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Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho
b7f08aabb1 [PATCH] ppc32: 8xx fix CPM ethernet description
8xx: fix CPM Ethernet description

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Signed-off-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-07 10:00:39 -07:00
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho
fbccb3d7f5 [PATCH] ppc32: 8xx: fec: fix interrupt handler prototypes
8xx: fec: fix interrupt handler prototypes

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@conectiva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-07 10:00:39 -07:00
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho
fc007ddd60 [PATCH] ppc32: 8xx: using dma_alloc_coherent() instead consistent_alloc()
8xx: using dma_alloc_coherent() instead consistent_alloc()

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@conectiva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-07 10:00:39 -07:00
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho
8b0ed2fbdb [PATCH] ppc32: 8xx: convert fec driver to use work_struct
8xx: convert fec driver to use work_struct

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@conectiva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-07 10:00:38 -07:00
Tom Duffy
46bdac9938 [PATCH] visws: linkage fix
This patch add stubs to allow the visws subarch to link again.

Signed-off-by: Tom Duffy <thomas.duffy.99@alumni.brown.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-07 10:00:38 -07:00
Andi Kleen
d5172f263f [PATCH] x86_64: ignore machine checks from boot time
Don't log machine check events left over from boot.  Too many BIOSes leave
bogus events in there.

This unfortunately also makes it impossible to log events that caused a
reboot.  For people with non broken BIOS there is mce=bootlog

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-07 10:00:37 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
0d317fb72f [PATCH] x86_64 bootmem: sparse_mem/kexec merge bug.
When the sparse mem changes and the kexec changes
were merged into setup.c they came in, in the wrong order.
This patch changes the order so we don't run sparse_init
which uses the bootmem allocator until we all of the
reserve_bootmem calls has been made.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-06 13:06:30 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
36cf446c2c [PATCH] i386 visws: Add machine_shutdown and emergency_restart
Another x86 subarchitecture bit I missed.  This adds both
machine_emergency_restart missed in my reboot fixes and
machine_shutdown needed for kexec support.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-06 12:54:57 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
094528a7fb [PATCH] i386 voyager: Add machine_shutdown
Here is one more bit of breakage my x86 sub-architecture
confusion caused.

Add machine_shutdown to voyager so it will compile with CONFIG_KEXEC.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-06 12:54:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d8588ee5b8 ppc: Export __handle_mm_fault for MOL
When we did the handle_mm_fault cleanup and get_user_page() race fixes,
handle_mm_fault turned into an inline function that called the real
__handle_mm_fault() code.  The export needed for MOL on ppc wasn't
updated to match the new world order, though.

Turn it into a GPL export while at it, since this is all about internal
interfaces and MOL is GPL'd anwyay.
2005-08-06 09:44:37 -07:00
Tim Yamin
4aad724d3e [PATCH] Update in-kernel zlib routines
These bugs have been fixed in the standard zlib for a while.

See for example

 a) http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/1999-06/msg00183.html
 b) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94584

Signed-off-by: Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-05 16:23:21 -07:00
James Bottomley
e6cb99413d [PATCH] fix voyager compile after machine_emergency_restart breakage
[PATCH] i386: Implement machine_emergency_reboot

introduced this new function into arch/i386/reboot.c.  However,
subarchitectures are entitled to implement their own copies of reboot.c
from which this new function is now missing.

It looks like visws will also need a similar fixup

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-05 12:22:37 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
43c3473552 [PATCH] pci and yenta: pcibios_bus_to_resource
In yenta_socket, we default to using the resource setting of the CardBus
bridge.  However, this is a PCI-bus-centric view of resources and thus needs
to be converted to generic resources first.  Therefore, add a call to
pcibios_bus_to_resource() call in between.  This function is a mere wrapper on
x86 and friends, however on some others it already exists, is added in this
patch (alpha, arm, ppc, ppc64) or still needs to be provided (parisc -- where
is its pcibios_resource_to_bus() ?).

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 21:32:46 -07:00
John W. Linville
fec59a711e [PATCH] PCI: restore BAR values after D3hot->D0 for devices that need it
Some PCI devices (e.g. 3c905B, 3c556B) lose all configuration
(including BARs) when transitioning from D3hot->D0.  This leaves such
a device in an inaccessible state.  The patch below causes the BARs
to be restored when enabling such a device, so that its driver will
be able to access it.

The patch also adds pci_restore_bars as a new global symbol, and adds a
correpsonding EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for that.

Some firmware (e.g. Thinkpad T21) leaves devices in D3hot after a
(re)boot.  Most drivers call pci_enable_device very early, so devices
left in D3hot that lose configuration during the D3hot->D0 transition
will be inaccessible to their drivers.

Drivers could be modified to account for this, but it would
be difficult to know which drivers need modification.  This is
especially true since often many devices are covered by the same
driver.  It likely would be necessary to replicate code across dozens
of drivers.

The patch below should trigger only when transitioning from D3hot->D0
(or at boot), and only for devices that have the "no soft reset" bit
cleared in the PM control register.  I believe it is safe to include
this patch as part of the PCI infrastructure.

The cleanest implementation of pci_restore_bars was to call
pci_update_resource.  Unfortunately, that does not currently exist
for the sparc64 architecture.  The patch below includes a null
implemenation of pci_update_resource for sparc64.

Some have expressed interest in making general use of the the
pci_restore_bars function, so that has been exported to GPL licensed
modules.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 21:32:46 -07:00
Daniel Jacobowitz
e8ed11b9dc [PATCH] x86_64: fix 32-bit thread debugging
The IA32 ptrace emulation currently returns the wrong registers for fs/gs;
it's returning what x86_64 calls gs_base.  We need regs.gsindex in order
for GDB to correctly locate the TLS area.  Without this patch, the 32-bit
GDB testsuite bombs on a 64-bit kernel.  With it, results look about like
I'd expect, although there are still a handful of kernel-related failures
(vsyscall related?).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 16:28:27 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
c91096d85c [PATCH] remove special HPET_EMULATE_RTC config option
We had a user whose apps weren't working correctly because his "rtc" wasn't
working fully.

For the sake of simplicity, it seems sensible to always enable HPET RTC
emulation.

Remove a special config option for HPET_EMULATE_RTC and make it directly
depend on HPET_TIMER and RTC. This will avoid the hangs when EMULATE_RTC
is not configured and when some userlevel script depends on RTC interrupt,
as in:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4904

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 16:27:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7cfa132cd0 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-08-04 13:02:31 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
6d22d85a85 [PATCH] ppc64: fix for kexec boot issue
The kexec boot is not successful on some power machines since all CPUs are
getting removed from global interrupt queue (GIQ) before kexec boot.  Some
systems always expect at least one CPU in GIQ.  Hence, this patch will make
sure that only secondary CPUs are removed from GIQ.

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 13:00:55 -07:00
Olof Johansson
75eedfed3e [PATCH] ppc64: Fix UP kernel build
CONFIG_KEXEC breaks UP builds because of a misspelled smp_release_cpus().
Also, the function isn't defined unless built with CONFIG_SMP but it is
needed if we are to go from a UP to SMP kernel.  Enable it and document it.

Thanks to Steven Winiecki for reporting this and to Milton for remembering
how it's supposed to work and why.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 13:00:53 -07:00
Michael Gernoth
c80f90ba15 [PATCH] ARM: 2844/1: Add maintainer for Jornada 720
Patch from Michael Gernoth

As discussed on the handhelds.org Jornada mailinglist, I take over
maintainership of the currently unmaintained Jornada 720-port in
the mainline kernel.

Signed-off-by: Michael Gernoth <michael@gernoth.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-04 20:43:40 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
9d343219e3 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-08-04 09:30:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6e346228c7 It wasn't just x86-64 that had hardcoded VM_FAULT_xxx numbers
Fix up arm26, cris, frv, m68k, parisc and sh64 too..
2005-08-04 08:33:38 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
968002166c [PATCH] x86-64: use proper VM_FAULT_xxx macros
x86_64 had hardcoded the VM_ numbers so it broke down when the numbers
were changed.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 08:20:48 -07:00
Richard Purdie
c013622d5f [PATCH] ARM: 2838/1: Fix arm oprofile backtrace warning
Patch from Richard Purdie

Fix a typo causing a warning in the arm oprofile backtrace code.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-04 15:06:59 +01:00
Russell King
ff2afb9df6 [PATCH] ARM: Fix ARM fault handler for get_user_pages() fixes.
The ARM fault handler is optimised to make the fast path, err, fast.
The renumbering of the VM_FAULT_* codes broke this because numbers
were used instead of the definitions.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-04 14:17:33 +01:00
Deepak Saxena
8c741ed74d [PATCH] ARM: 2835/1: Add UPF_SKIP_TEST to IXP4xx serial ports
Patch from Deepak Saxena

This allows the serial driver autconf to work properly on all the IXP
serial ports. W/o it we basically put the serial port in an unrecoverable
state and lose console.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-03 19:58:21 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
7b1fbf292b [PATCH] ARM: 2841/1: Fix VFP +/-0 case for doubles addition
Patch from Catalin Marinas

The IEEE 754 standard specifies that the result of (x - x), where x is
a valid number, should be -0 if the rounding mode is towards minus
infinity or +0 otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-03 19:53:25 +01:00
Deepak Saxena
975ad141ee [PATCH] ARM: 2839/1: Remove XScale cache and TLB locking code
Patch from Deepak Saxena

The XScale locking code is not something that has been validated
on 2.6 and needs to be replaced with a more generic API to use
with other ARMs that support locking features.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-03 19:49:17 +01:00
Richard Purdie
f148af2593 [PATCH] ARM: 2837/2: Re: ARM: Make NWFPE preempt safe
Patch from Richard Purdie

NWFPE used global variables which meant it wasn't safe for use with
preemptive kernels. This patch removes them and communicates the
information between functions in a preempt safe manner. Generation
of some exceptions was broken and this has also been corrected.
Tests with glibc's maths test suite show no change in the results
before/after this patch.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-03 19:49:17 +01:00
Ben Dooks
1fcf844861 [PATCH] ARM: 2832/1: BAST - limit clock-rate for IIC bus
Patch from Ben Dooks

The default clock rate does not specify a maximum, so the
default of 400KHz is used. This rate is too fast for the PMU
on the EB2410ITX, so we now specify platform data with a rate
of around 100KHz.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-03 19:49:16 +01:00
Haren Myneni
5cb4cc0d82 [PATCH] Xmon bug fix for soft-reset
For soft reset during system hang, got an error "CPU did not take
control" for some CPUs even though they responded to soft-reset (called
SystemReset, die and called debugger - xmon).   First these CPUs entered
into xmon by IPI callback and then got a soft-reset exception and
re-entered into xmon again. The first CPU which re-entered into xmon got
the output lock and made into xmon successfully without unlocking.
Hence, the next CPU(s) which re-entered into xmon try to acquire a lock
(get_output_lock). Therefore, we can not view state of those CPU(s).

[This is a simple, very low risk, obvious fix for an obvious bug, and
should go into 2.6.13.  -- paulus]

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-02 22:16:45 -07:00
Mike Kravetz
96cd5b0856 [PATCH] ppc64: POWER 4 fails to boot with NUMA
If CONFIG_NUMA is set, some POWER 4 systems will fail to boot.  This is
because of special processing needed to handle invalid node IDs (0xffff) on
POWER 4.  My previous patch to handle memory 'holes' within nodes forgot to
add this special case for POWER 4 in one place.

In reality, I'm not sure that configuring the kernel for NUMA on POWER 4 makes
much sense.  Are there POWER 4 based systems with NUMA characteristics that
are presented by the firmware?  But, distros want one kernel for all systems
so NUMA is on by default in their kernels.  The patch handles those cases.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:01 -07:00
Andrew Morton
39bbb07d7c [PATCH] transmeta: CONFIG_PROC_FS=n build fix
Fix bug found by Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>'s autobuild setup.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:38:00 -07:00
Hirokazu Takata
2757a71c31 [PATCH] m32r: Fix local-timer event handling
There was a scheduling problem of the m32r SMP kernel; A process rarely
stopped and gave no responding but the other process have been handled by
the other CPU still lives, then if we did something in the other terminal
or something like that, the stopped process came back to life and continued
its operation...  (ex.  LMbench: lat_sig)

In the m32r SMP kernel, a local-timer event is delivered by using an
IPI(inter processor interrupts); LOCAL_TIMER_IPI.  And a function
smp_send_timer() is prepared to send the LOCAL_TIMER_IPI from the current
CPU to the other CPUs.

The funtion smp_send_timer() was placed and used in do_IRQ() in
former times (before 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 kernel), however, it was
unintentionally removed when arch/m32r/kernel/irq.c was modified to
employ the generic hardirq framework (CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ) in
my previous patch.

  [PATCH 2.6.10-rc3-mm1] m32r: Use generic hardirq framework
  http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0412.2/0358.html

The following patch fixes the above problem.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Yamamoto <hitoshiy@isl.melco.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:37:59 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky
d2013485a5 [PATCH] s390: ioprio & inotify system calls.
Add system calls for io priorities and inotify.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:37:59 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
5d3f229fcd [PATCH] s390: kexec fixes and improvements.
Disable pseudo page fault handling before starting the new kernel and try
to use diag308 to reset the machine.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 21:37:59 -07:00
Matt Porter
61d44c777a [PATCH] ppc32: add bamboo defconfig
Add Bamboo platform defconfig

Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:01 -07:00
Matt Porter
497799d368 [PATCH] ppc32: add bamboo platform
Add Bamboo platform support.  This is an AMCC 440EP-based reference platform.

Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:01 -07:00
Matt Porter
c9cf73aee1 [PATCH] ppc32: add 440ep support
Add PPC440EP core support.  PPC440EP is a PPC440-based SoC with a classic PPC
FPU and another set of peripherals.

Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:01 -07:00
Kumar Gala
e8be1c8e06 [PATCH] ppc32: Mark boards that don't build as BROKEN
Marked APUS and GEMINI as BROKEN since they do not build at the platform
level.  We have requested that the maintainers of these boards/platforms
fix them by the time 2.6.15 is released or we plan on concerning them
unmaintained and thus removing them.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:01 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
57ee67af35 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix CONFIG_ALTIVEC not set
The code that sets the altivec capability of the CPU based on firmware
informations can enable altivec when the kernel has CONFIG_ALTIVEC
disabled.  This results in "interesting" crashes.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:14:00 -07:00
Eric Lammerts
cdf32eaa4e [PATCH] disable addres space randomization default on transmeta CPUs
We know that the randomisation slows down some workloads on Transmeta CPUs
by quite large amounts.  We think it's because the CPU needs to recode the
same x86 instructions when they pop up at a different virtual address after
a fork+exec.

So disable randomization by default on those CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 19:13:59 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
6cb54819d7 [PATCH] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()
This removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now.  While i'm sure Martin is
trying to solve a real problem, we must not hard-code an incomplete and
insufficient approach into a syscall, because syscalls are pretty much
for eternity.  I am quite strongly convinced that this syscall must not
hit v2.6.13 in its current form.

Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the
global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!) [ Imagine an
Oracle installation and a SAP installation on the same NUMA box fighting
over the 'optimal' setting for this flag. What will they do? Will they
try to set the flag to their own preferred value every second or so? ]

Secondly, it was added based on a single datapoint from Martin:

 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111763597218177&w=2

where Martin characterizes the numbers the following way:

 ' Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so these numbers aren't
   terribly useful except to see that with reclaim the benchmark still
   finishes in a reasonable amount of time. '

in other words: the fundamental problem has likely not been solved, only
a tendential move into the right direction has been observed, and a
handful of numbers were picked out of a set of hugely variable results,
without showing the variability data. How much variance is there
run-to-run?

I'd really suggest to first walk the walk and see what's needed to get
stable & predictable kernel compilation numbers on that NUMA box, before
adding random syscalls to tune a particular aspect of the VM ... which
approach might not even matter once the whole picture has been analyzed
and understood!

The third, most important point is that the syscall exposes VM tuning
internals in a completely unstructured way. What sense does it make to
have a _GLOBAL_ per-node setting for 'should we go to another node for
reclaim'? If then it might make sense to do this per-app, via numalib or
so.

The change is minimalistic in that it doesnt remove the syscall and the
underlying infrastructure changes, only the user-visible changes.  We
could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, a'ka
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but even that looks quite counterproductive
when the generic approach is that we are trying to reduce the number of
external factors in the VM balance picture.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01 10:03:56 -07:00
Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com
6a1caa21d6 [PATCH] x86_64: avoid wasting IRQs patch update
The patch adds boundary check for the MAX_GSI_NUM.  Same as the update for
i386, the patch addresses a problem with ACPI SCI IRQ.  The patch corrects
the code such that SCI IRQ is skipped and duplicate entry is avoided.  The
VIA chipset uses 4-bit IRQ register for internal interrupt routing, and
therefore cannot handle IRQ numbers assigned to its devices.  The patch
corrects this problem by allowing PCI IRQs below 16.

Signed-off-by: Natalie Protasevich <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-30 13:37:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6d1d07e41a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/to-linus 2005-07-30 10:15:57 -07:00
Dave Peterson
92ed0223ae [PATCH] x86_64: fix bug in csum_partial_copy_generic()
I was observing reproducible crashes on the "movw %bx,(%rsi)" instruction
below while a process in a recvfrom() system call was copying packet data
to user space.  The patch below fixes the exception table and causes the
crash to no longer reproduce.  Please apply.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-30 10:14:47 -07:00
Eugene Surovegin
5ce17b18e1 [PATCH] ppc32: fix 44x early serial debug for configurations with more than 512M of RAM
Fix 44x early serial debugging for big RAM configurations (more than 512M).
 We cannot use default OpenBIOS virtual mapping, because it interferes with
pinned TLB entry.

While we are at it, move early UART mapping to TLB slot 0, so it can
survive longer during boot process (slot 1 is used by the first ioremap
call, effectively killing UART mapping if it occupies this slot).  Also,
change UART TLB entry size to 4K (256M is too much for a bunch of registers
:).  Squash some warnings on the way.

Tested on Ebony and Ocotea with 1G of RAM.

Thanks to Scott Coulter <scott.coulter@cyclone.com> for diagnosing this
problem.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-30 10:14:46 -07:00
Robert Love
5fa918b451 [PATCH] ppc64: inotify syscalls
inotify system call support for PPC64

[ I don't think we need sys32 compatibility versions--and if we do, I
failed in life. ]

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-30 10:14:46 -07:00
Robert Love
141d751e26 [PATCH] ppc32: inotify syscalls
Add inotify system call stubs to PPC32.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-30 10:14:46 -07:00
Len Brown
adbedd3424 merge 2.6.13-rc4 with ACPI's to-linus tree 2005-07-30 01:55:32 -04:00