- 14 May, 2004 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
Be consistent about d_vfs_flags locking: take dentry->d_lock when modifying it.
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Andrew Morton authored
A few filesystems modify dentry.d_flags under non-obvious locking. To consolidate that field wth d_vfs_flags they need to take ->d_lock
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> * The Kconfig and Makefile in drivers/message/i2o still got a CONFIG_I2O_PCI entry, which is not used anymore. This one is replaced by a CONFIG_I2O_CONFIG entry, which now builds the i2o_config module.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> * provides i2o_context_list_*() functions, which maps 64-bit pointers to 32-bit context id's in a dynamic list. On 32-bit systems the functions are replaced with a static inline. * i2o_scsi now uses the i2o_context_list_*() functions for transaction context, and therefore now work on 64-bit systems too.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> * more than 3 "visible" disks (hda, hdb, hdc, hdd) lead to kernel panics. * removes some unused code with partitions. * I2O_LOCK was often called with the addresses of the controller, and not with the address of the device. Fixed. * the cleanup function for gendisk (del_gendisk) doesn't work if the queue is shared between different devices. To workaround the queue is removed before. * redundant code removed in module initialization and remove, use i2ob_new_device and i2ob_del_device instead. * removed atomic_t queue_depth * removed unnecessary and bogus code for queue handling
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Fix 64-bit problems.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> * Add a pass-thru ioctl to i2o_config, which is needed to work with the Adaptec management software.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> * Changes the formating of the header in i2o_config.c
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> The following patch adds basic module reference counting to vt console drivers. Currently modules like fbcon are not counted at all.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Supports basic ability to enable hotplug functions for IA64. Code is just evolving, and there are several loose ends to tie up. What this code drop does - Support logical online and offline - Handles interrupt migration without loss of interrupts. - Handles stress fine > 24+ hrs with make -j/ftp/rcp workloads - Handles irq migration from a dying cpu without loss of interrupts. What needs to be done - Boot CPU removal support, with platform level authentication - Putting cpu being removed in BOOT_RENDEZ mode.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> With a hotplug capable kernel, there is a requirement to distinguish a possible CPU from one actually present. The set of possible CPU numbers doesn't change during a single system boot, but the set of present CPUs changes as CPUs are physically inserted into or removed from a system. The cpu_possible_map does not change once initialized at boot, but the cpu_present_map changes dynamically as CPUs are inserted or removed. Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> provided an expanded explanation: Ashok's cpu hot plug patch adds a cpu_present_map, resulting in the following cpu maps being available. All the following maps are fixed size bitmaps of size NR_CPUS. #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU cpu_possible_map - map with all NR_CPUS bits set cpu_present_map - map with bit 'cpu' set iff cpu is populated cpu_online_map - map with bit 'cpu' set iff cpu available to scheduler #else cpu_possible_map - map with bit 'cpu' set iff cpu is populated cpu_present_map - copy of cpu_possible_map cpu_online_map - map with bit 'cpu' set iff cpu available to scheduler #endif In either case, NR_CPUS is fixed at compile time, as the static size of these bitmaps. The cpu_possible_map is fixed at boot time, as the set of CPU id's that it is possible might ever be plugged in at anytime during the life of that system boot. The cpu_present_map is dynamic(*), representing which CPUs are currently plugged in. And cpu_online_map is the dynamic subset of cpu_present_map, indicating those CPUs available for scheduling. If HOTPLUG is enabled, then cpu_possible_map is forced to have all NR_CPUS bits set, otherwise it is just the set of CPUs that ACPI reports present at boot. If HOTPLUG is enabled, then cpu_present_map varies dynamically, depending on what ACPI reports as currently plugged in, otherwise cpu_present_map is just a copy of cpu_possible_map. (*) Well, cpu_present_map is dynamic in the hotplug case. If not hotplug, it's the same as cpu_possible_map, hence fixed at boot.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Changes proc entries for cpu hotplug to be created via the cpu hotplug notifier callbacks. Also fixed a bug in the removal code that did not remove proc entries as expected.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> irq affinity setting via /proc was forcing iosapic rte programming by force. The correct way to do this is to perform this when a interrupt is pending.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Creation of sysfs via topology_init() creates sysfs entries. The creation of the online control file is created separately when the cpu_up is invoked in arch independent code.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Contains changes from __init to __devinit to support cpu hotplug Changes only arch/ia64 portions of the kernel tree.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> This patch changes __init to __devinit to init_idle so that when a new cpu arrives, it can call these functions at a later time.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> I don't think we need an install_swap_bdev/remove_swap_bdev anymore, we should use the swap_info->bdev, not the swap_bdevs. the swap_info already has a ->bdev field, the only point of remove_swap_bdev/install_swap_bdev was to unplug all devices as efficiently as possible, we don't need that anymore with the page parameter. Plus the semaphore should be a rwsem to allow parallel unplug from multiple pages. After that I don't need to take the semaphore anymore during swapon, no swapcache with swp_type() pointing to such bdev, will be allowed until swapon is complete (SWP_ACTIVE is set a lot later after setting p->bdev). In swapoff I only need a dummy serialization with the readers, after try_to_unuse is complete: err = try_to_unuse(type); current->flags &= ~PF_SWAPOFF; /* wait for any unplug function to finish */ down_write(&swap_unplug_sem); up_write(&swap_unplug_sem); that's all, no other locking and no install_swap_bdev/remove_swap_bdev. (and the swap_bdevs[] compression code was busted)
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Andrew Morton authored
We don't trust bh->b_page to point to the right thing across all filesystems, so revert this bit.
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Andrew Morton authored
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> From: Jens Axboe Add blk_run_page() API. This is so that we can pass the target page all the way down to (for example) the swap unplug function. So swap can work out which blockdevs back this particular page.
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert the pre-2.6.6 per-address-space unplugging changes. This removes a swapper_space exceptionality, syncs things with Andrea and provides for simplification of the swap unplug function.
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Andrew Morton authored
Sync this up with Andrea's patches.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> This patch implements wake-one semantics for buffer_head wakeups in a single step. The buffer_head being waited on is passed to the waiter's wakeup function by the waker, and the wakeup function compares that to the a pointer stored in its on-stack structure and checking the readiness of the bit there also. Wake-one semantics are achieved by using WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE in the codepaths waiting to acquire the bit for mutual exclusion.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> This patch implements wake-one semantics for page wakeups in a single step. Discrimination between distinct pages is achieved by passing the page to the wakeup function, which compares it to a pointer in its own on-stack structure containing the waitqueue element and the page. Bit discrimination is achieved by storing the bit number in that same structure and testing the bit in the wakeup function. Wake-one semantics are achieved by using WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE in the codepaths waiting to acquire the bit for mutual exclusion.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> This patch provides an additional argument to __wake_up_common() so that the information wakefunc.patch made waiters ready to receive may be passed to them by wakers. This is provided as a separate patch so that the overhead of the additional argument to __wake_up_common() can be measured in isolation. No change in performance was observable here.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> This patch series is solving the "thundering herd" problem that occurs in the mainline implementation of hashed waitqueues. There are two sources of spurious wakeups in such arrangements: (a) Hash collisions that place waiters on different objects on the same waitqueue, which wakes threads falsely when any of the objects hashed to the same queue receives a wakeup. i.e. loss of information about which object a wakeup event is related to. (b) Loss of information about which object a given waiter is waiting on. This precludes wake-one semantics for mutual exclusion scenarios. For instance, a lock bit may be slept on. If there are any waiters on the object, a lock bit release event must wake at least one of them so as to prevent deadlock. But without information as to which waiter is waiting on which object, we must resort to waking all waiters who could possibly be waiting on it. Now, as the lock bit provides mutual exclusion, only one of the waiters woken can proceed, and the remainder will go back to sleep and wait for another event, creating unnecessary system load. Once wake-one semantics are established, only one of the waiters waiting to acquire a lock bit need to be woken, which measurably reduces system load and improves efficiency (i.e. it's the subject of the benchmarking I've been sending to you). Even beyond the measurable efficiency gains, there are reasons of robustness and responsiveness to motivate addressing the issue of thundering herds. In a real-life scenario I've been personally involved in resolving, the thundering herd issue caused powerful modern SMP machines with fast IO systems to be unresponsive to user input for a minute at a time or more. Analogues of these patches for the distro kernels involved fully resolved the issue to the customer's satisfaction and obviated workarounds to limit the pagecache's size. The latest spin of these patches basically shoves more pieces of the logic into the wakeup functions, with some efficiency gains from sharing the hot codepath with the rest of the kernel, and a slightly larger diff than the patches with the newly-introduced entrypoint. Writing these was motivated by the push to insulate sched.c from more of the details of wakeup semantics by putting more of the logic into the wakeup functions. In order to accomplish this while still solving (b), the wakeup functions grew a new argument for communication about what object a wakeup event is related to to be passed by the waker. ========= This patch provides an additional argument to wakeup functions so that information may be passed from the waker to the waiter. This is provided as a separate patch so that the overhead of the additional argument can be measured in isolation. No change in performance was observable here.
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Andrew Morton authored
gcc-3.4.0 sez: init/do_mounts_rd.c:309: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'malloc'
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> wrote: mprotect() fails to merge VMAs because one VMA can end up with VM_ACCOUNT flag set, and another without that flag. That makes several apps of mine to malfuncate. Great find! Someone has got their test the wrong way round. Since that VM_MAYACCT macro is being used in one place only, and just hiding what it's actually about, fold it into its callsite.
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Andrew Morton authored
David Mosberger asked that this be backed out: "I do not believe that flushing the TLB before migration is be the right thing to do on ia64 machines which support global TLB purges (i.e., all but SGI's machines)." It was of huge benefit for the SGI machines, so work is ongoing.
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Andrew Morton authored
Switch all users of MSEC[S]_TO_JIFFIES and JIFFIES_TO_MSEC[S] over to use jiffies_to_msecs() and msecs_to_jiffies(). Withdraw MSECS_TO_JIFFIES() and JIFFIES_TO_MSECS() from the kernel API.
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Andrew Morton authored
Remove various private implementations of msecs_to_jiffies() and jiffies_to_msecs(). There are various uppercase versions which should be consolidated.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> We have various different implementations of MSEC[S]_TO_JIFFIES and JIFFIES_TO_MSEC[S]. We recently had a compile-time clash in USB. Fix all that up. - The SCTP version was very inefficient. Hopefully this version is accurate enough. - Optimise for the HZ=100 and HZ=1000 cases - This version does round-up, so sleep(9 milliseconds) works OK on 100HZ. - We still have lots of jiffies_to_msec and msec_to_jiffies implementations. From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Optimize the cases where HZ is a divisor of 1000 or vice-versa in JIFFIES_TO_MSECS() and MSECS_TO_JIFFIES() by allowing the nonvanishing(!) integral ratios to appear as a parenthesized expressions eligible for constant folding optimizations. From: me Use typesafe inlines for the jiffies-to-millisecond conversion functions. This means that milliseconds officially takes the type `unsigned int'. All current callers seem to be OK with that. Drivers need to be fixed up to use this instead of their private versions.
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> this_rq_lock does a local_irq_disable, and sched_yield() needs to undo that.
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Andrew Morton authored
This has been there for nearly two years. See bugzilla #1403 vmscan.c does, in two places: spin_lock(zone->lru_lock) page = lru_to_page(&zone->inactive_list); if (page_count(page) == 0) { /* erk, it's being freed by __page_cache_release() or * release_pages() */ put_it_back_on_the_lru(); } else { --> window 1 <-- page_cache_get(page); put_in_on_private_list(); } spin_unlock(zone->lru_lock) use_the_private_list(); page_cache_release(page); whereas __page_cache_release() and release_pages() do: if (put_page_testzero(page)) { --> window 2 <-- spin_lock(lru->lock); if (page_count(page) == 0) { remove_it_from_the_lru(); really_free_the_page() } spin_unlock(zone->lru_lock) } The race occurs if the vmscan.c path sees page_count()==1 and then the page_cache_release() path happens in that few-instruction "window 1" before vmscan's page_cache_get(). The page_cache_release() path does put_page_testzero(), which returns true. Then this CPU takes an interrupt... The vmscan.c path then does page_cache_get(), taking the refcount to one. Then it uses the page and does page_cache_release(), taking the refcount to zero and the page is really freed. Now, the CPU running page_cache_release() returns from the interrupt, takes the LRU lock, sees the page still has a refcount of zero and frees it again. Boom. The patch fixes this by closing "window 1". We provide a "get_page_testone()" which grabs a ref on the page and returns true if the refcount was previously zero. If that happens the vmscan.c code simply drops the page's refcount again and leaves the page on the LRU. All this happens under the zone->lru_lock, which is also taken by __page_cache_release() and release_pages(), so the vmscan code knows that the page has not been returned to the page allocator yet. In terms of implementation, the page counts are now offset by one: a free page has page->_count of -1. This is so that we can use atomic_add_negative() and atomic_inc_and_test() to provide put_page_testzero() and get_page_testone(). The macros hide all of this so the public interpretation of page_count() and set_page_count() remains unaltered. The compiler can usually constant-fold the offsetting of page->count. This patch increases an x86 SMP kernel's text by 32 bytes. The patch renames page->count to page->_count to break callers who aren't using the macros. This patch requires that the architecture implement atomic_add_negative(). It is currently present on arm arm26 i386 ia64 mips ppc s390 v850 x86_64 ppc implements this as #define atomic_add_negative(a, v) (atomic_add_return((a), (v)) < 0) and atomic_add_return() is implemented on alpha cris h8300 ia64 m68knommu mips parisc ppc ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc v850 so we're looking pretty good.
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Andrew Morton authored
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Andrew Morton authored
From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
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Andrew Morton authored
From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> It seems atomic_inc_and_test() is missing on alpha.
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Andrew Morton authored
It's easy to do when the arch provides atomic_inc_return().
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Andrew Morton authored
Lots of architectures have atomic_add_return() and no atomic_add_negative(). We can implement the latter in terms of the former.
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Andrew Morton authored
I'm about to change the meaning (and name) of page->count. Go through and fix up all those places which are open-coding references to it.
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