Bruce Allan [Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:48:30 +0000 (15:48 -0700)]
e1000e: disable ASPM L1 on 82573
On the e1000-devel mailing list, Nils Faerber reported latency issues with
the 82573 LOM on a ThinkPad X60. It was found to be caused by ASPM L1;
disabling it resolves the latency. The issue is present in kernels back
to 2.6.34 and possibly 2.6.33.
Reported-by: Nils Faerber <nils.faerber@kernelconcepts.de> Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Alex Deucher [Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:29:03 +0000 (17:29 -0400)]
drm/radeon/kms: rework radeon_dp_detect() logic
If the connector is eDP, it can only be DP, not TMDS.
Always set the detected sink type. If the sink is
detected as non-DP, but there is no EDID, you can still
manually force the port on. If the sink type is DP
and there's no DPCD, there's no way to force the monitor
on since you need both ends to train the link.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Alex Deucher [Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:19:31 +0000 (11:19 -0400)]
drm/radeon/kms/DCE3+: switch pads to ddc mode when going i2c
The pins for ddc and aux are shared so you need to switch the
mode when doing ddc. The ProcessAuxChannel table already sets
the pin mode to DP. This should fix unreliable ddc issues
on DP ports using non-DP monitors.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Alex Deucher [Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:58:47 +0000 (18:58 -0400)]
drm/radeon/kms: rework encoder handling
On most newer asics, digital encoders have two links each
and they can be used independantly. As such, treat them as
separate encoders otherwise the individual links will not
get programmed properly at modeset time.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Alex Deucher [Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:44:47 +0000 (12:44 -0400)]
drm/radeon/kms: DCE3/4 AdjustPixelPll updates
Add options necessary bits for:
- SS on DP
- SS on LVDS
- set clocks right for DP
- deep color on hdmi (needs additional encoder and edid work as well)
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Jean Delvare [Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:11:24 +0000 (14:11 +0200)]
drm/radeon: Fix stack data leak
Always zero-init a structure on the stack which is returned by a
function. Otherwise you may leak random stack data from previous
function calls.
This fixes the following warning I was seeing:
CC [M] drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atombios.o
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atombios.c: In function "radeon_atom_get_hpd_info_from_gpio":
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atombios.c:261: warning: "hpd.plugged_state" is used uninitialized in this function
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Borislav Petkov [Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:10:29 +0000 (20:10 +0200)]
x86, hotplug: Serialize CPU hotplug to avoid bringup concurrency issues
When testing cpu hotplug code on 32-bit we kept hitting the "CPU%d:
Stuck ??" message due to multiple cores concurrently accessing the
cpu_callin_mask, among others.
Since these codepaths are not protected from concurrent access due to
the fact that there's no sane reason for making an already complex
code unnecessarily more complex - we hit the issue only when insanely
switching cores off- and online - serialize hotplugging cores on the
sysfs level and be done with it.
[ v2.1: fix !HOTPLUG_CPU build ]
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100819181029.GC17171@aftab> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Brian Norris [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:25:04 +0000 (11:25 -0700)]
mtd: nand: Fix regression in BBM detection
Commit c7b28e25cb9beb943aead770ff14551b55fa8c79 ("mtd: nand: refactor BB
marker detection") caused a regression in detection of factory-set bad
block markers, especially for certain small-page NAND. This fix removes
some unneeded constraints on using NAND_SMALL_BADBLOCK_POS, making the
detection code more correct.
This regression can be seen, for example, in Hynix HY27US081G1M and
similar.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <norris@broadcom.com> Tested-by: Michael Guntsche <mike@it-loops.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Spin lock rds_ring->lock is used in poll routine, so other users should
use spin_lock_bh(). While posting rx buffers from netxen_nic_attach,
rds_ring->lock is not required, so cleaning it instead of fixing it by
spin_lock_bh().
Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Phil Oester [Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:45:08 +0000 (18:45 +0000)]
vlan: Match underlying dev carrier on vlan add
When adding a new vlan, if the underlying interface has no carrier,
then the newly added vlan interface should also have no carrier.
At present, this is not true - the newly added vlan is added with
carrier up. Fix by checking state of real device.
Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reported-by: Rafael Camarda Silva Folco <rfolco@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andre Detsch [Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:49:12 +0000 (05:49 +0000)]
ehea: Fix synchronization between HW and SW send queue
ehea: Fix synchronization between HW and SW send queue
When memory is added to / removed from a partition via the Memory DLPAR
mechanism, the eHEA driver has to do a couple of things to reflect the
memory change in its own IO address translation tables. This involves
stopping and restarting the HW queues.
During this operation, it is possible that HW and SW pointer into these
queues get out of sync. This results in a situation where packets that
are attached to a send queue are not transmitted immediately, but
delayed until further X packets have been put on the queue.
This patch detects such loss of synchronization, and resets the ehea
port when needed.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Yaniv Rosner [Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:34:07 +0000 (06:34 +0000)]
bnx2x: Update bnx2x version to 1.52.53-4
Update bnx2x version to 1.52.53-4
Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Yaniv Rosner [Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:34:06 +0000 (06:34 +0000)]
bnx2x: Fix PHY locking problem
PHY locking is required between two ports for some external PHYs. Since
initialization was done in the common init function (called only on the
first port initialization) rather than in the port init function, there
was in fact no PHY locking between the ports.
Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks
we had a race condition when setting and then
restoring frag_list. Eric attempted to fix it,
but the fix created even worse problems.
However, the original motivation I had when I
added the code that turned out to be racy is
no longer clear to me, since we only copy up
to skb->len to userspace, which doesn't include
the frag_list length. As a result, not doing
any frag_list clearing and restoring avoids
the race condition, while not introducing any
other problems.
Additionally, while preparing this patch I found
that since none of the remaining netlink code is
really aware of the frag_list, we need to use the
original skb's information for packet information
and credentials. This fixes, for example, the
group information received by compat tasks.
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.31+, for 2.6.35 revert 1235f504aa] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Daniel T Chen [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:33:43 +0000 (19:33 -0400)]
ALSA: intel8x0: Mute External Amplifier by default for ThinkPad X31
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619439
This ThinkPad model needs External Amplifier muted for audible playback,
so set the inv_eapd quirk for it.
Reported-and-tested-by: Dennis Bell <dennis.bell@parkerg.co.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel T Chen <crimsun@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:45:23 +0000 (15:45 -0700)]
Merge branch 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
NFS: Fix an Oops in the NFSv4 atomic open code
NFS: Fix the selection of security flavours in Kconfig
NFS: fix the return value of nfs_file_fsync()
rpcrdma: Fix SQ size calculation when memreg is FRMR
xprtrdma: Do not truncate iova_start values in frmr registrations.
nfs: Remove redundant NULL check upon kfree()
nfs: Add "lookupcache" to displayed mount options
NFS: allow close-to-open cache semantics to apply to root of NFS filesystem
SUNRPC: fix NFS client over TCP hangs due to packet loss (Bug 16494)
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:29:38 +0000 (15:29 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
USB HID: Add ID for eGalax Multitouch used in JooJoo tablet
HID: hiddev: fix memory corruption due to invalid intfdata
HID: hiddev: protect against disconnect/NULL-dereference race
HID: picolcd: correct ordering of framebuffer freeing
HID: picolcd: testing the wrong variable
Wey-Yi Guy [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:53:28 +0000 (12:53 -0700)]
iwlwifi: use long monitor timer for 5300 series
For 5000 series of devices, use long monitor timer to check
stuck tx queues.
This modification apply to all the 5000 series including 5300 and others.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.35] Reported-by: drago01 <drago01@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Joe Perches [Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:11:19 +0000 (19:11 -0700)]
drivers/net/wireless: Restore upper case words in wiphy_<level> messages
Commit c96c31e499b70964cfc88744046c998bb710e4b8
"(drivers/net/wireless: Use wiphy_<level>)"
inadvertently changed some upper case words to
lower case. Restore the original case.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jesse Barnes [Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:11:26 +0000 (15:11 -0700)]
drm/i915: fix VGA plane disable for Ironlake+
We need to use I/O port instructions to access VGA registers on
Ironlake+, and it doesn't hurt on other platforms, so switch the VGA
plane disable function over to using them. Move it to init time as well
while we're at it, no need to repeatedly disable the VGA plane with
every mode set and DPMS event.
Jesse Barnes [Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:06:44 +0000 (10:06 -0700)]
drm/i915: eDP mode set sequence corrections
We should disable the panel first when shutting down an eDP link. And
when turning one on, the panel needs to be enabled before link training
or eDP I/O won't be enabled.
Jesse Barnes [Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:04:43 +0000 (10:04 -0700)]
drm/i915: add panel reset workaround
Ironlake requires that we clear the reset panel bit during power
sequences and restore it afterwards. Uncondtionally add code to do that
since it should be harmless on SNB+.
Missed the declaration of sys_execve in the ia64 asm/unistd.h (perhaps
because there is no reason for it to be there ... it might be a left over
from the COMPAT code?). Just delete the conflicting version.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:35:08 +0000 (09:35 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
fs: brlock vfsmount_lock
fs: scale files_lock
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
tty: fix fu_list abuse
fs: cleanup files_lock locking
fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
apparmor: use task path helpers
fs: dentry allocation consolidation
fs: fix do_lookup false negative
mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries
hostfs ->follow_link() braino
hostfs: dumb (and usually harmless) tpyo - strncpy instead of strlcpy
remove SWRITE* I/O types
kill BH_Ordered flag
vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl
cramfs: only unlock new inodes
fix reiserfs_evict_inode end_writeback second call
Kusanagi Kouichi [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:32:37 +0000 (13:32 -0300)]
perf tools: Fix build error on read only source.
Parts of the build process were generating files outside the specified
O= directory, causing the build to fail on systems where the sources are
in a read only file system.
Fix it by using $(OUTPUT) on these locations.
Also check that $(OUTPUT) actually exists, just like the top level
kernel Makefile does. Otherwise the failure message emitted is
completely misleading.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100817140841.0859362C03A@msa106.auone-net.jp> Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:32:13 +0000 (09:32 -0700)]
Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf tools: Fix build on POSIX shells
latencytop: Fix kconfig dependency warnings
perf annotate tui: Fix exit and RIGHT keys handling
tracing: Sanitize value returned from write(trace_marker, "...", len)
tracing/events: Convert format output to seq_file
tracing: Extend recordmcount to better support Blackfin mcount
tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page reading out of page boundary
tracing: Fix an unallocated memory access in function_graph
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:27:10 +0000 (09:27 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu:
m68knommu: include sched.h in ColdFire/SPI driver
m68knommu: formatting of pointers in printk()
m68knommu: arch/m68k/include/asm/ide.h fix for nommu
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:26:42 +0000 (09:26 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md raid-1/10 Fix bio_rw bit manipulations again
md: provide appropriate return value for spare_active functions.
md: Notify sysfs when RAID1/5/10 disk is In_sync.
Update recovery_offset even when external metadata is used.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:26:17 +0000 (09:26 -0700)]
Merge branch 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6
* 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi.h: missing kernel-doc notation, please fix
of: fix missing headers for of_address_to_resource() in MTD and SysACE drivers
of: Fix missing includes
ata: update for of_device to platform_device replacement
microblaze: Fix of: eliminate of_device->node and dev_archdata->{of,prom}_node
microblaze: Fix of/address: Merge all of the bus translation code
booting-without-of: Remove nonexistent chapters from TOC, fix numbering
Joerg Roedel [Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:38:33 +0000 (14:38 +0200)]
x86-32: Separate 1:1 pagetables from swapper_pg_dir
This patch fixes machine crashes which occur when heavily exercising the
CPU hotplug codepaths on a 32-bit kernel. These crashes are caused by
AMD Erratum 383 and result in a fatal machine check exception. Here's
the scenario:
1. On 32-bit, the swapper_pg_dir page table is used as the initial page
table for booting a secondary CPU.
2. To make this work, swapper_pg_dir needs a direct mapping of physical
memory in it (the low mappings). By adding those low, large page (2M)
mappings (PAE kernel), we create the necessary conditions for Erratum
383 to occur.
3. Other CPUs which do not participate in the off- and onlining game may
use swapper_pg_dir while the low mappings are present (when leave_mm is
called). For all steps below, the CPU referred to is a CPU that is using
swapper_pg_dir, and not the CPU which is being onlined.
4. The presence of the low mappings in swapper_pg_dir can result
in TLB entries for addresses below __PAGE_OFFSET to be established
speculatively. These TLB entries are marked global and large.
5. When the CPU with such TLB entry switches to another page table, this
TLB entry remains because it is global.
6. The process then generates an access to an address covered by the
above TLB entry but there is a permission mismatch - the TLB entry
covers a large global page not accessible to userspace.
7. Due to this permission mismatch a new 4kb, user TLB entry gets
established. Further, Erratum 383 provides for a small window of time
where both TLB entries are present. This results in an uncorrectable
machine check exception signalling a TLB multimatch which panics the
machine.
There are two ways to fix this issue:
1. Always do a global TLB flush when a new cr3 is loaded and the
old page table was swapper_pg_dir. I consider this a hack hard
to understand and with performance implications
2. Do not use swapper_pg_dir to boot secondary CPUs like 64-bit
does.
This patch implements solution 2. It introduces a trampoline_pg_dir
which has the same layout as swapper_pg_dir with low_mappings. This page
table is used as the initial page table of the booting CPU. Later in the
bringup process, it switches to swapper_pg_dir and does a global TLB
flush. This fixes the crashes in our test cases.
-v2: switch to swapper_pg_dir right after entering start_secondary() so
that we are able to access percpu data which might not be mapped in the
trampoline page table.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100816123833.GB28147@aftab> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Hans Rosenfeld [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:19:50 +0000 (16:19 +0200)]
x86, cpu: Fix regression in AMD errata checking code
A bug in the family-model-stepping matching code caused the presence of
errata to go undetected when OSVW was not used. This causes hangs on
some K8 systems because the E400 workaround is not enabled.
Signed-off-by: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282141190-930137-1-git-send-email-hans.rosenfeld@amd.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Ryusuke Konishi [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:11:11 +0000 (21:11 +0900)]
nilfs2: wait for discard to finish
nilfs_discard_segment() doesn't wait for completion of discard
requests. This specifies BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag when calling
blkdev_issue_discard() in order to fix the sync failure.
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Jaroslav Kysela [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:08:17 +0000 (14:08 +0200)]
ALSA: emu10k1 - delay the PCM interrupts (add pcm_irq_delay parameter)
With some hardware combinations, the PCM interrupts are acknowledged
before the period boundary from the emu10k1 chip. The midlevel PCM code
gets confused and the playback stream is interrupted.
It seems that the interrupt processing shift by 2 samples is enough
to fix this issue. This default value does not harm other,
non-affected hardware.
More information: Kernel bugzilla bug#16300
[A copmile warning fixed by tiwai]
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Nick Piggin [Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:37:39 +0000 (04:37 +1000)]
fs: brlock vfsmount_lock
fs: brlock vfsmount_lock
Use a brlock for the vfsmount lock. It must be taken for write whenever
modifying the mount hash or associated fields, and may be taken for read when
performing mount hash lookups.
A new lock is added for the mnt-id allocator, so it doesn't need to take
the heavy vfsmount write-lock.
The number of atomics should remain the same for fastpath rlock cases, though
code would be slightly slower due to per-cpu access. Scalability is not not be
much improved in common cases yet, due to other locks (ie. dcache_lock) getting
in the way. However path lookups crossing mountpoints should be one case where
scalability is improved (currently requiring the global lock).
The slowpath is slower due to use of brlock. On a 64 core, 64 socket, 32 node
Altix system (high latency to remote nodes), a simple umount microbenchmark
(mount --bind mnt mnt2 ; umount mnt2 loop 1000 times), before this patch it
took 6.8s, afterwards took 7.1s, about 5% slower.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Nick Piggin [Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:37:38 +0000 (04:37 +1000)]
fs: scale files_lock
fs: scale files_lock
Improve scalability of files_lock by adding per-cpu, per-sb files lists,
protected with an lglock. The lglock provides fast access to the per-cpu lists
to add and remove files. It also provides a snapshot of all the per-cpu lists
(although this is very slow).
One difficulty with this approach is that a file can be removed from the list
by another CPU. We must track which per-cpu list the file is on with a new
variale in the file struct (packed into a hole on 64-bit archs). Scalability
could suffer if files are frequently removed from different cpu's list.
However loads with frequent removal of files imply short interval between
adding and removing the files, and the scheduler attempts to avoid moving
processes too far away. Also, even in the case of cross-CPU removal, the
hardware has much more opportunity to parallelise cacheline transfers with N
cachelines than with 1.
A worst-case test of 1 CPU allocating files subsequently being freed by N CPUs
degenerates to contending on a single lock, which is no worse than before. When
more than one CPU are allocating files, even if they are always freed by
different CPUs, there will be more parallelism than the single-lock case.
Testing results:
On a 2 socket, 8 core opteron, I measure the number of times the lock is taken
to remove the file, the number of times it is removed by the same CPU that
added it, and the number of times it is removed by the same node that added it.
So a file is removed from the same CPU it was added by over 90% of the time.
It remains within the same node 95% of the time.
Tim Chen ran some numbers for a 64 thread Nehalem system performing a compile.
throughput
2.6.34-rc2 24.5
+patch 24.9
us sys idle IO wait (in %)
2.6.34-rc2 51.25 28.25 17.25 3.25
+patch 53.75 18.5 19 8.75
So significantly less CPU time spent in kernel code, higher idle time and
slightly higher throughput.
Single threaded performance difference was within the noise of microbenchmarks.
That is not to say penalty does not exist, the code is larger and more memory
accesses required so it will be slightly slower.
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Nick Piggin [Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:37:37 +0000 (04:37 +1000)]
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
This patch introduces "local-global" locks (lglocks). These can be used to:
- Provide fast exclusive access to per-CPU data, with exclusive access to
another CPU's data allowed but possibly subject to contention, and to provide
very slow exclusive access to all per-CPU data.
- Or to provide very fast and scalable read serialisation, and to provide
very slow exclusive serialisation of data (not necessarily per-CPU data).
Brlocks are also implemented as a short-hand notation for the latter use
case.
Thanks to Paul for local/global naming convention.
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Nick Piggin [Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:37:36 +0000 (04:37 +1000)]
tty: fix fu_list abuse
tty: fix fu_list abuse
tty code abuses fu_list, which causes a bug in remount,ro handling.
If a tty device node is opened on a filesystem, then the last link to the inode
removed, the filesystem will be allowed to be remounted readonly. This is
because fs_may_remount_ro does not find the 0 link tty inode on the file sb
list (because the tty code incorrectly removed it to use for its own purpose).
This can result in a filesystem with errors after it is marked "clean".
Taking idea from Christoph's initial patch, allocate a tty private struct
at file->private_data and put our required list fields in there, linking
file and tty. This makes tty nodes behave the same way as other device nodes
and avoid meddling with the vfs, and avoids this bug.
The error handling is not trivial in the tty code, so for this bugfix, I take
the simple approach of using __GFP_NOFAIL and don't worry about memory errors.
This is not a problem because our allocator doesn't fail small allocs as a rule
anyway. So proper error handling is left as an exercise for tty hackers.
[ Arguably filesystem's device inode would ideally be divorced from the
driver's pseudo inode when it is opened, but in practice it's not clear whether
that will ever be worth implementing. ]
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Nick Piggin [Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:37:34 +0000 (04:37 +1000)]
fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash
fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash
Optimize lookup for create operations, where no dentry should often be
common-case. In cases where it is not, such as unlink, the added overhead
is much smaller than the removed.
Also, move comments about __d_lookup racyness to the __d_lookup call site.
d_lookup is intuitive; __d_lookup is what needs commenting. So in that same
vein, add kerneldoc comments to __d_lookup and clean up some of the comments:
- We are interested in how the RCU lookup works here, particularly with
renames. Make that explicit, and point to the document where it is explained
in more detail.
- RCU is pretty standard now, and macros make implementations pretty mindless.
If we want to know about RCU barrier details, we look in RCU code.
- Delete some boring legacy comments because we don't care much about how the
code used to work, more about the interesting parts of how it works now. So
comments about lazy LRU may be interesting, but would better be done in the
LRU or refcount management code.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Nick Piggin [Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:37:33 +0000 (04:37 +1000)]
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and
pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path
typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small.
Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the
dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a
real parallelism increase.
Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical
path lookup fastpath.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Nick Piggin [Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:37:30 +0000 (04:37 +1000)]
fs: fix do_lookup false negative
fs: fix do_lookup false negative
In do_lookup, if we initially find no dentry, we take the directory i_mutex and
re-check the lookup. If we find a dentry there, then we revalidate it if
needed. However if that revalidate asks for the dentry to be invalidated, we
return -ENOENT from do_lookup. What should happen instead is an attempt to
allocate and lookup a new dentry.
This is probably not noticed because it is rare. It is only reached if a
concurrent create races in first (in which case, the dentry probably won't be
invalidated anyway), or if the racy __d_lookup has failed due to a
false-negative (which is very rare).
Fix this by removing code and have it use the normal reval path.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Axel Lin [Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:09:09 +0000 (16:09 +0800)]
pxa3xx: fix ns2cycle equation
Test on a PXA310 platform with Samsung K9F2G08X0B NAND flash,
with tCH=5 and clk is 156MHz, ns2cycle(5, 156000000) returns -1.
ns2cycle returns negtive value will break NDTR0_tXX macros.
After checking the commit log, I found the problem is introduced by
commit 5b0d4d7c8a67c5ba3d35e6ceb0c5530cc6846db7
"[MTD] [NAND] pxa3xx: convert from ns to clock ticks more accurately"
To get num of clock cycles, we use below equation:
num of clock cycles = time (ns) / one clock cycle (ns) + 1
We need to add 1 cycle here because integer division will truncate the result.
It is possible the developers set the Min values in SPEC for timing settings.
Thus the truncate may cause problem, and it is safe to add an extra cycle here.
The various fields in NDTR{01} are in units of clock ticks minus one,
thus we should subtract 1 cycle then.
Thus the correct equation should be:
num of clock cycles = time (ns) / one clock cycle (ns) + 1 - 1
= time (ns) / one clock cycle (ns)
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lei Wen <leiwen@marvell.com> Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries
Limit the maximum number of mb_cache entries depending on the number of
hash buckets: if the only limit to the number of cache entries is the
available memory the hash chains can grow very long, taking a long time
to search.
At least partially solves https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22771.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
NeilBrown [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:16:05 +0000 (16:16 +1000)]
md raid-1/10 Fix bio_rw bit manipulations again
commit 7b6d91daee5cac6402186ff224c3af39d79f4a0e changed the behaviour
of a few variables in raid1 and raid10 from flags to bit-sets, but
left them as type 'bool' so they did not work.
These flags aren't real I/O types, but tell ll_rw_block to always
lock the buffer instead of giving up on a failed trylock.
Instead add a new write_dirty_buffer helper that implements this semantic
and use it from the existing SWRITE* callers. Note that the ll_rw_block
code had a bug where it didn't promote WRITE_SYNC_PLUG properly, which
this patch fixes.
In the ufs code clean up the helper that used to call ll_rw_block
to mirror sync_dirty_buffer, which is the function it implements for
compound buffers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Using the coldfire qspi driver, I get the following error:
drivers/spi/coldfire_qspi.c: In function 'mcfqspi_irq_handler':
drivers/spi/coldfire_qspi.c:166: error: 'TASK_NORMAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/spi/coldfire_qspi.c:166: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
It is solved by adding the following include to coldfire_sqpi.c:
#include <linux/sched.h>
Fix suggested by Jate Sujjavanich <jsujjavanich@syntech-fuelmaster.com>
m68knommu: arch/m68k/include/asm/ide.h fix for nommu
The arch/m68k/include/asm/ide.h produces errors when the IDE driver is compiled for my 523x uClinux system under kernel. The header makes some redefines of operators not defined in the arch/m68k/include/asm/io_no.h header. There are no separate mmio and iospace defines.
NeilBrown [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:56:59 +0000 (11:56 +1000)]
md: provide appropriate return value for spare_active functions.
md_check_recovery expects ->spare_active to return 'true' if any
spares were activated, but none of them do, so the consequent change
in 'degraded' is not notified through sysfs.
So count the number of spares activated, subtract it from 'degraded'
just once, and return it.
Reported-by: Adrian Drzewiecki <adriand@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When RAID1 is done syncing disks, it'll update the state
of synced rdevs to In_sync. But it neglected to notify
sysfs that the attribute changed. So any programs that
are waiting for an rdev's state to change will not be
woken.
(raid5/raid10 added by neilb)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Drzewiecki <adriand@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
NeilBrown [Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:09:31 +0000 (18:09 +1000)]
Update recovery_offset even when external metadata is used.
The update of ->recovery_offset in sync_sbs is appropriate even then external
metadata is in use. However sync_sbs is only called when native
metadata is used.
So move that update in to the top of md_update_sb (which is the only
caller of sync_sbs) before the test on ->external.
This moves the update out of ->write_lock protection, but those fields
only need ->reconfig_mutex protection which they still have.
Also move the test on ->persistent up to where ->external is set as
for metadata update purposes they are the same.
Clear MD_CHANGE_DEVS and MD_CHANGE_CLEAN as they can only be confusing
if ->external is set or ->persistent isn't.
Finally move the update of ->utime down as it is only relevent (like
the ->events update) for native metadata.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:36:19 +0000 (18:36 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
vt,console,kdb: preserve console_blanked while in kdb
vt: fix regression warnings from KMS merge
arm,kgdb: fix GDB_MAX_REGS no longer used
kgdb: add missing __percpu markup in arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
kdb: fix compile error without CONFIG_KALLSYMS
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:36:01 +0000 (18:36 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86:
platform/x86: move rfkill for Dell Mini 1012 to compal-laptop
thinkpad-acpi: Add KEY_CAMERA (Fn-F6) for Lenovo keyboards
thinkpad-acpi: add support for model-specific keymaps
thinkpad-acpi: lock down size of hotkey keymap
thinkpad-acpi: untangle ACPI/vendor backlight selection
thinkpad-acpi: find ACPI video device by synthetic HID
intel_ips: potential null dereference
drivers/platform/x86: Adjust confusing if indentation
x86: intel_ips: do not use PCI resources before pci_enable_device()
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:35:39 +0000 (18:35 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
nilfs2: fix false warning saying one of two super blocks is broken
nilfs2: fix list corruption after ifile creation failure
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:23:56 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
shmem: put_super must percpu_counter_destroy
list_add() corruption messages reported from shmem_fill_super()'s recently
introduced percpu_counter_init(): shmem_put_super() needs to remember to
percpu_counter_destroy(). And also check error from percpu_counter_init().
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Fix atomic64_t routine return values.
sparc64: Fix rwsem constant bug leading to hangs.
sparc: Hook up new fanotify and prlimit64 syscalls.
sparc: Really fix "console=" for serial consoles.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:11:49 +0000 (18:11 -0700)]
Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
VIDEO: amba clcd: don't disable an already disabled clock
ARM: Tighten check for allowable CPSR values
ARM: 6329/1: wire up sys_accept4() on ARM
ARM: 6328/1: Build with -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm
ARM: 6326/1: kgdb: fix GDB_MAX_REGS no longer used