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  1. Dec 12, 2009
  2. Dec 10, 2009
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics · 6b2f3d1f
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      
      While Linux provided an O_SYNC flag basically since day 1, it took until
      Linux 2.4.0-test12pre2 to actually get it implemented for filesystems,
      since that day we had generic_osync_around with only minor changes and the
      great "For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give
      O_DSYNC" comment.  This patch intends to actually give us real O_SYNC
      semantics in addition to the O_DSYNC semantics.  After Jan's O_SYNC
      patches which are required before this patch it's actually surprisingly
      simple, we just need to figure out when to set the datasync flag to
      vfs_fsync_range and when not.
      
      This patch renames the existing O_SYNC flag to O_DSYNC while keeping it's
      numerical value to keep binary compatibility, and adds a new real O_SYNC
      flag.  To guarantee backwards compatiblity it is defined as expanding to
      both the O_DSYNC and the new additional binary flag (__O_SYNC) to make
      sure we are backwards-compatible when compiled against the new headers.
      
      This also means that all places that don't care about the differences can
      just check O_DSYNC and get the right behaviour for O_SYNC, too - only
      places that actuall care need to check __O_SYNC in addition.  Drivers and
      network filesystems have been updated in a fail safe way to always do the
      full sync magic if O_DSYNC is set.  The few places setting O_SYNC for
      lower layers are kept that way for now to stay failsafe.
      
      We enforce that O_DSYNC is set when __O_SYNC is set early in the open path
      to make sure we always get these sane options.
      
      Note that parisc really screwed up their headers as they already define a
      O_DSYNC that has always been a no-op.  We try to repair it by using it for
      the new O_DSYNC and redefinining O_SYNC to send both the traditional
      O_SYNC numerical value _and_ the O_DSYNC one.
      
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Acked-by: default avatarUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      6b2f3d1f
  3. Nov 26, 2009
    • Ilya Loginov's avatar
      block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages · 2d4dc890
      Ilya Loginov authored
      
      Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
      this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
      the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.
      
      The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
      pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
      flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
      flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
      equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.
      
      See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
      on LKML for more information.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIlya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
      Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      2d4dc890
  4. Nov 17, 2009
  5. Oct 12, 2009
    • Neil Horman's avatar
      net: Generalize socket rx gap / receive queue overflow cmsg · 3b885787
      Neil Horman authored
      
      Create a new socket level option to report number of queue overflows
      
      Recently I augmented the AF_PACKET protocol to report the number of frames lost
      on the socket receive queue between any two enqueued frames.  This value was
      exported via a SOL_PACKET level cmsg.  AFter I completed that work it was
      requested that this feature be generalized so that any datagram oriented socket
      could make use of this option.  As such I've created this patch, It creates a
      new SOL_SOCKET level option called SO_RXQ_OVFL, which when enabled exports a
      SOL_SOCKET level cmsg that reports the nubmer of times the sk_receive_queue
      overflowed between any two given frames.  It also augments the AF_PACKET
      protocol to take advantage of this new feature (as it previously did not touch
      sk->sk_drops, which this patch uses to record the overflow count).  Tested
      successfully by me.
      
      Notes:
      
      1) Unlike my previous patch, this patch simply records the sk_drops value, which
      is not a number of drops between packets, but rather a total number of drops.
      Deltas must be computed in user space.
      
      2) While this patch currently works with datagram oriented protocols, it will
      also be accepted by non-datagram oriented protocols. I'm not sure if thats
      agreeable to everyone, but my argument in favor of doing so is that, for those
      protocols which aren't applicable to this option, sk_drops will always be zero,
      and reporting no drops on a receive queue that isn't used for those
      non-participating protocols seems reasonable to me.  This also saves us having
      to code in a per-protocol opt in mechanism.
      
      3) This applies cleanly to net-next assuming that commit
      97775007 (my af packet cmsg patch) is reverted
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3b885787
  6. Sep 28, 2009
  7. Sep 24, 2009
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      fcntl: add F_[SG]ETOWN_EX · ba0a6c9f
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      
      In order to direct the SIGIO signal to a particular thread of a
      multi-threaded application we cannot, like suggested by the manpage, put a
      TID into the regular fcntl(F_SETOWN) call.  It will still be send to the
      whole process of which that thread is part.
      
      Since people do want to properly direct SIGIO we introduce F_SETOWN_EX.
      
      The need to direct SIGIO comes from self-monitoring profiling such as with
      perf-counters.  Perf-counters uses SIGIO to notify that new sample data is
      available.  If the signal is delivered to the same task that generated the
      new sample it can augment that data by inspecting the task's user-space
      state right after it returns from the kernel.  This is esp.  convenient
      for interpreted or virtual machine driven environments.
      
      Both F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX take a pointer to a struct f_owner_ex
      as argument:
      
      struct f_owner_ex {
      	int   type;
      	pid_t pid;
      };
      
      Where type is one of F_OWNER_TID, F_OWNER_PID or F_OWNER_GID.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarstephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
      Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ba0a6c9f
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi · 0748bd01
      Rusty Russell authored
      
      Now everyone is converted to arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask, remove
      the shim and the #defines.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      0748bd01
  8. Sep 22, 2009
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      mm: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions · 90f72aa5
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that
      will look like anonymous memory to user space.  This is accomplished by
      using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of
      MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The region will behave
      the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.
      
      The patch also adds the MAP_STACK flag, which was previously defined only
      on some architectures but not on others.  Since MAP_STACK is meant to be a
      hint only, architectures can define it without assigning a specific
      meaning to it.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      90f72aa5
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      ksm: define MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE · d19f3524
      Hugh Dickins authored
      
      The out-of-tree KSM used ioctls on fds cloned from /dev/ksm to register a
      memory area for merging: we prefer now to use an madvise(2) interface.
      
      This patch just defines MADV_MERGEABLE (to tell KSM it may merge pages in
      this area found identical to pages in other mergeable areas) and
      MADV_UNMERGEABLE (to undo that).
      
      Most architectures use asm-generic, but alpha, mips, parisc, xtensa need
      their own definitions: included here for mmotm convenience, but we'll
      probably want to split this and feed pieces to arch maintainers.
      
      Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIzik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d19f3524
  9. Sep 21, 2009
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events · cdd6c482
      Ingo Molnar authored
      
      Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
      
      In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
      initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
      becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
      monitoring, analysis facility.
      
      Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
      'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
      code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
      less appropriate.
      
      All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
      events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
      and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
      
      The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
      it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
      
      Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
      suggested a rename.
      
      User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
      should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
      keep the size down.)
      
      This patch has been generated via the following script:
      
        FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
          -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
          -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
          -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
          -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
          $FILES
      
        for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
          M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
          mv $N $M
        done
      
        FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
          -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
          -e 's/counter/event/g' \
          -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
          $FILES
      
      ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
      used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
      a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
      change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
      is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
      
      Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
      stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
      
      ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
        with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
        over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
        in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
        better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
        instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
      
      Suggested-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cdd6c482
  10. Sep 09, 2009
  11. Sep 02, 2009
  12. Aug 05, 2009
    • Jan Engelhardt's avatar
      net: implement a SO_DOMAIN getsockoption · 0d6038ee
      Jan Engelhardt authored
      
      This sockopt goes in line with SO_TYPE and SO_PROTOCOL. It makes it
      possible for userspace programs to pass around file descriptors — I
      am referring to arguments-to-functions, but it may even work for the
      fd passing over UNIX sockets — without needing to also pass the
      auxiliary information (PF_INET6/IPPROTO_TCP).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      0d6038ee
    • Jan Engelhardt's avatar
      net: implement a SO_PROTOCOL getsockoption · 49c794e9
      Jan Engelhardt authored
      
      Similar to SO_TYPE returning the socket type, SO_PROTOCOL allows to
      retrieve the protocol used with a given socket.
      
      I am not quite sure why we have that-many copies of socket.h, and why
      the values are not the same on all arches either, but for where hex
      numbers dominate, I use 0x1029 for SO_PROTOCOL as that seems to be
      the next free unused number across a bunch of operating systems, or
      so Google results make me want to believe. SO_PROTOCOL for others
      just uses the next free Linux number, 38.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      49c794e9
  13. Aug 03, 2009
  14. Jul 27, 2009
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() · 9e1b32ca
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      
      mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()
      
      Upcoming paches to support the new 64-bit "BookE" powerpc architecture
      will need to have the virtual address corresponding to PTE page when
      freeing it, due to the way the HW table walker works.
      
      Basically, the TLB can be loaded with "large" pages that cover the whole
      virtual space (well, sort-of, half of it actually) represented by a PTE
      page, and which contain an "indirect" bit indicating that this TLB entry
      RPN points to an array of PTEs from which the TLB can then create direct
      entries. Thus, in order to invalidate those when PTE pages are deleted,
      we need the virtual address to pass to tlbilx or tlbivax instructions.
      
      The old trick of sticking it somewhere in the PTE page struct page sucks
      too much, the address is almost readily available in all call sites and
      almost everybody implemets these as macros, so we may as well add the
      argument everywhere. I added it to the pmd and pud variants for consistency.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [MN10300 & FRV]
      Acked-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9e1b32ca
  15. Jul 10, 2009
  16. Jul 03, 2009
  17. Jun 17, 2009
    • Matthew Wilcox's avatar
      Delete pcibios_select_root · a6c14096
      Matthew Wilcox authored
      
      This function was only used by pci_claim_resource(), and the last commit
      deleted that use.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a6c14096
    • Randy Dunlap's avatar
      kmap_types: make most arches use generic header file · e4c9dd0f
      Randy Dunlap authored
      
      Convert most arches to use asm-generic/kmap_types.h.
      
      Move the KM_FENCE_ macro additions into asm-generic/kmap_types.h,
      controlled by __WITH_KM_FENCE from each arch's kmap_types.h file.
      
      Would be nice to be able to add custom KM_types per arch, but I don't yet
      see a nice, clean way to do that.
      
      Built on x86_64, i386, mips, sparc, alpha(tonyb), powerpc(tonyb), and
      68k(tonyb).
      
      Note: avr32 should be able to remove KM_PTE2 (since it's not used) and
      then just use the generic kmap_types.h file.  Get avr32 maintainer
      approval.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: "Luck Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e4c9dd0f
  18. Jun 11, 2009
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