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Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.
Patched with:
git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:
- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
page lock to follow page->mapping.
The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.
In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.
The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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dget_locked was a shortcut to avoid the lazy lru manipulation when we already
held dcache_lock (lru manipulation was relatively cheap at that point).
However, how that the lru lock is an innermost one, we never hold it at any
caller, so the lock cost can now be avoided. We already have well working lazy
dcache LRU, so it should be fine to defer LRU manipulations to scan time.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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Protect d_unhashed(dentry) condition with d_lock. This means keeping
DCACHE_UNHASHED bit in synch with hash manipulations.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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Make d_count non-atomic and protect it with d_lock. This allows us to ensure a
0 refcount dentry remains 0 without dcache_lock. It is also fairly natural when
we start protecting many other dentry members with d_lock.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching
advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent,
and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback
anyway.
This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning
much simpler.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: pxa: fix page table corruption on resume
ARM: it8152: add IT8152_LAST_IRQ definition to fix build error
ARM: pxa: PXA_ESERIES depends on FB_W100.
ARM: 6605/1: Add missing include "asm/memory.h"
ARM: 6540/1: Stop irqsoff trace on return to user
ARM: 6537/1: update Nomadik, U300 and Ux500 maintainers
ARM: 6536/1: Add missing SZ_{32,64,128}
ARM: fix cache-feroceon-l2 after stack based kmap_atomic()
ARM: fix cache-xsc3l2 after stack based kmap_atomic()
ARM: get rid of kmap_high_l1_vipt()
ARM: smp: avoid incrementing mm_users on CPU startup
ARM: pxa: PXA_ESERIES depends on FB_W100.
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Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25702
Reported-by: Martin Ettl <ettl.martin@gmx.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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/ycmiao/pxa-linux-2.6
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Before this patch, the following error would sometimes occur after a
resume on pxa3xx:
/path/to/mm/memory.c:144: bad pmd 8040542e.
The problem was that a temporary page table mapping was being improperly
restored.
The PXA3xx resume code creates a temporary mapping of resume_turn_on_mmu
to avoid a prefetch abort. The pxa3xx_resume_after_mmu code requires
that the r1 register holding the address of this mapping not be
modified, however, resume_turn_on_mmu does modify it. It is mostly
correct in that r1 receives the base table address, but it may also
get other bits in 13:0. This results in pxa3xx_resume_after_mmu
restoring the original mapping to the wrong place, corrupting memory
and leaving the temporary mapping in place.
Signed-off-by: Matt Reimer <mreimer@sdgsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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The commit 6ac6b817f3f4c23c5febd960d8deb343e13af5f3 (ARM: pxa: encode
IRQ number into .nr_irqs) removed definition of ITE_LAST_IRQ which
caused the following build error:
CC arch/arm/common/it8152.o
arch/arm/common/it8152.c: In function 'it8152_init_irq':
arch/arm/common/it8152.c:86: error: 'IT8152_LAST_IRQ' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/arm/common/it8152.c:86: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/arm/common/it8152.c:86: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [arch/arm/common/it8152.o] Error 1
Defining the IT8152_LAST_IRQ in the arch/arm/include/hardware/it8152.c
fixes the build.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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As arch/arm/mach-pxa/eseries.c references w100fb_gpio_{read,write}()
directly.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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Disable preemption in init_ibs(). The function only checks the
ibs capabilities and sets up pci devices (if necessary). It runs
only on one cpu but operates with the local APIC and some MSRs,
thus it is better to disable preemption.
[ 7.034377] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: modprobe/483
[ 7.034385] caller is setup_APIC_eilvt+0x155/0x180
[ 7.034389] Pid: 483, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.37-rc1-20101110+ #1
[ 7.034392] Call Trace:
[ 7.034400] [<ffffffff812a2b72>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xd2/0xf0
[ 7.034404] [<ffffffff8101e985>] setup_APIC_eilvt+0x155/0x180
[ ... ]
Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22812
Reported-by: <atswartz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.37.x]
LKML-Reference: <20110103111514.GM4739@erda.amd.com>
[ small cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch fixes below build error by adding the missing asm/memory.h,
which is needed for arch_is_coherent().
$ make pxa3xx_defconfig; make
CC init/do_mounts_rd.o
In file included from include/linux/list_bl.h:5,
from include/linux/rculist_bl.h:7,
from include/linux/dcache.h:7,
from include/linux/fs.h:381,
from init/do_mounts_rd.c:3:
include/linux/bit_spinlock.h: In function 'bit_spin_unlock':
include/linux/bit_spinlock.h:61: error: implicit declaration of function 'arch_is_coherent'
make[1]: *** [init/do_mounts_rd.o] Error 1
make: *** [init] Error 2
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: i8259: initialize isr_ack
KVM: MMU: Fix incorrect direct gfn for unpaged mode shadow
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isr_ack is never initialized. So, until the first PIC reset, interrupts
may fail to be injected. This can cause Windows XP to fail to boot, as
reported in the fallout from the fix to
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21962.
Reported-and-tested-by: Nicolas Prochazka <prochazka.nicolas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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We use the physical address instead of the base gfn for the four
PAE page directories we use in unpaged mode. When the guest accesses
an address above 1GB that is backed by a large host page, a BUG_ON()
in kvm_mmu_set_gfn() triggers.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21962
Reported-and-tested-by: Nicolas Prochazka <prochazka.nicolas@gmail.com>
KVM-Stable-Tag.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/microcode: Fix double vfree() and remove redundant pointer checks before vfree()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc:
mmc: Fix re-probing with PM_POST_RESTORE notification
mmc: atmel-mci: fix multiblock SDIO transfers
mmc: at91_mci: fix multiblock SDIO transfers
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arm: export dma_set_coherent_mask
While a regression was fixed with commit 710224fa2750cf (arm: fix
"arm: fix pci_set_consistent_dma_mask for dmabounce devices"), a
new one was introduced as dma_set_coherent_mask wasn't exported
for modules. This patch takes care for this issue.
Signed-off-by: Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
sh: intc: Initialize radix tree gfp mask explicitly.
sh: Fix up SH7201 clkfwk build.
sh: mach-se: Fix up SE7206 build.
sh: Fix up SH4-202 clkfwk build.
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vfree()
In arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c::generic_load_microcode()
we have this:
while (leftover) {
...
if (get_ucode_data(mc, ucode_ptr, mc_size) ||
microcode_sanity_check(mc) < 0) {
vfree(mc);
break;
}
...
}
if (mc)
vfree(mc);
This will cause a double free of 'mc'. This patch fixes that by
just removing the vfree() call in the loop since 'mc' will be
freed nicely just after we break out of the loop.
There's also a second change in the patch. I noticed a lot of
checks for pointers being NULL before passing them to vfree().
That's completely redundant since vfree() deals gracefully with
being passed a NULL pointer. Removing the redundant checks
yields a nice size decrease for the object file.
Size before the patch:
text data bss dec hex filename
4578 240 1032 5850 16da arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o
Size after the patch:
text data bss dec hex filename
4489 240 984 5713 1651 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012251946100.10759@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi/mpc52xx-spi: fix annotation for remove()-pointer
spi/fsl_espi: fix wrong setting of the address in the command buffer
spi/fsl_espi: change the read behaviour of the SPIRF
of/i2c: Fix request module by alias
powerpc/mpc5200: include fs.h in mpc52xx_gpt.c
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If the irqsoff tracer is in use, stop tracing the interrupt disable
interval when returning to userspace. Tracing userspace execution time
as interrupts disabled time is not helpful for kernel performance
analysis purposes. Only do so if the irqsoff tracer is enabled, to
avoid overhead for lockdep, which doesn't care.
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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... and also remove misleading comment stating that this header is
auto-generated.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-Knig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The master clock initialization for SH7201 was wholly bogus. Users of the
legacy API must initialize the clock rate through the struct clk itself
rather than returning the clock frequency. Given that the init function
itself is void, returning the frequency isn't terribly effective.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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With some recent tidying of duplicate register definitions the se7206 IRQ
code broke:
arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7206/irq.c: error: 'INTC_ICR' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7206/irq.c: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7206/irq.c: error: for each function it appears in.)
Fix it up.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Some of the SH4-202 code was overlooked in the set_rate() API conversion,
resulting in:
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/clock-sh4-202.c: error: too many arguments to function 'clk->ops->set_rate'
Fix it up.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf probe: Fix to support libdwfl older than 0.148
perf tools: Fix lazy wildcard matching
perf buildid-list: Fix error return for success
perf buildid-cache: Fix symbolic link handling
perf symbols: Stop using vmlinux files with no symbols
perf probe: Fix use of kernel image path given by 'k' option
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, kexec: Limit the crashkernel address appropriately
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Fix build errors like these (from a randconfig and my defconfig for a custom board):
src/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c:549: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type: 1 errors in 1 logs
src/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c:636: error: implicit declaration of function 'nonseekable_open': 1 errors in 1 logs
src/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c:657: error: variable 'mpc52xx_wdt_fops' has initializer but incomplete type: 1 errors in 1 logs
src/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c:658: error: excess elements in struct initializer: 1 errors in 1 logs
src/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c:658: error: unknown field 'owner' specified in initializer: 1 errors in 1 logs
...
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ycmiao/pxa-linux-2.6
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The AT91 MCI has special SDIO transfer types: SDIO block and SDIO byte
transfers, but at91_mci driver doesn't use them and handles all SDIO
transfers as ordinary MMC block transfers. This causes problems for
multiple-block SDIO transfers (in particular for 256-bytes blocks).
Fix this situation by checking the opcode for SDIO CMD53 and setting
the transfer type in the AT91_MCI_CMDR register properly.
This patch was tested with libertas SDIO driver: problem with TX
timeouts on big packets was eliminated.
Signed-off-by: Yauhen Kharuzhy <yauhen.kharuzhy@promwad.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
ARM: mach-shmobile: INTC interrupt priority level demux fix
ARM: mach-shmobile: fix compile warning in mm/init.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung
* 's5p-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung:
ARM: S5PV210: update MAX8998 platform data to get rid of WARN()
ARM S3C24XX: Fix compilation of PM code for S3C2416
ARM: S3C24XX: Fix CONFIG_S3C_DEV_NAND Kconfig entry
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The cnt32_to_63 algorithm relies on proper counter data evaluation
ordering to work properly. This was missing from the provided
documentation.
Let's augment the documentation with the missing usage constraint and
fix the only instance that got it wrong.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-32: Make sure we can map all of lowmem if we need to
x86, vt-d: Handle previous faults after enabling fault handling
x86: Enable the intr-remap fault handling after local APIC setup
x86, vt-d: Fix the vt-d fault handling irq migration in the x2apic mode
x86, vt-d: Quirk for masking vtd spec errors to platform error handling logic
x86, xsave: Use alloc_bootmem_align() instead of alloc_bootmem()
bootmem: Add alloc_bootmem_align()
x86, gcc-4.6: Use gcc -m options when building vdso
x86: HPET: Chose a paranoid safe value for the ETIME check
x86: io_apic: Avoid unused variable warning when CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=n
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Fix off by one in perf_swevent_init()
perf: Fix duplicate events with multiple-pmu vs software events
ftrace: Have recordmcount honor endianness in fn_ELF_R_INFO
scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for trace-events
tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing
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Since commit 3e4d3af501 "mm: stack based kmap_atomic()", it is actively
wrong to rely on fixed kmap type indices (namely KM_L2_CACHE) as
kmap_atomic() totally ignores them and a concurrent instance of it may
happily reuse any slot for any purpose. Because kmap_atomic() is now
able to deal with reentrancy, we can get rid of the ad hoc mapping here.
While the code is made much simpler, there is a needless cache flush
introduced by the usage of __kunmap_atomic(). It is not clear if the
performance difference to remove that is worth the cost in code
maintenance (I don't think there are that many highmem users on that
platform anyway) but that should be reconsidered when/if someone cares
enough to do some measurements.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
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Since commit 3e4d3af501 "mm: stack based kmap_atomic()", it is actively
wrong to rely on fixed kmap type indices (namely KM_L2_CACHE) as
kmap_atomic() totally ignores them and a concurrent instance of it may
happily reuse any slot for any purpose. Because kmap_atomic() is now
able to deal with reentrancy, we can get rid of the ad hoc mapping here,
and we even don't have to disable IRQs anymore (highmem case).
While the code is made much simpler, there is a needless cache flush
introduced by the usage of __kunmap_atomic(). It is not clear if the
performance difference to remove that is worth the cost in code
maintenance (I don't think there are that many highmem users on that
platform if at all anyway).
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
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Since commit 3e4d3af501 "mm: stack based kmap_atomic()", it is no longer
necessary to carry an ad hoc version of kmap_atomic() added in commit
7e5a69e83b "ARM: 6007/1: fix highmem with VIPT cache and DMA" to cope
with reentrancy.
In fact, it is now actively wrong to rely on fixed kmap type indices
(namely KM_L1_CACHE) as kmap_atomic() totally ignores them now and a
concurrent instance of it may reuse any slot for any purpose.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
arch/tile: handle rt_sigreturn() more cleanly
arch/tile: handle CLONE_SETTLS in copy_thread(), not user space
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* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
MIPS: Fix build errors in sc-mips.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
x86: avoid high BIOS area when allocating address space
x86: avoid E820 regions when allocating address space
x86: avoid low BIOS area when allocating address space
resources: add arch hook for preventing allocation in reserved areas
Revert "resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down"
Revert "PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down"
Revert "x86/PCI: allocate space from the end of a region, not the beginning"
Revert "x86: allocate space within a region top-down"
Revert "PCI: fix pci_bus_alloc_resource() hang, prefer positive decode"
PCI: Update MCP55 quirk to not affect non HyperTransport variants
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We should not be incrementing mm_users when we startup a secondary
CPU - doing so results in mm_users incrementing by one each time we
hotplug a CPU, which will eventually wrap, and will cause problems.
Other architectures such as x86 do not increment mm_users, but only
mm_count, so we follow that pattern.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Keep the crash kernel address below 512 MiB for 32 bits and 896 MiB
for 64 bits. For 32 bits, this retains compatibility with earlier
kernel releases, and makes it work even if the vmalloc= setting is
adjusted.
For 64 bits, we should be able to increase this substantially once a
hard-coded limit in kexec-tools is fixed.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101217195035.GE14502@redhat.com>
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The current tile rt_sigreturn() syscall pattern uses the common idiom
of loading up pt_regs with all the saved registers from the time of
the signal, then anticipating the fact that we will clobber the ABI
"return value" register (r0) as we return from the syscall by setting
the rt_sigreturn return value to whatever random value was in the pt_regs
for r0.
However, this breaks in our 64-bit kernel when running "compat" tasks,
since we always sign-extend the "return value" register to properly
handle returned pointers that are in the upper 2GB of the 32-bit compat
address space. Doing this to the sigreturn path then causes occasional
random corruption of the 64-bit r0 register.
Instead, we stop doing the crazy "load the return-value register"
hack in sigreturn. We already have some sigreturn-specific assembly
code that we use to pass the pt_regs pointer to C code. We extend that
code to also set the link register to point to a spot a few instructions
after the usual syscall return address so we don't clobber the saved r0.
Now it no longer matters what the rt_sigreturn syscall returns, and the
pt_regs structure can be cleanly and completely reloaded.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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Previously we were just setting up the "tp" register in the
new task as started by clone() in libc. However, this is not
quite right, since in principle a signal might be delivered to
the new task before it had its TLS set up. (Of course, this race
window still exists for resetting the libc getpid() cached value
in the new task, in principle. But in any case, we are now doing
this exactly the way all other architectures do it.)
This change is important for 2.6.37 since the tile glibc we will
be submitting upstream will not set TLS in user space any more,
so it will only work on a kernel that has this fix. It should
also be taken for 2.6.36.x in the stable tree if possible.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
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Seen with malta_defconfig on Linus' tree:
CC arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.o
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c: In function 'mips_sc_is_activated':
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c:77: error: 'config2' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c:77: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c:77: error: for each function it appears in.)
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c:81: error: 'tmp' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/mips/mm] Error 2
make: *** [arch/mips] Error 2
[Ralf: Cosmetic changes to minimize the number of arguments passed to
mips_sc_is_activated]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1752/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This prevents allocation of the last 2MB before 4GB.
The experiment described here shows Windows 7 ignoring the last 1MB:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23542#c27
This patch ignores the top 2MB instead of just 1MB because H. Peter Anvin
says "There will be ROM at the top of the 32-bit address space; it's a fact
of the architecture, and on at least older systems it was common to have a
shadow 1 MiB below."
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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