require the 40-bit DMA workaround.

Thanks to Chris Elmquist again for reporting the problem and testing
the patch.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-19 13:21:12 -08:00
Al Viro
e572ec7e4e [PATCH] fix rmmod problems with elevator attributes, clean them up 2006-03-18 22:27:18 -05:00
Al Viro
3d1ab40f4c [PATCH] elevator_t lifetime rules and sysfs fixes 2006-03-18 18:35:43 -05:00
Al Viro
483f4afc42 [PATCH] fix sysfs interaction and lifetime rules handling for queues 2006-03-18 18:34:37 -05:00
Al Viro
e17a9489b4 [PATCH] stop elv_unregister() from rogering other iosched's data, fix locking
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-18 18:34:12 -05:00
Al Viro
d9ff418793 [PATCH] make cfq_exit_queue() prune the cfq_io_context for that queue
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-18 18:34:07 -05:00
Al Viro
12a0573215 [PATCH] keep sync and async cfq_queue separate
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-18 18:34:02 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
749dfc7055 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' 2006-03-11 13:35:31 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
7cd9013be6 [PATCH] remove __put_task_struct_cb export again
The patch '[PATCH] RCU signal handling' [1] added an export for
__put_task_struct_cb, a put_task_struct helper newly introduced in that
patch.  But the put_task_struct couldn't be used modular previously as
__put_task_struct wasn't exported.  There are not callers of it in modular
code, and it shouldn't be exported because we don't want drivers to hold
references to task_structs.

This patch removes the export and folds __put_task_struct into
__put_task_struct_cb as there's no other caller.

[1] http://www2.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-11 09:19:34 -08:00
Kirill Korotaev
0adb25d2e7 [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside
This patch fixes illegal __GFP_FS allocation inside ext3 transaction in
ext3_symlink().  Such allocation may re-enter ext3 code from
try_to_free_pages.  But JBD/ext3 code keeps a pointer to current journal
handle in task_struct and, hence, is not reentrable.

This bug led to "Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata()" messages.

http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115

Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-11 09:19:34 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
8fce4d8e3b [PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages.
The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote
per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap.  For a machines with large number
of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms.
Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays.

This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable.
Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and
the per cpu pages from one remote node.  That reduces the time spend in
cache_reap.  However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to
completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches.  The
time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system.  All caches
are drained when they overflow their respective capacity.  So the drawback
here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer.

Details:

1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification
   of the node to drain of pcp pages.

2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA
   that manage a per cpu reap_node counter.

3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node.

For us this seems to be a critical issue.  Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms
cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly.  F.e.  NAS parallel
slows down dramatically.  NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor
compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches.  It gets down to 5.05 secs with
the additional interrupt holdoff reductions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 19:47:38 -08:00