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Simon Arlott
72fdbdce3d [IA64] spelling fixes: arch/ia64/
Spelling and apostrophe fixes in arch/ia64/.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-05-11 14:55:43 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-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>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Nick Piggin
41d5e5d73e [IA64] permon use-after-free fix
Perfmon associates vmalloc()ed memory with a file descriptor, and installs
a vma mapping that memory.  Unfortunately, the vm_file field is not filled
in, so processes with mappings to that memory do not prevent the file from
being closed and the memory freed.  This results in use-after-free bugs and
multiple freeing of pages, etc.

I saw this bug on an Altix on SLES9.  Haven't reproduced upstream but it
looks like the same issue is there.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-03-06 14:49:52 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
85d1fe095c Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore".
Fix "spin_lock_irqrestore" to "spin_unlock_irqrestore."

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17 19:21:17 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman
0b4d414714 [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
4e00990118 [PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon and remove ABI breakage
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>
2007-02-14 08:09:56 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
5dfe4c964a [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 2
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>
2007-02-12 09:48:44 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
c376222960 [PATCH] Transform kmem_cache_alloc()+memset(0) -> kmem_cache_zalloc().
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>
2007-02-11 10:51:27 -08:00
Josef Sipek
b66ffad904 [PATCH] struct path: convert ia64
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6ee7e78e7c Merge branch 'release' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
  [IA64] resolve name clash by renaming is_available_memory()
  [IA64] Need export for csum_ipv6_magic
  [IA64] Fix DISCONTIGMEM without VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP
  [PATCH] Add support for type argument in PAL_GET_PSTATE
  [IA64] tidy up return value of ip_fast_csum
  [IA64] implement csum_ipv6_magic for ia64.
  [IA64] More Itanium PAL spec updates
  [IA64] Update processor_info features
  [IA64] Add se bit to Processor State Parameter structure
  [IA64] Add dp bit to cache and bus check structs
  [IA64] SN: Correctly update smp_affinty mask
  [IA64] sparse cleanups
  [IA64] IA64 Kexec/kdump
2006-12-07 15:39:22 -08:00
Yan Burman
52fd91088b [IA64] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
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>
2006-12-07 13:46:43 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e94b176609 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL
SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
Tony Luck
3bbe486b36 [IA64] perfmon fix for global IRQ fix
Missed one piece of ia64 fallout from the global IRQ patch
 7d12e780e0

Perfmon interrupt handler needs to use get_irq_regs() too.

Acked-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-10-17 14:28:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cdb8355add Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] minor reformatting to vmlinux.lds.S
  [IA64] CMC/CPE: Reverse the order of fetching log and checking poll threshold
  [IA64] PAL calls need physical mode, stacked
  [IA64] ar.fpsr not set on MCA/INIT kernel entry
  [IA64] printing support for MCA/INIT
  [IA64] trim output of show_mem()
  [IA64] show_mem() printk levels
  [IA64] Make gp value point to Region 5 in mca handler
  Revert "[IA64] Unwire set/get_robust_list"
  [IA64] Implement futex primitives
  [IA64-SGI] Do not request DMA memory for BTE
  [IA64] Move perfmon tables from thread_struct to pfm_context
  [IA64] Add interface so modules can discover whether multithreading is on.
  [IA64] kprobes: fixup the pagefault exception caused by probehandlers
  [IA64] kprobe opcode 16 bytes alignment on IA64
  [IA64] esi-support
  [IA64] Add "model name" to /proc/cpuinfo
2006-09-27 10:53:30 -07:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S
35589a8fa8 [IA64] Move perfmon tables from thread_struct to pfm_context
This patch renders thread_struct->pmcs[] and thread_struct->pmds[]
OBSOLETE. The actual table is moved to pfm_context structure which
saves space in thread_struct (in turn saving space in task_struct
which frees up more space for kernel stacks).

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-09-26 12:03:13 -07:00
Andrew Morton
a3bc0dbc81 [PATCH] smp_call_function_single() cleanup
If we're going to implement smp_call_function_single() on three architecture
with the same prototype then it should have a declaration in a
non-arch-specific header file.

Move it into <linux/smp.h>.

Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:56 -07:00
Stephane Eranian
b8444d0076 [IA64] correct file descriptor reference counting in perfmon
Fix a bug in sys_perfmonctl() whereby it was not correctly
decrementing the file descriptor reference count.

Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-09-08 10:59:14 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
121a4226e8 [PATCH] irq-flags: IA64: Use the new IRQF_ constants
Use the new IRQF_ constants and remove the SA_INTERRUPT define

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c0ad90a32f [PATCH] genirq: add ->retrigger() irq op to consolidate hw_irq_resend()
Add ->retrigger() irq op to consolidate hw_irq_resend() implementations.
(Most architectures had it defined to NOP anyway.)

NOTE: ia64 needs testing. i386 and x86_64 tested.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-29 10:26:23 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
75e1fcc0b1 [PATCH] vfs: add lock owner argument to flush operation
Pass the POSIX lock owner ID to the flush operation.

This is useful for filesystems which don't want to store any locking state
in inode->i_flock but want to handle locking/unlocking POSIX locks
internally.  FUSE is one such filesystem but I think it possible that some
network filesystems would need this also.

Also add a flag to indicate that a POSIX locking request was generated by
close(), so filesystems using the above feature won't send an extra locking
request in this case.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:43:02 -07:00
David Howells
454e2398be [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount
Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

 (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
     pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
     very little.

 (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
     normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
     always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

 (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
     dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

     This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
     aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
     currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
     and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
     dentries being left unculled.

     However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
     implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
     simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
     inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
     with child trees.

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

 (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
     changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
Tony Luck
536ea4e419 Pull bsp-removal into release branch 2006-03-21 08:16:21 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
60f1c4443c [IA64] sem2mutex: arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
Migrate perfmon from using an old semaphore to a completion handler.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-19 11:17:56 -08:00
Stephane Eranian
9179cb6578 [IA64] Perfmon for Montecito
Add Montecito PMU description table for perfmon2

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-16 10:31:44 -08:00
Al Viro
6450578f32 [PATCH] ia64: task_pt_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:58 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
a941564458 [PATCH] capable/capability.h (arch/)
arch: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
Ashok Raj
ff741906ad [IA64] support for cpu0 removal
here is the BSP removal support for IA64. Its pretty much the same thing that
was released a while back, but has your feedback incorporated.

- Removed CONFIG_BSP_REMOVE_WORKAROUND and associated cmdline param
- Fixed compile issue with sn2/zx1 due to a undefined fix_b0_for_bsp
- some formatting nits (whitespace etc)

This has been tested on tiger and long back by alex on hp systems as well.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-05 10:24:20 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
b2325fe1b7 [PATCH] kfree cleanup: arch
This is the arch/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in arch/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
ab50b8ed81 [PATCH] mm: vm_stat_account unshackled
The original vm_stat_account has fallen into disuse, with only one user, and
only one user of vm_stat_unaccount.  It's easier to keep track if we convert
them all to __vm_stat_account, then free it from its __shackles.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Dipankar Sarma
4fb3a53860 [PATCH] files: fix preemption issues
With the new fdtable locking rules, you have to protect fdtable with either
->file_lock or rcu_read_lock/unlock().  There are some places where we
aren't doing either.  This patch fixes those places.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
Peter Chubb
24b8e0cc09 [IA64] Remove warnings for gcc 4.0 IA64 compilation.
This patch removes some compilation warnings, mostly
trivially. acpi.c fix also noted by Kenji Kaneshige.

Signed-off-by; Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-16 09:45:27 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
a9f6a0dd54 [PATCH] more SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED -> DEFINE_SPINLOCK conversions
This converts the final 20 DEFINE_SPINLOCK holdouts.  (another 580 places
are already using DEFINE_SPINLOCK).  Build tested on x86.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Dipankar Sarma
badf16621c [PATCH] files: break up files struct
In order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must
be updated atomically.  Instead of ensuring this through too many memory
barriers, we put the arrays and their sizes in a separate structure.  This
patch takes the first step of putting the file table elements in a separate
structure fdtable that is embedded withing files_struct.  It also changes all
the users to refer to the file table using files_fdtable() macro.  Subsequent
applciation of RCU becomes easier after this.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:55 -07:00
stephane.eranian@hp.com
6bf11e8c70 [IA64] fix perfmon context load
The PFM_LOAD_CONTEXT may fail silently and cause a session
to remain reserved even though it should not. This can happen
when the commands succeeds in reserving the session but fails
when it actually tries to attach to the load_pid. In that case,
the command has failed but will return 0. More importantly,
the session will remain reserved. This patch fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: <stephane.eranian@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-10 16:21:58 -07:00
Olaf Hering
d0feafbf14 [IA64] remove linux/version.h include from arch/ia64
changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no appearent reason.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-11 09:58:52 -07:00
Tony Luck
fffcc150a2 [IA64] Use "PER_CPU" form of EXPORT macro
I was gently reminded that there are per-cpu forms of the EXPORT_SYMBOL macros.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-31 10:38:32 -07:00
Tony Luck
fe12e25ebd [IA64] initialize spinlock pfm_alt_install_check
I applied the penultimate version of the perfmon patch, which didn't have
the initialization of the new spinlock that was added.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-18 17:09:06 -07:00
Tony Luck
a1ecf7f6e6 [IA64] alternate perfmon handler
Patch from Charles Spirakis

Some linux customers want to optimize their applications on the latest
hardware but are not yet willing to upgrade to the latest kernel. This
patch provides a way to plug in an alternate, basic, and GPL'ed PMU
subsystem to help with their monitoring needs or for specialty work. It
can also be used in case of serious unexpected bugs in perfmon. Mutual
exclusion between the two subsystems is guaranteed, hence no conflict
can arise from both subsystem being present.

Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-18 16:14:30 -07:00
stephane eranian
a5a70b75d9 [IA64] another perfmon fix (take2)
- pfm_context_load(): change return value from EINVAL to EBUSY
  when context is already loaded.

- pfm_check_task_state(): pass test if context state is MASKED.
  It is safe to give access on PFM_CTX_MASKED because the PMU
  state (PMD) is stable and saved in software state.
  This helps multiplexing programs such as the example given
  in libpfm-3.1.

Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03 15:47:58 -07:00
Stephane Eranian
8df5a500a3 [IA64] perfmon & PAL_HALT again
The pmu_active test is based on the values of PSR.up. THIS IS THE PROBLEM as
it does not take into account the lazy restore logic which is as follow (simplified):

context switch out:
	save PMDs
	clear psr.up
	release ownership

context switch in:
	if (ctx->last_cpu == smp_processor_id() && ctx->cpu_activation == cpu_activation) {
		set psr.up
		return
	}
	restore PMD
	restore PMC
	ctx->last_cpu   = smp_processor_id();
	ctx->activation = ++cpu_activation;
	set psr.up

The key here is that on context switch out, we clear psr.up and on context switch in
we check if nobody else used the PMU on that processor since last time we came. In
that case, we assume the PMD/PMC are ours and we simply reactivate.

The Caliper problem is that between the moment we context switch out and the moment we
come back, nobody effectively used the PMU BUT the processor went idle. Normally this
would have no incidence but PAL_HALT does alter the PMU registers.  In default_idle(),
the test on psr.up is not strong enough to cover this case and we go into PAL which
trashed the PMU resgisters. When we come back we falsely assume that this is our state
yet it is corrupted. Very nasty indeed.

To avoid the problem it is necessary to forbid going to PAL_HALT as soon as perfmon
installs some valid state in the PMU registers. This happens with an application
attaches a context to a thread or CPU. It is not enough to check the psr/dcr bits.
Hence I propose the attached patch. It adds a callback in process.c to modify the
condition to enter PAL on idle. Basically, now it is conditional to pal_halt=1 AND
perfmon saying it is okay.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03 15:44:48 -07:00
Stephane Eranian
4944930ab7 [IA64] perfmon: make pfm_sysctl a global, and other cleanup
- make pfm_sysctl a global such that it is possible
  to enable/disable debug printk in sampling formats
  using PFM_DEBUG.

- remove unused pfm_debug_var variable

- fix a bug in pfm_handle_work where an BUG_ON() could
  be triggered. There is a path where pfm_handle_work()
  can be called with interrupts enabled, i.e., when
  TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set. The fix correct the masking
  and unmasking of interrupts in pfm_handle_work() such
  that we restore the interrupt mask as it was upon entry.

signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-04-25 13:08:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00