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* [PATCH] Mark some key VFS functions as __always_inlineArjan van de Ven2006-01-141-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mark a few VFS functions as mandatory inline (based on Al Viro's request); these must be inline due to stack usage issues during a recursive loop that happens during the recursive symlink resolution (symlink to a symlink to a symlink ..) This patch at this point does not change behavior and is for documentation purposes only (but this changes later in the series) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mark several functions __always_inlineIngo Molnar2006-01-147-15/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Mark a number of functions as 'must inline'. The functions affected by this patch need to be inlined because they use knowledge that their arguments are constant so that most of the function optimizes away. At this point this patch does not change behavior, it's for documentation only (and for future patches in the inline series) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] enable unit-at-a-time optimisations for gcc4Ingo Molnar2006-01-141-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow gcc4 compilers to optimize unit-at-a-time. This flag enables gcc to "see" the entire C file before making optimisation decisions such as inline, which results in gcc making better decisions. One of the immediate effects of this is that static functions that are used only once now get inlined. gcc 3.4 has this flag as well, however gcc 3.x have a problem with inlining and stacks and as a result, enabling this flag there would cause excessive and unacceptable stack use. This problem is fixed in the gcc 4.x series. The x86-64 architecture already enables this feature so it's well tested already. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make __always_inline actually force always inliningIngo Molnar2006-01-142-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is the first in a series that tries to optimize the kernel in terms of size (and thus cache behavior, both cpu and pagecache). This first patch changes __always_inline to be a forced inline instead of the "regular" inline it was on everything except alpha. This forced inline matches the intention of the define better as a matter of documentation. There is no change in behavior by this patch, since "inline" currently is mapped to a forced inline anyway. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fbdev: Update maintainers listAntonino A. Daplas2006-01-141-5/+17
| | | | | | | | Update maintainers list. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fbdev: Sanitize ->fb_mmap prototypeChristoph Hellwig2006-01-1422-39/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | No need for a file argument. If we'd really need it it's in vma->vm_file already. gbefb and sgivwfb used to set vma->vm_file to the file argument, but the kernel alrady did that. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fbdev: Sanitize ->fb_ioctl prototypeChristoph Hellwig2006-01-1427-109/+67
| | | | | | | | | | | The ioctl and file arguments to ->fb_mmap are totally unused and there's not reason a driver should need them. Also update the ->fb_compat_ioctl prototype to be the same as ->fb_mmap. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] gx1fb: (try to) play nicer with various BIOSesDavid Vrabel2006-01-142-7/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Seems that the CS5530A chip used in Geode GX1 systems has some crazy feature that causes SMI traps when accessing the PCI configuration space of the video device. Various GX1 BIOSes seem to use this 'feature' to hide the real BARs of the device. This patch disables these traps (in an early PCI fixup) so that Linux sees the real, physical BARs and not the virtual ones provided by the BIOS. This should allow the GX1 framebuffer driver to work on more systems that have different BIOSes as the driver no longer guesses at what the virtual BARs mean. I'm not entirely sure it the correct solution as I can neither test regular VGA console nor the X's 'cyrix' video driver so there might be some breakage there -- probably best to get some more testers before applying it. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] neofb: take existing display configuration as defaultChristian Trefzer2006-01-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On a Dell Latitude CPi-A I noticed a strangeness wrt. the handling of an external monitor by the neomagic framebuffer driver, namely when the laptop is docked in a C/Dock II with the lid shut. A cold boot would result in the BIOS configuring the video chip to use the "external monitor only" mode, yet neofb would default to "internal LCD only". An attempt for a quick fix by using the Fn-F8 keystroke to toggle the display combination modes resulted in a reproductible hard lock, powering down being the only solution. The attached patch makes neofb probe the register for the current display mode, using that value as a default if nothing was specified as kernel/module parameter. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Update kernel-parameters.txt IOSCHED to spell out 'anticipatory'Randy Dunlap2006-01-141-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] nlm kernel-parameters updateRandy Dunlap2006-01-141-2/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | Add 2 lockd kernel parameters and spell 2 others correctly. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Cc: <buraphalinuxserver@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cs89x0: add ixdp2351 supportDeepak Saxena2006-01-142-6/+25
| | | | | | | | This patch adds support for the Intel IXDP2351 to the CS89x0 driver. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cs89x0: use u16 for device register dataLennert Buytenhek2006-01-141-19/+19
| | | | | | | | | | cs89x0 inconsistently used 'int' and 'u32' for device register data. As the cs89x0 is a 16-bit chip, change the I/O accessors over to 'u16'. (Spotted by Deepak Saxena.) Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cs89x0: use #elif instead of #else/#if/#endifLennert Buytenhek2006-01-141-3/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cs89x0: credit Dmitry PervushinLennert Buytenhek2006-01-141-0/+3
| | | | | | | | Credit Dmitry Pervushin for the PNX010X platform support. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] dell_rbu: fix Bug 5854Abhay Salunke2006-01-141-22/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5854 Root cause: The dell_rbu driver creates entries in /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/ by calling request_firmware_nowait (without hotplug ) this function inturn starts a kernel thread which creates the entries in /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading , data and the thread waits on the user action to return control back to the callback fucntion of dell_rbu. The thread calls wait_on_completion which puts it in a D state until the user action happens. If there is no user action happening the load average goes up as the thread D state is taken in to account. Also after downloading the BIOS image the enrties go away momentarily but they are recreated from the callback function in dell_rbu. This causes the thread to get recreated causing the load average to permenently stay around 1. Fix: The dell_rbu also creates the entry /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type at driver load time. The image type by default is mono if required the user can echo packet to image_type to make the BIOS update mechanism using packets. Also by echoing init in to image_type the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu entries can be created. The driver code was changed to not create /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu entries during load time, and also to not create the above entries from the callback function. The entries are only created by echoing init to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type The user now needs to create the entries to download the image monolithic or packet. This fixes the issue since the kernel thread only is created when ever the user is ready to download the BIOS image; this minimizes the life span of the kernel thread and the load average goes back to normal. Signed off by Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] smbfs: remove kmalloc wrapperPekka Enberg2006-01-144-81/+12
| | | | | | | | Remove the remaining kmalloc() wrapper bits from fs/smbfs/. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ncpfs: remove kmalloc wrapperPekka Enberg2006-01-143-54/+13
| | | | | | | | Remove remaining kmalloc wrapper bits from fs/ncpfs/. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] abandon gcc 295x main.c tidyCoywolf Qi Hunt2006-01-141-9/+7
| | | | | | | | After abandon-gcc-295x.patch, this relocates the error-out-early comment. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] quota: make useless quota error message informativeValdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu2006-01-141-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fs/quota_v2.c can, under some conditions, issue a kernel message that says, in totality, 'failed read'. This patch does the following: 1) Gives a hint who issued the error message, so people reading the logs don't have to go grepping the entire kernel tree (with 11 false positives). 2) Say what amount of data we expected, and actually got. Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reiserfs: remove d_splice_alias NULL check from reiserfs_lookupPekka Enberg2006-01-141-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | Remove redundant NULL check in reiserfs_lookup() as d_splice_alias() can take NULL inode as input. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] isofs: remove d_splice_alias NULL check from isofs_lookupPekka Enberg2006-01-141-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | Remove redundant NULL check in isofs_lookup() as d_splice_alias() can take NULL inode as input. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ext3: remove d_splice_alias NULL check from ext3_lookupPekka Enberg2006-01-141-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | Remove redundant NULL check in ext3_lookup() as d_splice_alias() can take NULL inode as input. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ext2: remove d_splice_alias NULL check from ext2_lookupPekka Enberg2006-01-141-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | Remove redundant NULL check in ext2_lookup() as d_splice_alias() can take NULL inode as input. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset oom lock fixPaul Jackson2006-01-143-5/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem, reported in: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5859 and by various other email messages and lkml posts is that the cpuset hook in the oom (out of memory) code can try to take a cpuset semaphore while holding the tasklist_lock (a spinlock). One must not sleep while holding a spinlock. The fix seems easy enough - move the cpuset semaphore region outside the tasklist_lock region. This required a few lines of mechanism to implement. The oom code where the locking needs to be changed does not have access to the cpuset locks, which are internal to kernel/cpuset.c only. So I provided a couple more cpuset interface routines, available to the rest of the kernel, which simple take and drop the lock needed here (cpusets callback_sem). Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: fix blk_queue_ordered call in dasd.c fixupHeiko Carstens2006-01-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | The QUEUE_ORDERED_* numbers got renumbered and by accident the dasd driver was changed to use QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN instead of QUEUE_ORDERED_TAG. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: email-address changeCornelia Huck2006-01-1418-35/+36
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: chps[] array too shortCornelia Huck2006-01-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | The chps[] array in struct channel_subsystem is one too short; therefore the code doesn't realize the chpid ff is already known. When several devices on chpid ff become available, the message "new_channel_path: could not register ff" is displayed for every device but the first one. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: cputime misaccountingMartin Schwidefsky2006-01-144-8/+30
| | | | | | | | | | finish_arch_switch needs to update the user cpu time as well, not just the system cpu time. Otherwise the partial user cpu time of a process that is stored in the lowcore will be (mis-)accounted to the next process. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: fix blk_queue_ordered call in dasdcMartin Schwidefsky2006-01-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Add the missing third argument to the blk_queue_ordered call and use the constant QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN instead of "1". Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: add dummy pm_power_offMartin Schwidefsky2006-01-141-0/+5
| | | | | | | | Define a dummy pm_power_off pointer to make sys_reboot happy. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: spinlock fixesMartin Schwidefsky2006-01-143-9/+3
| | | | | | | | Remove useless spin_retry_counter and fix compilation for UP kernels. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: fix cpcmd calls on UPAlexey Dobriyan2006-01-141-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | Add missing fourth argument to cpcmd calls under !CONFIG_SMP. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: sigcontext.h vs __userMartin Schwidefsky2006-01-141-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | Add an include of linux/compiler.h in sigcontext.h to avoid compiler errors in user space apps because of a missing definition for __user. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: show_task oopsHeiko Carstens2006-01-141-3/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The show_task function walks the kernel stack backchain of processes assuming that the processes are not running. Since this assumption is not correct walking the backchain can lead to an addressing exception and therefore to a kernel hang. So prevent the kernel hang (you still get incorrect results) verity that all read accesses are within the bounds of the kernel stack before performing them. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: sha256 crypto code fixJan Glauber2006-01-141-7/+22
| | | | | | | | | Fix processing of messages larger than 2 * SHA256_BLOCK_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: aes crypto code fixesJan Glauber2006-01-141-16/+44
| | | | | | | | | | Call KM[C] only with a multiple of block size. Check return value of KM[C] instructions and complain about erros Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: des crypto code speedupJan Glauber2006-01-141-7/+210
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide ECB and CBC encrypt / decrypt functions to crypto API to speed up our hardware accelerated DES implementation. This new functions allow the crypto API to call ECB / CBC directly with large blocks in difference to the old functions that were calles with algorithm block size (8 bytes for DES). This is up to factor 10 faster than our old hardware implementation :) Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: des crypto code cleanupJan Glauber2006-01-141-88/+67
| | | | | | | | | Beautify the s390 in-kernel-crypto des code. Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: fix stack dump loglevelChuck Ebbert2006-01-141-18/+39
| | | | | | | | | | Recent changes caused part of stack traces from SysRq-T to print at KERN_EMERG loglevel. Also, parts of stack dump during oops were failing to print at that level when they should. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: put HOTPLUG_CPU under Processor type, not Bus optionsRandy Dunlap2006-01-141-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | Move the HOTPLUG_CPU option under "Processor type" instead of under "Bus options". This makes it the same for i386 as most other processor types (arm, ia64, parisc, ppc, s390, & x86_64; but not for powerpc). Besides, it takes me too long to find it under Bus options. I can't be the only person who has trouble finding it. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc: Add support for the MPC83xx watchdogKumar Gala2006-01-143-0/+234
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for the PowerPC MPC83xx watchdog. The MPC83xx has a simple watchdog that once enabled it can not be stopped, has some simple timeout range selection, and the ability to either reset the processor or take a machine check. Signed-off-by: Dave Updegraff <dave@cray.org> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policiesRobin Holt2006-01-146-15/+75
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable to disproportionately decrease the available memory on a particular node. Since there's no telling what sort of application (e.g. dd/cp/cat) might be dropping large files there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate default behavior for their site's situation. Introduce a tmpfs mount option which allows specifying a memory policy and a second option to specify the nodelist for that policy. With the default policy, tmpfs will behave as it does today. This patch adds support for preferred, bind, and interleave policies. The default policy will cause pages to be added to tmpfs files on the node which is doing the writing. Some jobs expect a single process to create and manage the tmpfs files. This results in a node which has a significantly reduced number of free pages. With this patch, the administrator can specify the policy and nodes for that policy where they would prefer allocations. This patch was originally written by Brent Casavant and Hugh Dickins. I added support for the bind and preferred policies and the mpol_nodelist mount option. Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix for CONFIG_NUMA without CONFIG_SWAPChristoph Lameter2006-01-141-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | Some people apparently run CONFIG_NUMA without CONFIG_SWAP. The migration code currently depends on swap. This patch provides a set of inline fallback functions so that the kernel properly compiles. However, calls to migration functions will fail. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Watchdog: Winsystems EPX-C3 SBCCalin A. Culianu2006-01-143-0/+239
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a 2.6 patch that adds support for the watchdog timer built into the EPX-C3 single board computer manufactured by Winsystems, Inc. Driver details: This is for x86 only. This watchdog is pretty basic and simple. It is only configurable via jumpers on the SBC, and it only has either a 1.5s or 200s interval. The watchdog can either be auto-configured to start as soon as the machine powers up (bad idea for the 1.5s interval!) or it can be enabled and disabled by writing to io port 0x1ee. Petting the watchdog involves writing any value to io port 0x1ef. The only unfortunate thing about this watchdog (and it is not at all uncommmon in watchdogs that linux supports) is that it is not a PCI or ISA-PNP device and as such it isn't at all probeable. Either the watchdog exists as 2 bytes at 0x1ee, or it doesn't. Thus, using this driver on a machine that doesn't have that watchdog can potentially hang/crash the system, etc. So only use this driver if you in fact are on a Winsystems EPX-C3 SBC. Anyway this driver fits into the already-existing watchdog framework quite nicely and I already tested it on my EPX-C3 and it works like a charm. Signed-off-by: Calin A. Culianu <calin@ajvar.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: fix symbol for mktimeMiklos Szeredi2006-01-141-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LD .tmp_vmlinux1 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.4/../../../libc.a(mktime.o): In function `timelocal': : multiple definition of `mktime' kernel/built-in.o:kernel/time.c:604: first defined here /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `mktime' changed from 134 in kernel/built-in.o to 44 in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.4/../../../libc.a(mktime.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: 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>
* [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functionsArjan van de Ven2006-01-1474-227/+226
| | | | | | | | | | | Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: add new SCHED_BATCH policyIngo Molnar2006-01-143-19/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new SCHED_BATCH (3) scheduling policy: such tasks are presumed CPU-intensive, and will acquire a constant +5 priority level penalty. Such policy is nice for workloads that are non-interactive, but which do not want to give up their nice levels. The policy is also useful for workloads that want a deterministic scheduling policy without interactivity causing extra preemptions (between that workload's tasks). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Altix: ioc3 serial supportPatrick Gefre2006-01-1410-1/+3410
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add driver support for a 2 port PCI IOC3-based serial card on Altix boxes: This is a re-submission. On the original submission I was asked to organize the code so that the MIPS ioc3 ethernet and serial parts could be used with this driver. Stanislaw Skowronek was kind enough to provide the shim layer for this - thanks Stanislaw. This patch includes the shim layer and the Altix PCI ioc3 serial driver. The MIPS merged ioc3 ethernet and serial support is forthcoming. Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] convert /proc/devices to use seq_file interfaceNeil Horman2006-01-144-53/+320
| | | | | | | | | | | | A Christoph suggested that the /proc/devices file be converted to use the seq_file interface. This patch does that. I've obxerved one or two installation that had sufficiently large sans that they overran the 4k limit on /proc/devices. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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