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2005-07-24[W1]: Do not use NFLOG netlink number.David S. Miller1-1/+1
Use the reserved by never used NETLINK_SKIP value instead. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-23Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds1-0/+2
2005-07-22Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds4-9/+9
2005-07-22[PKT_SCHED]: em_meta: Kill TCF_META_ID_{INDEV,SECURITY,TCVERDICT}David S. Miller1-3/+0
More unusable TCF_META_* match types that need to get eliminated before 2.6.13 goes out the door. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
2005-07-22[PKT_SCHED]: Kill TCF_META_ID_REALDEV from meta ematch.David S. Miller1-1/+0
It won't exist any longer when we shrink the SKB in 2.6.14, and we should kill this off before anyone in userspace starts using it. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
2005-07-21[NETFILTER]: ip_conntrack_expect_related must not free expectationRusty Russell2-3/+7
If a connection tracking helper tells us to expect a connection, and we're already expecting that connection, we simply free the one they gave us and return success. The problem is that NAT helpers (eg. FTP) have to allocate the expectation first (to see what port is available) then rewrite the packet. If that rewrite fails, they try to remove the expectation, but it was freed in ip_conntrack_expect_related. This is one example of a larger problem: having registered the expectation, the pointer is no longer ours to use. Reference counting is needed for ctnetlink anyway, so introduce it now. To have a single "put" path, we need to grab the reference to the connection on creation, rather than open-coding it in the caller. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-18[NET]: Fix "nocast type" warnings in skbuff.hVictor Fusco1-1/+2
From: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br> Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type" Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-18[PKT_SCHED]: Kill TCF_META_ID_TCCLASSID.Patrick McHardy1-1/+0
Thomas Graf states: > I used to mark such ids as obsolete in the header but since > skb is on diet anyway and there has been no official > iproute2 release with the ematch bits included it might be > a better idea to remove the ids from the header completely. > Those that have picked up my patch on netdev shouldn't care > about a ABI breakage, actually I doubt that someone is using > it already. So here's the patch to remove it. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-18[PATCH] Serial: Add support for SIIG Quartet serial cardAndrey Panin1-0/+2
Add support for SIIG Quartet Serial card. This card has Oxford Semiconducor 16954 quad UART which is clocked by 10x faster (18.432 MHz) quartz. Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-16[PATCH] Serial: Remove linux/version.hOlaf Hering1-1/+0
changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no appearent reason. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-16[PATCH] Serial: Move deprecation of register_serial forward to SeptemberRussell King2-4/+7
I think it's about time to make the build a little more vocal about the expiry of these functions. Due to recent discussions with problems in the console initialisation vs power manglement, I'd like to move the date forward to September. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-15[PATCH] md/raid1: clear bitmap when fullsync completesNeilBrown1-1/+1
We need to be careful differentiating between a resync of a complete array, in which we can clear the bitmap, and a resync of a degraded array, in which we cannot. This patch cleans all that up. Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] s390: fadvise hint values.Martin Schwidefsky1-0/+10
Add special case for the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED and POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE hint values for s390-64. The user space values in the s390-64 glibc headers for these two defines have always been 6 and 7 instead of 4 and 5. All 64 bit applications therefore use the "wrong" values. To get these applications working without recompiling the kernel needs to accept the "wrong" values. Since the values for s390-31 are 4 and 5 the compat wrapper for fadvise64 and fadvise64_64 need to rewrite the values for 31 bit system calls. 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>
2005-07-13[PATCH] Fix soft lockup due to NTFS: VFS part and explanationAnton Altaparmakov1-0/+3
Something has changed in the core kernel such that we now get concurrent inode write outs, one e.g via pdflush and one via sys_sync or whatever. This causes a nasty deadlock in ntfs. The only clean solution unfortunately requires a minor vfs api extension. First the deadlock analysis: Prerequisive knowledge: NTFS has a file $MFT (inode 0) loaded at mount time. The NTFS driver uses the page cache for storing the file contents as usual. More interestingly this file contains the table of on-disk inodes as a sequence of MFT_RECORDs. Thus NTFS driver accesses the on-disk inodes by accessing the MFT_RECORDs in the page cache pages of the loaded inode $MFT. The situation: VFS inode X on a mounted ntfs volume is dirty. For same inode X, the ntfs_inode is dirty and thus corresponding on-disk inode, which is as explained above in a dirty PAGE_CACHE_PAGE belonging to the table of inodes ($MFT, inode 0). What happens: Process 1: sys_sync()/umount()/whatever... calls __sync_single_inode() for $MFT -> do_writepages() -> write_page for the dirty page containing the on-disk inode X, the page is now locked -> ntfs_write_mst_block() which clears PageUptodate() on the page to prevent anyone else getting hold of it whilst it does the write out (this is necessary as the on-disk inode needs "fixups" applied before the write to disk which are removed again after the write and PageUptodate is then set again). It then analyses the page looking for dirty on-disk inodes and when it finds one it calls ntfs_may_write_mft_record() to see if it is safe to write this on-disk inode. This then calls ilookup5() to check if the corresponding VFS inode is in icache(). This in turn calls ifind() which waits on the inode lock via wait_on_inode whilst holding the global inode_lock. Process 2: pdflush results in a call to __sync_single_inode for the same VFS inode X on the ntfs volume. This locks the inode (I_LOCK) then calls write-inode -> ntfs_write_inode -> map_mft_record() -> read_cache_page() of the page (in page cache of table of inodes $MFT, inode 0) containing the on-disk inode. This page has PageUptodate() clear because of Process 1 (see above) so read_cache_page() blocks when tries to take the page lock for the page so it can call ntfs_read_page(). Thus Process 1 is holding the page lock on the page containing the on-disk inode X and it is waiting on the inode X to be unlocked in ifind() so it can write the page out and then unlock the page. And Process 2 is holding the inode lock on inode X and is waiting for the page to be unlocked so it can call ntfs_readpage() or discover that Process 1 set PageUptodate() again and use the page. Thus we have a deadlock due to ifind() waiting on the inode lock. The only sensible solution: NTFS does not care whether the VFS inode is locked or not when it calls ilookup5() (it doesn't use the VFS inode at all, it just uses it to find the corresponding ntfs_inode which is of course attached to the VFS inode (both are one single struct); and it uses the ntfs_inode which is subject to its own locking so I_LOCK is irrelevant) hence we want a modified ilookup5_nowait() which is the same as ilookup5() but it does not wait on the inode lock. Without such functionality I would have to keep my own ntfs_inode cache in the NTFS driver just so I can find ntfs_inodes independent of their VFS inodes which would be slow, memory and cpu cycle wasting, and incredibly stupid given the icache already exists in the VFS. Below is a patch that does the ilookup5_nowait() implementation in fs/inode.c and exports it. ilookup5_nowait.diff: Introduce ilookup5_nowait() which is basically the same as ilookup5() but it does not wait on the inode's lock (i.e. it omits the wait_on_inode() done in ifind()). This is needed to avoid a nasty deadlock in NTFS. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] inotify: event orderingRobert Love1-1/+1
This rearranges the event ordering for "open" to be consistent with the ordering of the other events. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] inotify: move sysctlRobert Love1-6/+6
This moves the inotify sysctl knobs to "/proc/sys/fs/inotify" from "/proc/sys/fs". Also some related cleanup. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] inotifyRobert Love5-2/+375
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12reiserfs: run scripts/Lindent on reiserfs codeLinus Torvalds5-1241/+1207
This was a pure indentation change, using: scripts/Lindent fs/reiserfs/*.c include/linux/reiserfs_*.h to make reiserfs match the regular Linux indentation style. As Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> writes: The ReiserFS code is a mix of a number of different coding styles, sometimes different even from line-to-line. Since the code has been relatively stable for quite some time and there are few outstanding patches to be applied, it is time to reformat the code to conform to the Linux style standard outlined in Documentation/CodingStyle. This patch contains the result of running scripts/Lindent against fs/reiserfs/*.c and include/linux/reiserfs_*.h. There are places where the code can be made to look better, but I'd rather keep those patches separate so that there isn't a subtle by-hand hand accident in the middle of a huge patch. To be clear: This patch is reformatting *only*. A number of patches may follow that continue to make the code more consistent with the Linux coding style. Hans wasn't particularly enthusiastic about these patches, but said he wouldn't really oppose them either. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds3-5/+10
2005-07-12[PATCH] hardirq uses preemptRandy Dunlap1-0/+1
hardirq.h uses preempt_count() from preempt.h Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] tlb.h warning fixAndrew Morton1-0/+2
free_pages_and_swap_cache() and free_page_and_swap_cache() use release_pages() and page_cache_release() respectively, so make sure that we have the declarations in scope. Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] ext3: fix options parsingJan Kara1-0/+14
Fix a problem with ext3 mount option parsing. When remount of a filesystem fails, old options are now restored. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] name_to_dev_t warning fixAndrew Morton1-0/+2
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>
2005-07-12[ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...Len Brown3-5/+10
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds5-6/+6
2005-07-12[NET]: __be'ify *_type_trans()Alexey Dobriyan4-6/+5
tr_type_trans(), hippi_type_trans() left as-is. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-12[PATCH] USB: another cdc descriptordavid-b@pacbell.net1-0/+13
This adds another CDC descriptor type to <linux/usb_cdc.h>; the main claim to fame for this is that some Motorola phones include it. It's not currently needed by any driver code; included for completeness. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-12[PATCH] USB: Fix kmalloc's flags type in USBOlav Kongas2-10/+10
Greg, This patch fixes the kmalloc() flags argument type in USB subsystem; hopefully all of its occurences. The patch was made against patch-2.6.12-git2 from Jun 20. Cleanup of flags for kmalloc() in USB subsystem. Signed-off-by: Olav Kongas <ok@artecdesign.ee> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-12[ACPI] PNPACPI vs sound IRQDavid Shaohua Li1-1/+1
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4016 Written-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12[ACPI] Evaluate CPEI Processor Override flagAshok Raj1-1/+4
ACPI 3.0 added a Correctable Platform Error Interrupt (CPEI) Processor Overide flag to MADT.Platform_Interrupt_Source. Record the processor that was provided as hint from ACPI. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-11[ACPI] Bind PCI devices with ACPI devicesDavid Shaohua Li1-2/+4
Implement the framework for binding physical devices with ACPI devices. A physical bus like PCI bus should create a 'acpi_bus_type', with: .find_device: For device which has parent such as normal PCI devices. .find_bridge: It's for special devices, such as PCI root bridge or IDE controller. Such devices generally haven't a parent or ->bus. We use the special method to get an ACPI handle. Uses new field in struct device: firmware_data http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4277 Signed-off-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-11[ACPI] ACPI poweroff fixAlexey Starikovskiy1-1/+1
Register an "acpi" system device to be notified of shutdown preparation. This depends on CONFIG_PM http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041 Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-11[NETLINK]: Reserve NETLINK_NETFILTER.David S. Miller1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-11Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds9-53/+214
2005-07-10[SPARC64]: Add syscall auditing support.David S. Miller1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-10[SPARC64]: Add __read_mostly support.David S. Miller1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-08[IPV4]: multicast API "join" issuesDavid L Stevens1-1/+0
This patch corrects a few problems with the IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP socket option: 1) The existing code makes an attempt at reference counting joins when using the ip_mreqn/imr_ifindex interface. Joining the same group on the same socket is an error, whatever the API. This leads to unexpected results when mixing ip_mreqn by index with ip_mreqn by address, ip_mreq, or other API's. For example, ip_mreq followed by ip_mreqn of the same group will "work" while the same two reversed will not. Fixed to always return EADDRINUSE on a duplicate join and removed the (now unused) reference count in ip_mc_socklist. 2) The group-search list in ip_mc_join_group() is comparing a full ip_mreqn structure and all of it must match for it to find the group. This doesn't correctly match a group that was joined with ip_mreq or ip_mreqn with an address (with or without an index). It also doesn't match groups that are joined by different addresses on the same interface. All of these are the same multicast group, which is identified by group address and interface index. Fixed the check to correctly match groups so we don't get duplicate group entries on the ip_mc_socklist. 3) The old code allocates a multicast address before searching for duplicates requiring it to free in various error cases. This patch moves the allocate until after the search and igmp_max_memberships check, so never a need to allocate, then free an entry. Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-08[NET]: Fix sparse warningsVictor Fusco1-11/+18
From: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br> Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type" Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-07[PATCH] nfsd4: check lock type against openmode.NeilBrown1-0/+5
We shouldn't be allowing, e.g., write locks on files not open for read. To enforce this, we add a pointer from the lock stateid back to the open stateid it came from, so that the check will continue to be correct even after the open is upgraded or downgraded. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] nfsd4: return better error on io incompatible with open modeNeilBrown1-0/+1
from RFC 3530: "Share reservations are established by OPEN operations and by their nature are mandatory in that when the OPEN denies READ or WRITE operations, that denial results in such operations being rejected with error NFS4ERR_LOCKED." (Note that share_denied is really only a legal error for OPEN.) Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] nfsd4: seqid commentsNeilBrown1-1/+3
Add some comments on the use of so_seqid, in an attempt to avoid some of the confusion outlined in the previous patch.... Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] nfsd4: fix sync'ing of recovery directoryNeilBrown1-0/+1
We need to fsync the recovery directory after writing to it, but we weren't doing this correctly. (For example, we weren't taking the i_sem when calling ->fsync().) Just reuse the existing nfsd fsync code instead. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] namespace: rename _mntput to mntput_no_expireMiklos Szeredi1-2/+2
This patch renames _mntput() to something a little more descriptive: mntput_no_expire(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] namespace: rename mnt_fslink to mnt_expireMiklos Szeredi1-1/+1
This patch renames vfsmount->mnt_fslink to something a little more descriptive: vfsmount->mnt_expire. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <michael.waychison@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] namespace.c: fix race in mark_mounts_for_expiry()Miklos Szeredi1-1/+2
This patch fixes a race found by Ram in mark_mounts_for_expiry() in fs/namespace.c. The bug can only be triggered with simultaneous exiting of a process having a private namespace, and expiry of a mount from within that namespace. It's practically impossible to trigger, and I haven't even tried. But still, a bug is a bug. The race happens when put_namespace() is called by another task, while mark_mounts_for_expiry() is between atomic_read() and get_namespace(). In that case get_namespace() will be called on an already dead namespace with unforeseeable results. The solution was suggested by Al Viro, with his own words: Instead of screwing with atomic_read() in there, why don't we simply do the following: a) atomic_dec_and_lock() in put_namespace() b) __put_namespace() called without dropping lock c) the first thing done by __put_namespace would be struct vfsmount *root = namespace->root; namespace->root = NULL; spin_unlock(...); .... umount_tree(root); ... d) check in mark_... would be simply namespace && namespace->root. And we are all set; no screwing around with atomic_read(), no magic at all. Dying namespace gets NULL ->root. All changes of ->root happen under spinlock. If under a spinlock we see non-NULL ->mnt_namespace, it won't be freed until we drop the lock (we will set ->mnt_namespace to NULL under that lock before we get to freeing namespace). If under a spinlock we see non-NULL ->mnt_namespace and ->mnt_namespace->root, we can grab a reference to namespace and be sure that it won't go away. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] mostly_read data sectionChristoph Lameter1-0/+6
Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc. If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated. In that case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables. The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing performance. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] propagate __nocast annotationsAlexey Dobriyan3-5/+5
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] page_uptodate locking scalabilityNick Piggin1-0/+3
Use a bit spin lock in the first buffer of the page to synchronise asynch IO buffer completions, instead of the global page_uptodate_lock, which is showing some scalabilty problems. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] pm: fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in cpufreqBernard Blackham1-1/+1
Fix u32 vs pm_message_t confusion in cpufreq. Signed-off-by: Bernard Blackham <bernard@blackham.com.au> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] move ioprio syscalls into syscalls.hAnton Blanchard2-3/+3
- Make ioprio syscalls return long, like set/getpriority syscalls. - Move function prototypes into syscalls.h so we can pick them up in the 32/64bit compat code. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>