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* tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer arraySteven Rostedt2011-02-031-5/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall data is processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer arrayMathieu Desnoyers2011-02-031-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller: use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se. It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8 for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes. History: commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE() added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte multiples. One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5. The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the extra unexpected padding. (this patch applies on top of -tip) Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer arraySteven Rostedt2011-02-021-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the events are processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfsDmitry Torokhov2011-01-241-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if built-in, are completely invisible from userspace. This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* fix non-x86 build failure in pmdp_get_and_clearAndrea Arcangeli2011-01-161-11/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pmdp_get_and_clear/pmdp_clear_flush/pmdp_splitting_flush were trapped as BUG() and they were defined only to diminish the risk of build issues on not-x86 archs and to be consistent with the generic pte methods previously defined in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h. But they are causing more trouble than they were supposed to solve, so it's simpler not to define them when THP is off. This is also correcting the export of pmdp_splitting_flush which is currently unused (x86 isn't using the generic implementation in mm/pgtable-generic.c and no other arch needs that [yet]). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: mm: define MADV_NOHUGEPAGEAndrea Arcangeli2011-01-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Define MADV_NOHUGEPAGE. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: add pmd mangling generic functionsAndrea Arcangeli2011-01-131-60/+154
| | | | | | | | | | | Some are needed to build but not actually used on archs not supporting transparent hugepages. Others like pmdp_clear_flush are used by x86 too. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: special pmd_trans_* functionsAndrea Arcangeli2011-01-131-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These returns 0 at compile time when the config option is disabled, to allow gcc to eliminate the transparent hugepage function calls at compile time without additional #ifdefs (only the export of those functions have to be visible to gcc but they won't be required at link time and huge_memory.o can be not built at all). _PAGE_BIT_UNUSED1 is never used for pmd, only on pte. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: mm: define MADV_HUGEPAGEAndrea Arcangeli2011-01-131-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Define MADV_HUGEPAGE. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Revert "gpiolib: annotate gpio-intialization with __must_check"Linus Torvalds2011-01-131-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 0fdae42d361bbb431ca0ab0efed5126a94821177, which wasn't really supposed to go in, and causes lots of annoying warnings. Quoth Andrew: "Complete brainfart - I meant to drop that patch ages ago." Quoth Greg: "Ick, yeah, that patch isn't ok to go in as-is, all of the callers need to be fixed up first, which is what I thought we had agreed on..." Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* gpiolib: annotate gpio-intialization with __must_checkWolfram Sang2011-01-131-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because GPIOs can have crucial functions especially in embedded systems, we are better safe than sorry regarding their configuration. For gpio_request, the documentation is simply enforced: <quote>"The return value of gpio_request() must be checked."</quote> For gpio_direction_* and gpio_request_*, we now act accordingly. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: make readmostly section correctly alignShaohua Li2011-01-131-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The readmostly section should end at a cacheline aligned address, otherwise the last several data might share cachline with other data and make the readmostly data still have cache bounce. For example, in ia64, secpath_cachep is the last readmostly data, and it shares cacheline with init_uts_ns. a000000100e80480 d secpath_cachep a000000100e80488 D init_uts_ns Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-101-0/+30
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin: (52 commits) Blackfin: encode cpu-rev into uImage name Blackfin: bf54x: don't ack GPIO ints when unmasking them Blackfin: sram_free_with_lsl: do not ignore return value of sram_free Blackfin: boards: add missing "static" to peripheral lists Blackfin: DNP5370: new board port Blackfin: bf518f-ezbrd: fix dsa resources Blackfin: move "-m elf32bfin" to general LDFLAGS Blackfin: kgdb_test: make sure to initialize num2 Blackfin: kgdb: disable preempt schedule when running single step in kgdb Blackfin: kgdb: disable interrupt when single stepping in ADEOS Blackfin: SMP: kgdb: apply anomaly 257 work around Blackfin: fix building IPIPE code when XIP is enabled Blackfin: SMP: kgdb: flush core internal write buffer before flushinv Blackfin: sport_uart resources: remove unused secondary RX/TX pins Blackfin: tll6527m: fix spelling in unused code (struct name) Blackfin: bf527-ezkit: add adau1373 chip address Blackfin: no-mpu: fix masking of small uncached dma region Blackfin: pm: drop irq save/restore in standby and suspend to mem callback MAINTAINERS: update Analog Devices support info Blackfin: dpmc.h: pull in new pll.h ...
| * asm-generic/io.h: add reads[bwl]/writes[bwl] helpersMike Frysinger2011-01-101-0/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A bunch of arches define reads[bwl]/writes[bwl] helpers for accessing memory mapped registers. Since the Blackfin ones aren't specific to Blackfin code, move them to the common asm-generic/io.h for people. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
* | Merge branch 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2011-01-101-2/+11
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (29 commits) of/flattree: forward declare struct device_node in of_fdt.h ipmi: explicitly include of_address.h and of_irq.h sparc: explicitly cast negative phandle checks to s32 powerpc/405: Fix missing #{address,size}-cells in i2c node powerpc/5200: dts: refactor dts files powerpc/5200: dts: Change combatible strings on localbus powerpc/5200: dts: remove unused properties powerpc/5200: dts: rename nodes to prepare for refactoring dts files of/flattree: Update dtc to current mainline. of/device: Don't register disabled devices powerpc/dts: fix syntax bugs in bluestone.dts of: Fixes for OF probing on little endian systems of: make drivers depend on CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF of/flattree: Add of_flat_dt_match() helper function of_serial: explicitly include of_irq.h of/flattree: Refactor unflatten_device_tree and add fdt_unflatten_tree of/flattree: Reorder unflatten_dt_node of/flattree: Refactor unflatten_dt_node of/flattree: Add non-boottime device tree functions of/flattree: Add Kconfig for EARLY_FLATTREE ... Fix up trivial conflict in arch/sparc/prom/tree_32.c as per Grant.
| * of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinuxDirk Brandewie2010-12-231-2/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking .dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image. Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to wrap the blobs for linking. STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib. The STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition. The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob to get the structure alignment GCC expects. A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using obj-y += foo.dtb.o Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> [grant.likely@secretlab.ca: cleaned up whitespace inconsistencies] Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
* | Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-071-4/+4
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits) gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends connector: Use this_cpu operations xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops random: Use this_cpu_inc_return fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return ... Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c} as per Tejun.
| * | core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.Christoph Lameter2010-12-171-4/+4
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __get_cpu_var() can be replaced with this_cpu_read and will then use a single read instruction with implied address calculation to access the correct per cpu instance. However, the address of a per cpu variable passed to __this_cpu_read() cannot be determined (since it's an implied address conversion through segment prefixes). Therefore apply this only to uses of __get_cpu_var where the address of the variable is not used. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* | TTY: Add tty ioctl to figure device node of the system console.Werner Fink2010-12-161-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | This has been in the SuSE kernels for a very long time. Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* asm-generic/stat.h: support 64-bit file time_t for stat()Chris Metcalf2010-11-011-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existing asm-generic/stat.h specifies st_mtime, etc., as a 32-value, and works well for 32-bit architectures (currently microblaze, score, and 32-bit tile). However, for 64-bit architectures it isn't sufficient to return 32 bits of time_t; this isn't good insurance against the 2037 rollover. (It also makes glibc support less convenient, since we can't use glibc's handy STAT_IS_KERNEL_STAT mode.) This change extends the two "timespec" fields for each of the three atime, mtime, and ctime fields from "int" to "long". As a result, on 32-bit platforms nothing changes, and 64-bit platforms will now work as expected. The only wrinkle is 32-bit userspace under 64-bit kernels taking advantage of COMPAT mode. For these, we leave the "struct stat64" definitions with the "int" versions of the time_t and nsec fields, so that architectures can implement compat_sys_stat64() and friends with sys_stat64(), etc., and get the expected 32-bit structure layout. This requires a field-by-field copy in the kernel, implemented by the code guarded under __ARCH_WANT_STAT64. This does mean that the shape of the "struct stat" and "struct stat64" structures is different on a 64-bit kernel, but only one of the two structures should ever be used by any given process: "struct stat" is meant for 64-bit userspace only, and "struct stat64" for 32-bit userspace only. (On a 32-bit kernel the two structures continue to have the same shape, since "long" is 32 bits.) The alternative is keeping the two structures the same shape on 64-bit kernels, which means a 64-bit time_t in "struct stat64" for 32-bit processes. This is a little unnatural since 32-bit userspace can't do anything with 64 bits of time_t information, since time_t is just "long", not "int64_t"; and in any case 32-bit userspace might expect to be running under a 32-bit kernel, which can't provide the high 32 bits anyway. In the case of a 32-bit kernel we'd then be extending the kernel's 32-bit time_t to 64 bits, then truncating it back to 32 bits again in userspace, for no particular reason. And, as mentioned above, if we have 64-bit time_t for 32-bit processes we can't easily use glibc's STAT_IS_KERNEL_STAT, since glibc's stat structure requires an embedded "struct timespec", which is a pair of "long" (32-bit) values in a 32-bit userspace. "Inventive" solutions are possible, but are pretty hacky. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* audit: make link()/linkat() match "attribute change" predicateAl Viro2010-10-301-0/+4
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'kbuild' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-281-1/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings scripts/setlocalversion: update comment kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree) scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
| * initramfs: fix initramfs size calculationHendrik Brueckner2010-09-291-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The size of a built-in initramfs is calculated in init/initramfs.c by "__initramfs_end - __initramfs_start". Those symbols are defined in the linker script include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: #define INIT_RAM_FS \ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_start) = .; \ *(.init.ramfs) \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_end) = .; If the initramfs file has an odd number of bytes, the "__initramfs_end" symbol points to an odd address, for example, the symbols in the System.map might look like: 0000000000572000 T __initramfs_start 00000000005bcd05 T __initramfs_end <-- odd address At least on s390 this causes a problem: Certain s390 instructions, especially instructions for loading addresses (larl) or branch addresses must be on even addresses. The compiler loads the symbol addresses with the "larl" instruction. This instruction sets the last bit to 0 and, therefore, for odd size files, the calculated size is one byte less than it should be: 0000000000540a9c <populate_rootfs>: 540a9c: eb cf f0 78 00 24 stmg %r12,%r15,120(%r15), 540aa2: c0 10 00 01 8a af larl %r1,572000 <__initramfs_start> 540aa8: c0 c0 00 03 e1 2e larl %r12,5bcd04 <initramfs_end> (Instead of 5bcd05) ... 540abe: 1b c1 sr %r12,%r1 To fix the problem, this patch introduces the global variable __initramfs_size, which is calculated in the "usr/initramfs_data.S" file. The populate_rootfs() function can then use the start marker of the .init.ramfs section and the value of __initramfs_size for loading the initramfs. Because the start marker and size is sufficient, the __initramfs_end symbol is no longer needed and is removed. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* | taskstats: use real microsecond granularity for CPU timesMichael Holzheu2010-10-271-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The taskstats interface uses microsecond granularity for the user and system time values. The conversion from cputime to the taskstats values uses the cputime_to_msecs primitive which effectively limits the granularity to milliseconds. Add the cputime_to_usecs primitive for architectures that have better, more precise CPU time values. Remove cputime_to_msecs primitive because there are no more users left. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Luck Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar1234@in.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | gpiolib: fix HAVE_GPIO_LIB leftovers in asm-generic/gpio.hAnton Vorontsov2010-10-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 7444a72effa632fcd8edc566f88 ("gpiolib: allow user-selection") removed HAVE_GPIO_LIB Kconfig symbol, but the header file still uses the name [to confuse readers wrt #ifdef/#else/#endif location]. The real Kconfig symbol nowadays is CONFIG_GPIOLIB. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | vmlinux.lds.h: lower init ramfs alignment to 4Mike Frysinger2010-10-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new init ramfs format (cpio based) requires an alignment of 4 (per the documentation and per the source files themselves). As for compressed sources, the decompressors can all deal with unaligned buffers. The cpio source is also found in the __init sections of the kernel, so once they are read and expanded into a tmpfs, the source is freed. That means there is no need to force page alignment here either. This has been used on Blackfin systems for many releases without issue. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | vmlinux.lds.h: gather .data..shared_aligned sections in DATA_DATAMike Frysinger2010-10-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the recent change "net: remove time limit in process_backlog()", the softnet_data variable changed from "DEFINE_PER_CPU()" to "DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED()" which moved it from the .data section to the .data.shared_align section. I'm not saying this patch is wrong, just that is what caused me to notice this larger problem. No one else in the kernel is using this aligned macro variant, so I imagine that's why no one has noticed yet. Since .data..shared_align isn't declared in any vmlinux files that I can see, the linker just places it last. This "just works" for most people, but when building a ROM kernel on Blackfin systems, it causes section overlap errors: bfin-uclinux-ld.real: section .init.data [00000000202e06b8 -> 00000000202e48b7] overlaps section .data.shared_aligned [00000000202e06b8 -> 00000000202e0723] I imagine other arches which support the ROM config option and thus do funky placement would see similar issues ... On x86, it is stuck in a dedicated section at the end: [8] .data PROGBITS ffffffff810ec000 2ec0000303a8 00 WA 0 0 4096 [9] .data.shared_alig PROGBITS ffffffff8111c3c0 31c3c00000c8 00 WA 0 0 64 So make sure we include this section in the DATA_DATA macro so that it is placed in the right location. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [S390] add support for nonquiescing sskeMartin Schwidefsky2010-10-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Improve performance of the sske operation by using the nonquiescing variant if the affected page has no mappings established. On machines with no support for the new sske variant the mask bit will be ignored. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6Linus Torvalds2010-10-221-0/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (49 commits) serial8250: ratelimit "too much work" error serial: bfin_sport_uart: speed up sport RX sample rate to be 3% faster serial: abstraction for 8250 legacy ports serial/imx: check that the buffer is non-empty before sending it out serial: mfd: add more baud rates support jsm: Remove the uart port on errors Alchemy: Add UART PM methods. 8250: allow platforms to override PM hook. altera_uart: Don't use plain integer as NULL pointer altera_uart: Fix missing prototype for registering an early console altera_uart: Fixup type usage of port flags altera_uart: Make it possible to use Altera UART and 8250 ports together altera_uart: Add support for different address strides altera_uart: Add support for getting mapbase and IRQ from resources altera_uart: Add support for polling mode (IRQ-less) serial: Factor out uart_poll_timeout() from 8250 driver serial: mark the 8250 driver as maintained serial: 8250: Don't delay after transmitter is ready. tty: MAINTAINERS: add drivers/serial/jsm/ as maintained driver vcs: invoke the vt update callback when /dev/vcs* is written to ...
| * | ioctl: Use asm-generic/ioctls.h on cris (enables termiox)Jeff Mahoney2010-10-221-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts cris to use asm-generic/ioctls.h instead of its own version. The differences between the arch-specific version and the generic version are as follows: - CRIS defines two ioctls: TIOCSERSETRS485 and TIOCSERWRRS485, kept in arch-specific portion - CRIS defines a different value for TIOCSRS485, kept via ifndef in generic - The generic version adds support for termiox Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-221-5/+9
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: update comments to reflect that percpu allocations are always zero-filled percpu: Optimize __get_cpu_var() x86, percpu: Optimize this_cpu_ptr percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator percpu: fix build breakage on s390 and cleanup build configuration tests percpu: use percpu allocator on UP too percpu: reduce PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE to 32k vmalloc: pcpu_get/free_vm_areas() aren't needed on UP Fixed up trivial conflicts in include/linux/percpu.h
| * | | percpu: Optimize __get_cpu_var()Brian Gerst2010-09-101-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Redefine __get_cpu_var() using this_cpu_ptr() which can be arch-optimized. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
| * | | x86, percpu: Optimize this_cpu_ptrBrian Gerst2010-09-101-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow arches to implement __this_cpu_ptr, and provide an x86 version. Before: movq $foo, %rax movq %gs:this_cpu_off, %rdx addq %rdx, %rax After: movq $foo, %rax addq %gs:this_cpu_off, %rax The benefit is doing it in one less instruction and not clobbering a temporary register. tj: * Beefed up the comment a bit and renamed in-macro temp variable to match neighboring macros. * Folded fix for const pointer case found in linux-next. * Fixed sparse notation. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-genericLinus Torvalds2010-10-226-40/+83
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: asm-generic/io.h: allow people to override individual funcs bitops: remove duplicated extern declarations bitops: make asm-generic/bitops/find.h more generic asm-generic: kdebug.h: Checkpatch cleanup asm-generic: fcntl: make exported headers use strict posix types asm-generic: cmpxchg does not handle non-long arguments asm-generic: make atomic_add_unless a function
| * | | | asm-generic/io.h: allow people to override individual funcsMike Frysinger2010-10-181-0/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For the Blackfin port, we can use much of the asm-generic/io.h header, but we still need to declare some of our own versions of functions. Like the __raw_read* and in/out "string" helpers. So let people do this easily for many of these funcs. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
| * | | | bitops: remove duplicated extern declarationsAkinobu Mita2010-10-091-2/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT is enabled, find_next_bit() and find_next_zero_bit() are doubly declared in asm-generic/bitops/find.h and linux/bitops.h. asm/bitops.h includes asm-generic/bitops/find.h if and only if the architecture enables CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT. And asm/bitops.h is included by linux/bitops.h So we can just remove the extern declarations of find_next_bit() and find_next_zero_bit() in linux/bitops.h. Also we can remove unneeded #ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT in asm-generic/bitops/find.h. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
| * | | | bitops: make asm-generic/bitops/find.h more genericAkinobu Mita2010-10-091-0/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | asm-generic/bitops/find.h has the extern declarations of find_next_bit() and find_next_zero_bit() and the macro definitions of find_first_bit() and find_first_zero_bit(). It is only usable by the architectures which enables CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT and disables CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT. x86 and tile enable both CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT and CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT. These architectures cannot include asm-generic/bitops/find.h in their asm/bitops.h. So ifdefed extern declarations of find_first_bit and find_first_zero_bit() are put in linux/bitops.h. This makes asm-generic/bitops/find.h usable by these architectures and use it. Also this change is needed for the forthcoming duplicated extern declarations cleanup. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
| * | | | asm-generic: kdebug.h: Checkpatch cleanupAndrea Gelmini2010-10-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | include/asm-generic/kdebug.h:6: ERROR: spaces required around that '=' (ctx:VxV) Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
| * | | | asm-generic: fcntl: make exported headers use strict posix typesLucian Adrian Grijincu2010-10-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All 'pid_t' were changed to '__kernel_pid_t' in a previous commit: make exported headers use strict posix types A number of standard posix types are used in exported headers, which is not allowed if __STRICT_KERNEL_NAMES is defined. In order to get rid of the non-__STRICT_KERNEL_NAMES part and to make sane headers the default, we have to change them all to safe types. but a later change introduced 'pid_t' again: fcntl: add F_[SG]ETOWN_EX This makes asm-generic/fcntl.h d use strict posix types again. Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
| * | | | asm-generic: cmpxchg does not handle non-long argumentsMathieu Lacage2010-10-091-19/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The version of cmpxchg defined in asm-generic/system.h does not handle correctly non-long arguments. Use the version defined in cmpxchg.h instead. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
| * | | | asm-generic: make atomic_add_unless a functionMathieu Lacage2010-10-091-17/+17
| | |/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | atomic_add_unless is a macro so, bad things happen if the caller defines a local variable named c, just like like the local variable c defined by the macro. Thus, convert atomic_add_unless to a function. (bug triggered by net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c: clusterip_config_find_get calls atomic_inc_not_zero) Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-irqflagsLinus Torvalds2010-10-213-31/+27
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-irqflags: Fix IRQ flag handling naming MIPS: Add missing #inclusions of <linux/irq.h> smc91x: Add missing #inclusion of <linux/irq.h> Drop a couple of unnecessary asm/system.h inclusions SH: Add missing consts to sys_execve() declaration Blackfin: Rename IRQ flags handling functions Blackfin: Add missing dep to asm/irqflags.h Blackfin: Rename DES PC2() symbol to avoid collision Blackfin: Split the BF532 BFIN_*_FIO_FLAG() functions to their own header Blackfin: Split PLL code from mach-specific cdef headers
| * | | | Fix IRQ flag handling namingDavid Howells2010-10-074-32/+27
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the IRQ flag handling naming. In linux/irqflags.h under one configuration, it maps: local_irq_enable() -> raw_local_irq_enable() local_irq_disable() -> raw_local_irq_disable() local_irq_save() -> raw_local_irq_save() ... and under the other configuration, it maps: raw_local_irq_enable() -> local_irq_enable() raw_local_irq_disable() -> local_irq_disable() raw_local_irq_save() -> local_irq_save() ... This is quite confusing. There should be one set of names expected of the arch, and this should be wrapped to give another set of names that are expected by users of this facility. Change this to have the arch provide: flags = arch_local_save_flags() flags = arch_local_irq_save() arch_local_irq_restore(flags) arch_local_irq_disable() arch_local_irq_enable() arch_irqs_disabled_flags(flags) arch_irqs_disabled() arch_safe_halt() Then linux/irqflags.h wraps these to provide: raw_local_save_flags(flags) raw_local_irq_save(flags) raw_local_irq_restore(flags) raw_local_irq_disable() raw_local_irq_enable() raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags) raw_irqs_disabled() raw_safe_halt() with type checking on the flags 'arguments', and then wraps those to provide: local_save_flags(flags) local_irq_save(flags) local_irq_restore(flags) local_irq_disable() local_irq_enable() irqs_disabled_flags(flags) irqs_disabled() safe_halt() with tracing included if enabled. The arch functions can now all be inline functions rather than some of them having to be macros. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [X86, FRV, MN10300] Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [Tile] Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> [Microblaze] Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [ARM] Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> [AVR] Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [IA-64] Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [M32R] Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> [M68K/M68KNOMMU] Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [MIPS] Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [PA-RISC] Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> [PowerPC] Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [S390] Acked-by: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> [Score] Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> [SH] Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [Sparc] Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> [Xtensa] Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> [Alpha] Reviewed-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> [H8300] Cc: starvik@axis.com [CRIS] Cc: jesper.nilsson@axis.com [CRIS] Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
* | | | Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-212-0/+8
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-32, percpu: Correct the ordering of the percpu readmostly section x86, mm: Enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT with X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G x86: Spread tlb flush vector between nodes percpu: Introduce a read-mostly percpu API x86, mm: Fix incorrect data type in vmalloc_sync_all() x86, mm: Hold mm->page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync x86, mm: Fix bogus whitespace in sync_global_pgds() x86-32: Fix sparse warning for the __PHYSICAL_MASK calculation x86, mm: Add RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY() helper mm, x86: Saving vmcore with non-lazy freeing of vmas x86, kdump: Change copy_oldmem_page() to use cached addressing x86, mm: fix uninitialized addr in kernel_physical_mapping_init() x86, kmemcheck: Remove double test x86, mm: Make spurious_fault check explicitly check the PRESENT bit x86-64, mem: Update all PGDs for direct mapping and vmemmap mapping changes x86, mm: Separate x86_64 vmalloc_sync_all() into separate functions x86, mm: Avoid unnecessary TLB flush
| * | | | x86-32, percpu: Correct the ordering of the percpu readmostly sectionH. Peter Anvin2010-10-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Checkin c957ef2c59e952803766ddc22e89981ab534606f had inconsistent ordering of .data..percpu..page_aligned and .data..percpu..readmostly; the still-broken version affected x86-32 at least. The page aligned version really must be page aligned... Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> LKML-Reference: <1287544022.4571.7.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
| * | | | percpu: Introduce a read-mostly percpu APIShaohua Li2010-10-201-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new readmostly percpu section and API. This can be used to avoid dirtying data lines which are generally not written to, which is especially important for data which may be accessed by processors other than the one for which the percpu area belongs to. [ hpa: moved it *after* the page-aligned section, for obvious reasons. ] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1287544022.4571.7.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| * | | | x86, mm: Avoid unnecessary TLB flushShaohua Li2010-08-231-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In x86, access and dirty bits are set automatically by CPU when CPU accesses memory. When we go into the code path of below flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault(), we already set dirty bit for pte and don't need flush tlb. This might mean tlb entry in some CPUs hasn't dirty bit set, but this doesn't matter. When the CPUs do page write, they will automatically check the bit and no software involved. On the other hand, flush tlb in below position is harmful. Test creates CPU number of threads, each thread writes to a same but random address in same vma range and we measure the total time. Under a 4 socket system, original time is 1.96s, while with the patch, the time is 0.8s. Under a 2 socket system, there is 20% time cut too. perf shows a lot of time are taking to send ipi/handle ipi for tlb flush. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20100816011655.GA362@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Andrea Archangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* | | | | jump label: Base patch for jump labelJason Baron2010-09-221-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto' statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed. Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> [ cleaned up some formating ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | | | | Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar2010-09-152-6/+23
|\ \ \ \ \ | | |/ / / | |/| | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
| * | | | gpio: doc updatesDavid Brownell2010-09-091-1/+13
| | |/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's been some recent confusion about error checking GPIO numbers. briefly, it should be handled mostly during setup, when gpio_request() is called, and NEVER by expectig gpio_is_valid to report more than never-usable GPIO numbers. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: terminate unterminated comment] Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Eric Miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Cc: "Ryan Mallon" <ryan@bluewatersys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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