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* [PATCH] i386: Replace broken serialize_cpu in microcode driver with correct ↵Andi Kleen2006-01-111-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sync_core Passing random input values in eax to cpuid is not a good idea because the CPU will GPF for unknown ones. Use the correct x86-64 version that exists for a longer time too. This also adds a memory barrier to prevent the optimizer from reordering. Cc: tigran@veritas.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: make pci_map_single/pci_map_sg warn for zero length.Andi Kleen2006-01-111-3/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | As suggested by Linus. This catches driver bugs that could cause corruption on IOMMU architectures. Also I converted the BUGs to out_of_line_bug()s to save a bit of text space. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: Handle missing local APIC timer interrupts on C3 stateVenkatesh Pallipadi2006-01-111-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Whenever we see that a CPU is capable of C3 (during ACPI cstate init), we disable local APIC timer and switch to using a broadcast from external timer interrupt (IRQ 0). This is needed because Intel CPUs stop the local APIC timer in C3. This is currently only enabled for Intel CPUs. Patch below adds the code for i386 and also the ACPI hunk. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64: Generalize DMI and enable for x86-64Andi Kleen2006-01-111-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some people need it now on 64bit so reuse the i386 code for x86-64. This will be also useful for future bug workarounds. It is a bit simplified there because there is no need to do it very early on x86-64. This means it doesn't need early ioremap et.al. We run it as a core initcall right now. I hope it's not needed for early setup. I added a general CONFIG_DMI symbol in case IA64 or someone else wants to reuse the code later too. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64/i386: Remove preempt disable calls in lowlevel IPIZwane Mwaikambo2006-01-111-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed that some lowlevel send_IPI_mask helpers had a hotplug/preempt race whereupon the cpu_online_map was read before disabling preemption; ... cpumask_t mask = cpu_online_map; int cpu = get_cpu(); cpu_clear(cpu, mask); ... But then i realised that there is no need for these lowlevel functions to be going through all this trouble when all the callers are already made hotplug/preempt safe. Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Update AMD CPUID flagsAndi Kleen2006-01-111-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Print bits for RDTSCP, SVM, CR8-LEGACY. Also now print power flags on i386 like x86-64 always did. This will add a new line in the 386 cpuinfo, but that shouldn't be an issue - did that in the past too and I haven't heard of any breakage. I shrunk some of the fields in the i386 cpuinfo_x86 to chars to make up for the new int "x86_power" field. Overall it's smaller than before. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Generalize X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC flagAndi Kleen2006-01-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Define it for i386 too. This is a synthetic flag that signifies that the CPU's TSC runs at a constant P state invariant frequency. Fix up the logic on x86-64/i386 to set it on all known CPUs. Use the AMD defined bit to set it on future AMD CPUs. Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Use input/output dependencies for bitopsAndi Kleen2006-01-111-12/+12
| | | | | | | Noticed by Andreas Schwab Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Fix mutex_trylock() copy-and-paste bug (x86, x86-64, generic mutex-dec.h)Linus Torvalds2006-01-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Noticed by Arjan originally on x86-64, then Ingo on x86, and finally me grepping for it in the generic version. Bad parenthesis nesting. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix i386 mutex fastpath on FRAME_POINTER && !DEBUG_MUTEXESIngo Molnar2006-01-101-2/+14
| | | | | | | | | Call the mutex slowpath more conservatively - e.g. FRAME_POINTERS can change the calling convention, in which case a direct branch to the slowpath becomes illegal. Bug found by Hugh Dickins. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kprobes: fix build breakageAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli2006-01-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | The following patch (against 2.6.15-rc5-mm3) fixes a kprobes build break due to changes introduced in the kprobe locking in 2.6.15-rc5-mm3. In addition, the patch reverts back the open-coding of kprobe_mutex. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kprobes: arch_remove_kprobeAnil S Keshavamurthy2006-01-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently arch_remove_kprobes() is only implemented/required for x86_64 and powerpc. All other architecture like IA64, i386 and sparc64 implementes a dummy function which is being called from arch independent kprobes.c file. This patch removes the dummy functions and replaces it with #define arch_remove_kprobe(p, s) do { } while(0) Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kprobes: cleanup include/asm/kprobes.hAnil S Keshavamurthy2006-01-101-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The arch specific kprobes.h files never gets included when CONFIG_KPROBES is turned off. Hence check for CONFIG_KPROBES is not appropriate here in this arch specific kprobes.h files. Also the below defined function kprobes_exception_notify() is not needed when CONFIG_KPROBES is off. Compile tested for both CONFIG_KPROBES=y and N. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Generic ioctl.hBrian Gerst2006-01-101-85/+1
| | | | | | | | Most arches copied the i386 ioctl.h. Combine them into a generic header. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Kdump: i386 compiler warning fixVivek Goyal2006-01-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Fixes a compilation warning message in i386 Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kdump: save registers early (inline functions)Vivek Goyal2006-01-101-0/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - If system panics then cpu register states are captured through funciton crash_get_current_regs(). This is not a inline function hence a stack frame is pushed on to the stack and then cpu register state is captured. Later this frame is popped and new frames are pushed (machine_kexec). - In theory this is not very right as we are capturing register states for a frame and that frame is no more valid. This seems to have created back trace problems for ppc64. - This patch fixes it up. The very first thing it does after entering crash_kexec() is to capture the register states. Anyway we don't want the back trace beyond crash_kexec(). crash_get_current_regs() has been made inline - crash_setup_regs() is the top architecture dependent function which should be responsible for capturing the register states as well as to do some architecture dependent tricks. For ex. fixing up ss and esp for i386. crash_setup_regs() has also been made inline to ensure no new call frame is pushed onto stack. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registersVivek Goyal2006-01-101-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - In case of system crash, current state of cpu registers is saved in memory in elf note format. So far memory for storing elf notes was being allocated statically for NR_CPUS. - This patch introduces dynamic allocation of memory for storing elf notes. It uses alloc_percpu() interface. This should lead to better memory usage. - Introduced based on Andi Kleen's and Eric W. Biederman's suggestions. - This patch also moves memory allocation for elf notes from architecture dependent portion to architecture independent portion. Now crash_notes is architecture independent. The whole idea is that size of memory to be allocated per cpu (MAX_NOTE_BYTES) can be architecture dependent and allocation of this memory can be architecture independent. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mutex subsystem, add include/asm-i386/mutex.hArjan van de Ven2006-01-091-0/+124
| | | | | | | add the i386 version of mutex.h, optimized in assembly. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [PATCH] mutex subsystem, add atomic_xchg() to all archesIngo Molnar2006-01-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | add atomic_xchg() to all the architectures. Needed by the new mutex code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
* [PATCH] Make vm86 support optionalMatt Mackall2006-01-082-2/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds an option to remove vm86 support under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Saves about 5k. This version eliminates most of the #ifdefs of the previous version and instead uses function stubs in vm86.h. Also, release_vm86_irqs is moved from asm-i386/irq.h to a more appropriate home in vm86.h so that the stubs can live together. $ size vmlinux-baseline vmlinux-novm86 text data bss dec hex filename 2920821 523232 190652 3634705 377611 vmlinux-baseline 2916268 523100 190492 3629860 376324 vmlinux-novm86 Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] PTRACE_SYSEMU is only for i386 and clashes with other ptrace codes ↵Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-01-081-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | of other archs PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP} is actually arch specific, for now, and the current allocated number clashes with a ptrace code of frv, i.e. PTRACE_GETFDPIC. I should have submitted this much earlier, anyway we get no breakage for this. CC: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAXRavikiran G Thirumalai2006-01-082-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT from all arches. Since L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX is not used anymore with the introduction of INTERNODE_CACHE, kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: sys_migrate_pages interfaceChristoph Lameter2006-01-081-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sys_migrate_pages implementation using swap based page migration This is the original API proposed by Ray Bryant in his posts during the first half of 2005 on linux-mm@kvack.org and linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. The intent of sys_migrate is to migrate memory of a process. A process may have migrated to another node. Memory was allocated optimally for the prior context. sys_migrate_pages allows to shift the memory to the new node. sys_migrate_pages is also useful if the processes available memory nodes have changed through cpuset operations to manually move the processes memory. Paul Jackson is working on an automated mechanism that will allow an automatic migration if the cpuset of a process is changed. However, a user may decide to manually control the migration. This implementation is put into the policy layer since it uses concepts and functions that are also needed for mbind and friends. The patch also provides a do_migrate_pages function that may be useful for cpusets to automatically move memory. sys_migrate_pages does not modify policies in contrast to Ray's implementation. The current code here is based on the swap based page migration capability and thus is not able to preserve the physical layout relative to it containing nodeset (which may be a cpuset). When direct page migration becomes available then the implementation needs to be changed to do a isomorphic move of pages between different nodesets. The current implementation simply evicts all pages in source nodeset that are not in the target nodeset. Patch supports ia64, i386 and x86_64. 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] mpspec: remove unneeded packed attributeBrian Gerst2006-01-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | GCC 4.1 gives the following warning: include/asm/mpspec.h:79: warning: `packed' attribute ignored for field of type `unsigned char' The packed attribute isn't really necessary anyways so just remove it. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Base support for AMD Geode GX/LX processorsJordan Crouse2006-01-061-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | Provide basic support for the AMD Geode GX and LX processors. Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: fls() in asmStephen Hemminger2006-01-061-5/+17
| | | | | | | | | There is a single instruction on i386 to find largest set bit; so it makes sense to use it (like we use bfs for ffs()). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: convert bigsmp to use flat physical modeAshok Raj2006-01-062-45/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we bring up a new CPU via INIT/startup IPI messages, the CPU that's coming up sends a xTPR message to the chipset. Intel chipsets (at least) don't provide any architectural guarantee on what the chipset will do with this message. For example, the E850x chipsets uses this xTPR message to interpret the interrupt operating mode of the platform. When the CPU coming online sends this message, it always indicates that it is in logical flat mode. For the CPU hotplug case, the platform may already be functioning in cluster APIC mode at this time, the chipset can get confused and mishandle I/O device and IPI interrupt routing. The situation eventually gets corrected when the new CPU sends another xTPR update when we switch it to cluster mode, but there's a window during which the chipset may be in an inconsistent state. This patch avoids this problem by using the flat physical interrupt delivery mode instead of cluster mode for bigsmp (>8 cpu) support. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: x86 partsArjan van de Ven2006-01-061-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | x86 specific parts to make the .rodata section read only Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: handle -Wsign-compare in bitopsDavid Howells2006-01-061-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Make i386's find_first_bit() use an unsigned integer as a counter to avoid getting warnings when -Wsign-compare is given. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Pnp byte granularityZachary Amsden2006-01-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The one remaining caller of set_limit, the PnP BIOS code, calls into the PnP BIOS, passing kernel parameters in and out. These parameteres may be passed from arbitrary kernel virtual memory, so they deserve strict protection to stop a bad BIOS from smashing beyond the object size. Unfortunately, the use of set_limit was badly botching this by setting the limit in terms of pages, when it really should have byte granularity. When doing this, I discovered my BIOS had the buggy code during the "get system device node" call: mov ax, es:[bx] Which is harmless, but has a trivial workaround. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Deprecate obsolete ldt accessorsZachary Amsden2006-01-061-16/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Old accessors to fetch LDT descriptors are unused and outdated and in the wrong header file. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Pnp segments in segment hZachary Amsden2006-01-061-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move PnP BIOS segment definitions into segment.h; the segments are reserved here, so they might as well be defined here as well. Note I didn't do this for APM BIOS, as Macintosh and other systems use those values to emulate APM in some scary way I don't want to understand. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Cr4 is valid on some 486sZachary Amsden2006-01-061-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | So some 486 processors do have CR4 register. Allow them to present it in register dumps by using the old fault technique rather than testing processor family. Thanks to Maciej for noticing this. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: move SIMD initializationJan Beulich2006-01-061-22/+1
| | | | | | | | Move some code unrelated to any dealing with hardware bugs from i386's bugs.h to a more logical place. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: GDT alignment fixZachary Amsden2006-01-061-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make GDT page aligned and page padded to support running inside of a hypervisor. This prevents false sharing of the GDT page with other hot data, which is not allowed in Xen, and causes performance problems in VMware. Rather than go back to the old method of statically allocating the GDT (which wastes unneded space for non-present CPUs), the GDT for APs is allocated dynamically. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2Christoph Lameter2006-01-061-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several counters already have the need to use 64 atomic variables on 64 bit platforms (see mm_counter_t in sched.h). We have to do ugly ifdefs to fall back to 32 bit atomic on 32 bit platforms. The VM statistics patch that I am working on will also make more extensive use of atomic64. This patch introduces a new type atomic_long_t by providing definitions in asm-generic/atomic.h that works similar to the c "long" type. Its 32 bits on 32 bit platforms and 64 bits on 64 bit platforms. Also cleans up the determination of the mm_counter_t in sched.h. 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] kill last zone_reclaim() bitsAndrew Morton2006-01-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Remove the last bits of Martin's ill-fated sys_set_zone_reclaim(). Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: kvaddr_to_nid not used in common codeAndy Whitcroft2006-01-061-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | kvaddr_to_nid() isn't used in common code nor in i386 code. Remove these definitions. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing storeBadari Pulavarty2006-01-061-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here is the patch to implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE) - which frees up a given range of pages & its associated backing store. Current implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return -ENOSYS. "Some app allocates large tmpfs files, then when some task quits and some client disconnect, some memory can be released. However the only way to release tmpfs-swap is to MADV_REMOVE". - Andrea Arcangeli Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their bufferpool (shared memory segments) - without writing back to disk/swap space. This feature is also useful for supporting hot-plug memory on UML. Concerns raised by Andrew Morton: - "We have no plan for holepunching! If we _do_ have such a plan (or might in the future) then what would the API look like? I think sys_holepunch(fd, start, len), so we should start out with that." - Using madvise is very weird, because people will ask "why do I need to mmap my file before I can stick a hole in it?" - None of the other madvise operations call into the filesystem in this manner. A broad question is: is this capability an MM operation or a filesytem operation? truncate, for example, is a filesystem operation which sometimes has MM side-effects. madvise is an mm operation and with this patch, it gains FS side-effects, only they're really, really significant ones." Comments: - Andrea suggested the fs operation too but then it's more efficient to have it as a mm operation with fs side effects, because they don't immediatly know fd and physical offset of the range. It's possible to fixup in userland and to use the fs operation but it's more expensive, the vmas are already in the kernel and we can use them. Short term plan & Future Direction: - We seem to need this interface only for shmfs/tmpfs files in the short term. We have to add hooks into the filesystem for correctness and completeness. This is what this patch does. - In the future, plan is to support both fs and mmap apis also. This also involves (other) filesystem specific functions to be implemented. - Current patch doesn't support VM_NONLINEAR - which can be addressed in the future. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [FLS64]: generic versionStephen Hemminger2006-01-031-0/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] Avoid namespace pollution in <asm/param.h>Dag-Erling Smørgrav2006-01-021-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 3D59121003721a8fad11ee72e646fd9d3076b5679c, the x86 and x86-64 <asm/param.h> was changed to include <linux/config.h> for the configurable timer frequency. However, asm/param.h is sometimes used in userland (it is included indirectly from <sys/param.h>), so your commit pollutes the userland namespace with tons of CONFIG_FOO macros. This greatly confuses software packages (such as BusyBox) which use CONFIG_FOO macros themselves to control the inclusion of optional features. After a short exchange, Christoph approved this patch Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* x86: Fix silly typo in recent <asm/signal.h> fixesLinus Torvalds2005-11-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | The second __const_sigaddset() should have been a sigdelset.. Compile trouble noted by Greg K-H. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: fix sigaddset() inline asm memory constraintConstantine Gavrilov2005-11-171-4/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to incomplete memory constraints, gcc would miscompile code with sigaddset on i386 if sig arg was const. A quote form Jakub to make the issue clear: "You need either __asm__("btsl %1,%0" : "+m"(*set) : "Ir"(_sig-1) : "cc"); or __asm__("btsl %1,%0" : "=m"(*set) : "Ir"(_sig-1), "m"(*set) : "cc"); because the btsl instruction doesn't just set the memory to some value, but needs to read its previous content as well. If you don't tell that fact to GCC, GCC is of course free to optimize as if the asm was just setting the value and not depended on the previous value." Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge x86-64 update from AndiLinus Torvalds2005-11-142-2/+4
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| * [PATCH] x86_64: Reduce number of retries for reset through keyboard controllerAndi Kleen2005-11-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Old code could retry for 10 seconds worst time. Only try it for one second now. Suggested by Yinghai Lu Cc: Yinghai.Lu@amd.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86-64/i386: Intel HT, Multi core detection fixesSiddha, Suresh B2005-11-141-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fields obtained through cpuid vector 0x1(ebx[16:23]) and vector 0x4(eax[14:25], eax[26:31]) indicate the maximum values and might not always be the same as what is available and what OS sees. So make sure "siblings" and "cpu cores" values in /proc/cpuinfo reflect the values as seen by OS instead of what cpuid instruction says. This will also fix the buggy BIOS cases (for example where cpuid on a single core cpu says there are "2" siblings, even when HT is disabled in the BIOS. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4359) Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] atomic: inc_not_zeroNick Piggin2005-11-131-0/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce an atomic_inc_not_zero operation. Make this a special case of atomic_add_unless because lockless pagecache actually wants atomic_inc_not_negativeone due to its offset refcount. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] atomic: cmpxchgNick Piggin2005-11-131-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce an atomic_cmpxchg operation. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] i386: generic cmpxchgNick Piggin2005-11-131-3/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Make cmpxchg generally available on the i386 platform. - Provide emulation of cmpxchg suitable for uniprocessor if built and run on 386. From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> - Cut down patch and small style changes. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] PCI: Change MSI to use physical delivery mode alwaysAshok Raj2005-11-102-8/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MSI hardcoded delivery mode to use logical delivery mode. Recently x86_64 moved to use physical mode addressing to support physflat mode. With this mode enabled noticed that my eth with MSI werent working. msi_address_init() was hardcoded to use logical mode for i386 and x86_64. So when we switch to use physical mode, things stopped working. Since anyway we dont use lowest priority delivery with MSI, its always directed to just a single CPU. Its safe and simpler to use physical mode always, even when we use logical delivery mode for IPI's or other ioapic RTE's. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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