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Eric Dumazet 179f7ebff6 percpu_counter: FBC_BATCH should be a variable
For NR_CPUS >= 16 values, FBC_BATCH is 2*NR_CPUS

Considering more and more distros are using high NR_CPUS values, it makes
sense to use a more sensible value for FBC_BATCH, and get rid of NR_CPUS.

A sensible value is 2*num_online_cpus(), with a minimum value of 32 (This
minimum value helps branch prediction in __percpu_counter_add())

We already have a hotcpu notifier, so we can adjust FBC_BATCH dynamically.

We rename FBC_BATCH to percpu_counter_batch since its not a constant
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:13 -08:00
Pavel Machek e899aa823a strict_strto* is not strict enough
It decodes "\n" as 0, which is bad, because stray echo into backlight
will turn your backlight off, etc...

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:12 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 3007967742 lib: proportions.c trivial sparse lock annotation
Suppresses sparse warning:
lib/proportions.c:159:16: warning: context imbalance in 'prop_get_global': wrong count at exit
lib/proportions.c:159:16:    context 'RCU': wanted 0, got 1
lib/proportions.c:164:2: warning: context imbalance in 'prop_put_global': unexpected unlock
lib/proportions.c:164:2:    context 'RCU': wanted 0, got -1

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:11 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 8cef7d57a4 lib: radix_tree.c make percpu variable static
radix_tree_preloads is unused outside of this file, make it static.

Noticed by sparse:
lib/radix-tree.c:84:1: warning: symbol 'per_cpu__radix_tree_preloads' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:11 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 40bc1f2dbc lib: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
pos is always set before being used, no need to declare a
second one inside the if() block.

lib/prio_heap.c:34:7: warning: symbol 'pos' shadows an earlier one
lib/prio_heap.c:30:6: originally declared here

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:11 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan f1883f86de Remove remaining unwinder code
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:11 -08:00
Viktor Rosendahl b61312d353 oops handling: ensure that any oops is flushed to the mtdoops console
This used to work unpatched with older kernels, during the development
phase of mtdoops.  Before commit e3e8a75d2a
a space was printed with console_loglevel set to 15, which probably
flushed the oops message as a side effect.

This is another patch from the Nokia N810 kernel.

Signed-off-by: Viktor Rosendahl <viktor.rosendahl@nokia.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:11 -08:00
Jesper Juhl 52942b6b16 swiotlb: Don't include linux/swiotlb.h twice in lib/swiotlb.c
There's no point in including the linux/swiotlb.h header twice in
lib/swiotlb.c - this patch gets rid of the unneeded include.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-04 12:25:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 4010b0192d Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgent 2009-01-04 10:59:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 7d3b56ba37 Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits)
  x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup
  cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined
  cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate
  cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t
  x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c
  x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids
  sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
  x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus
  ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
  cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
  xtensa: define __fls
  mn10300: define __fls
  m32r: define __fls
  h8300: define __fls
  frv: define __fls
  cris: define __fls
  cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
  cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
  cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/
  cpumask: convert mm/
  ...
2009-01-03 12:04:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d97106ab53 Make %p print '(null)' for NULL pointers
Before, when we only ever printed out the pointer value itself, a NULL
pointer would never cause issues and might as well be printed out as
just its numeric value.

However, with the extended %p formats, especially %pR, we might validly
want to print out resources for debugging.  And sometimes they don't
even exist, and the resource pointer is just NULL.  Print it out as
such, rather than oopsing.

This is a more generic version of a patch done by Trent Piepho (catching
all %p cases rather than just %pR, and using "(null)" instead of
"[NULL]" to match glibc).

Requested-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Acked-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-03 11:46:17 -08:00
Roland Dreier 79ff56ebd3 swiotlb: add missing __init annotations
Impact: cleanup, reduce kernel size a bit

The current kernel build warns:

    WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x11458): Section mismatch in reference from the function swiotlb_alloc_boot() to the function .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low()
    The function swiotlb_alloc_boot() references
    the function __init __alloc_bootmem_low().
    This is often because swiotlb_alloc_boot lacks a __init
    annotation or the annotation of __alloc_bootmem_low is wrong.

    WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1011f2): Section mismatch in reference from the function swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size() to the function .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low()
    The function swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size() references
    the function __init __alloc_bootmem_low().
    This is often because swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size lacks a __init
    annotation or the annotation of __alloc_bootmem_low is wrong.

and indeed the functions calling __alloc_bootmem_low() can be marked
__init as well.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-02 21:52:39 +01:00
Linus Torvalds b840d79631 Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
  x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
  x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
  sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
  x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
  x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
  sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
  sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
  sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
  sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
  sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
  sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
  sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
  sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
  sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
  x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
  x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
  x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
  x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
  x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
  x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
2009-01-02 11:44:09 -08:00
Rusty Russell 8c384cdee3 cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
Impact: new debug CONFIG options

This helps find unconverted code.  It currently breaks compile horribly,
but we never wanted a flag day so that's expected.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-01 10:12:30 +10:30
Rusty Russell 2a53008033 cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
Impact: extra safety checks during transition

When CONFIG_CPUMASKS_OFFSTACK is set, the new cpumask_ operators only
use bits up to nr_cpu_ids, not NR_CPUS.  Using the old cpus_ operators
on these masks can mean accessing undefined bits.

After some discussion, Mike and I decided to err on the side of caution;
we zero the "undefined" bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node() until all the
old cpumask functions are removed.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-01 10:12:30 +10:30
Rusty Russell ab53d472e7 bitmap: find_last_bit()
Impact: New API

As the name suggests.  For the moment everyone uses the generic one.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-01 10:12:19 +10:30
Li Zefan e9690a6e4b cpumask: fix bogus kernel-doc
Impact: fix kernel-doc

alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() returns avoid.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-01 10:12:13 +10:30
Rusty Russell 2ca1a61583 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
2008-12-31 23:05:57 +10:30
Linus Torvalds db5e53fbf0 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: avoid leaking caches or refcounts on sysfs error
  slab: Fix comment on #endif
  slab: remove GFP_THISNODE clearing from alloc_slabmgmt()
  slub: Add might_sleep_if() to slab_alloc()
  SLUB: failslab support
  slub: Fix incorrect use of loose
  slab: Update the kmem_cache_create documentation regarding the name parameter
  slub: make early_kmem_cache_node_alloc void
  slab: unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0
  slub - fix get_object_page comment
  SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.
  SLUB: cleanup - define macros instead of hardcoded numbers
2008-12-30 17:28:09 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 5f34fe1cfc Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits)
  stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias
  rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too
  printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug
  futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling
  "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
  futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics
  x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping
  x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion
  x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit
  x86: add swiotlb allocation functions
  swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing
  swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages
  swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device
  swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping
  swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions
  swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit
  rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot
  resources: skip sanity check of busy resources
  swiotlb: move some definitions to header
  swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
  arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
  include/linux/hardirq.h
as per Ingo's suggestions.
2008-12-30 16:10:19 -08:00
Rusty Russell 33edcf133b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-12-30 08:02:35 +10:30
Akinobu Mita 773ff60e84 SLUB: failslab support
Currently fault-injection capability for SLAB allocator is only
available to SLAB. This patch makes it available to SLUB, too.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: unify slab and slub implementations]
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 11:27:46 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 0191b625ca Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits)
  net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular.
  igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
  net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes.
  gro: Fix potential use after free
  sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits
  sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it
  sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics
  sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests
  sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests
  sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test
  sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes
  sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues
  802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header
  802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer
  802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer
  802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system
  802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool
  802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool
  802.3ad: make ntt bool
  ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools.
  ...

Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due
to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of
doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
2008-12-28 12:49:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds be9c5ae4ee Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (246 commits)
  x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
  x86: PAT: fix address types in track_pfn_vma_new()
  x86: prioritize the FPU traps for the error code
  x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes
  x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-generic
  x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_phys
  x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return value
  x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interface
  x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary declaration
  x86: common.c boot_cpu_stack and boot_exception_stacks should be static
  x86: fix intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies
  x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
  x86: ia32.h: remove unused struct sigfram32 and rt_sigframe32
  x86: asm-offset_64: use rt_sigframe_ia32
  x86: sigframe.h: include headers for dependency
  x86: traps.c declare functions before they get used
  x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3
  x86: PAT: add pgprot_writecombine() interface for drivers - v3
  x86: PAT: change pgprot_noncached to uc_minus instead of strong uc - v3
  x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3
  ...
2008-12-28 12:07:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds bb26c6c29b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (105 commits)
  SELinux: don't check permissions for kernel mounts
  security: pass mount flags to security_sb_kern_mount()
  SELinux: correctly detect proc filesystems of the form "proc/foo"
  Audit: Log TIOCSTI
  user namespaces: document CFS behavior
  user namespaces: require cap_set{ug}id for CLONE_NEWUSER
  user namespaces: let user_ns be cloned with fairsched
  CRED: fix sparse warnings
  User namespaces: use the current_user_ns() macro
  User namespaces: set of cleanups (v2)
  nfsctl: add headers for credentials
  coda: fix creds reference
  capabilities: define get_vfs_caps_from_disk when file caps are not enabled
  CRED: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions
  CRED: Add a kernel_service object class to SELinux
  CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task
  CRED: Documentation
  CRED: Use creds in file structs
  CRED: Prettify commoncap.c
  CRED: Make execve() take advantage of copy-on-write credentials
  ...
2008-12-28 11:43:54 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 6638101c11 Merge branches 'core/debugobjects', 'core/iommu', 'core/locking', 'core/printk', 'core/rcu', 'core/resources', 'core/softirq' and 'core/stacktrace' into core/core 2008-12-25 14:06:29 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 0b271ef452 Merge commit 'v2.6.28' into core/core 2008-12-25 13:51:46 +01:00
James Morris cbacc2c7f0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-12-25 11:40:09 +11:00
Herbert Xu 93027354d6 libcrc32c: Select CRYPTO in Kconfig
Selecting CRYPTO_CRC32C is not enough as CRYPTO which CRYPTO_CRC32C
depends on may be disabled.  This patch adds the select on CRYPTO.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-12-25 11:01:48 +11:00
Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger 53b146ae59 libcrc32c: Fix "crc32c undefined" compilation error
The latest shash changes leave crc32c undefined:

[...]
Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1381 modules
  ERROR: "crc32c" [net/sctp/sctp.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "crc32c" [net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_proto_sctp.ko] undefined!

Adding EXPORT_SYMBOL(crc32c) to lib/libcrc32c.c fixes the compile error.
This patch has been compile-tested only.

Signed-off-by: Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger <rueegsegger@swiss-it.ch>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-12-25 11:01:42 +11:00
Herbert Xu 69c35efcf1 libcrc32c: Move implementation to crypto crc32c
This patch swaps the role of libcrc32c and crc32c.  Previously
the implementation was in libcrc32c and crc32c was a wrapper.
Now the code is in crc32c and libcrc32c just calls the crypto
layer.

The reason for the change is to tap into the algorithm selection
capability of the crypto API so that optimised implementations
such as the one utilising Intel's CRC32C instruction can be
used where available.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-12-25 11:01:40 +11:00
Ingo Molnar fa623d1b02 Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:27:23 +01:00
Mike Travis ec26b80587 cpumask: documentation for cpumask_var_t
Impact: New kerneldoc comments

Additional documentation added to all the alloc_cpumask and free_cpumask
functions.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor additions)
2008-12-19 16:56:52 +10:30
Mike Travis 7b4967c532 cpumask: Add alloc_cpumask_var_node()
Impact: New API

This will be needed in x86 code to allocate the domain and old_domain
cpumasks on the same node as where the containing irq_cfg struct is
allocated.

(Also fixes double-dump_stack on rare CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS case)

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (re-impl alloc_cpumask_var)
2008-12-19 16:56:37 +10:30
Paul E. McKenney 64db4cfff9 "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
This patch fixes a long-standing performance bug in classic RCU that
results in massive internal-to-RCU lock contention on systems with
more than a few hundred CPUs.  Although this patch creates a separate
flavor of RCU for ease of review and patch maintenance, it is intended
to replace classic RCU.

This patch still handles stress better than does mainline, so I am still
calling it ready for inclusion.  This patch is against the -tip tree.
Nevertheless, experience on an actual 1000+ CPU machine would still be
most welcome.

Most of the changes noted below were found while creating an rcutiny
(which should permit ejecting the current rcuclassic) and while doing
detailed line-by-line documentation.

Updates from v9 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/2/334):

o	Fixes from remainder of line-by-line code walkthrough,
	including comment spelling, initialization, undesirable
	narrowing due to type conversion, removing redundant memory
	barriers, removing redundant local-variable initialization,
	and removing redundant local variables.

	I do not believe that any of these fixes address the CPU-hotplug
	issues that Andi Kleen was seeing, but please do give it a whirl
	in case the machine is smarter than I am.

	A writeup from the walkthrough may be found at the following
	URL, in case you are suffering from terminal insomnia or
	masochism:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/tmp/rcutree-walkthrough.2008.12.16a.pdf

o	Made rcutree tracing use seq_file, as suggested some time
	ago by Lai Jiangshan.

o	Added a .csv variant of the rcudata debugfs trace file, to allow
	people having thousands of CPUs to drop the data into
	a spreadsheet.	Tested with oocalc and gnumeric.  Updated
	documentation to suit.

Updates from v8 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/139):

o	Fix a theoretical race between grace-period initialization and
	force_quiescent_state() that could occur if more than three
	jiffies were required to carry out the grace-period
	initialization.  Which it might, if you had enough CPUs.

o	Apply Ingo's printk-standardization patch.

o	Substitute local variables for repeated accesses to global
	variables.

o	Fix comment misspellings and redundant (but harmless) increments
	of ->n_rcu_pending (this latter after having explicitly added it).

o	Apply checkpatch fixes.

Updates from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/291):

o	Fixed a number of problems noted by Gautham Shenoy, including
	the cpu-stall-detection bug that he was having difficulty
	convincing me was real.  ;-)

o	Changed cpu-stall detection to wait for ten seconds rather than
	three in order to reduce false positive, as suggested by Ingo
	Molnar.

o	Produced a design document (http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/).
	The act of writing this document uncovered a number of both
	theoretical and "here and now" bugs as noted below.

o	Fix dynticks_nesting accounting confusion, simplify WARN_ON()
	condition, fix kerneldoc comments, and add memory barriers
	in dynticks interface functions.

o	Add more data to tracing.

o	Remove unused "rcu_barrier" field from rcu_data structure.

o	Count calls to rcu_pending() from scheduling-clock interrupt
	to use as a surrogate timebase should jiffies stop counting.

o	Fix a theoretical race between force_quiescent_state() and
	grace-period initialization.  Yes, initialization does have to
	go on for some jiffies for this race to occur, but given enough
	CPUs...

Updates from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/448):

o	Fix a number of checkpatch.pl complaints.

o	Apply review comments from Ingo Molnar and Lai Jiangshan
	on the stall-detection code.

o	Fix several bugs in !CONFIG_SMP builds.

o	Fix a misspelled config-parameter name so that RCU now announces
	at boot time if stall detection is configured.

o	Run tests on numerous combinations of configurations parameters,
	which after the fixes above, now build and run correctly.

Updates from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/15/92, bad subject line):

o	Fix a compiler error in the !CONFIG_FANOUT_EXACT case (blew a
	changeset some time ago, and finally got around to retesting
	this option).

o	Fix some tracing bugs in rcupreempt that caused incorrect
	totals to be printed.

o	I now test with a more brutal random-selection online/offline
	script (attached).  Probably more brutal than it needs to be
	on the people reading it as well, but so it goes.

o	A number of optimizations and usability improvements:

	o	Make rcu_pending() ignore the grace-period timeout when
		there is no grace period in progress.

	o	Make force_quiescent_state() avoid going for a global
		lock in the case where there is no grace period in
		progress.

	o	Rearrange struct fields to improve struct layout.

	o	Make call_rcu() initiate a grace period if RCU was
		idle, rather than waiting for the next scheduling
		clock interrupt.

	o	Invoke rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() only when
		idle, as suggested by Andi Kleen.  I still don't
		completely trust this change, and might back it out.

	o	Make CONFIG_RCU_TRACE be the single config variable
		manipulated for all forms of RCU, instead of the prior
		confusion.

	o	Document tracing files and formats for both rcupreempt
		and rcutree.

Updates from v4 for those missing v5 given its bad subject line:

o	Separated dynticks interface so that NMIs and irqs call separate
	functions, greatly simplifying it.  In particular, this code
	no longer requires a proof of correctness.  ;-)

o	Separated dynticks state out into its own per-CPU structure,
	avoiding the duplicated accounting.

o	The case where a dynticks-idle CPU runs an irq handler that
	invokes call_rcu() is now correctly handled, forcing that CPU
	out of dynticks-idle mode.

o	Review comments have been applied (thank you all!!!).
	For but one example, fixed the dynticks-ordering issue that
	Manfred pointed out, saving me much debugging.  ;-)

o	Adjusted rcuclassic and rcupreempt to handle dynticks changes.

Attached is an updated patch to Classic RCU that applies a hierarchy,
greatly reducing the contention on the top-level lock for large machines.
This passes 10-hour concurrent rcutorture and online-offline testing on
128-CPU ppc64 without dynticks enabled, and exposes some timekeeping
bugs in presence of dynticks (exciting working on a system where
"sleep 1" hangs until interrupted...), which were fixed in the
2.6.27 kernel.  It is getting more reliable than mainline by some
measures, so the next version will be against -tip for inclusion.
See also Manfred Spraul's recent patches (or his earlier work from
2004 at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546384711797&w=2).
We will converge onto a common patch in the fullness of time, but are
currently exploring different regions of the design space.  That said,
I have already gratefully stolen quite a few of Manfred's ideas.

This patch provides CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, which controls the bushiness
of the RCU hierarchy.  Defaults to 32 on 32-bit machines and 64 on
64-bit machines.  If CONFIG_NR_CPUS is less than CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT,
there is no hierarchy.  By default, the RCU initialization code will
adjust CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT to balance the hierarchy, so strongly NUMA
architectures may choose to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to disable
this balancing, allowing the hierarchy to be exactly aligned to the
underlying hardware.  Up to two levels of hierarchy are permitted
(in addition to the root node), allowing up to 16,384 CPUs on 32-bit
systems and up to 262,144 CPUs on 64-bit systems.  I just know that I
am going to regret saying this, but this seems more than sufficient
for the foreseeable future.  (Some architectures might wish to set
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4, which would limit such architectures to 64 CPUs.
If this becomes a real problem, additional levels can be added, but I
doubt that it will make a significant difference on real hardware.)

In the common case, a given CPU will manipulate its private rcu_data
structure and the rcu_node structure that it shares with its immediate
neighbors.  This can reduce both lock and memory contention by multiple
orders of magnitude, which should eliminate the need for the strange
manipulations that are reported to be required when running Linux on
very large systems.

Some shortcomings:

o	More bugs will probably surface as a result of an ongoing
	line-by-line code inspection.

	Patches will be provided as required.

o	There are probably hangs, rcutorture failures, &c.  Seems
	quite stable on a 128-CPU machine, but that is kind of small
	compared to 4096 CPUs.  However, seems to do better than
	mainline.

	Patches will be provided as required.

o	The memory footprint of this version is several KB larger
	than rcuclassic.

	A separate UP-only rcutiny patch will be provided, which will
	reduce the memory footprint significantly, even compared
	to the old rcuclassic.  One such patch passes light testing,
	and has a memory footprint smaller even than rcuclassic.
	Initial reaction from various embedded guys was "it is not
	worth it", so am putting it aside.

Credits:

o	Manfred Spraul for ideas, review comments, and bugs spotted,
	as well as some good friendly competition.  ;-)

o	Josh Triplett, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Mathieu Desnoyers,
	Lai Jiangshan, Andi Kleen, Andy Whitcroft, and Andrew Morton
	for reviews and comments.

o	Thomas Gleixner for much-needed help with some timer issues
	(see patches below).

o	Jon M. Tollefson, Tim Pepper, Andrew Theurer, Jose R. Santos,
	Andy Whitcroft, Darrick Wong, Nishanth Aravamudan, Anton
	Blanchard, Dave Kleikamp, and Nathan Lynch for keeping machines
	alive despite my heavy abuse^Wtesting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 21:56:04 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b9974dc6bd Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096 2008-12-18 11:48:30 +01:00
Marcel Holtmann aa6f3c6407 driver core: add newlines to debugging enabled/disabled messages
Both messages are missing the newline and thus dmesg output gets
scrambled.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-12-17 11:23:07 -08:00
Johann Felix Soden 1c93ca0986 driver core: fix using 'ret' variable in unregister_dynamic_debug_module
The 'ret' variable is assigned, but not used in the return statement. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-12-17 11:23:06 -08:00
Ian Campbell 2e5b2b86b6 swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing
Impact: clean up swiotlb printks

Remove duplicated swiotlb info printing, and make it more detailed.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 18:58:17 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge ef9b189352 swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages
Impact: prepare the swiotlb code for HighMem struct pages

This requires us to treat DMA regions in terms of page+offset rather
than virtual addressing since a HighMem page may not have a mapping.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 18:58:15 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 1b548f667c swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device
Impact: generalize IO bounce memcpys

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 18:58:14 +01:00
Ian Campbell b81ea27b23 swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping
Impact: generalize the sw-IOTLB range checks

Some architectures require special rules to determine whether a range
needs mapping or not.  This adds a weak function for architectures to
override.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 18:58:13 +01:00
Ian Campbell e08e1f7adb swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions
Impact: generalize phys<->bus<->phys conversions in the swiotlb code

Architectures may need to override these conversions. Implement a
__weak hook point containing the default implementation.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 18:58:09 +01:00
Ian Campbell a5ddde4a55 swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 18:57:02 +01:00
Ian Campbell 0016fdee92 swiotlb: move some definitions to header
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 21:31:40 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 8c5df16bec swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation
Impact: generalize swiotlb allocation code

Architectures may need to allocate memory specially for use with
the swiotlb.  Create the weak function swiotlb_alloc_boot() and
swiotlb_alloc() defaulting to the current behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 21:31:38 +01:00
Jan Beulich b93a531e31 allow bug table entries to use relative pointers (and use it on x86-64)
Impact: reduce bug table size

This allows reducing the bug table size by half. Perhaps there are
other 64-bit architectures that could also make use of this.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 18:40:32 +01:00
David S. Miller eb14f01959 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
2008-12-15 20:03:50 -08:00
Rusty Russell 968ea6d80e Merge ../linux-2.6-x86
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
	kernel/sched.c
	kernel/sched_stats.h
2008-12-13 21:55:51 +10:30
Rusty Russell aab46da052 cpumask: Add CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
Impact: Add config option to enable code in cpumask.h

Currently it can be set if DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS, or set specifically by
an arch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-12-13 21:20:27 +10:30