- 09 Apr, 2003 9 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
Even a BUG_ON() makes a measurable difference. So remove some gratuitous ones which will just trigger a null pointer deref anyway. Also remove some debug code which isn't really being maintained any more. Also replace (effectively): test_bit(N, foo); set_bit(N, foo); with set_bit(N, foo); test_bit(N, foo); In the first case we'll go onto the bus twice: once for the cache miss and once to get exclusive write access. In the second case we only go on the bus once. I think. Certainly this trick chaved 40% off the cost of shrink_list() when I did it there... This patch is worth 1% or so on the bash script testing.
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Andrew Morton authored
several functions in rmap.c are searching the ptes[] array fo find the first non-null entry. Despite the fact tha the whole lot is in L1 cache, it is expensive, especially on 128-byte cacheline machines. We can encode the index of the first non-null pte entry inside the pte_chain's `next' field and remove those searches altogether. This reduces the rmap CPU tax by about 25% on a P4. For a total runtime reduction of around 5% in the bash-script intensive test which I use.
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Andrew Morton authored
Maintaining the `nr_reverse_maps' provides makes a small but measurable decrease in page_add_rmap() overhead. I don't think it's a very useful metric, and it can be sort-of inferred from slabinfo.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> The cache_sizes array needs to be NULL terminated, otherwise an oversized kmalloc request runs off the end of the table.
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Andrew Morton authored
Now that sparc64 is using gcc-3.x we can disallow gcc-2.91, etc. Documentation/Changes already says 2.95.3, which is working fine for me. With this change, we no longer require that per-cpu data definitions be initialised. That was a workaround for a bug in older gccs. So remove the build infrastructure which was checking for that. Also, mention that nfs-utils-1.0.3 is required. It isn't required yet, but will be once we enable larger dev_t: there is an interface for exportfs which passes dev_t's into the kernel which breaks with larger dev_t. That interface is old, deprecated and is not used in nfs-utils-1.0.3.
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Andrew Morton authored
The wait_on_buffer() debug code is generating false warnings when called from __block_prepare_write(). It is legal to wait on a zero-ref buffer when its page is locked. The page lock keeps try_to_free_buffers() away. This debug code hasn't found any bugs yet.
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bk://kernel.bkbits.net/davem/net-2.5Linus Torvalds authored
into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
must never be dereferenced directly. Make that clear in the attribute.
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- 08 Apr, 2003 31 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Rusty Russell authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
magic C promotion to silently do so for us.
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Linus Torvalds authored
was the first file tested with my type checker with the anal pointer attribute checking turned on.
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Linus Torvalds authored
user space access functions. This allows the type checker to check proper usage.
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Linus Torvalds authored
checking, these end up being no-ops, but they get enabled by the type checker as special address_space attributes.
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Stephen Hemminger authored
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James Morris authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Andrew Morton authored
There is a stunning bug.
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Miles Bader authored
Previously, it was done automatically by the `reti' isntruction upon returning from the kernel, but that doesn't do the correct thing in various cases, for instance if there's a context switch, or a softirq.
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Andries E. Brouwer authored
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Andries E. Brouwer authored
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Andries E. Brouwer authored
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Andries E. Brouwer authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
Allows for the non standard cascade
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
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