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Michael Buesch
35c7e6602b b43: Rewrite and fix rfkill init
The rfkill subsystem doesn't like code like that
rfkill_allocate();
rfkill_register();
rfkill_unregister();
rfkill_register(); /* <- This will crash */

This sequence happens with
modprobe b43
ifconfig wlanX up
ifconfig wlanX down
ifconfig wlanX up

Fix this by always re-allocating the rfkill stuff before register.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:12 -05:00
Michael Buesch
30c4ae4231 b43: debugfs SHM read buffer overrun fix
Fix possible buffer overrun.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:12 -05:00
Michael Buesch
80fda03fc8 b43: Fix rfkill callback deadlock
wl->mutex might already be locked on initialization.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:12 -05:00
Michael Buesch
ce2d90591f b43: pcmcia-host initialization bugfixes
Fix the initialization for PCMCIA devices.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:12 -05:00
Roel Kluin
a2a1c3eb40 ipw2100: fix postfix decrement errors
If i reaches zero, the loop ends, but the postfix decrement subtracts it to -1.
Testing for 'i == 0', later in the function, will not fulfill its purpose.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:12 -05:00
Randy Dunlap
2493d8e416 hostap: fix section mismatch warning
Fix section mismatch warning:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x36fcc): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:prism2_pci_id_table (between 'prism2_pci_drv_id' and 'prism2_pci_funcs')

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:12 -05:00
Ivo van Doorn
453a3fb9bd rt2x00: Block adhoc & master mode
rt2x00 is broken when it comes down to adhoc and master mode.
The main problem is the beaconing, which is completely failing.
Untill a solution has been found, both beacon requiring modes
must be disabled to prevent numerous bug reports.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:11 -05:00
Marcelo Tosatti
29f5f2a19b libertas: properly account for queue commands
Properly account for queue commands, this fixes a problem reported
by Holger Schurig when using the debugfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:11 -05:00
Pierre Ossman
51e6b712b5 libertas: make if_sdio align packets
Incoming packets have to be aligned or the IP stack becomes upset.
Make sure to shift them two bytes to achieve this.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:10 -05:00
Holger Schurig
4ef31702c1 libertas: fixes for slow hardware
Fixes for slow hardware.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly V. Bursov <vitalyvb@ukr.net>
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:10 -05:00
John W. Linville
0f39c4ab03 hermes: clarify Intel reference in Kconfig help
The Intel device supported by the hermes driver core is the IPW2011.  The
"Intel PRO/Wireless" wording suggests the later Centrino devices and may
be confusing to some users.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:10 -05:00
Mark Lord
b9d04e2401 r8169: revert 7da97ec96a (partly)
Various symptoms depending on the .config options:
- the card stops working after some (short) time
- the card does not work at all
- the card disappears (nothing in lspci/dmesg)

A real power-off is needed to recover the card.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:10 -05:00
Francois Romieu
66ec5d4fb1 r8169: do not enable the TBI for the 8168 and the 81x0
The 8168c and the 8100e choke on it. I have not seen an indication
nor received a report that the TBI is being actively used on the
remaining 8168b and 8110. Let's disable it for now until someone
complains.

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Matthias Winkler <m.winkler@unicon-ka.de>
Cc: Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes@gmail.com>
Cc: Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw>
2007-11-10 04:25:09 -05:00
Ciaran McCreesh
11d2e28241 r8169: add PCI ID for the 8168 in the Abit Fatal1ty F-190HD motherboard
Signed-off-by: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw>
2007-11-10 04:25:09 -05:00
eric miao
7c826a0b84 add support for smc91x ethernet interface on zylonite
This patch adds LAN91C111 ethernet interface support for zylonite
(a.k.a Marvell's PXA3xx Development Platform) with smc91x driver.

It would be better if a patch would support zylonite along with all
other PXA boards with a single binary of smc91x driver, but it looks
quite difficult for the moment, so ugly #ifdef is still used here.

Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <amakarov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: eric miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-10 04:25:09 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
1e35478728 sky2: version 1.20
Version update to 1.20

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-10 04:25:09 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
cf06ffb4df sky2: handle advanced error recovery config issues
The PCI AER support may not work for a couple of reasons.
It may not be configured into the kernel or there may be a BIOS
bug that prevents MMCONFIG from working.  If MMCONFIG doesn't work
then the PCI registers that control AER will not be accessible via
pci_read_config functions; luckly there is another window to access
PCI space in the device, so use that.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-10 04:25:09 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
ab1a145638 sky2: remove unneeded mask update
The IRQ's is already masked on shutdown, and on startup avoid
touching PHY until after phy_init().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-10 04:25:09 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
44388c7ead sky2: dont change LED after autoneg
Don't need to change LED's after auto negotiation, the chip
sets them correctly.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-10 04:25:08 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
af043aa54f sky2: longer PHY delay
Increse phy delay and handle I/O errors.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-10 04:25:08 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
ab5adecb2d sky2: status ring race fix
The D-Link PCI-X board (and maybe others) can lie about status
ring entries. It seems it will update the register for last status
index before completing the DMA for the ring entry. To avoid reading
stale data, zap the old entry and check.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-10 04:25:08 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
ac93a3946b sky2: enable PCI config writes
On some boards, PCI configuration space access is turned off by default.
The 2.6.24 driver doesn't turn it on, and should have.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-10 04:25:08 -05:00
David Miller
3c5fd9c77d [FUTEX] Fix address computation in compat code.
compat_exit_robust_list() computes a pointer to the
futex entry in userspace as follows:

	(void __user *)entry + futex_offset

'entry' is a 'struct robust_list __user *', and
'futex_offset' is a 'compat_long_t' (typically a 's32').

Things explode if the 32-bit sign bit is set in futex_offset.

Type promotion sign extends futex_offset to a 64-bit value before
adding it to 'entry'.

This triggered a problem on sparc64 running 32-bit applications which
would lock up a cpu looping forever in the fault handling for the
userspace load in handle_futex_death().

Compat userspace runs with address masking (wherein the cpu zeros out
the top 32-bits of every effective address given to a memory operation
instruction) so the sparc64 fault handler accounts for this by
zero'ing out the top 32-bits of the fault address too.

Since the kernel properly uses the compat_uptr interfaces, kernel side
accesses to compat userspace work too since they will only use
addresses with the top 32-bit clear.

Because of this compat futex layer bug we get into the following loop
when executing the get_user() load near the top of handle_futex_death():

1) load from address '0xfffffffff7f16bd8', FAULT
2) fault handler clears upper 32-bits, processes fault
   for address '0xf7f16bd8' which succeeds
3) goto #1

I want to thank Bernd Zeimetz, Josip Rodin, and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
for their tireless efforts helping me track down this bug.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-09 16:13:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8fc543c8f0 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] IOSAPIC bogus error cleanup
  [IA64] Update printing of feature set bits
  [IA64] Fix IOSAPIC delivery mode setting
  [IA64] XPC heartbeat timer function must run on CPU 0
  [IA64] Clean up /proc/interrupts output
  [IA64] Disable/re-enable CPE interrupts on Altix
  [IA64] Clean-up McKinley Errata message
  [IA64] Add gate.lds to list of files ignored by Git
  [IA64] Fix section mismatch in contig.c version of per_cpu_init()
  [IA64] Wrong args to memset in efi_gettimeofday()
  [IA64] Remove duplicate includes from ia32priv.h
  [IA64] fix number of bytes zeroed by sys_fw_init() in arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c
  [IA64] Fix perfmon sysctl directory modes
2007-11-09 15:28:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a70a932299 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: proper prototype for kernel/sched.c:migration_init()
  sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing
  sched: fix copy_namespace() <-> sched_fork() dependency in do_fork
  sched: clean up the wakeup preempt check, #2
  sched: clean up the wakeup preempt check
  sched: wakeup preemption fix
  sched: remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT
  sched: turn off PREEMPT_RESTRICT
  KVM: fix !SMP build error
  x86: make nmi_cpu_busy() always defined
  x86: make ipi_handler() always defined
  sched: cleanup, use NSEC_PER_MSEC and NSEC_PER_SEC
  sched: reintroduce SMP tunings again
  sched: restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc
  sched: fix delay accounting regression
  sched: reintroduce the sched_min_granularity tunable
  sched: documentation: place_entity() comments
  sched: fix vslice
2007-11-09 15:27:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a80b824f0b Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (26 commits)
  sh: remove dead config symbols from SH code
  sh: Kill off broken snapgear ds1302 code.
  sh: Add a dummy vga.h.
  rtc: rtc-sh: Zero out tm value for invalid rtc states.
  rtc: sh-rtc: Handle rtc_device_register() failure properly.
  sh: Fix heartbeart on Solution Engine series
  sh: Remove SCI_NPORTS from sh-sci.h
  sh: Fix up PAGE_KERNEL_PCC() for nommu.
  sh: hs7751rvoip: Kill off dead IPR IRQ mappings.
  sh: hs7751rvoip: irq.c needs linux/interrupt.h.
  sh: Kill off __{copy,clear}_user_page().
  sh: Optimized copy_{to,from}_user_page() for SH-4.
  sh: Wire up clear_user_highpage().
  sh: Kill off the remaining ST40 cruft.
  superhyway: Handle device_register() retval properly.
  sh: kgdb sysrq depends on magic sysrq.
  sh: Add -Werror for clean directories.
  sh: Fix up kgdb build with modular sh-sci.
  sh: Export __{s,u}divsi3_i4i on all CPUs.
  sh: Fix up kgdb-on-NMI branch target.
  ...
2007-11-09 15:25:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
45ff993d2b Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  [ARM] pxa: fix one-shot timer mode
  [ARM] 4645/1: Cyberpro: Trivial fix to restore 16bpp mode.
  [ARM] 4644/2: fix flush_kern_tlb_range() in module space
  [ARM] Allow watchdog drivers to be selected again
  [ARM] 4633/1: omap build fix when FB enabled
  [ARM] 4642/2: netX: default config for netx based boards
  [ARM] 4641/2: netX: fix kobject_name type
  [ARM] Fix iop3xx macro
2007-11-09 15:24:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cb834e7cc0 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
  [LIB] crc32c: Keep intermediate crc state in cpu order
2007-11-09 15:19:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4c31c30302 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Add UNPLUG traces to all appropriate places
  block: fix requeue handling in blk_queue_invalidate_tags()
  mmc: Fix sg helper copy-and-paste error
  pktcdvd: fix BUG caused by sysfs module reference semantics change
  ioprio: allow sys_ioprio_set() value of 0 to reset ioprio setting
  cfq_idle_class_timer: add paranoid checks for jiffies overflow
  cfq: fix IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE delays
  cfq: fix IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE accounting
2007-11-09 15:17:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c4888f9ffa Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (37 commits)
  [POWERPC] EEH: Make sure warning message is printed
  [POWERPC] Make altivec code in swsusp_32.S depend on CONFIG_ALTIVEC
  [POWERPC] windfarm: Fix windfarm thread freezer interaction
  [POWERPC] Fix si_addr value on low level hash failures
  [POWERPC] Refresh ppc64_defconfig and enable pasemi-related options
  [POWERPC] pasemi: Update defconfig
  [POWERPC] iSeries: Fix ref counting in vio setup
  [POWERPC] ] Fix memset size error
  [POWERPC] Fix link errors for allyesconfig
  [POWERPC] iSeries_init_IRQ non-PCI tidy
  [POWERPC] Change fallocate to match unistd.h on powerpc
  [POWERPC] EEH: Avoid crash on null device
  [POWERPC] EEH: Drivers that need reset trump others
  [POWERPC] EEH: Clean up comments
  [POWERPC] Fix off-by-one error in setting decrementer on Book E/4xx (v2)
  [POWERPC] Fix switch_slb handling of 1T ESID values
  [POWERPC] Fix build failure when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined
  [POWERPC] Include udbg.h when using udbg_printf
  [POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion
  [POWERPC] Fix sysctl table check failure on PowerMac
  ...
2007-11-09 15:16:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e36aeee65d Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
  ocfs2: fix rename vs unlink race
  [PATCH] Fix possibly too long write in o2hb_setup_one_bio()
  ocfs2: fix write() performance regression
  ocfs2: Commit journal on sync writes
  ocfs2: Re-order iput in ocfs2_drop_dentry_lock
  ocfs2: Create locks at initially requested level
  [PATCH] Fix priority mistakes in fs/ocfs2/{alloc.c, dlmglue.c}
  [2.6 patch] make ocfs2_find_entry_el() static
2007-11-09 15:11:58 -08:00
Alan Cox
b2f051ae39 frv: Remove bogus NO_IRQ = -1 define
The old NO_IRQ define some platforms had was long ago declared obsolete
and wrong. FRV should therefore not be re-introducing this, especially as
IRQs are usually unsigned in the kernel. The "no IRQ" case is defined to be
zero and Linus made this rather clear at the time.

arch/frv shows no dependancy on this but it might show up driver fixes
needing doing I guess

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-09 15:11:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a90fcf3111 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Use "is_power_of_2" macro for simplicity.
  [SPARC]: Remove duplicate includes.
2007-11-09 15:08:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c5b875e354 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (44 commits)
  [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts
  [INET]: Remove per bucket rwlock in tcp/dccp ehash table.
  [IPVS]: Synchronize closing of Connections
  [IPVS]: Bind connections on stanby if the destination exists
  [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/pt.txt
  [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/routing.txt
  [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet
  [NET]: Remove comx driver docs.
  [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/Configurable
  [NET]: Clean proto_(un)register from in-code ifdefs
  [IPSEC]: Fix crypto_alloc_comp error checking
  [VLAN]: Fix SET_VLAN_INGRESS_PRIORITY_CMD ioctl
  [NETNS]: Fix compiler error in net_namespace.c
  [TTY]: Use tty_mode_ioctl() in network drivers.
  [TTY]: Fix network driver interactions with TCGET/SET calls.
  [PKT_SCHED] CLS_U32: Fix endianness problem with u32 classifier hash masks.
  [NET]: Removing duplicit #includes
  [NET]: Let USB_USBNET always select MII.
  [RRUNNER]: Do not muck with sysctl_{r,w}mem_max
  [DLM] lowcomms: Do not muck with sysctl_rmem_max.
  ...
2007-11-09 15:07:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
eae1920a21 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: fw-sbp2: fix refcounting
2007-11-09 15:04:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
98d74e08b1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
  SELinux: add more validity checks on policy load
  SELinux: fix bug in new ebitmap code.
  SELinux: suppress a warning for 64k pages.
2007-11-09 15:02:43 -08:00
David Howells
e4fc5a1a2a FRV: Remove the section annotation on free_initmem()
Remove the section annotation on FRV's free_initmem().  It can't be marked
__init, lest it free itself.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-09 15:02:25 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
e6fe6649b4 sched: proper prototype for kernel/sched.c:migration_init()
This patch adds a proper prototype for migration_init() in
include/linux/sched.h

Since there's no point in always returning 0 to a caller that doesn't check
the return value it also changes the function to return void.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
b82d9fdd84 sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing
SMP balancing is done with IRQs disabled and can iterate the full rq.
When rqs are large this can cause large irq-latencies. Limit the nr of
iterations on each run.

This fixes a scheduling latency regression reported by the -rt folks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
3c90e6e99b sched: fix copy_namespace() <-> sched_fork() dependency in do_fork
Sukadev Bhattiprolu reported a kernel crash with control groups.
There are couple of problems discovered by Suka's test:

- The test requires the cgroup filesystem to be mounted with
  atleast the cpu and ns options (i.e both namespace and cpu 
  controllers are active in the same hierarchy). 

	# mkdir /dev/cpuctl
	# mount -t cgroup -ocpu,ns none cpuctl
	(or simply)
	# mount -t cgroup none cpuctl -> Will activate all controllers
					 in same hierarchy.

- The test invokes clone() with CLONE_NEWNS set. This causes a a new child
  to be created, also a new group (do_fork->copy_namespaces->ns_cgroup_clone->
  cgroup_clone) and the child is attached to the new group (cgroup_clone->
  attach_task->sched_move_task). At this point in time, the child's scheduler 
  related fields are uninitialized (including its on_rq field, which it has
  inherited from parent). As a result sched_move_task thinks its on
  runqueue, when it isn't.

  As a solution to this problem, I moved sched_fork() call, which
  initializes scheduler related fields on a new task, before
  copy_namespaces(). I am not sure though whether moving up will
  cause other side-effects. Do you see any issue?

- The second problem exposed by this test is that task_new_fair()
  assumes that parent and child will be part of the same group (which 
  needn't be as this test shows). As a result, cfs_rq->curr can be NULL
  for the child.

  The solution is to test for curr pointer being NULL in
  task_new_fair().

With the patch below, I could run ns_exec() fine w/o a crash.

Reported-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
502d26b524 sched: clean up the wakeup preempt check, #2
clean up the preemption check to not use unnecessary 64-bit
variables. This improves code size:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  44227    3326      36   47589    b9e5 sched.o.before
  44201    3326      36   47563    b9cb sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
77d9cc44b5 sched: clean up the wakeup preempt check
clean up the wakeup preemption check. No code changed:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  44227    3326      36   47589    b9e5 sched.o.before
  44227    3326      36   47589    b9e5 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8bc6767acb sched: wakeup preemption fix
wakeup preemption fix: do not make it dependent on p->prio.
Preemption purely depends on ->vruntime.

This improves preemption in mixed-nice-level workloads.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3e3e13f399 sched: remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT
remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT. (this is a separate commit so that any
regression related to the removal itself is bisectable)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
52d3da1ad4 sched: turn off PREEMPT_RESTRICT
PREEMPT_RESTRICT was a method aimed at reducing the amount of wakeup
related preemption. It has a disadvantage though, it can prevent
legitimate wakeups if a task is 'unlucky' to be hit too early by a tick
that clears peer_preempt.

Now that the wakeup preemption has been cleaned up we dont seem to have
excessive preemptions anymore, so this feature can be turned off. (and
removed in the next patch)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a5fbb6d106 KVM: fix !SMP build error
fix a !SMP build error:

drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c: In function 'kvm_flush_remote_tlbs':
drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c:220: error: implicit declaration of function 'smp_call_function_mask'

(and also avoid unused function warning related to up_smp_call_function()
not making use of the 'func' parameter.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0492007ed9 x86: make nmi_cpu_busy() always defined
nmi_cpu_busy() must be available on !SMP too.

this is in preparation to a smp_call_function_mask() fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4e2947f125 x86: make ipi_handler() always defined
prepare for up_smp_call_function() to ensure that the 'func'
pointer is unused. (which is related to a KVM build fix)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
d6322faf29 sched: cleanup, use NSEC_PER_MSEC and NSEC_PER_SEC
1) hardcoded 1000000000 value is used five times in places where
   NSEC_PER_SEC might be more readable.

2) A conversion from nsec to msec uses the hardcoded 1000000 value,
   which is a candidate for NSEC_PER_MSEC.

no code changed:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   44359    3326      36   47721    ba69 sched.o.before
   44359    3326      36   47721    ba69 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
19978ca610 sched: reintroduce SMP tunings again
Yanmin Zhang reported an aim7 regression and bisected it down to:

 |  commit 38ad464d41
 |  Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 |  Date:   Mon Oct 15 17:00:02 2007 +0200
 |
 |     sched: uniform tunings
 |
 |     use the same defaults on both UP and SMP.

fix this by reintroducing similar SMP tunings again. This resolves
the regression.

(also update the comments to match the ilog2(nr_cpus) tuning effect)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00