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2006-12-15Remove stack unwinder for nowLinus Torvalds4-270/+2
It has caused more problems than it ever really solved, and is apparently not getting cleaned up and fixed. We can put it back when it's stable and isn't likely to make warning or bug events worse. In the meantime, enable frame pointers for more readable stack traces. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] ib_verbs: Use explicit if-else statements to avoid errors with do-while macrosBen Collins1-31/+39
At least on PPC, the "op ? op : dma" construct causes a compile failure because the dma_* is a do{}while(0) macro. This turns all of them into proper if/else to avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[NETFILTER]: bridge-netfilter: remove deferred hooksPatrick McHardy3-5/+0
Remove the deferred hooks and all related code as scheduled in feature-removal-schedule. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-13[IPV6]: Make fib6_node subtree depend on IPV6_SUBTREESKim Nordlund1-2/+2
Make fib6_node 'subtree' depend on IPV6_SUBTREES. Signed-off-by: Kim Nordlund <kim.nordlund@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-13[SCTP]: Add support for SCTP_CONTEXT socket option.Ivan Skytte Jorgensen2-0/+6
Signed-off-by: Ivan Skytte Jorgensen <isj-sctp@i1.dk> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-13[SCTP]: Handle address add/delete events in a more efficient way.Sridhar Samudrala1-4/+2
Currently in SCTP, we maintain a local address list by rebuilding the whole list from the device list whenever we get a address add/delete event. This patch fixes it by only adding/deleting the address for which we receive the event. Also removed the sctp_local_addr_lock() which is no longer needed as we now use list_for_each_safe() to traverse this list. This fixes the bugs in sctp_copy_laddrs_xxx() routines where we do copy_to_user() while holding this lock. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-13[NETFILTER]: x_tables: error if ip_conntrack is asked to handle IPv6 packetsYasuyuki Kozakai1-0/+10
To do that, this makes nf_ct_l3proto_try_module_{get,put} compatible functions. As a result we can remove '#ifdef' surrounds and direct call of need_conntrack(). Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds8-37/+94
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 4017/1: [Jornada7xx] - Updating Jornada720.c [ARM] 3992/1: i.MX/MX1 CPU Frequency scaling support [ARM] Provide a method to alter the control register [ARM] 4016/1: prefetch macro is wrong wrt gcc's "delete-null-pointer-checks" [ARM] Remove empty fixup function [ARM] 4014/1: include drivers/hid/Kconfig [ARM] 4013/1: clocksource driver for netx [ARM] 4012/1: Clocksource for pxa [ARM] Clean up ioremap code [ARM] Unuse another Linux PTE bit [ARM] Clean up KERNEL_RAM_ADDR [ARM] Add sys_*at syscalls [ARM] 4004/1: S3C24XX: UDC remove implict addition of VA to regs [ARM] Formalise the ARMv6 processor name string [ARM] Handle HWCAP_VFP in VFP support code [ARM] 4011/1: AT91SAM9260: Fix compilation with NAND driver [ARM] 4010/1: AT91SAM9260-EK board: Prepare for MACB Ethernet support
2006-12-13Merge branch 'release' of master.kernel.org:/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2-3/+3
* 'release' of master.kernel.org:/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Move sg_dma_{len,address} from pci.h to scatterlist.h
2006-12-13Driver core: Make platform_device_add_data accept a const pointerScott Wood1-1/+1
platform_device_add_data() makes a copy of the data that is given to it, and thus the parameter can be const. This removes a warning when data from get_property() on powerpc is handed to platform_device_add_data(), as get_property() returns a const pointer. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-13[ARM] Merge AT91 and devel branchesRussell King8-37/+94
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-13[IA64] Move sg_dma_{len,address} from pci.h to scatterlist.hTony Luck2-3/+3
IA64 is in a tiny minority providing these defines in pci.h. Almost everyone else has them in scatterlist.h Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-12-13[ARM] 3992/1: i.MX/MX1 CPU Frequency scaling supportPavel Pisa1-3/+7
Support to change MX1 CPU frequency at runtime. Tested on PiKRON's PiMX1 board and seems to be fully stable up to 200 MHz end even as low as 8 MHz. Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-13[ARM] Provide a method to alter the control registerRussell King1-0/+20
i.MX needs to tweak the control register to support CPU frequency scaling. Rather than have folk blindly try and change the control register by writing to it and then wondering why it doesn't work, provide a method (which is safe for UP only, and therefore only available for UP) to achieve this. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-13[ARM] 4016/1: prefetch macro is wrong wrt gcc's "delete-null-pointer-checks"Nicolas Pitre1-8/+8
optimization The gcc manual says: |`-fdelete-null-pointer-checks' | Use global dataflow analysis to identify and eliminate useless | checks for null pointers. The compiler assumes that dereferencing | a null pointer would have halted the program. If a pointer is | checked after it has already been dereferenced, it cannot be null. | Enabled at levels `-O2', `-O3', `-Os'. Now the problem can be seen with this test case: #include <linux/prefetch.h> extern void bar(char *x); void foo(char *x) { prefetch(x); if (x) bar(x); } Because the constraint to the inline asm used in the prefetch() macro is a memory operand, gcc assumes that the asm code does dereference the pointer and the delete-null-pointer-checks optimization kicks in. Inspection of generated assembly for the above example shows that bar() is indeed called unconditionally without any test on the value of x. Of course in the prefetch case there is no real dereference and it cannot be assumed that a null pointer would have been caught at that point. This causes kernel oopses with constructs like hlist_for_each_entry() where the list's 'next' content is prefetched before the pointer is tested against NULL, and only when gcc feels like applying this optimization which doesn't happen all the time with more complex code. It appears that the way to prevent delete-null-pointer-checks optimization to occur in this case is to make prefetch() into a static inline function instead of a macro. At least this is what is done on x86_64 where a similar inline asm memory operand is used (I presume they would have seen the same problem if it didn't work) and resulting code for the above example confirms that. An alternative would consist of replacing the memory operand by a register operand containing the pointer, and use the addressing mode explicitly in the asm template. But that would be less optimal than an offsettable memory reference. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-13[PATCH] Add missing KORENIX PCI ID'sRussell King1-0/+4
Oops, sorry about that. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on forkRalf Baechle25-0/+36
Virtually index, physically tagged cache architectures can get away without cache flushing when forking. This patch adds a new cache flushing function flush_cache_dup_mm(struct mm_struct *) which for the moment I've implemented to do the same thing on all architectures except on MIPS where it's a no-op. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] MIPS: Fix COW D-cache aliasing on forkAtsushi Nemoto1-10/+6
Provide a custom copy_user_highpage() to deal with aliasing issues on MIPS. It uses kmap_coherent() to map an user page for kernel with same color. Rewrite copy_to_user_page() and copy_from_user_page() with the new interfaces to avoid extra cache flushing. The main part of this patch was originally written by Ralf Baechle; Atushi Nemoto did the the debugging. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] Pass vma argument to copy_user_highpage().Atsushi Nemoto1-1/+2
To allow a more effective copy_user_highpage() on certain architectures, a vma argument is added to the function and cow_user_page() allowing the implementation of these functions to check for the VM_EXEC bit. The main part of this patch was originally written by Ralf Baechle; Atushi Nemoto did the the debugging. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] Fix COW D-cache aliasing on forkAtsushi Nemoto1-0/+4
Problem: 1. There is a process containing two thread (T1 and T2). The thread T1 calls fork(). Then dup_mmap() function called on T1 context. static inline int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm) ... flush_cache_mm(current->mm); ... /* A */ (write-protect all Copy-On-Write pages) ... /* B */ flush_tlb_mm(current->mm); ... 2. When preemption happens between A and B (or on SMP kernel), the thread T2 can run and modify data on COW pages without page fault (modified data will stay in cache). 3. Some time after fork() completed, the thread T2 may cause a page fault by write-protect on a COW page. 4. Then data of the COW page will be copied to newly allocated physical page (copy_cow_page()). It reads data via kernel mapping. The kernel mapping can have different 'color' with user space mapping of the thread T2 (dcache aliasing). Therefore copy_cow_page() will copy stale data. Then the modified data in cache will be lost. In order to allow architecture code to deal with this problem allow architecture code to override copy_user_highpage() by defining __HAVE_ARCH_COPY_USER_HIGHPAGE in <asm/page.h>. The main part of this patch was originally written by Ralf Baechle; Atushi Nemoto did the the debugging. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+0
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: hwmon: Add MAINTAINERS entry for new ams driver hwmon: New AMS hardware monitoring driver hwmon/w83793: Add documentation and maintainer hwmon: New Winbond W83793 hardware monitoring driver hwmon: Update Rudolf Marek's e-mail address hwmon/f71805f: Fix the device address decoding hwmon/f71805f: Always create all fan inputs hwmon/f71805f: Add support for the Fintek F71872F/FG chip hwmon: New PC87427 hardware monitoring driver hwmon/it87: Remove the SMBus interface support hwmon/hdaps: Update the list of supported devices hwmon/hdaps: Move the DMI detection data to .data hwmon/pc87360: Autodetect the VRM version hwmon/f71805f: Document the fan control features hwmon/f71805f: Add support for "speed mode" fan speed control hwmon/f71805f: Support DC fan speed control mode hwmon/f71805f: Let the user adjust the PWM base frequency hwmon/f71805f: Add manual fan speed control hwmon/f71805f: Store the fan control registers
2006-12-13[PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() callsRobert P. J. Day3-3/+3
Run this: #!/bin/sh for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do echo "De-casting $f..." perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f done And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers to non-pointers. And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work. Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] sstfb: add sysfs interfaceHelge Deller1-4/+9
Modify the sstfb (Voodoo1/2) driver: - fix a memleak when removing the sstfb module - fix sstfb to use the fbdev default videomode database - add module option "mode_option" to set initial screen mode - add sysfs-interface to turn VGA-passthrough on/off via /sys/class/graphics/fbX/vgapass - remove old debug functions from ioctl interface Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Acked-By: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] fbdev: remove references to non-existent fbmon_valid_timings()Geert Uytterhoeven1-2/+0
Remove references to non-existent fbmon_valid_timings() Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: reorganize compound opsJ.Bruce Fields2-1/+5
Define an op descriptor struct, use it to simplify nfsd4_proc_compound(). Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: move replay_owner to cstateJ.Bruce Fields1-10/+7
Tuck away the replay_owner in the cstate while we're at it. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: pass saved and current fh together into nfsd4 operationsJ.Bruce Fields1-7/+15
Pass the saved and current filehandles together into all the nfsd4 compound operations. I want a unified interface to these operations so we can just call them by pointer and throw out the huge switch statement. Also I'll eventually want a structure like this--that holds the state used during compound processing--for deferral. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: clarify units of COMPOUND_SLACK_SPACEJ.Bruce Fields1-2/+2
A comment here incorrectly states that "slack_space" is measured in words, not bytes. Remove the comment, and adjust a variable name and a few comments to clarify the situation. This is pure cleanup; there should be no change in functionality. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] remove the broken BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driverAdrian Bunk1-221/+0
The BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver has: - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and - is still marked as BROKEN. Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future. But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still present in the older kernel releases. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] ncpfs: Use struct pid to track the userspace watchdog processEric W. Biederman1-1/+1
This patch converts the tracking of the user space watchdog process from using a pid_t to use struct pid. This makes us safe from pid wrap around issues and prepares the way for the pid namespace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] smbfs: Make conn_pid a struct pidEric W. Biederman1-1/+1
smbfs keeps track of the user space server process in conn_pid. This converts that track to use a struct pid instead of pid_t. This keeps us safe from pid wrap around issues and prepares the way for the pid namespace. 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>
2006-12-13[PATCH] n_r3964: Use struct pid to track user space clientsEric W. Biederman1-1/+1
Currently this driver tracks user space clients it should send signals to. In the presenct of file descriptor passing this is appears susceptible to confusion from pid wrap around issues. Replacing this with a struct pid prevents us from getting confused, and prepares for a pid namespace implementation. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] lockd endianness annotationsAl Viro4-7/+7
Annotated, all places switched to keeping status net-endian. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] hci endianness annotationsAl Viro1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] Fix numerous kcalloc() calls, convert to kzalloc()Robert P. J. Day1-1/+1
All kcalloc() calls of the form "kcalloc(1,...)" are converted to the equivalent kzalloc() calls, and a few kcalloc() calls with the incorrect ordering of the first two arguments are fixed. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] lockdep: print irq-trace info on assertsIngo Molnar1-3/+13
When we print an assert due to scheduling-in-atomic bugs, and if lockdep is enabled, then the IRQ tracing information of lockdep can be printed to pinpoint the code location that disabled interrupts. This saved me quite a bit of debugging time in cases where the backtrace did not identify the irq-disabling site well enough. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] debug: add sysrq_always_enabled boot optionIngo Molnar1-4/+18
Most distributions enable sysrq support but set it to 0 by default. Add a sysrq_always_enabled boot option to always-enable sysrq keys. Useful for debugging - without having to modify the disribution's config files (which might not be possible if the kernel is on a live CD, etc.). Also, while at it, clean up the sysrq interfaces. [bunk@stusta.de: make sysrq_always_enabled_setup() static] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] optimize o_direct on block devicesChen, Kenneth W2-0/+2
Implement block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through generic direct_io_worker for block device. direct_io_worker() is fairly complex because it needs to handle O_DIRECT on file system, where it needs to perform block allocation, hole detection, extents file on write, and tons of other corner cases. The end result is that it takes tons of CPU time to submit an I/O. For block device, the block allocation is much simpler and a tight triple loop can be written to iterate each iovec and each page within the iovec in order to construct/prepare bio structure and then subsequently submit it to the block layer. This significantly speeds up O_D on block device. [akpm@osdl.org: small speedup] Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] relative atimeValerie Henson2-0/+2
Add "relatime" (relative atime) support. Relative atime only updates the atime if the previous atime is older than the mtime or ctime. Like noatime, but useful for applications like mutt that need to know when a file has been read since it was last modified. A corresponding patch against mount(8) is available at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mount-relative-atime.txt Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] Xtensa: Add ktermios and minor filename fixChris Zankel2-1/+11
The kernel termios (ktermios) changes were somehow missed for Xtensa. This patch adds the ktermios structure and also includes some minor file name fix that was missed in the syscall patch. Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] PM: Fix SMP races in the freezerRafael J. Wysocki9-6/+20
Currently, to tell a task that it should go to the refrigerator, we set the PF_FREEZE flag for it and send a fake signal to it. Unfortunately there are two SMP-related problems with this approach. First, a task running on another CPU may be updating its flags while the freezer attempts to set PF_FREEZE for it and this may leave the task's flags in an inconsistent state. Second, there is a potential race between freeze_process() and refrigerator() in which freeze_process() running on one CPU is reading a task's PF_FREEZE flag while refrigerator() running on another CPU has just set PF_FROZEN for the same task and attempts to reset PF_FREEZE for it. If the refrigerator wins the race, freeze_process() will state that PF_FREEZE hasn't been set for the task and will set it unnecessarily, so the task will go to the refrigerator once again after it's been thawed. To solve first of these problems we need to stop using PF_FREEZE to tell tasks that they should go to the refrigerator. Instead, we can introduce a special TIF_*** flag and use it for this purpose, since it is allowed to change the other tasks' TIF_*** flags and there are special calls for it. To avoid the freeze_process()-refrigerator() race we can make freeze_process() to always check the task's PF_FROZEN flag after it's read its "freeze" flag. We should also make sure that refrigerator() will always reset the task's "freeze" flag after it's set PF_FROZEN for it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] SLAB: use a multiply instead of a divide in obj_to_index()Eric Dumazet1-0/+32
When some objects are allocated by one CPU but freed by another CPU we can consume lot of cycles doing divides in obj_to_index(). (Typical load on a dual processor machine where network interrupts are handled by one particular CPU (allocating skbufs), and the other CPU is running the application (consuming and freeing skbufs)) Here on one production server (dual-core AMD Opteron 285), I noticed this divide took 1.20 % of CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events in kernel. But Opteron are quite modern cpus and the divide is much more expensive on oldest architectures : On a 200 MHz sparcv9 machine, the division takes 64 cycles instead of 1 cycle for a multiply. Doing some math, we can use a reciprocal multiplication instead of a divide. If we want to compute V = (A / B) (A and B being u32 quantities) we can instead use : V = ((u64)A * RECIPROCAL(B)) >> 32 ; where RECIPROCAL(B) is precalculated to ((1LL << 32) + (B - 1)) / B Note : I wrote pure C code for clarity. gcc output for i386 is not optimal but acceptable : mull 0x14(%ebx) mov %edx,%eax // part of the >> 32 xor %edx,%edx // useless mov %eax,(%esp) // could be avoided mov %edx,0x4(%esp) // useless mov (%esp),%ebx [akpm@osdl.org: small cleanups] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] cpuset: rework cpuset_zone_allowed apiPaul Jackson1-4/+18
Elaborate the API for calling cpuset_zone_allowed(), so that users have to explicitly choose between the two variants: cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall() cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() Until now, whether or not you got the hardwall flavor depended solely on whether or not you or'd in the __GFP_HARDWALL gfp flag to the gfp_mask argument. If you didn't specify __GFP_HARDWALL, you implicitly got the softwall version. Unfortunately, this meant that users would end up with the softwall version without thinking about it. Since only the softwall version might sleep, this led to bugs with possible sleeping in interrupt context on more than one occassion. The hardwall version requires that the current tasks mems_allowed allows the node of the specified zone (or that you're in interrupt or that __GFP_THISNODE is set or that you're on a one cpuset system.) The softwall version, depending on the gfp_mask, might allow a node if it was allowed in the nearest enclusing cpuset marked mem_exclusive (which requires taking the cpuset lock 'callback_mutex' to evaluate.) This patch removes the cpuset_zone_allowed() call, and forces the caller to explicitly choose between the hardwall and the softwall case. If the caller wants the gfp_mask to determine this choice, they should (1) be sure they can sleep or that __GFP_HARDWALL is set, and (2) invoke the cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() routine. This adds another 100 or 200 bytes to the kernel text space, due to the few lines of nearly duplicate code at the top of both cpuset_zone_allowed_* routines. It should save a few instructions executed for the calls that turned into calls of cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall, thanks to not having to set (before the call) then check (within the call) the __GFP_HARDWALL flag. For the most critical call, from get_page_from_freelist(), the same instructions are executed as before -- the old cpuset_zone_allowed() routine it used to call is the same code as the cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() routine that it calls now. Not a perfect win, but seems worth it, to reduce this chance of hitting a sleeping with irq off complaint again. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] More slab.h cleanupsChristoph Lameter1-20/+24
More cleanups for slab.h 1. Remove tabs from weird locations as suggested by Pekka 2. Drop the check for NUMA and SLAB_DEBUG from the fallback section as suggested by Pekka. 3. Uses static inline for the fallback defs as also suggested by Pekka. 4. Make kmem_ptr_valid take a const * argument. 5. Separate the NUMA fallback definitions from the kmalloc_track fallback definitions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] Cleanup slab headers / API to allow easy addition of new slab allocatorsChristoph Lameter2-196/+210
This is a response to an earlier discussion on linux-mm about splitting slab.h components per allocator. Patch is against 2.6.19-git11. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=116469577431008&w=2 This patch cleans up the slab header definitions. We define the common functions of slob and slab in slab.h and put the extra definitions needed for slab's kmalloc implementations in <linux/slab_def.h>. In order to get a greater set of common functions we add several empty functions to slob.c and also rename slob's kmalloc to __kmalloc. Slob does not need any special definitions since we introduce a fallback case. If there is no need for a slab implementation to provide its own kmalloc mess^H^H^Hacros then we simply fall back to __kmalloc functions. That is sufficient for SLOB. Sort the function in slab.h according to their functionality. First the functions operating on struct kmem_cache * then the kmalloc related functions followed by special debug and fallback definitions. Also redo a lot of comments. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>? Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] reorder struct pipe_buf_operationsEric Dumazet1-1/+1
Fields of struct pipe_buf_operations have not a precise layout (ie not optimized to fit cache lines nor reduce cache line ping pongs) The bufs[] array is *large* and is placed near the beginning of the structure, so all following fields have a large offset. This is unfortunate because many archs have smaller instructions when using small offsets relative to a base register. On x86 for example, 7 bits offsets have smaller instruction lengths. Moving bufs[] at the end of pipe_buf_operations permits all fields to have small offsets, and reduce text size, and icache pressure. # size vmlinux.pre vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 3268989 664356 492196 4425541 438745 vmlinux.pre 3268765 664356 492196 4425317 438665 vmlinux So this patch reduces text size by 224 bytes on my x86_64 machine. Similar results on ia32. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] Revert "[PATCH] identifier to nsproxy"Eric W. Biederman2-2/+0
This reverts commit 373beb35cd6b625e0ba4ad98baace12310a26aa8. No one is using this identifier yet. The purpose of this identifier is to export nsproxy to user space which is wrong. nsproxy is an internal implementation optimization, which should keep our fork times from getting slower as we increase the number of global namespaces you don't have to share. Adding a global identifier like this is inappropriate because it makes namespaces inherently non-recursive, greatly limiting what we can do with them in the future. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] constify pipe_buf_operationsEric Dumazet1-2/+1
- pipe/splice should use const pipe_buf_operations and file_operations - struct pipe_inode_info has an unused field "start" : get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[ARM] Unuse another Linux PTE bitRussell King3-9/+13
L_PTE_ASID is not really required to be stored in every PTE, since we can identify it via the address passed to set_pte_at(). So, create set_pte_ext() which takes the address of the PTE to set, the Linux PTE value, and the additional CPU PTE bits which aren't encoded in the Linux PTE value. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-12Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds3-3/+4
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] kprobe clears qp bits for special instructions [IA64] enable trap code on slot 1 [IA64] Take defensive stance on ia64_pal_get_brand_info() [IA64] fix possible XPC deadlock when disconnecting [IA64] - Reduce overhead of FP exception logging messages [IA64] fix arch/ia64/mm/contig.c:235: warning: unused variable `nid' [IA64] s/termios/ktermios/ in simserial.c [IA64] kexec/kdump: tidy up declaration of relocate_new_kernel_t [IA64] Kexec/Kdump: honour non-zero crashkernel offset. [IA64] CONFIG_KEXEC/CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP permutations [IA64] Do not call SN_SAL_SET_CPU_NUMBER twice on cpu 0