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Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
4833aff757 [PATCH] uml: allow again to move backing file and to override saved location
When the user specifies both a COW file and its backing file, if the previous
backing file is not found, currently UML tries again to use it and fails.

This can be corrected by changing same_backing_files() return value in that
case, so that the caller will try to change the COW file to point to the new
location, as already done in other cases.

Additionally, given the change in the meaning of the func, change its name,
invert its return value, so all values are inverted except when
stat(from_cow,&buf2) fails.  And add some comments and two minor bugfixes -
remove a fd leak (return err rather than goto out) and a repeated check.

Tested well.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
ce2d2aedcc [PATCH] uml: arch Kconfig menu cleanups
*) mark as "EXPERIMENTAL" various items that either aren't very stable or
   that are actively crashing the setup of users which don't really need them
   (i.e.  HIGHMEM and 3-level pagetables on x86 - nobody needs either,
   everybody reports "I'm using it and getting trouble").

*) move net/Kconfig near to the rest of network configurations, and
   drivers/block/Kconfig near "Block layer" submenu.

*) it's useless and doesn't work well to force NETDEVICES on and to disable
   the prompt like it's done.  Better remove the attempt, and change that to a
   simple "default y if UML".

*) drop the warning about "report problems about HPPFS" - it's redundant
   anyway, as that's the usual procedure, and HPPFS users are especially
   technical (i.e.  they know reporting bugs is _good_).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
b63162939c [PATCH] uml: avoid malloc to sleep in atomic sections
Ugly trick to help make malloc not sleeping - we can't do anything else.  But
this is not yet optimal, since spinlock don't trigger in_atomic() when
preemption is disabled.

Also, even if ugly, this was already used in one place, and was even more
bogus.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
b6a2b13778 [PATCH] uml: sigio code - reduce spinlock hold time
In a previous patch I shifted an allocation to being atomic.

In this patch, a better but more intrusive solution is implemented, i.e.  hold
the lock only when really needing it, especially not over pipe operations, nor
over the culprit allocation.

Additionally, while at it, add a missing kfree in the failure path, and make
sure that if we fail in forking, write_sigio_pid is -1 and not, say, -ENOMEM.

And fix whitespace, at least for things I was touching anyway.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
71c8d4c3aa [PATCH] uml: fix spinlock recursion and sleep-inside-spinlock in error path
In this error path, when the interface has had a problem, we call dev_close(),
which is disallowed for two reasons:

*) takes again the UML internal spinlock, inside the ->stop method of this
   device
*) can be called in process context only, while we're in interrupt context.

I've also thought that calling dev_close() may be a wrong policy to follow,
but it's not up to me to decide that.

However, we may end up with multiple dev_close() queued on the same device.
But the initial test for (dev->flags & IFF_UP) makes this harmless, though -
and dev_close() is supposed to care about races with itself.  So there's no
harm in delaying the shutdown, IMHO.

Something to mark the interface as "going to shutdown" would be appreciated,
but dev_deactivate has the same problems as dev_close(), so we can't use it
either.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
e56a78855a [PATCH] uml: networking - clear transport-specific structure
Pre-clear transport-specific private structure before passing it down.

In fact, I just got a slab corruption and kernel panic on exit because kfree()
was called on a pointer which probably was never allocated, BUT hadn't been
set to NULL by the driver.

As the code is full of such errors, I've decided for now to go the safe way
(we're talking about drivers), and to do the simple thing.  I'm also starting
to fix drivers, and already sent a patch for the daemon transport.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
c42791b6ec [PATCH] uml: make daemon transport behave properly
Avoid uninitialized data in the daemon_data structure.  I used this transport
before doing proper setup before-hand, and I got some very nice SLAB
corruption due to freeing crap pointers.  So just make sure to clear
everything when appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:20 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
3b948068b8 [PATCH] uml: remove leftover from patch revertal
I added this line to share this file with UML, but now it's no longer
shared so remove this useless leftover.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:20 -08:00
Bodo Stroesser
097fdf06c6 [PATCH] uml: TT mode softint fixes
Some fixes to make softints work in tt mode.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:20 -08:00
Jeff Dike
c83d4635ee [PATCH] uml: use setjmp/longjmp instead of sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
Now that we are doing soft interrupts, there's no point in using sigsetjmp and
siglongjmp.  Using setjmp and longjmp saves a sigprocmask on every jump.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:20 -08:00
Jeff Dike
1d7173baf2 [PATCH] uml: implement soft interrupts
This patch implements soft interrupts.  Interrupt enabling and disabling no
longer map to sigprocmask.  Rather, a flag is set indicating whether
interrupts may be handled.  If a signal comes in and interrupts are marked as
OK, then it is handled normally.  If interrupts are marked as off, then the
signal handler simply returns after noting that a signal needs handling.  When
interrupts are enabled later on, this pending signals flag is checked, and the
IRQ handlers are called at that point.

The point of this is to reduce the cost of local_irq_save et al, since they
are very much more common than the signals that they are enabling and
disabling.  Soft interrupts produce a speed-up of ~25% on a kernel build.

Subtleties -

    UML uses sigsetjmp/siglongjmp to switch contexts.  sigsetjmp has been
    wrapped in a save_flags-like macro which remembers the interrupt state at
    setjmp time, and restores it when it is longjmp-ed back to.

    The enable_signals function has to loop because the IRQ handler
    disables interrupts before returning.  enable_signals has to return with
    signals enabled, and signals may come in between the disabling and the
    return to enable_signals.  So, it loops for as long as there are pending
    signals, ensuring that signals are enabled when it finally returns, and
    that there are no pending signals that need to be dealt with.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:20 -08:00
Jeff Dike
09ee011eb3 [PATCH] uml: eliminate some globals
Stop using global variables to hold the file descriptor and offset used to map
the skas0 stubs.  Instead, calculate them using the page physical addresses.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:20 -08:00
Gennady Sharapov
abaf69773d [PATCH] uml: move libc-dependent skas process handling
The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel/skas dir).

This moves all systemcalls from skas/process.c file under os-Linux dir and
join skas/process.c and skas/process_kern.c files.

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov <gennady.v.sharapov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:19 -08:00
Gennady Sharapov
f45d9fc9d8 [PATCH] uml: move libc-dependent skas memory mapping code
The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel/skas dir).

This moves all systemcalls from skas/mem_user.c file under os-Linux dir and
join skas/mem_user.c and skas/mem.c files.

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov <gennady.v.sharapov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:19 -08:00
Gennady Sharapov
4abfbf4034 [PATCH] uml: move headers to arch/um/include
The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir).

This moves skas headers to arch/um/include.

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov <Gennady.V.Sharapov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:19 -08:00
Bodo Stroesser
2c332a2513 [PATCH] uml: change interface to boot_timer_handler
Current implementation of boot_timer_handler isn't usable for s390.  So I
changed its name to do_boot_timer_handler, taking (struct sigcontext *)sc as
argument.  do_boot_timer_handler is called from new boot_timer_handler() in
arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c, which uses the same mechanisms as other signal
handler to find out sigcontext pointer.

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:19 -08:00
Gennady Sharapov
cff65c4f0e [PATCH] uml: move libc-dependent time code
The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir).

This moves all systemcalls from time.c file under os-Linux dir and joins
time.c and tine_kernel.c files

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov <Gennady.V.Sharapov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:19 -08:00
Gennady Sharapov
4fef0c10fa [PATCH] uml: move libc-dependent utility procedures
The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir).

This moves all systemcalls from user_util.c file under os-Linux dir

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov <Gennady.V.Sharapov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:19 -08:00
Bodo Stroesser
12919aa6e0 [PATCH] uml: move LDT creation
s390 doesn't have a LDT.  So MM_COPY_SEGMENTS will not be supported on s390.

The only user of MM_COPY_SEGMENTS is new_mm(), but that's no longer useful, as
arch/sys-i386/ldt.c defines init_new_ldt(), which is called immediately after
new_mm().  So we should copy host's LDT in init_new_ldt(), if /proc/mm is
available, to have this subarch specific call in subarch code.

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:18 -08:00
Jeff Dike
ea1eae75eb [PATCH] uml: add __raw_writel definition
Add implementations of the write* and __raw_write* functions.  __raw_writel is
needed by lib/iocopy.c, which shouldn't be used in UML, but which is
unconditionally linked in anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:18 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
86c562a9d6 [PATCH] mm: optimize numa policy handling in slab allocator
Move the interrupt check from slab_node into ___cache_alloc and adds an
"unlikely()" to avoid pipeline stalls on some architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:18 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
dc85da15d4 [PATCH] NUMA policies in the slab allocator V2
This patch fixes a regression in 2.6.14 against 2.6.13 that causes an
imbalance in memory allocation during bootup.

The slab allocator in 2.6.13 is not numa aware and simply calls
alloc_pages().  This means that memory policies may control the behavior of
alloc_pages().  During bootup the memory policy is set to MPOL_INTERLEAVE
resulting in the spreading out of allocations during bootup over all
available nodes.  The slab allocator in 2.6.13 has only a single list of
slab pages.  As a result the per cpu slab cache and the spinlock controlled
page lists may contain slab entries from off node memory.  The slab
allocator in 2.6.13 makes no effort to discern the locality of an entry on
its lists.

The NUMA aware slab allocator in 2.6.14 controls locality of the slab pages
explicitly by calling alloc_pages_node().  The NUMA slab allocator manages
slab entries by having lists of available slab pages for each node.  The
per cpu slab cache can only contain slab entries associated with the node
local to the processor.  This guarantees that the default allocation mode
of the slab allocator always assigns local memory if available.

Setting MPOL_INTERLEAVE as a default policy during bootup has no effect
anymore.  In 2.6.14 all node unspecific slab allocations are performed on
the boot processor.  This means that most of key data structures are
allocated on one node.  Most processors will have to refer to these
structures making the boot node a potential bottleneck.  This may reduce
performance and cause unnecessary memory pressure on the boot node.

This patch implements NUMA policies in the slab layer.  There is the need
of explicit application of NUMA memory policies by the slab allcator itself
since the NUMA slab allocator does no longer let the page_allocator control
locality.

The check for policies is made directly at the beginning of __cache_alloc
using current->mempolicy.  The memory policy is already frequently checked
by the page allocator (alloc_page_vma() and alloc_page_current()).  So it
is highly likely that the cacheline is present.  For MPOL_INTERLEAVE
kmalloc() will spread out each request to one node after another so that an
equal distribution of allocations can be obtained during bootup.

It is not possible to push the policy check to lower layers of the NUMA
slab allocator since the per cpu caches are now only containing slab
entries from the current node.  If the policy says that the local node is
not to be preferred or forbidden then there is no point in checking the
slab cache or local list of slab pages.  The allocation better be directed
immediately to the lists containing slab entries for the allowed set of
nodes.

This way of applying policy also fixes another strange behavior in 2.6.13.
alloc_pages() is controlled by the memory allocation policy of the current
process.  It could therefore be that one process is running with
MPOL_INTERLEAVE and would f.e.  obtain a new page following that policy
since no slab entries are in the lists anymore.  A page can typically be
used for multiple slab entries but lets say that the current process is
only using one.  The other entries are then added to the slab lists.  These
are now non local entries in the slab lists despite of the possible
availability of local pages that would provide faster access and increase
the performance of the application.

Another process without MPOL_INTERLEAVE may now run and expect a local slab
entry from kmalloc().  However, there are still these free slab entries
from the off node page obtained from the other process via MPOL_INTERLEAVE
in the cache.  The process will then get an off node slab entry although
other slab entries may be available that are local to that process.  This
means that the policy if one process may contaminate the locality of the
slab caches for other processes.

This patch in effect insures that a per process policy is followed for the
allocation of slab entries and that there cannot be a memory policy
influence from one process to another.  A process with default policy will
always get a local slab entry if one is available.  And the process using
memory policies will get its memory arranged as requested.  Off-node slab
allocation will require the use of spinlocks and will make the use of per
cpu caches not possible.  A process using memory policies to redirect
allocations offnode will have to cope with additional lock overhead in
addition to the latency added by the need to access a remote slab entry.

Changes V1->V2
- Remove #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA by moving forward declaration into
  prior #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA section.

- Give the function determining the node number to use a saner
  name.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:18 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
fc0abb1451 [PATCH] sem2mutex: mm/slab.c
Convert mm/swapfile.c's swapon_sem to swapon_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:18 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
1743660b91 [PATCH] Zone reclaim: proc override
proc support for zone reclaim

This patch creates a proc entry /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode that may be
used to override the automatic determination of the zone reclaim made on
bootup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
9eeff2395e [PATCH] Zone reclaim: Reclaim logic
Some bits for zone reclaim exists in 2.6.15 but they are not usable.  This
patch fixes them up, removes unused code and makes zone reclaim usable.

Zone reclaim allows the reclaiming of pages from a zone if the number of
free pages falls below the watermarks even if other zones still have enough
pages available.  Zone reclaim is of particular importance for NUMA
machines.  It can be more beneficial to reclaim a page than taking the
performance penalties that come with allocating a page on a remote zone.

Zone reclaim is enabled if the maximum distance to another node is higher
than RECLAIM_DISTANCE, which may be defined by an arch.  By default
RECLAIM_DISTANCE is 20.  20 is the distance to another node in the same
component (enclosure or motherboard) on IA64.  The meaning of the NUMA
distance information seems to vary by arch.

If zone reclaim is not successful then no further reclaim attempts will
occur for a certain time period (ZONE_RECLAIM_INTERVAL).

This patch was discussed before. See

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113519961504207&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113408418232531&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113389027420032&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113380938612205&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
f1fd1067ec [PATCH] Zone reclaim: resurrect may_swap
Zone reclaim has a huge impact on NUMA performance (f.e.  our maximum
throughput with XFS is raised from 4GB to 6GB/sec / page cache contamination
of numa nodes destroys locality if one just does a large copy operation which
results in performance dropping for good until reboot).

This patch:

Resurrect may_swap in struct scan_control

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
fc30128963 [PATCH] Simplify migrate_page_add
Simplify migrate_page_add after feedback from Hugh.  This also allows us to
drop one parameter from migrate_page_add.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Nick Piggin
053837fce7 [PATCH] mm: migration page refcounting fix
Migration code currently does not take a reference to target page
properly, so between unlocking the pte and trying to take a new
reference to the page with isolate_lru_page, anything could happen to
it.

Fix this by holding the pte lock until we get a chance to elevate the
refcount.

Other small cleanups while we're here.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Andrew Morton
e236a166b2 [PATCH] mm: dirty_exceeded speedup
Ravikiran reports that this variable is bouncing all around nodes on NUMA
machines, causing measurable performance problems.  Fix that up by only
writing to it when it actually changed.

And put it in a new cacheline to prevent it sharing with other things (this
happened).

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Jon Mason
c2aeacd48c [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware
Some pcnet32 hardware erroneously has the Vendor ID for Trident.  The
pcnet32 driver looks for the PCI ethernet class before grabbing the
hardware, but the current trident driver does not check against the PCI
audio class.  This allows the trident driver to claim the pcnet32 hardware.
 This patch prevents that.

This revised version of the OSS Trident patch includes PCI_DEVICE Macro
usage.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:16 -08:00
Paul Fulghum
35fbd397f0 [PATCH] synclink_gt fix size of register value storage
Fix incorrect variable size used to hold register value.  This bug might
wipe out a portion of the TCR value when setting the interface options.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:16 -08:00
Andrew Morton
c8d338c8db [PATCH] scsi_transport_spi build fix
On alpha:

In file included from drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.h:59,
                 from drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw.c:40:
include/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.h:57: error: field `dv_mutex' has incomplete type

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:16 -08:00
Jan Beulich
ab26a20bb0 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix MCE exception stack for boot CPU
Fix a typo/mis-merge in one of the previous patches.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:16 -08:00
Jan Kara
43c3e6f5ab [PATCH] jbd: remove_transaction fix
We have to check that also the second checkpoint list is non-empty before
dropping the transaction.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:16 -08:00
Jan Kara
8d3c7fce2d [PATCH] jbd: log_do_checkpoint fix
While checkpointing we have to check that our transaction still is in the
checkpoint list *and* (not or) that it's not just a different transaction
with the same address.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2149bcabc5 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2006-01-18 15:19:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2333f21207 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2006-01-18 15:18:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
097916ecaf Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2006-01-18 15:08:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3da38566df Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2006-01-18 15:08:02 -08:00
David S. Miller
959a85ada5 [SPARC64]: Fix build with CONFIG_COMPAT disabled.
Based upon a report and preliminary patch from Jim Gifford.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-18 14:58:05 -08:00
Russell King
37b797b270 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-upstream 2006-01-18 22:56:29 +00:00
Eddie C. Dost
c126cf80d4 [SPARC64]: Serial Console for E250 Patch
From: Eddie C. Dost <ecd@brainaid.de>

I have the following patch for serial console over the RSC
(remote system controller) on my E250 machine. It basically adds
support for input-device=rsc and output-device=rsc from OBP, and
allows 115200,8,n,1,- serial mode setting.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-18 14:54:31 -08:00
John W. Linville
29f8f63272 [MAINTAINERS]: add entry for wireless networking
Add an entry to MAINTAINERS for wireless networking, just so people
know whom to bless with patches.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-18 14:52:48 -08:00
John W. Linville
d5ca3117b0 [MAINTAINERS]: correct location for net-2.6.git
Correct location info for net-2.6 git tree.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-18 14:52:18 -08:00
David Vrabel
1e74c89125 [ARM] 3281/1: ixp4xx: export ixp4xx_exp_bus_size for modules
Patch from David Vrabel

Export ixp4xx_exp_bus_size so modules can use the IXP4XX_EXP_BUS_BASE(n) macro.

Also, fix a printk format warning.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-18 22:46:43 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
265d5e48dd [ARM] 3272/1: fix kernel decompressor crash
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Commit f4619025a5 broke the kernel
decompressor (at least on PXA).  Here's the fix.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-18 22:38:51 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
5e0974459d [ARM] 3271/1: ARM EABI: fix calling of cmpxchg syscall emulation
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This is kernel provided user space code.

Since a syscall is used, it has to be updated to work with EABI.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-18 22:38:49 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
fcca538b83 [ARM] 3270/1: ARM EABI: fix sigreturn and rt_sigreturn
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

The signal return path consists of user code provided by the kernel.
Since a syscall is used, it has to be updated to work with EABI.

Noticed by Daniel Jacobowitz.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-18 22:38:47 +00:00
Andrew Victor
1230b4046b [ARM] 3268/1: AT91RM9200 serial update for 2.6.15-git12
Patch from Andrew Victor

This patch fixes two small issues with 2.6.15-git12.

1) Corrected major/minor numbers for ttyAT devices in the KConfig help.
   (Patch from Karl Olsen)

2) tty->flip.count has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-18 22:38:46 +00:00
David Vrabel
68477d1176 [ARM] 3267/1: PXA27x SSP controller register defines
Patch from David Vrabel

PXA27x SSP controller has a few different registers, including SCR (serial clock rate) in SSCR0.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-18 22:38:44 +00:00