22 Jun, 2005
3 commits
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A lot of the code in arch/*/mm/hugetlbpage.c is quite similar. This patch
attempts to consolidate a lot of the code across the arch's, putting the
combined version in mm/hugetlb.c. There are a couple of uglyish hacks in
order to covert all the hugepage archs, but the result is a very large
reduction in the total amount of code. It also means things like hugepage
lazy allocation could be implemented in one place, instead of six.Tested, at least a little, on ppc64, i386 and x86_64.
Notes:
- this patch changes the meaning of set_huge_pte() to be more
analagous to set_pte()
- does SH4 need s special huge_ptep_get_and_clear()??Acked-by: William Lee Irwin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This patch implements a number of smp_processor_id() cleanup ideas that
Arjan van de Ven and I came up with.The previous __smp_processor_id/_smp_processor_id/smp_processor_id API
spaghetti was hard to follow both on the implementational and on the
usage side.Some of the complexity arose from picking wrong names, some of the
complexity comes from the fact that not all architectures defined
__smp_processor_id.In the new code, there are two externally visible symbols:
- smp_processor_id(): debug variant.
- raw_smp_processor_id(): nondebug variant. Replaces all existing
uses of _smp_processor_id() and __smp_processor_id(). Defined
by every SMP architecture in include/asm-*/smp.h.There is one new internal symbol, dependent on DEBUG_PREEMPT:
- debug_smp_processor_id(): internal debug variant, mapped to
smp_processor_id().Also, i moved debug_smp_processor_id() from lib/kernel_lock.c into a new
lib/smp_processor_id.c file. All related comments got updated and/or
clarified.I have build/boot tested the following 8 .config combinations on x86:
{SMP,UP} x {PREEMPT,!PREEMPT} x {DEBUG_PREEMPT,!DEBUG_PREEMPT}
I have also build/boot tested x64 on UP/PREEMPT/DEBUG_PREEMPT. (Other
architectures are untested, but should work just fine.)Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The implementation is optimal for UltraSPARC-III and later.
It will work, however suboptimally, on UltraSPARC-II and
be treated as a NOP on UltraSPARC-I.It is not worth code patching this thing as the highest cost
is the code space, and code patching cannot eliminate that.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
08 Jun, 2005
1 commit
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When Linux is running on the Xen virtual machine monitor, physical
addresses are virtualised and cannot be directly referenced by the AGP
GART. This patch fixes the GART driver for Xen by adding a layer of
abstraction between physical addresses and 'GART addresses'.Architecture-specific functions are also defined for allocating and freeing
the GATT. Xen requires this to ensure that table really is contiguous from
the point of view of the GART.These extra interface functions are defined as 'no-ops' for all existing
architectures that use the GART driver.Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones
01 Jun, 2005
1 commit
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Firstly, if the direction is TODEVICE, then dirty data in the
streaming cache is impossible so we can elide the flush-flag
synchronization in that case.Next, the context allocator is broken. It is highly likely
that contexts get used multiple times for different dma
mappings, which confuses the strbuf flushing code and makes
it run inefficiently.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
24 May, 2005
1 commit
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Older UltraSPARC-III chips have a P-Cache bug that makes us disable it
by default at boot time.However, this does hurt performance substantially, particularly with
memcpy(), and the bug is _incredibly_ obscure. I have never seen it
triggered in practice, ever.So provide a "-P" boot option that forces the P-Cache on. It taints
the kernel, so if it does trigger and cause some data corruption or
OOPS, we will find out in the logs that this option was on when it
happened.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
06 May, 2005
1 commit
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warning: untested, but it there's not too much chance for screwups
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
04 May, 2005
2 commits
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New file - asm-generic/signal.h. Contains declarations of
__sighandler_t, __sigrestore_t, SIG_DFL, SIG_IGN, SIG_ERR and default
definitions of SIG_BLOCK, SIG_UNBLOCK and SIG_SETMASK.asm-*/signal.h switched to including it. The only exception is
asm-parisc/signal.h that wants its own declaration of __sighandler_t;
that one is left as-is.asm-ppc64/signal.h required one more thing - unlike everybody else it
used __sigrestorer_t instead of usual __sigrestore_t. PPC64 switched to
common spelling.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Part of parport_pc that uses ISA DMA helpers made conditional on
CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API. As the result, driver got usable for boxen that do
not have ISA DMA stuff and have normal PCI parport card stuck into
them - these never use DMA anyway.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 May, 2005
4 commits
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Discussing with Matthew Wilcox some of his outstanding patches lead me to
this patch (among others).The preamble in struct sigevent can be expressed independently of the
architecture.Also use __ARCH_SI_PREAMBLE_SIZE on ia64.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE to all architectures. This is to
support the upcoming patches for robust mutexes.We normally don't reserve parts of the name/number space for external
patches, but robust mutexes are sufficiently popular and important to
justify it in this case.Signed-off-by: Joe Korty
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The attached patch moves the IRQ-related SA_xxx flags (namely, SA_PROBE,
SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM and SA_SHIRQ) from all the arch-specific headers to
linux/signal.h. This looks like a left-over after the irq-handling code
was consolidated. The code was moved to kernel/irq/*, but the flags are
still left per-arch.Right now, adding a new IRQ flag to the arch-specific header, like this
patch does:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/alsa/alsa-driver/utils/patches/pcsp-kernel-2.6.10-03.diff?rev=1.1
no longer works, it breaks the compilation for all other arches, unless you
add that flag to all the other arch-specific headers too. So I think such
a clean-up makes sense.Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This patch eliminates all kernel BUGs, trims about 35k off the typical
kernel, and makes the system slightly faster.Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Apr, 2005
2 commits
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Kill build failures in the SMP+!PREEMPT case introduced
by Al Viro's spinlock.h changes.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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void * __iomem foo is not a pointer to iomem - it's an iomem variable
containing void *. A pile of such guys in arch/sparc64/kernel/time.c,
drivers/sbus/char/rtc.c and include/asm-sparc64/mostek.h turned into
intended void __iomem *.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Apr, 2005
2 commits
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Provide support for drivers/char/rtc.c ioctls in the
Mostek rtc driver as well as the Sparc specific RTCGET
and RTCSET.This allows userspace to be much less messy. Currently
util-linux and other spots jump through hoops trying
various ioctl variants until it hits the right one whatever
driver actually being used supports.Eventually all of this should move over to the genrtc.c
driver, but not today...While we are here, fix up the register types for sparse.
Thanks to Frans Pop for helping point out this issue.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
21 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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PREEMPT+SMP support - see if it looks sane...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
20 Apr, 2005
2 commits
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Replace misleading definition of FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 0 by definition of
FIRST_USER_ADDRESS 0 in all the MMU architectures beyond arm and arm26.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
ia64 and sparc64 hurriedly had to introduce their own variants of
pgd_addr_end, to leapfrog over the holes in their virtual address spaces which
the final clear_page_range suddenly presented when converted from pgd_index to
pgd_addr_end. But now that free_pgtables respects the vma list, those holes
are never presented, and the arch variants can go.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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Like Alpha, sparc64's struct stat was defined before we had the
nanosecond et al. fields added. So like Alpha I have to cons up a
struct stat64 to get this stuff. I'll work on the glibc bits soon.Also, we were forgetting to fill in the nanosecond fields in the sparc
compat stat64 syscalls.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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We were flushing the D-cache excessively for ptrace() processing
and this makes debugging threads so slow as to be totally unusable.All process page accesses via ptrace() go via access_process_vm().
This routine, for each process page, uses get_user_pages(). That
in turn does a flush_dcache_page() on the child pages before we
copy in/out the ptrace request data.Therefore, all we need to do after the data movement is:
1) Flush the D-cache pages if the kernel maps the page to a different
color than userspace does.
2) If we wrote to the page, we need to flush the I-cache on older cpus.Previously we just flushed the entire cache at the end of a ptrace()
request, and that was beyond stupid.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.Let it rip!
