1. 10 May, 2004 8 commits
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] sched: handle inter-CPU jiffies skew · db05a192
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
      
      John Hawkes discribed this problem to me:
      
      There *is* a small problem in this area, though, that SuSE avoids.
      "jiffies" gets updated by cpu0.  The other CPUs may, over time, get out of
      sync (and they're initialized on ia64 to start out being out of sync), so
      it's no guarantee that every CPU will wake up from its timer interrupt and
      see a "jiffies" value that is guaranteed to be last_jiffies+1.  Sometimes
      the jiffies value may be unchanged since the last wakeup.  Sometimes the
      jiffies value may have incremented by 2 (or more, especially if cpu0's
      interrupts are disabled for long stretches of time).  So an algoithm that
      says, "I'll call load_balance() only when jiffies is *exactly* N" is going
      to fail on occasion, either by calling load_balance() too often or not
      often enough.  ***
      
      I fixed this by adding a last_balance field to struct sched_domain, and
      working off that.
      db05a192
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] sched: implement domains for i386 HT · e18e19ad
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
      
      The following patch builds a scheduling description for the i386
      architecture using cpu_sibling_map to set up SMT if CONFIG_SCHED_SMT is
      set.
      
      It could be made more fancy and collapse degenerate domains at runtime (ie.
      1 sibling per CPU, or 1 NUMA node in the computer).
      
      
      From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
      
         This fixes an oops due to cpu_sibling_map being uninitialised when a
         system with no MP table (most UP boxen) boots a CONFIG_SMT kernel.  What
         also happens is that the cpu_group lists end up not being terminated
         properly, but this oops kills it first.  Patch tested on UP w/o MP table,
         2x P2 and UP Xeon w/ no siblings.
      
      From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
            Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
      
         Change arch_init_sched_domains to use cpu_online_map
      
      From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      
         Fix build with NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG
      e18e19ad
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] sched: cpu_sibling_map to cpu_mask · 7a1dc0ea
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
      
      This is a (somewhat) trivial patch which converts cpu_sibling_map from an
      array of CPUs to an array of cpumasks.  Needed for >2 siblings per package,
      but it actually can simplify code as it allows the cpu_sibling_map to be
      set up even when there is 1 sibling per package.  Intel want this, I use it
      in the next patch to build scheduling domains for the P4 HT.
      
      From: Thomas Schlichter <thomas.schlichter@web.de>
      
         Build fix
      
      From: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
      
         Fix to handle more than 2 siblings per package.
      7a1dc0ea
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] scheduler domain balancing improvements · 3dfa303d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
      
      This patch gets the sched_domain scheduler working better WRT balancing.
      Its been tested on the NUMAQ.  Among other things it changes to the way SMT
      load calculation works so as not to active load blances when it shouldn't.
      
      It still has a problem with SMT and NUMA: it will put a task on each
      sibling in a node before moving tasks to another node.  It should probably
      start moving tasks after each *physical* CPU is filled.
      
      To fix, you need "how much CPU power in this domain?" At the moment we
      approximate # runqueues == CPU power, and hack around it at the CPU
      physical domain by counting all sibling runqueues as 1.
      
      It isn't hard to correctly work the CPU power out, but once CPU hotplug is
      in the equation it becomes much more hotplug events.  If anyone is actually
      interested in getting this fixed, that is.
      3dfa303d
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] sched_domain debugging · b45bb339
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
      
      Anton was attempting to make a sched domain topology for his POWER5 and was
      having some trouble.
      
      This patch only includes code which is ifdefed out, but hopefully it will
      be of some use to implementors.
      b45bb339
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] sched: scheduler domain support · 8c136f71
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
      
      This is the core sched domains patch.  It can handle any number of levels
      in a scheduling heirachy, and allows architectures to easily customize how
      the scheduler behaves.  It also provides progressive balancing backoff
      needed by SGI on their large systems (although they have not yet tested
      it).
      
      It is built on top of (well, uses ideas from) my previous SMP/NUMA work, and
      gets results very similar to them when using the default scheduling
      description.
      
      Benchmarks
      ==========
      
      Martin was seeing I think 10-20% better system times in kernbench on the 32
      way.  I was seeing improvements in dbench, tbench, kernbench, reaim,
      hackbench on a 16-way NUMAQ.  Hackbench in fact had a non linear element
      which is all but eliminated.  Large improvements in volanomark.
      
      Cross node task migration was decreased in all above benchmarks, sometimes by
      a factor of 100!!  Cross CPU migration was also generally decreased.  See
      this post:
      http://groups.google.com.au/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=a406c910b30cbac4&seekm=UAdQ.3hj.5%40gated-at.bofh.it#link2
      
      Results on a hyperthreading P4 are equivalent to Ingo's shared runqueues
      patch (which is a big improvement).
      
      Some examples on the 16-way NUMAQ (this is slightly older sched domain code):
      
       http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/w26/hbench.png
       http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/w26/vmark.html
      
      From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
      
         Tiny patch to make -mm3 compile on an NUMA box with NR_CPUS >
         BITS_PER_LONG.
      
      From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
      
         Fix a minor nit with the find_busiest_group code.  No functional change,
         but makes the code simpler and clearer.  This patch does two things ... 
         adds some more expansive comments, and removes this if clause:
      
            if (*imbalance < SCHED_LOAD_SCALE
                            && max_load - this_load > SCHED_LOAD_SCALE)
      		*imbalance = SCHED_LOAD_SCALE;
      
         If we remove the scaling factor, we're basically conditionally doing:
      
      	if (*imbalance < 1)
      		*imbalance = 1;
      
         Which is pointless, as the very next thing we do is to remove the
         scaling factor, rounding up to the nearest integer as we do:
      
      	*imbalance = (*imbalance + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE - 1) >> SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT;
      
         Thus the if statement is redundant, and only makes the code harder to
         read ;-)
      
      From: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>
      
         In find_busiest_group(), after we exit the do/while, we select our
         imbalance.  But max_load, avg_load, and this_load are all unsigned, so
         min(x,y) will make a bad choice if max_load < avg_load < this_load (that
         is, a choice between two negative [very large] numbers).
      
         Unfortunately, there is a bug when max_load never gets changed from zero
         (look in the loop and think what happens if the only load on the machine is
         being created by cpu groups of which we are a member).  And you have a
         recipe for some really bogus values for imbalance.
      
         Even if you fix the max_load == 0 bug, there will still be times when
         avg_load - this_load will be negative (thus very large) and you'll make the
         decision to move stuff when you shouldn't have.
      
         This patch allows for this_load to set max_load, which if I understand
         the logic properly is correct.  With this patch applied, the algorithm is
         *much* more conservative ...  maybe *too* conservative but that's for
         another round of testing ...
      
      From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      
         sched-find-busiest-fix
      8c136f71
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] sched: improved resolution in find_busiest_node · 067e0480
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
      
      From: Frank Cornelis <frank.cornelis@elis.ugent.be>
      
      In order to get the best possible resolution we need to use NR_CPUS instead
      of the constant value 10.  load is an int, so no need to worry about
      overflows...
      067e0480
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] small scheduler cleanup · 4f20771c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      
      From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
      
      It removes the last place where we mess with run_list open coded.
      4f20771c
  2. 09 May, 2004 13 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 2.6.6 · 3dc567d8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      3dc567d8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Mark the ACPI CPU throttle and timer IO regions busy. · 7e941d4d
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This should help some laptops where the generic PCI
      code might otherwise believe that this range is unused.
      The ACPI IO range is usually not visible as a standard
      BAR.
      7e941d4d
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix x86-64 compilation without iommu for 2.6.6rc3 · c99ae253
      Andi Kleen authored
      Various people hit this in earlier kernels. The x86-64 kernel did not compile 
      without CONFIG_IOMMU_GART in various configurations. Just add the missing symbol 
      and export it. Also export iommu_merge while I am at it.
      c99ae253
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix machine check handler on x86-64 · 57bfa2c5
      Andi Kleen authored
      This fixes a bug in the new machine check handler on x86-64.
      
      One nasty part was that when you got an MCE during boot up
      then it would not always print it on the screen, but still
      panic because it attempted to kill the idle task.
      
      This patch does:
       - Always use KERN_EMERG when printing MCEs
       - Always panic and print on screen before killing idle loop
         or init.
      57bfa2c5
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://bk.arm.linux.org.uk/linux-2.6-rmk · b81346bc
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      b81346bc
    • Russell King's avatar
      Merge flint.arm.linux.org.uk:/usr/src/bk/linux-2.6-sharp · 1d89057b
      Russell King authored
      into flint.arm.linux.org.uk:/usr/src/bk/linux-2.6-rmk
      1d89057b
    • Marc Singer's avatar
      [ARM PATCH] 1818/1: lh7a40x #2 (3/7) doc · f42083cc
      Marc Singer authored
      Patch from Marc Singer
      
      Documentation for the Sharp-LH machines.
      f42083cc
    • Marc Singer's avatar
      [ARM PATCH] 1817/1: lh7a40x #2 (2/7) core-include · a7c57d4a
      Marc Singer authored
      Patch from Marc Singer
      
      Include files for this updated lh7a40x patch set.  The changes in this
      set from the previous are mostly cosmetic.  The memory macros were
      reworked in order to be more similar to the other ARM versions.  The
      previous versions produced the same results, but the forms are
      slightly different.
      a7c57d4a
    • Marc Singer's avatar
      [ARM PATCH] 1816/1: lh7a40x #2 (1/7) core · 1c0c2783
      Marc Singer authored
      Patch from Marc Singer
      
      Updated change set for the 2.6.5 kernel *and* for the April 8th arm
      patch.  Also included are changes suggested by Russell that merge
      several of the files in the mach- directory.  I have also endeavored
      to remove all unnecessary whitespace additions.
      
      Note that since I've found the cause of an annoying user-space crash,
      I believe that this patch is OK.  The crash appears to have nothing to
      do with the system setup.
      1c0c2783
    • Tony Lindgren's avatar
      [ARM PATCH] 1847/1: OMAP update 2/2: include files · a263e250
      Tony Lindgren authored
      Patch from Tony Lindgren
      
      This patch syncs the mainline kernel with the linux-omap tree. The
      patch contains following updates:
      - Move virtual IO area to 0xfefb0000 from 0xfffb0000 to fix parts of
        IO area  overlapping with ARM Linux reserved memory area
      - Add support to OMAP-730, OMAP-5912, and OMAP-1710 processors
      - Reorganize board support
      - Add OMAP core detection
      This patch requires ARM Linux patch 1844/1 be applied to compile
      OMAP-730 and OMAP-5912
      a263e250
    • Tony Lindgren's avatar
      [ARM PATCH] 1846/1: OMAP update 1/2: arch files · 62b2119f
      Tony Lindgren authored
      Patch from Tony Lindgren
      
      This patch syncs the mainline kernel with the linux-omap tree. The
      patch contains following updates:
      - Move virtual IO area to 0xfefb0000 from 0xfffb0000 to fix parts of
        IO area overlapping with ARM Linux reserved memory area
      - Add support to OMAP-730, OMAP-5912, and OMAP-1710 processors
      - Reorganize board support
      - Add OMAP core detection
      This patch requires ARM Linux patch 1844/1 be applied to compile
      OMAP-730 and OMAP-5912
      62b2119f
    • Tony Lindgren's avatar
      [ARM PATCH] 1844/1: Allow OMAP-730 and OMAP-5910 to use ARM926 in mm/Kconfig · 78c4d584
      Tony Lindgren authored
      Patch from Tony Lindgren
      
      Adds OMAP-730 and OMAP-5910 support
      78c4d584
    • Armin Schindler's avatar
      [PATCH] ISDN Eicon driver: fix idi cleanup deadlock · 8f555e6d
      Armin Schindler authored
         On IDI module cleanup, the freed card must be removed from list.  
         Use list_empty() instead of list_for_each() loop. Thanks Linus.
      8f555e6d
  3. 08 May, 2004 18 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Waste less memory in dentries. · 293889f5
      Linus Torvalds authored
      We don't bother aligining them on a cacheline boundary, since
      that is totally excessive in some configurations (especially
      P4's with 128-byte cachelines).
      
      Instead, we make the minimum inline string size a bit longer,
      and re-order a few fields that allow for better packing on
      64-bit architectures, for better memory utilization.
      293889f5
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/sparc-2.6 · 82f1671a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      82f1671a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/net-2.6 · 0ef8ced2
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      0ef8ced2
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] run populate_rootfs() before initcalls · 25714ddf
      Andrew Morton authored
      I moved this a little too late - we need to run populate_rootfs() before
      running initcalls because some driver initcalls need to open files for
      firmware.
      
      The populate_rootfs() call is still coming after init_idle(), so it won't
      knock the scheduler over.
      25714ddf
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      2b308273
    • David S. Miller's avatar
    • Stephen Hemminger's avatar
      [TCP]: BIC TCP for Linux 2.6.6 · 54d05783
      Stephen Hemminger authored
      This is a version of Binary Increase Control (BIC) TCP
      developed by NCSU.   It is yet another TCP congestion control
      algorithm for handling big fat pipes. For normal size congestion
      windows it behaves the same as existing TCP Reno, but when window
      is large it uses additive increase to ensure fairness and when
      window is small it uses binary search increase.
      
      For more details see the BIC TCP web page
       http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/
      
      The original code was for web100 (2.4); this version is pretty
      much the same but targeted for 2.6 with less sysctl parameters 
      and more constants.
      
      I don't have a real high speed long haul network to test, but
      when running over 1G links with delays, the performance is more stable
      (ie tests are repeatable) and as fast as existing Reno.
      54d05783
    • Sridhar Samudrala's avatar
      [SCTP]: Fix multihomed connection failures on 64-bit systems. · fbb3aa0d
      Sridhar Samudrala authored
      Avoid the use of sizeof() and pointer arithmetic to get to the end
      of sctp_cookie structure. Instead use the last element peer_init which
      is a zero-sized array as the offset.
      fbb3aa0d
    • David Stevens's avatar
      6619be03
    • James Morris's avatar
      [NET]: Add sock_create_lite() · 398b3c44
      James Morris authored
      The purpose of this is to allow sockets created by the kernel in this way
      to be passed through the LSM socket creation hooks and be labeled and
      mediated in the same manner as other sockets.
      
      This patches addresses a class of potential issues with LSMs, where such
      sockets will not be labeled correctly (if at all), or mediated during
      creation.  Under SELinux, it fixes a specific bug where RPC sockets
      created by the kernel during TCP NFS serving are unlabeled.
      398b3c44
    • James Morris's avatar
      [NET]: Add sock_create_kern() · e2943dca
      James Morris authored
      Under SELinux, and potentially other LSMs, we need to be able to
      distinguish between user sockets and kernel sockets.  For SELinux
      specifically, kernel sockets need to be specially labeled during creation,
      then bypass access control checks (they are controlled by the kernel
      itself and not subject to SELinux mediation).
      
      This addresses a class of potential issues in SELinux where, for example, 
      a TCP NFS session times out, then the kernel re-establishes an RPC 
      connection upon further user activity.  We do not want such kernel 
      created sockets to be labeled with user security contexts.
      
      sock_create() and sock_create_kern() are wrapper functions, which seems 
      semantically clearer to me than e.g. adding a flag to sock_create().  If 
      you prefer the latter, then let me know.
      
      The patch also adds an argument to the LSM socket creation functions
      indicating whether the socket being created is a kernel socket or not.
      e2943dca
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge nuts.davemloft.net:/disk1/BK/network-2.6 · 49a1f4d4
      David S. Miller authored
      into nuts.davemloft.net:/disk1/BK/net-2.6
      49a1f4d4
    • Joshua Kwan's avatar
      [SPARC64]: Use $(CC) in NEW_GCC checks. · 812b724d
      Joshua Kwan authored
      812b724d
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix WARN_ON on XFS module unload · 08faf52b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      
      This one is a little funny.  The SGI trees don't show this issue because dmapi
      and quota are separate modules so they must be unloaded before xfs_fs_exit can
      be called at all.
      
      So let's move the exitcalls for them in mainline first to simulate that
      behaviour.
      08faf52b
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix CTS handling in pmac-zilog.c · 6032402c
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      
      This patch fixes a bug in the pmac-zilog driver where if you enable
      CRTSCTS mode, it won't output data when CTS is asserted.  On
      powermacs, the CTS input is inverted.  It also fixes a logic bug in
      testing for CTS and DCD changes.
      6032402c
    • Armin Schindler's avatar
      [PATCH] ISDN Eicon driver: fix empty queue check · d2ac9ae6
      Armin Schindler authored
         Check for last adapter link is done by next member,
         because entries are not removed yet.
      d2ac9ae6
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      All the Intel LPC bridges have the same PCI quirks. · 16f16e70
      Linus Torvalds authored
      They all have 128 bytes of ACPI/TCO IO space pointed to
      by config space register 0x40, and 64 bytes of GPIO space
      pointed to by 0x58.
      
      Thanks to Jun Nakajima for the full list.
      16f16e70
  4. 07 May, 2004 1 commit