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2008-07-23Merge branch 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+25
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: softlockup: fix invalid proc_handler for softlockup_panic softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency softlockup: show irqtrace softlockup: print a module list on being stuck softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression softlockup: fix false positives on nohz if CPU is 100% idle for more than 60 seconds softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh fix softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh unaligned access and disable detection at runtime softlockup: allow panic on lockup
2008-07-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-46/+130
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc: sdhci: highmem capable PIO routines sg: reimplement sg mapping iterator mmc_test: print message when attaching to card mmc: Remove Russell as primecell mci maintainer mmc_block: bounce buffer highmem support sdhci: fix bad warning from commit c8b3e02 sdhci: add warnings for bad buffers in ADMA path mmc_test: test oversized sg lists mmc_test: highmem tests s3cmci: ensure host stopped on machine shutdown au1xmmc: suspend/resume implementation s3cmci: fixes for section mismatch warnings pxamci: trivial fix of DMA alignment register bit clearing
2008-07-23kgdb: remove unused HAVE_ARCH_KGDB_SHADOW_INFO config variableJason Wessel1-3/+0
Remove HAVE_ARCH_KGDB_SHADOW_INFO because it does not exist anywhere in the kernel mainline sources Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-07-23sg: reimplement sg mapping iteratorTejun Heo1-46/+130
This is alternative implementation of sg content iterator introduced by commit 83e7d317... from Pierre Ossman in next-20080716. As there's already an sg iterator which iterates over sg entries themselves, name this sg_mapping_iterator. Slightly edited description from the original implementation follows. Iteration over a sg list is not that trivial when you take into account that memory pages might have to be mapped before being used. Unfortunately, that means that some parts of the kernel restrict themselves to directly accesible memory just to not have to deal with the mess. This patch adds a simple iterator system that allows any code to easily traverse an sg list and not have to deal with all the details. The user can decide to consume part of the iteration. Also, iteration can be stopped and resumed later if releasing the kmap between iteration steps is necessary. These features are useful to implement piecemeal sg copying for interrupt drive PIO for example. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
2008-07-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: remove CONFIG_KMOD from core kernel code remove CONFIG_KMOD from lib remove CONFIG_KMOD from sparc64 rework try_then_request_module to do less in non-modular kernels remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation make CONFIG_KMOD invisible modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module module: turn longs into ints for module sizes Shrink struct module: CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS ifdefs module: reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds module: generic each_symbol iterator function module: don't use stop_machine for waiting rmmod
2008-07-22remove CONFIG_KMOD from libJohannes Berg1-1/+1
textsearch algorithms can be loaded, make the code depend on CONFIG_MODULES instead of CONFIG_KMOD. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-21kobject: Transmit return value of call_usermodehelper() to callerWang Chen1-1/+2
kobject_uevent_env() drops the return value of call_usermodehelper(). It will make upper caller, such as dm_send_uevents(), to lose error information. BTW, Previously kobject_uevent_env() transmitted return of call_usermodehelper() to callers, but commit 5f123fbd80f4f788554636f02bf73e40f914e0d6 "[PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug" removed it. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21debugfs: Add a reference to the debugfs API documentation.Robert P. J. Day1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21kobject: replace '/' with '!' in nameKay Sievers1-2/+8
Some (block) devices have a '/' in the name, and need special handling. Let's have that rule to the core, so we can remove it from the block class. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096-for-linusIngo Molnar4-21/+54
Conflicts: net/sunrpc/svc.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c, fixIngo Molnar1-1/+1
fix typo. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.cMike Travis1-3/+3
* Optimize various places where a pointer to the cpumask_of_cpu value will result in reducing stack pressure. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar4-9/+81
Conflicts: drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller11-42/+211
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt drivers/atm/Makefile drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c net/8021q/vlan.c net/iucv/iucv.c
2008-07-17Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-9/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ftrace: do not trace library functions ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions ftrace: fix lockup with MAXSMP ftrace: fix merge buglet
2008-07-17ftrace: do not trace library functionsIngo Molnar1-12/+5
make function tracing more robust: do not trace library functions. We've already got a sizable list of exceptions: ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE # Do not profile string.o, since it may be used in early boot or vdso CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg # Also do not profile any debug utilities CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_find_next_bit.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_cpumask.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_bitmap.o = -pg endif ... and the pattern has been that random library functionality showed up in ftrace's critical path (outside of its recursion check), causing hard to debug lockups. So be a bit defensive about it and exclude all lib/*.o functions by default. It's not that they are overly interesting for tracing purposes anyway. Specific ones can still be traced, in an opt-in manner. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-17ftrace: fix lockup with MAXSMPIngo Molnar1-0/+3
MAXSMP brings in lots of use of various bitops in smp_processor_id() and friends - causing ftrace to lock up during bootup: calling anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 initcall anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 returned 0 after 0 msecs calling acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57 [ hard hang ] So exclude the bitops facilities from tracing. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-16Merge branch 'linux-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (72 commits) Revert "x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation" PCI: remove unnecessary volatile in PCIe hotplug struct controller x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation PCI: include linux/pm_wakeup.h for device_set_wakeup_capable PCI PM: Fix pci_prepare_to_sleep x86/PCI: Fix PCI config space for domains > 0 Fix acpi_pm_device_sleep_wake() by providing a stub for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n PCI: Simplify PCI device PM code PCI PM: Introduce pci_prepare_to_sleep and pci_back_from_sleep PCI ACPI: Rework PCI handling of wake-up ACPI: Introduce new device wakeup flag 'prepared' ACPI: Introduce acpi_device_sleep_wake function PCI: rework pci_set_power_state function to call platform first PCI: Introduce platform_pci_power_manageable function ACPI: Introduce acpi_bus_power_manageable function PCI: make pci_name use dev_name PCI: handle pci_name() being const PCI: add stub for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() PCI: remove unused arch pcibios_update_resource() functions PCI: fix pci_setup_device()'s sprinting into a const buffer ... Fixed up conflicts in various files (arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c, arch/x86/pci/irq.c, arch/x86/pci/pci.h, drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c, drivers/pci/pci.c, drivers/pci/pci.h, include/acpi/acpi_bus.h) from x86 and ACPI updates manually.
2008-07-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds3-0/+75
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (102 commits) [SCSI] scsi_dh: fix kconfig related build errors [SCSI] sym53c8xx: Fix bogus sym_que_entry re-implementation of container_of [SCSI] scsi_cmnd.h: remove double inclusion of linux/blkdev.h [SCSI] make struct scsi_{host,target}_type static [SCSI] fix locking in host use of blk_plug_device() [SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup external header file [SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup code in zfcp_erp.c [SCSI] zfcp: zfcp_fsf cleanup. [SCSI] zfcp: consolidate sysfs things into one file. [SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup of code in zfcp_aux.c [SCSI] zfcp: Cleanup of code in zfcp_scsi.c [SCSI] zfcp: Move status accessors from zfcp to SCSI include file. [SCSI] zfcp: Small QDIO cleanups [SCSI] zfcp: Adapter reopen for large number of unsolicited status [SCSI] zfcp: Fix error checking for ELS ADISC requests [SCSI] zfcp: wait until adapter is finished with ERP during auto-port [SCSI] ibmvfc: IBM Power Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Client Driver [SCSI] sg: Add target reset support [SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRC [SCSI] sd: Move scsi_disk() accessor function to sd.h ...
2008-07-16Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar6-41/+136
Conflicts: arch/x86/xen/smp.c kernel/sched_rt.c net/iucv/iucv.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockupIngo Molnar9-51/+126
Conflicts: kernel/softlockup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15Merge branch 'core/rcu' into core/rcu-for-linusIngo Molnar2-1/+20
2008-07-15Merge branch 'core/stacktrace' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core/stacktrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: generic-ipi: powerpc/generic-ipi tree build failure stacktrace: fix build failure on sparc64 stacktrace: export save_stack_trace[_tsk] stacktrace: fix modular build, export print_stack_trace and save_stack_trace backtrace: replace timer with tasklet + completions stacktrace: add saved stack traces to backtrace self-test stacktrace: print_stack_trace() cleanup debugging: make stacktrace independent from DEBUG_KERNEL stacktrace: don't crash on invalid stack trace structs
2008-07-15Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (61 commits) ext4: Documention update for new ordered mode and delayed allocation ext4: do not set extents feature from the kernel ext4: Don't allow nonextenst mount option for large filesystem ext4: Enable delalloc by default. ext4: delayed allocation i_blocks fix for stat ext4: fix delalloc i_disksize early update issue ext4: Handle page without buffers in ext4_*_writepage() ext4: Add ordered mode support for delalloc ext4: Invert lock ordering of page_lock and transaction start in delalloc mm: Add range_cont mode for writeback ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set ext4: Add delayed allocation support in data=writeback mode vfs: add hooks for ext4's delayed allocation support jbd2: Remove data=ordered mode support using jbd buffer heads ext4: Use new framework for data=ordered mode in JBD2 jbd2: Implement data=ordered mode handling via inodes vfs: export filemap_fdatawrite_range() ext4: Fix lock inversion in ext4_ext_truncate() ext4: Invert the locking order of page_lock and transaction start ...
2008-07-12[SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRCMartin K. Petersen3-0/+75
The SCSI Block Protocol uses this 16-bit CRC to verify the integrity of each data sector. crc_t10dif() is used by sd_dif.c when performing I/O to or from disks formatted with protection information. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-11percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_setMingming Cao1-1/+6
Delayed allocation need to check free blocks at every write time. percpu_counter_read_positive() is not quit accurate. delayed allocation need a more accurate accounting, but using percpu_counter_sum_positive() is frequently is quite expensive. This patch added a new function to update center counter when sum per-cpu counter, to increase the accurate rate for next percpu_counter_read() and require less calling expensive percpu_counter_sum(). Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar5-46/+103
Conflicts: include/linux/rculist.h kernel/rcupreempt.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-10Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into auto-ftrace-nextIngo Molnar3-3/+14
2008-07-08textsearch: ts_fsm: return error on request for case insensitive searchJoonwoo Park1-1/+5
For fsm text search, handle case insensitive parameter as -EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08textsearch: ts_kmp: support case insensitive searching in Knuth-Morris-Pratt ↵Joonwoo Park1-8/+21
algorithm Add support for case insensitive search to Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm. Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08textsearch: ts_bm: support case insensitive searching in Boyer-Moore algorithmJoonwoo Park1-6/+20
Add support for case insensitive search to Boyer-Moore algorithm. Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08textsearch: support for case insensitive searchingJoonwoo Park1-6/+8
The function textsearch_prepare has a new flag to support case insensitive searching. Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-06vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer formatsLinus Torvalds1-1/+40
They print out a pointer in symbolic format, if possible (ie using symbolic KALLSYMS information). The '%pS' format is for regular direct pointers (which can point to data or code and that you find on the stack during backtraces etc), while '%pF' is for C function pointer types. On most architectures, the two mean exactly the same thing, but some architectures use an indirect pointer for C function pointers, where the function pointer points to a function descriptor (which in turn contains the actual pointer to the code). The '%pF' code automatically does the appropriate function descriptor dereference on such architectures. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-06vsprintf: add infrastructure support for extended '%p' specifiersLinus Torvalds1-2/+14
This expands the kernel '%p' handling with an arbitrary alphanumberic specifier extension string immediately following the '%p'. Right now it's just being ignored, but the next commit will start adding some specific pointer type extensions. NOTE! The reason the extension is appended to the '%p' is to allow minimal gcc type checking: gcc will still see the '%p' and will check that the argument passed in is indeed a pointer, and yet will not complain about the extended information that gcc doesn't understand about (on the other hand, it also won't actually check that the pointer type and the extension are compatible). Alphanumeric characters were chosen because there is no sane existing use for a string format with a hex pointer representation immediately followed by alphanumerics (which is what such a format string would have traditionally resulted in). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-06vsprintf: split out '%p' handling logicLinus Torvalds1-9/+11
The actual code is the same, just split out into a helper function. This makes it easier to read, and allows for simple future extension of %p handling. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-06vsprintf: split out '%s' handling logicLinus Torvalds1-26/+31
The actual code is the same, just split out into a helper function. This makes it easier to read, and allows for future sharing of the string code. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-06Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar6-70/+84
2008-07-04lib: taint kernel in common report_bug() WARN path.Paul Mundt1-0/+2
Commit 95b570c9cef3b12356454c7112571b7e406b4b51 ("Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition)") introduced a TAINT_WARN that was implemented for all architectures using the generic warn_on_slowpath(), which excluded any architecture that set HAVE_ARCH_WARN_ON. As all of the architectures that implement their own WARN_ON() all go through the report_bug() path (specifically handling BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN), taint the kernel there as well for consistency. Tested on avr32 and sh. Also relevant for s390, parisc, and powerpc. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04Christoph has movedChristoph Lameter1-1/+1
Remove all clameter@sgi.com addresses from the kernel tree since they will become invalid on June 27th. Change my maintainer email address for the slab allocators to cl@linux-foundation.org (which will be the new email address for the future). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (55 commits) net: fib_rules: fix error code for unsupported families netdevice: Fix wrong string handle in kernel command line parsing net: Tyop of sk_filter() comment netlink: Unneeded local variable net-sched: fix filter destruction in atm/hfsc qdisc destruction net-sched: change tcf_destroy_chain() to clear start of filter list ipv4: fix sysctl documentation of time related values mac80211: don't accept WEP keys other than WEP40 and WEP104 hostap: fix sparse warnings hostap: don't report useless WDS frames by default textsearch: fix Boyer-Moore text search bug netfilter: nf_conntrack_tcp: fixing to check the lower bound of valid ACK ipv6 route: Convert rt6_device_match() to use RT6_LOOKUP_F_xxx flags. netlabel: Fix a problem when dumping the default IPv6 static labels net/inet_lro: remove setting skb->ip_summed when not LRO-able inet fragments: fix race between inet_frag_find and inet_frag_secret_rebuild CONNECTOR: add a proc entry to list connectors netlink: Fix some doc comments in net/netlink/attr.c tcp: /proc/net/tcp rto,ato values not scaled properly (v2) include/linux/netdevice.h: don't export MAX_HEADER to userspace ...
2008-06-30textsearch: fix Boyer-Moore text search bugJoonwoo Park1-1/+1
The current logic has a bug which cannot find matching pattern, if the pattern is matched from the first character of target string. for example: pattern=abc, string=abcdefg pattern=a, string=abcdefg Searching algorithm should return 0 for those things. Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-27stacktrace: add saved stack traces to backtrace self-testVegard Nossum1-0/+3
This patch adds saved stack-traces to the backtrace suite of self-tests. Note that we don't depend on or unconditionally enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE because not all architectures may have it (and we still want to enable the other tests for those architectures). Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: reinstate boot-time testingPaul E. McKenney1-2/+19
This patch re-institutes the ability to build rcutorture directly into the Linux kernel. The reason that this capability was removed was that this could result in your kernel being pretty much useless, as rcutorture would be running starting from early boot. This problem has been avoided by (1) making rcutorture run only three seconds of every six by default, (2) adding a CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE that permits rcutorture to be quiesced at boot time, and (3) adding a sysctl in /proc named /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable that permits rcutorture to be quiesced and unquiesced when built into the kernel. Please note that this /proc file is -not- available when rcutorture is built as a module. Please also note that to get the earlier take-no-prisoners behavior, you must use the boot command line to set rcutorture's "stutter" parameter to zero. The rcutorture quiescing mechanism is currently quite crude: loops in each rcutorture process that poll a global variable once per tick. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. The default action will be to reduce the polling rate to a few times per second. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-18debugobjects: fix lockdep warningVegard Nossum1-9/+6
Daniel J Blueman reported: | ======================================================= | [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] | 2.6.26-rc5-201c #1 | ------------------------------------------------------- | nscd/3669 is trying to acquire lock: | (&n->list_lock){.+..}, at: [<ffffffff802bab03>] deactivate_slab+0x173/0x1e0 | | but task is already holding lock: | (&obj_hash[i].lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff803fa56f>] | __debug_object_init+0x2f/0x350 | | which lock already depends on the new lock. There are two locks involved here; the first is a SLUB-local lock, and the second is a debugobjects-local lock. They are basically taken in two different orders: 1. SLUB { debugobjects { ... } } 2. debugobjects { SLUB { ... } } This patch changes pattern #2 by trying to fill the memory pool (e.g. the call into SLUB/kmalloc()) outside the debugobjects lock, so now the two patterns look like this: 1. SLUB { debugobjects { ... } } 2. SLUB { } debugobjects { ... } [ daniel.blueman@gmail.com: pool_lock needs to be taken irq safe in fill_pool ] Reported-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-16Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockupIngo Molnar3-59/+74
2008-06-16Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar4-60/+76
2008-06-16Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/ftraceIngo Molnar3-59/+74
2008-06-16Revert "prohibit rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel"Ingo Molnar1-1/+2
This reverts commit 9aaffc898ff4a3df18c5fc4b9e0fa47e779ad726. That commit was a very bad idea. RCU_TORTURE found many boot timing bugs and other sorts of bugs in the past, so excluding it from boot images is very silly. The option already depends on DEBUG_KERNEL and is disabled by default. Even when it runs, the test threads are reniced. If it annoys people we could add a runtime sysctl.
2008-06-12radix-tree: fix small lockless radix-tree bugNick Piggin1-58/+62
We shrink a radix tree when its root node has only one child, in the left most slot. The child becomes the new root node. To perform this operation in a manner compatible with concurrent lockless lookups, we atomically switch the root pointer from the parent to its child. However a concurrent lockless lookup may now have loaded a pointer to the parent (and is presently deciding what to do next). For this reason, we also have to keep the parent node in a valid state after shrinking the tree, until the next RCU grace period -- otherwise this lookup with the parent pointer may not do the right thing. Notably, we need to keep the child in the left most slot there in case that is requested by the lookup. This is all pretty standard RCU stuff. It is worth repeating because in my eagerness to obey the radix tree node constructor scheme, I had broken it by zeroing the radix tree node before the grace period. What could happen is that a lookup can load the parent pointer, then decide it wants to follow the left most child slot, only to find the slot contained NULL due to the concurrent shrinker having zeroed the parent node before waiting for a grace period. The lookup would return a false negative as a result. Fix it by doing that clearing in the RCU callback. I would normally want to rip out the constructor entirely, but radix tree nodes are one of those places where they make sense (only few cachelines will be touched soon after allocation). This was never actually found in any lockless pagecache testing or by the test harness, but by seeing the odd problem with my scalable vmap rewrite. I have not tickled the test harness into reproducing it yet, but I'll keep working at it. Fortunately, it is not a problem anywhere lockless pagecache is used in mainline kernels (pagecache probe is not a guarantee, and brd does not have concurrent lookups and deletes). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-12add an inlined version of iter_div_u64_remJeremy Fitzhardinge1-14/+1
iter_div_u64_rem is used in the x86-64 vdso, which cannot call other kernel code. For this case, provide the always_inlined version, __iter_div_u64_rem. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>