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The following patch will require use of the reservation regions support.
Move this earlier in the file. No changes have been made to this code.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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With Mel's hugetlb private reservation support patches applied, strict
overcommit semantics are applied to both shared and private huge page
mappings. This can be a problem if an application relied on unlimited
overcommit semantics for private mappings. An example of this would be an
application which maps a huge area with the intention of using it very
sparsely. These application would benefit from being able to opt-out of
the strict overcommit. It should be noted that prior to hugetlb
supporting demand faulting all mappings were fully populated and so
applications of this type should be rare.
This patch stack implements the MAP_NORESERVE mmap() flag for huge page
mappings. This flag has the same meaning as for small page mappings,
suppressing reservations for that mapping.
Thanks to Mel Gorman for reviewing a number of early versions of these
patches.
This patch:
When a small page mapping is created with mmap() reservations are created
by default for any memory pages required. When the region is read/write
the reservation is increased for every page, no reservation is needed for
read-only regions (as they implicitly share the zero page). Reservations
are tracked via the VM_ACCOUNT vma flag which is present when the region
has reservation backing it. When we convert a region from read-only to
read-write new reservations are aquired and VM_ACCOUNT is set. However,
when a read-only map is created with MAP_NORESERVE it is indistinguishable
from a normal mapping. When we then convert that to read/write we are
forced to incorrectly create reservations for it as we have no record of
the original MAP_NORESERVE.
This patch introduces a new vma flag VM_NORESERVE which records the
presence of the original MAP_NORESERVE flag. This allows us to
distinguish these two circumstances and correctly account the reserve.
As well as fixing this FIXME in the code, this makes it much easier to
introduce MAP_NORESERVE support for huge pages as this flag is available
consistantly for the life of the mapping. VM_ACCOUNT on the other hand is
heavily used at the generic level in association with small pages.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Create some new accessors for vma private data to cut down on and contain
the casts. Encapsulates the huge and small page offset calculations.
Also adds a couple of VM_BUG_ONs for consistency.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Make things static]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on hugetlbfs will succeed
After patch 2 in this series, a process that successfully calls mmap() for
a MAP_PRIVATE mapping will be guaranteed to successfully fault until a
process calls fork(). At that point, the next write fault from the parent
could fail due to COW if the child still has a reference.
We only reserve pages for the parent but a copy must be made to avoid
leaking data from the parent to the child after fork(). Reserves could be
taken for both parent and child at fork time to guarantee faults but if
the mapping is large it is highly likely we will not have sufficient pages
for the reservation, and it is common to fork only to exec() immediatly
after. A failure here would be very undesirable.
Note that the current behaviour of mainline with MAP_PRIVATE pages is
pretty bad. The following situation is allowed to occur today.
1. Process calls mmap(MAP_PRIVATE)
2. Process calls mlock() to fault all pages and makes sure it succeeds
3. Process forks()
4. Process writes to MAP_PRIVATE mapping while child still exists
5. If the COW fails at this point, the process gets SIGKILLed even though it
had taken care to ensure the pages existed
This patch improves the situation by guaranteeing the reliability of the
process that successfully calls mmap(). When the parent performs COW, it
will try to satisfy the allocation without using reserves. If that fails
the parent will steal the page leaving any children without a page.
Faults from the child after that point will result in failure. If the
child COW happens first, an attempt will be made to allocate the page
without reserves and the child will get SIGKILLed on failure.
To summarise the new behaviour:
1. If the original mapper performs COW on a private mapping with multiple
references, it will attempt to allocate a hugepage from the pool or
the buddy allocator without using the existing reserves. On fail, VMAs
mapping the same area are traversed and the page being COW'd is unmapped
where found. It will then steal the original page as the last mapper in
the normal way.
2. The VMAs the pages were unmapped from are flagged to note that pages
with data no longer exist. Future no-page faults on those VMAs will
terminate the process as otherwise it would appear that data was corrupted.
A warning is printed to the console that this situation occured.
2. If the child performs COW first, it will attempt to satisfy the COW
from the pool if there are enough pages or via the buddy allocator if
overcommit is allowed and the buddy allocator can satisfy the request. If
it fails, the child will be killed.
If the pool is large enough, existing applications will not notice that
the reserves were a factor. Existing applications depending on the
no-reserves been set are unlikely to exist as for much of the history of
hugetlbfs, pages were prefaulted at mmap(), allocating the pages at that
point or failing the mmap().
[npiggin@suse.de: fix CONFIG_HUGETLB=n build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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until fork()
This patch reserves huge pages at mmap() time for MAP_PRIVATE mappings in
a similar manner to the reservations taken for MAP_SHARED mappings. The
reserve count is accounted both globally and on a per-VMA basis for
private mappings. This guarantees that a process that successfully calls
mmap() will successfully fault all pages in the future unless fork() is
called.
The characteristics of private mappings of hugetlbfs files behaviour after
this patch are;
1. The process calling mmap() is guaranteed to succeed all future faults until
it forks().
2. On fork(), the parent may die due to SIGKILL on writes to the private
mapping if enough pages are not available for the COW. For reasonably
reliable behaviour in the face of a small huge page pool, children of
hugepage-aware processes should not reference the mappings; such as
might occur when fork()ing to exec().
3. On fork(), the child VMAs inherit no reserves. Reads on pages already
faulted by the parent will succeed. Successful writes will depend on enough
huge pages being free in the pool.
4. Quotas of the hugetlbfs mount are checked at reserve time for the mapper
and at fault time otherwise.
Before this patch, all reads or writes in the child potentially needs page
allocations that can later lead to the death of the parent. This applies
to reads and writes of uninstantiated pages as well as COW. After the
patch it is only a write to an instantiated page that causes problems.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is a patchset to give reliable behaviour to a process that
successfully calls mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on a hugetlbfs file. Currently, it
is possible for the process to be killed due to a small hugepage pool size
even if it calls mlock().
MAP_SHARED mappings on hugetlbfs reserve huge pages at mmap() time. This
guarantees all future faults against the mapping will succeed. This
allows local allocations at first use improving NUMA locality whilst
retaining reliability.
MAP_PRIVATE mappings do not reserve pages. This can result in an
application being SIGKILLed later if a huge page is not available at fault
time. This makes huge pages usage very ill-advised in some cases as the
unexpected application failure cannot be detected and handled as it is
immediately fatal. Although an application may force instantiation of the
pages using mlock(), this may lead to poor memory placement and the
process may still be killed when performing COW.
This patchset introduces a reliability guarantee for the process which
creates a private mapping, i.e. the process that calls mmap() on a
hugetlbfs file successfully. The first patch of the set is purely
mechanical code move to make later diffs easier to read. The second patch
will guarantee faults up until the process calls fork(). After patch two,
as long as the child keeps the mappings, the parent is no longer
guaranteed to be reliable. Patch 3 guarantees that the parent will always
successfully COW by unmapping the pages from the child in the event there
are insufficient pages in the hugepage pool in allocate a new page, be it
via a static or dynamic pool.
Existing hugepage-aware applications are unlikely to be affected by this
change. For much of hugetlbfs's history, pages were pre-faulted at mmap()
time or mmap() failed which acts in a reserve-like manner. If the pool is
sized correctly already so that parent and child can fault reliably, the
application will not even notice the reserves. It's only when the pool is
too small for the application to function perfectly reliably that the
reserves come into play.
Credit goes to Andy Whitcroft for cleaning up a number of mistakes during
review before the patches were released.
This patch:
A later patch in this set needs to call hugetlb_acct_memory() before it is
defined. This patch moves the function without modification. This makes
later diffs easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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free_area_init_node() gets passed in the node id as well as the node
descriptor. This is redundant as the function can trivially get the node
descriptor itself by means of NODE_DATA() and the node's id.
I checked all the users and NODE_DATA() seems to be usable everywhere
from where this function is called.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is called on a per-page basis and in the vast majority of cases
`error' is zero.
Cc: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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SLOB reuses two page bits for internal purposes, it overlays PG_active and
PG_private. This is hidden away in slob.c. Document these overlays
explicitly in the main page-flags enum along with all the others.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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SLUB reuses two page bits for internal purposes, it overlays PG_active and
PG_error. This is hidden away in slub.c. Document these overlays
explicitly in the main page-flags enum along with all the others.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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With the recent page flag reorganisation we have a single enum which
defines the valid page flags and their values, nice and clear. However
there are a number of bits which are overloaded by different subsystems.
Firstly there is PG_owner_priv_1 which is used by filesystems and by XEN.
Secondly both SLOB and SLUB use a couple of extra page bits to manage
internal state for pages they own; both overlay other bits. All of these
"aliases" are scattered about the source making it very hard for a reader
to know if the bits are safe to rely on in all contexts; confusion here is
bad.
As we now have a single place where the bits are clearly assigned it makes
sense to clarify the reuse of bits by making the aliases explicit and
visible with the original bit assignments. This patch creates explicit
aliases within the enum itself for the overloaded bits, creates standard
bit accessors PageFoo etc. and uses those throughout.
This version pulls the bit manipulation out to standard named page bit
accessors as suggested by Christoph, it retains the explicit mapping to
the overlayed bits. A fusion of both ideas. This has been SLUB and SLOB
have been compile tested on x86_64 only, and SLUB boot tested. If people
feel this is worth doing then I can run a fuller set of testing.
This patch:
Some page flags are used for more than one purpose, for example
PG_owner_priv_1. Currently there are individual accessors for each user,
each built using the common flag name far away from the bit definitions.
This makes it hard to see all possible uses of these bits.
Now that we have a single enum to generate the bit orders it makes sense
to express overlays in the same place. So create per use aliases for this
bit in the main page-flags enum and use those in the accessors.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix xen]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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[Summary]
Split LRU-list of unused dentries to one per superblock to avoid soft
lock up during NFS mounts and remounting of any filesystem.
Previously I posted here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/5/590
[Descriptions]
- background
dentry_unused is a list of dentries which are not referenced.
dentry_unused grows up when references on directories or files are
released. This list can be very long if there is huge free memory.
- the problem
When shrink_dcache_sb() is called, it scans all dentry_unused linearly
under spin_lock(), and if dentry->d_sb is differnt from given
superblock, scan next dentry. This scan costs very much if there are
many entries, and very ineffective if there are many superblocks.
IOW, When we need to shrink unused dentries on one dentry, but scans
unused dentries on all superblocks in the system. For example, we scan
500 dentries to unmount a filesystem, but scans 1,000,000 or more unused
dentries on other superblocks.
In our case , At mounting NFS*, shrink_dcache_sb() is called to shrink
unused dentries on NFS, but scans 100,000,000 unused dentries on
superblocks in the system such as local ext3 filesystems. I hear NFS
mounting took 1 min on some system in use.
* : NFS uses virtual filesystem in rpc layer, so NFS is affected by
this problem.
100,000,000 is possible number on large systems.
Per-superblock LRU of unused dentried can reduce the cost in
reasonable manner.
- How to fix
I found this problem is solved by David Chinner's "Per-superblock
unused dentry LRU lists V3"(1), so I rebase it and add some fix to
reclaim with fairness, which is in Andrew Morton's comments(2).
1) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/25/318
2) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/25/320
Split LRU-list of unused dentries to each superblocks. Then, NFS
mounting will check dentries under a superblock instead of all. But
this spliting will break LRU of dentry-unused. So, I've attempted to
make reclaim unused dentrins with fairness by calculate number of
dentries to scan on this sb based on following way
number of dentries to scan on this sb =
count * (number of dentries on this sb / number of dentries in the machine)
- ToDo
- I have to measuring performance number and do stress tests.
- When unmount occurs during prune_dcache(), scanning on same
superblock, It is unable to reach next superblock because it is gone
away. We restart scannig superblock from first one, it causes
unfairness of reclaim unused dentries on first superblock. But I think
this happens very rarely.
- Test Results
Result on 6GB boxes with excessive unused dentries.
Without patch:
$ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state
10181835 10180203 45 0 0 0
# mount -t nfs 10.124.60.70:/work/kernel-src nfs
real 0m1.830s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m1.653s
With this patch:
$ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state
10236610 10234751 45 0 0 0
# mount -t nfs 10.124.60.70:/work/kernel-src nfs
real 0m0.106s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.032s
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments]
Signed-off-by: Kentaro Makita <k-makita@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In __free_one_page(), the comment "Move the buddy up one level" appears
attached to the break and by implication when the break is taken we are
moving it up one level:
if (!page_is_buddy(page, buddy, order))
break; /* Move the buddy up one level. */
In reality the inverse is true, we break out when we can no longer merge
this page with its buddy. Looking back into pre-history (into the full
git history) it appears that these two lines accidentally got joined as
part of another change.
Move the comment down where it belongs below the if and clarify its
language.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The double indirection here is not needed anywhere and hence (at least)
confusing.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This uses the new vm_ops->access to allow gdb to access the SPU local
store. We currently prevent access to problem state registers, this can
be done later if really needed but it's safer not to.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds ioremap_prot and pte_pgprot() so that one can extract protection
bits from a PTE and use them to ioremap_prot() (in order to support ptrace
of VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP as per Rik's patch).
This moves a couple of flag checks around in the ioremap implementations
of arch/powerpc. There's a side effect of allowing non-cacheable and
non-guarded mappings on ppc32 which before would always have _PAGE_GUARDED
set whenever _PAGE_NO_CACHE is.
(standard ioremap will still set _PAGE_GUARDED, but ioremap_prot will be
capable of setting such a non guarded mapping).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Use generic_access_phys as the access_process_vm access function for
/dev/mem mappings. This makes it possible to debug the X server.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair all the architectures which broke]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using
the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory
through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem.
This patch:
Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place
to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory.
[riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are no users of nopfn in the tree. Remove it.
[hugh@veritas.com: fix build error]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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generic_file_direct_IO is a common helper around the invocation of
->direct_IO. But there's almost nothing shared between the read and write
side, so we're better off without this helper.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It's confusing that set_max_huge_pages() contained two different
variables named "ret", and although the code works correctly this should
be fixed.
The inner of the two variables can simply be removed.
Spotted by sparse.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds proper extern declarations for five variables in
include/linux/vmstat.h
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its
global functions (in this case for sys_move_pages()).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Two zonelist patch series rewrote __page_alloc() largely. Now, it is just
a wrapper function. Inlining them will save a function call.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export __alloc_pages_internal]
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused variable]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This function has no external callers, so unexport it. Also fix its naming
inconsistency.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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All _core functions only need the bootmem data, not the whole node descriptor.
Adjust the two functions that take the node descriptor unneededly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The check for node_boot_start is bogus because we start freeing at the
corresponding pfn. So check if the pfn is properly aligned instead in a more
readable way and adjust the documentation.
Also remove an unneeded accounting variable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are a lot of places that define either a single bootmem descriptor or an
array of them. Use only one central array with MAX_NUMNODES items instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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lib/debugobjects.c has a function to test if an object is on the stack.
The block layer and ide needs it (they need to avoid DMA from/to stack
buffers). This patch moves the function to include/linux/sched.h so that
everyone can use it.
lib/debugobjects.c uses current->stack but this patch uses a
task_stack_page() accessor, which is a preferable way to access the stack.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.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 prints out the zonelists during boot for manual verification by the
user if the mminit_loglevel is MMINIT_VERIFY or higher.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are a number of different views to how much memory is currently active.
There is the arch-independent zone-sizing view, the bootmem allocator and
memory models view.
Architectures register this information at different times and is not
necessarily in sync particularly with respect to some SPARSEMEM limitations.
This patch introduces mminit_validate_memmodel_limits() which is able to
validate and correct PFN ranges with respect to the memory model. It is only
SPARSEMEM that currently validates itself.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Print out information on how the page flags are being used if mminit_loglevel
is MMINIT_VERIFY or higher and unconditionally performs sanity checks on the
flags regardless of loglevel.
When the page flags are updated with section, node and zone information, a
check are made to ensure the values can be retrieved correctly. Finally we
confirm that pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn are the correct inverse functions.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warnings]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of
architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering. While significant
amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data
received from the architecture layer. This is a mistake, and has resulted in
a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs.
This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation. It
also introduces a few basic defensive measures. The validation code can be
explicitly disabled for embedded systems.
This patch:
Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation.
Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required
additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel=
command-line parameter.
The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c. Ideally other mm
initialisation code will be moved here over time.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Flag platforms as HAVE_CLK (or not) in Kconfig, based on whether they
support <linux/clk.h> calls, so that otherwise portable drivers which need
those calls can list that dependency.
Something like this is a prerequisite for merging the musb_hdrc driver,
currently used on platforms including Davinci, OMAP2430, OMAP3xx ... and
the discrete TUSB6010 chip, which doesn't have a natural platform
dependency. (Used with OMAP 2420 in current Nokia N8x0 tablets.)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.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 removes the no longer used is_tty().
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The existing HPET maintainer entries are somewhat unclear about which one
applies to what part of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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James Bottomley warns that inclusion of linux/fs.h in a low level
driver was always a danger signal. This patch moves
memory_read_from_buffer() from fs.h to string.h and fixes includes in
existing memory_read_from_buffer() users.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
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/frob/linux-2.6-roland
* 'x86/auditsc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland:
i386 syscall audit fast-path
x86_64 ia32 syscall audit fast-path
x86_64 syscall audit fast-path
x86_64: remove bogus optimization in sysret_signal
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: hrtick_enabled() should use cpu_active()
sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
sched: fix build error, provide partition_sched_domains() unconditionally
sched: fix warning in inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed
cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear
cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)
sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones"
sched: reduce stack size in isolated_cpu_setup()
Revert parts of "ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions"
Fixed up conflicts in include/asm-x86/thread_info.h (due to the
TIF_SINGLESTEP unification vs TIF_HRTICK_RESCHED removal) and
kernel/sched_fair.c (due to cpu_active_map vs for_each_cpu_mask_nr()
introduction).
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in speedstep-centrino.c
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros, FIXUP
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in cpufreq userspace routines
NR_CPUS: Replace per_cpu(..., smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genapic_flat_64.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c, fix
cpumask: Use optimized CPUMASK_ALLOC macros in the centrino_target
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in kernel/time/tick-common.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
cpumask: Replace cpumask_of_cpu with cpumask_of_cpu_ptr
Revert "cpumask: introduce new APIs"
cpumask: make for_each_cpu_mask a bit smaller
net: Pass reference to cpumask variable in net/sunrpc/svc.c
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c manually
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
softlockup: fix invalid proc_handler for softlockup_panic
softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
softlockup: show irqtrace
softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression
softlockup: fix false positives on nohz if CPU is 100% idle for more than 60 seconds
softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh fix
softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh unaligned access and disable detection at runtime
softlockup: allow panic on lockup
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* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (85 commits)
[ARM] pxa: add base support for PXA930 Handheld Platform (aka SAAR)
[ARM] pxa: add base support for PXA930 Evaluation Board (aka TavorEVB)
[ARM] pxa: add base support for PXA930 (aka Tavor-P)
[ARM] Update mach-types
[ARM] pxa: make littleton to use the new smc91x platform data
[ARM] pxa: make zylonite to use the new smc91x platform data
[ARM] pxa: make mainstone to use the new smc91x platform data
[ARM] pxa: make lubbock to use new smc91x platform data
[NET] smc91x: prepare SMC_USE_PXA_DMA to be specified in platform data
[NET] smc91x: prepare for SMC_IO_SHIFT to be a platform configurable variable
[NET] smc91x: add SMC91X_NOWAIT flag to platform data
[NET] smc91x: favor the use of SMC91X_USE_* instead of SMC_CAN_USE_*
[NET] smc91x: remove "irq_flags" from "struct smc91x_platdata"
[ARM] 5146/1: pxa2xx: convert all boards to call pxa2xx_transceiver_mode helper
Support for LCD on e740 e750 e400 and e800 e-series PDAs
E-series UDC support
PXA UDC - allow use of inverted GPIO for pullup
Add e350 support
Fix broken e-series build
E-series GPIO / IRQ definitions.
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This adds fast paths for 32-bit syscall entry and exit when
TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing.
These paths does not need to save and restore all registers as
the general case of tracing does. Avoiding the iret return path
when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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This adds fast paths for 32-bit syscall entry and exit when
TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing.
These paths does not need to save and restore all registers as
the general case of tracing does. Avoiding the iret return path
when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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This adds a fast path for 64-bit syscall entry and exit when
TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing.
This path does not need to save and restore all registers as
the general case of tracing does. Avoiding the iret return path
when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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This short-circuit path in sysret_signal looks wrong to me.
AFAICT, in practice the branch is never taken--and if it were,
it would go wrong. To wit, try loading a module whose init
function does set_thread_flag(TIF_IRET), and see insmod crash
(presumably with a wrong user stack pointer).
This is because the FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK work hasn't been done yet
when we jump around the call to ptregscall_common and get to
int_with_check--where it expects the user RSP,SS,CS and EFLAGS to
have been stored by FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK.
I don't think it's normally possible to get to sysret_signal with no
_TIF_DO_NOTIFY_MASK bits set anyway, so these two instructions are
already superfluous. If it ever did happen, it is harmless to call
do_notify_resume with nothing for it to do.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc:
sdhci: highmem capable PIO routines
sg: reimplement sg mapping iterator
mmc_test: print message when attaching to card
mmc: Remove Russell as primecell mci maintainer
mmc_block: bounce buffer highmem support
sdhci: fix bad warning from commit c8b3e02
sdhci: add warnings for bad buffers in ADMA path
mmc_test: test oversized sg lists
mmc_test: highmem tests
s3cmci: ensure host stopped on machine shutdown
au1xmmc: suspend/resume implementation
s3cmci: fixes for section mismatch warnings
pxamci: trivial fix of DMA alignment register bit clearing
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (24 commits)
I/OAT: I/OAT version 3.0 support
I/OAT: tcp_dma_copybreak default value dependent on I/OAT version
I/OAT: Add watchdog/reset functionality to ioatdma
iop_adma: cleanup iop_chan_xor_slot_count
iop_adma: document how to calculate the minimum descriptor pool size
iop_adma: directly reclaim descriptors on allocation failure
async_tx: make async_tx_test_ack a boolean routine
async_tx: remove depend_tx from async_tx_sync_epilog
async_tx: export async_tx_quiesce
async_tx: fix handling of the "out of descriptor" condition in async_xor
async_tx: ensure the xor destination buffer remains dma-mapped
async_tx: list_for_each_entry_rcu() cleanup
dmaengine: Driver for the Synopsys DesignWare DMA controller
dmaengine: Add slave DMA interface
dmaengine: add DMA_COMPL_SKIP_{SRC,DEST}_UNMAP flags to control dma unmap
dmaengine: Add dma_client parameter to device_alloc_chan_resources
dmatest: Simple DMA memcpy test client
dmaengine: DMA engine driver for Marvell XOR engine
iop-adma: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug
dmaengine: track the number of clients using a channel
...
Fixed up conflict in drivers/dca/dca-sysfs.c manually
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
kgdb: kgdboc console poll hooks for mpsc uart
kgdb: kgdboc console poll hooks for cpm uart
kgdb, powerpc: arch specific powerpc kgdb support
kgdb: support for ARCH=arm
kgdb: remove unused HAVE_ARCH_KGDB_SHADOW_INFO config variable
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