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2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Add ML403 defconfigGrant C. Likely
Signed-off-by: Grant C. Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Add support for Xilinx ML403 reference designGrant C. Likely
Includes fix for Xilinx silicon errata 213 Signed-off-by: Grant C. Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Add xparameters file for Xilinx ML403 reference designGrant C. Likely
Signed-off-by: Grant C. Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Add Virtex-4 FX to cpu tableGrant C. Likely
Signed-off-by: Grant C. Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Add ML300 defconfigGrant C. Likely
Signed-off-by: Grant C. Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Migrate ML300 reference design to the platform busGrant C. Likely
Signed-off-by: Grant C. Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Migrate Xilinx Vertex support from the OCP bus to the ↵Grant C. Likely
platfom bus. This patch only deals with the serial port definitions as there is no support for any other xilinx IP cores in the kernel tree at the moment. Board specific configuration moved out of virtex.[ch] and into the xparameters.h wrapper. This also prepares for the transition to the flattened device tree model. When the bootloader provides a device tree generated from an xparameters.h files, the kernel will no longer need xparameters/*. The platform bus will get populated with data from the device tree, and the device drivers will be automatically connected to the devices. Only the bootloader (or ppcboot) will need xparameters directly. Signed-off-by: Grant C. Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Make Virtex-II Pro support generic for all Virtex devicesGrant C. Likely
The PPC405 hard core is used in both the Virtex-II Pro and Virtex 4 FX FPGAs. This patch cleans up the Virtex naming convention to reflect more than just the Virtex-II Pro. Rename files virtex-ii_pro.[ch] to virtex.[ch] Rename config value VIRTEX_II_PRO to XILINX_VIRTEX Signed-off-by: Grant C. Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Move xparameters.h into xilinx virtex device specific pathGrant C. Likely
xparameters should not be needed by anything but virtex platform code. Move it from include/asm-ppc/ to platforms/4xx/xparameters/ This is preparing for work to remove xparameters from the dependancy tree for most c files. xparam changes should not cause a recompile of the world. Instead, drivers should get device info from the platform bus (populated by the boot code) Signed-off-by: Grant C. Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: avoid timer interrupt replay effect when onlining cpuNathan Lynch
When a cpu is hotplug-onlined, if we don't set per_cpu(last_jiffy) to something sane, timer_interrupt will execute its while loop for every tick missed since the cpu was last online (or since the system was booted, if we're adding a new cpu). This can cause weird hangs, ssh sessions dropping, and we can even go xmon if we take a global IPI at the wrong time. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: hypervisor check in pseries_kexec_cpu_downMichael Neuling
We call unregister_vpa but we don't check to see if the hypervisor supports this. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> -- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] documentation/powerpc: add bus-frequency property to SOC nodeBecky Bruce
Updated SOC node definition in documentation to include bus-frequency property. Also extended mdio example to match specification. Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Don't use toc in decrementer_iSeries_maskedMichael Ellerman
Since 404849bbd2bfd62e05b36f4753f6e1af6050a824 we've been using LOAD_REG_ADDRBASE, which uses the toc pointer, in decrementer_iSeries_masked. This can explode if we take the decrementer interrupt while we're in a module, because the toc pointer in r2 will be the module's toc pointer. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup, consolidating icache dirtying logicDavid Gibson
The code to mark a page as icache dirty (so that it will later be icache-dcache flushed when we try to execute from it) is duplicated in three places: flush_dcache_page() does this marking and nothing else, but clear_user_page() and copy_user_page() duplicate it, since those functions make the page icache dirty themselves. This patch makes those other functions call flush_dcache_page() instead, so the logic's all in one place. This will make life less confusing if we ever need to tweak the details of the the lazy icache flush mechanism. arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 14 ++------------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] Don't check pointer for NULL before passing it to kfree ↵Jesper Juhl
[arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c] Checking a pointer for NULL before passing it to kfree is pointless, kfree does its own NULL checking of input. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: fix compile warning in udbg_init_maple_realmodeOlaf Hering
arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg_16550.c: In function `udbg_init_maple_realmode': arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg_16550.c:162: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: add refcounting to setup_peg2 and of_get_pci_addressOlaf Hering
setup_peg2 must do some refcounting. of_get_pci_address may need to drop the node Pegasos l2cr : L2 cache was not active, activating PCI bus 0 controlled by pci at 80000000 Badness in kref_get at /home/olaf/kernel/olh/ppc64/linux-2.6.16-rc2-olh/lib/kref.c:32 Call Trace: [C037BD00] [C0007934] show_stack+0x5c/0x184 (unreliable) [C037BD30] [C000E068] program_check_exception+0x184/0x584 [C037BD90] [C000F5F0] ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4c --- Exception: 700 at kref_get+0xc/0x24 LR = of_node_get+0x24/0x3c [C037BE50] [C004FD94] __pte_alloc_kernel+0x64/0x80 (unreliable) [C037BE70] [C000CA18] of_get_parent+0x34/0x58 [C037BE90] [C0009B18] of_get_address+0x24/0x174 [C037BED0] [C000A108] of_address_to_resource+0x24/0x68 [C037BF00] [C038B128] chrp_find_bridges+0x114/0x470 [C037BF90] [C038AE48] chrp_setup_arch+0x1fc/0x32c [C037BFB0] [C03849B0] setup_arch+0x144/0x188 [C037BFD0] [C037C45C] start_kernel+0x34/0x1a8 [C037BFF0] [000037A0] 0x37a0 Badness in kref_get at /home/olaf/kernel/olh/ppc64/linux-2.6.16-rc2-olh/lib/kref.c:32 Call Trace: [C037BC90] [C0007934] show_stack+0x5c/0x184 (unreliable) [C037BCC0] [C000E068] program_check_exception+0x184/0x584 [C037BD20] [C000F5F0] ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4c --- Exception: 700 at kref_get+0xc/0x24 LR = of_node_get+0x24/0x3c [C037BDE0] [00000000] 0x0 (unreliable) [C037BE00] [C000CA18] of_get_parent+0x34/0x58 [C037BE20] [C0009CE8] of_translate_address+0x2c/0x2fc [C037BEA0] [C0009FE8] __of_address_to_resource+0x30/0xc4 [C037BED0] [C000A130] of_address_to_resource+0x4c/0x68 [C037BF00] [C038B128] chrp_find_bridges+0x114/0x470 [C037BF90] [C038AE48] chrp_setup_arch+0x1fc/0x32c [C037BFB0] [C03849B0] setup_arch+0x144/0x188 [C037BFD0] [C037C45C] start_kernel+0x34/0x1a8 [C037BFF0] [000037A0] 0x37a0 PCI bus 0 controlled by pci at c0000000 Top of RAM: 0x10000000, Total RAM: 0x10000000 Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: remove pointer/integer confusion in of_find_node_by_nameOlaf Hering
remove pointer/integer confusion Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: restore clock speed in /proc/cpuinfoOlaf Hering
Use generic_calibrate_decr to restore missing clock: speed in /proc/cpuinfo Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: remove pointer/integer confusion in generic_calibrate_decrOlaf Hering
remove pointer/integer confusion Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Don't overwrite flat device tree with kdump kernelMichael Ellerman
It's possible for prom_init to allocate the flat device tree inside the kdump crash kernel region. If this happens, when we load the kdump kernel we overwrite the flattened device tree, which is bad. We could make prom_init try and avoid allocating inside the crash kernel region, but then we run into issues if the crash kernel region uses all the space inside the RMO. The easiest solution is to move the flat device tree once we're running in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: remove useless call to touch_softlockup_watchdogDave C Boutcher
It turns out that we can't stop the watchdog from triggering here. If we touch the timer (which just uses the current jiffie value) before we enable interrupts, it does nothing because jiffies are not mass-updated until after we enable interrupts. If we touch the timer after we enable interrupts, its too late because the softlockup watchdog will already have triggered. The touch_softlockup_watchdog call removed below does nothing. Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: prod all processors after ibm,suspend-meDave C Boutcher
We need to prod everyone here since this is the only CPU that is guaranteed to be running after the ibm,suspend-me RTAS call returns. Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: return correct rtas status from ibm,suspend-meDave C Boutcher
Correctly return the status from the RTAS call. rtas_call expects to return the status as a return value. Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Fix !SMP build of rtas.cMichael Ellerman
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c is getting hvcall.h via spinlock.h, but when we're building for UP we don't include spinlock.h. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: IOMMU SG paranoiaJake Moilanen
This addresses two items, which are unlikely to be hit if we trust drivers. The first is moving a memory barrier below where the vmerged SG count is passed back, but before the list is set to end. If those instructions were reordered, there could be an issue in iommu_unmap_sg(). The second is making sure we terminate the list on the failure case of iommu_map_sg(). If a driver does not look at the failure return code, it could pass a ill-formed SG list to iommu_unmap_sg(). Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Refuse to boot a kdump kernel via OFMichael Ellerman
You can't boot a kdump kernel via OF, not reliably anyway, the kernel being at 32 MB conflicts with the zImage wrapper etc. and it blows up. It's trivial to check in prom_init though, and this is early enough that we can actually drop back to OF where a reset-all will get you going again, which is kinda nice. I think this should go in for 2.6.16. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Make sure we don't create empty lmb regionsMichael Ellerman
To prevent problems later in boot, make sure we don't create zero-size lmb regions. I've checked all the callers, and at the moment no one should ever hit this. All callers use a constant size, or they check the computed size before they call us. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Don't allocate zero bytes in finish_device_tree()Michael Ellerman
In prom.c we run finish_node() on allnodes twice. The first time we just calculate how much memory we'll need, the second time we do the actual work. If the calculation stage determines that we need 0 bytes, then we should skip the lmb allocation. Although an alloc of zero will work, it has been seen to lead to a BUG_ON() in reserve_bootmem() on at least one machine. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc/8xx: last two 8MB D-TLB entries are incorrectly setMarcelo Tosatti
The last two 8MB TLB entries are being incorrectly set by initial_mmu on 8xx. The first entry is written with the same virtual/physical address, which renders it invalid: BDI>rms 792 0x00001e00 BDI>rms 824 1 BDI>rds 824 SPR 824 : 0xc08000c0 -1065353024 BDI>rds 825 SPR 825 : 0xc0800de0 -1065349664 BDI>rds 826 SPR 826 : 0x00000000 0 And the second entry, in addition, does not have its TLB index set correctly. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07[PATCH] powerpc: Fix spufs initialization sequence.Geoff Levand
This is a small fix to get the spufs init sequence right. init_spu_base() in spu_base.c should be called (via module_init(init_spu_base)) before spufs_init() (via module_init(spufs_init)) in spufs/inode.c gets called. Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07powerpc/64: Fix bug in setting floating-point exception modePaul Mackerras
When loading up the FPU, we were using a 'ld' (load doubleword) instruction to get the FP exception mode from the thread_struct, but it's only an int field. This changes the ld to lwz (load word and zero-extend). Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-07Merge ../linux-2.6Paul Mackerras
2006-02-05[PATCH] USB: Fix GPL markings on usb core functions.Greg KH
I thought we had fixed up all non-gpl USB drivers, and was wrong to do this. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05mm/slab.c (non-NUMA): Fix compile warning and clean up codeLinus Torvalds
The non-NUMA case would do an unmatched "free_alien_cache()" on an alien pointer that had never been allocated. It might not matter from a code generation standpoint (since in the non-NUMA case, the code doesn't actually _do_ anything), but it not only results in a compiler warning, it's really really ugly too. Fix the compiler warning by just having a matching dummy allocation. That also avoids an unnecessary #ifdef in the code. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-02-05Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-02-05[PATCH] kconfig: detect if -lintl is needed when linking conf,mconfRobb, Sam
On a system where libintl.h is present, but the NLS functionality is supplied by a separate library instead of the system C library, an attempt to "make config" or "make menuconfig" will fail with link errors, ex: scripts/kconfig/mconf.o:mconf.c:(.text+0xf63): undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext' This patch attempts to correct the problem by detecting whether or not NLS support requires linking with libintl. Signed-off-by: Samuel J Robb <sam.robb@timesys.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] i386: HIGHMEM64G must depend on X86_CMPXCHG64Adrian Bunk
Due to the usage of set_64bit in include/asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h, HIGHMEM64G must depend on X86_CMPXCHG64. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] Fix "value computed is not used" compile warnings with gcc-4.1Takashi Iwai
Fix gcc4.1 compile warnings "value computed is not used" with set_current_state() and set_task_state() on i386/SMP and x86-64. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] i386: print kernel version in register dumpsChuck Ebbert
Show first field of kernel version in register dumps like x86_64 does. Changes output from e.g.: (2.6.16-rc1) to: (2.6.16-rc1 #12) Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] i386 cpu hotplug: don't access freed memoryChuck Ebbert
i386 CPU init code accesses freed init memory when booting a newly-started processor after CPU hotplug. The cpu_devs array is searched to find the vendor and it contains pointers to freed data. Fix that by: 1. Zeroing entries for freed vendor data after bootup. 2. Changing Transmeta, NSC and UMC to all __init[data]. 3. Printing a warning (once only) and setting this_cpu to a safe default when the vendor is not found. This does not change behavior for AMD systems. They were broken already but no error was reported. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] namei.c: unlock missing in error caseUlrich Drepper
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] VFS: Ensure LOOKUP_CONTINUE flag is preserved by link_path_walk()Trond Myklebust
When walking a path, the LOOKUP_CONTINUE flag is used by some filesystems (for instance NFS) in order to determine whether or not it is looking up the last component of the path. It this is the case, it may have to look at the intent information in order to perform various tasks such as atomic open. A problem currently occurs when link_path_walk() hits a symlink. In this case LOOKUP_CONTINUE may be cleared prematurely when we hit the end of the path passed by __vfs_follow_link() (i.e. the end of the symlink path) rather than when we hit the end of the path passed by the user. The solution is to have link_path_walk() clear LOOKUP_CONTINUE if and only if that flag was unset when we entered the function. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] NUMA slab locking fixes: fix cpu down and up lockingRavikiran G Thirumalai
This fixes locking and bugs in cpu_down and cpu_up paths of the NUMA slab allocator. Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org> reported problems sometime back on POWER5 boxes, when the last cpu on the nodes were being offlined. We could not reproduce the same on x86_64 because the cpumask (node_to_cpumask) was not being updated on cpu down. Since that issue is now fixed, we can reproduce Sonny's problems on x86_64 NUMA, and here is the fix. The problem earlier was on CPU_DOWN, if it was the last cpu on the node to go down, the array_caches (shared, alien) and the kmem_list3 of the node were being freed (kfree) with the kmem_list3 lock held. If the l3 or the array_caches were to come from the same cache being cleared, we hit on badness. This patch cleans up the locking in cpu_up and cpu_down path. We cannot really free l3 on cpu down because, there is no node offlining yet and even though a cpu is not yet up, node local memory can be allocated for it. So l3s are usually allocated at keme_cache_create and destroyed at kmem_cache_destroy. Hence, we don't need cachep->spinlock protection to get to the cachep->nodelist[nodeid] either. Patch survived onlining and offlining on a 4 core 2 node Tyan box with a 4 dbench process running all the time. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] NUMA slab locking fixes: irq disabling from cahep->spinlock to l3 lockRavikiran G Thirumalai
Earlier, we had to disable on chip interrupts while taking the cachep->spinlock because, at cache_grow, on every addition of a slab to a slab cache, we incremented colour_next which was protected by the cachep->spinlock, and cache_grow could occur at interrupt context. Since, now we protect the per-node colour_next with the node's list_lock, we do not need to disable on chip interrupts while taking the per-cache spinlock, but we just need to disable interrupts when taking the per-node kmem_list3 list_lock. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] NUMA slab locking fixes: move color_next to l3Ravikiran G Thirumalai
colour_next is used as an index to add a colouring offset to a new slab in the cache (colour_off * colour_next). Now with the NUMA aware slab allocator, it makes sense to colour slabs added on the same node sequentially with colour_next. This patch moves the colouring index "colour_next" per-node by placing it on kmem_list3 rather than kmem_cache. This also helps simplify locking for CPU up and down paths. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] hugetlb: add comment explaining reasons for Bus ErrorsChristoph Lameter
I just spent some time researching a Bus Error. Turns out that the huge page fault handler can return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS for various conditions where no huge page is available. Add a note explaining the reasoning in the source. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] jbd: fix transaction batchingAndrew Morton
Ben points out that: When writing files out using O_SYNC, jbd's 1 jiffy delay results in a significant drop in throughput as the disk sits idle. The patch below results in a 4-5x performance improvement (from 6.5MB/s to ~24-30MB/s on my IDE test box) when writing out files using O_SYNC. So optimise the batching code by omitting it entirely if the process which is doing a sync write is the same as the one which did the most recent sync write. If that's true, we're unlikely to get any other processes joining the transaction. (Has been in -mm for ages - it took me a long time to get on to performance testing it) Numbers, on write-cache-disabled IDE: /usr/bin/time -p synctest -n 10 -uf -t 1 -p 1 dir-name Unpatched: 40 seconds Patched: 35 seconds Batching disabled: 35 seconds This is the problematic single-process-doing-fsync case. With multiple fsyncing processes the numbers are AFACIT unaltered by the patch. Aside: performance testing and instrumentation shows that the transaction batching almost doesn't help (testing with synctest -n 1 -uf -t 100 -p 10 dir-name on non-writeback-caching IDE). This is because by the time one process is running a synchronous commit, a bunch of other processes already have a transaction handle open, so they're all going to batch into the same transaction anyway. The batching seems to offer maybe 5-10% speedup with this workload, but I'm pretty sure it was more important than that when it was first developed 4-odd years ago... Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] reiserfs_get_acl() build fixAndrew Morton
With CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y, CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=n: fs/reiserfs/xattr.c: In function `reiserfs_check_acl': fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:1330: called object is not a function Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>