30 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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…it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
20 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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ioat3.2 does not support asynchronous error notifications which makes
the driver experience latencies when non-zero pq validate results are
expected. Provide a mechanism for turning off async_xor_val and
async_syndrome_val via Kconfig. This approach is generally useful for
any driver that specifies ASYNC_TX_DISABLE_CHANNEL_SWITCH and would like
to force the async_tx api to fall back to the synchronous path for
certain operations.Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
20 Oct, 2009
2 commits
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The global scribble page is used as a temporary destination buffer when
disabling the P or Q result is requested. The local scribble buffer
contains memory for performing address conversions. Rename the global
variable to avoid confusion.Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
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- update the kernel doc for async_syndrome to indicate what NULL in the
source list means
- whitespace fixupsSigned-off-by: Dan Williams
16 Oct, 2009
2 commits
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async_syndrome_val check the P and Q blocks used for RAID6
calculations.
With DDF raid6, some of the data blocks might be NULL, so
this needs to be handled in the same way that async_gen_syndrome
handles it.As async_syndrome_val calls async_xor, also enhance async_xor
to detect and skip NULL blocks in the list.Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
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md/raid6 passes a list of 'struct page *' to the async_tx routines,
which then either DMA map them for offload, or take the page_address
for CPU based calculations.For RAID6 we sometime leave 'blanks' in the list of pages.
For CPU based calcs, we want to treat theses as a page of zeros.
For offloaded calculations, we simply don't pass a page to the
hardware.Currently the 'blanks' are encoded as a pointer to
raid6_empty_zero_page. This is a 4096 byte memory region, not a
'struct page'. This is mostly handled correctly but is rather ugly.So change the code to pass and expect a NULL pointer for the blanks.
When taking page_address of a page, we need to check for a NULL and
in that case use raid6_empty_zero_page.Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
09 Sep, 2009
2 commits
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Some engines have transfer size and address alignment restrictions. Add
a per-operation alignment property to struct dma_device that the async
routines and dmatest can use to check alignment capabilities.Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
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Some engines optimize operation by reading ahead in the descriptor chain
such that descriptor2 may start execution before descriptor1 completes.
If descriptor2 depends on the result from descriptor1 then a fence is
required (on descriptor2) to disable this optimization. The async_tx
api could implicitly identify dependencies via the 'depend_tx'
parameter, but that would constrain cases where the dependency chain
only specifies a completion order rather than a data dependency. So,
provide an ASYNC_TX_FENCE to explicitly identify data dependencies.Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
30 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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[ Based on an original patch by Yuri Tikhonov ]
This adds support for doing asynchronous GF multiplication by adding
two additional functions to the async_tx API:async_gen_syndrome() does simultaneous XOR and Galois field
multiplication of sources.async_syndrome_val() validates the given source buffers against known P
and Q values.When a request is made to run async_pq against more than the hardware
maximum number of supported sources we need to reuse the previous
generated P and Q values as sources into the next operation. Care must
be taken to remove Q from P' and P from Q'. For example to perform a 5
source pq op with hardware that only supports 4 sources at a time the
following approach is taken:p, q = PQ(src0, src1, src2, src3, COEF({01}, {02}, {04}, {08}))
p', q' = PQ(p, q, q, src4, COEF({00}, {01}, {00}, {10}))p' = p + q + q + src4 = p + src4
q' = {00}*p + {01}*q + {00}*q + {10}*src4 = q + {10}*src4Note: 4 is the minimum acceptable maxpq otherwise we punt to
synchronous-software path.The DMA_PREP_CONTINUE flag indicates to the driver to reuse p and q as
sources (in the above manner) and fill the remaining slots up to maxpq
with the new sources/coefficients.Note1: Some devices have native support for P+Q continuation and can skip
this extra work. Devices with this capability can advertise it with
dma_set_maxpq. It is up to each driver how to handle the
DMA_PREP_CONTINUE flag.Note2: The api supports disabling the generation of P when generating Q,
this is ignored by the synchronous path but is implemented by some dma
devices to save unnecessary writes. In this case the continuation
algorithm is simplified to only reuse Q as a source.Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov
Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams