- 14 Mar, 2009 3 commits
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: new interface Add a brk()-like allocator which effectively extends the bss in order to allow very early code to do dynamic allocations. This is better than using statically allocated arrays for data in subsystems which may never get used. The space for brk allocations is in the bss ELF segment, so that the space is mapped properly by the code which maps the kernel, and so that bootloaders keep the space free rather than putting a ramdisk or something into it. The bss itself, delimited by __bss_stop, ends before the brk area (__brk_base to __brk_limit). The kernel text, data and bss is reserved up to __bss_stop. Any brk-allocated data is reserved separately just before the kernel pagetable is built, as that code allocates from unreserved spaces in the e820 map, potentially allocating from any unused brk memory. Ultimately any unused memory in the brk area is used in the general kernel memory pool. Initially the brk space is set to 1MB, which is probably much larger than any user needs (the largest current user is i386 head_32.S's code to build the pagetables to map the kernel, which can get fairly large with a big kernel image and no PSE support). So long as the system has sufficient memory for the bootloader to reserve the kernel+1MB brk, there are no bad effects resulting from an over-large brk. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Impact: cleanup Move the symbols delimiting a section part of the section (section relative) rather than absolute. This avoids any unexpected gaps between the section-start symbol and the first data in the section, which could be caused by implicit alignment of the section data. It also makes the general form of vmlinux_64.lds.S consistent with vmlinux_32.lds.S. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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- 13 Mar, 2009 1 commit
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Li Zefan authored
Impact: micro-optimization In cpuacct_charge(), task_ca() will never return NULL, so change for(...) to do { } while(...) to save one NULL check. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <49B863F5.2060400@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 12 Mar, 2009 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/debug', 'x86/mm', 'x86/setup', 'x86/urgent' and 'linus' into x86/core
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- 11 Mar, 2009 28 commits
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Stuart Bennett authored
This message was being incorrectly emitted when using gdb, so compile it out by default for now; there will be a better fix in v2.6.30. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org> Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm: fix EDID parser problem with positive/negative hsync/vsync
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: radeonfb/aty128fb: Disable broken early resume hook for PowerBooks hvc_console: Remove tty->low_latency on pseries backends powerpc: fix linkstation and storcenter compilation breakage powerpc/4xx: Enable SERIAL_OF support by default for Virtex platforms
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intelLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: drm/i915: fix 945 fence register writes for fence 8 and above. drm/i915: Protect active fences on i915 drm/i915: Check to see if we've pinned all available fences drm/i915: Check fence status on every pin. drm/i915: First recheck for an empty fence register. drm/i915: Fix bad \n in MTRR failure notice. drm/i915: Don't restore palettes through VGA registers. i915: add newline to i915_gem_object_pin failure msg drm: Return EINVAL on duplicate objects in execbuffer object list
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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: work around Fedora-11 x86-32 kernel failures on Intel Atom CPUs
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OGAWA Hirofumi authored
On swapon() path, it has already i_mutex. So, this uses i_alloc_sem instead of it. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Reported-by: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric Anholt authored
The last 8 fence registers sit at a different offset, so when we went to set fence number 8 in the lower offset, we instead set PGETBL_CTL, and the GPU got all sorts of angry at us. fd.o bug #20567. Easily reproducible by running glxgears and killing it about 6 times. Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Impact: obsolete feature removal The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long time. It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that anyone ever uses it. Furthermore, although it is still supported by most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and not having even noticed. Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any meaning. LKML-Reference: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Chris Wilson authored
The i915 also uses the fence registers for GPU access to tiled buffers so we cannot reallocate one whilst it is on the active list. By performing a LRU scan of the fenced buffers we also avoid waiting the possibility of waiting on a pinned, or otherwise unusable, buffer. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: work around boot crash Work around Intel Atom erratum AAH41 (probabilistically) - it's triggering in the field. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Akinobu Mita authored
It may be useful for kmap_atomic_pfn() and iomap_atomic_prot_pfn() to check invalid kmap usage as well as kmap_atomic. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090311143449.GB22244@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Akinobu Mita authored
kmap_atomic_pfn() and iomap_atomic_prot_pfn() are almost same except pgprot. This patch removes the code duplication for these two functions. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090311143317.GA22244@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Wu Fengguang authored
Fix kpf_copy_bit(src,dst) to be kpf_copy_bit(dst,src) to match the actual call patterns, e.g. kpf_copy_bit(kflags, KPF_LOCKED, PG_locked). This misplacement of src/dst only affected reporting of PG_writeback, PG_reclaim and PG_buddy. For others kflags==uflags so not affected. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jaswinder Singh Rajput authored
move store_ldt outside the CONFIG_PARAVIRT section and also clean up the code a bit. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Impact: cleanup 1) .p2align 4 and .align 16 are the same meaning (until a.out format for i386 is used which is not our case for CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 anyway) 2) having 15 as max allowed bytes to be skipped does not make sense on modulo 16 Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> LKML-Reference: <20090309171951.GE9945@localhost> [ small cleanup, use __stringify(), etc. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Impact: cleanup Convert the last remaining users. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Tejun Heo authored
Impact: remove spurious WARN on legacy SMP percpu allocator Commit f2a8205c incorrectly added too tight WARN_ON_ONCE() on alignments for UP and legacy SMP percpu allocator. Commit e3176036 fixed it for UP but legacy SMP allocator was forgotten. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Sachin P. Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Impact: saving power _very_ little round_jiffies() round up absolute jiffies to full second. round_jiffies_relative() round up relative jiffies to full second. The "t->expires" is absolute jiffies. Then, round_jiffies() should be used instead round_jiffies_relative(). Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Chris Wilson authored
We need to check and report if there are no available fences - or else we spin endlessly waiting for a buffer to magically unpin itself. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Chris Wilson authored
As we may steal the fence register of an unpinned buffer for another, every time we repin the buffer we need to recheck whether it needs to be allocated a fence. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Chris Wilson authored
If we wait upon a request and successfully unbind a buffer occupying a fence register, then that slot will be freed and cause a NULL derefrence upon rescanning. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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Pantelis Koukousoulas authored
Comparing the layouts of struct detail_pixel_timing with x.org's struct detailed_timings and how those are handled, it appears that the hsync_positive and vsync_positive fields are backwards. This patch fixes https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20019 for me. It was tested on 2 monitors, LG FLATRON L225WS 22" and a YAKUMO 17" for which more details are unknown. Signed-off-by: Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Huang Ying authored
Impact: New major feature This patch add kexec jump support for x86_64. More information about kexec jump can be found in corresponding x86_32 support patch. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Huang Ying authored
Impact: Fix corner case that cannot yet occur image->start may be outside of 0 ~ max_pfn, for example when jumping back to original kernel from kexeced kenrel. This patch add identity map for pages at image->start. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Huang Ying authored
Impact: Cleanup Fix some coding style issue for kexec x86. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 10 Mar, 2009 7 commits
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
radeonfb and aty128fb have a special hook called by the PowerMac platform code very very early on resume from sleep to bring the screen back. This is useful for debugging wakup problems, but unfortunately, this also became a source of problems of its own. The hook is called extremely early, with interrupts still off, and the code path involved with that code nowadays rely on things like taking mutexes, GFP_KERNEL allocations, etc... In addition, the driver now relies on the PCI core to restore the standard config space before calling resume which doesn't happen with this early code path. I'm keeping the code in but commented out along with a fixup call to pci_restore_state(). The reason is that I still want to make it easy to re-enable temporarily to track wake up problems, and it's possible that I can revive it at some stage if we make sleeping things save to call in early resume using a system state. In the meantime, this should fix several reported regressions. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
The hvcs and hvsi backends both set tty->low_latency to one, along with more or less scary comments regarding bugs or races that would happen if not doing so. However, they also both call tty_flip_buffer_push() in conexts where it's illegal to do so since some recent tty changes (or at least it may have been illegal always but it nows blows) when low_latency is set (ie, hard interrupt or with spinlock held and irqs disabled). This removes the setting for now to get them back to working condition, we'll have to address the races described in the comments separately if they are still an issue (some of this might have been fixed already). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
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Samuel CUELLA authored
Prevent the kernel from being crashed by a divide-by-zero operation when supplied an incorrectly filled 'struct fb_var_screeninfo' from userland. Previously i810_main.c:1005 (i810_check_params) was using the global 'yres' symbol previously defined at i810_main.c:145 as a module parameter value holder (i810_main.c:2174). If i810fb is compiled-in or if this param doesn't get a default value, this direct usage leads to a divide-by-zero at i810_main.c:1005 (i810_check_params). The patch simply replace the 'yres' global, perhaps undefined symbol usage by a given parameter structure lookup. This problem occurs with directfb, mplayer -vo fbdev, SDL library. It was also reported ( but non solved ) at: http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2008-March/004050.htmlSigned-off-by: Samuel CUELLA <samuel.cuella@supinfo.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Steven King authored
There isn't any mcfqspi.h in the tree, and without it everything inside the #ifdef CONFIG_SPI is uncompilable. Signed-off-by: Steven King <sfking@fdwdc.com> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Steven King authored
Signed-off-by: Steven King <sfking@fdwdc.com> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Update the RCU documentation to call out the need for callers of primitives like call_rcu() and synchronize_rcu() to prevent subsequent RCU readers from hazard. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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