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* Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar2011-05-281-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/urgent
| * rcu: Fix unpaired rcu_irq_enter() from locking selftestsFrederic Weisbecker2011-05-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HARDIRQ_ENTER() maps to irq_enter() which calls rcu_irq_enter(). But HARDIRQ_EXIT() maps to __irq_exit() which doesn't call rcu_irq_exit(). So for every locking selftest that simulates hardirq disabled, we create an imbalance in the rcu extended quiescent state internal state. As a result, after the first missing rcu_irq_exit(), subsequent irqs won't exit dyntick-idle mode after leaving the interrupt handler. This means that RCU won't see the affected CPU as being in an extended quiescent state, resulting in long grace-period delays (as in grace periods extending for hours). To fix this, just use __irq_enter() to simulate the hardirq context. This is sufficient for the locking selftests as we don't need to exit any extended quiescent state or perform any check that irqs normally do when they wake up from idle. As a side effect, this patch makes it possible to restore "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof", which eventually helped finding this bug. Reported-and-tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* | arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT}Akinobu Mita2011-05-263-22/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | By the previous style change, CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT, CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE, and CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_LAST_BIT are not used to test for existence of find bitops anymore. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: 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>
* | bitops: add #ifndef for each of find bitopsAkinobu Mita2011-05-262-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The style that we normally use in asm-generic is to test the macro itself for existence, so in asm-generic, do: #ifndef find_next_zero_bit_le extern unsigned long find_next_zero_bit_le(const void *addr, unsigned long size, unsigned long offset); #endif and in the architectures, write static inline unsigned long find_next_zero_bit_le(const void *addr, unsigned long size, unsigned long offset) #define find_next_zero_bit_le find_next_zero_bit_le This adds the #ifndef for each of the find bitops in the generic header and source files. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | flex_array: avoid divisions when accessing elementsJesse Gross2011-05-261-22/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On most architectures division is an expensive operation and accessing an element currently requires four of them. This performance penalty effectively precludes flex arrays from being used on any kind of fast path. However, two of these divisions can be handled at creation time and the others can be replaced by a reciprocal divide, completely avoiding real divisions on access. [eparis@redhat.com: rebase on top of changes to support 0 len elements] [eparis@redhat.com: initialize part_nr when array fits entirely in base] Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tileLinus Torvalds2011-05-251-0/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (26 commits) arch/tile: prefer "tilepro" as the name of the 32-bit architecture compat: include aio_abi.h for aio_context_t arch/tile: cleanups for tilegx compat mode arch/tile: allocate PCI IRQs later in boot arch/tile: support signal "exception-trace" hook arch/tile: use better definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg() include/linux/compat.h: coding-style fixes tile: add an RTC driver for the Tilera hypervisor arch/tile: finish enabling support for TILE-Gx 64-bit chip compat: fixes to allow working with tile arch arch/tile: update defconfig file to something more useful tile: do_hardwall_trap: do not play with task->sighand tile: replace mm->cpu_vm_mask with mm_cpumask() tile,mn10300: add device parameter to dma_cache_sync() audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h> arch/tile: clarify flush_buffer()/finv_buffer() function names arch/tile: kernel-related cleanups from removing static page size arch/tile: various header improvements for building drivers arch/tile: disable GX prefetcher during cache flush arch/tile: tolerate disabling CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD ...
| * | audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h>Chris Metcalf2011-05-041-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many of the syscalls mentioned in the audit code are not present for architectures that implement only the "standard" set of Linux syscalls (e.g. openat, but not open, etc.). This change adds proper #ifdefs for all those syscalls. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
* | | lib: consolidate DEBUG_STACK_USAGE optionStephen Boyd2011-05-251-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most arches define CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE exactly the same way. Move it to lib/Kconfig.debug so each arch doesn't have to define it. This obviously makes the option generic, but that's fine because the config is already used in generic code. It's not obvious to me that sysrq-P actually does anything caution by keeping the most inclusive wording. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | lib/genalloc.c: add support for specifying the physical addressJean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD2011-05-251-8/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | So we can specify the virtual address as the base of the pool chunk and then get physical addresses for hardware IP. For example on at91 we will use this on spi, uart or macb Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Cc: Patrice VILCHEZ <patrice.vilchez@atmel.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | lib: consolidate DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPSStephen Boyd2011-05-251-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is used in lib/cpumask.c as well as in inlcude/linux/cpumask.h and thus it has outgrown its use within x86 and powerpc alone. Any arch with SMP support may want to get some more debugging, so make this option generic. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | lib: add kstrto*_from_user()Alexey Dobriyan2011-05-251-0/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is quite a lot of code which does copy_from_user() + strict_strto*() or simple_strto*() combo in slightly different ways. Before doing conversions all over tree, let's get final API correct. Enter kstrtoull_from_user() and friends. Typical code which uses them looks very simple: TYPE val; int rv; rv = kstrtoTYPE_from_user(buf, count, 0, &val); if (rv < 0) return rv; [use val] return count; There is a tiny semantic difference from the plain kstrto*() API -- the latter allows any amount of leading zeroes, while the former copies data into buffer on stack and thus allows leading zeroes as long as it fits into buffer. This shouldn't be a problem for typical usecase "echo 42 > /proc/x". The point is to make reading one integer from userspace _very_ simple and very bug free. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | lru_cache: use correct type in sizeof for allocationIlia Mirkin2011-05-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This has no actual effect, since sizeof(struct hlist_head) == sizeof(struct hlist_head *), but it's still the wrong type to use. The semantic match that finds this problem: // <smpl> @@ type T; identifier x; @@ T *x; ... * x = kzalloc(... * sizeof(T*) * ..., ...); // </smpl> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kcalloc()] Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | lib/vsprintf.c: fix interaction of kasprintf() and vsnprintf() when using %pVJan Beulich2011-05-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Otherwise, the warning at the top of vsnprintf() gets triggered by kvasprintf()'s first invocation (with NULL buffer and zero size) of vsnprintf(). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irqMike Travis2011-05-251-12/+97
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Manually adjusting the smp_affinity for IRQ's becomes unwieldy when the cpu count is large. Setting smp affinity to cpus 256 to 263 would be: echo 000000ff,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000 > smp_affinity instead of: echo 256-263 > smp_affinity_list Think about what it looks like for cpus around say, 4088 to 4095. We already have many alternate "list" interfaces: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/indexY/shared_cpu_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpulist /sys/devices/pci***/***/local_cpulist Add a companion interface, smp_affinity_list to use cpu lists instead of cpu maps. This conforms to other companion interfaces where both a map and a list interface exists. This required adding a bitmap_parselist_user() function in a manner similar to the bitmap_parse_user() function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __bitmap_parselist() static] Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | arch, mm: filter disallowed nodes from arch specific show_mem functionsDavid Rientjes2011-05-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Architectures that implement their own show_mem() function did not pass the filter argument to show_free_areas() to appropriately avoid emitting the state of nodes that are disallowed in the current context. This patch now passes the filter argument to show_free_areas() so those nodes are now avoided. This patch also removes the show_free_areas() wrapper around __show_free_areas() and converts existing callers to pass an empty filter. ia64 emits additional information for each node, so skip_free_areas_zone() must be made global to filter disallowed nodes and it is converted to use a nid argument rather than a zone for this use case. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/selinux into ↵James Morris2011-05-241-6/+20
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | for-linus Conflicts: lib/flex_array.c security/selinux/avc.c security/selinux/hooks.c security/selinux/ss/policydb.c security/smack/smack_lsm.c Manually resolve conflicts. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| * | | flex_array: allow 0 length elementsEric Paris2011-04-281-6/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | flex_arrays are supposed to be a replacement for: kmalloc(num_elements * sizeof(element)) If kmalloc is given 0 num_elements or a 0 size element it will happily return ZERO_SIZE_PTR. Which looks like a valid allocation, but which will explode if something actually try to use it. The current flex_array code will return an equivalent result if num_elements is 0, but will fail to work if sizeof(element) is 0. This patch allows allocation to work even for 0 size elements. It will cause flex_arrays to explode though if they are used. Imitating the kmalloc behavior. Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | flex_arrays: allow zero length flex arraysEric Paris2011-04-281-1/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Just like kmalloc will allow one to allocate a 0 length segment of memory flex arrays should do the same thing. It should bomb if you try to use something, but it should at least allow the allocation. This is needed because when SELinux switched to using flex_arrays in 2.6.38 the inability to allocate a 0 length array resulted in SELinux policy load returning -ENOSPC when previously it worked. Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
| * | | flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an endEric Paris2011-04-281-5/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change flex_array_prealloc to take the number of elements for which space should be allocated instead of the last (inclusive) element. Users and documentation are updated accordingly. flex_arrays got introduced before they had users. When folks started using it, they ended up needing a different API than was coded up originally. This swaps over to the API that folks apparently need. Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
* | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-05-232-7/+5
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined") perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course'). treewide: fix a few typos in comments regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations" audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured' arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option. treewide: remove extra semicolons ...
| * \ \ \ Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina2011-04-2616-182/+2483
| |\ \ \ \ | | | |/ / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | Fast-forwarded to current state of Linus' tree as there are patches to be applied for files that didn't exist on the old branch.
| * | | | add printk.time=1 boot-time hint to Kconfig.debug help textJim Cromie2011-04-101-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cite Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for an alternative to building with PRINTK_TIME compiled in. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | | | vsprintf: make comment about vs{n,cn,}printf more understandableUwe Kleine-König2011-04-061-6/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "You probably want ... instead." sounds like a recommendation better not to use the v... functions. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | | | | Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-05-191-29/+3
|\ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (78 commits) Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof" net,rcu: convert call_rcu(prl_entry_destroy_rcu) to kfree batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(softif_neigh_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(neigh_node_free_rcu) to kfree() batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(gw_node_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu net,rcu: convert call_rcu(kfree_tid_tx) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xt_osf_finger_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() net/mac80211,rcu: convert call_rcu(work_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(wq_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free) to kfree_rcu() perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(swevent_hlist_release_rcu) to kfree_rcu() perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(free_ctx) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(__nf_ct_ext_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(net_generic_release) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr6) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr4) to kfree_rcu() security,rcu: convert call_rcu(sel_netif_free) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_dev_maps_release) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_map_release) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(rps_map_release) to kfree_rcu() ...
| * | | | rcu: Enable DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD from !PREEMPTMathieu Desnoyers2011-05-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The prohibition of DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD from !PREEMPT was due to the fixup actions. So just produce a warning from !PREEMPT. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
| * | | | rcu: Remove conditional compilation for RCU CPU stall warningsPaul E. McKenney2011-05-051-28/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The RCU CPU stall warnings can now be controlled using the rcu_cpu_stall_suppress boot-time parameter or via the same parameter from sysfs. There is therefore no longer any reason to have kernel config parameters for this feature. This commit therefore removes the RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR and RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE kernel config parameters. The RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT parameter remains to allow the timeout to be tuned and the RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE parameter remains to allow task-stall information to be suppressed if desired. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* | | | | Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-05-191-0/+15
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: seqlock: Don't smp_rmb in seqlock reader spin loop watchdog, hung_task_timeout: Add Kconfig configurable default lockdep: Remove cmpxchg to update nr_chain_hlocks lockdep: Print a nicer description for simple irq lock inversions lockdep: Replace "Bad BFS generated tree" message with something less cryptic lockdep: Print a nicer description for irq inversion bugs lockdep: Print a nicer description for simple deadlocks lockdep: Print a nicer description for normal deadlocks lockdep: Print a nicer description for irq lock inversions
| * | | | | watchdog, hung_task_timeout: Add Kconfig configurable defaultJeff Mahoney2011-04-281-0/+15
| | |_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch allows the default value for sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs to be set at build time. The feature carries virtually no overhead, so it makes sense to keep it enabled. On heavily loaded systems, though, it can end up triggering stack traces when there is no bug other than the system being underprovisioned. We use this patch to keep the hung task facility available but disabled at boot-time. The default of 120 seconds is preserved. As a note, commit e162b39a may have accidentally reverted commit fb822db4, which raised the default from 120 seconds to 480 seconds. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DB8600C.8080000@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | Merge branch 'core-iommu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-05-191-5/+13
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, gart: Rename pci-gart_64.c to amd_gart_64.c x86/amd-iommu: Use threaded interupt handler arch/x86/kernel/pci-iommu_table.c: Convert sprintf_symbol to %pS x86/amd-iommu: Add support for invalidate_all command x86/amd-iommu: Add extended feature detection x86/amd-iommu: Add ATS enable/disable code x86/amd-iommu: Add flag to indicate IOTLB support x86/amd-iommu: Flush device IOTLB if ATS is enabled x86/amd-iommu: Select PCI_IOV with AMD IOMMU driver PCI: Move ATS declarations in seperate header file dma-debug: print information about leaked entry x86/amd-iommu: Flush all internal TLBs when IOMMUs are enabled x86/amd-iommu: Rename iommu_flush_device x86/amd-iommu: Improve handling of full command buffer x86/amd-iommu: Rename iommu_flush* to domain_flush* x86/amd-iommu: Remove command buffer resetting logic x86/amd-iommu: Cleanup completion-wait handling x86/amd-iommu: Cleanup inv_pages command handling x86/amd-iommu: Move inv-dte command building to own function x86/amd-iommu: Move compl-wait command building to own function
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| *-. \ \ \ \ Merge branches 'dma-debug/next', 'amd-iommu/command-cleanups', ↵Joerg Roedel2011-05-101-5/+13
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'amd-iommu/ats' and 'amd-iommu/extended-features' into iommu/2.6.40 Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/amd_iommu_types.h arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu.c arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c
| | * | | | | | dma-debug: print information about leaked entryStanislaw Gruszka2011-04-071-5/+13
| | |/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When driver leak dma mapping, print additional information about one of leaked entries, to to help investigate problem. Patch should be useful for debugging drivers, which maps many different class of buffers. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
* | | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-05-191-1/+1
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm: kmemleak: Initialise kmemleak after debug_objects_mem_init() kmemleak: Select DEBUG_FS unconditionally in DEBUG_KMEMLEAK kmemleak: Do not return a pointer to an object that kmemleak did not get
| * | | | | | | kmemleak: Select DEBUG_FS unconditionally in DEBUG_KMEMLEAKCatalin Marinas2011-05-191-1/+1
| | |_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the past DEBUG_FS used to depend on SYSFS and DEBUG_KMEMLEAK selected it conditionally. This is no longer the case, so always select DEBUG_FS via DEBUG_KMEMLEAK. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* | | | | | | Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds2011-05-191-1/+1
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (48 commits) MIPS: Move arch_get_unmapped_area and gang to new file. MIPS: Cleanup arch_get_unmapped_area MIPS: Octeon: Don't request interrupts for unused IPI mailbox bits. Octeon: Fix interrupt irq settings for performance counters. MIPS: Fix build warnings on defconfigs MIPS: Lemote 2F, Malta: Fix build warning MIPS: Set ELF AT_PLATFORM string for Loongson2 processors MIPS: Set ELF AT_PLATFORM string for BMIPS processors MIPS: Introduce set_elf_platform() helper function MIPS: JZ4740: setup: Autodetect physical memory. MIPS: BCM47xx: Fix MAC address parsing. MIPS: BCM47xx: Extend the filling of SPROM from NVRAM MIPS: BCM47xx: Register SSB fallback sprom callback MIPS: BCM47xx: Extend bcm47xx_fill_sprom with prefix. SSB: Change fallback sprom to callback mechanism. MIPS: Alchemy: Clean up GPIO registers and accessors MIPS: Alchemy: Cleanup DMA addresses MIPS: Alchemy: Rewrite ethernet platform setup MIPS: Alchemy: Rewrite UART setup and constants. MIPS: Alchemy: Convert dbdma.c to syscore_ops ...
| * | | | | | | MIPS: Enable kmemleak for MIPSMaxin John2011-05-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com> To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com> Cc: naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2244/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* | | | | | | | Add a strtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalentsJonathan Cameron2011-05-191-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a rename of the usr_strtobool proposal, which was a renamed, relocated and fixed version of previous kstrtobool RFC Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | | | | | | | lib: Add generic binary search function to the kernel.Tim Abbott2011-05-192-1/+55
|/ / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There a large number hand-coded binary searches in the kernel (run "git grep search | grep binary" to find many of them). Since in my experience, hand-coding binary searches can be error-prone, it seems worth cleaning this up by providing a generic binary search function. This generic binary search implementation comes from Ksplice. It has the same basic API as the C library bsearch() function. Ksplice uses it in half a dozen places with 4 different comparison functions, and I think our code is substantially cleaner because of this. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Extra-bikeshedding-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Extra-bikeshedding-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Extra-bikeshedding-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | | | | | | vsprintf: Turn kptr_restrict off by defaultIngo Molnar2011-05-121-1/+1
| |/ / / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kptr_restrict has been triggering bugs in apps such as perf, and it also makes the system less useful by default, so turn it off by default. This is how we generally handle security features that remove functionality, such as firewall code or SELinux - they have to be configured and activated from user-space. Distributions can turn kptr_restrict on again via this line in /etc/sysctrl.conf: kernel.kptr_restrict = 1 ( Also mark the variable __read_mostly while at it, as it's typically modified only once per bootup, or not at all. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/selinux ↵James Morris2011-05-041-6/+18
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| * | | | | flex_arrays: allow zero length flex arraysEric Paris2011-04-281-1/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Just like kmalloc will allow one to allocate a 0 length segment of memory flex arrays should do the same thing. It should bomb if you try to use something, but it should at least allow the allocation. This is needed because when SELinux switched to using flex_arrays in 2.6.38 the inability to allocate a 0 length array resulted in SELinux policy load returning -ENOSPC when previously it worked. Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
| * | | | | flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an endEric Paris2011-04-281-5/+8
| | |_|_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change flex_array_prealloc to take the number of elements for which space should be allocated instead of the last (inclusive) element. Users and documentation are updated accordingly. flex_arrays got introduced before they had users. When folks started using it, they ended up needing a different API than was coded up originally. This swaps over to the API that folks apparently need. Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
* | | | | XZ decompressor: Fix decoding of empty LZMA2 streamsLasse Collin2011-05-021-3/+3
| |/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The old code considered valid empty LZMA2 streams to be corrupt. Note that a typical empty .xz file has no LZMA2 data at all, and thus most .xz files having no uncompressed data are handled correctly even without this fix. Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | kstrtox: simpler code in _kstrtoull()Alexey Dobriyan2011-04-141-6/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | kstrtox: fix compile warnings in testAlexey Dobriyan2011-04-141-16/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the following warnings: CC [M] lib/test-kstrtox.o lib/test-kstrtox.c: In function 'test_kstrtou64_ok': lib/test-kstrtox.c:318: warning: this decimal constant is unsigned only in ISO C90 ... Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2011-04-075-6/+6
|\ \ \ \ | |_|/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6: Fix common misspellings
| * | | Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi2011-03-315-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
* | | | kemleak-test: build as module onlyDaniel Baluta2011-04-041-4/+2
|/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mm/kmemleak-test.c is used to provide an example of how kmemleak tool works. Memory is leaked at module unload-time, so building the test in kernel (Y) makes the leaks impossible and the test useless. Qualify DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST config symbol with "depends on m", to restrict module-only building. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge branch 'for-linus-1' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds2011-03-273-0/+1408
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus-1' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (49 commits) mtd: mtdswap: fix compilation warning mtdswap: kill strict error handling option mtd: nand: enable software BCH ECC in nand simulator mtd: nand: add software BCH ECC support mtd: fix printf format warnings, mostly lack of %zd for size_t, in mtdswap mtd: sm_rtl: check kmalloc return value mtd: cfi: add support for AMIC flashes (e.g. A29L160AT) lib: add shared BCH ECC library mtd: mxc_nand: fix OOB corruption when page size > 2KiB mtd: DaVinci: Removed header file that is not required mtd: pxa3xx_nand: clean the keep configure code mtd: pxa3xx_nand: mtd scan id process could be defined by driver itself mtd: pxa3xx_nand: unify prepare command mtd: pxa3xx_nand: discard wait_for_event,write_cmd,__readid function mtd: pxa3xx_nand: rework irq logic mtd: pxa3xx_nand: make scan procedure more clear mtd: speedtest: fix integer overflow mtd: mxc_nand: fix read past buffer end mtd: omap3: nand: report corrected ecc errors jffs2: remove a trailing white space in commentaries ...
| * \ \ Merge branch 'master' of ↵Artem Bityutskiy2011-03-2522-388/+1568
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-linus-1 * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6: (9356 commits) [media] rc: update for bitop name changes fs: simplify iget & friends fs: pull inode->i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately fs: factor inode disposal fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock lib, arch: add filter argument to show_mem and fix private implementations SLUB: Write to per cpu data when allocating it slub: Fix debugobjects with lockless fastpath autofs4: Do not potentially dereference NULL pointer returned by fget() in autofs_dev_ioctl_setpipefd() autofs4 - remove autofs4_lock autofs4 - fix d_manage() return on rcu-walk autofs4 - fix autofs4_expire_indirect() traversal autofs4 - fix dentry leak in autofs4_expire_direct() autofs4 - reinstate last used update on access vfs - check non-mountpoint dentry might block in __follow_mount_rcu() ... NOTE! This merge commit was created to fix compilation error. The block tree was merged upstream and removed the 'elv_queue_empty()' function which the new 'mtdswap' driver is using. So a simple merge of the mtd tree with upstream does not compile. And the mtd tree has already be published, so re-basing it is not an option. To fix this unfortunate situation, I had to merge upstream into the mtd-2.6.git tree without committing, put the fixup patch on top of this, and then commit this. The result is that we do not have commits which do not compile. In other words, this merge commit "merges" 3 things: the MTD tree, the upstream tree, and the fixup patch.
| * | | | lib: add shared BCH ECC libraryIvan Djelic2011-03-113-0/+1408
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a new software BCH encoding/decoding library, similar to the shared Reed-Solomon library. Binary BCH (Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem) codes are widely used to correct errors in NAND flash devices requiring more than 1-bit ecc correction; they are generally better suited for NAND flash than RS codes because NAND bit errors do not occur in bursts. Latest SLC NAND devices typically require at least 4-bit ecc protection per 512 bytes block. This library provides software encoding/decoding, but may also be used with ASIC/SoC hardware BCH engines to perform error correction. It is being currently used for this purpose on an OMAP3630 board (4bit/8bit HW BCH). It has also been used to decode raw dumps of NAND devices with on-die BCH ecc engines (e.g. Micron 4bit ecc SLC devices). Latest NAND devices (including SLC) can exhibit high error rates (typically a dozen or more bitflips per hour during stress tests); in order to minimize the performance impact of error correction, this library implements recently developed algorithms for fast polynomial root finding (see bch.c header for details) instead of the traditional exhaustive Chien root search; a few performance figures are provided below: Platform: arm926ejs @ 468 MHz, 32 KiB icache, 16 KiB dcache BCH ecc : 4-bit per 512 bytes Encoding average throughput: 250 Mbits/s Error correction time (compared with Chien search): average worst average (Chien) worst (Chien) ---------------------------------------------------------- 1 bit 8.5 µs 11 µs 200 µs 383 µs 2 bit 9.7 µs 12.5 µs 477 µs 728 µs 3 bit 18.1 µs 20.6 µs 758 µs 1010 µs 4 bit 19.5 µs 23 µs 1028 µs 1280 µs In the above figures, "worst" is meant in terms of error pattern, not in terms of cache miss / page faults effects (not taken into account here). The library has been extensively tested on the following platforms: x86, x86_64, arm926ejs, omap3630, qemu-ppc64, qemu-mips. Signed-off-by: Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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