- 24 Jul, 2008 40 commits
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Johannes Weiner authored
free_area_init_node() gets passed in the node id as well as the node descriptor. This is redundant as the function can trivially get the node descriptor itself by means of NODE_DATA() and the node's id. I checked all the users and NODE_DATA() seems to be usable everywhere from where this function is called. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
This is called on a per-page basis and in the vast majority of cases `error' is zero. Cc: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
SLOB reuses two page bits for internal purposes, it overlays PG_active and PG_private. This is hidden away in slob.c. Document these overlays explicitly in the main page-flags enum along with all the others. Signed-off-by:
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Reviewed-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
SLUB reuses two page bits for internal purposes, it overlays PG_active and PG_error. This is hidden away in slub.c. Document these overlays explicitly in the main page-flags enum along with all the others. Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
With the recent page flag reorganisation we have a single enum which defines the valid page flags and their values, nice and clear. However there are a number of bits which are overloaded by different subsystems. Firstly there is PG_owner_priv_1 which is used by filesystems and by XEN. Secondly both SLOB and SLUB use a couple of extra page bits to manage internal state for pages they own; both overlay other bits. All of these "aliases" are scattered about the source making it very hard for a reader to know if the bits are safe to rely on in all contexts; confusion here is bad. As we now have a single place where the bits are clearly assigned it makes sense to clarify the reuse of bits by making the aliases explicit and visible with the original bit assignments. This patch creates explicit aliases within the enum itself for the overloaded bits, creates standard bit accessors PageFoo etc. and uses those throughout. This version pulls the bit manipulation out to standard named page bit accessors as suggested by Christoph, it retains the explicit mapping to the overlayed bits. A fusion of both ideas. This has been SLUB and SLOB have been compile tested on x86_64 only, and SLUB boot tested. If people feel this is worth doing then I can run a fuller set of testing. This patch: Some page flags are used for more than one purpose, for example PG_owner_priv_1. Currently there are individual accessors for each user, each built using the common flag name far away from the bit definitions. This makes it hard to see all possible uses of these bits. Now that we have a single enum to generate the bit orders it makes sense to express overlays in the same place. So create per use aliases for this bit in the main page-flags enum and use those in the accessors. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix xen] Signed-off-by:
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Kentaro Makita authored
[Summary] Split LRU-list of unused dentries to one per superblock to avoid soft lock up during NFS mounts and remounting of any filesystem. Previously I posted here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/5/590 [Descriptions] - background dentry_unused is a list of dentries which are not referenced. dentry_unused grows up when references on directories or files are released. This list can be very long if there is huge free memory. - the problem When shrink_dcache_sb() is called, it scans all dentry_unused linearly under spin_lock(), and if dentry->d_sb is differnt from given superblock, scan next dentry. This scan costs very much if there are many entries, and very ineffective if there are many superblocks. IOW, When we need to shrink unused dentries on one dentry, but scans unused dentries on all superblocks in the system. For example, we scan 500 dentries to unmount a filesystem, but scans 1,000,000 or more unused dentries on other superblocks. In our case , At mounting NFS*, shrink_dcache_sb() is called to shrink unused dentries on NFS, but scans 100,000,000 unused dentries on superblocks in the system such as local ext3 filesystems. I hear NFS mounting took 1 min on some system in use. * : NFS uses virtual filesystem in rpc layer, so NFS is affected by this problem. 100,000,000 is possible number on large systems. Per-superblock LRU of unused dentried can reduce the cost in reasonable manner. - How to fix I found this problem is solved by David Chinner's "Per-superblock unused dentry LRU lists V3"(1), so I rebase it and add some fix to reclaim with fairness, which is in Andrew Morton's comments(2). 1) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/25/318 2) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/25/320 Split LRU-list of unused dentries to each superblocks. Then, NFS mounting will check dentries under a superblock instead of all. But this spliting will break LRU of dentry-unused. So, I've attempted to make reclaim unused dentrins with fairness by calculate number of dentries to scan on this sb based on following way number of dentries to scan on this sb = count * (number of dentries on this sb / number of dentries in the machine) - ToDo - I have to measuring performance number and do stress tests. - When unmount occurs during prune_dcache(), scanning on same superblock, It is unable to reach next superblock because it is gone away. We restart scannig superblock from first one, it causes unfairness of reclaim unused dentries on first superblock. But I think this happens very rarely. - Test Results Result on 6GB boxes with excessive unused dentries. Without patch: $ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state 10181835 10180203 45 0 0 0 # mount -t nfs 10.124.60.70:/work/kernel-src nfs real 0m1.830s user 0m0.001s sys 0m1.653s With this patch: $ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state 10236610 10234751 45 0 0 0 # mount -t nfs 10.124.60.70:/work/kernel-src nfs real 0m0.106s user 0m0.002s sys 0m0.032s [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments] Signed-off-by:
Kentaro Makita <k-makita@np.css.fujitsu.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
In __free_one_page(), the comment "Move the buddy up one level" appears attached to the break and by implication when the break is taken we are moving it up one level: if (!page_is_buddy(page, buddy, order)) break; /* Move the buddy up one level. */ In reality the inverse is true, we break out when we can no longer merge this page with its buddy. Looking back into pre-history (into the full git history) it appears that these two lines accidentally got joined as part of another change. Move the comment down where it belongs below the if and clarify its language. Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
The double indirection here is not needed anywhere and hence (at least) confusing. Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This uses the new vm_ops->access to allow gdb to access the SPU local store. We currently prevent access to problem state registers, this can be done later if really needed but it's safer not to. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo] Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This adds ioremap_prot and pte_pgprot() so that one can extract protection bits from a PTE and use them to ioremap_prot() (in order to support ptrace of VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP as per Rik's patch). This moves a couple of flag checks around in the ioremap implementations of arch/powerpc. There's a side effect of allowing non-cacheable and non-guarded mappings on ppc32 which before would always have _PAGE_GUARDED set whenever _PAGE_NO_CACHE is. (standard ioremap will still set _PAGE_GUARDED, but ioremap_prot will be capable of setting such a non guarded mapping). Signed-off-by:
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Rik van Riel authored
Use generic_access_phys as the access_process_vm access function for /dev/mem mappings. This makes it possible to debug the X server. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair all the architectures which broke] Signed-off-by:
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Rik van Riel authored
In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem. This patch: Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory. [riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function] Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
There are no users of nopfn in the tree. Remove it. [hugh@veritas.com: fix build error] Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
generic_file_direct_IO is a common helper around the invocation of ->direct_IO. But there's almost nothing shared between the read and write side, so we're better off without this helper. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
It's confusing that set_max_huge_pages() contained two different variables named "ret", and although the code works correctly this should be fixed. The inner of the two variables can simply be removed. Spotted by sparse. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch adds proper extern declarations for five variables in include/linux/vmstat.h Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its global functions (in this case for sys_move_pages()). Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Two zonelist patch series rewrote __page_alloc() largely. Now, it is just a wrapper function. Inlining them will save a function call. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export __alloc_pages_internal] Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused variable] Signed-off-by:
Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
This function has no external callers, so unexport it. Also fix its naming inconsistency. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
All _core functions only need the bootmem data, not the whole node descriptor. Adjust the two functions that take the node descriptor unneededly. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
The check for node_boot_start is bogus because we start freeing at the corresponding pfn. So check if the pfn is properly aligned instead in a more readable way and adjust the documentation. Also remove an unneeded accounting variable. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
There are a lot of places that define either a single bootmem descriptor or an array of them. Use only one central array with MAX_NUMNODES items instead. Signed-off-by:
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by:
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
lib/debugobjects.c has a function to test if an object is on the stack. The block layer and ide needs it (they need to avoid DMA from/to stack buffers). This patch moves the function to include/linux/sched.h so that everyone can use it. lib/debugobjects.c uses current->stack but this patch uses a task_stack_page() accessor, which is a preferable way to access the stack. Signed-off-by:
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
This patch prints out the zonelists during boot for manual verification by the user if the mminit_loglevel is MMINIT_VERIFY or higher. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
There are a number of different views to how much memory is currently active. There is the arch-independent zone-sizing view, the bootmem allocator and memory models view. Architectures register this information at different times and is not necessarily in sync particularly with respect to some SPARSEMEM limitations. This patch introduces mminit_validate_memmodel_limits() which is able to validate and correct PFN ranges with respect to the memory model. It is only SPARSEMEM that currently validates itself. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Print out information on how the page flags are being used if mminit_loglevel is MMINIT_VERIFY or higher and unconditionally performs sanity checks on the flags regardless of loglevel. When the page flags are updated with section, node and zone information, a check are made to ensure the values can be retrieved correctly. Finally we confirm that pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn are the correct inverse functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warnings] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering. While significant amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data received from the architecture layer. This is a mistake, and has resulted in a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs. This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation. It also introduces a few basic defensive measures. The validation code can be explicitly disabled for embedded systems. This patch: Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation. Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel= command-line parameter. The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c. Ideally other mm initialisation code will be moved here over time. Signed-off-by:
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David Brownell authored
Flag platforms as HAVE_CLK (or not) in Kconfig, based on whether they support <linux/clk.h> calls, so that otherwise portable drivers which need those calls can list that dependency. Something like this is a prerequisite for merging the musb_hdrc driver, currently used on platforms including Davinci, OMAP2430, OMAP3xx ... and the discrete TUSB6010 chip, which doesn't have a natural platform dependency. (Used with OMAP 2420 in current Nokia N8x0 tablets.) Signed-off-by:
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by:
Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch removes the no longer used is_tty(). Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Clemens Ladisch authored
The existing HPET maintainer entries are somewhat unclear about which one applies to what part of the kernel. Signed-off-by:
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
James Bottomley warns that inclusion of linux/fs.h in a low level driver was always a danger signal. This patch moves memory_read_from_buffer() from fs.h to string.h and fixes includes in existing memory_read_from_buffer() users. Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-rolandLinus Torvalds authored
* 'x86/auditsc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland: i386 syscall audit fast-path x86_64 ia32 syscall audit fast-path x86_64 syscall audit fast-path x86_64: remove bogus optimization in sysret_signal
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds authored
* 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: hrtick_enabled() should use cpu_active() sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation sched: fix build error, provide partition_sched_domains() unconditionally sched: fix warning in inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2) sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones" sched: reduce stack size in isolated_cpu_setup() Revert parts of "ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions" Fixed up conflicts in include/asm-x86/thread_info.h (due to the TIF_SINGLESTEP unification vs TIF_HRTICK_RESCHED removal) and kernel/sched_fair.c (due to cpu_active_map vs for_each_cpu_mask_nr() introduction).
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits) NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in speedstep-centrino.c cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros, FIXUP NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in cpufreq userspace routines NR_CPUS: Replace per_cpu(..., smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genapic_flat_64.c NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c, fix cpumask: Use optimized CPUMASK_ALLOC macros in the centrino_target cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in kernel/time/tick-common.c cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c cpumask: Replace cpumask_of_cpu with cpumask_of_cpu_ptr Revert "cpumask: introduce new APIs" cpumask: make for_each_cpu_mask a bit smaller net: Pass reference to cpumask variable in net/sunrpc/svc.c ... Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c manually
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: softlockup: fix invalid proc_handler for softlockup_panic softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency softlockup: show irqtrace softlockup: print a module list on being stuck softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression softlockup: fix false positives on nohz if CPU is 100% idle for more than 60 seconds softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh fix softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh unaligned access and disable detection at runtime softlockup: allow panic on lockup
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (85 commits) [ARM] pxa: add base support for PXA930 Handheld Platform (aka SAAR) [ARM] pxa: add base support for PXA930 Evaluation Board (aka TavorEVB) [ARM] pxa: add base support for PXA930 (aka Tavor-P) [ARM] Update mach-types [ARM] pxa: make littleton to use the new smc91x platform data [ARM] pxa: make zylonite to use the new smc91x platform data [ARM] pxa: make mainstone to use the new smc91x platform data [ARM] pxa: make lubbock to use new smc91x platform data [NET] smc91x: prepare SMC_USE_PXA_DMA to be specified in platform data [NET] smc91x: prepare for SMC_IO_SHIFT to be a platform configurable variable [NET] smc91x: add SMC91X_NOWAIT flag to platform data [NET] smc91x: favor the use of SMC91X_USE_* instead of SMC_CAN_USE_* [NET] smc91x: remove "irq_flags" from "struct smc91x_platdata" [ARM] 5146/1: pxa2xx: convert all boards to call pxa2xx_transceiver_mode helper Support for LCD on e740 e750 e400 and e800 e-series PDAs E-series UDC support PXA UDC - allow use of inverted GPIO for pullup Add e350 support Fix broken e-series build E-series GPIO / IRQ definitions. ...
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds fast paths for 32-bit syscall entry and exit when TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing. These paths does not need to save and restore all registers as the general case of tracing does. Avoiding the iret return path when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot. Signed-off-by:Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds fast paths for 32-bit syscall entry and exit when TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing. These paths does not need to save and restore all registers as the general case of tracing does. Avoiding the iret return path when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot. Signed-off-by: -
Roland McGrath authored
This adds a fast path for 64-bit syscall entry and exit when TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing. This path does not need to save and restore all registers as the general case of tracing does. Avoiding the iret return path when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot. Signed-off-by:
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