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Eric W. Biederman 48c8b11342 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix off by one in e820_mapped
This allows a valid iommu placed immediately after memory to work, to be
recognized as after the last byte of memory and not overlapping it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:16 -07:00
Ashok Raj a888cebe17 [PATCH] x86_64: create sysfs entries for cpu only for present cpus
Need to create sysfs only for cpus that are present.  Without which we see
NR_CPUS entries created when we have CONFIG_HOTPLUG and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:16 -07:00
Ashok Raj 0c2b9d5c03 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix cluster mode send_IPI_allbutself to use get_cpu()/put_cpu()
Need to ensure we dont get prempted when we clear ourself from mask when using
clustered mode genapic code.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:16 -07:00
Zwane Mwaikambo c078d3266e [PATCH] x86_64: print processor number in show_regs
Up to date I've been using the GS value to determine the processor number
in dumps from show_regs, however this can be cumbersome to do if you don't
have the vmlinux to verify with the address of cpu_pda, how about the
following?  I considered using hard_smp_processor_id for robustness but we
already dereference current so we're already relying on MSR_GS_BASE being
sane.

Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:15 -07:00
Ashok Raj 54d5d42404 [PATCH] x86/x86_64: deferred handling of writes to /proc/irqxx/smp_affinity
When handling writes to /proc/irq, current code is re-programming rte
entries directly. This is not recommended and could potentially cause
chipset's to lockup, or cause missing interrupts.

CONFIG_IRQ_BALANCE does this correctly, where it re-programs only when the
interrupt is pending. The same needs to be done for /proc/irq handling as well.
Otherwise user space irq balancers are really not doing the right thing.

- Changed pending_irq_balance_cpumask to pending_irq_migrate_cpumask for
  lack of a generic name.
- added move_irq out of IRQ_BALANCE, and added this same to X86_64
- Added new proc handler for write, so we can do deferred write at irq
  handling time.
- Display of /proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity used to display CPU_MASKALL, instead
  it now shows only active cpu masks, or exactly what was set.
- Provided a common move_irq implementation, instead of duplicating
  when using generic irq framework.

Tested on i386/x86_64 and ia64 with CONFIG_PCI_MSI turned on and off.
Tested UP builds as well.

MSI testing: tbd: I have cards, need to look for a x-over cable, although I
did test an earlier version of this patch.  Will test in a couple days.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Grudgingly-acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:15 -07:00
Eugene Surovegin 842363ff5f [PATCH] ppc32: fix ocp_device_suspend to use pm_message_t instead of u32
Recent "u32 -> pm_message_t" change triggered hidden bug in
ocp_device_suspend.  Fix it to correctly use pm_message_t instead of u32.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4706df3d3c Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/ppc64-2.6 2005-09-06 05:16:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1e231efe50 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-09-06 00:45:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ef88b7dba2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2005-09-06 00:35:51 -07:00
Olaf Hering cebb2b1563 [PATCH] remove linux/version.h include from arch/ppc64
Changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no apparent reason.

Use system_utsname for progress and debug header.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:57:46 +10:00
David Gibson 14b3466161 [PATCH] Invert sense of SLB class bit
Currently, we set the class bit in kernel SLB entries, and clear it on
user SLB entries.  On POWER5, ERAT entries created in real mode have
the class bit clear.  So to avoid flushing kernel ERAT entries on each
context switch, this patch inverts our usage of the class bit, setting
it on user SLB entries and clearing it on kernel SLB entries.

Booted on POWER5 and G5.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:57:46 +10:00
David S. Miller e5e259466f [SPARC64]: Don't include drivers/firmware/Kconfig
It's really not relevant for this platform in any
way, after all.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-05 23:34:13 -07:00
Anton Blanchard 0fdf0b8634 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix build with oprofile disabled
Fix build with oprofile disabled.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:09:22 +10:00
Anton Blanchard 8fef0306f9 [PATCH] ppc64: Move oprofile_model into cpu feature struct
Move oprofile_model into cpu feature struct.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:09:21 +10:00
Anton Blanchard dca859329c [PATCH] ppc64: Move oprofile_impl.h into include/asm-ppc64
Move oprofile_impl.h into include/asm-ppc64 in preparation for moving
oprofile_model into cpu feature struct.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:09:21 +10:00
Anton Blanchard 1a410d8830 [PATCH] ppc64: Add oprofile cpu_type to cpu feature struct
Add oprofile cpu_type to cpu feature struct.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:09:21 +10:00
Anton Blanchard a6908cd000 [PATCH] ppc64: Use num_pmcs in oprofile code
Change oprofile to use num_pmcs from the cpu feature struct.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:09:21 +10:00
Anton Blanchard 8530935d38 [PATCH] ppc64: remove CPU_FTR_PMC8
Remove the CPU_FTR_PMC8 feature now we encode the number of PMCs
directly.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:09:20 +10:00
Anton Blanchard fd5b4377ea [PATCH] ppc64: add number of PMCs to cputable
Add a field in the cputable struct to store the number of PMCs.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:09:20 +10:00
Wim Coekaerts 71839267f2 [PATCH] ppc64: Allow world readable /proc/ppc64/lparcfg
I would like to be able to read the lparcfg data from any user so we
can make "intelligent" decisions based on underlying attributes when
running in lpars.  Yes there's software that likes to do this :) and
runs as non-root.

It's very similar to say VM where you can get CP to provide feedback
of the real hardware inside a VM guest.

Signed-off-by: Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:54 +10:00
Kumar Gala fa2259b06c [PATCH] ppc64: remove use of asm/segment.h
Removed PPC64 architecture specific users of asm/segment.h.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:53 +10:00
Anton Blanchard 4721e2214b [PATCH] ppc64: poison initmem
Poison initmem after we free it so we catch use after free issues.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:53 +10:00
Jimi Xenidis 2f4cf721eb [PATCH] ppc64: systemcfg is now a pointer
The following patch fixes 2 issues:
  1) use PLATFORM_LPAR bit to test if running in LPAR mode
  2) systemcfg pointer is assigned from static data in
     arch/ppc64/kernel/pacaData.c.  The file arch/ppc64/kernel/head.S
     now refers to is using the GOT binding to the pointer and hence
     must deref it.

Signed-off-by: Jimi Xenidis <jimix@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:52 +10:00
Milton Miller 8d92739186 [PATCH] ppc64: Consolidate early console and PPCDBG code
Consolidate the early console and PPCDBG code in udbg.c

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:37 +10:00
Milton Miller 188d2ce78f [PATCH] ppc64: Remove old includes
Trim some no longer needed includes from udbg.c and friends.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:37 +10:00
Milton Miller c8f1c8be62 [PATCH] ppc64: Take udbg out of ppc_md
Take udbg out of ppc_md. Allows us to not overwrite early udbg inits
when assigning ppc_md.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:36 +10:00
Milton Miller 7f853352e7 [PATCH] ppc64: Split SCC and 15550 udbg code
Split scc and 15550 functions from udbg each into their own file.
This makes them more symetric with the lpar and btext code.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:36 +10:00
Milton Miller 37548d58e5 [PATCH] ppc64: Make udbg_init_uart set the ppc_md udbg methods.
make udbg_init_uart set the ppc_md udbg methods.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:36 +10:00
Milton Miller cb14c4d641 [PATCH] ppc64: Clean up CR handling
Make the 16550 and real mode 16550 use tail recursion like the scc code
instead of repeating the routine except for the character sent.

Gcc recoginizes the tail recursion and handles it efficently without
stack allocations.  The maple real putc shrinks from 188 to 104 bytes
of instructions.  udbg_putc drops from 188 to 140 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:36 +10:00
Milton Miller 5fdabaab01 [PATCH] ppc64: Remove dummy getc routines
Now that xmon is fixed we should not need the dummy getc routines.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:35 +10:00
Milton Miller 41be31b7d6 [PATCH] ppc64: dont bypass ppc_md.udbg* functions
udbg_getc_poll is a ppc_md function.   don't call directly into udbg.c

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-09-06 16:07:35 +10:00
Richard Purdie 0ce7625f3c [ARM] 2882/1: pxa2xx_sharpsl: Update PCMCIA driver to support variety of new hardware
Patch from Richard Purdie

This patch updates the PCMCIA pxa2xx_sharpsl driver to support multiple scoop
devices by adding a scoop to pcmcia slot mapping structure. It adds platform
support for poodle, is known to work on spitz (which is dual slot) and
should also support collie with a minor amount of further work.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-05 20:49:54 +01:00
Ben Dooks 027da01d73 [ARM] 2876/1: N30 - remove task to toggle USB D+ line
Patch from Ben Dooks

The n30 machine file is using a kernel thread to change the
state of the USB D+ pull-up resistor, which is not the proper
way to do this. Once the usb-gadget support for the 24xx is
merge, the proper access method will be added.
This patch also removes the problem of using HZ for the
msleep calls, from Nishanth Aravamudan.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-05 20:47:53 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 64c4813d9e Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-09-05 00:17:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e766f1cc59 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2005-09-05 00:12:58 -07:00
Heiko Carstens c563077e52 [PATCH] s390: compat system calls
Use TIF bit to tell if a process is running in 31 bit mode instead of checking
the addressing mode bits of the PSW.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:29 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky b6d09449d5 [PATCH] s390: pfault interrupt race
There is a race in pfault_interrupt.  That function gets called two times for
each pfault notification.  Once with a subcode of 0 to indicate that a real
page is not available and once with a subcode of 0x80 to indicate that the
page is present again.

Since the two external interrupts can be delivered on two different cpus the
order in which the two calls are made is unpredictable.  It is possible that
the subcode 0x80 interrupt is completed before the subcode 0x00 interrupt has
done the wake_up() call.

To avoid calling wake_up() on an already removed task structure proper task
structure reference counting is needed.  Increase the reference counter in the
subcode 0x00 interrupt before setting pfault_wait to zero and return the
reference after the wake_up call.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:28 -07:00
Michael Holzheu 942eaabd5d [PATCH] s390: debug feature changes
debug feature changes/bug fixes:

- Use get_clock() function instead of private inline assembly.

- Use 'struct timeval' instead of 'struct timespec' for call to
  tod_to_timeval().  Now the microsecond part of the timestamp is correct
  again.

- Fix a locking problem: when creating a snapshot of the current content
  of the debug areas, lock the entire debug_info object.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:26 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky ae6aa2ea89 [PATCH] s390: machine check handler bugs
The new machine check handler still has a few bugs.

1) The system entry time has to be stored in the machine check handler,

2) the machine check return psw may not be stored at the usual place
   because it might overwrite the return psw of the interrupted context,

3) the return address for the call to s390_handle_mcck in the i/o interrupt
   handler is not correct,

4) the system call cleanup has to take the different save area of the
   machine check handler into account,

5) the machine check handler may not call UPDATE_VTIME before
   CREATE_STACK_FRAME, and

6) the io leave path needs a critical section cleanup to make sure that the
   TIF_MCCK_PENDING bit is really checked before switching back to user space.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:25 -07:00
Jeff Dike 7ef9390541 [PATCH] uml: fix x86_64 page leak
We were leaking pmd pages when 3_LEVEL_PGTABLES was enabled.  This fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:24 -07:00
Bodo Stroesser f9dfefe423 [PATCH] uml: fix advanced sysemu check
cleanup and fix the check for advanced sysemu (PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP
option)

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:24 -07:00
Bodo Stroesser d9838d8653 [PATCH] uml: allow host capability usage to be disabled
Add new cmdline setups:
  - noprocmm
  - noptracefaultinfo
In case of testing, they can be used to switch off usage of
/proc/mm and PTRACE_FAULTINFO independently.

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:24 -07:00
Bodo Stroesser 07bf731e4b [PATCH] uml: skas0 stubs now check system call return values
Change syscall-stub's data to include a "expected retval".

Stub now checks syscalls retval and aborts execution of syscall list, if
retval != expected retval.

run_syscall_stub prints the data of the failed syscall, using the data pointer
and retval written by the stub to the beginning of the stack.

one_syscall_stub is removed, to simplify code, because only some instructions
are saved by one_syscall_stub, no host-syscall.

Using the stub with additional data (modify_ldt via stub)
is prepared also.

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:24 -07:00
Bodo Stroesser 8b51304ed3 [PATCH] uml: increase granularity of host capability checking
This change enables SKAS0/SKAS3 to work with all combinations of /proc/mm and
PTRACE_FAULTINFO being available or not.

Also it changes the initialization of proc_mm and ptrace_faultinfo slightly,
to ease forcing SKAS0 on a patched host.  Forcing UML to run without /proc/mm
or PTRACE_FAULTINFO by cmdline parameter can be implemented with a setup
resetting the related variable.

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:24 -07:00
Gennady Sharapov 60d339f6fe [PATCH] uml: move libc-dependent startup and signal code
The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir).

This moves all systemcalls from process.c file under os-Linux dir and join
process.c and process_kern.c files.

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov <gennady.v.sharapov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:24 -07:00
Jeff Dike 09ace81c1d [PATCH] uml: add host AIO support to block driver
This adds AIO support to the ubd driver.

The driver breaks a struct request into IO requests to the host, based on the
hardware segments in the request and on any COW blocks covered by the request.

The ubd IO thread is gone, since there is now an equivalent thread in the AIO
module.

There is provision for multiple outstanding requests now.  Requests aren't
retired until all pieces of it have been completed.  The AIO requests have a
shared count, which is decremented as IO operations come in until it reaches
0.  This can be possibly moved to the request struct - haven't looked at this
yet.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:23 -07:00
Jeff Dike 75e5584c89 [PATCH] uml: use host AIO support
This patch makes UML use host AIO support when it (and
/usr/include/linux/aio_abi.h) are present.  This is only the support, with no
consumers - a consumer is coming in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:23 -07:00
Al Viro 30f7dabb08 [PATCH] uml: build cleanups
Added missing include list to uml AFLAGS

Killed magic for stubs.  [So] - it was needed only because of messed AFLAGS
Switched segv_stubs.c to kernel CFLAGS sans profile, instead of user ones
Killed STUBS_CFLAGS - it's not needed and the only remaining use had been
gratitious - it only polluted CFLAGS

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:23 -07:00
Jeff Dike e32dacb9f4 [PATCH] uml: system call path cleanup
This merges two sets of files which had no business being split apart in the
first place.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:23 -07:00
Jeff Dike c56004901f [PATCH] uml: TLB operation batching
This adds VM op batching to skas0.  Rather than having a context switch to and
from the userspace stub for each address space change, we write a number of
operations to the stub data page and invoke a different stub which loops over
them and executes them all in one go.

The operations are stored as [ system call number, arg1, arg2, ... ] tuples.

The set is terminated by a system call number of 0.  Single operations, i.e.
page faults, are handled in the old way, since that is slightly more
efficient.

For a kernel build, a minority (~1/4) of the operations are part of a set.
These sets averaged ~100 in length, so for this quarter, the context switching
overhead is greatly reduced.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:22 -07:00