I don't think the code is quite ready, which is why I asked for Peter's
additions to also be merged before I acked it (although it turned out that
it still isn't quite ready with his additions either).
Basically I have had similar observations to Suresh in that it does not
play nicely with the rest of the balancing infrastructure (and raised
similar concerns in my review).
The samples (group of 4) I got for "maximum recorded imbalance" on a 2x2
SMP+HT Xeon are as follows:
| Following boot | hackbench 20 | hackbench 40
-----------+----------------+---------------------+---------------------
2.6.16-rc2 | 30,37,100,112 | 5600,5530,6020,6090 | 6390,7090,8760,8470
+nosmpnice | 3, 2, 4, 2 | 28, 150, 294, 132 | 348, 348, 294, 347
Hackbench raw performance is down around 15% with smpnice (but that in
itself isn't a huge deal because it is just a benchmark). However, the
samples show that the imbalance passed into move_tasks is increased by
about a factor of 10-30. I think this would also go some way to explaining
latency blips turning up in the balancing code (though I haven't actually
measured that).
We'll probably have to revert this in the SUSE kernel.
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Embedded boards that u-boot require a kernel image in the uImage format.
This allows a given board to specify it wants a uImage built by default.
This also fixes a warning at config time, as this symbol is referred
to in arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Updated the documentation to include the definition of the USB device
node format for Freescale SOC devices.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Registers system call for the powerpc architecture.
Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
With this, new system calls only have to be wired up in one place
for ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc, rather than 2.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Refactor how the bridge code interacts with kobject system.
It should still use kobjects even if not using sysfs.
Fix the error unwind handling in br_add_if.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bridge netfilter code needs to handle the case where device is
removed from bridge while packet in process. In these cases the
bridge_parent can become null while processing.
This should fix: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5803
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change Bridge receive path to correctly handle RCU removal of device
from bridge. Also fixes deadlock between carrier_check and del_nbp.
This replaces the previous deleted flag fix.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch fixes an out of range array access in irnet_irda.c.
Author: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch set IrDA's addr_len properly, i.e to 4 bytes, the size of the
IrLAP device address.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When a netlink message is not related to a netlink socket,
it is issued by kernel socket with pid 0. Netlink "pid" has nothing
to do with current->pid. I called it incorrectly, if it was named "port",
the confusion would be avoided.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink.
Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source socket,
so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be,
and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock
of rtnetlink.
Suggested fix is to restore status quo passing source socket as additional
argument to netlink_attachskb().
A little explanation: overrun is set on a socket, when it failed
to receive some message and sender of this messages does not or even
have no way to handle this error. This happens in two cases:
1. when kernel sends something. Kernel never retransmits and cannot
wait for buffer space.
2. when user sends a broadcast and the message was not delivered
to some recipients.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pointed out by Linus Torvalds.
sys_signal() forgets to initialize ->sa_mask.
( I suspect arch/ia64/ia32/ia32_signal.c:sys32_signal()
also needs this fix )
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The sparc64 64 bit syscall table seems to be broken as it has
compat_sys_newfstatat in its syscall table instead of sys_newfstatat.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
MCA driver can cause panic if kernel gets a state info with no minstate.
This patch adds minstate validation before handling it.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Remove an erroneous kfree, and unlink the pcidev_info struct from the
pcidev_info list prior to free'ing the pcidev_info struct.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real
This patch adds s3c2400.h, fixing the build for the 2410/2440
platforms.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This reverts commit 5e375bc7d5.
Kyle McMartin steps on his soap-box:
"Sigh. Can everyone please stop assuming gcc can output to /dev/null?
On several platforms, ld tries to lseek in the output file, and fails
if it can't."
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Swap out pselect6/ppoll for ni_syscall for now. We also have to switch
the macro to ENTRY_SAME since compat_sys_ni_syscall does not exist.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Use seq_file interface for proc output in sba_iommu. Also
clean up the bus root assignment, and give the proc files
a more logical name. Tested on my J6000.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Gut ccio-dma.c of the ugly proc append and snprintf cruft and
just use seq_printf instead. Tested on a K-class.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
If you set network interface down and up again, the IPv6 address
autoconfiguration does not work. 'ip addr' shows that the link-local
address is in tentative state. We don't even react to periodical router
advertisements.
During NETDEV_DOWN we clear IF_READY, and we don't set it back in
NETDEV_UP. While starting to perform DAD on the link-local address, we
notice that the device is not in IF_READY, and we abort autoconfiguration
process (which would eventually send router solicitations).
Acked-by: Juha-Matti Tapio <jmtapio@verkkotelakka.net>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Registers system call for the ia64 architecture.
Reserves space for ppoll and pselect, and adds unshare at system
call number 1296.
Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Patch from Tony Lindgren
This patch fixes the low-level IO init for omap2 boards.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Tony Lindgren
This patch fixes the low-level IO init for omap1 boards.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Tony Lindgren
This patch adds the missing cache flushes to common low-level
init that are needed to access the IO region. These flushes
are normally done at the end of devicemaps_init(), but we
need to detect the OMAP core type early.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Ben Dooks
Change the IRQ resource range for the ADC device
to be two distinct IRQs
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds new PCI serial card support.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This replaces old direct usage of tty->flip stuff with relative flip API
calls.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The DB1550 actually doesn't have a UART2. Remove it from the list.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
On some embedded PowerPC (MPC834x) systems an extra byte would some
times be required to flush data out of the fifo.
serial8250_console_write() was updating the IER in hardware without
also updating the copy in uart_8250_port. This causes issues functions
like serial8250_start_tx() and __stop_tx() to misbehave.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real
This patch defines the number of serial ports on the S3C2400.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
