Commit Graph

105806 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Petazzoni
2d6ffcca62 inflate: refactor inflate malloc code
Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.

The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
free.  This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.

This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
all the malloc/free implementations.

The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
 - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
   allocations should be made
 - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
   allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
   the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed

The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
function call.  This function will be called several times during the
decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
still running.  If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
arch_decomp_wdog().

Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
kernel and improved by me.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
ba92a43dba exec: remove some includes
fs/exec.c used to need mman.h pagemap.h swap.h and rmap.h when it did
mm-ish stuff in install_arg_page(); but no need for them after 2.6.22.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak arm]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
2b4bc46052 pdflush: use time_after() instead of open-coding it
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori
b69c49b784 clean up duplicated alloc/free_thread_info
We duplicate alloc/free_thread_info defines on many platforms (the
majority uses __get_free_pages/free_pages).  This patch defines common
defines and removes these duplicated defines.
__HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR is introduced for platforms that do
something different.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Matthew Garrett
62ec30d45e misc: add HP WMI laptop extras driver
This driver adds support for reading and configuring certain information
on modern HP laptops with WMI BIOS interfaces.  It supports enabling and
disabling the ambient light sensor, querying attached displays and hard
drive temperature, sending events on docking and querying the state of the
dock and toggling the state of the wifi, bluetooth and wwan hardware via
rfkill.  It also makes the little "(i)" button work on machines that send
that via WMI rather than via the keyboard controller.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
ac331d158e call_usermodehelper(): increase reliability
Presently call_usermodehelper_setup() uses GFP_ATOMIC.  but it can return
NULL _very_ easily.

GFP_ATOMIC is needed only when we can't sleep.  and, GFP_KERNEL is robust
and better.

thus, I add gfp_mask argument to call_usermodehelper_setup().

So, its callers pass the gfp_t as below:

call_usermodehelper() and call_usermodehelper_keys():
	depend on 'wait' argument.
call_usermodehelper_pipe():
	always GFP_KERNEL because always run under process context.
orderly_poweroff():
	pass to GFP_ATOMIC because may run under interrupt context.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
f557d0996a remove some more tipar bits
Some bits were missed when the tipar driver was removed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
f16695f4ac asm-generic/int-ll64.h: always provide __{s,u}64
Several compilers offer "long long" without claiming to support C99.

Considering how frequent __s64/__u64 are used our userspace headers are
anyway unusable without __s64/__u64 available.

Always offer __s64/__u64 to non-gcc non-C99 compilers - if they provide
"long long" that makes the headers compiling and if they don't they are
anyway screwed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Andrew Morton
cebbd3fb80 build-kernel-profileo-only-when-requested-cleanups
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
b03f6489f9 build kernel/profile.o only when requested
Build kernel/profile.o only if CONFIG_PROFILING is enabled.

This makes CONFIG_PROFILING=n kernels smaller.

As a bonus, some profile_tick() calls and one branch from schedule() are
now eliminated with CONFIG_PROFILING=n (but I doubt these are
measurable effects).

This patch changes the effects of CONFIG_PROFILING=n, but I don't think
having more than two choices would be the better choice.

This patch also adds the name of the first parameter to the prototypes
of profile_{hits,tick}() since I anyway had to add them for the dummy
functions.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
696adfe84c list_for_each_rcu must die: networking
All uses of list_for_each_rcu() can be profitably replaced by the
easier-to-use list_for_each_entry_rcu().  This patch makes this change for
networking, in preparation for removing the list_for_each_rcu() API
entirely.

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Vegard Nossum
2fc9c4e18f kallsyms: fix potential overflow in binary search
This will probably never trigger... but it won't hurt to be careful.

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Joshua Bloch <jjb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Johannes Berg
58340a07c1 introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol
In many cases, especially in networking, it can be beneficial to know at
compile time whether the architecture can do unaligned accesses efficiently.
This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol

	HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS

for that purpose and adds it to the powerpc and x86 architectures.  Also add
some documentation about alignment and networking, and especially one intended
use of this symbol.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [x86 architecture part]
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
e0ce0da9fe lists: remove a redundant conditional definition of list_add()
Remove the conditional surrounding the definition of list_add() from list.h
since, if you define CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST, the definition you will subsequently
pick up from lib/list_debug.c will be absolutely identical, at which point you
can remove that redundant definition from list_debug.c as well.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
fd19382974 lib: allow memparse() to accept a NULL and ignorable second parm
Extend memparse() to allow the caller to use a NULL second parameter, which
would represent no interest in returning the address of the end of the parsed
string.

In numerous cases, callers invoke memparse() to parse a possibly-suffixed
string (such as "64K" or "2G" or whatever) and define a character pointer to
accept the end pointer being returned by memparse() even though they have no
interest in it and promptly throw it away.

This (backward-compatible) enhancement allows callers to use NULL in the cases
where they just don't care about getting back that end pointer.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
cb345d7352 init/: delete hard-coded setting and testing of BUILD_CRAMDISK
There seems to be little point in explicitly setting, then testing the macro
BUILD_CRAMDISK within the context of a single source file.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
b39c08cb69 Remove apparently unused fd1772.h header file.
This header file has been unused for quite some time, and the
corresponding source files appear to have been removed back in commit
99eb8a550d ("Remove the arm26 port")

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
82c8253ac2 init/do_mounts.c should #include <linux/initrd.h>
Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its
global code (in this case for rd_doload).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
abddaec56e fix checkstack.pl arch detection
uname -m was leaving a newline in $arch, and not passing the tests.

Also, printing the unknown arch on failure is probably helpful.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
585e93ae83 find dynamic stack allocations in checkstack.pl
Currently, checkstack.pl only looks for fixed subtractions from the stack
pointer.  However, things like this:

void function(int size)
{
        char stackbuster[size << 2];
...

are certainly worth pointing out, I think.

This could perhaps be done more cleanly, and the following patch only
adds "dynamic" REs for x86 and x86_64, but it works:

0x00b0 crypto_cbc_decrypt_inplace [cbc]:                Dynamic (%rax)
0x00ad crypto_pcbc_decrypt_inplace [pcbc]:              Dynamic (%rax)
0x02f6 crypto_pcbc_encrypt_inplace [pcbc]:              Dynamic (%rax)
0x036c _crypto_xcbc_digest_setkey [xcbc]:               Dynamic (%rax)
...

(Inspired by Keith Owens' old stack-check script)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:26 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
545e400619 lzo: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:26 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
8b5ac31e27 include: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:26 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
b7bbf8fa6b fs: ldm.[ch] use get_unaligned_* helpers
Replace the private BE16/BE32/BE64 macros with direct calls to
get_unaligned_be16/32/64.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:26 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
3f307891ce locking: add typecheck on irqsave and friends for correct flags
There haave been several areas in the kernel where an int has been used for
flags in local_irq_save() and friends instead of a long.  This can cause some
hard to debug problems on some architectures.

This patch adds a typecheck inside the irqsave and restore functions to flag
these cases.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:26 -07:00
Andrew Morton
e0deaff470 split the typecheck macros out of include/linux/kernel.h
Needed to fix up a recursive include snafu in
locking-add-typecheck-on-irqsave-and-friends-for-correct-flags.patch

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:26 -07:00
Wang Chen
5df439ef06 flag parameters: fix compile error of sys_epoll_create1
GEN     .version
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      vmlinux
arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x8a4): undefined reference to `sys_epoll_create1'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:26 -07:00
Andrew Morton
c82dd5321c mfd: don't use memzero
For it doesn't exist on i386.

Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:26 -07:00
David Miller
3d6f4a20cc endian: Always evaluate arguments.
Changeset 7fa897b91a ("ide: trivial sparse
annotations") created an IDE bootup regression on big-endian systems.

In drivers/ide/ide-iops.c, function ide_fixstring() we now have the
loop:

		for (p = end ; p != s;)
			be16_to_cpus((u16 *)(p -= 2));

which will never terminate on big-endian because in such
a configuration be16_to_cpus() evaluates to "do { } while (0)"

Therefore, always evaluate the arguments to nop endian transformation
operations.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 09:28:09 -07:00
Huang Weiyi
43de804df8 char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.c: Removed duplicated include
Removed duplicated include file <linux/version.h> in
char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.c.

Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 09:23:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
29b309e52d Undo duplicate "m68k: drivers/input/serio/hp_sdc.c needs <linux/semaphore.h>"
Both commits 0f17e4c796 ("Add missing
semaphore.h includes") and 4933d07531
("m68k: drivers/input/serio/hp_sdc.c needs <linux/semaphore.h>") added a

We only really need one ;)

Reported-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Requested-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 09:19:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
832fe9c222 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  virtio: Add transport feature handling stub for virtio_ring.
  virtio: Rename set_features to finalize_features
  virtio: Formally reserve bits 28-31 to be 'transport' features.
  s390: use virtio_console for KVM on s390
  virtio: console as a config option
  virtio_console: use virtqueue notification for hvc_console
  hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks
  virtio_blk: check for hardsector size from host
  virtio: Use bus_type probe and remove methods
  virtio: don't always force a notification when ring is full
  virtio: clarify that ABI is usable by any implementations
  virtio: Recycle unused recv buffer pages for large skbs in net driver
  virtio net: Allow receiving SG packets
  virtio net: Add ethtool ops for SG/GSO
  virtio: fix virtio_net xmit of freed skb bug
2008-07-24 19:11:49 -07:00
Rusty Russell
ed9559d38a Label kthread_create() with printf attribute tag.
Obvious misc patch been in my queue (& linux-next) for over a cycle.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 19:11:15 -07:00
Rusty Russell
e34f872567 virtio: Add transport feature handling stub for virtio_ring.
To prepare for virtio_ring transport feature bits, hook in a call in
all the users to manipulate them.  This currently just clears all the
bits, since it doesn't understand any features.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:14 +10:00
Rusty Russell
c624896e48 virtio: Rename set_features to finalize_features
Rather than explicitly handing the features to the lower-level, we just
hand the virtio_device and have it set the features.  This make it clear
that it has the chance to manipulate the features of the device at this
point (and that all feature negotiation is already done).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:12 +10:00
Rusty Russell
dd7c7bc462 virtio: Formally reserve bits 28-31 to be 'transport' features.
We assign feature bits as required, but it makes sense to reserve some
for the particular transport, rather than the particular device.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:07 +10:00
Christian Borntraeger
faeba830b0 s390: use virtio_console for KVM on s390
This patch enables virtio_console as the default console on kvm for
s390. We currently use the same notify hack as lguest for early
console output. I will try to address this for lguest and s390 later.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:07 +10:00
Christian Borntraeger
7721c494a2 virtio: console as a config option
I also added a small Kconfig change that allows the user to specify the
virtio console in menuconfig.

(Fixes to export symbols from Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>)
(Fixes for CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y vs CONFIG_VIRTIO=m from Christian himself)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:07 +10:00
Christian Borntraeger
91fcad19d0 virtio_console: use virtqueue notification for hvc_console
This patch exploits the new notifier callbacks of the hvc_console. We can
use the virtio callbacks instead of the polling code.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:06 +10:00
Christian Borntraeger
611e097d77 hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks
This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if
the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use hvc_console
without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq.

In addition, together with patch 2/3 it improves the performance for virtio
console input. (an earlier version of this patch was tested by Yajin on lguest)

The irq specific code is moved to hvc_irq.c and selected by the drivers that
use irqs (System p, System i, XEN).

I replaced "int irq" with the opaque "int data". The request_irq and
free_irq calls are replaced with notifier_add and notifier_del. I have also
changed the code a bit to call the notifier_add and notifier_del inside the
spinlock area as the callbacks are found via hp->ops.

Changes since last version:
o remove ifdef
o reintroduce "irq_requested" as "notified"
o cleanups, sparse..

I did not move the timer based polling into a separate polling scheme. I
played with several variants, but it seems we need to sleep/schedule in
a thread even for irq based consoles, as there are throttleing and buffer
size constraints.

I also kept hvc_struct defined in hvc_console.h so that hvc_irq.c can access
the irq_requested element.

Feedback is appreciated. virtio_console is currently the only available console
for kvm on s390. I plan to push this change as soon as all affected parties
agree on it. I would love to get test results from System p, Xen etc.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:06 +10:00
Christian Borntraeger
066f4d82a6 virtio_blk: check for hardsector size from host
Currently virtio_blk assumes a 512 byte hard sector size. This can cause
trouble / performance issues if the backing has a different block size
(like a file on an ext3 file system formatted with 4k block size or a dasd).

Lets add a feature flag that tells the guest to use a different hard sector
size than 512 byte.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:05 +10:00
Mark McLoughlin
e962fa660d virtio: Use bus_type probe and remove methods
Hook up to the probe() and remove() methods in bus_type
rather than device_driver. The latter has been preferred
since 2.6.16.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:05 +10:00
Rusty Russell
44653eae14 virtio: don't always force a notification when ring is full
We force notification when the ring is full, even if the host has
indicated it doesn't want to know.  This seemed like a good idea at
the time: if we fill the transmit ring, we should tell the host
immediately.

Unfortunately this logic also applies to the receiving ring, which is
refilled constantly.  We should introduce real notification thesholds
to replace this logic.  Meanwhile, removing the logic altogether breaks
the heuristics which KVM uses, so we use a hack: only notify if there are
outgoing parts of the new buffer.

Here are the number of exits with lguest's crappy network implementation:
Before:
	network xmit 7859051 recv 236420
After:
	network xmit 7858610 recv 118136

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:04 +10:00
Rusty Russell
674bfc23c5 virtio: clarify that ABI is usable by any implementations
We want others to implement and use virtio, so it makes sense to BSD
license the non-__KERNEL__ parts of the headers to make this crystal
clear.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2008-07-25 12:06:04 +10:00
Rusty Russell
fb6813f480 virtio: Recycle unused recv buffer pages for large skbs in net driver
If we hack the virtio_net driver to always allocate full-sized (64k+)
skbuffs, the driver slows down (lguest numbers):

  Time to receive 1GB (small buffers): 10.85 seconds
  Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers): 24.75 seconds

Of course, large buffers use up more space in the ring, so we increase
that from 128 to 2048:

  Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring): 16.61 seconds

If we recycle pages rather than using alloc_page/free_page:

  Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring, recycle pages): 10.81 seconds

This demonstrates that with efficient allocation, we don't need to
have a separate "small buffer" queue.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:02 +10:00
Herbert Xu
97402b96f8 virtio net: Allow receiving SG packets
Finally this patch lets virtio_net receive GSO packets in addition
to sending them.  This can definitely be optimised for the non-GSO
case.  For comparison the Xen approach stores one page in each skb
and uses subsequent skb's pages to construct an SG skb instead of
preallocating the maximum amount of pages per skb.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (added feature bits)
2008-07-25 12:06:01 +10:00
Herbert Xu
a9ea3fc6f2 virtio net: Add ethtool ops for SG/GSO
This patch adds some basic ethtool operations to virtio_net so
I could test SG without GSO (which was really useful because TSO
turned out to be buggy :)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (remove MTU setting)
2008-07-25 12:06:01 +10:00
Mark McLoughlin
9953ca6cb7 virtio: fix virtio_net xmit of freed skb bug
On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 17:42 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> If we fail to transmit a packet, we assume the queue is full and put
> the skb into last_xmit_skb.  However, if more space frees up before we
> xmit it, we loop, and the result can be transmitting the same skb twice.
>
> Fix is simple: set skb to NULL if we've used it in some way, and check
> before sending.
...
> diff -r 564237b31993 drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c	Mon May 19 12:22:00 2008 +1000
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c	Mon May 19 12:24:58 2008 +1000
> @@ -287,21 +287,25 @@ again:
>  	free_old_xmit_skbs(vi);
>
>  	/* If we has a buffer left over from last time, send it now. */
> -	if (vi->last_xmit_skb) {
> +	if (unlikely(vi->last_xmit_skb)) {
>  		if (xmit_skb(vi, vi->last_xmit_skb) != 0) {
>  			/* Drop this skb: we only queue one. */
>  			vi->dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
>  			kfree_skb(skb);
> +			skb = NULL;
>  			goto stop_queue;
>  		}
>  		vi->last_xmit_skb = NULL;

With this, may drop an skb and then later in the function discover that
we could have sent it after all. Poor wee skb :)

How about the incremental patch below?

Cheers,
Mark.

Subject: [PATCH] virtio_net: Delay dropping tx skbs

Currently we drop the skb in start_xmit() if we have a
queued buffer and fail to transmit it.

However, if we delay dropping it until we've stopped the
queue and enabled the tx notification callback, then there
is a chance space might become available for it.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:00 +10:00
Adrian Bunk
fb2e405fc1 fix fs/nfs/nfsroot.c compilation
This fixes the following compile error caused by commit
f9247273cb ("UFS: add const to parser
token table"):

    CC      fs/nfs/nfsroot.o
  /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c:130: error: tokens causes a section type conflict
  make[3]: *** [fs/nfs/nfsroot.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 17:32:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4b9f12a377 x86/oprofile/nmi_int: add Nehalem to list of ppro cores
..otherwise oprofile will fall back on that poor timer interrupt.

Also replace the unreadable chain of if-statements with a "switch()"
statement instead. It generates better code, and is a lot clearer.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 17:29:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b30f3ae50c x86-64: Clean up 'save/restore_i387()' usage
Suresh Siddha wants to fix a possible FPU leakage in error conditions,
but the fact that save/restore_i387() are inlines in a header file makes
that harder to do than necessary.  So start off with an obvious cleanup.

This just moves the x86-64 version of save/restore_i387() out of the
header file, and moves it to the only file that it is actually used in:
arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c.  So exposing it in a header file was wrong
to begin with.

[ Side note: I'd like to fix up some of the games we play with the
  32-bit version of these functions too, but that's a separate
  matter.  The 32-bit versions are shared - under different names
  at that! - by both the native x86-32 code and the x86-64 32-bit
  compatibility code ]

Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 16:12:40 -07:00