Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:29 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] do_notify_parent_cldstop: remove 'to_self' param
The previous patch has changed callsites of do_notify_parent_cldstop() so that
to_self == (->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) always (as it should be). We can remove
this parameter now.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:28 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] finish_stop: don't check stop_count < 0
Remove an obscure 'stop_count < 0' check in finish_stop(). The previous patch
made this case impossible.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:28 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] simplify do_signal_stop()
do_signal_stop() considers 'thread_group_empty()' as a special case.
This was needed to avoid taking tasklist_lock. Since this lock is
unneeded any longer, we can remove this special case and simplify
the code even more.
Also, before this patch, finish_stop() was called with stop_count == -1
for 'thread_group_empty()' case. This is not strictly wrong, but confusing
and unneeded.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:27 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] cleanup __exit_signal->cleanup_sighand path
Move 'tsk->sighand = NULL' from cleanup_sighand() to __exit_signal(). This
makes the exit path more understandable and allows us to do
cleanup_sighand() outside of ->siglock protected section.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:26 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] make fork() atomic wrt pgrp/session signals
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Ok. SUSV3/Posix is clear, fork is atomic with respect
> to signals. Either a signal comes before or after a
> fork but not during. (See the rationale section).
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/
000095399/functions/fork.html
>
> The tasklist_lock does not stop forks from adding to a process
> group. The forks stall while the tasklist_lock is held, but a fork
> that began before we grabbed the tasklist_lock simply completes
> afterwards, and the child does not receive the signal.
This also means that SIGSTOP or sig_kernel_coredump() signal can't
be delivered to pgrp/session reliably.
With this patch copy_process() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR when it
detects a pending signal, fork() will be restarted transparently
after handling the signals.
This patch also deletes now unneeded "group_stop_count > 0" check,
copy_process() can no longer succeed while group stop in progress.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-By: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:25 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] pids: kill PIDTYPE_TGID
This patch kills PIDTYPE_TGID pid_type thus saving one hash table in
kernel/pid.c and speeding up subthreads create/destroy a bit. It is also a
preparation for the further tref/pids rework.
This patch adds 'struct list_head thread_group' to 'struct task_struct'
instead.
We don't detach group leader from PIDTYPE_PID namespace until another
thread inherits it's ->pid == ->tgid, so we are safe wrt premature
free_pidmap(->tgid) call.
Currently there are no users of find_task_by_pid_type(PIDTYPE_TGID).
Should the need arise, we can use find_task_by_pid()->group_leader.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-By: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:24 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] do_sigaction: don't take tasklist_lock
do_sigaction() does not need tasklist_lock anymore, we can simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:23 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] do_group_exit: don't take tasklist_lock
do_group_exit() takes tasklist_lock for zap_other_threads(), this is unneeded
now.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:22 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] do_signal_stop: don't take tasklist_lock
do_signal_stop() does not need tasklist_lock anymore. So it does not need to
do misc re-checks, and we can simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:22 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] relax sig_needs_tasklist()
handle_stop_signal() does not need tasklist_lock for SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK
signals anymore.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:21 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] sys_times: don't take tasklist_lock
sys_times: don't take tasklist_lock
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:20 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] do __unhash_process() under ->siglock
This patch moves __unhash_process() call from realease_task() to
__exit_signal(), so __detach_pid() is called with ->siglock held.
This means we don't need tasklist_lock to iterate over thread group anymore:
copy_process() was already changed to do attach_pid()
under ->siglock.
Eric's "pidhash-kill-switch_exec_pids.patch" from -mm
changed de_thread() so it doesn't touch PIDTYPE_TGID.
NOTE: de_thread() still needs some attention. It still changes task->pid
lockless. Taking ->sighand.siglock here allows to do more tasklist_lock
removals.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:19 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] revert "Optimize sys_times for a single thread process"
This patch reverts 'CONFIG_SMP && thread_group_empty()' optimization in
sys_times(). The reason is that the next patch breaks memory ordering which
is needed for that optimization.
tasklist_lock in sys_times() will be eliminated completely by further patch.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:18 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] move __exit_signal() to kernel/exit.c
__exit_signal() is private to release_task() now. I think it is better to
make it static in kernel/exit.c and export flush_sigqueue() instead - this
function is much more simple and straightforward.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:17 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighand
Cosmetic, rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighand and move it close to
copy_sighand().
This matches copy_signal/cleanup_signal naming, and I think it is easier to
follow.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:17 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] cleanup __exit_signal()
This patch factors out duplicated code under 'if' branches. Also, BUG_ON()
conversions and whitespace cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:16 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_signal
__exit_signal() does important cleanups atomically under ->siglock. It is
also called from copy_process's error path. This is not good, for example we
can't move __unhash_process() under ->siglock for that reason.
We should not mix these 2 paths, just look at ugly 'if (p->sighand)' under
'bad_fork_cleanup_sighand:' label. For copy_process() case it is sufficient
to just backout copy_signal(), nothing more.
Again, nobody can see this task yet. For CLONE_THREAD case we just decrement
signal->count, otherwise nobody can see this ->signal and we can free it
lockless.
This patch assumes it is safe to do exit_thread_group_keys() without
tasklist_lock.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:14 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_sighand
The only caller of exit_sighand(tsk) is copy_process's error path. We can
call __exit_sighand() directly and kill exit_sighand().
This 'tsk' was not yet registered in pid_hash[] or init_task.tasks, it has no
external references, nobody can see it, and
IF (clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND)
At least 'current' has a reference to ->sighand, this
means atomic_dec_and_test(sighand->count) can't be true.
ELSE
Nobody can see this ->sighand, this means we can free it
without any locking.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:14 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] introduce sig_needs_tasklist() helper
In my opinion this patch cleans up the code.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:13 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] introduce lock_task_sighand() helper
Add lock_task_sighand() helper and converts group_send_sig_info() to use
it. Hopefully we will have more users soon.
This patch also removes '!sighand->count' and '!p->usage' checks, I think
they both are bogus, racy and unneeded (but probably it makes sense to
restore them as BUG_ON()s).
->sighand is cleared and it's ->count is decremented in release_task() with
sighand->siglock held, so it is a bug to have '!p->usage || !->count' after
we already locked and verified it is the same. On the other hand, an
already dead task without ->sighand can have a non-zero ->usage due to
ptrace, for example.
If we read the stale value of ->sighand we must see the change after
spin_lock(), because that change was done while holding that same old
->sighand.siglock.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:12 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] convert sighand_cache to use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
This patch borrows a clever Hugh's 'struct anon_vma' trick.
Without tasklist_lock held we can't trust task->sighand until we locked it
and re-checked that it is still the same.
But this means we don't need to defer 'kmem_cache_free(sighand)'. We can
return the memory to slab immediately, all we need is to be sure that
sighand->siglock can't dissapear inside rcu protected section.
To do so we need to initialize ->siglock inside ctor function,
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does the rest.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:11 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] release_task: replace open-coded ptrace_unlink()
Use ptrace_unlink() instead of open-coding. No changes in kernel/exit.o
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:10 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] wait_for_helper: trivial style cleanup
Use NULL instead of (... *)0
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:09 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] reparent_thread: use remove_parent/add_parent
Use remove_parent/add_parent instead of open coding.
No changes in kernel/exit.o
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:09 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] pidhash: don't use zero pids
daemonize() calls set_special_pids(1,1), while init and kernel threads spawned
from init/main.c:init() run with 0,0 special pids. This patch changes
INIT_SIGNALS() so that that they run with ->pgrp == ->session == 1 also. This
patch relies on fact that swapper's pid == 1.
Now we have no hashed zero pids in pid_hash[].
User-space visibible change is that now /sbin/init runs with (1,1) special
pids and becomes a session leader.
Quoting Eric W. Biederman:
>
> daemonize consuming pids (1,1) then consumes pgrp 1. So that when
> /sbin/init calls setsid() it thinks /sbin/init is a process group
> leader and setsid() fails. So /sbin/init wants pgrp 1 session 1
> but doesn't get it. I am pretty certain daemonize did not exist so
> /sbin/init got pgrp 1 session 1 in 2.4.
>
> That is the bug that is being fixed.
>
> This patch takes things one step farther and essentially calls
> setsid() for pid == 1 before init is execed. That is new behavior
> but it cleans up the kernel as we now do not need to support the
> case of a process without a process group or a session.
>
> The only process that could have possibly cared was /sbin/init
> and it already calls setsid() because it doesn't want that.
>
> If this was going to break anything noticeable the change in behavior
> from 2.4 to 2.6 would have already done that.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:07 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] pidhash: don't count idle threads
fork_idle() does unhash_process() just after copy_process(). Contrary,
boot_cpu's idle thread explicitely registers itself for each pid_type with nr
= 0.
copy_process() already checks p->pid != 0 before process_counts++, I think we
can just skip attach_pid() calls and job control inits for idle threads and
kill unhash_process(). We don't need to cleanup ->proc_dentry in fork_idle()
because with this patch idle threads are never hashed in
kernel/pid.c:pid_hash[].
We don't need to hash pid == 0 in pidmap_init(). free_pidmap() is never
called with pid == 0 arg, so it will never be reused. So it is still possible
to use pid == 0 in any PIDTYPE_xxx namespace from kernel/pid.c's POV.
However with this patch we don't hash pid == 0 for PIDTYPE_PID case. We still
have have PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID entries with pid == 0: /sbin/init and
kernel threads which don't call daemonize().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:06 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] kill SET_LINKS/REMOVE_LINKS
Both SET_LINKS() and SET_LINKS/REMOVE_LINKS() have exactly one caller, and
these callers already check thread_group_leader().
This patch kills theese macros, they mix two different things: setting
process's parent and registering it in init_task.tasks list. Callers are
updated to do these actions by hand.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:05 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] don't use REMOVE_LINKS/SET_LINKS for reparenting
There are places where kernel uses REMOVE_LINKS/SET_LINKS while changing
process's ->parent. Use add_parent/remove_parent instead, they don't abuse
of global process list.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:05 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove add_parent()'s parent argument
add_parent(p, parent) is always called with parent == p->parent, and it makes
no sense to do it differently. This patch removes this argument.
No changes in affected .o files.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:04 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] choose_new_parent: remove unused arg, sanitize exit_state check
'child_reaper' arg is not used in choose_new_parent().
"->exit_state >= EXIT_ZOMBIE" check is a leftover, was
valid when EXIT_ZOMBIE lived in ->state var.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric W. Biederman [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:03 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] pidhash: kill switch_exec_pids
switch_exec_pids is only called from de_thread by way of exec, and it is
only called when we are exec'ing from a non thread group leader.
Currently switch_exec_pids gives the leader the pid of the thread and
unhashes and rehashes all of the process groups. The leader is already in
the EXIT_DEAD state so no one cares about it's pids. The only concern for
the leader is that __unhash_process called from release_task will function
correctly. If we don't touch the leader at all we know that
__unhash_process will work fine so there is no need to touch the leader.
For the task becomming the thread group leader, we just need to give it the
pid of the old thread group leader, add it to the task list, and attach it
to the session and the process group of the thread group.
Currently de_thread is also adding the task to the task list which is just
silly.
Currently the only leader of __detach_pid besides detach_pid is
switch_exec_pids because of the ugly extra work that was being
performed.
So this patch removes switch_exec_pids because it is doing too much, it is
creating an unnecessary special case in pid.c, duing work duplicated in
de_thread, and generally obscuring what it is going on.
The necessary work is added to de_thread, and it seems to be a little
clearer there what is going on.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric W. Biederman [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:02 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] do_SAK: don't depend on session ID 0
I'm not really certain what the thinking was but the code obviously wanted to
walk processes other than just those in it's session, for purposes of do_SAK.
Just walking those tasks that don't have a session assigned sounds at the very
least incomplete.
So modify the code to kill everything in the session and anything else that
might have the tty open. Hopefully this helps if the do_SAK functionality is
ever finished.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric W. Biederman [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:01 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] do_tty_hangup: use group_send_sig_info not send_group_sig_info
We already have the tasklist_lock so there is no need for us to reacquire it
with send_group_sig_info. reader/writer locks allow multiple readers and thus
recursion so the old code was ok just wastful.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric W. Biederman [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:11:00 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] Remove dead kill_sl prototype from sched.h
The kill_sl function doesn't exist in the kernel so a prototype is completely
unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:10:59 +0000 (16:10 -0800)]
[PATCH] simplify exec from init's subthread
I think it is enough to take tasklist_lock for reading while changing
child_reaper:
Reparenting needs write_lock(tasklist_lock)
Only one thread in a thread group can do exec()
sighand->siglock garantees that get_signal_to_deliver()
will not see a stale value of child_reaper.
This means that we can change child_reaper earlier, without calling
zap_other_threads() twice.
"child_reaper = current" is a NOOP when init does exec from main thread, we
don't care.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric W. Biederman [Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:10:58 +0000 (16:10 -0800)]
[PATCH] exec: allow init to exec from any thread.
After looking at the problem of init calling exec some more I figured out
an easy way to make the code work.
The actual symptom without out this patch is that all threads will die
except pid == 1, and the thread calling exec. The thread calling exec will
wait forever for pid == 1 to die.
Since pid == 1 does not install a handler for SIGKILL it will never die.
This modifies the tests for init from current->pid == 1 to the equivalent
current == child_reaper. And then it causes exec in the ugly case to
modify child_reaper.
The only weird symptom is that you wind up with an init process that
doesn't have the oldest start time on the box.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:53:03 +0000 (13:53 -0800)]
Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3388/1: ixp23xx: add core ixp23xx support
[ARM] 3417/1: add support for logicpd pxa270 card engine
[ARM] 3387/1: ixp23xx: add defconfig
[ARM] 3377/2: add support for intel xsc3 core
[ARM] Move ice-dcc code into misc.c
[ARM] Fix decompressor serial IO to give CRLF not LFCR
[ARM] proc-v6: mark page table walks outer-cacheable, shared. Enable NX.
[ARM] nommu: trivial patch for arch/arm/lib/Makefile
[ARM] 3416/1: Update LART site URL
[ARM] 3415/1: Akita: Add missing EXPORT_SYMBOL
[ARM] 3414/1: ep93xx: reset ethernet controller before uncompressing
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:52:37 +0000 (13:52 -0800)]
Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
[SERIAL] Provide Cirrus EP93xx AMBA PL010 serial support.
[SERIAL] amba-pl010: allow platforms to specify modem control method
[SERIAL] Remove obsoleted au1x00_uart driver
[SERIAL] Small time UART configuration fix for AU1100 processor
Lennert Buytenhek [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:18:54 +0000 (21:18 +0100)]
[ARM] 3388/1: ixp23xx: add core ixp23xx support
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
This patch adds support for the Intel ixp23xx series of CPUs. The
ixp23xx is an XSC3 based CPU with 512K of L2 cache, a 64bit 66MHz PCI
interface, two DDR RAM interfaces, QDR RAM interfaces, two gigabit
MACs, two 10/100 MACs, expansion bus, four microengines, a Media and
Switch Fabric unit almost identical to the one on the ixp2400, two
xscale (8250ish) UARTs and a bunch of other stuff.
This patch adds the core ixp23xx support code, and support for the
ADI Engineering Roadrunner, Intel IXDP2351, and IP Fabrics Double
Espresso platforms.
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Lennert Buytenhek [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:08:13 +0000 (21:08 +0100)]
[ARM] 3417/1: add support for logicpd pxa270 card engine
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
Add support for the LogicPD PXA270 Card Engine.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Lennert Buytenhek [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:02:26 +0000 (21:02 +0100)]
[ARM] 3387/1: ixp23xx: add defconfig
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
Add ixp23xx defconfig.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Lennert Buytenhek [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:00:40 +0000 (21:00 +0100)]
[ARM] 3377/2: add support for intel xsc3 core
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
This patch adds support for the new XScale v3 core. This is an
ARMv5 ISA core with the following additions:
- L2 cache
- I/O coherency support (on select chipsets)
- Low-Locality Reference cache attributes (replaces mini-cache)
- Supersections (v6 compatible)
- 36-bit addressing (v6 compatible)
- Single instruction cache line clean/invalidate
- LRU cache replacement (vs round-robin)
I attempted to merge the XSC3 support into proc-xscale.S, but XSC3
cores have separate errata and have to handle things like L2, so it
is simpler to keep it separate.
L2 cache support is currently a build option because the L2 enable
bit must be set before we enable the MMU and there is no easy way to
capture command line parameters at this point.
There are still optimizations that can be done such as using LLR for
copypage (in theory using the exisiting mini-cache code) but those
can be addressed down the road.
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:48:32 +0000 (09:48 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] cpufreq_conservative: keep ignore_nice_load and freq_step values when reselected
[CPUFREQ] powernow: remove private for_each_cpu_mask()
[CPUFREQ] hotplug cpu fix for powernow-k8
[PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: add range check
[PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: keep ignore_nice_load value when it is reselected
[PATCH] cpufreq_ondemand: Warn if it cannot run due to too long transition latency
[PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: alternative initialise approach
[PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: make for_each_cpu() safe
[PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: alter default responsiveness
[PATCH] cpufreq_conservative: aligning of codebase with ondemand
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:25:44 +0000 (09:25 -0800)]
Merge branch 'cfq-merge' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'cfq-merge' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
[BLOCK] cfq-iosched: seek and async performance fixes
[PATCH] ll_rw_blk: fix 80-col offender in put_io_context()
[PATCH] cfq-iosched: small cfq_choose_req() optimization
[PATCH] [BLOCK] cfq-iosched: change cfq io context linking from list to tree
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:25:22 +0000 (09:25 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC64]: Implement futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic().
Mattia Dongili [Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:55:55 +0000 (22:55 +0200)]
[CPUFREQ] cpufreq_conservative: keep ignore_nice_load and freq_step values when reselected
Keep the value of ignore_nice_load and freq_step of the conservative
governor after the governor is deselected and reselected.
Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:55 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] compat_sys_futex() warning fix
kernel/futex_compat.c: In function `compat_sys_futex':
kernel/futex_compat.c:140: warning: passing arg 1 of `do_futex' makes integer from pointer without a cast
kernel/futex_compat.c:140: warning: passing arg 5 of `do_futex' makes integer from pointer without a cast
Not sure what Ingo was thinking of here. Put the casts back in.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:54 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] sound: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value casts
Get rid of unnessesary casts of kmalloc() return value in sound/
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:53 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Typo fixes
Fix a lot of typos. Eyeballed by jmc@ in OpenBSD.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:52 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] trivial typos in Documentation/cputopology.txt
Fix a few trivial mistakes in Documentation/cputopology.txt
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:52 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix signed vs unsigned in nmi watchdog
Fix "signed vs unsigned" in nmi_watchdog_tick.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:51 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] vfree does its own NULL check, no need to be explicit in oss/msnd.c
vfree() does it's own NULL checking, no need for explicit check before
calling it.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:50 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] no need to check vfree arg for null in oss/sequencer
There's no need to check pointers for NULL before handing them to vfree().
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:49 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] maestro3 vfree NULL check fixup
vfree() checks for NULL, no need to do it explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:49 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] vfree NULL check fixup for sb_card
There's no need to check the vfree() argument for NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthias Gehre [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:48 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Replace 0xff.. with correct DMA_xBIT_MASK
Replace all occurences of 0xff.. in calls to function pci_set_dma_mask()
and pci_set_consistant_dma_mask() with the corresponding DMA_xBIT_MASK from
linux/dma-mapping.h.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marcelo Feitoza Parisi [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:47 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/scsi/*: use time_after() and friends
They deal with wrapping correctly and are nicer to read.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi <marcelo@feitoza.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marcelo Feitoza Parisi [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:46 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] ide-tape: use time_after(), time_after_eq()
They deal with wrapping correctly and are nicer to read.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi <marcelo@feitoza.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marcelo Feitoza Parisi [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:45 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] nvidia-agp: use time_before_eq()
It deals with wrapping correctly and is nicer to read.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi <marcelo@feitoza.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marcelo Feitoza Parisi [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:44 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/*: use time_after() and friends
They deal with wrapping correctly and are nicer to read.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi <marcelo@feitoza.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:43 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c: remove the obsolete microcode_ioctl
Nowadays, even Debian stable ships a microcode_ctl utility recent enough to no
longer use this ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:43 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Docs update: missing files and descriptions for filesystems/00-INDEX
Add missing files and descriptions to
Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arjan van de Ven [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:42 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const
This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups
The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arjan van de Ven [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:41 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode
Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the
ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do
stuff" with it.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:40 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] ia64: const f_ops fix
Tweak the proc setup code so things work OK with const
proc_dir_entry.proc_fops.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:39 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: documentaion
Replace for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Modifies occurences in documentaion.
for_each_cpu in whatisRCU.txt should be for_each_online_cpu ???
(I'm not sure..)
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:39 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: i386
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
under arch/i386.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:38 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: oprofile.
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:37 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: loopback device.
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:37 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: fixes for generic part
replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu().
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:36 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: defines for_each_possible_cpu
for_each_cpu() is a for-loop over cpu_possible_map. for_each_online_cpu is
for-loop cpu over cpu_online_map. .....for_each_cpu() is not sufficiently
explicit and can lead to mistakes.
This patch adds for_each_possible_cpu() in preparation for the removal of
for_each_cpu().
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Vadim Lobanov [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:35 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fold select_bits_alloc/free into caller code.
Remove an unnecessary level of indirection in allocating and freeing select
bits, as per the select_bits_alloc() and select_bits_free() functions.
Both select.c and compat.c are updated.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:34 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] use fget_light() in select/poll
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andi Kleen [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:33 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Optimize select/poll by putting small data sets on the stack
Optimize select and poll by a using stack space for small fd sets
This brings back an old optimization from Linux 2.0. Using the stack is
faster than kmalloc. On a Intel P4 system it speeds up a select of a
single pty fd by about 13% (~4000 cycles -> ~3500)
It also saves memory because a daemon hanging in select or poll will
usually save one or two less pages. This can add up - e.g. if you have 10
daemons blocking in poll/select you save 40KB of memory.
I did a patch for this long ago, but it was never applied. This version is
a reimplementation of the old patch that tries to be less intrusive. I
only did the minimal changes needed for the stack allocation.
The cut off point before external memory is allocated is currently at
832bytes. The system calls always allocate this much memory on the stack.
These 832 bytes are divided into 256 bytes frontend data (for the select
bitmaps of the pollfds) and the rest of the space for the wait queues used
by the low level drivers. There are some extreme cases where this won't
work out for select and it falls back to allocating memory too early -
especially with very sparse large select bitmaps - but the majority of
processes who only have a small number of file descriptors should be ok.
[TBD: 832/256 might not be the best split for select or poll]
I suspect more optimizations might be possible, but they would be more
complicated. One way would be to cache the select/poll context over
multiple system calls because typically the input values should be similar.
Problem is when to flush the file descriptors out though.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:32 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] ide_generic_all_on() warning fix
drivers/ide/pci/generic.c:45: warning: `ide_generic_all_on' defined but not used
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alan Cox [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:31 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Small fixes backported to old IDE SiS driver
Some quick backport bits from the libata PATA work to fix things found in
the sis driver. The piix driver needs some fixes too but those are way to
large and need someone working on old IDE with time to do them.
This patch fixes the case where random bits get loaded into SIS timing
registers according to the description of the correct behaviour from
Vojtech Pavlik. It also adds the SiS5517 ATA16 chipset which is not
currently supported by the driver. Thanks to Conrad Harriss for loaning me
the machine with the 5517 chipset.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rene Herman [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:30 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] ide: AMD756 no host side cable detection
>From http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=
110304128900342&w=2
AMD756 doesn't support host side cable detection. Do disk side only and
don't advice obsolete options.
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:29 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] autofs4: proper prototype for autofs4_dentry_release()
Add a proper prototype for autofs4_dentry_release() to autofs_i.h.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:28 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/acsi_slm.c: size_t can't be < 0
A size_t can't be < 0.
(akpm: and rw_verify_area() already did that check)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:27 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove relayfs_fs.h
This is obsolete.
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Philip Gladstone [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:27 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Philip Gladstone has moved
I noticed that my email address is four jobs ago.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:26 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs/fat/: proper prototypes for two functions
Add proper prototypes for fat_cache_init() and fat_cache_destroy() in
msdos_fs.h.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:25 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/paride/pd.c: fix an off-by-one error
The Coverity checker found this off-by-one error.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Sesterhenn [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:24 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Change dash2underscore() return value to char
Since dash2underscore() just operates and returns chars, I guess its safe
to change the return value to a char. With my .config, this reduces its
size by 5 bytes.
text data bss dec hex filename
4155 152 0 4307 10d3 params.o.orig
4150 152 0 4302 10ce params.o
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Serge E. Hallyn [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:23 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] mqueue comment typo fix
(akpm: I don't do comment typos patches. This one snuck through by accident)
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:22 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] alpha: make poll flags the same as other architectures
Renumber the recently-added POLLREMOVE and POLLRDHUP to line up with the other
architectures.
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Brian Rogan [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:20 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add oprofile_add_ext_sample
On ppc64 we look at a profiling register to work out the sample address and
if it was in userspace or kernel.
The backtrace interface oprofile_add_sample does not allow this. Create
oprofile_add_ext_sample and make oprofile_add_sample use it too.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:20 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] symversion warning fix
gcc-4.2:
kernel/module.c: In function '__find_symbol':
kernel/module.c:158: warning: the address of '__start___kcrctab', will always evaluate as 'true'
kernel/module.c:165: warning: the address of '__start___kcrctab_gpl', will always evaluate as 'true'
kernel/module.c:182: warning: the address of '__start___kcrctab_gpl_future', will always evaluate as 'true'
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:19 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] capi: register_chrdev() fix
If the user specified `major=0' (odd thing to do), capi.c will use dynamic
allocation. We need to pick up that major for subsequent unregister_chrdev().
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:18 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] paride-pt: register_chrdev fix
If the user specified `major=0' (odd thing to do), pt.c will use dynamic
allocation. We need to pick up that major for subsequent unregister_chrdev().
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:18 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] paride: register_chrdev fix
If the user specified `major=0' (odd thing to do), pg.c will use dynamic
allocation. We need to pick up that major for subsequent unregister_chrdev().
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:17 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] let BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT depend on BLK_DEV_RAM
It's purely cosmetic, but with the patch there's no longer a
BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT setting in the .config if BLK_DEV_RAM=n.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Fulghum [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:16 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] synclink_gt: remove uneeded async code
Remove code in async receive handling that serves no purpose with new tty
receive buffering. Previously this code tried to free up receive buffer
space, but now does nothing useful while making expensive calls.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Fulghum [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:15 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] synclink_gt add gpio feature
Add driver support for general purpose I/O feature of the Synclink GT
adapters.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@micrgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Fulghum [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:14 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] synclink: remove dead code
Remove dead code from synclink driver. This was used previously when the
write method had a from_user flag, which has been removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kyle McMartin [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:11 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] Decrapify asm-generic/local.h
Now that Christoph Lameter's atomic_long_t support is merged in mainline,
might as well convert asm-generic/local.h to use it, so the same code can
be used for both sizes of 32 and 64-bit unsigned longs.
akpm sayeth:
Q:
Is there any particular reason why these routines weren't simply
implemented with local_save/restore_flags, if they are only meant to
guarantee atomicity to the local cpu? I'm sure on most platforms this
would be more efficient than using an atomic...
A:
The whole _point_ of local_t is to avoid local_irq_disable(). It's
designed to exploit the fact that many CPUs can do incs and decs in a way
which is atomic wrt local interrupts, but not atomic wrt SMP.
But this patch makes sense, because asm-generic/local.h is just a fallback
implementation for architectures which either cannot perform these
local-irq-atomic operations, or its maintainers haven't yet got around to
implementing them.
We need more work done on local_t in the 2.6.17 timeframe - they're defined as
unsigned long, but some architectures implement them as signed long.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:10 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove some duplicate BCD definitions
Remove some duplicate BCD definitions
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:09 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Fix up some RTC whitespace and style
Fix up some RTC whitespace and style
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:09 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on Alpha
The sync may still be needed for CPU clock calibration but we don't sync in
the regular case.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:08 +0000 (01:56 -0800)]
[PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on SH MPC1211
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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