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2009-04-03Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work itemsDavid Howells
Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items, such as invoking mkdir() or rmdir() - things that may take a long time and may sleep, holding mutexes/semaphores and hogging a thread, and are thus unsuitable for workqueues. The number of threads is always at least a settable minimum, but more are started when there's more work to do, up to a limit. Because of the nature of the load, it's not suitable for a 1-thread-per-CPU type pool. A system with one CPU may well want several threads. This is used by FS-Cache to do slow caching operations in the background, such as looking up, creating or deleting cache objects. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225 Trim includes of fdtable.h Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som Trim includes in binfmt_elf Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary() Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h New helper - current_umask() check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing New locking/refcounting for fs_struct Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c) Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2) Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()
2009-04-02cpusets: allow cpusets to be configured/built on non-SMP systemsPaul Menage
Allow cpusets to be configured/built on non-SMP systems Currently it's impossible to build cpusets under UML on x86-64, since cpusets depends on SMP and x86-64 UML doesn't support SMP. There's code in cpusets that doesn't depend on SMP. This patch surrounds the minimum amount of cpusets code with #ifdef CONFIG_SMP in order to allow cpusets to build/run on UP systems (for testing purposes under UML). Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: 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>
2009-04-02memcg: remove redundant message at swaponKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
It's pointed out that swap_cgroup's message at swapon() is nonsense. Because * It can be calculated very easily if all necessary information is written in Kconfig. * It's not necessary to annoying people at every swapon(). In other view, now, memory usage per swp_entry is reduced to 2bytes from 8bytes(64bit) and I think it's reasonably small. Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02initramfs: prevent initramfs printk message being split by messages from ↵Simon Kitching
other code. initramfs uses printk without a linefeed, then does some work, then uses printk to finish the message off. However if some other code does a printk in between, then the messages get mixed together. Better for each message to be an independent line... Example of problem that this fixes: checking if image is initramfs...<7>Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1 Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0 it is Signed-off-by: Simon Kitching <skitching@apache.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01init/main.c: fix sparse warnings: context imbalanceHannes Eder
Impact: Attribute function 'init_post' with __releases(...). Fix these sparse warnings: init/main.c:805:21: warning: context imbalance in 'init_post' - unexpected unlock init/main.c:899:9: warning: context imbalance in 'kernel_init' - wrong count at exit Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-31Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.hAl Viro
Don't pull it in sched.h; very few files actually need it and those can include directly. sched.h itself only needs forward declaration of struct fs_struct; Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-30cpumask: use set_cpu_active in init/main.cRusty Russell
cpu_active_map is deprecated in favor of cpu_active_mask, which is const for safety: we use accessors now (set_cpu_active) is we really want to make a change. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-30cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALLRusty Russell
Impact: cleanup (Thanks to Al Viro for reminding me of this, via Ingo) CPU_MASK_ALL is the (deprecated) "all bits set" cpumask, defined as so: #define CPU_MASK_ALL (cpumask_t) { { ... } } Taking the address of such a temporary is questionable at best, unfortunately 321a8e9d (cpumask: add CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR macro) added CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR: #define CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR (&CPU_MASK_ALL) Which formalizes this practice. One day gcc could bite us over this usage (though we seem to have gotten away with it so far). So replace everywhere which used &CPU_MASK_ALL or CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR with the modern "cpu_all_mask" (a real const struct cpumask *). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-03-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-for-30Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-for-30: fastboot: remove duplicate unpack_to_rootfs() ide/net: flip the order of SATA and network init async: remove the temporary (2.6.29) "async is off by default" code Fix up conflicts in init/initramfs.c manually
2009-03-28fastboot: remove duplicate unpack_to_rootfs()Li, Shaohua
we check if initrd is initramfs first and then do the real unpack. The check isn't required, we can directly do unpack. If the initrd isn't an initramfs, we can remove the garbage. In my laptop, this saves 0.1s boot time. This patch penalizes non-initramfs initrd case, but nowadays, initramfs is the most widely used method for initrds. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-27Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2Ingo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h kernel/irq/handle.c Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13Merge branches 'sched/clock', 'sched/urgent' and 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-10menu: fix embedded menu snafuRandy Dunlap
The COMPAT_BRK kconfig symbol does not depend on EMBEDDED, but it is in the midst of the EMBEDDED menu symbols, so it mucks up the EMBEDDED menu. Fix by moving it to just after all of the EMBEDDED menu symbols. Also, ANON_INODES has a similar problem, so move it to just above the EMBEDDED menu items since it is used in the EMBEDDED menu. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-05Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc7' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-04Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/mm', 'x86/sched', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
2009-03-02Revert "menu: fix embedded menu snafu"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 155b25bcc28631a5b5230191aa3f56c40dfffa3f, which was totally wrong - the "embedded" options still exists (very much so) even on non-embedded platforms. It's just that we don't bother with actually asking about them when we're not embedded, we just take their default values (which is usually 'y' - the options add features that may not be worth it in a constrained environment). Noticed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-02menu: fix embedded menu snafuRandy Dunlap
The COMPAT_BRK kconfig symbol does not depend on EMBEDDED, but it is in the midst of the EMBEDDED menu symbols, so it mucks up the EMBEDDED menu. Fix by moving it to just after all of the EMBEDDED menu symbols. Also, surround all of the EMBEDDED symbols with "if EMBEDDED"/"endif" so that this EMBEDDED block is clearer. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-26Merge branches 'sched/cleanups', 'sched/urgent' and 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-26rcu: Teach RCU that idle task is not quiscent state at bootPaul E. McKenney
This patch fixes a bug located by Vegard Nossum with the aid of kmemcheck, updated based on review comments from Nick Piggin, Ingo Molnar, and Andrew Morton. And cleans up the variable-name and function-name language. ;-) The boot CPU runs in the context of its idle thread during boot-up. During this time, idle_cpu(0) will always return nonzero, which will fool Classic and Hierarchical RCU into deciding that a large chunk of the boot-up sequence is a big long quiescent state. This in turn causes RCU to prematurely end grace periods during this time. This patch changes the rcutree.c and rcuclassic.c rcu_check_callbacks() function to ignore the idle task as a quiescent state until the system has started up the scheduler in rest_init(), introducing a new non-API function rcu_idle_now_means_idle() to inform RCU of this transition. RCU maintains an internal rcu_idle_cpu_truthful variable to track this state, which is then used by rcu_check_callback() to determine if it should believe idle_cpu(). Because this patch has the effect of disallowing RCU grace periods during long stretches of the boot-up sequence, this patch also introduces Josh Triplett's UP-only optimization that makes synchronize_rcu() be a no-op if num_online_cpus() returns 1. This allows boot-time code that calls synchronize_rcu() to proceed normally. Note, however, that RCU callbacks registered by call_rcu() will likely queue up until later in the boot sequence. Although rcuclassic and rcutree can also use this same optimization after boot completes, rcupreempt must restrict its use of this optimization to the portion of the boot sequence before the scheduler starts up, given that an rcupreempt RCU read-side critical section may be preeempted. In addition, this patch takes Nick Piggin's suggestion to make the system_state global variable be __read_mostly. Changes since v4: o Changes the name of the introduced function and variable to be less emotional. ;-) Changes since v3: o WARN_ON(nr_context_switches() > 0) to verify that RCU switches out of boot-time mode before the first context switch, as suggested by Nick Piggin. Changes since v2: o Created rcu_blocking_is_gp() internal-to-RCU API that determines whether a call to synchronize_rcu() is itself a grace period. o The definition of rcu_blocking_is_gp() for rcuclassic and rcutree checks to see if but a single CPU is online. o The definition of rcu_blocking_is_gp() for rcupreempt checks to see both if but a single CPU is online and if the system is still in early boot. This allows rcupreempt to again work correctly if running on a single CPU after booting is complete. o Added check to rcupreempt's synchronize_sched() for there being but one online CPU. Tested all three variants both SMP and !SMP, booted fine, passed a short rcutorture test on both x86 and Power. Located-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic conflict resolution: arch/x86/kernel/setup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21Consolidate driver_probe_done() loops into one placeArjan van de Ven
there's a few places that currently loop over driver_probe_done(), and I'm about to add another one. This patch abstracts it into a helper to reduce duplication. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-08Merge branches 'sched/rt' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-05smp, generic: introduce arch_disable_smp_support() instead of ↵Ingo Molnar
disable_ioapic_setup() Impact: cleanup disable_ioapic_setup() in init/main.c is ugly as the function is x86-specific. The #ifdef inline prototype there is ugly too. Replace it with a generic arch_disable_smp_support() function - which has a weak alias for non-x86 architectures and for non-ioapic x86 builds. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-27Merge branch 'linus' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
2009-01-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kbuild: fix kbuild.txt typos kbuild: print usage with no arguments in scripts/config Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"
2009-01-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (92 commits) gianfar: Revive VLAN support vlan: Export symbols as non GPL symbols. bnx2x: tx_has_work should not wait for FW netxen: reduce memory footprint netxen: fix vlan tso/checksum offload net: Fix linux/if_frad.h's suitability for userspace. net: Move config NET_NS to from net/Kconfig to init/Kconfig isdn: Fix missing ifdef in isdn_ppp networking: document "nc" in addition to "netcat" in netconsole.txt e1000e: workaround hw errata af_key: initialize xfrm encap_oa virtio_net: Fix MAX_PACKET_LEN to support 802.1Q VLANs lcs: fix compilation for !CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST rtl8187: Add termination packet to prevent stall iwlwifi: fix rs_get_rate WARN_ON() p54usb: fix packet loss with first generation devices sctp: Fix another socket race during accept/peeloff sctp: Properly timestamp outgoing data chunks for rtx purposes sctp: Correctly start rtx timer on new packet transmissions. sctp: Fix crc32c calculations on big-endian arhes. ...
2009-01-26net: Move config NET_NS to from net/Kconfig to init/KconfigMatt Helsley
Make NET_NS available underneath the generic Namespaces config option since all of the other namespace options are there. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-22Merge branch 'core/debugobjects' into core/urgentThomas Gleixner
2009-01-21Merge branch 'x86/mm' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-01-18Merge branch 'core/percpu' into stackprotectorIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h arch/x86/include/asm/system.h Also, moved include/asm-x86/stackprotector.h to arch/x86/include/asm. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16sched: make plist a library facilityPeter Zijlstra
Ingo Molnar wrote: > here's a new build failure with tip/sched/rt: > > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > kernel/built-in.o: In function `set_curr_task_rt': > sched.c:(.text+0x3675): undefined reference to `plist_del' > kernel/built-in.o: In function `pick_next_task_rt': > sched.c:(.text+0x37ce): undefined reference to `plist_del' > kernel/built-in.o: In function `enqueue_pushable_task': > sched.c:(.text+0x381c): undefined reference to `plist_del' Eliminate the plist library kconfig and make it available unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15cgroups: consolidate cgroup documentsLi Zefan
Move Documentation/cpusets.txt and Documentation/controllers/* to Documentation/cgroups/ Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15cgroups: clean up KconfigLi Zefan
- move CONFIG_PROC_PID_CPUSET into cgroup menu - move MM_OWNER to the bottom for better menu indent - fix typos - use tabs not spaces Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15rcu: move Kconfig menuMike Travis
Move RCU Kconfig options from top-level menu to an "RCU Subsystem" menu under the "General Setup" menu. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Tested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"Sam Ravnborg
This reverts commit ad7a953c522ceb496611d127e51e278bfe0ff483. And commit: ("allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL") 9bb482476c6c9d1ae033306440c51ceac93ea80c These stripping patches has caused a set of issues: 1) People have reported compatibility issues with binutils due to lack of support for `--strip-unneeded-symbols' with objcopy 2.15.92.0.2 Reported by: Wenji 2) ccache and distcc no longer works as expeced Reported by: Ted, Roland, + others 3) The installed modules increased a lot in size Reported by: Ted, Davej + others Reported-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com> Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-14init: make initrd/initramfs decompression failure a KERN_EMERG eventH. Peter Anvin
Impact: More consistent behaviour, avoid policy in the kernel Upgrade/downgrade initrd/initramfs decompression failure from inconsistently a panic or a KERN_ALERT message to a KERN_EMERG event. It is, however, possible do design a system which can recover from this (using the kernel builtin code and/or the internal initramfs), which means this is policy, not a technical necessity. A good way to handle this would be to have a panic-level=X option, to force a panic on a printk above a certain level. That is a separate patch, however. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-12bzip2/lzma: comprehensible error messages for missing decompressorH. Peter Anvin
Instead of failing to identify a compressed image with a decompressor that we don't have compiled in, identify it and fail with a comprehensible panic message. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-10bzip2/lzma: make flush_buffer() unconditionalIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix flush_buffer() is used unconditionally: init/initramfs.c:456: error: 'flush_buffer' undeclared (first use in this function) init/initramfs.c:456: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once init/initramfs.c:456: error: for each function it appears in.) So remove the decompressor #ifdefs from around it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-10Merge branch 'linus' into x86/setup-lzmaIngo Molnar
Conflicts: init/do_mounts_rd.c
2009-01-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus: MAINTAINERS: squashfs entry Squashfs: documentation Squashfs: initrd support Squashfs: Kconfig entry Squashfs: Makefiles Squashfs: header files Squashfs: block operations Squashfs: cache operations Squashfs: uid/gid lookup operations Squashfs: fragment block operations Squashfs: export operations Squashfs: super block operations Squashfs: symlink operations Squashfs: regular file operations Squashfs: directory readdir operations Squashfs: directory lookup operations Squashfs: inode operations
2009-01-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommuLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu: NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions. FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable. NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
2009-01-08bzip2/lzma: centralize format detectionH. Peter Anvin
Centralize the compression format detection to a common routine in the lib directory, and use it for both initramfs and initrd. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-08memcg: mem+swap controller KconfigKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Config and control variable for mem+swap controller. This patch adds CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP (memory resource controller swap extension.) For accounting swap, it's obvious that we have to use additional memory to remember "who uses swap". This adds more overhead. So, it's better to offer "choice" to users. This patch adds 2 choices. This patch adds 2 parameters to enable swap extension or not. - CONFIG - boot option Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: fix a typo in KconfigLi Zefan
s/contoller/controller/ Signed-of-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08cgroups: make cgroup config a submenuKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Making CGROUP related configs be a sub-menu. This patch make CGROUP related configs be a sub-menu and makes 1st level configs of "General Setup" shorter. including following additional changes - add help comment about CGROUPS and GROUP_SCHED. - moved MM_OWNER config to the bottom. (for good indent in menuconfig) Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfsDavid Howells
Support XIP on files unpacked from the initramfs image on NOMMU systems. This simply requires the length of the file to be preset so that the ramfs fs can attempt to garner sufficient contiguous storage to store the file (NOMMU mmap can only map contiguous RAM). All the other bits to do XIP on initramfs files are present: (1) ramfs's truncate attempts to allocate a contiguous run of pages when a file is truncated upwards from nothing. (2) ramfs sets BDI on its files to indicate direct mapping is possible, and that its files can be mapped for read, write and exec. (3) NOMMU mmap() will use the above bits to determine that it can do XIP. Possibly this needs better controls, because it will _always_ try and do XIP. One disadvantage of this very simplistic approach is that sufficient space will be allocated to store the whole file, and not just the bit that would be XIP'd. To deal with this, though, the initramfs unpacker would have to be able to parse the file contents. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-01-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-asyncLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async: async: don't do the initcall stuff post boot bootchart: improve output based on Dave Jones' feedback async: make the final inode deletion an asynchronous event fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async fastboot: make the libata port scan asynchronous fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot
2009-01-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits) trivial: chack -> check typo fix in main Makefile trivial: Add a space (and a comma) to a printk in 8250 driver trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in docs for ncr53c8xx/sym53c8xx trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in powerpc Makefile trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in usb.c trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in qla1280.c trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in a100u2w.c trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in megaraid.c trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ql4_mbx.c trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in acpi_memhotplug.c trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ipw2100.c trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in atmel.c trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation trivial: update Jesper Juhl CREDITS entry with new email trivial: fix singal -> signal typo trivial: Fix incorrect use of "loose" in event.c trivial: printk: fix indentation of new_text_line declaration trivial: rtc-stk17ta8: fix sparse warning ...
2009-01-07async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel bootArjan van de Ven
Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that various hardware delays are done sequentially. In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays in practice. In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this patch does NOT do full parallel initialization. Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects (instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>