GitHub/mt8127/android_kernel_alcatel_ttab.git
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for sparc64
Prasanna S Panchamukhi [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:26 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for sparc64

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

I could not test this patch for sparc64.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for ia64
Prasanna S Panchamukhi [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:25 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for ia64

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy<anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for powerpc64
Prasanna S Panchamukhi [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:24 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for powerpc64

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for x86_64
Prasanna S Panchamukhi [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:23 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for x86_64

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for i386
Prasanna S Panchamukhi [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:22 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for i386

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobe handler: discard user space trap
bibo,mao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:21 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobe handler: discard user space trap

Currently kprobe handler traps only happen in kernel space, so function
kprobe_exceptions_notify should skip traps which happen in user space.
This patch modifies this, and it is based on 2.6.16-rc4.

Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kretprobe instance recycled by parent process
bibo mao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:20 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kretprobe instance recycled by parent process

When kretprobe probes the schedule() function, if the probed process exits
then schedule() will never return, so some kretprobe instances will never
be recycled.

In this patch the parent process will recycle retprobe instances of the
probed function and there will be no memory leak of kretprobe instances.

Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kretprobe: kretprobe-booster
Masami Hiramatsu [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:19 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kretprobe: kretprobe-booster

In normal operation, kretprobe makes a target function return to trampoline
code.  A kprobe (called trampoline_probe) has been inserted in the trampoline
code.  When the kernel hits this kprobe, it calls kretprobe's handler and it
returns to the original return address.

Kretprobe-booster removes the trampoline_probe.  It allows the trampoline code
to call kretprobe's handler directly instead of invoking kprobe.  The
trampoline code returns to the original return address.

(changelog from Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> - thanks ;))

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: kprobes-booster
Masami Hiramatsu [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:17 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: kprobes-booster

Current kprobe copies the original instruction at the probe point and replaces
it with a breakpoint instruction (int3).  When the kernel hits the probe
point, kprobe handler is invoked.  And the copied instruction is single-step
executed on the copied buffer (not on the original address) by kprobe.  After
that, the kprobe checks registers and modify it (if need) as if the
instructions was executed on the original address.

My proposal is based on the fact there are many instructions which do NOT
require the register modification after the single-step execution.  When the
copied instruction is a kind of them, kprobe just jumps back to the next
instruction after single-step execution.  If so, why don't we execute those
instructions directly?

With kprobe-booster patch, kprobes will execute a copied instruction directly
and (if need) jump back to original code.  This direct execution is executed
when the kprobe don't have both post_handler and break_handler, and the copied
instruction can be executed directly.

I sorted instructions which can be executed directly or not;

- Call instructions are NG(can not be executed directly).
  We should correct the return address pushed into top of stack.
- Indirect instructions except for absolute indirect-jumps
  are NG. Those instructions changes EIP randomly. We should
  check EIP and correct it.
- Instructions that change EIP beyond the range of the
  instruction buffer are NG.
- Instructions that change EIP to tail 5 bytes of the
  instruction buffer (it is the size of a jump instruction).
  We must write a jump instruction which backs to original
  kernel code in the instruction buffer.
- Break point instruction is NG. We should not touch EIP and
  pass to other handlers.
- Absolute direct/indirect jumps are OK.- Conditional Jumps are NG.
- Halt and software-interruptions are NG. Because it will stay on
  the instruction buffer of kprobes.
- Prefixes are NG.
- Unknown/reserved opcode is NG.
- Other 1 byte instructions are OK. But those instructions need a
  jump back code.
- 2 bytes instructions are mapped sparsely. So, in this release,
  this patch don't boost those instructions.

>From Intel's IA-32 opcode map described in IA-32 Intel Architecture Software
Developer's Manual Vol.2 B, I determined that following opcodes are not
boostable.

- 0FH (2byte escape)
- 70H - 7FH (Jump on condition)
- 9AH (Call) and 9CH (Pushf)
- C0H-C1H (Grp 2: includes reserved opcode)
- C6H-C7H (Grp11: includes reserved opcode)
- CCH-CEH (Software-interrupt)
- D0H-D3H (Grp2: includes reserved opcode)
- D6H (Reserved)
- D8H-DFH (Coprocessor)
- E0H-E3H (loop/conditional jump)
- E8H (Call)
- F0H-F3H (Prefixes and reserved)
- F4H (Halt)
- F6H-F7H (Grp3: includes reserved opcode)
- FEH-FFH(Grp4,5: includes reserved opcode)

Kprobe-booster checks whether target instruction can be boosted (can be
executed directly) at arch_copy_kprobe() function.  If the target instruction
can be boosted, it clears "boostable" flag.  If not, it sets "boostable" flag
-1.  This is disabled status.  In resume_execution() function, If "boostable"
flag is cleared, kprobe-booster measures the size of the target instruction
and sets "boostable" flag 1.

In kprobe_handler(), kprobe checks the "boostable" flag.  If the flag is 1, it
resets current kprobe and executes instruction buffer directly instead of
single stepping.

When unregistering a boosted kprobe, it calls synchronize_sched()
after "int3" is removed. So we can ensure followings after
the synchronize_sched() called.
- interrupt handlers are finished on all CPUs.
- instruction buffer is not executed on all CPUs.
And we can release the boosted kprobe safely.

And also, on preemptible kernel, the booster is not enabled where the kernel
preemption is enabled.  So, there are no preempted threads on the instruction
buffer.

The description of kretprobe-booster:
====================================

In the normal operation, kretprobe make a target function return to trampoline
code.  And a kprobe (called trampoline_probe) have been inserted at the
trampoline code.  When the kernel hits this kprobe, it calls kretprobe's
handler and it returns to original return address.

Kretprobe-booster patch removes the trampoline_probe.  It allows the
tram\18poline code to call kretprobe's handler directly instead of invoking
kprobe.  And tranpoline code returns to original return address.

This new trampoline code stores and restores registers, so the kretprobe
handler is still able to access those registers.

Current kprobe has about 1.3 usec/probe(*) overhead, and kprobe-booster patch
reduces it to 0.6 usec/probe(*).  Also current kretprobe has about 2.0
usec/probe(*) overhead.  Kprobe-booster patch reduces it to 1.3 usec/probe(*),
and the combination of both kprobe-booster patch and kretprobe-booster patch
reduces it to 0.9 usec/probe(*).

I expect the combination of both patches can reduce half of a probing
overhead.

Performance numbers strongly depend on the processor model.

Andrew Morton wrote:
> These preempt tricks look rather nasty.  Can you please describe what the
> problem is, precisely?  And how this code avoids it?  Perhaps we can find
> something cleaner.

The problem is how to remove the copied instructions of the
kprobe *safely* on the preemptable kernel (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y).

Kprobes basically executes the following actions;

(1)int3
(2)preempt_disable()
(3)kprobe_prehandler()
(4)copied instructioin(single step)
(5)kprobe_posthandler()
(6)preempt_enable()
(7)return to the original code

During the execution of copied instruction, preemption is
disabled (from step (2) to (6)).
When unregistering the probes, Kprobe waits for RCU
quiescent state by using synchronize_sched() after removing
int3 instruction.
Thus we can ensure the copied instruction is not executed.

On the other hand, kprobe-booster executes the following actions;

(1)int3
(2)preempt_disable()
(3)kprobe_prehandler()
(4)preempt_enable()             <-- this one is added by my patch
(5)copied instruction(direct execution)
(6)jmp back to the original code

The problem is that we have no way to prevent preemption on
step (5) or (6). We cannot call preempt_disable() after step (6),
because there are no rooms to do that. Thus, some other
processes may be preempted at step(5) or (6) on preemptable kernel.
And I couldn't find the easy way to ensure that other processes'
stack do *not* have the address of them. (I thought some way
to do that, but those are very costly.)

So currently, I simply boost the kprobe only when the probe
point is already preemption disabled.

> Also, the patch adds a preempt_enable() but I don't see a corresponding
> preempt_disable().  Am I missing something?

It is corresponding to the preempt_disable() in the top of
kprobe_handler().
I copied the code of kprobe_handler() here:

static int __kprobes kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
        struct kprobe *p;
        int ret = 0;
        kprobe_opcode_t *addr = NULL;
        unsigned long *lp;
        struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb;

        /*
         * We don't want to be preempted for the entire
         * duration of kprobe processing
         */
        preempt_disable();             <-- HERE
        kcb = get_kprobe_ctlblk();

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobes: clean up resume_execute()
Masami Hiramatsu [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:13 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] kprobes: clean up resume_execute()

Clean up kprobe's resume_execute() for i386 arch.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:12 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field

The nanosleep cleanup allows to remove the data field of hrtimer.  The
callback function can use container_of() to get it's own data.  Since the
hrtimer structure is anyway embedded in other structures, this adds no
overhead.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: remove nsec_t typedef
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:11 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove nsec_t typedef

nsec_t predates ktime_t and has mostly been superseded by it.  In the few
places that are left it's better to make it explicit that we're dealing with
64 bit values here.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: remove DEFINE_KTIME and ktime_to_clock_t()
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:10 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove DEFINE_KTIME and ktime_to_clock_t()

Now that it_real_value is gone, the last user of DEFINE_KTIME and
ktime_to_clock_t are also gone, so remove it before someone starts using it
again.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: remove it_real_value calculation from proc/*/stat
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:10 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove it_real_value calculation from proc/*/stat

Remove the it_real_value from /proc/*/stat, during 1.2.x was the last time it
returned useful data (as it was directly maintained by the scheduler), now
it's only a waste of time to calculate it.  Return 0 instead.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: remove state field
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:09 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove state field

Remove the state field and encode this information in the rb_node similiar to
normal timer.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: simplify nanosleep
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:08 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: simplify nanosleep

nanosleep is the only user of the expired state, so let it manage this itself,
which makes the hrtimer code a bit simpler.  The remaining time is also only
calculated if requested.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: posix-timer: cleanup common_timer_get()
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:07 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: posix-timer: cleanup common_timer_get()

Cleanup common_timer_get() a little.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: pass current time to hrtimer_forward()
Roman Zippel [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:06 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: pass current time to hrtimer_forward()

Pass current time to hrtimer_forward().  This allows to use the softirq time
in the timer base when the forward function is called from the timer callback.
 Other places pass current time with a call to timer->base->get_time().

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hrtimers: optimize softirq runqueues
Thomas Gleixner [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:05 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] hrtimers: optimize softirq runqueues

The hrtimer softirq is called from the timer softirq every tick.  Retrieve the
current time from xtime and wall_to_monotonic instead of calling
base->get_time() for each timer base.  Store the time in the base structure
and provide a hook once clock source abstractions are in place and to keep the
code open for new base clocks.

Based on a patch from: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3: "nobh" writeback support for filesystems blocksize < pagesize
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:05 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: "nobh" writeback support for filesystems blocksize < pagesize

There is no valid reason why we can't support "nobh" option for filesystems
with blocksize != PAGESIZE.

This patch lets them use "nobh" option for writeback mode for blocksize <
pagesize.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3: multi-block get_block()
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:04 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: multi-block get_block()

Mingming Cao recently added multi-block allocation support for ext3,
currently used only by DIO.  I added support to map multiple blocks for
mpage_readpages().  This patch add support for ext3_get_block() to deal
with multi-block mapping.  Basically it renames ext3_direct_io_get_blocks()
as ext3_get_block().

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3: cleanups and WARN_ON()
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:03 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: cleanups and WARN_ON()

- Clean up a few little layout things and comments.

- Add a WARN_ON to a case which I was wondering about.

- Tune up some inlines.

Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove ->get_blocks() support
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:02 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove ->get_blocks() support

Now that get_block() can handle mapping multiple disk blocks, no need to have
->get_blocks().  This patch removes fs specific ->get_blocks() added for DIO
and makes it users use get_block() instead.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] map multiple blocks for mpage_readpages()
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:01 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] map multiple blocks for mpage_readpages()

This patch changes mpage_readpages() and get_block() to get the disk mapping
information for multiple blocks at the same time.

b_size represents the amount of disk mapping that needs to mapped.  On the
successful get_block() b_size indicates the amount of disk mapping thats
actually mapped.  Only the filesystems who care to use this information and
provide multiple disk blocks at a time can choose to do so.

No changes are needed for the filesystems who wants to ignore this.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] pass b_size to ->get_block()
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:00 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] pass b_size to ->get_block()

Pass amount of disk needs to be mapped to get_block().  This way one can
modify the fs ->get_block() functions to map multiple blocks at the same time.

[akpm@osdl.org: performance tweak]
[akpm@osdl.org: remove unneeded assignments]
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] change buffer_head.b_size to size_t
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:00 +0000 (01:38 -0800)]
[PATCH] change buffer_head.b_size to size_t

Increase the size of the buffer_head b_size field (only) for 64 bit platforms.
Update some old and moldy comments in and around the structure as well.

The b_size increase allows us to perform larger mappings and allocations for
large I/O requests from userspace, which tie in with other changes allowing
the get_block_t() interface to map multiple blocks at once.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Adjust reservation window size for mblocks
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:59 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Adjust reservation window size for mblocks

Optimize the block reservation and the multiple block allocation: with the
knowledge of the total number of blocks ahead, set or adjust the reservation
window size properly (based on the number of blocks needed) before block
allocation happens: if there isn't any reservation yet, make sure the
reservation window equals to or greater than the number of blocks needed,
before create an reservation window; if a reservation window is already
exists, try to extends the window size to match the number of blocks to
allocate.  This could increase the possibility of completing multiple blocks
allocation in a single request, as blocks are only allocated in the range of
the inode's reservation window.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Adjust accounting info in ext3_new_blocks()
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:58 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Adjust accounting info in ext3_new_blocks()

Update accounting information (quota, boundary checks, free blocks number etc)
in ext3_new_blocks().

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: support multiple blocks allocation in ext3_new_block()
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:57 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: support multiple blocks allocation in ext3_new_block()

Change ext3_try_to_allocate() (called via ext3_new_blocks()) to try to
allocate the requested number of blocks on a best effort basis: After
allocated the first block, it will always attempt to allocate the next few(up
to the requested size and not beyond the reservation window) adjacent blocks
at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: multiple block allocation
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:56 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: multiple block allocation

Add support for multiple block allocation in ext3-get-blocks().

Look up the disk block mapping and count the total number of blocks to
allocate, then pass it to ext3_new_block(), where the real block allocation is
performed.  Once multiple blocks are allocated, prepare the branch with those
just allocated blocks info and finally splice the whole branch into the block
mapping tree.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Mapping multiple blocks at a once
Mingming Cao [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:55 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3_get_blocks: Mapping multiple blocks at a once

Currently ext3_get_block() only maps or allocates one block at a time.  This
is quite inefficient for sequential IO workload.

I have posted a early implements a simply multiple block map and allocation
with current ext3.  The basic idea is allocating the 1st block in the existing
way, and attempting to allocate the next adjacent blocks on a best effort
basis.  More description about the implementation could be found here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel&m=112162230003522&w=2

The following the latest version of the patch: break the original patch into 5
patches, re-worked some logicals, and fixed some bugs.  The break ups are:

 [patch 1] Adding map multiple blocks at a time in ext3_get_blocks()
 [patch 2] Extend ext3_get_blocks() to support multiple block allocation
 [patch 3] Implement multiple block allocation in ext3-try-to-allocate
 (called via ext3_new_block()).
 [patch 4] Proper accounting updates in ext3_new_blocks()
 [patch 5] Adjust reservation window size properly (by the given number
 of blocks to allocate) before block allocation to increase the
 possibility of allocating multiple blocks in a single call.

Tests done so far includes fsx,tiobench and dbench.  The following numbers
collected from Direct IO tests (1G file creation/read) shows the system time
have been greatly reduced (more than 50% on my 8 cpu system) with the patches.

 1G file DIO write:
  2.6.15 2.6.15+patches
 real    0m31.275s 0m31.161s
 user    0m0.000s 0m0.000s
 sys     0m3.384s 0m0.564s

 1G file DIO read:
  2.6.15 2.6.15+patches
 real    0m30.733s 0m30.624s
 user    0m0.000s 0m0.004s
 sys     0m0.748s 0m0.380s

Some previous test we did on buffered IO with using multiple blocks allocation
and delayed allocation shows noticeable improvement on throughput and system
time.

This patch:

Add support of mapping multiple blocks in one call.

This is useful for DIO reads and re-writes (where blocks are already
allocated), also is in line with Christoph's proposal of using getblocks() in
mpage_readpage() or mpage_readpages().

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 2TB files: change type of kstatfs entries
Takashi Sato [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:54 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2TB files: change type of kstatfs entries

This fix was proposed by Trond Myklebust.  He says: The type "sector_t" is
heavily tied in to the block layer interface as an offset/handle to a block,
and is subject to a supposedly block-specific configuration option:
CONFIG_LBD.  Despite this, it is used in struct kstatfs to save a couple of
bytes on the stack whenever we call the filesystems' ->statfs().

So kstatfs's entries related to blocks are invalid on statfs64 for a network
filesystem which has more than 2^32-1 blocks when CONFIG_LBD is disabled.

- struct kstatfs
  Change the type of following entries from sector_t to u64.
  f_blocks
  f_bfree
  f_bavail
  f_files
  f_ffree

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 2tb-files-add-blkcnt_t-fixes
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:53 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2tb-files-add-blkcnt_t-fixes

Cc: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 2TB files: add blkcnt_t
Takashi Sato [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:52 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2TB files: add blkcnt_t

Add blkcnt_t as the type of inode.i_blocks.  This enables you to make the size
of blkcnt_t either 4 bytes or 8 bytes on 32 bits architecture with CONFIG_LSF.

- CONFIG_LSF
  Add new configuration parameter.
- blkcnt_t
  On h8300, i386, mips, powerpc, s390 and sh that define sector_t,
  blkcnt_t is defined as u64 if CONFIG_LSF is enabled; otherwise it is
  defined as unsigned long.
  On other architectures, it is defined as unsigned long.
- inode.i_blocks
  Change the type from sector_t to blkcnt_t.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 2TB files: st_blocks is invalid when calling stat64
Takashi Sato [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:51 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 2TB files: st_blocks is invalid when calling stat64

This patch series fixes the following problems on 32 bits architecture.

o stat64 returns the lower 32 bits of blocks, although userland st_blocks
  has 64 bits, because i_blocks has only 32 bits.  The ioctl with FIOQSIZE has
  the same problem.

o As Dave Kleikamp said, making >2TB file on JFS results in writing an
  invalid block number to disk inode.  The cause is the same as above too.

o In generic quota code dquot_transfer(), the file usage is calculated from
  i_blocks via inode_get_bytes().  If the file is over 2TB, the change of
  usage is less than expected.  The cause is the same as above too.

o As Trond Myklebust said, statfs64's entries related to blocks are invalid
  on statfs64 for a network filesystem which has more than 2^32-1 blocks with
  CONFIG_LBD disabled.  [PATCH 3/3]

We made patches to fix problems that occur when handling a large filesystem
and a large file.  It was discussed on the mails titled "stat64 for over 2TB
file returned invalid st_blocks".

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: use mempool_create_slab_pool()
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:50 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use mempool_create_slab_pool()

Modify well over a dozen mempool users to call mempool_create_slab_pool()
rather than calling mempool_create() with extra arguments, saving about 30
lines of code and increasing readability.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: add mempool_create_slab_pool()
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:49 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add mempool_create_slab_pool()

Create a simple wrapper function for the common case of creating a slab-based
mempool.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kzalloc allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:48 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kzalloc allocator

This patch changes a mempool user, which is basically just a wrapper around
kzalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather than its own
wrapper function, removing duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: add kzalloc allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:48 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add kzalloc allocator

Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kzalloc/kfree allocator

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace a mempool-backed
kzalloc allocator.  It is also very likely that there will be more users in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kmalloc allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:47 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kmalloc allocator

This patch changes several mempool users, all of which are basically just
wrappers around kmalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather
than their own wrapper function, removing a bunch of duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: add kmalloc allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:46 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add kmalloc allocator

Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kmalloc/kfree allocator

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed kmalloc allocators in several places in the kernel.  It is also
very likely that there will be more users in the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool page allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:45 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool page allocator

Convert two mempool users that currently use their own mempool-backed page
allocators to use the generic mempool page allocator.

Also included are 2 trivial whitespace fixes.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mempool: add page allocator
Matthew Dobson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:44 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] mempool: add page allocator

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed page allocators in 2 places in the kernel.  It is also likely
that there will be more users in the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: documentation update
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:44 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: documentation update

Update driver documentation.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: minor cleanups
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:43 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: minor cleanups

Remove some whitespaces and codingstyle issues.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: remove per-driver versioning
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:42 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: remove per-driver versioning

Remove per-driver versioning.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: use ethtool_op_get_link
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:41 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: use ethtool_op_get_link

Use ethtool_op_get_link instead of vortex_get_link.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: carriercheck for forced media
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:41 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: carriercheck for forced media

Handle netif_carrier_{on,of} also if media is forced to 10baseT/100baseTx.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: decrease polling interval
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:40 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: decrease polling interval

Set the polling interval for media changes to 5 seconds if link is down and
60 seconds if link is up.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 3c59x: use mii_check_media
Steffen Klassert [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:39 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] 3c59x: use mii_check_media

Check for media changes and netif_carrier by using mii_check_media() if mii is
used.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix typo causing bad mode of /initrd.image
Jason Gunthorpe [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:38 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix typo causing bad mode of /initrd.image

I noticed that after boot with an initrd in 2.6.16 the rootfs had:

--w-r-xr-T    1 root     root      6241141 Jan  1  1970 initrd.image

Which is caused by a small typo:

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix compilation for sound/oss/vwsnd.c
Eric Sesterhenn [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:37 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix compilation for sound/oss/vwsnd.c

Fix compilation for sound/oss/vwsnd.o, by moving li_destroy() above
li_create()

sound/oss/vwsnd.c:275: warning: conflicting types for Ã¢\80\98li_destroyâ\80\99
sound/oss/vwsnd.c:275: error: static declaration of Ã¢\80\98li_destroyâ\80\99 follows non-static declaration
sound/oss/vwsnd.c:264: error: previous implicit declaration of Ã¢\80\98li_destroyâ\80\99 was here

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Update documentation for BLK_DEV_INITRD to match current usage
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:36 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Update documentation for BLK_DEV_INITRD to match current usage

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zdenek Pavlas <pavlas@nextra.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isicom: select FW_LOADER
maximilian attems [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:35 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] isicom: select FW_LOADER

The isicom driver uses request_firmware() and thus needs to select
FW_LOADER.

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix array overrun in efi.c
Darren Jenkins [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:34 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix array overrun in efi.c

Coverity found an over-run @ line 364 of efi.c

This is due to the loop checking the size correctly, then adding a '\0'
after possibly hitting the end of the array.

Ensure the loop exits with one space left in the array.

Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ads7846: sparc32 warning fix
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:33 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ads7846: sparc32 warning fix

drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c: In function `ads7846_read12_ser':
drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c:207: warning: implicit declaration of function `disable_irq'
drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c:209: warning: implicit declaration of function `enable_irq'

Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove fixup_cpu_present_map()
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:32 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove fixup_cpu_present_map()

Since the addition of boot_cpu_init(), fixup_cpu_present_map() has been a
no-op.  That's because fixup_cpu_present_map() won't touch cpu_present_map if
it has any bits set, and boot_cpu_init() sets a bit.

So remove fixup_cpu_present_map().

A consequence of this (actually of the boot_cpu_init() change) is that the
architecture _must_ populate cpu_present_map itself (probably in
smp_prepare_cpus()).  fixup_cpu_present_map() won't do it any more.

If the architecture doesn't do this, it'll only bring up a single CPU.

The other side effect (though less serious) is that smp_prepare_boot_cpu() no
longer needs to mark the boot cpu in the online and present maps -
boot_cpu_init() does that for everyone (to make early printks work).

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] tlclk: fix handling of device major
Andrew Morton [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:31 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] tlclk: fix handling of device major

tlclk calls register_chrdev() and permits register_chrdev() to allocate the
major, but it promptly forgets what that major was.  So if there's no hardware
present you still get "telco_clock" appearing in /proc/devices and, I assume,
an oops reading /proc/devices if tlclk was a module.

Fix.

Mark, I'd suggest that that we not call register_chrdev() until _after_ we've
established that the hardware is present.

Cc: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] loop: potential kernel hang waiting for kthread
Herbert Poetzl [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:30 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] loop: potential kernel hang waiting for kthread

Check that kernel_thread() succeeded, so we don't wait for something which
cannot happen.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Use loff_t for size in struct proc_dir_entry
Maneesh Soni [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:29 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Use loff_t for size in struct proc_dir_entry

Change proc_dir_entry->size to be loff_t to represent files like
/proc/vmcore for 32bit systems with more than 4G memory.

Needed for seeing correct size for /proc/vmcore for 32-bit systems with >
4G RAM.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] consolidate sys32/compat_adjtimex
Stephen Rothwell [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:29 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] consolidate sys32/compat_adjtimex

Create compat_sys_adjtimex and use it an all appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] create struct compat_timex and use it everywhere
Stephen Rothwell [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:27 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] create struct compat_timex and use it everywhere

We had a copy of the compatibility version of struct timex in each 64 bit
architecture.  This patch just creates a global one and replaces all the
usages of the old ones.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] NFSD4: return conflict lock without races
Andy Adamson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:26 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] NFSD4: return conflict lock without races

Update the NFSv4 server to use the new posix_lock_file_conf() interface.
Remove unnecessary (and race-prone) posix_test_file() calls.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] VFS,fs/locks.c,NFSD4: add race_free posix_lock_file_conf() interface
Andy Adamson [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:26 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] VFS,fs/locks.c,NFSD4: add race_free posix_lock_file_conf() interface

Lockd and the NFSv4 server both exercise a race condition where
posix_test_lock() is called either before or after posix_lock_file() to
deal with a denied lock request due to a conflicting lock.

Remove the race condition for the NFSv4 server by adding a new conflicting
lock parameter to __posix_lock_file() , changing the name to
__posix_lock_file_conf().

Keep posix_lock_file() interface, add posix_lock_conf() interface, both
call __posix_lock_file_conf().

[akpm@osdl.org: Put the EXPORT_SYMBOL() where it belongs]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] VFS,fs/locks.c: cleanup locks_insert_block
J. Bruce Fields [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:24 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] VFS,fs/locks.c: cleanup locks_insert_block

BUG instead of handling a case that should never happen.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables
Eric Dumazet [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:24 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables

I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat.  So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.

This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing.  RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hpet header sanitization
Randy Dunlap [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:23 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet header sanitization

Add __KERNEL__ block.
Use __KERNEL__ to allow ioctl interface to be usable.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: Increment driver version to v39.0
Corey Minyard [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:22 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ipmi: Increment driver version to v39.0

Need to increment the version number because of the new PCI and sysfs
capabilities of the driver.  People maintaining things for distros have
asked that I do this after interface or major functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: add full sysfs support
Corey Minyard [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:21 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ipmi: add full sysfs support

Add full driver model support for the IPMI driver.  It links in the proper
bus and device support.

It adds an "ipmi" driver interface that has each BMC discovered by the
driver (as a device).  These BMCs appear in the devices/platform directory.
 If there are multiple interfaces to the same BMC, the driver should
discover this and will only have one BMC entry.  The BMC entry will have
pointers to each interface device that connects to it.

The device information (statistics and config information) has not yet been
ported over to the driver model from proc, that will come later.

This work was based on work by Yani Ioannou.  I basically rewrote it using
that code as a guide, but he still deserves credit :).

[bunk@stusta.de: make ipmi_find_bmc_guid() static]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: add generic PCI handling
Corey Minyard [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:20 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ipmi: add generic PCI handling

Modify the PCI hanling code for the IPMI driver to use the new method of
tables and registering, and adds more generic PCI handling for IPMI.
Unfortunately, this required a rather large rework of the way the driver
did detection so it would be more event-driven.

[bunk@stusta.de: make a struct static]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cleanup smp_call_function UP build
Con Kolivas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:19 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] cleanup smp_call_function UP build

net/core/flow.c: In function 'flow_cache_flush':
net/core/flow.c:299: warning: statement with no effect

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Make address_space_operations->invalidatepage return void
NeilBrown [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:18 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make address_space_operations->invalidatepage return void

The return value of this function is never used, so let's be honest and
declare it as void.

Some places where invalidatepage returned 0, I have inserted comments
suggesting a BUG_ON.

[akpm@osdl.org: JBD BUG fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: rework for git-nfs]
[akpm@osdl.org: don't go BUG in block_invalidate_page()]
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Make address_space_operations->sync_page return void
NeilBrown [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:17 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make address_space_operations->sync_page return void

The only user ignores the return value, and the only instanace
(block_sync_page) always returns 0...

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sem2mutex: ipc, id.sem
Ingo Molnar [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:17 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] sem2mutex: ipc, id.sem

Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sem2mutex: misc static one-file mutexes
Ingo Molnar [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:14 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] sem2mutex: misc static one-file mutexes

Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sem2mutex: fs/
Ingo Molnar [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:12 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] sem2mutex: fs/

Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swswsup: return correct load_image error
Con Kolivas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:11 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] swswsup: return correct load_image error

If there's an error in load_image() we should return that without checking
snapshot_image_loaded.

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-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>
18 years ago[PATCH] ACPI: clean up memory attribute checking for map/read/write
Bjorn Helgaas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:10 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ACPI: clean up memory attribute checking for map/read/write

ia64 ioremap is now smart enough to use the correct memory attributes, so
remove the EFI checks from osl.c.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EFI fixes
Tolentino, Matthew E [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:09 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] EFI fixes

Here's a patch that fixes EFI boot for x86 on 2.6.16-rc5-mm3.  The
off-by-one is admittedly my fault, but the other two fix up the rest.

Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structure
Bjorn Helgaas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:08 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structure

Almost all users of the table addresses from the EFI system table want
physical addresses.  So rather than doing the pa->va->pa conversion, just keep
physical addresses in struct efi.

This fixes a DMI bug: the efi structure contained the physical SMBIOS address
on x86 but the virtual address on ia64, so dmi_scan_machine() used ioremap()
on a virtual address on ia64.

This is essentially the same as an earlier patch by Matt Tolentino:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112130292316281&w=2
except that this changes all table addresses, not just ACPI addresses.

Matt's original patch was backed out because it caused MCAs on HP sx1000
systems.  That problem is resolved by the ioremap() attribute checking added
for ia64.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] DMI: only ioremap stuff we actually need
Bjorn Helgaas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:07 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] DMI: only ioremap stuff we actually need

dmi_scan_machine() tries to ioremap 0x10000 (64K) bytes, even though it only
looks at the first 32 bytes or so.  If the SMBIOS table is near the end of a
memory region, the ioremap() may fail when it shouldn't.

This is in the efi_enabled path, so it really only affects ia64 at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ia64: ioremap: check EFI for valid memory attributes
Bjorn Helgaas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:06 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ia64: ioremap: check EFI for valid memory attributes

Check the EFI memory map so we can use the correct memory attributes for
ioremap().  Previously, we always used uncacheable access, which blows up on
some machines for regular system memory.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EFI, /dev/mem: simplify efi_mem_attribute_range()
Bjorn Helgaas [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:05 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] EFI, /dev/mem: simplify efi_mem_attribute_range()

Pass the size, not a pointer to the size, to efi_mem_attribute_range().

This function validates memory regions for the /dev/mem read/write/mmap paths.
The pointer allows arches to reduce the size of the range, but I think that's
unnecessary complexity.  Simplifying it will let me use
efi_mem_attribute_range() to improve the ia64 ioremap() implementation.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c
Matt Domsch [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:03 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c

Enable DMI table parsing on ia64.

Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of i386
dmi_scan.c on x86_64.  dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or
memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found.

This patch adds equivalent changes for ia64 as to what is in the x86_64
tree.  In addition, I reworked the DMI detection, such that on EFI-capable
systems, it uses the efi.smbios pointer to find the table, rather than
brute-force searching from 0xF0000.  On non-EFI systems, it continues the
brute-force search.

My test system, an Intel S870BN4 'Tiger4', aka Dell PowerEdge 7250, with
latest BIOS, does not list the IPMI controller in the ACPI namespace, nor
does it have an ACPI SPMI table.  Also note, currently shipping Dell x8xx
EM64T servers don't have these either, so DMI is the only method for
obtaining the address of the IPMI controller.

Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: export: memory more than 4G through /proc/iomem
Vivek Goyal [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:02 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: export: memory more than 4G through /proc/iomem

Currently /proc/iomem exports physical memory also apart from io device
memory.  But on i386, it truncates any memory more than 4GB.  This leads to
problems for kexec/kdump.

Kexec reads /proc/iomem to determine the system memory layout and prepares a
memory map based on that and passes it to the kernel being kexeced.  Given the
fact that memory more than 4GB has been truncated, new kernel never gets to
see and use that memory.

Kdump also reads /proc/iomem to determine the physical memory layout of the
system and encodes this informaiton in ELF headers.  After a crash new kernel
parses these ELF headers being used by previous kernel and vmcore is prepared
accordingly.  As memory more than 4GB has been truncated, kdump never sees
that memory and never prepares ELF headers for it.  Hence vmcore is truncated
and limited to 4GB even if there is more physical memory in the system.

This patch exports memory more than 4GB through /proc/iomem on i386.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: pass proper trap numbers to die chain handlers
Jan Beulich [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:01 +0000 (01:37 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: pass proper trap numbers to die chain handlers

Pass the trap number causing the call to notify_die() to the die
notification handler chain in a number of instances.  Also, honor the
return value from the handler chain invocation in die() as, through a
debugger, the fault may have been fixed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-By: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: "make isoimage" support; FDINITRD= support; minor cleanups
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:36:59 +0000 (01:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: "make isoimage" support; FDINITRD= support; minor cleanups

Add a "make isoimage" to i386 and x86-64, which allows the automatic
creation of a bootable CD image.  It also adds an option FDINITRD= to
include an initrd of the user's choice in generated floppy- or CD boot
images.  Finally, some minor cleanups of the image generation code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add flush_kernel_dcache_page() API
James Bottomley [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:36:59 +0000 (01:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add flush_kernel_dcache_page() API

We have a problem in a lot of emulated storage in that it takes a page from
get_user_pages() and does something like

kmap_atomic(page)
modify page
kunmap_atomic(page)

However, nothing has flushed the kernel cache view of the page before the
kunmap.  We need a lightweight API to do this, so this new API would
specifically be for flushing the kernel cache view of a user page which the
kernel has modified.  The driver would need to add
flush_kernel_dcache_page(page) before the final kunmap.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add API for flushing Anon pages
James Bottomley [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:36:57 +0000 (01:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add API for flushing Anon pages

Currently, get_user_pages() returns fully coherent pages to the kernel for
anything other than anonymous pages.  This is a problem for things like
fuse and the SCSI generic ioctl SG_IO which can potentially wish to do DMA
to anonymous pages passed in by users.

The fix is to add a new memory management API: flush_anon_page() which
is used in get_user_pages() to make anonymous pages coherent.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] protect remove_proc_entry
Steven Rostedt [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:36:55 +0000 (01:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] protect remove_proc_entry

It has been discovered that the remove_proc_entry has a race in the removing
of entries in the proc file system that are siblings.  There's no protection
around the traversing and removing of elements that belong in the same
subdirectory.

This subdirectory list is protected in other areas by the BKL.  So the BKL was
at first used to protect this area too, but unfortunately, remove_proc_entry
may be called with spinlocks held.  The BKL may schedule, so this was not a
solution.

The final solution was to add a new global spin lock to protect this list,
called proc_subdir_lock.  This lock now protects the list in
remove_proc_entry, and I also went around looking for other areas that this
list is modified and added this protection there too.  Care must be taken
since these locations call several functions that may also schedule.

Since I don't see any location that these functions that modify the
subdirectory list are called by interrupts, the irqsave/restore versions of
the spin lock was _not_ used.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] warn if free_irq() is called from IRQ context
Ingo Molnar [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:36:54 +0000 (01:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] warn if free_irq() is called from IRQ context

Warn if free_irq() is called in IRQ context - free_irq() can execute /proc
VFS work, which must not be done in IRQ context.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] drivers/block/floppy.c: dont free_irq() from irq context
Ingo Molnar [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:36:54 +0000 (01:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/floppy.c: dont free_irq() from irq context

free_irq() should not be executed from softirq context.

Found by the lock validator.  The fix is to push fd_free_irq() into
keventd.  The code validates fine with this patch applied.

(akpm: this is revolting, but so is floppy.c)

[akpm@osdl.org: added flush_scheduled_work()]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:31:32 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial

* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
  [ARM] 3383/3: ixp2000: ixdp2x01 platform serial conversion
  [SERIAL] amba-pl010: Remove accessor macros
  [SERIAL] remove 8250_acpi (replaced by 8250_pnp and PNPACPI)
  [SERIAL] icom: select FW_LOADER

18 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:29:54 +0000 (20:29 -0800)]
Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm

* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  [ARM] 3030/2: fix permission check in the obscur cmpxchg syscall
  [ARM] nommu: rename compressed/head.S symbols to a new style
  [ARM] select TLS_REG_EMUL and NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG
  [ARM] nommu: Move hardware page table definitions to pgtable-hwdef.h
  [ARM] Move read of processor ID out of lookup_processor_type()
  [ARM] Fix typo in tlbflush.h
  [ARM] noMMU: removes TLB codes in nommu mode
  [ARM] noMMU: block sys_fork in nommu mode
  [ARM] 3399/1: Fix link problem when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled
  [ARM] 3398/1: Fix the VFP registers loading/storing base address
  [ARM] 3397/1: AT91RM9200 Header update
  [ARM] 3385/1: Battery support for sharp zaurus sl-5500 (collie)
  [ARM] SMP: don't set cpu_*_map in smp_prepare_boot_cpu
  include/linux/clk.h is betraying its ARM origins
  [ARM] Move enable_irq and disable_irq to assembler.h
  [ARM] 3391/1: use PLAT8250_DEV_PLATFORM{,1} for platform device id instead of 0/1

18 years ago[PATCH] Fix compilation of processor_idle.c on IA64
Andi Kleen [Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:24:07 +0000 (02:24 +0100)]
[PATCH] Fix compilation of processor_idle.c on IA64

Broken earlier by me by a x86-64 patch.

The code was optimized away, but the compiler still complained about an
undeclared function.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[ARM] 3383/3: ixp2000: ixdp2x01 platform serial conversion
Lennert Buytenhek [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:03:13 +0000 (23:03 +0000)]
[ARM] 3383/3: ixp2000: ixdp2x01 platform serial conversion

Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

Add a PLAT8250_DEV_PLATFORM2, and convert the two ixdp2x01 CPLD serial
ports to use platform serial devices with ids PLAT8250_DEV_PLATFORM[12].
(The on-chip xscale UART is PLAT8250_DEV_PLATFORM, id #0.)

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
18 years ago[ARM] 3030/2: fix permission check in the obscur cmpxchg syscall
Nicolas Pitre [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:44:05 +0000 (22:44 +0000)]
[ARM] 3030/2: fix permission check in the obscur cmpxchg syscall

Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Quoting RMK:

|pte_write() just says that the page _may_ be writable. It doesn't say
|that the MMU is programmed to allow writes. If pte_dirty() doesn't
|return true, that means that the page is _not_ writable from userspace.
|If you write to it from kernel mode (without using put_user) you'll
|bypass the MMU read-only protection and may end up writing to a page
|owned by two separate processes.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
18 years agoMerge nommu tree
Russell King [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:08:55 +0000 (22:08 +0000)]
Merge nommu tree

Fix merge conflict in arch/arm/mm/proc-xscale.S

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
18 years ago[ARM] 3399/1: Fix link problem when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled
Malcolm Parsons [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:58:03 +0000 (21:58 +0000)]
[ARM] 3399/1: Fix link problem when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled

Patch from Malcolm Parsons

Printking a backtrace requires printk, so disable backtrace code
when printk is disabled.

Without this patch, a kernel with CONFIG_PRINTK disabled does not link:

arch/arm/lib/lib.a(backtrace.o): In function `c_backtrace':
arch/arm/lib/backtrace.S:(.text+0x108): undefined reference to `printk'
arch/arm/lib/backtrace.S:(.text+0x11c): undefined reference to `printk'
arch/arm/lib/lib.a(backtrace.o):(.fixup+0x8): undefined reference to `printk'

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Parsons <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
18 years ago[ARM] 3398/1: Fix the VFP registers loading/storing base address
Catalin Marinas [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:58:00 +0000 (21:58 +0000)]
[ARM] 3398/1: Fix the VFP registers loading/storing base address

Patch from Catalin Marinas

The current VFP code corrupts the VFP registers (including the control
ones) if more than one floating point application is executed at the same
time. This patch fixes the updating of the load/store base addresses for
the VFP registers.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>