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This is a very simple and light file descriptor, that can be used as event
wait/dispatch by userspace (both wait and dispatch) and by the kernel
(dispatch only). It can be used instead of pipe(2) in all cases where those
would simply be used to signal events. Their kernel overhead is much lower
than pipes, and they do not consume two fds. When used in the kernel, it can
offer an fd-bridge to enable, for example, functionalities like KAIO or
syslets/threadlets to signal to an fd the completion of certain operations.
But more in general, an eventfd can be used by the kernel to signal readiness,
in a POSIX poll/select way, of interfaces that would otherwise be incompatible
with it. The API is:
int eventfd(unsigned int count);
The eventfd API accepts an initial "count" parameter, and returns an eventfd
fd. It supports poll(2) (POLLIN, POLLOUT, POLLERR), read(2) and write(2).
The POLLIN flag is raised when the internal counter is greater than zero.
The POLLOUT flag is raised when at least a value of "1" can be written to the
internal counter.
The POLLERR flag is raised when an overflow in the counter value is detected.
The write(2) operation can never overflow the counter, since it blocks (unless
O_NONBLOCK is set, in which case -EAGAIN is returned).
But the eventfd_signal() function can do it, since it's supposed to not sleep
during its operation.
The read(2) function reads the __u64 counter value, and reset the internal
value to zero. If the value read is equal to (__u64) -1, an overflow happened
on the internal counter (due to 2^64 eventfd_signal() posts that has never
been retired - unlickely, but possible).
The write(2) call writes an __u64 count value, and adds it to the current
counter. The eventfd fd supports O_NONBLOCK also.
On the kernel side, we have:
struct file *eventfd_fget(int fd);
int eventfd_signal(struct file *file, unsigned int n);
The eventfd_fget() should be called to get a struct file* from an eventfd fd
(this is an fget() + check of f_op being an eventfd fops pointer).
The kernel can then call eventfd_signal() every time it wants to post an event
to userspace. The eventfd_signal() function can be called from any context.
An eventfd() simple test and bench is available here:
http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-bench.c
This is the eventfd-based version of pipetest-4 (pipe(2) based):
http://www.xmailserver.org/pipetest-4.c
Not that performance matters much in the eventfd case, but eventfd-bench
shows almost as double as performance than pipetest-4.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_eventfd to sys_ni.c]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch implements the necessary compat code for the timerfd system call.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch wires the timerfd system call to the x86 architectures.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered though
file descriptors. This allows timer event to be used with standard POSIX
poll(2), select(2) and read(2). As a consequence of supporting the Linux
f_op->poll subsystem, they can be used with epoll(2) too.
The system call is defined as:
int timerfd(int ufd, int clockid, int flags, const struct itimerspec *utmr);
The "ufd" parameter allows for re-use (re-programming) of an existing timerfd
w/out going through the close/open cycle (same as signalfd). If "ufd" is -1,
s new file descriptor will be created, otherwise the existing "ufd" will be
re-programmed.
The "clockid" parameter is either CLOCK_MONOTONIC or CLOCK_REALTIME. The time
specified in the "utmr->it_value" parameter is the expiry time for the timer.
If the TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME flag is set in "flags", this is an absolute time,
otherwise it's a relative time.
If the time specified in the "utmr->it_interval" is not zero (.tv_sec == 0,
tv_nsec == 0), this is the period at which the following ticks should be
generated.
The "utmr->it_interval" should be set to zero if only one tick is requested.
Setting the "utmr->it_value" to zero will disable the timer, or will create a
timerfd without the timer enabled.
The function returns the new (or same, in case "ufd" is a valid timerfd
descriptor) file, or -1 in case of error.
As stated before, the timerfd file descriptor supports poll(2), select(2) and
epoll(2). When a timer event happened on the timerfd, a POLLIN mask will be
returned.
The read(2) call can be used, and it will return a u32 variable holding the
number of "ticks" that happened on the interface since the last call to
read(2). The read(2) call supportes the O_NONBLOCK flag too, and EAGAIN will
be returned if no ticks happened.
A quick test program, shows timerfd working correctly on my amd64 box:
http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test.c
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_timerfd to sys_ni.c]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch wires the signalfd system call to the x86 architectures.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch series implements the new signalfd() system call.
I took part of the original Linus code (and you know how badly it can be
broken :), and I added even more breakage ;) Signals are fetched from the same
signal queue used by the process, so signalfd will compete with standard
kernel delivery in dequeue_signal(). If you want to reliably fetch signals on
the signalfd file, you need to block them with sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK). This
seems to be working fine on my Dual Opteron machine. I made a quick test
program for it:
http://www.xmailserver.org/signafd-test.c
The signalfd() system call implements signal delivery into a file descriptor
receiver. The signalfd file descriptor if created with the following API:
int signalfd(int ufd, const sigset_t *mask, size_t masksize);
The "ufd" parameter allows to change an existing signalfd sigmask, w/out going
to close/create cycle (Linus idea). Use "ufd" == -1 if you want a brand new
signalfd file.
The "mask" allows to specify the signal mask of signals that we are interested
in. The "masksize" parameter is the size of "mask".
The signalfd fd supports the poll(2) and read(2) system calls. The poll(2)
will return POLLIN when signals are available to be dequeued. As a direct
consequence of supporting the Linux poll subsystem, the signalfd fd can use
used together with epoll(2) too.
The read(2) system call will return a "struct signalfd_siginfo" structure in
the userspace supplied buffer. The return value is the number of bytes copied
in the supplied buffer, or -1 in case of error. The read(2) call can also
return 0, in case the sighand structure to which the signalfd was attached,
has been orphaned. The O_NONBLOCK flag is also supported, and read(2) will
return -EAGAIN in case no signal is available.
If the size of the buffer passed to read(2) is lower than sizeof(struct
signalfd_siginfo), -EINVAL is returned. A read from the signalfd can also
return -ERESTARTSYS in case a signal hits the process. The format of the
struct signalfd_siginfo is, and the valid fields depends of the (->code &
__SI_MASK) value, in the same way a struct siginfo would:
struct signalfd_siginfo {
__u32 signo; /* si_signo */
__s32 err; /* si_errno */
__s32 code; /* si_code */
__u32 pid; /* si_pid */
__u32 uid; /* si_uid */
__s32 fd; /* si_fd */
__u32 tid; /* si_fd */
__u32 band; /* si_band */
__u32 overrun; /* si_overrun */
__u32 trapno; /* si_trapno */
__s32 status; /* si_status */
__s32 svint; /* si_int */
__u64 svptr; /* si_ptr */
__u64 utime; /* si_utime */
__u64 stime; /* si_stime */
__u64 addr; /* si_addr */
};
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix signalfd_copyinfo() on i386]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch add an anonymous inode source, to be used for files that need
and inode only in order to create a file*. We do not care of having an
inode for each file, and we do not even care of having different names in
the associated dentries (dentry names will be same for classes of file*).
This allow code reuse, and will be used by epoll, signalfd and timerfd
(and whatever else there'll be).
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove initialization of pgrp and __session in INIT_SIGNALS, as these are
later set by the call to __set_special_pids() in init/main.c by the patch:
explicitly-set-pgid-and-sid-of-init-process.patch
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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>
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Statically initialize a struct pid for the swapper process (pid_t == 0) and
attach it to init_task. This is needed so task_pid(), task_pgrp() and
task_session() interfaces work on the swapper process also.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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attach_pid() currently takes a pid_t and then uses find_pid() to find the
corresponding struct pid. Sometimes we already have the struct pid. We can
then skip find_pid() if attach_pid() were to take a struct pid parameter.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Clean up massive code duplication between mpage_writepages() and
generic_writepages().
The new generic function, write_cache_pages() takes a function pointer
argument, which will be called for each page to be written.
Maybe cifs_writepages() too can use this infrastructure, but I'm not
touching that with a ten-foot pole.
The upcoming page writeback support in fuse will also want this.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add compat_ioctl method for tty code to allow processing of 32 bit ioctl
calls on 64 bit systems by tty core, tty drivers, and line disciplines.
Based on patch by Arnd Bergmann:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.0/1732.html
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make things static]
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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module_author: don't advise putting in an email address
It's information that's easily outdated and easily mistaken for a driver
contact which is a problem especially for modules with multiple current and
non-current authors as well as for modules with a maintainer who may not
even be a module author.
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some architectures, like powerpc, implement lazy disabling of interrupts.
That means that on those, local_irq_disable() doesn't actually disable
interrupts on the CPU, but only sets some per CPU flag which cause them to be
disabled only if an interrupt actually occurs.
However, in some cases, such as stop_machine, we really want interrupts to be
fully disabled. For example, I have code using stop machine to do ECC error
injection, used to verify operations of the ECC hardware, that sort of thing.
It really needs to make sure that nothing is actually writing to memory while
the injection happens. Similar examples can be found in other low level bits
and pieces.
This patch implements a generic hard_irq_disable() function which is meant to
be called -after- local_irq_disable() and ensures that interrupts are fully
disabled on that CPU. The default implementation is a nop, though powerpc
does already provide an appropriate one.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch renames the raw hard_irq_{enable,disable} into
__hard_irq_{enable,disable} and introduces a higher level hard_irq_disable()
function that can be used by any code to enforce that IRQs are fully disabled,
not only lazy disabled.
The difference with the __ versions is that it will update some per-processor
fields so that the kernel keeps track and properly re-enables them in the next
local_irq_disable();
This prepares powerpc for my next patch that introduces hard_irq_disable()
generically.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add support for 32 bit ioctl on 64 bit systems for synclink_gt
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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These files are almost all the same.
This patch could be made even simpler if we don't mind POLLREMOVE turning
up in a few architectures that didn't have it previously (which should be
OK as POLLREMOVE is not used anywhere in the current tree).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Based on ace_dump_mem() from Grant Likely for the Xilinx SystemACE
CompactFlash interface.
Add print_hex_dump() & hex_dumper() to lib/hexdump.c and linux/kernel.h.
This patch adds the functions print_hex_dump() & hex_dumper().
print_hex_dump() can be used to perform a hex + ASCII dump of data to
syslog, in an easily viewable format, thus providing a common text hex dump
format.
hex_dumper() provides a dump-to-memory function. It converts one "line" of
output (16 bytes of input) at a time.
Example usages:
print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, frame->data, frame->len);
hex_dumper(frame->data, frame->len, linebuf, sizeof(linebuf));
Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET:
0009ab42: 40414243 44454647 48494a4b 4c4d4e4f-@ABCDEFG HIJKLMNO
Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS:
ffffffff88089af0: 70717273 74757677 78797a7b 7c7d7e7f-pqrstuvw xyz{|}~.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, add export]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING is defined, we update io accounting counters for
each task.
This patch permits reporting of values using the well known getrusage()
syscall, filling ru_inblock and ru_oublock instead of null values.
As TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING currently counts bytes counts, we approximate blocks
count doing : nr_blocks = nr_bytes / 512
Example of use :
----------------------
After patch is applied, /usr/bin/time command can now give a good
approximation of IO that the process had to do.
$ /usr/bin/time grep tototo /usr/include/*
Command exited with non-zero status 1
0.00user 0.02system 0:02.11elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
24288inputs+0outputs (0major+259minor)pagefaults 0swaps
$ /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testfile count=1000
1000+0 enregistrements lus
1000+0 enregistrements écrits
512000 octets (512 kB) copiés, 0,00326601 seconde, 157 MB/s
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 80%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+3000outputs (0major+299minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
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>
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Add a separate IRQ stack. This differs from i386 in having the entire
interrupt run on a separate stack rather than starting on the normal kernel
stack and switching over once some preparation has been done. The underlying
mechanism, is of course, sigaltstack.
Another difference is that interrupts that happen in userspace are handled on
the normal kernel stack. These cause a wait wakeup instead of a signal
delivery so there is no point in trying to switch stacks for these. There's
no other stuff on the stack, so there is no extra stack consumption.
This quirk makes it possible to have the entire interrupt run on a separate
stack - process preemption (and calls to schedule()) happens on a normal
kernel stack. If we enable CONFIG_PREEMPT, this will need to be rethought.
The IRQ stack for CPU 0 is declared in the same way as the initial kernel
stack. IRQ stacks for other CPUs will be allocated dynamically.
An extra field was added to the thread_info structure. When the active
thread_info is copied to the IRQ stack, the real_thread field points back to
the original stack. This makes it easy to tell where to copy the thread_info
struct back to when the interrupt is finished. It also serves as a marker of
a nested interrupt. It is NULL for the first interrupt on the stack, and
non-NULL for any nested interrupts.
Care is taken to behave correctly if a second interrupt comes in when the
thread_info structure is being set up or taken down. I could just disable
interrupts here, but I don't feel like giving up any of the performance gained
by not flipping signals on and off.
If an interrupt comes in during these critical periods, the handler can't run
because it has no idea what shape the stack is in. So, it sets a bit for its
signal in a global mask and returns. The outer handler will deal with this
signal itself.
Atomicity is had with xchg. A nested interrupt that needs to bail out will
xchg its signal mask into pending_mask and repeat in case yet another
interrupt hit at the same time, until the mask stabilizes.
The outermost interrupt will set up the thread_info and xchg a zero into
pending_mask when it is done. At this point, nested interrupts will look at
->real_thread and see that no setup needs to be done. They can just continue
normally.
Similar care needs to be taken when exiting the outer handler. If another
interrupt comes in while it is copying the thread_info, it will drop a bit
into pending_mask. The outer handler will check this and if it is non-zero,
will loop, set up the stack again, and handle the interrupt.
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>
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This patch is required to handle file-mapped or swapped-out pages
correctly.
- Fix pte_to_pgoff() and pgoff_to_pte() macros not to include
_PAGE_PROTNONE bit of PTE.
Mask value for { ACCESSED, N, (R, W, X), L, G } is not 0xef but 0x7f.
- Fix __swp_type() macro for MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT(=5), which is defined
in include/linux/swap.h.
* M32R TLB format
[0] [1:19] [20:23] [24:31]
+-----------------------+----+-------------+
| VPN |0000| ASID |
+-----------------------+----+-------------+
+-+---------------------+----+-+---+-+-+-+-+
|0 PPN |0000|N|AC |L|G|V| |
+-+---------------------+----+-+---+-+-+-+-+
|| RWX | |
* software bits in PTE || | +-- _PAGE_FILE | _PAGE_DIRTY
|| +---- _PAGE_PRESENT
|+---------------- _PAGE_ACCESSED
+----------------- _PAGE_PROTNONE
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Yamamoto <hitoshiy@linux-m32r.org>
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>
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This patch fixes a rarely-happened but severe scheduling problem of
the recent m32r kernel of 2.6.17-rc3 or later.
In the following previous m32r patch, the switch_to macro was
modified not to do unnecessary push/pop operations for tuning.
> [PATCH] m32r: update switch_to macro for tuning
> 4127272c38619c56f0c1aa01d01c7bd757db70a1
In this modification, only 'lr' and 'sp' registers are push/pop'ed,
assuming that the m32r kernel is always compiled with
-fomit-frame-pointer option.
However, in 2.6 kernel, kernel/sched.c is irregularly compiled
with -fno-omit-frame-pointer if CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
is not defined.
-- kernel/Makefile --
:
ifneq ($(CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER),y)
# According to Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>, the -fno-omit-frame-pointer is
# needed for x86 only. Why this used to be enabled for all architectures is beyond
# me. I suspect most platforms don't need this, but until we know that for sure
# I turn this off for IA-64 only. Andreas Schwab says it's also needed on m68k
# to get a correct value for the wait-channel (WCHAN in ps). --davidm
CFLAGS_sched.o := $(PROFILING) -fno-omit-frame-pointer
endif
:
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Therefore, for the recent m32r kernel, we have to push/pop 'fp'
(frame pointer) if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is defined or
CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER is not defined.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Yamamoto <hitoshiy@linux-m32r.org>
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>
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h8300 systemcall entry table update.
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>
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Add epoll_pwait()
(akpm: stolen from Andi's queue, because I want to send the signalfd patches
which also add syscalls. Not sure what the __IGNORE_getcpu is for).
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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o x86_64 kernel needs to be compiled for 2MB aligned addresses. Currently
we are using BUILD_BUG_ON() to warn the user if he has not done so. But
looks like folks are not finding message very intutive and don't open
the respective c file to find problem source. (Bug 8439)
arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c: In function 'x86_64_start_kernel':
arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c:70: error: size of array 'type name' is negative
o Using preprocessor directive #error to print a better message if
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is not aligned to 2MB boundary.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A recent change makes my Dell 1501 hang on boot. It's an AMD MK-36. I use
an x86_64 kernel. It is 100% reproducible.
I debugged this problem a bit and my compiler[1]interprets the =A constraint
as %rax instead of %edx:%eax on x86_64 which causes the problem. The appended
patch provides a workaround for this and fixed the hang on my machine.
[1] gcc version 4.1.3 20070429 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-5)
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: "Joerg Roedel" <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (24 commits)
[POWERPC] Fix compile error with kexec and CONFIG_SMP=n
[POWERPC] Split initrd logic out of early_init_dt_scan_chosen() to fix warning
[POWERPC] Fix warning in hpte_decode(), and generalize it
[POWERPC] Minor pSeries IOMMU debug cleanup
[POWERPC] PS3: Fix sys manager build error
[POWERPC] Assorted janitorial EEH cleanups
[POWERPC] We don't define CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
[POWERPC] pmu_sys_suspended is only defined for PPC32
[POWERPC] Fix incorrect calculation of I/O window addresses
[POWERPC] celleb: Update celleb_defconfig
[POWERPC] celleb: Fix parsing of machine type hack command line option
[POWERPC] celleb: Fix PCI config space accesses to subordinate buses
[POWERPC] celleb: Fix support for multiple PCI domains
[POWERPC] Wire up sys_utimensat
[POWERPC] CPM_UART: Removed __init from cpm_uart_init_portdesc to fix warning
[POWERPC] User rheap from arch/powerpc/lib
[POWERPC] 83xx: Fix the PCI ranges in the MPC834x_MDS device tree.
[POWERPC] 83xx: Fix the PCI ranges in the MPC832x_MDS device tree.
[POWERPC] CPM_UART: cpm_uart_set_termios should take ktermios, not termios
[POWERPC] Change rheap functions to use ulongs instead of pointers
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC64]: Use alloc_pci_dev() in PCI bus probes.
[SPARC64]: Bump PROMINTR_MAX to 32.
[SPARC64]: Fix recursion in PROM tree building.
[SERIAL] sunzilog: Interrupt enable before ISR handler installed
[SPARC64] PCI: Consolidate PCI access code into pci_common.c
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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:
acpi,msi-laptop: Fall back to EC polling mode for MSI laptop specific EC commands
sony-laptop: rename SONY_LAPTOP_OLD to a more meaningful SONYPI_COMPAT
asus-laptop: version bump and lindent
asus-laptop: fix light sens init
asus-laptop: add GPS support
asus-laptop: notify ALL events
ACPICA: Lindent
ACPI: created a dedicated workqueue for notify() execution
Revert "ACPICA: fix AML mutex re-entrancy"
Revert "Execute AML Notify() requests on stack."
Revert "ACPICA: revert "acpi_serialize" changes"
ACPI: delete un-reliable concept of cooling mode
ACPI: thermal trip points are read-only
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (138 commits)
firewire: Convert OHCI driver to use standard goto unwinding for error handling.
firewire: Always use parens with sizeof.
firewire: Drop single buffer request support.
firewire: Add a comment to describe why we split the sg list.
firewire: Return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY for out of memory cases in queuecommand.
firewire: Handle the last few DMA mapping error cases.
firewire: Allocate scsi_host up front and allocate the sbp2_device as hostdata.
firewire: Provide module aliase for backwards compatibility.
firewire: Add to fw-core-y instead of assigning fw-core-objs in Makefile.
firewire: Break out shared IEEE1394 constant to separate header file.
firewire: Use linux/*.h instead of asm/*.h header files.
firewire: Uppercase most macro names.
firewire: Coding style cleanup: no spaces after function names.
firewire: Convert card_rwsem to a regular mutex.
firewire: Clean up comment style.
firewire: Use lib/ implementation of CRC ITU-T.
CRC ITU-T V.41
firewire: Rename fw-device-cdev.c to fw-cdev.c and move header to include/linux.
firewire: Future proof the iso ioctls by adding a handle for the iso context.
firewire: Add read/write and size annotations to IOC numbers.
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Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] update default configuration.
[S390] Kconfig: no wireless on s390.
[S390] Kconfig: use common Kconfig files for s390.
[S390] Kconfig: common config options for s390.
[S390] Kconfig: unwanted menus for s390.
[S390] Kconfig: menus with depends on HAS_IOMEM.
[S390] Kconfig: refine depends statements.
[S390] Avoid compile warning.
[S390] qdio: re-add lost perf_stats.tl_runs change in qdio_handle_pci
[S390] Avoid sparse warnings.
[S390] dasd: Fix modular build.
[S390] monreader inlining cleanup.
[S390] cio: Make some structures and a function static.
[S390] cio: Get rid of _ccw_device_get_device_number().
[S390] fix subsystem removal fallout
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This reverts commit c9ccf30d77f04064fe5436027ab9d2230c7cdd94.
Entering the kernel at startup_32 without passing our real mode data in
%esi, and without guaranteeing that physical and virtual addresses are
identity mapped makes head.S impossible to maintain.
The only user of this infrastructure is lguest which is not merged so
nothing we currently support will break by removing this over designed
nightmare, and only the pending lguest patches will be affected. The
pending Xen patches have a different entry point that they use.
We are currently discussing what Xen and lguest need to do to boot the
kernel in a more normal fashion so using startup_32 in this weird manner is
clearly not their long term direction.
So let's remove this code in head.S before it causes brain damage to people
trying to maintain head.S
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We keep on getting "right shift count >= width of type" warnings when doing
things like
sector_t s;
x = s >> 56;
because with CONFIG_LBD=n, s is only 32-bit. Similar problems can occur with
dma_addr_t's.
So add a simple wrapper function which code can use to avoid this warning.
The above example would become
x = upper_32_bits(s) >> 24;
The first user is in fact AFS.
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: "Cameron, Steve" <Steve.Cameron@hp.com>
Cc: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <Mike.Miller@hp.com>
Cc: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Avoid atomic overhead in slab_alloc and slab_free
SLUB needs to use the slab_lock for the per cpu slabs to synchronize with
potential kfree operations. This patch avoids that need by moving all free
objects onto a lockless_freelist. The regular freelist continues to exist
and will be used to free objects. So while we consume the
lockless_freelist the regular freelist may build up objects.
If we are out of objects on the lockless_freelist then we may check the
regular freelist. If it has objects then we move those over to the
lockless_freelist and do this again. There is a significant savings in
terms of atomic operations that have to be performed.
We can even free directly to the lockless_freelist if we know that we are
running on the same processor. So this speeds up short lived objects.
They may be allocated and freed without taking the slab_lock. This is
particular good for netperf.
In order to maximize the effect of the new faster hotpath we extract the
hottest performance pieces into inlined functions. These are then inlined
into kmem_cache_alloc and kmem_cache_free. So hotpath allocation and
freeing no longer requires a subroutine call within SLUB.
[I am not sure that it is worth doing this because it changes the easy to
read structure of slub just to reduce atomic ops. However, there is
someone out there with a benchmark on 4 way and 8 way processor systems
that seems to show a 5% regression vs. Slab. Seems that the regression is
due to increased atomic operations use vs. SLAB in SLUB). I wonder if
this is applicable or discernable at all in a real workload?]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Signed-off-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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This will add the CRC calculation according
to the CRC ITU-T V.41 to the kernel lib/ folder.
This code has been derived from the rt2x00 driver,
currently found only in the wireless-dev tree, but
this library is generic and could be used by more
drivers who currently use their own implementation.
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Also useful for the new firewire stack.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Disband drivers/s390/Kconfig, use the common Kconfig files. The s390
specific config options from drivers/s390/Kconfig are moved to the
respective common Kconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Monthly sparse warning avoidance patch. Sigh.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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The function shouldn't have existed in the first place (not MSS-aware).
Introduce a new function ccw_device_get_id() that extracts the
ccw_dev_id structure of a ccw device and convert all users of
_ccw_device_get_device_number to ccw_device_get_id.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This adds the necessary support to hpte_decode() to handle 1TB
segments and 16GB pages, and removes an uninitialized value
warning on avpn.
We don't have any code to generate HPTEs for 1TB segments or 16GB
pages yet, so this is mostly for completeness, and to fix the
warning.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Fix a PS3 build error when CONFIG_PS3_SYS_MANAGER=n.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Assorted minor cleanups to EEH code; -- use literals, use
kerneldoc format.
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
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arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c | 13 ++++++++++---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_driver.c | 7 ++++---
include/asm-powerpc/ppc-pci.h | 18 +++++++++++++++---
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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so this declaration is not needed.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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thus we get a link error on ppc64 with CONFIG_PM=y. This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Some devices have more than 15 which was the previous
setting.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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commands
The ACPI EC that is used in MSI laptops knows some non-standard
commands for changing the screen brighntess and a few other things,
which are used by the msi-laptop.c driver. Unfortunately for these
commands no GPE events for IBF and OBF are triggered. Since nowadays
the EC code uses the ec_intr=1 mode by default, this causes these
operations to timeout, although they don't fail. In result, all
operations that you can do with the msi-laptop.c driver take more or
less 1s to complete, which is awfully slow.
In one of the more recent kernels (2.6.20?) the EC subsystem has been
revamped. With that change the EC timeout has been increased. before
that increase the MSI EC accesses were slow -- but not *that* slow,
hence I took notice of this limitation of the MSI EC hardware only very
recently.
The standard EC operations on the MSI EC as defined in the ACPI spec
support GPE events properly.
The following patch adds a new argument "force_poll" to the
ec_transaction() function (and friends). If set to 1, the function
will poll for IBF/OBF even if ec_intr=1 is enabled. If set to 0 the
current behaviour is used. The msi-laptop driver is modified to make
use of this new flag, so that OBF/IBF is polled for the special MSI EC
transactions -- but only for them.
Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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