Commits · cae7c30af0190d6af4829a4e5a95fa43b5f01413 · Kirill Smelkov / linux

23 Aug, 2004 40 commits

[PATCH] Fix x86-64 singlestep through sigreturn system call · cae7c30a

Roland McGrath authored Aug 22, 2004

This patch just directly clones Davide Libenzi's i386 code for x86-64 in
both 64-bit and 32-bit cases.  With this, the behavior of single-stepping
all system calls is consistent.  

The syscall exit tracing caused by TIF_SINGLESTEP is superfluous in the
case of sysret returns, but harmlessly so (since continuing afterward with
PTRACE_CONT will have cleared TF as well as TIF_SINGLESTEP).  I figured
that little bit of extra processing in the single-step case was better than
adding code to ignore the flag in the sysret case.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] gettimeofday nanoseconds patch · b9cbc585

Christoph Lameter authored Aug 22, 2004

This issue was discussed on lkml and linux-ia64.  The patch introduces
"getnstimeofday" and removes all the code scaling gettimeofday to
nanoseoncs.  It makes it possible for the posix-timer functions to return
higher accuracy.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

b9cbc585

[PATCH] Move cache_reap out of timer context · 346ed9c1

Dimitri Sivanich authored Aug 22, 2004

I'm submitting two patches associated with moving cache_reap functionality
out of timer context.  Note that these patches do not make any further
optimizations to cache_reap at this time.

The first patch adds a function similiar to schedule_delayed_work to allow
work to be scheduled on another cpu.

The second patch makes use of schedule_delayed_work_on to schedule
cache_reap to run from keventd.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] remove sync() from panic · 6cfa4c9f

Christian Bornträger authored Aug 22, 2004

Various people have reported deadlocks and it has aways seemed a bit risky
to try to sync the filesystems at this stage anyway.

"I have seen panic failing two times lately on an SMP system. The box
panic'ed but was running happily on the other cpus. The culprit of this
failure is the fact, that these panics have been caused by a block device
or a filesystem (e.g. using errors=panic). In these cases the likelihood
of a failure/hang of sys_sync() is high. This is exactly what happened in
both cases I have seen. Meanwhile the other cpus are happily continuing
destroying data as the kernel has a severe problem but its not aware of
that as smp_send_stop happens after sys_sync."
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] warning on NUMA-Q · 42e3ec01

Martin J. Bligh authored Aug 22, 2004

arch-i386-kernel-smpc-gcc341-inlining-fix.patch seems to cause
the following warning:

include/asm-i386/mach-numaq/mach_ipi.h:4: warning: static declaration for `send_
IPI_mask_sequence' follows non-static. 

This should fix it (and make it match the other subarches):
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

42e3ec01

[PATCH] Enable all events for initramfs · e5f29853

Hannes Reinecke authored Aug 22, 2004

Currently most driver events are not sent out when using initramfs as
driver_init() (which triggers the events) is called before init_workqueues.

This patch rearranges the init calls so that the hotplug event queue is
enabled prior to calling driver_init(), hence we're getting all hotplug
events again.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

e5f29853

[PATCH] send_IPI_mask_bitmask() build fix · 0a50caad

Andrew Morton authored Aug 22, 2004

With gcc-3.4.1:

arch/i386/kernel/smp.c: In function `flush_tlb_others':
arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:161: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call
to 'send_IPI_mask_bitmask': function not considered for inlining
arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:9: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

0a50caad

[PATCH] Make i/dhash_entries cmdline work as it use to. · 38612ed3

Jose R. Santos authored Aug 22, 2004

I was looking at the recent for >MAX_ORDER hash tables but it seems that
the patch limits the number of entries to what it thinks are good values
and the i/dhash_entries cmdline options can not exceed this.

This seems to limit the usability of the patch on systems were larger
allocations that the ones the kernel calculates are desired.

- Make ihash_entries and dhash_entries cmdline option behave like it use to.

- Remove MAX_SYS_HASH_TABLE_ORDER.  Limit the max size to 1/16 the total
  number of pages.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] split generic_file_aio_write into buffered and direct I/O parts · 350f76f1

Christoph Hellwig authored Aug 22, 2004

If the generic code falls back to buffered I/O on a hole XFS needs to
relock, so we need to have separate functions to call unless we want to
duplicate everything.  The XFS patch still needs some cleaning up, but I'll
try to get it in before 2.6.8.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/smp.c gcc341 inlining fix · 581851ea

Mikael Pettersson authored Aug 22, 2004

gcc-3.4.1 errors out in 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:

arch/i386/kernel/smp.c: In function `flush_tlb_others':
arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:161: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'send_IPI_mask_bitmask': function not considered for inlining
arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:9: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/smp.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2

The <mach_ipi.h> inlines depend on functions defined further down in smp.c.
 Moving the #include eliminates the problem.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] clean up __always_inline__ usage · 2f85be7d

Arnd Bergmann authored Aug 22, 2004

I find it somewhat annoying that the preprocessor expands every "inline" to
"__inline__ __attribute__((always_inline)) __attribute__((always_inline))"
in the current code.

Fix that up.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] #define inline as __attribute__((always_inline)) also for gcc >= 3.4 · 4e9d864d

Adrian Bunk authored Aug 22, 2004

Rationale:

- if gcc 3.4 can't inline a function marked as "inline" that's a strong
  hint that further investigation is required

- I strongly prefer a compile error over a potential runtime problem
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>