1. 14 May, 2004 40 commits
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] I2O subsystem fixing and cleanup for 2.6 - i2o-config-clean.patch · 9bf41bd3
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
      
      * Changes the formating of the header in i2o_config.c
      9bf41bd3
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      [PATCH] Module ref counting for vt console drivers · 5770ced9
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      
      The following patch adds basic module reference counting to vt console
      drivers.  Currently modules like fbcon are not counted at all.
      5770ced9
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      [PATCH] ia64 cpu hotplug: core · f887808c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
      
      Supports basic ability to enable hotplug functions for IA64.
      Code is just evolving, and there are several loose ends to tie up.
      
      What this code drop does
      - Support logical online and offline
      - Handles interrupt migration without loss of interrupts.
      - Handles stress fine > 24+ hrs with make -j/ftp/rcp workloads
      - Handles irq migration from a dying cpu without loss of interrupts.
      
      What needs to be done
      - Boot CPU removal support, with platform level authentication
      - Putting cpu being removed in BOOT_RENDEZ mode.
      f887808c
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      [PATCH] Revisited: ia64-cpu-hotplug-cpu_present.patch · fda94eff
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      
      With a hotplug capable kernel, there is a requirement to distinguish a
      possible CPU from one actually present.  The set of possible CPU numbers
      doesn't change during a single system boot, but the set of present CPUs
      changes as CPUs are physically inserted into or removed from a system.  The
      cpu_possible_map does not change once initialized at boot, but the
      cpu_present_map changes dynamically as CPUs are inserted or removed.
      
      
      Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> provided an expanded explanation:
      
      
      Ashok's cpu hot plug patch adds a cpu_present_map, resulting in the following
      cpu maps being available.  All the following maps are fixed size bitmaps of
      size NR_CPUS.
      
      #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
      	cpu_possible_map - map with all NR_CPUS bits set
      	cpu_present_map - map with bit 'cpu' set iff cpu is populated
      	cpu_online_map - map with bit 'cpu' set iff cpu available to scheduler
      #else
      	cpu_possible_map - map with bit 'cpu' set iff cpu is populated
      	cpu_present_map - copy of cpu_possible_map
      	cpu_online_map - map with bit 'cpu' set iff cpu available to scheduler
      #endif
      
      In either case, NR_CPUS is fixed at compile time, as the static size of these
      bitmaps.  The cpu_possible_map is fixed at boot time, as the set of CPU id's
      that it is possible might ever be plugged in at anytime during the life of
      that system boot.  The cpu_present_map is dynamic(*), representing which CPUs
      are currently plugged in.  And cpu_online_map is the dynamic subset of
      cpu_present_map, indicating those CPUs available for scheduling.
      
      If HOTPLUG is enabled, then cpu_possible_map is forced to have all NR_CPUS
      bits set, otherwise it is just the set of CPUs that ACPI reports present at
      boot.
      
      If HOTPLUG is enabled, then cpu_present_map varies dynamically, depending on
      what ACPI reports as currently plugged in, otherwise cpu_present_map is just a
      copy of cpu_possible_map.
      
      (*) Well, cpu_present_map is dynamic in the hotplug case.  If not hotplug,
          it's the same as cpu_possible_map, hence fixed at boot.
      fda94eff
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      [PATCH] ia64 cpu hotplug: /proc rework · 4af52c23
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
      
      Changes proc entries for cpu hotplug to be created via the cpu hotplug
      notifier callbacks.  Also fixed a bug in the removal code that did not remove
      proc entries as expected.
      4af52c23
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      [PATCH] ia64 cpu hotplug: IRQ affinity work · f53c027a
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
      
      irq affinity setting via /proc was forcing iosapic rte programming by force.
      The correct way to do this is to perform this when a interrupt is pending.
      f53c027a
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      [PATCH] ia64 cpu hotplug: sysfs additions · 68a50f57
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
      
      Creation of sysfs via topology_init() creates sysfs entries.  The creation of
      the online control file is created separately when the cpu_up is invoked in
      arch independent code.
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      [PATCH] ia64 cpu hotplug: init section fixes · c4dff897
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
      
      Contains changes from __init to __devinit to support cpu hotplug Changes only
      arch/ia64 portions of the kernel tree.
      c4dff897
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      [PATCH] ia64 cpu hotplug: core kernel initialisation · 8fe08444
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
      
      This patch changes __init to __devinit to init_idle so that when a new cpu
      arrives, it can call these functions at a later time.
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      [PATCH] swap speedups and fix · 2e27bd98
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
      
      I don't think we need an install_swap_bdev/remove_swap_bdev anymore, we should
      use the swap_info->bdev, not the swap_bdevs.  the swap_info already has a
      ->bdev field, the only point of remove_swap_bdev/install_swap_bdev was to
      unplug all devices as efficiently as possible, we don't need that anymore with
      the page parameter.
      
      Plus the semaphore should be a rwsem to allow parallel unplug from multiple
      pages.
      
      After that I don't need to take the semaphore anymore during swapon, no
      swapcache with swp_type() pointing to such bdev, will be allowed until swapon
      is complete (SWP_ACTIVE is set a lot later after setting p->bdev).
      
      In swapoff I only need a dummy serialization with the readers, after
      try_to_unuse is complete:
      
       	err = try_to_unuse(type);
       	current->flags &= ~PF_SWAPOFF;
      
       	/* wait for any unplug function to finish */
       	down_write(&swap_unplug_sem);
       	up_write(&swap_unplug_sem);
      
      
      that's all, no other locking and no install_swap_bdev/remove_swap_bdev.
      
      (and the swap_bdevs[] compression code was busted)
      2e27bd98
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      [PATCH] blk_run_page(): we don't trust bh->b_page · 4e36c118
      Andrew Morton authored
      We don't trust bh->b_page to point to the right thing across all filesystems,
      so revert this bit.
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      [PATCH] Add blk_run_page() · e059d5da
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
      
      From: Jens Axboe
      
      Add blk_run_page() API.  This is so that we can pass the target page all the
      way down to (for example) the swap unplug function.  So swap can work out
      which blockdevs back this particular page.
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      [PATCH] rmap-5-swap_unplug-page-revert · 485ba3c3
      Andrew Morton authored
      Revert the pre-2.6.6 per-address-space unplugging changes.  This removes a
      swapper_space exceptionality, syncs things with Andrea and provides for
      simplification of the swap unplug function.
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      [PATCH] rename rmap_lock to page_map_lock · c78a6f26
      Andrew Morton authored
      Sync this up with Andrea's patches.
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      [PATCH] filtered wakeups: apply to buffer_head functions · 70d1f017
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      
      This patch implements wake-one semantics for buffer_head wakeups in a single
      step.  The buffer_head being waited on is passed to the waiter's wakeup
      function by the waker, and the wakeup function compares that to the a pointer
      stored in its on-stack structure and checking the readiness of the bit there
      also.  Wake-one semantics are achieved by using WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE in the
      codepaths waiting to acquire the bit for mutual exclusion.
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      [PATCH] filtered wakeups: apply to pagecache functions · 08aaf1cc
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      
      This patch implements wake-one semantics for page wakeups in a single step.
      Discrimination between distinct pages is achieved by passing the page to the
      wakeup function, which compares it to a pointer in its own on-stack structure
      containing the waitqueue element and the page.  Bit discrimination is achieved
      by storing the bit number in that same structure and testing the bit in the
      wakeup function.  Wake-one semantics are achieved by using WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE
      in the codepaths waiting to acquire the bit for mutual exclusion.
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    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] filtered wakeups: wakeup enhancements · 2afafa3b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      
      This patch provides an additional argument to __wake_up_common() so that the
      information wakefunc.patch made waiters ready to receive may be passed to them
      by wakers.  This is provided as a separate patch so that the overhead of the
      additional argument to __wake_up_common() can be measured in isolation.  No
      change in performance was observable here.
      2afafa3b
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      [PATCH] filtered wakeups · 2f242854
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      
      This patch series is solving the "thundering herd" problem that occurs in the
      mainline implementation of hashed waitqueues.  There are two sources of
      spurious wakeups in such arrangements:
      
      (a) Hash collisions that place waiters on different objects on the same
          waitqueue, which wakes threads falsely when any of the objects hashed to
          the same queue receives a wakeup.  i.e.  loss of information about which
          object a wakeup event is related to.
      
      (b) Loss of information about which object a given waiter is waiting on.
          This precludes wake-one semantics for mutual exclusion scenarios.  For
          instance, a lock bit may be slept on.  If there are any waiters on the
          object, a lock bit release event must wake at least one of them so as to
          prevent deadlock.  But without information as to which waiter is waiting
          on which object, we must resort to waking all waiters who could possibly
          be waiting on it.  Now, as the lock bit provides mutual exclusion, only
          one of the waiters woken can proceed, and the remainder will go back to
          sleep and wait for another event, creating unnecessary system load.  Once
          wake-one semantics are established, only one of the waiters waiting to
          acquire a lock bit need to be woken, which measurably reduces system load
          and improves efficiency (i.e.  it's the subject of the benchmarking I've
          been sending to you).
      
      Even beyond the measurable efficiency gains, there are reasons of robustness
      and responsiveness to motivate addressing the issue of thundering herds.  In a
      real-life scenario I've been personally involved in resolving, the thundering
      herd issue caused powerful modern SMP machines with fast IO systems to be
      unresponsive to user input for a minute at a time or more.  Analogues of these
      patches for the distro kernels involved fully resolved the issue to the
      customer's satisfaction and obviated workarounds to limit the pagecache's
      size.
      
      The latest spin of these patches basically shoves more pieces of the logic
      into the wakeup functions, with some efficiency gains from sharing the hot
      codepath with the rest of the kernel, and a slightly larger diff than the
      patches with the newly-introduced entrypoint.  Writing these was motivated by
      the push to insulate sched.c from more of the details of wakeup semantics by
      putting more of the logic into the wakeup functions.  In order to accomplish
      this while still solving (b), the wakeup functions grew a new argument for
      communication about what object a wakeup event is related to to be passed by
      the waker.
      
      =========
      
      This patch provides an additional argument to wakeup functions so that
      information may be passed from the waker to the waiter.  This is provided as a
      separate patch so that the overhead of the additional argument can be measured
      in isolation.  No change in performance was observable here.
      2f242854
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      [PATCH] do_mounts_rd-malloc-fix · 5a930dd9
      Andrew Morton authored
      gcc-3.4.0 sez:
      
      init/do_mounts_rd.c:309: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'malloc'
      5a930dd9
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      [PATCH] VM accounting fix · e46bdb8d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      
      Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> wrote:
      
         mprotect() fails to merge VMAs because one VMA can end up with
         VM_ACCOUNT flag set, and another without that flag.  That makes several
         apps of mine to malfuncate.
      
      
      Great find!  Someone has got their test the wrong way round.  Since that
      VM_MAYACCT macro is being used in one place only, and just hiding what it's
      actually about, fold it into its callsite.
      e46bdb8d
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      [PATCH] revert the process-migration-speedup patch · 64525acc
      Andrew Morton authored
      David Mosberger asked that this be backed out:
      
      "I do not believe that flushing the TLB before migration is be the right thing
      to do on ia64 machines which support global TLB purges (i.e., all but SGI's
      machines)."
      
      It was of huge benefit for the SGI machines, so work is ongoing.
      64525acc
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      [PATCH] MSEC_TO_JIFFIES to msec_to_jiffies · 5975a1db
      Andrew Morton authored
      Switch all users of MSEC[S]_TO_JIFFIES and JIFFIES_TO_MSEC[S] over to use
      jiffies_to_msecs() and msecs_to_jiffies().  Withdraw MSECS_TO_JIFFIES() and
      JIFFIES_TO_MSECS() from the kernel API.
      5975a1db
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      [PATCH] Covert drivers to use msec_to_jiffies · b3dafee7
      Andrew Morton authored
      Remove various private implementations of msecs_to_jiffies() and
      jiffies_to_msecs().
      
      There are various uppercase versions which should be consolidated.
      b3dafee7
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      [PATCH] MSEC_TO_JIFFIES consolidation · 5b59eadf
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      
      We have various different implementations of MSEC[S]_TO_JIFFIES and
      JIFFIES_TO_MSEC[S].  We recently had a compile-time clash in USB.
      
      Fix all that up.
      
      - The SCTP version was very inefficient.  Hopefully this version is accurate
        enough.
      
      - Optimise for the HZ=100 and HZ=1000 cases
      
      - This version does round-up, so sleep(9 milliseconds) works OK on 100HZ.
      
      - We still have lots of jiffies_to_msec and msec_to_jiffies implementations.
      
      From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      
        Optimize the cases where HZ is a divisor of 1000 or vice-versa in
        JIFFIES_TO_MSECS() and MSECS_TO_JIFFIES() by allowing the nonvanishing(!)
        integral ratios to appear as a parenthesized expressions eligible for
        constant folding optimizations.
      
      From: me
      
        Use typesafe inlines for the jiffies-to-millisecond conversion functions.
      
        This means that milliseconds officially takes the type `unsigned int'.
        All current callers seem to be OK with that.
      
        Drivers need to be fixed up to use this instead of their private versions.
      5b59eadf
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      [PATCH] sched: add missing local_irq_enable() · 1b104df1
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      
      this_rq_lock does a local_irq_disable, and sched_yield() needs to undo that.
      1b104df1
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      [PATCH] Fix page double-freeing race · f68e7a55
      Andrew Morton authored
      This has been there for nearly two years.  See bugzilla #1403
      
      vmscan.c does, in two places:
      
      	spin_lock(zone->lru_lock)
      	page = lru_to_page(&zone->inactive_list);
      	if (page_count(page) == 0) {
      		/* erk, it's being freed by __page_cache_release() or
      		 * release_pages()
      		 */
      		put_it_back_on_the_lru();
      
      	} else {
      
      	--> window 1 <--
      
      		page_cache_get(page);
      		put_in_on_private_list();
      	}
      	spin_unlock(zone->lru_lock)
      
      	use_the_private_list();
      
      	page_cache_release(page);
      
      
      
      whereas __page_cache_release() and release_pages() do:
      
      	if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
      
      	--> window 2 <--
      
      		spin_lock(lru->lock);
      		if (page_count(page) == 0) {
      			remove_it_from_the_lru();
      			really_free_the_page()
      		}
      		spin_unlock(zone->lru_lock)
      	}
      
      
      The race occurs if the vmscan.c path sees page_count()==1 and then the
      page_cache_release() path happens in that few-instruction "window 1" before
      vmscan's page_cache_get().
      
      The page_cache_release() path does put_page_testzero(), which returns true.
      Then this CPU takes an interrupt...
      
      The vmscan.c path then does page_cache_get(), taking the refcount to one.
      Then it uses the page and does page_cache_release(), taking the refcount to
      zero and the page is really freed.
      
      Now, the CPU running page_cache_release() returns from the interrupt, takes
      the LRU lock, sees the page still has a refcount of zero and frees it again.
      Boom.
      
      
      The patch fixes this by closing "window 1".  We provide a
      "get_page_testone()" which grabs a ref on the page and returns true if the
      refcount was previously zero.  If that happens the vmscan.c code simply drops
      the page's refcount again and leaves the page on the LRU.
      
      All this happens under the zone->lru_lock, which is also taken by
      __page_cache_release() and release_pages(), so the vmscan code knows that the
      page has not been returned to the page allocator yet.
      
      
      In terms of implementation, the page counts are now offset by one: a free page
      has page->_count of -1.  This is so that we can use atomic_add_negative() and
      atomic_inc_and_test() to provide put_page_testzero() and get_page_testone().
      
      The macros hide all of this so the public interpretation of page_count() and
      set_page_count() remains unaltered.
      
      The compiler can usually constant-fold the offsetting of page->count.  This
      patch increases an x86 SMP kernel's text by 32 bytes.
      
      The patch renames page->count to page->_count to break callers who aren't
      using the macros.
      
      This patch requires that the architecture implement atomic_add_negative().  It
      is currently present on
      
      	arm
      	arm26
      	i386
      	ia64
      	mips
      	ppc
      	s390
      	v850
      	x86_64
      
      ppc implements this as
      
      #define atomic_add_negative(a, v)	(atomic_add_return((a), (v)) < 0)
      
      and atomic_add_return() is implemented on
      
      	alpha
      	cris
      	h8300
      	ia64
      	m68knommu
      	mips
      	parisc
      	ppc
      	ppc
      	ppc64
      	s390
      	sh
      	sparc
      	v850
      
      so we're looking pretty good.
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      [PATCH] ia64 atomic_inc_and_test fix · bcd599c6
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
      bcd599c6
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      [PATCH] alpha: atomic_inc_and_test() · f3b6590c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      
      It seems atomic_inc_and_test() is missing on alpha.
      f3b6590c
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      [PATCH] Implement atomic_inc_and_test() on various architectures · 52d38af5
      Andrew Morton authored
      It's easy to do when the arch provides atomic_inc_return().
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      [PATCH] Implement atomic_add_negative() on various architectures · ebc7bc42
      Andrew Morton authored
      Lots of architectures have atomic_add_return() and no atomic_add_negative().
      
      We can implement the latter in terms of the former.
      ebc7bc42
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      [PATCH] Make users of page->count use the provided macros · b5fc1438
      Andrew Morton authored
      I'm about to change the meaning (and name) of page->count.  Go through and fix
      up all those places which are open-coding references to it.
      b5fc1438
    • Jeff Garzik's avatar
      Merge redhat.com:/spare/repo/linux-2.6 · 21adfc14
      Jeff Garzik authored
      into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.6
      21adfc14
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/i2c-2.6 · 0cd6f6c1
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/driver-2.6 · a0d4e51c
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      a0d4e51c
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      Merge bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/usb-2.6 · be9bc8d1
      Linus Torvalds authored
      into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.6/linux
      be9bc8d1
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      Merge kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/bleed-2.6 · 3004c70f
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      into kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/driver-2.6
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      Merge kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/bleed-2.6 · 744804bc
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      into kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/i2c-2.6
      744804bc
    • Deepak Saxena's avatar
      [PATCH] I2C: Missed ixp42x -> ixp4xx conversion · 558fcd72
      Deepak Saxena authored
      Forgot to include this with my original patch a few weeks ago...
      558fcd72