20 Jul, 2007
3 commits
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Work around a possible bug in the FRV compiler.
What appears to be happening is that gcc resolves the
__builtin_constant_p() in kmalloc() to true, but then fails to reduce the
therefore constant conditions in the if-statements it guards to constant
results.When compiling with -O2 or -Os, one single spurious error crops up in
cpuup_callback() in mm/slab.c. This can be avoided by making the memsize
variable const.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
per cpu data section contains two types of data. One set which is
exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu,
but also shared by remote cpus. In the current kernel, these two sets are
not clearely separated out. This can potentially cause the same data
cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in
unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus.One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per
cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end. Because of the padding at
both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the
interface to achieve this is not clean.This patch:
Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked
as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data
elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local
only data and remotely accessed data cleanly.Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc:
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch completes Linus's wish that the fault return codes be made into
bit flags, which I agree makes everything nicer. This requires requires
all handle_mm_fault callers to be modified (possibly the modifications
should go further and do things like fault accounting in handle_mm_fault --
however that would be for another patch).[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s390 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Ian Molton
Cc: Bryan Wu
Cc: Mikael Starvik
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Roman Zippel
Cc: Greg Ungerer
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima
Cc: Richard Curnow
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Cc: Miles Bader
Cc: Chris Zankel
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
Acked-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
[ Still apparently needs some ARM and PPC loving - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Jul, 2007
3 commits
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early_serial_setup was removed from serial.h, but forgot to put in
serial_8250.hSigned-off-by: Yinghai Lu
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Identical implementations of PTRACE_POKEDATA go into generic_ptrace_pokedata()
function.AFAICS, fix bug on xtensa where successful PTRACE_POKEDATA will nevertheless
return EPERM.Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Identical implementations of PTRACE_PEEKDATA go into generic_ptrace_peekdata()
function.Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jul, 2007
3 commits
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Remove some dead chunks of code that are bounded by preprocessor conditionals
controlled by apparently no-longer available config options.These are:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BLKMEM
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_FLASH
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FLASH
CONFIG_CONSOLE[Found by Robert P. J. Day ]
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Be (self-)consistent and use CONFIG_GDB_CONSOLE everywhere rather than using
CONFIG_GDBSTUB_CONSOLE in some places and not others. This is also then
consistent with other archs.Also remove the gdbstub console device() op which doesn't seem to be necessary
now (especially as it doesn't compile).[Found by Robert P. J. Day ]
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Connect up new system calls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 May, 2007
2 commits
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With this consolidation we can now modify the .data
section definition in one spot for all archs.Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
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Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
17 May, 2007
1 commit
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Currently we have a maze of configuration variables that determine the
maximum slab size. Worst of all it seems to vary between SLAB and SLUB.So define a common maximum size for kmalloc. For conveniences sake we use
the maximum size ever supported which is 32 MB. We limit the maximum size
to a lower limit if MAX_ORDER does not allow such large allocations.For many architectures this patch will have the effect of adding large
kmalloc sizes. x86_64 adds 5 new kmalloc sizes. So a small amount of
memory will be needed for these caches (contemporary SLAB has dynamically
sizeable node and cpu structure so the waste is less than in the past)Most architectures will then be able to allocate object with sizes up to
MAX_ORDER. We have had repeated breakage (in fact whenever we doubled the
number of supported processors) on IA64 because one or the other struct
grew beyond what the slab allocators supported. This will avoid future
issues and f.e. avoid fixes for 2k and 4k cpu support.CONFIG_LARGE_ALLOCS is no longer necessary so drop it.
It fixes sparc64 with SLAB.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: "David S. Miller"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 May, 2007
1 commit
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Replace function instances of __attribute__((unused)) with
__maybe_unused to suppress warnings.Cc: David Howells
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 May, 2007
1 commit
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This is done in order to be able to run SLUB which expects no modifications
to its page structs.Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 May, 2007
4 commits
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Miscellaneous fixes to bring FRV up to date:
(1) Copy the new syscall numbers from i386 to asm-frv/unistd.h and fill out
the syscall table in entry.S too.(2) Mark __frv_uart0 and __frv_uart1 __pminitdata rather than __initdata so
that determine_clocks() can access them when CONFIG_PM=y.(3) Make arch/frv/mm/elf-fdpic.c include asm/mman.h so that MAP_FIXED is
available (fixes commit 2fd3bebaad9da3b3b99c46a3389099424bf7ee35).Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Remove includes of where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
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 -
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
08 May, 2007
2 commits
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Handle MAP_FIXED in arch_get_unmapped_area on frv. Trivial case, just return
the address.Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is a new slab allocator which was motivated by the complexity of the
existing code in mm/slab.c. It attempts to address a variety of concerns
with the existing implementation.A. Management of object queues
A particular concern was the complex management of the numerous object
queues in SLAB. SLUB has no such queues. Instead we dedicate a slab for
each allocating CPU and use objects from a slab directly instead of
queueing them up.B. Storage overhead of object queues
SLAB Object queues exist per node, per CPU. The alien cache queue even
has a queue array that contain a queue for each processor on each
node. For very large systems the number of queues and the number of
objects that may be caught in those queues grows exponentially. On our
systems with 1k nodes / processors we have several gigabytes just tied up
for storing references to objects for those queues This does not include
the objects that could be on those queues. One fears that the whole
memory of the machine could one day be consumed by those queues.C. SLAB meta data overhead
SLAB has overhead at the beginning of each slab. This means that data
cannot be naturally aligned at the beginning of a slab block. SLUB keeps
all meta data in the corresponding page_struct. Objects can be naturally
aligned in the slab. F.e. a 128 byte object will be aligned at 128 byte
boundaries and can fit tightly into a 4k page with no bytes left over.
SLAB cannot do this.D. SLAB has a complex cache reaper
SLUB does not need a cache reaper for UP systems. On SMP systems
the per CPU slab may be pushed back into partial list but that
operation is simple and does not require an iteration over a list
of objects. SLAB expires per CPU, shared and alien object queues
during cache reaping which may cause strange hold offs.E. SLAB has complex NUMA policy layer support
SLUB pushes NUMA policy handling into the page allocator. This means that
allocation is coarser (SLUB does interleave on a page level) but that
situation was also present before 2.6.13. SLABs application of
policies to individual slab objects allocated in SLAB is
certainly a performance concern due to the frequent references to
memory policies which may lead a sequence of objects to come from
one node after another. SLUB will get a slab full of objects
from one node and then will switch to the next.F. Reduction of the size of partial slab lists
SLAB has per node partial lists. This means that over time a large
number of partial slabs may accumulate on those lists. These can
only be reused if allocator occur on specific nodes. SLUB has a global
pool of partial slabs and will consume slabs from that pool to
decrease fragmentation.G. Tunables
SLAB has sophisticated tuning abilities for each slab cache. One can
manipulate the queue sizes in detail. However, filling the queues still
requires the uses of the spin lock to check out slabs. SLUB has a global
parameter (min_slab_order) for tuning. Increasing the minimum slab
order can decrease the locking overhead. The bigger the slab order the
less motions of pages between per CPU and partial lists occur and the
better SLUB will be scaling.G. Slab merging
We often have slab caches with similar parameters. SLUB detects those
on boot up and merges them into the corresponding general caches. This
leads to more effective memory use. About 50% of all caches can
be eliminated through slab merging. This will also decrease
slab fragmentation because partial allocated slabs can be filled
up again. Slab merging can be switched off by specifying
slub_nomerge on boot up.Note that merging can expose heretofore unknown bugs in the kernel
because corrupted objects may now be placed differently and corrupt
differing neighboring objects. Enable sanity checks to find those.H. Diagnostics
The current slab diagnostics are difficult to use and require a
recompilation of the kernel. SLUB contains debugging code that
is always available (but is kept out of the hot code paths).
SLUB diagnostics can be enabled via the "slab_debug" option.
Parameters can be specified to select a single or a group of
slab caches for diagnostics. This means that the system is running
with the usual performance and it is much more likely that
race conditions can be reproduced.I. Resiliency
If basic sanity checks are on then SLUB is capable of detecting
common error conditions and recover as best as possible to allow the
system to continue.J. Tracing
Tracing can be enabled via the slab_debug=T, option
during boot. SLUB will then protocol all actions on that slabcache
and dump the object contents on free.K. On demand DMA cache creation.
Generally DMA caches are not needed. If a kmalloc is used with
__GFP_DMA then just create this single slabcache that is needed.
For systems that have no ZONE_DMA requirement the support is
completely eliminated.L. Performance increase
Some benchmarks have shown speed improvements on kernbench in the
range of 5-10%. The locking overhead of slub is based on the
underlying base allocation size. If we can reliably allocate
larger order pages then it is possible to increase slub
performance much further. The anti-fragmentation patches may
enable further performance increases.Tested on:
i386 UP + SMP, x86_64 UP + SMP + NUMA emulation, IA64 NUMA + SimulatorSLUB Boot options
slub_nomerge Disable merging of slabs
slub_min_order=x Require a minimum order for slab caches. This
increases the managed chunk size and therefore
reduces meta data and locking overhead.
slub_min_objects=x Mininum objects per slab. Default is 8.
slub_max_order=x Avoid generating slabs larger than order specified.
slub_debug Enable all diagnostics for all caches
slub_debug= Enable selective options for all caches
slub_debug=, Enable selective options for a certain set of
cachesAvailable Debug options
F Double Free checking, sanity and resiliency
R Red zoning
P Object / padding poisoning
U Track last free / alloc
T Trace all allocs / frees (only use for individual slabs).To use SLUB: Apply this patch and then select SLUB as the default slab
allocator.[hugh@veritas.com: fix an oops-causing locking error]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various stupid cleanups and small fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 May, 2007
1 commit
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Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and
Ingo suggested KVM as well).Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu
memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
29 Mar, 2007
1 commit
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So I think the right solution is to simply make pci_enable_device just
flip enable bits and move the rest of the work someplace else.However a thorough cleanup is a little extreme for this point in the
release cycle, so I think a quick hack that makes the code not stomp the
irq when msi irq's are enabled should be the first fix. Then we can
later make the code not change the irqs at all.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Mar, 2007
1 commit
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FRV does not require a ZONE_DMA, so all DMA'able pages that aren't highmem
should be in ZONE_NORMAL.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Feb, 2007
7 commits
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The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Russell King
Cc: David Howells
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Corey Minyard
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: "John W. Linville"
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Cc: Mark Fasheh
Cc: David Chinner
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Patrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Since the binary sysctl numbers are unique putting the registered sysctls at
the head of the sysctl list where they can override existing sysctls serves no
useful purpose.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
With unique binary numbers setting insert_at_head to insert yourself at the
head of sysctl list and thus override existing sysctl entries serves no point.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line.
2. Set command_line as __initdata.Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev
Cc: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Feb, 2007
2 commits
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Update all arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S to not include space for initramfs
when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRAMFS is not selected. This saves another 4 kbytes
on most platfoms (some reserve PAGE_SIZE for initramfs).Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman
Cc: Al Viro
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch simply defines CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for all arches. We later do special
things with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA after the VM and an arch are prepared to work
without ZONE_DMA.CONFIG_ZONE_DMA can be defined in two ways depending on how an architecture
handles ISA DMA.First if CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA is set by the arch then we know that the arch
needs ZONE_DMA because ISA DMA devices are supported. We can catch this in
mm/Kconfig and do not need to modify arch code.Second, arches may use ZONE_DMA in an unknown way. We set CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for
all arches that do not set CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA in order to insure backwards
compatibility. The arches may later undefine ZONE_DMA if their arch code has
been verified to not depend on ZONE_DMA.Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Dec, 2006
2 commits
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This facility provides three entry points:
ilog2() Log base 2 of unsigned long
ilog2_u32() Log base 2 of u32
ilog2_u64() Log base 2 of u64These facilities can either be used inside functions on dynamic data:
int do_something(long q)
{
...;
y = ilog2(x)
...;
}Or can be used to statically initialise global variables with constant values:
unsigned n = ilog2(27);
When performing static initialisation, the compiler will report "error:
initializer element is not constant" if asked to take a log of zero or of
something not reducible to a constant. They treat negative numbers as
unsigned.When not dealing with a constant, they fall back to using fls() which permits
them to use arch-specific log calculation instructions - such as BSR on
x86/x86_64 or SCAN on FRV - if available.[akpm@osdl.org: MMC fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Herbert Xu
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Wojtek Kaniewski
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Dec, 2006
4 commits
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After LOADER_TYPE && INITRD_START are true, the short if-condition
for INITRD_START can never be false.Remove unused code from the else condition.
Signed-off-by: Henry Nestler
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Cc: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch fixes the following compile error with
-Werror-implicit-function-declaration
(without -Werror-implicit-function-declaration it's a link error):...
CC arch/frv/kernel/futex.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/arch/frv/kernel/futex.c:
In function 'futex_atomic_op_inuser':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/arch/frv/kernel/futex.c:203:
error: implicit declaration of function 'pagefault_disable'
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/arch/frv/kernel/futex.c:226:
error: implicit declaration of function 'pagefault_enable'
make[2]: *** [arch/frv/kernel/futex.o] Error 1
...Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Acked-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
doneThe script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
