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Ingo Molnar
7cbaef9c83 sched: optimize sched_clock() a bit
sched_clock() uses cycles_2_ns() needlessly - which is an irq-disabling
variant of __cycles_2_ns().

Most of the time sched_clock() is called with irqs disabled already.
The few places that call it with irqs enabled need to be updated.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 17:05:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0d12cdd5f8 sched: improve sched_clock() performance
in scheduler-intense workloads native_read_tsc() overhead accounts for
20% of the system overhead:

 659567 system_call                              41222.9375
 686796 schedule                                 435.7843
 718382 __switch_to                              665.1685
 823875 switch_mm                                4526.7857
 1883122 native_read_tsc                          55385.9412
 9761990 total                                      2.8468

this is large part due to the rdtsc_barrier() that is done before
and after reading the TSC.

But sched_clock() is not a precise clock in the GTOD sense, using such
barriers is completely pointless. So remove the barriers and only use
them in vget_cycles().

This improves lat_ctx performance by about 5%.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 16:48:19 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
a309720c87 ftrace: display start of CPU buffer in trace output
Impact: change in trace output

Because the trace buffers are per cpu ring buffers, the start of
the trace can be confusing. If one CPU is very active at the
end of the trace, its history will not go as far back as the
other CPU traces.  This means that output for a particular CPU
may not appear for the first part of a trace.

To help annotate what is happening, and to prevent any more
confusion, this patch adds a line that annotates the start of
a CPU buffer output.

For example:

       automount-3495  [001]   184.596443: dnotify_parent <-vfs_write
[...]
       automount-3495  [001]   184.596449: dput <-path_put
       automount-3496  [002]   184.596450: down_read_trylock <-do_page_fault
[...]
           sshd-3497  [001]   184.597069: up_read <-do_page_fault
          <idle>-0     [000]   184.597074: __exit_idle <-exit_idle
[...]
       automount-3496  [002]   184.597257: filemap_fault <-__do_fault
          <idle>-0     [003]   184.597261: exit_idle <-smp_apic_timer_interrupt

Note, parsers of a trace output should always ignore any lines that
start with a '#'.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:54 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
769c48eb25 ftrace: force pass of preemptoff selftest
Impact: preemptoff not tested in selftest

Due to the BKL not being preemptable anymore, the selftest of the
preemptoff code can not be tested. It requires that it is called
with preemption enabled, but since the BKL is held, that is no
longer the case.

This patch simply skips those tests if it detects that the context
is not preemptable. The following will now show up in the tests:

Testing tracer preemptoff: can not test ... force PASSED
Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: can not test ... force PASSED

When the BKL is removed, or it becomes preemptable once again, then
the tests will be performed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:49 +01:00
Matt Fleming
7d5222a6af ftrace: align __mcount_loc sections
Impact: add alignment option for recordmcount.pl script

Align the __mcount_loc sections so that architectures with strict
alignment requirements need not worry about performing unaligned
accesses.

This fixes an issue where I was seeing unaligned accesses, which are not
supported on our architecture (the results of an unaligned access are
undefined).

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matthew.fleming@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:44 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
c76f06945b ftrace: remove trace array ctrl
Impact: remove obsolete variable in trace_array structure

With the new start / stop method of ftrace, the ctrl variable
in the trace_array structure is now obsolete. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:39 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
bbf5b1a0ce ftrace: remove ctrl_update method
Impact: Remove the ctrl_update tracer method

With the new quick start/stop method of tracing, the ctrl_update
method is out of date.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:34 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
49833fc232 ftrace: enable trace_printk by default
Impact: have the ftrace_printk enabled on startup

It is confusing to have to "echo trace_printk > /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl"
after adding ftrace_printk in the kernel.

Currently the trace_printk is set to off by default. ftrace_printk
should only be in open kernel code when used for debugging, and thus
it should be enabled by default.

It may also be used to record data within a tracer, but those ftrace_printks
should be within wrappers that are either enabled by trace_points or
have a variable protecting the code path from being entered when the
tracer is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:29 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
4519317020 ftrace: irqsoff tracer incorrect reset
Impact: fix to irqsoff tracer output

In converting to the new start / stop ftrace handling, the irqsoff
tracer start called the irqsoff reset function. irqsoff tracer is
not the same as the other traces, and it resets the buffers while
searching for the longest latency.

The reset that the irqsoff stop method calls disables the function
tracing. That means that, by starting the tracer, the function
tracer is disabled incorrectly.

This patch simply removes the call to reset which keeps the function
tracing enabled. Reset is not needed for the irqsoff stop method.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:24 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
e168e0516e ftrace: fix sched_switch API
Impact: fix for sched_switch that broke dynamic ftrace startup

The commit: tracing/fastboot: use sched switch tracer from boot tracer
broke the API of the sched_switch trace. The use of the
tracing_start/stop_cmdline record is for only recording the cmdline,
NOT recording the schedule switches themselves.

Seeing that the boot tracer broke the API to do something that it
wanted, this patch adds a new interface for the API while
puting back the original interface of the old API.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:18 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
75f5c47da3 ftrace: fix boot trace sched startup
Impact: boot tracer startup modified

The boot tracer calls into some of the schedule tracing private functions
that should not be exported. This patch cleans it up, and makes
way for further changes in the ftrace infrastructure.

This patch adds a api to assign a tracer array to the schedule
context switch tracer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:09 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
0183fb1c94 ftrace: fix set_ftrace_filter
Impact: fix of output of set_ftrace_filter

Commit ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions

Removed a bit too much from the set_ftrace_filter code, where we now see
all functions in the set_ftrace_filter file even when we set a filter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a6b0786f7f Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/nmisafe' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-08 09:34:35 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b8f6ec2e61 Staging: make usbip depend on CONFIG_NET
Thanks to Randy Dunlap for finding this problem.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-11-07 22:05:18 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0c4b95455f Staging: only build the tree if we really want to
This Kconfig change allows the common 'make allmodconfig' and
'make allyesconfig' build options to skip the staging tree, which is
probably what you want to have happen anyway.

This makes the linux-next developer's life a lot easier so he doesn't
have to worry about changes that break the staging tree, that's for me
to worry about...

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-11-07 22:05:18 -08:00
Thomas Renninger
2dba1b5d87 thinkpad_acpi: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-08 00:46:07 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
540b8bb9c3 sony-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-08 00:27:28 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
a598c82f39 msi-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-08 00:27:28 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
7d5c89a615 fujitsu-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-08 00:27:27 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
a2bf8c0104 eeepc-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-08 00:27:27 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
29454f1712 compal: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-08 00:27:27 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
6766fec366 asus-acpi: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-08 00:27:26 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
febf2d95a7 Acer-WMI: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-08 00:27:10 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
c3d6de698c ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).

Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.

This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.

"acpi_backlight=vendor"
	Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
	Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 23:57:55 -05:00
Thomas Renninger
22c13f9d81 ACPI: video: Ignore devices that aren't present in hardware
This is a reimplemention of commit
0119509c4f
from Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>

This patch got removed because of a regression: ThinkPads with a
Intel graphics card and an Integrated Graphics Device BIOS implementation
stopped working.
In fact, they only worked because the ACPI device of the discrete, the
wrong one, got used (via int10). So ACPI functions were poking on the wrong
hardware used which is a sever bug.
The next patch provides support for above ThinkPads to be able to
switch brightness via the legacy thinkpad_acpi driver and automatically
detect when to use it.

Original commit message from Matthew Garrett:
    Vendors often ship machines with a choice of integrated or discrete
    graphics, and use the same DSDT for both. As a result, the ACPI video
    module will locate devices that may not exist on this specific platform.
    Attempt to determine whether the device exists or not, and abort the
    device creation if it doesn't.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9614

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 23:49:23 -05:00
Lin Ming
a1a8d334f9 Delete an unwanted return statement at evgpe.c
Len's tree branch release-2.6.27, found an unwanted return statement at
evgpe.c.

(git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
release-2.6.27)

Signed-of-by Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 22:21:33 -05:00
Bjorn Helgaas
a0d84a92df ACPI: update debug parameter documentation
Reformat acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level documentation so it's
more readable, add some clues about how to figure out the mask bits that
enable a specific ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement, and include some useful
examples.

Move the list of masks to Documentation/acpi/debug.txt (these are
copies of the authoritative values in acoutput.h and acpi_drivers.h).

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 21:45:29 -05:00
Bjorn Helgaas
87b586088e ACPI: turn off all debug output by default
When CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y, the default acpi_dbg_layer and acpi_dbg_level
values built into the ACPI CA have some debug output enabled.  We'd
rather be quiet unless the user actually specified the acpi.debug_level
argument.

This enables distros to ship with CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y without
inundating users with debug output.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 21:45:16 -05:00
Bjorn Helgaas
bdd7279919 ACPI: add driver component definitions to sysfs debug_layers
/sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_layers used to contain only the
debug layers defined by the ACPI CA.  This patch adds the additional
layer definitions for ACPI drivers.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 21:45:04 -05:00
Bjorn Helgaas
44342f9e8d ACPI: fix conflicting component definitions
Some of the component definitions that were previous scattered around
the drivers conflict with each other.  That doesn't hurt anything
except that setting one bit in the debug_layer mask would turn on
debugging in two different modules.  This patch fixes the conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 21:44:49 -05:00
Bjorn Helgaas
89595b8f28 ACPI: consolidate ACPI_*_COMPONENT definitions in acpi_drivers.h
Move all the component definitions for drivers to a single shared place,
include/acpi/acpi_drivers.h.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 21:44:37 -05:00
Alexey Starikovskiy
d21cf3c16b ACPI EC: Fix regression due to use of uninitialized variable
breakage introduced by following patch
commit 27663c5855
Author: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 10 02:22:59 2008 -0400

acpi_evaluate_integer() does not clear passed variable if
there is an error at evaluation.
So if we ignore error, we must supply initialized variable.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11917

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 14:45:00 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
01aab518b0 Merge branch 'oprofile-for-tip' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into x86/urgent 2008-11-07 19:22:10 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
fed4d59b6e 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] Reserve elfcorehdr memory in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
  [IA64] fix boot panic caused by offline CPUs
  [IA64] reorder Kconfig options to match x86
  [IA64] Build VT-D iommu support into generic kernel
  [IA64] remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY definition
  [IA64] remove duplicated #include from pci-dma.c
  [IA64] use common header for software IO/TLB
  [IA64] fix the difference between node_mem_map and node_start_pfn
  [IA64] Add error_recovery_info field to SAL section header
  [IA64] Add UV watchlist support.
  [IA64] Simplify SGI uv vs. sn2 driver issues
2008-11-07 10:09:28 -08:00
Jay Lan
17c1f07ed7 [IA64] Reserve elfcorehdr memory in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
IA64 kdump kernel failed to initialize /proc/vmcore in 2.6.28-rc2.
A bug was introduced in this patch commit:

  d9a9855d0b
  always reserve elfcore header memory in crash kernel

The problem was that the call to reserve_elfcorehdr() should be placed
in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP rather than in CONFIG_CRASH_KERNEL, which does
not exist.

Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Simon Hormon <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-11-07 09:51:55 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8ec96e7bba Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: fix range check on mmapped sysfs resource files
  PCI: remove excess kernel-doc notation
  PCI: annotate return value of pci_ioremap_bar with __iomem
  PCI: fix VPD limit quirk for Broadcom 5708S
2008-11-07 09:18:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cb110171a6 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, xen: fix use of pgd_page now that it really does return a page
2008-11-07 09:17:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
55477eb49d Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: fine-tune SD_SIBLING_INIT
  sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT
  sched: fix memory leak in a failure path
  sched: fix a bug in sched domain degenerate
2008-11-07 09:17:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0477406961 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  xen: make sure stray alias mappings are gone before pinning
  vmap: cope with vm_unmap_aliases before vmalloc_init()
2008-11-07 09:17:21 -08:00
Andi Kleen
7c64ade53a oprofile: Fix p6 counter overflow check
Fix the counter overflow check for CPUs with counter width > 32

I had a similar change in a different patch that I didn't submit
and I didn't notice the problem earlier because it was always
tested together.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-11-07 17:34:41 +01:00
Alan Cox
54e7ff9d62 trivial: MPT fusion - remove long dead code
This triggers false bug reports as it does a bogus kmalloc with locks held
but is never really compiled into the kernel.

Closes #8329

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-07 08:25:43 -08:00
Alan Cox
8638545c36 trivial: dmi_scan typo
As we've lost our trivial maintainer for the moment I'll send this
directly. Only touches a comment

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-07 08:25:43 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1538a093f7 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: add checksum calculation when clearing UNINIT flag in ext4_new_inode
  ext4: Mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate after prepare_write
  ext4: calculate journal credits correctly
  ext4: wait on all pending commits in ext4_sync_fs()
  ext4: Convert to host order before using the values.
  ext4: fix missing ext4_unlock_group in error path
  jbd2: deregister proc on failure in jbd2_journal_init_inode
  jbd2: don't give up looking for space so easily in __jbd2_log_wait_for_space
  jbd: don't give up looking for space so easily in __log_wait_for_space
2008-11-07 08:15:18 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
52c642f33b sched: fine-tune SD_SIBLING_INIT
fine-tune the HT sched-domains parameters as well.

On a HT capable box, this increases lat_ctx performance from 23.87
usecs to 1.49 usecs:

 # before

 $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2

   "size=0k ovr=1.89
    2 23.87

 # after

 $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2

   "size=0k ovr=1.84
     2 1.49

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 16:09:23 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
1480098470 sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT
Tune SD_MC_INIT the same way as SD_CPU_INIT:
unset SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE, and set SD_WAKE_BALANCE.

This improves vmark by 5%:

vmark         132102 125968 125497 messages/sec    avg 127855.66    .984
vmark         139404 131719 131272 messages/sec    avg 134131.66   1.033

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

 # *DOCUMENTATION*
2008-11-07 15:35:11 +01:00
Frederic Bohe
23712a9c28 ext4: add checksum calculation when clearing UNINIT flag in ext4_new_inode
When initializing an uninitialized block group in ext4_new_inode(),
its block group checksum must be re-calculated.  This fixes a race
when several threads try to allocate a new inode in an UNINIT'd group.

There is some question whether we need to be initializing the block
bitmap in ext4_new_inode() at all, but for now, if we are going to
init the block group, let's eliminate the race.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-07 09:21:01 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
ed9b3e3379 ext4: Mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate after prepare_write
We need to make sure we mark the buffer_heads as dirty and uptodate
so that block_write_full_page write them correctly.

This fixes mmap corruptions that can occur in low memory situations.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-07 09:06:45 -05:00
Rusty Russell
cd83e42c6b cpumask: new API, v2
- add cpumask_of()
- add free_bootmem_cpumask_var()

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 12:52:30 +01:00
David S. Miller
ffaf4c7652 Merge branch 'davem-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2008-11-07 01:39:27 -08:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
d05fdf3160 xen: make sure stray alias mappings are gone before pinning
Xen requires that all mappings of pagetable pages are read-only, so
that they can't be updated illegally.  As a result, if a page is being
turned into a pagetable page, we need to make sure all its mappings
are RO.

If the page had been used for ioremap or vmalloc, it may still have
left over mappings as a result of not having been lazily unmapped.
This change makes sure we explicitly mop them all up before pinning
the page.

Unlike aliases created by kmap, the there can be vmalloc aliases even
for non-high pages, so we must do the flush unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 10:05:59 +01:00