- 17 Sep, 2002 4 commits
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Stéphane Eranian authored
This patch includes: - nasty macro bug fix for PMC_IS_MONITOR() - pfm_stats is now per CPU - pmu_owners[] is not cache line aligned to avoid false sharing - cleanup in /proc/perfmon - rewritten pfm_write_pmcs(), pfm_write_pmds() with correct semantics - all copy_*user() are gone - we do not walk the tasklist in UP mode for system-wide: now unified with SMP
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David Mosberger authored
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David Mosberger authored
Support new clone2() functionality (CLONE_SETTLS, CLONE_SETTID, & CLONE_CLEARTID).
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Fenghua Yu authored
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- 16 Sep, 2002 1 commit
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David Mosberger authored
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- 15 Sep, 2002 14 commits
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David Gibson authored
Linus, please apply. This defines wait_task_inactive() to be a no-op on UP machines, and removes the #ifdef CONFIG_SMP which surrounds current calls. This also fixes compile on UP which was broken by the addition of a call to wait_task_inactive in fs/exec.c which was not protected by an #ifdef.
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Andrew Morton authored
- Remove defunct active_list/inactive_list declarations (wli) - Update an obsolete comment (wli) - "mm/slab.c contains one leftover from the initial version with 'unsigned short' bufctl entries. The attached patch replaces '2' with the correct sizeof [which is now 4]" - Manfred Spraul - BUG checks for vfree/vunmap being called in interrupt context (because they take irq-unsafe spinlocks, I guess?) - davej - Simplify some coding in one_highpage_init() (Christoph Hellwig).
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Andrew Morton authored
From Christoph Hellwig, also present in 2.4. Create an arch-independent `dump_stack()' function. So we don't need to do #ifdef CONFIG_X86 show_stack(0); /* No prototype in scope! */ #endif any more. The whole dump_stack() implementation is delegated to the architecture. If it doesn't provide one, there is a default do-nothing library function.
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Andrew Morton authored
- Remove the temp /proc/meminfo stats - Make the mmu_gather_t be 2048 bytes again - Removed unused variable (Oleg Nesterov)
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Andrew Morton authored
If a GFP_NOFS allocation is made when the ZONE_NORMAL inactive list is full of dirty or under-writeback pages, there is nothing the caller can do to force some page reclaim. The caller ends up getting oom-killed. - In mempool_alloc(), don't try to perform page reclaim again. Just go to sleep and wait for some elements to be returned to the pool. - In try_to_free_pages(): perform a single, short scan of the LRU and if that doesn't work, fail the allocation. GFP_NOFS allocators know how to handle that.
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Andrew Morton authored
read_pages() is dropping the page refcount before running ->readpage(). Which just happens to work, because the page is in pagecache and locked. But it breaks under some unconventional things which reiser4 is doing, and it's better/safer/saner this way anyway.
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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from Jani Monoses <jani@iv.ro> "This turns the remaining parts of ext3 to EXT3_SB and turns the latter from a macro to inline function which returns the generic_sbp field of u. linux/fs.h is not touched by this patch though. Intermezzo's three uses of ext3_sb are also not changed."
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Andrew Morton authored
The patch adds a "Mapped" field to /proc/meminfo - tha amount of memory which is mapped into pagetables. This is a useful statistic to monitor when testing and observing the vitual memory system.
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Andrew Morton authored
From Hugh Dickins. Fix a leak in the /proc/meminfo:ReverseMaps accounting.
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Andrew Morton authored
Rohit Seth's ia32 huge tlb pages patch. Anton Blanchard took a look at this today; he seemed happy with it and said he could borrow bits.
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Andrew Morton authored
The /proc/meminfo:Buffers statistic is quite useful - it tells us how effective we are being at caching filesystem metadata. For example, increases in this figure are a measure of success of the slablru and buffer_head-limitation patches. The patch resurrects buffermem accounting. The metric is calculated on-demand, via a walk of the blockdev hashtable.
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Andrew Morton authored
zap_page_range and truncate are the two main latency problems in the VM/VFS. The radix-tree-based truncate grinds that into the dust, but no algorithmic fixes for pagetable takedown have presented themselves... Patch from Robert Love. Attached patch implements a low latency version of "zap_page_range()". Calls with even moderately large page ranges result in very long lock held times and consequently very long periods of non-preemptibility. This function is in my list of the top 3 worst offenders. It is gross. This new version reimplements zap_page_range() as a loop over ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE chunks. After each iteration, if a reschedule is pending, we drop page_table_lock and automagically preempt. Note we can not blindly drop the locks and reschedule (e.g. for the non-preempt case) since there is a possibility to enter this codepath holding other locks. ... I am sure you are familar with all this, its the same deal as your low-latency work. This patch implements the "cond_resched_lock()" as we discussed sometime back. I think this solution should be acceptable to you and Linus. There are other misc. cleanups, too. This new zap_page_range() yields latency too-low-to-benchmark: <<1ms.
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Linus Torvalds authored
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bk://ppc.bkbits.net/for-linus-ppcLinus Torvalds authored
into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux
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- 16 Sep, 2002 10 commits
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Paul Mackerras authored
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Paul Mackerras authored
This gets rid of ide_request/free_irq, ide_get/release_lock, ide_check/request/release_region etc.
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Paul Mackerras authored
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Paul Mackerras authored
There is a perfectly good one in drivers/ide/ide-iops.c now.
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Paul Mackerras authored
and add exit_group to the syscall table.
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Paul Mackerras authored
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Paul Mackerras authored
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Paul Mackerras authored
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Paul Mackerras authored
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Paul Mackerras authored
into samba.org:/home/paulus/kernel/for-linus-ppc
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- 15 Sep, 2002 10 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
The broadcast SIGKILL kept pending in the new thread as well, and killed it prematurely ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Ingo Molnar authored
This implements one of the last missing POSIX threading details - exec() semantics. Previous kernels had code that tried to handle it, but that code had a number of disadvantages: - it only worked if the exec()-ing thread was the thread group leader, creating an assymetry. This does not work if the thread group leader has exited already. - it was racy: it sent a SIGKILL to every thread in the group but did not wait for them to actually process the SIGKILL. It did a yield() but that is not enough. All 'other' threads have to finish processing before we can continue with the exec(). This adds the same logic, but extended with the following enhancements: - works from non-leader threads just as much as the thread group leader. - waits for all other threads to exit before continuing with the exec(). - reuses the PID of the group. It would perhaps be a more generic approach to add a new syscall, sys_ungroup() - which would do largely what de_thread() does in this patch. But it's not really needed now - posix_spawn() is currently implemented via starting a non-CLONE_THREAD helper thread that does a sys_exec(). There's no API currently that needs a direct exec() from a thread - but it could be created (such as pthread_exec_np()). It would have the advantage of not having to go through a helper thread, but the difference is minimal.
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Ingo Molnar authored
This fixes one more exit-time resource accounting issue - and it's also a speedup and a thread-tree (to-be thread-aware pstree) visual improvement. In the current code we reparent detached threads to the init thread. This worked but was not very nice in ps output: threads showed up as being related to init. There was also a resource-accounting issue, upon exit they update their parent's (ie. init's) rusage fields - effectively losing these statistics. Eg. 'time' under-reports CPU usage if the threaded app is Ctrl-C-ed prematurely. The solution is to reparent threads to the group leader - this is now very easy since we have p->group_leader cached and it's also valid all the time. It's also somewhat faster for applications that use CLONE_THREAD but do not use the CLONE_DETACHED feature.
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Ingo Molnar authored
This fixes a number of bugs that broke ptrace: - wait4 must not inhibit TASK_STOPPED processes even for thread group leaders. - do_notify_parent() should not delay the notification of parents if the thread in question is ptraced. strace now works as expected for CLONE_THREAD applications as well.
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Ingo Molnar authored
This optimizes sys_exit_group() to only take the siglock if it's a true thread group. Boots & works fine.
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Ingo Molnar authored
This fixes three resource accounting related bugs introduced by detached threads: - the 'child CPU usage' fields were updated in wait4 until now - this was slightly buggy for a number of reasons, eg. if the exit_code writout faults then it's possible to trigger this code multiple times. - those threads that do not go through wait4 were not properly accounted. - sched_exit() was incorrectly assuming that current == parent. In the detached case p->parent is the real parent. with this patch applied things like 'time' work again for new-style threaded apps.
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Ingo Molnar authored
This fixes a clone-flags bug noticed by Roland McGrath. The current CLONE_DETACHED & CLONE_THREAD forcing code did things in the wrong order, which makes it possible to force an oops the following way: main () { syscall(120, 0x00400000); } instead of changing the order of CLONE_SIGHAND and CLONE_THREAD flag forcing (which would fix the bug), the proper approach is to fail with -EINVAL if invalid combinations of clone flags are detected. This change does not affect existing applications.
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Ingo Molnar authored
the attached patch (against BK-curr) fixes a sys_wait4() bug noticed by Ulrich Drepper. The kernel would not block properly if there are eligible children delayed due to the new delayed thread-group-leader logic. The solution is to introduce a new type of 'eligible child' type - and skip over delayed children but set the wait4 flag nevertheless. The libpthreads testcase that failed due to it now it works fine.
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Paul Mackerras authored
into samba.org:/home/paulus/kernel/for-linus-ppc
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- 14 Sep, 2002 1 commit
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Paul Mackerras authored
into samba.org:/home/paulus/kernel/for-linus-ppc
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