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2006-07-01[ARM] 3705/1: add supersection support to ioremap()Lennert Buytenhek
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek Analogous to the previous patch that allows ioremap() to use section mappings, this patch allows ioremap() to use supersection mappings. Original patch by Deepak Saxena. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-07-01[ARM] 3707/1: iwmmxt: use the generic thread notifier infrastructureLennert Buytenhek
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek This patch makes the iWMMXt context switch hook use the generic thread notifier infrastructure that was recently merged in commit d6551e884cf66de072b81f8b6d23259462c40baf. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-07-01[ARM] 3706/2: ep93xx: add cirrus logic edb9315a supportLennert Buytenhek
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek This patch adds support for the Cirrus Logic EDB9315A, an evaluation board based on the Cirrus Logic EP9315 SoC, with 64M RAM, two USB host ports, audio in/out, three serial ports, 10/100 ethernet, and IDE, VGA, and LCD interfaces. The EDB9315A is a low-cost version of the EDB9315, and has only 16M of NOR flash, while the EDB9315 has 32M. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-07-01[ARM] 3704/1: format IOP Kconfig with tabs, create more consistencyMartin Michlmayr
Patch from Martin Michlmayr Some cosmetic changes to increase the consistency of the IOP Kconfig file. Change some space into tabs and add a dot at the end of a help description. Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-07-01[ARM] 3703/1: Add help description for ARCH_EP80219Martin Michlmayr
Patch from Martin Michlmayr Add a brief help description for ARCH_EP80219. Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-07-01[ARM] 3678/1: MMC: Make OMAP MMC workTony Lindgren
Patch from Tony Lindgren This patch makes OMAP MMC work again: - Fix compile errors - Do not ioremap base as it is already statically mapped - Clean-up platform device handling - Fix compile warnings Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-07-01[ARM] 3677/1: OMAP: Update H2 defconfigTony Lindgren
Patch from Tony Lindgren Update OMAP H2 defconfig and leave out hw random for now until it's been updated. Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-07-01[ARM] 3676/1: ARM: OMAP: Fix dmtimers and timer32k to compile on OMAP1Tony Lindgren
Patch from Tony Lindgren Fixes compilation errors on OMAP1. Patch from Timo Teras. Signed-off-by: Timo Teras <timo.teras@solidboot.com> Signed-off-by: Juha Yrjola <juha.yrjola@solidboot.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-07-01Merge branch 'audit.b22' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: [PATCH] audit syscall classes [PATCH] audit: support for object context filters [PATCH] audit: rename AUDIT_SE_* constants [PATCH] add rule filterkey
2006-07-01Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: kbuild: documentation change on allowing checkers besides sparse kbuild: warn when a moduled uses a symbol marked UNUSED kbuild: fix segv in modpost kconfig: enhancing accessibility of lxdialog kbuild: fix ia64 breakage after introducing make -rR
2006-07-01[PATCH] s390: put sys_call_table into .rodata section and write protect itHeiko Carstens
Put s390's syscall tables into .rodata section and write protect this section to prevent misuse of it. Suggested by Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>. Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-01[PATCH] add __[start|end]_rodata sections to asm-generic/sections.hHeiko Carstens
Add __start_rodata and __end_rodata to sections.h to avoid extern declarations. Needed by s390 code (see following patch). [akpm@osdl.org: update architectures] Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-01[PATCH] uml: rename and improve actually_do_remove()Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Rename actually_do_remove() to remove_files_and_dir(), make it call closedir(), make it ignore ENOENT (I see it frequently enough). ENOENT is probably due to multiple threads calling the exitcall functions together*, but fixing that is non-trivial; and ignoring it is perfectly ok in any case. * it can surely happen: last_ditch_exit() is installed as SIGTERM handler at boot, and it's not removed on thread creation. So killall vmlinux (which I do) surely causes that. I've seen also a crash which seems to do the same. Installing the handler on only the main thread would make UML do no cleanup when another thread exits, and we're not sure we want that. And mutual exclusion in that context is tricky - we can't use spinlock in code not on a kernel stack (spinlock debugging uses "current" a lot). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-01[PATCH] uml: fix not_dead_yet when directory is in bad statePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
The bug occurred to me when a UML left an empty ~/.uml/Sarge-norm folder - when trying to reuse not_dead_yet() failed one of its check. The comment says that's ok and means that we can take the directory, but while normally not_dead_yet() removes it and returns 0 (i.e. go on, use this), on failure it returns 0 but forgets to remove it. The fix is to remove it anytime we're going to return 0. But since "not_dead_yet" didn't make the interface so clear, causing this bug, and I couldn't find a convenient name for the mix of things it did, I split it into two parts: is_umdir_used() - returns a boolean, contains all checks of not_dead_yet() umdir_take_if_dead - tries to remove the dir unless it's used - returns whether it removed it, that is we now own it. With this changes the control flow is IMHO a bit clearer and needs less comment for control flow. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-01[PATCH] uml: make copy_*_user atomicPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Make __copy_*_user_inatomic really atomic to avoid "Sleeping function called in atomic context" warnings, especially from futex code. This is made by adding another kmap_atomic slot and making copy_*_user_skas use kmap_atomic; also copy_*_user() becomes atomic, but that's true and is not a problem for i386 (and we can always add might_sleep there as done elsewhere). For TT mode kmap is not used, so there's no need for this. I've had to use another slot since both KM_USER0 and KM_USER1 are used elsewhere and could cause conflicts. Till now we reused the kmap_atomic slot list from the subarch, but that's not needed as that list must contain the common ones (used by generic code) + the ones used in architecture specific code (and Uml till now used none); so I've taken the i386 one after comparing it with ones from other archs, and added KM_UML_USERCOPY. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-01[PATCH] SMP alternatives: skip with UP kernelsGerd Hoffmann
Hide the magic in alternative.h and provide some dummy inline functions for the UP case (gcc should manage to optimize away these calls). No changes in module.c. Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-01[PATCH] audit syscall classesAl Viro
Allow to tie upper bits of syscall bitmap in audit rules to kernel-defined sets of syscalls. Infrastructure, a couple of classes (with 32bit counterparts for biarch targets) and actual tie-in on i386, amd64 and ia64. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-07-01kbuild: fix ia64 breakage after introducing make -rRSam Ravnborg
kbuild used $¤(*F to get filename of target without extension. This was used in several places all over kbuild, but introducing make -rR broke his for all cases where we specified full path to target/prerequsite. It is assumed that make -rR disables old style suffix-rules which is why is suddenly failed. ia64 was impacted by this change because several div* routines in arch/ia64/lib are build using explicit paths and then kbuild failed. Thanks to David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org> for an explanation what was the root-cause and for testing on ia64. This patch also fixes two uses of $(*F) in arch/um Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-30Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Kill sun4v virtual device layer. [SERIAL] sunhv: Convert to of_driver layer. [SPARC64]: Mask out top 8-bits in physical address when building resources. [SERIAL] sunsu: Missing return statement in su_probe().
2006-06-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt arch/arm26/Kconfig typos Documentation/IPMI typos Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig v9fs: do not include linux/version.h Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes typo fixes: specfic -> specific typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt typo fixes: occuring -> occurring typo fixes: infomation -> information typo fixes: disadvantadge -> disadvantage typo fixes: aquire -> acquire typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanism typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidth fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text smb is no longer maintained Manually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
2006-06-30Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (25 commits) ACPI: Kconfig: ACPI_SRAT depends on ACPI ACPI: drivers/acpi/scan.c: make acpi_bus_type static ACPI: fixup memhotplug debug message ACPI: ACPICA 20060623 ACPI: C-States: only demote on current bus mastering activity ACPI: C-States: bm_activity improvements ACPI: C-States: accounting of sleep states ACPI: additional blacklist entry for ThinkPad R40e ACPI: restore comment justifying 'extra' P_LVLx access ACPI: fix battery on HP NX6125 ACPIPHP: prevent duplicate slot numbers when no _SUN ACPI: static-ize handle_hotplug_event_func() ACPIPHP: use ACPI dock driver ACPI: dock driver KEVENT: add new uevent for dock ACPI: asus_acpi_init: propagate correct return value [ACPI] Print error message if remove/install notify handler fails ACPI: delete tracing macros from drivers/acpi/*.c ACPI: HW P-state coordination support ACPI: un-export ACPI_ERROR() -- use printk(KERN_ERR...) ...
2006-06-30[SPARC64]: Kill sun4v virtual device layer.David S. Miller
Replace with a simple IRQ translater in the PROM device tree builder. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30[SPARC64]: Mask out top 8-bits in physical address when building resources.David S. Miller
These top 8-bits are supposed to be ignored in the ranges and top-level reg properties on this platform. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30ACPI: Kconfig: ACPI_SRAT depends on ACPIAndrew Morton
arch/i386/kernel/srat.c won't compile without CONFIG_ACPI. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-06-30[PATCH] uml: fix biarch gcc build on x86_64Jeff Dike
I run an x86_64 kernel with i386 userspace (Ubuntu Dapper) and decided to try out UML today. I found that UML wasn't quite aware of biarch compilers (which Ubuntu i386 ships). A fix similar to what was done for x86_64 should probably be committed (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113425940204010&w=2). Without the FLAGS changes, the build will fail at a number of places and without the LINK change, the final link will fail. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] uml: remove stray fileJeff Dike
Forgot to remove arch/um/kernel/time.c when it was mostly moved to arch/um/os-Linux. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] uml: remove unneeded time definitionsJeff Dike
Remove um_time() and um_stime() syscalls since they are identical to system-wide ones. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] uml: add locking to xtime accessesJeff Dike
do_timer must be called with xtime_lock held. I'm not sure boot_timer_handler needs this, however I don't think it hurts: it simply disables irq and takes a spinlock. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] uml: unregister useless console when it's not neededJeff Dike
-mm in combination with an FC5 init started dying with 'stderr=1' because init didn't like the lack of /dev/console and exited. The problem was that the stderr console, which is intended to dump printk output to the terminal before the regular console is initialized, isn't a tty, and so can't make /dev/console operational. However, since it is registered first, the normal console, when it is registered, doesn't become the preferred console, and isn't attached to /dev/console. Thus, /dev/console is never operational. This patch makes the stderr console unregister itself in an initcall, which is late enough that the normal console is registered. When that happens, the normal console will become the preferred console and will be able to run /dev/console. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] uml: fix off-by-one bug in VM file creationJeff Dike
Fix an off-by-one bug in temp file creation. Seeking to the desired length and writing a byte resulted in the file being one byte longer than expected. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] uml: fix /proc/mounts parsing boundary conditionJeff Dike
When parsing /proc/mounts looking for a tmpfs mount on /dev/shm, if a string that we are looking for if split across reads, then it won't be recognized. Fix this by refilling the buffer whenever we advance the cursor. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] add smp_setup_processor_id()Andrew Morton
Presently, smp_processor_id() isn't necessarily set up until setup_arch(). But it's used in boot_cpu_init() and printk() and perhaps in other places, prior to setup_arch() being called. So provide a new smp_setup_processor_id() which is called before anything else, wire it up for Voyager (which boots on a CPU other than #0, and broke). Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] Light weight event countersChristoph Lameter
The remaining counters in page_state after the zoned VM counter patches have been applied are all just for show in /proc/vmstat. They have no essential function for the VM. We use a simple increment of per cpu variables. In order to avoid the most severe races we disable preempt. Preempt does not prevent the race between an increment and an interrupt handler incrementing the same statistics counter. However, that race is exceedingly rare, we may only loose one increment or so and there is no requirement (at least not in kernel) that the vm event counters have to be accurate. In the non preempt case this results in a simple increment for each counter. For many architectures this will be reduced by the compiler to a single instruction. This single instruction is atomic for i386 and x86_64. And therefore even the rare race condition in an interrupt is avoided for both architectures in most cases. The patchset also adds an off switch for embedded systems that allows a building of linux kernels without these counters. The implementation of these counters is through inline code that hopefully results in only a single instruction increment instruction being emitted (i386, x86_64) or in the increment being hidden though instruction concurrency (EPIC architectures such as ia64 can get that done). Benefits: - VM event counter operations usually reduce to a single inline instruction on i386 and x86_64. - No interrupt disable, only preempt disable for the preempt case. Preempt disable can also be avoided by moving the counter into a spinlock. - Handling is similar to zoned VM counters. - Simple and easily extendable. - Can be omitted to reduce memory use for embedded use. References: RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113512330605497&w=2 RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114988082814934&w=2 local_t http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114991748606690&w=2 V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115014808400007&r=1&w=2 V3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115024767022346&w=2 V4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115047968808926&w=2 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_writeback to per zone counterChristoph Lameter
Conversion of nr_writeback to per zone counter. This removes the last page_state counter from arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c so we drop the page_state from there. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_dirty to per zone counterChristoph Lameter
This makes nr_dirty a per zone counter. Looping over all processors is avoided during writeback state determination. The counter aggregation for nr_dirty had to be undone in the NFS layer since we summed up the page counts from multiple zones. Someone more familiar with NFS should probably review what I have done. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagetables to per zone counterChristoph Lameter
Conversion of nr_page_table_pages to a per zone counter [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_slab to per zone counterChristoph Lameter
- Allows reclaim to access counter without looping over processor counts. - Allows accurate statistics on how many pages are used in a zone by the slab. This may become useful to balance slab allocations over various zones. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagecache to per zone counterChristoph Lameter
Currently a single atomic variable is used to establish the size of the page cache in the whole machine. The zoned VM counters have the same method of implementation as the nr_pagecache code but also allow the determination of the pagecache size per zone. Remove the special implementation for nr_pagecache and make it a zoned counter named NR_FILE_PAGES. Updates of the page cache counters are always performed with interrupts off. We can therefore use the __ variant here. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] zoned vm counters: convert nr_mapped to per zone counterChristoph Lameter
nr_mapped is important because it allows a determination of how many pages of a zone are not mapped, which would allow a more efficient means of determining when we need to reclaim memory in a zone. We take the nr_mapped field out of the page state structure and define a new per zone counter named NR_FILE_MAPPED (the anonymous pages will be split off from NR_MAPPED in the next patch). We replace the use of nr_mapped in various kernel locations. This avoids the looping over all processors in try_to_free_pages(), writeback, reclaim (swap + zone reclaim). [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] zoned vm counters: basic ZVC (zoned vm counter) implementationChristoph Lameter
Per zone counter infrastructure The counters that we currently have for the VM are split per processor. The processor however has not much to do with the zone these pages belong to. We cannot tell f.e. how many ZONE_DMA pages are dirty. So we are blind to potentially inbalances in the usage of memory in various zones. F.e. in a NUMA system we cannot tell how many pages are dirty on a particular node. If we knew then we could put measures into the VM to balance the use of memory between different zones and different nodes in a NUMA system. For example it would be possible to limit the dirty pages per node so that fast local memory is kept available even if a process is dirtying huge amounts of pages. Another example is zone reclaim. We do not know how many unmapped pages exist per zone. So we just have to try to reclaim. If it is not working then we pause and try again later. It would be better if we knew when it makes sense to reclaim unmapped pages from a zone. This patchset allows the determination of the number of unmapped pages per zone. We can remove the zone reclaim interval with the counters introduced here. Futhermore the ability to have various usage statistics available will allow the development of new NUMA balancing algorithms that may be able to improve the decision making in the scheduler of when to move a process to another node and hopefully will also enable automatic page migration through a user space program that can analyse the memory load distribution and then rebalance memory use in order to increase performance. The counter framework here implements differential counters for each processor in struct zone. The differential counters are consolidated when a threshold is exceeded (like done in the current implementation for nr_pageache), when slab reaping occurs or when a consolidation function is called. Consolidation uses atomic operations and accumulates counters per zone in the zone structure and also globally in the vm_stat array. VM functions can access the counts by simply indexing a global or zone specific array. The arrangement of counters in an array also simplifies processing when output has to be generated for /proc/*. Counters can be updated by calling inc/dec_zone_page_state or _inc/dec_zone_page_state analogous to *_page_state. The second group of functions can be called if it is known that interrupts are disabled. Special optimized increment and decrement functions are provided. These can avoid certain checks and use increment or decrement instructions that an architecture may provide. We also add a new CONFIG_DMA_IS_NORMAL that signifies that an architecture can do DMA to all memory and therefore ZONE_NORMAL will not be populated. This is only currently set for IA64 SGI SN2 and currently only affects node_page_state(). In the best case node_page_state can be reduced to retrieving a single counter for the one zone on the node. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] [akpm@osdl.org: export vm_stat[] for filesystems] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30[PATCH] msr.c: use register_hotcpu_notifier()Andrew Morton
register_cpu_notifier() cannot do anything in a module, in a !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU kernel. Cc: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30arch/arm26/Kconfig typosMatt LaPlante
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30typo fixes: specfic -> specificAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30typo fixes: occuring -> occurringAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanismAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidthAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-29Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (30 commits) [TIPC]: Initial activation message now includes TIPC version number [TIPC]: Improve response to requests for node/link information [TIPC]: Fixed skb_under_panic caused by tipc_link_bundle_buf [IrDA]: Fix the AU1000 FIR dependencies [IrDA]: Fix RCU lock pairing on error path [XFRM]: unexport xfrm_state_mtu [NET]: make skb_release_data() static [NETFILTE] ipv4: Fix typo (Bugzilla #6753) [IrDA]: MCS7780 usb_driver struct should be static [BNX2]: Turn off link during shutdown [BNX2]: Use dev_kfree_skb() instead of the _irq version [ATM]: basic sysfs support for ATM devices [ATM]: [suni] change suni_init to __devinit [ATM]: [iphase] should be __devinit not __init [ATM]: [idt77105] should be __devinit not __init [BNX2]: Add NETIF_F_TSO_ECN [NET]: Add ECN support for TSO [AF_UNIX]: Datagram getpeersec [NET]: Fix logical error in skb_gso_ok [PKT_SCHED]: PSCHED_TADD() and PSCHED_TADD2() can result,tv_usec >= 1000000 ...
2006-06-29[NET]: make skb_release_data() staticAdrian Bunk
skb_release_data() no longer has any users in other files. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29merge linus into release branchLen Brown
Conflicts: drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c