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2009-03-04Merge branch 'x86/core' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
2009-03-04Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/mm', 'x86/sched', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
2009-03-02Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: fix warning in io_mapping_map_wc() x86: i915 needs pgprot_writecombine() and is_io_mapping_possible()
2009-03-02x86, mm: dont use non-temporal stores in pagecache accessesIngo Molnar
Impact: standardize IO on cached ops On modern CPUs it is almost always a bad idea to use non-temporal stores, as the regression in this commit has shown it: 30d697f: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall The kernel simply has no good information about whether using non-temporal stores is a good idea or not - and trying to add heuristics only increases complexity and inserts fragility. The regression on cached write()s took very long to be found - over two years. So dont take any chances and let the hardware decide how it makes use of its caches. The only exception is drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c: there were we are absolutely sure that another entity (the GPU) will pick up the dirty data immediately and that the CPU will not touch that data before the GPU will. Also, keep the _nocache() primitives to make it easier for people to experiment with these details. There may be more clear-cut cases where non-cached copies can be used, outside of filemap.c. Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02fix warning in io_mapping_map_wc()Pallipadi, Venkatesh
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-01Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/patIngo Molnar
2009-03-01Revert "gpu/drm, x86, PAT: PAT support for io_mapping_*"Ingo Molnar
This reverts commit 17581ad812a9abb0182260374ef2e52d4a808a64. Sitsofe Wheeler reported that /dev/dri/card0 is MIA on his EeePC 900 and bisected it to this commit. Graphics card is an i915 in an EeePC 900: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller [8086:2592] (rev 04) ( Most likely the ioremap() of the driver failed and hence the card did not initialize. ) Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Bisected-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-01net headers: export dcbnl.hChris Leech
The DCB netlink interface is required for building the userspace tools available at e1000.sourceforge.net Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-01net headers: cleanup dcbnl.hChris Leech
1) add an include for <linux/types.h> 2) change dcbmsg.dcb_family from unsigned char to __u8 to be more consistent with use of kernel types Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-28Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
2009-02-27Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: enable DMAR by default xen: disable interrupts early, as start_kernel expects gpu/drm, x86, PAT: io_mapping_create_wc and resource_size_t gpu/drm, x86, PAT: Handle io_mapping_create_wc() errors in a clean way x86, Voyager: fix compile by lifting the degeneracy of phys_cpu_present_map x86, doc: fix references to Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt
2009-02-27Fix recursive lock in free_uid()/free_user_ns()David Howells
free_uid() and free_user_ns() are corecursive when CONFIG_USER_SCHED=n, but free_user_ns() is called from free_uid() by way of uid_hash_remove(), which requires uidhash_lock to be held. free_user_ns() then calls free_uid() to complete the destruction. Fix this by deferring the destruction of the user_namespace. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-26block: reduce stack footprint of blk_recount_segments()Jens Axboe
blk_recalc_rq_segments() requires a request structure passed in, which we don't have from blk_recount_segments(). So the latter allocates one on the stack, using > 400 bytes of stack for that. This can cause us to spill over one page of stack from ext4 at least: 0) 4560 400 blk_recount_segments+0x43/0x62 1) 4160 32 bio_phys_segments+0x1c/0x24 2) 4128 32 blk_rq_bio_prep+0x2a/0xf9 3) 4096 32 init_request_from_bio+0xf9/0xfe 4) 4064 112 __make_request+0x33c/0x3f6 5) 3952 144 generic_make_request+0x2d1/0x321 6) 3808 64 submit_bio+0xb9/0xc3 7) 3744 48 submit_bh+0xea/0x10e 8) 3696 368 ext4_mb_init_cache+0x257/0xa6a [ext4] 9) 3328 288 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x421/0xcd9 [ext4] 10) 3040 160 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x211/0x4b4 [ext4] 11) 2880 336 ext4_ext_get_blocks+0xb61/0xd45 [ext4] 12) 2544 96 ext4_get_blocks_wrap+0xf2/0x200 [ext4] 13) 2448 80 ext4_da_get_block_write+0x6e/0x16b [ext4] 14) 2368 352 mpage_da_map_blocks+0x7e/0x4b3 [ext4] 15) 2016 352 ext4_da_writepages+0x2ce/0x43c [ext4] 16) 1664 32 do_writepages+0x2d/0x3c 17) 1632 144 __writeback_single_inode+0x162/0x2cd 18) 1488 96 generic_sync_sb_inodes+0x1e3/0x32b 19) 1392 16 sync_sb_inodes+0xe/0x10 20) 1376 48 writeback_inodes+0x69/0xb3 21) 1328 208 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x187/0x2f9 22) 1120 224 generic_file_buffered_write+0x1d4/0x2c4 23) 896 176 __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x35f/0x393 24) 720 80 generic_file_aio_write+0x6c/0xc8 25) 640 80 ext4_file_write+0xa9/0x137 [ext4] 26) 560 320 do_sync_write+0xf0/0x137 27) 240 48 vfs_write+0xb3/0x13c 28) 192 64 sys_write+0x4c/0x74 29) 128 128 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Split the segment counting out into a __blk_recalc_rq_segments() helper to avoid allocating an onstack request just for checking the physical segment count. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-02-26Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/mm' and ↵Ingo Molnar
'linus' into x86/core
2009-02-26Merge branches 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/pat' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
2009-02-26Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
2009-02-26percpu: fix too low alignment restriction on UPTejun Heo
UP __alloc_percpu() triggered WARN_ON_ONCE() if the requested alignment is larger than that of unsigned long long, which is too small for all the cacheline aligned allocations. Bump it up to SMP_CACHE_BYTES which kmalloc allocations generally guarantee. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25ide: fix refcounting in device driversBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
During host driver module removal del_gendisk() results in a final put on drive->gendev and freeing the drive by drive_release_dev(). Convert device drivers from using struct kref to use struct device so device driver's object holds reference on ->gendev and prevents drive from prematurely going away. Also fix ->remove methods to not erroneously drop reference on a host driver by using only put_device() instead of ide*_put(). Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl> Tested-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-02-25Merge git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6: intel-iommu: fix endless "Unknown DMAR structure type" loop VT-d: handle Invalidation Queue Error to avoid system hang intel-iommu: fix build error with INTR_REMAP=y and DMAR=n
2009-02-25alloc_percpu: fix UP buildIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix the !SMP branch had a 'gfp' leftover: include/linux/percpu.h: In function '__alloc_percpu': include/linux/percpu.h:160: error: 'gfp' undeclared (first use in this function) include/linux/percpu.h:160: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once include/linux/percpu.h:160: error: for each function it appears in.) Use GFP_KERNEL like the SMP version does. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25gpu/drm, x86, PAT: PAT support for io_mapping_*Venkatesh Pallipadi
Make io_mapping_create_wc and io_mapping_free go through PAT to make sure that there are no memory type aliases. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25gpu/drm, x86, PAT: io_mapping_create_wc and resource_size_tVenkatesh Pallipadi
io_mapping_create_wc should take a resource_size_t parameter in place of unsigned long. With unsigned long, there will be no way to map greater than 4GB address in i386/32 bit. On x86, greater than 4GB addresses cannot be mapped on i386 without PAE. Return error for such a case. Patch also adds a structure for io_mapping, that saves the base, size and type on HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP archs, that can be used to verify the offset on io_mapping_map calls. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25x86, mm: pass in 'total' to __copy_from_user_*nocache()Ingo Molnar
Impact: cleanup, enable future change Add a 'total bytes copied' parameter to __copy_from_user_*nocache(), and update all the callsites. The parameter is not used yet - architecture code can use it to more intelligently decide whether the copy should be cached or non-temporal. Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6
2009-02-24Merge branch 'tj-percpu' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/percpu Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
2009-02-24Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/mm', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into x86/core
2009-02-24i2c-dev: Clarify the unit of ioctl I2C_TIMEOUTJean Delvare
The unit in which user-space can set the bus timeout value is jiffies for historical reasons (back when HZ was always 100.) This is however not good because user-space doesn't know how long a jiffy lasts. The timeout value should instead be set in a fixed time unit. Given the original value of HZ, this unit should be 10 ms, for compatibility. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2009-02-24percpu: give more latitude to arch specific first chunk initializationTejun Heo
Impact: more latitude for first percpu chunk allocation The first percpu chunk serves the kernel static percpu area and may or may not contain extra room for further dynamic allocation. Initialization of the first chunk needs to be done before normal memory allocation service is up, so it has its own init path - pcpu_setup_static(). It seems archs need more latitude while initializing the first chunk for example to take advantage of large page mapping. This patch makes the following changes to allow this. * Define PERCPU_DYNAMIC_RESERVE to give arch hint about how much space to reserve in the first chunk for further dynamic allocation. * Rename pcpu_setup_static() to pcpu_setup_first_chunk(). * Make pcpu_setup_first_chunk() much more flexible by fetching page pointer by callback and adding optional @unit_size, @free_size and @base_addr arguments which allow archs to selectively part of chunk initialization to their likings. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-24vmalloc: add @align to vm_area_register_early()Tejun Heo
Impact: allow larger alignment for early vmalloc area allocation Some early vmalloc users might want larger alignment, for example, for custom large page mapping. Add @align to vm_area_register_early(). While at it, drop docbook comment on non-existent @size. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
2009-02-24bootmem: reorder interface functions and add a missing oneTejun Heo
Impact: cleanup and addition of missing interface wrapper The interface functions in bootmem.h was ordered in not so orderly manner. Reorder them such that * functions allocating the same area group together - ie. alloc_bootmem group and alloc_bootmem_low group. * functions w/o node parameter come before the ones w/ node parameter. * nopanic variants are immediately below their panicky counterparts. While at it, add alloc_bootmem_pages_node_nopanic() which was missing. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
2009-02-24bootmem: clean up arch-specific bootmem wrappingTejun Heo
Impact: cleaner and consistent bootmem wrapping By setting CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE, archs can define arch-specific wrappers for bootmem allocation. However, this is done a bit strangely in that only the high level convenience macros can be changed while lower level, but still exported, interface functions can't be wrapped. This not only is messy but also leads to strange situation where alloc_bootmem() does what the arch wants it to do but the equivalent __alloc_bootmem() call doesn't although they should be able to be used interchangeably. This patch updates bootmem such that archs can override / wrap the backend function - alloc_bootmem_core() instead of the highlevel interface functions to allow simpler and consistent wrapping. Also, HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE is renamed to HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
2009-02-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: netns: fix double free at netns creation veth : add the set_mac_address capability sunlance: Beyond ARRAY_SIZE of ib->btx_ring sungem: another error printed one too early ISDN: fix sc/shmem printk format warning SMSC: timeout reaches -1 smsc9420: handle magic field of ethtool_eeprom sundance: missing parentheses? smsc9420: fix another postfixed timeout wimax/i2400m: driver loads firmware v1.4 instead of v1.3 vlan: Update skb->mac_header in __vlan_put_tag(). cxgb3: Add support for PCI ID 0x35. tcp: remove obsoleted comment about different passes TG3: &&/|| confusion ATM: misplaced parentheses? net/mv643xx: don't disable the mib timer too early and lock properly net/mv643xx: use GFP_ATOMIC while atomic atl1c: Atheros L1C Gigabit Ethernet driver net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives. net: forcedeth: Fix wake-on-lan regression
2009-02-22Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic conflict resolution: arch/x86/kernel/setup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22PM: Split up sysdev_[suspend|resume] from device_power_[down|up]Rafael J. Wysocki
Move the sysdev_suspend/resume from the callee to the callers, with no real change in semantics, so that we can rework the disabling of interrupts during suspend/hibernation. This is based on an earlier patch from Linus. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-21Merge branch 'hibernate'Linus Torvalds
* hibernate: PM: Fix suspend_console and resume_console to use only one semaphore PM: Wait for console in resume PM: Fix pm_notifiers during user mode hibernation swsusp: clean up shrink_all_zones() swsusp: dont fiddle with swappiness PM: fix build for CONFIG_PM unset PM/hibernate: fix "swap breaks after hibernation failures" PM/resume: wait for device probing to finish Consolidate driver_probe_done() loops into one place
2009-02-21Consolidate driver_probe_done() loops into one placeArjan van de Ven
there's a few places that currently loop over driver_probe_done(), and I'm about to add another one. This patch abstracts it into a helper to reduce duplication. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-208250: fix boot hang with serial console when using with Serial Over Lan portMauro Carvalho Chehab
Intel 8257x Ethernet boards have a feature called Serial Over Lan. This feature works by emulating a serial port, and it is detected by kernel as a normal 8250 port. However, this emulation is not perfect, as also noticed on changeset 7500b1f602aad75901774a67a687ee985d85893f. Before this patch, the kernel were trying to check if the serial TX is capable of work using IRQ's. This were done with a code similar this: serial_outp(up, UART_IER, UART_IER_THRI); lsr = serial_in(up, UART_LSR); iir = serial_in(up, UART_IIR); serial_outp(up, UART_IER, 0); if (lsr & UART_LSR_TEMT && iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT) up->bugs |= UART_BUG_TXEN; This works fine for other 8250 ports, but, on 8250-emulated SoL port, the chip is a little lazy to down UART_IIR_NO_INT at UART_IIR register. Due to that, UART_BUG_TXEN is sometimes enabled. However, as TX IRQ keeps working, and the TX polling is now enabled, the driver miss-interprets the IRQ received later, hanging up the machine until a key is pressed at the serial console. This is the 6 version of this patch. Previous versions were trying to introduce a large enough delay between serial_outp and serial_in(up, UART_IIR), but not taking forever. However, the needed delay couldn't be safely determined. At the experimental tests, a delay of 1us solves most of the cases, but still hangs sometimes. Increasing the delay to 5us was better, but still doesn't solve. A very high delay of 50 ms seemed to work every time. However, poking around with delays and pray for it to be enough doesn't seem to be a good approach, even for a quirk. So, instead of playing with random large arbitrary delays, let's just disable UART_BUG_TXEN for all SoL ports. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20spi_bitbang: add more lowlevel function documentationMichael Buesch
This adds more documentation of the lowlevel API to avoid future bugs. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20slab: introduce kzfree()Johannes Weiner
kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the underlying memory before releasing it to the slab allocator. Currently there is code which memset()s the memory region of an object before releasing it back to the slab allocator to make sure security-sensitive data are really zeroed out after use. These callsites can then just use kzfree() which saves some code, makes users greppable and allows for a stupid destructor that isn't necessarily aware of the actual object size. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-21x86, mm, kprobes: fault.c, simplify notify_page_fault()Ingo Molnar
Impact: cleanup Remove an #ifdef from notify_page_fault(). The function still compiles to nothing in the !CONFIG_KPROBES case. Introduce kprobes_built_in() and kprobe_fault_handler() helpers to allow this - they returns 0 if !CONFIG_KPROBES. No code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.before 4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.after Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21x86, mm: fault.c, simplify kmmio_fault()Ingo Molnar
Impact: cleanup Remove an #ifdef from kmmio_fault() - we can do this by providing default implementations for is_kmmio_active() and kmmio_handler(). The compiler optimizes it all away in the !CONFIG_MMIOTRACE case. Also, while at it, clean up mmiotrace.h a bit: - standard header guards - standard vertical spaces for structure definitions No code changed (both with mmiotrace on and off in the config): text data bss dec hex filename 2947 12 12 2971 b9b fault.o.before 2947 12 12 2971 b9b fault.o.after Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-20Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-20percpu: implement new dynamic percpu allocatorTejun Heo
Impact: new scalable dynamic percpu allocator which allows dynamic percpu areas to be accessed the same way as static ones Implement scalable dynamic percpu allocator which can be used for both static and dynamic percpu areas. This will allow static and dynamic areas to share faster direct access methods. This feature is optional and enabled only when CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA is defined by arch. Please read comment on top of mm/percpu.c for details. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20vmalloc: add un/map_kernel_range_noflush()Tejun Heo
Impact: two more public map/unmap functions Implement map_kernel_range_noflush() and unmap_kernel_range_noflush(). These functions respectively map and unmap address range in kernel VM area but doesn't do any vcache or tlb flushing. These will be used by new percpu allocator. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
2009-02-20vmalloc: implement vm_area_register_early()Tejun Heo
Impact: allow multiple early vm areas There are places where kernel VM area needs to be allocated before vmalloc is initialized. This is done by allocating static vm_struct, initializing several fields and linking it to vmlist and later vmalloc initialization picking up these from vmlist. This is currently done manually and if there's more than one such areas, there's no defined way to arbitrate who gets which address. This patch implements vm_area_register_early(), which takes vm_area struct with flags and size initialized, assigns address to it and puts it on the vmlist. This way, multiple early vm areas can determine which addresses they should use. The only current user - alpha mm init - is converted to use it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20percpu: kill percpu_alloc() and friendsTejun Heo
Impact: kill unused functions percpu_alloc() and its friends never saw much action. It was supposed to replace the cpu-mask unaware __alloc_percpu() but it never happened and in fact __percpu_alloc_mask() itself never really grew proper up/down handling interface either (no exported interface for populate/depopulate). percpu allocation is about to go through major reimplementation and there's no reason to carry this unused interface around. Replace it with __alloc_percpu() and free_percpu(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20alloc_percpu: add align argument to __alloc_percpu.Rusty Russell
This prepares for a real __alloc_percpu, by adding an alignment argument. Only one place uses __alloc_percpu directly, and that's for a string. tj: af_inet also uses __alloc_percpu(), update it. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2009-02-20alloc_percpu: change percpu_ptr to per_cpu_ptrRusty Russell
Impact: cleanup There are two allocated per-cpu accessor macros with almost identical spelling. The original and far more popular is per_cpu_ptr (44 files), so change over the other 4 files. tj: kill percpu_ptr() and update UP too Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: mingo@redhat.com Cc: lenb@kernel.org Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-18vlan: Update skb->mac_header in __vlan_put_tag().Jarek Poplawski
After moving mac addresses in __vlan_put_tag() skb->mac_header needs to be updated. Reported-by: Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: fix deadlock in blk_abort_queue() for drivers that readd to timeout list block: fix booting from partitioned md array block: revert part of 18ce3751ccd488c78d3827e9f6bf54e6322676fb cciss: PCI power management reset for kexec paride/pg.c: xs(): &&/|| confusion fs/bio: bio_alloc_bioset: pass right object ptr to mempool_free block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC bsg: Fix sense buffer bug in SG_IO