1. 09 Apr, 2003 20 commits
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] task_lock commentary fixes · 52a4a8b7
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      
      Update and clarify the incorrect commentary around task_lock()
      52a4a8b7
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] struct address_space comments · 598ee771
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
      
      Fix the commentary around the address_space fields.
      598ee771
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Make msync(MS_ASYNC) no longer start the I/O · a300bad2
      Andrew Morton authored
      MS_ASYNC will currently wait on previously-submitted I/O, then start new I/O
      and not wait on it.  This can cause undesirable blocking if msync is called
      rapidly against the same memory.
      
      So instead, change msync(MS_ASYNC) to not start any IO at all.  Just flush
      the pte dirty bits into the pageframe and leave it at that.
      
      The IO _will_ happen within a kupdate period.  And the application can use
      fsync() or fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) if it actually wants to schedule the IO
      immediately.
      
      (This has triggered an ext3 bug - the page's buffers get dirtied so fast
      that kjournald keeps writing the buffers over and over for 10-20 seconds
      before deciding to give up for some reason)
      a300bad2
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Missing brelse() in ext2/ext3 extended attribute code · 72c4f88a
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
      
      Missing brelse() in ext2/ext3 extended attribute code
      
      The ext2 and ext3 EA implementations fail to release a buffer_head if
      the inode that is being accessed is sharing EAs with another inode, and
      an attribute is set to the same value that it has already, like so:
      
              $ touch f g
      	$ setfattr -n user.test -v test f g
      	# (Now, both f and g refer to the same EA block.)
      	$ setfattr -n user.test -v test f
      
      With the bug, an "invalidate: busy buffer" or "invalidate: dirty
      buffer" message will be logged when the file system is unmounted. This
      patch fixes the problem.
      
      At the implementation level:
      
      The code was assuming that ext3_xattr_cache_find cannot return the same
      block the inode already is associated with, so testing for (old_bh !=
      new_bh) would determine whether the old block is resued or an additional
      bh is held. This is wrong if the EA block is used by multiple inodes (in
      which case it stays in the cache), and the block isn't actually
      modified.  Instead of testing for (old_bh != new_bh), the code now does
      a get_bh() in the branch that keeps the old block, which assures that
      new_bh now is either NULL or a handle that must be released at the end
      of ext3_xattr_set_handle2().
      72c4f88a
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] epoll cross-thread deletion fix · 92a88ec9
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      
      
      This fixes a bug that might happen having a thread doing epoll_wait() with
      another thread doing epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL) and close(). The fast check
      inside eventpoll_release() is good to not effect performace of code not
      using epoll, but it requires get_file() to be called ( that can be avoided
      by dropping the fast check ). I opted to keep the fast check and to have
      epoll to call get_file() before the event send loop. I tested it on UP and
      2SMP with a bug-exploiting program provided by @pivia.com ( thx to them )
      and it looks fine. I also update the 2.4.20 epoll patch with this fix :
      92a88ec9
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Allow panics and reboots at oops time. · 7b78878b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Russell Miller <rmiller@duskglow.com>
      
      A BUG or an oops will often leave a machine in a useless state.  There is no
      way to remotely recover the machine from that state.
      
      The patch adds a /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops sysctl which, when set, will
      cause the x86 kernel to call panic() at the end of the oops handler.  If the
      user has also set /proc/sys/kernel/panic then a reboot will occur.
      
      The implementation will try to sleep for a while before panicing so the oops
      info has a chance of hitting the logs.
      
      The implementation is designed so that other architectures can easily do this
      in their oops handlers.
      7b78878b
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] task_vsize() speedup · 2040ae81
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      
      task_vsize() mysteriously appeared on my profiles.  This should remove it
      from them by using the already in-use elsewhere for rlimit checks
      mm->total_vm for the benefit of O(1) cachelines touched.
      2040ae81
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] JBD pasting warning fix · e1851a6c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Hua Zhong" <hzhong@cisco.com>
      
      Fix a token-pasting warning from recent gcc's
      e1851a6c
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix unuse_pmd fixme · 6f924b79
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      
      try_to_unuse drop mmlist_lock across unuse_process (with pretty dance
      of atomic_incs and mmputs of various mmlist markers, and a polite new
      cond_resched there), so unuse_process can pte_chain_alloc(GFP_KERNEL)
      and pass that down and down and down and down to unuse_pte: which
      cannot succeed more than once on a given mm (make that explicit by
      returning back up once succeeded).  Preliminary checks moved up from
      unuse_pte to unuse_pmd, and done more efficiently (avoid that extra
      pte_file test added recently), swapoff spends far too long in here.
      Updated locking comments and references to try_to_swap_out.
      6f924b79
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] rmap comments · 9549db1d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      
      Update a few locking comments in rmap.c.
      9549db1d
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Replace the radix-tree rwlock with a spinlock · 8e98702b
      Andrew Morton authored
      Spinlocks don't have a buslocked unlock and are faster.
      
      On a P4, time to write a 4M file with 4M one-byte-write()s:
      
      Before:
      	0.72s user 5.47s system 99% cpu 6.227 total
      	0.76s user 5.40s system 100% cpu 6.154 total
      	0.77s user 5.38s system 100% cpu 6.146 total
      
      After:
      	1.09s user 4.92s system 99% cpu 6.014 total
      	0.74s user 5.28s system 99% cpu 6.023 total
      	1.03s user 4.97s system 100% cpu 5.991 total
      8e98702b
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] misc rmap speedups · df921d4d
      Andrew Morton authored
      Even a BUG_ON() makes a measurable difference.  So remove some gratuitous
      ones which will just trigger a null pointer deref anyway.
      
      Also remove some debug code which isn't really being maintained any more.
      
      Also replace (effectively):
      
      	test_bit(N, foo);
      	set_bit(N, foo);
      
      with
      
      	set_bit(N, foo);
      	test_bit(N, foo);
      
      In the first case we'll go onto the bus twice: once for the cache miss and
      once to get exclusive write access.  In the second case we only go on the bus
      once.  I think.  Certainly this trick chaved 40% off the cost of
      shrink_list() when I did it there...
      
      This patch is worth 1% or so on the bash script testing.
      df921d4d
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] speed up rmap searching · 3523bd55
      Andrew Morton authored
      several functions in rmap.c are searching the ptes[] array fo find the first
      non-null entry.
      
      Despite the fact tha the whole lot is in L1 cache, it is expensive,
      especially on 128-byte cacheline machines.
      
      We can encode the index of the first non-null pte entry inside the
      pte_chain's `next' field and remove those searches altogether.
      
      This reduces the rmap CPU tax by about 25% on a P4.  For a total runtime
      reduction of around 5% in the bash-script intensive test which I use.
      3523bd55
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] remove nr_reverse_maps VM accounting · 596c3a20
      Andrew Morton authored
      Maintaining the `nr_reverse_maps' provides makes a small but
      measurable decrease in page_add_rmap() overhead.
      
      I don't think it's a very useful metric, and it can be sort-of inferred from
      slabinfo.
      596c3a20
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] null-terminate the kmalloc tables · 7ffbbaf2
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
      
      The cache_sizes array needs to be NULL terminated, otherwise an oversized
      kmalloc request runs off the end of the table.
      7ffbbaf2
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Enforce gcc-2.95 as the minimum compiler requirement · 545e7a03
      Andrew Morton authored
      Now that sparc64 is using gcc-3.x we can disallow gcc-2.91, etc.
      
      Documentation/Changes already says 2.95.3, which is working fine for me.
      
      With this change, we no longer require that per-cpu data definitions be
      initialised.  That was a workaround for a bug in older gccs.  So remove the
      build infrastructure which was checking for that.
      
      Also, mention that nfs-utils-1.0.3 is required.  It isn't required yet, but
      will be once we enable larger dev_t: there is an interface for exportfs which
      passes dev_t's into the kernel which breaks with larger dev_t.  That
      interface is old, deprecated and is not used in nfs-utils-1.0.3.
      545e7a03
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix wait_on_buffer() debug code · 3c45e4d6
      Andrew Morton authored
      The wait_on_buffer() debug code is generating false warnings when called from
      __block_prepare_write().  It is legal to wait on a zero-ref buffer when its
      page is locked.  The page lock keeps try_to_free_buffers() away.
      
      This debug code hasn't found any bugs yet.
      3c45e4d6
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/net-2.5 · faedca65
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
      faedca65
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      User pointers are not just in another address space, they also · d97a291a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      must never be dereferenced directly. Make that clear in the
      attribute.
      d97a291a
  2. 08 Apr, 2003 20 commits