27 May, 2011
2 commits
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The style that we normally use in asm-generic is to test the macro itself
for existence, so in asm-generic, do:#ifndef find_next_zero_bit_le
extern unsigned long find_next_zero_bit_le(const void *addr,
unsigned long size, unsigned long offset);
#endifand in the architectures, write
static inline unsigned long find_next_zero_bit_le(const void *addr,
unsigned long size, unsigned long offset)
#define find_next_zero_bit_le find_next_zero_bit_leThis adds the #ifndef for each of the find bitops in the generic header
and source files.Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Acked-by: Russell King
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Greg Ungerer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is a series of low level ptrace unification steps to make it easier
for common code (like KGDB) to poke at register state. This also avoids
having to duplicate higher level operations for most ports which don't
have special needs for accessing things.This patch:
This implements a bunch of helper funcs for poking the registers of a
ptrace structure. Now common code should be able to portably update
specific registers (like kgdb updating the PC).Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov
Cc: Dongdong Deng
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 May, 2011
2 commits
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (89 commits)
bonding: documentation and code cleanup for resend_igmp
bonding: prevent deadlock on slave store with alb mode (v3)
net: hold rtnl again in dump callbacks
Add Fujitsu 1000base-SX PCI ID to tg3
bnx2x: protect sequence increment with mutex
sch_sfq: fix peek() implementation
isdn: netjet - blacklist Digium TDM400P
via-velocity: don't annotate MAC registers as packed
xen: netfront: hold RTNL when updating features.
sctp: fix memory leak of the ASCONF queue when free asoc
net: make dev_disable_lro use physical device if passed a vlan dev (v2)
net: move is_vlan_dev into public header file (v2)
bug.h: Fix build with CONFIG_PRINTK disabled.
wireless: fix fatal kernel-doc error + warning in mac80211.h
wireless: fix cfg80211.h new kernel-doc warnings
iwlagn: dbg_fixed_rate only used when CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS enabled
dst: catch uninitialized metrics
be2net: hash key for rss-config cmd not set
bridge: initialize fake_rtable metrics
net: fix __dst_destroy_metrics_generic()
...Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (26 commits)
arch/tile: prefer "tilepro" as the name of the 32-bit architecture
compat: include aio_abi.h for aio_context_t
arch/tile: cleanups for tilegx compat mode
arch/tile: allocate PCI IRQs later in boot
arch/tile: support signal "exception-trace" hook
arch/tile: use better definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg()
include/linux/compat.h: coding-style fixes
tile: add an RTC driver for the Tilera hypervisor
arch/tile: finish enabling support for TILE-Gx 64-bit chip
compat: fixes to allow working with tile arch
arch/tile: update defconfig file to something more useful
tile: do_hardwall_trap: do not play with task->sighand
tile: replace mm->cpu_vm_mask with mm_cpumask()
tile,mn10300: add device parameter to dma_cache_sync()
audit: support the "standard"
arch/tile: clarify flush_buffer()/finv_buffer() function names
arch/tile: kernel-related cleanups from removing static page size
arch/tile: various header improvements for building drivers
arch/tile: disable GX prefetcher during cache flush
arch/tile: tolerate disabling CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
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25 May, 2011
9 commits
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Apps are increasingly using more than 1024 file descriptors. See
discussion in several distro bug trackers, e.g. BugLink:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2054You don't want to raise the default soft limit, since that might break
apps that use select(), but it's safe to raise the default hard limit;
that way, apps that know they need lots of file descriptors can raise
their soft limit without needing root, and without user intervention.Ubuntu is doing this with a kernel change because they have a policy of
not changing kernel defaults in userland.While 4096 might not be enough for *all* apps, it seems to be plenty for
the apps I've seen lately that are unhappy with 1024.Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner
Cc: Dan Kegel
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The copy_to_user_page() function is supposed to flush the icache on the
memory that was written, but the current asm-generic version lacks that
logic. While normally it isn't a big deal as the asm-generic version of
icache flushing is a stub, it is a deal for ports that want to use the
asm-generic version as a baseline and then overlay its own specific parts
(like icache flushing).Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Some of these functions have grown beyond inline sanity, move them
out-of-line.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Requested-by: Andrew Morton
Requested-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Instead of using a single batch (the small on-stack, or an allocated
page), try and extend the batch every time it runs out and only flush once
either the extend fails or we're done.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Requested-by: Nick Piggin
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Richard Weinberger
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In case other architectures require RCU freed page-tables to implement
gup_fast() and software filled hashes and similar things, provide the
means to do so by moving the logic into generic code.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Requested-by: David Miller
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Richard Weinberger
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Rework the existing mmu_gather infrastructure.
The direct purpose of these patches was to allow preemptible mmu_gather,
but even without that I think these patches provide an improvement to the
status quo.The first 9 patches rework the mmu_gather infrastructure. For review
purpose I've split them into generic and per-arch patches with the last of
those a generic cleanup.The next patch provides generic RCU page-table freeing, and the followup
is a patch converting s390 to use this. I've also got 4 patches from
DaveM lined up (not included in this series) that uses this to implement
gup_fast() for sparc64.Then there is one patch that extends the generic mmu_gather batching.
After that follow the mm preemptibility patches, these make part of the mm
a lot more preemptible. It converts i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to
mutexes which together with the mmu_gather rework makes mmu_gather
preemptible as well.Making i_mmap_lock a mutex also enables a clean-up of the truncate code.
This also allows for preemptible mmu_notifiers, something that XPMEM I
think wants.Furthermore, it removes the new and universially detested unmap_mutex.
This patch:
Remove the first obstacle towards a fully preemptible mmu_gather.
The current scheme assumes mmu_gather is always done with preemption
disabled and uses per-cpu storage for the page batches. Change this to
try and allocate a page for batching and in case of failure, use a small
on-stack array to make some progress.Preemptible mmu_gather is desired in general and usable once i_mmap_lock
becomes a mutex. Doing it before the mutex conversion saves us from
having to rework the code by moving the mmu_gather bits inside the
pte_lock.Also avoid flushing the tlb batches from under the pte lock, this is
useful even without the i_mmap_lock conversion as it significantly reduces
pte lock hold times.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment tpyo]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Richard Weinberger
Cc: Tony Luck
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Based upon an email by Joe Perches.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap -
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (29 commits)
[S390] cpu hotplug: fix external interrupt subclass mask handling
[S390] oprofile: dont access lowcore
[S390] oprofile: add missing irq stats counter
[S390] Ignore sendmmsg system call note wired up warning
[S390] s390,oprofile: fix compile error for !CONFIG_SMP
[S390] s390,oprofile: fix alert counter increment
[S390] Remove unused includes in process.c
[S390] get CPC image name
[S390] sclp: event buffer dissection
[S390] chsc: process channel-path-availability information
[S390] refactor page table functions for better pgste support
[S390] merge page_test_dirty and page_clear_dirty
[S390] qdio: prevent compile warning
[S390] sclp: remove unnecessary sendmask check
[S390] convert old cpumask API into new one
[S390] pfault: cleanup code
[S390] pfault: cpu hotplug vs missing completion interrupts
[S390] smp: add __noreturn attribute to cpu_die()
[S390] percpu: implement arch specific irqsafe_cpu_ops
[S390] vdso: disable gcov profiling
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* 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu: Unify input section names
percpu: Avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double
percpu: Cast away printk format warning
percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZEFix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun
24 May, 2011
2 commits
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Add a generic mechanism to ratelimit WARN(foo, fmt, ...) messages
using a hidden per call site static struct ratelimit_state.Also add an __WARN_RATELIMIT variant to be able to use a specific
struct ratelimit_state.Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
23 May, 2011
1 commit
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The page_clear_dirty primitive always sets the default storage key
which resets the access control bits and the fetch protection bit.
That will surprise a KVM guest that sets non-zero access control
bits or the fetch protection bit. Merge page_test_dirty and
page_clear_dirty back to a single function and only clear the
dirty bit from the storage key.In addition move the function page_test_and_clear_dirty and
page_test_and_clear_young to page.h where they belong. This
requires to change the parameter from a struct page * to a page
frame number.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
21 May, 2011
1 commit
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Commit e66eed651fd1 ("list: remove prefetching from regular list
iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which
uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather
obscure header file dependency.So this fixes things up a bit, using
grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]')
grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]')to guide us in finding files that either need
inclusion, or have it despite not needing it.There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets
many core ones.Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 May, 2011
1 commit
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits)
perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts
perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events
ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build
ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users
ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops
ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers
ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering
ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched()
ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced
ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions
ftrace: Add enabled_functions file
ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace
ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment
ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes
ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER
ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions
perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper
x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit
x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
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19 May, 2011
1 commit
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This patch places every exported symbol in its own section
(i.e. "___ksymtab+printk"). Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive
to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section
(i.e. "__ksymtab").The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols.
To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary
section names.This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (folded in '+' fixup)
Tested-by: Dirk Behme
13 May, 2011
1 commit
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The existing mechanism doesn't really provide
enough to create the 64-bit "compat" ABI properly in a generic way,
since the compat ABI is a mix of things were you can re-use the 64-bit
versions of syscalls and things where you need a compat wrapper.To provide this in the most direct way possible, I added two new macros
to go along with the existing __SYSCALL and __SC_3264 macros: __SC_COMP
and SC_COMP_3264. These macros take an additional argument, typically a
"compat_sys_xxx" function, which is passed to __SYSCALL if you define
__SYSCALL_COMPAT when including the header, resulting in a pointer to
the compat function being placed in the generated syscall table.The change also adds some missing definitions to so that
it actually has declarations for all the compat syscalls, since the
"[nr] = ##call" approach requires proper C declarations for all the
functions included in the syscall table.Finally, compat.c defines compat_sys_sigpending() and
compat_sys_sigprocmask() even if the underlying architecture doesn't
request it, which tries to pull in undefined compat_old_sigset_t defines.
We need to guard those compat syscall definitions with appropriate
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_xxx ifdefs.Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf
05 May, 2011
1 commit
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Many of the syscalls mentioned in the audit code are not present
for architectures that implement only the "standard" set of
Linux syscalls (e.g. openat, but not open, etc.). This change
adds proper #ifdefs for all those syscalls.Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf
27 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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…stedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.hMerge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
08 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
Fix common misspellings
05 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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Introduce:
static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key);
instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro.
In this way, jump labels become really easy to use:
Define:
struct jump_label_key jump_key;
Can be used as:
if (static_branch(&jump_key))
do unlikely codeenable/disale via:
jump_label_inc(&jump_key);
jump_label_dec(&jump_key);that's it!
For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an
atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(),
atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below.Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct.
Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into
the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in
basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous
hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write.Testing:
I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3
configurations, where tracepoints were disabled.jump label configured in
avg: 815.6jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads)
avg: 800.1jump label *not* configured in (regular reads)
avg: 803.4Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin
Tested-by: David Daney
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
04 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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The two percpu helper macros have the section names duplicated. So create
a new define to merge the two. This also allows arches who need to link
things more directly themselves to avoid duplicating the input sections in
their linker script.Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
31 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi
28 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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The define to use ({0;}) for the !CONFIG_SMP case of WARN_ON_SMP()
can be confusing. As the WARN_ON_SMP() needs to be a nop when
CONFIG_SMP is not set, including all its parameters must not be
evaluated, and that it must work as both a stand alone statement
and inside an if condition, we define it to a funky ({0;}).A simple "0" will not work as it causes gcc to give the warning that
the statement has no effect.As this strange definition has raised a few eyebrows from some
major kernel developers, it is wise to document why we create such
a work of art.Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
26 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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…/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
futex: Fix WARN_ON() test for UP
WARN_ON_SMP(): Allow use in if() statements on UP
x86, dumpstack: Use %pB format specifier for stack trace
vsprintf: Introduce %pB format specifier
lockdep: Remove unused 'factor' variable from lockdep_stats_show()
25 Mar, 2011
2 commits
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Both WARN_ON() and WARN_ON_SMP() should be able to be used in
an if statement.if (WARN_ON_SMP(foo)) { ... }
Because WARN_ON_SMP() is defined as a do { } while (0) on UP,
it can not be used this way.Convert it to the same form that WARN_ON() is, even when
CONFIG_SMP is off.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Acked-by: Darren Hart
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
addresses should be aligned accordingly. The calculation of the
former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel
image.The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
percpu memory alignment.This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE. While at it,
add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
there.For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area. As the area
is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference.This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot
failure on mn10300.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
24 Mar, 2011
7 commits
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minix bit operations are only used by minix filesystem and useless by
other modules. Because byte order of inode and block bitmaps is different
on each architecture like below:m68k:
big-endian 16bit indexed bitmapsh8300, microblaze, s390, sparc, m68knommu:
big-endian 32 or 64bit indexed bitmapsm32r, mips, sh, xtensa:
big-endian 32 or 64bit indexed bitmaps for big-endian mode
little-endian bitmaps for little-endian modeOthers:
little-endian bitmapsIn order to move minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h to architecture
independent code in minix filesystem, this provides two config options.CONFIG_MINIX_FS_BIG_ENDIAN_16BIT_INDEXED is only selected by m68k.
CONFIG_MINIX_FS_NATIVE_ENDIAN is selected by the architectures which use
native byte order bitmaps (h8300, microblaze, s390, sparc, m68knommu,
m32r, mips, sh, xtensa). The architectures which always use little-endian
bitmaps do not select these options.Finally, we can remove minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h for all
architectures.Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Roman Zippel
Cc: Andreas Schwab
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: Michal Simek
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
Acked-by: Paul Mundt
Cc: Chris Zankel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
As the result of conversions, there are no users of ext2 non-atomic bit
operations except for ext2 filesystem itself. Now we can put them into
architecture independent code in ext2 filesystem, and remove from
asm/bitops.h for all architectures.Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Cc: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
As a preparation for removing ext2 non-atomic bit operations from
asm/bitops.h. This converts ext2 non-atomic bit operations to
little-endian bit operations.Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Introduce little-endian bit operations to the big-endian architectures
which do not have native little-endian bit operations and the
little-endian architectures. (alpha, avr32, blackfin, cris, frv, h8300,
ia64, m32r, mips, mn10300, parisc, sh, sparc, tile, x86, xtensa)These architectures can just include generic implementation
(asm-generic/bitops/le.h).Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Mikael Starvik
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Grant Grundler
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This makes the little-endian bitops take any pointer types by changing the
prototypes and adding casts in the preprocessor macros.That would seem to at least make all the filesystem code happier, and they
can continue to do just something like#define ext2_set_bit __test_and_set_bit_le
(or whatever the exact sequence ends up being).
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Mikael Starvik
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Grant Grundler
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
As a preparation for providing little-endian bitops for all architectures,
This renames generic implementation of little-endian bitops. (remove
"generic_" prefix and postfix "_le")s/generic_find_next_le_bit/find_next_bit_le/
s/generic_find_next_zero_le_bit/find_next_zero_bit_le/
s/generic_find_first_zero_le_bit/find_first_zero_bit_le/
s/generic___test_and_set_le_bit/__test_and_set_bit_le/
s/generic___test_and_clear_le_bit/__test_and_clear_bit_le/
s/generic_test_le_bit/test_bit_le/
s/generic___set_le_bit/__set_bit_le/
s/generic___clear_le_bit/__clear_bit_le/
s/generic_test_and_set_le_bit/test_and_set_bit_le/
s/generic_test_and_clear_le_bit/test_and_clear_bit_le/Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Roman Zippel
Cc: Andreas Schwab
Cc: Greg Ungerer
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch series introduces little-endian bit operations in asm/bitops.h
for all architectures and converts all ext2 non-atomic and minix bit
operations to use little-endian bit operations. It enables us to remove
ext2 non-atomic and minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h. The reason
they should be removed from asm/bitops.h is as follows:For ext2 non-atomic bit operations, they are used for little-endian byte
order bitmap access by some filesystems and modules. But using ext2_*()
functions on a module other than ext2 filesystem makes some feel strange.For minix bit operations, they are only used by minix filesystem and are
useless by other modules. Because byte order of inode and block bitmap isThis patch:
In order to make the forthcoming changes smaller, this merges macro
definisions in asm-generic/bitops/le.h for big-endian and little-endian as
much as possible.This also removes unused BITOP_WORD macro.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Mar, 2011
2 commits
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All architectures can use the common dma_addr_t typedef now. We can
remove the arch specific dma_addr_t.Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Matt Turner
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
syncfs() is duplicating name_to_handle_at() due to a merging mistake.
Cc: Sage Weil
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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It is frequently useful to sync a single file system, instead of all
mounted file systems via sync(2):- On machines with many mounts, it is not at all uncommon for some of
them to hang (e.g. unresponsive NFS server). sync(2) will get stuck on
those and may never get to the one you do care about (e.g., /).
- Some applications write lots of data to the file system and then
want to make sure it is flushed to disk. Calling fsync(2) on each
file introduces unnecessary ordering constraints that result in a large
amount of sub-optimal writeback/flush/commit behavior by the file
system.There are currently two ways (that I know of) to sync a single super_block:
- BLKFLSBUF ioctl on the block device: That also invalidates the bdev
mapping, which isn't usually desirable, and doesn't work for non-block
file systems.
- 'mount -o remount,rw' will call sync_filesystem as an artifact of the
current implemention. Relying on this little-known side effect for
something like data safety sounds foolish.Both of these approaches require root privileges, which some applications
do not have (nor should they need?) given that sync(2) is an unprivileged
operation.This patch introduces a new system call syncfs(2) that takes an fd and
syncs only the file system it references. Maybe someday we can$ sync /some/path
and not get
sync: ignoring all arguments
The syscall is motivated by comments by Al and Christoph at the last LSF.
syncfs(2) seems like an appropriate name given statfs(2).A similar ioctl was also proposed a while back, see
http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=127970513829285&w=2Signed-off-by: Sage Weil
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
