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Mimi Zohar
a68a27b6f2 IMA: convert i_readcount to atomic
Convert the inode's i_readcount from an unsigned int to atomic.

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2011-02-10 07:51:43 -05:00
Rafał Miłecki
6d1d4ea4a8 ssb: extract boardflags2 for SPROMs rev 4 and 5
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-09 16:09:51 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
d3d373e0e3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  virtio: console: Update Copyright
  virtio: console: Wake up outvq on host notifications
2011-02-09 11:51:40 -08:00
Tejun Heo
4149efb22d workqueue: add system_freezeable_wq
Add system wide freezeable workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-02-09 09:37:49 +01:00
David S. Miller
263fb5b1bf Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
2011-02-08 17:19:01 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan
f4d5c029bd tracing: Compile time initialization for event flags value
Compile time initialization is better than runtime initialization.

Remove many early_initcall()s and many trace_init_flags_##name()s.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D3FDFFC.6030304@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08 17:14:54 -05:00
Nicolas Dichtel
fa9921e46f ipsec: allow to align IPv4 AH on 32 bits
The Linux IPv4 AH stack aligns the AH header on a 64 bit boundary
(like in IPv6). This is not RFC compliant (see RFC4302, Section
3.3.3.2.1), it should be aligned on 32 bits.

For most of the authentication algorithms, the ICV size is 96 bits.
The AH header alignment on 32 or 64 bits gives the same results.

However for SHA-256-128 for instance, the wrong 64 bit alignment results
in adding useless padding in IPv4 AH, which is forbidden by the RFC.

To avoid breaking backward compatibility, we use a new flag
(XFRM_STATE_ALIGN4) do change original behavior.

Initial patch from Dang Hongwu <hongwu.dang@6wind.com> and
Christophe Gouault <christophe.gouault@6wind.com>.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-08 14:00:40 -08:00
Alexey Orishko
3a9dda7602 CDC NCM errata updates for cdc.h
Changes are based on the following documents:
- CDC NCM errata:
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/NCM10_012011.zip
- CDC and WMC errata link:
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/CDC1.2_WMC1.1_012011.zip

Signed-off-by: Alexey Orishko <alexey.orishko@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-08 13:54:42 -08:00
Amit Shah
5084f89303 virtio: console: Update Copyright
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-02-09 08:19:55 +10:30
Seth Heasley
c13ff2ff3a PCI/lpc: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel DH89xxCC DeviceIDs
This patch adds the LPC Controller DeviceIDs for the Intel DH89xxCC PCH.

The code for capturing ranges of LPC Controller DeviceIDs has also been updated.

Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2011-02-08 13:08:05 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
c9a443cdf7 Merge branch 'irq/for-xen' into irq/core
irq/for-xen contains new functionality to avoid Xen private irq
hackery. That branch has a single irq commit and is pulled by Xen to
base their new features on.

Merge it into irq/core as other patches modify the same code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-08 16:38:21 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
dc5f219e88 genirq: Add IRQF_FORCE_RESUME
Xen needs to reenable interrupts which are marked IRQF_NO_SUSPEND in the
resume path. Add a flag to force the reenabling in the resume code.

Tested-and-acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-08 16:36:47 +01:00
Ian Munsie
ba976970c7 tracing/syscalls: Don't add events for unmapped syscalls
FTRACE_SYSCALLS would create events for each and every system call, even
if it had failed to map the system call's name with it's number. This
resulted in a number of events being created that would not behave as
expected.

This could happen, for example, on architectures who's symbol names are
unusual and will not match the system call name. It could also happen
with system calls which were mapped to sys_ni_syscall.

This patch changes the default system call number in the metadata to -1.
If the system call name from the metadata is not successfully mapped to
a system call number during boot, than the event initialisation routine
will now return an error, preventing the event from being created.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-2-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 21:24:44 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
4a3d27e98a tracing/filter: Move MAX_FILTER_PRED to local tracing directory
The MAX_FILTER_PRED is only needed by the kernel/trace/*.c files.
Move it to kernel/trace/trace.h.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:20 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
c7f9a6f377 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up perf fixes that are now upstream

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-07 08:44:26 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
43a723286f Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  m32r: Fixup last __do_IRQ leftover
  genirq: Add missing status flags to modification mask
2011-02-06 12:04:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
15ccb7b429 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf stat: Fix aggreate counter reading accounting
  tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array
  tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array
  tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array
2011-02-06 12:04:16 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
285c1a2c3a Merge branch 'irq/urgent' into irq/core
Reason: Get mainline fixes integrated. Further patches conflict with
        them

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-05 21:50:05 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
872434d69c genirq: Add missing status flags to modification mask
The mask which filters out the valid bits which can be set via
irq_modify_status() is missing IRQ_NO_BALANCING, which breaks UV.

Add IRQ_PER_CPU as well to avoid another one line patch for 39.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-05 16:33:56 +01:00
David S. Miller
bd4a6974cc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-02-04 14:28:58 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
44f2c5c841 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: (68 commits)
  net: can: janz-ican3: world-writable sysfs termination file
  net: can: at91_can: world-writable sysfs files
  MAINTAINERS: update email ids of the be2net driver maintainers.
  bridge: Don't put partly initialized fdb into hash
  r8169: prevent RxFIFO induced loops in the irq handler.
  r8169: RxFIFO overflow oddities with 8168 chipsets.
  r8169: use RxFIFO overflow workaround for 8168c chipset.
  include/net/genetlink.h: Allow genlmsg_cancel to accept a NULL argument
  net: Provide compat support for SIOCGETMIFCNT_IN6 and SIOCGETSGCNT_IN6.
  net: Support compat SIOCGETVIFCNT ioctl in ipv4.
  net: Fix bug in compat SIOCGETSGCNT handling.
  niu: Fix races between up/down and get_stats.
  tcp_ecn is an integer not a boolean
  atl1c: Add missing PCI device ID
  s390: Fix possibly wrong size in strncmp (smsgiucv)
  s390: Fix wrong size in memcmp (netiucv)
  qeth: allow OSA CHPARM change in suspend state
  qeth: allow HiperSockets framesize change in suspend
  qeth: add more strict MTU checking
  qeth: show new mac-address if its setting fails
  ...
2011-02-04 13:20:01 -08:00
Pavan Savoy
781a7395d2 drivers:misc: ti-st: remove multiple gpio handling
TI shared transport driver previously intended to expose rfkill
entries for each of the protocol gpio that the chip would have.
However now in case such gpios exist, which requires to be enabled
for a specific protocol, the responsibility lay on protocol driver.
This patch removes the request/free of multiple gpios, rfkill struct
references and also removes the chip_toggle function.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-04 12:41:21 -08:00
Pavan Savoy
ef04d121f0 drivers:misc: ti-st: firmware download optimization
To fasten the process of firmware download, the chip allows
disabling of the command complete event generation from host.
In these cases, only few very essential commands would have
the command complete events and hence the wait associated with
them.

So now the driver would wait for a command complete event, only
when it comes across a wait event during firmware parsing.
This would also mean we need to skip not just the change baud
rate command but also the wait for it.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-04 12:41:21 -08:00
Pavan Savoy
ec60d0ad20 drivers:misc: ti-st: move from rfkill to sysfs
The communication between ST KIM and UIM was interfaced
over the /dev/rfkill device node.
Move the interface to a simpler less abusive sysfs entry
mechanism and document it in Documentation/ABI/testing/
under sysfs-platform-kim.

Shared transport driver would now read the UART details
originally received by bootloader or firmware as platform
data.
The data read will be shared over sysfs entries for the user-space
UIM or other n/w manager/plugins to be read, and assist the driver
by opening up the UART, setting the baud-rate and installing the
line discipline.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-04 12:41:20 -08:00
Pavan Savoy
5c88b02196 drivers:misc: ti-st: register with channel IDs
The architecture of shared transport had begun with individual
protocols like bluetooth, fm and gps telling the shared transport
what sort of protocol they are and then expecting the ST driver
to parse the incoming data from chip and forward data only
relevant to the protocol drivers.

This change would mean each protocol drivers would also send
information to ST driver as to how to intrepret their protocol
data coming out of the chip.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-04 12:41:20 -08:00
Pavankumar Kondeti
8cf28f1f4d USB: Fix trout build failure with ci13xxx_msm gadget
This patch fixes the below compilation errors.

  CC      drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.o
  CC      net/mac80211/led.o
  drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c: In function 'ci13xxx_msm_notify_event':
  drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:42: error: 'USB_AHBBURST' undeclared (first use in this function)
  drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:42: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:42: error: for each function it appears in.)
  drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:43: error: 'USB_AHBMODE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[4]: *** [drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/usb/gadget] Error 2

MSM USB driver is not supported on boards like trout (MSM7201) which
has an external PHY.

Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-04 12:38:14 -08:00
Marek Szyprowski
9a1b2e6402 USB: gadget: export functionfs.h to the includes available for userspace
To compile functionfs userspace driver one needs definitions from
include/linux/usb/functionfs.h. This patch add this file to the list
of includes exported to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-04 11:57:21 -08:00
Robert Morell
2694a48d90 USB: HCD: Add driver hooks for (un)?map_urb_for_dma
Provide optional hooks for the host controller driver to override the
default DMA mapping and unmapping routines.  In general, these shouldn't
be necessary unless the host controller has special DMA requirements,
such as alignment contraints.  If these are not specified, the
general usb_hcd_(un)?map_urb_for_dma functions will be used instead.
Also, pass the status to unmap_urb_for_dma so it can know whether the
DMA buffer has been overwritten.

Finally, add a flag to be used by these implementations if they
allocated a temporary buffer so it can be freed properly when unmapping.

Signed-off-by: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-04 11:48:55 -08:00
Robert Morell
c8cf203a1d USB: HCD: Add usb_hcd prefix to exported functions
The convention is to prefix symbols exported from the USB HCD core with
"usb_hcd".  This change makes unmap_urb_setup_for_dma() and
unmap_urb_for_dma() consistent with that.

Signed-off-by: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-04 11:48:18 -08:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
04bea68b2f of/pci: move of_irq_map_pci() into generic code
There is a tiny difference between PPC32 and PPC64. Microblaze uses the
PPC32 variant.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
[grant.likely@secretlab.ca: Added comment to #endif, moved documentation
	block to function implementation, fixed for non ppc and microblaze
	compiles]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2011-02-04 11:46:50 -07:00
Grant Likely
c64eae9a73 Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc3' into devicetree/next 2011-02-04 11:46:43 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
862b6f62bf Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent 2011-02-04 19:02:53 +01:00
Russell King
c8ebae3703 ARM: mmci: add dmaengine-based DMA support
Based on a patch from Linus Walleij.

Add dmaengine based support for DMA to the MMCI driver, using the
Primecell DMA engine interface.  The changes over Linus' driver are:

- rename txsize_threshold to dmasize_threshold, as this reflects the
  purpose more.
- use 'mmci_dma_' as the function prefix rather than 'dma_mmci_'.
- clean up requesting of dma channels.
- don't release a single channel twice when it's shared between tx and rx.
- get rid of 'dma_enable' bool - instead check whether the channel is NULL.
- detect incomplete DMA at the end of a transfer.  Some DMA controllers
  (eg, PL08x) are unable to be configured for scatter DMA and also listen
  to all four DMA request signals [BREQ,SREQ,LBREQ,LSREQ] from the MMCI.
  They can do one or other but not both.  As MMCI uses LBREQ/LSREQ for the
  final burst/words, PL08x does not transfer the last few words.
- map and unmap DMA buffers using the DMA engine struct device, not the
  MMCI struct device - the DMA engine is doing the DMA transfer, not us.
- avoid double-unmapping of the DMA buffers on MMCI data errors.
- don't check for negative values from the dmaengine tx submission
  function - Dan says this must never fail.
- use new dmaengine helper functions rather than using the ugly function
  pointers directly.
- allow DMA code to be fully optimized away using dma_inprogress() which
  is defined to constant 0 if DMA engine support is disabled.
- request maximum segment size from the DMA engine struct device and
  set this appropriately.
- removed checking of buffer alignment - the DMA engine should deal with
  its own restrictions on buffer alignment, not the individual DMA engine
  users.
- removed setting DMAREQCTL - this confuses some DMA controllers as it
  causes LBREQ to be asserted for the last seven transfers, rather than
  six SREQ and one LSREQ.
- removed burst setting - the DMA controller should not burst past the
  transfer size required to complete the DMA operation.

Tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-04 13:25:49 +00:00
Pete Zaitcev
25a64ec1e7 fix comment spelling becausse => because
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-02-04 10:55:44 +01:00
David S. Miller
e2d57766e6 net: Provide compat support for SIOCGETMIFCNT_IN6 and SIOCGETSGCNT_IN6.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-03 18:05:29 -08:00
Nathan Fontenot
d33601644c memory hotplug: Update phys_index to [start|end]_section_nr
Update the 'phys_index' property of a the memory_block struct to be
called start_section_nr, and add a end_section_nr property.  The
data tracked here is the same but the updated naming is more in line
with what is stored here, namely the first and last section number
that the memory block spans.

The names presented to userspace remain the same, phys_index for
start_section_nr and end_phys_index for end_section_nr, to avoid breaking
anything in userspace.

This also updates the node sysfs code to be aware of the new capability for
a memory block to contain multiple memory sections and be aware of the memory
block structure name changes (start_section_nr).  This requires an additional
parameter to unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes so that we know which memory
section of the memory block to unregister.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-03 16:08:57 -08:00
Bob Liu
072fc8f0a8 firmware_classs: change val uevent's type to bool
Some place in firmware_class.c using "int uevent" define, but others use "bool
uevent".
This patch replace all int uevent define to bool.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-03 15:39:17 -08:00
Bart Van Assche
8ba6ebf583 Dynamic debug: Add more flags
Add flags that allow the user to specify via debugfs whether or not the
module name, function name, line number and/or thread ID have to be
included in the printed message.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@fmeh.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-03 15:39:16 -08:00
Bart Van Assche
9b99b7f84e kobject: Add missing format attribute specifications
Several functions in <linux/kobject.h> accept printf-style arguments.
Some of these functions have been annotated with a format attribute
declaration while others have not been annotated. Add a format attribute
specification where it is missing.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-03 15:10:18 -08:00
Russ Gorby
2f1522eccb serial: ifx6x60: expanded info available from platform data
Some platform attributes (e.g. max_hz, use_dma) were being intuited
from the modem type. These things should be specified by the platform
data.

Added max_hz, use_dma to ifx_modem_platform_data definition,
replaced is_6160 w/ modem_type, and changed clients accordingly

Signed-off-by: Russ Gorby <russ.gorby@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-03 11:43:10 -08:00
Stefan Achatz
5dc0c9835f HID: roccat: Rename header roccat.h -> hid-roccat.h
It was desired that the header roccat.h should be named hid-roccat.h

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-02-03 16:37:28 +01:00
Stefan Achatz
8211e46004 HID: roccat: Add ioctl command to retreive report size from chardev
Roccat chardev was reworked to support only a defined report size per
device and this can be retreived by an ioctl now to enable future changes
in report definitions.
Header was moved/renamed from drivers/hid to include/linux for accessibility.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-02-03 16:37:28 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
3d56e331b6 tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array
Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-03 09:29:06 -05:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
6549864629 tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array
Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.

History:

commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.

One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.

The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.

(this patch applies on top of -tip)

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-03 09:28:46 -05:00
Mike Galbraith
d95f412200 sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality
Currently only implemented for fair class tasks.

Add a yield_to_task method() to the fair scheduling class. allowing the
caller of yield_to() to accelerate another thread in it's thread group,
task group.

Implemented via a scheduler hint, using cfs_rq->next to encourage the
target being selected.  We can rely on pick_next_entity to keep things
fair, so noone can accelerate a thread that has already used its fair
share of CPU time.

This also means callers should only call yield_to when they really
mean it.  Calling it too often can result in the scheduler just
ignoring the hint.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201095051.4ddb7738@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03 14:20:33 +01:00
Rik van Riel
ac53db596c sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
Use the buddy mechanism to implement yield_task_fair.  This
allows us to skip onto the next highest priority se at every
level in the CFS tree, unless doing so would introduce gross
unfairness in CPU time distribution.

We order the buddy selection in pick_next_entity to check
yield first, then last, then next.  We need next to be able
to override yield, because it is possible for the "next" and
"yield" task to be different processen in the same sub-tree
of the CFS tree.  When they are, we need to go into that
sub-tree regardless of the "yield" hint, and pick the correct
entity once we get to the right level.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201095103.3a79e92a@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03 14:20:33 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
fe4b04fa31 perf: Cure task_oncpu_function_call() races
Oleg reported that on architectures with
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW the IPI from
task_oncpu_function_call() can land before perf_event_task_sched_in()
and cause interesting situations for eg. perf_install_in_context().

This patch reworks the task_oncpu_function_call() interface to give a
more usable primitive as well as rework all its users to hopefully be
more obvious as well as remove the races.

While looking at the code I also found a number of races against
perf_event_task_sched_out() which can flip contexts between tasks so
plug those too.

Reported-and-reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03 12:14:43 +01:00
stephen hemminger
45e144339a sched: CHOKe flow scheduler
CHOKe ("CHOose and Kill" or "CHOose and Keep") is an alternative
packet scheduler based on the Random Exponential Drop (RED) algorithm.

The core idea is:
  For every packet arrival:
  	Calculate Qave
	if (Qave < minth)
	     Queue the new packet
	else
	     Select randomly a packet from the queue
	     if (both packets from same flow)
	     then Drop both the packets
	     else if (Qave > maxth)
	          Drop packet
	     else
	       	  Admit packet with proability p (same as RED)

See also:
  Rong Pan, Balaji Prabhakar, Konstantinos Psounis, "CHOKe: a stateless active
   queue management scheme for approximating fair bandwidth allocation",
  Proceeding of INFOCOM'2000, March 2000.

Help from:
     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
     Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-02 20:52:42 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
e4a9ea5ee7 tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array
Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-02 21:37:13 -05:00
Namhyung Kim
3cd90ea42f vfs: sparse: add __FMODE_EXEC
FMODE_EXEC is a constant type of fmode_t but was used with normal integer
constants.  This results in following warnings from sparse.  Fix it using
new macro __FMODE_EXEC.

 fs/exec.c:116:58: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer
 fs/exec.c:689:58: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer
 fs/fcntl.c:777:9: warning: restricted fmode_t degrades to integer

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.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>
2011-02-02 16:03:19 -08:00