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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jens Axboe b2b39fa478 [PATCH] splice: add a SPLICE_F_MORE flag
This lets userspace indicate whether more data will be coming in a
subsequent splice call.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-02 23:05:41 +02:00
Jens Axboe 4f6f0bd2ff [PATCH] splice: improve writeback and clean up page stealing
By cleaning up the writeback logic (killing write_one_page() and the manual
set_page_dirty()), we can get rid of ->stolen inside the pipe_buffer and
just keep it local in pipe_to_file().

This also adds dirty page balancing logic and O_SYNC handling.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-02 23:04:46 +02:00
Linus Torvalds b043b673dc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (49 commits)
  V4L/DVB (3667b): cpia2: fix function prototype
  V4L/DVB (3702): Make msp3400 routing defines more consistent
  V4L/DVB (3700): Remove obsolete commands from tvp5150.c
  V4L/DVB (3697): More msp3400 and bttv fixes
  V4L/DVB (3696): Previous change for cx2341X boards broke the remote support
  V4L/DVB (3693): Fix msp3400c and bttv stereo/mono/bilingual detection/handling
  V4L/DVB (3692): Keep experimental SLICED_VBI defines under an #if 0
  V4L/DVB (3689): Kconfig: fix VP-3054 Secondary I2C Bus build configuration menu dependencies
  V4L/DVB (3673): Fix budget-av CAM reset
  V4L/DVB (3672): Fix memory leak in dvr open
  V4L/DVB (3671): New module parameter 'tv_standard' (dvb-ttpci driver)
  V4L/DVB (3670): Fix typo in comment
  V4L/DVB (3669): Configurable dma buffer size for saa7146-based budget dvb cards
  V4L/DVB (3653h): Move usb v4l docs into Documentation/video4linux
  V4L/DVB (3667a): Fix SAP + stereo mode at msp3400
  V4L/DVB (3666): Remove trailing newlines
  V4L/DVB (3665): Add new NEC uPD64031A and uPD64083 i2c drivers
  V4L/DVB (3663): Fix msp3400c wait time and better audio mode fallbacks
  V4L/DVB (3662): Don't set msp3400c-non-existent register
  V4L/DVB (3661): Add wm8739 stereo audio ADC i2c driver
  ...
2006-04-02 12:53:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 86dca4f8e6 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6: (33 commits)
  [PATCH] pcmcia: declare pccard_iodyn_ops (fix m8xx_pcmcia.c compilation error)
  [PATCH] pcmcia: fix pcmcia_device_remove oops
  [PATCH] pcmcia: Add support for Possio GCC AKA PCMCIA Siemens MC45
  [PATCH] pcmcia: pseudo device handling update
  [PATCH] pcmcia: convert DEV_OK to pcmcia_dev_present
  [PATCH] pcmcia: use bitfield instead of p_state and state
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove unused p_dev->state flags
  [PATCH] pcmcia: make pcmcia_release_{io,irq} static
  [PATCH] pcmcia: add return value to _config() functions
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove dev_link_t and client_handle_t indirection
  [PATCH] pcmcia: embed dev_link_t into struct pcmcia_device
  [PATCH] pcmcia: rename pcmcia_device.state
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove unneeded Vcc pseudo setting
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove export of pcmcia_release_configuration
  [PATCH] pcmcia: default suspend and resume handling
  [PATCH] pcmcia: convert remaining users of pcmcia_release_io and _irq
  [PATCH] pcmcia: add pcmcia_disable_device
  [PATCH] serial_cs: add Merlin U630 IDs
  [PATCH] pcmcia: AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver
  [PATCH] pcmcia: socket.functions starts with 1
  ...
2006-04-02 12:49:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9c8680e2cf Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (26 commits)
  Input: add support for Braille devices
  Input: synaptics - limit rate to 40pps on Toshiba Protege M300
  Input: gamecon - add SNES mouse support
  Input: make modalias code respect allowed buffer size
  Input: convert /proc handling to seq_file
  Input: limit attributes' output to PAGE_SIZE
  Input: gameport - fix memory leak
  Input: serio - fix memory leak
  Input: zaurus keyboard driver updates
  Input: i8042 - fix logic around pnp_register_driver()
  Input: ns558 - fix logic around pnp_register_driver()
  Input: pcspkr - separate device and driver registration
  Input: atkbd - allow disabling on X86_PC (if EMBEDDED)
  Input: atkbd - disable softrepeat for dumb keyboards
  Input: atkbd - fix complaints about 'releasing unknown key 0x7f'
  Input: HID - fix duplicate key mapping for Logitech UltraX remote
  Input: use kzalloc() throughout the code
  Input: fix input_free_device() implementation
  Input: initialize serio and gameport at subsystem level
  Input: uinput - semaphore to mutex conversion
  ...
2006-04-02 12:49:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f900e5824a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [PATCH] powerpc: iSeries needs slb_initialize to be called
  powerpc: hook up the splice syscall
  [PATCH] powerpc/cell: compile fixes
  [PATCH] powerpc: trivial spelling fixes in fault.c
  [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: EEH Cleanup
  [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: misc lparcfg fixes
  [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: fix device name printing, again.
  [PATCH] powerpc: Extends HCALL interface for InfiniBand usage
  [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Change H_StudlyCaps to H_SHOUTING_CAPS
  [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: print message if EEH recovery fails
  [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: mutex lock to serialize EEH event processing
  powerpc: converted embedded platforms to use new define_machine support
  powerpc: merge machine_check_exception between ppc32 & ppc64
2006-04-02 12:48:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 23344cb341 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC]: Wire up sys_sync_file_range() into syscall tables.
  [SPARC]: Wire up sys_splice() into the syscall tables.
  [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
  [SPARC64]: Align address in huge_pte_alloc().
  [SPARC64]: Document the instruction checks we do in do_sparc64_fault().
  [SPARC64]: Make tsb_sync() mm comparison more precise.
2006-04-02 12:48:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bacd3add08 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [NET]: Fully fix the memory leaks in sys_accept().
  [NETFILTER]: iptables 32bit compat layer
  [NETFILTER]: {ip,nf}_conntrack_netlink: fix expectation notifier unregistration
  [NETFILTER]: fix ifdef for connmark support in nf_conntrack_netlink
  [NETFILTER]: x_tables: unify IPv4/IPv6 multiport match
  [NETFILTER]: x_tables: unify IPv4/IPv6 esp match
  [NET]: Fix dentry leak in sys_accept().
  [IPSEC]: Kill unused decap state structure
  [IPSEC]: Kill unused decap state argument
  [NET]: com90xx kmalloc fix
  [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate.
  [TG3]: Revert "Speed up SRAM access"
2006-04-02 12:47:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 29e350944f splice: add SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flag
It doesn't make the splice itself necessarily nonblocking (because the
actual file descriptors that are spliced from/to may block unless they
have the O_NONBLOCK flag set), but it makes the splice pipe operations
nonblocking.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-02 12:46:35 -07:00
Hans Verkuil 07151724a3 V4L/DVB (3702): Make msp3400 routing defines more consistent
Renamed various msp3400 routing defines to be more consistent and less
confusing. Esp. the MSP_DSP_OUT defines were confusing since it is really
a DSP input.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02 04:56:11 -03:00
Hans Verkuil 9bc7400a9d V4L/DVB (3692): Keep experimental SLICED_VBI defines under an #if 0
The sliced VBI defines added in videodev2.h are removed since requires
more discussion.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02 04:56:04 -03:00
Hans Verkuil 021e0b768b V4L/DVB (3666): Remove trailing newlines
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02 04:55:52 -03:00
Hans Verkuil add953cecb V4L/DVB (3665): Add new NEC uPD64031A and uPD64083 i2c drivers
- Add support for the uPD64031A NEC Electronics Ghost Reduction i2c device
- Add support for the uPD6408x NEC Electronics 3-Dimensional Y/C separation
  i2c device.

Signed-off-by: Takahiro Adachi <tadachi@tadachi-net.com>
Signed-off-by: Takeru Komoriya <komoriya@paken.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02 04:55:51 -03:00
Hans Verkuil 31bc09b579 V4L/DVB (3610): Added the new routing commands to cx25840.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02 04:55:01 -03:00
Hans Verkuil 39b6f687d3 V4L/DVB (3608): Implement new routing commands in saa7127.c
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02 04:54:56 -03:00
Hans Verkuil 1f8f5fa9b7 V4L/DVB (3607): Implement routing command for saa7115.c
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-04-02 04:54:54 -03:00
Samuel Thibault b9ec4e109d Input: add support for Braille devices
- Add KEY_BRL_* input keys and K_BRL_* keycodes;
- Add emulation of how braille keyboards usually combine braille dots
  to the console keyboard driver;
- Add handling of unicode U+28xy diacritics.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-04-02 00:10:28 -05:00
Dmitry Torokhov 95d465fd75 Manual merge with Linus.
Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
	drivers/input/keyboard/hil_kbd.c
	drivers/input/mouse/hil_ptr.c
2006-04-02 00:08:05 -05:00
Nathan Fontenot 794e085e56 [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: EEH Cleanup
This patch removes unnecessary exports, marks functions as static when
possible, and simplifies some list-related code.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-01 22:37:11 +11:00
Heiko J Schick b13a96cfb0 [PATCH] powerpc: Extends HCALL interface for InfiniBand usage
This extends the HCALL interface for InfiniBand usage. I've
made the patch against the linux-2.6 git tree and Segher's patch:
[PATCH] Change H_StudlyCaps to H_SHOUTING_CAPS

We moved this into the common powerpc code based on comments we
got after posting the first eHCA InfiniBand device driver patch.

Signed-off-by: Heiko j Schick <schickhj@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-01 22:37:00 +11:00
Segher Boessenkool 706c8c93ba [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Change H_StudlyCaps to H_SHOUTING_CAPS
Also cleans up some nearby whitespace problems.

Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-01 22:36:57 +11:00
Dmitry Mishin 2722971cbe [NETFILTER]: iptables 32bit compat layer
This patch extends current iptables compatibility layer in order to get
32bit iptables to work on 64bit kernel. Current layer is insufficient due
to alignment checks both in kernel and user space tools.

Patch is for current net-2.6.17 with addition of move of ipt_entry_{match|
target} definitions to xt_entry_{match|target}.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>
Acked-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-01 02:25:19 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai a89ecb6a2e [NETFILTER]: x_tables: unify IPv4/IPv6 multiport match
This unifies ipt_multiport and ip6t_multiport to xt_multiport.
As a result, this addes support for inversion and port range match
to IPv6 packets.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-01 02:22:54 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai dc5ab2faec [NETFILTER]: x_tables: unify IPv4/IPv6 esp match
This unifies ipt_esp and ip6t_esp to xt_esp. Please note that now
a user program needs to specify IPPROTO_ESP as protocol to use esp match
with IPv6. This means that ip6tables requires '-p esp' like iptables.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-01 02:22:30 -08:00
Herbert Xu dbe5b4aaaf [IPSEC]: Kill unused decap state structure
This patch removes the *_decap_state structures which were previously
used to share state between input/post_input.  This is no longer
needed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-01 00:54:16 -08:00
Herbert Xu e695633e21 [IPSEC]: Kill unused decap state argument
This patch removes the decap_state argument from the xfrm input hook.
Previously this function allowed the input hook to share state with
the post_input hook.  The latter has since been removed.

The only purpose for it now is to check the encap type.  However, it
is easier and better to move the encap type check to the generic
xfrm_rcv function.  This allows us to get rid of the decap state
argument altogether.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-01 00:52:46 -08:00
David S. Miller 289eee6fa7 [SPARC]: Wire up sys_sync_file_range() into syscall tables.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-31 23:49:34 -08:00
David S. Miller 1339713a32 [SPARC]: Wire up sys_splice() into the syscall tables.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-31 23:03:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 5b67e8dd5a Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  [ARM] 3424/2: ixp23xx: fix uncompress.h for recent CRLF decompressor change
  [ARM] 3434/1: pxa i2s amsl define
  [ARM] 3425/1: xsc3: need to include pgtable-hwdef.h
  [ARM] Allow un-muxed syscalls to be available for everyone
  [ARM] 3420/1: Missing clobber in example code
  [ARM] nommu: fixups for the exception vectors
  [ARM] nommu: add nommu specific Kconfig and MMUEXT variable in Makefile
  [ARM] nommu: start-up code
  [ARM] nommu: MPU support in boot/compressed/head.S
2006-03-31 21:33:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a8b59e79ed Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] Avoid "u64 foo : 32;" for gcc3 vs. gcc4 compatibility
  [IA64] Export cpu cache info by sysfs
2006-03-31 21:31:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4b75679f60 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [NET]: Allow skb headroom to be overridden
  [TCP]: Kill unused extern decl for tcp_v4_hash_connecting()
  [NET]: add SO_RCVBUF comment
  [NET]: Deinline some larger functions from netdevice.h
  [DCCP]: Use NULL for pointers, comfort sparse.
  [DECNET]: Fix refcount
2006-03-31 12:52:30 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre e358c1a2c4 [PATCH] mutex: some cleanups
Turn some macros into inline functions and add proper type checking as
well as being more readable.  Also a minor comment adjustment.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:19:01 -08:00
Adrian Bunk a244e1698a [PATCH] fs/namei.c: make lookup_hash() static
As announced, lookup_hash() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:19:01 -08:00
Antonino A. Daplas a536093a2f [PATCH] fbcon: Fix big-endian bogosity in slow_imageblit()
The monochrome->color expansion routine that handles bitmaps which have
(widths % 8) != 0 (slow_imageblit) produces corrupt characters in big-endian.
This is caused by a bogus bit test in slow_imageblit().

Fix.

This patch may deserve to go to the stable tree.  The code has already been
well tested in little-endian machines.  It's only in big-endian where there is
uncertainty and Herbert confirmed that this is the correct way to go.

It should not introduce regressions.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:19:00 -08:00
Richard Purdie 2c0f5fb08e [PATCH] backlight: corgi_bl: Generalise to support other Sharp SL hardware
Generalise the Corgi backlight driver by moving the default intensity and
limit mask settings into the platform specific data structure.  This enables
the driver to support other Zaurus hardware, specifically the SL-6000x (Tosa)
model.

Also change the spinlock to a mutex (the spinlock is overkill).

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:19:00 -08:00
Richard Purdie 6ca017658b [PATCH] backlight: Backlight Class Improvements
Backlight class attributes are currently easy to implement incorrectly.
Moving certain handling into the backlight core prevents this whilst at the
same time makes the drivers simpler and consistent.  The following changes are
included:

The brightness attribute only sets and reads the brightness variable in the
backlight_properties structure.

The power attribute only sets and reads the power variable in the
backlight_properties structure.

Any framebuffer blanking events change a variable fb_blank in the
backlight_properties structure.

The backlight driver has only two functions to implement.  One function is
called when any of the above properties change (to update the backlight
brightness), the second is called to return the current backlight brightness
value.  A new attribute "actual_brightness" is added to return this brightness
as determined by the driver having combined all the above factors (and any
driver/device specific factors).

Additionally, the backlight core takes care of checking the maximum brightness
is not exceeded and of turning off the backlight before device removal.

The corgi backlight driver is updated to reflect these changes.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:19:00 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 3e7e241f8c [PATCH] dcache: Add helper d_hash_and_lookup
It is very common to hash a dentry and then to call lookup.  If we take fs
specific hash functions into account the full hash logic can get ugly.
Further full_name_hash as an inline function is almost 100 bytes on x86 so
having a non-inline choice in some cases can measurably decrease code size.

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>
2006-03-31 12:19:00 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 92476d7fc0 [PATCH] pidhash: Refactor the pid hash table
Simplifies the code, reduces the need for 4 pid hash tables, and makes the
code more capable.

In the discussions I had with Oleg it was felt that to a large extent the
cleanup itself justified the work.  With struct pid being dynamically
allocated meant we could create the hash table entry when the pid was
allocated and free the hash table entry when the pid was freed.  Instead of
playing with the hash lists when ever a process would attach or detach to a
process.

For myself the fact that it gave what my previous task_ref patch gave for free
with simpler code was a big win.  The problem is that if you hold a reference
to struct task_struct you lock in 10K of low memory.  If you do that in a user
controllable way like /proc does, with an unprivileged but hostile user space
application with typical resource limits of 1000 fds and 100 processes I can
trigger the OOM killer by consuming all of low memory with task structs, on a
machine wight 1GB of low memory.

If I instead hold a reference to struct pid which holds a pointer to my
task_struct, I don't suffer from that problem because struct pid is 2 orders
of magnitude smaller.  In fact struct pid is small enough that most other
kernel data structures dwarf it, so simply limiting the number of referring
data structures is enough to prevent exhaustion of low memory.

This splits the current struct pid into two structures, struct pid and struct
pid_link, and reduces our number of hash tables from PIDTYPE_MAX to just one.
struct pid_link is the per process linkage into the hash tables and lives in
struct task_struct.  struct pid is given an indepedent lifetime, and holds
pointers to each of the pid types.

The independent life of struct pid simplifies attach_pid, and detach_pid,
because we are always manipulating the list of pids and not the hash table.
In addition in giving struct pid an indpendent life it makes the concept much
more powerful.

Kernel data structures can now embed a struct pid * instead of a pid_t and
not suffer from pid wrap around problems or from keeping unnecessarily
large amounts of memory allocated.

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>
2006-03-31 12:19:00 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 8c7904a00b [PATCH] task: RCU protect task->usage
A big problem with rcu protected data structures that are also reference
counted is that you must jump through several hoops to increase the reference
count.  I think someone finally implemented atomic_inc_not_zero(&count) to
automate the common case.  Unfortunately this means you must special case the
rcu access case.

When data structures are only visible via rcu in a manner that is not
determined by the reference count on the object (i.e.  tasks are visible until
their zombies are reaped) there is a much simpler technique we can employ.
Simply delaying the decrement of the reference count until the rcu interval is
over.

What that means is that the proc code that looks up a task and later
wants to sleep can now do:

rcu_read_lock();
task = find_task_by_pid(some_pid);
if (task) {
	get_task_struct(task);
}
rcu_read_unlock();

The effect on the rest of the kernel is that put_task_struct becomes cheaper
and immediate, and in the case where the task has been reaped it frees the
task immediate instead of unnecessarily waiting an until the rcu interval is
over.

Cleanup of task_struct does not happen when its reference count drops to
zero, instead cleanup happens when release_task is called.  Tasks can only
be looked up via rcu before release_task is called.  All rcu protected
members of task_struct are freed by release_task.

Therefore we can move call_rcu from put_task_struct into release_task.  And
we can modify release_task to not immediately release the reference count
but instead have it call put_task_struct from the function it gives to
call_rcu.

The end result:

- get_task_struct is safe in an rcu context where we have just looked
  up the task.

- put_task_struct() simplifies into its old pre rcu self.

This reorganization also makes put_task_struct uncallable from modules as
it is not exported but it does not appear to be called from any modules so
this should not be an issue, and is trivially fixed.

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>
2006-03-31 12:18:59 -08:00
Andrew Morton 158d9ebd19 [PATCH] resurrect __put_task_struct
This just got nuked in mainline.  Bring it back because Eric's patches use it.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:59 -08:00
Con Kolivas d425b274ba [PATCH] sched: activate SCHED BATCH expired
To increase the strength of SCHED_BATCH as a scheduling hint we can
activate batch tasks on the expired array since by definition they are
latency insensitive tasks.

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:59 -08:00
Con Kolivas 3dee386e14 [PATCH] sched: cleanup task_activated()
The activated flag in task_struct is used to track different sleep types and
its usage is somewhat obfuscated.  Convert the variable to an enum with more
descriptive names without altering the function.

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:58 -08:00
Jack Steiner db1b1fefc2 [PATCH] sched: reduce overhead of calc_load
Currently, count_active_tasks() calls both nr_running() &
nr_interruptible().  Each of these functions does a "for_each_cpu" & reads
values from the runqueue of each cpu.  Although this is not a lot of
instructions, each runqueue may be located on different node.  Depending on
the architecture, a unique TLB entry may be required to access each
runqueue.

Since there may be more runqueues than cpu TLB entries, a scan of all
runqueues can trash the TLB.  Each memory reference incurs a TLB miss &
refill.

In addition, the runqueue cacheline that contains nr_running &
nr_uninterruptible may be evicted from the cache between the two passes.
This causes unnecessary cache misses.

Combining nr_running() & nr_interruptible() into a single function
substantially reduces the TLB & cache misses on large systems.  This should
have no measureable effect on smaller systems.

On a 128p IA64 system running a memory stress workload, the new function
reduced the overhead of calc_load() from 605 usec/call to 324 usec/call.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:58 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner 00362e33f6 [PATCH] hrtimer: create generic sleeper
The removal of the data field in the hrtimer structure enforces the
embedding of the timer into another data structure.  nanosleep now uses a
private implementation of the most common used timer callback function
(simple task wakeup).

In order to avoid the reimplentation of such functionality all over the
place a generic hrtimer_sleeper functionality is created.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:58 -08:00
Richard Purdie 2bfb646cdf [PATCH] LED: Add IDE disk activity LED trigger
Add an LED trigger for IDE disk activity to the ide-disk driver.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
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>
2006-03-31 12:18:57 -08:00
Richard Purdie c3bc9956ec [PATCH] LED: add LED trigger tupport
Add support for LED triggers to the LED subsystem.  "Triggers" are events
which change the state of an LED.  Two kinds of trigger are available, simple
ones which can be added to exising code with minimum disruption and complex
ones for implementing new or more complex functionality.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:56 -08:00
Richard Purdie c72a1d608d [PATCH] LED: add LED class
Add the foundations of a new LEDs subsystem.  This patch adds a class which
presents LED devices within sysfs and allows their brightness to be
controlled.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:56 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 0ca07731e4 [PATCH] vt: add TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT
Add TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT needed by the userland suspend tool to get the
current value of kmsg_redirect from the kernel so that it can save it and
restore it after resume.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:56 -08:00
Andrew Morton 2cf8d82d63 [PATCH] make local_t signed
local_t's were defined to be unsigned.  This increases confusion because
atomic_t's are signed.  The patch goes through and changes all implementations
to use signed longs throughout.

Also, x86-64 was using 32-bit quantities for the value passed into local_add()
and local_sub().  Fixed.

All (actually, both) existing users have been audited.

(Also s/__inline__/inline/ in x86_64/local.h)

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:55 -08:00
Andrew Morton f79e2abb9b [PATCH] sys_sync_file_range()
Remove the recently-added LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE and LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT
fadvise() additions, do it in a new sys_sync_file_range() syscall instead.
Reasons:

- It's more flexible.  Things which would require two or three syscalls with
  fadvise() can be done in a single syscall.

- Using fadvise() in this manner is something not covered by POSIX.

The patch wires up the syscall for x86.

The sycall is implemented in the new fs/sync.c.  The intention is that we can
move sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and perhaps sys_sync() into there later.

Documentation for the syscall is in fs/sync.c.

A test app (sync_file_range.c) is in
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz.

The available-to-GPL-modules do_sync_file_range() is for knfsd: "A COMMIT can
say NFS_DATA_SYNC or NFS_FILE_SYNC.  I can skip the ->fsync call for
NFS_DATA_SYNC which is hopefully the more common."

Note: the `async' writeout mode SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE will turn synchronous if
the queue is congested.  This is trivial to fix: add a new flag bit, set
wbc->nonblocking.  But I'm not sure that we want to expose implementation
details down to that level.

Note: it's notable that we can sync an fd which wasn't opened for writing.
Same with fsync() and fdatasync()).

Note: the code takes some care to handle attempts to sync file contents
outside the 16TB offset on 32-bit machines.  It makes such attempts appear to
succeed, for best 32-bit/64-bit compatibility.  Perhaps it should make such
requests fail...

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:54 -08:00