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2006-09-29[PATCH] Fix kerneldoc comments in kernel/timer.cRolf Eike Beer
Some of the kerneldoc comments in this file are ignored since the lead-in is malformed, using either "/*" or "/***" instead of "/**". [rdunlap@xenotime.net: kerneldoc fixes] Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] clean up and remove some extra spinlocks from rtmutexSteven Rostedt
Oleg brought up some interesting points about grabbing the pi_lock for some protections. In this discussion, I realized that there are some places that the pi_lock is being grabbed when it really wasn't necessary. Also this patch does a little bit of clean up. This patch basically does three things: 1) renames the "boost" variable to "chain_walk". Since it is used in the debugging case when it isn't going to be boosted. It better describes what the test is going to do if it succeeds. 2) moves get_task_struct to just before the unlocking of the wait_lock. This removes duplicate code, and makes it a little easier to read. The owner wont go away while either the pi_lock or the wait_lock are held. 3) removes the pi_locking and owner blocked checking completely from the debugging case. This is because the grabbing the lock and doing the check, then releasing the lock is just so full of races. It's just as good to go ahead and call the pi_chain_walk function, since after releasing the lock the owner can then block anyway, and we would have missed that. For the debug case, we really do want to do the chain walk to test for deadlocks anyway. [oleg@tv-sign.ru: more of the same] Signed-of-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Esben Nielsen <nielsen.esben@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] ifdef blktrace debugging fieldsAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] timer: add lock annotation to lock_timer_baseJosh Triplett
lock_timer_base acquires a lock and returns with that lock held. Add a lock annotation to this function so that sparse can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not complain about this function since it intentionally uses the lock in this manner. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] module_subsys: initialize earlierMark Huang
Initialize module_subsys earlier (or at least earlier than devices) since it could be used very early in the boot process if kmod loads a module before the device initcalls. Otherwise, kmod will crash in kernel/module.c:mod_sysfs_setup() since the kset in module_subsys is not initialized yet. I only noticed this problem because occasionally, kmod loads the modules for my SCSI and Ethernet adapters very early, during the boot process itself. I don't quite understand why it loads them sometimes and doesn't load them other times. Or who is telling kmod to do so. Can someone explain? Signed-off-by: Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] rcu: add lock annotations to rcu{,_bh}_torture_read_{lock,unlock}Josh Triplett
rcu_torture_read_lock and rcu_bh_torture_read_lock acquire locks without releasing them, and the matching functions rcu_torture_read_unlock and rcu_bh_torture_read_unlock get called with the corresponding locks held and release them. Add lock annotations to these four functions so that sparse can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not complain about these functions since they intentionally use locks in this manner. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Acked-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] irq: remove a extra lineYoichi Yuasa
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] irq: fixed coding styleYoichi Yuasa
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] kernel-doc for relay interfaceRandy Dunlap
Add relay interface support to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl. Fix typos etc. in relay.c and relayfs.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] kernel/params: driver layer error checkingRandy Dunlap
Check driver layer return values in kernel/params.c Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] remove generic__raw_read_trylock()Matthew Wilcox
If the cpu has the lock held for write, is interrupted, and the interrupt handler calls read_trylock(), it's an instant deadlock. Now, Dave Miller has subsequently pointed out that we don't have any situations where this can occur. Nevertheless, we should delete generic__raw_read_lock (and its associated EXPORT to make Arjan happy) so that nobody thinks they can use it. Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-28Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (130 commits) [ARM] 3856/1: Add clocksource for Intel IXP4xx platforms [ARM] 3855/1: Add generic time support [ARM] 3873/1: S3C24XX: Add irq_chip names [ARM] 3872/1: S3C24XX: Apply consistant tabbing to irq_chips [ARM] 3871/1: S3C24XX: Fix ordering of EINT4..23 [ARM] nommu: confirms the CR_V bit in nommu mode [ARM] nommu: abort handler fixup for !CPU_CP15_MMU cores. [ARM] 3870/1: AT91: Start removing static memory mappings [ARM] 3869/1: AT91: NAND support for DK and KB9202 boards [ARM] 3868/1: AT91 hardware header update [ARM] 3867/1: AT91 GPIO update [ARM] 3866/1: AT91 clock update [ARM] 3865/1: AT91RM9200 header updates [ARM] 3862/2: S3C2410 - add basic power management support for AML M5900 series [ARM] kthread: switch arch/arm/kernel/apm.c [ARM] Off-by-one in arch/arm/common/icst* [ARM] 3864/1: Refactore sharpsl_pm [ARM] 3863/1: Add Locomo SPI Device [ARM] 3847/2: Convert LOMOMO to use struct device for GPIOs [ARM] Use CPU_CACHE_* where possible in asm/cacheflush.h ...
2006-09-27Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-upstream ↵Russell King
into devel
2006-09-27[PATCH] pid: remove temporary debug code in attach_pidEric W. Biederman
With the patches flying between Oleg and myself somehow this temporary debug code got left in pid.c. It was never intended to make it to the stable kernel. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27[PATCH] pid: Implement transfer_pid and use it to simplify de_threadEric W. Biederman
In de_thread we move pids from one process to another, a rather ugly case. The function transfer_pid makes it clear what we are doing, and makes the action atomic. This is useful we ever want to atomically traverse the process group and session lists, in a rcu safe manner. Even if the atomic properties this change should be a win as transfer_pid should be less code to execute than executing both attach_pid and detach_pid, and this should make de_thread slightly smaller as only a single function call needs to be emitted. The only downside is that the code might be slower to execute as the odds are against transfer_pid being in cache. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27[PATCH] sysctl: Allow /proc/sys without sys_sysctlEric W. Biederman
Since sys_sysctl is deprecated start allow it to be compiled out. This should catch any remaining user space code that cares, and paves the way for further sysctl cleanups. [akpm@osdl.org: If sys_sysctl() is not compiled-in, emit a warning] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27[PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structureTheodore Ts'o
This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode. Filesystems that want to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function. Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect) values for i_blksize. [bunk@stusta.de: cleanup] [akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_privateTheodore Ts'o
The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode (i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat in the VFS inode structure). This patch: The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union, which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where the union will actually be used. [judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27[PATCH] NOMMU: move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible placeDavid Howells
Move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible place (kernel/signal.c). Currently it's in fs/proc/task_mmu.c, a file that is dependent on both CONFIG_PROC_FS and CONFIG_MMU being enabled, but it's used from kernel/signal.c from where it is called unconditionally. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27[PATCH] NOMMU: Check that access_process_vm() has a valid targetDavid Howells
Check that access_process_vm() is accessing a valid mapping in the target process. This limits ptrace() accesses and accesses through /proc/<pid>/maps to only those regions actually mapped by a program. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26Resources: insert identical resources above existing resourcesMatthew Wilcox
If you have two resources which aree exactly the same size, insert_resource() currently inserts the new one below the existing one. This is wrong because there's no way to insert a resource of the same size above an existing one. I took this opportunity to rewrite the initial loop to be a for-loop instead of a goto-loop and fix the documentation. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits) [PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y [PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags [PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter. [PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros. [PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing [PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64) [PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1 [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI [PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder [PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c [PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers. [PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion [PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems [PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code [PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear [PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume [PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output. ...
2006-09-26Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (47 commits) Driver core: Don't call put methods while holding a spinlock Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver core Driver core: Fix potential deadlock in driver core PCI: enable driver multi-threaded probe Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probe sysfs: add proper sysfs_init() prototype drivers/base: check errors drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device v4l-dev2: handle __must_check add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK add __must_check to device management code Driver core: fixed add_bind_files() definition Driver core: fix comments in drivers/base/power/resume.c sysfs_remove_bin_file: no return value, dump_stack on error kobject: must_check fixes Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin files Class: add support for class interfaces for devices Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree Driver core: add device_rename function Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properly ...
2006-09-26[PATCH] PM: Add pm_trace switchRafael J. Wysocki
Add the pm_trace attribute in /sys/power which has to be explicitly set to one to really enable the "PM tracing" code compiled in when CONFIG_PM_TRACE is set (which modifies the machine's CMOS clock in unpredictable ways). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] PM: make it possible to disable console suspendingRafael J. Wysocki
Change suspend_console() so that it waits for all consoles to flush the remaining messages and make it possible to switch the console suspending off with the help of a Kconfig option. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: Use memory bitmaps during resumeRafael J. Wysocki
Make swsusp use memory bitmaps to store its internal information during the resume phase of the suspend-resume cycle. If the pfns of saveable pages are saved during the suspend phase instead of the kernel virtual addresses of these pages, we can use them during the resume phase directly to set the corresponding bits in a memory bitmap. Then, this bitmap is used to mark the page frames corresponding to the pages that were saveable before the suspend (aka "unsafe" page frames). Next, we allocate as many page frames as needed to store the entire suspend image and make sure that there will be some extra free "safe" page frames for the list of PBEs constructed later. Subsequently, the image is loaded and, if possible, the data loaded from it are written into their "original" page frames (ie. the ones they had occupied before the suspend). The image data that cannot be written into their "original" page frames are loaded into "safe" page frames and their "original" kernel virtual addresses, as well as the addresses of the "safe" pages containing their copies, are stored in a list of PBEs. Finally, the list of PBEs is used to copy the remaining image data into their "original" page frames (this is done atomically, by the architecture-dependent parts of swsusp). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: Introduce memory bitmapsRafael J. Wysocki
Introduce the memory bitmap data structure and make swsusp use in the suspend phase. The current swsusp's internal data structure is not very efficient from the memory usage point of view, so it seems reasonable to replace it with a data structure that will require less memory, such as a pair of bitmaps. The idea is to use bitmaps that may be allocated as sets of individual pages, so that we can avoid making allocations of order greater than 0. For this reason the memory bitmap structure consists of several linked lists of objects that contain pointers to memory pages with the actual bitmap data. Still, for a typical system all of these lists fit in a single page, so it's reasonable to introduce an additional mechanism allowing us to allocate all of them efficiently without sacrificing the generality of the design. This is done with the help of the chain_allocator structure and associated functions. We need to use two memory bitmaps during the suspend phase of the suspend-resume cycle. One of them is necessary for marking the saveable pages, and the second is used to mark the pages in which to store the copies of them (aka image pages). First, the bitmaps are created and we allocate as many image pages as needed (the corresponding bits in the second bitmap are set as soon as the pages are allocated). Second, the bits corresponding to the saveable pages are set in the first bitmap and the saveable pages are copied to the image pages. Finally, the first bitmap is used to save the kernel virtual addresses of the saveable pages and the second one is used to save the contents of the image pages. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: Introduce some helpful constantsRafael J. Wysocki
Introduce some constants that hopefully will help improve the readability of code in kernel/power/snapshot.c. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Change the name of pagedir_nosaveRafael J. Wysocki
The name of the pagedir_nosave variable does not make sense any more, so it seems reasonable to change it to something more meaningful. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: Fix alloc_pagedirRafael J. Wysocki
Get rid of the FIXME in kernel/power/snapshot.c#alloc_pagedir() and simplify the functions called by it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: Reorder memory-allocating functionsRafael J. Wysocki
Move some functions in kernel/power/snapshot.c to a better place (in the same file) and introduce free_image_page() (will be necessary in the future). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: Fix mark_free_pagesRafael J. Wysocki
Clean up mm/page_alloc.c#mark_free_pages() and make it avoid clearing PageNosaveFree for PageNosave pages. This allows us to get rid of an ugly hack in kernel/power/snapshot.c#copy_data_pages(). Additionally, the page-copying loop in copy_data_pages() is moved to an inline function. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Disable CPU hotplug during suspendRafael J. Wysocki
The current suspend code has to be run on one CPU, so we use the CPU hotplug to take the non-boot CPUs offline on SMP machines. However, we should also make sure that these CPUs will not be enabled by someone else after we have disabled them. The functions disable_nonboot_cpus() and enable_nonboot_cpus() are moved to kernel/cpu.c, because they now refer to some stuff in there that should better be static. Also it's better if disable_nonboot_cpus() returns an error instead of panicking if something goes wrong, and enable_nonboot_cpus() has no reason to panic(), because the CPUs may have been enabled by the userland before it tries to take them online. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: struct snapshot_handle cleanupRafael J. Wysocki
Add comments describing struct snapshot_handle and its members, change the confusing name of its member 'page' to 'cur'. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: clean up browsing of pfnsRafael J. Wysocki
Clean up some loops over pfns for each zone in snapshot.c: reduce the number of additions to perform, rework detection of saveable pages and make the code a bit less difficult to understand, hopefully. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: read speedupAndrew Morton
Implement async reads for swsusp resuming. Crufty old PIII testbox: 15.7 MB/s -> 20.3 MB/s Sony Vaio: 14.6 MB/s -> 33.3 MB/s I didn't implement the post-resume bio_set_pages_dirty(). I don't really understand why resume needs to run set_page_dirty() against these pages. It might be a worry that this code modifies PG_Uptodate, PG_Error and PG_Locked against the image pages. Can this possibly affect the resumed-into kernel? Hopefully not, if we're atomically restoring its mem_map? Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: add read-speed instrumentationAndrew Morton
Add some instrumentation to the swsusp readin code to show what bandwidth we're achieving. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: write speedupAndrew Morton
Switch the swsusp writeout code from 4k-at-a-time to 4MB-at-a-time. Crufty old PIII testbox: 12.9 MB/s -> 20.9 MB/s Sony Vaio: 14.7 MB/s -> 26.5 MB/s The implementation is crude. A better one would use larger BIOs, but wouldn't gain any performance. The memcpys will be mostly pipelined with the IO and basically come for free. The ENOMEM path has not been tested. It should be. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] swsusp: add write-speed instrumentationAndrew Morton
Add some instrumentation to the swsusp writeout code to show what bandwidth we're achieving. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] FRV: permit __do_IRQ() to be dispensed withDavid Howells
Permit __do_IRQ() to be dispensed with based on a configuration option. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] selinux: rename selinux_ctxid_to_stringStephen Smalley
Rename selinux_ctxid_to_string to selinux_sid_to_string to be consistent with other interfaces. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] selinux: eliminate selinux_task_ctxidStephen Smalley
Eliminate selinux_task_ctxid since it duplicates selinux_task_get_sid. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] NUMA: Add zone_to_nid functionChristoph Lameter
There are many places where we need to determine the node of a zone. Currently we use a difficult to read sequence of pointer dereferencing. Put that into an inline function and use throughout VM. Maybe we can find a way to optimize the lookup in the future. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] zone_reclaim: dynamic slab reclaimChristoph Lameter
Currently one can enable slab reclaim by setting an explicit option in /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode. Slab reclaim is then used as a final option if the freeing of unmapped file backed pages is not enough to free enough pages to allow a local allocation. However, that means that the slab can grow excessively and that most memory of a node may be used by slabs. We have had a case where a machine with 46GB of memory was using 40-42GB for slab. Zone reclaim was effective in dealing with pagecache pages. However, slab reclaim was only done during global reclaim (which is a bit rare on NUMA systems). This patch implements slab reclaim during zone reclaim. Zone reclaim occurs if there is a danger of an off node allocation. At that point we 1. Shrink the per node page cache if the number of pagecache pages is more than min_unmapped_ratio percent of pages in a zone. 2. Shrink the slab cache if the number of the nodes reclaimable slab pages (patch depends on earlier one that implements that counter) are more than min_slab_ratio (a new /proc/sys/vm tunable). The shrinking of the slab cache is a bit problematic since it is not node specific. So we simply calculate what point in the slab we want to reach (current per node slab use minus the number of pages that neeed to be allocated) and then repeately run the global reclaim until that is unsuccessful or we have reached the limit. I hope we will have zone based slab reclaim at some point which will make that easier. The default for the min_slab_ratio is 5% Also remove the slab option from /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Profiling: require buffer allocation on the correct nodeChristoph Lameter
Profiling really suffers with off node buffers. Fail if no memory is available on the nodes. The profiling code can deal with these failures should they occur. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Add __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes and ignore ↵Christoph Lameter
cpuset/memory policy restrictions Add a new gfp flag __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes. This flag is essential if a kernel component requires memory to be located on a certain node. It will be needed for alloc_pages_node() to force allocation on the indicated node and for alloc_pages() to force allocation on the current node. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the schedulerChristoph Lameter
The scheduler will stop load balancing if the most busy processor contains processes pinned via processor affinity. The scheduler currently only does one search for busiest cpu. If it cannot pull any tasks away from the busiest cpu because they were pinned then the scheduler goes into a corner and sulks leaving the idle processors idle. F.e. If you have processor 0 busy running four tasks pinned via taskset, there are none on processor 1 and one just started two processes on processor 2 then the scheduler will not move one of the two processes away from processor 2. This patch fixes that issue by forcing the scheduler to come out of its corner and retrying the load balancing by considering other processors for load balancing. This patch was originally developed by John Hawkes and discussed at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113901368523205&w=2. I have removed extraneous material and gone back to equipping struct rq with the cpu the queue is associated with since this makes the patch much easier and it is likely that others in the future will have the same difficulty of figuring out which processor owns which runqueue. The overhead added through these patches is a single word on the stack if the kernel is configured to support 32 cpus or less (32 bit). For 32 bit environments the maximum number of cpus that can be configued is 255 which would result in the use of 32 bytes additional on the stack. On IA64 up to 1k cpus can be configured which will result in the use of 128 additional bytes on the stack. The maximum additional cache footprint is one cacheline. Typically memory use will be much less than a cacheline and the additional cpumask will be placed on the stack in a cacheline that already contains other local variable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinderJan Beulich
Current gcc generates calls not jumps to noreturn functions. When that happens the return address can point to the next function, which confuses the unwinder. This patch works around it by marking asynchronous exception frames in contrast normal call frames in the unwind information. Then teach the unwinder to decode this. For normal call frames the unwinder now subtracts one from the address which avoids this problem. The standard libgcc unwinder uses the same trick. It doesn't include adjustment of the printed address (i.e. for the original example, it'd still be kernel_math_error+0 that gets displayed, but the unwinder wouldn't get confused anymore. This only works with binutils 2.6.17+ and some versions of H.J.Lu's 2.6.16 unfortunately because earlier binutils don't support .cfi_signal_frame [AK: added automatic detection of the new binutils and wrote description] Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Add the __stack_chk_fail() functionArjan van de Ven
GCC emits a call to a __stack_chk_fail() function when the stack canary is not matching the expected value. Since this is a bad security issue; lets panic the kernel rather than limping along; the kernel really can't be trusted anymore when this happens. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task structArjan van de Ven
This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA. Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time. Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>