- 11 Oct, 2014 10 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull UDF and quota updates from Jan Kara: "A few UDF fixes and also a few patches which are preparing filesystems for support of project quotas in VFS" * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: udf: Fix loading of special inodes ocfs2: Back out change to use OCFS2_MAXQUOTAS in ocfs2_setattr() udf: remove redundant sys_tz declaration ocfs2: Don't use MAXQUOTAS value reiserfs: Don't use MAXQUOTAS value ext3: Don't use MAXQUOTAS value udf: Fix race between write(2) and close(2)
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull eCryptfs updates from Tyler Hicks: "Minor code cleanups and a fix for when eCryptfs metadata is stored in xattrs" * tag 'ecryptfs-3.18-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs: ecryptfs: remove unneeded buggy code in ecryptfs_do_create() ecryptfs: avoid to access NULL pointer when write metadata in xattr ecryptfs: remove unnecessary break after goto ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary include of syscall.h in keystore.c fs/ecryptfs/messaging.c: remove null test before kfree ecryptfs: Drop cast Use %pd in eCryptFS
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmwLinus Torvalds authored
Pull gfs2 updates from Steven Whitehouse: "This time we have a couple of bug fixes, one relating to bad i_goal values which are now ignored (i_goal is basically a hint so it is safe to so this) and another relating to the saving of the dirent location during rename. There is one performance improvement, which is an optimisation in rgblk_free so that multiple block deallocations will now be more efficient, and one clean up patch to use _RET_IP_ rather than writing it out longhand" * tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw: GFS2: use _RET_IP_ instead of (unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0) GFS2: Use gfs2_rbm_incr in rgblk_free GFS2: Make rename not save dirent location GFS2: fix bad inode i_goal values during block allocation
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git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfioLinus Torvalds authored
Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson: - Nested IOMMU extension to type1 (Will Deacon) - Restore MSIx message before enabling (Gavin Shan) - Fix remove path locking (Alex Williamson) * tag 'vfio-v3.18-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: vfio-pci: Fix remove path locking drivers/vfio: Export vfio_spapr_iommu_eeh_ioctl() with GPL vfio/pci: Restore MSIx message prior to enabling PCI: Export MSI message relevant functions vfio/iommu_type1: add new VFIO_TYPE1_NESTING_IOMMU IOMMU type iommu: introduce domain attribute for nesting IOMMUs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glikely/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull devicetree changes from Grant Likely: "This branch contains bug fixes and new features for the devicetree code. Most of the changes are either new testcases for the selftest code or documentation changes. The most notable change is the addition of a phandle resolver for use when grafting in a second device tree blob into the core tree. The resolver isn't currently used by anything other than the selftest module, but it will be used to support device tree overlays; probably in the v3.19 timeframe. Also note that I've moved my normal tree from git.secretlab.ca to git.kernel.org" * tag 'devicetree-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glikely/linux: of/selftest: Move hash table off stack to fix large frame size To remove non-ascii characters in of_selftest.txt of/selftest: Use the resolver to fixup phandles of: Introduce Device Tree resolve support. of/selftest: Add a test for duplicate phandles of: Don't try to search when phandle == 0 of/selftest: Test structure of device tree of: Fix NULL dereference in selftest removal code of: add vendor prefix for Chipidea of: Add vendor prefix for Innolux Corporation of: Add vendor prefix for Sitronix devicetree: bindings: Document Gateworks vendor prefix of: Add vendor prefix for Energy Micro dt/documentation: add specification of dma bus information
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/backlightLinus Torvalds authored
Pull backlight driver updates from Lee Jones: "Changes to existing drivers: - Checkpatch fixes - Removal of unused code in generic_bl - Removal of superfluous .owner attribute No new or removed drivers/supported devices" * tag 'backlight-for-linus-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/backlight: backlight: omap1: add blank line after declarations backlight: jornada720: Remove 'else' after a return backlight: jornada720: Remove 'else' after a return backlight: wm831x_bl: Add blank line after declarations backlight: tdo24m: Add blank line after declarations backlight: s6e63m0: Remove 'else' after a return backlight: pcf50633: Add blank line after declarations backlight: lp855x: Add blank line after declarations backlight: lms501kf03: Remove 'else' after a return backlight: lm3639: Remove unnecessary return statements backlight: ld9040: Remove 'else' after a return backlight: ili922x: Remove 'else' after a return backlight: cr_bllcd: Add blank line after declarations backlight: corgi_lcd: Add blank line after declarations backlight: ams369fg06: Remove 'else' after a return backlight: adp8870: Add blank line after declarations backlight: adp8860: Add blank line after declarations backlight: adp5520: Add blank line after declarations backlight: generic_bl: Remove unused function backlight: Remove .owner field for drivers using module_platform_driver
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git://git.linaro.org/people/ulf.hansson/mmcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull MMC updates from Ulf Hansson: "MMC core: - Fix SDIO IRQ bug - MMC regulator improvements - Fix slot-gpio card detect bug - Add support for Driver Stage Register - Convert the common MMC OF parser to use GPIO descriptors - Convert MMC_CAP2_NO_MULTI_READ into a callback, ->multi_io_quirk() - Some additional minor fixes MMC host: - mmci: Support Qualcomm specific DML layer for DMA - dw_mmc: Use common MMC regulators - dw_mmc: Add support for Rock-chips RK3288 - tmio: Enable runtime PM support - tmio: Add support for R-Car Gen2 SoCs - tmio: Several fixes and improvements - omap_hsmmc: Removed Balaji from MAINTAINERS - jz4740: add DMA and pre/post support - sdhci: Add support for Intel Braswell - sdhci: Several fixes and improvements" * tag 'mmc-v3.18-1' of git://git.linaro.org/people/ulf.hansson/mmc: (119 commits) ARM: dts: fix MMC2 regulators for Exynos5420 Arndale Octa board mmc: sdhci-acpi: Fix Braswell eMMC timeout clock frequency mmc: sdhci-acpi: Pass HID and UID to probe_slot mmc: sdhci-acpi: Get UID directly from acpi_device mmc, sdhci, bcm-kona, LLVMLinux: Remove use of __initconst mmc: sdhci-pci: Fix Braswell eMMC timeout clock frequency mmc: sdhci: Let a driver override timeout clock frequency mmc: sdhci-pci: Add Bay Trail and Braswell SD card detect mmc: sdhci-pci: Set SDHCI_QUIRK2_STOP_WITH_TC for Intel BYT host controllers mmc: sdhci-acpi: Add a HID and UID for a SD Card host controller mmc: sdhci-acpi: Set SDHCI_QUIRK2_STOP_WITH_TC for Intel host controllers mmc: sdhci: Add quirk for always getting TC with stop cmd mmc: core: restore detect line inversion semantics mmc: Fix incorrect warning when setting 0 Hz via debugfs mmc: Fix use of wrong device in mmc_gpiod_free_cd() mmc: atmel-mci: fix mismatched section on atmci_cleanup_slot mmc: rtsx_pci: Set power related cap2 macros mmc: core: Add new power_mode MMC_POWER_UNDEFINED mmc: sdhci: execute tuning when device is not busy mmc: atmel-mci: Release mmc resources on failure in probe ..
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/soundLinus Torvalds authored
Pull sound updates from Takashi Iwai: "This time it's a relatively calm update batch, but the amount isn't too small in the end. Here we go over some highlights: ALSA core: - One major change is the support of nonatomic PCM operations. This allows the trigger and other callbacks to call schedule(), which would be useful for mailbox type communications. Already some drivers (Digigram ones) have been converted to use together with threaded irqs as an example. - Improvement / fixes of DSD PCM format support HD-audio: - Large volume of rewrites are found in Realtek codec driver for converting Dell and HP quirks to generic forms. - Inverted dmic code cleanup from David. - Realtek COEF access has been optimized. - Now HD-audio jack infrastructure allows multiple callbacks, which fixes / simplifies the jack-dependent power controls on STAC/IDT and VIA codecs. - Many additional device-specific fixups as usual - A few deadcode cleanups, CA0132 code cleanup, etc. ASoC: - More componentization work from Lars-Peter, this time mainly cleaning up the suspend and bias level transition callbacks. - Real system support for the Intel drivers and a bunch of fixes and enhancements for the associated CODEC drivers, this is going to need a lot quirks over time due to the lack of any firmware description of the boards. - Jack detect support for simple card from Dylan Reid. - A bunch of small fixes and enhancements for the Freescale drivers. - New drivers for Analog Devices SSM4567, Cirrus Logic CS35L32, Everest Semiconductor ES8328 and Freescale cards using the ASRC in newer i.MX processors. - A few simple-card fixes, mostly cleanups but also a fix for interaction between GPIO 0 and simple-card. Misc: - Virtuoso / Oxygen updates by Clemens - USB-audio: Yamaha MOTIF XF MIDI port name fixes - Conversion of kernel messages to standard dev_*() in ctxfi driver" * tag 'sound-3.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (251 commits) ASoC: mc13783: Ensure we only try to dereference valid of_nodes ASoC: rockchip-i2s: fix infinite loop in rockchip_snd_txctrl ALSA: hda - Add dock port support to Thinkpad L440 (71aa:501e) ALSA: Allow pass NULL dev for snd_pci_quirk_lookup() ASoC: imx-es8328: Fix of_node_put() call with uninitialized object ASoC: soc-pcm: fix sig_bits determination in soc_pcm_apply_msb() ASoC: simple-card: Initialize headphone and mic GPIO numbers ASoC: imx-es8328: Fix missing return code in imx_es8328_probe() ALSA: hda - Add dock support for Thinkpad T440 (17aa:2212) ALSA: usb: caiaq: check for cdev->n_streams > 1 ASoC: 88pm860x-codec: Fix possibly missing string termination ASoC: core: fix use after free in snd_soc_remove_platform() ASoC: soc-dapm: fix use after free ALSA: hda - Make the inv dmic handling for Realtek use generic parser ALSA: hda - Add Inverted Internal mic for Samsung Ativ book 9 (NP900X3G) ALSA: hda - Add inverted internal mic for Asus Aspire 4830T ASoC: Intel: byt-rt5640: fix coccinelle warnings ASoC: fsl_esai doc: Add "fsl,vf610-esai" as compatible string ASoC: da732x: Remove unnecessary KERN_ERR in pr_err() ASoC: simple-card: Fix detect gpio documentation. ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edacLinus Torvalds authored
Pull edac updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: "Nothing really exiting here: just one bug fix at sb_edac, and some changes to allow other drivers to use some shared PCI addresses" * tag 'edac/v3.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac: sb_edac: Claim a different PCI device Move Intel SNB device ids from sb_edac to pci_ids.h sb_edac: avoid INTERNAL ERROR message in EDAC with unspecified channel
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-mediaLinus Torvalds authored
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - new IR driver: hix5hd2-ir - the virtual test driver (vivi) was replaced by vivid, with has an almost complete set of features to emulate most v4l2 devices and properly test all sorts of userspace apps - the as102 driver had several bugs fixed and was properly split into a frontend and a core driver. With that, it got promoted from staging into mainstream - one new CI driver got added for CIMaX SP2/SP2HF (sp2 driver) - one new frontend driver for Toshiba ISDB-T/ISDB-S demod (tc90522) - one new PCI driver for ISDB-T/ISDB-S (pt3 driver) - saa7134 driver got support for go7007-based devices - added a new PCI driver for Techwell 68xx chipsets (tw68) - a new platform driver was added (coda) - new tuner drivers: mxl301rf and qm1d1c0042 - a new DVB USB driver was added for DVBSky S860 & similar devices - added a new SDR driver (hackrf) - usbtv got audio support - several platform drivers are now compiled with COMPILE_TEST - a series of compiler fixup patches, making sparse/spatch happier with the media stuff and removing several warnings, especially on those platform drivers that didn't use to compile on x86 - Support for several new modern devices got added - lots of other fixes, improvements and cleanups * tag 'media/v3.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (544 commits) [media] ir-hix5hd2: fix build on c6x arch [media] pt3: fix DTV FE I2C driver load error paths Revert "[media] media: em28xx - remove reset_resume interface" [media] exynos4-is: fix some warnings when compiling on arm64 [media] usb drivers: use %zu instead of %zd [media] pci drivers: use %zu instead of %zd [media] dvb-frontends: use %zu instead of %zd [media] s5p-mfc: Fix several printk warnings [media] s5p_mfc_opr: Fix warnings [media] ti-vpe: Fix typecast [media] s3c-camif: fix dma_addr_t printks [media] s5p_mfc_opr_v6: get rid of warnings when compiled with 64 bits [media] s5p_mfc_opr_v5: Fix lots of warnings on x86_64 [media] em28xx: Fix identation [media] drxd: remove a dead code [media] saa7146: remove return after BUG() [media] cx88: remove return after BUG() [media] cx88: fix cards table CodingStyle [media] radio-sf16fmr2: declare some structs as static [media] radio-sf16fmi: declare pnp_attached as static ...
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- 10 Oct, 2014 30 commits
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git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mappingLinus Torvalds authored
Pull dma-mapping update from Marek Szyprowski: "Provide the dma write coherent api (available previously on ARM architecture) for all other architectures, which use dma_ops-based dma mapping implementation. This lets one to use the same code in the device drivers regardless of the selected architecture" * 'for-v3.18' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping: dma-mapping: Provide write-combine allocations s390: Implement dma_{alloc,free}_attrs()
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'hwmon-for-linus-v3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging Pull hwmon updates from Guenter Roeck: - new driver for menf21bmc. - convert k10temp, smsc47b397, da9052, da9055 to new hwmon API. - register ntc_thermistor driver with thermal subsystem. - add support for F15h M60h to k10temp driver. - add driver for MEN14F021P00 BMC HWMON driver; this required a merge with tag mfd-hwmon-leds-watchdog-v3.18 * tag 'hwmon-for-linus-v3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging: hwmon: (ab8500) Call kernel_power_off instead of pm_power_off hwmon: (menf21bmc) Introduce MEN14F021P00 BMC HWMON driver leds: leds-menf21bmc: Introduce MEN 14F021P00 BMC LED driver watchdog: menf21bmc_wdt: Introduce MEN 14F021P00 BMC Watchdog driver mfd: menf21bmc: Introduce MEN 14F021P00 BMC MFD Core driver hwmon: (ntc_thermistor) Add ntc thermistor to thermal subsystem as a sensor. hwmon: (smsc47b397) Convert to devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups MAINTAINERS: add entry for the PWM fan driver hwmon: (k10temp) Convert to devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups hwmon: (k10temp) Add support for F15h M60h hwmon: (da9052) Convert to devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups hwmon: (da9055) Convert to devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups hwmon: (ads1015) Use of_property_read_u32 at appropriate places
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'restart-handler-for-v3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging Pull restart handler infrastructure from Guenter Roeck: "This series was supposed to be pulled through various trees using it, and I did not plan to send a separate pull request. As it turns out, the pinctrl tree did not merge with it, is now upstream, and uses it, meaning there are now build failures. Please pull this series directly to fix those build failures" * tag 'restart-handler-for-v3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging: arm/arm64: unexport restart handlers watchdog: sunxi: register restart handler with kernel restart handler watchdog: alim7101: register restart handler with kernel restart handler watchdog: moxart: register restart handler with kernel restart handler arm: support restart through restart handler call chain arm64: support restart through restart handler call chain power/restart: call machine_restart instead of arm_pm_restart kernel: add support for kernel restart handler call chain
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpuLinus Torvalds authored
Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on percpu front. Notable changes are... - percpu allocator now can take @gfp. If @gfp doesn't contain GFP_KERNEL, it tries to allocate from what's already available to the allocator and a work item tries to keep the reserve around certain level so that these atomic allocations usually succeed. This will replace the ad-hoc percpu memory pool used by blk-throttle and also be used by the planned blkcg support for writeback IOs. Please note that I noticed a bug in how @gfp is interpreted while preparing this pull request and applied the fix 6ae833c7 ("percpu: fix how @gfp is interpreted by the percpu allocator") just now. - percpu_ref now uses longs for percpu and global counters instead of ints. It leads to more sparse packing of the percpu counters on 64bit machines but the overhead should be negligible and this allows using percpu_ref for refcnting pages and in-memory objects directly. - The switching between percpu and single counter modes of a percpu_ref is made independent of putting the base ref and a percpu_ref can now optionally be initialized in single or killed mode. This allows avoiding percpu shutdown latency for cases where the refcounted objects may be synchronously created and destroyed in rapid succession with only a fraction of them reaching fully operational status (SCSI probing does this when combined with blk-mq support). It's also planned to be used to implement forced single mode to detect underflow more timely for debugging. There's a separate branch percpu/for-3.18-consistent-ops which cleans up the duplicate percpu accessors. That branch causes a number of conflicts with s390 and other trees. I'll send a separate pull request w/ resolutions once other branches are merged" * 'for-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (33 commits) percpu: fix how @gfp is interpreted by the percpu allocator blk-mq, percpu_ref: start q->mq_usage_counter in atomic mode percpu_ref: make INIT_ATOMIC and switch_to_atomic() sticky percpu_ref: add PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags percpu_ref: decouple switching to percpu mode and reinit percpu_ref: decouple switching to atomic mode and killing percpu_ref: add PCPU_REF_DEAD percpu_ref: rename things to prepare for decoupling percpu/atomic mode switch percpu_ref: replace pcpu_ prefix with percpu_ percpu_ref: minor code and comment updates percpu_ref: relocate percpu_ref_reinit() Revert "blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe" Revert "percpu: free percpu allocation info for uniprocessor system" percpu-refcount: make percpu_ref based on longs instead of ints percpu-refcount: improve WARN messages percpu: fix locking regression in the failure path of pcpu_alloc() percpu-refcount: add @gfp to percpu_ref_init() proportions: add @gfp to init functions percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter_init() percpu_counter: make percpu_counters_lock irq-safe ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroupLinus Torvalds authored
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "Nothing too interesting. Just a handful of cleanup patches" * 'for-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: Revert "cgroup: remove redundant variable in cgroup_mount()" cgroup: remove redundant variable in cgroup_mount() cgroup: fix missing unlock in cgroup_release_agent() cgroup: remove CGRP_RELEASABLE flag perf/cgroup: Remove perf_put_cgroup() cgroup: remove redundant check in cgroup_ino() cpuset: simplify proc_cpuset_show() cgroup: simplify proc_cgroup_show() cgroup: use a per-cgroup work for release agent cgroup: remove bogus comments cgroup: remove redundant code in cgroup_rmdir() cgroup: remove some useless forward declarations cgroup: fix a typo in comment.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libataLinus Torvalds authored
Pull libata update from Tejun Heo: "AHCI is getting per-port irq handling and locks for better scalability. The gain is not huge but measureable with multiple high iops devices connected to the same host; however, the value of threaded IRQ handling seems negligible for AHCI and it likely will revert to non-threaded handling soon. Another noteworthy change is George Spelvin's "libata: Un-break ATA blacklist". During 3.17 devel cycle, the libata blacklist glob matching got generalized and rewritten; unfortunately, the patch forgot to swap arguments to match the new match function and ended up breaking blacklist matching completely. It got noticed only a couple days ago so it couldn't make for-3.17-fixes either. :( Other than the above two, nothing too interesting - the usual cleanup churns and device-specific changes" * 'for-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata: (22 commits) pata_serverworks: disable 64-KB DMA transfers on Broadcom OSB4 IDE Controller libata: Un-break ATA blacklist AHCI: Do not acquire ata_host::lock from single IRQ handler AHCI: Optimize single IRQ interrupt processing AHCI: Do not read HOST_IRQ_STAT reg in multi-MSI mode AHCI: Make few function names more descriptive AHCI: Move host activation code into ahci_host_activate() AHCI: Move ahci_host_activate() function to libahci.c AHCI: Pass SCSI host template as arg to ahci_host_activate() ata: pata_imx: Use the SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() macro AHCI: Cleanup checking of multiple MSIs/SLM modes libata-sff: Fix controllers with no ctl port ahci_xgene: Fix the error print invalid resource for APM X-Gene SoC AHCI SATA Host Controller driver. libata: change ata_<foo>_printk routines to return void ata: qcom: Add device tree bindings information ahci-platform: Bump max number of clocks to 5 ahci: ahci_p5wdh_workaround - constify DMI table libahci_platform: Staticize ahci_platform_<en/dis>able_phys() pata_platform: Remove useless irq_flags field pata_of_platform: Remove "electra-ide" quirk ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - part of OCFS2 (review is laggy again) - procfs - slab - all of MM - zram, zbud - various other random things: arch, filesystems. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (164 commits) nosave: consolidate __nosave_{begin,end} in <asm/sections.h> include/linux/screen_info.h: remove unused ORIG_* macros kernel/sys.c: compat sysinfo syscall: fix undefined behavior kernel/sys.c: whitespace fixes acct: eliminate compile warning kernel/async.c: switch to pr_foo() include/linux/blkdev.h: use NULL instead of zero include/linux/kernel.h: deduplicate code implementing clamp* macros include/linux/kernel.h: rewrite min3, max3 and clamp using min and max alpha: use Kbuild logic to include <asm-generic/sections.h> frv: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED frv: remove unused cpuinfo_frv and friends to fix future build error zbud: avoid accessing last unused freelist zsmalloc: simplify init_zspage free obj linking mm/zsmalloc.c: correct comment for fullness group computation zram: use notify_free to account all free notifications zram: report maximum used memory zram: zram memory size limitation zsmalloc: change return value unit of zs_get_total_size_bytes zsmalloc: move pages_allocated to zs_pool ...
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
The different architectures used their own (and different) declarations: extern __visible const void __nosave_begin, __nosave_end; extern const void __nosave_begin, __nosave_end; extern long __nosave_begin, __nosave_end; Consolidate them using the first variant in <asm/sections.h>. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
The ORIG_* macros definitions to access struct screen_info members and all of their users were removed 7 years ago by commit 3ea33510 ("Remove magic macros for screen_info structure members"), but (only) the definitions reappeared a few days later in commit ee8e7cfe ("Make asm-x86/bootparam.h includable from userspace."). Remove them for good. Amen. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Scotty Bauer authored
Fix undefined behavior and compiler warning by replacing right shift 32 with upper_32_bits macro Signed-off-by: Scotty Bauer <sbauer@eng.utah.edu> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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vishnu.ps authored
Fix minor errors and warning messages in kernel/sys.c. These errors were reported by checkpatch while working with some modifications in sys.c file. Fixing this first will help me to improve my further patches. ERROR: trailing whitespace - 9 ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition - 4 ERROR: spaces required around that '?' (ctx:VxO) - 10 ERROR: switch and case should be at the same indent - 3 total 26 errors & 3 warnings fixed. Signed-off-by: vishnu.ps <vishnu.ps@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ying Xue authored
If ACCT_VERSION is not defined to 3, below warning appears: CC kernel/acct.o kernel/acct.c: In function `do_acct_process': kernel/acct.c:475:24: warning: unused variable `ns' [-Wunused-variable] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: retain the local for code size improvements Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ionut Alexa authored
Signed-off-by: Ionut Alexa <ionut.m.alexa@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michele Curti authored
Quite useless but it shuts up some warnings. Signed-off-by: Michele Curti <michele.curti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Nazarewicz authored
Instead of open-coding clamp_t macro min_t and max_t the way clamp macro does and instead of open-coding clamp_val simply use clamp_t. Furthermore, normalise argument naming in the macros to be lo and hi. Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> Cc: "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Nazarewicz authored
It appears that gcc is better at optimising a double call to min and max rather than open coded min3 and max3. This can be observed here: $ cat min-max.c #define min(x, y) ({ \ typeof(x) _min1 = (x); \ typeof(y) _min2 = (y); \ (void) (&_min1 == &_min2); \ _min1 < _min2 ? _min1 : _min2; }) #define min3(x, y, z) ({ \ typeof(x) _min1 = (x); \ typeof(y) _min2 = (y); \ typeof(z) _min3 = (z); \ (void) (&_min1 == &_min2); \ (void) (&_min1 == &_min3); \ _min1 < _min2 ? (_min1 < _min3 ? _min1 : _min3) : \ (_min2 < _min3 ? _min2 : _min3); }) int fmin3(int x, int y, int z) { return min3(x, y, z); } int fmin2(int x, int y, int z) { return min(min(x, y), z); } $ gcc -O2 -o min-max.s -S min-max.c; cat min-max.s .file "min-max.c" .text .p2align 4,,15 .globl fmin3 .type fmin3, @function fmin3: .LFB0: .cfi_startproc cmpl %esi, %edi jl .L5 cmpl %esi, %edx movl %esi, %eax cmovle %edx, %eax ret .p2align 4,,10 .p2align 3 .L5: cmpl %edi, %edx movl %edi, %eax cmovle %edx, %eax ret .cfi_endproc .LFE0: .size fmin3, .-fmin3 .p2align 4,,15 .globl fmin2 .type fmin2, @function fmin2: .LFB1: .cfi_startproc cmpl %edi, %esi movl %edx, %eax cmovle %esi, %edi cmpl %edx, %edi cmovle %edi, %eax ret .cfi_endproc .LFE1: .size fmin2, .-fmin2 .ident "GCC: (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3" .section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits fmin3 function, which uses open-coded min3 macro, is compiled into total of ten instructions including a conditional branch, whereas fmin2 function, which uses two calls to min2 macro, is compiled into six instructions with no branches. Similarly, open-coded clamp produces the same code as clamp using min and max macros, but the latter is much shorter: $ cat clamp.c #define clamp(val, min, max) ({ \ typeof(val) __val = (val); \ typeof(min) __min = (min); \ typeof(max) __max = (max); \ (void) (&__val == &__min); \ (void) (&__val == &__max); \ __val = __val < __min ? __min: __val; \ __val > __max ? __max: __val; }) #define min(x, y) ({ \ typeof(x) _min1 = (x); \ typeof(y) _min2 = (y); \ (void) (&_min1 == &_min2); \ _min1 < _min2 ? _min1 : _min2; }) #define max(x, y) ({ \ typeof(x) _max1 = (x); \ typeof(y) _max2 = (y); \ (void) (&_max1 == &_max2); \ _max1 > _max2 ? _max1 : _max2; }) int fclamp(int v, int min, int max) { return clamp(v, min, max); } int fclampmm(int v, int min, int max) { return min(max(v, min), max); } $ gcc -O2 -o clamp.s -S clamp.c; cat clamp.s .file "clamp.c" .text .p2align 4,,15 .globl fclamp .type fclamp, @function fclamp: .LFB0: .cfi_startproc cmpl %edi, %esi movl %edx, %eax cmovge %esi, %edi cmpl %edx, %edi cmovle %edi, %eax ret .cfi_endproc .LFE0: .size fclamp, .-fclamp .p2align 4,,15 .globl fclampmm .type fclampmm, @function fclampmm: .LFB1: .cfi_startproc cmpl %edi, %esi cmovge %esi, %edi cmpl %edi, %edx movl %edi, %eax cmovle %edx, %eax ret .cfi_endproc .LFE1: .size fclampmm, .-fclampmm .ident "GCC: (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3" .section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits Linux mpn-glaptop 3.13.0-29-generic #53~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 22:06:25 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. -rwx------ 1 mpn eng 51224656 Jun 17 14:15 vmlinux.before -rwx------ 1 mpn eng 51224608 Jun 17 13:57 vmlinux.after 48 bytes reduction. The do_fault_around was a few instruction shorter and as far as I can tell saved 12 bytes on the stack, i.e.: $ grep -e rsp -e pop -e push do_fault_around.* do_fault_around.before.s:push %rbp do_fault_around.before.s:mov %rsp,%rbp do_fault_around.before.s:push %r13 do_fault_around.before.s:push %r12 do_fault_around.before.s:push %rbx do_fault_around.before.s:sub $0x38,%rsp do_fault_around.before.s:add $0x38,%rsp do_fault_around.before.s:pop %rbx do_fault_around.before.s:pop %r12 do_fault_around.before.s:pop %r13 do_fault_around.before.s:pop %rbp do_fault_around.after.s:push %rbp do_fault_around.after.s:mov %rsp,%rbp do_fault_around.after.s:push %r12 do_fault_around.after.s:push %rbx do_fault_around.after.s:sub $0x30,%rsp do_fault_around.after.s:add $0x30,%rsp do_fault_around.after.s:pop %rbx do_fault_around.after.s:pop %r12 do_fault_around.after.s:pop %rbp or here side-by-side: Before After push %rbp push %rbp mov %rsp,%rbp mov %rsp,%rbp push %r13 push %r12 push %r12 push %rbx push %rbx sub $0x38,%rsp sub $0x30,%rsp add $0x38,%rsp add $0x30,%rsp pop %rbx pop %rbx pop %r12 pop %r12 pop %r13 pop %rbp pop %rbp There are also fewer branches: $ grep ^j do_fault_around.* do_fault_around.before.s:jae ffffffff812079b7 do_fault_around.before.s:jmp ffffffff812079c5 do_fault_around.before.s:jmp ffffffff81207a14 do_fault_around.before.s:ja ffffffff812079f9 do_fault_around.before.s:jb ffffffff81207a10 do_fault_around.before.s:jmp ffffffff81207a63 do_fault_around.before.s:jne ffffffff812079df do_fault_around.after.s:jmp ffffffff812079fd do_fault_around.after.s:ja ffffffff812079e2 do_fault_around.after.s:jb ffffffff812079f9 do_fault_around.after.s:jmp ffffffff81207a4c do_fault_around.after.s:jne ffffffff812079c8 And here's with allyesconfig on a different machine: $ uname -a; gcc --version; ls -l vmlinux.* Linux erwin 3.14.7-mn #54 SMP Sun Jun 15 11:25:08 CEST 2014 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) II X3 710 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux gcc (GCC) 4.8.3 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. -rwx------ 1 mpn eng 437027411 Jun 20 16:04 vmlinux.before -rwx------ 1 mpn eng 437026881 Jun 20 15:30 vmlinux.after 530 bytes reduction. Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Rustad, Mark D" <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael Opdenacker authored
Remove the IRQF_DISABLED flag from FRV architecture code. It's a NOOP since 2.6.35 and it will be removed one day. Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
Frv has a macro named cpu_data, interfering with variables and struct members with the same name: include/linux/pm_domain.h:75:24: error: expected identifier or '(' before '&' token struct gpd_cpu_data *cpu_data; As struct cpuinfo_frv, boot_cpu_data, cpu_data, and current_cpu_data are not used, removed them to fix this. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chao Yu authored
For now, there are NCHUNKS of 64 freelists in zbud_pool, the last unbuddied[63] freelist linked with all zbud pages which have free chunks of 63. Calculating according to context of num_free_chunks(), our max chunk number of unbuddied zbud page is 62, so none of zbud pages will be added/removed in last freelist, but still we will try to find an unbuddied zbud page in the last unused freelist, it is unneeded. This patch redefines NCHUNKS to 63 as free chunk number in one zbud page, hence we can decrease size of zpool and avoid accessing the last unused freelist whenever failing to allocate zbud from freelist in zbud_alloc. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan Streetman authored
Change zsmalloc init_zspage() logic to iterate through each object on each of its pages, checking the offset to verify the object is on the current page before linking it into the zspage. The current zsmalloc init_zspage free object linking code has logic that relies on there only being one page per zspage when PAGE_SIZE is a multiple of class->size. It calculates the number of objects for the current page, and iterates through all of them plus one, to account for the assumed partial object at the end of the page. While this currently works, the logic can be simplified to just link the object at each successive offset until the offset is larger than PAGE_SIZE, which does not rely on PAGE_SIZE being a multiple of class->size. Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wang Sheng-Hui authored
The letter 'f' in "n <= N/f" stands for fullness_threshold_frac, not 1/fullness_threshold_frac. Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
`notify_free' device attribute accounts the number of slot free notifications and internally represents the number of zram_free_page() calls. Slot free notifications are sent only when device is used as a swap device, hence `notify_free' is used only for swap devices. Since f4659d8e (zram: support REQ_DISCARD) ZRAM handles yet another one free notification (also via zram_free_page() call) -- REQ_DISCARD requests, which are sent by a filesystem, whenever some data blocks are discarded. However, there is no way to know the number of notifications in the latter case. Use `notify_free' to account the number of pages freed by zram_bio_discard() and zram_slot_free_notify(). Depending on usage scenario `notify_free' represents: a) the number of pages freed because of slot free notifications, which is equal to the number of swap_slot_free_notify() calls, so there is no behaviour change b) the number of pages freed because of REQ_DISCARD notifications Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Minchan Kim authored
Normally, zram user could get maximum memory usage zram consumed via polling mem_used_total with sysfs in userspace. But it has a critical problem because user can miss peak memory usage during update inverval of polling. For avoiding that, user should poll it with shorter interval(ie, 0.0000000001s) with mlocking to avoid page fault delay when memory pressure is heavy. It would be troublesome. This patch adds new knob "mem_used_max" so user could see the maximum memory usage easily via reading the knob and reset it via "echo 0 > /sys/block/zram0/mem_used_max". Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: <juno.choi@lge.com> Cc: <seungho1.park@lge.com> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Reviewed-by: David Horner <ds2horner@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Minchan Kim authored
Since zram has no control feature to limit memory usage, it makes hard to manage system memrory. This patch adds new knob "mem_limit" via sysfs to set up the a limit so that zram could fail allocation once it reaches the limit. In addition, user could change the limit in runtime so that he could manage the memory more dynamically. Initial state is no limit so it doesn't break old behavior. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Sergey] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: <juno.choi@lge.com> Cc: <seungho1.park@lge.com> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: David Horner <ds2horner@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Minchan Kim authored
zs_get_total_size_bytes returns a amount of memory zsmalloc consumed with *byte unit* but zsmalloc operates *page unit* rather than byte unit so let's change the API so benefit we could get is that reduce unnecessary overhead (ie, change page unit with byte unit) in zsmalloc. Since return type is pages, "zs_get_total_pages" is better than "zs_get_total_size_bytes". Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: <juno.choi@lge.com> Cc: <seungho1.park@lge.com> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: David Horner <ds2horner@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Minchan Kim authored
Currently, zram has no feature to limit memory so theoretically zram can deplete system memory. Users have asked for a limit several times as even without exhaustion zram makes it hard to control memory usage of the platform. This patchset adds the feature. Patch 1 makes zs_get_total_size_bytes faster because it would be used frequently in later patches for the new feature. Patch 2 changes zs_get_total_size_bytes's return unit from bytes to page so that zsmalloc doesn't need unnecessary operation(ie, << PAGE_SHIFT). Patch 3 adds new feature. I added the feature into zram layer, not zsmalloc because limiation is zram's requirement, not zsmalloc so any other user using zsmalloc(ie, zpool) shouldn't affected by unnecessary branch of zsmalloc. In future, if every users of zsmalloc want the feature, then, we could move the feature from client side to zsmalloc easily but vice versa would be painful. Patch 4 adds news facility to report maximum memory usage of zram so that this avoids user polling frequently via /sys/block/zram0/ mem_used_total and ensures transient max are not missed. This patch (of 4): pages_allocated has counted in size_class structure and when user of zsmalloc want to see total_size_bytes, it should gather all of count from each size_class to report the sum. It's not bad if user don't see the value often but if user start to see the value frequently, it would be not a good deal for performance pov. This patch moves the count from size_class to zs_pool so it could reduce memory footprint (from [255 * 8byte] to [sizeof(atomic_long_t)]). Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: <juno.choi@lge.com> Cc: <seungho1.park@lge.com> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Reviewed-by: David Horner <ds2horner@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davidlohr Bueso authored
Performing vma lookups without taking the mm->mmap_sem is asking for trouble. While doing the search, the vma in question can be modified or even removed before returning to the caller. Take the lock (shared) in order to avoid races while iterating through the vmacache and/or rbtree. In addition, this guarantees that the address space will remain intact during the CPU flushing. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
vmstat workers are used for folding counter differentials into the zone, per node and global counters at certain time intervals. They currently run at defined intervals on all processors which will cause some holdoff for processors that need minimal intrusion by the OS. The current vmstat_update mechanism depends on a deferrable timer firing every other second by default which registers a work queue item that runs on the local CPU, with the result that we have 1 interrupt and one additional schedulable task on each CPU every 2 seconds If a workload indeed causes VM activity or multiple tasks are running on a CPU, then there are probably bigger issues to deal with. However, some workloads dedicate a CPU for a single CPU bound task. This is done in high performance computing, in high frequency financial applications, in networking (Intel DPDK, EZchip NPS) and with the advent of systems with more and more CPUs over time, this may become more and more common to do since when one has enough CPUs one cares less about efficiently sharing a CPU with other tasks and more about efficiently monopolizing a CPU per task. The difference of having this timer firing and workqueue kernel thread scheduled per second can be enormous. An artificial test measuring the worst case time to do a simple "i++" in an endless loop on a bare metal system and under Linux on an isolated CPU with dynticks and with and without this patch, have Linux match the bare metal performance (~700 cycles) with this patch and loose by couple of orders of magnitude (~200k cycles) without it[*]. The loss occurs for something that just calculates statistics. For networking applications, for example, this could be the difference between dropping packets or sustaining line rate. Statistics are important and useful, but it would be great if there would be a way to not cause statistics gathering produce a huge performance difference. This patche does just that. This patch creates a vmstat shepherd worker that monitors the per cpu differentials on all processors. If there are differentials on a processor then a vmstat worker local to the processors with the differentials is created. That worker will then start folding the diffs in regular intervals. Should the worker find that there is no work to be done then it will make the shepherd worker monitor the differentials again. With this patch it is possible then to have periods longer than 2 seconds without any OS event on a "cpu" (hardware thread). The patch shows a very minor increased in system performance. hackbench -s 512 -l 2000 -g 15 -f 25 -P Results before the patch: Running in process mode with 15 groups using 50 file descriptors each (== 750 tasks) Each sender will pass 2000 messages of 512 bytes Time: 4.992 Running in process mode with 15 groups using 50 file descriptors each (== 750 tasks) Each sender will pass 2000 messages of 512 bytes Time: 4.971 Running in process mode with 15 groups using 50 file descriptors each (== 750 tasks) Each sender will pass 2000 messages of 512 bytes Time: 5.063 Hackbench after the patch: Running in process mode with 15 groups using 50 file descriptors each (== 750 tasks) Each sender will pass 2000 messages of 512 bytes Time: 4.973 Running in process mode with 15 groups using 50 file descriptors each (== 750 tasks) Each sender will pass 2000 messages of 512 bytes Time: 4.990 Running in process mode with 15 groups using 50 file descriptors each (== 750 tasks) Each sender will pass 2000 messages of 512 bytes Time: 4.993 [fengguang.wu@intel.com: cpu_stat_off can be static] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qti.qualcomm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jean Delvare authored
It isn't obvious that CMA can be disabled on the kernel's command line, so document it. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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