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Impact: cleanup
It's unused, since about 1995. So remove all initialization of it in
preparation for actually removing the field.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Now that all EEPROM drivers live in the same place, let's harmonize
their symbol names.
Also fix eeprom's dependencies, it definitely needs sysfs, and is no
longer experimental after many years in the kernel tree.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
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Impact: build fix
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> tip/arch/blackfin/kernel/irqchip.c: In function 'show_interrupts':
> tip/arch/blackfin/kernel/irqchip.c:85: error: 'struct kernel_stat' has no member named 'irqs'
> make[2]: *** [arch/blackfin/kernel/irqchip.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
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So could move kstat_irqs array to irq_desc struct.
(s390, m68k, sparc) are not touched yet, because they don't support genirq
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits)
x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup
cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined
cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate
cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t
x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c
x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids
sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus
ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
xtensa: define __fls
mn10300: define __fls
m32r: define __fls
h8300: define __fls
frv: define __fls
cris: define __fls
cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/
cpumask: convert mm/
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
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Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
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Impact: CPU iterator bugfixes
Percpu areas are only allocated for possible cpus. In general, you
shouldn't access random cpu's percpu areas.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
kernel/sched.c
kernel/sched_stats.h
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Impact: cleanup
Each SMP arch defines these themselves. Move them to a central
location.
Twists:
1) Some archs (m32, parisc, s390) set possible_map to all 1, so we add a
CONFIG_INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE for this rather than break them.
2) mips and sparc32 '#define cpu_possible_map phys_cpu_present_map'.
Those archs simply have phys_cpu_present_map replaced everywhere.
3) Alpha defined cpu_possible_map to cpu_present_map; this is tricky
so I just manipulate them both in sync.
4) IA64, cris and m32r have gratuitous 'extern cpumask_t cpu_possible_map'
declarations.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: starvik@axis.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: takata@linux-m32r.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: grundler@parisc-linux.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: wli@holomorphy.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: jdike@addtoit.com
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
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Conflicts:
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
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usual "introduce .text.head, put it in front of TEXT_TEXT in vmlinux.lds.S,
make the stuff up to jump to start_kernel live in it", same as on other
targets.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Impact: cleanup, change .config option name
We had this ugly config name for a long time for hysteric raisons.
Rename it to a saner name.
We still cannot get rid of it completely, until /proc/<pid>/stack
usage replaces WCHAN usage for good.
We'll be able to do that in the v2.6.29/v2.6.30 timeframe.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile: (21 commits)
OProfile: Fix buffer synchronization for IBS
oprofile: hotplug cpu fix
oprofile: fixing whitespaces in arch/x86/oprofile/*
oprofile: fixing whitespaces in arch/x86/oprofile/*
oprofile: fixing whitespaces in drivers/oprofile/*
x86/oprofile: add the logic for enabling additional IBS bits
x86/oprofile: reordering functions in nmi_int.c
x86/oprofile: removing unused function parameter in add_ibs_begin()
oprofile: more whitespace fixes
oprofile: whitespace fixes
OProfile: Rename IBS sysfs dir into "ibs_op"
OProfile: Rework string handling in setup_ibs_files()
OProfile: Rework oprofile_add_ibs_sample() function
oprofile: discover counters for op ppro too
oprofile: Implement Intel architectural perfmon support
oprofile: Don't report Nehalem as core_2
oprofile: drop const in num counters field
Revert "Oprofile Multiplexing Patch"
x86, oprofile: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
x86/oprofile: fix on_each_cpu build error
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Manually fixed trivial conflicts in
drivers/oprofile/{cpu_buffer.c,event_buffer.h}
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
m32r: fix build due to notify_cpu_starting() change
powerpc: fix linux-next build failure
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This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups
framework. It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in
a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem.
The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named
freezer.state. Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks
in the cgroup. Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in
the cgroup. Reading will return the current state.
* Examples of usage :
# mkdir /containers/freezer
# mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer /containers
# mkdir /containers/0
# echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks
to get status of the freezer subsystem :
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
RUNNING
to freeze all tasks in the container :
# echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
FREEZING
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
FROZEN
to unfreeze all tasks in the container :
# echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
RUNNING
This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space
task in a simple scenario.
It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete. In that case we
return EBUSY. This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this
time. After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected
by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read. The state will remain
"FREEZING" until one of these things happens:
1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to
the freezer.state file
2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
and returns EIO)
3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process]
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page_killable() fails
softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning
softirqs, debug: preemption check
x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA ioremap()
IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix
IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes
softlockup: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description
dmi scan: warn about too early calls to dmi_check_system()
generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t
generic: make PFN_PHYS explicitly return phys_addr_t
generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses
softirq: allocate less vectors
IO resources: fix/remove printk
printk: robustify printk, update comment
printk: robustify printk, fix #2
printk: robustify printk, fix
printk: robustify printk
Fixed up conflicts in:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h
arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
manually.
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__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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fix:
arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:501: err
or: implicit declaration of function 'notify_cpu_starting'
make[2]: *** [arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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'core/printk' and 'core/misc' into core-v28-for-linus
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
include/asm-x86/statfs.h
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'sched/urgent' into sched/core
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This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make the following needlessly global code static:
- entry.S: resume_userspace
- process.c: pm_idle
- process.c: default_idle()
- smp.c: send_IPI_allbutself()
- time.c: timer_interrupt()
- time.c: struct irq0
- traps.c: set_eit_vector_entries()
- traps.c: kstack_depth_to_print
- traps.c: show_trace()
- traps.c: die_lock
- remove the following unused code:
- head.S: startup_32
- process.c: hlt_counter
- process.c: disable_hlt()
- process.c: enable_hlt()
- process.c: dump_task_regs()
- remove the following variables and their usages since they were
always 0:
- irq.c: irq_err_count
- irq.c: irq_mis_count
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
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ERROR: "__ndelay" [drivers/spi/spi_bitbang.ko] undefined!
Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
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ERROR: "empty_zero_page" [fs/ext4/ext4dev.ko] undefined!
Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
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As far as I know no M32R hardware actually has ISA slots.
And ISA drivers don't compile on M32R.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
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Remove the unused NOHIGHMEM option.
Reviewed-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
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PFN_PHYS, as its name suggests, turns a pfn into a physical address.
However, it is a macro which just operates on its argument without
modifying its type. pfns are typed unsigned long, but an unsigned
long may not be long enough to hold a physical address (32-bit systems
with more than 32 bits of physcial address).
Make sure we cast to phys_addr_t to return a complete result.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Right now, there is no notifier that is called on a new cpu, before the new
cpu begins processing interrupts/softirqs.
Various kernel function would need that notification, e.g. kvm works around
by calling smp_call_function_single(), rcu polls cpu_online_map.
The patch adds a CPU_STARTING notification. It also adds a helper function
that sends the message to all cpu_chain handlers.
Tested on x86-64.
All other archs are untested. Especially on sparc, I'm not sure if I got
it right.
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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We don't need this any more; arguably we never really did.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Remove arch-specific show_mem() in favor of the generic version.
This also removes the following redundant information display:
- free swap pages, printed by show_swap_cache_info()
- pages in swapcache, printed by show_swap_cache_info()
where show_mem() calls show_free_areas(), which calls
show_swap_cache_info().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.
The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
free. This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.
This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
all the malloc/free implementations.
The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
- free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
allocations should be made
- free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed
The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
function call. This function will be called several times during the
decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
still running. If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
arch_decomp_wdog().
Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
kernel and improved by me.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Almost all users of this field need a PFN instead of a physical address,
so replace node_boot_start with node_min_pfn.
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: fix spurious BUG_ON() in mark_bootmem()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeureba.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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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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: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Acked-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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry
interchangably. So get rid of it.
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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This converts m32r to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and
friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single(). Not tested,
not even compiled.
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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m32r can use the generic sys_pipe implementation.
The current sys_pipe implementation on m32r only differes from the
generic one by passing a lot of additional unused registers to sys_pipe.
Reviewed and tested by Hirokazu Takata.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remember to close the files if copy_to_user() failed.
Spotted by dm.n9107@gmail.com.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: DM <dm.n9107@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The section .data.idt is not used at all - so drop it.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
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With using KBUILD_DEFCONFIG we don't have to ship a second copy of
m32700ut.smp_defconfig
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
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Semaphores are no longer performance-critical, so a generic C
implementation is better for maintainability, debuggability and
extensibility. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for fixing the lockdep
warning. Thanks to Harvey Harrison for pointing out that the
unlikely() was unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To allow flexible configuration of IDE introduce HAVE_IDE.
All archs except arm, um and s390 unconditionally select it.
For arm the actual configuration determine if IDE is supported.
This is a step towards introducing drivers/Kconfig for arm.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds is
not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we currently
do a multiply followed by a divide. The intervening result, however, is
subject to overflows, especially since the fraction is not simplified (for
HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and divide by 1000).
This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(), for
example.
This patch replaces the multiply-divide with a reciprocal multiplication on
32-bit platforms. When the input is an unsigned long, there is no portable
way to do this on 64-bit platforms there is no portable way to do this
since it requires a 128-bit intermediate result (which gcc does support on
64-bit platforms but may generate libgcc calls, e.g. on 64-bit s390), but
since the output is a 32-bit integer in the cases affected, just simplify
the multiply-divide (*3/10 instead of *300/1000).
The reciprocal multiply used can have off-by-one errors in the upper half
of the valid output range. This could be avoided at the expense of having
to deal with a potential 65-bit intermediate result. Since the intent is
to avoid overflow problems and most of the other time conversions are only
semiexact, the off-by-one errors were considered an acceptable tradeoff.
At Ralf Baechle's suggestion, this version uses a Perl script to compute
the necessary constants. We already have dependencies on Perl for kernel
compiles. This does, however, require the Perl module Math::BigInt, which
is included in the standard Perl distribution starting with version 5.8.0.
In order to support older versions of Perl, include a table of canned
constants in the script itself, and structure the script so that
Math::BigInt isn't required if pulling values from said table.
Running the script requires that the HZ value is available from the
Makefile. Thus, this patch also adds the Kconfig variable CONFIG_HZ to the
architectures which didn't already have it (alpha, cris, frv, h8300, m32r,
m68k, m68knommu, sparc, v850, and xtensa.) It does *not* touch the sh or
sh64 architectures, since Paul Mundt has dealt with those separately in the
sh tree.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Cc: Michael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>,
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>,
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
Cc: William L. Irwin <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>,
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mark arches that support A.OUT format by including the following in their
master Kconfig files:
config ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT
def_bool y
This should also be set if the arch provides compatibility A.OUT support for
an older arch, for instance x86_64 for i386 or sparc64 for sparc.
I've guessed at which arches don't, based on comments in the code, however I'm
sure that some of the ones I've marked as 'yes' actually should be 'no'.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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