Kernel - My Linux kernel repository

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2006-09-26	[PATCH] Fix idle notifiers	Andi Kleen
	Previously exit_idle would be called more often than enter_idle Now instead of using complicated tests just keep track of it using the per CPU variable as a flip flop. I moved the idle state into the PDA to make the access more efficient. Original bug report and an initial patch from Stephane Eranian, but redone by AK. Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26	[PATCH] Define __bad_pda_field as noreturn	Andi Kleen
	This quietens so warnings about uninitialized use of the return value of the pda read operations. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26	[PATCH] Reindent macros in pda.h	Andi Kleen
	Reindent the macros in x86-64 pda.h, making them much more readable. Follows Jeremy's i386 version of this. No functional changes Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26	[PATCH] Type checking for write_pda()	Jeremy Fitzhardinge
	I just added type checking for assignments the PDA in the i386 PDA code. Here's the x86-64 equivalent. (Obviously this doesn't contain the latest x86-64 PDA change.) Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26	[PATCH] Use %c instead of %P modifier in pda access	Andi Kleen
	Apparently that is the more official way to get numbers without $ in inline assembly Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26	[PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task struct	Arjan van de Ven
	This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA. Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time. Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26	[PATCH] Add comments to the PDA structure to annotate offsets	Arjan van de Ven
	Change the comments in the pda structure to make the first fields to have their offset documented and to have the comments aligned. The stack protector series needs a field at offset 40 (gcc ABI); annotate upto 40 for that reason. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26	[PATCH] Remove most of the special cases for the debug IST stack	Keith Owens
	Remove most of the special cases for the debug IST stack. This is a follow on clean up patch, it requires the bug fix patch that adds orig_ist. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26	[PATCH] Optimize PDA accesses slightly	Andi Kleen
	Based on a idea by Jeremy Fitzhardinge: Replace the volatiles and memory clobbers in the PDA access with telling gcc about access to a proxy PDA structure that doesn't actually exist. But the dummy accesses give a defined ordering for read/write accesses. Also add some memory barriers to the early GS initialization to make sure no PDA access is moved before it. Advantage is some .text savings (probably most from better code for accessing "current"): text data bss dec hex filename 4845647 1223688 615864 6685199 66020f vmlinux 4837780 1223688 615864 6677332 65e354 vmlinux-pda 1.2% smaller code Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-03-25	[PATCH] x86_64: Reorder one field of the PDA to reduce padding	Arjan van de Ven
	This reorders the mmu_state int in the pda, such that there is no more padding (there currently is 4 bytes of padding). Boot tested. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11	[PATCH] x86_64: Allocate PDAs in the local node	Ravikiran G Thirumalai
	Patch uses a static PDA array early at boot and reallocates processor PDA with node local memory when kmalloc is ready, just before pda_init. The boot_cpu_pda is needed since the cpu_pda is used even before pda_init for that cpu is called (to set the static per-cpu areas offset table etc) Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11	[PATCH] x86_64: Node local pda take 2 -- cpu_pda preparation	Ravikiran G Thirumalai
	Helper patch to change cpu_pda users to use macros to access cpu_pda instead of the cpu_pda[] array. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11	[PATCH] x86_64: Move int 3 handler to debug stack and allow to increase it.	Jan Beulich
	This - switches the INT3 handler to run on an IST stack (to cope with breakpoints set by a kernel debugger on places where the kernel's %gs base hasn't been set up, yet); the IST stack used is shared with the INT1 handler's [AK: this also allows setting a kprobe on the interrupt/exception entry points] - allows nesting of INT1/INT3 handlers so that one can, with a kernel debugger, debug (at least) the user-mode portions of the INT1/INT3 handling; the nesting isn't actively enabled here since a kernel- debugger-free kernel doesn't need it Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14	[PATCH] x86_64: Speed up numa_node_id by putting it directly into the PDA	Andi Kleen
	Not go from the CPU number to an mapping array. Mode number is often used now in fast paths. This also adds a generic numa_node_id to all the topology includes Suggested by Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12	[PATCH] x86-64: Some cleanup and optimization to the processor data area.	Andi Kleen
	- Remove unused irqrsp field - Remove pda->me - Optimize set_softirq_pending slightly Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12	[PATCH] x86-64: Don't cache align PDA on UP builds	Andi Kleen
	Suggested by someone I forgot who sorry. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!