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Revert commit d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6:
[PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups
Apparently caused more than 10% performance regression for aim7 benchmark.
The setup in use is 16-cpu HP rx8620, 64Gb of memory and 12 MSA1000s with 144
disks. Each disk is 72Gb with a single ext3 filesystem (courtesy of HP, who
supplied benchmark results).
The problem is, for aim7, the wake-up pattern is random, but it still needs
load balancing action in the wake-up path to achieve best performance. With
the above commit, lack of load balancing hurts that workload.
However, for workloads like database transaction processing, the requirement
is exactly opposite. In the wake up path, best performance is achieved with
absolutely zero load balancing. We simply wake up the process on the CPU that
it was previously run. Worst performance is obtained when we do load
balancing at wake up.
There isn't an easy way to auto detect the workload characteristics. Ingo's
earlier patch that detects idle CPU and decide whether to load balance or not
doesn't perform with aim7 either since all CPUs are busy (it causes even
bigger perf. regression).
Revert commit d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6, which causes more
than 10% performance regression with aim7.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently, copy-on-write may change the physical address of a page even if the
user requested that the page is pinned in memory (either by mlock or by
get_user_pages). This happens if the process forks meanwhile, and the parent
writes to that page. As a result, the page is orphaned: in case of
get_user_pages, the application will never see any data hardware DMA's into
this page after the COW. In case of mlock'd memory, the parent is not getting
the realtime/security benefits of mlock.
In particular, this affects the Infiniband modules which do DMA from and into
user pages all the time.
This patch adds madvise options to control whether memory range is inherited
across fork. Useful e.g. for when hardware is doing DMA from/into these
pages. Could also be useful to an application wanting to speed up its forks
by cutting large areas out of consideration.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect Kprobes enhancements and other
recent developments.
Acked-by: Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <mananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The changes in the tty related code introduced wrong parenthesis in a if
condition in the isdn_tty_at_cout function. This caused access to index -1
in the dev->drv[] array. This patch change it back to the correct
condition from the previous versions.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The correct way to export hyperthreading based functions is to predicate
them on CONFIG_X86_HT. Without this, the topology exporting patch breaks
the build on all non-PC x86 subarchitectures.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If 2 threads attached to the same process are blocking on different locks on
different files (maybe even on different servers) but have the same lock
arguments (i.e. same offset+length - actually quite common, since most
processes try to lock the entire file) then the first GRANTED call that wakes
one up will also wake the other.
Currently when the NLM_GRANTED callback comes in, lockd walks the list of
blocked locks in search of a match to the lock that the NLM server has
granted. Although it checks the lock pid, start and end, it fails to check
the filehandle and the server address.
By checking the filehandle and server IP address, we ensure that this only
happens if the locks truly are referencing the same file.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch reverts commit f93ea411b73594f7d144855fd34278bcf34a9afc:
[PATCH] jbd: split checkpoint lists
This broke journal_flush() for OCFS2, which is its method of being sure
that metadata is sent to disk for another node.
And two related commits 8d3c7fce2d20ecc3264c8d8c91ae3beacdeaed1b and
43c3e6f5abdf6acac9b90c86bf03f995bf7d3d92 with the subjects:
[PATCH] jbd: log_do_checkpoint fix
[PATCH] jbd: remove_transaction fix
These seem to be incremental bugfixes on the original patch and as such are
no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When the _CRS for a single HPET contains multiple EXTENDED_IRQ resources,
we overwrote hdp->hd_nirqs every time we found one.
So the driver worked when all the IRQs were described in a single
EXTENDED_IRQ resource, but failed when multiple resources were used.
(Strictly speaking, I think the latter is actually more correct, but both
styles have been used.)
Someday we should remove all the ACPI stuff from hpet.c and use PNP driver
registration instead. But currently PNP_MAX_IRQ is 2, and HPETs often have
more IRQs. Hint, hint, Adam :-)
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <robert.picco@hp.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix hole where tty structure can be released when reference count is non
zero. Existing code can sleep without tty_sem protection between deciding
to release the tty structure (setting local variables tty_closing and
otty_closing) and setting TTY_CLOSING to prevent further opens. An open
can occur during this interval causing release_dev() to free the tty
structure while it is still referenced.
This should fix bugzilla.kernel.org [Bug 6041] New: Unable to handle kernel
paging request
In Bug 6041, tty_open() oopes on accessing the tty structure it has
successfully claimed. Bug was on SMP machine with the same tty being
opened and closed by multiple processes, and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enabled.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: 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 PageCompound check before access_process_vm's set_page_dirty_lock is no
longer necessary, so remove it. But leave the PageCompound checks in
bio_set_pages_dirty, dio_bio_complete and nfs_free_user_pages: at least some
of those were introduced as a little optimization on hugetlb pages.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Somehow I imagined that calling a NULL destructor would free a compound page
rather than oopsing. No, we must supply a default destructor, __free_pages_ok
using the order noted by prep_compound_page. hugetlb can still replace this
as before with its own free_huge_page pointer.
The case that needs this is not common: rarely does put_compound_page's
put_page_testzero bring the count down to 0. But if get_user_pages is applied
to some part of a compound page, without immediate release (e.g. AIO or
Infiniband), then it's possible for its put_page to come after the containing
vma has been unmapped and the driver done its free_pages.
That's just the kind of case compound pages are supposed to be guarding
against (but Nick points out, nor did PageReserved handle this right).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If a compound page has its own put_page_testzero destructor (the only current
example is free_huge_page), that is noted in page[1].mapping of the compound
page. But that's rather a poor place to keep it: functions which call
set_page_dirty_lock after get_user_pages (e.g. Infiniband's
__ib_umem_release) ought to be checking first, otherwise set_page_dirty is
liable to crash on what's not the address of a struct address_space.
And now I'm about to make that worse: it turns out that every compound page
needs a destructor, so we can no longer rely on hugetlb pages going their own
special way, to avoid further problems of page->mapping reuse. For example,
not many people know that: on 50% of i386 -Os builds, the first tail page of a
compound page purports to be PageAnon (when its destructor has an odd
address), which surprises page_add_file_rmap.
Keep the compound page destructor in page[1].lru.next instead. And to free up
the common pairing of mapping and index, also move compound page order from
index to lru.prev. Slab reuses page->lru too: but if we ever need slab to use
compound pages, it can easily stack its use above this.
(akpm: decoded version of the above: the tail pages of a compound page now
have ->mapping==NULL, so there's no need for the set_page_dirty[_lock]()
caller to check that they're not compund pages before doing the dirty).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Reduce stack usage in the pkt_start_write() function. Even though it's not
currently a real problem, the pages and offsets arrays can be eliminated,
which saves approximately 1000 bytes of stack space.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Unlocking the door when the disc is in use is obviously not good, because then
it's possible to eject the disc at the wrong time and cause severe disc data
corruption.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If opening for write fails, the open method should return -EROFS. This makes
"mount" try again with a read-only mount, instead of just giving up.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Change some messages that don't indicate an error so that they are only
printed when debugging is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
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Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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From Richard Sandiford <richard@codesourcery.com>:
This patch caused a miscompilation of the restore_gp_regs() block
in restore_sigcontext(). This was in a 32-bit kernel compiled with
GCC CVS head.
restore_gp_regs() copies 64-bit user fields into 32-bit variables,
and in this combination, the new __get_user_asm_ll32() clobbers too
many registers. It says:
/*
* Get a long long 64 using 32 bit registers.
*/
{ \
__asm__ __volatile__( \
"1: lw %1, (%3) \n" \
"2: lw %D1, 4(%3) \n" \
" move %0, $0 \n" \
"3: .section .fixup,\"ax\" \n" \
"4: li %0, %4 \n" \
" move %1, $0 \n" \
" move %D1, $0 \n" \
" j 3b \n" \
" .previous \n" \
" .section __ex_table,\"a\" \n" \
" " __UA_ADDR " 1b, 4b \n" \
" " __UA_ADDR " 2b, 4b \n" \
" .previous \n" \
: "=r" (__gu_err), "=&r" (val) \
: "0" (0), "r" (addr), "i" (-EFAULT)); \
}
and this requires val (%1) to be a 64-bit value. In the case I saw,
gcc was using $3 for the 32-bit val, and wasn't expecting $4 to be
clobbered.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Add blast_xxx_range(), protected_blast_xxx_range() etc. for common
use. They are built by __BUILD_BLAST_CACHE_RANGE().
Use protected_cache_op() macro for various protected_ routines.
Output code should be logically same.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Implement get_wchan() and frame_info_init() using kallsyms_lookup().
This fixes problem with static sched/lock functions and mfinfo[]
maintenance issue. If CONFIG_KALLSYMS was disabled, get_wchan() just
returns thread_saved_pc() value.
Also unwind stackframe based on "addiu sp,-imm" analysis instead of
frame pointer. This fixes problem with functions compiled without
-fomit-frame-pointer.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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So we can get rid of config.h and the #ifdef crapola in the generic
timex.h.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Noted by Al Viro.
Also remove unused tmp_buf
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix x86 oprofile regression introduced by:
commit c34d1b4d165c67b966bca4aba026443d7ff161eb
[PATCH] mm: kill check_user_page_readable
That commit reorganized tests for the userspace stack walking moving all
those tests into dump_backtrace(), however, dump_backtrace() was used for
both userspace and kernel stalk walking. The result is typically no
recorded callgraph information for kernel samples.
Revive the original function as dump_kernel_backtrace() and rename the
other to dump_user_backtrace() to avoid future confusion.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Britton <gbritton@alum.mit.edu>
Apology-from: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Probe and remove methods are now defined at bus level. No more need to
redefine them at driver level in i2c-isa.
This lets us get rid of these annoying messages:
Driver 'it87-isa' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Thanks to Nicolas Mailhot for reporting the problem and testing the fix.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix an oops on it87 module removal when no supported hardware was
found.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Document the reset module parameter which was recently added to the
w83627hf driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Use the real-time status registers of the Winbond W83782D, W83783S and
W83627HF chips, instead of the interrupt status registers. Interrupts
cannot be trusted at least for voltage inputs, as they are two-times
triggers (as opposed to comparator mode, which we want.) The w83627hf
driver was fixed in a similar way some times ago.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The VT8231 low temperature limits are actually hysteresis temperatures
to the high limits.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Roger Lucas <roger@planbit.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The following patch looks good to me. It adds an unusual_devs entry as
well as fixing an ordering bug. Please apply.
From: Bohdan Linda <bohdan.linda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Another unusual_devs.h entry (as652).
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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A new unusual_devs.h entry (as651).
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Here is a new entry for unusual_devs.h (as630).
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as631) for unusual_devs.h fixes bugzilla entry 5913.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The switchover to "platform_driver" from "device_driver" missed
one rather essential usage, which broke the sl811_cs driver ...
this resolves the omission.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The patch adds the USB ID (0413:2101) for the Leadtek GPS-Mouse 9531 to
the driver pl2303.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lindner <christian.lindner@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Hund <mhund@ld-didactic.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Hund <mhund@ld-didactic.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Disable some dubious "early" USB handoff code that allegedly works around bugs
on some systems (we don't know which ones) but rudely breaks some others.
Also make the kernel warnings reporting BIOS handoff problems be more useful,
reporting the register whose value displays the trouble.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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parisc defines ARCH_WANT_STAT64, so we want to use fstatat64. It does not
appear that it needs to be ENTRY_COMP, because struct stat64 is the same
on both 32-bit and 64-bit (unlike on other platforms which did define a
compat_sys_fstatat64.)
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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