GitHub/MotorolaMobilityLLC/kernel-slsi.git
17 years ago[NETNS]: Don't panic on creating the namespace's loopback
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:55:33 +0000 (12:55 -0700)]
[NETNS]: Don't panic on creating the namespace's loopback

When the loopback device is failed to initialize inside the new
namespaces, panic() is called. Do not do it when the namespace
in question is not the init_net.

Plus cleanup the error path a bit.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[NEIGH]: Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNL
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:54:15 +0000 (12:54 -0700)]
[NEIGH]: Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNL

The pnigh_lookup is used to lookup proxy entries and to
create them in case lookup failed.

However, the "creation" code does not perform the re-lookup
after GFP_KERNEL allocation. This is done because the code
is expected to be protected with the RTNL lock, so add the
assertion (mainly to address future questions from new network
developers like me :) ).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[INET]: kmalloc+memset -> kzalloc in frag_alloc_queue
Denis V. Lunev [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:53:13 +0000 (12:53 -0700)]
[INET]: kmalloc+memset -> kzalloc in frag_alloc_queue

kmalloc + memset -> kzalloc in frag_alloc_queue

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[ISDN]: Fix compile with CONFIG_ISDN_X25 disabled.
Denis V. Lunev [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:52:20 +0000 (12:52 -0700)]
[ISDN]: Fix compile with CONFIG_ISDN_X25 disabled.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:44:56PM +0400, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
Compilation fix. The problem appears after
7c076d1de869256848dacb8de0050a3a390f95df by Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>

Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[IPV6]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff * in input handlers
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:50:28 +0000 (12:50 -0700)]
[IPV6]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff * in input handlers

With all the users of the double pointers removed from the IPv6 input path,
this patch converts all occurances of sk_buff ** to sk_buff * in IPv6 input
handlers.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[SELINUX]: Update for netfilter ->hook() arg changes.
David S. Miller [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:58:25 +0000 (02:58 -0700)]
[SELINUX]: Update for netfilter ->hook() arg changes.

They take a "struct sk_buff *" instead of a "struct sk_buff **" now.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_put
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:41:56 +0000 (02:41 -0700)]
[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_put

These ones use the generic data types too, so move
them in one place.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[INET]: Small cleanup for xxx_put after evictor consolidation
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:41:09 +0000 (02:41 -0700)]
[INET]: Small cleanup for xxx_put after evictor consolidation

After the evictor code is consolidated there is no need in
passing the extra pointer to the xxx_put() functions.

The only place when it made sense was the evictor code itself.

Maybe this change must got with the previous (or with the
next) patch, but I try to make them shorter as much as
possible to simplify the review (but they are still large
anyway), so this change goes in a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_evictor
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:40:06 +0000 (02:40 -0700)]
[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_evictor

The evictors collect some statistics for ipv4 and ipv6,
so make it return the number of evicted queues and account
them all at once in the caller.

The XXX_ADD_STATS_BH() macros are just for this case,
but maybe there are places in code, that can make use of
them as well.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_frag_destroy
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:39:14 +0000 (02:39 -0700)]
[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_frag_destroy

To make in possible we need to know the exact frag queue
size for inet_frags->mem management and two callbacks:

 * to destoy the skb (optional, used in conntracks only)
 * to free the queue itself (mandatory, but later I plan to
   move the allocation and the destruction of frag_queues
   into the common place, so this callback will most likely
   be optional too).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[INET]: Consolidate xxx_the secret_rebuild
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:38:08 +0000 (02:38 -0700)]
[INET]: Consolidate xxx_the secret_rebuild

This code works with the generic data types as well, so
move this into inet_fragment.c

This move makes it possible to hide the secret_timer
management and the secret_rebuild routine completely in
the inet_fragment.c

Introduce the ->hashfn() callback in inet_frags() to get
the hashfun for a given inet_frag_queue() object.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_frag_kill
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:37:18 +0000 (02:37 -0700)]
[INET]: Consolidate the xxx_frag_kill

Since now all the xxx_frag_kill functions now work
with the generic inet_frag_queue data type, this can
be moved into a common place.

The xxx_unlink() code is moved as well.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[INET]: Collect common frag sysctl variables together
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:33:45 +0000 (02:33 -0700)]
[INET]: Collect common frag sysctl variables together

Some sysctl variables are used to tune the frag queues
management and it will be useful to work with them in
a common way in the future, so move them into one
structure, moreover they are the same for all the frag
management codes.

I don't place them in the existing inet_frags object,
introduced in the previous patch for two reasons:

 1. to keep them in the __read_mostly section;
 2. not to export the whole inet_frags objects outside.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[INET]: Collect frag queues management objects together
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:31:52 +0000 (02:31 -0700)]
[INET]: Collect frag queues management objects together

There are some objects that are common in all the places
which are used to keep track of frag queues, they are:

 * hash table
 * LRU list
 * rw lock
 * rnd number for hash function
 * the number of queues
 * the amount of memory occupied by queues
 * secret timer

Move all this stuff into one structure (struct inet_frags)
to make it possible use them uniformly in the future. Like
with the previous patch this mostly consists of hunks like

-    write_lock(&ipfrag_lock);
+    write_lock(&ip4_frags.lock);

To address the issue with exporting the number of queues and
the amount of memory occupied by queues outside the .c file
they are declared in, I introduce a couple of helpers.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[INET]: Move common fields from frag_queues in one place.
Pavel Emelyanov [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:24:19 +0000 (02:24 -0700)]
[INET]: Move common fields from frag_queues in one place.

Introduce the struct inet_frag_queue in include/net/inet_frag.h
file and place there all the common fields from three structs:

 * struct ipq in ipv4/ip_fragment.c
 * struct nf_ct_frag6_queue in nf_conntrack_reasm.c
 * struct frag_queue in ipv6/reassembly.c

After this, replace these fields on appropriate structures with
this structure instance and fix the users to use correct names
i.e. hunks like

-    atomic_dec(&fq->refcnt);
+    atomic_dec(&fq->q.refcnt);

(these occupy most of the patch)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[TG3]: Fix performance regression on 5705.
Michael Chan [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:12:26 +0000 (02:12 -0700)]
[TG3]: Fix performance regression on 5705.

A performance regression was introduced by the following commit:

    commit ee6a99b539a50b4e9398938a0a6d37f8bf911550
    Author: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
    Date:   Wed Jul 18 21:49:10 2007 -0700

    [TG3]: Fix msi issue with kexec/kdump.

In making that change, the PCI latency timer and cache line size
registers were not restored after chip reset.  On the 5705, the
latency timer gets reset to 0 during chip reset and this causes
very poor performance.

Update version to 3.84.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[ISDN]: Remove local copy of device name to make sure renames work.
Karsten Keil [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:11:44 +0000 (02:11 -0700)]
[ISDN]: Remove local copy of device name to make sure renames work.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[TCP]: high_seq parameter removed (all callers use tp->high_seq)
Ilpo Järvinen [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:10:32 +0000 (02:10 -0700)]
[TCP]: high_seq parameter removed (all callers use tp->high_seq)

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[IPV6]: Uninline netfilter okfns
Patrick McHardy [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:51:38 +0000 (01:51 -0700)]
[IPV6]: Uninline netfilter okfns

Uninline netfilter okfns for those cases where gcc can generate tail-calls.

Before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8994153 1016524  524652 10535329         a0c1a1 vmlinux

After:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8992761 1016524  524652 10533937         a0bc31 vmlinux
-------------------------------------------------------
  -1392

All cases have been verified to generate tail-calls with and without netfilter.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[BRIDGE]: Remove SKB share checks in br_nf_pre_routing().
Patrick McHardy [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:50:09 +0000 (01:50 -0700)]
[BRIDGE]: Remove SKB share checks in br_nf_pre_routing().

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[IPV4]: Uninline netfilter okfns
Patrick McHardy [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:48:39 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
[IPV4]: Uninline netfilter okfns

Now that we don't pass double skb pointers to nf_hook_slow anymore, gcc
can generate tail calls for some of the netfilter hook okfn invocations,
so there is no need to inline the functions anymore. This caused huge
code bloat since we ended up with one inlined version and one out-of-line
version since we pass the address to nf_hook_slow.

Before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8997385 1016524  524652 10538561         a0ce41 vmlinux

After:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8994009 1016524  524652 10535185         a0c111 vmlinux
-------------------------------------------------------
  -3376

All cases have been verified to generate tail-calls with and without
netfilter. The okfns in ipmr and xfrm4_input still remain inline because
gcc can't generate tail-calls for them.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[NET]: Avoid copying TCP packets unnecessarily
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:47:15 +0000 (01:47 -0700)]
[NET]: Avoid copying TCP packets unnecessarily

TCP packets all have writable heads, that is, even though it's cloned, it is
writable up to the end of the TCP header.  This patch makes skb_checksum_help
aware of this fact by using skb_clone_writable and avoiding a copy for TCP.

I've also modified the BUG_ON tests to be unsigned.  The only case where this
makes a difference is if csum_start points to a location before skb->data.
Since skb->data should always include the header where the checksum field
is (and all currently callers adhere to that), this change is safe and may
uncover bugs later.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[NET]: Fix csum_start update in pskb_expand_head
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:46:08 +0000 (01:46 -0700)]
[NET]: Fix csum_start update in pskb_expand_head

I got confused by the dual nature of the off variable in the
function pskb_expand_head.  The csum_start offset should use
nhead instead of off which can change depending on whether we
are using offsets or pointers.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[NIU]: getting rid of __ucmpdi2 in niu.o
Al Viro [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:42:31 +0000 (01:42 -0700)]
[NIU]: getting rid of __ucmpdi2 in niu.o

By the time we get to that switch by PHY type, we have 8bit
value.  No need to keep it in u64 when u8 would do.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[NETLINK]: Don't leak 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create()
Jesper Juhl [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:39:12 +0000 (01:39 -0700)]
[NETLINK]: Don't leak 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create()

The Coverity checker spotted that we'll leak the storage allocated
to 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create() when the
  if (!nl_table[unit].registered)
check is false.

This patch avoids the leak.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[IPV6] __inet6_csk_dst_store(): fix check-after-use
Adrian Bunk [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:37:55 +0000 (01:37 -0700)]
[IPV6] __inet6_csk_dst_store(): fix check-after-use

The Coverity checker spotted that we have already oops'ed if "dst" was
NULL.

Since "dst" being NULL doesn't seem to be possible at this point this
patch removes the NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org>
Acked-by: Noriaki TAKAMIYA <takamiya@po.ntts.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[NIU]: Fix write past end of array in niu_pci_probe_sprom().
David S. Miller [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:36:24 +0000 (01:36 -0700)]
[NIU]: Fix write past end of array in niu_pci_probe_sprom().

Noticed by Coverity checker and reported by Adrian Bunk.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[IPV6]: Avoid skb_copy/pskb_copy/skb_realloc_headroom on input
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:29:10 +0000 (01:29 -0700)]
[IPV6]: Avoid skb_copy/pskb_copy/skb_realloc_headroom on input

This patch replaces unnecessary uses of skb_copy by pskb_expand_head
on the IPv6 input path.

This allows us to remove the double pointers later.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[IPV6]: Make ipv6_frag_rcv return the same packet
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:28:47 +0000 (01:28 -0700)]
[IPV6]: Make ipv6_frag_rcv return the same packet

This patch implements the same change taht was done to ip_defrag.  It
makes ipv6_frag_rcv return the last packet received of a train of fragments
rather than the head of that sequence.

This allows us to get rid of the sk_buff ** argument later.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *
Herbert Xu [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:53:15 +0000 (00:53 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *

With all the users of the double pointers removed, this patch mops up by
finally replacing all occurances of sk_buff ** in the netfilter API by
sk_buff *.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[NETFILTER]: Avoid skb_copy/pskb_copy/skb_realloc_headroom
Herbert Xu [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:39:55 +0000 (00:39 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: Avoid skb_copy/pskb_copy/skb_realloc_headroom

This patch replaces unnecessary uses of skb_copy, pskb_copy and
skb_realloc_headroom by functions such as skb_make_writable and
pskb_expand_head.

This allows us to remove the double pointers later.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[IPVS]: Replace local version of skb_make_writable
Herbert Xu [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:39:33 +0000 (00:39 -0700)]
[IPVS]: Replace local version of skb_make_writable

This patch removes the IPVS-specific version of skb_make_writable and
replaces it with the netfilter one.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[NETFILTER]: Do not copy skb in skb_make_writable
Herbert Xu [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:39:18 +0000 (00:39 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: Do not copy skb in skb_make_writable

Now that all callers of netfilter can guarantee that the skb is not shared,
we no longer have to copy the skb in skb_make_writable.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry
Herbert Xu [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:39:01 +0000 (00:39 -0700)]
[BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry

Due to the special location of the bridging hook, it should never see a
shared packet anyway (certainly not with any in-kernel code).  So it
makes sense to unshare the skb there if necessary as that will greatly
simplify the code below it (in particular, netfilter).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[NET]: Avoid unnecessary cloning for ingress filtering
Herbert Xu [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:38:47 +0000 (00:38 -0700)]
[NET]: Avoid unnecessary cloning for ingress filtering

As it is we always invoke pt_prev before ing_filter, even if there are no
ingress filters attached.  This can cause unnecessary cloning in pt_prev.

This patch changes it so that we only invoke pt_prev if there are ingress
filters attached.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[IPV4]: Change ip_defrag to return an integer
Herbert Xu [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:38:32 +0000 (00:38 -0700)]
[IPV4]: Change ip_defrag to return an integer

Now that ip_frag always returns the packet given to it on input, we can
change it to return an integer indicating error instead.  This patch does
that and updates all its callers accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[IPV4]: Make ip_defrag return the same packet
Herbert Xu [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:38:15 +0000 (00:38 -0700)]
[IPV4]: Make ip_defrag return the same packet

This patch is a bit of a hack.  However it is worth it if you consider that
this is the only reason why we have to carry around the struct sk_buff **
pointers in netfilter.

It makes ip_defrag always return the packet that was given to it on input.
It does this by cloning the packet and replacing its original contents with
the head fragment if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[SKBUFF]: Add skb_morph
Herbert Xu [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:37:52 +0000 (00:37 -0700)]
[SKBUFF]: Add skb_morph

This patch creates a new function skb_morph that's just like skb_clone
except that it lets user provide the spare skb that will be overwritten
by the one that's to be cloned.

This will be used by IP fragment reassembly so that we get back the same
skb that went in last (rather than the head skb that we get now which
requires us to carry around double pointers all over the place).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years ago[SKBUFF]: Merge common code between copy_skb_header and skb_clone
Herbert Xu [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:37:30 +0000 (00:37 -0700)]
[SKBUFF]: Merge common code between copy_skb_header and skb_clone

This patch creates a new function __copy_skb_header to merge the common
code between copy_skb_header and skb_clone.  Having two functions which
are largely the same is a source of wasted labour as well as confusion.

In fact the tc_verd stuff is almost certainly a bug since it's treated
differently in skb_clone compared to the callers of copy_skb_header
(skb_copy/pskb_copy/skb_copy_expand).

I've kept that difference in tact with a comment added asking for
clarification.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
17 years agoMerge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:46:05 +0000 (10:46 -0700)]
Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6

* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (131 commits)
  NFSv4: Fix a typo in nfs_inode_reclaim_delegation
  NFS: Add a boot parameter to disable 64 bit inode numbers
  NFS: nfs_refresh_inode should clear cache_validity flags on success
  NFS: Fix a connectathon regression in NFSv3 and NFSv4
  NFS: Use nfs_refresh_inode() in ops that aren't expected to change the inode
  SUNRPC: Don't call xprt_release in call refresh
  SUNRPC: Don't call xprt_release() if call_allocate fails
  SUNRPC: Fix buggy UDP transmission
  [23/37] Clean up duplicate includes in
  [2.6 patch] net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c: make struct rpcb_program static
  SUNRPC: Use correct type in buffer length calculations
  SUNRPC: Fix default hostname created in rpc_create()
  nfs: add server port to rpc_pipe info file
  NFS: Get rid of some obsolete macros
  NFS: Simplify filehandle revalidation
  NFS: Ensure that nfs_link() returns a hashed dentry
  NFS: Be strict about dentry revalidation when doing exclusive create
  NFS: Don't zap the readdir caches upon error
  NFS: Remove the redundant nfs_reval_fsid()
  NFSv3: Always use directory post-op attributes in nfs3_proc_lookup
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict due to sock_owned_by_user() cleanup manually in
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c

17 years agoMerge branch 'v2.6.24-lockdep' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peter...
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:40:41 +0000 (10:40 -0700)]
Merge branch 'v2.6.24-lockdep' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep

* 'v2.6.24-lockdep' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep:
  lockdep: annotate dir vs file i_mutex
  lockdep: per filesystem inode lock class
  lockdep: annotate kprobes irq fiddling
  lockdep: annotate rcu_read_{,un}lock{,_bh}
  lockdep: annotate journal_start()
  lockdep: s390: connect the sysexit hook
  lockdep: x86_64: connect the sysexit hook
  lockdep: i386: connect the sysexit hook
  lockdep: syscall exit check
  lockdep: fixup mutex annotations
  lockdep: fix mismatched lockdep_depth/curr_chain_hash
  lockdep: Avoid /proc/lockdep & lock_stat infinite output
  lockdep: maintainers

17 years agoMerge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:57:54 +0000 (09:57 -0700)]
Merge branch 'release' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] update sn2_defconfig
  [IA64] Fix kernel hangup in kdump on INIT
  [IA64] Fix kernel panic in kdump on INIT
  [IA64] Remove vector from ia64_machine_kexec()
  [IA64] Fix race when multiple cpus go through MCA
  [IA64] Remove needless delay in MCA rendezvous
  [IA64] add driver for ACPI methods to call native firmware
  [IA64] abstract SAL_CALL wrapper to allow other firmware entry points
  [IA64] perfmon: Remove exit_pfm_fs()
  [IA64] tree-wide: Misc __cpu{initdata, init, exit} annotations

17 years agoGet rid of unused variable warning in drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:07:58 +0000 (09:07 -0700)]
Get rid of unused variable warning in drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c

Commit 5a7ad7f044941316dc98eda2a087a12a7a50649d removed all uses of
'retval', but didn't remove the variable itself.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
17 years ago[IA64] update sn2_defconfig
Jes Sorensen [Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:54:55 +0000 (11:54 +0200)]
[IA64] update sn2_defconfig

Update defonfig file for sn2 to match recent changes in config options.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
17 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:22:16 +0000 (08:22 -0700)]
Merge git://git./linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: (140 commits)
  sched: sync wakeups preempt too
  sched: affine sync wakeups
  sched: guest CPU accounting: maintain guest state in KVM
  sched: guest CPU accounting: maintain stats in account_system_time()
  sched: guest CPU accounting: add guest-CPU /proc/<pid>/stat fields
  sched: guest CPU accounting: add guest-CPU /proc/stat field
  sched: domain sysctl fixes: add terminator comment
  sched: domain sysctl fixes: do not crash on allocation failure
  sched: domain sysctl fixes: unregister the sysctl table before domains
  sched: domain sysctl fixes: use for_each_online_cpu()
  sched: domain sysctl fixes: use kcalloc()
  Make scheduler debug file operations const
  sched: enable wake-idle on CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y
  sched: reintroduce topology.h tunings
  sched: allow the immediate migration of cache-cold tasks
  sched: debug, improve migration statistics
  sched: debug: increase width of debug line
  sched: activate task_hot() only on fair-scheduled tasks
  sched: reintroduce cache-hot affinity
  sched: speed up context-switches a bit
  ...

17 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:19:33 +0000 (08:19 -0700)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (207 commits)
  [SCSI] gdth: fix CONFIG_ISA build failure
  [SCSI] esp_scsi: remove __dev{init,exit}
  [SCSI] gdth: !use_sg cleanup and use of scsi accessors
  [SCSI] gdth: Move members from SCp to gdth_cmndinfo, stage 2
  [SCSI] gdth: Setup proper per-command private data
  [SCSI] gdth: Remove gdth_ctr_tab[]
  [SCSI] gdth: switch to modern scsi host registration
  [SCSI] gdth: gdth_interrupt() gdth_get_status() & gdth_wait() fixes
  [SCSI] gdth: clean up host private data
  [SCSI] gdth: Remove virt hosts
  [SCSI] gdth: Reorder scsi_host_template intitializers
  [SCSI] gdth: kill gdth_{read,write}[bwl] wrappers
  [SCSI] gdth: Remove 2.4.x support, in-kernel changelog
  [SCSI] gdth: split out pci probing
  [SCSI] gdth: split out eisa probing
  [SCSI] gdth: split out isa probing
  gdth: Make one abuse of scsi_cmnd less obvious
  [SCSI] NCR5380: Use scsi_eh API for REQUEST_SENSE invocation
  [SCSI] usb storage: use scsi_eh API in REQUEST_SENSE execution
  [SCSI] scsi_error: Refactoring scsi_error to facilitate in synchronous REQUEST_SENSE
  ...

17 years agoMerge branch 'agp-patches' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied...
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:18:44 +0000 (08:18 -0700)]
Merge branch 'agp-patches' of /linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6

* 'agp-patches' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6:
  fix use after free in amd create gatt pages
  AGP fix race condition between unmapping and freeing pages

17 years agoMerge branch 'drm-patches' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlie...
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:17:26 +0000 (08:17 -0700)]
Merge branch 'drm-patches' of ssh:///linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6

* 'drm-patches' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
  via invalid device ids removal
  radeon: Commit the ring after each partial texture upload blit.
  i915: fix vbl swap allocation size.
  drm: Replace DRM_IOCTL_ARGS with (dev, data, file_priv) and remove DRM_DEVICE.
  drm: remove XFREE86_VERSION macros.
  drm: Replace filp in ioctl arguments with drm_file *file_priv.
  drm: Remove DRM_ERR OS macro.

17 years agoMerge branch 'nfs-server-stable' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:16:53 +0000 (08:16 -0700)]
Merge branch 'nfs-server-stable' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux

* 'nfs-server-stable' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  knfsd: query filesystem for NFSv4 getattr of FATTR4_MAXNAME
  knfsd: nfsv4 delegation recall should take reference on client
  knfsd: don't shutdown callbacks until nfsv4 client is freed
  knfsd: let nfsd manage timing out its own leases
  knfsd: Add source address to sunrpc svc errors
  knfsd: 64 bit ino support for NFS server
  svcgss: move init code into separate function
  knfsd: remove code duplication in nfsd4_setclientid()
  nfsd warning fix
  knfsd: fix callback rpc cred
  knfsd: move nfsv4 slab creation/destruction to module init/exit
  knfsd: spawn kernel thread to probe callback channel
  knfsd: nfs4 name->id mapping not correctly parsing negative downcall
  knfsd: demote some printk()s to dprintk()s
  knfsd: cleanup of nfsd4 cmp_* functions
  knfsd: delete code made redundant by map_new_errors
  nfsd: fix horrible indentation in nfsd_setattr
  nfsd: remove unused cache_for_each macro
  nfsd: tone down inaccurate dprintk

17 years agoPS3 system bus add_uevent_var() fallout
Geert Uytterhoeven [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:51:03 +0000 (11:51 +0200)]
PS3 system bus add_uevent_var() fallout

Kill unused variables

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
17 years agoHID: fix HIDIOCGRDESC memory access in hidraw
Jiri Kosina [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:17:41 +0000 (15:17 +0200)]
HID: fix HIDIOCGRDESC memory access in hidraw

Fix bogus copying of data into userspace when HIDIOCGRDESC is issued.
HID-transport layer makes sure that dev->hid->rdesc is not larger than
HID_MAX_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE.

Noticed-by: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
17 years agosched: sync wakeups preempt too
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:20 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: sync wakeups preempt too

make sure sync wakeups preempt too - the scheduler will not
overschedule as we've got various throttles against that.
As a result, sync wakeups can be used more widely in the kernel
(to signal wakeup affinity between tasks), and no arbitrary
latencies will be introduced either.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: affine sync wakeups
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: affine sync wakeups

make sync wakeups affine for cache-cold tasks: if a cache-cold task
is woken up by a sync wakeup then use the opportunity to migrate it
straight away. (the two tasks are 'related' because they communicate)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: guest CPU accounting: maintain guest state in KVM
Laurent Vivier [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: guest CPU accounting: maintain guest state in KVM

Modify KVM to update guest time accounting.

[ mingo@elte.hu: ported to 2.6.24 KVM. ]

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: guest CPU accounting: maintain stats in account_system_time()
Laurent Vivier [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: guest CPU accounting: maintain stats in account_system_time()

modify account_system_time() to add cputime to cpustat->guest if we are
running a VCPU. We add this cputime to cpustat->user instead of
cpustat->system because this part of KVM code is in fact user code
although it is executed in the kernel. We duplicate VCPU time between
guest and user to allow an unmodified "top(1)" to display correct value.
A modified "top(1)" is able to display good cpu user time and cpu guest
time by subtracting cpu guest time from cpu user time. Update "gtime" in
task_struct accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: guest CPU accounting: add guest-CPU /proc/<pid>/stat fields
Laurent Vivier [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: guest CPU accounting: add guest-CPU /proc/<pid>/stat fields

like for cpustat, introduce the "gtime" (guest time of the task) and
"cgtime" (guest time of the task children) fields for the
tasks. Modify signal_struct and task_struct.

Modify /proc/<pid>/stat to display these new fields.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: guest CPU accounting: add guest-CPU /proc/stat field
Laurent Vivier [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: guest CPU accounting: add guest-CPU /proc/stat field

as recent CPUs introduce a third running state, after "user" and
"system", we need a new field, "guest", in cpustat to store the time
used by the CPU to run virtual CPU. Modify /proc/stat to display this
new field.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: domain sysctl fixes: add terminator comment
Milton Miller [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: domain sysctl fixes: add terminator comment

we had an incorrect-terminator bug in sd_alloc_ctl_domain_table()
before, so add a comment that documents it.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: domain sysctl fixes: do not crash on allocation failure
Milton Miller [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: domain sysctl fixes: do not crash on allocation failure

Now that we are calling this at runtime, a more relaxed error path is
suggested.  If an allocation fails, we just register the partial table,
which will show empty directories.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: domain sysctl fixes: unregister the sysctl table before domains
Milton Miller [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: domain sysctl fixes: unregister the sysctl table before domains

Unregister and free the sysctl table before destroying domains, then
rebuild and register after creating the new domains.  This prevents the
sysctl table from pointing to freed memory for root to write.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: domain sysctl fixes: use for_each_online_cpu()
Milton Miller [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: domain sysctl fixes: use for_each_online_cpu()

init_sched_domain_sysctl was walking cpus 0-n and referencing per_cpu
variables.  If the cpus_possible mask is not contigious this will result
in a crash referencing unallocated data.  If the online mask is not
contigious then we would show offline cpus and miss online ones.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: domain sysctl fixes: use kcalloc()
Milton Miller [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: domain sysctl fixes: use kcalloc()

kcalloc checks for n * sizeof(element) overflows and it zeros.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agoMake scheduler debug file operations const
Arjan van de Ven [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
Make scheduler debug file operations const

In general, struct file_operations are const in the kernel, to not have
false cacheline sharing and to catch bugs at compiletime with accidental
writes to them. The new scheduler code introduces a new non-const one;
fix this up.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: enable wake-idle on CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: enable wake-idle on CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y

most multicore CPUs today have shared L2 caches, so tune things so
that the spreading amongst cores is more aggressive.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: reintroduce topology.h tunings
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: reintroduce topology.h tunings

reintroduce the 2.6.22 topology.h tunings again - they result in
slightly better balancing.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: allow the immediate migration of cache-cold tasks
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:18 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: allow the immediate migration of cache-cold tasks

allow the immediate migration of cache-cold tasks.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: debug, improve migration statistics
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:18 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: debug, improve migration statistics

add new migration statistics when SCHED_DEBUG and SCHEDSTATS
is enabled. Available in /proc/<PID>/sched.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: debug: increase width of debug line
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:18 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: debug: increase width of debug line

increase width of debug line - in preparation of more debugging info.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: activate task_hot() only on fair-scheduled tasks
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:18 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: activate task_hot() only on fair-scheduled tasks

activate task_hot() only for fair-scheduled tasks (i.e. disable it
for RT tasks).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: reintroduce cache-hot affinity
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:18 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: reintroduce cache-hot affinity

reintroduce a simplified version of cache-hot/cold scheduling
affinity. This improves performance with certain SMP workloads,
such as sysbench.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: speed up context-switches a bit
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:18 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: speed up context-switches a bit

speed up context-switches a bit by not clearing p->exec_start.

(as a side-effect, this also makes p->exec_start a universal timestamp
available to cache-hot estimations.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: do not wakeup-preempt with SCHED_BATCH tasks
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:18 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: do not wakeup-preempt with SCHED_BATCH tasks

do not wakeup-preempt with SCHED_BATCH tasks, their preemption
is batched too, driven by the tick.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: generate uevents for user creation/destruction
Srivatsa Vaddagiri [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:18 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: generate uevents for user creation/destruction

Generate uevents when a user is being created/destroyed. These events
can be used to configure cpu share of a new user.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: do not normalize kernel threads via SysRq-N
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:18 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: do not normalize kernel threads via SysRq-N

do not normalize kernel threads via SysRq-N: the migration threads,
softlockup threads, etc. might be essential for the system to
function properly. So only zap user tasks.

pointed out by Andi Kleen.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: remove stale comment from sched_group_set_shares()
Andi Kleen [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:18 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: remove stale comment from sched_group_set_shares()

remove stale comment from sched_group_set_shares().

Function never returns -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: clean up is_migration_thread()
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:15 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: clean up is_migration_thread()

clean up is_migration_thread() and turn it into an inline function.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: cleanup: refactor normalize_rt_tasks
Andi Kleen [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:15 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: cleanup: refactor normalize_rt_tasks

Replace a particularly ugly ifdef with an inline and a new macro.
Also split up the function to be easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: cleanup: refactor common code of sleep_on / wait_for_completion
Andi Kleen [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: cleanup: refactor common code of sleep_on / wait_for_completion

Refactor common code of sleep_on / wait_for_completion

These functions were largely cut'n'pasted. This moves
the common code into single helpers instead.  Advantage
is about 1k less code on x86-64 and 91 lines of code removed.
It adds one function call to the non timeout version of
the functions; i don't expect this to be measurable.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: cleanup: remove unnecessary gotos
Andi Kleen [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: cleanup: remove unnecessary gotos

Replace loops implemented with gotos with real loops.
Replace err = ...; goto x; x: return err; with return ...;

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: update comment
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: update comment

update comment: clarify time-slices and remove obsolete tuning detail.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: prevent wakeup over-scheduling
Mike Galbraith [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: prevent wakeup over-scheduling

Prevent wakeup over-scheduling.  Once a task has been preempted by a
task of the same or lower priority, it becomes ineligible for repeated
preemption by same until it has been ticked, or slept.  Instead, the
task is marked for preemption at the next tick.  Tasks of higher
priority still preempt immediately.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: disable forced preemption by default
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: disable forced preemption by default

Implement feature bit to disable forced preemption. This way
it can be checked whether a workload is overscheduling or not.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: fix group scheduling for SCHED_BATCH
Dmitry Adamushko [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: fix group scheduling for SCHED_BATCH

The following patch (sched: disable sleeper_fairness on SCHED_BATCH)
seems to break GROUP_SCHED. Although, it may be 'oops'-less due to the
possibility of 'p' being always a valid address.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: some proc entries are missed in sched_domain sys_ctl debug code
Zou Nan hai [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: some proc entries are missed in sched_domain sys_ctl debug code

cache_nice_tries and flags entry do not appear in proc fs sched_domain
directory, because ctl_table entry is skipped.

This patch fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: fix rt ptracer monopolizing CPU
Gautham R Shenoy [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: fix rt ptracer monopolizing CPU

yield() in wait_task_inactive(), can cause a high priority thread to be
scheduled back in, and there by loop forever while it is waiting for some
lower priority thread which is unfortunately still on the runqueue.

Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) instead.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Credit: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: group scheduling, sysfs tunables
Dhaval Giani [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: group scheduling, sysfs tunables

Add tunables in sysfs to modify a user's cpu share.

A directory is created in sysfs for each new user in the system.

/sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_share

Reading this file returns the cpu shares granted for the user.
Writing into this file modifies the cpu share for the user. Only an
administrator is allowed to modify a user's cpu share.

Ex:
# cd /sys/kernel/uids/
# cat 512/cpu_share
1024
# echo 2048 > 512/cpu_share
# cat 512/cpu_share
2048
#

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: disable sleeper_fairness on SCHED_BATCH
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: disable sleeper_fairness on SCHED_BATCH

disable sleeper fairness for batch tasks - they are about
batch processing after all.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: another wakeup_granularity fix
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: another wakeup_granularity fix

unit mis-match: wakeup_gran was used against a vruntime

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: export cpu_clock()
Paul E. McKenney [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: export cpu_clock()

export cpu_clock() - the preferred API instead of sched_clock().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: fix: move the CPU check into ->task_new_fair()
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: fix: move the CPU check into ->task_new_fair()

noticed by Peter Zijlstra:

fix: move the CPU check into ->task_new_fair(), this way we
can call place_entity() and get child ->vruntime right at
initial wakeup time.

(without this there can be large latencies)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
17 years agosched: cleanup: function prototype cleanups
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: cleanup: function prototype cleanups

noticed by Thomas Gleixner:

cleanup: function prototype cleanups - move into single line
wherever possible.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: cleanup: rename task_grp to task_group
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:14 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: cleanup: rename task_grp to task_group

cleanup: rename task_grp to task_group. No need to save two characters
and 'grp' is annoying to read.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: cleanup: rename SCHED_FEAT_USE_TREE_AVG to SCHED_FEAT_TREE_AVG
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:13 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: cleanup: rename SCHED_FEAT_USE_TREE_AVG to SCHED_FEAT_TREE_AVG

cleanup: rename SCHED_FEAT_USE_TREE_AVG to SCHED_FEAT_TREE_AVG, to
make SCHED_FEAT_ names more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: kfree(NULL) is valid
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:13 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: kfree(NULL) is valid

kfree(NULL) is valid.

pointed out by checkpatch.pl.

the fix shrinks the code a bit:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  40024    3842     100   43966    abbe sched.o.before
  40002    3842     100   43944    aba8 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: style cleanup
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:13 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: style cleanup

fix up __setup() style bug - noticed via checkpatch.pl.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: break out if printing a warning in sched_domain_debug()
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:13 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: break out if printing a warning in sched_domain_debug()

checkpatch.pl and Andy Whitcroft noticed the following bug: we did
not break out after printing an error.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: run sched_domain_debug() if CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:13 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: run sched_domain_debug() if CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y

run sched_domain_debug() if CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y, instead
of relying on the hand-crafted SCHED_DOMAIN_DEBUG switch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: cleanup, remove the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE flag
Mike Galbraith [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:13 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: cleanup, remove the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE flag

Here's another piece of low hanging obsolete fruit.

Remove obsolete TASK_NONINTERACTIVE.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: cleanup, make dequeue_entity() and update_stats_wait_end() similar
Dmitry Adamushko [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:13 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: cleanup, make dequeue_entity() and update_stats_wait_end() similar

make dequeue_entity() / enqueue_entity() and update_stats_dequeue() /
update_stats_enqueue() look similar, structure-wise.

zero effect, functionality-wise:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  34550    3026     100   37676    932c sched.o.before
  34550    3026     100   37676    932c sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
17 years agosched: cleanup, remove calc_weighted()
Dmitry Adamushko [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:13 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
sched: cleanup, remove calc_weighted()

remove obsolete code -- calc_weighted()

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>