14 Jan, 2011

3 commits

  • This implements the API defined in which is
    used for kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. This patch together
    with the first patch is enough for XZ-compressed initramfs and initrd;
    XZ-compressed kernel will need arch-specific changes.

    The buffering requirements described in decompress_unxz.c are stricter
    than with gzip, so the relevant changes should be done to the
    arch-specific code when adding support for XZ-compressed kernel.
    Similarly, the heap size in arch-specific pre-boot code may need to be
    increased (30 KiB is enough).

    The XZ decompressor needs memmove(), memeq() (memcmp() == 0), and
    memzero() (memset(ptr, 0, size)), which aren't available in all
    arch-specific pre-boot environments. I'm including simple versions in
    decompress_unxz.c, but a cleaner solution would naturally be nicer.

    Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Cc: Alain Knaff
    Cc: Albin Tonnerre
    Cc: Phillip Lougher
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Lasse Collin
     
  • In userspace, the .lzma format has become mostly a legacy file format that
    got superseded by the .xz format. Similarly, LZMA Utils was superseded by
    XZ Utils.

    These patches add support for XZ decompression into the kernel. Most of
    the code is as is from XZ Embedded .
    It was written for the Linux kernel but is usable in other projects too.

    Advantages of XZ over the current LZMA code in the kernel:
    - Nice API that can be used by other kernel modules; it's
    not limited to kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression.
    - Integrity check support (CRC32)
    - BCJ filters improve compression of executable code on
    certain architectures. These together with LZMA2 can
    produce a few percent smaller kernel or Squashfs images
    than plain LZMA without making the decompression slower.

    This patch: Add the main decompression code (xz_dec), testing module
    (xz_dec_test), wrapper script (xz_wrap.sh) for the xz command line tool,
    and documentation. The xz_dec module is enough to have a usable XZ
    decompressor e.g. for Squashfs.

    Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Cc: Alain Knaff
    Cc: Albin Tonnerre
    Cc: Phillip Lougher
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Lasse Collin
     
  • Alex said:

    I want to use flex_array to store a sparse array of ATM cell
    re-assembly buffers for my ATM over Ethernet driver. Using the per-vcc
    user_back structure causes problems when stacked with things like
    br2684.

    Add EXPORT_SYMBOL() for all publically accessible flex array functions
    and move to obj-y so that modules may use this library.

    Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
    Cc: Dave Hansen
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Reported-by: Alex Bennee
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Rientjes
     

07 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1436 commits)
    cassini: Use local-mac-address prom property for Cassini MAC address
    net: remove the duplicate #ifdef __KERNEL__
    net: bridge: check the length of skb after nf_bridge_maybe_copy_header()
    netconsole: clarify stopping message
    netconsole: don't announce stopping if nothing happened
    cnic: Fix the type field in SPQ messages
    netfilter: fix export secctx error handling
    netfilter: fix the race when initializing nf_ct_expect_hash_rnd
    ipv4: IP defragmentation must be ECN aware
    net: r6040: Return proper error for r6040_init_one
    dcb: use after free in dcb_flushapp()
    dcb: unlock on error in dcbnl_ieee_get()
    net: ixp4xx_eth: Return proper error for eth_init_one
    include/linux/if_ether.h: Add #define ETH_P_LINK_CTL for HPNA and wlan local tunnel
    net: add POLLPRI to sock_def_readable()
    af_unix: Avoid socket->sk NULL OOPS in stream connect security hooks.
    net_sched: pfifo_head_drop problem
    mac80211: remove stray extern
    mac80211: implement off-channel TX using hw r-o-c offload
    mac80211: implement hardware offload for remain-on-channel
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

11 Dec, 2010

1 commit


03 Dec, 2010

1 commit

  • The timerlist infrastructure is a thin layer over the rbtree
    code that implements a simple list of timers sorted by an
    expires value, and a getnext function that provides a pointer
    to the earliest timer.

    This infrastructure allows drivers and other kernel infrastructure
    to easily implement timers without duplicating code.

    Signed-off-by: John Stultz
    LKML Reference:
    Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
    CC: Alessandro Zummo
    CC: Thomas Gleixner
    CC: Richard Cochran

    John Stultz
     

19 Nov, 2010

1 commit

  • This adds generic functions for calculating Exponentially Weighted Moving
    Averages (EWMA). This implementation makes use of a structure which keeps the
    EWMA parameters and a scaled up internal representation to reduce rounding
    errors.

    The original idea for this implementation came from the rt2x00 driver
    (rt2x00link.c). I would like to use it in several places in the mac80211 and
    ath5k code and I hope it can be useful in many other places in the kernel code.

    Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf
    Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

    Bruno Randolf
     

09 Aug, 2010

1 commit


14 Jul, 2010

1 commit

  • via following scripts

    FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

    sed -i \
    -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \
    -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \
    $FILES

    for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g')
    mv $N $M
    done

    and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc.

    also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/

    Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
    Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu
    Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

    Yinghai Lu
     

29 May, 2010

1 commit

  • * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (27 commits)
    ACPI: Don't let acpi_pad needlessly mark TSC unstable
    drivers/acpi/sleep.h: Checkpatch cleanup
    ACPI: Minor cleanup eliminating redundant PMTIMER_TICKS to NS conversion
    ACPI: delete unused c-state promotion/demotion data strucutures
    ACPI: video: fix acpi_backlight=video
    ACPI: EC: Use kmemdup
    drivers/acpi: use kasprintf
    ACPI, APEI, EINJ injection parameters support
    Add x64 support to debugfs
    ACPI, APEI, Use ERST for persistent storage of MCE
    ACPI, APEI, Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) support
    ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source memory error support
    ACPI, APEI, UEFI Common Platform Error Record (CPER) header
    Unified UUID/GUID definition
    ACPI Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) support
    ACPI, APEI, PCIE AER, use general HEST table parsing in AER firmware_first setup
    ACPI, APEI, Document for APEI
    ACPI, APEI, EINJ support
    ACPI, APEI, HEST table parsing
    ACPI, APEI, APEI supporting infrastructure
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

28 May, 2010

1 commit

  • I used this module to test the series of modification to the cpu notifiers
    code.

    Example1: inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)

    # modprobe cpu-notifier-error-inject cpu_down_prepare_error=-1
    # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
    bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted

    Example2: inject CPU online error (-2 == -ENOENT)

    # modprobe cpu-notifier-error-inject cpu_up_prepare_error=-2
    # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
    bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Kconfig help text]
    Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Akinobu Mita
     

20 May, 2010

1 commit

  • There are many different UUID/GUID definitions in kernel, such as that
    in EFI, many file systems, some drivers, etc. Every kernel components
    need UUID/GUID has its own definition. This patch provides a unified
    definition for UUID/GUID.

    UUID is defined via typedef. This makes that UUID appears more like a
    preliminary type, and makes the data type explicit (comparing with
    implicit "u8 uuid[16]").

    The binary representation of UUID/GUID can be little-endian (used by
    EFI, etc) or big-endian (defined by RFC4122), so both is defined.

    Signed-off-by: Huang Ying
    Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
    Signed-off-by: Len Brown

    Huang Ying
     

19 May, 2010

1 commit


30 Apr, 2010

1 commit


07 Apr, 2010

1 commit

  • Add support for the hardware version of the Hamming weight function,
    popcnt, present in CPUs which advertize it under CPUID, Function
    0x0000_0001_ECX[23]. On CPUs which don't support it, we fallback to the
    default lib/hweight.c sw versions.

    A synthetic benchmark comparing popcnt with __sw_hweight64 showed almost
    a 3x speedup on a F10h machine.

    Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

    Borislav Petkov
     

15 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • lcm() was defined to take integer-sized arguments. The supplied
    arguments are multiplied, however, causing us to overflow given
    sufficiently large input. That in turn led to incorrect optimal I/O
    size reporting in some cases (RAID over RAID).

    Switch lcm() over to unsigned long similar to gcd() and move the
    function from blk-settings.c to lib.

    Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

    Martin K. Petersen
     

08 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • This reverts commit a069c266ae5fdfbf5b4aecf2c672413aa33b2504.

    It turns ou that not only was it missing a case (XFS) that needed it,
    but perhaps more importantly, people sometimes want to enable new
    modules that they hadn't had enabled before, and if such a module uses
    list_sort(), it can't easily be inserted any more.

    So rather than add a "select LIST_SORT" to the XFS case, just leave it
    compiled in. It's not all _that_ big, after all, and the inconvenience
    isn't worth it.

    Requested-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Don Mullis
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Dave Chinner
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
     

07 Mar, 2010

2 commits

  • * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs:
    [LogFS] Change magic number
    [LogFS] Remove h_version field
    [LogFS] Check feature flags
    [LogFS] Only write journal if dirty
    [LogFS] Fix bdev erases
    [LogFS] Silence gcc
    [LogFS] Prevent 64bit divisions in hash_index
    [LogFS] Plug memory leak on error paths
    [LogFS] Add MAINTAINERS entry
    [LogFS] add new flash file system

    Fixed up trivial conflict in lib/Kconfig, and a semantic conflict in
    fs/logfs/inode.c introduced by write_inode() being changed to use
    writeback_control' by commit a9185b41a4f84971b930c519f0c63bd450c4810d
    ("pass writeback_control to ->write_inode")

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Build list_sort() only for configs that need it -- those that don't save
    ~581 bytes (i386).

    Signed-off-by: Don Mullis
    Cc: Dave Airlie
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Dave Chinner
    Cc: Artem Bityutskiy
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Don Mullis
     

26 Feb, 2010

1 commit


13 Jan, 2010

1 commit

  • There are two copies of list_sort() in the tree already, one in the DRM
    code, another in ubifs. Now XFS needs this as well. Create a generic
    list_sort() function from the ubifs version and convert existing users
    to it so we don't end up with yet another copy in the tree.

    Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
    Acked-by: Dave Airlie
    Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Dave Chinner
     

12 Jan, 2010

1 commit


21 Nov, 2009

1 commit


29 Oct, 2009

1 commit


02 Oct, 2009

1 commit


30 Jul, 2009

1 commit

  • Once a structure goes over PAGE_SIZE*2, we see occasional allocation
    failures. Some people have chosen to switch over to things like vmalloc()
    that will let them keep array-like access to such a large structures.
    But, vmalloc() has plenty of downsides.

    Here's an alternative. I think it's what Andrew was suggesting here:

    http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/2/518

    I call it a flexible array. It does all of its work in PAGE_SIZE bits, so
    never does an order>0 allocation. The base level has
    PAGE_SIZE-2*sizeof(int) bytes of storage for pointers to the second level.
    So, with a 32-bit arch, you get about 4MB (4183112 bytes) of total
    storage when the objects pack nicely into a page. It is half that on
    64-bit because the pointers are twice the size. There's a table detailing
    this in the code.

    There are kerneldocs for the functions, but here's an
    overview:

    flex_array_alloc() - dynamically allocate a base structure
    flex_array_free() - free the array and all of the
    second-level pages
    flex_array_free_parts() - free the second-level pages, but
    not the base (for static bases)
    flex_array_put() - copy into the array at the given index
    flex_array_get() - copy out of the array at the given index
    flex_array_prealloc() - preallocate the second-level pages
    between the given indexes to
    guarantee no allocs will occur at
    put() time.

    We could also potentially just pass the "element_size" into each of the
    API functions instead of storing it internally. That would get us one
    more base pointer on 32-bit.

    I've been testing this by running it in userspace. The header and patch
    that I've been using are here, as well as the little script I'm using to
    generate the size table which goes in the kerneldocs.

    http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/flexarray/

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
    Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Dave Hansen
     

19 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • This patch adds lib/gcd.c which contains a greatest common divider
    implementation taken from sound/core/pcm_timer.c

    Several usages of this new library function will be sent to subsystem
    maintainers.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use swap() (pointed out by Joe)]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: just add gcd.o to obj-y, remove Kconfig changes]
    Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli
    Cc: Sergei Shtylyov
    Cc: Takashi Iwai
    Cc: Simon Horman
    Cc: Julius Volz
    Cc: David S. Miller
    Cc: Patrick McHardy
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Florian Fainelli
     

15 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • Many processor architectures have no 64-bit atomic instructions, but
    we need atomic64_t in order to support the perf_counter subsystem.

    This adds an implementation of 64-bit atomic operations using hashed
    spinlocks to provide atomicity. For each atomic operation, the address
    of the atomic64_t variable is hashed to an index into an array of 16
    spinlocks. That spinlock is taken (with interrupts disabled) around the
    operation, which can then be coded non-atomically within the lock.

    On UP, all the spinlock manipulation goes away and we simply disable
    interrupts around each operation. In fact gcc eliminates the whole
    atomic64_lock variable as well.

    Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
    Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

    Paul Mackerras
     

12 Jun, 2009

2 commits


11 Jun, 2009

1 commit


25 Apr, 2009

1 commit

  • Currently, although find_last_bit is EXPORTed, it is statically linked
    with the kernel and is referenced only under CONFIG_SMP.

    When CONFIG_SMP is undefined and find_last_bit is referenced only by
    modules, linking fails with:

    ERROR: "find_last_bit" [fs/nfs/nfs.ko] undefined!

    Cc: Rusty Russell
    Cc: Trond Myklebust
    Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman
    Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Fred Isaman
     

29 Mar, 2009

1 commit


28 Mar, 2009

1 commit


27 Mar, 2009

2 commits

  • * 'sched-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
    sched: Add comments to find_busiest_group() function
    sched: Refactor the power savings balance code
    sched: Optimize the !power_savings_balance during fbg()
    sched: Create a helper function to calculate imbalance
    sched: Create helper to calculate small_imbalance in fbg()
    sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_domain stats for fbg()
    sched: Define structure to store the sched_domain statistics for fbg()
    sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_group stats for fbg()
    sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg()
    sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotos
    sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group()
    sched: remove unused fields from struct rq
    sched: jiffies not printed per CPU
    sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task()
    sched: fix typos in documentation
    sched: add avg_overlap decay
    x86, sched_clock(): mark variables read-mostly
    sched: optimize ttwu vs group scheduling
    sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanup
    sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (61 commits)
    Dynamic debug: fix pr_fmt() build error
    Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words
    dynamic debug: update docs
    dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
    sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors
    kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent
    sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj
    Driver core: Fix device_move() vs. dpm list ordering, v2
    Driver core: some cleanup on drivers/base/sys.c
    Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
    vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"
    driver core: fix passing platform_data
    driver core: move platform_data into platform_device
    sysfs: don't block indefinitely for unmapped files.
    driver core: move knode_bus into private structure
    driver core: move knode_driver into private structure
    driver core: move klist_children into private structure
    driver core: create a private portion of struct device
    driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v5)
    sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes
    ...

    Fixed conflicts in drivers/sh/maple/maple.c manually

    Linus Torvalds
     

25 Mar, 2009

1 commit

  • This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
    printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.

    The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
    (an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
    control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
    file, module, format string, and line number.

    for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':

    echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

    to disable them:

    echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

    A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.

    Signed-off-by: Greg Banks
    Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Jason Baron
     

05 Mar, 2009

1 commit


04 Mar, 2009

1 commit


16 Jan, 2009

1 commit

  • Ingo Molnar wrote:

    > here's a new build failure with tip/sched/rt:
    >
    > LD .tmp_vmlinux1
    > kernel/built-in.o: In function `set_curr_task_rt':
    > sched.c:(.text+0x3675): undefined reference to `plist_del'
    > kernel/built-in.o: In function `pick_next_task_rt':
    > sched.c:(.text+0x37ce): undefined reference to `plist_del'
    > kernel/built-in.o: In function `enqueue_pushable_task':
    > sched.c:(.text+0x381c): undefined reference to `plist_del'

    Eliminate the plist library kconfig and make it available
    unconditionally.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Peter Zijlstra