Manfred had all this weird code to schedule a kernel thread onto a
different CPU just so that we could bond a timer to that CPU.

Convert it all to use the new add_timer_on().

- add a reap timer that returns stale objects from the cpu arrays
- use list_for_each instead of while loops
- /proc/slabinfo layout change, for a new field about reaping.

Implementation:
slab contains 2 caches that contain objects that might be usable to the
systems:
- the cpu arrays contains objects that other cpus could use
- the slabs_free list contains freeable slabs, i.e. pages that someone
else might want.

The patch now keeps track of accesses to the cpu arrays and to the free
list. If there were no recent activities in one of the caches, part of
the cache is flushed.

Unlike <2.5.39, only a small part (~20%) is flushed each time:
The older kernel would refill/drain bounce heavily under memory pressure:

- kmem_cache_alloc: notices that there are no objects in the cpu
        cache, loads 120 objects from the slab lists, return 1.
        [assuming batchcount=120]
- kmem_cache_reap is called due to memory pressure, finds 119
        objects in the cpu array and returns them to the slab lists.
- repeat.

In addition, the length of the free list is limited based on the free
list accesses: a fixed "1" limit hurts the large object caches.

That's the last part for now, next is: [not yet written]
- cleanup: BUG_ON instead of if() BUG
- OOM handling for enable_cpucaches
- remove the unconditional might_sleep() from
        cache_alloc_debugcheck_before, and make that DEBUG dependant.
- initial NUMA support, just to collect some stats:
        Which percentage of the objects are freed on the wrong
        node? 0.1% or 20%?

remove inline from the cache poison checks: the functions are not
performance critical.

- enable the cpu array for all caches

- remove the optimized implementations for quick list access - with
  cpu arrays in all caches, the list access is now rare.

- make the cpu arrays mandatory, this removes 50% of the conditional
  branches from the hot path of kmem_cache_alloc [1]

- poisoning for objects with constructors

Patch got a bit longer...

I forgot to mention this: head arrays mean that some pages can be
blocked due to objects in the head arrays, and not returned to
page_alloc.c.  The current kernel never flushes the head arrays, this
might worsen the behaviour of low memory systems.  The hunk that
flushes the arrays regularly comes next.

Details changelog: [to be read site by side with the patch]

* docu update

* "growing" is not really needed: races between grow and shrink are
  handled by retrying.  [additionally, the current kernel never
  shrinks]

* move the batchcount into the cpu array:
	the old code contained a race during cpu cache tuning:
		update batchcount [in cachep] before or after the IPI?
	And NUMA will need it anyway.

* bootstrap support: the cpu arrays are really mandatory, nothing
  works without them.  Thus a statically allocated cpu array is needed
  to for starting the allocators.

* move the full, partial & free lists into a separate structure, as a
  preparation for NUMA

* structure reorganization: now the cpu arrays are the most important
  part, not the lists.

* dead code elimination: remove "failures", nowhere read.

* dead code elimination: remove "OPTIMIZE": not implemented.  The
  idea is to skip the virt_to_page lookup for caches with on-slab slab
  structures, and use (ptr&PAGE_MASK) instead.  The details are in
  Bonwicks paper.  Not fully implemented.

* remove GROWN: kernel never shrinks a cache, thus grown is
  meaningless.

* bootstrap: starting the slab allocator is now a 3 stage process:
	- nothing works, use the statically allocated cpu arrays.
	- the smallest kmalloc allocator works, use it to allocate
		cpu arrays.
	- all kmalloc allocators work, use the default cpu array size

* register a cpu nodifier callback, and allocate the needed head
  arrays if a new cpu arrives

* always enable head arrays, even for DEBUG builds.  Poisoning and
  red-zoning now happens before an object is added to the arrays.
  Insert enable_all_cpucaches into cpucache_init, there is no need for
  seperate function.

* modifications to the debug checks due to the earlier calls of the
  dtor for caches with poisoning enabled

* poison+ctor is now supported

* squeezing 3 objects into a cacheline is hopeless, the FIXME is not
  solvable and can be removed.

* add additional debug tests: check_irq_off(), check_irq_on(),
  check_spinlock_acquired().

* move do_ccupdate_local nearer to do_tune_cpucache.  Should have
  been part of -04-drain.

* additional objects checks.  red-zoning is tricky: it's implemented
  by increasing the object size by 2*BYTES_PER_WORD.  Thus
  BYTES_PER_WORD must be added to objp before calling the destructor,
  constructor or before returing the object from alloc.  The poison
  functions add BYTES_PER_WORD internally.

* create a flagcheck function, right now the tests are duplicated in
  cache_grow [always] and alloc_debugcheck_before [DEBUG only]

* modify slab list updates: all allocs are now bulk allocs that try
  to get multiple objects at once, update the list pointers only at the
  end of a bulk alloc, not once per alloc.

* might_sleep was moved into kmem_flagcheck.

* major hotpath change:
	- cc always exists, no fallback
	- cache_alloc_refill is called with disabled interrupts,
	  and does everything to recover from an empty cpu array.
	  Far shorter & simpler __cache_alloc [inlined in both
	  kmalloc and kmem_cache_alloc]

* __free_block, free_block, cache_flusharray: main implementation of
  returning objects to the lists.  no big changes, diff lost track.

* new debug check: too early kmalloc or kmem_cache_alloc

* slightly reduce the sizes of the cpu arrays: keep the size < a
  power of 2, including batchcount, avail and now limit, for optimal
  kmalloc memory efficiency.

That's it.  I even found 2 bugs while reading: dtors and ctors for
verify were called with wrong parameters, with RED_ZONE enabled, and
some checks still assumed that POISON and ctor are incompatible.

From Manfred Spraul

remove the space from the name of the DMA caches: they make it
impossible to tune the caches through /proc/slabinfo, and make parsing
/proc/slabinfo difficult

In 2.5, local_irq_disable() provides protection against
smp_call_function() on all architectures.  (Or it will, not sure.  But
davem says this is OK).

So a spin_lock() within the smp_call_function() callback is now
permitted, and we can remove/cleanup the workaround.

From Manfred Spraul

If an object is freed from a slab, then move the slab to the tail of
the partial list - this should increase the probability that the other
objects from the same page are freed, too, and that a page can be
returned to gfp later.

In other words: if we just freed an object from this page then make
this page be the *last* page which is eligible for new allocations.
Under the assumption that other objects in that same page are about to
be freed up as well.

The cpu arrays are now always in front of the list, i.e.  cache hit
rates should not matter.

From Manfred Spraul

Always enable the cpu arrays, even on uniprocessor.

They provide LIFO ordering, which should improve cache hit rates.  And
the array allocator is slightly faster than the list operations.

From Manfred Spraul

remove kmem_ from all static function that are only used in slab.c.
Except kmem_cache_slabmgmt, I've renamed it to alloc_slabmgmt().

add_timer_on is like add_timer, except it takes a target CPU on which
to add the timer.

The slab code needs per-cpu timers for shrinking the per-cpu caches.

Patch from Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com>

This is Manfred's patch which provides a CPU_UP_PREPARE cpu notifier to
allow initialization of per_cpu data just before the cpu becomes fully
functional.

It also provides a facility for the CPU_UP_PREPARE handler to return
NOTIFY_BAD to signify that the CPU is not permitted to come up.  If
that happens, a CPU_UP_CANCELLED message is passed to all the handlers.

The patch also fixes a bogus NOFITY_BAD return from the softirq setup
code.

Patch has been acked by Rusty.

We need this mechanism in slab for starting per-cpu timers and for
allocating the per-cpu slab hgead arrays *before* the CPU has come up
and started using slab.

 - Remove obsolete documentation
 - Update arch/parisc/lib
 - Remove arch/parisc/tools, we use asm-offsets.c these days
 - Update arch/parisc/Makefile, defconfig & vmlinux.lds.S

Add support for the parisc64 architecture.

Performance monitor support for PA8000+ processors.

Update arch/parisc/kernel.

Update arch/parisc/mm

Update include/asm-parisc

Add support for unimplemented FP ops on PA processors.

This patch adds some new events to the sonypi driver (Fn key
pressed alone, jogdial turned fast or very fast) and cleanups
the code a little bit.

Thanks to Christian Gennerat for this contribution.

into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux

Latest version of the epoll interfaces.

into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux

into osdl.org:/home/mochel/src/kernel/devel/linux-2.5-kobject

struct subsystem may now contain a pointer to a NULL-terminated array of 
default attributes to be exported when an object is registered with the subsystem.
kobject registration will check the return values of the directory creation and 
the creation of each file, and handle it appropriately. 

The documentation has also been updated.

Previously, sysfs read() and write() calls looked for sysfs_ops in the struct 
sysfs_dir, in the kobject. Since objects belong to a subsystem, and is a member
of a group of like devices, the sysfs_ops have been moved to struct subsystem,
and are referenced from there.

The only remaining member of struct sysfs_dir is the dentry of the object's 
directory. That is moved out of the dir struct and directly into struct kobject.
That saves us 4 bytes/object.

All of the sysfs functions that referenced the struct have been changed to just
reference the dentry.

into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux

This fixes "choice" behaviour - it sets the correct default and fixes
oldconfig.

into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux

into dell.com:/home/mdomsch/bk/linux-2.5-edd-tolinus

A struct subsystem is basically a collection of objects of a certain type,
and some callbacks to operate on objects of that type. 

subsystems contain embedded kobjects themselves, and have a similar set of 
library routines that kobjects do, which are mostly just wrappers for the
correlating kobject routines. 

kobjects are inserted in depth-first order into their subsystem's list of 
objects. Orphan kobjects are also given foster parents that point to their
subsystem. This provides a bit more rigidity in the hierarchy, and disallows
any orphan kobjects.

When an object is unregistered, it is removed from its subsystem's list. When
the objects' refcount hits 0, the subsystem's ->release() callback is called. 

Documentation describing the objects and the interfaces has also been added.

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/newconfig

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

Add new configs to match changes done lately.

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/kconfig

If we are to build menuconfig/xconfig, we may not have a .config
yet, so we shouldn't try to include it.

Set MODVERDIR before including the subdir Makefile, drivers/scsi/53c700
needs it.

Got it.  Breakage happened when Jens was switching to partial
completions - !uptodate is not quite the same as !err ;-)

With this fixed everything seems to work nicely.

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into kroah.com:/home/linux/linux/BK/gregkh-2.5

It's now

int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, char * name)

So, the caller doesn't have to determine the path of the target nor the depth of
the object we're creating the symlink for; it's all taken care of.