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2007-11-09sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancingPeter Zijlstra
SMP balancing is done with IRQs disabled and can iterate the full rq. When rqs are large this can cause large irq-latencies. Limit the nr of iterations on each run. This fixes a scheduling latency regression reported by the -rt folks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Tested-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: fix copy_namespace() <-> sched_fork() dependency in do_forkSrivatsa Vaddagiri
Sukadev Bhattiprolu reported a kernel crash with control groups. There are couple of problems discovered by Suka's test: - The test requires the cgroup filesystem to be mounted with atleast the cpu and ns options (i.e both namespace and cpu controllers are active in the same hierarchy). # mkdir /dev/cpuctl # mount -t cgroup -ocpu,ns none cpuctl (or simply) # mount -t cgroup none cpuctl -> Will activate all controllers in same hierarchy. - The test invokes clone() with CLONE_NEWNS set. This causes a a new child to be created, also a new group (do_fork->copy_namespaces->ns_cgroup_clone-> cgroup_clone) and the child is attached to the new group (cgroup_clone-> attach_task->sched_move_task). At this point in time, the child's scheduler related fields are uninitialized (including its on_rq field, which it has inherited from parent). As a result sched_move_task thinks its on runqueue, when it isn't. As a solution to this problem, I moved sched_fork() call, which initializes scheduler related fields on a new task, before copy_namespaces(). I am not sure though whether moving up will cause other side-effects. Do you see any issue? - The second problem exposed by this test is that task_new_fair() assumes that parent and child will be part of the same group (which needn't be as this test shows). As a result, cfs_rq->curr can be NULL for the child. The solution is to test for curr pointer being NULL in task_new_fair(). With the patch below, I could run ns_exec() fine w/o a crash. Reported-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: clean up the wakeup preempt check, #2Ingo Molnar
clean up the preemption check to not use unnecessary 64-bit variables. This improves code size: text data bss dec hex filename 44227 3326 36 47589 b9e5 sched.o.before 44201 3326 36 47563 b9cb sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: clean up the wakeup preempt checkIngo Molnar
clean up the wakeup preemption check. No code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 44227 3326 36 47589 b9e5 sched.o.before 44227 3326 36 47589 b9e5 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: wakeup preemption fixIngo Molnar
wakeup preemption fix: do not make it dependent on p->prio. Preemption purely depends on ->vruntime. This improves preemption in mixed-nice-level workloads. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: remove PREEMPT_RESTRICTIngo Molnar
remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT. (this is a separate commit so that any regression related to the removal itself is bisectable) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: turn off PREEMPT_RESTRICTIngo Molnar
PREEMPT_RESTRICT was a method aimed at reducing the amount of wakeup related preemption. It has a disadvantage though, it can prevent legitimate wakeups if a task is 'unlucky' to be hit too early by a tick that clears peer_preempt. Now that the wakeup preemption has been cleaned up we dont seem to have excessive preemptions anymore, so this feature can be turned off. (and removed in the next patch) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09KVM: fix !SMP build errorIngo Molnar
fix a !SMP build error: drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c: In function 'kvm_flush_remote_tlbs': drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c:220: error: implicit declaration of function 'smp_call_function_mask' (and also avoid unused function warning related to up_smp_call_function() not making use of the 'func' parameter.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09x86: make nmi_cpu_busy() always definedIngo Molnar
nmi_cpu_busy() must be available on !SMP too. this is in preparation to a smp_call_function_mask() fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09x86: make ipi_handler() always definedIngo Molnar
prepare for up_smp_call_function() to ensure that the 'func' pointer is unused. (which is related to a KVM build fix) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: cleanup, use NSEC_PER_MSEC and NSEC_PER_SECEric Dumazet
1) hardcoded 1000000000 value is used five times in places where NSEC_PER_SEC might be more readable. 2) A conversion from nsec to msec uses the hardcoded 1000000 value, which is a candidate for NSEC_PER_MSEC. no code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 44359 3326 36 47721 ba69 sched.o.before 44359 3326 36 47721 ba69 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: reintroduce SMP tunings againIngo Molnar
Yanmin Zhang reported an aim7 regression and bisected it down to: | commit 38ad464d410dadceda1563f36bdb0be7fe4c8938 | Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | Date: Mon Oct 15 17:00:02 2007 +0200 | | sched: uniform tunings | | use the same defaults on both UP and SMP. fix this by reintroducing similar SMP tunings again. This resolves the regression. (also update the comments to match the ilog2(nr_cpus) tuning effect) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpcPaul Mackerras
Since powerpc started using CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, the deterministic CPU accounting (CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING) has been broken on powerpc, because we end up counting user time twice: once in timer_interrupt() and once in update_process_times(). This fixes the problem by pulling the code in update_process_times that updates utime and stime into a separate function called account_process_tick. If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined, there is a version of account_process_tick in kernel/timer.c that simply accounts a whole tick to either utime or stime as before. If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is defined, then arch code gets to implement account_process_tick. This also lets us simplify the s390 code a bit; it means that the s390 timer interrupt can now call update_process_times even when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is turned on, and can just implement a suitable account_process_tick(). account_process_tick() now takes the task_struct * as an argument. Tested both with and without CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: fix delay accounting regressionBalbir Singh
Fix the delay accounting regression introduced by commit 75d4ef16a6aa84f708188bada182315f80aab6fa. rq no longer has sched_info data associated with it. task_struct sched_info structure is used by delay accounting to provide back statistics to user space. also remove direct use of sched_clock() (which is not a valid thing to do anymore) and use rq->clock instead. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: reintroduce the sched_min_granularity tunablePeter Zijlstra
we lost the sched_min_granularity tunable to a clever optimization that uses the sched_latency/min_granularity ratio - but the ratio is quite unintuitive to users and can also crash the kernel if the ratio is set to 0. So reintroduce the min_granularity tunable, while keeping the ratio maintained internally. no functionality changed. [ mingo@elte.hu: some fixlets. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: documentation: place_entity() commentsPeter Zijlstra
Add a few comments to place_entity(). No code changed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09sched: fix vslicePeter Zijlstra
vslice was missing a factor NICE_0_LOAD, as weight is in weight*NICE_0_LOAD units. the effect of this bug was larger initial slices and thus latency-noisier forks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-06Linux 2.6.24-rc2Linus Torvalds
2007-11-06UML: fix defconfig build againJeff Dike
Reported by Al Viro. This fixes it: [AC]FLAGS -> KBUILD_[AC]FLAGS conversion in Makefile-i386. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-06Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: 9p: add missing end-of-options record for trans_fd 9p: return NULL when trans not found 9p: use copy of the options value instead of original 9p: fix memory leak in v9fs_get_sb
2007-11-069p: add missing end-of-options record for trans_fdLatchesar Ionkov
The list of options that the fd transport accepts is missing end-of-options marker. This patch adds it. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-11-069p: return NULL when trans not foundLatchesar Ionkov
v9fs_match_trans function returns arbitrary transport module instead of NULL when the requested transport is not registered. This patch modifies the function to return NULL in that case. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-11-069p: use copy of the options value instead of originalLatchesar Ionkov
v9fs_parse_options function uses strsep which modifies the value of the v9ses->options field. That modified value is later passed to the function that creates the transport potentially making the transport creation function to fail. This patch creates a copy of v9ses->option field that v9fs_parse_options function uses instead of the original value. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-11-069p: fix memory leak in v9fs_get_sbLatchesar Ionkov
This patch fixes a memory leak in v9fs_get_sb. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-11-05Merge branch 'drm-patches' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 * 'drm-patches' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm: DRM: fix memset size error drm: remove remnants of DRM_COPY_FROM/TO_USER_IOCTL drm: remove second forward decleration of drm device struct.
2007-11-05Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: libata: handle broken cable reporting pata_hpt37x: Fix outstanding bug reports on the HPT374 and 37x cable detect ata_piix: Add additional PCI identifier for 40 wire short cable pata_serverworks: Fix problem with some drive combinations libata: Don't disable dipm with SET FEATURES libata and bogus LBA48 drives
2007-11-05Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: phylib: Silence driver registration phylib: Add ID for Marvell 88E1240 82596: free nonexistent resource fix SUNHME: Fix missing NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED on PCI happy meals
2007-11-06drm: DRM: fix memset size errorLi Zefan
The size passing to memset is wrong. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2007-11-06drm: remove remnants of DRM_COPY_FROM/TO_USER_IOCTLDave Airlie
This is a bug in the savage driver since I introduced these changes. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2007-11-06drm: remove second forward decleration of drm device struct.Dave Airlie
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
2007-11-05ata_piix: Add additional PCI identifier for 40 wire short cableAlan Cox
Keeping the list in sync with the old IDE driver Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05time: fix inconsistent function names in commentsLi Zefan
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05m68knommu: fix pread/pwrite definesGreg Ungerer
Fix system call defines for system call 180 and 181 to match the underlying system call table function entries. System call 180 calls sys_pread64, and 181 calls sys_pwrite64, so make the definitions match. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05eCryptfs: release mutex on hash error pathMichael Halcrow
Release the crypt_stat hash mutex on allocation error. Check for error conditions when doing crypto hash calls. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Reported-by: Kazuki Ohta <kazuki.ohta@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05eCryptfs: increment extent_offset once per loop interationMichael Halcrow
The extent_offset is getting incremented twice per loop iteration through any given page. It should only be getting incremented once. This bug should only impact hosts with >4K page sizes. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05telephony: phonedev panics if unregistering device not registered [Bug 9266]Matti Linnanvuori
Remove panic from phonedev. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9266 for details (phonedev panics if unregistering device not registered). Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05md: fix misapplied patch in raid5.cNeil Brown
commit 4ae3f847e49e3787eca91bced31f8fd328d50496 ("md: raid5: fix clearing of biofill operations") did not get applied correctly, presumably due to substantial similarities between handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6. This patch moves the chunk of new code from handle_stripe6 (where it isn't needed (yet)) to handle_stripe5. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05virtio/virtcons: fix section mismatch warningRandy Dunlap
Make virtcons_probe() __devinit. Fixes this section warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x14c10b): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:hvc_alloc (between 'virtcons_probe' and 'ac_register_board') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05rtc: m48t59 fix section mismatch warningRandy Dunlap
Change the name of this data to use a name (suffix) that is whitelisted by MODPOST so that the section warning is fixed (not generated). WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1b140): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:m48t59_rtc_probe (between 'm48t59_rtc_platdrv' and 'm48t59_nvram_attr') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05uml: correctly strip kernel defines from userspace CFLAGSJeff Dike
KERNEL_DEFINES needs whitespace trimmed, otherwise the whitespace crunching done by make fools the patsubst which is used to remove KERNEL_DEFINES from USER_CFLAGS. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05uml: fix incompatible types warning in previous SG fixWANG Cong
Fix an incompatible-pointer warning. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05paride: fix 'and' typo in drivers/block/paride/pt.cRoel Kluin
Fix 'and' typo (PT_WRITE_OK is defined 2) Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05fs/afs/vlocation.c: fix off-by-oneAdrian Bunk
This patch fixes an off-by-one error spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05arm26: remove it againHugh Dickins
A tiny vestige of arm26 has appeared: remove it again. (akpm: someone (tm) needs to remove include/asm-arm26/ too) Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05Fix bitmap_scnlistprintf for empty masksAndi Kleen
When a bitmap is empty bitmap_scnlistprintf() would leave the buffer uninitialized. Set it to an empty string in this case. I didn't see any in normal kernel callers hitting this, but some custom debug code of mine did. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05Missing include file in kallsyms.hKamalesh Babulal
The Build with randconfig fails with following error with the 2.6.24-rc4-git9 include/linux/kallsyms.h:56: error: `NULL' undeclared (first use in this function) include/linux/kallsyms.h:56: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once include/linux/kallsyms.h:56: error: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell] Error 2 make: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05local_t Documentation updateMathieu Desnoyers
Grant Grundler was asking for more detail about correct usage of local atomic operations and suggested adding the resulting summary to local_ops.txt. "Please add a bit more detail. If DaveM is correct (he normally is), then there must be limits on how the local_t can be used in the kernel process and interrupt contexts. I'd like those rules spelled out very clearly since it's easy to get wrong and tracking down such a bug is quite painful." Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05serial: fix compile warning about putcYinghai Lu
drivers/serial/8250_early.c:80: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `putc' Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05i2o: debug messages correctedVasily Averin
max_phys_segments and max_sectors were swapped Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05Dump stack during sysctl registration failureAlexey Dobriyan
Let's make immediately obvious from where sysctl comes from and messages itself more noticeable. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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