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2009-05-27net: ALIGN/PTR_ALIGN cleanup in alloc_netdev_mq()/netdev_priv()Eric Dumazet
Use ALIGN() and PTR_ALIGN() macros instead of handcoding them. Get rid of NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST ugly define Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27mlx4_core: Add module parameter for number of MTTs per segmentEli Cohen
The current MTT allocator uses kmalloc() to allocate a buffer for its buddy allocator, and thus is limited in the amount of MTT segments that it can control. As a result, the size of memory that can be registered is limited too. This patch uses a module parameter to control the number of MTT entries that each segment represents, allowing more memory to be registered with the same number of segments. Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2009-05-27knfsd: reply cache cleanupsGreg Banks
Make REQHASH() an inline function. Rename hash_list to cache_hash. Fix an obsolete comment. Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-05-27netfilter: conntrack: add support for DCCP handshake sequence to ctnetlinkPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch adds CTA_PROTOINFO_DCCP_HANDSHAKE_SEQ that exposes the u64 handshake sequence number to user-space. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-05-27Input: ucb1400 - move static function from header into coreSebastian Andrzej Siewior
it's a little too large for static line. The ts is currently the only mainline user but Marek Vasut claims that there is a battery driver in an ARM tree which also needs this function. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2009-05-27gro: Avoid unnecessary comparison after skb_gro_headerHerbert Xu
For the overwhelming majority of cases, skb_gro_header's return value cannot be NULL. Yet we must check it because of its current form. This patch splits it up into multiple functions in order to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27gro: Optimise length comparison in skb_gro_headerHerbert Xu
By caching frag0_len, we can avoid checking both frag0 and the length separately in skb_gro_header. This helps as skb_gro_header is called four times per packet which amounts to a few million times at 10Gb/s. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27gro: Only use skb_gro_header for completely non-linear packetsHerbert Xu
Currently skb_gro_header is used for packets which put the hardware header in skb->data with the rest in frags. Since the drivers that need this optimisation all provide completely non-linear packets, we can gain extra optimisations by only performing the frag0 optimisation for completely non-linear packets. In particular, we can simply test frag0 (instead of skb_headlen) to see whether the optimisation is in force. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27gro: Inline skb_gro_header and cache frag0 virtual addressHerbert Xu
The function skb_gro_header is called four times per packet which quickly adds up at 10Gb/s. This patch inlines it to allow better optimisations. Some architectures perform multiplication for page_address, which is done by each skb_gro_header invocation. This patch caches that value in skb->cb to avoid the unnecessary multiplications. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-26phy: Eliminate references to BUS_ID_SIZE.David S. Miller
Just use the constant 20 to keep things working. If someone is so motivated, this can be converted over to dynamic strings. I tried and it's a lot of work. But for now this is good enough. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-26tracing: add __print_symbolic to trace eventsSteven Rostedt
This patch adds __print_symbolic which is similar to __print_flags but works for an enumeration type instead. That is, there is only a one to one mapping between the values and the symbols. When a match is made, then it is printed, otherwise the hex value is outputed. [ Impact: add interface for showing symbol names in events ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26tracing: add __print_flags for eventsSteven Rostedt
Developers have been asking for the ability in the ftrace event tracer to display names of bits in a flags variable. Instead of printing out c2, it would be easier to read FOO|BAR|GOO, assuming that FOO is bit 1, BAR is bit 6 and GOO is bit 7. Some examples where this would be useful are the state flags in a context switch, kmalloc flags, and even permision flags in accessing files. [ v2 changes include: Frederic Weisbecker's idea of using a mask instead of bits, thus we can output GFP_KERNEL instead of GPF_WAIT|GFP_IO|GFP_FS. Li Zefan's idea of allowing the caller of __print_flags to add their own delimiter (or no delimiter) where we can get for file permissions rwx instead of r|w|x. ] [ v3 changes: Christoph Hellwig's idea of using an array instead of va_args. ] [ Impact: better displaying of flags in trace output ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26[MTD] Remove option for add_mtd_partitions() to not register partitions.David Woodhouse
This breaks the dilnetpc map driver, but it could be fixed not to use that option. We want to simplify the partition handling, and this is a step towards that. Remove superfluous 'index' field from private struct mtd_part too, while we're at it. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-05-25net: txq_trans_update() helperEric Dumazet
We would like to get rid of netdev->trans_start = jiffies; that about all net drivers have to use in their start_xmit() function, and use txq->trans_start instead. This can be done generically in core network, as suggested by David. Some devices, (particularly loopback) dont need trans_start update, because they dont have transmit watchdog. We could add a new device flag, or rely on fact that txq->tran_start can be updated is txq->xmit_lock_owner is different than -1. Use a helper function to hide our choice. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25perf_counter: fix warning & lockupIngo Molnar
- remove bogus warning - fix wakeup from NMI path lockup - also fix up whitespace noise in perf_counter.h Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: Generic per counter interrupt throttlePeter Zijlstra
Introduce a generic per counter interrupt throttle. This uses the perf_counter_overflow() quick disable to throttle a specific counter when its going too fast when a pmu->unthrottle() method is provided which can undo the quick disable. Power needs to implement both the quick disable and the unthrottle method. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: x86: Remove interrupt throttlePeter Zijlstra
remove the x86 specific interrupt throttle Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.616671838@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25netfilter: nf_ct_tcp: fix accepting invalid RST segmentsJozsef Kadlecsik
Robert L Mathews discovered that some clients send evil TCP RST segments, which are accepted by netfilter conntrack but discarded by the destination. Thus the conntrack entry is destroyed but the destination retransmits data until timeout. The same technique, i.e. sending properly crafted RST segments, can easily be used to bypass connlimit/connbytes based restrictions (the sample script written by Robert can be found in the netfilter mailing list archives). The patch below adds a new flag and new field to struct ip_ct_tcp_state so that checking RST segments can be made more strict and thus TCP conntrack can catch the invalid ones: the RST segment is accepted only if its sequence number higher than or equal to the highest ack we seen from the other direction. (The last_ack field cannot be reused because it is used to catch resent packets.) Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-05-25perf_counter: Propagate inheritance failures down the fork() pathPeter Zijlstra
Fail fork() when we fail inheritance for some reason (-ENOMEM most likely). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.324656474@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: Remove unused ABI bitsPeter Zijlstra
extra_config_len isn't used for anything, remove it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.116035832@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPSAlexander Beregalov
All drivers are already converted to new net_device_ops API and nobody uses old API anymore. Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Added PCI ID for new Junghanns.net Single E1 cards.Andreas Eversberg
The new ID is validated by Cologne Chip. LEDs control is also supported. Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Cleanup debug messagesKarsten Keil
This patch make debug printk's KERN_DEBUG and also fix some codestyle issues. Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Add PCI ID for Junghanns 8S cardAndreas Eversberg
new id for HFC-8S Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Add XHFC support for embedded Speech-Design board to hfcmultiKarsten Keil
New version without emulating arch specific stuff for the other architectures, the special IO and init functions for the 8xx microcontroller are in a separate include file. Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Added layer-1-hold featureAndreas Eversberg
Add IMHOLD_L1 ioctl. The feature will be disabled on closing. Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Echo canceler now gets delay information from hardwareAndreas Eversberg
Added tx-fifo information for calculation of current delay to sync tx and rx streams for echo canceler. Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Add watchdog functionality to hfcmulti driverAndreas Eversberg
This patch was made by Titus Moldovan and provides IOCTL functions for enabling and disabling the controller's built in watchdog. The use is optional. Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-05-24perf_counter: Remove perf_counter_context::nr_enabledPeter Zijlstra
now that pctrl() no longer disables other people's counters, remove the PMU cache code that deals with that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163013.032998331@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-24perf_counter: Change pctrl() behaviourPeter Zijlstra
Instead of en/dis-abling all counters acting on a particular task, en/dis- able all counters we created. [ v2: fix crash on first counter enable ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.916937244@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-23perf_counter: Sanitize counter->mutexPeter Zijlstra
s/counter->mutex/counter->child_mutex/ and make sure its only used to protect child_list. The usage in __perf_counter_exit_task() doesn't appear to be problematic since ctx->mutex also covers anything related to fd tear-down. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.533186528@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-23perf_counter: Fix dynamic irq_period loggingPeter Zijlstra
We call perf_adjust_freq() from perf_counter_task_tick() which is is called under the rq->lock causing lock recursion. However, it's no longer required to be called under the rq->lock, so remove it from under it. Also, fix up some related comments. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.476197912@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-23Input: multitouch - add tracking ID to the protocolHenrik Rydberg
There are a few multi-touch devices that support finger tracking well in hardware, Stantum being the prime example. By exposing the tracking ID in the MT protocol, evdev bandwidth and cpu usage in user space can be reduced. This patch adds the ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID to the MT protocol. Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Tested-by: Stéphane Chatty <chatty@enac.fr> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2009-05-22block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitionsMartin K. Petersen
To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we need to ensure proper alignment. This patch adds support for exposing I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked. logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address. physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by the device. In many cases this is the same as the physical block size. However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size). The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by the device. This is usually the stripe width for arrays. The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment. Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets so filesystems start on proper boundaries. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22block: Move queue limits to an embedded structMartin K. Petersen
To accommodate stacking drivers that do not have an associated request queue we're moving the limits to a separate, embedded structure. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22block: Use accessor functions for queue limitsMartin K. Petersen
Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions instead of poking the request queue variables directly. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_sizeMartin K. Petersen
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device. With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain 512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size and the logical ditto. This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.31Jens Axboe
Conflicts: drivers/ide/ide-io.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.31Jens Axboe
Conflicts: drivers/block/hd.c drivers/block/mg_disk.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211Zhu Yi
The patch moves some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211. Because these functions are doing generic 802.11 operations so they are not mac80211 specific. The moving allows some fullmac drivers to be also benefit from these utility functions. Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: via82cxxx: Add VIA VX855 PCI Device ID ide: report timeouts in ide_busy_sleep() ide: improve failed opcode reporting ide: fix printk() levels in ide_dump_ata[pi]_error() ide: fix OOPS during ide-cd error recovery ide: fix 40-wire cable detection for TSST SH-S202* ATAPI devices (v2)
2009-05-22Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-nextBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-22via82cxxx: Add VIA VX855 PCI Device IDHarald Welte
This patch adds the PCI Device ID 0xc409 to the PCI ID table of via82cxxx.c, as well as the 0x8409 south bridge ID. This is required to make the IDE driver work on the VX855/VX875 integrated chipset. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com> Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw> Cc: Bruce Chang <BruceChang@via.com.tw> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-22ide: report timeouts in ide_busy_sleep()Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* change 'hwif' argument to 'drive' * report an error on timeout Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-22perf_counter: fix !PERF_COUNTERS build failureIngo Molnar
Update the !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS prototype too, for perf_counter_task_sched_out(). [ Impact: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18966.10666.517218.332164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22perf_counter: Optimize context switch between identical inherited contextsPaul Mackerras
When monitoring a process and its descendants with a set of inherited counters, we can often get the situation in a context switch where both the old (outgoing) and new (incoming) process have the same set of counters, and their values are ultimately going to be added together. In that situation it doesn't matter which set of counters are used to count the activity for the new process, so there is really no need to go through the process of reading the hardware counters and updating the old task's counters and then setting up the PMU for the new task. This optimizes the context switch in this situation. Instead of scheduling out the perf_counter_context for the old task and scheduling in the new context, we simply transfer the old context to the new task and keep using it without interruption. The new context gets transferred to the old task. This means that both tasks still have a valid perf_counter_context, so no special case is introduced when the old task gets scheduled in again, either on this CPU or another CPU. The equivalence of contexts is detected by keeping a pointer in each cloned context pointing to the context it was cloned from. To cope with the situation where a context is changed by adding or removing counters after it has been cloned, we also keep a generation number on each context which is incremented every time a context is changed. When a context is cloned we take a copy of the parent's generation number, and two cloned contexts are equivalent only if they have the same parent and the same generation number. In order that the parent context pointer remains valid (and is not reused), we increment the parent context's reference count for each context cloned from it. Since we don't have individual fds for the counters in a cloned context, the only thing that can make two clones of a given parent different after they have been cloned is enabling or disabling all counters with prctl. To account for this, we keep a count of the number of enabled counters in each context. Two contexts must have the same number of enabled counters to be considered equivalent. Here are some measurements of the context switch time as measured with the lat_ctx benchmark from lmbench, comparing the times obtained with and without this patch series: -----Unmodified----- With this patch series Counters: none 2 HW 4H+4S none 2 HW 4H+4S 2 processes: Average 3.44 6.45 11.24 3.12 3.39 3.60 St dev 0.04 0.04 0.13 0.05 0.17 0.19 8 processes: Average 6.45 8.79 14.00 5.57 6.23 7.57 St dev 1.27 1.04 0.88 1.42 1.46 1.42 32 processes: Average 5.56 8.43 13.78 5.28 5.55 7.15 St dev 0.41 0.47 0.53 0.54 0.57 0.81 The numbers are the mean and standard deviation of 20 runs of lat_ctx. The "none" columns are lat_ctx run directly without any counters. The "2 HW" columns are with lat_ctx run under perfstat, counting cycles and instructions. The "4H+4S" columns are lat_ctx run under perfstat with 4 hardware counters and 4 software counters (cycles, instructions, cache references, cache misses, task clock, context switch, cpu migrations, and page faults). [ Impact: performance optimization of counter context-switches ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18966.10666.517218.332164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22perf_counter: Dynamically allocate tasks' perf_counter_context structPaul Mackerras
This replaces the struct perf_counter_context in the task_struct with a pointer to a dynamically allocated perf_counter_context struct. The main reason for doing is this is to allow us to transfer a perf_counter_context from one task to another when we do lazy PMU switching in a later patch. This has a few side-benefits: the task_struct becomes a little smaller, we save some memory because only tasks that have perf_counters attached get a perf_counter_context allocated for them, and we can remove the inclusion of <linux/perf_counter.h> in sched.h, meaning that we don't end up recompiling nearly everything whenever perf_counter.h changes. The perf_counter_context structures are reference-counted and freed when the last reference is dropped. A context can have references from its task and the counters on its task. Counters can outlive the task so it is possible that a context will be freed well after its task has exited. Contexts are allocated on fork if the parent had a context, or otherwise the first time that a per-task counter is created on a task. In the latter case, we set the context pointer in the task struct locklessly using an atomic compare-and-exchange operation in case we raced with some other task in creating a context for the subject task. This also removes the task pointer from the perf_counter struct. The task pointer was not used anywhere and would make it harder to move a context from one task to another. Anything that needed to know which task a counter was attached to was already using counter->ctx->task. The __perf_counter_init_context function moves up in perf_counter.c so that it can be called from find_get_context, and now initializes the refcount, but is otherwise unchanged. We were potentially calling list_del_counter twice: once from __perf_counter_exit_task when the task exits and once from __perf_counter_remove_from_context when the counter's fd gets closed. This adds a check in list_del_counter so it doesn't do anything if the counter has already been removed from the lists. Since perf_counter_task_sched_in doesn't do anything if the task doesn't have a context, and leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL, this adds code to __perf_install_in_context to set cpuctx->task_ctx if necessary, i.e. in the case where the current task adds the first counter to itself and thus creates a context for itself. This also adds similar code to __perf_counter_enable to handle a similar situation which can arise when the counters have been disabled using prctl; that also leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL. [ Impact: refactor counter context management to prepare for new feature ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18966.10075.781053.231153@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
Conflicts: fs/exec.c Removed IMA changes (the IMA checks are now performed via may_open()). Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22Merge branches 'sh/stable-updates' and 'sh/sparseirq'Paul Mundt