25 Sep, 2010
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Ensure that 'sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs' is defined
even when CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is not set.
This way we can safely reference it without need for
ifdefs in the code elsewhere. eg. in block/blk-exec.cSigned-off-by: Mark Lord
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
16 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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o Actual implementation of throttling policy in block layer. Currently it
implements READ and WRITE bytes per second throttling logic. IOPS throttling
comes in later patches.Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
15 Sep, 2010
2 commits
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I'm reposting this patch series as v4 since there have been no additional
comments, and I cleaned up one extra bit of unneeded code (in 3/3). The patches
are against Linus's tree: 2bfc96a127bc1cc94d26bfaa40159966064f9c8c
(2.6.36-rc3).Would this patchset be suitable for inclusion in an mm branch?
This changes adds a partition_meta_info struct which itself contains a
union of structures that provide partition table specific metadata.This change leaves the union empty. The subsequent patch includes an
implementation for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION-based metadata.Signed-off-by: Will Drewry
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
Change type of 2nd parameter of blk_rq_aligned() into unsigned long
and remove unnecessary casting. Now we can call it with 'uaddr'
instead of 'ubuf' in __blk_rq_map_user() so that it can remove
following warnings from sparse:block/blk-map.c:57:31: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
block/blk-map.c:57:31: expected void *addr
block/blk-map.c:57:31: got void [noderef] *ubufHowever blk_rq_map_kern() needs one more local variable to handle it.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
11 Sep, 2010
2 commits
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Some controllers have a hardware limit on the number of protection
information scatter-gather list segments they can handle.Introduce a max_integrity_segments limit in the block layer and provide
a new scsi_host_template setting that allows HBA drivers to provide a
value suitable for the hardware.Add support for honoring the integrity segment limit when merging both
bios and requests.Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
We have several users of min_not_zero, each of them using their own
definition. Move the define to kernel.h.Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
23 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slab: fix object alignment
slub: add missing __percpu markup in mm/slub_def.h
22 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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With the introduction of the new unified work queue thread pools,
we lost one feature: It's no longer possible to know which worker
is causing the CPU to wake out of idle. The result is that PowerTOP
now reports a lot of "kworker/a:b" instead of more readable results.This patch adds a pair of tracepoints to the new workqueue code,
similar in style to the timer/hrtimer tracepoints.With this pair of tracepoints, the next PowerTOP can correctly
report which work item caused the wakeup (and how long it took):Interrupt (43) i915 time 3.51ms wakeups 141
Work ieee80211_iface_work time 0.81ms wakeups 29
Work do_dbs_timer time 0.55ms wakeups 24
Process Xorg time 21.36ms wakeups 4
Timer sched_rt_period_timer time 0.01ms wakeups 1Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Aug, 2010
2 commits
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It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards
in it to find the previous vma. So rather than have to look up the
previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it
doubly linked instead.Tested-by: Ian Campbell
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
kfifo_skip() is currently broken, due to the missing of the internal
helper function. Add it.Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi
Cc: Greg KH
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Aug, 2010
4 commits
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Fix the declaration of sys_execve() in asm-generic/syscalls.h to have
various consts applied to its pointers.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
fs: brlock vfsmount_lock
fs: scale files_lock
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
tty: fix fu_list abuse
fs: cleanup files_lock locking
fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
apparmor: use task path helpers
fs: dentry allocation consolidation
fs: fix do_lookup false negative
mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries
hostfs ->follow_link() braino
hostfs: dumb (and usually harmless) tpyo - strncpy instead of strlcpy
remove SWRITE* I/O types
kill BH_Ordered flag
vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl
cramfs: only unlock new inodes
fix reiserfs_evict_inode end_writeback second call -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: emu10k1 - delay the PCM interrupts (add pcm_irq_delay parameter)
ALSA: hda - Fix ALC680 base model capture
ASoC: Remove DSP mode support for WM8776
ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Dell Vostro 1220
ALSA: riptide - Fix detection / load of firmware files -
* 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi.h: missing kernel-doc notation, please fix
of: fix missing headers for of_address_to_resource() in MTD and SysACE drivers
of: Fix missing includes
ata: update for of_device to platform_device replacement
microblaze: Fix of: eliminate of_device->node and dev_archdata->{of,prom}_node
microblaze: Fix of/address: Merge all of the bus translation code
booting-without-of: Remove nonexistent chapters from TOC, fix numbering
18 Aug, 2010
12 commits
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With some hardware combinations, the PCM interrupts are acknowledged
before the period boundary from the emu10k1 chip. The midlevel PCM code
gets confused and the playback stream is interrupted.It seems that the interrupt processing shift by 2 samples is enough
to fix this issue. This default value does not harm other,
non-affected hardware.More information: Kernel bugzilla bug#16300
[A copmile warning fixed by tiwai]
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai -
fs: scale files_lock
Improve scalability of files_lock by adding per-cpu, per-sb files lists,
protected with an lglock. The lglock provides fast access to the per-cpu lists
to add and remove files. It also provides a snapshot of all the per-cpu lists
(although this is very slow).One difficulty with this approach is that a file can be removed from the list
by another CPU. We must track which per-cpu list the file is on with a new
variale in the file struct (packed into a hole on 64-bit archs). Scalability
could suffer if files are frequently removed from different cpu's list.However loads with frequent removal of files imply short interval between
adding and removing the files, and the scheduler attempts to avoid moving
processes too far away. Also, even in the case of cross-CPU removal, the
hardware has much more opportunity to parallelise cacheline transfers with N
cachelines than with 1.A worst-case test of 1 CPU allocating files subsequently being freed by N CPUs
degenerates to contending on a single lock, which is no worse than before. When
more than one CPU are allocating files, even if they are always freed by
different CPUs, there will be more parallelism than the single-lock case.Testing results:
On a 2 socket, 8 core opteron, I measure the number of times the lock is taken
to remove the file, the number of times it is removed by the same CPU that
added it, and the number of times it is removed by the same node that added it.Booting: locks= 25049 cpu-hits= 23174 (92.5%) node-hits= 23945 (95.6%)
kbuild -j16 locks=2281913 cpu-hits=2208126 (96.8%) node-hits=2252674 (98.7%)
dbench 64 locks=4306582 cpu-hits=4287247 (99.6%) node-hits=4299527 (99.8%)So a file is removed from the same CPU it was added by over 90% of the time.
It remains within the same node 95% of the time.Tim Chen ran some numbers for a 64 thread Nehalem system performing a compile.
throughput
2.6.34-rc2 24.5
+patch 24.9us sys idle IO wait (in %)
2.6.34-rc2 51.25 28.25 17.25 3.25
+patch 53.75 18.5 19 8.75So significantly less CPU time spent in kernel code, higher idle time and
slightly higher throughput.Single threaded performance difference was within the noise of microbenchmarks.
That is not to say penalty does not exist, the code is larger and more memory
accesses required so it will be slightly slower.Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tim Chen
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
This patch introduces "local-global" locks (lglocks). These can be used to:
- Provide fast exclusive access to per-CPU data, with exclusive access to
another CPU's data allowed but possibly subject to contention, and to provide
very slow exclusive access to all per-CPU data.
- Or to provide very fast and scalable read serialisation, and to provide
very slow exclusive serialisation of data (not necessarily per-CPU data).Brlocks are also implemented as a short-hand notation for the latter use
case.Thanks to Paul for local/global naming convention.
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
tty: fix fu_list abuse
tty code abuses fu_list, which causes a bug in remount,ro handling.
If a tty device node is opened on a filesystem, then the last link to the inode
removed, the filesystem will be allowed to be remounted readonly. This is
because fs_may_remount_ro does not find the 0 link tty inode on the file sb
list (because the tty code incorrectly removed it to use for its own purpose).
This can result in a filesystem with errors after it is marked "clean".Taking idea from Christoph's initial patch, allocate a tty private struct
at file->private_data and put our required list fields in there, linking
file and tty. This makes tty nodes behave the same way as other device nodes
and avoid meddling with the vfs, and avoids this bug.The error handling is not trivial in the tty code, so for this bugfix, I take
the simple approach of using __GFP_NOFAIL and don't worry about memory errors.
This is not a problem because our allocator doesn't fail small allocs as a rule
anyway. So proper error handling is left as an exercise for tty hackers.[ Arguably filesystem's device inode would ideally be divorced from the
driver's pseudo inode when it is opened, but in practice it's not clear whether
that will ever be worth implementing. ]Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
fs: cleanup files_lock locking
Lock tty_files with a new spinlock, tty_files_lock; provide helpers to
manipulate the per-sb files list; unexport the files_lock spinlock.Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Alan Cox
Acked-by: Andi Kleen
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and
pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path
typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small.
Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the
dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a
real parallelism increase.Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical
path lookup fastpath.Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
These flags aren't real I/O types, but tell ll_rw_block to always
lock the buffer instead of giving up on a failed trylock.Instead add a new write_dirty_buffer helper that implements this semantic
and use it from the existing SWRITE* callers. Note that the ll_rw_block
code had a bug where it didn't promote WRITE_SYNC_PLUG properly, which
this patch fixes.In the ufs code clean up the helper that used to call ll_rw_block
to mirror sync_dirty_buffer, which is the function it implements for
compound buffers.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Instead of abusing a buffer_head flag just add a variant of
sync_dirty_buffer which allows passing the exact type of write
flag required.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Added comments in kernel-doc notation for previously added struct fields.
Signed-off-by: Ernst Schwab
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely -
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
VIDEO: amba clcd: don't disable an already disabled clock
ARM: Tighten check for allowable CPSR values
ARM: 6329/1: wire up sys_accept4() on ARM
ARM: 6328/1: Build with -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm
ARM: 6326/1: kgdb: fix GDB_MAX_REGS no longer used -
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.
This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle
Acked-by: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Fix the clock enable/disable tracking in the AMBA CLCD driver so
that the driver doesn't try to disable an already disabled clock,
thereby causing the clock (if shared) to become unbalanced.This resolves a problem with CLCD on LPC32xx ARM platforms.
Reported-by: Kevin Wells
Signed-off-by: Russell King
16 Aug, 2010
2 commits
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* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
gcc-4.6: ACPI: fix unused but set variables in ACPI
ACPI thermal: make procfs I/F depend on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS
ACPI video: make procfs I/F depend on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS
ACPI processor: remove deprecated ACPI procfs I/F
ACPI power_resource: remove unused procfs I/F
ACPI: remove deprecated ACPI procfs I/F
ACPI: introduce drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
ACPI: introduce module parameter acpi.aml_debug_output
ACPI: introduce drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
ACPI, APEI, ERST debug support
ACPI, APEI, Manage GHES as platform devices
ACPI, APEI, Rename CPER and GHES severity constants
ACPI, APEI, Fix a typo of error path of apei_resources_request
ACPI / ACPICA: Fix reference counting problems with GPE handlers
ACPI: Add the check of ADR flag in course of finding ACPI handle for PCI device
ACPI / Sleep: Drop acpi_suspend_finish()
ACPI / Sleep: Consolidate suspend and hibernation routines
ACPI / Wakeup: Simplify enabling of wakeup devices
ACPI / Sleep: Rework enabling wakeup devices
ACPI / Sleep: Free NVS copy if suspending of devices failsFixed up totally buggered "ACPI: fix unused but set variables in ACPI"
patch that doesn't even compile in the merge.Thanks to Sedat Dilek for noticing the
breakage before I even pulled. And a big "Grrr.." at Len for not even
bothering to compile the tree before asking me to pull. -
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
arch/tile: don't validate CROSS_COMPILE needlessly
arch/tile: export only COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to userspace.
arch/tile: rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
arch/tile: Rename the hweight() implementations to __arch_hweight()
arch/tile: extend syscall ABI to set r1 on return as well.
arch/tile: Various cleanups.
arch/tile: support backtracing on TILE-Gx
arch/tile: Fix a couple of issues with the COMPAT code for TILE-Gx.
arch/tile: Use separate, better minsec values for clocksource and sched_clock.
arch/tile: correct a bug in freeing bootmem by VA for the optional second initrd.
arch: tile: mm: pgtable.c: Removed duplicated #include
arch: tile: kernel/proc.c Removed duplicated #include
Add fanotify syscalls to .
arch/tile: support new kunmap_atomic() naming convention.
tile: remove unused ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD defineConflicts in arch/tile/configs/tile_defconfig (pick the mainline version
with the reduced defconfig).
15 Aug, 2010
10 commits
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Conflicts:
drivers/acpi/debug.cSigned-off-by: Len Brown
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Remove deprecated ACPI processor procfs I/F, including:
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/power
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/limit
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/info/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/throttling still exists,
as we don't have sysfs I/F available for now.Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui
Signed-off-by: Len Brown -
Introduce module parameter acpi.aml_debug_output.
With acpi.aml_debug_output set, we can get AML debug object output
(Store (AAA, Debug)), even with CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG cleared.Together with the runtime custom method mechanism,
we can debug AML code problems without rebuilding the kernel.Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui
Signed-off-by: Len Brown -
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/cleanup:
defconfig reduction
kbuild: drop unifdef-y support
archs: replace unifdef-y with header-y
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* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: (22 commits)
hwmon: (via-cputemp) Remove bogus "SHOW" global variable
hwmon: jc42 depends on I2C
hwmon: (pc87427) Add a maintainer
hwmon: (pc87427) Move sysfs file removal to a separate function
hwmon: (pc87427) Add temperature monitoring support
hwmon: (pc87427) Add support for the second logical device
hwmon: (pc87427) Add support for manual fan speed control
hwmon: (pc87427) Minor style cleanups
hwmon: (pc87427) Handle disabled fan inputs properly
hwmon: (w83627ehf) Add support for W83667HG-B
hwmon: (w83627ehf) Driver cleanup
hwmon: Add driver for SMSC EMC2103 temperature monitor and fan controller
hwmon: Remove in[0-*]_fault from sysfs-interface
hwmon: Add 4 current alarm/beep attributes to sysfs-interface
hwmon: Add 3 critical limit attributes to sysfs-interface
hwmon: (asc7621) Clean up and improve detect function
hwmon: (it87) Export labels for internal sensors
hwmon: (lm75) Add suspend/resume feature
hwmon: (emc1403) Add power support
hwmon: (ltc4245) Expose all GPIO pins as analog voltages
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unifdef-y and header-y has same semantic.
So there is no need to have both.Drop the unifdef-y variant and sort all lines again
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
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Add support for exposing all GPIO pins as analog voltages. Though this is
not an ideal use of the chip, some hardware engineers may decide that the
LTC4245 meets their design requirements when studying the datasheet.The GPIO pins are sampled in round-robin fashion, meaning that a slow
reader will see stale data. A userspace application can detect this,
because it will get -EAGAIN when reading from a sysfs file which contains
stale data.Users can choose to use this feature on a per-chip basis by using either
platform data or the OF device tree (where applicable).Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder
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* 'next-spi' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi/amba_pl022: Fix probe and remove hook section annotations.
spi/mpc5121: change annotations for probe and remove functions
spi/bitbang: reinitialize transfer parameters for every message
spi/spi-gpio: add support for controllers without MISO or MOSI pin
spi/bitbang: add support for SPI_MASTER_NO_{TX, RX} modes
SPI100k: Fix 8-bit and RX-only transfers
spi/mmc_spi: mmc_spi adaptations for SPI bus locking API
spi/mmc_spi: SPI bus locking API, using mutexFix trivial conflict in drivers/spi/mpc512x_psc_spi.c due to 'struct
of_device' => 'struct platform_device' rename and __init/__exit to
__devinit/__devexit fix.
14 Aug, 2010
2 commits
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* 'bkl/ioctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation
v4l: Remove reference to bkl ioctl in compat ioctl handling
logfs: kill BKL
