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It's already big enough and there's no reason to list maintainers of
external patches.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The /dev/mem and /dev/kmem write handlers weren't fully POSIX compliant in
that they wouldn't always force the file pointer to be updated when
returning success status.
The /dev/port write handler was inconsistent with the /dev/mem and
/dev/kmem handlers in that when encountering a -EFAULT condition after
already having written a number of items it would return -EFAULT rather
than the number of bytes written.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When SMBFS_DEBUG_VERBOSE is #define-d, the compile breaks:
fs/smbfs/inode.c:217: error: aggregate value used where an integer was expected
This is a simple matter of using the .tv_sec attribute of struct time_spec.
Signed-off-by: Kirk True <kernel@kirkandsheila.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix documentation to match current implementation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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There were a number of conflicting naming schemes used in the v9fs project.
The directory was fs/9p, but MAINTAINERS and Documentation referred to
v9fs. The module name itself was 9p2000, and the file system type was 9P.
This patch attempts to clean that up, changing all references to 9p in
order to match the directory name. We'll also start using 9p instead of
v9fs as our patch prefix.
There is also a minor consistency cleanup in the options changing the name
option to uname in order to more closely match the Plan 9 options.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergevan <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Update license boilerplate to specify GPLv2 and remove the (at your option
clause). This change was agreed to by all the copyright holders (approvals
can be found on v9fs-developer mailing list).
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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__getname, which in turn will call kmem_cache_alloc, may return NULL.
Coverity bug #977
Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Implement a new way of creating special files. Instead of Tcreate+Twstat,
add one more field to Tcreate that contains special file description.
Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Print 9p messages.
Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The code talks about these things called tids, which I eventually figured
out are tags.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Here is a new trans_fd.c that replaces the current trans_fd.c and
trans_sock.c.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The Kconfig text for CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC have always
seemed a bit confusing. Change them to:
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB: "Debug slab memory allocations"
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: "Debug page memory allocations"
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices
bound to the driver. In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative
error value.
zorro_module_init() used the device count to automatically unregister and
unload drivers that found no devices. That might have worked at one time,
but has been broken for some time because zorro_register_driver() returned
either a negative error or a positive count (never zero). So it could only
unregister on failure, when it's not needed anyway.
This functionality could be resurrected in individual drivers by counting
devices in their .probe() methods.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices
bound to the driver. In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative
error value.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices
bound to the driver. In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative
error value.
dio_module_init() used the device count to automatically unregister and
unload drivers that found no devices. That might have worked at one time,
but has been broken for some time because dio_register_driver() returned
either a negative error or a positive count (never zero). So it could only
unregister on failure, when it's not needed anyway.
This functionality could be resurrected in individual drivers by counting
devices in their .probe() methods.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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reiserfs_file_write()
Use the new balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr in reiserfs "largeio" file
write.
Signed-off-by: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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We presently ignore the return values from initcalls. But that can carry
useful debugging information. So print it out if it's non-zero.
It turns out the -ENODEV happens quite a lot, due to built-in drivers which
have no hardware to drive. So suppress that unless initcall_debug was
specified.
Also make the warning message more friendly by printing the name of the
initcall function.
Also drop the KERN_DEBUG from the initcall_debug message. If we specified
inticall_debug then we obviously want to see the messages.
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Clean up several places where gcc issues warnings when -W is specified.
Thanks to Neil for finding that.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Today I wondered about /dev/parport<n> after not seeing anything in
drivers/parport register char-major-99. Having PP_MAJOR in
include/linux/major.h would've allowed me to more quickly determine that it
was the ppdev driver driving these.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In latest -mm a number of section mismatch warnings are generated for
floppy.o like the following:
WARNING: drivers/block/floppy.o - Section mismatch: reference to \
.init.data: from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x6976) and \
'cleanup_module'
The warning are caused by a reference to floppy_init() which is __init from
init_module() which is not declared __init. Declaring init_module() _init
fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In latest -mm ide-code.o gave a number of warnings like the following:
WARNING: drivers/ide/ide-core.o - Section mismatch: reference to \
.init.text: from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x1f97) and \
'cleanup_module'
The warning was caused by init_module() calling parse_option() and
ide_init() both declared __init.
Declaring init_module() __init fixes the warnings.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Previous inotify work avoidance is good when inotify is completely unused,
but it breaks down if even a single watch is in place anywhere in the
system. Robin Holt notices that udev is one such culprit - it slows down a
512-thread application on a 512 CPU system from 6 seconds to 22 minutes.
Solve this by adding a flag in the dentry that tells inotify whether or not
its parent inode has a watch on it. Event queueing to parent will skip
taking locks if this flag is cleared. Setting and clearing of this flag on
all child dentries versus event delivery: this is no in terms of race
cases, and that was shown to be equivalent to always performing the check.
The essential behaviour is that activity occuring _after_ a watch has been
added and _before_ it has been removed, will generate events.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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sysrq.c is fairly revolting. Fix.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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net/rxrpc/main.c: In function `rxrpc_initialise':
net/rxrpc/main.c:83: warning: label `error_proc' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Some BIOSes do not always set CF on error before return from int13. The
patch adds additional check for status being zero (AH == 0).
Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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param_array() in kernel/params.c can now become static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as
unused. It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the
most unloved drivers anyway.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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hysdn defines its own types: ulong, uint, uchar and word.
Problem is, the module_param macros rely upon some of those identifiers having
special meanings too. The net effect is that module_param() and friends
cannot be used in ISDN because of this namespace clash.
So remove the hysdn-private defines and open-code them all.
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If we can detect a problem at compile time, the compilation should fail.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add a couple of 'const' qualifiers to the TTY flip buffer APIs, where
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c:785: warning: ignoring return value of `copy_to_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I think it would be nice to put an usage warning in header of
lookup_instantiate_filp() to indicate it is unsafe to use it on anything
but regular files (even that is potentially unsafe, but there your ->open()
is usually in your hands anyway), so that others won't fall into the same
trap I did.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flag, to indicate that file is being opened for
execution. This is useful for distributed filesystems to maintain
consistent behavior for returning ETXTBUSY when opening for write and
execution happens on different nodes.
akpm:
Needed by Lustre at present. I assume their objective to to work towards
being able to install Lustre on an unmodified distro kernel, which seems
sane. It should have zero runtime cost.
Trond and Chuck indicate that NFS4 can probably use this too, for the same
thing.
Steven says it's also on the GFS todo list.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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write occurs w/ O_SYNC
When an error occurs in reiserfs_file_write before any data is written, and
O_SYNC is set, the return code of generic_osync_write will overwrite the
error code, losing it.
This patch ensures that generic_osync_inode() doesn't run under an error
condition, losing the error. This duplicates the logic from
generic_file_buffered_write().
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Reiserfs does not handle transaction ID overflow correctly. Transaction ID
== 0 causes reiserfs to crash. The patch fixes all places where the
transaction ID is incremented.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch fixes a bug in reiserfs truncate. A transaction might overflow
when truncating long highly fragmented file. The fix is to split
truncation into several transactions to avoid overflowing.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Cc; Charles McColgan <cm@chuck.net>
Cc: Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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There's no reason for iprune_mutex being global.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove unused quota flag.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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It seems there is error check missing in open_namei for errors returned
through intent.open.file (from lookup_instantiate_filp).
If there is plain open performed, then such a check done inside
__path_lookup_intent_open called from path_lookup_open(), but when the open
is performed with O_CREAT flag set, then __path_lookup_intent_open is only
called with LOOKUP_PARENT set where no file opening can occur yet.
Later on lookup_hash is called where exact opening might take place and
intent.open.file may be filled. If it is filled with error value of some
sort, then we get kernel attempting to dereference this error value as
address (and corresponding oops) in nameidata_to_filp() called from
filp_open().
While this is relatively simple to workaround in ->lookup() method by just
checking lookup_instantiate_filp() return value and returning error as
needed, this is not so easy in ->d_revalidate(), where we can only return
"yes, dentry is valid" or "no, dentry is invalid, perform full lookup
again", and just returning 0 on error would cause extra lookup (with
potential extra costly RPCs).
So in short, I believe that there should be no difference in error handling
for opening a file and creating a file in open_namei() and propose this
simple patch as a solution.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The kjournald timer is currently on the kernel thread's stack and the journal
structure points at it. Save a pointer hop by moving the timer into the
journal structure.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Cause an attempt to add a duplicate non-updateable key (such as a keyring) to
a keyring to discard the extant copy in favour of the new one rather than
failing with EEXIST:
# do the test in an empty session
keyctl session
# create a new keyring called "a" and attach to session
keyctl newring a @s
# create another new keyring called "a" and attach to session,
# displacing the keyring added by the second command:
keyctl newring a @s
Without this patch, the third command will fail.
For updateable keys (such as those of "user" type), the update method will
still be called rather than a new key being created.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Make key quota detection generate an error if either quota is exceeded rather
than only if both quotas are exceeded.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is not compatible with hugetlb page support. That debug
option turns off PSE. Once it is turned off in CR4, the cpu will ignore
pse bit in the pmd and causing infinite page-not- present faults.
So disable DEBUG_PAGEALLOC if the user selected hugetlbfs.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Make CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU depend on !X86_PC, so we need to turn on either
CONFIG_GENERICARCH, CONFIG_BIGSMP or any other subarch except X86_PC when
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y
With 2.6.15+ kernels when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is turned on we switch to
bigsmp mode for sending IPI's and ioapic configurations that caused the
following error message.
>> More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it.
>> Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH or CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP.
Originally bigsmp was added just to handle >8 cpus, but now with hotplug
cpu support we need to use bigsmp mode (why? see below), that cause the
above error message even if there were less than 8 cpus in the system.
The message is bogus, but we are cannot use logical flat mode due to issues
with broadcast IPI can confuse a CPU just comming up. We use flat physical
mode just like x86_64 case. More details on why bigsmp now uses flat
physical mode (vs. cluster mode) in following link.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113261865814107&w=2
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In zone_pcp_init we print out all zones even if they are empty:
On node 0 totalpages: 245760
DMA zone: 245760 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
To conserve dmesg space why not print only the non zero zones.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The page migration code could function without NUMA but we currently have
no users for the non-NUMA case.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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We have had this memory leak for a while now. The situation is complicated
by the use of alloc_kmemlist() as a function to resize various caches by
do_tune_cpucache().
What we do here is first of all make sure that we deallocate properly in
the loop over all the nodes.
If we are just resizing caches then we can simply return with -ENOMEM if an
allocation fails.
If the cache is new then we need to rollback and remove all earlier
allocations.
We detect that a cache is new by checking if the link to the global cache
chain has been setup. This is a bit hackish ....
(also fix up too overlong lines that I added in the last patch...)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Inspired by Jesper Juhl's patch from today
1. Get rid of err
We do not set it to anything else but zero.
2. Drop the CONFIG_NUMA stuff.
There are definitions for alloc_alien_cache and free_alien_cache()
that do the right thing for the non NUMA case.
3. Better naming of variables.
4. Remove redundant cachep->nodelists[node] expressions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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__drain_alien_cache() currently drains objects by freeing them to the
(remote) freelists of the original node. However, each node also has a
shared list containing objects to be used on any processor of that node.
We can avoid a number of remote node accesses by copying the pointers to
the free objects directly into the remote shared array.
And while we are at it: Skip alien draining if the alien cache spinlock is
already taken.
Kiran reported that this is a performance benefit.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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