Every file should #include the headers containing the prototypes for
its global functions.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Commit c7bce3097c removed all usages of
baud_table[] but not the array itself.
Spotted by the GNU C compiler.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a proper prototype for remove_inode_dquot_ref() in
include/linux/quotaops.h
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove two different changelog files from fs/sysv/ and merges the INTRO
file into Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt
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>
Keith says
Compiling 2.6.19-rc6 with gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux), wait_hpet_tick is
optimized away to a never ending loop and the kernel hangs on boot in timer
setup.
0000001a <wait_hpet_tick>:
1a: 55 push %ebp
1b: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp
1d: eb fe jmp 1d <wait_hpet_tick+0x3>
This is not a problem with gcc 3.3.5. Adding barrier() calls to
wait_hpet_tick does not help, making the variables volatile does.
And the consensus is that gcc-4.1.0 is busted. Suse went and shipped
gcc-4.1.0 so we cannot ban it. Add a warning.
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The pl010 primecell documentation specifies that an error indicated via RSR
should be cleared by a write to ECR. We didn't do this, which was causing
errors to be re-reported on every call to pl010_rx_chars().
Doing a write to ECR once we detect an error appears to prevent the ep93xx
console UART driver from going into a mode where it reports "ttyAM0: X
input overrun(s)" every couple of keystrokes.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
winbond ide depends on idedma.
Move the option into the IDEDMA section.
drivers/built-in.o: In function `.sl82c105_ide_dma_timeout':
sl82c105.c:(.text+0x624d0): undefined reference to `.__ide_dma_timeout'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `.sl82c105_ide_dma_off_quietly':
sl82c105.c:(.text+0x6274c): undefined reference to `.__ide_dma_off_quietly'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `.sl82c105_ide_dma_on':
sl82c105.c:(.text+0x6284c): undefined reference to `.__ide_dma_on'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `.sl82c105_check_drive':
sl82c105.c:(.text+0x628ec): undefined reference to `.__ide_dma_bad_drive'
sl82c105.c:(.text+0x62934): undefined reference to `.__ide_dma_good_drive'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `.sl82c105_ide_dma_start':
sl82c105.c:(.text+0x62c24): undefined reference to `.ide_dma_start'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This macro is broken and unused so why not remove it.
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The real time clocks ds1742 and ds1743 differs only in the size of the
nvram. This patch changes the existing ds1742 driver to support also
ds1743. The main change is that the nvram size is determined from the
resource attached to the device.
The patch have benefitted from suggestions from Atsushi Nemeto, who is the
author of the ds1742 driver.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Rasmussen Rasmussen <tr@newtec.dk>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It is possible to have tasklets get scheduled before softirqd has had a chance
to spawn on all CPUs. This is totally harmless; after success during action
CPU_UP_PREPARE, action CPU_ONLINE will be called, which immediately wakes
softirqd on the appropriate CPU to process the already pending tasklets. So
there is no danger of having a missed wakeup for any tasklets that were
already pending.
In particular, i386 is affected by this during startup, and is visible when
using a very large initrd; during the time it takes for the initrd to be
decompressed, a timer IRQ can come in and schedule RCU callbacks. It is also
possible that resending of a hardware IRQ via a softirq triggers the same bug.
Because of different timing conditions, this shows up in all emulators and
virtual machines tested, including Xen, VMware, Virtual PC, and Qemu. It is
also possible to trigger on native hardware with a large enough initrd,
although I don't have a reliable case demonstrating that.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When kernel is compiled with old version of autofs (CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS), and
new (observed at least with 5.x.x) automount deamon is started, kernel
correctly reports incompatible version of kernel and userland daemon, but
then screws things up instead of correct handling of the error:
autofs: kernel does not match daemon version
=====================================
[ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
-------------------------------------
automount/4199 is trying to release lock (&type->s_umount_key) at:
[<c0163b9e>] get_sb_nodev+0x76/0xa4
but there are no more locks to release!
other info that might help us debug this:
no locks held by automount/4199.
stack backtrace:
[<c0103b15>] dump_trace+0x68/0x1b2
[<c0103c77>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c
[<c01041db>] show_trace+0xf/0x11
[<c010424d>] dump_stack+0x12/0x14
[<c012e02c>] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xe7/0xf3
[<c012fd4f>] lock_release+0x8d/0x164
[<c012b452>] up_write+0x14/0x27
[<c0163b9e>] get_sb_nodev+0x76/0xa4
[<c0163689>] vfs_kern_mount+0x83/0xf6
[<c016373e>] do_kern_mount+0x2d/0x3e
[<c017513f>] do_mount+0x607/0x67a
[<c0175224>] sys_mount+0x72/0xa4
[<c0102b96>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99
Leftover inexact backtrace:
=======================
and then deadlock comes.
The problem: autofs_fill_super() returns EINVAL to get_sb_nodev(), but
before that, it calls kill_anon_super() to destroy the superblock which
won't be needed. This is however way too soon to call kill_anon_super(),
because get_sb_nodev() has to perform its own cleanup of the superblock
first (deactivate_super(), etc.). The correct time to call
kill_anon_super() is in the autofs_kill_sb() callback, which is called by
deactivate_super() at proper time, when the superblock is ready to be
killed.
I can see the same faulty codepath also in autofs4. This patch solves
issues in both filesystems in a same way - it postpones the
kill_anon_super() until the proper time is signalized by deactivate_super()
calling the kill_sb() callback.
[raven@themaw.net: update comment]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The i2c and hwmon trees have moved to a new location.
The lm-sensors project moved to a new home as well.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add suspend/resume methods to drivers/serial/8250_pnp.c. Tested on a
P4/HT 16550A box, ttyS0 login survives across suspend to ram.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some people want to use ide_cd for CD-ROM but still dynamically load
ide-scsi for things like tape drives. If you compile in the CD driver this
works out but if you want them modular you need an option to ensure that
whoever loads first the right things happen.
This replaces the original draft patch which leaked a scsi host reference
[akpm@osdl.org: add MODULE_PARM_DESC]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make the locking self-test failures (of 'FAILURE' type) easier to debug by
printing more information.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some have reported a chain-table overflow - double its size.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
CONFIG_W1_SLAVE_DS2433_CRC can be used directly, there's no reason for the
indirection of defining a different variable in the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Port fix to the off-by-one in find_next_usable_block's memscan from ext2 to
ext4; but it didn't cause a serious problem for ext4 because the additional
ext4_test_allocatable check rescued it from the error.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
ext4_new_blocks has a nice io_error label for setting -EIO, so goto that in
the one place that doesn't already use it.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The reservations tree is an rb_tree not a list, so it's less confusing to use
rb_entry() than list_entry() - though they're both just container_of().
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
rsv_end is the last block within the reservation, so alloc_new_reservation
should accept start_block == rsv_end as success.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
grp_goal 0 is a genuine goal (unlike -1), so ext4_try_to_allocate_with_rsv
should treat it as such.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
ext4_new_blocks should reset the reservation window size to 0 when squeezing
the last blocks out of an almost full filesystem, so the retry doesn't skip
any groups with less than half that free, reporting ENOSPC too soon.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In the current jbd code, if a buffer on BJ_SyncData list is dirty and not
locked, the buffer is refiled to BJ_Locked list, submitted to the IO and
waited for IO completion.
But the fsstress test showed the case that when a buffer was already
submitted to the IO just before the buffer_dirty(bh) check, the buffer was
not waited for IO completion.
Following patch solves this problem. If it is assumed that a buffer is
submitted to the IO before the buffer_dirty(bh) check and still being
written to disk, this buffer is refiled to BJ_Locked list.
Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Always build hweight8/16/32/64() functions into the kernel so that loadable
modules may use them.
I didn't remove GENERIC_HWEIGHT since ALPHA_EV67, ia64, and some variants
of UltraSparc(64) provide their own hweight functions.
Fixes config/build problems with NTFS=m and JOYSTICK_ANALOG=m.
Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#19)
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 94 modules
WARNING: "hweight32" [fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "hweight16" [drivers/input/joystick/analog.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "hweight8" [drivers/input/joystick/analog.ko] undefined!
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make: *** [modules] Error 2
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove the carta_random32.h header file. The carta_random32() function was
was put in and removed in favor of random32(). In the removal process, the
header file was forgotten.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
According to the datasheet rs5c372 supports three different methods for
reading register values. Change from method #1 to method #3, since method #3
is the only one that works on Thecus N2100 board with this RTC.
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@movial.fi>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We add a save link for O_DIRECT writes to protect the i_size against the
crashes before we actually finish the I/O. If we hit an -ENOSPC in
aops->prepare_write(), we would do a truncate() to release the blocks which
might have got initialized. Now the truncate would add another save link
for the same inode causing a reiserfs panic for having multiple save links
for the same inode.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <amitarora@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
At present show_state prints a header the does not match the output of
show_task, as follows:
-
sibling
task PC pid father child younger older
init S 00000000 0 1 0 2 (NOTLB)
-
This patch corrects the output of show_state so that the header is
aligned with the data, ala:
-
free sibling
task PC stack pid father child younger older
init S 00000000 0 1 0 2 (NOTLB)
-
Signed-off-by: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In the functions do_proc_dointvec() and do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(),
there seems to be a bug in string length calculation if string contains
negative integer.
The console log given below explains the bug. Setting negative values
may not be a right thing to do for "console log level" but then the test
(given below) can be used to demonstrate the bug in the code.
# echo "-1 -1 -1 -123456" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
-1 -1 -1 -1234
#
# echo "-1 -1 -1 123456" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
-1 -1 -1 1234
#
(akpm: the bug is that 123456 gets truncated)
It works as expected if string contains all +ve integers
# echo "1 2 3 4" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
1 2 3 4
#
The patch given below fixes the issue.
Signed-off-by: Praveen BP <praveenbp@ti.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Check the return value of platform_device_register_simple().
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This a set of fixes mostly to make the driver actually work:
1. Actually select the line for setting parameters and receiver
disable/enable.
2. Select the line for receive and transmit interrupt handling correctly.
3. Report the transmitter empty state correctly.
4. Set the I/O type of ports correctly.
5. Perform polled transmission correctly.
6. Don't fix the console line at ttyS3.
7. Magic SysRq support.
8. Various small bits here and there.
Tested with a DECstation 2100 (thanks Flo for making this possible).
[akpm@osdl.org: fix typo]
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Provide a common interface for all the subsystems to lock and unlock their
per-subsystem hotcpu mutexes.
When CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set, these operations would be no-ops.
[akpm@osdl.org: macros -> inlines]
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Pass struct dev pointer to dma_cache_sync()
dma_cache_sync() is ill-designed in that it does not have a struct device
pointer argument which makes proper support for systems that consist of a
mix of coherent and non-coherent DMA devices hard. Change dma_cache_sync
to take a struct device pointer as first argument and fix all its callers
to pass it.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
dma_is_consistent() is ill-designed in that it does not have a struct
device pointer argument which makes proper support for systems that consist
of a mix of coherent and non-coherent DMA devices hard. Change
dma_is_consistent to take a struct device pointer as first argument and fix
the sole caller to pass it.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On 32bits SMP platforms, 64bits i_size is protected by a seqcount
(i_size_seqcount).
When i_size is read or written, i_size_seqcount is read/written as well, so
it make sense to group these two fields together in the same cache line.
This patch moves i_size_seqcount next to i_size, and also moves i_version
to let offsetof(struct inode, i_size) being 0x40 instead of 0x3c (for
32bits platforms).
For 64 bits platforms, i_size_seqcount doesnt exist, and the move of a
'long i_version' should not introduce a new hole because of padding.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Be more careful about function pointer args:
look for "(...*" instead of just "(".
This line in include/linux/input.h fools the current kernel-doc script
into deciding that this is a function pointer:
unsigned long ffbit[NBITS(FF_MAX)];
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We currently insert socket dentries into the global dentry hashtable. This
is suboptimal because there is currently no way these entries can be used
for a lookup(). (/proc/xxx/fd/xxx uses a different mechanism). Inserting
them in dentry hashtable slows dcache lookups.
To let __dpath() still work correctly (ie not adding a " (deleted)") after
dentry name, we do :
- Right after d_alloc(), pretend they are hashed by clearing the
DCACHE_UNHASHED bit.
- Call d_instantiate() instead of d_add() : dentry is not inserted in
hash table.
__dpath() & friends work as intended during dentry lifetime.
- At dismantle time, once dput() must clear the dentry, setting again
DCACHE_UNHASHED bit inside the custom d_delete() function provided by
socket code, so that dput() can just kill_it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some dentries don't need to be globally visible in dentry hashtable.
(pipes & sockets)
Such dentries dont need to wait for a RCU grace period at delete time.
Being able to free them permits a better CPU cache use (hot cache)
This patch combined with (dont insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable)
reduced time of { pipe(p); close(p[0]); close(p[1]);} on my UP machine (1.6
GHz Pentium-M) from 3.23 us to 2.86 us (But this patch does not depend on
other patches, only bench results)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We currently insert pipe dentries into the global dentry hashtable. This
is suboptimal because there is currently no way these entries can be used
for a lookup(). (/proc/xxx/fd/xxx uses a different mechanism). Inserting
them in dentry hashtable slows dcache lookups.
To let __dpath() still work correctly (ie not adding a " (deleted)") after
dentry name, we do :
- Right after d_alloc(), pretend they are hashed by clearing the
DCACHE_UNHASHED bit.
- Call d_instantiate() instead of d_add() : dentry is not inserted in
hash table.
__dpath() & friends work as intended during dentry lifetime.
- At dismantle time, once dput() must clear the dentry, setting again
DCACHE_UNHASHED bit inside the custom d_delete() function provided by
pipe code, so that dput() can just kill_it.
This patch, combined with (avoid RCU for never hashed dentries) reduced
time of { pipe(p); close(p[0]); close(p[1]);} on my UP machine (1.6GHz
Pentium-M) from 3.23 us to 2.86 us (But this patch does not depend on other
patches, only bench results)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On some workloads, (for example when lot of close() syscalls are done), RCU
qlen can be quite large, and RCU heads are no longer in cpu cache when
rcu_do_batch() is called.
This patch adds a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() to give CPU a hint to bring
back cache lines containing 'struct rcu_head's.
Most list manipulations macros include prefetch(), but not open coded ones
(at least with current C compilers :) )
I got a nice speedup on a trivial benchmark (3.48 us per iteration instead
of 3.95 us on a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M)
while (1) { pipe(p); close(fd[0]); close(fd[1]);}
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove the videodev chapter from the kernel-api book. It's done much better
in the videobook kernel-doc.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
