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Cleanup allocation and freeing of tsk->delays used by delay accounting.
This solves two problems reported for delay accounting:
1. oops in __delayacct_blkio_ticks
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1844.html
Currently tsk->delays is getting freed too early in task exit which can
cause a NULL tsk->delays to get accessed via reading of /proc/<tgid>/stats.
The patch fixes this problem by freeing tsk->delays closer to when
task_struct itself is freed up. As a result, it also eliminates the use of
tsk->delays_lock which was only being used (inadequately) to safeguard
access to tsk->delays while a task was exiting.
2. Possible memory leak in kernel/delayacct.c
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1389.html
The patch cleans up tsk->delays allocations after a bad fork which was
missing earlier.
The patch has been tested to fix the problems listed above and stress
tested with rapid calls to delay accounting's taskstats command interface
(which is the other path that can access the same data, besides the /proc
interface causing the oops above).
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The ZVC counter update threshold is currently set to a fixed value of 32.
This patch sets up the threshold depending on the number of processors and
the sizes of the zones in the system.
With the current threshold of 32, I was able to observe slight contention
when more than 130-140 processors concurrently updated the counters. The
contention vanished when I either increased the threshold to 64 or used
Andrew's idea of overstepping the interval (see ZVC overstep patch).
However, we saw contention again at 220-230 processors. So we need higher
values for larger systems.
But the current default is already a bit of an overkill for smaller
systems. Some systems have tiny zones where precision matters. For
example i386 and x86_64 have 16M DMA zones and either 900M ZONE_NORMAL or
ZONE_DMA32. These are even present on SMP and NUMA systems.
The patch here sets up a threshold based on the number of processors in the
system and the size of the zone that these counters are used for. The
threshold should grow logarithmically, so we use fls() as an easy
approximation.
Results of tests on a system with 1024 processors (4TB RAM)
The following output is from a test allocating 1GB of memory concurrently
on each processor (Forking the process. So contention on mmap_sem and the
pte locks is not a factor):
X MIN
TYPE: CPUS WALL WALL SYS USER TOTCPU
fork 1 0.552 0.552 0.540 0.012 0.552
fork 4 0.552 0.548 2.164 0.036 2.200
fork 16 0.564 0.548 8.812 0.164 8.976
fork 128 0.580 0.572 72.204 1.208 73.412
fork 256 1.300 0.660 310.400 2.160 312.560
fork 512 3.512 0.696 1526.836 4.816 1531.652
fork 1020 20.024 0.700 17243.176 6.688 17249.863
So a threshold of 32 is fine up to 128 processors. At 256 processors contention
becomes a factor.
Overstepping the counter (earlier patch) improves the numbers a bit:
fork 4 0.552 0.548 2.164 0.040 2.204
fork 16 0.552 0.548 8.640 0.148 8.788
fork 128 0.556 0.548 69.676 0.956 70.632
fork 256 0.876 0.636 212.468 2.108 214.576
fork 512 2.276 0.672 997.324 4.260 1001.584
fork 1020 13.564 0.680 11586.436 6.088 11592.523
Still contention at 512 and 1020. Contention at 1020 is down by a third.
256 still has a slight bit of contention.
After this patch the counter threshold will be set to 125 which reduces
contention significantly:
fork 128 0.560 0.548 69.776 0.932 70.708
fork 256 0.636 0.556 143.460 2.036 145.496
fork 512 0.640 0.548 284.244 4.236 288.480
fork 1020 1.500 0.588 1326.152 8.892 1335.044
[akpm@osdl.org: !SMP build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Patch to add VIA PCI quirk for Enhanced/Extended USB on VT8235
southbridge. It is needed in order to use EHCI/USB 2.0 with ACPI.
Without it IRQs are not routed correctly, you get an "Unlink after
no-IRQ?" error and the device is unusable.
I belive this could also be a fix for Bugzilla Bug 5835.
Signed-off-by: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Commit 8c74932779fc6f61b4c30145863a17125c1a296c ("i386: Remove
alternative_smp") did not actually compile on x86 with CONFIG_SMP.
This fixes the __build_read/write_lock helpers. I've boot tested on
SMP.
[ Andi: "Oops, I think that was a quilt unrefreshed patch. Sorry. I
fixed those before testing, but then still send out the old patch." ]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Patch from Ben Dooks
Cleanup for include/asm-arma/arch-s3c2410/dma.h,
by using tab characters to indent items, remove the
now un-necessary changelog, and update the copyright
information.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Patch from Ben Dooks
The type naming in the s3c24xx dma code is riddled with
typedefs creating _t types, from the code import from 2.4
which is contrary to the current Kernel coding style.
This patch cleans this up, removing the typedefs and
and fixing up the resultant code changes.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Matthew Wilcox pointed out that the generic implementation
of this is unfit for use. Here's an ARM optimised version
instead.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Fix return value from memcpy
[POWERPC] iseries: Define insw et al. so libata/ide will compile
[POWERPC] Fix irq enable/disable in smp_generic_take_timebase
[POWERPC] Fix problem with time not advancing on 32-bit platforms
[POWERPC] Restore copyright notice in arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S
[POWERPC] Fix up ibm_architecture_vec definition
[POWERPC] Make OF irq map code detect more error cases
[POWERPC] Support for "weird" MPICs and fixup mpc7448_hpc2
[POWERPC] Fix MPIC sense codes in documentation
[POWERPC] Fix performance regression in IRQ radix tree locking
[POWERPC] Add mpc7448hpc2 device tree source file
[POWERPC] Add MPC8349E MDS device tree source file to arch/powerpc/boot/dts
[POWERPC] modify mpc83xx platforms to use new IRQ layer
[POWERPC] Adapt ipic driver to new host_ops interface, add set_irq_type to set IRQ sense
[POWERPC] back up old school ipic.[hc] to arch/ppc
[POWERPC] Use mpc8641hpcn PIC base address from dev tree.
[POWERPC] Allow MPC8641 HPCN to build with CONFIG_PCI disabled too.
[POWERPC] Fix powerpc 44x_mmu build
[POWERPC] Remove flush_dcache_all export
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This fixes a hang on ppc32.
The problem was that I was comparing a 32-bit quantity with a 64-bit
quantity, and consequently time wasn't advancing. This makes us use a
64-bit quantity on all platforms, which ends up simplifying the code
since we can now get rid of the tb_last_stamp variable (which actually
fixes another bug that Ben H and I noticed while going carefully through
the code).
This works fine on my G4 tibook. Let me know how it goes on your
machines.
Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Increase default nodes shift to 10, nr_cpus to 1024
[IA64] remove redundant local_irq_save() calls from sn_sal.h
[IA64] panic if topology_init kzalloc fails
[IA64-SGI] Silent data corruption caused by XPC V2.
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The values in init_tss.ist[] can change when an IST event occurs. Save
the original IST values for checking stack addresses when debugging or
doing stack traces.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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After all their only point is having them in user space.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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After all their only point is having them in user space. On x86-64
they don't even work in kernel space.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The .fill causes miscompilations with some binutils version.
Instead just patch the lock prefix in the lock constructs. That is the
majority of the cost and should be good enough.
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The .fill causes miscompilations with some binutils version.
Instead just patch the lock prefix in the lock constructs. That is the
majority of the cost and should be good enough.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The unwinder fallback logic still had potential for falling through to
the legacy stack trace code without printing an indication (at once
serving as a separator) of this.
Further, the stack pointer retrieval for the fallback should be as
restrictive as possible (in order to avoid having the legacy stack
tracer try to access invalid memory). The patch tightens that, but
this could certainly be further improved.
Also making the call_trace command line option now conditional upon
CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND (as it's meaningless otherwise).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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By hard-coding the cpuid keys for alternative_smp() rather than using
the symbolic constant it turned out that incorrect values were used on
both i386 (0x68 instead of 0x69) and x86-64 (0x66 instead of 0x68).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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These are build fixes that enable (for example) libata and the ide
code to actually build on iSeries. The associated hardware will never
be supported on legacy iSeries, so the code paths don't actually need
to work, but it is useful (especially for a combined kernel) if the
code can build.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This fixes a problem introduced in 5db9fa9593e2ff69f2b95f9d59229dc4faaa564d.
The last_jiffy per-cpu variable is only 32 bits on 32-bit machines, but it
was being compared with a 64-bit quantity (tb_next_jiffy), which resulted in
time not advancing.
This fixes it by changing last_jiffy to be 64 bits on all platforms. With
this, we no longer need tb_last_stamp as a 32-bit version of tb_last_jiffy,
so this gets rid of tb_last_stamp and we just use tb_last_jiffy instead.
This also fixes a bug when the boot cpu is not online, because using
tb_last_stamp could have caused the wrong timebase origin value to be used
when calculating the time of day.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Device-tree bugs on js20 with some versions of SLOF were causing the
interrupt for IDE to not be parsed correctly and fail to boot. This
patch adds a bit more sanity checking to the parser to detect some of
those errors and fail instead of returning bogus information. The
powerpc PCI code can then trigger a fallback that works on those
machines.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This adds a new hardware information table for mpic. This enables
the mpic code to deal with mpic controllers with different register
layouts and hardware behaviours.
This introduces CONFIG_MPIC_WEIRD. For boards with non standard mpic
controllers, select CONFIG_MPIC_WEIRD and add its hardware information
in the mpic_infos[] array.
TSI108/109 PIC takes the first index of weird hardware information
table. :) The table can be extended. The Tsi108/109 PIC looks like
standard OpenPIC but, in fact, is different in register mapping and
behavior.
The patch does not affect the behavior of standard mpic. If
CONFIG_MPIC_WEIRD is not defined, the code is essentially identical to
the current code.
[benh@kernel.crashing.org:
This patch is a slightly cleaned up version of Zang Roy's support for
the TSI108 MPIC variant. It also fixes up MPC7448_hpc2 to use the new
version of the type macros and changes the way MPIC is selected in
Kconfig to better match what is done for other system devices.
]
Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Keep from breaking 83xx arch/ppc build. Back up old school arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.[hc] to arch/ppc/syslib.
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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sn_change_memprotect() does a local_irq_save() then calls
ia64_sal_oemcall_nolock() which calls SAL_CALL_NOLOCK()
which also does a local_irq_save().
This patch removes the redundant local_irq_save() and local_irq_restore()
calls in sn_change_memprotect() and sn_inject_error().
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
[SERIAL] Support for Intashield 2 port PCI serial card
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3761/1: fix armv4t breakage after adding thumb interworking to userspace helpers
[ARM] Add Integrator support for glibc outb() and friends
[ARM] Move prototype for register_isa_ports to asm/io.h
[ARM] Arrange for isa.c to use named initialisers
[ARM] 3741/1: remove sa1111.c build warning on non-sa1100 systems
[ARM] 3760/1: This patch adds timeouts while working with SSP registers. Such timeouts were en
[ARM] 3758/1: Preserve signalling NaNs in conversion
[ARM] 3749/3: Correct VFP single/double conversion emulation
[ARM] 3748/3: Correct error check in vfp_raise_exceptions
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Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Unlike the other tty comment patch this one has code changes. Specifically
it limits the queue size for a tty to 64K characters (128Kbytes) worst case
even if the tty is ignoring tty->throttle. This is because certain drivers
don't honour the throttle value correctly, although it is a useful
safeguard anyway.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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reiserfs seems to have another locking level layer for the i_mutex due to the
xattrs-are-a-directory thing.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In file included from include/asm/mmzone.h:18,
from include/linux/mmzone.h:439,
<snip>
include/asm/srat.h:31:2: error: #error CONFIG_ACPI_SRAT not defined, and srat.h header has been included
make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
This can happen with CONFIG_NUMA && !CONFIG_ACPI && !CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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register_one_node()'s should be defined under CONFIG_NUMA=n.
fixes following bug.
CC init/version.o
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
mm/built-in.o: In function `add_memory': undefined reference to `register_one_node'
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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JBD currently allocates commit and frozen buffers from slabs. With
CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, its possible for an allocation to cross the page
boundary causing IO problems.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200127
So, instead of allocating these from regular slabs - manage allocation from
its own slabs and disable slab debug for these slabs.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When reading /dev/vcsa while a font with more than 256 characters is
loaded, one of the attribute bits records the 9th bit of the character.
But depending on the console driver (vgacon or fbcon for instance), that's
bit 3 or bit 0. And there is no way for userland to know that, thus no way
for userland to safely grab the screen content. So here is a (tested)
patch:
Add a VT_GETHIFONTMASK ioctl for knowing which bit is the 9th bit for VC
text (vc_hi_font_mask field of the vc_data structure).
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In the cleanups of drivers/rtc/s3c-rtc.c, the base address for the
registers got broken. This patch fixes that by ensuring the readb/writeb
are all prefixed with the base returned from ioremap()ing the registers.
Also fix check for valid year range, which was the wrong way around.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Such timeouts were en
Patch from Paul Sokolovsky
This patch adds timeouts while working with SSP registers. Such
timeouts were envisioned by docstrings in ssp.c, but were not
implemented. There were actual lockups while accessing
touchscreen for iPaqs h1910, h4000 due to lack of the timeouts.
This is updated version of previously submitted patch: 3738/1.
Signed-off-by: Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Here is a patch that adds support for the Instashield IS-200 2 port PCI
serial card.
Signed-off-by: Peter Horton <pdh@colonel-panic.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The bridge-netfilter code will overwrite memory if there is not
headroom in the skb to save the header. This first showed up when
using Xen with sky2 driver that doesn't allocate the extra space.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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After going through the trouble of setting up the PIC base
address in the pic@40000 device tree node, use it instead
of the obsolete hard-coded value.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Neil Brown observed that the current limit of 32 bytes isn't enough to hold two
ip addresses and the rest of the stuff we're putting in it, so it's often
truncated to the point where it's unlikely to be unique. This can cause
spurious CLID_INUSE's from the server.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
(cherry picked from fc8c17ec251e984ab3df9182ed097aa5b577c915 commit)
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Some hardware uses port 664 for its hardware-based IPMI listener. Teach
the RPC client to avoid using that port by raising the default minimum port
number to 665.
Test plan:
Find a mainboard known to use port 664 for IPMI; enable IPMI; mount NFS
servers in a tight loop.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
(cherry picked from 58e8cb3a035d22fc386e1c53a5d98c3f219530fb commit)
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Make it take a dentry argument instead of a path
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
(cherry picked from 648d4116eb2509f010f7f34704a650150309b3e7 commit)
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Signe-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
(cherry picked from 88bf6d811b01a4be7fd507d18bf5f1c527989089 commit)
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gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
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On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 08:22 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> kernel BUG in cache_free_debugcheck at mm/slab.c:2748!
Alright, this one is only triggered when slab debugging is enabled. The
slabs are assumed to be aligned on a HUGEPTE_TABLE_SIZE boundary. The free
path makes use of this assumption and uses the lowest nibble to pass around
an index into an array of kmem_cache pointers. With slab debugging turned
on, the slab is still aligned, but the "working" object pointer is not.
This would break the assumption above that a full nibble is available for
the PGF_CACHENUM_MASK.
The following patch reduces PGF_CACHENUM_MASK to cover only the two least
significant bits, which is enough to cover the current number of 4 pgtable
cache types. Then use this constant to mask out the appropriate part of
the huge pte pointer.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The patch rewrites mpc7448hpc2 board irq support according to the new
mpic device tree interface.
Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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There are two problems in the powerpc gettimeofday code which can
cause incorrect results to be returned.
The first is that there is a race between do_gettimeofday and the
timer interrupt:
1. do_gettimeofday does get_tb()
2. decrementer exception on boot cpu which runs timer_recalc_offset,
which also samples the timebase and updates the do_gtod structure
with a greater timebase value.
3. do_gettimeofday calls __do_gettimeofday, which leads to the
negative result from tb_val - temp_varp->tb_orig_stamp.
The second is caused by taking the boot cpu offline, which can cause
the value of tb_last_jiffy to be increased past the currently
available timebase, causing the same underflow as above.
[paulus@samba.org - define and use data_barrier() instead of mb().]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The "%uhi" needs to be "%%uhi" because we want a real
"%" character in the assembler here, instead of an
assembler variable expansion.
Aparently older GCCs were more liberal and interpreted
this %-letter as a literal "%" for whatever reason.
Based upon a build failure report from Meelis Roos.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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