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There are various places where we want to extract an unsigned long
value from a device-tree property that can be 1 or 2 cells in length.
This replaces some open-coded calculations, and one place where we
assumed without checking that properties were the length we wanted,
with a little of_read_ulong() helper.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Copy and paste bug in io.h
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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This produces essentially the same code and will make the iSeries i/o
consolidation easier.
The count parameter is changed to long since that will produce the same
(better) code on 32 and 64 bit builds.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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_insw, _outsw, _insl amd _outsl are all unused, so remove them.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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The io accessors insw_ns, outsw_ns, insl_ns and outsl_ns are unused
(except for one unnecessary use in drivers/net/3c509.c that is addressed
in a previous patch) and are only defined in powerpc/ppc, so remove them.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Fix G5 DART (IOMMU) race causing occasional data corruption
[POWERPC] Fix MMIO ops to provide expected barrier behaviour
[POWERPC] Fix interrupt clearing in kdump shutdown sequence
[POWERPC] update prep_defconfig
[POWERPC] kdump: Support kernels having 64k page size.
[POWERPC] Implement PowerPC futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic().
[POWERPC] Add new, missing argument to of_irq_map_raw() for 86xx.
[POWERPC] Update defconfigs
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MIPS asm/page.h unconditionally includes <asm-generic/memory_model.h>, which
doesn't exist in userspace. Move an #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ down a few lines
to prevent that.
Also, remove the broken definition of PAGE_SIZE which is never going to be
correct -- in the absence of PAGE_SIZE, non-broken userspace will fall back to
using sysconf() or getpagesize() instead.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The header file <linux/pfn.h> doesn't exist in userspace and probably
shouldn't -- but it's used unconditionally in <asm-i386/setup.h>. Protect it
with #ifdef __KERNEL__ and move setup.h from $(header-y) to $(unifdef-y) in
Kbuild accordingly.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Some files which don't exist in userspace were being included unconditionally
in asm-i386/elf.h. Move the offending #includes down a few lines so that
they're protected by #ifdef __KERNEL__
In fact, we probably want to kill off all userspace use of asm/elf.h -- but we
aren't there yet, so we should at least make it possible to include it for
now.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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<asm-i386/signal.h>
Because <linux/linkage.h> doesn't exist in userspace, it should be only
included from within #ifdef __KERNEL__. Move the corresponding #include
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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There's useful stuff in <linux/timex.h> but <asm/timex.h> has nothing for
userspace. Stop exporting it, and include it only from within the existing
#ifdef __KERNEL__ part of <linux/timex.h>
This fixes a 'make headers_check' failure on i386 because asm-i386/timex.h
includes both asm-i386/tsc.h and asm-i386/processor.h, neither of which are
exported to userspace. It's not entirely clear _why_ it includes either of
these, but it does.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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We don't need any of this crap included from the user-visible part of nfs_fs.h
-- remove it all.
In fact, we probably don't need anything but NFS_SUPER_MAGIC to be defined; is
there any need for anything else? And magic numbers should probably move to
<linux/magic.h> rather than being strewn across various fs-specific include
files which exist in userspace for solely that purpose.
With this patch, 'make header_check' works again at least on PowerPC.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This changes the writeX family of functions to have a sync instruction
before the MMIO store rather than after, because the generally expected
behaviour is that the device receiving the MMIO store can be guaranteed
to see the effects of any preceding writes to normal memory.
To preserve ordering between writeX and readX, and to preserve ordering
between preceding stores and the readX, the readX family of functions
have had an sync added before the load.
Although writeX followed by spin_unlock is not officially guaranteed
to keep the writeX inside the spin-locked region unless an mmiowb()
is used, there are currently drivers that depend on the previous
behaviour on powerpc, which was that the mmiowb wasn't actually required.
Therefore we have a per-cpu flag that is set by writeX, cleared by
__raw_spin_lock and mmiowb, and tested by __raw_spin_unlock. If it is
set, __raw_spin_unlock does a sync and clears it.
This changes both 32-bit and 64-bit readX/writeX. 32-bit already has a
sync in __raw_spin_unlock (since lwsync doesn't exist on 32-bit), and thus
doesn't need the per-cpu flag.
Tested on G5 (PPC970) and POWER5.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Add instrumentation for hypervisor calls on pseries. Call statistics
include number of calls, wall time and cpu cycles (if available) and
are made available via debugfs. Instrumentation code is behind the
HCALL_STATS config option and has no impact if not enabled.
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Introduce PWRficient PA6T cputable entries and feature bits.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The performance monitor implementation (including CTRL register behaviour)
is just included in PPC v2 as an example, it's not truly part of the base.
It's actually a somewhat misleading feature, but I'll leave that be for
now: The presence of the register is not what the feature bit is used
for, but instead it's used to determine if it contains the runlatch
bit for idle reporting of the performance monitor. For alternative
implementations, the register might still exist but the bit might have
different meaning (or no meaning at all).
For now, split it off and don't include it in CPU_FTR_PPCAS_ARCH_V2_BASE.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This is required to generate proper core files using kdump on ppc64.
Create a backup region of 64K size irrespective of the PAGE SIZE.
At present 32K was used as backup size. In the case of 64K page size,
second PT_LOAD segments starts at 32K and the first one is not page
aligned. __ioremap() (crash_dump.c) fails if pfn = 0 which is the
case for the second PT_LOAD segment. This is not an issue for 4K page
size because the the first page (32K backup) is copied to second
kernel memory and thus referencing with the second kernel pfn.
Signed-off-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The sys_[gs]et_robust_list() syscalls were wired up on PowerPC but
didn't work correctly because futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() wasn't
implemented. Implement it, based on __cmpxchg_u32().
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb:
V4L/DVB (4608c): Fix I2C dependencies for saa7146 modules
V4L/DVB (4608b): i2c deps fix on DVB
V4L/DVB (4605): Fixes an issue with V4L1 and make headers-install
V4L/DVB (4520): Fix an error when loading bttv driver on PV M4900.
V4L/DVB (4511): Restore tuner_ymec_tvf66t5_b_dff_pal_ranges[] to fix UHF switch functionality
V4L/DVB (4494a): Fix compilation when V4L1 support is not present
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sh64 doesn't need to do anything special for BUG_ON() or
WARN_ON(), use the generic versions.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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While we've been sorting out the toolchain fiasco, some of
the code has suffered a bit of bitrot. Building with GCC4
also brings up some more build warnings. Trivial fixes for
both issues.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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add support for AUDIT_PERM predicate
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-mmc:
[MMC] Always use a sector size of 512 bytes
[MMC] Cleanup 385e3227d4d83ab13d7767c4bb3593b0256bf246
[ARM] 3751/1: i.MX/MX1 SD/MMC use 512 bytes request for SCR read
[MMC] Fix SD timeout calculation
[MMC] constify mmc_host_ops
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3778/1: S3C24XX: remove changelogs from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410 [simtec]
[ARM] 3783/1: S3C2412: fix IRQ_EINT0 to IRQ_EINT3 handling
[ARM] 3779/1: S3C24XX: remove changelogs from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410 [left]
[ARM] 3777/1: S3C24XX: remove changelogs from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410 [regs-*.h]
[ARM] 3776/1: S3C24XX: remove changelogs from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410
[ARM] 3775/1: S3C24XX: do not add same sysdev_driver to two classes
[ARM] 3774/1: S3C24XX: SMDK2413 has two machine IDs
[ARM] 3773/1: Add the HWCAP_VFP bit for the ARM926 CPUs
[ARM] 3772/1: Fix compilation error in mach-ixp4xx/nslu2*
[ARM] 3767/1: S3C24XX: remove changelog comments from arch/arm/mach-s3c2410
[ARM] 3766/1: Fix typo in ARM _raw_read_trylock
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V4L1 support should be disabled when no CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT is defined,
to allow checking for broken V4L2 ports. This is very important during the
migration phase for V4L2 API.
However, userspace apps should be capable of using both APIs, since they need
to test at runtime, via VIDIOCGCAP ioctl, if V4L1 is supported. So, when
__KERNEL__ is not defined, those ioctls and corresponding structs should be
visible.
This patch also removes the obsolete defines HAVE_V4L1 and HAVE_V4L2, that
where causing some confusion, and were replaced by CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT
and CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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[simtec]
Patch from Ben Dooks
Remove changelog entries from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410
for all simtec .h files as these are irrelevant with
version control.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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[left]
Patch from Ben Dooks
Remove the last of the hangelogs from
include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410, as this information
is available from the revision control system
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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[regs-*.h]
Patch from Ben Dooks
Remove changelog entries from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410
for all regs-*.h as these are irrelevant with version control
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Patch from Ben Dooks
Remove changelog entries from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410
as these are irrelevant with version control
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The syscalls set/get_robust_list must not be wired up until
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic is implemented. Otherwise the kernel will
hang in handle_futex_death.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The logic in nfs_direct_read_schedule and nfs_direct_write_schedule can
allow data->npages to be one larger than rpages. This causes a page
pointer to be written beyond the end of the pagevec in nfs_read_data (or
nfs_write_data).
Fix this by making nfs_(read|write)_alloc() calculate the size of the
pagevec array, and initialise data->npages.
Also get rid of the redundant argument to nfs_commit_alloc().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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New SiS south bridge device ID is 0x966.
Next coming product will be 0x968. (Will be released in Q4, this year)
We don't make any updates to the IDE controller.
Signed-off-by: David Wang <touch@sis.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Not that it passes allmodconfig without it...
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This prevents cross-region mappings on IA64 and SPARC which could lead
to system crash. They were correctly trapped for normal mmap() calls,
but not for the kernel internal calls generated by executable loading.
This code just moves the architecture-specific cross-region checks into
an arch-specific "arch_mmap_check()" macro, and defines that for the
architectures that needed it (ia64, sparc and sparc64).
Architectures that don't have any special requirements can just ignore
the new cross-region check, since the mmap() code will just notice on
its own when the macro isn't defined.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[ Cleaned up to not affect architectures that don't need it ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Rather than having two places which independently calculate the
timeout for data transfers, make it a library function instead.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
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Let drivers constify MMC host method operations tables,
moving them from ".data" to ".rodata".
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Patch from Catalin Marinas
A comma was missing between tmp and tmp2.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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section
linux/device.h header is not included in the David Woodhouse's
kernel-headers git tree which is used for userspace kernel headers. Which
results in compile errors when building iproute2. Attached patch moves
linux/device.h include under the #ifdef __KERNEL__ section.
Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Frank v. Waveren pointed out that on 64bit machines the timespec to
ktime_t conversion might overflow. This is also true for timeval to
ktime_t conversions. This breaks a "sleep inf" on 64bit machines.
While a timespec/timeval with tx.sec = MAX_LONG is valid by specification
the internal representation of ktime_t is based on nanoseconds. The
conversion of seconds to nanoseconds overflows for seconds values >=
(MAX_LONG / NSEC_PER_SEC).
Check the seconds argument to the conversion and limit it to the maximum
time which can be represented by ktime_t.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frank v Waveren <fvw@var.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fixes an error message on make xmldocs.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing Harvard caches
[ARM] 3765/1: S3C24XX: cleanup include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410/dma.h
[ARM] 3764/1: S3C24XX: change type naming to kernel style
[ARM] 3763/1: add both rtcs to csb337 defconfig
[ARM] Fix ARM __raw_read_trylock() implementation
[ARM] 3750/3: Fix double VFP emulation for EABI kernels
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Harvard caches
Patch from George G. Davis
Resolve ARM1136 VIPT non-aliasing cache coherency issues observed when
using ptrace to set breakpoints and cleanup copy_{to,from}_user_page()
while we're here as requested by Russell King because "it's also far
too heavy on non-v6 CPUs".
NOTES:
1. Only access_process_vm() calls copy_{to,from}_user_page().
2. access_process_vm() calls get_user_pages() to pin down the "page".
3. get_user_pages() calls flush_dcache_page(page) which ensures cache
coherency between kernel and userspace mappings of "page". However
flush_dcache_page(page) may not invalidate I-Cache over this range
for all cases, specifically, I-Cache is not invalidated for the VIPT
non-aliasing case. So memory is consistent between kernel and user
space mappings of "page" but I-Cache may still be hot over this
range. IOW, we don't have to worry about flush_cache_page() before
memcpy().
4. Now, for the copy_to_user_page() case, after memcpy(), we must flush
the caches so memory is consistent with kernel cache entries and
invalidate the I-Cache if this mm region is executable. We don't
need to do anything after memcpy() for the copy_from_user_page()
case since kernel cache entries will be invalidated via the same
process above if we access "page" again. The flush_ptrace_access()
function (borrowed from SPARC64 implementation) is added to handle
cache flushing after memcpy() for the copy_to_user_page() case.
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
uhci-hcd: fix list access bug
USB: Support for ELECOM LD-USB20 in pegasus
USB: Add VIA quirk fixup for VT8235 usb2
USB: rtl8150_disconnect() needs tasklet_kill()
USB Storage: unusual_devs.h for Sony Ericsson M600i
USB Storage: Remove the finecam3 unusual_devs entry
UHCI: don't stop at an Iso error
usb gadget: g_ether spinlock recursion fix
USB: add all wacom device to hid-core.c blacklist
hid-core.c: Adds all GTCO CalComp Digitizers and InterWrite School Products to blacklist
USB floppy drive SAMSUNG SFD-321U/EP detected 8 times
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Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz> reports that an HP DL380 g4 fails using the
default arch due to the ISA bus having an ID of 32.
It would have worked OK with the generic arch - for some reason the default
arch doesn't support as many busses.
So bump that up to support 256 busses, but leave it at 32 if we're building a
tiny system to save a bit of memory.
Cc: Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Cleanup allocation and freeing of tsk->delays used by delay accounting.
This solves two problems reported for delay accounting:
1. oops in __delayacct_blkio_ticks
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1844.html
Currently tsk->delays is getting freed too early in task exit which can
cause a NULL tsk->delays to get accessed via reading of /proc/<tgid>/stats.
The patch fixes this problem by freeing tsk->delays closer to when
task_struct itself is freed up. As a result, it also eliminates the use of
tsk->delays_lock which was only being used (inadequately) to safeguard
access to tsk->delays while a task was exiting.
2. Possible memory leak in kernel/delayacct.c
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1389.html
The patch cleans up tsk->delays allocations after a bad fork which was
missing earlier.
The patch has been tested to fix the problems listed above and stress
tested with rapid calls to delay accounting's taskstats command interface
(which is the other path that can access the same data, besides the /proc
interface causing the oops above).
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The ZVC counter update threshold is currently set to a fixed value of 32.
This patch sets up the threshold depending on the number of processors and
the sizes of the zones in the system.
With the current threshold of 32, I was able to observe slight contention
when more than 130-140 processors concurrently updated the counters. The
contention vanished when I either increased the threshold to 64 or used
Andrew's idea of overstepping the interval (see ZVC overstep patch).
However, we saw contention again at 220-230 processors. So we need higher
values for larger systems.
But the current default is already a bit of an overkill for smaller
systems. Some systems have tiny zones where precision matters. For
example i386 and x86_64 have 16M DMA zones and either 900M ZONE_NORMAL or
ZONE_DMA32. These are even present on SMP and NUMA systems.
The patch here sets up a threshold based on the number of processors in the
system and the size of the zone that these counters are used for. The
threshold should grow logarithmically, so we use fls() as an easy
approximation.
Results of tests on a system with 1024 processors (4TB RAM)
The following output is from a test allocating 1GB of memory concurrently
on each processor (Forking the process. So contention on mmap_sem and the
pte locks is not a factor):
X MIN
TYPE: CPUS WALL WALL SYS USER TOTCPU
fork 1 0.552 0.552 0.540 0.012 0.552
fork 4 0.552 0.548 2.164 0.036 2.200
fork 16 0.564 0.548 8.812 0.164 8.976
fork 128 0.580 0.572 72.204 1.208 73.412
fork 256 1.300 0.660 310.400 2.160 312.560
fork 512 3.512 0.696 1526.836 4.816 1531.652
fork 1020 20.024 0.700 17243.176 6.688 17249.863
So a threshold of 32 is fine up to 128 processors. At 256 processors contention
becomes a factor.
Overstepping the counter (earlier patch) improves the numbers a bit:
fork 4 0.552 0.548 2.164 0.040 2.204
fork 16 0.552 0.548 8.640 0.148 8.788
fork 128 0.556 0.548 69.676 0.956 70.632
fork 256 0.876 0.636 212.468 2.108 214.576
fork 512 2.276 0.672 997.324 4.260 1001.584
fork 1020 13.564 0.680 11586.436 6.088 11592.523
Still contention at 512 and 1020. Contention at 1020 is down by a third.
256 still has a slight bit of contention.
After this patch the counter threshold will be set to 125 which reduces
contention significantly:
fork 128 0.560 0.548 69.776 0.932 70.708
fork 256 0.636 0.556 143.460 2.036 145.496
fork 512 0.640 0.548 284.244 4.236 288.480
fork 1020 1.500 0.588 1326.152 8.892 1335.044
[akpm@osdl.org: !SMP build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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