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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/syscalls.h, branch Colibri_T30_LinuxImageV2.1Beta2_20140206</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>All Arch: remove linkage for sys_nfsservctl system call</title>
<updated>2011-08-26T22:09:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
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<published>2011-08-26T22:03:11+00:00</published>
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The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all
linkage for it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all
linkage for it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T01:10:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-26T01:10:16+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd:
  net: fix get_net_ns_by_fd for !CONFIG_NET_NS
  ns proc: Return -ENOENT for a nonexistent /proc/self/ns/ entry.
  ns: Declare sys_setns in syscalls.h
  net: Allow setting the network namespace by fd
  ns proc: Add support for the ipc namespace
  ns proc: Add support for the uts namespace
  ns proc: Add support for the network namespace.
  ns: Introduce the setns syscall
  ns: proc files for namespace naming policy.
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd:
  net: fix get_net_ns_by_fd for !CONFIG_NET_NS
  ns proc: Return -ENOENT for a nonexistent /proc/self/ns/ entry.
  ns: Declare sys_setns in syscalls.h
  net: Allow setting the network namespace by fd
  ns proc: Add support for the ipc namespace
  ns proc: Add support for the uts namespace
  ns proc: Add support for the network namespace.
  ns: Introduce the setns syscall
  ns: proc files for namespace naming policy.
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<entry>
<title>ns: Declare sys_setns in syscalls.h</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T22:30:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-11T21:06:58+00:00</published>
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Ooops I overlooked this one, and missing it causes compile
errors of the powerpc syscall.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<pre>
Ooops I overlooked this one, and missing it causes compile
errors of the powerpc syscall.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Add sendmmsg socket system call</title>
<updated>2011-05-05T18:10:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-02T20:21:35+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a multiple message send syscall and is the send
version of the existing recvmmsg syscall. This is heavily
based on the patch by Arnaldo that added recvmmsg.

I wrote a microbenchmark to test the performance gains of using
this new syscall:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/sendmmsg_test.c

The test was run on a ppc64 box with a 10 Gbit network card. The
benchmark can send both UDP and RAW ethernet packets.

64B UDP

batch   pkts/sec
1       804570
2       872800 (+ 8 %)
4       916556 (+14 %)
8       939712 (+17 %)
16      952688 (+18 %)
32      956448 (+19 %)
64      964800 (+20 %)

64B raw socket

batch   pkts/sec
1       1201449
2       1350028 (+12 %)
4       1461416 (+22 %)
8       1513080 (+26 %)
16      1541216 (+28 %)
32      1553440 (+29 %)
64      1557888 (+30 %)

We see a 20% improvement in throughput on UDP send and 30%
on raw socket send.

[ Add sparc syscall entries. -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch adds a multiple message send syscall and is the send
version of the existing recvmmsg syscall. This is heavily
based on the patch by Arnaldo that added recvmmsg.

I wrote a microbenchmark to test the performance gains of using
this new syscall:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/sendmmsg_test.c

The test was run on a ppc64 box with a 10 Gbit network card. The
benchmark can send both UDP and RAW ethernet packets.

64B UDP

batch   pkts/sec
1       804570
2       872800 (+ 8 %)
4       916556 (+14 %)
8       939712 (+17 %)
16      952688 (+18 %)
32      956448 (+19 %)
64      964800 (+20 %)

64B raw socket

batch   pkts/sec
1       1201449
2       1350028 (+12 %)
4       1461416 (+22 %)
8       1513080 (+26 %)
16      1541216 (+28 %)
32      1553440 (+29 %)
64      1557888 (+30 %)

We see a 20% improvement in throughput on UDP send and 30%
on raw socket send.

[ Add sparc syscall entries. -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system</title>
<updated>2011-03-21T04:40:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sage Weil</name>
<email>sage@newdream.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-10T19:31:30+00:00</published>
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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&amp;m=127970513829285&amp;w=2

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@newdream.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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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&amp;m=127970513829285&amp;w=2

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@newdream.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2011-03-16T01:53:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-16T01:53:35+00:00</published>
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* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits)
  posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls
  hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer()
  hrtimer: Update hrtimer-&gt;state documentation
  hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly
  timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface
  timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base
  time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep
  time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime
  hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids
  ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check
  mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update()
  posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks
  posix-timers: Cleanup namespace
  posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks
  x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86
  posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.
  time: Splitout compat timex accessors
  ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit
  time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset
  posix-timer: Update comment
  ...

Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
	arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
(name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some
due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in:
	kernel/time.c
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* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits)
  posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls
  hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer()
  hrtimer: Update hrtimer-&gt;state documentation
  hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly
  timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface
  timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base
  time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep
  time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime
  hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids
  ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check
  mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update()
  posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks
  posix-timers: Cleanup namespace
  posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks
  x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86
  posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.
  time: Splitout compat timex accessors
  ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit
  time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset
  posix-timer: Update comment
  ...

Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
	arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
(name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some
due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in:
	kernel/time.c
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2011-03-16T01:31:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-16T01:31:30+00:00</published>
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* '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 &lt;linux/trace_irq.h&gt;
  tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
  ...
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* '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 &lt;linux/trace_irq.h&gt;
  tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
  ...
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<entry>
<title>vfs: Add open by file handle support</title>
<updated>2011-03-15T06:21:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-29T13:13:26+00:00</published>
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[AV: duplicate of open() guts removed; file_open_root() used instead]

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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[AV: duplicate of open() guts removed; file_open_root() used instead]

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support</title>
<updated>2011-03-15T06:21:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-29T13:13:26+00:00</published>
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The syscall also return mount id which can be used
to lookup file system specific information such as uuid
in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/mountinfo

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The syscall also return mount id which can be used
to lookup file system specific information such as uuid
in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/mountinfo

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Compile time initialization for event flags value</title>
<updated>2011-02-08T22:14:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lai Jiangshan</name>
<email>laijs@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-26T08:49:00+00:00</published>
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Compile time initialization is better than runtime initialization.

Remove many early_initcall()s and many trace_init_flags_##name()s.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4D3FDFFC.6030304@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Compile time initialization is better than runtime initialization.

Remove many early_initcall()s and many trace_init_flags_##name()s.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4D3FDFFC.6030304@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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