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Paul Mackerras
d9024df02f [LMB] Restructure allocation loops to avoid unsigned underflow
There is a potential bug in __lmb_alloc_base where we subtract `size'
from the base address of a reserved region without checking whether
the subtraction could wrap around and produce a very large unsigned
value.  In fact it probably isn't possible to hit the bug in practice
since it would only occur in the situation where we can't satisfy the
allocation request and there is a reserved region starting at 0.

This fixes the potential bug by breaking out of the loop when we get
to the point where the base of the reserved region is less than the
size requested.  This also restructures the loop to be a bit easier to
follow.

The same logic got copied into lmb_alloc_nid_unreserved, so this makes
a similar change there.  Here the bug is more likely to be hit because
the outer loop  (in lmb_alloc_nid) goes through the memory regions in
increasing order rather than decreasing order as __lmb_alloc_base
does, and we are therefore more likely to hit the case where we are
testing against a reserved region with a base address of 0.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-15 21:22:17 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
300613e523 [LMB] Fix some whitespace and other formatting issues, use pr_debug
This makes no semantic changes.  It fixes the whitespace and formatting
a bit, gets rid of a local DBG macro and uses the equivalent pr_debug
instead, and restructures one while loop that had a function call and
assignment in the condition to be a bit more readable.  Some comments
about functions being called with relocation disabled were also removed
as they would just be confusing to most readers now that the code is
in lib/.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-15 21:22:17 +10:00
David S. Miller
c50f68c8ae [LMB] Add lmb_alloc_nid()
A variant of lmb_alloc() that tries to allocate memory on a specified
NUMA node 'nid' but falls back to normal lmb_alloc() if that fails.

The caller provides a 'nid_range' function pointer which assists the
allocator.  It is given args 'start', 'end', and pointer to integer
'this_nid'.

It places at 'this_nid' the NUMA node id that corresponds to 'start',
and returns the end address within 'start' to 'end' at which memory
assosciated with 'nid' ends.

This callback allows a platform to use lmb_alloc_nid() in just
about any context, even ones in which early_pfn_to_nid() might
not be working yet.

This function will be used by the NUMA setup code on sparc64, and also
it can be used by powerpc, replacing it's hand crafted
"careful_allocation()" function in arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c

If x86 ever converts it's NUMA support over to using the LMB helpers,
it can use this too as it has something entirely similar.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-15 21:22:17 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
ac7c5353b1 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2008-04-14 21:11:02 +10:00
Harvey Harrison
a1e58bbdc9 lzo: fix typo in decompressor
Shift of a LE value seems strange, probably meant to shift the cpu-order
variable as in the prvious section of the switch statement.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10 15:34:05 -07:00
Andi Kleen
61407f80f7 [NET]: srandom32 fixes for networking v2
- Let it update the state of all CPUs. The network stack goes
into pains to feed the current IP addresses in, but it is not very
effective if that is only done for some random CPU instead of all.
So change it to feed bits into all CPUs.  I decided to do that lockless 
because well somewhat random results are ok.

v2: Drop rename so that this patch doesn't depend on x86 maintainers

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-03 14:07:02 -07:00
Mark Lord
a9edadbf79 fix uevent action-string regression
Mark Lord wrote:
>
> On boot, syslog is flooded with "uevent: unsupported action-string;" messages.
..
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqd: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqe: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqf: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyr0: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
..

These messages are a regression compared with 2.6.24, which did not
flood the syslog with them.

The actual underlying problem was introduced in 2.6.23, when somebody
made the string parsing no longer accept nul-terminated strings as a
valid input to store_uevent().

Eg.  "add\0" was valid prior to 2.6.23, where the code regressed to
require "add" without the '\0'.

This patch fixes the 2.6.23 / 2.6.24 regressions, by having the code
once again tolerate the trailing '\0', if present.

According to GregKH, this mainly affects older Ubuntu systems, such as
the one I have here that requires this fix.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-30 14:55:49 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
54f53f2b94 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2008-03-26 08:44:18 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
b9e76a0074 x86-32: Pass the full resource data to ioremap()
It appears that 64-bit PCI resources cannot possibly ever have worked on
x86-32 even when the RESOURCES_64BIT config option was set, because any
driver that tried to [pci_]ioremap() the resource would have been unable
to do so because the high 32 bits would have been silently dropped on
the floor by the ioremap() routines that only used "unsigned long".

Change them to use "resource_size_t" instead, which properly encodes the
whole 64-bit resource data if RESOURCES_64BIT is enabled.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 11:22:39 -07:00
Tejun Heo
916fbfb7ae devres: implement pcim_iomap_regions_request_all()
Some drivers need to reserve all PCI BARs to prevent other drivers
misusing unoccupied BARs.  pcim_iomap_regions_request_all() requests
all BARs and iomap specified BARs.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-03-17 08:26:44 -04:00
Jan Beulich
b15a3891c9 avoid endless loops in lib/swiotlb.c
Commit 681cc5cd3e ("iommu sg merging:
swiotlb: respect the segment boundary limits") introduced two
possibilities for entering an endless loop in lib/swiotlb.c:

 - if max_slots is zero (possible if mask is ~0UL)
 - if the number of slots requested fits into a swiotlb segment, but is
   too large for the part of a segment which remains after considering
   offset_slots

This fixes them

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-13 13:15:52 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
bed04a4413 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2008-03-13 15:26:33 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
2c6f2db13a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
  debugfs: fix sparse warnings
  Driver core: Fix cleanup when failing device_add().
  driver core: Remove dpm_sysfs_remove() from error path of device_add()
  PM: fix new mutex-locking bug in the PM core
  PM: Do not acquire device semaphores upfront during suspend
  kobject: properly initialize ksets
  sysfs: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED fix
  driver core: fix up Kconfig text for CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
2008-03-04 16:37:35 -08:00
FUJITA Tomonori
3715863aa1 iommu: export iommu_is_span_boundary helper function
iommu_is_span_boundary is used internally in the IOMMU helper
(lib/iommu-helper.c), a primitive function that judges whether a memory area
spans LLD's segment boundary or not.

It's difficult to convert some IOMMUs to use the IOMMU helper but
iommu_is_span_boundary is still useful for them.  So this patch exports it.

This is needed for the parisc iommu fixes.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04 16:35:17 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a4573c488d kobject: properly initialize ksets
kset_initialize was calling kobject_init_internal() which didn't
initialize the kobject as well as kobject_init() was.  So have
kobject_init() call kobject_init_internal() and move the logic to
initalize the kobject there.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-04 14:47:05 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
f8303dd3db Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/lmb-2.6 2008-02-26 21:08:45 +11:00
Hoang-Nam Nguyen
4f9d5f4a35 lib/vsprintf.c: fix bug omitting minus sign of numbers (module_param)
lib/vsprintf.c: Fix bug omitting minus sign of numbers (module_param)

Signed-off-by: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-23 17:12:14 -08:00
Chris Snook
fddd9cf82c make LKDTM depend on BLOCK
Make LKDTM depend on BLOCK to prevent build failures with certain configs.

Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-23 17:12:13 -08:00
Kumar Gala
74b20dad1c [LMB]: Fix lmb_add_region if region should be added at the head
We introduced a bug in fixing lmb_add_region to handle an initial
region being non-zero.  Before that fix it was impossible to insert a
region at the head of the list since the first region always started
at zero.

Now that its possible for the first region to be non-zero we need to
check to see if the new region should be added at the head and if so
actually add it.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-19 21:28:18 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
fa2144ba9a kbuild: explain why DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH is UNDEFINED
We started to see patches enabling this - so explain why
it is disabled and the condition to enable it again.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-02-15 13:53:11 +01:00
Becky Bruce
e5f2709543 [LMB]: Make lmb support large physical addressing
Convert the lmb code to use u64 instead of unsigned long for physical
addresses and sizes.  This is needed to support large amounts of RAM
on 32-bit systems that support 36-bit physical addressing.

Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-13 16:58:39 -08:00
Kumar Gala
27e6672bb9 [LMB]: Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero base
If we add to an empty lmb region with a non-zero base we will not
coalesce the number of regions down to one.  This causes problems on
ppc32 for the memory region as its assumed to only have one region.

We can fix this be easily specially casing the initial add to just
replace the dummy region.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-13 16:58:11 -08:00
David S. Miller
eea89e13a9 [LMB]: Fix bug in __lmb_alloc_base().
We need to check lmb_add_region() for errors, it can run out
of regions etc.

Also, the size needs to be padded to the given alignment
or else the lmb.reserved regions don't get expanded and
instead we get tons of holes and eventually run out of
regions prematurely.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-13 16:57:09 -08:00
David S. Miller
d9b2b2a277 [LIB]: Make PowerPC LMB code generic so sparc64 can use it too.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-13 16:56:49 -08:00
Denys Vlasenko
9b706aee7d x86: trivial printk optimizations
In arch/x86/boot/printf.c gets rid of unused tail of digits: const char
*digits = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; (we are using 0-9a-f
only)

Uses smaller/faster lowercasing (by ORing with 0x20)
if we know that we work on numbers/digits. Makes
strtoul smaller, and also we are getting rid of

  static const char small_digits[] = "0123456789abcdefx";
  static const char large_digits[] = "0123456789ABCDEFX";

since this works equally well:

  static const char digits[16] = "0123456789ABCDEF";

Size savings:

$ size vmlinux.org vmlinux
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 877320  112252   90112 1079684  107984 vmlinux.org
 877048  112252   90112 1079412  107874 vmlinux

It may be also a tiny bit faster because code has less
branches now, but I doubt it is measurable.

[ hugh@veritas.com: uppercase pointers fix ]

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-09 23:24:09 +01:00
Harvey Harrison
185c045c24 x86, core: remove CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
Other than the defconfigs, remove the entry in compiler-gcc4.h,
Kconfig.debug and feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-09 23:24:09 +01:00
Guennadi Liakhovetski
4600ecfcf3 lib/scatterlist.o needed by a module only - link it in unconditionally
lib/scatterlist.c is needed by drivers/media/video/videobuf-dma-sg.c, and
we would like to be able to use the latter without PCI too, for example, on
PXA270 ARM CPU.  It is then possible to create a configuration with
CONFIG_BLOCK=n, where only module code will need scatterlist.c.  Therefore
it must be in obj-y.

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 15:33:33 -08:00
Yi Yang
06b2a76d25 Add new string functions strict_strto* and convert kernel params to use them
Currently, for every sysfs node, the callers will be responsible for
implementing store operation, so many many callers are doing duplicate
things to validate input, they have the same mistakes because they are
calling simple_strtol/ul/ll/uul, especially for module params, they are
just numeric, but you can echo such values as 0x1234xxx, 07777888 and
1234aaa, for these cases, module params store operation just ignores
succesive invalid char and converts prefix part to a numeric although input
is acctually invalid.

This patch tries to fix the aforementioned issues and implements
strict_strtox serial functions, kernel/params.c uses them to strictly
validate input, so module params will reject such values as 0x1234xxxx and
returns an error:

write error: Invalid argument

Any modules which export numeric sysfs node can use strict_strtox instead of
simple_strtox to reject any invalid input.

Here are some test results:

Before applying this patch:

[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000g > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000gggggggg > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0100008 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000aaaaa > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]#

After applying this patch:

[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000g > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000gggggggg > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0100008 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000aaaaa > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo -n 4096 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]#

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix compiler warnings]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix off-by-one found by tiwai@suse.de]
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
8b88b0998e libfs: allow error return from simple attributes
Sometimes simple attributes might need to return an error, e.g. for
acquiring a mutex interruptibly.  In fact we have that situation in
spufs already which is the original user of the simple attributes.  This
patch merged the temporarily forked attributes in spufs back into the
main ones and allows to return errors.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:34 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
9f741cb8fe lib: remove fastcall from lib/*
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
David Howells
b920de1b77 mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel
Add architecture support for the MN10300/AM33 CPUs produced by MEI to the
kernel.

This patch also adds board support for the ASB2303 with the ASB2308 daughter
board, and the ASB2305.  The only processor supported is the MN103E010, which
is an AM33v2 core plus on-chip devices.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke cvs control strings]
Signed-off-by: Masakazu Urade <urade.masakazu@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
8ff12cfc00 SLUB: Support for performance statistics
The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior but
at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in
SLUB's per cpu data structure. The per cpu structure may be extended by the
statistics to grow larger than one cacheline which will increase the cache
footprint of SLUB.

There is a compile option to enable/disable the inclusion of the runtime
statistics and its off by default.

The slabinfo tool is enhanced to support these statistics via two options:

-D 	Switches the line of information displayed for a slab from size
	mode to activity mode.

-A	Sorts the slabs displayed by activity. This allows the display of
	the slabs most important to the performance of a certain load.

-r	Report option will report detailed statistics on

Example (tbench load):

slabinfo -AD		->Shows the most active slabs

Name                   Objects    Alloc     Free   %Fast
skbuff_fclone_cache         33 111953835 111953835  99  99
:0000192                  2666  5283688  5281047  99  99
:0001024                   849  5247230  5246389  83  83
vm_area_struct            1349   119642   118355  91  22
:0004096                    15    66753    66751  98  98
:0000064                  2067    25297    23383  98  78
dentry                   10259    28635    18464  91  45
:0000080                 11004    18950     8089  98  98
:0000096                  1703    12358    10784  99  98
:0000128                   762    10582     9875  94  18
:0000512                   184     9807     9647  95  81
:0002048                   479     9669     9195  83  65
anon_vma                   777     9461     9002  99  71
kmalloc-8                 6492     9981     5624  99  97
:0000768                   258     7174     6931  58  15

So the skbuff_fclone_cache is of highest importance for the tbench load.
Pretty high load on the 192 sized slab. Look for the aliases

slabinfo -a | grep 000192
:0000192     <- xfs_btree_cur filp kmalloc-192 uid_cache tw_sock_TCP
	request_sock_TCPv6 tw_sock_TCPv6 skbuff_head_cache xfs_ili

Likely skbuff_head_cache.


Looking into the statistics of the skbuff_fclone_cache is possible through

slabinfo skbuff_fclone_cache	->-r option implied if cache name is mentioned


.... Usual output ...

Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
--------------------------------------------------
Fastpath             111953360 111946981  99  99
Slowpath                 1044     7423   0   0
Page Alloc                272      264   0   0
Add partial                25      325   0   0
Remove partial             86      264   0   0
RemoteObj/SlabFrozen      350     4832   0   0
Total                111954404 111954404

Flushes       49 Refill        0
Deactivate Full=325(92%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=24(6%) ToTail=1(0%)

Looks good because the fastpath is overwhelmingly taken.


skbuff_head_cache:

Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
--------------------------------------------------
Fastpath              5297262  5259882  99  99
Slowpath                 4477    39586   0   0
Page Alloc                937      824   0   0
Add partial                 0     2515   0   0
Remove partial           1691      824   0   0
RemoteObj/SlabFrozen     2621     9684   0   0
Total                 5301739  5299468

Deactivate Full=2620(100%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=0(0%) ToTail=0(0%)


Descriptions of the output:

Total:		The total number of allocation and frees that occurred for a
		slab

Fastpath:	The number of allocations/frees that used the fastpath.

Slowpath:	Other allocations

Page Alloc:	Number of calls to the page allocator as a result of slowpath
		processing

Add Partial:	Number of slabs added to the partial list through free or
		alloc (occurs during cpuslab flushes)

Remove Partial:	Number of slabs removed from the partial list as a result of
		allocations retrieving a partial slab or by a free freeing
		the last object of a slab.

RemoteObj/Froz:	How many times were remotely freed object encountered when a
		slab was about to be deactivated. Frozen: How many times was
		free able to skip list processing because the slab was in use
		as the cpuslab of another processor.

Flushes:	Number of times the cpuslab was flushed on request
		(kmem_cache_shrink, may result from races in __slab_alloc)

Refill:		Number of times we were able to refill the cpuslab from
		remotely freed objects for the same slab.

Deactivate:	Statistics how slabs were deactivated. Shows how they were
		put onto the partial list.

In general fastpath is very good. Slowpath without partial list processing is
also desirable. Any touching of partial list uses node specific locks which
may potentially cause list lock contention.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-02-07 17:47:41 -08:00
Andrew Morton
b41ecbebd4 debug_smp_processor_id() fixlets
- Account for debug_smp_processor_id()'s own preempt_disable() when
  displaying the preempt_count().

- 80 cols, not 800.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
15ae02baf0 lib/extable.c: remove an expensive integer divide in search_extable()
Actual code let compiler generates idiv instruction on x86.

Using a right shift is OK here and readable as well.

Before patch
   10:   57                      push   %edi
   11:   56                      push   %esi
   12:   89 d6                   mov    %edx,%esi
   14:   53                      push   %ebx
   15:   89 c3                   mov    %eax,%ebx
   17:   eb 22                   jmp    3b <search_extable+0x2b>
   19:   89 f0                   mov    %esi,%eax
   1b:   ba 02 00 00 00          mov    $0x2,%edx
   20:   29 d8                   sub    %ebx,%eax
   22:   89 d7                   mov    %edx,%edi
   24:   c1 f8 03                sar    $0x3,%eax
   27:   99                      cltd
   28:   f7 ff                   idiv   %edi
   2a:   8d 04 c3                lea    (%ebx,%eax,8),%eax
   2d:   39 08                   cmp    %ecx,(%eax)
...

After patch

00000010 <search_extable>:
   10:   53                      push   %ebx
   11:   89 c3                   mov    %eax,%ebx
   13:   eb 18                   jmp    2d <search_extable+0x1d>
   15:   89 d0                   mov    %edx,%eax
   17:   29 d8                   sub    %ebx,%eax
   19:   c1 f8 04                sar    $0x4,%eax
   1c:   8d 04 c3                lea    (%ebx,%eax,8),%eax
   1f:   39 08                   cmp    %ecx,(%eax)
...

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
Nick Piggin
e2848a0efe radix-tree: avoid atomic allocations for preloaded insertions
Most pagecache (and some other) radix tree insertions have the great
opportunity to preallocate a few nodes with relaxed gfp flags.  But the
preallocation is squandered when it comes time to allocate a node, we
default to first attempting a GFP_ATOMIC allocation -- that doesn't
normally fail, but it can eat into atomic memory reserves that we don't
need to be using.

Another upshot of this is that it removes the sometimes highly contended
zone->lock from underneath tree_lock.  Pagecache insertions are always
performed with a radix tree preload, and after this change, such a
situation will never fall back to kmem_cache_alloc within
radix_tree_node_alloc.

David Miller reports seeing this allocation fail on a highly threaded
sparc64 system:

[527319.459981] dd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
[527319.460403] Call Trace:
[527319.460568]  [00000000004b71e0] __slab_alloc+0x1b0/0x6a8
[527319.460636]  [00000000004b7bbc] kmem_cache_alloc+0x4c/0xa8
[527319.460698]  [000000000055309c] radix_tree_node_alloc+0x20/0x90
[527319.460763]  [0000000000553238] radix_tree_insert+0x12c/0x260
[527319.460830]  [0000000000495cd0] add_to_page_cache+0x38/0xb0
[527319.460893]  [00000000004e4794] mpage_readpages+0x6c/0x134
[527319.460955]  [000000000049c7fc] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x170/0x280
[527319.461028]  [000000000049cc88] ondemand_readahead+0x208/0x214
[527319.461094]  [0000000000496018] do_generic_mapping_read+0xe8/0x428
[527319.461152]  [0000000000497948] generic_file_aio_read+0x108/0x170
[527319.461217]  [00000000004badac] do_sync_read+0x88/0xd0
[527319.461292]  [00000000004bb5cc] vfs_read+0x78/0x10c
[527319.461361]  [00000000004bb920] sys_read+0x34/0x60
[527319.461424]  [0000000000406294] linux_sparc_syscall32+0x3c/0x40

The calltrace is significant: __do_page_cache_readahead allocates a number
of pages with GFP_KERNEL, and hence it should have reclaimed sufficient
memory to satisfy GFP_ATOMIC allocations.  However after the list of pages
goes to mpage_readpages, there can be significant intervals (including disk
IO) before all the pages are inserted into the radix-tree.  So the reserves
can easily be depleted at that point.  The patch is confirmed to fix the
problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:17 -08:00
FUJITA Tomonori
681cc5cd3e iommu sg merging: swiotlb: respect the segment boundary limits
This patch makes swiotlb not allocate a memory area spanning LLD's segment
boundary.

is_span_boundary() judges whether a memory area spans LLD's segment boundary.
If map_single finds such a area, map_single tries to find the next available
memory area.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:12 -08:00
FUJITA Tomonori
0291df8cc9 iommu sg: add IOMMU helper functions for the free area management
This adds IOMMU helper functions for the free area management.  These
functions take care of LLD's segment boundary limit for IOMMUs.  They would be
useful for IOMMUs that use bitmap for the free area management.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f5bb3a5e9d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (79 commits)
  Jesper Juhl is the new trivial patches maintainer
  Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: spello fix
  do_invalidatepage() comment typo fix
  Documentation/filesystems/porting fixes
  typo fixes in net/core/net_namespace.c
  typo fix in net/rfkill/rfkill.c
  typo fixes in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
  lib/: Spelling fixes
  kernel/: Spelling fixes
  include/scsi/: Spelling fixes
  include/linux/: Spelling fixes
  include/asm-m68knommu/: Spelling fixes
  include/asm-frv/: Spelling fixes
  fs/: Spelling fixes
  drivers/watchdog/: Spelling fixes
  drivers/video/: Spelling fixes
  drivers/ssb/: Spelling fixes
  drivers/serial/: Spelling fixes
  drivers/scsi/: Spelling fixes
  ...
2008-02-04 07:58:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
519cb68807 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
  scsi: fix dependency bug in aic7 Makefile
  kbuild: add svn revision information to setlocalversion
  kbuild: do not warn about __*init/__*exit symbols being exported
  Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig
  Add HAVE_KPROBES
  Add HAVE_OPROFILE
  Create arch/Kconfig
  Fix ARM to play nicely with generic Instrumentation menu
  kconfig: ignore select of unknown symbol
  kconfig: mark config as changed when loading an alternate config
  kbuild: Spelling/grammar fixes for config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
  Remove __INIT_REFOK and __INITDATA_REFOK
  kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces found
2008-02-04 07:56:17 -08:00
Joe Perches
643d1f7fe3 lib/: Spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 17:48:52 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
d6fbfa4fce kbuild: Spelling/grammar fixes for config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
Including additional fixes from Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-02-03 08:58:07 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
e5f95c8b77 kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces found
We have too many section mismatches detected at the moment.
So silence modpost and prevent the option from being
set in a typical allyesconfig build.

Tell the user how to see all the deteils in the summary
message from modpost.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-02-03 08:58:07 +01:00
Dave Young
f70701a34e kobject: kerneldoc comment fix
Fix kerneldoc comment of kobject_create.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-02 15:14:48 -08:00
Heiko Carstens
aa7d93506c latencytop: Change Kconfig dependency.
Change latencytop Kconfig entry so it doesn't list the archictectures
that support it. Instead introduce HAVE_LATENCY_SUPPORT which any
architecture can set. Should reduce patch conflicts.

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Holger Wolf <wolf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-01 17:45:14 +01:00
Bernhard Kaindl
f212ec4b7b x86: early boot debugging via FireWire (ohci1394_dma=early)
This patch adds a new configuration option, which adds support for a new
early_param which gets checked in arch/x86/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c:setup_arch()
to decide wether OHCI-1394 FireWire controllers should be initialized and
enabled for physical DMA access to allow remote debugging of early problems
like issues ACPI or other subsystems which are executed very early.

If the config option is not enabled, no code is changed, and if the boot
paramenter is not given, no new code is executed, and independent of that,
all new code is freed after boot, so the config option can be even enabled
in standard, non-debug kernels.

With specialized tools, it is then possible to get debugging information
from machines which have no serial ports (notebooks) such as the printk
buffer contents, or any data which can be referenced from global pointers,
if it is stored below the 4GB limit and even memory dumps of of the physical
RAM region below the 4GB limit can be taken without any cooperation from the
CPU of the host, so the machine can be crashed early, it does not matter.

In the extreme, even kernel debuggers can be accessed in this way. I wrote
a small kgdb module and an accompanying gdb stub for FireWire which allows
to gdb to talk to kgdb using remote remory reads and writes over FireWire.

An version of the gdb stub fore FireWire is able to read all global data
from a system which is running a a normal kernel without any kernel debugger,
without any interruption or support of the system's CPU. That way, e.g. the
task struct and so on can be read and even manipulated when the physical DMA
access is granted.

A HOWTO is included in this patch, in Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
and I've put a copy online at
ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt

It also has links to all the tools which are available to make use of it
another copy of it is online at:
ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/kernel/ohci1394_dma_early-v2.diff

Signed-Off-By: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de>
Tested-By: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:34:11 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
6dab27784b x86: add a simple backtrace test module
During the work on the x86 32 and 64 bit backtrace code I found it useful
to have a simple test module to test a process and irq context backtrace.
Since the existing backtrace code was buggy, I figure it might be useful
to have such a test module in the kernel so that maybe we can even
detect such bugs earlier..

[ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ]

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:08 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d50efc6c40 x86: fix UML and -regparm=3
introduce the "asmregparm" calling convention: for functions
implemented in assembly with a fixed regparm input parameters
calling convention.

mark the semaphore and rwsem slowpath functions with that.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:00 +01:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
8c1c935642 x86: kprobes: add kprobes smoke tests that run on boot
Here is a quick and naive smoke test for kprobes. This is intended to
just verify if some unrelated change broke the *probes subsystem. It is
self contained, architecture agnostic and isn't of any great use by itself.

This needs to be built in the kernel and runs a basic set of tests to
verify if kprobes, jprobes and kretprobes run fine on the kernel. In case
of an error, it'll print out a message with a "BUG" prefix.

This is a start; we intend to add more tests to this bucket over time.

Thanks to Jim Keniston and Masami Hiramatsu for comments and suggestions.

Tested on x86 (32/64) and powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-30 13:32:53 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
0ba6c33bcd Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25: (1470 commits)
  [IPV6] ADDRLABEL: Fix double free on label deletion.
  [PPP]: Sparse warning fixes.
  [IPV4] fib_trie: remove unneeded NULL check
  [IPV4] fib_trie: More whitespace cleanup.
  [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in ematches
  [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in actions
  [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in classifiers
  [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in packet schedulers
  [NET_SCHED]: sch_api: introduce constant for rate table size
  [NET_SCHED]: Use typeful attribute parsing helpers
  [NET_SCHED]: Use typeful attribute construction helpers
  [NET_SCHED]: Use NLA_PUT_STRING for string dumping
  [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_nest_start/nla_nest_end
  [NET_SCHED]: Propagate nla_parse return value
  [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use PTR_ERR in tcf_action_init/tcf_action_get
  [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use nlmsg_parse
  [NET_SCHED]: act_api: fix netlink API conversion bug
  [NET_SCHED]: sch_netem: use nla_parse_nested_compat
  [NET_SCHED]: sch_atm: fix format string warning
  [NETNS]: Add namespace for ICMP replying code.
  ...
2008-01-29 22:54:01 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
5ea293a904 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (79 commits)
  Remove references to "make dep"
  kconfig: document use of HAVE_*
  Introduce new section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst
  kbuild: warn about ld added unique sections
  kbuild: add verbose option to Section mismatch reporting in modpost
  kconfig: tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values
  asm-generic/vmlix.lds.h: simplify __mem{init,exit}* dependencies
  remove __attribute_used__
  kbuild: support ARCH=x86 in buildtar
  kconfig: remove "enable"
  kbuild: simplified warning report in modpost
  kbuild: introduce a few helpers in modpost
  kbuild: use simpler section mismatch warnings in modpost
  kbuild: link vmlinux.o before kallsyms passes
  kbuild: introduce new option to enhance section mismatch analysis
  Use separate sections for __dev/__cpu/__mem code/data
  compiler.h: introduce __section()
  all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h
  kbuild: check section names consistently in modpost
  kbuild: introduce blacklisting in modpost
  ...
2008-01-29 22:46:14 +11:00