The file_lock spinlock sits close to mostly read fields of 'struct
files_struct'
In SMP (and NUMA) environments, each time a thread wants to open or close
a file, it has to acquire the spinlock, thus invalidating the cache line
containing this spinlock on other CPUS. So other threads doing
read()/write()/... calls that use RCU to access the file table are going
to ask further memory (possibly NUMA) transactions to read again this
memory line.
Move the spinlock to another cache line, so that concurrent threads can
share the cache line containing 'count' and 'fdt' fields.
It's worth up to 9% on a microbenchmark using a 4-thread 2-package x86
machine. See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112680448713342&w=2
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
attached patch renames one instance of
/sys/devices/system/timer
to
/sys/devices/system/timer_pit
to avoid a name clash with another instance created in time.c.
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
CONFIG_ELAN doesn't exist any more; CONFIG_X86_ELAN is too specific
so make ts-5500 memory map dependant on CONFIG_X86.
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The patch
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/locks.c@1.70??nav=index.html
introduced a pretty nasty memory leak in the lease code. When freeing
the lease, the code in locks_delete_lock() will correctly clean up
the fasync queue, but when we return to fcntl_setlease(), the freed
fasync entry will be reinstated.
This patch ensures that we skip the call to fasync_helper() when we're
freeing up the lease.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
sil24_port_stop() is missing call to ata_pad_free() thus leaking pad
buffer when a port is stopped. This patch adds it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Some devices (e.g. Qlogic iSCSI HBA hardware like QLA4010 up to firmware
3.0.0.4) initiates TCP with SYN and PUSH flags set.
The Linux TCP/IP stack deals fine with that, but the connection tracking
code doesn't.
This patch alters TCP connection tracking to accept SYN+PUSH as a valid
flag combination.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Drukker <vlad@storewiz.com>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The recent change to netlink dump "done" callback handling broke IPv6
which played dirty tricks with the "done" callback. This causes an
infinite loop during a dump.
The following patch fixes it.
This bug was reported by Jeff Garzik.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds a new function, sbusfb_compat_ioctl() to
drivers/video/sbuslib.c and uses it as compat_ioctl in all sbus fb
drivers
This remove the last per-arch compat ioctl bits in
arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c so it would be nice if people could test
if this actually copiles and works and if yes apply it :)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:58:40PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> This change:
>
> diff-tree 8ca2bdc7a9 (from feee207e44d3643d19e648aAuthor: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Date: Wed Nov 9 12:07:18 2005 -0800
>
> [SPARC] sbus rtc: implement ->compat_ioctl
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>
> results in the console now getting spewed on sparc64 systems
> with messages like:
>
> [ 11.968298] ioctl32(hwclock:464): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(401c7014){00} arg(efc
> What's happening is hwclock tries first the SBUS rtc device ioctls
> then the normal rtc driver ones.
>
> So things actually worked better when we had the SBUS rtc compat ioctl
> directly handled via the generic compat ioctl code.
>
> There are _so_ many rtc drivers in the kernel implementing the
> generic rtc ioctls that I don't think putting a ->compat_ioctl
> into all of them to fix this problem is feasible. Unless we
> write a single rtc_compat_ioctl(), export it to modules, and hook
> it into all of those somehow.
>
> But even that doesn't appear to have any pretty implementation.
>
> Any better ideas?
We had similar problems with other ioctls where userspace did things
like that. What we did there was to put the compat handler to generic
code. The patch below does that, adding a big comment about what's
going on and removing the COMPAT_IOCTL entires for these on powerpc
that not only weren't ever useful but are duplicated now aswell.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make /proc/i8k display '?' when service tag is blank in BIOS.
This fixes segfault in i8k gkrellm plugin.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This fixes
drivers/built-in.o: In function `flexcop_frontend_init':
: undefined reference to `lgdt330x_attach'
[ Side note: I really dislike that dvb people want to include every
possible frontend into the kernel - I only need the mt312 one for my
Skystar2 card. I'd highly appreciate it this would be made selectable
again... ]
Signed-off-by: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With generic dispatch queue update, implicit former/latter request
handling using rq->queuelist.prev/next doesn't work as expected
anymore. Also, the only iosched dependent on this feature was
noop-iosched and it has been reimplemented to have its own
latter/former methods. This patch removes implicit former/latter
handling.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
The original implementation directly used dispatch queue. As new
generic dispatch queue imposes stricter rules over ioscheds and
dispatch queue usage, this direct use becomes somewhat problematic.
This patch reimplements noop-iosched such that it complies to generic
iosched model better. Request merging with q->last_merge and
rq->queuelist.prev/next work again now.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de
When cfq slice expires, remainder of slice is calculated and stored in
cfqq->slice_left. Current code calculates the opposite of remainder -
how many jiffies the cfqq has used past slice end. This patch fixes
the bug.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
elv_iosched_store doesn't terminate string passed from userspace if
it's too long. Also, if the written length is zero (probably not
possible), it accesses elevator_name[-1]. This patch fixes both bugs.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
This patch adds request_queue->nr_sorted which keeps the number of
requests in the iosched and implement elv_drain_elevator which
performs forced dispatching. elv_drain_elevator checks whether
iosched actually dispatches all requests it has and prints error
message if it doesn't. As buggy forced dispatching can result in
wrong barrier operations, I think this extra check is worthwhile.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
cfq forced dispatching might not return all requests on the queue.
This bug can hang elevator switchinig and corrupt request ordering
during flush sequence.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
In addition to the first patch, which is probably goodness, I found the
cause of my panic - applying this patch fixes it and now I am booting.
If the chosen_elevator[] is not found, fall back to noop.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
I got a panic in the elevator code, backtrace :
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000060
..
EIP is at elevator_put+0x0/0x30 (null elevator_type passed)
..
elevator_init+0x38
blk_init_queu_node+0xc9
floppy_init+0xdb
do_initcalls+0x23
init+0x10a
init+0x0
Clearly if the kmalloc here fails, e->elevator_type is not yet set; this
appears to be the correct fix, but I think I probably hit the second case
due to a race condition. Someone more familiar with the elevator code
should look at this more closely until I can determine if I can reproduce.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Although according to the documentation this largely only affects
desktop LED control, let's make sure we set the ATAPI bit when we
have an ATAPI device attached to the port.
Also introduces a sysctl option to configure the receive buffer
accounting policy to be either at socket or association level.
Default is all the associations on the same socket share the
receive buffer.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On ia64, it is possible to get NaT Consumption Fault and a kernel panic
when initializing sctp sideeffect commands arguments. The union
sctp_arg_t contains different sized elements and when loading a smaller
sized element (32 or 16 bits), it is possible for a speculative load to
fail and result in a NaT bit set which causes a kernel crash. The easy
way to get around it is to load the largerst member of the union.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The socket level timeout values are maintained in sctp_sock and
association level timeouts are in sctp_association. So there is
no need for ep->timeouts.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It is possible to get to sctp_v4_get_saddr() without a valid
association. This happens when processing OOTB packets and
the cached route entry is no longer valid.
However, when responding to OOTB packets we already properly
set the source address based on the information in the OOTB
packet. So, if we we get to sctp_v4_get_saddr() without an
association we can simply return.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Based mostly upon a patch from Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
When initialization fails in inet6_init(), we should
unregister the PF_INET6 socket ops.
Also, check sock_register()'s return value for errors.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
scsi_wait_req does not exist any more in the SCSI layer. This patch
makes it so libata can compile again.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
After the last merge of the new unified 'powerpc' architecture, ppc64 no
longer compiles cleanly as a standalone architecture. Some bits and
pieces still exist as files under the old ppc64 hierarchy, but the old
"ARCH=ppc64" is dead.
So if "uname" says ppc64, that now implies that the default architecture
should be "powerpc".
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
Update the ixp2000 defconfigs to 2.6.14-git13.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Eric Dumazet