07 Jan, 2009

4 commits

  • Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Harvey Harrison
     
  • While looking at reducing the amount of architecture namespace pollution
    in the generic kernel, I found that asm/irq.h is included in the vast
    majority of compilations on ARM (around 650 files.)

    Since asm/irq.h includes a sub-architecture include file on ARM, this
    causes a negative impact on the ccache's ability to re-use the build
    results from other sub-architectures, so we have a desire to reduce the
    dependencies on asm/irq.h.

    It turns out that a major cause of this is the needless include of
    linux/hardirq.h into asm-generic/local.h. The patch below removes this
    include, resulting in some 250 to 300 files (around half) of the kernel
    then omitting asm/irq.h.

    My test builds still succeed, provided two ARM files are fixed
    (arch/arm/kernel/traps.c and arch/arm/mm/fault.c) - so there may be
    negative impacts for this on other architectures.

    Note that x86 does not include asm/irq.h nor linux/hardirq.h in its
    asm/local.h, so this patch can be viewed as bringing the generic version
    into line with the x86 version.

    [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: add #include to acpi/processor_idle.c]
    [adobriyan@gmail.com: fix sparc64]
    Signed-off-by: Russell King
    Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
    Cc: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Russell King
     
  • The atomic_t type cannot currently be used in some header files because it
    would create an include loop with asm/atomic.h. Move the type definition
    to linux/types.h to break the loop.

    Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Huang Ying
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Matthew Wilcox
     
  • Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs

    Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all
    the memory sections located on nodeX. For example:
    /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135
    indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1.

    Also revises documentation to cover this change as well as updating
    Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory to include descriptions
    of memory hotremove files 'phys_device', 'phys_index', and 'state'
    that were previously not described there.

    In addition to it always being a good policy to provide users with
    the maximum possible amount of physical location information for
    resources that can be hot-added and/or hot-removed, the following
    are some (but likely not all) of the user benefits provided by
    this change.
    Immediate:
    - Provides information needed to determine the specific node
    on which a defective DIMM is located. This will reduce system
    downtime when the node or defective DIMM is swapped out.
    - Prevents unintended onlining of a memory section that was
    previously offlined due to a defective DIMM. This could happen
    during node hot-add when the user or node hot-add assist script
    onlines _all_ offlined sections due to user or script inability
    to identify the specific memory sections located on the hot-added
    node. The consequences of reintroducing the defective memory
    could be ugly.
    - Provides information needed to vary the amount and distribution
    of memory on specific nodes for testing or debugging purposes.
    Future:
    - Will provide information needed to identify the memory
    sections that need to be offlined prior to physical removal
    of a specific node.

    Symlink creation during boot was tested on 2-node x86_64, 2-node
    ppc64, and 2-node ia64 systems. Symlink creation during physical
    memory hot-add tested on a 2-node x86_64 system.

    Signed-off-by: Gary Hade
    Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Gary Hade
     

04 Jan, 2009

2 commits

  • …/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

    * 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits)
    x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup
    cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined
    cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate
    cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t
    x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c
    x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids
    sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
    x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus
    ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
    cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
    xtensa: define __fls
    mn10300: define __fls
    m32r: define __fls
    h8300: define __fls
    frv: define __fls
    cris: define __fls
    cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
    cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
    cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/
    cpumask: convert mm/
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • …ux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask

    Conflicts:
    arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
    kernel/rcuclassic.c
    kernel/sched.c
    kernel/time/tick-sched.c

    Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
    [ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ]
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

    Mike Travis
     

03 Jan, 2009

1 commit

  • …/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

    * 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
    x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
    x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
    sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
    x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
    x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
    sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
    sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
    sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
    sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
    sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
    sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
    sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
    sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
    sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
    x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
    x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
    x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
    x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
    x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
    x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
    ...

    Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually

    Linus Torvalds
     

01 Jan, 2009

1 commit


30 Dec, 2008

1 commit


29 Dec, 2008

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (85 commits)
    [S390] provide documentation for hvc_iucv kernel parameter.
    [S390] convert ctcm printks to dev_xxx and pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert zfcp printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert vmlogrdr printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert zfcp dumper printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert cpu related printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert qeth printks to dev_xxx and pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert sclp printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert iucv printks to dev_xxx and pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert ap_bus printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert dcssblk and extmem printks messages to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert monwriter printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert s390 debug feature printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert monreader printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert appldata printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert setup printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert hypfs printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert time printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert cpacf printks to pr_xxx macros.
    [S390] convert cio printks to pr_xxx macros.
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

26 Dec, 2008

1 commit


25 Dec, 2008

1 commit

  • arch_setup_additional_pages currently gets two arguments, the binary
    format descripton and an indication if the process uses an executable
    stack or not. The second argument is not used by anybody, it could
    be removed without replacement.

    What actually does make sense is to pass an indication if the process
    uses the elf interpreter or not. The glibc code will not use anything
    from the vdso if the process does not use the dynamic linker, so for
    statically linked binaries the architecture backend can choose not
    to map the vdso.

    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

    Martin Schwidefsky
     

22 Dec, 2008

28 commits