Instead of pinning per-cpu TLB into a DTR, use DTC. This will free up
one TLB entry for application, or even kernel if access pattern to
per-cpu data area has high temporal locality.
Since per-cpu is mapped at the top of region 7 address, we just need to
add special case in alt_dtlb_miss. The physical address of per-cpu data
is already conveniently stored in IA64_KR(PER_CPU_DATA). Latency for
alt_dtlb_miss is not affected as we can hide all the latency. It was
measured that alt_dtlb_miss handler has 23 cycles latency before and
after the patch.
The performance effect is massive for applications that put lots of tlb
pressure on CPU. Workload environment like database online transaction
processing or application uses tera-byte of memory would benefit the most.
Measurement with industry standard database benchmark shown an upward
of 1.6% gain. While smaller workloads like cpu, java also showing small
improvement.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store
how many physical stack register a cpu has. Ever since the
incarnation of ia64 up till upcoming Montecito processor, that
variable has "glued" to 96. Having a variable in memory means
that the kernel is burning an extra cacheline access on every
syscall and kernel exit path. Such "static" value is better
served with the instruction patching utility exists today.
Convert ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 into dynamic insn patching.
This also has a pleasant side effect of eliminating access to
per-cpu area while psr.ic=0 in the kernel exit path. (fixable
for per-cpu DTC work, but why bother?)
There are some concerns with the default value that the instruc-
tion encoded in the kernel image. It shouldn't be concerned.
The reasons are:
(1) cpu_init() is called at CPU initialization. In there, we
find out physical stack register size from PAL and patch
two instructions in kernel exit code. The code in question
can not be executed before the patching is done.
(2) current implementation stores zero in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8,
and that's what the current kernel exit path loads the value with.
With the new code, it is equivalent that we store reg size 96
in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, thus creating a better safety net.
Given (1) above can never fail, having (2) is just a bonus.
All in all, this patch allow one less memory reference in the kernel
exit path, thus reducing syscall and interrupt return latency; and
avoid polluting potential useful data in the CPU cache.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
When calling into the EFI firmware, the parameters need to be passed on
the stack. The recent change to use -mregparm=3 breaks x86 EFI support.
This patch is needed to allow the new Intel-based Macs to suspend to ram
(efi.get_time is called during the suspend phase).
Signed-off-by: Frederic Riss <frederic.riss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
That code doesn't do what its author apparently thought it would do...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] sd: udev accessing an uninitialized scsi_disk field results in a crash
[SCSI] st: A MTIOCTOP/MTWEOF within the early warning will cause the file number to be incorrect
[SCSI] qla4xxx: bug fixes
[SCSI] Fix scsi_add_device() for async scanning
The SN Altix platform does not conform to the IOSAPIC IRQ routing model.
Add code in acpi_unregister_gsi() to check if (acpi_irq_model ==
ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_PLATFORM) and return.
Due to an oversight, this code was not added previously when
similar code was added to acpi_register_gsi().
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=116680983430121&w=2
Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Vasquez is reporting as-iosched oopses and a 65% throughput
slowdown due to the recent special-casing of direct-io against
blockdevs. We don't know why either of these things are occurring.
The patch minimally reverts us back to the 2.6.19 code for a 2.6.20
release.
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We went and named them __NR_sys_foo instead of __NR_foo.
It may be too late to change this, but we can at least add the proper names
now.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
smc911x_phy_configure's error handling unconditionally unlocks the
spinlock even if it wasn't locked. Patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes up ia64 kexec support for HP rx2620 hardware. It does
this by skipping migration of already disabled irqs. This is most likely a
problem on other ia64 platforms as well, but I've only been able to
reproduce it on one machine so far.
The full story is that handle_bad_irq() gets invoked before starting the
new kernel without this patch. This seems to happen when fixup_irqs()
calls generic_handle_irq() on already migrated (and disabled) irqs. So by
avoiding migration of disabled irqs we stay away of handle_bad_irq().
The code has been tested on three different ia64 machines, all with good
results. It is possible to trigger the same bug by offlining a processor
using echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online.
More detailed information is available in the following mail thread:
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-January/thread.html#5774
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Zou, Nanhai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
An AIO bug was reported that sleeping function is being called in softirq
context:
BUG: warning at kernel/mutex.c:132/__mutex_lock_common()
Call Trace:
[<a000000100577b00>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x640/0x6c0
[<a000000100577ba0>] mutex_lock+0x20/0x40
[<a0000001000a25b0>] flush_workqueue+0xb0/0x1a0
[<a00000010018c0c0>] __put_ioctx+0xc0/0x240
[<a00000010018d470>] aio_complete+0x2f0/0x420
[<a00000010019cc80>] finished_one_bio+0x200/0x2a0
[<a00000010019d1c0>] dio_bio_complete+0x1c0/0x200
[<a00000010019d260>] dio_bio_end_aio+0x60/0x80
[<a00000010014acd0>] bio_endio+0x110/0x1c0
[<a0000001002770e0>] __end_that_request_first+0x180/0xba0
[<a000000100277b90>] end_that_request_chunk+0x30/0x60
[<a0000002073c0c70>] scsi_end_request+0x50/0x300 [scsi_mod]
[<a0000002073c1240>] scsi_io_completion+0x200/0x8a0 [scsi_mod]
[<a0000002074729b0>] sd_rw_intr+0x330/0x860 [sd_mod]
[<a0000002073b3ac0>] scsi_finish_command+0x100/0x1c0 [scsi_mod]
[<a0000002073c2910>] scsi_softirq_done+0x230/0x300 [scsi_mod]
[<a000000100277d20>] blk_done_softirq+0x160/0x1c0
[<a000000100083e00>] __do_softirq+0x200/0x240
[<a000000100083eb0>] do_softirq+0x70/0xc0
See report: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116599593200888&w=2
flush_workqueue() is not allowed to be called in the softirq context.
However, aio_complete() called from I/O interrupt can potentially call
put_ioctx with last ref count on ioctx and triggers bug. It is simply
incorrect to perform ioctx freeing from aio_complete.
The bug is trigger-able from a race between io_destroy() and aio_complete().
A possible scenario:
cpu0 cpu1
io_destroy aio_complete
wait_for_all_aios { __aio_put_req
... ctx->reqs_active--;
if (!ctx->reqs_active)
return;
}
...
put_ioctx(ioctx)
put_ioctx(ctx);
__put_ioctx
bam! Bug trigger!
The real problem is that the condition check of ctx->reqs_active in
wait_for_all_aios() is incorrect that access to reqs_active is not
being properly protected by spin lock.
This patch adds that protective spin lock, and at the same time removes
all duplicate ref counting for each kiocb as reqs_active is already used
as a ref count for each active ioctx. This also ensures that buggy call
to flush_workqueue() in softirq context is eliminated.
Signed-off-by: "Ken Chen" <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix this by letting NF_CONNTRACK_H323 depend on (IPV6 || IPV6=n).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.o
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c: In function 'ctnetlink_conntrack_event':
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c:392: error: 'struct nf_conn' has no member named 'mark'
make[3]: *** [net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
sd_probe() calls class_device_add() even before initializing the
sdkp->device variable. class_device_add() eventually results in the user mode
udev program to be called. udev program can read the the allow_restart
attribute of the newly created scsi device. This is resulting in a crash as
the show function for allow_restart (i.e sd_show_allow_restart) returns the
attribute value by reading the sdkp->device->allow_restart variable. As the
sdkp->device is not initialized before calling the user mode hotplug helper,
this results in a crash.
The patch below solves it by calling class_device_add() only after the
necessary fields in the scsi_disk structure are initialized properly.
Signed-off-by: Nagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Some LLDDs, like ipr, use nbytes and pad_len to determine
the total data transfer length of a command. Make sure
nbytes gets initialized for internally generated commands.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> Looks like you should use ata_busy_wait() here, rather than reproducing
> the same code again.
It waits in 10uS chunks while 1uS chunks were used in the workaround.
Could indeed do that once I know the fix is right. While I'm at it the
ata_busy_wait kerneldoc is borked so here's a fix
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The 8237S was added to the chipsets but not to the comments. Fix this
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
For all JMicrons except for 361 and 368, AHCI mode enable bits in the
Control(1) should be set. This used to be done in both ahci and
pata_jmicron but while moving programming to PCI quirk, it was removed
from ahci part while still left in pata_jmicron.
The implemented JMicron PCI quirk was incorrect in that it didn't
program AHCI mode enable bits. If pata_jmicron is loaded first and
programs those bits, the ahci ports work; otherwise, ahci device
detection fails miserably.
This patch makes JMicron PCI quirk clear SATA IDE mode bits and set
AHCI mode bits and remove the respective part from pata_jmicron.
Tested on JMB361, 363 and 368.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Mark ufs file system as maintainable, and add me as maintainer,
to help people find appropriate person to assign bugs.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit e4f0ae0ea6.
It's not wrong, but it's not right either, and everybody seems to agree
that the right fix is probably to do the ccr3 write after the ccr4 one
(and that we also should clean it up a bit). And after that we need to
really validate that all the bits that we write to ccr4 actually do
work.
The old 2.6.19 code was insane, and basically didn't change ccr4 at all
(even though it certainly looks like it was the *intent* to do so). So
let's revert the change that may fix things, just because it's not what
was actually ever tested when the code was written, even if it _was_ the
intent.
There's a discussion on http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/9/63 that was
started by the patch that now gets reverted, and that discussion may
well contain the proper long-term fix.
Suggested-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We forget to call spider_net_free_rx_chain_contents which does the
actual dev_kfree_skb. New skbs are allocated from skbuff_head_cache
on each "ifconfig up" letting the cache grow infinitely.
This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <jens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
e100: fix napi ifdefs removing needed code
From: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
The e100 driver is NAPI mode only. We need to netif_poll_disable
during suspend and shutdown. The non-NAPI driver code was removed
and is only avaiable in the out-of-tree e100 kernel driver.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
5709 A0 copper devices will not link up with some link partners
without this workaround.
Update driver to 1.5.5.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The x_tables patch broke target module autoloading in the ipt action
by replacing the ipt_find_target call (which does autoloading) by
xt_find_target (which doesn't do autoloading). Additionally xt_find_target
may return ERR_PTR values in case of an error, which are not handled.
Use xt_request_find_target, which does both autoloading and ERR_PTR
handling properly. Also don't forget to drop the target module reference
again when xt_check_target fails.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In some cases such as:
iph->check = 0;
iph->check = ip_fast_csum((unsigned char *)iph, iph->ihl);
GCC may optimize out the previous store.
Observed as a failure of NFS over udp (bad checksums on ip fragments)
when compiled with GCC 3.4.2.
Signed-off-by: Bob Breuer <breuerr@mc.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
avr32@atmel.com is a technical support address and is not really
appropriate for sending patches. Lots of annoying automatics getting
in the way.
I'm still the maintainer of all the entries touched by this patch, so
nothing changes with regard to the "Supported" status of the AVR32
architecture or the macb driver.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change SysRq showBlockedTasks from sysrq-X to sysrq-W and show that in the
Help message.
It was previously done via X, but X is already used for Xmon on ppc & powerpc
platforms and this collision needs to be avoided.
All callers of register_sysrq_key() are now marked in the sysrq op/key table.
I didn't mark 'h' as Help because Help is just printed for any unknown key,
such as '?'.
Added some omitted sysrq key entries in the sysrq.txt file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Intel hosts, without long mode, and with nx support disabled in the bios
have an efer that is readable but not writable. This causes a lockup on
switch to guest mode (even though it should exit with reason 34 according
to the documentation).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove these recently-added warnings. They don't tell us anythng very
interesting and Kumar says "On an embedded PPC reference system I see this
message 6 times when I've got no cards in the PCI slots."
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add special handling for the VT82C686.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
missing helper used by arch/i386/mm/highmem.c, which is pulled
into build on that configuration.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Won't build (request_irq()/free_irq()), even if you manage to find an
s390 box with 8250-compatible UART they are expecting.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
a) sun4d_boot_one_cpu() should be __cpuinit (called only from
__cpuinit __cpu_up(), for one thing, leads to calls of __cpuinit
functions for another).
b) got externs in arch/sparc/kernel/smp.c to match reality.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
i386 boot/compressed/relocs checks for absolute symbols and warns about
unexpected ones. If you build with modversions, you get ~2500 warnings
about __crc_<symbol>. These suckers are really absolute symbols - we
do _not_ want to modify them on relocation.
They are generated by genksyms - EXPORT_... generates a weak alias, then
genksyms produces an ld script with __crc_<symbol> = <checksum> and it's
fed to ld to produce the final object file. Their only use is to match
kernel and module at modprobe time; they _must_ be absolute.
boot/compressed/relocs has a whitelist of known absolute symbols, but
it doesn't know about __crc_... stuff. As the result, we get shitloads
of false positives on any ld(1) version.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
a) cleanup_module() should be __exit
b) externs should match reality
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
