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2007-07-16Use write_trylock_irqsave in ptrace_attachSripathi Kodi
This patch makes ptrace_attach use write_trylock_irqsave(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded initialisation] Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16introduce write_trylock_irqsave()Satyam Sharma
Introduce a write_trylock_irqsave() implementation. Similar in style to the implementation of spin_trylock_irqsave() in mainline. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in> Cc: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16more scheduled OSS driver removalAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that: - have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and - whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Fix rmmod/read/write races in /proc entriesAlexey Dobriyan
Fix following races: =========================================== 1. Write via ->write_proc sleeps in copy_from_user(). Module disappears meanwhile. Or, more generically, system call done on /proc file, method supplied by module is called, module dissapeares meanwhile. pde = create_proc_entry() if (!pde) return -ENOMEM; pde->write_proc = ... open write copy_from_user pde = create_proc_entry(); if (!pde) { remove_proc_entry(); return -ENOMEM; /* module unloaded */ } *boom* ========================================== 2. bogo-revoke aka proc_kill_inodes() remove_proc_entry vfs_read proc_kill_inodes [check ->f_op validness] [check ->f_op->read validness] [verify_area, security permissions checks] ->f_op = NULL; if (file->f_op->read) /* ->f_op dereference, boom */ NOTE, NOTE, NOTE: file_operations are proxied for regular files only. Let's see how this scheme behaves, then extend if needed for directories. Directories creators in /proc only set ->owner for them, so proxying for directories may be unneeded. NOTE, NOTE, NOTE: methods being proxied are ->llseek, ->read, ->write, ->poll, ->unlocked_ioctl, ->ioctl, ->compat_ioctl, ->open, ->release. If your in-tree module uses something else, yell on me. Full audit pending. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16v850: enable arbitary speed tty ioctlsAlan Cox
Adding the defines/macros activates the existing code in the tty layer and allows this platform to use the arbitary speed ioctl setting layer Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: remove dead fileJeff Dike
I forgot this file was here. It hasn't been used since UML has been in mainline. Thanks to Jesper for finding something that needed doing to it, thus reminding me of its existence. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: limit request size on COWed devicesJeff Dike
COWed devices can't handle more than 32 (64 on x86_64) sectors in one request due to the size of the bitmap being carried around in the io_thread_req. Enforce that by telling the block layer not to put too many sectors in requests to COWed devices. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: export hostfs symbolsJeff Dike
Add some exports for hostfs that are required after Alberto Bertogli's fixes for accessing unlinked host files. Also did some style cleanups while I was here. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: Eliminate kernel allocator wrappersJeff Dike
UML had two wrapper procedures for kmalloc, um_kmalloc and um_kmalloc_atomic because the flag constants weren't available in userspace code. kern_constants.h had made kernel constants available for a long time, so there is no need for these wrappers any more. Rather, userspace code calls kmalloc directly with the userspace versions of the gfp flags. kmalloc isn't a real procedure, so I had to essentially copy the inline wrapper around __kmalloc. vmalloc also had its own wrapper for no good reason. This is now gone. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: simplify helper stack handlingJeff Dike
run_helper and run_helper_thread had arguments which were the same in all callers. run_helper's stack_out was always NULL and run_helper_thread's stack_order was always 0. These are now gone, and the constants folded into the code. Also fixed leaks of the helper stack in the AIO and SIGIO code. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: SIGIO support cleanupJeff Dike
Cleanup of the SIGWINCH support. Some code and comment reformatting. The stack used for SIGWINCH threads was leaked. This is now fixed by storing it with the pid and other information, and freeing it when the thread is killed. If something goes wrong with a WIGWINCH thread, and this is discovered in the interrupt handler, the winch record would leak. It is now freed, except that the IRQ isn't freed. This is hard to do from interrupt context. This has the side-effect that the IRQ system maintains a reference to the freed structure, but that shouldn't cause a problem since the descriptor is disabled. register_winch_irq is now much better about cleaning up after an initialization failure. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: handle errors on opening host side of consolesJeff Dike
If the host side of a console can't be opened, this will now produce visible error messages. enable_chan now returns a status and this is passed up to con_open and ssl_open, which will complain if anything went wrong. The default host device for the serial line driver is now a pts device rather than a pty device since lots of hosts have LEGACY_PTYS disabled. This had always been failing on such hosts, but silently. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: pty channel tidyingJeff Dike
Cleanup, mostly style violations. Tidied the includes. getmaster returns a real errno, which pty_open returns if there's a problem. The printks now have severity. Changed os_* calls to call libc directly. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: xterm driver tidyingJeff Dike
Major tidying of the xterm console driver: got rid of the tt-mode gdb support tidied up the includes fixed lots of style violations replaced os_* calls with glibc calls in xterm.c all printk calls now have a severity indicator the error paths of xterm_open are closer to being right Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: DEBUG_SHIRQ fixesEduard-Gabriel Munteanu
DEBUG_SHIRQ generates spurious interrupts, triggering handlers such as mconsole_interrupt() or line_interrupt(). They expect data to be available to be read from their sockets/pipes, but in the case of spurious interrupts, the host didn't actually send anything, so UML hangs in read() and friends. Setting those fd's as O_NONBLOCK makes DEBUG_SHIRQ-enabled UML kernels boot and run correctly. Signed-off-by: Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu <maxdamage@aladin.ro> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Add generic exit-time stack-depth checking to CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGEJeff Dike
Add generic exit-time stack-depth checking to CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE. This also adds UML support. Tested on UML and i386. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, speedups, tweaks] Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: use get_free_pages to allocate kernel stacksJeff Dike
For some reason, I was using kmalloc instead of get_free_pages for kernel stacks. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16uml: fix request->sector updateJeff Dike
It is theoretically possible for a request to finish and be freed between writing it to the I/O thread and updating the sector count. In this case, the update will dereference a freed pointer. To avoid this, I delay the update until processing the next sg segment, when the request pointer is known to be good. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16CRIS: replace old-style member inits with designated initsRobert P. J. Day
Replace the old-style structure member initializers with designated initializers. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16etrax: enable arbitary speed setting on tty portsAlan Cox
Add the needed constants and bits. The actual code is already in the tty layer and turned on by the definitions Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16m32r: A MAINTAINERS entry for the M32R architectureHirokazu Takata
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16m32r: enable arbitary speed tty rate settingAlan Cox
Add the defines and constants needed for the M32R platform to support the arbitary speed tty ioctls. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16arm26: remove broken and unused macroMariusz Kozlowski
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16ARM26: enable arbitary speed tty ioctls and split input/output speedAlan Cox
Add the ioctls and values needed for this to the ARM26/ARM32 ports. The actual code has been in the base kernel for a while and automatically turns on when a port sets the required defines. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16fix alpha ISA supportIvan Kokshaysky
isa_bus_to_virt() is still needed in a few places (lance.c, at least). When we switch the kernel to using -Werror-implicit-function-declaration, the lack of isa_bus_to_virt() breaks alpha allmodconfig builds. Add isa_bus_to_virt() and deprecate the ezisting ISA APIs, though it might be better to define these functions as BUG(), since virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt just do wrong things on a number of machines. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16alpha: fix trivial section mismatch warningsSam Ravnborg
Fix the following section mismatch warnings: WARNING: arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x7c78): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:init_rtc_irq (between 'common_init_rtc' and 'timer_interrupt') WARNING: arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x7c7c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:init_rtc_irq (between 'common_init_rtc' and 'timer_interrupt') WARNING: arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o(.data+0x2c30): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:srm_console_setup (between 'srmcons' and 'tsunami_pci_ops') In all three cases functions marked __init was called outside __init context. So the fix was to just drop the __init attribute. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16h8300 entry.S updateYoshinori Sato
Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16h8300: remove unused fileYoshinori Sato
arch/h8300/kernel/ints.c is unused. Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16h8300 zImage support updateYoshinori Sato
- Add missing files - Add Makefile target - Change image base - Style fix Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16h8300: enable arbitary speed tty port setupAlan Cox
Add the needed constants and defines to activate the new tty code on this platform Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16m68knommu: remove old cache management cruft from mm codeGreg Ungerer
Remove cache management cruft. This code is dead, all the cache manangement functions for the ColdFire exist in the header file include/asm-m68knommu/cacheflush.h. 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>
2007-07-16m68knommu: remove cruft from setup codeGreg Ungerer
Clean out cruft. . remove include files not needed . remove not used CAT_ROMARRAY code . remove generic machine pointers not used . remove unused functions . fix email address in copyrights 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>
2007-07-16m68knommu: use TRHEAD_SIZE instead of hard constantGreg Ungerer
Use THREAD_SIZE instead of a hard constant. Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> 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>
2007-07-16nommu: stub expand_stack() for nommu caseGreg Ungerer
Be consistent with VM mmap, implement expand_stack(). We can't actually do anything other than return an error in the no MMU case though. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16FRV: Remove some dead codeDavid Howells
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 <rpjday@mindspring.com>] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16FRV: Be (self-)consistent and use CONFIG_GDB_CONSOLE everywhereDavid Howells
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 <rpjday@mindspring.com>] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16FRV: Connect up new syscallsDavid Howells
Connect up new system calls. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16split mmapMiklos Szeredi
This is a straightforward split of do_mmap_pgoff() into two functions: - do_mmap_pgoff() checks the parameters, and calculates the vma flags. Then it calls - mmap_region(), which does the actual mapping Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>akpm@linux-foundation.org
The do_loop_readv_writev implementation of readv breaks out of the loop as soon as a single read request didn't fill it's buffer: if (nr != len) break; The generic_file_aio_read version doesn't. So if it hits EOF before the end of the list of buffers, it will try again on the next buffer. If the file was extended in the mean time, this will produce a bad result. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITYHerbert van den Bergh
Fix a bug in mm/mlock.c on 32-bit architectures that prevents a user from locking more than 4GB of shared memory, or allocating more than 4GB of shared memory in hugepages, when rlim[RLIMIT_MEMLOCK] is set to RLIM_INFINITY. Signed-off-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Acked-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16slob: sparsemem supportPaul Mundt
Currently slob is disabled if we're using sparsemem, due to an earlier patch from Goto-san. Slob and static sparsemem work without any trouble as it is, and the only hiccup is a missing slab_is_available() in the case of sparsemem extreme. With this, we're rid of the last set of restrictions for slob usage. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mspec_mmap: don't set VM_LOCKEDHugh Dickins
mspec_mmap was setting VM_LOCKED (without adjusting locked_vm): don't do that, it serves no purpose in 2.6, other than to mess up the locked_vm accounting - mspec's pages won't get reclaimed anyway. Thanks to Dmitry Monakhov for raising the issue. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mm/page_alloc.c: lower printk severityDan Aloni
Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16slob: initial NUMA supportPaul Mundt
This adds preliminary NUMA support to SLOB, primarily aimed at systems with small nodes (tested all the way down to a 128kB SRAM block), whether asymmetric or otherwise. We follow the same conventions as SLAB/SLUB, preferring current node placement for new pages, or with explicit placement, if a node has been specified. Presently on UP NUMA this has the side-effect of preferring node#0 allocations (since numa_node_id() == 0, though this could be reworked if we could hand off a pfn to determine node placement), so single-CPU NUMA systems will want to place smaller nodes further out in terms of node id. Once a page has been bound to a node (via explicit node id typing), we only do block allocations from partial free pages that have a matching node id in the page flags. The current implementation does have some scalability problems, in that all partial free pages are tracked in the global freelist (with contention due to the single spinlock). However, these are things that are being reworked for SMP scalability first, while things like per-node freelists can easily be built on top of this sort of functionality once it's been added. More background can be found in: http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118117916022379&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118170446306199&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118187859420048&w=2 and subsequent threads. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16speed up madvise_need_mmap_write() usageJason Baron
In the new madvise_need_mmap_write() call we can avoid an extra case statement and function call as follows. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mm/slab.c: start_cpu_timer() should be __cpuinitAdrian Bunk
start_cpu_timer() should be __cpuinit (which also matches what it's callers are). __devinit didn't cause problems, it simply wasted a few bytes of memory for the common CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n case. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mm: more __meminit annotationsPaul Mundt
Currently zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_absent_pages_in_node() are non-static for ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP and static otherwise. However, only the non-static versions are __meminit annotated, despite only being called from __meminit functions in either case. zone_init_free_lists() is currently non-static and not __meminit annotated either, despite only being called once in the entire tree by init_currently_empty_zone(), which too is __meminit. So make it static and properly annotated. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16kill vmalloc_earlyreserveJan Beulich
This symbol got orphaned quite a while ago. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16page table handling cleanupJan Beulich
Kill pte_rdprotect(), pte_exprotect(), pte_mkread(), pte_mkexec(), pte_read(), pte_exec(), and pte_user() except where arch-specific code is making use of them. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mm: fix improper .init-type section referencesJan Beulich
.. which modpost started warning about. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>