09 May, 2007
8 commits
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This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code. Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it. Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at. avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc:
Cc: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The console subsystem already has an idea of a boot console, using the
CON_BOOT flag. The implementation has some flaws though. The major
problem is that presence of a boot console makes register_console() ignore
any other console devices (unless explicitly specified on the kernel
command line).This patch fixes the console selection code to *not* consider a boot
console a full-featured one, so the first non-boot console registering will
become the default console instead. This way the unregister call for the
boot console in the register_console() function actually triggers and the
handover from the boot console to the real console device works smoothly.
Added a printk for the handover, so you know which console device the
output goes to when the boot console stops printing messages.The disable_early_printk() call is obsolete with that patch, explicitly
disabling the early console isn't needed any more as it works automagically
with that patch.I've walked through the tree, dropped all disable_early_printk() instances
found below arch/ and tagged the consoles with CON_BOOT if needed. The
code is tested on x86, sh (thanks to Paul) and mips (thanks to Ralf).Changes to last version: Rediffed against -rc3, adapted to mips cleanups by
Ralf, fixed "udbg-immortal" cmd line arg on powerpc.Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann
Acked-by: Paul Mundt
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Remove the Kconfig selection of semaphore debugging from the ALPHA and FRV
Kconfig files, and centralize it in lib/Kconfig.debug.There doesn't seem to be much point in letting individual architectures
independently define the same Kconfig option when it can just as easily be
put in a single Kconfig file and made dependent on a subset of
architectures. that way, at least the option shows up in the same relative
location in the menu each time.Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Richard Henderson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog timeouts via an
NMI. This add config options to know if there is the ability to receive NMIs
and if it has an NMI post processing call. Then it modifies the IPMI watchdog
to take advantage of this so that it can know if an NMI comes in.It also adds testing that the IPMI NMI watchdog works.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Simplify the stacktrace code:
- remove the unused task argument to save_stack_trace, it's always
current
- remove the all_contexts flag, it's alwasy 0Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Akinobu Mita
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The ever-vigilant users of linode.com noticed that an idle 2.6 UML has a
persistent load average of ~.4.It turns out that because the UML timer handler processed softirqs before
actually delivering the tick, the tick was counted in the context of the idle
thread about half the time.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Use SLAB_PANIC and delete duplicated panic().
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Cc: Ian Molton
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is to fix many section mismatches of code related to memory hotplug.
I checked compile with memory hotplug on/off on ia64 and x86-64 box.Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 May, 2007
32 commits
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] update memory attribute aliasing documentation & test cases
[IA64] fail mmaps that span areas with incompatible attributes
[IA64] allow WB /sys/.../legacy_mem mmaps
[IA64] make ioremap avoid unsupported attributes
[IA64] rename ioremap variables to match i386
[IA64] relax per-cpu TLB requirement to DTC
[IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8
[IA64] Fix example error injection program
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: pal_mc_error_inject() interface
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Makefile changes
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Driver sysfs interface
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Doc and sample application
[IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Kernel configuration -
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SERIAL] sunsu: Fix section mismatch warnings.
[SPARC64]: pgtable_cache_init() should be __init.
[SPARC64]: Fix section mismatch warnings in arch/sparc64/kernel/prom.c
[SPARC64]: Fix section mismatch warnings in arch/sparc64/kernel/pci.c
[SPARC64]: Fix section mismatch warnings in arch/sparc64/kernel/console.c
[MM]: sparse_init() should be __init.
[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
[VIDEO]: Add Sun XVR-2500 framebuffer driver.
[VIDEO]: Add Sun XVR-500 framebuffer driver.
[SPARC64]: SUN4U PCI-E controller support.
[SPARC]: Fix comment typo in smp4m_blackbox_current().
[SCSI] SUNESP: sun_esp.c needs linux/delay.hFix up conflict in arch/sparc64/mm/init.c manually due to removal of
pgtable_cache_init() through the -mm patches (even though that patch was
also by David ;)Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (38 commits)
sh: R7785RP board updates.
sh: Update r7780rp defconfig.
sh: Add die chain notifiers.
sh: Fix APM emulation on hp6xx.
sh: Wire up more IRQs for SH7709.
sh: Solution Engine 7722 board support.
sh: Fix r7780rp build.
sh: kdump support.
sh: Move clock reporting to its own proc entry.
sh: Solution Engine SH7705 board and CPU updates.
serial: sh-sci: Fix module clock refcount for serial console.
serial: sh-sci: Fix module clock refcounting.
sh: SH7722 clock framework support.
sh: hp6xx pata_platform support.
sh: Obey CONFIG_HZ for HZ definition.
sh: Fix fstatat64() syscall.
sh: se7780 PCI support.
sh: SH7780 Solution Engine board support.
sh: Add a dummy SH-4 PCIC fixup.
sh: Tidy up L-BOX area5 addresses.
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strlcpy already accounts for the trailing zero in its length
computation, so there is no need to substract one to the buffer size.Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
Cc: Chris Zankel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Convert an arch that does not currently implement sub-jiffy timekeeping to
use the generic timekeeping code.v850 looks like it has some intent to implement sub-jiffy timekeeping, so
it may not yet be appropriate to try to convert, but I figured I'd get the
maintainer's input and submit the patch for comment.Signed-off-by: John Stultz
Cc: Miles Bader
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Declare strlcpy and strlcat more correctly.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Cc: Jeff Dike
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
With the current timekeeping, !CONFIG_UML_REAL_TIME_CLOCK has
inconsistent behavior. Previously, gettimeofday could be (and was)
isolated from the clock ticking. Now, it's not, so when
CONFIG_UML_REAL_TIME_CLOCK is disabled, gettimeofday must progress in
lockstep with the clock, making it fully virtual.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It turns out that the message complaining about a lack of tmpfs space
on the host can be misunderstood as referring to the UML.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When doing a full address space flush, only look at areas covered by a VMA.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
More trimming of the page fault path.
Permissions are passed around in a single int rather than one bit per
int. The permission values are copied from libc so that they can be
passed to mmap and mprotect without any further conversion.The register sets used by do_syscall_stub and copy_context_skas0 are
initialized once, at boot time, rather than once per call.wait_stub_done checks whether it is getting the signals it expects by
comparing the wait status to a mask containing bits for the signals of
interest rather than comparing individually to the signal numbers. It
also has one check for a wait failure instead of two. The caller is
expected to do the initial continue of the stub. This gets rid of an
argument and some logic. The fname argument is gone, as that can be
had from a stack trace.user_signal() is collapsed into userspace() as it is basically one or
two lines of code afterwards.The physical memory remapping stuff is gone, as it is unused.
flush_tlb_page is inlined.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
I missed removing another piece of debugging in an earlier patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Give the page fault code a specialized path. There is only one page to look
at, so there's no point in going into the general page table walking code.
There's only going to be one host operation, so there are no opportunities for
merging. So, we go straight to the pte we want, figure out what needs doing,
and do it.While I was in here, I fixed the wart where the address passed to unmap was a
void *, but an unsigned long to map and protect.This gives me just under 10% on a kernel build.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Allow deadlocks to be avoided in the AIO code by setting the pipe to the I/O
thread non-blocking.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Rename os_{read_write}_file_k back to os_{read_write}_file, delete
the originals and their bogus infrastructure, and fix all the callers.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
I accidentally left the remnants of some debugging in an earlier patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Formatting fixes ahead of renaming os_{read_write}_file_k to
os_{read_write}_file and fixing all the callers.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Convert all remaining os_{read_write}_file users to use the simple
{read,write} wrappers, os_{read_write}_file_k.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Code running on the initial UML stack can't receive or process signals since
current must be valid when IRQs are handled, and there is no current for this
stack.So, instead of using UML_LONGJMP and UML_SETJMP, which are careful to save and
restore signal state, and, as a side-effect, handle any deferred signals,
start_idle_thread must use the bare equivalents, which don't do anything with
signals.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Dump core after a panic. This will provide better debugging information than
is currently available.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Sanitise gfp flags; it actually is an atomic context, so drop the
GFP_KERNEL part.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Acked-by: Jeff Dike
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Instead of writing entire structures between UML and the I/O thread, we send
pointers. This cuts down on the amount of data being copied and possibly
allows more requests to be pending between the two.This requires that the requests be kmalloced and freed instead of living on
the stack.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Send as many I/O requests to the I/O thread as possible, even though it will
still only handle one at a time. This provides an opportunity to reduce
latency by starting one request before the previous one has been finished in
the driver.Request handling is somewhat modernized by requesting sg pieces of a request
and handling them separately, finishing off the entire request after all the
pieces are done.When a request queue stalls, normally because its pipe to the I/O thread is
full, it is put on the restart list. This list is processed by starting up
the queues on it whenever there is some indication that progress might be
possible again. Currently, this happens in the driver interrupt routine.
Some requests have been finished, so there is likely to be room in the pipe
again.This almost doubles throughput when copying data between devices, but made no
noticable difference on anything else I tried.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch converts calls in the os layer to os_{read,write}_file to calls
directly to libc read() and write() where it is clear that the I/O buffer is
in the kernel.We can do that here instead of calling os_{read,write}_file_k since we are in
libc code and can call libc directly.With the change in the calls, error handling needs to be changed to refer to
errno directly rather than the return value of the call.CATCH_EINTR wrappers were also added where needed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch lays some groundwork for the next one, which converts calls to
os_{read,write}_file into {read,write}, by doing some tidying in the affected
areas.do_not_aio gets restructured to make the final result a bit cleaner.
There are also whitespace and other formatting fixes, fixes in error messages,
and a typo fix.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch starts the removal of a very old, very broken piece of code. This
stems from the problem of passing a userspace buffer into read() or write() on
the host. If that buffer had not yet been faulted in, read and write will
return -EFAULT.To avoid this problem, the solution was to fault the buffer in before the
system call by touching the pages that hold the buffer by doing a copy-user of
a byte to each page. This is obviously bogus, but it does usually work, in tt
mode, since the kernel and process are in the same address space and userspace
addresses can be accessed directly in the kernel.In skas mode, where the kernel and process are in separate address spaces, it
is completely bogus because the userspace address, which is invalid in the
kernel, is passed into the system call instead of the corresponding physical
address, which would be valid. Here, it appears that this code, on every host
read() or write(), tries to fault in a random process page. This doesn't seem
to cause any correctness problems, but there is a performance impact. This
patch, and the ones following, result in a 10-15% performance gain on a kernel
build.This code can't be immediately tossed out because when it is, you can't log
in. Apparently, there is some code in the console driver which depends on
this somehow.However, we can start removing it by switching the code which does I/O using
kernel addresses to using plain read() and write(). This patch introduces
os_read_file_k and os_write_file_k for use with kernel buffers and converts
all call locations which use obvious kernel buffers to use them. These
include I/O using buffers which are local variables which are on the stack or
kmalloc-ed. Later patches will handle the less obvious cases, followed by a
mass conversion back to the original interface.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It turns out that essentially none of the x86_64 bugs.c is needed. So, we can
delete most of it.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The previous page table walking code was horribly inefficient. This patch
replaces it with code taken from elsewhere in the kernel.Forking from bash is now ~5% faster and page faults are handled ~10% faster.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Provide a register dump if handle_trap fails. Abstract out ptrace_dump_regs
since it now has two callers.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Define release methods for the ubd and net drivers. They contain as much of
the remove methods as make sense. All error checking must have already been
done as well as anything else that might be holding a reference on the device
kobject.Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
HOST_FRAME_SIZE isn't used any more. It has been replaced with MAX_REG_NR.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Locking commentary.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Commentary about missing locking.
Also got rid of uml_start because it was pointless.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
