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<title>linux-toradex.git/include, branch v2.6.23-rc7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>sched: add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield</title>
<updated>2007-09-19T21:34:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-19T21:34:46+00:00</published>
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add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield to make sys_sched_yield()
more agressive, by moving the yielding task to the last position
in the rbtree.

with sched_compat_yield=0:

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2539 mingo     20   0  1576  252  204 R   50  0.0   0:02.03 loop_yield
  2541 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   50  0.0   0:02.05 loop

with sched_compat_yield=1:

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2584 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R   99  0.0   0:52.45 loop
  2582 mingo     20   0  1576  256  204 R    0  0.0   0:00.00 loop_yield

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
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add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield to make sys_sched_yield()
more agressive, by moving the yielding task to the last position
in the rbtree.

with sched_compat_yield=0:

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2539 mingo     20   0  1576  252  204 R   50  0.0   0:02.03 loop_yield
  2541 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   50  0.0   0:02.05 loop

with sched_compat_yield=1:

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2584 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R   99  0.0   0:52.45 loop
  2582 mingo     20   0  1576  256  204 R    0  0.0   0:00.00 loop_yield

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus</title>
<updated>2007-09-19T18:45:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-19T18:45:32+00:00</published>
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  [MIPS] cpu-bugs64.c: GCC 3.3 constraint workaround
  [MIPS] DEC: Initialise ioasic_ssr_lock
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  [MIPS] cpu-bugs64.c: GCC 3.3 constraint workaround
  [MIPS] DEC: Initialise ioasic_ssr_lock
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc</title>
<updated>2007-09-19T18:38:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-19T18:38:25+00:00</published>
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* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Fix timekeeping on PowerPC 601
  [POWERPC] Don't expose clock vDSO functions when CPU has no timebase
  [POWERPC] spusched: Fix null pointer dereference in find_victim
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* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Fix timekeeping on PowerPC 601
  [POWERPC] Don't expose clock vDSO functions when CPU has no timebase
  [POWERPC] spusched: Fix null pointer dereference in find_victim
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[MIPS] cpu-bugs64.c: GCC 3.3 constraint workaround</title>
<updated>2007-09-19T18:33:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-17T16:11:07+00:00</published>
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Add a workaround to address warnings generated on the "n" constraint by
GCC 3.3 and below.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Add a workaround to address warnings generated on the "n" constraint by
GCC 3.3 and below.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix NUMA Memory Policy Reference Counting</title>
<updated>2007-09-19T18:24:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lee Schermerhorn</name>
<email>Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-19T05:46:47+00:00</published>
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This patch proposes fixes to the reference counting of memory policy in the
page allocation paths and in show_numa_map().  Extracted from my "Memory
Policy Cleanups and Enhancements" series as stand-alone.

Shared policy lookup [shmem] has always added a reference to the policy,
but this was never unrefed after page allocation or after formatting the
numa map data.

Default system policy should not require additional ref counting, nor
should the current task's task policy.  However, show_numa_map() calls
get_vma_policy() to examine what may be [likely is] another task's policy.
The latter case needs protection against freeing of the policy.

This patch adds a reference count to a mempolicy returned by
get_vma_policy() when the policy is a vma policy or another task's
mempolicy.  Again, shared policy is already reference counted on lookup.  A
matching "unref" [__mpol_free()] is performed in alloc_page_vma() for
shared and vma policies, and in show_numa_map() for shared and another
task's mempolicy.  We can call __mpol_free() directly, saving an admittedly
inexpensive inline NULL test, because we know we have a non-NULL policy.

Handling policy ref counts for hugepages is a bit trickier.
huge_zonelist() returns a zone list that might come from a shared or vma
'BIND policy.  In this case, we should hold the reference until after the
huge page allocation in dequeue_hugepage().  The patch modifies
huge_zonelist() to return a pointer to the mempolicy if it needs to be
unref'd after allocation.

Kernel Build [16cpu, 32GB, ia64] - average of 10 runs:

		w/o patch	w/ refcount patch
	    Avg	  Std Devn	   Avg	  Std Devn
Real:	 100.59	    0.38	 100.63	    0.43
User:	1209.60	    0.37	1209.91	    0.31
System:   81.52	    0.42	  81.64	    0.34

Signed-off-by:  Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This patch proposes fixes to the reference counting of memory policy in the
page allocation paths and in show_numa_map().  Extracted from my "Memory
Policy Cleanups and Enhancements" series as stand-alone.

Shared policy lookup [shmem] has always added a reference to the policy,
but this was never unrefed after page allocation or after formatting the
numa map data.

Default system policy should not require additional ref counting, nor
should the current task's task policy.  However, show_numa_map() calls
get_vma_policy() to examine what may be [likely is] another task's policy.
The latter case needs protection against freeing of the policy.

This patch adds a reference count to a mempolicy returned by
get_vma_policy() when the policy is a vma policy or another task's
mempolicy.  Again, shared policy is already reference counted on lookup.  A
matching "unref" [__mpol_free()] is performed in alloc_page_vma() for
shared and vma policies, and in show_numa_map() for shared and another
task's mempolicy.  We can call __mpol_free() directly, saving an admittedly
inexpensive inline NULL test, because we know we have a non-NULL policy.

Handling policy ref counts for hugepages is a bit trickier.
huge_zonelist() returns a zone list that might come from a shared or vma
'BIND policy.  In this case, we should hold the reference until after the
huge page allocation in dequeue_hugepage().  The patch modifies
huge_zonelist() to return a pointer to the mempolicy if it needs to be
unref'd after allocation.

Kernel Build [16cpu, 32GB, ia64] - average of 10 runs:

		w/o patch	w/ refcount patch
	    Avg	  Std Devn	   Avg	  Std Devn
Real:	 100.59	    0.38	 100.63	    0.43
User:	1209.60	    0.37	1209.91	    0.31
System:   81.52	    0.42	  81.64	    0.34

Signed-off-by:  Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix user namespace exiting OOPs</title>
<updated>2007-09-19T18:24:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Emelyanov</name>
<email>xemul@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-19T05:46:45+00:00</published>
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It turned out, that the user namespace is released during the do_exit() in
exit_task_namespaces(), but the struct user_struct is released only during the
put_task_struct(), i.e.  MUCH later.

On debug kernels with poisoned slabs this will cause the oops in
uid_hash_remove() because the head of the chain, which resides inside the
struct user_namespace, will be already freed and poisoned.

Since the uid hash itself is required only when someone can search it, i.e.
when the namespace is alive, we can safely unhash all the user_struct-s from
it during the namespace exiting.  The subsequent free_uid() will complete the
user_struct destruction.

For example simple program

   #include &lt;sched.h&gt;

   char stack[2 * 1024 * 1024];

   int f(void *foo)
   {
   	return 0;
   }

   int main(void)
   {
   	clone(f, stack + 1 * 1024 * 1024, 0x10000000, 0);
   	return 0;
   }

run on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the
kernel immediately.

This was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It turned out, that the user namespace is released during the do_exit() in
exit_task_namespaces(), but the struct user_struct is released only during the
put_task_struct(), i.e.  MUCH later.

On debug kernels with poisoned slabs this will cause the oops in
uid_hash_remove() because the head of the chain, which resides inside the
struct user_namespace, will be already freed and poisoned.

Since the uid hash itself is required only when someone can search it, i.e.
when the namespace is alive, we can safely unhash all the user_struct-s from
it during the namespace exiting.  The subsequent free_uid() will complete the
user_struct destruction.

For example simple program

   #include &lt;sched.h&gt;

   char stack[2 * 1024 * 1024];

   int f(void *foo)
   {
   	return 0;
   }

   int main(void)
   {
   	clone(f, stack + 1 * 1024 * 1024, 0x10000000, 0);
   	return 0;
   }

run on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the
kernel immediately.

This was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert uid hash to hlist</title>
<updated>2007-09-19T18:24:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Emelyanov</name>
<email>xemul@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-19T05:46:44+00:00</published>
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Surprisingly, but (spotted by Alexey Dobriyan) the uid hash still uses
list_heads, thus occupying twice as much place as it could.  Convert it to
hlist_heads.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Surprisingly, but (spotted by Alexey Dobriyan) the uid hash still uses
list_heads, thus occupying twice as much place as it could.  Convert it to
hlist_heads.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Fix timekeeping on PowerPC 601</title>
<updated>2007-09-19T05:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-19T04:21:56+00:00</published>
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Recent changes to the timekeeping code broke support for the PowerPC 601
processor which doesn't have the usual timebase facility but a slightly
different thing called (yuck) the RTC.

This fixes it, boot tested on an old 601 based PowerMac 7200.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Recent changes to the timekeeping code broke support for the PowerPC 601
processor which doesn't have the usual timebase facility but a slightly
different thing called (yuck) the RTC.

This fixes it, boot tested on an old 601 based PowerMac 7200.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6</title>
<updated>2007-09-17T04:15:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-17T04:15:36+00:00</published>
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* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Warn user if cpu is ignored.
  [SPARC64]: Fix lockdep, particularly on SMP.
  [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
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* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Warn user if cpu is ignored.
  [SPARC64]: Fix lockdep, particularly on SMP.
  [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2007-09-17T04:14:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-17T04:14:54+00:00</published>
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* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [VLAN]: Fix net_device leak.
  [PPP] generic: Fix receive path data clobbering &amp; non-linear handling
  [PPP] generic: Call skb_cow_head before scribbling over skb
  [NET] skbuff: Add skb_cow_head
  [BRIDGE]: Kill clone argument to br_flood_*
  [PPP] pppoe: Fill in header directly in __pppoe_xmit
  [PPP] pppoe: Fix data clobbering in __pppoe_xmit and return value
  [PPP] pppoe: Fix skb_unshare_check call position
  [SCTP]: Convert bind_addr_list locking to RCU
  [SCTP]: Add RCU synchronization around sctp_localaddr_list
  [PKT_SCHED]: sch_cbq.c: Shut up uninitialized variable warning
  [PKTGEN]: srcmac fix
  [IPV6]: Fix source address selection.
  [IPV4]: Just increment OutDatagrams once per a datagram.
  [IPV6]: Just increment OutDatagrams once per a datagram.
  [IPV6]: Fix unbalanced socket reference with MSG_CONFIRM.
  [NET_SCHED] protect action config/dump from irqs
  [NET]: Fix two issues wrt. SO_BINDTODEVICE.
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* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [VLAN]: Fix net_device leak.
  [PPP] generic: Fix receive path data clobbering &amp; non-linear handling
  [PPP] generic: Call skb_cow_head before scribbling over skb
  [NET] skbuff: Add skb_cow_head
  [BRIDGE]: Kill clone argument to br_flood_*
  [PPP] pppoe: Fill in header directly in __pppoe_xmit
  [PPP] pppoe: Fix data clobbering in __pppoe_xmit and return value
  [PPP] pppoe: Fix skb_unshare_check call position
  [SCTP]: Convert bind_addr_list locking to RCU
  [SCTP]: Add RCU synchronization around sctp_localaddr_list
  [PKT_SCHED]: sch_cbq.c: Shut up uninitialized variable warning
  [PKTGEN]: srcmac fix
  [IPV6]: Fix source address selection.
  [IPV4]: Just increment OutDatagrams once per a datagram.
  [IPV6]: Just increment OutDatagrams once per a datagram.
  [IPV6]: Fix unbalanced socket reference with MSG_CONFIRM.
  [NET_SCHED] protect action config/dump from irqs
  [NET]: Fix two issues wrt. SO_BINDTODEVICE.
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