- 15 Feb, 2006 16 commits
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Chen, Kenneth W authored
Revert commit d7102e95: [PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups Apparently caused more than 10% performance regression for aim7 benchmark. The setup in use is 16-cpu HP rx8620, 64Gb of memory and 12 MSA1000s with 144 disks. Each disk is 72Gb with a single ext3 filesystem (courtesy of HP, who supplied benchmark results). The problem is, for aim7, the wake-up pattern is random, but it still needs load balancing action in the wake-up path to achieve best performance. With the above commit, lack of load balancing hurts that workload. However, for workloads like database transaction processing, the requirement is exactly opposite. In the wake up path, best performance is achieved with absolutely zero load balancing. We simply wake up the process on the CPU that it was previously run. Worst performance is obtained when we do load balancing at wake up. There isn't an easy way to auto detect the workload characteristics. Ingo's earlier patch that detects idle CPU and decide whether to load balance or not doesn't perform with aim7 either since all CPUs are busy (it causes even bigger perf. regression). Revert commit d7102e95, which causes more than 10% performance regression with aim7. Signed-off-by:
Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
Currently, copy-on-write may change the physical address of a page even if the user requested that the page is pinned in memory (either by mlock or by get_user_pages). This happens if the process forks meanwhile, and the parent writes to that page. As a result, the page is orphaned: in case of get_user_pages, the application will never see any data hardware DMA's into this page after the COW. In case of mlock'd memory, the parent is not getting the realtime/security benefits of mlock. In particular, this affects the Infiniband modules which do DMA from and into user pages all the time. This patch adds madvise options to control whether memory range is inherited across fork. Useful e.g. for when hardware is doing DMA from/into these pages. Could also be useful to an application wanting to speed up its forks by cutting large areas out of consideration. Signed-off-by:
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Acked-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by:
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Jim Keniston authored
Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect Kprobes enhancements and other recent developments. Acked-by:
Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <mananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Karsten Keil authored
The changes in the tty related code introduced wrong parenthesis in a if condition in the isdn_tty_at_cout function. This caused access to index -1 in the dev->drv[] array. This patch change it back to the correct condition from the previous versions. Signed-off-by:
Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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James Bottomley authored
The correct way to export hyperthreading based functions is to predicate them on CONFIG_X86_HT. Without this, the topology exporting patch breaks the build on all non-PC x86 subarchitectures. Signed-off-by:
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by:
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Trond Myklebust authored
If 2 threads attached to the same process are blocking on different locks on different files (maybe even on different servers) but have the same lock arguments (i.e. same offset+length - actually quite common, since most processes try to lock the entire file) then the first GRANTED call that wakes one up will also wake the other. Currently when the NLM_GRANTED callback comes in, lockd walks the list of blocked locks in search of a match to the lock that the NLM server has granted. Although it checks the lock pid, start and end, it fails to check the filehandle and the server address. By checking the filehandle and server IP address, we ensure that this only happens if the locks truly are referencing the same file. Signed-off-by:
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mark Fasheh authored
This patch reverts commit f93ea411: [PATCH] jbd: split checkpoint lists This broke journal_flush() for OCFS2, which is its method of being sure that metadata is sent to disk for another node. And two related commits 8d3c7fce and 43c3e6f5 with the subjects: [PATCH] jbd: log_do_checkpoint fix [PATCH] jbd: remove_transaction fix These seem to be incremental bugfixes on the original patch and as such are no longer needed. Signed-off-by:
Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
When the _CRS for a single HPET contains multiple EXTENDED_IRQ resources, we overwrote hdp->hd_nirqs every time we found one. So the driver worked when all the IRQs were described in a single EXTENDED_IRQ resource, but failed when multiple resources were used. (Strictly speaking, I think the latter is actually more correct, but both styles have been used.) Someday we should remove all the ACPI stuff from hpet.c and use PNP driver registration instead. But currently PNP_MAX_IRQ is 2, and HPETs often have more IRQs. Hint, hint, Adam :-) Signed-off-by:
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Acked-by:
Bob Picco <robert.picco@hp.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Fulghum authored
Fix hole where tty structure can be released when reference count is non zero. Existing code can sleep without tty_sem protection between deciding to release the tty structure (setting local variables tty_closing and otty_closing) and setting TTY_CLOSING to prevent further opens. An open can occur during this interval causing release_dev() to free the tty structure while it is still referenced. This should fix bugzilla.kernel.org [Bug 6041] New: Unable to handle kernel paging request In Bug 6041, tty_open() oopes on accessing the tty structure it has successfully claimed. Bug was on SMP machine with the same tty being opened and closed by multiple processes, and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enabled. Signed-off-by:
Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
The PageCompound check before access_process_vm's set_page_dirty_lock is no longer necessary, so remove it. But leave the PageCompound checks in bio_set_pages_dirty, dio_bio_complete and nfs_free_user_pages: at least some of those were introduced as a little optimization on hugetlb pages. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Somehow I imagined that calling a NULL destructor would free a compound page rather than oopsing. No, we must supply a default destructor, __free_pages_ok using the order noted by prep_compound_page. hugetlb can still replace this as before with its own free_huge_page pointer. The case that needs this is not common: rarely does put_compound_page's put_page_testzero bring the count down to 0. But if get_user_pages is applied to some part of a compound page, without immediate release (e.g. AIO or Infiniband), then it's possible for its put_page to come after the containing vma has been unmapped and the driver done its free_pages. That's just the kind of case compound pages are supposed to be guarding against (but Nick points out, nor did PageReserved handle this right). Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
If a compound page has its own put_page_testzero destructor (the only current example is free_huge_page), that is noted in page[1].mapping of the compound page. But that's rather a poor place to keep it: functions which call set_page_dirty_lock after get_user_pages (e.g. Infiniband's __ib_umem_release) ought to be checking first, otherwise set_page_dirty is liable to crash on what's not the address of a struct address_space. And now I'm about to make that worse: it turns out that every compound page needs a destructor, so we can no longer rely on hugetlb pages going their own special way, to avoid further problems of page->mapping reuse. For example, not many people know that: on 50% of i386 -Os builds, the first tail page of a compound page purports to be PageAnon (when its destructor has an odd address), which surprises page_add_file_rmap. Keep the compound page destructor in page[1].lru.next instead. And to free up the common pairing of mapping and index, also move compound page order from index to lru.prev. Slab reuses page->lru too: but if we ever need slab to use compound pages, it can easily stack its use above this. (akpm: decoded version of the above: the tail pages of a compound page now have ->mapping==NULL, so there's no need for the set_page_dirty[_lock]() caller to check that they're not compund pages before doing the dirty). Signed-off-by:
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Peter Osterlund authored
Reduce stack usage in the pkt_start_write() function. Even though it's not currently a real problem, the pages and offsets arrays can be eliminated, which saves approximately 1000 bytes of stack space. Signed-off-by:
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Osterlund authored
Unlocking the door when the disc is in use is obviously not good, because then it's possible to eject the disc at the wrong time and cause severe disc data corruption. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Osterlund authored
If opening for write fails, the open method should return -EROFS. This makes "mount" try again with a read-only mount, instead of just giving up. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Osterlund authored
Change some messages that don't indicate an error so that they are only printed when debugging is enabled. Signed-off-by:
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- 14 Feb, 2006 24 commits
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
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Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by:
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Maciej W. Rozycki authored
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Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Koeller authored
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Thomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ralf Baechle authored
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Ralf Baechle authored
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Ralf Baechle authored
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Ralf Baechle authored
From Richard Sandiford <richard@codesourcery.com>: This patch caused a miscompilation of the restore_gp_regs() block in restore_sigcontext(). This was in a 32-bit kernel compiled with GCC CVS head. restore_gp_regs() copies 64-bit user fields into 32-bit variables, and in this combination, the new __get_user_asm_ll32() clobbers too many registers. It says: /* * Get a long long 64 using 32 bit registers. */ { \ __asm__ __volatile__( \ "1: lw %1, (%3) \n" \ "2: lw %D1, 4(%3) \n" \ " move %0, $0 \n" \ "3: .section .fixup,\"ax\" \n" \ "4: li %0, %4 \n" \ " move %1, $0 \n" \ " move %D1, $0 \n" \ " j 3b \n" \ " .previous \n" \ " .section __ex_table,\"a\" \n" \ " " __UA_ADDR " 1b, 4b \n" \ " " __UA_ADDR " 2b, 4b \n" \ " .previous \n" \ : "=r" (__gu_err), "=&r" (val) \ : "0" (0), "r" (addr), "i" (-EFAULT)); \ } and this requires val (%1) to be a 64-bit value. In the case I saw, gcc was using $3 for the 32-bit val, and wasn't expecting $4 to be clobbered. Signed-off-by: -
Atsushi Nemoto authored
Add blast_xxx_range(), protected_blast_xxx_range() etc. for common use. They are built by __BUILD_BLAST_CACHE_RANGE(). Use protected_cache_op() macro for various protected_ routines. Output code should be logically same. Signed-off-by:
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
Implement get_wchan() and frame_info_init() using kallsyms_lookup(). This fixes problem with static sched/lock functions and mfinfo[] maintenance issue. If CONFIG_KALLSYMS was disabled, get_wchan() just returns thread_saved_pc() value. Also unwind stackframe based on "addiu sp,-imm" analysis instead of frame pointer. This fixes problem with functions compiled without -fomit-frame-pointer. Signed-off-by: -
Ralf Baechle authored
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Ralf Baechle authored
So we can get rid of config.h and the #ifdef crapola in the generic timex.h. Signed-off-by: -
Alan Cox authored
Noted by Al Viro. Also remove unused tmp_buf Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Gerald Britton authored
Fix x86 oprofile regression introduced by: commit c34d1b4d [PATCH] mm: kill check_user_page_readable That commit reorganized tests for the userspace stack walking moving all those tests into dump_backtrace(), however, dump_backtrace() was used for both userspace and kernel stalk walking. The result is typically no recorded callgraph information for kernel samples. Revive the original function as dump_kernel_backtrace() and rename the other to dump_user_backtrace() to avoid future confusion. Signed-off-by:
Gerald Britton <gbritton@alum.mit.edu> Apology-from: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Jean Delvare authored
Probe and remove methods are now defined at bus level. No more need to redefine them at driver level in i2c-isa. This lets us get rid of these annoying messages: Driver 'it87-isa' needs updating - please use bus_type methods Thanks to Nicolas Mailhot for reporting the problem and testing the fix. Signed-off-by:
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Jean Delvare authored
Fix an oops on it87 module removal when no supported hardware was found. Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
Document the reset module parameter which was recently added to the w83627hf driver. Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
Use the real-time status registers of the Winbond W83782D, W83783S and W83627HF chips, instead of the interrupt status registers. Interrupts cannot be trusted at least for voltage inputs, as they are two-times triggers (as opposed to comparator mode, which we want.) The w83627hf driver was fixed in a similar way some times ago. Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
The VT8231 low temperature limits are actually hysteresis temperatures to the high limits. Signed-off-by:
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Phil Dibowitz authored
The following patch looks good to me. It adds an unusual_devs entry as well as fixing an ordering bug. Please apply. From: Bohdan Linda <bohdan.linda@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com> Signed-off-by:
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