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2009-05-19powerpc/85xx: Add P2020DS board supportKumar Gala
The P2020 is a dual e500v2 core based SOC with: * 3 PCIe controllers * 2 General purpose DMA controllers * 2 sRIO controllers * 3 eTSECS * USB 2.0 * SDHC * SPI, I2C, DUART * enhanced localbus * and optional Security (P2020E) security w/XOR acceleration The p2020 DS reference board is pretty similar to the existing MPC85xx DS boards and has a ULI 1575 connected on one of the PCIe controllers. Signed-off-by: Ted Peters <Ted.Peters@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-19powerpc/85xx: Add PCI IDs for MPC8569 family processorsAnton Vorontsov
This patch adds PCI IDs for MPC8569 and MPC8569E processors, plus adds appropriate quirks for these IDs, and thus makes PCI-E actually work on MPC8569E-MDS boards. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-18net: release dst entry in dev_hard_start_xmit()Eric Dumazet
One point of contention in high network loads is the dst_release() performed when a transmited skb is freed. This is because NIC tx completion calls dev_kree_skb() long after original call to dev_queue_xmit(skb). CPU cache is cold and the atomic op in dst_release() stalls. On SMP, this is quite visible if one CPU is 100% handling softirqs for a network device, since dst_clone() is done by other cpus, involving cache line ping pongs. It seems right place to release dst is in dev_hard_start_xmit(), for most devices but ones that are virtual, and some exceptions. David Miller suggested to define a new device flag, set in alloc_netdev_mq() (so that most devices set it at init time), and carefuly unset in devices which dont want a NULL skb->dst in their ndo_start_xmit(). List of devices that must clear this flag is : - loopback device, because it calls netif_rx() and quoting Patrick : "ip_route_input() doesn't accept loopback addresses, so loopback packets already need to have a dst_entry attached." - appletalk/ipddp.c : needs skb->dst in its xmit function - And all devices that call again dev_queue_xmit() from their xmit function (as some classifiers need skb->dst) : bonding, vlan, macvlan, eql, ifb, hdlc_fr Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18syscall: Implement a convinience function restart_syscallEric W. Biederman
Currently when we have a signal pending we have the functionality to restart that the current system call. There are other cases such as nasty lock ordering issues where it makes sense to have a simple fix that uses try lock and restarts the system call. Buying time to figure out how to rework the locking strategy. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18net: TX_RING and packet mmapJohann Baudy
New packet socket feature that makes packet socket more efficient for transmission. - It reduces number of system call through a PACKET_TX_RING mechanism, based on PACKET_RX_RING (Circular buffer allocated in kernel space which is mmapped from user space). - It minimizes CPU copy using fragmented SKB (almost zero copy). Signed-off-by: Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@gnu-log.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
2009-05-18can: SJA1000 generic platform bus driverWolfgang Grandegger
This driver adds support for the SJA1000 chips connected to the "platform bus", which can be found on various embedded systems. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18can: CAN Network device driver and Netlink interfaceWolfgang Grandegger
The CAN network device driver interface provides a generic interface to setup, configure and monitor CAN network devices. It exports a set of common data structures and functions, which all real CAN network device drivers should use. Please have a look to the SJA1000 or MSCAN driver to understand how to use them. The name of the module is can-dev.ko. Furthermore, it adds a Netlink interface allowing to configure the CAN device using the program "ip" from the iproute2 utility suite. For further information please check "Documentation/networking/can.txt" Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-19SELinux: move SELINUX_MAGIC into magic.hEric Paris
The selinuxfs superblock magic is used inside the IMA code, but is being defined in two places and could someday get out of sync. This patch moves the declaration into magic.h so it is only done once. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-18net: add tx_packets/tx_bytes/tx_dropped counters in struct netdev_queueEric Dumazet
offsetof(struct net_device, features)=0x44 offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_packets)=0x54 offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_bytes)=0x5c offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_dropped)=0x6c Network drivers that touch dev->stats.tx_packets/stats.tx_bytes in their tx path can slow down SMP operations, since they dirty a cache line that should stay shared (dev->features is needed in rx and tx paths) We could move away stats field in net_device but it wont help that much. (Two cache lines dirtied in tx path, we can do one only) Better solution is to add tx_packets/tx_bytes/tx_dropped in struct netdev_queue because this structure is already touched in tx path and counters updates will then be free (no increase in size) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-05-18asm-generic: fix local_add_unless macroRoel Kluin
`local_add_unless(x, y, z)' will be expanded to `(&(x)->y, (y), (x))', but `&(x)->y' should be `&(x)->a' Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-18ASoC: Integrate bias management with DAPM power managementMark Brown
Rather than managing the bias level of the system based on if there is an active audio stream manage it based on there being an active DAPM widget. This simplifies the code a little, moving the power handling into one place, and improves audio performance for bypass paths when no playbacks or captures are active. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2009-05-18ASoC: Split DAPM power checks from sequencing of power changesMark Brown
DAPM has always applied any changes to the power state of widgets as soon as it has determined that they are required. Instead of doing this store all the changes that are required on lists of widgets to power up and down, then iterate over those lists and apply the changes. This changes the sequence in which changes are implemented, doing all power downs before power ups and always using the up/down sequences (previously they were only used when changes were due to DAC/ADC power events). The error handling is also changed so that we continue attempting to power widgets if some changes fail. The main benefit of this is to allow future changes to do optimisations over the whole power sequence and to reduce the number of walks of the widget graph required to check the power status of widgets. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2009-05-18VT-d: support the device IOTLBYu Zhao
Enable the device IOTLB (i.e. ATS) for both the bare metal and KVM environments. Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-05-18VT-d: add device IOTLB invalidation supportYu Zhao
Support device IOTLB invalidation to flush the translation cached in the Endpoint. Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-05-18VT-d: parse ATSR in DMA Remapping Reporting StructureYu Zhao
Parse the Root Port ATS Capability Reporting Structure in the DMA Remapping Reporting Structure ACPI table. Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-05-18virtio_blk: SG_IO passthru supportHannes Reinecke
Add support for SG_IO passthru to virtio_blk. We add the scsi command block after the normal outhdr, and the scsi inhdr with full status information aswell as the sense buffer before the regular inhdr. [hch: forward ported, added the VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI flags, some comments and tested the whole beast] [axboe: updated to use ->resid and not dual-path the byte count] Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (+ checkpatch.pl tweak) Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-18PCI: support the ATS capabilityYu Zhao
The PCIe ATS capability makes the Endpoint be able to request the DMA address translation from the IOMMU and cache the translation in the device side, thus alleviate IOMMU pressure and improve the hardware performance in the I/O virtualization environment. Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-05-18[ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected ↵Mel Gorman
holes V2 pfn_valid() is meant to be able to tell if a given PFN has valid memmap associated with it or not. In FLATMEM, it is expected that holes always have valid memmap as long as there is valid PFNs either side of the hole. In SPARSEMEM, it is assumed that a valid section has a memmap for the entire section. However, ARM and maybe other embedded architectures in the future free memmap backing holes to save memory on the assumption the memmap is never used. The page_zone linkages are then broken even though pfn_valid() returns true. A walker of the full memmap must then do this additional check to ensure the memmap they are looking at is sane by making sure the zone and PFN linkages are still valid. This is expensive, but walkers of the full memmap are extremely rare. This was caught before for FLATMEM and hacked around but it hits again for SPARSEMEM because the page_zone linkages can look ok where the PFN linkages are totally screwed. This looks like a hatchet job but the reality is that any clean solution would end up consumning all the memory saved by punching these unexpected holes in the memmap. For example, we tried marking the memmap within the section invalid but the section size exceeds the size of the hole in most cases so pfn_valid() starts returning false where valid memmap exists. Shrinking the size of the section would increase memory consumption offsetting the gains. This patch identifies when an architecture is punching unexpected holes in the memmap that the memory model cannot automatically detect and sets ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL. At the moment, this is restricted to EP93xx which is the model sub-architecture this has been reported on but may expand later. When set, walkers of the full memmap must call memmap_valid_within() for each PFN and passing in what it expects the page and zone to be for that PFN. If it finds the linkages to be broken, it assumes the memmap is invalid for that PFN. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-18Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: we were on an -rc4 base, sync up to -rc6 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18mm, x86: remove MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE related codeYinghai Lu
after: | commit b263295dbffd33b0fbff670720fa178c30e3392a | Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> | Date: Wed Jan 30 13:30:47 2008 +0100 | | x86: 64-bit, make sparsemem vmemmap the only memory model we don't have MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE anymore. Historically, x86-64 had an architecture-specific method for memory hotplug whereby it scanned the SRAT for physical memory ranges that could be potentially used for memory hot-add later. By reserving those ranges without physical memory, the memmap would be allocated and left dormant until needed. This depended on the DISCONTIG memory model which has been removed so the code implementing HOTPLUG_RESERVE is now dead. This patch removes the dead code used by MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE. (Changelog authored by Mel.) v2: updated changelog, and remove hotadd= in doc [ Impact: remove dead code ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Workflow-found-OK-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4A0C4910.7090508@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: this branch was on an -rc4 base, merge it up to -rc6 to get the latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-17fcoe: adds spma mode supportVasu Dev
If we can find a type NETDEV_HW_ADDR_T_SAN mac address from the corresponding netdev for a fcoe interface then sets up added the fc->ctlr.spma flag and stores spma mode address in ctl_src_addr. In case the spma flag is set then:- 1. Adds spma mode MAC address in ctl_src_addr as secondary MAC address, the FLOGI for FIP and pre-FIP will go out using this address. 2. Cleans up stored spma MAC address in ctl_src_addr in fcoe_netdev_cleanup. 3. Sets up spma bit in fip_flags for FIP solicitations along with exiting FPMA bit setting. 4. Initialize the FLOGI FIP MAC descriptor to stored spma MAC address in ctl_src_addr. This is used as proposed FCoE MAC address from initiator along with both SPMA and FPMA bit set in FIP solicitation, in response the switch may grant any FPMA or SPMA mode MAC address to initiator. Removes FIP descriptor type checking against ELS type ELS_FLOGI in fcoe_ctlr_encaps to update a FIP MAC descriptor, instead now checks against FIP_DT_FLOGI. I've tested this with available FPMA-only FCoE switch but since data_src_addr is updated using same old code for both FPMA and SPMA modes with FIP or pre-FIP links, so added SPMA mode will work with SPMA-only switch also provided that switch grants a valid MAC address. Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17mdio: Add XENPAK LASI register definitionsBen Hutchings
These registers were originally defined for XENPAK modules, but are also implemented by many other 10G PHYs. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17mdio: Add 10GBASE-T SNR register definitionBen Hutchings
These do not have an in-kernel user but may be useful to user-space. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17net: tx scalability works : trans_startEric Dumazet
struct net_device trans_start field is a hot spot on SMP and high performance devices, particularly multi queues ones, because every transmitter dirties it. Is main use is tx watchdog and bonding alive checks. But as most devices dont use NETIF_F_LLTX, we have to lock a netdev_queue before calling their ndo_start_xmit(). So it makes sense to move trans_start from net_device to netdev_queue. Its update will occur on a already present (and in exclusive state) cache line, for free. We can do this transition smoothly. An old driver continue to update dev->trans_start, while an updated one updates txq->trans_start. Further patches could also put tx_bytes/tx_packets counters in netdev_queue to avoid dirtying dev->stats (vlan device comes to mind) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17ipv4: remove an unused parameter from configure method of fib_rules_ops.Rami Rosen
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17reiserfs: fixup perms when xattrs are disabledJeff Mahoney
This adds CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR protection from reiserfs_permission. This is needed to avoid warnings during file deletions and chowns with xattrs disabled. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-17ide: remove hw_regs_t typedefBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Remove hw_regs_t typedef and rename struct hw_regs_s to struct ide_hw. There should be no functional changes caused by this patch. Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-17ide: pass number of ports to ide_host_{alloc,add}() (v2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Pass number of ports to ide_host_{alloc,add}() and then update all users accordingly. v2: - drop no longer needed NULL initializers in buddha.c, cmd640.c and gayle.c (noticed by Sergei) There should be no functional changes caused by this patch. Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-17ide: remove chipset field from hw_regs_tBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Convert host drivers that still use hw_regs_t's chipset field to use the one in struct ide_port_info instead. * Move special handling of ide_pci chipset type from ide_hw_configure() to ide_init_port(). * Remove chipset field from hw_regs_t. While at it: - remove stale comment in delkin_cb.c There should be no functional changes caused by this patch. Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-17ide: replace special_t typedef by IDE_SFLAG_* flagsBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Replace: - special_t typedef by IDE_SFLAG_* flags - 'special_t special' ide_drive_t's field by 'u8 special_flags' one There should be no functional changes caused by this patch. Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-15Input: introduce lm8323 keypad driverFelipe Balbi
lm8323 is the keypad driver used in n810 device. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [dtor@mail.ru: various cleanups] Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2009-05-15Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel * 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: drm/i915: Add new GET_PIPE_FROM_CRTC_ID ioctl. drm/i915: Set HDMI hot plug interrupt enable for only the output in question. drm/i915: Include 965GME pci ID in IS_I965GM(dev) to match UMS. drm/i915: Use the GM45 VGA hotplug workaround on G45 as well. drm/i915: ignore LVDS on intel graphics systems that lie about having it drm/i915: sanity check IER at wait_request time drm/i915: workaround IGD i2c bus issue in kernel side (v2) drm/i915: Don't allow binding objects into the last page of the aperture. drm/i915: save/restore fence registers across suspend/resume drm/i915: x86 always has writeq. Add I915_READ64 for symmetry.
2009-05-15libata: Media rotation rate and form factor heuristicsMartin K. Petersen
This patch provides new heuristics for parsing both the form factor and media rotation rate ATA IDENFITY words. The reported ATA version must be 7 or greater and the device must return values defined as valid in the standard. Only then are the characteristics reported to SCSI via the VPD B1 page. This seems like a reasonable compromise to me considering that we have been shipping several kernel releases that key off the rotation rate bit without any version checking whatsoever. With no complaints so far. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15[SCSI] fc-transport: Close state transition-window during rport deletion.Andrew Vasquez
Andrew Vasquez wrote: > fc-transport: Close state transition-window during rport deletion. > > After an rport's state has transitioned to FC_PORTSTATE_BLOCKED, > but, prior to making the upcall to 'block' the scsi-target > associated with an rport, queued commands can recycle and > ultimately run out of retries causing failures to propagate to > upper-level drivers. Close this transition-window by returning > the non-'retries' modifying DID_IMM_RETRY status for submitted > I/Os. The same can happen for iscsi when transitioning from logged in to failed and blocking the sdevs. This patch converts iscsi and fc's transitions back to use DID_IMM_RETRY instead of DID_TRANSPORT_DISRUPTED which has a limited number of retries that we do not want to use for handling this race. Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> [Addition of iscsi and fc port online devloss case conversion by Mike Christie] Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-05-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads" viocd: needs to depend on BLOCK block: fix the bio_vec array index out-of-bounds test
2009-05-15perf_counter: allow arch to supply event misc flags and instruction pointerPaul Mackerras
At present the values we put in overflow events for the misc flags indicating processor mode and the instruction pointer are obtained using the standard user_mode() and instruction_pointer() functions. Those functions tell you where the performance monitor interrupt was taken, which might not be exactly where the counter overflow occurred, for example because interrupts were disabled at the point where the overflow occurred, or because the processor had many instructions in flight and chose to complete some more instructions beyond the one that caused the counter overflow. Some architectures (e.g. powerpc) can supply more precise information about where the counter overflow occurred and the processor mode at that point. This introduces new functions, perf_misc_flags() and perf_instruction_pointer(), which arch code can override to provide more precise information if available. They have default implementations which are identical to the existing code. This also adds a new misc flag value, PERF_EVENT_MISC_HYPERVISOR, for the case where a counter overflow occurred in the hypervisor. We encode the processor mode in the 2 bits previously used to indicate user or kernel mode; the values for user and kernel mode are unchanged and hypervisor mode is indicated by both bits being set. [ Impact: generalize perfcounter core facilities ] 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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18956.1272.818511.561835@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15sched, timers: cleanup avenrun usersThomas Gleixner
avenrun is an rough estimate so we don't have to worry about consistency of the three avenrun values. Remove the xtime lock dependency and provide a function to scale the values. Cleanup the users. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-05-15sched, timers: move calc_load() to schedulerThomas Gleixner
Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems. The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values. Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls do_timer(). [ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-05-15perf_counter: frequency based adaptive irq_periodPeter Zijlstra
Instead of specifying the irq_period for a counter, provide a target interrupt frequency and dynamically adapt the irq_period to match this frequency. [ Impact: new perf-counter attribute/feature ] 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> LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.646195868@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15perf_counter: per user mlock giftPeter Zijlstra
Instead of a per-process mlock gift for perf-counters, use a per-user gift so that there is less of a DoS potential. [ Impact: allow less worst-case unprivileged memory consumption ] 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> LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.496182835@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"Jens Axboe
This reverts commit fafd688e4c0c34da0f3de909881117d374e4c7af. Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API forever. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-15Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of ↵Takashi Iwai
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound-2.6 into topic/asoc
2009-05-15perf_counter: Rework the perf counter disable/enablePeter Zijlstra
The current disable/enable mechanism is: token = hw_perf_save_disable(); ... /* do bits */ ... hw_perf_restore(token); This works well, provided that the use nests properly. Except we don't. x86 NMI/INT throttling has non-nested use of this, breaking things. Therefore provide a reference counter disable/enable interface, where the first disable disables the hardware, and the last enable enables the hardware again. [ Impact: refactor, simplify the PMU disable/enable logic ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15ide: unify interrupt reason checkingBorislav Petkov
Add ide_check_ireason() function that handles all ATAPI devices. Reorganize all unlikely cases in ireason checking further down in the code path. In addition, add PFX for printks originating from ide-atapi. Finally, remove ide_cd_check_ireason. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
2009-05-15ide-atapi: remove pc->bufBorislav Petkov
Now after all users of pc->buf have been converted, remove the 64B buffer embedded in each packet command. There should be no functional change resulting from this patch. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
2009-05-15ide-atapi: add a buffer-arg to ide_queue_pc_tailBorislav Petkov
This is in preparation of removing ide_atapi_pc. Expose the buffer as an argument to ide_queue_pc_tail with later replacing it with local buffer or even kmalloc'ed one if needed due to stack usage constraints. Also, add the possibility of passing a NULL-ptr buffer for cmds which don't transfer data besides the cdb. While at it, switch to local buffer in idetape_get_mode_sense_results(). There should be no functional change resulting from this patch. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
2009-05-15ide-atapi: add a len-parameter to ide_queue_pc_tailBorislav Petkov
This is in preparation for removing ide_atapi_pc. There should be no functional change resulting from this patch. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>