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193 Commits

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Andi Kleen
d3813fcf10 [PATCH] x86_64: Don't oops at boot when empty Opteron node has IO
The code to detect IO links on Opteron would not check
if the node had actually memory. This could lead to pci_bus_to_node
returning an invalid node, which might cause crashes later
when dma_alloc_coherent passes it to page_alloc_node().

The bug has been there forever but for some reason
it is causing now crashes.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-23 19:59:39 -07:00
Andi Kleen
1eecd73cce [PATCH] x86_64: Fix race in TSC synchronization
Plug a race in TSC synchronization

We need to do tsc_sync_wait() before the CPU is set online to prevent
multiple CPUs from doing it in parallel - which won't work because TSC
sync has global unprotected state.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-19 19:18:47 -07:00
Andi Kleen
5e5ec10499 [PATCH] x86_64: Don't print exceptions for ltrace
Don't printk exceptions for ltrace

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-19 19:18:47 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
349188f66d [PATCH] x86_64: Fix apicid versus cpu# confusion.
Oops.  I knew I didn't have the physical versus logical cpu identifiers right
when I generated that patch.  It's not nearly as bad as I feared at the time
though.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-12 09:22:04 -07:00
Olaf Hering
03c6b749b3 [PATCH] x86_64: add MODULE_ALIAS for aes
modprobe aes does not work on x86_64.  i386 has a similar line, this could
be the right fix.  Would be nice to have in 2.6.13 final.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-08 15:29:13 -07:00
Andi Kleen
d5172f263f [PATCH] x86_64: ignore machine checks from boot time
Don't log machine check events left over from boot.  Too many BIOSes leave
bogus events in there.

This unfortunately also makes it impossible to log events that caused a
reboot.  For people with non broken BIOS there is mce=bootlog

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-07 10:00:37 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
0d317fb72f [PATCH] x86_64 bootmem: sparse_mem/kexec merge bug.
When the sparse mem changes and the kexec changes
were merged into setup.c they came in, in the wrong order.
This patch changes the order so we don't run sparse_init
which uses the bootmem allocator until we all of the
reserve_bootmem calls has been made.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-06 13:06:30 -07:00
Daniel Jacobowitz
e8ed11b9dc [PATCH] x86_64: fix 32-bit thread debugging
The IA32 ptrace emulation currently returns the wrong registers for fs/gs;
it's returning what x86_64 calls gs_base.  We need regs.gsindex in order
for GDB to correctly locate the TLS area.  Without this patch, the 32-bit
GDB testsuite bombs on a 64-bit kernel.  With it, results look about like
I'd expect, although there are still a handful of kernel-related failures
(vsyscall related?).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 16:28:27 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
968002166c [PATCH] x86-64: use proper VM_FAULT_xxx macros
x86_64 had hardcoded the VM_ numbers so it broke down when the numbers
were changed.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 08:20:48 -07:00
Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com
6a1caa21d6 [PATCH] x86_64: avoid wasting IRQs patch update
The patch adds boundary check for the MAX_GSI_NUM.  Same as the update for
i386, the patch addresses a problem with ACPI SCI IRQ.  The patch corrects
the code such that SCI IRQ is skipped and duplicate entry is avoided.  The
VIA chipset uses 4-bit IRQ register for internal interrupt routing, and
therefore cannot handle IRQ numbers assigned to its devices.  The patch
corrects this problem by allowing PCI IRQs below 16.

Signed-off-by: Natalie Protasevich <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-30 13:37:50 -07:00
Dave Peterson
92ed0223ae [PATCH] x86_64: fix bug in csum_partial_copy_generic()
I was observing reproducible crashes on the "movw %bx,(%rsi)" instruction
below while a process in a recvfrom() system call was copying packet data
to user space.  The patch below fixes the exception table and causes the
crash to no longer reproduce.  Please apply.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-30 10:14:47 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
3d483f4757 [PATCH] Fix sync_tsc hang
sync_tsc was using smp_call_function to ask the boot processor to report
it's tsc value.  smp_call_function performs an IPI_send_allbutself which is
a broadcast ipi.  There is a window during processor startup during which
the target cpu has started and before it has initialized it's interrupt
vectors so it can properly process an interrupt.  Receveing an interrupt
during that window will triple fault the cpu and do other nasty things.

Why cli does not protect us from that is beyond me.

The simple fix is to match ia64 and provide a smp_call_function_single.
Which avoids the broadcast and is more efficient.

This certainly fixes the problem of getting stuck on boot which was
very easy to trigger on my SMP Hyperthreaded Xeon, and I think
it fixes it for the right reasons.

Minor changes by AK

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29 15:01:13 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
8bf2755664 [PATCH] x86_64 machine_kexec: Use standard pagetable helpers
Use the standard hardware page table manipulation macros.
This is possible now that linux works with all 4 levels
of the page tables.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29 13:12:49 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
36c4fd23cc [PATCH] x86_64 machine_kexec: Cleanup inline assembly.
In an uncensored copy of code from i386 to x86_64 I wound up
with inline assembly with the wrong constraints.  Use input
constraints instead of output constraints.

So I know the assembler will do the right thing specify the size
of the operand lidtq and lgdtq instead of just lidt and lgdt.

Make load_segments use an input constraint, and delete the macro fun.
Without having to reload %cs like I do on i386 this code is noticeably
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29 12:17:27 -07:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
8c56ac3f3b [PATCH] x86_64: fix cpu_to_node setup for sparse apic_ids
While booting with SMT disabled in bios, when using acpi srat to setup
cpu_to_node[], sparse apic_ids create problems.

Without this patch, intel x86_64 boxes with hyperthreading disabled in the
bios (and which rely on srat for numa setup) endup having incorrect values in
cpu_to_node[] arrays, causing sched domains to be built incorrectly etc.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
5a7b90137d [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unused variable in k8-bus.c
arch/x86_64/pci/k8-bus.c: In function `fill_mp_bus_to_cpumask':
arch/x86_64/pci/k8-bus.c:32: warning: unused variable `printed'

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
ef6e525393 [PATCH] x86_64: Use msleep in smpboot.c
Replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() to guarantee the task delays as
expected.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
07291d431c [PATCH] x86_64: Fix SRAT handling on non dual core systems
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
ed6b676ca8 [PATCH] x86_64: Switch to the interrupt stack when running a softirq in local_bh_enable()
This avoids some potential stack overflows with very deep softirq callchains.
i386 does this too.

TOADD CFI annotation

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3829ee6b1b [PATCH] x86_64: Small assembly improvements
Save a byte here and there.  Ultimatively useless, but these things always
catch my eyes when reading the code so just fix them for now.

Also I got at least one patch fixing of them already, which gives a good
excuse.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3ba80e7595 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unnecessary include in fault.c
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:01 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
2275cfa8bc [PATCH] x86_64: Icecream has no way of detecting assembler-level includes
Icecream preprocesses c sources locally, and sends the result off to a remote
host for compiling.  It does not recognize includes at assembler level.  The
fix is to put the assemberincludes an a separate .s file, which will always be
assembled locally.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:01 -07:00
Andi Kleen
f8d311939f [PATCH] x86_64: Support more than 8 cores on AMD systems
Use physical mode instead of logical mode to address more CPUs.  This is also
used in the CPU hotplug case to avoid a race.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:01 -07:00
Andi Kleen
37a47e65fa [PATCH] x86_64: Remove the broadcast options that were added for cpuhotplug
Will be obsolete with physflat.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:01 -07:00
Andi Kleen
5f68c1388a [PATCH] x86_64: Remove IA32_* build tools in Makefile
Not used anymore since quite some time. Just uses -m32 instead.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:00 -07:00
Andi Kleen
91c6d40094 [PATCH] x86_64: Create per CPU machine check sysfs directories
This patch will create machinecheck sysdev directories per CPU.  All of the
cpus still share the same ctl banks.  When compiled with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU,
it will also bring up/down sysdev directories as cpus go up/down.  I have
tested the patch along with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU option on in 2.6.13-rc1 kernel.

Minor changes by AK: remove useless unload function

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:00 -07:00
Andi Kleen
69cb62eb6d [PATCH] x86_64: Print a boot message for hotplug memory zones
From: Keith Manning

Print a boot message for hotplug memory zones

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:00 -07:00
Keith Mannthey
b684664fd4 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix overflow in NUMA hash function setup
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:46:00 -07:00
Andi Kleen
a54649b801 [PATCH] x86_64: Improve CONFIG_GART_IOMMU description and make it default y
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:59 -07:00
Andi Kleen
c853cc7e79 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove unused variable in delay.c
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:59 -07:00
Andi Kleen
a940199f20 [PATCH] x86_64: Some cleanup in setup64.c
Minor cleanup.

Move things into their include files, remove obsolete includes, fix
indentation, remove obsolete special cases etc.

I also added the per cpu section to asm-generic/sections.h and fixed
init/main.c to use it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen
de04f3220b [PATCH] x86_64: Clarify Booting processor ... message
No need to print kernel addresses there and clarify what the APIC-ID is.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3019e8ebe6 [PATCH] x86_64: Minor clean up to CPU setup - use smp_processor_id instead of custom hack
Does not change any semantics because numa_add_cpu checks for CPU 0 anyways.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen
61b1b2d023 [PATCH] x86_64: Move cpu_present/possible_map parsing earlier
Various code needs this information now before the actual SMP bootup.  Instead
of computing it on the fly while booting the other CPUs set it up now while
initial MPtable/MADT parsing.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen
acc7b6f01c [PATCH] x86_64: Update defconfig
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:57 -07:00
Andi Kleen
5df3574ec0 [PATCH] x86_64: Always ack IPIs even on errors
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:57 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
2a16a3007d [PATCH] x86_64: cpu hotplug changes kills nmi watchdog
When the x86_64 cpu hotplug changes went in it added a check in
default_do_nmi() which kills NMI delivery on any CPU but the BSP.

The NMI watchdog is brought up quite some time before the online bit is set
in num_online_cpus so this won't work very well.  The nmi watchdogs on cpus
that are not BSP will never be reprogrammed and no NMIs.

Why was this check added? How does an offlined cpu receive an NMI?

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 21:45:57 -07:00
Olaf Hering
44456d37b5 [PATCH] turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string
turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string to fix some
warnings after -Wno-def was added to global CFLAGS

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:08 -07:00
Andi Kleen
54264911ce [PATCH] x86_64: fix SMP boot lockup on some machines
Fixes boot up lockups on some machines where CPU apic ids don't start with
0

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:25:49 -07:00
Andrew Morton
9e566d8bd6 [PATCH] x86_64 fsnotify build fix
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 21:48:54 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
0963aba54a [PATCH] x86_64 sync machine_power_off with i386
i386 machine_power_off was disabling the local apic
and all of it's users wanted to be on the boot cpu.
So call machine_shutdown which places us on the boot
cpu and disables the apics.  This keeps us in sync
and reduces the number of cases we need to worry about in
the power management code.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:45 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
62b3a04d75 [PATCH] x86_64: Implemenent machine_emergency_restart
It is not safe to call set_cpus_allowed() in interrupt
context and disabling the apics is complicated code.
So unconditionally skip machine_shutdown in machine_emergency_reboot
on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:42 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
7c9a90073c [PATCH] x86_64: Fix reboot_force
We only want to shutdown the apics if reboot_force
is not specified.  Be we are doing this both
in machine_shutdown which is called unconditionally
and if (!reboot_force).  So simply call machine_shutdown
if (!reboot_force).  It looks like something
went weird with merging some of the kexec patches for
x86_64, and caused this.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:42 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
59586e5a26 [PATCH] Don't export machine_restart, machine_halt, or machine_power_off.
machine_restart, machine_halt and machine_power_off are machine
specific hooks deep into the reboot logic, that modules
have no business messing with.  Usually code should be calling
kernel_restart, kernel_halt, kernel_power_off, or
emergency_restart. So don't export machine_restart,
machine_halt, and machine_power_off so we can catch buggy users.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:42 -07:00
Robert Love
725b38ab54 [PATCH] inotify: add x86-64 syscall entries
Add inotify syscall entries to x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 13:37:22 -07:00
Robert Love
d25cb934b0 [PATCH] inotify: add missing hook to sys32_open
Add missing fsnotify_open() hook to sys32_open().

Add fsnotify_open() hook to sys32_open() on x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 13:37:22 -07:00
Siddha, Suresh B
9fb1759a31 [PATCH] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes
A malicious 32bit app can have an elf section at 0xffffe000.  During
exec of this app, we will have a memory leak as insert_vm_struct() is
not checking for return value in syscall32_setup_pages() and thus not
freeing the vma allocated for the vsyscall page.

Check the return value and free the vma incase of failure.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 22:56:11 -07:00
Andrew Morton
d312ceda56 [PATCH] x86_64: section alignment fix
This is the second time this has happened: inserting a new section requires
that we adjust the arithmetic which is used to calculate the vsyscall page's
offset.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:00:59 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
d5950b4355 [NET]: add a top-level Networking menu to *config
Create a new top-level menu named "Networking" thus moving
net related options and protocol selection way from the drivers
menu and up on the top-level where they belong.

To implement this all architectures has to source "net/Kconfig" before
drivers/*/Kconfig in their Kconfig file. This change has been
implemented for all architectures.

Device drivers for ordinary NIC's are still to be found
in the Device Drivers section, but Bluetooth, IrDA and ax25
are located with their corresponding menu entries under the new
networking menu item.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-11 21:03:49 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
6c036527a6 [PATCH] mostly_read data section
Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read
frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc.

If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read
items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated.  In that
case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines
again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables.

The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system
to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing
performance.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00