- 16 Dec, 2009 40 commits
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Robin Holt authored
Under heavy load conditions, our set of xpc messages may become exhausted. The code handles this correctly with the exception of the management code which hits a NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by:
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Robin Holt authored
The UV BIOS has moved the location of some of their pointers to the "partition reserved page" from memory into a uv hub MMR. The GRU does not support bcopy operations from MMR space so we need to special case the MMR addresses using VLOAD operations. Additionally, the BIOS call for registering a message queue watchlist has removed the 'blade' value and eliminated the structure that was being passed in. This is also reflected in this patch. Signed-off-by:
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Robin Holt authored
The BIOS has decided to store a pointer to the partition reserved page in a scratch MMR. The GRU is only able to read an MMR using a vload instruction. The gru_read_gpa() function will implemented. Signed-off-by:
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Robin Holt authored
Provide a mechanism for determining if a global physical address is pointing to a UV hub MMR. Signed-off-by:
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Robin Holt authored
Provide an SGI SN2/UV agnositic method for converting a global physical address into a socket physical address. Signed-off-by:
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Robin Holt authored
The UV BIOS has been updated to implement some of our interface functionality differently than originally expected. These patches update the kernel to the bios implementation and include a few minor bug fixes which prevent us from doing significant testing on real hardware. This patch: For SGI UV systems, translate from a global physical address back to a socket physical address. This does nothing to ensure the socket physical address is actually addressable by the kernel. That is the responsibility of the user of the function. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Currently the locking in blockdev_direct_IO is a mess, we have three different locking types and very confusing checks for some of them. The most complicated one is DIO_OWN_LOCKING for reads, which happens to not actually be used. This patch gets rid of the DIO_OWN_LOCKING - as mentioned above the read case is unused anyway, and the write side is almost identical to DIO_NO_LOCKING. The difference is that DIO_NO_LOCKING always sets the create argument for the get_blocks callback to zero, but we can easily move that to the actual get_blocks callbacks. There are four users of the DIO_NO_LOCKING mode: gfs already ignores the create argument and thus is fine with the new version, ocfs2 only errors out if create were ever set, and we can remove this dead code now, the block device code only ever uses create for an error message if we are fully beyond the device which can never happen, and last but not least XFS will need the new behavour for writes. Now we can replace the lock_type variable with a flags one, where no flag means the DIO_NO_LOCKING behaviour and DIO_LOCKING is kept as the first flag. Separate out the check for not allowing to fill holes into a separate flag, although for now both flags always get set at the same time. Also revamp the documentation of the locking scheme to actually make sense. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Moyer authored
Intel reported a performance regression caused by the following commit: commit 848c4dd5 Author: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Date: Mon Aug 20 17:12:01 2007 -0700 dio: zero struct dio with kzalloc instead of manually This patch uses kzalloc to zero all of struct dio rather than manually trying to track which fields we rely on being zero. It passed aio+dio stress testing and some bug regression testing on ext3. This patch was introduced by Linus in the conversation that lead up to Badari's minimal fix to manually zero .map_bh.b_state in commit: 6a648fa7 It makes the code a bit smaller. Maybe a couple fewer cachelines to load, if we're lucky: text data bss dec hex filename 3285925 568506 1304616 5159047 4eb887 vmlinux 3285797 568506 1304616 5158919 4eb807 vmlinux.patched I was unable to measure a stable difference in the number of cpu cycles spent in blockdev_direct_IO() when pushing aio+dio 256K reads at ~340MB/s. So the resulting intent of the patch isn't a performance gain but to avoid exposing ourselves to the risk of finding another field like .map_bh.b_state where we rely on zeroing but don't enforce it in the code. Zach surmised that zeroing out the page array was what caused most of the problem, and suggested the approach taken in the attached patch for resolving the issue. Intel re-tested with this patch and saw a 0.6% performance gain (the original regression was 0.5%). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by:
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
Don't know the reason, but it appears ki_wait field of iocb never gets used. Signed-off-by:
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Andrew Morton's compiler sees the following warning in FS-Cache: fs/fscache/object-list.c: In function 'fscache_objlist_lookup': fs/fscache/object-list.c:94: warning: 'obj' may be used uninitialized in this function which my compiler doesn't. This is a false positive as obj can only be used in the comparison against minobj if minobj has been set to something other than NULL, but for that to happen, obj has to be first set to something. Deal with this by preclearing obj too. Reported-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Amerigo Wang authored
Implement shrinking the reserved memory for crash kernel, if it is more than enough. For example, if you have already reserved 128M, now you just want 100M, you can do: # echo $((100*1024*1024)) > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size Note, you can only do this before loading the crash kernel. Signed-off-by:
WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
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Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by:
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
dma_mask is, when interpreted as address, the last valid byte, and hence comparison msut also be done using the last valid of the buffer in question. Also fix the open-coded instances in lib/swiotlb.c. Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nils Carlson authored
Add support for 6 ranks per channel to the i5100 chipset. I have tested the patch as far as possible with correctible errors and things appear good. The DIMM mapping is correct for our board, but boards may differ. Signed-off-by:
Nils Carlson <nils.carlson@ludd.ltu.se> Acked-by:
Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by:
Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nils Carlson authored
Addscrubbing to the i5100 chipset. The i5100 chipset only supports one scrubbing rate, which is not constant but dependent on memory load. The rate returned by this driver is an estimate based on some experimentation, but is substantially closer to the truth than the speed supplied in the documentation. Also, scrubbing is done once, and then a done-bit is set. This means that to accomplish continuous scrubbing a re-enabling mechanism must be used. I have created the simplest possible such mechanism in the form of a work-queue which will check every five minutes. This interval is quite arbitrary but should be sufficient for all sizes of system memory. Signed-off-by:
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Nils Carlson authored
The i5100 driver uses the word controller instead of channel in a lot of places, this is simply a cleanup of the patch. Signed-off-by:
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André Goddard Rosa authored
It decreases code size by 16 bytes on my gcc 4.4.1 on Core 2: text data bss dec hex filename 4314 2216 8 6538 198a kernel/pid.o-BEFORE 4298 2216 8 6522 197a kernel/pid.o-AFTER Signed-off-by:
André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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André Goddard Rosa authored
Avoid calling kfree() under pidmap spinlock, calling it afterwards. Normally kfree() is fast, but sometimes it can be slow, so avoid calling it under the spinlock if we can do it. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Currently all architectures but microblaze unconditionally define USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP. The microblaze omission seems like an error to me, so let's kill this ifdef and make sure we are the same everywhere. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@petalogix.com> Signed-off-by:
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Julia Lawall authored
KCS_IDLE and KCS_IDLE state have the same value, but in this function the constants ending in _STATE are compared to the state variable. Signed-off-by:
Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Acked-by:
Core Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by:
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Amerigo Wang authored
We have HARD_MSGMAX lower on 64bit than on 32bit, since usually 64bit machines have more memory than 32bit machines. Making it higher on 64bit seems reasonable, and keep the original number on 32bit. Acked-by:
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Amerigo Wang authored
This line is unreachable, remove it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded initialisation of `err'] Signed-off-by:
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Manfred Spraul authored
If multiple simple decrements on the same semaphore are pending, then the current code scans all decrement operations, even if the semaphore value is already 0. The patch optimizes that: if the semaphore value is 0, then there is no need to scan the q->alter entries. Note that this is a common case: It happens if 100 decrements by one are pending and now an increment by one increases the semaphore value from 0 to 1. Without this patch, all 100 entries are scanned. With the patch, only one entry is scanned, then woken up. Then the new rule triggers and the scanning is aborted, without looking at the remaining 99 tasks. With this patch, single sop increment/decrement by 1 are now O(1). (same as with Nick's patch) Signed-off-by:
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Manfred Spraul authored
sysv sem has the concept of semaphore arrays that consist out of multiple semaphores. Atomic operations that affect multiple semaphores are supported. The patch optimizes single semaphore operation calls that affect only one semaphore: It's not necessary to scan all pending operations, it is sufficient to scan the per-semaphore list. The idea is from Nick Piggin version of an ipc sem improvement, the implementation is different: The code tries to keep as much common code as possible. As the result, the patch is simpler, but optimizes fewer cases. Signed-off-by:
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Manfred Spraul authored
Based on Nick's findings: sysv sem has the concept of semaphore arrays that consist out of multiple semaphores. Atomic operations that affect multiple semaphores are supported. The patch is the first step for optimizing simple, single semaphore operations: In addition to the global list of all pending operations, a 2nd, per-semaphore list with the simple operations is added. Note: this patch does not make sense by itself, the new list is used nowhere. Signed-off-by:
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Manfred Spraul authored
Reduce the amount of scanning of the list of pending semaphore operations: If try_atomic_semop failed, then no changes were applied. Thus no need to restart. Additionally, this patch correct an incorrect comment: It's possible to wait for arbitrary semaphore values (do a dec by <x>, wait-for-zero, inc by <x> in one atomic operation) Both changes are from Nick Piggin, the patch is the result of a different split of the individual changes. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
The strange sysv semaphore wakeup scheme has a kind of busy-wait lock involved, which could deadlock if preemption is enabled during the "lock". It is an implementation detail (due to a spinlock being held) that this is actually the case. However if "spinlocks" are made preemptible, or if the sem lock is changed to a sleeping lock for example, then the wakeup would become buggy. So this might be a bugfix for -rt kernels. Imagine waker being preempted by wakee and never clearing IN_WAKEUP -- if wakee has higher RT priority then there is a priority inversion deadlock. Even if there is not a priority inversion to cause a deadlock, then there is still time wasted spinning. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Replace the handcoded list operations in update_queue() with the standard list_for_each_entry macros. list_for_each_entry_safe() must be used, because list entries can disappear immediately uppon the wakeup event. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Around a month ago, there was some discussion about an improvement of the sysv sem algorithm: Most (at least: some important) users only use simple semaphore operations, therefore it's worthwile to optimize this use case. This patch: Move last looked up sem_undo struct to the head of the task's undo list. Attempt to move common entries to the front of the list so search time is reduced. This reduces lookup_undo on oprofile of problematic SAP workload by 30% (see patch 4 for a description of SAP workload). Signed-off-by:
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Serge E. Hallyn authored
We have apparently had a memory leak since 7ca7e564 "ipc: store ipcs into IDRs" in 2007. The idr of which 3 exist for each ipc namespace is never freed. This patch simply frees them when the ipcns is freed. I don't believe any idr_remove() are done from rcu (and could therefore be delayed until after this idr_destroy()), so the patch should be safe. Some quick testing showed no harm, and the memory leak fixed. Caught by kmemleak. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Move the call to do_signal_stop() down, after tracehook call. This makes ->group_stop_count condition visible to tracers before do_signal_stop() will participate in this group-stop. Currently the patch has no effect, tracehook_get_signal() always returns 0. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Kill force_sig_specific(), this trivial wrapper has no callers. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Trivial, s/0/SI_USER/ in collect_signal() for grep. This is a bit confusing, we don't know the source of this signal. But we don't care, and "info->si_code = 0" is imho worse. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Change send_signal() to use si_fromuser(). From now SEND_SIG_NOINFO triggers the "from_ancestor_ns" check. This fixes reparent_thread()->group_send_sig_info(pdeath_signal) behaviour, before this patch send_signal() does not detect the cross-namespace case when the child of the dying parent belongs to the sub-namespace. This patch can affect the behaviour of send_sig(), kill_pgrp() and kill_pid() when the caller sends the signal to the sub-namespace with "priv == 0" but surprisingly all callers seem to use them correctly, including disassociate_ctty(on_exit). Except: drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data/*.c incorrectly use send_sig(priv => 0). But his is minor and should be fixed anyway. Reported-by:
Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
No changes in compiled code. The patch adds the new helper, si_fromuser() and changes check_kill_permission() to use this helper. The real effect of this patch is that from now we "officially" consider SEND_SIG_NOINFO signal as "from user-space" signals. This is already true if we look at the code which uses SEND_SIG_NOINFO, except __send_signal() has another opinion - see the next patch. The naming of these special SEND_SIG_XXX siginfo's is really bad imho. From __send_signal()'s pov they mean SEND_SIG_NOINFO from user SEND_SIG_PRIV from kernel SEND_SIG_FORCED no info Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Suggested by Roland. Unlike powepc, x86 always calls tracehook_report_syscall_exit(step) with step = 0, and sends the trap by hand. This results in unnecessary SIGTRAP when PTRACE_SINGLESTEP follows the syscall-exit stop. Change syscall_trace_leave() to pass the correct "step" argument to tracehook and remove the send_sigtrap() logic. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Suggested by Roland. Implement user_single_step_siginfo() for x86. Extract this code from send_sigtrap(). Since x86 calls tracehook_report_syscall_exit(step => 0) the new helper is not used yet. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Suggested by Roland. Change tracehook_report_syscall_exit() to look at step flag and send the trap signal if needed. This change affects ia64, microblaze, parisc, powerpc, sh. They pass nonzero "step" argument to tracehook but since it was ignored the tracee reports via ptrace_notify(), this is not right and not consistent. - PTRACE_SETSIGINFO doesn't work - if the tracer resumes the tracee with signr != 0 the new signal is generated rather than delivering it - If PT_TRACESYSGOOD is set the tracee reports the wrong exit_code I don't have a powerpc machine, but I think this test-case should see the difference: #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <assert.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { int pid, status; if (!(pid = fork())) { assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) == 0); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); getppid(); return 0; } assert(pid == wait(&status)); assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, 0, PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD) == 0); assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SYSCALL, pid, 0,0) == 0); assert(pid == wait(&status)); assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0,0) == 0); assert(pid == wait(&status)); if (status == 0x57F) return 0; printf("kernel bug: status=%X shouldn't have 0x80\n", status); return 1; } Signed-off-by: -
Oleg Nesterov authored
Suggested by Roland. Implement user_single_step_siginfo() for powerpc. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Suggested by Roland. Currently there is no way to synthesize a single-stepping trap in the arch-independent manner. This patch adds the default helper which fills siginfo_t, arch/ can can override it. Architetures which implement user_enable_single_step() should add user_single_step_siginfo() also. Signed-off-by:
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