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There was confusion between the array size and the highest ISEL
value possible.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
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This patch implements a new method by which hw_random hardware drivers
can pass data to the core more efficiently, using a shared buffer.
The old methods have been retained as a compatability layer until all the
drivers have been updated.
Signed-off-by: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Update WLED output current source before changing brightness.
Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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fb_var_screeninfo.var has already encoded this information.
Signed-off-by: Jun Nie <njun@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
* 'security' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6:
mac80211: fix spurious delBA handling
mac80211: fix two remote exploits
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] fix crash when disconnecting usb storage
[SCSI] fix async scan add/remove race resulting in an oops
[SCSI] sd: Return correct error code for DIF
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (42 commits)
b44: Fix wedge when using netconsole.
wan: cosa: drop chan->wsem on error path
ep93xx-eth: check for zero MAC address on probe, not on device open
NET: smc91x: Fix irq flags
smsc9420: prevent BUG() if ethtool is called with interface down
r8169: restore mac addr in rtl8169_remove_one and rtl_shutdown
ipv4: additional update of dev_net(dev) to struct *net in ip_fragment.c, NULL ptr OOPS
e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure
sctp: on T3_RTX retransmit all the in-flight chunks
pktgen: Fix netdevice unregister
macvlan: fix gso_max_size setting
rfkill: fix miscdev ops
ath9k: set ps_default as false
hso: fix soft-lockup
hso: fix debug routines
pktgen: Fix device name compares
stmmac: do not fail when the timer cannot be used.
stmmac: fixed a compilation error when use the external timer
netfilter: xt_limit: fix invalid return code in limit_mt_check()
Au1x00: fix crash when trying register_netdev()
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (31 commits)
FS-Cache: Provide nop fscache_stat_d() if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n
SLOW_WORK: Fix GFS2 to #include <linux/module.h> before using THIS_MODULE
SLOW_WORK: Fix CIFS to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user()
CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS
CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems
CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy
CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading
CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
FS-Cache: Actually requeue an object when requested
FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
FS-Cache: Make sure FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP cleared on lookup failure
FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter
FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
FS-Cache: Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree
FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
FS-Cache: The object-available state can't rely on the cookie to be available
FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
FS-Cache: Use radix tree preload correctly in tracking of pages to be stored
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Lennert Buytenhek noticed that delBA handling in mac80211
was broken and has remotely triggerable problems, some of
which are due to some code shuffling I did that ended up
changing the order in which things were done -- this was
commit d75636ef9c1af224f1097941879d5a8db7cd04e5
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Tue Feb 10 21:25:53 2009 +0100
mac80211: RX aggregation: clean up stop session
and other parts were already present in the original
commit d92684e66091c0f0101819619b315b4bb8b5bcc5
Author: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Date: Mon Jan 28 14:07:22 2008 +0200
mac80211: A-MPDU Tx add delBA from recipient support
The first problem is that I moved a BUG_ON before various
checks -- thereby making it possible to hit. As the comment
indicates, the BUG_ON can be removed since the ampdu_action
callback must already exist when the state is != IDLE.
The second problem isn't easily exploitable but there's a
race condition due to unconditionally setting the state to
OPERATIONAL when a delBA frame is received, even when no
aggregation session was ever initiated. All the drivers
accept stopping the session even then, but that opens a
race window where crashes could happen before the driver
accepts it. Right now, a WARN_ON may happen with non-HT
drivers, while the race opens only for HT drivers.
For this case, there are two things necessary to fix it:
1) don't process spurious delBA frames, and be more careful
about the session state; don't drop the lock
2) HT drivers need to be prepared to handle a session stop
even before the session was really started -- this is
true for all drivers (that support aggregation) but
iwlwifi which can be fixed easily. The other HT drivers
(ath9k and ar9170) are behaving properly already.
Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This file breaks out the SuperH PFC code from
arch/sh/kernel/gpio.c + arch/sh/include/asm/gpio.h
to drivers/sh/pfc.c + include/linux/sh_pfc.h.
Similar to the INTC stuff. The non-SuperH specific
file location makes it possible to share the code
between multiple architectures.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This patch moves the KEYSC header file from the
SuperH specific asm directory to a place where
it can be shared by multiple architectures.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This patch adds platform data with a function for power
control to the SDHI driver. The idea is that board specific
code can provide their own functions so power can be enabled
and disabled for the sd-cards.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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fork() clones all thread_info flags, including
TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY; if the new task is first scheduled on a cpu
which doesn't have user return notifiers set, this causes user
return notifiers to trigger without any way of clearing itself.
This is easy to trigger with a forky workload on the host in
parallel with kvm, resulting in a cpu in an endless loop on the
verge of returning to userspace.
Fix by dropping the TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY immediately after fork.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259505288-16559-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c
drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
drivers/net/e1000e/phy.c
drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
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This patch allows a base driver to specify Direct Attach as the
type of port through the ethtool interface.
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Moves the CONFIG_SYSCTL ifdefs in x25_init into header.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vxy/lksctp-dev
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When retransmitting due to T3 timeout, retransmit all the
in-flight chunks for the corresponding transport/path, including
chunks sent less then 1 rto ago.
This is the correct behaviour according to rfc4960 section 6.3.3
E3 and
"Note: Any DATA chunks that were sent to the address for which the
T3-rtx timer expired but did not fit in one MTU (rule E3 above)
should be marked for retransmission and sent as soon as cwnd
allows (normally, when a SACK arrives). ".
This fixes problems when more then one path is present and the T3
retransmission of the first chunk that timeouts stops the T3 timer
for the initial active path, leaving all the other in-flight
chunks waiting forever or until a new chunk is transmitted on the
same path and timeouts (and this will happen only if the cwnd
allows sending new chunks, but since cwnd was dropped to MTU by
the timeout => it will wait until the first heartbeat).
Example: 10 packets in flight, sent at 0.1 s intervals on the
primary path. The primary path is down and the first packet
timeouts. The first packet is retransmitted on another path, the
T3 timer for the primary path is stopped and cwnd is set to MTU.
All the other 9 in-flight packets will not be retransmitted
(unless more new packets are sent on the primary path which depend
on cwnd allowing it, and even in this case the 9 packets will be
retransmitted only after a new packet timeouts which even in the
best case would be more then RTO).
This commit reverts d0ce92910bc04e107b2f3f2048f07e94f570035d and
also removes the now unused transport->last_rto, introduced in
b6157d8e03e1e780660a328f7183bcbfa4a93a19.
p.s The problem is not only when multiple paths are there. It
can happen in a single homed environment. If the application
stops sending data, it possible to have a hung association.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul <andrei@iptel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This is an interface to set, delete and flush PMKIDs through nl80211.
Main users would be fullmac devices which firmwares are capable of
generating the RSN IEs for the re-association requests, e.g. iwmc3200wifi.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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The RX flags should soon be used only for flags
that cannot change within an a-MPDU, so move the
cooked monitor flag into the RX status flags.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Most of the irq_req_t typedef'd struct can be re-worked quite
easily:
(1) IRQInfo2 was unused in any case, so drop it.
(2) IRQInfo1 was used write-only, so drop it.
(3) Instance (private data to be passed to the IRQ handler):
Most PCMCIA drivers using pcmcia_request_irq() to actually
register an IRQ handler set the "dev_id" to the same pointer
as the "priv" pointer in struct pcmcia_device. Modify the two
exceptions (ipwireless, ibmtr_cs) to also work this waym and
set the IRQ handler's "dev_id" to p_dev->priv unconditionally.
(4) Handler is to be of type irq_handler_t.
(5) Handler != NULL already tells whether an IRQ handler is present.
Therefore, we do not need the IRQ_HANDLER_PRESENT flag in
irq_req_t.Attributes.
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
CC: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
CC: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
CC: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
for the Bluetooth parts: Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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Update remaining users and remove deprecated handle_to_dev() macro
CC: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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pcmcia_request_window() only needs a pointer to struct pcmcia_device, not
a pointer to a pointer.
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> (for ISDN)
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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Logic changes based on top of the other patches:
This set of patches changed window_handle_t from being a pointer to an
unsigned long. The unsigned long is now a simple index into socket->win[].
Going from a pointer to unsigned long should leave the user space interface
unchanged unless I'm mistaken.
This change results in code that is less error prone and a user space
interface which is much cleaner and safer. A nice side effect is that we
are also are able to remove all members except one from window_t.
[ linux@dominikbrodowski.net:
Update to 2.6.31. Also, a plain "index" to socket->win[] does not
work, as several codepaths rely on "window_handle_t" being
non-zero if used. Therefore, set the window_handle_t to the
socket->win[] index + 1. ]
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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No logic changes, just pass struct pcmcia_socket to pcmcia_get_mem_page()
[linux@dominikbrodowski.net: update to 2.6.31]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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No logic changes, just pass struct pcmcia_device to pcmcia_map_mem_page()
[linux@dominikbrodowski.net: update to 2.6.31]
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> (for ISDN)
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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No logic changes, just pass struct pcmcia_device to pcmcia_release_window().
[linux@dominikbrodowski.net: update to 2.6.31]
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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The old access methods to the gpios will be removed when
all users has been converted. (mainly ucb1x00-ts)
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So drivers like collie_battery driver can use
those files easier.
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Kernel breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass
breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length
and type.
Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across
architectures that may support this api later as these may have
more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure
instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into
a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure.
Reported-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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In-kernel user breakpoints are created using functions in which
we pass breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address,
length and type.
Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across
archictectures that may support this api later as these may have
more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure
instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into
a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure.
Reported-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Currently the UP/DOWN state of VLANs is synchronized to the state of the
underlying device, meaning all VLANs are set down once the underlying
device is set down. This causes all routes to the VLAN devices to vanish.
Add a flag to specify a "loose binding" mode, in which only the operstate
is transfered, but the VLAN device state is independant.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In order to support all three modes of macvlan at
runtime, extend the existing netlink protocol
to allow choosing the mode per macvlan slave
interface.
This depends on a matching patch to iproute2
in order to become accessible in user land.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The veth driver contains code to forward an skb
from the start_xmit function of one network
device into the receive path of another device.
Moving that code into a common location lets us
reuse the code for direct forwarding of data
between macvlan ports, and possibly in other
drivers.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Async scanning introduced a very wide window where the SCSI device is
up and running but has not yet been added to sysfs. We delay the
adding until all scans have completed to retain the same ordering as
sync scanning.
This delay in visibility causes an oops if a device is removed before
we make it visible because the SCSI removal routines have an inbuilt
assumption that if a device is in SDEV_RUNNING state, it must be
visible (which is not necessarily true in the async scanning case).
Fix this by introducing an additional is_visible flag which we can use
to condition the tear down so we do the right thing for running but
not yet made visible.
Reported-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
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Use of msecs_to_jiffies() for nsecs_to_cputime() have some
problems:
- The type of msecs_to_jiffies()'s argument is unsigned int, so
it cannot convert msecs greater than UINT_MAX = about 49.7 days.
- msecs_to_jiffies() returns MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET if MSB of argument
is set, assuming that input was negative value. So it cannot
convert msecs greater than INT_MAX = about 24.8 days too.
This patch defines a new function nsecs_to_jiffies() that can
deal greater values, and that can deal all incoming values as
unsigned.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Amrico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E16E7.5070307@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Now all task_{u,s}time() pairs are replaced by task_times().
And task_gtime() is too simple to be an inline function.
Cleanup them all.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E16D1.70902@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Functions task_{u,s}time() are called in pair in almost all
cases. However task_stime() is implemented to call task_utime()
from its inside, so such paired calls run task_utime() twice.
It means we do heavy divisions (div_u64 + do_div) twice to get
utime and stime which can be obtained at same time by one set
of divisions.
This patch introduces a function task_times(*tsk, *utime,
*stime) to retrieve utime and stime at once in better, optimized
way.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E16AE.906@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Add signal_overflow_fail and signal_lose_info tracepoints
for signal-lost events.
Changes in v3:
- Add docbook style comments
Changes in v2:
- Use siginfo string macro
Suggested-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091124215658.30449.9934.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Add a tracepoint where a process gets a signal. This tracepoint
shows signal-number, sa-handler and sa-flag.
Changes in v3:
- Add docbook style comments
Changes in v2:
- Add siginfo argument
- Fix comment
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091124215651.30449.20926.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Move signal sending event to events/signal.h. This patch also
renames sched_signal_send event to signal_generate.
Changes in v4:
- Fix a typo of task_struct pointer.
Changes in v3:
- Add docbook style comments
Changes in v2:
- Add siginfo argument
- Add siginfo storing macro
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091124215645.30449.60208.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: Pick up fixes that did not make it into .32.0
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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There seems to be a regression in direct write path due to following
commit in for-2.6.33 branch of block tree.
commit 1af60fbd759d31f565552fea315c2033947cfbe6
Author: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Date: Fri Oct 2 18:56:53 2009 -0400
block: get rid of the WRITE_ODIRECT flag
Marking direct writes as WRITE_SYNC_PLUG instead of WRITE_ODIRECT, sets
the NOIDLE flag in bio and hence in request. This tells CFQ to not expect
more request from the queue and not idle on it (despite the fact that
queue's think time is less and it is not seeky).
So direct writers lose big time when competing with sequential readers.
Using fio, I have run one direct writer and two sequential readers and
following are the results with 2.6.32-rc7 kernel and with for-2.6.33
branch.
Test
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1 direct writer and 2 sequential reader running simultaneously.
[global]
directory=/mnt/sdc/fio/
runtime=10
[seqwrite]
rw=write
size=4G
direct=1
[seqread]
rw=read
size=2G
numjobs=2
2.6.32-rc7
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direct writes: aggrb=2,968KB/s
readers : aggrb=101MB/s
for-2.6.33 branch
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direct write: aggrb=19KB/s
readers aggrb=137MB/s
This patch brings back the WRITE_ODIRECT flag, with the difference that we
don't set the BIO_RW_UNPLUG flag so that device is not unplugged after
submission of request and an explicit unplug from submitter is required.
That way we fix the jeff's issue of not enough merging taking place in aio
path as well as make sure direct writes get their fair share.
After the fix
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for-2.6.33 + fix
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direct writes: aggrb=2,728KB/s
reads: aggrb=103MB/s
Thanks
Vivek
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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pages
Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request. So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases. The patch fixes this.
The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op. Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.
See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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The original format for sched_stat_iowait and sched_stat_sleep:
$ cat events/sched/sched_stat_iowait/format
...
print fmt: "comm=%s pid=%d delay=%Lu [ns]", ...
$ cat events/sched/sched_stat_sleep/format
...
print fmt: "comm=%s pid=%d delay=%Lu [ns]", ...
But commit commit 75ec29ab848a7e92a41aaafaeb33d1afbc839be4
("tracing: Convert some sched trace events to DEFINE_EVENT and
_PRINT") broke the format:
$ cat events/sched/sched_stat_iowait/format
print fmt: "task: %s:%d iowait: %Lu [ns]", ...
$ cat events/sched/sched_stat_sleep/format
print fmt: "task: %s:%d sleep: %Lu [ns]", ...
No change in functionality.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E2951.9050800@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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