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2006-03-20nfs: Use UNSTABLE + COMMIT for NFS O_DIRECT writesTrond Myklebust
Currently NFS O_DIRECT writes use FILE_SYNC so that a COMMIT is not necessary. This simplifies the internal logic, but this could be a difficult workload for some servers. Instead, let's send UNSTABLE writes, and after they all complete, send a COMMIT for the dirty range. After the COMMIT returns successfully, then do the wake_up or fire off aio_complete(). Test plan: Async direct I/O tests against Solaris (or any server that requires committed unstable writes). Reboot server during test. Based on an earlier patch by Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20NFS: Make nfs_commit_alloc() externTrond Myklebust
We need to use nfs_commit_alloc() in fs/nfs/direct.c. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20NFS: make direct write path generate write requests concurrentlyChuck Lever
Duplicate infrastructure from direct read path that will allow write path to generate multiple write requests concurrently. This will enable us to add support for aio in this path. Temporarily we will lose the ability to do UNSTABLE writes followed by a COMMIT in the direct write path. However, all applications I am aware of that use NFS O_DIRECT currently write in relatively small chunks, so this should not be inconvenient in any way. Test plan: Millions of fsx-odirect ops. OraSim. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20NFS: Cleanup of NFS read codeTrond Myklebust
Same callback hierarchy inversion as for the NFS write calls. This patch is not strictly speaking needed by the O_DIRECT code, but avoids confusing differences between the asynchronous read and write code. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20NFS: Cleanup of NFS write code in preparation for asynchronous o_directTrond Myklebust
This patch inverts the callback hierarchy for NFS write calls. Instead of having the NFSv2/v3/v4-specific code set up the RPC callback ops, we allow the original caller to do so. This allows for more flexibility w.r.t. how to set up and tear down the nfs_write_data structure while still allowing the NFSv3/v4 code to perform error handling. The greater flexibility is needed by the asynchronous O_DIRECT code, which wants to be able to hold on to the original nfs_write_data structures after the WRITE RPC call has completed in order to be able to replay them if the COMMIT call determines that the server has rebooted. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20lockd: Remove FL_LOCKD flagJ. Bruce Fields
Currently lockd identifies its own locks using the FL_LOCKD flag. This doesn't scale well to multiple lock managers--if we did this in nfsv4 too, for example, we'd be left with only one free flag bit. Instead, we just check whether the file manager ops (fl_lmops) set on this lock are our own. The only use for this is in nlm_traverse_locks, which uses it to find locks that need cleaning up when freeing a host or a file. In the long run it might be nice to do reference counting instead of traversing all the locks like this.... Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20locks,lockd: fix race in nlmsvc_testlockAndy Adamson
posix_test_lock() returns a pointer to a struct file_lock which is unprotected and can be removed while in use by the caller. Move the conflicting lock from the return to a parameter, and copy the conflicting lock. In most cases the caller ends up putting the copy of the conflicting lock on the stack. On i386, sizeof(struct file_lock) appears to be about 100 bytes. We're assuming that's reasonable. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20locks: remove unused posix_block_lockAndy Adamson
posix_lock_file() is used to add a blocked lock to Lockd's block, so posix_block_lock() is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20SUNRPC: eliminate rpc_call()Chuck Lever
Clean-up: replace rpc_call() helper with direct call to rpc_call_sync. This makes NFSv2 and NFSv3 synchronous calls more computationally efficient, and reduces stack consumption in functions that used to invoke rpc_call more than once. Test plan: Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled. Connectathon on NFS version 2, version 3, and version 4 mount points. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20SUNRPC: display human-readable procedure name in rpc_iostats outputChuck Lever
Add fields to the rpc_procinfo struct that allow the display of a human-readable name for each procedure in the rpc_iostats output. Also fix it so that the NFSv4 stats are broken up correctly by sub-procedure number. NFSv4 uses only two real RPC procedures: NULL, and COMPOUND. Test plan: Mount with NFSv2, NFSv3, and NFSv4, and do "cat /proc/self/mountstats". Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20SUNRPC: provide a mechanism for collecting stats in the RPC clientChuck Lever
Add a simple mechanism for collecting stats in the RPC client. Stats are tabulated during xprt_release. Note that per_cpu shenanigans are not required here because the RPC client already serializes on the transport write lock. Test plan: Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled. Basic performance regression testing with high-speed networking and high performance server. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20SUNRPC: introduce per-task RPC iostatsChuck Lever
Account for various things that occur while an RPC task is executed. Separate timers for RPC round trip and RPC execution time show how long RPC requests wait in queue before being sent. Eventually these will be accumulated at xprt_release time in one place where they can be viewed from userland. Test plan: Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20SUNRPC: add a handful of per-xprt countersChuck Lever
Monitor generic transport events. Add a transport switch callout to format transport counters for export to user-land. Test plan: Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20SUNRPC: track length of RPC wait queuesChuck Lever
RPC wait queue length will eventually be exported to userland via the RPC iostats interface. Test plan: Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20NFS: report how long an NFS file system has been mountedChuck Lever
Add a field in nfs_server to record a timestamp when a mount succeeds. Report the number of seconds the file system has been mounted via nfs_show_stats(). Test plan: Mount an NFS file system, watch the mountstats reports and compare with clock time. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20NFS: introduce mechanism for tracking NFS client metricsChuck Lever
Add a per-superblock performance counter facility to the NFS client. This facility mimics the counters available for block devices and for networking. Expose these new counters via the new /proc/self/mountstats interface. Thanks to Andrew Morton and Trond Myklebust for their review and comments. Test plan: fsx and iozone on UP and SMP systems, with and without pre-emption. Watch for memory overwrite bugs, and performance loss (significantly more CPU required per op). Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20NFS: show retransmit settings when displaying mount optionsChuck Lever
Sometimes it's important to know the exact RPC retransmit settings the kernel is using for an NFS mount point. Add this facility to the NFS client's show_options method. Test plan: Set various retransmit settings via the mount command, and check that the settings are reflected in /proc/mounts. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20VFS: New /proc file /proc/self/mountstatsChuck Lever
Create a new file under /proc/self, called mountstats, where mounted file systems can export information (configuration options, performance counters, and so on). Use a mechanism similar to /proc/mounts and s_ops->show_options. This mechanism does not violate namespace security, and is safe to use while other processes are unmounting file systems. Thanks to Mike Waychison for his review and comments. Test-plan: Test concurrent mount/unmount operations while cat'ing /proc/self/mountstats. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20NFS: Code comments update in NFSGoldwyn Rodrigues
read_cache_mtime is no longer used in nfs_inode. This patch removes references of read_cache_mtime in the code comments. Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20SUNRPC: Run rpci->queue_timeout on the rpciod workqueue instead of genericTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20lockd: Don't expose the process pid to the NLM serverTrond Myklebust
Instead we use the nlm_lockowner->pid. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20NFS: Fix a busy inodes issue...Trond Myklebust
The nfs_open_context may live longer than the file descriptor that spawned it, so it needs to carry a reference to the vfsmount. If not, then generic_shutdown_super() may end up being called before reads and writes have been flushed out. Make a couple of functions static while we're at it... Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-19Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: [MIPS] SB1: Check for -mno-sched-prolog if building corelis debug kernel. [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix race in sb1250_gettimeoffset(). [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix interrupt timer off by one bug. [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix M_SCD_TIMER_INIT and M_SCD_TIMER_CNT wrong field width. [MIPS] Protect more of timer_interrupt() by xtime_lock. [MIPS] Work around bad code generation for <asm/io.h>. [MIPS] Simple patch to power off DBAU1200 [MIPS] Fix DBAu1550 software power off. [MIPS] local_r4k_flush_cache_page fix [MIPS] SB1: Fix interrupt disable hazard. [MIPS] Get rid of the IP22-specific code in arclib. Update MAINTAINERS entry for MIPS.
2006-03-19[TG3]: 40-bit DMA workaround part 2Michael Chan
The 40-bit DMA workaround recently implemented for 5714, 5715, and 5780 needs to be expanded because there may be other tg3 devices behind the EPB Express to PCIX bridge in the 5780 class device. For example, some 4-port card or mother board designs have 5704 behind the 5714. All devices behind the EPB require the 40-bit DMA workaround. Thanks to Chris Elmquist again for reporting the problem and testing the patch. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-19[AX.25]: Fix potencial memory hole.Ralf Baechle DL5RB
If the AX.25 dialect chosen by the sysadmin is set to DAMA master / 3 (or DAMA slave / 2, if CONFIG_AX25_DAMA_SLAVE=n) ax25_kick() will fall through the switch statement without calling ax25_send_iframe() or any other function that would eventually free skbn thus leaking the packet. Fix by restricting the sysctl inferface to allow only actually supported AX.25 dialects. The system administration mistake needed for this to happen is rather unlikely, so this is an uncritical hole. Coverity #651. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix race in sb1250_gettimeoffset().Ralf Baechle
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>: sb1250_gettimeoffset() simply reads the current cpu 0 timer remaining value, however once this counter reaches 0 and the interrupt is raised, it immediately resets and begins to count down again. If sb1250_gettimeoffset() is called on cpu 1 via do_gettimeofday() after the timer has reset but prior to cpu 0 processing the interrupt and taking write_seqlock() in timer_interrupt() it will return a full value (or close to it) causing time to jump backwards 1ms. Once cpu 0 handles the interrupt and timer_interrupt() gets far enough along it will jump forward 1ms. Fix this problem by implementing mips_hpt_*() on sb1250 using a spare timer unrelated to the existing periodic interrupt timers. It runs at 1Mhz with a full 23bit counter. This eliminated the custom do_gettimeoffset() for sb1250 and allowed use of the generic fixed_rate_gettimeoffset() using mips_hpt_*() and timerhi/timerlo. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix M_SCD_TIMER_INIT and M_SCD_TIMER_CNT wrong field width.Ralf Baechle
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>: Field width should be 23 bits not 20 bits. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Work around bad code generation for <asm/io.h>.Ralf Baechle
If a call to set_io_port_base() was being followed by usage of mips_io_port_base in the same function gcc was possibly using the old value due to some clever abuse of const. Adding a barrier will keep the optimization and result in correct code with latest gcc. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] local_r4k_flush_cache_page fixAtsushi Nemoto
If dcache_size != icache_size or dcache_size != scache_size, or set-associative cache, icache/scache does not flushed properly. Make blast_?cache_page_indexed() masks its index value correctly. Also, use physical address for physically indexed pcache/scache. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] SB1: Fix interrupt disable hazard.Ralf Baechle
The SB1 core has a three cycle interrupt disable hazard but we were wrongly treating it as fully interlocked. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-17[NET]: Fix race condition in sk_wait_event().Alexey Kuznetsov
It is broken, the condition is checked out of socket lock. It is wonderful the bug survived for so long time. [ This fixes bugzilla #6233: race condition in tcp_sendmsg when connection became established ] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge: powerpc: update defconfigs [PATCH] powerpc: properly configure DDR/P5IOC children devs [PATCH] powerpc: remove duplicate EXPORT_SYMBOLS [PATCH] powerpc: RTC memory corruption [PATCH] powerpc: enable NAP only on cpus who support it to avoid memory corruption [PATCH] powerpc: Clarify wording for CRASH_DUMP Kconfig option [PATCH] powerpc/64: enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SL82C105 [PATCH] powerpc: correct cacheflush loop in zImage powerpc: Fix problem with time going backwards powerpc: Disallow lparcfg being a module
2006-03-16[PATCH] powerpc: properly configure DDR/P5IOC children devsJohn Rose
The dynamic add path for PCI Host Bridges can fail to configure children adapters under P5IOC controllers. It fails to properly fixup bus/device resources, and it fails to properly enable EEH. Both of these steps need to occur before any children devices are enabled in pci_bus_add_devices(). Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-15[ARM] 3364/1: [cleanup] warning fix - definitions for enable_hlt and disable_hltBen Dooks
Patch from Ben Dooks The enable_hlt and disable_hlt should be declared in include/asm/setup.h. This fixes sparse errors from arch/arm/kernel/process.c Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-12Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] iwmmxt thread state alignment [ARM] 3350/1: Enable 1-wire on ARM [ARM] 3356/1: Workaround for the ARM1136 I-cache invalidation problem [ARM] 3355/1: NSLU2: remove propmt depends [ARM] 3354/1: NAS100d: fix power led handling [ARM] Fix muldi3.S
2006-03-12[ARM] iwmmxt thread state alignmentRussell King
This patch removes the reliance of iwmmxt on hand coded alignments. Since thread_info is always 8K aligned, specifying that fpstate is 8-byte aligned achieves the same effect without needing to resort to hand coded alignments. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-11[PATCH] remove __put_task_struct_cb export againChristoph Hellwig
The patch '[PATCH] RCU signal handling' [1] added an export for __put_task_struct_cb, a put_task_struct helper newly introduced in that patch. But the put_task_struct couldn't be used modular previously as __put_task_struct wasn't exported. There are not callers of it in modular code, and it shouldn't be exported because we don't want drivers to hold references to task_structs. This patch removes the export and folds __put_task_struct into __put_task_struct_cb as there's no other caller. [1] http://www2.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-11[PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations insideKirill Korotaev
This patch fixes illegal __GFP_FS allocation inside ext3 transaction in ext3_symlink(). Such allocation may re-enter ext3 code from try_to_free_pages. But JBD/ext3 code keeps a pointer to current journal handle in task_struct and, hence, is not reentrable. This bug led to "Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata()" messages. http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115 Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages.Christoph Lameter
The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09[PATCH] m68k: fix cmpxchg compile errors if CONFIG_RMW_INSNS=nRoman Zippel
We require that all archs implement atomic_cmpxchg(), for the generic version of atomic_add_unless(). Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09[PATCH] mtd: 64 bit fixesAtsushi Nemoto
Fix some bugs in mtd/jffs2 on 64bit platform. The MEMGETBADBLOCK/MEMSETBADBLOCK ioctl are not listed in compat_ioctl.h. And some variables in jffs2 are declared as uint32_t but used to hold size_t values. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09[MIPS] Undefine scr_writew and scr_readw in <asm/vga.h>.Ralf Baechle
This is gluing the build of cirrusfb but really the mess that would need cleaning and fixing is <video/vga.h> and <linux/vt_buffer.h> ... Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-08Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge: powerpc: Fix various syscall/signal/swapcontext bugs [PATCH] powerpc: incorrect rmo_top handling in prom_init [PATCH] powerpc: Fix incorrect pud_ERROR() message [PATCH] powerpc: Expose SMT and L1 icache snoop userland features [PATCH] powerpc: Fix windfarm_pm112 not starting all control loops [PATCH] powerpc: Fix old g5 issues with windfarm powerpc32: Fix timebase synchronization on 32-bit powermacs powerpc: Turn off verbose debug output in powermac platform functions powerpc: Fix might-sleep warning in program check exception handler
2006-03-08[PATCH] i386: port ATI timer fix from x86_64 to i386 IIAndi Kleen
ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled. This is because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU ends up processing it twice. This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0. I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds options to enable/disable too) Ported over from a similar x86-64 change. I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI. Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone. Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] fix kexec asmMichael Matz
While testing kexec and kdump we hit problems where the new kernel would freeze or instantly reboot. The easiest way to trigger it was to kexec a kernel compiled for CONFIG_M586 on an athlon cpu. Compiling for CONFIG_MK7 instead would work fine. The patch fixes a few problems with the kexec inline asm. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] fix file countingDipankar Sarma
I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc. The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up with a very fragmented slab - llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 587730 0 758844 At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following patch I fixes this problem. This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock. Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user. Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] rcu batch tuningDipankar Sarma
This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches. There are two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch (blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark, qlowmark). By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value. If the input RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX. Setting batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot. If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems anyway. Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the batch limit is set to the default. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] percpu_counter_sum()Andrew Morton
Implement percpu_counter_sum(). This is a more accurate but slower version of percpu_counter_read_positive(). We need this for Alex's speedup-ext3_statfs patch and for the nr_file accounting fix. Otherwise these things would be too inaccurate on large CPU counts. Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] __get_unaligned() gcc-4 fixAtsushi Nemoto
If the 'ptr' is a const, this code cause "assignment of read-only variable" error on gcc 4.x. Use __u64 instead of __typeof__(*(ptr)) for temporary variable to get rid of errors on gcc 4.x. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] powerpc: restore eeh_add_device_late() prototype stubMark Fasheh
We fixed this: arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c: In function `eeh_add_device_tree_late': arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:901: warning: implicit declaration of function `eeh_add_device_late' arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c: At top level: arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:918: error: conflicting types for 'eeh_add_device_late' arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.c:901: error: previous implicit declaration of 'eeh_add_device_late' was here make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh.o] Error 1 But we forgot the !CONFIG_EEH stub. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>