- 19 May, 2011 23 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds authored
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] remove redundant sprintf from request_module call. [CPUFREQ] cpufreq_stats.c: Fixed brace coding style issue [CPUFREQ] Fix memory leak in cpufreq_stat [CPUFREQ] cpufreq.h: Fix some checkpatch.pl coding style issues. [CPUFREQ] use dynamic debug instead of custom infrastructure [CPUFREQ] CPU hotplug, re-create sysfs directory and symlinks [CPUFREQ] Fix _OSC UUID in pcc-cpufreq
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: params.c: Use new strtobool function to process boolean inputs debugfs: move to new strtobool Add a strtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalents modpost: Update 64k section support for binutils 2.18.50 module: Use binary search in lookup_symbol() module: Use the binary search for symbols resolution lib: Add generic binary search function to the kernel. module: Sort exported symbols module: each_symbol_section instead of each_symbol module: split unset_section_ro_nx function. module: undo module RONX protection correctly. module: zero mod->init_ro_size after init is freed. minor ANSI prototype sparse fix module: reorder kparam_array to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds module: remove 64 bit alignment padding from struct module with CONFIG_TRACE* module: do not hide __modver_version_show declaration behind ifdef module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module versions
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docsLinus Torvalds authored
* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs: Correct occurrences of - Documentation/kvm/ to Documentation/virtual/kvm - Documentation/uml/ to Documentation/virtual/uml - Documentation/lguest/ to Documentation/virtual/lguest throughout the kernel source tree. Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/virtual Remove uml from the top level 00-INDEX file. Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:
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Linus Torvalds authored
This is removes the use of software prefetching from the regular list iterators. We don't want it. If you do want to prefetch in some iterator of yours, go right ahead. Just don't expect the iterator to do it, since normally the downsides are bigger than the upsides. It also replaces <linux/prefetch.h> with <linux/const.h>, because the use of LIST_POISON ends up needing it. <linux/poison.h> is sadly not self-contained, and including prefetch.h just happened to hide that. Suggested by David Miller (networking has a lot of regular lists that are often empty or a single entry, and prefetching is not going to do anything but add useless instructions). Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
They not only increase the code footprint, they actually make things slower rather than faster. On internationally acclaimed benchmarks ("make -j16" on an already fully built kernel source tree) the hlist prefetching slows down the build by up to 1%. (Almost all of it comes from hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() as used by avc_has_perm_noaudit(), which is very hot due to all the pathname lookups to see if there is anything to do). The cause seems to be two-fold: - on at least some Intel cores, prefetch(NULL) ends up with some microarchitectural stall due to the TLB miss that it incurs. The hlist case triggers this very commonly, since the NULL pointer is the last entry in the list. - the prefetch appears to cause more D$ activity, probably because it prefetches hash list entries that are never actually used (because we ended the search early due to a hit). Regardless, the numbers clearly say that the implicit prefetching is simply a bad idea. If some _particular_ user of the hlist iterators wants to prefetch the next list entry, they can do so themselves explicitly, rather than depend on all list iterators doing so implicitly. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jonathan Cameron authored
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Jonathan Cameron authored
No functional changes requires that we eat errors from strtobool. If people want to not do this, then it should be fixed at a later date. V2: Simplification suggested by Rusty Russell removes the need for additional variable ret. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Jonathan Cameron authored
This is a rename of the usr_strtobool proposal, which was a renamed, relocated and fixed version of previous kstrtobool RFC Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Anders Kaseorg authored
Binutils 2.18.50 made a backwards-incompatible change in the way it writes ELF objects with over 65280 sections, to improve conformance with the ELF specification and interoperability with other ELF tools. Specifically, it no longer adds 256 to section indices SHN_LORESERVE and higher to skip over the reserved range SHN_LORESERVE through SHN_HIRESERVE; those values are only considered special in the st_shndx field, and not in other places where section indices are stored. See: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5900 http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/e8bb63714b072e67/6c63738f12cc8a17Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Alessio Igor Bogani authored
The function is_exported() with its helper function lookup_symbol() are used to verify if a provided symbol is effectively exported by the kernel or by the modules. Now that both have their symbols sorted we can replace a linear search with a binary search which provide a considerably speed-up. This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum. Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Alessio Igor Bogani authored
Takes advantage of the order and locates symbols using binary search. This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum. Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
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Tim Abbott authored
There a large number hand-coded binary searches in the kernel (run "git grep search | grep binary" to find many of them). Since in my experience, hand-coding binary searches can be error-prone, it seems worth cleaning this up by providing a generic binary search function. This generic binary search implementation comes from Ksplice. It has the same basic API as the C library bsearch() function. Ksplice uses it in half a dozen places with 4 different comparison functions, and I think our code is substantially cleaner because of this. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Extra-bikeshedding-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Extra-bikeshedding-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Extra-bikeshedding-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Alessio Igor Bogani authored
This patch places every exported symbol in its own section (i.e. "___ksymtab+printk"). Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section (i.e. "__ksymtab"). The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols. To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary section names. This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum. Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (folded in '+' fixup) Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
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Rusty Russell authored
Instead of having a callback function for each symbol in the kernel, have a callback for each array of symbols. This eases the logic when we move to sorted symbols and binary search. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
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Jan Glauber authored
Split the unprotect function into a function per section to make the code more readable and add the missing static declaration. Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Jan Glauber authored
While debugging I stumbled over two problems in the code that protects module pages. First issue is that disabling the protection before freeing init or unload of a module is not symmetric with the enablement. For instance, if pages are set to RO the page range from module_core to module_core + core_ro_size is protected. If a module is unloaded the page range from module_core to module_core + core_size is set back to RW. So pages that were not set to RO are also changed to RW. This is not critical but IMHO it should be symmetric. Second issue is that while set_memory_rw & set_memory_ro are used for RO/RW changes only set_memory_nx is involved for NX/X. One would await that the inverse function is called when the NX protection should be removed, which is not the case here, unless I'm missing something. Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Jan Glauber authored
Reset mod->init_ro_size to zero after the init part of a module is unloaded. Otherwise we need to check if module->init is NULL in the unprotect functions in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Daniel J Blueman authored
Fix function prototype to be ANSI-C compliant, consistent with other function prototypes, addressing a sparse warning. Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Richard Kennedy authored
Reorder structure kparam_array to remove 8 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit builds, dropping its size from 40 to 32 bytes. Also update the macro module_param_array_named to initialise the structure using its member names to allow it to be changed without touching all its call sites. 'git grep' finds module_param_array in 1037 places so this patch will save a small amount of data space across many modules. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Richard Kennedy authored
Reorder struct module to remove 24 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit builds when the CONFIG_TRACE options are selected. This allows the structure to fit into one fewer cache lines, and its size drops from 592 to 568 on x86_64. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Dmitry Torokhov authored
Doing so prevents the following warning from sparse: CHECK kernel/params.c kernel/params.c:817:9: warning: symbol '__modver_version_show' was not declared. Should it be static? since kernel/params.c is never compiled with MODULE being set. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Dmitry Torokhov authored
On m68k natural alignment is 2-byte boundary but we are trying to align structures in __modver section on sizeof(void *) boundary. This causes trouble when we try to access elements in this section in array-like fashion when create "version" attributes for built-in modules. Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in different situations. The only solution that seems to work reliably is to make an array of plain pointers to the objects in question and put those pointers in the special section. Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- 18 May, 2011 17 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2Linus Torvalds authored
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: configfs: Fix race between configfs_readdir() and configfs_d_iput() configfs: Don't try to d_delete() negative dentries. ocfs2/dlm: Target node death during resource migration leads to thread spin ocfs2: Skip mount recovery for hard-ro mounts ocfs2/cluster: Heartbeat mismatch message improved ocfs2/cluster: Increase the live threshold for global heartbeat ocfs2/dlm: Use negotiated o2dlm protocol version ocfs2: skip existing hole when removing the last extent_rec in punching-hole codes. ocfs2: Initialize data_ac (might be used uninitialized)
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git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'devicetree/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device of: fix race when matching drivers
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git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: MIPS: Kludge IP27 build for 2.6.39. MIPS: AR7: Fix GPIO register size for Titan variant. MIPS: Fix duplicate invocation of notify_die. MIPS: RB532: Fix iomap resource size miscalculation.
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Grant Likely authored
Commit b826291c, "drivercore/dt: add a match table pointer to struct device" added an of_match pointer to struct device to cache the of_match_table entry discovered at driver match time. This was unsafe because matching is not an atomic operation with probing a driver. If two or more drivers are attempted to be matched to a driver at the same time, then the cached matching entry pointer could get overwritten. This patch reverts the of_match cache pointer and reworks all users to call of_match_device() directly instead. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Milton Miller authored
If two drivers are probing devices at the same time, both will write their match table result to the dev->of_match cache at the same time. Only write the result if the device matches. In a thread titled "SBus devices sometimes detected, sometimes not", Meelis reported his SBus hme was not detected about 50% of the time. From the debug suggested by Grant it was obvious another driver matched some devices between the call to match the hme and the hme discovery failling. Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> [grant.likely: modified to only call of_match_device() once] Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: don't delay blk_run_queue_async scsi: remove performance regression due to async queue run blk-throttle: Use task_subsys_state() to determine a task's blkio_cgroup block: rescan partitions on invalidated devices on -ENOMEDIA too cdrom: always check_disk_change() on open block: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for legacy/fringe drivers
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Ralf Baechle authored
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Florian Fainelli authored
The 'size' variable contains the correct register size for both AR7 and Titan, but we never used it to ioremap the correct register size. This problem only shows up on Titan. [ralf@linux-mips.org: Fixed the fix. The original patch as in patchwork recognizes the problem correctly then fails to fix it ...] Reported-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2380/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Initial patch by Yury Polyanskiy <ypolyans@princeton.edu>. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2373/
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Ralf Baechle authored
This is the MIPS portion of Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>'s https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2172/ which seems to have been lost in time and space. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Joel Becker authored
configfs_readdir() will use the existing inode numbers of inodes in the dcache, but it makes them up for attribute files that aren't currently instantiated. There is a race where a closing attribute file can be tearing down at the same time as configfs_readdir() is trying to get its inode number. We want to get the inode number of open attribute files, because they should match while instantiated. We can't lock down the transition where dentry->d_inode is set to NULL, so we just check for NULL there. We can, however, ensure that an inode we find isn't iput() in configfs_d_iput() until after we've accessed it. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
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Joel Becker authored
When configfs is faking mkdir() on its subsystem or default group objects, it starts by adding a negative dentry. It then tries to instantiate the group. If that should fail, it must clean up after itself. I was using d_delete() here, but configfs_attach_group() promises to return an empty dentry on error. d_delete() explodes with the entry dentry. Let's try d_drop() instead. The unhashing is what we want for our dentry. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
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Shaohua Li authored
Let's check a scenario: 1. blk_delay_queue(q, SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY); 2. blk_run_queue_async(); the second one will became a noop, because q->delay_work already has WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT set, so the delayed work will still run after SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY. But blk_run_queue_async actually hopes the delayed work runs immediately. Fix this by doing a cancel on potentially pending delayed work before queuing an immediate run of the workqueue. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: [media] V4L: soc-camera: regression fix: calculate .sizeimage in soc_camera.c [media] v4l2-subdev: fix broken subdev control enumeration [media] Fix cx88 remote control input [media] v4l: Release module if subdev registration fails
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, AMD: Fix ARAT feature setting again Revert "x86, AMD: Fix APIC timer erratum 400 affecting K8 Rev.A-E processors" x86, apic: Fix spurious error interrupts triggering on all non-boot APs x86, mce, AMD: Fix leaving freed data in a list x86: Fix UV BAU for non-consecutive nasids x86, UV: Fix NMI handler for UV platforms
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf evlist: Fix per thread mmap setup perf tools: Honour the cpu list parameter when also monitoring a thread list kprobes, x86: Disable irqs during optimized callback
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: cifs: fix cifsConvertToUCS() for the mapchars case cifs: add fallback in is_path_accessible for old servers
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