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* tty: introduce no_tty and use it in selinuxEric W. Biederman2007-05-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While researching the tty layer pid leaks I found a weird case in selinux when we drop a controlling tty because of inadequate permissions we don't do the normal hangup processing. Which is a problem if it happens the session leader has exec'd something that can no longer access the tty. We already have code in the kernel to handle this case in the form of the TIOCNOTTY ioctl. So this patch factors out a helper function that is the essence of that ioctl and calls it from the selinux code. This removes the inconsistency in handling dropping of a controlling tty and who knows it might even make some part of user space happy because it received a SIGHUP it was expecting. In addition since this removes the last user of proc_set_tty outside of tty_io.c proc_set_tty is made static and removed from tty.h Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* enlarge console.nameAndrew Morton2007-05-081-3/+2Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | console.name[] is eight chars, but so is "earlyvga". So when we try to print console->name when using earlyvga it runs off the end of the string. Make it bigger. Diagnosed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* futex: get_futex_key, get_key_refs and drop_key_refsRusty Russell2007-05-081-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | lguest uses the convenient futex infrastructure for inter-domain I/O, so expose get_futex_key, get_key_refs (renamed get_futex_key_refs) and drop_key_refs (renamed drop_futex_key_refs). Also means we need to expose the union that these use. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cyclades: remove custom typesKlaus Kudielka2007-05-081-89/+91
| | | | | | | Switch from private uclong, etc over to standard types. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fix cyclades.h for x86_64 (and probably others)Klaus Kudielka2007-05-081-8/+6Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At least on x86_64 the present cyclades.h is broken due to the wrong size of uclong. This affects, of course, both the kernel and the user-level utilities. The symptom is that cyzload refuses to load the firmware. I also managed to freeze the machine when unloading the module. The patch below fixes this in an architecture-independent way. I have tested it with 2.6.19 and the driver works fine again with a Cyclades-Z on an Athlon 64 X2. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Kprobes: Make kprobe.symbol_name constAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli2007-05-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kprobes doesn't scribble the kprobe.symbol_name field. Its only set by the module when registering the probe. Modules that exercise good hygiene using the "const" qualifier will see warnings... warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type Make struct kprobe.symbol_name const char * Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* tty: i386/x86_64 arbitary speed supportAlan Cox2007-05-084-3/+23
| | | | | | | | | | Adds the needed TCGETS2/TCSETS2 ioctl calls, structures, defines and the like. Tested against the test suite and passes. Other platforms should need roughly the same change. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipesEric Dumazet2007-05-081-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'. This method called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for special filesystems. It is called without locks. Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen); 2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations 3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to /proc/pid/fd/... 4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to /proc/pid/fd/... A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a *nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz : 3.090 s instead of 3.450 s Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix race between proc_get_inode() and remove_proc_entry()Alexey Dobriyan2007-05-081-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | proc_lookup remove_proc_entry =========== ================= lock_kernel(); spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); [find PDE with refcount 0] spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); [find PDE with refcount 0] [check refcount and free PDE] spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); proc_get_inode: de_get(de); /* boom */ Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* add filesystem subtype supportMiklos Szeredi2007-05-081-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a slight problem with filesystem type representation in fuse based filesystems. From the kernel's view, there are just two filesystem types: fuse and fuseblk. From the user's view there are lots of different filesystem types. The user is not even much concerned if the filesystem is fuse based or not. So there's a conflict of interest in how this should be represented in fstab, mtab and /proc/mounts. The current scheme is to encode the real filesystem type in the mount source. So an sshfs mount looks like this: sshfs#user@server:/ /mnt/server fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,... This url-ish syntax works OK for sshfs and similar filesystems. However for block device based filesystems (ntfs-3g, zfs) it doesn't work, since the kernel expects the mount source to be a real device name. A possibly better scheme would be to encode the real type in the type field as "type.subtype". So fuse mounts would look like this: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows fuseblk.ntfs-3g rw,... user@server:/ /mnt/server fuse.sshfs rw,nosuid,nodev,... This patch adds the necessary code to the kernel so that this can be correctly displayed in /proc/mounts. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* init dma masks in pnp_devDavid Brownell2007-05-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PNP now initializes device dma masks, which prevents oopses when generic dma calls are made using pnp device nodes. This assumes PNP only uses ISA DMA, with 24 bit addresses; and that it's safe to init those masks for all devices (rather than finding out which devices have been assigned DMA channels, and handling only those). Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge sys_clone()/sys_unshare() nsproxy and namespace handlingBadari Pulavarty2007-05-085-24/+16Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sys_clone() and sys_unshare() both makes copies of nsproxy and its associated namespaces. But they have different code paths. This patch merges all the nsproxy and its associated namespace copy/clone handling (as much as possible). Posted on container list earlier for feedback. - Create a new nsproxy and its associated namespaces and pass it back to caller to attach it to right process. - Changed all copy_*_ns() routines to return a new copy of namespace instead of attaching it to task->nsproxy. - Moved the CAP_SYS_ADMIN checks out of copy_*_ns() routines. - Removed unnessary !ns checks from copy_*_ns() and added BUG_ON() just incase. - Get rid of all individual unshare_*_ns() routines and make use of copy_*_ns() instead. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, warning fix] [clg@fr.ibm.com: remove dup_namespaces() declaration] [serue@us.ibm.com: fix CONFIG_IPC_NS=n, clone(CLONE_NEWIPC) retval] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with CONFIG_SYSVIPC=n] Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: <containers@lists.osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* IRQ: add __must_check to request_irqMonakhov Dmitriy2007-05-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | This could help to find buggy drivers where request_irq return value wasn't checked. There's just no reason to ignore errors which can and do occur. Anyone who got warning during compilation have to realise what it is't realy safe code. Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kconfig: centralize the selection of semaphore debugging in lib/Kconfig.debugRobert P. J. Day2007-05-081-8/+6Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the Kconfig selection of semaphore debugging from the ALPHA and FRV Kconfig files, and centralize it in lib/Kconfig.debug. There doesn't seem to be much point in letting individual architectures independently define the same Kconfig option when it can just as easily be put in a single Kconfig file and made dependent on a subset of architectures. that way, at least the option shows up in the same relative location in the menu each time. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* reiserfs: shrink superblock if no xattrsAlexey Dobriyan2007-05-081-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes in-core superblock fit into one cacheline here. Before: struct dentry * xattr_root; /* 124 4 */ /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (128 bytes) --- */ struct rw_semaphore xattr_dir_sem; /* 128 12 */ int j_errno; /* 140 4 */ }; /* size: 144, cachelines: 2 */ /* sum members: 142, holes: 1, sum holes: 2 */ /* last cacheline: 16 bytes */ After: int j_errno; /* 124 4 */ /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (128 bytes) --- */ }; /* size: 128, cachelines: 1 */ /* sum members: 126, holes: 1, sum holes: 2 */ Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix compilation of drivers with -O0Michal Schmidt2007-05-081-25/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is sometimes useful to compile individual drivers with optimization disabled for easier debugging. Currently drivers which use htonl() and similar functions don't compile with -O0. This patch fixes it. It also removes obsolete and misleading comments. This header is not for userspace, so we don't have to care about strange programs these comments mention. (akpm: -O0 probably isn't a good idea, but this code looks pretty crufty and unuseful) Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* init/do_mounts.c: proper prepare_namespace() prototypeAdrian Bunk2007-05-081-1/+2
| | | | | | | | Add a proper protype for prepare_namespace() in include/linux/init.h. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* use use SEEK_MAX to validate user lseek argumentsChris Snook2007-05-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | Add SEEK_MAX and use it to validate lseek arguments from userspace. Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix constant folding and poor optimization in byte swapping codeTrent Piepho2007-05-081-39/+69
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Constant folding does not work for the swabXX() byte swapping functions, and the C versions optimize poorly. Attempting to initialize a global variable to swab16(0x1234) or put something like "case swab32(42):" in a switch statement will not compile. It can work, swab.h just isn't doing it correctly. This patch fixes that. Contrary to the comment in asm-i386/byteorder.h, gcc does not recognize the "C" version of swab16 and turn it into efficient code. gcc can do this, just not with the current code. The simple function: u16 foo(u16 x) { return swab16(x); } Would compile to: movzwl %ax, %eax movl %eax, %edx shrl $8, %eax sall $8, %edx orl %eax, %edx With this patch, it will compile to: rolw $8, %ax I also attempted to document the maze different macros/inline functions that are used to create the final product. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> Cc: Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handlingCorey Minyard2007-05-082-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog timeouts via an NMI. This add config options to know if there is the ability to receive NMIs and if it has an NMI post processing call. Then it modifies the IPMI watchdog to take advantage of this so that it can know if an NMI comes in. It also adds testing that the IPMI NMI watchdog works. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* reduce size of task_struct on 64-bit machinesWilliam Cohen2007-05-081-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This past week I was playing around with that pahole tool (http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/acme/dwarves/) and looking at the size of various struct in the kernel. I was surprised by the size of the task_struct on x86_64, approaching 4K. I looked through the fields in task_struct and found that a number of them were declared as "unsigned long" rather than "unsigned int" despite them appearing okay as 32-bit sized fields. On x86_64 "unsigned long" ends up being 8 bytes in size and forces 8 byte alignment. Is there a reason there a reason they are "unsigned long"? The patch below drops the size of the struct from 3808 bytes (60 64-byte cachelines) to 3760 bytes (59 64-byte cachelines). A couple other fields in the task struct take a signficant amount of space: struct thread_struct thread; 688 struct held_lock held_locks[30]; 1680 CONFIG_LOCKDEP is turned on in the .config [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warnings] Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* simplify the stacktrace codeChristoph Hellwig2007-05-081-4/+2Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simplify the stacktrace code: - remove the unused task argument to save_stack_trace, it's always current - remove the all_contexts flag, it's alwasy 0 Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Factor outstanding I/O error handlingGuillaume Chazarain2007-05-081-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | Cleanup: setting an outstanding error on a mapping was open coded too many times. Factor it out in mapping_set_error(). Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: move common segment checks to separate helper functionDmitriy Monakhov2007-05-081-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> Acked-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Increase slab redzone to 64bitsDavid Woodhouse2007-05-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-05-077-7/+48
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] update memory attribute aliasing documentation & test cases [IA64] fail mmaps that span areas with incompatible attributes [IA64] allow WB /sys/.../legacy_mem mmaps [IA64] make ioremap avoid unsupported attributes [IA64] rename ioremap variables to match i386 [IA64] relax per-cpu TLB requirement to DTC [IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 [IA64] Fix example error injection program [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: pal_mc_error_inject() interface [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Makefile changes [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Driver sysfs interface [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Doc and sample application [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Kernel configuration
| * Pull mem-attribute into release branchTony Luck2007-04-301-5/+1Star
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| | * [IA64] make ioremap avoid unsupported attributesBjorn Helgaas2007-03-301-5/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Example memory map (from HP sx1000 with VGA enabled): 0x00000 - 0x9FFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access 0xA0000 - 0xBFFFF supports only UC (uncacheable) access 0xC0000 - 0xFFFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access pci_read_rom() indirectly uses ioremap(0xC0000) to read the shadow VGA option ROM. ioremap() used to default to a 16MB or 64MB UC kernel identity mapping, which would cause an MCA when reading 0xC0000 since only WB is supported there. X uses reads the option ROM to initialize devices. A smaller test case is: # echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:aa:03.0/rom # cp /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:aa:03.0/rom x To avoid this, we can use the same ioremap_page_range() strategy that most architectures use for all ioremaps. These page table mappings come out of the vmalloc area. On ia64, these are in region 5 (0xA... addresses) and typically use 16KB or 64KB mappings instead of 16MB or 64MB mappings. The smaller mappings give more flexibility to use the correct attributes. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * | Pull percpu-dtc into release branchTony Luck2007-04-305-2/+14
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| | * | [IA64] relax per-cpu TLB requirement to DTCChen, Kenneth W2007-02-071-2/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of pinning per-cpu TLB into a DTR, use DTC. This will free up one TLB entry for application, or even kernel if access pattern to per-cpu data area has high temporal locality. Since per-cpu is mapped at the top of region 7 address, we just need to add special case in alt_dtlb_miss. The physical address of per-cpu data is already conveniently stored in IA64_KR(PER_CPU_DATA). Latency for alt_dtlb_miss is not affected as we can hide all the latency. It was measured that alt_dtlb_miss handler has 23 cycles latency before and after the patch. The performance effect is massive for applications that put lots of tlb pressure on CPU. Workload environment like database online transaction processing or application uses tera-byte of memory would benefit the most. Measurement with industry standard database benchmark shown an upward of 1.6% gain. While smaller workloads like cpu, java also showing small improvement. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| | * | [IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8Chen, Kenneth W2007-02-074-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store how many physical stack register a cpu has. Ever since the incarnation of ia64 up till upcoming Montecito processor, that variable has "glued" to 96. Having a variable in memory means that the kernel is burning an extra cacheline access on every syscall and kernel exit path. Such "static" value is better served with the instruction patching utility exists today. Convert ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 into dynamic insn patching. This also has a pleasant side effect of eliminating access to per-cpu area while psr.ic=0 in the kernel exit path. (fixable for per-cpu DTC work, but why bother?) There are some concerns with the default value that the instruc- tion encoded in the kernel image. It shouldn't be concerned. The reasons are: (1) cpu_init() is called at CPU initialization. In there, we find out physical stack register size from PAL and patch two instructions in kernel exit code. The code in question can not be executed before the patching is done. (2) current implementation stores zero in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, and that's what the current kernel exit path loads the value with. With the new code, it is equivalent that we store reg size 96 in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, thus creating a better safety net. Given (1) above can never fail, having (2) is just a bonus. All in all, this patch allow one less memory reference in the kernel exit path, thus reducing syscall and interrupt return latency; and avoid polluting potential useful data in the CPU cache. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * | | Pull error-inject into release branchTony Luck2007-04-301-0/+33
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| | * | | [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: pal_mc_error_inject() interfaceFenghua Yu2007-01-301-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements pal_mc_error_inject() interface in kernel. Both physical mode and virtual mode are supported. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'server-cluster-locking-api' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds2007-05-073-5/+22
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'server-cluster-locking-api' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: gfs2: nfs lock support for gfs2 lockd: add code to handle deferred lock requests lockd: always preallocate block in nlmsvc_lock() lockd: handle test_lock deferrals lockd: pass cookie in nlmsvc_testlock lockd: handle fl_grant callbacks lockd: save lock state on deferral locks: add fl_grant callback for asynchronous lock return nfsd4: Convert NFSv4 to new lock interface locks: add lock cancel command locks: allow {vfs,posix}_lock_file to return conflicting lock locks: factor out generic/filesystem switch from setlock code locks: factor out generic/filesystem switch from test_lock locks: give posix_test_lock same interface as ->lock locks: make ->lock release private data before returning in GETLK case locks: create posix-to-flock helper functions locks: trivial removal of unnecessary parentheses
| * | | | | lockd: pass cookie in nlmsvc_testlockMarc Eshel2007-05-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change NLM internal interface to pass more information for test lock; we need this to make sure the cookie information is pushed down to the place where we do request deferral, which is handled for testlock by the following patch. Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
| * | | | | lockd: save lock state on deferralMarc Eshel2007-05-071-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to keep some state for a pending asynchronous lock request, so this patch adds that state to struct nlm_block. This also adds a function which defers the request, by calling rqstp->rq_chandle.defer and storing the resulting deferred request in a nlm_block structure which we insert into lockd's global block list. That new function isn't called yet, so it's dead code until a later patch. Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
| * | | | | locks: add fl_grant callback for asynchronous lock returnMarc Eshel2007-05-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Acquiring a lock on a cluster filesystem may require communication with remote hosts, and to avoid blocking lockd or nfsd threads during such communication, we allow the results to be returned asynchronously. When a ->lock() call needs to block, the file system will return -EINPROGRESS, and then later return the results with a call to the routine in the fl_grant field of the lock_manager_operations struct. This differs from the case when ->lock returns -EAGAIN to a blocking lock request; in that case, the filesystem calls fl_notify when the lock is granted, and the caller retries the original lock. So while fl_notify is merely a hint to the caller that it should retry, fl_grant actually communicates the final result of the lock operation (with the lock already acquired in the succesful case). Therefore fl_grant takes a lock, a status and, for the test lock case, a conflicting lock. We also allow fl_grant to return an error to the filesystem, to handle the case where the fl_grant requests arrives after the lock manager has already given up waiting for it. Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
| * | | | | locks: add lock cancel commandMarc Eshel2007-05-072-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lock managers need to be able to cancel pending lock requests. In the case where the exported filesystem manages its own locks, it's not sufficient just to call posix_unblock_lock(); we need to let the filesystem know what's happening too. We do this by adding a new fcntl lock command: FL_CANCELLK. Some day this might also be made available to userspace applications that could benefit from an asynchronous locking api. Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
| * | | | | locks: allow {vfs,posix}_lock_file to return conflicting lockMarc Eshel2007-05-071-3/+2Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The nfsv4 protocol's lock operation, in the case of a conflict, returns information about the conflicting lock. It's unclear how clients can use this, so for now we're not going so far as to add a filesystem method that can return a conflicting lock, but we may as well return something in the local case when it's easy to. Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
| * | | | | locks: factor out generic/filesystem switch from setlock codeMarc Eshel2007-05-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Factor out the code that switches between generic and filesystem-specific lock methods; eventually we want to call this from lock managers (lockd and nfsd) too; currently they only call the generic methods. This patch does that for all the setlk code. Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
| * | | | | locks: factor out generic/filesystem switch from test_lockJ. Bruce Fields2007-05-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Factor out the code that switches between generic and filesystem-specific lock methods; eventually we want to call this from lock managers (lockd and nfsd) too; currently they only call the generic methods. This patch does that for test_lock. Note that this hasn't been necessary until recently, because the few filesystems that define ->lock() (nfs, cifs...) aren't exportable via NFS. However GFS (and, in the future, other cluster filesystems) need to implement their own locking to get cluster-coherent locking, and also want to be able to export locking to NFS (lockd and NFSv4). So we accomplish this by factoring out code such as this and exporting it for the use of lockd and nfsd. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
| * | | | | locks: give posix_test_lock same interface as ->lockMarc Eshel2007-05-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | posix_test_lock() and ->lock() do the same job but have gratuitously different interfaces. Modify posix_test_lock() so the two agree, simplifying some code in the process. Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
* | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmwLinus Torvalds2007-05-071-1/+8
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (34 commits) [GFS2] Uncomment sprintf_symbol calling code [DLM] lowcomms style [GFS2] printk warning fixes [GFS2] Patch to fix mmap of stuffed files [GFS2] use lib/parser for parsing mount options [DLM] Lowcomms nodeid range & initialisation fixes [DLM] Fix dlm_lowcoms_stop hang [DLM] fix mode munging [GFS2] lockdump improvements [GFS2] Patch to detect corrupt number of dir entries in leaf and/or inode blocks [GFS2] bz 236008: Kernel gpf doing cat /debugfs/gfs2/xxx (lock dump) [DLM] fs/dlm/ast.c should #include "ast.h" [DLM] Consolidate transport protocols [DLM] Remove redundant assignment [GFS2] Fix bz 234168 (ignoring rgrp flags) [DLM] change lkid format [DLM] interface for purge (2/2) [DLM] add orphan purging code (1/2) [DLM] split create_message function [GFS2] Set drop_count to 0 (off) by default ...
| * | | | | | [DLM] interface for purge (2/2)David Teigland2007-05-011-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add code to accept purge commands from userland. Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* | | | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-05-071-0/+89
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NET]: rfkill: add support for input key to control wireless radio [NET] net/core: Fix error handling [TG3]: Update version and reldate. [TG3]: Eliminate spurious interrupts. [TG3]: Add ASPM workaround. [Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer for another Broadcom based dongle [Bluetooth] Add support for Targus ACB10US USB dongle [Bluetooth] Disconnect L2CAP connection after last RFCOMM DLC [Bluetooth] Check that device is in rfcomm_dev_list before deleting [Bluetooth] Use in-kernel sockets API [Bluetooth] Attach host adapters to the Bluetooth bus [Bluetooth] Fix L2CAP and HCI setsockopt() information leaks
| * | | | | | | [NET]: rfkill: add support for input key to control wireless radioIvo van Doorn2007-05-071-0/+89
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The RF kill patch that provides infrastructure for implementing switches controlling radio states on various network and other cards. [dtor@insightbb.com: address review comments] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, build fixes] Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-05-071-0/+1
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SERIAL] sunsu: Fix section mismatch warnings. [SPARC64]: pgtable_cache_init() should be __init. [SPARC64]: Fix section mismatch warnings in arch/sparc64/kernel/prom.c [SPARC64]: Fix section mismatch warnings in arch/sparc64/kernel/pci.c [SPARC64]: Fix section mismatch warnings in arch/sparc64/kernel/console.c [MM]: sparse_init() should be __init. [SPARC64]: Update defconfig. [VIDEO]: Add Sun XVR-2500 framebuffer driver. [VIDEO]: Add Sun XVR-500 framebuffer driver. [SPARC64]: SUN4U PCI-E controller support. [SPARC]: Fix comment typo in smp4m_blackbox_current(). [SCSI] SUNESP: sun_esp.c needs linux/delay.h Fix up conflict in arch/sparc64/mm/init.c manually due to removal of pgtable_cache_init() through the -mm patches (even though that patch was also by David ;) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | | [SPARC64]: SUN4U PCI-E controller support.David S. Miller2007-05-071-0/+1
| |/ / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some minor refactoring in the generic code was necessary for this: 1) This controller requires 8-byte access to the interrupt map and clear register. They are 64-bits on all the other SBUS and PCI controllers anyways, so this was easy to cure. 2) The IMAP register has a different layout and some bits that we need to preserve, so use a read/modify/write when making changes to the IMAP register in generic code. 3) Flushing the entire IOMMU TLB is best done with a single write to a register on this PCI controller, add a iommu->iommu_flushinv for this. Still lacks MSI support, that will come later. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-05-071-10/+37
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband * 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IPoIB: Convert to NAPI IB: Return "maybe missed event" hint from ib_req_notify_cq() IB: Add CQ comp_vector support IB/ipath: Fix a race condition when generating ACKs IB/ipath: Fix two more spin lock problems IB/fmr_pool: Add prefix to all printks IB/srp: Set proc_name IB/srp: Add orig_dgid sysfs attribute to scsi_host IPoIB/cm: Don't crash if remote side uses one QP for both directions RDMA/cxgb3: Support for new abort logic RDMA/cxgb3: Initialize cpu_idx field in cpl_close_listserv_req message RDMA/cxgb3: Fail qp creation if the requested max_inline is too large RDMA/cxgb3: Fix TERM codes IPoIB/cm: Fix error handling in ipoib_cm_dev_open() IB/ipath: Don't corrupt pending mmap list when unmapped objects are freed IB/mthca: Work around kernel QP starvation IB/ipath: Don't put QP in timeout queue if waiting to send IB/ipath: Don't call spin_lock_irq() from interrupt context
| * | | | | | | | IB: Return "maybe missed event" hint from ib_req_notify_cq()Roland Dreier2007-05-071-9/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The semantics defined by the InfiniBand specification say that completion events are only generated when a completions is added to a completion queue (CQ) after completion notification is requested. In other words, this means that the following race is possible: while (CQ is not empty) ib_poll_cq(CQ); // new completion is added after while loop is exited ib_req_notify_cq(CQ); // no event is generated for the existing completion To close this race, the IB spec recommends doing another poll of the CQ after requesting notification. However, it is not always possible to arrange code this way (for example, we have found that NAPI for IPoIB cannot poll after requesting notification). Also, some hardware (eg Mellanox HCAs) actually will generate an event for completions added before the call to ib_req_notify_cq() -- which is allowed by the spec, since there's no way for any upper-layer consumer to know exactly when a completion was really added -- so the extra poll of the CQ is just a waste. Motivated by this, we add a new flag "IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS" for ib_req_notify_cq() so that it can return a hint about whether the a completion may have been added before the request for notification. The return value of ib_req_notify_cq() is extended so: < 0 means an error occurred while requesting notification == 0 means notification was requested successfully, and if IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS was passed in, then no events were missed and it is safe to wait for another event. > 0 is only returned if IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS was passed in. It means that the consumer must poll the CQ again to make sure it is empty to avoid the race described above. We add a flag to enable this behavior rather than turning it on unconditionally, because checking for missed events may incur significant overhead for some low-level drivers, and consumers that don't care about the results of this test shouldn't be forced to pay for the test. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>