- 25 Jul, 2008 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
Build kernel/profile.o only if CONFIG_PROFILING is enabled. This makes CONFIG_PROFILING=n kernels smaller. As a bonus, some profile_tick() calls and one branch from schedule() are now eliminated with CONFIG_PROFILING=n (but I doubt these are measurable effects). This patch changes the effects of CONFIG_PROFILING=n, but I don't think having more than two choices would be the better choice. This patch also adds the name of the first parameter to the prototypes of profile_{hits,tick}() since I anyway had to add them for the dummy functions. Signed-off-by:Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
All uses of list_for_each_rcu() can be profitably replaced by the easier-to-use list_for_each_entry_rcu(). This patch makes this change for networking, in preparation for removing the list_for_each_rcu() API entirely. Acked-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vegard Nossum authored
This will probably never trigger... but it won't hurt to be careful. http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.htmlSigned-off-by:
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Joshua Bloch <jjb@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Berg authored
In many cases, especially in networking, it can be beneficial to know at compile time whether the architecture can do unaligned accesses efficiently. This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS for that purpose and adds it to the powerpc and x86 architectures. Also add some documentation about alignment and networking, and especially one intended use of this symbol. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by:
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [x86 architecture part] Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Remove the conditional surrounding the definition of list_add() from list.h since, if you define CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST, the definition you will subsequently pick up from lib/list_debug.c will be absolutely identical, at which point you can remove that redundant definition from list_debug.c as well. Signed-off-by:
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Extend memparse() to allow the caller to use a NULL second parameter, which would represent no interest in returning the address of the end of the parsed string. In numerous cases, callers invoke memparse() to parse a possibly-suffixed string (such as "64K" or "2G" or whatever) and define a character pointer to accept the end pointer being returned by memparse() even though they have no interest in it and promptly throw it away. This (backward-compatible) enhancement allows callers to use NULL in the cases where they just don't care about getting back that end pointer. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
There seems to be little point in explicitly setting, then testing the macro BUILD_CRAMDISK within the context of a single source file. Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
This header file has been unused for quite some time, and the corresponding source files appear to have been removed back in commit 99eb8a55 ("Remove the arm26 port") Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its global code (in this case for rd_doload). Signed-off-by:
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Eric Sandeen authored
uname -m was leaving a newline in $arch, and not passing the tests. Also, printing the unknown arch on failure is probably helpful. Signed-off-by:
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Sandeen authored
Currently, checkstack.pl only looks for fixed subtractions from the stack pointer. However, things like this: void function(int size) { char stackbuster[size << 2]; ... are certainly worth pointing out, I think. This could perhaps be done more cleanly, and the following patch only adds "dynamic" REs for x86 and x86_64, but it works: 0x00b0 crypto_cbc_decrypt_inplace [cbc]: Dynamic (%rax) 0x00ad crypto_pcbc_decrypt_inplace [pcbc]: Dynamic (%rax) 0x02f6 crypto_pcbc_encrypt_inplace [pcbc]: Dynamic (%rax) 0x036c _crypto_xcbc_digest_setkey [xcbc]: Dynamic (%rax) ... (Inspired by Keith Owens' old stack-check script) Signed-off-by: -
Harvey Harrison authored
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Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by:
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Harvey Harrison authored
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Harvey Harrison authored
Replace the private BE16/BE32/BE64 macros with direct calls to get_unaligned_be16/32/64. Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
There haave been several areas in the kernel where an int has been used for flags in local_irq_save() and friends instead of a long. This can cause some hard to debug problems on some architectures. This patch adds a typecheck inside the irqsave and restore functions to flag these cases. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Needed to fix up a recursive include snafu in locking-add-typecheck-on-irqsave-and-friends-for-correct-flags.patch Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Wang Chen authored
GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD vmlinux arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table': (.rodata+0x8a4): undefined reference to `sys_epoll_create1' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Signed-off-by:
Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
For it doesn't exist on i386. Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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David Miller authored
Changeset 7fa897b9 ("ide: trivial sparse annotations") created an IDE bootup regression on big-endian systems. In drivers/ide/ide-iops.c, function ide_fixstring() we now have the loop: for (p = end ; p != s;) be16_to_cpus((u16 *)(p -= 2)); which will never terminate on big-endian because in such a configuration be16_to_cpus() evaluates to "do { } while (0)" Therefore, always evaluate the arguments to nop endian transformation operations. Signed-off-by:
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Huang Weiyi authored
Removed duplicated include file <linux/version.h> in char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.c. Signed-off-by:
Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
Both commits 0f17e4c7 ("Add missing semaphore.h includes") and 4933d075 ("m68k: drivers/input/serio/hp_sdc.c needs <linux/semaphore.h>") added a We only really need one ;) Reported-by:
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: virtio: Add transport feature handling stub for virtio_ring. virtio: Rename set_features to finalize_features virtio: Formally reserve bits 28-31 to be 'transport' features. s390: use virtio_console for KVM on s390 virtio: console as a config option virtio_console: use virtqueue notification for hvc_console hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks virtio_blk: check for hardsector size from host virtio: Use bus_type probe and remove methods virtio: don't always force a notification when ring is full virtio: clarify that ABI is usable by any implementations virtio: Recycle unused recv buffer pages for large skbs in net driver virtio net: Allow receiving SG packets virtio net: Add ethtool ops for SG/GSO virtio: fix virtio_net xmit of freed skb bug
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Rusty Russell authored
Obvious misc patch been in my queue (& linux-next) for over a cycle. Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
To prepare for virtio_ring transport feature bits, hook in a call in all the users to manipulate them. This currently just clears all the bits, since it doesn't understand any features. Signed-off-by: -
Rusty Russell authored
Rather than explicitly handing the features to the lower-level, we just hand the virtio_device and have it set the features. This make it clear that it has the chance to manipulate the features of the device at this point (and that all feature negotiation is already done). Signed-off-by: -
Rusty Russell authored
We assign feature bits as required, but it makes sense to reserve some for the particular transport, rather than the particular device. Signed-off-by: -
Christian Borntraeger authored
This patch enables virtio_console as the default console on kvm for s390. We currently use the same notify hack as lguest for early console output. I will try to address this for lguest and s390 later. Signed-off-by:
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christian Borntraeger authored
I also added a small Kconfig change that allows the user to specify the virtio console in menuconfig. (Fixes to export symbols from Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>) (Fixes for CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y vs CONFIG_VIRTIO=m from Christian himself) Signed-off-by: -
Christian Borntraeger authored
This patch exploits the new notifier callbacks of the hvc_console. We can use the virtio callbacks instead of the polling code. Signed-off-by:
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Christian Borntraeger authored
This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use hvc_console without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq. In addition, together with patch 2/3 it improves the performance for virtio console input. (an earlier version of this patch was tested by Yajin on lguest) The irq specific code is moved to hvc_irq.c and selected by the drivers that use irqs (System p, System i, XEN). I replaced "int irq" with the opaque "int data". The request_irq and free_irq calls are replaced with notifier_add and notifier_del. I have also changed the code a bit to call the notifier_add and notifier_del inside the spinlock area as the callbacks are found via hp->ops. Changes since last version: o remove ifdef o reintroduce "irq_requested" as "notified" o cleanups, sparse.. I did not move the timer based polling into a separate polling scheme. I played with several variants, but it seems we need to sleep/schedule in a thread even for irq based consoles, as there are throttleing and buffer size constraints. I also kept hvc_struct defined in hvc_console.h so that hvc_irq.c can access the irq_requested element. Feedback is appreciated. virtio_console is currently the only available console for kvm on s390. I plan to push this change as soon as all affected parties agree on it. I would love to get test results from System p, Xen etc. Signed-off-by:
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Christian Borntraeger authored
Currently virtio_blk assumes a 512 byte hard sector size. This can cause trouble / performance issues if the backing has a different block size (like a file on an ext3 file system formatted with 4k block size or a dasd). Lets add a feature flag that tells the guest to use a different hard sector size than 512 byte. Signed-off-by:
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Mark McLoughlin authored
Hook up to the probe() and remove() methods in bus_type rather than device_driver. The latter has been preferred since 2.6.16. Signed-off-by:
Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
We force notification when the ring is full, even if the host has indicated it doesn't want to know. This seemed like a good idea at the time: if we fill the transmit ring, we should tell the host immediately. Unfortunately this logic also applies to the receiving ring, which is refilled constantly. We should introduce real notification thesholds to replace this logic. Meanwhile, removing the logic altogether breaks the heuristics which KVM uses, so we use a hack: only notify if there are outgoing parts of the new buffer. Here are the number of exits with lguest's crappy network implementation: Before: network xmit 7859051 recv 236420 After: network xmit 7858610 recv 118136 Signed-off-by: -
Rusty Russell authored
We want others to implement and use virtio, so it makes sense to BSD license the non-__KERNEL__ parts of the headers to make this crystal clear. Signed-off-by:
Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Rusty Russell authored
If we hack the virtio_net driver to always allocate full-sized (64k+) skbuffs, the driver slows down (lguest numbers): Time to receive 1GB (small buffers): 10.85 seconds Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers): 24.75 seconds Of course, large buffers use up more space in the ring, so we increase that from 128 to 2048: Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring): 16.61 seconds If we recycle pages rather than using alloc_page/free_page: Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring, recycle pages): 10.81 seconds This demonstrates that with efficient allocation, we don't need to have a separate "small buffer" queue. Signed-off-by: -
Herbert Xu authored
Finally this patch lets virtio_net receive GSO packets in addition to sending them. This can definitely be optimised for the non-GSO case. For comparison the Xen approach stores one page in each skb and uses subsequent skb's pages to construct an SG skb instead of preallocating the maximum amount of pages per skb. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (added feature bits)
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Herbert Xu authored
This patch adds some basic ethtool operations to virtio_net so I could test SG without GSO (which was really useful because TSO turned out to be buggy :) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (remove MTU setting)
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Mark McLoughlin authored
On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 17:42 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > If we fail to transmit a packet, we assume the queue is full and put > the skb into last_xmit_skb. However, if more space frees up before we > xmit it, we loop, and the result can be transmitting the same skb twice. > > Fix is simple: set skb to NULL if we've used it in some way, and check > before sending. ... > diff -r 564237b31993 drivers/net/virtio_net.c > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c Mon May 19 12:22:00 2008 +1000 > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c Mon May 19 12:24:58 2008 +1000 > @@ -287,21 +287,25 @@ again: > free_old_xmit_skbs(vi); > > /* If we has a buffer left over from last time, send it now. */ > - if (vi->last_xmit_skb) { > + if (unlikely(vi->last_xmit_skb)) { > if (xmit_skb(vi, vi->last_xmit_skb) != 0) { > /* Drop this skb: we only queue one. */ > vi->dev->stats.tx_dropped++; > kfree_skb(skb); > + skb = NULL; > goto stop_queue; > } > vi->last_xmit_skb = NULL; With this, may drop an skb and then later in the function discover that we could have sent it after all. Poor wee skb :) How about the incremental patch below? Cheers, Mark. Subject: [PATCH] virtio_net: Delay dropping tx skbs Currently we drop the skb in start_xmit() if we have a queued buffer and fail to transmit it. However, if we delay dropping it until we've stopped the queue and enabled the tx notification callback, then there is a chance space might become available for it. Signed-off-by: -
Adrian Bunk authored
This fixes the following compile error caused by commit f9247273 ("UFS: add const to parser token table"): CC fs/nfs/nfsroot.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c:130: error: tokens causes a section type conflict make[3]: *** [fs/nfs/nfsroot.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by:
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