linux-toradex.git/include, branch v2.6.16-rc6

[PATCH] remove __put_task_struct_cb export again

2006-03-11T17:19:34+00:00

The patch '[PATCH] RCU signal handling' [1] added an export for
__put_task_struct_cb, a put_task_struct helper newly introduced in that
patch.  But the put_task_struct couldn't be used modular previously as
__put_task_struct wasn't exported.  There are not callers of it in modular
code, and it shouldn't be exported because we don't want drivers to hold
references to task_structs.

This patch removes the export and folds __put_task_struct into
__put_task_struct_cb as there's no other caller.

[1] http://www2.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside

2006-03-11T17:19:34+00:00

This patch fixes illegal __GFP_FS allocation inside ext3 transaction in
ext3_symlink().  Such allocation may re-enter ext3 code from
try_to_free_pages.  But JBD/ext3 code keeps a pointer to current journal
handle in task_struct and, hence, is not reentrable.

This bug led to "Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata()" messages.

http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115

Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin 
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages.

2006-03-10T03:47:38+00:00

The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote
per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap.  For a machines with large number
of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms.
Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays.

This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable.
Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and
the per cpu pages from one remote node.  That reduces the time spend in
cache_reap.  However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to
completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches.  The
time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system.  All caches
are drained when they overflow their respective capacity.  So the drawback
here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer.

Details:

1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification
   of the node to drain of pcp pages.

2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA
   that manage a per cpu reap_node counter.

3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node.

For us this seems to be a critical issue.  Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms
cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly.  F.e.  NAS parallel
slows down dramatically.  NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor
compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches.  It gets down to 5.05 secs with
the additional interrupt holdoff reductions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] m68k: fix cmpxchg compile errors if CONFIG_RMW_INSNS=n

2006-03-10T03:47:38+00:00

We require that all archs implement atomic_cmpxchg(), for the generic
version of atomic_add_unless().

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mtd: 64 bit fixes

2006-03-10T03:47:37+00:00

Fix some bugs in mtd/jffs2 on 64bit platform.

The MEMGETBADBLOCK/MEMSETBADBLOCK ioctl are not listed in compat_ioctl.h.

And some variables in jffs2 are declared as uint32_t but used to hold
size_t values.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[MIPS] Undefine scr_writew and scr_readw in .

2006-03-09T18:05:10+00:00

    
This is gluing the build of cirrusfb but really the mess that would need
cleaning and fixing is  and  ...
    
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge

2006-03-09T02:11:00+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge:
  powerpc: Fix various syscall/signal/swapcontext bugs
  [PATCH] powerpc: incorrect rmo_top handling in prom_init
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix incorrect pud_ERROR() message
  [PATCH] powerpc: Expose SMT and L1 icache snoop userland features
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix windfarm_pm112 not starting all control loops
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix old g5 issues with windfarm
  powerpc32: Fix timebase synchronization on 32-bit powermacs
  powerpc: Turn off verbose debug output in powermac platform functions
  powerpc: Fix might-sleep warning in program check exception handler

[PATCH] i386: port ATI timer fix from x86_64 to i386 II

2006-03-09T02:10:31+00:00

ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC
timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled.  This is
because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU
ends up processing it twice.

This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0.

I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple
and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but
to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds
options to enable/disable too)

Ported over from a similar x86-64 change.

I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but
tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI.

Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone.

Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix kexec asm

2006-03-08T22:15:04+00:00

While testing kexec and kdump we hit problems where the new kernel would
freeze or instantly reboot.  The easiest way to trigger it was to kexec a
kernel compiled for CONFIG_M586 on an athlon cpu.  Compiling for CONFIG_MK7
instead would work fine.

The patch fixes a few problems with the kexec inline asm.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix file counting

2006-03-08T22:14:01+00:00

I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant
performance difference on kernbench.  Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc.

The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched
freeing.  For scalability reasons, file accounting was
constructor/destructor based.  This meant that nr_files was decremented
only when the object was removed from the slab cache.  This is susceptible
to slab fragmentation.  With RCU based file structure, consequent batched
freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up
with a very fragmented slab -

llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
587730  0       758844

At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache.  The following
patch I fixes this problem.

This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock.
Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all
accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api.  In the sysctl handler for
nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user.

Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to
inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds