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* [PATCH] cpuset: remove test for null cpuset from alloc code pathPaul Jackson2006-01-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove a couple of more lines of code from the cpuset hooks in the page allocation code path. There was a check for a NULL cpuset pointer in the routine cpuset_update_task_memory_state() that was only needed during system boot, after the memory subsystem was initialized, before the cpuset subsystem was initialized, to catch a NULL task->cpuset pointer. Add a cpuset_init_early() routine, just before the mem_init() call in init/main.c, that sets up just enough of the init tasks cpuset structure to render cpuset_update_task_memory_state() calls harmless. 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] slob: introduce the SLOB allocatorMatt Mackall2006-01-081-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | configurable replacement for slab allocator This adds a CONFIG_SLAB option under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. When CONFIG_SLAB is disabled, the kernel falls back to using the 'SLOB' allocator. SLOB is a traditional K&R/UNIX allocator with a SLAB emulation layer, similar to the original Linux kmalloc allocator that SLAB replaced. It's signicantly smaller code and is more memory efficient. But like all similar allocators, it scales poorly and suffers from fragmentation more than SLAB, so it's only appropriate for small systems. It's been tested extensively in the Linux-tiny tree. I've also stress-tested it with make -j 8 compiles on a 3G SMP+PREEMPT box (not recommended). Here's a comparison for otherwise identical builds, showing SLOB saving nearly half a megabyte of RAM: $ size vmlinux* text data bss dec hex filename 3336372 529360 190812 4056544 3de5e0 vmlinux-slab 3323208 527948 190684 4041840 3dac70 vmlinux-slob $ size mm/{slab,slob}.o text data bss dec hex filename 13221 752 48 14021 36c5 mm/slab.o 1896 52 8 1956 7a4 mm/slob.o /proc/meminfo: SLAB SLOB delta MemTotal: 27964 kB 27980 kB +16 kB MemFree: 24596 kB 25092 kB +496 kB Buffers: 36 kB 36 kB 0 kB Cached: 1188 kB 1188 kB 0 kB SwapCached: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB Active: 608 kB 600 kB -8 kB Inactive: 808 kB 812 kB +4 kB HighTotal: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB LowTotal: 27964 kB 27980 kB +16 kB LowFree: 24596 kB 25092 kB +496 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB Dirty: 4 kB 12 kB +8 kB Writeback: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB Mapped: 560 kB 556 kB -4 kB Slab: 1756 kB 0 kB -1756 kB CommitLimit: 13980 kB 13988 kB +8 kB Committed_AS: 4208 kB 4208 kB 0 kB PageTables: 28 kB 28 kB 0 kB VmallocTotal: 1007312 kB 1007312 kB 0 kB VmallocUsed: 48 kB 48 kB 0 kB VmallocChunk: 1007264 kB 1007264 kB 0 kB (this work has been sponsored in part by CELF) From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Fix 32-bitness bugs in mm/slob.c. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> 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] md: remove personality numbering from mdNeilBrown2006-01-061-13/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | md supports multiple different RAID level, each being implemented by a 'personality' (which is often in a separate module). These personalities have fairly artificial 'numbers'. The numbers are use to: 1- provide an index into an array where the various personalities are recorded 2- identify the module (via an alias) which implements are particular personality. Neither of these uses really justify the existence of personality numbers. The array can be replaced by a linked list which is searched (array lookup only happens very rarely). Module identification can be done using an alias based on level rather than 'personality' number. The current 'raid5' modules support two level (4 and 5) but only one personality. This slight awkwardness (which was handled in the mapping from level to personality) can be better handled by allowing raid5 to register 2 personalities. With this change in place, the core md module does not need to have an exhaustive list of all possible personalities, so other personalities can be added independently. This patch also moves the check for chunksize being non-zero into the ->run routines for the personalities that need it, rather than having it in core-md. This has a side effect of allowing 'faulty' and 'linear' not to have a chunk-size set. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: cleanup KconfigMartin Schwidefsky2006-01-062-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Sanitize some s390 Kconfig options. We have ARCH_S390, ARCH_S390X, ARCH_S390_31, 64BIT, S390_SUPPORT and COMPAT. Replace these 6 options by S390, 64BIT and COMPAT. 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] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: generic infrastructureArjan van de Ven2006-01-061-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Generic prep-work for marking the .rodata section readonly: * Align the rodata section at 4Kb boundary * call the mark_rodata_ro() function when available 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: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Make SYSV IPC SHM use ramfs facilities on NOMMUDavid Howells2006-01-061-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch makes the SYSV IPC shared memory facilities use the new ramfs facilities on a no-MMU kernel. The following changes are made: (1) There are now shmem_mmap() and shmem_get_unmapped_area() functions to allow the IPC SHM facilities to commune with the tiny-shmem and shmem code. (2) ramfs files now need resizing using do_truncate() rather than by modifying the inode size directly (see shmem_file_setup()). This causes ramfs to attempt to bind a block of pages of sufficient size to the inode. (3) CONFIG_SYSVIPC is no longer contingent on CONFIG_MMU. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-01-041-27/+9
|\ | | | | | | Trivial manual merge fixup for usb_find_interface clashes.
| * [PATCH] HOTPLUG: always enable the .config option, unless EMBEDDEDGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-01-041-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With modules, dynamic /dev, and uevents, people really want CONFIG_HOTPLUG to be enabled in their kernels. If not, they can still disable it, but it is discouraged. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] remove CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT optionKay Sievers2006-01-041-19/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It makes zero sense to have hotplug, but not the netlink events enabled today. Remove this option and merge the kobject_uevent.h header into the kobject.h header file. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2006-01-041-2/+2
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| * | kbuild: remove EXPERIMENTAL tag from Module versioningSam Ravnborg2005-12-261-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Module versioning support has been stable for a loong time so let's get rid of the EXPERIMENTAL tag. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | | [NET]: Small cleanup to socket initializationAndi Kleen2006-01-031-4/+0
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sock_init can be done as a core_initcall instead of calling it directly in init/main.c Also I removed an out of date #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [SPARC64]: Stop putting -finline-limit=XXX into CFLAGSDavid S. Miller2005-12-201-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It was a stupid workaround for the "static inline" vs. "extern inline" issues of long ago, and it is what causes schedule() to be inlined like crazy into kernel/sched.c when -Os is specified. MIPS and S390 should probably do the same. Now CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE can be safely used on sparc64 once more. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Move size optimization option outside of EMBEDDED menu, mark it EXPERIMENTALLinus Torvalds2005-12-141-12/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Also, disable on sparc64 - a number of people report breakage. Probably a compiler bug, but it's quite possible that it tickles some latent kernel problem too. It still defaults to 'y' everywhere else (when enabled through EXPERIMENTAL), and Dave Jones points out that Fedora (and RHEL4) has been building with size optimizations for a long time on x86, x86-64, ia64, s390, s390x, ppc32 and ppc64. So it is really only moderately experimental, but the sparc64 breakage certainly shows that it can trigger "issues". Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Expose "Optimize for size" option for everybodyLinus Torvalds2005-12-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Let's put my money where my mouth is. Smaller code is almost always faster, if only because a single I$ miss ends up leaving a lot of cycles to make up for. And system software - kernels in particular - are known for taking more cache misses than most other kinds. On my random config, this made the kernel about 10% smaller, and lmbench seems to say that it's pretty uniformly faster too. Your milage may vary. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] allow KOBJECT_UEVENT=n only if EMBEDDEDAdrian Bunk2005-12-131-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | KOBJECT_UEVENT=n seems to be a common pitfall for udev users in 2.6.14 . -mm already contains a bigger patch removing this option that is IMHO too big for being applied now to 2.6.15-rc. This patch simply allows KOBJECT_UEVENT=n only if EMBEDDED. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: disable preempt in idle tasksNick Piggin2005-11-091-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Run idle threads with preempt disabled. Also corrected a bugs in arm26's cpu_idle (make it actually call schedule()). How did it ever work before? Might fix the CPU hotplugging hang which Nigel Cunningham noted. We think the bug hits if the idle thread is preempted after checking need_resched() and before going to sleep, then the CPU offlined. After calling stop_machine_run, the CPU eventually returns from preemption and into the idle thread and goes to sleep. The CPU will continue executing previous idle and have no chance to call play_dead. By disabling preemption until we are ready to explicitly schedule, this bug is fixed and the idle threads generally become more robust. From: alexs <ashepard@u.washington.edu> PPC build fix From: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp> MIPS build fix Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [BLOCK] Move all core block layer code to new block/ directoryJens Axboe2005-11-041-0/+4
| | | | | | | | drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/ related block parts to block/ next. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* Revert "i386: move apic init in init_IRQs"Linus Torvalds2005-10-311-0/+11
| | | | | | | | Commit f2b36db692b7ff6972320ad9839ae656a3b0ee3e causes a bootup hang on at least one machine. Revert for now until we understand why. The old code may be ugly, but it works. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] clarify help text for INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMITRandy Dunlap2005-10-301-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Try to make the INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT help text more readable and understandable. 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] i386: move apic init in init_IRQsEric W. Biederman2005-10-301-11/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All kinds of ugliness exists because we don't initialize the apics during init_IRQs. - We calibrate jiffies in non apic mode even when we are using apics. - We have to have special code to initialize the apics when non-smp. - The legacy i8259 must exist and be setup correctly, even when we won't use it past initialization. - The kexec on panic code must restore the state of the io_apics. - init/main.c needs a special case for !smp smp_init on x86 In addition to pure code movement I needed a couple of non-obvious changes: - Move setup_boot_APIC_clock into APIC_late_time_init for simplicity. - Use cpu_khz to generate a better approximation of loops_per_jiffies so I can verify the timer interrupt is working. - Call setup_apic_nmi_watchdog again after cpu_khz is initialized on the boot cpu. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] free initrd mem adjustmentJan Beulich2005-09-131-2/+10
| | | | | | | | | Besides freeing initrd memory, also clear out the now dangling pointers to it, to make sure accidental late use attempts can be detected. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add rdinit parameter to pick early userspace initOlof Johansson2005-09-071-4/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since early userspace was added, there's no way to override which init to run from it. Some people tack on an extra cpio archive with a link from /init depending on what they want to run, but that's sometimes impractical. Changing the "init=" to also override the early userspace isn't feasible, since it is still used to indicate what init to run from disk when early userspace has completed doing whatever it's doing (i.e. load filesystem modules and drivers). Instead, introduce "rdinit=" and make it override the default "/init" if specified. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add warning `init=' to init/main.cAvery, Brian2005-09-071-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | I passed init=/mylinuxrc to the kernel on the command line. The kernel silently dropped down to exec /sbin/init. It turned out that /mylinuxrc had improper permissions. Without any warning message from the kernel that something was wrong it took awhile to find the issue. The patch below adds a warning. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] detect soft lockupsIngo Molnar2005-09-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new kernel debug feature: CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP. When enabled then per-CPU watchdog threads are started, which try to run once per second. If they get delayed for more than 10 seconds then a callback from the timer interrupt detects this condition and prints out a warning message and a stack dump (once per lockup incident). The feature is otherwise non-intrusive, it doesnt try to unlock the box in any way, it only gets the debug info out, automatically, and on all CPUs affected by the lockup. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild Linus Torvalds2005-09-062-3/+22
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| * [PATCH] kbuild: automatically append a short string to the version based ↵Ryan Anderson2005-08-101-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | upon the git commit If CONFIG_AUTO_LOCALVERSION is set, the user is using a git-based tree, and the current HEAD is not referred to by any tags in .git/refs/tags/, append -g and the first 8 characters of the commit to the version string. This makes it easier to use git-bisect, and/or to do a daily build, without trampling on your older, working builds, or accidentally setting up conflicting sets of modules. Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * kconfig: move initramfs options to General SetupSam Ravnborg2005-08-101-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move initramfs options from Device Drivers | Block Drivers to General Setup This is a more natural place for this option. Furthermore separate out intramfs options to usr/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * [PATCH] kallsyms: clarify KALLSYMS_ALL help textJesper Juhl2005-07-261-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Clarify the KALLSYMS_ALL help text slightly. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
| * kbuild: "PREEMPT" in UTS_VERSIONSam Ravnborg2005-07-141-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Add PREEMPT to UTS_VERSION where enabled as is done for SMP to make preempt kernels easily identifiable. Added SMP PREEMPT as comment in compile.h to force it to be updated when they change (sam). Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | [PATCH] remove driverfs references from init/do_mounts.cRolf Eike Beer2005-09-021-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is against 2.6.10, but still applies cleanly. It's just s/driverfs/sysfs/ in this file. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [NET]: Fix sparse warningsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2005-08-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Of this type, mostly: CHECK net/ipv6/netfilter.c net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static? net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [PATCH] x86_64: Some cleanup in setup64.cAndi Kleen2005-07-281-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor cleanup. Move things into their include files, remove obsolete includes, fix indentation, remove obsolete special cases etc. I also added the per cpu section to asm-generic/sections.h and fixed init/main.c to use it. 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] kernel/cpuset.c: add kerneldoc, fix typosRandy Dunlap2005-07-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add kerneldoc to kernel/cpuset.c Fix cpuset typos in init/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] remove EXPORT_SYMBOL for root_devPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-07-141-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove ROOT_DEV after unexporting it in the previous patch, as requested time ago by Christoph Hellwig. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] name_to_dev_t warning fixAndrew Morton2005-07-122-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | kernel/power/disk.c needs a declaration of name_to_dev_t() in scope. mount.h seems like an appropriate choice. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [SPARC64]: Add syscall auditing support.David S. Miller2005-07-101-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] Improper initrd failure message at boot timeJay Lan2005-06-301-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On system boot up, there was an failure reported to boot.msg: <5>Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed According to initrd(4) man page, step #7 of BOOT-UP OPERATION is described as below: 7. If the normal root file has directory /initrd, device /dev/ram0 is moved from / to /initrd. Otherwise if directory /initrd does not exist device /dev/ram0 is unmounted. We got service calls from customers concerning about this failure message at boot time. Many systems do not have /initrd and thus the message can be changed in the case of non-existing /initrd so that it does not sound like a failure of the system. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Tweak idle thread setup semanticsIngo Molnar2005-06-281-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch tweaks idle thread setup semantics a bit: instead of setting NEED_RESCHED in init_idle(), we do an explicit schedule() before calling into cpu_idle(). This patch, while having no negative side-effects, enables wider use of cond_resched()s. (which might happen in the stock kernel too, but it's particulary important for voluntary-preempt) 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] init/do_mounts_initrd.c: fix sparse warningDomen Puncer2005-06-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Platform SMIs and their interferance with tsc based delay calibrationVenkatesh Pallipadi2005-06-231-0/+94
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Issue: Current tsc based delay_calibration can result in significant errors in loops_per_jiffy count when the platform events like SMIs (System Management Interrupts that are non-maskable) are present. This could lead to potential kernel panic(). This issue is becoming more visible with 2.6 kernel (as default HZ is 1000) and on platforms with higher SMI handling latencies. During the boot time, SMIs are mostly used by BIOS (for things like legacy keyboard emulation). Description: The psuedocode for current delay calibration with tsc based delay looks like (0) Estimate a value for loops_per_jiffy (1) While (loops_per_jiffy estimate is accurate enough) (2) wait for jiffy transition (jiffy1) (3) Note down current tsc (tsc1) (4) loop until tsc becomes tsc1 + loops_per_jiffy (5) check whether jiffy changed since jiffy1 or not and refine loops_per_jiffy estimate Consider the following cases Case 1: If SMIs happen between (2) and (3) above, we can end up with a loops_per_jiffy value that is too low. This results in shorted delays and kernel can panic () during boot (Mostly at IOAPIC timer initialization timer_irq_works() as we don't have enough timer interrupts in a specified interval). Case 2: If SMIs happen between (3) and (4) above, then we can end up with a loops_per_jiffy value that is too high. And with current i386 code, too high lpj value (greater than 17M) can result in a overflow in delay.c:__const_udelay() again resulting in shorter delay and panic(). Solution: The patch below makes the calibration routine aware of asynchronous events like SMIs. We increase the delay calibration time and also identify any significant errors (greater than 12.5%) in the calibration and notify it to user. Patch below changes both i386 and x86-64 architectures to use this new and improved calibrate_delay_direct() routine. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] node local per-cpu-pagesChristoph Lameter2005-06-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch modifies the way pagesets in struct zone are managed. Each zone has a per-cpu array of pagesets. So any particular CPU has some memory in each zone structure which belongs to itself. Even if that CPU is not local to that zone. So the patch relocates the pagesets for each cpu to the node that is nearest to the cpu instead of allocating the pagesets in the (possibly remote) target zone. This means that the operations to manage pages on remote zone can be done with information available locally. We play a macro trick so that non-NUMA pmachines avoid the additional pointer chase on the page allocator fastpath. AIM7 benchmark on a 32 CPU SGI Altix w/o patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.68 100 484.6769 12.01 1.97 Fri Mar 25 11:01:42 2005 100 27140.46 89 271.4046 21.44 148.71 Fri Mar 25 11:02:04 2005 200 30792.02 82 153.9601 37.80 296.72 Fri Mar 25 11:02:42 2005 300 32209.27 81 107.3642 54.21 451.34 Fri Mar 25 11:03:37 2005 400 34962.83 78 87.4071 66.59 588.97 Fri Mar 25 11:04:44 2005 500 31676.92 75 63.3538 91.87 742.71 Fri Mar 25 11:06:16 2005 600 36032.69 73 60.0545 96.91 885.44 Fri Mar 25 11:07:54 2005 700 35540.43 77 50.7720 114.63 1024.28 Fri Mar 25 11:09:49 2005 800 33906.70 74 42.3834 137.32 1181.65 Fri Mar 25 11:12:06 2005 900 34120.67 73 37.9119 153.51 1325.26 Fri Mar 25 11:14:41 2005 1000 34802.37 74 34.8024 167.23 1465.26 Fri Mar 25 11:17:28 2005 with slab API changes and pageset patch: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 485.00 100 485.0000 12.00 1.96 Fri Mar 25 11:46:18 2005 100 28000.96 89 280.0096 20.79 150.45 Fri Mar 25 11:46:39 2005 200 32285.80 79 161.4290 36.05 293.37 Fri Mar 25 11:47:16 2005 300 40424.15 84 134.7472 43.19 438.42 Fri Mar 25 11:47:59 2005 400 39155.01 79 97.8875 59.46 590.05 Fri Mar 25 11:48:59 2005 500 37881.25 82 75.7625 76.82 730.19 Fri Mar 25 11:50:16 2005 600 39083.14 78 65.1386 89.35 872.79 Fri Mar 25 11:51:46 2005 700 38627.83 77 55.1826 105.47 1022.46 Fri Mar 25 11:53:32 2005 800 39631.94 78 49.5399 117.48 1169.94 Fri Mar 25 11:55:30 2005 900 36903.70 79 41.0041 141.94 1310.78 Fri Mar 25 11:57:53 2005 1000 36201.23 77 36.2012 160.77 1458.31 Fri Mar 25 12:00:34 2005 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <Shai@Scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitDavid Woodhouse2005-06-021-1/+1
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| * [PATCH] uml: add modversions supportPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-05-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Actually, the real support was added by some earlier patches. Now we simply re-enable the config. option. I've actually tested it and it works well. 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>
* | Audit requires CONFIG_NETChris Wright2005-05-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Audit now actually requires netlink. So make it depend on CONFIG_NET, and remove the inline dependencies on CONFIG_NET. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | Add CONFIG_AUDITSC and CONFIG_SECCOMP support for ppc32David Woodhouse2005-05-081-1/+1
|/ | | | Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitDavid Woodhouse2005-05-031-0/+21
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| * [PATCH] clean up kernel messagesMatt Mackall2005-05-011-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Arrange for all kernel printks to be no-ops. Only available if CONFIG_EMBEDDED. This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and nearly 100k on minimal configs. 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] remove all kernel BUGsMatt Mackall2005-05-011-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch eliminates all kernel BUGs, trims about 35k off the typical kernel, and makes the system slightly faster. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [AUDIT] Update UML audit-syscall-{entry,exit} calls to new prototypesJeff Dike2005-05-031-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is for -mm only. It should probably be included in git-audit, and should be forwarded to Linus iff git-audit is. It updates the audit-syscall-{entry,exit} calls to current -mm. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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