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* vsprintf.c: optimizing, part 1 (easy and obvious stuff)Denis Vlasenko2007-07-161-28/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * There is no point in having full "0...9a...z" constant vector, if we use only "0...9a...f" (and "x" for "0x"). * Post-decrement usually needs a few more instructions, so use pre decrement instead where makes sense: -       while (i < precision--) { +       while (i <= --precision) { * if base != 10 (=> base 8 or 16), we can avoid using division in a loop and use mask/shift, obtaining much faster conversion. (More complex optimization for base 10 case is in the second patch). Overall, size vsprintf.o shows ~80 bytes smaller text section with this patch applied. Signed-off-by: Douglas W Jones <jones@cs.uiowa.edu> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix trivial typos in anon_inodes.c commentsJ. Bruce Fields2007-07-161-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | Trivial typo and grammar fixes. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* isapnp: remove pointless check of 'type' against 0 in isapnp_read_tag()Jesper Juhl2007-07-161-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In drivers/pnp/isapnp/core.c::isapnp_read_tag() there is a test of 'type' being == 0 a bit down in the function. That test doesn't make any sense. If 'type' could indeed be NULL, then the test happens way too late as we'd already have tried to dereference the pointer earlier and looking at the callers it also turns out that there is no way type can ever actually be NULL. So the test is completely pointless and should just be removed. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* .gitignore updateAlexey Dobriyan2007-07-162-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | headers_install by default puts headers into usr/include/ . They're auto-generated, so should be ignored. Same for *.orig, *.rej . Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* remove mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()Adrian Bunk2007-07-162-17/+0
| | | | | | | | | congestion_wait_interruptible() is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against schedulerJiri Kosina2007-07-161-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler The printk's comment states that it can be called from every context, which might lead to false illusion that it could be called from everywhere without any restrictions. This is however not true - a call to printk() could deadlock if called from scheduler code (namely from schedule(), wake_up(), etc) on runqueue lock when it tries to wake up klogd. Document this. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* docs: static initialization of spinlocks is OKEd L. Cashin2007-07-161-9/+11
| | | | | | | | | | Static initialization of spinlocks is preferable to dynamic initialization when it is practical. This patch updates documentation for consistency with comments in spinlock_types.h. Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* serial: remove termios checks from various old char serial driversAlan Cox2007-07-165-38/+12
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 68360serial: remove broken optimisationAlan Cox2007-07-161-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | Remove the broken 'no termios change' optimisation for this driver. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* synclink: remove bogus 'no change' termios optimisation from synclink driversAlan Cox2007-07-163-24/+0
| | | | | | | | | Again this check is wrong now, and un-needed Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* genericserial: remove bogus optimisation check and dead code pathsAlan Cox2007-07-161-117/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | We've been using the 'new locking' for a long time now so it seems pointless keeping the old one around. Remove it and undo the macros it uses back into real code for readability. Remove the bogus 'no termios change' checks. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Morten Helgesen <morten@sourcepoet.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* amiserial: remove incorrect 'no termios change' checkAlan Cox2007-07-161-6/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Lots of serial drivers check and optimise for setting the termios values to the ones they were before. This is pointless and the check is wrong anyway. Remove the checks on the serial drivers. If we ever do need such a check put it back in the tty layer instead _once_! Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* modules: remove modlist_lockRusty Russell2007-07-161-21/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now we always use stop_machine for module insertion or deletion, we no longer need the modlist_lock: merely disabling preemption is sufficient to block against list manipulation. This avoids deadlock on OOPSen where we can potentially grab the lock twice. Bug: 8695 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tobias Oed <tobiasoed@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ext4: fix error handling in ext4_create_journalBorislav Petkov2007-07-161-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | Fix error handling in ext4_create_journal according to kernel conventions. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ext3: fix error handling in ext3_create_journal()Borislav Petkov2007-07-161-2/+5
| | | | | | | | Fix error handling in ext3_create_journal according to kernel conventions. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* make cancel_xxx_work_sync() return a booleanOleg Nesterov2007-07-162-16/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change cancel_work_sync() and cancel_delayed_work_sync() to return a boolean indicating whether the work was actually cancelled. A zero return value means that the work was not pending/queued. Without that kind of change it is not possible to avoid flush_workqueue() sometimes, see the next patch as an example. Also, this patch unifies both functions and kills the (unlikely) busy-wait loop. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* rename cancel_rearming_delayed_work() to cancel_delayed_work_sync()Oleg Nesterov2007-07-162-6/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Imho, the current naming of cancel_xxx workqueue functions is very confusing. cancel_delayed_work() cancel_rearming_delayed_work() cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue() // obsolete cancel_work_sync() This looks as if the first 2 functions differ in "type" of their argument which is not true any longer, nowadays the difference is the behaviour. The semantics of cancel_rearming_delayed_work(dwork) was changed significantly, it doesn't require that dwork rearms itself, and cancels dwork synchronously. Rename it to cancel_delayed_work_sync(). This matches cancel_delayed_work() and cancel_work_sync(). Re-create cancel_rearming_delayed_work() as a simple inline obsolete wrapper, like cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* update Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txtBorislav Petkov2007-07-161-13/+16
| | | | | | | | Update Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove the last few UMSDOS leftoversJesper Juhl2007-07-164-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The UMSDOS filesystem was removed back in 2.6.11, but some tiny bits stuck around. This patch removes the few remaining leftovers. The only things left behind after this are the entries in the CREDITS file and the ioctl number in Documentation/ioctl-number.txt as documentation. This third (hopefully final) version of the patch doesn't edit the arch/um/config.release file, since Jeff Dike pointed out to me that it should die completely, and asked me to remove it from my patch as he'll send in a seperate patch removing the file completely. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/Jesper Juhl2007-07-161-9/+133
| | | | | | | | | | Add descriptions for a number of missing files and directories to the Documentation/00-INDEX file. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* dma: make dma pool to use kmalloc_nodeYinghai Lu2007-07-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Using dev_to_node(&dev->dev) to get node, and kmalloc_node to dma buffer on corresponding node dma pool Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* UDF: fix function name from udf_crc16 to udf_crcCyrill Gorcunov2007-07-161-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | We have to change udf_crc16() name to udf_crc() to be able to play with CRC test. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* generic bug: use show_regs() instead of dump_stack()Heiko Carstens2007-07-1610-12/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current generic bug implementation has a call to dump_stack() in case a WARN_ON(whatever) gets hit. Since report_bug(), which calls dump_stack(), gets called from an exception handler we can do better: just pass the pt_regs structure to report_bug() and pass it to show_regs() in case of a warning. This will give more debug informations like register contents, etc... In addition this avoids some pointless lines that dump_stack() emits, since it includes a stack backtrace of the exception handler which is of no interest in case of a warning. E.g. on s390 the following lines are currently always present in a stack backtrace if dump_stack() gets called from report_bug(): [<000000000001517a>] show_trace+0x92/0xe8) [<0000000000015270>] show_stack+0xa0/0xd0 [<00000000000152ce>] dump_stack+0x2e/0x3c [<0000000000195450>] report_bug+0x98/0xf8 [<0000000000016cc8>] illegal_op+0x1fc/0x21c [<00000000000227d6>] sysc_return+0x0/0x10 Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add -Werror-implicit-function-declarationDave Jones2007-07-161-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Add -Werror-implicit-function-declaration This makes builds fail sooner if something is implicitly defined instead of having to wait half an hour for it to fail at the linking stage. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* uninline check_signature()Andrew Morton2007-07-163-28/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | This is a rather bizarre thing to have inlined in io.h. Stick it in lib/ instead. While we're there, despaghetti it a bit, and fix its off-by-one behaviour when passed a zero length. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* CodingStyle: add information about editor modelinesJosh Triplett2007-07-161-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | I recently received a patch including a file that had a vim modeline, and I realized that nothing specifically proscribed that practice. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* CodingStyle: add information about trailing whitespaceJosh Triplett2007-07-161-0/+12
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* is_power_of_2: ufs/super.cvignesh babu2007-07-161-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | Replace (n & (n-1)) with is_power_of_2 Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* parport_pc: it887x fixNiels de Vos2007-07-161-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | The IO port range requested by parport_pc.c:sio_ite_8872_probe is too small. The IO-ports of ttyS1 (0x2f8) will be missconfigured by the ITE-chip. The ITE starts looking for the chip a 0x2a0. An IO-portrange of 32 will not overwrite the ports of ttyS1. Therefore register 0x60 should be written with 0xe5000000, enabling the ITE and setting IO-portsize to 32 bytes. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* is_power_of_2: kernel/kfifo.cvignesh babu2007-07-161-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | Replace (n & (n-1)) with is_power_of_2() Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> Acked-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* make seccomp zerocost in scheduleAndrea Arcangeli2007-07-165-45/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | This follows a suggestion from Chuck Ebbert on how to make seccomp absolutely zerocost in schedule too. The only remaining footprint of seccomp is in terms of the bzImage size that becomes a few bytes (perhaps even a few kbytes) larger, measure it if you care in the embedded. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.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>
* move seccomp from /proc to a prctlAndrea Arcangeli2007-07-165-74/+51
| | | | | | | | | | This reduces the memory footprint and it enforces that only the current task can enable seccomp on itself (this is a requirement for a strightforward [modulo preempt ;) ] TIF_NOTSC implementation). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nbd.c: sock_xmit: cleanup signal related codeOleg Nesterov2007-07-161-16/+6
| | | | | | | | | sock_xmit() re-implements sigprocmask() and dequeue_signal_lock(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kcdrwd: remove unneeded flush_signals() callOleg Nesterov2007-07-161-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | kcdrwd() is a kernel thread, all signals are ignored. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* adb_probe_task: remove unneeded flush_signals() callOleg Nesterov2007-07-161-8/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | adb_probe_task() is forked by "events" thread, all signals are ignored, no need to play with signal blocking/flushing. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bd_claim_by_disk: fix warningAndrew Morton2007-07-161-10/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix this: fs/block_dev.c: In function 'bd_claim_by_disk': fs/block_dev.c:970: warning: 'found' may be used uninitialized in this function and given that free_bd_holder() now needs free(NULL)-is-legal behaviour, we can simplify bd_release_from_kobject(). Cc: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Replace obscure constructs in fs/block_dev.cJohannes Weiner2007-07-161-22/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | Replace some funky codepaths in fs/block_dev.c with cleaner versions of the affected places. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix return value] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de> Cc: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs/namespace.c should #include "internal.h"Adrian Bunk2007-07-161-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global functions. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sprint_symbol() cleanupAndrew Morton2007-07-161-6/+5
| | | | | | | Remove pointless `else'. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* HFS+: add custom dentry hash and comparison operationsDuane Griffin2007-07-166-1/+138
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add custom dentry hash and comparison operations for HFS+ filesystems that are case-insensitive and/or do automatic unicode decomposition. The new operations reuse the existing HFS+ ASCII to unicode conversion, unicode decomposition and case folding functionality. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* HFS+: refactor ASCII to unicode conversion routine for later reuseDuane Griffin2007-07-161-45/+62
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The HFS+ filesystem is case-insensitive and does automatic unicode decomposition by default, but does not provide custom dentry operations. This can lead to multiple dentries being cached for lookups on a filename with varying case and/or character (de)composition. These patches add custom dentry hash and comparison operations for case-sensitive and/or automatically decomposing HFS+ filesystems. Unicode decomposition and case-folding are performed as required to ensure equivalent filenames are hashed to the same values and compare as equal. This patch: Refactor existing HFS+ ASCII to unicode string conversion routine to split out character conversion functionality. This will be reused by the custom dentry hash and comparison routines. This approach avoids unnecessary memory allocation compared to using the string conversion routine directly in the new functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid use-of-uninitialised] Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mistaken ext4_inode_bitmap for ext4_block_bitmapToshiyuki Okajima2007-07-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | In ext4_new_blocks(), one of two ext4_block_bitmap() calls should be ext4_inode_bitmap() call. It is not harmful in normal processing, but it should be fixed. Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sysctl.c: add text telling people to use CTL_UNNUMBEREDAndrew Morton2007-07-161-1/+20
| | | | | | | | Hopefully this will help people to understand the new regime. 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>
* Add Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txtAndrew Morton2007-07-161-0/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Poeple keep on adding new numbered sysctls, when they're supposed not to. Add a documentation file which explain why new sysctls should use CTL_UNNUMBERED. The next patch will sprinkle pointers to this throughout sysctl.c. Eric provided the text (thanks) 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>
* FUTEX: Tidy up the codeThomas Gleixner2007-07-164-85/+74
| | | | | | | | | | The recent PRIVATE and REQUEUE_PI changes to the futex code made it hard to read. Tidy it up. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* update description in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txtBorislav Petkov2007-07-161-9/+13
| | | | | | | | | Update the description of struct file_system_type and get_sb() in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt to match the current code. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cdrom: replace hard-coded constants by kernel.h macro.Robert P. J. Day2007-07-161-2/+2
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sys_time() speedupIngo Molnar2007-07-161-8/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Improve performance of sys_time(). sys_time() returns time in seconds, but it does so by calling do_gettimeofday() and then returning the tv_sec portion of the GTOD time. But the data structure "xtime", which is updated by every timer/scheduler tick, already offers HZ granularity time. The patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly: 2.6.22-rc6: #threads 1: transactions: 3733 (373.21 per sec.) 2: transactions: 6676 (667.46 per sec.) 3: transactions: 6957 (695.50 per sec.) 4: transactions: 7055 (705.48 per sec.) 5: transactions: 6596 (659.33 per sec.) 2.6.22-rc6 + sys_time.patch: 1: transactions: 4005 (400.47 per sec.) 2: transactions: 7379 (737.77 per sec.) 3: transactions: 7347 (734.49 per sec.) 4: transactions: 7468 (746.65 per sec.) 5: transactions: 7428 (742.47 per sec.) Mixed API uses of gettimeofday() and time() are guaranteed to be coherent via the use of a at-most-once-per-second slowpath that updates xtime. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* is_power_of_2(): jbdvignesh babu2007-07-162-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | Replace (n & (n-1)) in the context of power of 2 checks with is_power_of_2(). Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* is_power_of_2: ext3/super.cvignesh babu2007-07-161-1/+2
| | | | | | | | Replace (n & (n-1)) in the context of power of 2 checks with is_power_of_2() Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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