- 11 May, 2008 4 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
The generic semaphore rewrite had a huge performance regression on AIM7 (and potentially other BKL-heavy benchmarks) because the generic semaphores had been rewritten to be simple to understand and fair. The latter, in particular, turns a semaphore-based BKL implementation into a mess of scheduling. The attempt to fix the performance regression failed miserably (see the previous commit 00b41ec2 'Revert "semaphore: fix"'), and so for now the simple and sane approach is to instead just go back to the old spinlock-based BKL implementation that never had any issues like this. This patch also has the advantage of being reported to fix the regression completely according to Yanmin Zhang, unlike the semaphore hack which still left a couple percentage point regression. As a spinlock, the BKL obviously has the potential to be a latency issue, but it's not really any different from any other spinlock in that respect. We do want to get rid of the BKL asap, but that has been the plan for several years. These days, the biggest users are in the tty layer (open/release in particular) and Alan holds out some hope: "tty release is probably a few months away from getting cured - I'm afraid it will almost certainly be the very last user of the BKL in tty to get fixed as it depends on everything else being sanely locked." so while we're not there yet, we do have a plan of action. Tested-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit bf726eab, as it has been reported to cause a regression with processes stuck in __down(), apparently because some missing wakeup. Quoth Sven Wegener: "I'm currently investigating a regression that has showed up with my last git pull yesterday. Bisecting the commits showed bf726e "semaphore: fix" to be the culprit, reverting it fixed the issue. Symptoms: During heavy filesystem usage (e.g. a kernel compile) I get several compiler processes in uninterruptible sleep, blocking all i/o on the filesystem. System is an Intel Core 2 Quad running a 64bit kernel and userspace. Filesystem is xfs on top of lvm. See below for the output of sysrq-w." See http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/10/45 for full report. In the meantime, we can just fix the BKL performance regression by reverting back to the good old BKL spinlock implementation instead, since any sleeping lock will generally perform badly, especially if it tries to be fair. Reported-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
..instead of cooking up its own uglier local version of it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
It actually makes much more sense there, and we do tend to need it for non-RCU usage too. Moving it to <linux/compiler.h> will allow some other cases that have open-coded the same logic to use the same helper function that RCU has used. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 09 May, 2008 28 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6: (21 commits) Blackfin Serial Driver: abstract away DLAB differences into header Blackfin Serial Driver: macro away the IER differences between processors [Blackfin] arch: remove useless IRQ_SW_INT defines [Blackfin] arch: protect linux/usb/musb.h include until the driver gets mainlined [Blackfin] arch: protect linux/usb/isp1362.h include until the driver gets mainlined [Blackfin] arch: add EBIU supporting for BF54x EZKIT SMSC LAN911x/LAN921x families embedded ethernet driver [Blackfin] arch: Set spi flash partition on bf527 as like bf548. [Blackfin] arch: fix bug - Remove module will not free L1 memory used [Blackfin] arch: fix wrong header name in comment [Blackfin] arch: Fix BUG - spi flash on bf527 ezkit would fail at mount [Blackfin] arch: add twi_lcd and twi_keypad i2c board info to bf527-ezkit [Blackfin] arch: Add physmap partition for BF527-EZkit [Blackfin] arch: fix gdb testing regression [Blackfin] arch: disable single stepping when delivering a signal [Blackfin] arch: Delete unused (copied from m68k) entries in asm-offsets.c. [Blackfin] arch: In the double fault handler, set up the PT_RETI slot [Blackfin] arch: Support for CPU_FREQ and NOHZ [Blackfin] arch: Functional power management support: Add CPU and platform voltage scaling support [Blackfin] arch: fix bug - breaking the atomic sections code. [Blackfin] arch: Equalize include files: Add VR_CTL masks ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: [CIFS] fix build warning [CIFS] Fixed build warning in is_ip [CIFS] cleanup cifsd completion [CIFS] Remove over-indented code in find_unc(). [CIFS] fix typo [CIFS] Remove duplicate call to mode_to_acl [CIFS] convert usage of implicit booleans to bool [CIFS] fixed compatibility issue with samba refferal request [CIFS] Fix statfs formatting [CIFS] Adds to dns_resolver checking if the server name is an IP addr and skipping upcall in this case. [CIFS] Fix spelling mistake [CIFS] Update cifs version number
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (37 commits) SH: catch negative denormal_subf1() retval in denormal_add() sh: Fix DMAC base address for SH7709S sh: update smc91x platform data for se7206. sh: Stub in cpu_to_node() and friends for NUMA build. sh: intc register modify fix sh: no high level trigger on some sh3 cpus sh: clean up sh7710 and sh7720 intc tables sh: add interrupt ack code to sh3 sh: unify external irq pin code for sh3 sh-sci: avoid writing to nonexistent registers sh-sci: sh7722 lacks scsptr registers sh-sci: improve sh7722 support sh: reset hardware from early printk sh: drain and wait for early printk sh: use sci_out() for early printk sh: add memory resources to /proc/iomem sh: add kernel bss resource sh: fix sh7705 interrupt vector typo sh: update smc91x platform data for se7722 sh: update smc91x platform data for MigoR ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: [CRYPTO] hmac: Avoid calling virt_to_page on key
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (23 commits) [POWERPC] Remove leftover printk in isa-bridge.c [POWERPC] Remove duplicate #include [POWERPC] Initialize lockdep earlier [POWERPC] Document when printk is useable [POWERPC] Fix bogus paca->_current initialization [POWERPC] Fix of_i2c include for module compilation [POWERPC] Make default cputable entries reflect selected CPU family [POWERPC] spufs: lockdep annotations for spufs_dir_close [POWERPC] spufs: don't requeue victim contex in find_victim if it's not in spu_run [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix PCI mem in sequoia DTS [POWERPC] 4xx: Add endpoint support to 4xx PCIe driver [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix problem with new TLB storage attibute fields on 440x6 core [POWERPC] spufs: spu_create should send inotify IM_CREATE event [POWERPC] spufs: handle faults while the context switch pending flag is set [POWERPC] spufs: fix concurrent delivery of class 0 & 1 exceptions [POWERPC] spufs: try to route SPU interrupts to local node [POWERPC] spufs: set SPU_CONTEXT_SWITCH_PENDING before synchronising SPU irqs [POWERPC] spufs: don't acquire state_mutex interruptible while performing callback [POWERPC] spufs: update master runcntl with context lock held [POWERPC] spufs: fix post-stopped update of MFC_CNTL register ...
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Christoph Hellwig authored
m32r can use the generic sys_pipe implementation. The current sys_pipe implementation on m32r only differes from the generic one by passing a lot of additional unused registers to sys_pipe. Reviewed and tested by Hirokazu Takata. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
The cris implementation of sys_pipe only differs from the generic one by taking the BKL before calling do_pipe which isn't not nessecary. Just kill the cris implementation and use the generic one. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: sit: Add missing kfree_skb() on pskb_may_pull() failure. tipc: Increase buffer header to support worst-case device
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Rusty Russell authored
Linus found a logic bug: we ignore the version number in a module's vermagic string if we have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS set, but modversions also lets through a module with no __versions section for modprobe --force (with tainting, but still). We should only ignore the start of the vermagic string if the module actually *has* crcs to check. Rather than (say) having an entertaining hissy fit and creating a config option to work around the buggy code. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rusty Russell authored
We allow missing __versions sections, because modprobe --force strips it. It makes less sense to allow sections where there's no version for a specific symbol the module uses, so disallow that. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rusty Russell authored
Don't allow a module built without versions altogether to be inserted into a kernel which expects modversions. modprobe --force will strip vermagic as well as modversions, so it won't be effected, but this will make sure that a non-CONFIG_MODVERSIONS module won't be accidentally inserted into a CONFIG_MODVERSIONS kernel. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roel Kluin authored
'ix' is unsigned but denormal_subf1() may return a negative int. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Nate Case authored
This printk() appears twice in the same function. Only the latter one in the inval_range: section appears to be legitimate. Signed-off-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Huang Weiyi authored
Remove duplicate #include of <asm/prom.h> in arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c. Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This moves lockdep_init() to before udbg_early_init() as the later can call things that acquire spinlocks etc... This also makes printk safer to use earlier. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
When debugging early boot problems, it's common to sprinkle printk's all over the place. However, on 64-bit powerpc, this can lead to memory corruption if done too early due to the PACA pointer and lockdep core not being initialized. This adds some comments to early_setup() that document when it is safe to do so in order to save time for whoever has to debug that stuff next. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
When doing lockdep, I had two patches to initialize paca->_current early, one bogus, and one correct. Unfortunately both got merged as the bad one ended up being part of the main lockdep patch by mistake. This causes memory corruption at boot. This removes the offending code. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Jochen Friedrich authored
Remove #ifdef CONFIG_OF_I2C as this breaks module compilation. Drivers using this header should depend on OF_I2C anyways, so there's no need to make this conditional. Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Changes the cputable so that various CPU families that have an exclusive CONFIG_ option have a more sensible default entry to use if the specific processor hasn't been identified. This makes the kernel more generally useful when booted on an unknown PVR for things like new 4xx variants. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Merge branch 'for-2.6.26' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/powerpc-4xx into merge
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Steve Glendinning authored
On SH7709S, DMAC can be found at 0xa4000020 (as with most of the other sh3 cpu subtypes). Split out definition of DMAC base address from definitions of DMTE irqs. Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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David S. Miller authored
Noticed by Paul Marks <paul@pmarks.net>. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Mundt authored
Follows the se7722 change. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Allan Stephens authored
This patch increases the headroom TIPC reserves in each sk_buff to accommodate the largest possible link level device header. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Steve French authored
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (32 commits) net: Added ASSERT_RTNL() to dev_open() and dev_close(). can: Fix can_send() handling on dev_queue_xmit() failures netns: Fix arbitrary net_device-s corruptions on net_ns stop. netfilter: Kconfig: default DCCP/SCTP conntrack support to the protocol config values netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: restrict RTP expect flushing on error to last request macvlan: Fix memleak on device removal/crash on module removal net/ipv4: correct RFC 1122 section reference in comment tcp FRTO: SACK variant is errorneously used with NewReno e1000e: don't return half-read eeprom on error ucc_geth: Don't use RX clock as TX clock. cxgb3: Use CAP_SYS_RAWIO for firmware pcnet32: delete non NAPI code from driver. fs_enet: Fix a memory leak in fs_enet_mdio_probe [netdrvr] eexpress: IPv6 fails - multicast problems 3c59x: use netstats in net_device structure 3c980-TX needs EXTRA_PREAMBLE fix warning in drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c e1000e: Add support for BM PHYs on ICH9 uli526x: fix endianness issues in the setup frame uli526x: initialize the hardware prior to requesting interrupts ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc: Fix SA_ONSTACK signal handling.
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit 9f8dacca, which was reported to break X startup (xf86-video-ati-6.8.0). See http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15523 for details. Reported-by: Laurence Withers <l@lwithers.me.uk> Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 08 May, 2008 8 commits
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Igor Mammedov authored
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes: sched: fix weight calculations semaphore: fix
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: [ALSA] soc at91 minor bug fixes [ALSA] soc - at91-pcm - Fix line wrapping pcspkr: fix dependancies
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Huang Weiyi authored
<linux/sched.h> we included twice. Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Huang Weiyi authored
Removed duplicated include files <linux/ptrace.h> and <linux/seq_file.h> in fs/proc/task_mmu.c. Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Fix allmodconfig build bug introduced in latest -git by commit 7c91f062 ("V4L/DVB(7767): Move tuners to common/tuners"): LD kernel/built-in.o LD drivers/built-in.o ld: drivers/media/built-in.o: No such file: No such file or directory which happens if all media drivers are modular: http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Wed_Apr_30_09_24_48_CEST_2008.bad In that case there's no obj-y rule connecting all the built-in.o files and the link tree breaks. The fix is to add a guaranteed obj-y rule for the core vmlinux to build. (which results in an empty object file if all media drivers are modular) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infinibandLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/ehca: Wait for async events to finish before destroying QP IB/ipath: Fix SDMA error recovery in absence of link status change IB/ipath: Need to always request and handle PIO avail interrupts IB/ipath: Fix count of packets received by kernel IB/ipath: Return the correct opcode for RDMA WRITE with immediate IB/ipath: Fix bug that can leave sends disabled after freeze recovery IB/ipath: Only increment SSN if WQE is put on send queue IB/ipath: Only warn about prototype chip during init RDMA/cxgb3: Fix severe limit on userspace memory registration size RDMA/cxgb3: Don't add PBL memory to gen_pool in chunks
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David Howells authored
Make cpu_relax() invoke barrier() to be the same as other arches. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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