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2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: move 4xx PHY_MODE_XXX defines to ibm_ocp.hEugene Surovegin
Move 4xx PHY_MODE_XXX defines to asm-ppc/ibm_ocp.h. This is a preparation step for the new EMAC driver. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Add cputable entry for 750CXe DD2.4 ("Gekko")Arthur Othieno
Add a table entry for 750CXe DD2.4 ("Gekko") as found in the GameCube from Nintendo: http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/291C8D0EF3EAEC1687256B72005C745C#C1 Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Re-order cputable for 750CXe DD2.4 entryArthur Othieno
"745/755" (pvr_value:0x00083000) is a catch-all entry. Since arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S:identify_cpu() returns on first match, move this lower in the table so 750CXe DD2.4 (pvr_value:0x00083214) may be correctly enumerated. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Added PCI support MPC83xxKumar Gala
Adds support for the two PCI busses on MPC83xx and the MPC834x SYS/PIBS reference board. The code initializes PCI inbound/outbound windows, allocates and registers PCI memory/io space. Be aware that setup of the PCI buses on the PIBs board is expected to be done by the firmware. Signed-off-by: Tony Li <tony.li@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: defconfig for Marvell EV64360BP boardLee Nicks
Here is the default configuration for Marvell EV64360BP board. It has been tested on the board. Signed-off-by: Lee Nicks <allinux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: add support for Marvell EV64360BP boardLee Nicks
This patch adds support for Marvell EV64360BP board. So far, it supports mpsc serial console, gigabit ethernet, jffs2 root filesystem, etc. Other device support, like watchdog, RTC, will be added later. Signed-off-by: Lee Nicks <allinux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: add CONFIG_HZKumar Gala
While ppc32 has the CONFIG_HZ Kconfig option, it wasnt actually being used. Connect it up and set all platforms to 250Hz. This pretty much mimics the ppc64 patch from Anton Blanchard. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: ppc_sys system on chip identification additionsKumar Gala
Add the ability to identify an SOC by a name and id. There are cases in which the integer identifier is not sufficient to specify a specific SOC. In these cases we can use a string to further qualify the match. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: disable IBM405_ERR77 and IBM405_ERR51 workarounds for 405EPEugene Surovegin
Disable IBM405_ERR77 and IBM405_ERR51 errata workarounds for 405EP. This chip has these problems fixed. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: fix Bamboo and Luan build warningsEugene Surovegin
Fix STD_UART_OP definitions in Bamboo and Luan board ports which were causing "initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast" warnings. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: fix EMAC Tx channel assignments for NPe405HEugene Surovegin
Fix PowerPC NPe405H EMAC Tx channel assignments. EMAC unit in this chip uses common for 4xx "two Tx / one Rx" configuration. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Don't sleep in flush_dcache_icache_page()Roland Dreier
flush_dcache_icache_page() will be called on an instruction page fault. We can't sleep in the fault handler, so use kmap_atomic() instead of just kmap() for the Book-E case. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Acked-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: add cputable entry for 440SP Rev. AMatt Porter
Adds the appropriate cputable entry for PPC440SP so cache line sizes are configured correctly. Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: removed find_name.cKumar Gala
No one uses find_name.c and no one seems to care about either. So I'm removing it. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: add 440GX rev.F cputable entryEugene Surovegin
Add PowerPC 440GX rev.F cputable entry. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Cleaned up global namespace of Book-E watchdog variablesKumar Gala
Renamed global variables used to convey if the watchdog is enabled and periodicity of the timer and moved the declarations into a header for these variables Signed-off-by: Matt McClintock <msm@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix baseaddress for SMC 1 and 2Kumar Gala
Base addess register for SMC 1 and 2 are never initialized. This means that they will not work unless a bootloader already configured them. The DPRAM already have space reserved, this patch just makes sure the base addess register is updated correctly on initialization. Signed-off-by: Rune Torgersen <runet@innovsys.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] cpm_uart: use schedule_timeout instead of direct call to scheduleKumar Gala
use schedule_timeout instead of direct call to schedule Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix 2nd serial port on MPC8560 ADSKumar Gala
The 2nd serial port on the MPC8560 ADS was not being configured correctly and thus could not be used as a console. Updated the defconfig for the board to configure the proper SCC channel for the 2nd serial port. Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: add phy excluded features to ocp_func_emac_dataMatt Porter
This patch adds a field to struct ocp_func_emac_data that allows platform-specific unsupported PHY features to be passed in to the ibm_emac ethernet driver. This patch also adds some logic for the Bamboo eval board to populate this field based on the dip switches on the board. This is a workaround for the improperly biased RJ-45 sockets on the Rev. 0 Bamboo. Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Add ppc_sys descriptions for PowerQUICC II devicesKumar Gala
Added ppc_sys device and system definitions for PowerQUICC II devices. This will allow drivers for PQ2 to be proper platform device drivers. Which can be shared on PQ3 processors with the same peripherals. Signed-off-by: Matt McClintock <msm@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Added support for the Book-E style Watchdog TimerKumar Gala
PowerPC 40x and Book-E processors support a watchdog timer at the processor core level. The timer has implementation dependent timeout frequencies that can be configured by software. One the first Watchdog timeout we get a critical exception. It is left to board specific code to determine what should happen at this point. If nothing is done and another timeout period expires the processor may attempt to reset the machine. Command line parameters: wdt=0 : disable watchdog (default) wdt=1 : enable watchdog wdt_period=N : N sets the value of the Watchdog Timer Period. The Watchdog Timer Period meaning is implementation specific. Check User Manual for the processor for more details. This patch is based off of work done by Takeharu Kato. Signed-off-by: Matt McClintock <msm@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Add usb support to IBM stb04xxx platformsMatt Porter
Support ochi-ppc-soc.c on IBM stb04xxx platforms Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: fix asm-ppc/dma-mapping.h sparse warningChristoph Hellwig
GFP flags must be passed as unisgned int __nocast these days, else we'll get tons of sparse warnings in every driver. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for PCOREKumar Gala
Support for the PCORE board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for SPD823TSKumar Gala
Support for the SPD823TS board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for SM850Kumar Gala
Support for the SM850 board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for REDWOODKumar Gala
Support for the REDWOOD board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for RAINIERKumar Gala
Support for the RAINIER board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for OAKKumar Gala
Support for the OAK board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for MENF1Kumar Gala
Support for the MENF1 board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for MCPN765Kumar Gala
Support for the MCPN765 board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for K2Kumar Gala
Support for the K2 board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove defconfig for CEDARKumar Gala
Support for the CEDAR board no longer exists, removing the defconfig for it Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for BEECHKumar Gala
Support for the BEECH board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for ASHKumar Gala
Support for the ASH board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] ppc32: Remove board support for ADIRKumar Gala
Support for the ADIR board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c: remove unused #define EXPORT_SYMTAB_STROPSAdrian Bunk
This #define is only used on sparc. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrsStephen Smalley
This patch modifies the VFS setxattr, getxattr, and listxattr code to fall back to the security module for security xattrs if the filesystem does not support xattrs natively. This allows security modules to export the incore inode security label information to userspace even if the filesystem does not provide xattr storage, and eliminates the need to individually patch various pseudo filesystem types to provide such access. The patch removes the existing xattr code from devpts and tmpfs as it is then no longer needed. The patch restructures the code flow slightly to reduce duplication between the normal path and the fallback path, but this should only have one user-visible side effect - a program may get -EACCES rather than -EOPNOTSUPP if policy denied access but the filesystem didn't support the operation anyway. Note that the post_setxattr hook call is not needed in the fallback case, as the inode_setsecurity hook call handles the incore inode security state update directly. In contrast, we do call fsnotify in both cases. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] selinux: endian notationsAlexey Dobriyan
This patch adds endian notations to the SELinux code. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] selinux: Reduce memory use by avtabStephen Smalley
This patch improves memory use by SELinux by both reducing the avtab node size and reducing the number of avtab nodes. The memory savings are substantial, e.g. on a 64-bit system after boot, James Morris reported the following data for the targeted and strict policies: #objs objsize kernmem Targeted: Before: 237888 40 9.1MB After: 19968 24 468KB Strict: Before: 571680 40 21.81MB After: 221052 24 5.06MB The improvement in memory use comes at a cost in the speed of security server computations of access vectors, but these computations are only required on AVC cache misses, and performance measurements by James Morris using a number of benchmarks have shown that the change does not cause any significant degradation. Note that a rebuilt policy via an updated policy toolchain (libsepol/checkpolicy) is required in order to gain the full benefits of this patch, although some memory savings benefits are immediately applied even to older policies (in particular, the reduction in avtab node size). Sources for the updated toolchain are presently available from the sourceforge CVS tree (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=21266), and tarballs are available from http://www.flux.utah.edu/~sds. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] kconfig: linux.pot for all archEgry Gabor
The 'make update-po-config' creates the .pot file for the default arch. This patch enhances it with all arch. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <gaboregry@t-online.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] kconfig: kxgettext: EOL fixEgry Gabor
The end of line character doesn't exist on end of help in all case, check it first. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <gaboregry@t-online.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] kconfig: kxgettext: message fixEgry Gabor
The gettext doesn't handle the {CONFIG}:00000 markers as sources. I added a simple comment prefix for them. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <gaboregry@t-online.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] VM: add page_state info to per-node meminfoMartin Hicks
Add page_state info to the per-node meminfo file in sysfs. This is mostly just for informational purposes. The lack of this information was brought up recently during a discussion regarding pagecache clearing, and I put this patch together to test out one of the suggestions. It seems like interesting info to have, so I'm submitting the patch. Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] add /proc/pid/smapsMauricio Lin
Add a "smaps" entry to /proc/pid: show howmuch memory is resident in each mapping. People that want to perform a memory consumption analysing can use it mainly if someone needs to figure out which libraries can be reduced for embedded systems. So the new features are the physical size of shared and clean [or dirty]; private and clean [or dirty]. Take a look the example below: # cat /proc/4576/smaps 08048000-080dc000 r-xp /bin/bash Size: 592 KB Rss: 500 KB Shared_Clean: 500 KB Shared_Dirty: 0 KB Private_Clean: 0 KB Private_Dirty: 0 KB 080dc000-080e2000 rw-p /bin/bash Size: 24 KB Rss: 24 KB Shared_Clean: 0 KB Shared_Dirty: 0 KB Private_Clean: 0 KB Private_Dirty: 24 KB 080e2000-08116000 rw-p Size: 208 KB Rss: 208 KB Shared_Clean: 0 KB Shared_Dirty: 0 KB Private_Clean: 0 KB Private_Dirty: 208 KB b7e2b000-b7e34000 r-xp /lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.2.so Size: 36 KB Rss: 12 KB Shared_Clean: 12 KB Shared_Dirty: 0 KB Private_Clean: 0 KB Private_Dirty: 0 KB ... (Includes a cleanup from "Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@rpsys.net>) From: Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch@gmx.net> show_smap calls first show_map and then prints its additional information to the seq_file. show_map checks if all it has to print fits into the buffer and if yes marks the current vma as written. While that is correct for show_map it is not for show_smap. Here the vma should be marked as written only after the additional information is also written. The attached patch cures the problem. It moves the functionality of the show_map function to a new function show_map_internal that is called with an additional struct mem_size_stats* argument. Then show_map calls show_map_internal with NULL as struct mem_size_stats* whereas show_smap calls it with a real pointer. Now the final if (m->count < m->size) /* vma is copied successfully */ m->version = (vma != get_gate_vma(task))? vma->vm_start: 0; is done only if the whole entry fits into the buffer. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] slab: removes local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore() pairManfred Spraul
Proposed by and based on a patch from Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>: This patch removes unnecessary critical section in ksize() function, as cli/sti are rather expensive on modern CPUS. It additionally adds a docbook entry for ksize() and further simplifies the code. Signed-Off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] mm/slab.c: prefetchw the start of new allocated objectsEric Dumazet
Mostobjects returned by __cache_alloc() will be written by the caller, (but not all callers want to write all the object, but just at the begining) prefetchw() tells the modern CPU to think about the future writes, ie start some memory transactions in advance. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] x86_64: avoid some atomic operations during address space destructionZachary Amsden
Any architecture that has hardware updated A/D bits that require synchronization against other processors during PTE operations can benefit from doing non-atomic PTE updates during address space destruction. Originally done on i386, now ported to x86_64. Doing a read/write pair instead of an xchg() operation saves the implicit lock, which turns out to be a big win on 32-bit (esp w PAE). Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] x86: ptep_clear optimizationZachary Amsden
Add a new accessor for PTEs, which passes the full hint from the mmu_gather struct; this allows architectures with hardware pagetables to optimize away atomic PTE operations when destroying an address space. Removing the locked operation should allow better pipelining of memory access in this loop. I measured an average savings of 30-35 cycles per zap_pte_range on the first 500 destructions on Pentium-M, but I believe the optimization would win more on older processors which still assert the bus lock on xchg for an exclusive cacheline. Update: I made some new measurements, and this saves exactly 26 cycles over ptep_get_and_clear on Pentium M. On P4, with a PAE kernel, this saves 180 cycles per ptep_get_and_clear, for a whopping 92160 cycles savings for a full address space destruction. pte_clear_full is not yet used, but is provided for future optimizations (in particular, when running inside of a hypervisor that queues page table updates, the full hint allows us to avoid queueing unnecessary page table update for an address space in the process of being destroyed. This is not a huge win, but it does help a bit, and sets the stage for further hypervisor optimization of the mm layer on all architectures. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>