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hrtimer subsystem core. It is initialized at bootup and expired by the timer
interrupt, but is otherwise not utilized by any other subsystem yet.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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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It seems the "make UID16 support optional" patch was checked when it
edited the -tiny tree some time ago, but it wasn't checked whether it
still matches the current situation when it was submitted for inclusion
in -mm. This patch fixes the following bugs:
- ARCH_S390X does no longer exist, nowadays this has to be expressed
through (S390 && 64BIT)
- in five architecture specific Kconfig files the UID16 options
weren't removed
Additionally, it changes the fragile negative dependencies of UID16 to
positive dependencies (new architectures are more likely to not require
UID16 support).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This adds an option to remove vm86 support under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Saves
about 5k.
This version eliminates most of the #ifdefs of the previous version and
instead uses function stubs in vm86.h. Also, release_vm86_irqs is moved
from asm-i386/irq.h to a more appropriate home in vm86.h so that the stubs
can live together.
$ size vmlinux-baseline vmlinux-novm86
text data bss dec hex filename
2920821 523232 190652 3634705 377611 vmlinux-baseline
2916268 523100 190492 3629860 376324 vmlinux-novm86
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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configurable support for ELF core dumps
text data bss dec hex filename
3330172 529036 190556 4049764 3dcb64 vmlinux-baseline
3325552 528912 190556 4045020 3db8dc vmlinux-no-elf
add/remove: 0/8 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/-4424 (-4424)
function old new delta
fill_note 32 - -32
maydump 58 - -58
dump_seek 67 - -67
writenote 180 - -180
elf_dump_thread_status 274 - -274
fill_psinfo 308 - -308
fill_prstatus 466 - -466
elf_core_dump 3039 - -3039
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Configurable 16-bit UID and friends support
This allows turning off the legacy 16 bit UID interfaces on embedded platforms.
text data bss dec hex filename
3330172 529036 190556 4049764 3dcb64 vmlinux-baseline
3328268 529040 190556 4047864 3dc3f8 vmlinux
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
UID16 was accidentially disabled for !EMBEDDED.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This adds configurable support for doublefault reporting on x86
add/remove: 0/3 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-13048 (-13048)
function old new delta
cpu_init 846 786 -60
doublefault_fn 188 - -188
doublefault_stack 4096 - -4096
doublefault_tss 8704 - -8704
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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There's one scsi driver which doesn't compile due to weird __VA_ARGS__ tricks
and the rather useful scsi/sd.c is currently getting an ICE. None of the new
SAS code compiles, due to extensive use of anonymous unions. The V4L guys are
very good at exploiting the gcc-2.95.x macro expansion bug (_why_ does each
driver need to implement its own debug macros?) and various people keep on
sneaking in anonymous unions, which are rather nice.
Plus anonymous unions are rather useful.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove a couple of more lines of code from the cpuset hooks in the page
allocation code path.
There was a check for a NULL cpuset pointer in the routine
cpuset_update_task_memory_state() that was only needed during system boot,
after the memory subsystem was initialized, before the cpuset subsystem was
initialized, to catch a NULL task->cpuset pointer.
Add a cpuset_init_early() routine, just before the mem_init() call in
init/main.c, that sets up just enough of the init tasks cpuset structure to
render cpuset_update_task_memory_state() calls harmless.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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configurable replacement for slab allocator
This adds a CONFIG_SLAB option under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. When CONFIG_SLAB is
disabled, the kernel falls back to using the 'SLOB' allocator.
SLOB is a traditional K&R/UNIX allocator with a SLAB emulation layer,
similar to the original Linux kmalloc allocator that SLAB replaced. It's
signicantly smaller code and is more memory efficient. But like all
similar allocators, it scales poorly and suffers from fragmentation more
than SLAB, so it's only appropriate for small systems.
It's been tested extensively in the Linux-tiny tree. I've also
stress-tested it with make -j 8 compiles on a 3G SMP+PREEMPT box (not
recommended).
Here's a comparison for otherwise identical builds, showing SLOB saving
nearly half a megabyte of RAM:
$ size vmlinux*
text data bss dec hex filename
3336372 529360 190812 4056544 3de5e0 vmlinux-slab
3323208 527948 190684 4041840 3dac70 vmlinux-slob
$ size mm/{slab,slob}.o
text data bss dec hex filename
13221 752 48 14021 36c5 mm/slab.o
1896 52 8 1956 7a4 mm/slob.o
/proc/meminfo:
SLAB SLOB delta
MemTotal: 27964 kB 27980 kB +16 kB
MemFree: 24596 kB 25092 kB +496 kB
Buffers: 36 kB 36 kB 0 kB
Cached: 1188 kB 1188 kB 0 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
Active: 608 kB 600 kB -8 kB
Inactive: 808 kB 812 kB +4 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
LowTotal: 27964 kB 27980 kB +16 kB
LowFree: 24596 kB 25092 kB +496 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
Dirty: 4 kB 12 kB +8 kB
Writeback: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
Mapped: 560 kB 556 kB -4 kB
Slab: 1756 kB 0 kB -1756 kB
CommitLimit: 13980 kB 13988 kB +8 kB
Committed_AS: 4208 kB 4208 kB 0 kB
PageTables: 28 kB 28 kB 0 kB
VmallocTotal: 1007312 kB 1007312 kB 0 kB
VmallocUsed: 48 kB 48 kB 0 kB
VmallocChunk: 1007264 kB 1007264 kB 0 kB
(this work has been sponsored in part by CELF)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix 32-bitness bugs in mm/slob.c.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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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md supports multiple different RAID level, each being implemented by a
'personality' (which is often in a separate module).
These personalities have fairly artificial 'numbers'. The numbers
are use to:
1- provide an index into an array where the various personalities
are recorded
2- identify the module (via an alias) which implements are particular
personality.
Neither of these uses really justify the existence of personality numbers.
The array can be replaced by a linked list which is searched (array lookup
only happens very rarely). Module identification can be done using an alias
based on level rather than 'personality' number.
The current 'raid5' modules support two level (4 and 5) but only one
personality. This slight awkwardness (which was handled in the mapping from
level to personality) can be better handled by allowing raid5 to register 2
personalities.
With this change in place, the core md module does not need to have an
exhaustive list of all possible personalities, so other personalities can be
added independently.
This patch also moves the check for chunksize being non-zero into the ->run
routines for the personalities that need it, rather than having it in core-md.
This has a side effect of allowing 'faulty' and 'linear' not to have a
chunk-size set.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Sanitize some s390 Kconfig options. We have ARCH_S390, ARCH_S390X,
ARCH_S390_31, 64BIT, S390_SUPPORT and COMPAT. Replace these 6 options by
S390, 64BIT and COMPAT.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Generic prep-work for marking the .rodata section readonly:
* Align the rodata section at 4Kb boundary
* call the mark_rodata_ro() function when available
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The attached patch makes the SYSV IPC shared memory facilities use the new
ramfs facilities on a no-MMU kernel.
The following changes are made:
(1) There are now shmem_mmap() and shmem_get_unmapped_area() functions to
allow the IPC SHM facilities to commune with the tiny-shmem and shmem
code.
(2) ramfs files now need resizing using do_truncate() rather than by modifying
the inode size directly (see shmem_file_setup()). This causes ramfs to
attempt to bind a block of pages of sufficient size to the inode.
(3) CONFIG_SYSVIPC is no longer contingent on CONFIG_MMU.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Trivial manual merge fixup for usb_find_interface clashes.
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With modules, dynamic /dev, and uevents, people really want
CONFIG_HOTPLUG to be enabled in their kernels. If not, they can still
disable it, but it is discouraged.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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It makes zero sense to have hotplug, but not the netlink
events enabled today. Remove this option and merge the
kobject_uevent.h header into the kobject.h header file.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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sock_init can be done as a core_initcall instead of calling
it directly in init/main.c
Also I removed an out of date #ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Module versioning support has been stable for a loong time
so let's get rid of the EXPERIMENTAL tag.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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It was a stupid workaround for the "static inline" vs.
"extern inline" issues of long ago, and it is what causes
schedule() to be inlined like crazy into kernel/sched.c
when -Os is specified.
MIPS and S390 should probably do the same.
Now CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE can be safely used on sparc64
once more.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Also, disable on sparc64 - a number of people report breakage. Probably
a compiler bug, but it's quite possible that it tickles some latent
kernel problem too.
It still defaults to 'y' everywhere else (when enabled through
EXPERIMENTAL), and Dave Jones points out that Fedora (and RHEL4) has
been building with size optimizations for a long time on x86, x86-64,
ia64, s390, s390x, ppc32 and ppc64. So it is really only moderately
experimental, but the sparc64 breakage certainly shows that it can
trigger "issues".
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Let's put my money where my mouth is. Smaller code is almost always
faster, if only because a single I$ miss ends up leaving a lot of cycles
to make up for. And system software - kernels in particular - are known
for taking more cache misses than most other kinds.
On my random config, this made the kernel about 10% smaller, and lmbench
seems to say that it's pretty uniformly faster too. Your milage may vary.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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KOBJECT_UEVENT=n seems to be a common pitfall for udev users in 2.6.14 .
-mm already contains a bigger patch removing this option that is IMHO
too big for being applied now to 2.6.15-rc.
This patch simply allows KOBJECT_UEVENT=n only if EMBEDDED.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Run idle threads with preempt disabled.
Also corrected a bugs in arm26's cpu_idle (make it actually call schedule()).
How did it ever work before?
Might fix the CPU hotplugging hang which Nigel Cunningham noted.
We think the bug hits if the idle thread is preempted after checking
need_resched() and before going to sleep, then the CPU offlined.
After calling stop_machine_run, the CPU eventually returns from preemption and
into the idle thread and goes to sleep. The CPU will continue executing
previous idle and have no chance to call play_dead.
By disabling preemption until we are ready to explicitly schedule, this bug is
fixed and the idle threads generally become more robust.
From: alexs <ashepard@u.washington.edu>
PPC build fix
From: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
MIPS build fix
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Commit f2b36db692b7ff6972320ad9839ae656a3b0ee3e causes a bootup hang on
at least one machine. Revert for now until we understand why. The old
code may be ugly, but it works.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Try to make the INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT help text more readable and
understandable.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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All kinds of ugliness exists because we don't initialize
the apics during init_IRQs.
- We calibrate jiffies in non apic mode even when we are using apics.
- We have to have special code to initialize the apics when non-smp.
- The legacy i8259 must exist and be setup correctly, even
when we won't use it past initialization.
- The kexec on panic code must restore the state of the io_apics.
- init/main.c needs a special case for !smp smp_init on x86
In addition to pure code movement I needed a couple
of non-obvious changes:
- Move setup_boot_APIC_clock into APIC_late_time_init for
simplicity.
- Use cpu_khz to generate a better approximation of loops_per_jiffies
so I can verify the timer interrupt is working.
- Call setup_apic_nmi_watchdog again after cpu_khz is initialized on
the boot cpu.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Besides freeing initrd memory, also clear out the now dangling pointers to
it, to make sure accidental late use attempts can be detected.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Since early userspace was added, there's no way to override which init to
run from it. Some people tack on an extra cpio archive with a link from
/init depending on what they want to run, but that's sometimes impractical.
Changing the "init=" to also override the early userspace isn't feasible,
since it is still used to indicate what init to run from disk when early
userspace has completed doing whatever it's doing (i.e. load filesystem
modules and drivers).
Instead, introduce "rdinit=" and make it override the default "/init" if
specified.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I passed init=/mylinuxrc to the kernel on the command line. The kernel
silently dropped down to exec /sbin/init. It turned out that /mylinuxrc
had improper permissions. Without any warning message from the kernel that
something was wrong it took awhile to find the issue. The patch below adds
a warning.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch adds a new kernel debug feature: CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP.
When enabled then per-CPU watchdog threads are started, which try to run
once per second. If they get delayed for more than 10 seconds then a
callback from the timer interrupt detects this condition and prints out a
warning message and a stack dump (once per lockup incident). The feature
is otherwise non-intrusive, it doesnt try to unlock the box in any way, it
only gets the debug info out, automatically, and on all CPUs affected by
the lockup.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch is against 2.6.10, but still applies cleanly. It's just
s/driverfs/sysfs/ in this file.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Of this type, mostly:
CHECK net/ipv6/netfilter.c
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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upon the git commit
If CONFIG_AUTO_LOCALVERSION is set, the user is using a git-based tree, and the
current HEAD is not referred to by any tags in .git/refs/tags/, append -g and
the first 8 characters of the commit to the version string. This makes it
easier to use git-bisect, and/or to do a daily build, without trampling on your
older, working builds, or accidentally setting up conflicting sets of modules.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Move initramfs options from Device Drivers | Block Drivers to General Setup
This is a more natural place for this option.
Furthermore separate out intramfs options to usr/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Minor cleanup.
Move things into their include files, remove obsolete includes, fix
indentation, remove obsolete special cases etc.
I also added the per cpu section to asm-generic/sections.h and fixed
init/main.c to use it.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add kerneldoc to kernel/cpuset.c
Fix cpuset typos in init/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Clarify the KALLSYMS_ALL help text slightly.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Add PREEMPT to UTS_VERSION where enabled as is done for SMP to make
preempt kernels easily identifiable.
Added SMP PREEMPT as comment in compile.h to force it to be
updated when they change (sam).
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Remove ROOT_DEV after unexporting it in the previous patch, as requested time
ago by Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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kernel/power/disk.c needs a declaration of name_to_dev_t() in scope. mount.h
seems like an appropriate choice.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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On system boot up, there was an failure reported to boot.msg:
<5>Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
According to initrd(4) man page, step #7 of BOOT-UP OPERATION
is described as below:
7. If the normal root file has directory /initrd, device
/dev/ram0 is moved from / to /initrd. Otherwise if
directory /initrd does not exist device /dev/ram0 is
unmounted.
We got service calls from customers concerning about this failure message
at boot time. Many systems do not have /initrd and thus the message can be
changed in the case of non-existing /initrd so that it does not sound like
a failure of the system.
Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch tweaks idle thread setup semantics a bit: instead of setting
NEED_RESCHED in init_idle(), we do an explicit schedule() before calling
into cpu_idle().
This patch, while having no negative side-effects, enables wider use of
cond_resched()s. (which might happen in the stock kernel too, but it's
particulary important for voluntary-preempt)
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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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Issue:
Current tsc based delay_calibration can result in significant errors in
loops_per_jiffy count when the platform events like SMIs
(System Management Interrupts that are non-maskable) are present. This could
lead to potential kernel panic(). This issue is becoming more visible with 2.6
kernel (as default HZ is 1000) and on platforms with higher SMI handling
latencies. During the boot time, SMIs are mostly used by BIOS (for things
like legacy keyboard emulation).
Description:
The psuedocode for current delay calibration with tsc based delay looks like
(0) Estimate a value for loops_per_jiffy
(1) While (loops_per_jiffy estimate is accurate enough)
(2) wait for jiffy transition (jiffy1)
(3) Note down current tsc (tsc1)
(4) loop until tsc becomes tsc1 + loops_per_jiffy
(5) check whether jiffy changed since jiffy1 or not and refine
loops_per_jiffy estimate
Consider the following cases
Case 1:
If SMIs happen between (2) and (3) above, we can end up with a
loops_per_jiffy value that is too low. This results in shorted delays and
kernel can panic () during boot (Mostly at IOAPIC timer initialization
timer_irq_works() as we don't have enough timer interrupts in a specified
interval).
Case 2:
If SMIs happen between (3) and (4) above, then we can end up with a
loops_per_jiffy value that is too high. And with current i386 code, too
high lpj value (greater than 17M) can result in a overflow in
delay.c:__const_udelay() again resulting in shorter delay and panic().
Solution:
The patch below makes the calibration routine aware of asynchronous events
like SMIs. We increase the delay calibration time and also identify any
significant errors (greater than 12.5%) in the calibration and notify it to
user.
Patch below changes both i386 and x86-64 architectures to use this
new and improved calibrate_delay_direct() routine.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch modifies the way pagesets in struct zone are managed.
Each zone has a per-cpu array of pagesets. So any particular CPU has some
memory in each zone structure which belongs to itself. Even if that CPU is
not local to that zone.
So the patch relocates the pagesets for each cpu to the node that is nearest
to the cpu instead of allocating the pagesets in the (possibly remote) target
zone. This means that the operations to manage pages on remote zone can be
done with information available locally.
We play a macro trick so that non-NUMA pmachines avoid the additional
pointer chase on the page allocator fastpath.
AIM7 benchmark on a 32 CPU SGI Altix
w/o patches:
Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu
1 484.68 100 484.6769 12.01 1.97 Fri Mar 25 11:01:42 2005
100 27140.46 89 271.4046 21.44 148.71 Fri Mar 25 11:02:04 2005
200 30792.02 82 153.9601 37.80 296.72 Fri Mar 25 11:02:42 2005
300 32209.27 81 107.3642 54.21 451.34 Fri Mar 25 11:03:37 2005
400 34962.83 78 87.4071 66.59 588.97 Fri Mar 25 11:04:44 2005
500 31676.92 75 63.3538 91.87 742.71 Fri Mar 25 11:06:16 2005
600 36032.69 73 60.0545 96.91 885.44 Fri Mar 25 11:07:54 2005
700 35540.43 77 50.7720 114.63 1024.28 Fri Mar 25 11:09:49 2005
800 33906.70 74 42.3834 137.32 1181.65 Fri Mar 25 11:12:06 2005
900 34120.67 73 37.9119 153.51 1325.26 Fri Mar 25 11:14:41 2005
1000 34802.37 74 34.8024 167.23 1465.26 Fri Mar 25 11:17:28 2005
with slab API changes and pageset patch:
Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu
1 485.00 100 485.0000 12.00 1.96 Fri Mar 25 11:46:18 2005
100 28000.96 89 280.0096 20.79 150.45 Fri Mar 25 11:46:39 2005
200 32285.80 79 161.4290 36.05 293.37 Fri Mar 25 11:47:16 2005
300 40424.15 84 134.7472 43.19 438.42 Fri Mar 25 11:47:59 2005
400 39155.01 79 97.8875 59.46 590.05 Fri Mar 25 11:48:59 2005
500 37881.25 82 75.7625 76.82 730.19 Fri Mar 25 11:50:16 2005
600 39083.14 78 65.1386 89.35 872.79 Fri Mar 25 11:51:46 2005
700 38627.83 77 55.1826 105.47 1022.46 Fri Mar 25 11:53:32 2005
800 39631.94 78 49.5399 117.48 1169.94 Fri Mar 25 11:55:30 2005
900 36903.70 79 41.0041 141.94 1310.78 Fri Mar 25 11:57:53 2005
1000 36201.23 77 36.2012 160.77 1458.31 Fri Mar 25 12:00:34 2005
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <Shai@Scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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