This convters the sysctl ctl_tables to use C99 initializers. While I was
looking at it I discovered it was using a portion of the sysctl binary
addresses space under CTL_KERN KERN_OSTYPE which was completely inappropriate.
So I completely removed all of the sysctl binary names, to remove and avoid
the ABI conflict.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 fix]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove in-source externs, linux/init.h is included in all cases.
This is a fixups for "Dynamic kernel command-line" patch.
It also includes some uml __init fixups so that we can __initdata also its
command_line.
Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line.
2. Set command_line as __initdata.
[akpm@osdl.org: move some declarations to the right place]
Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Part of long forgotten patch
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/e98e941ce1cf29f6?dmode=source
Since then, m32r grabbed two copies.
Leave s390 copy because of important absence of CONFIG_VT, but remove
references to non-existent timerlist_lock. ia64 also loses timerlist_lock.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace appropriate pairs of "kmem_cache_alloc()" + "memset(0)" with the
corresponding "kmem_cache_zalloc()" call.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update all arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S to not include space for initramfs
when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRAMFS is not selected. This saves another 4 kbytes
on most platfoms (some reserve PAGE_SIZE for initramfs).
Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The arch hooks arch_setup_msi_irq and arch_teardown_msi_irq are now
responsible for allocating and freeing the linux irq in addition to
setting up the the linux irq to work with the interrupt.
arch_setup_msi_irq now takes a pci_device and a msi_desc and returns
an irq.
With this change in place this code should be useable by all platforms
except those that won't let the OS touch the hardware like ppc RTAS.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
getcpu system call returns cpu# and node# on which this system call and
its caller are running. This patch hooks up its implementation on IA64.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Occasionally the FSYS_RETURN patch list can have an odd length, causing other
data structures to get out of alignment. In OpenVZ it is odd and we get
misaligned kernel image, which does not boot.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
When we offline a CPU, migrate_irqs() tries to determine whether the
affinity bits of the IRQ descriptor match any of the remaining online
CPUs. If not, it fixes up the interrupt to point somewhere else.
Unfortunately, if an IRQ is unregistered the IRQ descriptor may still
have affinity to the CPU being offlined, but the no_irq_chip handler
doesn't provide a set_affinity function. This causes us to hit the
WARN_ON in migrate_irqs().
The easiest solution seems to be setting all the bits in the affinity
mask when the last interrupt is removed from the vector. I hit this on
an older kernel with Xen/ia64 using driver domains (so it probably needs
more testing on upstream). Xen essentially uses the bind/unbind
interface in sysfs to unregister a device from a driver and thus
unregister the interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch fixes a NULL-pointer dereference in ia64_machine_kexec().
The variable ia64_kimage is set in machine_kexec_prepare() which is
called from sys_kexec_load(). If kdump wasn't configured before,
ia64_kimage is NULL. machine_kdump_on_init() passes ia64_kimage() to
machine_kexec() which assumes a valid value.
The patch also adds a few sanity checks for the image to simplify
debugging of similar problems in future.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
I encountered one problem when running ptrace test case the situation
is this: traced process's syscall parameter needs to be accessed, but
for sys_clone system call with clone_flag (CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM |
SIGCHLD) parameter. This syscall's parameter accessing result is wrong.
The reason is that vforked child process mm point is the same, but
tgid is different. Without this patch find_thread_for_addr will return
vforked process if vforked process is also stopped, but not the thread
which calls vfork syscall.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Some patches have turned up on xen-devel recently to convert strcpy()
to safer alternatives and so forth. While reviewing those patches
I noticed that the features string building could be cleaned up.
This patch uses snprintf() instead of strcpy() and direct character
pointer manipulation. It makes the features string building safe and
gets rid of the special case for features output in show_cpuinfo()
Additionally I removed the (int) cast of ARRAY_SIZE, which seems to
serve no purpose.
Signed-off-by: Aron Griffis <aron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
As is pointed out in
http://www.gelato.org/community/view_linear.php?id=1_1036&from=authors&value=Ian%20Wienand#1_1039,
if single step on break instruction, the break fault has higher
priority than the single-step trap. When the break fault handler
is entered, it advances the IP by 1 instruction so break instruction
single-stepping is skipped, actually it is next instruction which
is single stepped.
This patch modifies this, it adds TIF_SINGLESTEP bit for thread
flags, and generate a fake sigtrap when single stepping break
instruction. Test case in attachment can verify this. Any comments
is welcome.
Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This moves the ia64 implementation of machine_shutdown() from
machine_kexec.c to process.c, which is in keeping with the implelmentation
on other architectures, and seems like a much more appropriate home for it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Remove the Remove inline declaration of efi_get_pal_addr() as it is
declared in linux/efi.h.
Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
linux/uaccess.h was being included, but it seems that
really the following includes are needed.
asm/page.h: for __va() and PAGE_SHIFT
asm/uaccess.h: for copy_to_user()
I guess that linux/uaccess.h pulls in both asm/page.h and asm/uaccess.h.
I notices this while backporting the code to xen's linux-2.6.16.33,
which does not have linux/uaccess.h. I'm posting it as I think it is a
correct, though somewhat cosmetic fix.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Kexec support for 2.6.20 on ia64 does not build properly using a config
made up by CONFIG_SMP=n and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n:
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The SN Altix platform does not conform to the IOSAPIC IRQ routing model.
Add code in acpi_unregister_gsi() to check if (acpi_irq_model ==
ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_PLATFORM) and return.
Due to an oversight, this code was not added previously when
similar code was added to acpi_register_gsi().
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=116680983430121&w=2
Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes up ia64 kexec support for HP rx2620 hardware. It does
this by skipping migration of already disabled irqs. This is most likely a
problem on other ia64 platforms as well, but I've only been able to
reproduce it on one machine so far.
The full story is that handle_bad_irq() gets invoked before starting the
new kernel without this patch. This seems to happen when fixup_irqs()
calls generic_handle_irq() on already migrated (and disabled) irqs. So by
avoiding migration of disabled irqs we stay away of handle_bad_irq().
The code has been tested on three different ia64 machines, all with good
results. It is possible to trigger the same bug by offlining a processor
using echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online.
More detailed information is available in the following mail thread:
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-January/thread.html#5774
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Zou, Nanhai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ACPI 3.0 incorporated the SRAT spec, upping the table version to 2,
and extending the size of the proximity domain from 1-byte to 4-bytes.
This extension was into a reserved field that firmware should
set to 0, but the HP simulator had non-zero values there
resulting in unexpected huge numbers.
So mask the domain down to 8-bits for now.
A more general fix will be to check the table version
supplied by firmware and get paranoid about reserved fields.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Provide ACPI _PRT support for SN Altix systems.
The SN Altix platform does not conform to the
IOSAPIC IRQ routing model, so a new acpi_irq_model
(ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_PLATFORM) has been defined. The SN
platform specific code sets acpi_irq_model to
this new value, and keys off of it in acpi_register_gsi()
to avoid the iosapic code path.
Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano reported frequent scheduling latencies and audio
xruns starting at the 2.6.18-rt kernel, and those problems persisted all
until current -rt kernels. The latencies were serious and unjustified by
system load, often in the milliseconds range.
After a patient and heroic multi-month effort of Fernando, where he
tested dozens of kernels, tried various configs, boot options,
test-patches of mine and provided latency traces of those incidents, the
following 'smoking gun' trace was captured by him:
_------=> CPU#
/ _-----=> irqs-off
| / _----=> need-resched
|| / _---=> hardirq/softirq
||| / _--=> preempt-depth
|||| /
||||| delay
cmd pid ||||| time | caller
\ / ||||| \ | /
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __trace_start_sched_wakeup (try_to_wake_up)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __trace_start_sched_wakeup <<...>-5856> (37 0)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __trace_start_sched_wakeup (c01262ba 0 0)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : resched_task (try_to_wake_up)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __spin_unlock_irqrestore (try_to_wake_up)
...
<idle>-0 1...1 11us!: default_idle (cpu_idle)
...
<idle>-0 0Dn.1 602us : smp_apic_timer_interrupt (c0103baf 1 0)
...
<...>-5856 0D..2 618us : __switch_to (__schedule)
<...>-5856 0D..2 618us : __schedule <<idle>-0> (20 162)
<...>-5856 0D..2 619us : __spin_unlock_irq (__schedule)
<...>-5856 0...1 619us : trace_stop_sched_switched (__schedule)
<...>-5856 0D..1 619us : trace_stop_sched_switched <<...>-5856> (37 0)
what is visible in this trace is that CPU#1 ran try_to_wake_up() for
PID:5856, it placed PID:5856 on CPU#0's runqueue and ran resched_task()
for CPU#0. But it decided to not send an IPI that no CPU - due to
TS_POLLING. But CPU#0 never woke up after its NEED_RESCHED bit was set,
and only rescheduled to PID:5856 upon the next lapic timer IRQ. The
result was a 600+ usecs latency and a missed wakeup!
the bug turned out to be an idle-wakeup bug introduced into the mainline
kernel this summer via an optimization in the x86_64 tree:
commit 495ab9c045
Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Mon Jun 26 13:59:11 2006 +0200
[PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_status
During some profiling I noticed that default_idle causes a lot of
memory traffic. I think that is caused by the atomic operations
to clear/set the polling flag in thread_info. There is actually
no reason to make this atomic - only the idle thread does it
to itself, other CPUs only read it. So I moved it into ti->status.
the problem is this type of change:
if (!hlt_counter && boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok) {
- clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+ current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
while (!need_resched()) {
local_irq_disable();
this changes clear_thread_flag() to an explicit clearing of TS_POLLING.
clear_thread_flag() is defined as:
clear_bit(flag, &ti->flags);
and clear_bit() is a LOCK-ed atomic instruction on all x86 platforms:
static inline void clear_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long * addr)
{
__asm__ __volatile__( LOCK_PREFIX
"btrl %1,%0"
hence smp_mb__after_clear_bit() is defined as a simple compile barrier:
#define smp_mb__after_clear_bit() barrier()
but the explicit TS_POLLING clearing introduced by the patch:
+ current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
is not an atomic op! So the clearing of the TS_POLLING bit is freely
reorderable with the reading of the NEED_RESCHED bit - and both now
reside in different memory addresses.
CPU idle wakeup very much depends on ordered memory ops, the clearing of
the TS_POLLING flag must always be done before we test need_resched()
and hit the idle instruction(s). [Symmetrically, the wakeup code needs
to set NEED_RESCHED before it tests the TS_POLLING flag, so memory
ordering is paramount.]
Fernando's dual-core Athlon64 system has a sufficiently advanced memory
ordering model so that it triggered this scenario very often.
( And it also turned out that the reason why these latencies never
triggered on my testsystems is that i routinely use idle=poll, which
was the only idle variant not affected by this bug. )
The fix is to change the smp_mb__after_clear_bit() to an smp_mb(), to
act as an absolute barrier between the TS_POLLING write and the
NEED_RESCHED read. This affects almost all idling methods (default,
ACPI, APM), on all 3 x86 architectures: i386, x86_64, ia64.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On IA64 there exists some special instructions which
always need to be executed regradless of qp bits, such
as com.crel.unc, tbit.trel.unc etc.
This patch clears qp bits when inserting kprobe trap code
and disables probepoint on slot 1 for these special
instructions.
Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Because slot 1 of one instr bundle crosses border of two consecutive
8-bytes, kprobe on slot 1 is disabled. This patch enables kprobe on
slot1, it only replaces higher 8-bytes of the instruction bundle and
changes the exception code to ignore the low 12 bits of the break
number (which is across the border in the lower 8-bytes of the bundle).
For those instructions which must execute regardless qp bits,
kprobe on slot 1 is still disabled.
Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Stephane thought he saw a problem here (but was just confused
by the return value from ia64_pal_get_brand_info()). But we
should be more defensive here in case an prototype PAL for
a future processor doesn't implement this PAL call.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Improve the scalability of the fpswa code that rate-limits
logging of messages.
There are 2 distinctly different problems in this code.
1) If prctl is used to disable logging, last_time is never
updated. The result is that fpu_swa_count is zeroed out on
EVERY fp fault. This causes a very very hot cache line.
The fix reduces the wallclock time of a 1024p FP exception test
from 28734 sec to 19 sec!!!
2) On VERY large systems, excessive messages are logged because
multiple cpus can each reset or increment fpu_swa_count at
about the same time. The result is that hundreds of messages
are logged each second. The fixes reduces the logging rate
to ~1 per second.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* Make NORET_TYPE and ATTRIB_NORET in line with the
declaration for other architectures
* Add parameter names
Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
There seems to be a value in both allowing the kernel to determine
the base offset of the crashkernel automatically and allowing
users's to sepcify it.
The old behaviour on ia64, which is still the current behaviour on
most architectures is for the user to always specify the address.
Recently ia64 was changed so that it is always automatically determined.
With this patch the kernel automatically determines the offset if
the supplied value is 0, otherwise it uses the value provided.
This should probably be backed by a documentation change.
Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Actually, on reflection I think that there is a good case for
keeping the options separate. I am thinking particularly of people
who want a very small crashdump kernel and thus don't want to compile
in kexec.
The patch below should fix things up so that all valid combinations of
KEXEC, CRASH_DUMP and VMCORE compile cleanly - VMCORE depends on
CRASH_DUMP which is why I said valid combinations. In a nutshell
it just untangles unrelated code and switches around a few defines.
Please note that it creats a new file, arch/ia64/kernel/crash_dump.c
This is in keeping with the i386 implementation.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
Signed-off-by: Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
There is a name clash with ia64 arch code in Andrew's tree. Rename
is_avialable_memory() to is_memory_available() to avoid the clash.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Now we have our own highly optimized assembly code version of
this routine (Thanks Ken!) we should export it so that it can
be used.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
PAL_GET_PSTATE accepts a type argument to return different kinds of
frequency information.
Refer: Intel Itanium®Architecture Software Developer's Manual -
Volume 2: System Architecture, Revision 2.2
(http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/manuals/245318.htm)
Add the support for type argument and use Instantaneous frequency
in the acpi driver.
Also fix a bug, where in return value of PAL_GET_PSTATE was getting compared
with 'control' bits instead of 'status' bits.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Changes and updates.
1. Remove fake rendz path and related code according to discuss with Khalid Aziz.
2. fc.i offset fix in relocate_kernel.S.
3. iospic shutdown code eoi and mask race fix from Fujitsu.
4. Warm boot hook in machine_kexec to SN SAL code from Jack Steiner.
5. Send slave to SAL slave loop patch from Jay Lan.
6. Kdump on non-recoverable MCA event patch from Jay Lan
7. Use CTL_UNNUMBERED in kdump_on_init sysctl.
Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn,
prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus
generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add
#ifdefs.
the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine:
text data bss dec hex filename
1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.before
1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.after
[akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When we are unregistering a kprobe-booster, we can't release its
instruction buffer immediately on the preemptive kernel, because some
processes might be preempted on the buffer. The freeze_processes() and
thaw_processes() functions can clean most of processes up from the buffer.
There are still some non-frozen threads who have the PF_NOFREEZE flag. If
those threads are sleeping (not preempted) at the known place outside the
buffer, we can ensure safety of freeing.
However, the processing of this check routine takes a long time. So, this
patch introduces the garbage collection mechanism of insn_slot. It also
introduces the "dirty" flag to free_insn_slot because of efficiency.
The "clean" instruction slots (dirty flag is cleared) are released
immediately. But the "dirty" slots which are used by boosted kprobes, are
marked as garbages. collect_garbage_slots() will be invoked to release
"dirty" slots if there are more than INSNS_PER_PAGE garbage slots or if
there are no unused slots.
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com>
Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric W. Biederman