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Tom Tucker
8da91ea8de svcrdma: Move destroy to kernel thread
Some providers may wait while destroying adapter resources.
Since it is possible that the last reference is put on the
dto_tasklet, the actual destroy must be scheduled as a work item.

Signed-off-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
2008-05-19 07:33:54 -05:00
Tom Tucker
8740767376 svcrdma: Use standard Linux lists for context cache
Replace the one-off linked list implementation used to implement the
context cache with the standard Linux list_head lists. Add a context
counter to catch resource leaks. A WARN_ON will be added later to
ensure that we've freed all contexts.

Signed-off-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
2008-05-19 07:33:52 -05:00
Tom Tucker
02e7452de7 svcrdma: Simplify RDMA_READ deferral buffer management
An NFS_WRITE requires a set of RDMA_READ requests to fetch the write
data from the client. There are two principal pieces of data that
need to be tracked: the list of pages that comprise the completed RPC
and the SGE of dma mapped pages to refer to this list of pages. Previously
this whole bit was managed as a linked list of contexts with the
context containing the page list buried in this list. This patch
simplifies this processing by not keeping a linked list, but rather only
a pionter from the last submitted RDMA_READ's context to the context
that maps the set of pages that describe the RPC.  This significantly
simplifies this code path. SGE contexts are cleaned up inline in the DTO
path instead of at read completion time.

Signed-off-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
2008-05-19 07:33:51 -05:00
Tom Tucker
10a38c33f4 svcrdma: Remove unused READ_DONE context flags bit
The RDMACTXT_F_READ_DONE bit is not longer used. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
2008-05-19 07:33:50 -05:00
Paul E. McKenney
78b0e0e9b2 RCU, rculist.h: fix list iterators
RCU list iterators: should prefetch ever be optimised out with no
side-effects, the current version will lose the barrier completely.

Pointed-out-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-19 10:03:39 +02:00
Franck Bui-Huu
10aa9d2cf9 rculist.h: use the rcu API
Make almost all list mutation primitives use rcu_assign_pointer().

The main point of this being readability improvement.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-19 10:03:38 +02:00
Franck Bui-Huu
82524746c2 rcu: split list.h and move rcu-protected lists into rculist.h
Move rcu-protected lists from list.h into a new header file rculist.h.

This is done because list are a very used primitive structure all over the
kernel and it's currently impossible to include other header files in this
list.h without creating some circular dependencies.

For example, list.h implements rcu-protected list and uses rcu_dereference()
without including rcupdate.h.  It actually compiles because users of
rcu_dereference() are macros.  Others RCU functions could be used too but
aren't probably because of this.

Therefore this patch creates rculist.h which includes rcupdates without to
many changes/troubles.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-19 10:01:37 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
70f12f848d rcu: add rcu_barrier_sched() and rcu_barrier_bh()
Add rcu_barrier_sched() and rcu_barrier_bh().  With these in place,
rcutorture no longer gives the occasional oops when repeatedly starting
and stopping torturing rcu_bh.  Also adds the API needed to flush out
pre-existing call_rcu_sched() callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-19 10:01:36 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
4446a36ff8 rcu: add call_rcu_sched()
Fourth cut of patch to provide the call_rcu_sched().  This is again to
synchronize_sched() as call_rcu() is to synchronize_rcu().

Should be fine for experimental and -rt use, but not ready for inclusion.
With some luck, I will be able to tell Andrew to come out of hiding on
the next round.

Passes multi-day rcutorture sessions with concurrent CPU hotplugging.

Fixes since the first version include a bug that could result in
indefinite blocking (spotted by Gautham Shenoy), better resiliency
against CPU-hotplug operations, and other minor fixes.

Fixes since the second version include reworking grace-period detection
to avoid deadlocks that could happen when running concurrently with
CPU hotplug, adding Mathieu's fix to avoid the softlockup messages,
as well as Mathieu's fix to allow use earlier in boot.

Fixes since the third version include a wrong-CPU bug spotted by
Andrew, getting rid of the obsolete synchronize_kernel API that somehow
snuck back in, merging spin_unlock() and local_irq_restore() in a
few places, commenting the code that checks for quiescent states based
on interrupting from user-mode execution or the idle loop, removing
some inline attributes, and some code-style changes.

Known/suspected shortcomings:

o	I still do not entirely trust the sleep/wakeup logic.  Next step
	will be to use a private snapshot of the CPU online mask in
	rcu_sched_grace_period() -- if the CPU wasn't there at the start
	of the grace period, we don't need to hear from it.  And the
	bit about accounting for changes in online CPUs inside of
	rcu_sched_grace_period() is ugly anyway.

o	It might be good for rcu_sched_grace_period() to invoke
	resched_cpu() when a given CPU wasn't responding quickly,
	but resched_cpu() is declared static...

This patch also fixes a long-standing bug in the earlier preemptable-RCU
implementation of synchronize_rcu() that could result in loss of
concurrent external changes to a task's CPU affinity mask.  I still cannot
remember who reported this...

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-19 10:01:36 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
8b09dee67f rcupreempt: remove duplicate prototypes
rcu_batches_completed and rcu_patches_completed_bh are both declared
in rcuclassic.h and rcupreempt.h. This patch removes the extra
prototypes for them from rcupdate.h.

rcu_batches_completed_bh is defined as a static inline in the rcupreempt.h
header file. Trying to export this as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL causes linking problems
with the powerpc linker. There's no need to export a static inlined function.

Modules must be compiled with the same type of RCU implementation as the
kernel they are for.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-19 10:01:35 +02:00
Jean Delvare
eb8a790809 i2c: Kill the old driver matching scheme
Remove the old driver_name/type scheme for i2c driver matching. Only the
standard aliasing model will be used from now on.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-05-18 20:49:41 +02:00
Al Viro
08a6fac1c6 [PATCH] get rid of leak in compat_execve()
Even though copy_compat_strings() doesn't cache the pages,
copy_strings_kernel() and stuff indirectly called by e.g.
->load_binary() is doing that, so we need to drop the
cache contents in the end.

[found by WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16 17:23:05 -04:00
Al Viro
02afc6267f [PATCH] dup_fd() fixes, part 1
Move the sucker to fs/file.c in preparation to the rest

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16 17:22:26 -04:00
Al Viro
f52111b154 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
Dmitry Baryshkov
a33466e312 Input: gpio-keys debouncing support
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-05-16 16:54:14 -04:00
Joe Perches
253b00f1e6 Input: remove unused defines
Remove unused to_dev, to_handler, to_handle from include/linux/input.h
Move to_handle_h from include/linux/input.h to drivers/char/keyboard.c

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-05-16 14:51:47 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov
ccd3474569 Input: libps2 - remove delayed command execution
Delayed command execution is not used by anyone so let's remove it.

Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-05-16 14:50:49 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov
3e582db078 Input: gameport - remove rescan/reconnect facilities
They have never been used and are unlikely to be used in the future
so remove them altogether.

Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-05-16 14:50:42 -04:00
Stephen Rothwell
09e67ca2c5 [POWERPC] Move of_device_get_modalias to drivers/of
Commit 140b932f8c ("Create modalias file
in sysfs for of_platform bus") needs this to avoid breaking the sparc
builds.

Just move the code and add whitespace around some binary operators.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-16 23:22:28 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
a442ac512f Clean up 'print_fn_descriptor_symbol()' types
Everybody wants to pass it a function pointer, and in fact, that is what
you _must_ pass it for it to make sense (since it knows that ia64 and
ppc64 use descriptors for function pointers and fetches the actual
address from there).

So don't make the argument be a 'unsigned long' and force everybody to
add a cast.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15 17:50:37 -07:00
David S. Miller
f42a44494b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2008-05-15 00:52:37 -07:00
Mike Frysinger
a1a61a435b atm: Cleanup atm_tcp.h and atm.h for userspace.
The atm_tcp.h uses types from linux/atm.h, but does not include it.
It should also use the standard __u## types from linux/types.h rather
than the uint##_t types since the former can be found with the kernel
already.

Same goes for linux/atm.h.  The linux/socket.h include there also gets
dropped as atm.h does not actually use anything from socket.h.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-14 23:24:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8f40f672e6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-linus' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
  9p: fix error path during early mount
  9p: make cryptic unknown error from server less scary
  9p: fix flags length in net
  9p: Correct fidpool creation failure in p9_client_create
  9p: use struct mutex instead of struct semaphore
  9p: propagate parse_option changes to client and transports
  fs/9p/v9fs.c (v9fs_parse_options): Handle kstrdup and match_strdup failure.
  9p: Documentation updates
  add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing more robust
2008-05-14 19:30:51 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
44c81433e8 per_cpu: fix DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for modules
Current module loader lookups ".data.percpu" ELF section to perform
per_cpu relocation.  But DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() uses another
section (".data.percpu.shared_aligned"), currently only handled in
vmlinux.lds, not by module loader.

To correct this problem, instead of adding logic into module loader, or
using at build time a module.lds file for all arches to group
".data.percpu.shared_aligned" into ".data.percpu", just use ".data.percpu"
for modules.

Alignment requirements are correctly handled by ld and module loader.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-14 19:11:14 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
3fc957721d lib: create common ascii hex array
Add a common hex array in hexdump.c so everyone can use it.

Add a common hi/lo helper to avoid the shifting masking that is
done to get the upper and lower nibbles of a byte value.

Pull the pack_hex_byte helper from kgdb as it is opencoded many
places in the tree that will be consolidated.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-14 19:11:14 -07:00
Markus Armbruster
b32a09db4f add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing more robust
match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure
that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or
forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer.

There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options().  I believe it currently
can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious.

The source string is a substing of the mount options.  The kernel silently
truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero.  See
compat_sys_mount() and do_mount().

The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from
name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX.

We're safe as long as PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.  PATH_MAX is 4096.  As far as
I know, the smallest PAGE_SIZE is also 4096.

Here's a patch that makes the code a bit more obviously correct.  It
doesn't depend on PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-05-14 19:23:25 -05:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
cafa027b8c cs5520: disable VDMA
Disable Virtual DMA support for now (it causes system hangs).

Thanks to TAKADA Yoshihito for the help with debugging the problem.

Reported-by: TAKADA Yoshihito <takada@mbf.nifty.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-05-14 23:06:16 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
e0b4eb5193 make ide-iops.c:SELECT_MASK() static
SELECT_MASK() can now become static.

[bart: remove space between function name and open parenthesis]

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-05-14 23:06:15 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
5a433b3ad4 mac80211: remove unnecessary byteshifts in frame control testing
Byteswap the constants rather than the frame_control member.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:32 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
fc99824c42 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:
  Driver core: struct class remove children list
  block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
2008-05-14 11:13:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e90a4e475a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (22 commits)
  USB: atmel_usba_udc fixes, mostly disconnect()
  USB: pxa27x_udc: minor fixes
  usbtest: comment on why this code "expects" negative and positive errnos
  USB: remove PICDEM FS USB demo (04d8:000c) device from ldusb
  USB: option: add new Dell 5520 HSDPA variant
  USB: unusual_devs: Add support for GI 0401 SD-Card interface
  USB: serial gadget: descriptor cleanup
  USB: serial gadget: simplify endpoint handling
  USB: serial gadget: remove needless data structure
  USB: serial gadget: cleanup/reorg
  usb: fix compile warning in isp1760
  USB: do not handle device 1410:5010 in 'option' driver
  USB: Fix unusual_devs.h ordering
  USB: add Zoom Telephonics Model 3095F V.92 USB Mini External modem to cdc-acm
  USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem in option driver
  USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem
  usb: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings found by sparse
  USB: isp1760: fix printk format
  USB: add Telstra NextG CDMA id to option driver
  USB: add association.h
  ...
2008-05-14 10:52:40 -07:00
Dave Young
0a3ad00ca0 Driver core: struct class remove children list
because of the class_device was removed, now do the children list removing

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-14 10:37:58 -07:00
Kay Sievers
30f2f0eb4b block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access,
so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an
existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting.

This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and
broke some users machines :(

Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-14 10:37:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6aa5fc4349 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (73 commits)
  net: Fix typo in net/core/sock.c.
  ppp: Do not free not yet unregistered net device.
  netfilter: xt_iprange: module aliases for xt_iprange
  netfilter: ctnetlink: dump conntrack ID in event messages
  irda: Fix a misalign access issue. (v2)
  sctp: Fix use of uninitialized pointer
  cipso: Relax too much careful cipso hash function.
  tcp FRTO: work-around inorder receivers
  tcp FRTO: Fix fallback to conventional recovery
  New maintainer for Intel ethernet adapters
  DM9000: Use delayed work to update MII PHY state
  DM9000: Update and fix driver debugging messages
  DM9000: Add __devinit and __devexit attributes to probe and remove
  sky2: fix simple define thinko
  [netdrvr] sfc: sfc: Add self-test support
  [netdrvr] sfc: Increment rx_reset when reported as driver event
  [netdrvr] sfc: Remove unused macro EFX_XAUI_RETRAIN_MAX
  [netdrvr] sfc: Fix code formatting
  [netdrvr] sfc: Remove kernel-doc comments for removed members of struct efx_nic
  [netdrvr] sfc: Remove garbage from comment
  ...
2008-05-14 10:08:24 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d23039eec7 USB: add association.h
This will be used by the wireless usb code, as well as potentially other
USB code.

Originally based on some .c code written by Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
<inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>

Cc: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-14 10:00:26 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
78bb6cb9a8 fuse: add flag to turn on big writes
Prior to 2.6.26 fuse only supported single page write requests.  In theory all
fuse filesystem should be able support bigger than 4k writes, as there's
nothing in the API to prevent it.  Unfortunately there's a known case in
NTFS-3G where big writes cause filesystem corruption.  There could also be
other filesystems, where the lack of testing with big write requests would
result in bugs.

To prevent such problems on a kernel upgrade, disable big writes by default,
but let filesystems set a flag to turn it on.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:26 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
4cd1a8fc3d memcg: fix possible panic when CONFIG_MM_OWNER=y
When mm destruction happens, we should pass mm_update_next_owner() the old mm.
 But unfortunately new mm is passed in exec_mmap().

Thus, kernel panic is possible when a multi-threaded process uses exec().

Also, the owner member comment description is wrong.  mm->owner does not
necessarily point to the thread group leader.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
Cc: "KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:25 -07:00
Paul Jackson
f4ed0deae8 cpumask: remove bitmap_scnprintf_len and cpumask_scnprintf_len
They aren't used.  They were briefly used as part of some other patches to
provide an alternative format for displaying some /proc and /sys cpumasks.
They probably should have been removed when those other patches were dropped,
in favor of a different solution.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:25 -07:00
Johannes Berg
f5184d267c net: Allow netdevices to specify needed head/tailroom
This patch adds needed_headroom/needed_tailroom members to struct
net_device and updates many places that allocate sbks to use them. Not
all of them can be converted though, and I'm sure I missed some (I
mostly grepped for LL_RESERVED_SPACE)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-12 20:48:31 -07:00
David S. Miller
8388e3da34 net: Set LL_MAX_HEADER properly for wireless.
Wireless networking, particularly with MESH enabled, has
quite strong requirements for link-layer header space.

Based upon some numbers and descriptions from Johannes Berg
we use 96 (same as AX25) for plain wireless, and with
mesh enabled we use 128.

In the process, simplify the cpp conditional logic here by
ordering the cases by those needing the most space down
to those needing the least case.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-12 20:17:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c714a534d8 Make 'cond_resched()' nullification depend on PREEMPT_BKL
Because it's not correct with a non-preemptable BKL and just causes
PREEMPT kernels to have longer latencies than non-PREEMPT ones (which is
obviously not the point of it at all).

Of course, that config option actually got removed as an option earlier,
so for now this basically disables it entirely, but if BKL preemption is
ever resurrected it will be a meaningful optimization.  And in the
meantime, it at least documents the intent of the code, while not doing
the wrong thing.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-12 13:34:13 -07:00
Alan Mayer
6859a84029 x86: resize NR_IRQS for large machines
On machines with very large numbers of cpus, tables that are dimensioned
by NR_IRQS get very large, especially the irq_desc table.  They are also
very sparsely used.  When the cpu count is > MAX_IO_APICS, use MAX_IO_APICS
to set NR_IRQS, otherwise use NR_CPUS.

Signed-off-by: Alan Mayer <ajm@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-12 21:28:05 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
9404ef0297 Fix up 'need_resched()' definition
We should not go through the task pointer to get at the thread info,
since it's usually cheaper to just access the thread info directly.

So don't make the code look up 'current', when we can just use the
thread info accessor functions directly.  This generally avoids one
level of indirection and tends to work better together with code that
also looks at other thread flags (eg preempt_count).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-12 10:14:22 -07:00
David S. Miller
4951704b4e syncppp: Fix crashes.
The syncppp layer wants a mid-level netdev private pointer.

It was using netdev->priv but that only worked by accident,
and thus this scheme was broken when the device private
allocation strategy changed.

Add a proper mid-layer private pointer for uses like this,
update syncppp and all users, and remove the HDLC_PPP broken
tag from drivers/net/wan/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-12 03:29:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5701412351 Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
  i2c: Convert some more new-style drivers to use module aliasing
  i2c: Match dummy devices by type
  i2c-sibyte: Mark i2c_sibyte_add_bus() as static
  i2c-sibyte: Correct a comment about frequency
  i2c: Improve the functionality documentation
  i2c: Improve smbus-protocol documentation
  i2c-piix4: Blacklist two mainboards
  i2c-piix4: Increase the intitial delay for the ServerWorks CSB5
  i2c-mpc: Compare to NO_IRQ instead of zero
2008-05-11 17:09:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c3921ab715 Add new 'cond_resched_bkl()' helper function
It acts exactly like a regular 'cond_resched()', but will not get
optimized away when CONFIG_PREEMPT is set.

Normal kernel code is already preemptable in the presense of
CONFIG_PREEMPT, so cond_resched() is optimized away (see commit
02b67cc3ba "sched: do not do
cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT").

But when wanting to conditionally reschedule while holding a lock, you
need to use "cond_sched_lock(lock)", and the new function is the BKL
equivalent of that.

Also make fs/locks.c use it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-11 16:04:48 -07:00
Jean Delvare
60b129d7bf i2c: Match dummy devices by type
As the old driver_name/type matching scheme is going away soon, change
the dummy device mechanism to use the new matching scheme.

This has the downside that dummy i2c clients can no longer choose
their name, they'll all appear as "dummy" in sysfs and in log
messages. I don't think it is a problem in practice though, as there
is little reason to use these i2c clients to log messages.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-05-11 20:37:06 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
633331f389 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [libata] revert new check-ready Status register logic
2008-05-11 09:52:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8e3e076c5a BKL: revert back to the old spinlock implementation
The generic semaphore rewrite had a huge performance regression on AIM7
(and potentially other BKL-heavy benchmarks) because the generic
semaphores had been rewritten to be simple to understand and fair.  The
latter, in particular, turns a semaphore-based BKL implementation into a
mess of scheduling.

The attempt to fix the performance regression failed miserably (see the
previous commit 00b41ec261 'Revert
"semaphore: fix"'), and so for now the simple and sane approach is to
instead just go back to the old spinlock-based BKL implementation that
never had any issues like this.

This patch also has the advantage of being reported to fix the
regression completely according to Yanmin Zhang, unlike the semaphore
hack which still left a couple percentage point regression.

As a spinlock, the BKL obviously has the potential to be a latency
issue, but it's not really any different from any other spinlock in that
respect.  We do want to get rid of the BKL asap, but that has been the
plan for several years.

These days, the biggest users are in the tty layer (open/release in
particular) and Alan holds out some hope:

  "tty release is probably a few months away from getting cured - I'm
   afraid it will almost certainly be the very last user of the BKL in
   tty to get fixed as it depends on everything else being sanely locked."

so while we're not there yet, we do have a plan of action.

Tested-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-10 20:58:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9c3cdc1f83 Move ACCESS_ONCE() to <linux/compiler.h>
It actually makes much more sense there, and we do tend to need it for
non-RCU usage too.  Moving it to <linux/compiler.h> will allow some
other cases that have open-coded the same logic to use the same helper
function that RCU has used.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-10 19:51:16 -07:00