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2005-06-27[SPARC64]: Get rid of fast IRQ feature.David S. Miller
The only real user was the assembler floppy interrupt handler, which does not need to be in assembly. This makes it so that there are less pieces of code which know about the internal layout of ivector_table[] and friends. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-27[SPARC64]: Avoid membar instructions in delay slots.David S. Miller
In particular, avoid membar instructions in the delay slot of a jmpl instruction. UltraSPARC-I, II, IIi, and IIe have a bug, documented in the UltraSPARC-IIi User's Manual, Appendix K, Erratum 51 The long and short of it is that if the IMU unit misses on a branch or jmpl, and there is a store buffer synchronizing membar in the delay slot, the chip can stop fetching instructions. If interrupts are enabled or some other trap is enabled, the chip will unwedge itself, but performance will suffer. We already had a workaround for this bug in a few spots, but it's better to have the entire tree sanitized for this rule. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[PATCH] compat: introduce compat_time_tStephen Rothwell
This patch is based on work by Carlos O'Donell and Matthew Wilcox. It introduces/updates the compat_time_t type and uses it for compat siginfo structures. I have built this on ppc64 and x86_64. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] kprobes: Temporary disarming of reentrant probe for sparc64Prasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch includes sparc64 architecture specific changes to support temporary disarming on reentrancy of probes. Signed-of-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Move kprobe [dis]arming into arch specific codeRusty Lynch
The architecture independent code of the current kprobes implementation is arming and disarming kprobes at registration time. The problem is that the code is assuming that arming and disarming is a just done by a simple write of some magic value to an address. This is problematic for ia64 where our instructions look more like structures, and we can not insert break points by just doing something like: *p->addr = BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION; The following patch to 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 adds two new architecture dependent functions: * void arch_arm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p) * void arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p) and then adds the new functions for each of the architectures that already implement kprobes (spar64/ppc64/i386/x86_64). I thought arch_[dis]arm_kprobe was the most descriptive of what was really happening, but each of the architectures already had a disarm_kprobe() function that was really a "disarm and do some other clean-up items as needed when you stumble across a recursive kprobe." So... I took the liberty of changing the code that was calling disarm_kprobe() to call arch_disarm_kprobe(), and then do the cleanup in the block of code dealing with the recursive kprobe case. So far this patch as been tested on i386, x86_64, and ppc64, but still needs to be tested in sparc64. Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[PATCH] Avoiding mmap fragmentationWolfgang Wander
Ingo recently introduced a great speedup for allocating new mmaps using the free_area_cache pointer which boosts the specweb SSL benchmark by 4-5% and causes huge performance increases in thread creation. The downside of this patch is that it does lead to fragmentation in the mmap-ed areas (visible via /proc/self/maps), such that some applications that work fine under 2.4 kernels quickly run out of memory on any 2.6 kernel. The problem is twofold: 1) the free_area_cache is used to continue a search for memory where the last search ended. Before the change new areas were always searched from the base address on. So now new small areas are cluttering holes of all sizes throughout the whole mmap-able region whereas before small holes tended to close holes near the base leaving holes far from the base large and available for larger requests. 2) the free_area_cache also is set to the location of the last munmap-ed area so in scenarios where we allocate e.g. five regions of 1K each, then free regions 4 2 3 in this order the next request for 1K will be placed in the position of the old region 3, whereas before we appended it to the still active region 1, placing it at the location of the old region 2. Before we had 1 free region of 2K, now we only get two free regions of 1K -> fragmentation. The patch addresses thes issues by introducing yet another cache descriptor cached_hole_size that contains the largest known hole size below the current free_area_cache. If a new request comes in the size is compared against the cached_hole_size and if the request can be filled with a hole below free_area_cache the search is started from the base instead. The results look promising: Whereas 2.6.12-rc4 fragments quickly and my (earlier posted) leakme.c test program terminates after 50000+ iterations with 96 distinct and fragmented maps in /proc/self/maps it performs nicely (as expected) with thread creation, Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads requires 0.7s system time. Taking out Ingo's patch (un-patch available per request) by basically deleting all mentions of free_area_cache from the kernel and starting the search for new memory always at the respective bases we observe: leakme terminates successfully with 11 distinctive hardly fragmented areas in /proc/self/maps but thread creating is gringdingly slow: 30+s(!) system time for Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads. Now - drumroll ;-) the appended patch works fine with leakme: it ends with only 7 distinct areas in /proc/self/maps and also thread creation seems sufficiently fast with 0.71s for 20000 threads. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Wander <wwc@rentec.com> Credit-to: "Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (partly) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-31[SPARC64]: Refine PCI strbuf ctx-based flush.David S. Miller
The initial peek read PIO of the match register is just a waste. Just do the flush writes first, as that is more efficient. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-31[SPARC64]: Fix streaming buffer flushing on PCI and SBUS.David S. Miller
Firstly, if the direction is TODEVICE, then dirty data in the streaming cache is impossible so we can elide the flush-flag synchronization in that case. Next, the context allocator is broken. It is highly likely that contexts get used multiple times for different dma mappings, which confuses the strbuf flushing code and makes it run inefficiently. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-23[SPARC64]: Add boot option to force UltraSPARC-III P-Cache on.David S. Miller
Older UltraSPARC-III chips have a P-Cache bug that makes us disable it by default at boot time. However, this does hurt performance substantially, particularly with memcpy(), and the bug is _incredibly_ obscure. I have never seen it triggered in practice, ever. So provide a "-P" boot option that forces the P-Cache on. It taints the kernel, so if it does trigger and cause some data corruption or OOPS, we will find out in the logs that this option was on when it happened. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-20[SPARC64]: Fix bad performance side effect of strbuf timeout changes.David S. Miller
The recent change to add a timeout to strbuf flushing had a negative performance impact. The udelay()'s are too long, and they were done in the wrong order wrt. the register read checks. Fix both, and things are happy again. There are more possible improvements in this area. In fact, PCI streaming buffer flushing seems to be part of the bottleneck in network receive performance on my SunBlade1000 box. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-11[SPARC64]: Add timeouts to streaming buffer synchronization.David S. Miller
If some hardware error occurs and the flush flag never updates, we will hang forever in these routines. Add a timeout, and print out a diagnostic if it is reached. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05[SPARC]: Remove legacy stuff from cpu_idle().Coywolf Qi Hunt
Currently sparc and sparc64's UP cpu_idle() checks current pid. This is old time legacy. Now it's paranoia. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05[SPARC64]: Kill useless __pte_alloc_one_kernel indirectionChristoph Hellwig
warning: untested, but it there's not too much chance for screwups Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03[SPARC64]: Disable IRQ forwarding.David S. Miller
There is some race whereby IRQs get stuck, the IRQ status is pending but no processor actually handles the IRQ vector and thus the interrupt. This is a temporary workaround. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03[SPARC64]: Fix goal_cpu tracking in retarget_one_irq().David S. Miller
We would never advance the goal_cpu counter like we should, so all IRQs would go to a single processor. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-01[PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal()Jesper Juhl
Convert most of the current code that uses _NSIG directly to instead use valid_signal(). This avoids gcc -W warnings and off-by-one errors. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-24[PATCH] mostek bogus sparse annotations fixedAl Viro
void * __iomem foo is not a pointer to iomem - it's an iomem variable containing void *. A pile of such guys in arch/sparc64/kernel/time.c, drivers/sbus/char/rtc.c and include/asm-sparc64/mostek.h turned into intended void __iomem *. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-21[SPARC]: Provide generic ioctls in Sparc RTC driver.David S. Miller
Provide support for drivers/char/rtc.c ioctls in the Mostek rtc driver as well as the Sparc specific RTCGET and RTCSET. This allows userspace to be much less messy. Currently util-linux and other spots jump through hoops trying various ioctl variants until it hits the right one whatever driver actually being used supports. Eventually all of this should move over to the genrtc.c driver, but not today... While we are here, fix up the register types for sparse. Thanks to Frans Pop for helping point out this issue. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-18[PATCH] sparc64: Fix statDavid S. Miller
Like Alpha, sparc64's struct stat was defined before we had the nanosecond et al. fields added. So like Alpha I have to cons up a struct stat64 to get this stuff. I'll work on the glibc bits soon. Also, we were forgetting to fill in the nanosecond fields in the sparc compat stat64 syscalls. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17[PATCH] sparc64: Fix copy_sigingo_to_user32()Jurij Smakov
The compat routine to copy over this data structure was not handling SI_POLL correctly, breaking various fcntl() variants in compat tasks. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17[PATCH] sparc64: Reduce ptrace cache flushingDavid S. Miller
We were flushing the D-cache excessively for ptrace() processing and this makes debugging threads so slow as to be totally unusable. All process page accesses via ptrace() go via access_process_vm(). This routine, for each process page, uses get_user_pages(). That in turn does a flush_dcache_page() on the child pages before we copy in/out the ptrace request data. Therefore, all we need to do after the data movement is: 1) Flush the D-cache pages if the kernel maps the page to a different color than userspace does. 2) If we wrote to the page, we need to flush the I-cache on older cpus. Previously we just flushed the entire cache at the end of a ptrace() request, and that was beyond stupid. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17[PATCH] sparc: Fix PTRACE_CONT bogosityDavid S. Miller
SunOS aparently had this weird PTRACE_CONT semantic which we copied. If the addr argument is something other than 1, it sets the process program counter to whatever that value is. This is different from every other Linux architecture, which don't do anything with the addr and data args. This difference in particular breaks the Linux native GDB support for fork and vfork tracing on sparc and sparc64. There is no interest in running SunOS binaries using this weird PTRACE_CONT behavior, so just delete it so we behave like other platforms do. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17[PATCH] sparc64: use message queue compat syscallsDavid S. Miller
A couple message queue system call entries for compat tasks were not using the necessary compat_sys_*() functions, causing some glibc test cases to fail. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!