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Chris Metcalf aaeb012fe4 audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h>
Many of the syscalls mentioned in the audit code are not present
for architectures that implement only the "standard" set of
Linux syscalls (e.g. openat, but not open, etc.).  This change
adds proper #ifdefs for all those syscalls.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2011-05-04 14:41:28 -04:00
Ingo Molnar 32673822e4 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h

Merge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-27 10:40:21 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 42933bac11 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
Jason Baron d430d3d7e6 jump label: Introduce static_branch() interface
Introduce:

static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key);

instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro.

In this way, jump labels become really easy to use:

Define:

        struct jump_label_key jump_key;

Can be used as:

        if (static_branch(&jump_key))
                do unlikely code

enable/disale via:

        jump_label_inc(&jump_key);
        jump_label_dec(&jump_key);

that's it!

For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an
atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(),
atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below.

Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct.

Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into
the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in
basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous
hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write.

Testing:

I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3
configurations, where tracepoints were disabled.

jump label configured in
avg: 815.6

jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads)
avg: 800.1

jump label *not* configured in (regular reads)
avg: 803.4

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-04 12:48:08 -04:00
Mike Frysinger 6ea0c34dac percpu: Unify input section names
The two percpu helper macros have the section names duplicated.  So create
a new define to merge the two.  This also allows arches who need to link
things more directly themselves to avoid duplicating the input sections in
their linker script.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-04-04 01:41:32 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Steven Rostedt ccd0d44fad WARN_ON_SMP(): Add comment to explain ({0;})
The define to use ({0;}) for the !CONFIG_SMP case of WARN_ON_SMP()
can be confusing. As the WARN_ON_SMP() needs to be a nop when
CONFIG_SMP is not set, including all its parameters must not be
evaluated, and that it must work as both a stand alone statement
and inside an if condition, we define it to a funky ({0;}).

A simple "0" will not work as it causes gcc to give the warning that
the statement has no effect.

As this strange definition has raised a few eyebrows from some
major kernel developers, it is wise to document why we create such
a work of art.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-28 10:10:42 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 94df491c4a Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: Fix WARN_ON() test for UP
  WARN_ON_SMP(): Allow use in if() statements on UP
  x86, dumpstack: Use %pB format specifier for stack trace
  vsprintf: Introduce %pB format specifier
  lockdep: Remove unused 'factor' variable from lockdep_stats_show()
2011-03-25 17:52:22 -07:00
Steven Rostedt 2092e6be82 WARN_ON_SMP(): Allow use in if() statements on UP
Both WARN_ON() and WARN_ON_SMP() should be able to be used in
an if statement.

	if (WARN_ON_SMP(foo)) { ... }

Because WARN_ON_SMP() is defined as a do { } while (0) on UP,
it can not be used this way.

Convert it to the same form that WARN_ON() is, even when
CONFIG_SMP is off.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110317192208.444147791@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-25 11:32:09 +01:00
Tejun Heo 0415b00d17 percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE
Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
addresses should be aligned accordingly.  The calculation of the
former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel
image.

The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
percpu memory alignment.

This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE.  While at it,
add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
there.

For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area.  As the area
is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference.

This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot
failure on mn10300.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
2011-03-24 18:50:09 +01:00
Akinobu Mita 61f2e7b0f4 bitops: remove minix bitops from asm/bitops.h
minix bit operations are only used by minix filesystem and useless by
other modules.  Because byte order of inode and block bitmaps is different
on each architecture like below:

m68k:
	big-endian 16bit indexed bitmaps

h8300, microblaze, s390, sparc, m68knommu:
	big-endian 32 or 64bit indexed bitmaps

m32r, mips, sh, xtensa:
	big-endian 32 or 64bit indexed bitmaps for big-endian mode
	little-endian bitmaps for little-endian mode

Others:
	little-endian bitmaps

In order to move minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h to architecture
independent code in minix filesystem, this provides two config options.

CONFIG_MINIX_FS_BIG_ENDIAN_16BIT_INDEXED is only selected by m68k.
CONFIG_MINIX_FS_NATIVE_ENDIAN is selected by the architectures which use
native byte order bitmaps (h8300, microblaze, s390, sparc, m68knommu,
m32r, mips, sh, xtensa).  The architectures which always use little-endian
bitmaps do not select these options.

Finally, we can remove minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h for all
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:22 -07:00
Akinobu Mita f312eff816 bitops: remove ext2 non-atomic bitops from asm/bitops.h
As the result of conversions, there are no users of ext2 non-atomic bit
operations except for ext2 filesystem itself.  Now we can put them into
architecture independent code in ext2 filesystem, and remove from
asm/bitops.h for all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:21 -07:00
Akinobu Mita c56530055a asm-generic: use little-endian bitops
As a preparation for removing ext2 non-atomic bit operations from
asm/bitops.h.  This converts ext2 non-atomic bit operations to
little-endian bit operations.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:15 -07:00
Akinobu Mita 861b5ae7cd bitops: introduce little-endian bitops for most architectures
Introduce little-endian bit operations to the big-endian architectures
which do not have native little-endian bit operations and the
little-endian architectures.  (alpha, avr32, blackfin, cris, frv, h8300,
ia64, m32r, mips, mn10300, parisc, sh, sparc, tile, x86, xtensa)

These architectures can just include generic implementation
(asm-generic/bitops/le.h).

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:15 -07:00
Akinobu Mita a56560b3b2 asm-generic: change little-endian bitops to take any pointer types
This makes the little-endian bitops take any pointer types by changing the
prototypes and adding casts in the preprocessor macros.

That would seem to at least make all the filesystem code happier, and they
can continue to do just something like

  #define ext2_set_bit __test_and_set_bit_le

(or whatever the exact sequence ends up being).

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:12 -07:00
Akinobu Mita c4945b9ed4 asm-generic: rename generic little-endian bitops functions
As a preparation for providing little-endian bitops for all architectures,
This renames generic implementation of little-endian bitops.  (remove
"generic_" prefix and postfix "_le")

s/generic_find_next_le_bit/find_next_bit_le/
s/generic_find_next_zero_le_bit/find_next_zero_bit_le/
s/generic_find_first_zero_le_bit/find_first_zero_bit_le/
s/generic___test_and_set_le_bit/__test_and_set_bit_le/
s/generic___test_and_clear_le_bit/__test_and_clear_bit_le/
s/generic_test_le_bit/test_bit_le/
s/generic___set_le_bit/__set_bit_le/
s/generic___clear_le_bit/__clear_bit_le/
s/generic_test_and_set_le_bit/test_and_set_bit_le/
s/generic_test_and_clear_le_bit/test_and_clear_bit_le/

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:11 -07:00
Akinobu Mita 63ab595fb6 bitops: merge little and big endian definisions in asm-generic/bitops/le.h
This patch series introduces little-endian bit operations in asm/bitops.h
for all architectures and converts all ext2 non-atomic and minix bit
operations to use little-endian bit operations.  It enables us to remove
ext2 non-atomic and minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h.  The reason
they should be removed from asm/bitops.h is as follows:

For ext2 non-atomic bit operations, they are used for little-endian byte
order bitmap access by some filesystems and modules.  But using ext2_*()
functions on a module other than ext2 filesystem makes some feel strange.

For minix bit operations, they are only used by minix filesystem and are
useless by other modules.  Because byte order of inode and block bitmap is

This patch:

In order to make the forthcoming changes smaller, this merges macro
definisions in asm-generic/bitops/le.h for big-endian and little-endian as
much as possible.

This also removes unused BITOP_WORD macro.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:11 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori 3e50594e8e add the common dma_addr_t typedef to include/linux/types.h
All architectures can use the common dma_addr_t typedef now. We can
remove the arch specific dma_addr_t.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
Andrew Morton c7a1fcd8e6 include/asm-generic/unistd.h: fix syncfs syscall number
syncfs() is duplicating name_to_handle_at() due to a merging mistake.

Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:43:58 -07:00
Sage Weil b7ed78f565 introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system
It is frequently useful to sync a single file system, instead of all
mounted file systems via sync(2):

 - On machines with many mounts, it is not at all uncommon for some of
   them to hang (e.g. unresponsive NFS server).  sync(2) will get stuck on
   those and may never get to the one you do care about (e.g., /).
 - Some applications write lots of data to the file system and then
   want to make sure it is flushed to disk.  Calling fsync(2) on each
   file introduces unnecessary ordering constraints that result in a large
   amount of sub-optimal writeback/flush/commit behavior by the file
   system.

There are currently two ways (that I know of) to sync a single super_block:

 - BLKFLSBUF ioctl on the block device: That also invalidates the bdev
   mapping, which isn't usually desirable, and doesn't work for non-block
   file systems.
 - 'mount -o remount,rw' will call sync_filesystem as an artifact of the
   current implemention.  Relying on this little-known side effect for
   something like data safety sounds foolish.

Both of these approaches require root privileges, which some applications
do not have (nor should they need?) given that sync(2) is an unprivileged
operation.

This patch introduces a new system call syncfs(2) that takes an fd and
syncs only the file system it references.  Maybe someday we can

 $ sync /some/path

and not get

 sync: ignoring all arguments

The syscall is motivated by comments by Al and Christoph at the last LSF.
syncfs(2) seems like an appropriate name given statfs(2).

A similar ioctl was also proposed a while back, see
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=127970513829285&w=2

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-21 00:40:29 -04:00
Chris Metcalf 339dc50e59 asm-generic: support clock_adjtime() in <asm-generic/unistd.h>
A syscall was added without being added to asm-generic, which
makes tile (and presumably score and unicore32) break.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
2011-03-20 00:09:20 -04:00
Linus Torvalds e16b396ce3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (47 commits)
  doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymore
  Update cpuset info & webiste for cgroups
  dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected
  arch/arm/Kconfig: remove one to many l's in the word.
  asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment
  drm: fix printk typo 'sracth'
  Remove one to many n's in a word
  Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs
  drivers:scsi Change printk typo initate -> initiate
  serial, pch uart: Remove duplicate inclusion of linux/pci.h header
  fs/eventpoll.c: fix spelling
  mm: Fix out-of-date comments which refers non-existent functions
  drm: Fix printk typo 'failled'
  coh901318.c: Change initate to initiate.
  mbox-db5500.c Change initate to initiate.
  edac: correct i82975x error-info reported
  edac: correct i82975x mci initialisation
  edac: correct commented info
  fs: update comments to point correct document
  target: remove duplicate include of target/target_core_device.h from drivers/target/target_core_hba.c
  ...

Trivial conflict in fs/eventpoll.c (spelling vs addition)
2011-03-18 10:37:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ec0afc9311 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (55 commits)
  KVM: unbreak userspace that does not sets tss address
  KVM: MMU: cleanup pte write path
  KVM: MMU: introduce a common function to get no-dirty-logged slot
  KVM: fix rcu usage in init_rmode_* functions
  KVM: fix kvmclock regression due to missing clock update
  KVM: emulator: Fix permission checking in io permission bitmap
  KVM: emulator: Fix io permission checking for 64bit guest
  KVM: SVM: Load %gs earlier if CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS=n
  KVM: x86: Remove useless regs_page pointer from kvm_lapic
  KVM: improve comment on rcu use in irqfd_deassign
  KVM: MMU: remove unused macros
  KVM: MMU: cleanup page alloc and free
  KVM: MMU: do not record gfn in kvm_mmu_pte_write
  KVM: MMU: move mmu pages calculated out of mmu lock
  KVM: MMU: set spte accessed bit properly
  KVM: MMU: fix kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access dropping intermediate W bits
  KVM: Start lock documentation
  KVM: better readability of efer_reserved_bits
  KVM: Clear async page fault hash after switching to real mode
  KVM: VMX: Initialize vm86 TSS only once.
  ...
2011-03-17 18:40:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7b7adc4a01 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/epip/linux-2.6-unicore32
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/epip/linux-2.6-unicore32: (40 commits)
  unicore32: rewrite arch-specific tlb.h to use asm-generic version
  unicore32: modify io_p2v and io_v2p macros, and adjust PKUNITY_mmio_BASEs
  unicore32: replace unicore32-specific iomap functions with generic lib implementation
  unicore32 machine related: add frame buffer driver for pkunity-v3 soc
  unicore32 machine related files: add i2c bus drivers for pkunity-v3 soc
  unicore32 io: redefine __REG(x) and re-use readl/writel funcs
  unicore32 i8042 upgrade and bugfix: adjust resource request region type
  unicore32 upgrade to v2.6.38-rc5: add one more paramter for pte_alloc_map call
  unicore32 i8042: adjust io funcs of i8042-unicore32io.h
  unicore32: rename PKUNITY_IOSPACE_BASE to PKUNITY_MMIO_BASE
  unicore32: modify function names and parameters for irq_chips
  unicore32: remove unused lines in arch/unicore32/include/asm/irq.h
  unicore32 time.c: change calculate method for clock_event_device
  unicore32: ADD MAINTAINER for unicore32 architecture
  unicore32 machine related files: ps2 driver
  unicore32 machine related files: pci bus handling
  unicore32 machine related files: hardware registers
  unicore32 machine related files: core files
  unicore32 additional architecture files: boot process
  unicore32 additional architecture files: low-level lib: misc
  ...

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-03-17 10:11:25 -07:00
Huang Ying 69ebb83e13 mm: make __get_user_pages return -EHWPOISON for HWPOISON page optionally
Make __get_user_pages return -EHWPOISON for HWPOISON page only if
FOLL_HWPOISON is specified.  With this patch, the interested callers
can distinguish HWPOISON pages from general FAULT pages, while other
callers will still get -EFAULT for all these pages, so the user space
interface need not to be changed.

This feature is needed by KVM, where UCR MCE should be relayed to
guest for HWPOISON page, while instruction emulation and MMIO will be
tried for general FAULT page.

The idea comes from Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-03-17 13:08:27 -03:00
GuanXuetao 7f509a9ef7 asm-generic headers: add arch-specific __strnlen_user calling in uaccess.h
This patch changes the implementation of strnlen_user in include/asm-generic/uaccess.h.
Originally, it calls strlen() function directly, which may not correctly handle the access of
user space in most mmu-enabled architectures.
New __strnlen_user is added for using as an architecture specific function.

Signed-off-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-03-17 09:19:05 +08:00
GuanXuetao 38f5bf84bd asm-generic headers: add ftrace.h
This patch adds ftrace.h into asm-generic headers.
The file content could be empty in most architectures.

Signed-off-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-03-17 09:19:04 +08:00
GuanXuetao d232b128e2 asm-generic headers: add sizes.h
This patch adds sizes.h into asm-generic headers.
Only 32-bit version supported.

Signed-off-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-03-17 09:19:04 +08:00
GuanXuetao 7dc59bdde7 asm-generic: fix inX/outX functions for architectures that have PCI
The definitions for the PC-style PIO functions in asm-generic/io.h were
meant as dummies so you could compile code on architectures without
ISA and PCI buses. However, unicore32 actually wants to use them
with a real PCI bus, so they need to be defined to actually address
the register window holding the I/O ports.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-03-17 09:19:03 +08:00
Linus Torvalds e6bee325e4 Merge branch 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6
* 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (76 commits)
  pch_uart: reference clock on CM-iTC
  pch_phub: add new device ML7213
  n_gsm: fix UIH control byte : P bit should be 0
  n_gsm: add a documentation
  serial: msm_serial_hs: Add MSM high speed UART driver
  tty_audit: fix tty_audit_add_data live lock on audit disabled
  tty: move cd1865.h to drivers/staging/tty/
  Staging: tty: fix build with epca.c driver
  pcmcia: synclink_cs: fix prototype for mgslpc_ioctl()
  Staging: generic_serial: fix double locking bug
  nozomi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  tty/serial: Relax the device_type restriction from of_serial
  MAINTAINERS: Update HVC file patterns
  tty: phase out of ioctl file pointer for tty3270 as well
  tty: forgot to remove ipwireless from drivers/char/pcmcia/Makefile
  pch_uart: Fix DMA channel miss-setting issue.
  pch_uart: fix exclusive access issue
  pch_uart: fix auto flow control miss-setting issue
  pch_uart: fix uart clock setting issue
  pch_uart : Use dev_xxx not pr_xxx
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/misc/pch_phub.c (same patch applied
twice, then changes to the same area in one branch)
2011-03-16 15:11:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 79d8a8f736 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() support
  percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double()
  alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script
  percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S due to the
percpu alignment having changed ("x86: Reduce back the alignment of the
per-CPU data section")
2011-03-16 08:22:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9620639b7e Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
  sched: Resched proper CPU on yield_to()
  sched: Allow users with sufficient RLIMIT_NICE to change from SCHED_IDLE policy
  sched: Allow SCHED_BATCH to preempt SCHED_IDLE tasks
  sched: Clean up the IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code
  sched: Add #ifdef around irq time accounting functions
  sched, autogroup: Stop claiming ownership of the root task group
  sched, autogroup: Stop going ahead if autogroup is disabled
  sched, autogroup, sysctl: Use proc_dointvec_minmax() instead
  sched: Fix the group_imb logic
  sched: Clean up some f_b_g() comments
  sched: Clean up remnants of sd_idle
  sched: Wholesale removal of sd_idle logic
  sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality
  sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
  sched: Limit the scope of clear_buddies
  sched: Check the right ->nr_running in yield_task_fair()
  sched: Avoid expensive initial update_cfs_load(), on UP too
  sched: Fix switch_from_fair()
  sched: Simplify the idle scheduling class
  softirqs: Account ksoftirqd time as cpustat softirq
  ...
2011-03-15 18:37:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a926021cb1 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (184 commits)
  perf probe: Clean up probe_point_lazy_walker() return value
  tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max buffer
  tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer
  tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event()
  tracing: Explain about unstable clock on resume with ring buffer warning
  ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before updating index
  ftrace: Add .ref.text as one of the safe areas to trace
  tracing: Adjust conditional expression latency formatting.
  tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb
  tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record
  tracing: Fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall
  tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request
  tracing: Fix event alignment: ftrace:context_switch and ftrace:wakeup
  tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
  perf header: Stop using 'self'
  perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes
  perf top: Don't let events to eat up whole header line
  perf top: Fix events overflow in top command
  ring-buffer: Remove unused #include <linux/trace_irq.h>
  tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
  ...
2011-03-15 18:31:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b80cd62b7d Merge branch 'core-futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  arm: Remove bogus comment in futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
  futex: Deobfuscate handle_futex_death()
  plist: Add priority list test
  plist: Shrink struct plist_head
  futex,plist: Remove debug lock assignment from plist_node
  futex,plist: Pass the real head of the priority list to plist_del()
  futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types
  futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API
  futex: Remove redundant pagefault_disable in futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
  futex: Avoid redudant evaluation of task_pid_vnr()
  futex: Update futex_wait_setup comments about locking
2011-03-15 18:23:52 -07:00
Al Viro 1abf0c718f New kind of open files - "location only".
New flag for open(2) - O_PATH.  Semantics:
	* pathname is resolved, but the file itself is _NOT_ opened
as far as filesystem is concerned.
	* almost all operations on the resulting descriptors shall
fail with -EBADF.  Exceptions are:
	1) operations on descriptors themselves (i.e.
		close(), dup(), dup2(), dup3(), fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD),
		fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, ...), fcntl(fd, F_GETFD),
		fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, ...))
	2) fcntl(fd, F_GETFL), for a common non-destructive way to
		check if descriptor is open
	3) "dfd" arguments of ...at(2) syscalls, i.e. the starting
		points of pathname resolution
	* closing such descriptor does *NOT* affect dnotify or
posix locks.
	* permissions are checked as usual along the way to file;
no permission checks are applied to the file itself.  Of course,
giving such thing to syscall will result in permission checks (at
the moment it means checking that starting point of ....at() is
a directory and caller has exec permissions on it).

fget() and fget_light() return NULL on such descriptors; use of
fget_raw() and fget_raw_light() is needed to get them.  That protects
existing code from dealing with those things.

There are two things still missing (they come in the next commits):
one is handling of symlinks (right now we refuse to open them that
way; see the next commit for semantics related to those) and another
is descriptor passing via SCM_RIGHTS datagrams.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-15 02:21:45 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V a51571ccb8 unistd.h: Add new syscalls numbers to asm-generic
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-15 02:21:45 -04:00
Michel Lespinasse 8d7718aa08 futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types
Change futex_atomic_op_inuser and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
prototypes to use u32 types for the futex as this is the data type the
futex core code uses all over the place.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110311025058.GD26122@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-11 12:23:31 +01:00
Michel Lespinasse 37a9d912b2 futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API
The cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API was funny in that it returned either
the original, user-exposed futex value OR an error code such as -EFAULT.
This was confusing at best, and could be a source of livelocks in places
that retry the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked after trying to fix the issue
by running fault_in_user_writeable().
    
This change makes the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API more similar to the
get_futex_value_locked one, returning an error code and updating the
original value through a reference argument.
    
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>  [tile]
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>  [ia64]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>  [microblaze]
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [frv]
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110311024851.GC26122@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-11 12:23:08 +01:00
Jiri Olsa ea7145477a x86: Separate out entry text section
Put x86 entry code into a separate link section: .entry.text.

Separating the entry text section seems to have performance
benefits - caused by more efficient instruction cache usage.

Running hackbench with perf stat --repeat showed that the change
compresses the icache footprint. The icache load miss rate went
down by about 15%:

 before patch:
         19417627  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.147% )

 after patch:
         16490788  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.180% )

The motivation of the patch was to fix a particular kprobes
bug that relates to the entry text section, the performance
advantage was discovered accidentally.

Whole perf output follows:

 - results for current tip tree:

  Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):

         19417627  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.147% )
       2676914223  instructions             #      0.497 IPC     ( +- 0.079% )
       5389516026  cycles                     ( +-   0.144% )

      0.206267711  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.138% )

 - results for current tip tree with the patch applied:

  Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):

         16490788  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.180% )
       2717734941  instructions             #      0.502 IPC     ( +- 0.079% )
       5414756975  cycles                     ( +-   0.148% )

      0.206747566  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.137% )

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20110307181039.GB15197@jolsa.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-08 17:22:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar e0a92c1747 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge reason: Add fixes before applying dependent patches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-04 11:12:26 +01:00
Tobias Klauser 9b4f06fae4 asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment
Fix two misspellings.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-03-01 15:49:39 +01:00
Ben Hutchings fbd7184485 mm: <asm-generic/pgtable.h> must include <linux/mm_types.h>
Commit e2cda32264 ("thp: add pmd mangling generic functions") replaced
some macros in <asm-generic/pgtable.h> with inline functions.

If the functions are to be defined (not all architectures need them)
then struct vm_area_struct must be defined first.  So include
<linux/mm_types.h>.

Fixes a build failure seen in Debian:

    CC [M]  drivers/media/dvb/mantis/mantis_pci.o
  In file included from arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h:460,
                   from drivers/media/dvb/mantis/mantis_pci.c:25:
  include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function 'ptep_test_and_clear_young':
  include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:29: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-28 17:46:49 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman f227e08b71 Merge 2.6.38-rc6 into tty-next
This was to resolve a merge issue with drivers/char/Makefile and
drivers/tty/serial/68328serial.c

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-24 11:36:31 -08:00
Kay Sievers 3c95c985fa tty: add TIOCVHANGUP to allow clean tty shutdown of all ttys
This is useful for system management software so that it can kick
off things like gettys and everything that's started from a tty,
before we reuse it from/for something else or shut it down.

Without this ioctl it would have to temporarily become the owner of
the tty, then call vhangup() and then give it up again.

Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-17 14:16:30 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 48fa4b8ecf Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc5' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-16 13:31:55 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 3d56e331b6 tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array
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>
2011-02-03 09:29:06 -05:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 6549864629 tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array
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>
2011-02-03 09:28:46 -05:00
Steven Rostedt e4a9ea5ee7 tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array
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>
2011-02-02 21:37:13 -05:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi a1dabb6bff time: Add nsecs_to_cputime64 interface for asm-generic
Add nsecs_to_cputime64 interface. This is used in following patches that
updates cpu irq stat based on ns granularity info in IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING.

Tested-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1292980144-28796-3-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:33:20 +01:00
Tejun Heo 19df0c2fef percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline
Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and performance degradation.

This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
size and use it to align percpu subsections.

This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
2011-01-25 14:26:50 +01:00
Dmitry Torokhov e94965ed5b module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs
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>
2011-01-24 14:32:51 +10:30
Andrea Arcangeli b3697c0255 fix non-x86 build failure in pmdp_get_and_clear
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>
2011-01-16 15:05:44 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli 1ddd6db43a thp: mm: define MADV_NOHUGEPAGE
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>
2011-01-13 17:32:47 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli e2cda32264 thp: add pmd mangling generic functions
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>
2011-01-13 17:32:40 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli 5f6e8da70a thp: special pmd_trans_* functions
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>
2011-01-13 17:32:40 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli a826e42242 thp: mm: define MADV_HUGEPAGE
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>
2011-01-13 17:32:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d8a3515e2a Revert "gpiolib: annotate gpio-intialization with __must_check"
This reverts commit 0fdae42d36, 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>
2011-01-13 17:26:46 -08:00
Wolfram Sang 0fdae42d36 gpiolib: annotate gpio-intialization with __must_check
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>
2011-01-13 08:03:14 -08:00
Shaohua Li 8369744fc4 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: make readmostly section correctly align
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>
2011-01-13 08:03:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0be8c8bd1d Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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
  ...
2011-01-10 17:06:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0bd2cbcdfa Merge branch 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6
* '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.
2011-01-10 08:57:03 -08:00
Mike Frysinger efb2d31c1c asm-generic/io.h: add reads[bwl]/writes[bwl] helpers
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>
2011-01-10 07:18:03 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 72eb6a7914 Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of 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.
2011-01-07 17:02:58 -08:00
Dirk Brandewie aab94339cd of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinux
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>
2010-12-23 14:43:00 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 909ea96468 core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.
__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>
2010-12-17 15:07:19 +01:00
Werner Fink b7b8de0873 TTY: Add tty ioctl to figure device node of the system console.
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>
2010-12-16 16:18:28 -08:00
Chris Metcalf 2c7387ef99 asm-generic/stat.h: support 64-bit file time_t for stat()
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>
2010-11-01 15:31:29 -04:00
Al Viro af2951325b audit: make link()/linkat() match "attribute change" predicate
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-30 08:45:43 -04:00
Linus Torvalds c9e2a72ff1 Merge branch 'kbuild' of 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
2010-10-28 15:13:55 -07:00
Michael Holzheu d57af9b214 taskstats: use real microsecond granularity for CPU times
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>
2010-10-27 18:03:17 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov 09cd9527d6 gpiolib: fix HAVE_GPIO_LIB leftovers in asm-generic/gpio.h
commit 7444a72eff ("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>
2010-10-27 18:03:06 -07:00
Mike Frysinger d88262623f vmlinux.lds.h: lower init ramfs alignment to 4
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>
2010-10-26 16:52:13 -07:00
Mike Frysinger d356c0b680 vmlinux.lds.h: gather .data..shared_aligned sections in DATA_DATA
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>
2010-10-26 16:52:13 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky e2b8d7af0e [S390] add support for nonquiescing sske
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>
2010-10-25 16:10:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 73ecf3a6e3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6
* 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
  ...
2010-10-22 19:59:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0fc0531e0a Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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
2010-10-22 17:31:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds db08bf0877 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
* 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
2010-10-22 11:17:06 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney 8bc3372d9e ioctl: Use asm-generic/ioctls.h on cris (enables termiox)
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>
2010-10-22 10:19:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e36f561a2c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-irqflags
* 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
2010-10-21 14:37:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c3b86a2942 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of 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
2010-10-21 13:47:29 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 2aeb66d303 x86-32, percpu: Correct the ordering of the percpu readmostly section
Checkin c957ef2c59 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>
2010-10-21 00:15:00 -07:00
Shaohua Li c957ef2c59 percpu: Introduce a read-mostly percpu API
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>
2010-10-20 14:33:58 -07:00
Mike Frysinger 35dbc0e020 asm-generic/io.h: allow people to override individual funcs
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>
2010-10-18 09:20:46 +02:00
Akinobu Mita d852a6afd9 bitops: remove duplicated extern declarations
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>
2010-10-09 21:51:45 +02:00
Akinobu Mita 708ff2a009 bitops: make asm-generic/bitops/find.h more generic
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>
2010-10-09 21:51:44 +02:00
Andrea Gelmini c24cef0b68 asm-generic: kdebug.h: Checkpatch cleanup
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>
2010-10-09 21:51:44 +02:00
Lucian Adrian Grijincu 269b8fd5d0 asm-generic: fcntl: make exported headers use strict posix types
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>
2010-10-09 21:51:43 +02:00
Mathieu Lacage c669112663 asm-generic: cmpxchg does not handle non-long arguments
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>
2010-10-09 21:51:27 +02:00
Mathieu Lacage 8b9d40691e asm-generic: make atomic_add_unless a function
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>
2010-10-09 21:36:35 +02:00
David Howells df9ee29270 Fix IRQ flag handling naming
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
2010-10-07 14:08:55 +01:00
Hendrik Brueckner ffe8018c34 initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation
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>
2010-09-29 16:28:59 +02:00
Jason Baron bf5438fca2 jump label: Base patch for jump label
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>
2010-09-22 16:29:41 -04:00
Ingo Molnar 3aabae7d9d Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-09-15 10:27:31 +02:00
Brian Gerst 677243d749 percpu: Optimize __get_cpu_var()
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>
2010-09-10 10:56:51 +02:00
Brian Gerst db7829c6cc x86, percpu: Optimize this_cpu_ptr
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>
2010-09-10 10:56:47 +02:00
David Brownell c956126c13 gpio: doc updates
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>
2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3b8fad3e2f irq: Fix circular headers dependency
asm-generic/hardirq.h needs asm/irq.h which might include
linux/interrupt.h as in the sparc 32 case. At this point
we need irq_cpustat generic definitions, but those are
included later in asm-generic/hardirq.h.

Then delay a bit the inclusion of irq.h from
asm-generic/hardirq.h, it doesn't need to be included early.

This fixes:

 include/linux/interrupt.h: In function '__raise_softirq_irqoff':
 include/linux/interrupt.h:414: error: implicit declaration of function 'local_softirq_pending'
 include/linux/interrupt.h:414: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Koki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Cc: scott.a.mcmillan@intel.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com
LKML-Reference: <20100908122557.GA5310@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 21:28:58 +02:00
Linus Torvalds ce7db282a3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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: fix a mismatch between code and comment
  percpu: fix a memory leak in pcpu_extend_area_map()
  percpu: add __percpu notations to UP allocator
  percpu: handle __percpu notations in UP accessors
2010-09-07 14:08:37 -07:00
Shaohua Li 61c77326d1 x86, mm: Avoid unnecessary TLB flush
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>
2010-08-23 10:04:57 -07:00
David Howells d15ca32037 Fix the declaration of sys_execve() in asm-generic/syscalls.h
Fix the declaration of sys_execve() in asm-generic/syscalls.h to have
various consts applied to its pointers.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-18 12:12:38 -07:00