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Martin Schwidefsky 8bc719d3ca [PATCH] out of memory notifier
Add a notifer chain to the out of memory killer.  If one of the registered
callbacks could release some memory, do not kill the process but return and
retry the allocation that forced the oom killer to run.

The purpose of the notifier is to add a safety net in the presence of
memory ballooners.  If the resource manager inflated the balloon to a size
where memory allocations can not be satisfied anymore, it is better to
deflate the balloon a bit instead of killing processes.

The implementation for the s390 ballooner is included.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
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>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 27bf71c2a7 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: remove display of counters for unconfigured zones
eventcounters: Do not display counters for zones that are not available on an
arch

Do not define or display counters for the DMA32 and the HIGHMEM zone if such
zones were not configured.

[akpm@osdl.org: s390 fix]
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6bbd9b6d69 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (64 commits)
  [BLOCK] dm-crypt: trivial comment improvements
  [CRYPTO] api: Deprecate crypto_digest_* and crypto_alg_available
  [CRYPTO] padlock: Convert padlock-sha to use crypto_hash
  [CRYPTO] users: Use crypto_comp and crypto_has_*
  [CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_comp and crypto_has_*
  [CRYPTO] users: Use crypto_hash interface instead of crypto_digest
  [SCSI] iscsi: Use crypto_hash interface instead of crypto_digest
  [CRYPTO] digest: Remove old HMAC implementation
  [CRYPTO] doc: Update documentation for hash and me
  [SCTP]: Use HMAC template and hash interface
  [IPSEC]: Use HMAC template and hash interface
  [CRYPTO] tcrypt: Use HMAC template and hash interface
  [CRYPTO] hmac: Add crypto template implementation
  [CRYPTO] digest: Added user API for new hash type
  [CRYPTO] api: Mark parts of cipher interface as deprecated
  [PATCH] scatterlist: Add const to sg_set_buf/sg_init_one pointer argument
  [CRYPTO] drivers: Remove obsolete block cipher operations
  [CRYPTO] users: Use block ciphers where applicable
  [SUNRPC] GSS: Use block ciphers where applicable
  [IPSEC] ESP: Use block ciphers where applicable
  ...
2006-09-22 12:51:33 -07:00
Herbert Xu efcf8023e2 [CRYPTO] drivers: Remove obsolete block cipher operations
This patch removes obsolete block operations of the simple cipher type
from drivers.  These were preserved so that existing users can make a
smooth transition.  Now that the transition is complete, they are no
longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:16 +10:00
Herbert Xu a9e62fadf0 [CRYPTO] s390: Added block cipher versions of CBC/ECB
This patch adds block cipher algorithms for S390.  Once all users of the
old cipher type have been converted the existing CBC/ECB non-block cipher
operations will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:44:50 +10:00
Herbert Xu 65b75c36f4 [CRYPTO] s390: Added missing driver name and priority
Accelerated versions of crypto algorithms must carry a distinct driver name
and priority in order to distinguish themselves from their generic counter-
part.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:50 +10:00
Herbert Xu 560c06ae1a [CRYPTO] api: Get rid of flags argument to setkey
Now that the tfm is passed directly to setkey instead of the ctx, we no
longer need to pass the &tfm->crt_flags pointer.

This patch also gets rid of a few unnecessary checks on the key length
for ciphers as the cipher layer guarantees that the key length is within
the bounds specified by the algorithm.

Rather than testing dia_setkey every time, this patch does it only once
during crypto_alloc_tfm.  The redundant check from crypto_digest_setkey
is also removed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
Michael Holzheu 388c571cff [S390] hypfs crashes with invalid mount option.
When an invalid mount option is specified, no root inode is created
for hypfs, hypfs_fill_super() returns with -EINVAL and then
hypfs_kill_super() is called. hypfs_kill_super() does not check if
the root inode has been initialized. This patch adds this check.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 16:00:04 +02:00
Gerald Schaefer 6c2a9e6df6 [S390] Use alternative user-copy operations for new hardware.
This introduces new user-copy operations which are optimized for
copying more than 256 Bytes on new hardware.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:44 +02:00
Gerald Schaefer d02765d1af [S390] Make user-copy operations run-time configurable.
Introduces a struct uaccess_ops which allows setting user-copy
operations at run-time.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:42 +02:00
Gerald Schaefer 6837a8c352 [S390] Cleanup in signal handling code.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:39 +02:00
Gerald Schaefer 9282ed9297 [S390] Cleanup in page table related code.
Changed and simplified some page table related #defines and code.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:37 +02:00
Melissa Howland 31b5808829 [S390] Linux API for writing z/VM APPLDATA Monitor records.
This patch delivers a new Linux API in the form of a misc char
device that is useable from user space and allows write access
to the z/VM APPLDATA Monitor Records collected by the *MONITOR
System Service of z/VM.

Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:34 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 07d43ce6a2 [S390] Remove kexec experimental flag.
Follow other architectures and remove kexec experimental flag.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:29 +02:00
Gerald Schaefer 1f38d61347 [S390] cleanup appldata.
Introduce asm header that contains the appldata data structures and
the diag inline assembly.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:26 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 9514e2311b [S390] Kernel stack overflow handling.
Substract the size of the initial stack frame from the correct
register. Otherwise we will end up in a program check loop.
Fix the offset into the save area as well.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:22 +02:00
Heiko Carstens e87bfe51b5 [S390] convert some assembler to C.
Convert GET_IPL_DEVICE assembler macro to C function.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:15 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 1375fc1fb0 [S390] __exit cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:12 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 7d5d688f72 [S390] Use simple_strtoul instead of own cmm_strtoul wrapper.
Fix compile warning with some configurations:

arch/s390/mm/cmm.c:58: warning: 'cmm_strtoul' defined but not used

Originally cmm_strtoul was introduced because simple_strtoul couldn't
handle strings with hexadecimal numbers that contained a capital 'X'.
Since this is no longer true cmm_strtoul can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:59:00 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 8427082a50 [S390] fix syscall restart handling.
If do_signal() gets called several times before returning to user space
and no signal is pending (e.g. cancelled by a debugger) syscall restart
handling could be done several times. This would change the user space
PSW to an address prior to the syscall instruction.
Fix this by making sure that syscall restart handling is only done once.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:58:54 +02:00
Michael Holzheu ff6b8ea68f [S390] ipl/dump on panic.
It is now possible to specify a ccw/fcp dump device which is used to
automatically create a system dump in case of a kernel panic. The dump
device can be configured under /sys/firmware/dump.
In addition it is now possible to specify a ccw/fcp device which is used
for the next reboot of Linux. The reipl device can be configured under
/sys/firmware/reipl.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:58:49 +02:00
Michael Holzheu 331c982d4a [S390] hypfs compiler warnings.
Add casts to avoid compiler warnings.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:58:47 +02:00
Michael Holzheu f19bfb2c9b [S390] hypfs comment cleanup.
Correct some comments in the hypervisor filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:58:44 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 65912a84c0 [S390] initrd vs. bootmem bitmap.
Move initrd if the bitmap of the bootmem allocator would overwrite it.
In addition this patch sets the default size and address of the initrd to 0.
Therefore all boot loaders must set the initrd size and address correctly.
This is especially relevant for ftp boot via HMC/SE, where this change
requires a special patch file entry in the .ins file which sets these two
values contained at address 0x10408 and 0x10410.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:58:41 +02:00
Michael Grundy 4ba069b802 [S390] add kprobes support.
Signed-off-by: Michael Grundy <grundym@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:58:39 +02:00
Al Viro e65e1fc2d2 [PATCH] syscall class hookup for all normal targets
Take default arch/*/kernel/audit.c to lib/, have those with special
needs (== biarch) define AUDIT_ARCH in their Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-12 03:04:40 -04:00
Al Viro 55669bfa14 [PATCH] audit: AUDIT_PERM support
add support for AUDIT_PERM predicate

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-11 13:32:30 -04:00
Al Viro dc104fb323 [PATCH] audit: more syscall classes added
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-11 13:32:27 -04:00
Al Viro c08037997d [PATCH] syscall classes hookup for ppc and s390
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-11 13:32:25 -04:00
Martin Schwidefsky af313e5a4f [S390] broken copy_in_user function.
The copy_in_user primitive does not work as advertised. If the source
and target area are available copy_in_user copies one byte too much.
If one of the memory areas is not available it does not copy as much
data as it can, but up to 257 bytes less.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-08-30 14:33:30 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 3e03a2fcb2 [S390] kernel page table allocation.
Don't waste DMA capable pages for identity mapping page tables.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-08-16 13:49:37 +02:00
Gerald Schaefer 5cb900a34f [S390] add __cpuinit to appldata_cpu_notify
Use __cpuinit for CPU hotplug notifier function.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-08-07 18:13:09 +02:00
Chandra Seetharaman be6b5a3505 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: use hotplug version of registration in late inits
Use hotplug version of register_cpu_notifier in late init functions.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:39 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky 468310a8a7 [S390] update default configuration
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-07-27 14:04:57 +02:00
Heiko Carstens d7cf0d57ef [S390] sysfs_create_xxx return values.
Take return values of sysfs_create_group & friends into account.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-07-18 13:46:58 +02:00
Heiko Carstens dc8f5d21dd [S390] .align 4096 statements in head.S
SLES9 binutils don't like .align 4096 statements in head.S. Work around this
by using .org statements.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-07-18 13:44:57 +02:00
Heiko Carstens d2c993d845 [S390] Fix sparse warnings.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-07-12 16:41:55 +02:00
Cornelia Huck 7e560814de [S390] path grouping and path verifications fixes.
1. Multipath devices for which SetPGID is not supported are not handled well.
   Use NOP ccws for path verification (sans path grouping) when SetPGID is not
   supported.
2. Check for PGIDs already set with SensePGID on _all_ paths (not just the
   first one) and try to find a common one. Moan if no common PGID can be
   found (and use NOP verification). If no PGIDs have been set, use the css
   global PGID (as before). (Rationale: SetPGID will get a command reject if
   the PGID it tries to set does not match the already set PGID.)
3. Immediately before reboot, issue RESET CHANNEL PATH (rcp) on all chpids. This
   will remove the old PGIDs. rcp will generate solicited CRWs which can be
   savely ignored by the machine check handler (all other actions create
   unsolicited CRWs).

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-07-12 16:40:19 +02:00
Heiko Carstens f84dfe8296 [PATCH] s390: remove BINFMT_ELF32 config option
Remove BINFMT_ELF32 config option.  Support should be always compiled in if
CONFIG_COMPAT is set.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:26 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 289fbc21ea [PATCH] disallow modular binfmt_elf32
Currently most architectures either always build binfmt_elf32 in the kernel
image or make it a boolean option.  Only sparc64 and s390 allow to build it
modularly.  This patch turns the option into a boolean aswell because elf
requires various symbols that shouldn't be available to modules.  The most
urgent one is tasklist_lock whos export this patch series kills, but there
are others like force_sgi aswell.

Note that sparc doesn't allow a modular 32bit a.out handler either, and
that would be the more useful case as only few people want 32bit sunos
compatibility and 99.9% of all sparc64 users need 32bit linux native elf
support.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:26 -07:00
Paul Mackerras 829035fd70 [PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, move account_system_vtime() calls into kernel/softirq.c
At the moment, powerpc and s390 have their own versions of do_softirq which
include local_bh_disable() and __local_bh_enable() calls.  They end up
calling __do_softirq (in kernel/softirq.c) which also does
local_bh_disable/enable.

Apparently the two levels of disable/enable trigger a warning from some
validation code that Ingo is working on, and he would like to see the outer
level removed.  But to do that, we have to move the account_system_vtime
calls that are currently in the arch do_softirq() implementations for
powerpc and s390 into the generic __do_softirq() (this is a no-op for other
archs because account_system_vtime is defined to be an empty inline
function on all other archs).  This patch does that.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:10 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 2b105ff9cc [PATCH] lockdep: enable on s390
Enable LOCKDEP_SUPPORT on s390.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:06 -07:00
Heiko Carstens 1f194a4c39 [PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, s390 support
irqtrace support for s390.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
Heiko Carstens 5bdc9b447c [PATCH] lockdep: stacktrace subsystem, s390 support
stacktrace interface for s390 as needed by lock validator.

[clg@fr.ibm.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
Heiko Carstens cbbd1fa72d [PATCH] lockdep: s390 CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER support
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER support for s390.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
Heiko Carstens d882b17251 [PATCH] s390: put sys_call_table into .rodata section and write protect it
Put s390's syscall tables into .rodata section and write protect this
section to prevent misuse of it.  Suggested by Arjan van de Ven
<arjan@infradead.org>.

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-01 09:56:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 22a3e233ca Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
  Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
  remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt
  arch/arm26/Kconfig typos
  Documentation/IPMI typos
  Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig
  v9fs: do not include linux/version.h
  Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes
  typo fixes: specfic -> specific
  typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
  typo fixes: occuring -> occurring
  typo fixes: infomation -> information
  typo fixes: disadvantadge -> disadvantage
  typo fixes: aquire -> acquire
  typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanism
  typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidth
  fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text
  smb is no longer maintained

Manually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
2006-06-30 15:39:30 -07:00
Christoph Lameter f8891e5e1f [PATCH] Light weight event counters
The remaining counters in page_state after the zoned VM counter patches
have been applied are all just for show in /proc/vmstat.  They have no
essential function for the VM.

We use a simple increment of per cpu variables.  In order to avoid the most
severe races we disable preempt.  Preempt does not prevent the race between
an increment and an interrupt handler incrementing the same statistics
counter.  However, that race is exceedingly rare, we may only loose one
increment or so and there is no requirement (at least not in kernel) that
the vm event counters have to be accurate.

In the non preempt case this results in a simple increment for each
counter.  For many architectures this will be reduced by the compiler to a
single instruction.  This single instruction is atomic for i386 and x86_64.
 And therefore even the rare race condition in an interrupt is avoided for
both architectures in most cases.

The patchset also adds an off switch for embedded systems that allows a
building of linux kernels without these counters.

The implementation of these counters is through inline code that hopefully
results in only a single instruction increment instruction being emitted
(i386, x86_64) or in the increment being hidden though instruction
concurrency (EPIC architectures such as ia64 can get that done).

Benefits:
- VM event counter operations usually reduce to a single inline instruction
  on i386 and x86_64.
- No interrupt disable, only preempt disable for the preempt case.
  Preempt disable can also be avoided by moving the counter into a spinlock.
- Handling is similar to zoned VM counters.
- Simple and easily extendable.
- Can be omitted to reduce memory use for embedded use.

References:

RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113512330605497&w=2
RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114988082814934&w=2
local_t http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114991748606690&w=2
V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115014808400007&r=1&w=2
V3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115024767022346&w=2
V4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115047968808926&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 347ce434d5 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagecache to per zone counter
Currently a single atomic variable is used to establish the size of the page
cache in the whole machine.  The zoned VM counters have the same method of
implementation as the nr_pagecache code but also allow the determination of
the pagecache size per zone.

Remove the special implementation for nr_pagecache and make it a zoned counter
named NR_FILE_PAGES.

Updates of the page cache counters are always performed with interrupts off.
We can therefore use the __ variant here.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:34 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00