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Eric Paris
9d36be76c5 Document the order of arguments for cap_issubset. It's not instantly clear
which order the argument should be in.  So give an example.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 21:48:07 +11:00
Frederic Weisbecker
caf4b323b0 tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing

Add low level support for ftrace return tracing.

This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of
the current task.

The index of the current return address is initialized when the task
is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is
not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall,
it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called.

Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven
Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3.

For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced
because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution.
That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this
function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on
this function enabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 10:29:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e0cb4ebcd9 Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace.c
2008-11-11 09:40:18 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
ad474caca3 fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock
Impact: fix hang/crash on ia64 under high load

This is ugly, but the simplest patch by far.

Unlike other similar routines, account_group_exec_runtime() could be
called "implicitly" from within scheduler after exit_notify(). This
means we can race with the parent doing release_task(), we can't just
check ->signal != NULL.

Change __exit_signal() to do spin_unlock_wait(&task_rq(tsk)->lock)
before __cleanup_signal() to make sure ->signal can't be freed under
task_rq(tsk)->lock. Note that task_rq_unlock_wait() doesn't care
about the case when tsk changes cpu/rq under us, this should be OK.

Thanks to Ingo who nacked my previous buggy patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
2008-11-11 08:01:43 +01:00
Michael Buesch
fd0fcf5c29 ssb: Fix DMA-API compilation for non-PCI systems
This fixes compilation of the SSB DMA-API code on non-PCI platforms.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10 13:50:19 -08:00
Jouni Malinen
fc6971d491 mac80211_hwsim: Add support for client PS mode
This introduces a debugfs file (ieee80211/phy#/hwsim/ps) that can be
used to force a simulated radio into power save mode. Following values
can be written into this file to change PS mode:
0 = power save disabled (constantly awake)
1 = power save enabled (drop all frames; do not send PS-Poll)
2 = power save enabled (send PS-Poll frames automatically to receive
    buffered unicast frames); not yet fully implemented
3 = manual PS-Poll trigger (send a single PS-Poll frame)

Two different behavior for power save mode processing can be tested:
- move between modes 1 and 0 (i.e., receive all buffered frames at a
  time)
- move to mode 1 and use manual PS-Poll frames (write 3 to the 'ps'
  debugfs file) to fetch power save buffered frames one at a time

Mode 2 (automatic PS-Poll) does not yet parse Beacon frames, but
eventually, it should take a look at TIM IE and send PS-Poll if a
traffic bit is set for our AID.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:41 -05:00
Jouni Malinen
318884875b nl80211: Add TX queue parameter configuration
Add a new attribute, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_TXQ_PARAMS, that can be used with
NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY for userspace (e.g., hostapd) to set TX queue
parameters (txop, cwmin, cwmax, aifs).

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:40 -05:00
Jouni Malinen
90c97a040d nl80211: Add basic rate configuration for AP mode
Add a new attribute, NL80211_ATTR_BSS_BASIC_RATES, that can be used with
NL80211_CMD_SET_BSS for userspace (e.g., hostapd) to set which rates are
in the basic rate set.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:17:39 -05:00
Johannes Berg
1239cd58d2 wireless: move mesh config length constant
This is a constant from the 802.11 specification.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-10 15:10:16 -05:00
Tejun Heo
8a8bc22332 libata: revert convert-to-block-tagging patches
This patch reverts the following three commits which convert libata to
use block layer tagging.

 43a49cbdf3
 e013e13bf6
 2fca5ccf97

Although using block layer tagging is the right direction, due to the
tight coupling among tag number, data structure allocation and
hardware command slot allocation, libata doesn't work correctly with
the current conversion.

The biggest problem is guaranteeing that tag 0 is always used for
non-NCQ commands.  Due to the way blk-tag is implemented and how SCSI
starts and finishes requests, such guarantee can't be made.  I'm not
sure whether this would actually break any low level driver but it
doesn't look like a good idea to break such assumption given the
frailty of ATA controllers.

So, for the time being, keep using the old dumb in-libata qc
allocation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axobe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-10 08:04:47 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
f6d87f4bd2 genirq: keep affinities set from userspace across free/request_irq()
Impact: preserve user-modified affinities on interrupts

Kumar Galak noticed that commit
1840475676 (genirq: Expose default irq
affinity mask (take 3))

overrides an already set affinity setting across a free /
request_irq(). Happens e.g. with ifdown/ifup of a network device.

Change the logic to mark the affinities as set and keep them
intact. This also fixes the unlocked access to irq_desc in
irq_select_affinity() when called from irq_affinity_proc_write()

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-09 22:23:49 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
cb56d98e2a Merge branch 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3
  cpumask: new API, v2
  cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
2008-11-09 12:20:56 -08:00
Rusty Russell
984f2f377f cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3
Impact: cleanup

Clean up based on feedback from Andrew Morton and others:

 - change to inline functions instead of macros
 - add __init to bootmem method
 - add a missing debug check

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-09 21:09:54 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
058e3739f6 clarify usage expectations for cnt32_to_63()
Currently, all existing users of cnt32_to_63() are fine since the CPU
architectures where it is used don't do read access reordering, and user
mode preemption is disabled already.  It is nevertheless a good idea to
better elaborate usage requirements wrt preemption, and use an explicit
memory barrier on SMP to avoid different CPUs accessing the counter
value in the wrong order.  On UP a simple compiler barrier is
sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-09 11:17:33 -08:00
Kay Sievers
d1b2686308 mmc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
2008-11-08 21:37:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a6b0786f7f Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/nmisafe' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-08 09:34:35 +01:00
Thomas Graf
f400923735 pkt_sched: Control group classifier
The classifier should cover the most common use case and will work
without any special configuration.

The principle of the classifier is to directly access the
task_struct via get_current(). In order for this to work,
classification requests from softirqs must be ignored. This is
not a problem because the vast majority of packets in softirq
context are not assigned to a task anyway. For this to work, a
mechanism is needed to trace softirq context. 

This repost goes back to the method of relying on the number of
nested bh disable calls for the sake of not adding too much
complexity and the option to come up with something more reliable
if actually needed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-07 22:56:00 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
505d4f73dd net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device. v2
I was recently hunting a bug that occurred in network namespace
cleanup.  In looking at the code it became apparrent that we have
and will continue to have cases where if we have anything going
on in a network namespace there will be assumptions that the
loopback device is present.   Things like sending igmp unsubscribe
messages when we bring down network devices invokes the routing
code which assumes that at least the loopback driver is present.

Therefore to avoid magic initcall ordering hackery that is hard
to follow and hard to get right insert a call to register the
loopback device directly from net_dev_init().    This guarantes
that the loopback device is the first device registered and
the last network device to go away.

But do it carefully so we register the loopback device after
we clear dev_boot_phase.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@maxwell.aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-07 22:54:20 -08:00
David S. Miller
3d8160b149 Revert "net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device."
This reverts commit ae33bc40c0.
2008-11-07 22:52:14 -08:00
Thomas Renninger
c3d6de698c ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 23:57:55 -05:00
David Vrabel
307ba6dd73 uwb: don't unbind the radio controller driver when resetting
Use pre_reset and post_reset methods to avoid unbinding the radio
controller driver after a uwb_rc_reset_all() call.  This avoids a
deadlock in uwb_rc_rm() when waiting for the uwb event thread to stop.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
2008-11-07 17:37:33 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
8ec96e7bba Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: fix range check on mmapped sysfs resource files
  PCI: remove excess kernel-doc notation
  PCI: annotate return value of pci_ioremap_bar with __iomem
  PCI: fix VPD limit quirk for Broadcom 5708S
2008-11-07 09:18:14 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
52c642f33b sched: fine-tune SD_SIBLING_INIT
fine-tune the HT sched-domains parameters as well.

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

 # before

 $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2

   "size=0k ovr=1.89
    2 23.87

 # after

 $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2

   "size=0k ovr=1.84
     2 1.49

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

This improves vmark by 5%:

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

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

 # *DOCUMENTATION*
2008-11-07 15:35:11 +01:00
Rusty Russell
cd83e42c6b cpumask: new API, v2
- add cpumask_of()
- add free_bootmem_cpumask_var()

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 12:52:30 +01:00
David S. Miller
167c6274c3 Merge branch 'davem-next' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2008-11-07 01:37:16 -08:00
David S. Miller
9eeda9abd1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
2008-11-06 22:43:03 -08:00
Niv Sardi
dcd7b4e5c0 Merge branch 'master' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/linux-2.6 2008-11-07 15:07:12 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
4bab0ea1d4 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:
  net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy().
  iwl3945: fix deadlock on suspend
  iwl3945: do not send scan command if channel count zero
  iwl3945: clear scanning bits upon failure
  ath5k: correct handling of rx status fields
  zd1211rw: Add 2 device IDs
  Fix logic error in rfkill_check_duplicity
  iwlagn: avoid sleep in softirq context
  iwlwifi: clear scanning bits upon failure
  Revert "ath5k: honor FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC in STA mode"
  tcp: Fix recvmsg MSG_PEEK influence of blocking behavior.
  netfilter: netns ct: walk netns list under RTNL
  ipv6: fix run pending DAD when interface becomes ready
  net/9p: fix printk format warnings
  net: fix packet socket delivery in rx irq handler
  xfrm: Have af-specific init_tempsel() initialize family field of temporary selector
2008-11-06 16:44:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e252f4db18 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Block: use round_jiffies_up()
  Add round_jiffies_up and related routines
  block: fix __blkdev_get() for removable devices
  generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement
  blk: move blk_delete_timer call in end_that_request_last
  block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request()
  bio: define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE
  block: remove unused ll_new_mergeable()
2008-11-06 15:53:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
067ab19923 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: re-tune balancing
  sched: fix buddies for group scheduling
  sched: backward looking buddy
  sched: fix fair preempt check
  sched: cleanup fair task selection
2008-11-06 15:45:40 -08:00
David S. Miller
3b53fbf431 net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy().
__scm_destroy() walks the list of file descriptors in the scm_fp_list
pointed to by the scm_cookie argument.

Those, in turn, can close sockets and invoke __scm_destroy() again.

There is nothing which limits how deeply this can occur.

The idea for how to fix this is from Linus.  Basically, we do all of
the fput()s at the top level by collecting all of the scm_fp_list
objects hit by an fput().  Inside of the initial __scm_destroy() we
keep running the list until it is empty.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-06 15:45:32 -08:00
David Howells
7597bc94d6 Fix accidental implicit cast in HR-timer conversion
Fix the hrtimer_add_expires_ns() function.  It should take a 'u64 ns' argument,
but rather takes an 'unsigned long ns' argument - which might only be 32-bits.

On FRV, this results in the kernel locking up because hrtimer_forward() passes
the result of a 64-bit multiplication to this function, for which the compiler
discards the top 32-bits - something that didn't happen when ktime_add_ns() was
called directly.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:44:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c361948712 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
  [JFFS2] fix race condition in jffs2_lzo_compress()
  [MTD] [NOR] Fix cfi_send_gen_cmd handling of x16 devices in x8 mode (v4)
  [JFFS2] Fix lack of locking in thread_should_wake()
  [JFFS2] Fix build failure with !CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER
  [MTD] [NAND] OMAP2: remove duplicated #include
2008-11-06 15:43:13 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
9c0aa1b87b fat: Cleanup FAT attribute stuff
This adds three helpers:

fat_make_attrs() - makes FAT attributes from inode.
fat_make_mode()  - makes mode_t from FAT attributes.
fat_save_attrs() - saves FAT attributes to inode.

Then this replaces: MSDOS_MKMODE() by fat_make_mode(), fat_attr() by
fat_make_attrs(), ->i_attrs = attr & ATTR_UNUSED by fat_save_attrs().
And for root inode, those is used with ATTR_DIR instead of bogus
ATTR_NONE.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:41:21 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
9e975dae29 fat: split include/msdos_fs.h
This splits __KERNEL__ stuff in include/msdos_fs.h into fs/fat/fat.h.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:41:20 -08:00
David Miller
f8d570a474 net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy().
__scm_destroy() walks the list of file descriptors in the scm_fp_list
pointed to by the scm_cookie argument.

Those, in turn, can close sockets and invoke __scm_destroy() again.

There is nothing which limits how deeply this can occur.

The idea for how to fix this is from Linus.  Basically, we do all of
the fput()s at the top level by collecting all of the scm_fp_list
objects hit by an fput().  Inside of the initial __scm_destroy() we
keep running the list until it is empty.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 13:51:50 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
6a60dd121c ftrace: split out hardirq ftrace code into own header
Impact: moving of function prototypes into own header file

ftrace.h is too big of a file for hardirq.h, and some archs will fail
to build because of the include dependencies not being met.

This patch pulls out the required prototypes for hardirq.h into a smaller
and safer ftrace_irq.h file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 22:20:46 +01:00
Bjorn Helgaas
8950d89aca ACPI: remove CONFIG_ACPI_EC
Remove CONFIG_ACPI_EC.  It was always set the same as CONFIG_ACPI,
and it had no menu label, so there was no way to set it to anything
other than "y".

Per section 6.5.4 of the ACPI 3.0b specification,

    OSPM must make Embedded Controller operation regions, accessed
    via the Embedded Controllers described in ECDT, available before
    executing any control method.

The ECDT table is optional, but if it is present, the above text
means that the EC it describes is a required part of the ACPI
subsystem, so CONFIG_ACPI_EC=n wouldn't make sense.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-06 15:52:28 -05:00
Rusty Russell
2d3854a37e cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
Impact: introduce new APIs

We want to deprecate cpumasks on the stack, as we are headed for
gynormous numbers of CPUs.  Eventually, we want to head towards an
undefined 'struct cpumask' so they can never be declared on stack.

1) New cpumask functions which take pointers instead of copies.
   (cpus_* -> cpumask_*)

2) Several new helpers to reduce requirements for temporary cpumasks
   (cpumask_first_and, cpumask_next_and, cpumask_any_and)

3) Helpers for declaring cpumasks on or offstack for large NR_CPUS
   (cpumask_var_t, alloc_cpumask_var and free_cpumask_var)

4) 'struct cpumask' for explicitness and to mark new-style code.

5) Make iterator functions stop at nr_cpu_ids (a runtime constant),
   not NR_CPUS for time efficiency and for smaller dynamic allocations
   in future.

6) cpumask_copy() so we can allocate less than a full cpumask eventually
   (for alloc_cpumask_var), and so we can eliminate the 'struct cpumask'
   definition eventually.

7) work_on_cpu() helper for doing task on a CPU, rather than saving old
   cpumask for current thread and manipulating it.

8) smp_call_function_many() which is smp_call_function_mask() except
   taking a cpumask pointer.

Note that this patch simply introduces the new functions and leaves
the obsolescent ones in place.  This is to simplify the transition
patches.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 09:05:33 +01:00
Alan Stern
9c133c469d Add round_jiffies_up and related routines
This patch (as1158b) adds round_jiffies_up() and friends.  These
routines work like the analogous round_jiffies() functions, except
that they will never round down.

The new routines will be useful for timeouts where we don't care
exactly when the timer expires, provided it doesn't expire too soon.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:42:48 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
f92131c3dd bio: define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE
Define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE as the default implementation of
BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE, so that its available for reuse within an
arch-specific definition of BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:41:55 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
0f04870148 ftrace: soft tracing stop and start
Impact: add way to quickly start stop tracing from the kernel

This patch adds a soft stop and start to the trace. This simply
disables function tracing via the ftrace_disabled flag, and
disables the trace buffers to prevent recording. The tracing
code may still be executed, but the trace will not be recorded.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 07:50:57 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
60a7ecf426 ftrace: add quick function trace stop
Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer

This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without
the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called
function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount
when set.  This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion
like preempt_disable().

It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing
fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine.

The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs
that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount
arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code.

x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 07:50:51 +01:00
Steve Glendinning
fd9abb3d97 SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x vendor driver
Attached is a driver for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x families of embedded
ethernet controllers.

There is an existing smc911x driver in the tree; this is intended to
replace it.  Dustin McIntire (the author of the smc911x driver) has
expressed his support for switching to this driver.

This driver contains workarounds for all known hardware issues, and has
been tested on all flavours of the chip on multiple architectures.

This driver now uses phylib, so this patch also adds support for the
device's internal phy

Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Signed-off-by: Bahadir Balban <Bahadir.Balban@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dustin Mcintire <dustin@sensoria.com>
Signed-off-by: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-06 00:58:40 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman
ae33bc40c0 net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device.
I was recently hunting a bug that occurred in network namespace
cleanup.  In looking at the code it became apparrent that we have
and will continue to have cases where if we have anything going
on in a network namespace there will be assumptions that the
loopback device is present.   Things like sending igmp unsubscribe
messages when we bring down network devices invokes the routing
code which assumes that at least the loopback driver is present.

Therefore to avoid magic initcall ordering hackery that is hard
to follow and hard to get right insert a call to register the
loopback device directly from net_dev_init().    This guarantes
that the loopback device is the first device registered and
the last network device to go away.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-05 16:00:02 -08:00
Serge E. Hallyn
1f29fae297 file capabilities: add no_file_caps switch (v4)
Add a no_file_caps boot option when file capabilities are
compiled into the kernel (CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y).

This allows distributions to ship a kernel with file capabilities
compiled in, without forcing users to use (and understand and
trust) them.

When no_file_caps is specified at boot, then when a process executes
a file, any file capabilities stored with that file will not be
used in the calculation of the process' new capability sets.

This means that booting with the no_file_caps boot option will
not be the same as booting a kernel with file capabilities
compiled out - in particular a task with  CAP_SETPCAP will not
have any chance of passing capabilities to another task (which
isn't "really" possible anyway, and which may soon by killed
altogether by David Howells in any case), and it will instead
be able to put new capabilities in its pI.  However since fI
will always be empty and pI is masked with fI, it gains the
task nothing.

We also support the extra prctl options, setting securebits and
dropping capabilities from the per-process bounding set.

The other remaining difference is that killpriv, task_setscheduler,
setioprio, and setnice will continue to be hooked.  That will
be noticable in the case where a root task changed its uid
while keeping some caps, and another task owned by the new uid
tries to change settings for the more privileged task.

Changelog:
	Nov 05 2008: (v4) trivial port on top of always-start-\
		with-clear-caps patch
	Sep 23 2008: nixed file_caps_enabled when file caps are
		not compiled in as it isn't used.
		Document no_file_caps in kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-06 07:14:51 +08:00
Ingo Molnar
9fcd18c9e6 sched: re-tune balancing
Impact: improve wakeup affinity on NUMA systems, tweak SMP systems

Given the fixes+tweaks to the wakeup-buddy code, re-tweak the domain
balancing defaults on NUMA and SMP systems.

Turn on SD_WAKE_AFFINE which was off on x86 NUMA - there's no reason
why we would not want to have wakeup affinity across nodes as well.
(we already do this in the standard NUMA template.)

lat_ctx on a NUMA box is particularly happy about this change:

before:

 |   phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
 |   "size=0k ovr=2.60
 |   2 5.70

after:

 |   phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
 |   "size=0k ovr=2.65
 |   2 2.07

a 2.75x speedup.

pipe-test is similarly happy about it too:

 |  phoenix:~/sched-tests> ./pipe-test
 |   18.26 usecs/loop.
 |   14.70 usecs/loop.
 |   14.38 usecs/loop.
 |   10.55 usecs/loop.              # +WAKE_AFFINE on domain0+domain1
 |   8.63 usecs/loop.
 |   8.59 usecs/loop.
 |   9.03 usecs/loop.
 |   8.94 usecs/loop.
 |   8.96 usecs/loop.
 |   8.63 usecs/loop.

Also:

 - disable SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE on NUMA and SMP domains (keep it for siblings)
 - enable SD_WAKE_BALANCE on SMP domains

Sysbench+postgresql improves all around the board, quite significantly:

           .28-rc3-11474e2c  .28-rc3-11474e2c-tune
-------------------------------------------------
    1:             571              688    +17.08%
    2:            1236             1206    -2.55%
    4:            2381             2642    +9.89%
    8:            4958             5164    +3.99%
   16:            9580             9574    -0.07%
   32:            7128             8118    +12.20%
   64:            7342             8266    +11.18%
  128:            7342             8064    +8.95%
  256:            7519             7884    +4.62%
  512:            7350             7731    +4.93%
-------------------------------------------------
  SUM:           55412            59341    +6.62%

So it's a win both for the runup portion, the peak area and the tail.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05 18:04:38 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman
467622ef2a [MTD] [NOR] Fix cfi_send_gen_cmd handling of x16 devices in x8 mode (v4)
For "unlock" cycles to 16bit devices in 8bit compatibility mode we need
to use the byte addresses 0xaaa and 0x555. These effectively match
the word address 0x555 and 0x2aa, except the latter has its low bit set.

Most chips don't care about the value of the 'A-1' pin in x8 mode,
but some -- like the ST M29W320D -- do. So we need to be careful to
set it where appropriate.

cfi_send_gen_cmd is only ever passed addresses where the low byte
is 0x00, 0x55 or 0xaa. Of those, only addresses ending 0xaa are
affected by this patch, by masking in the extra low bit when the device
is known to be in compatibility mode.

[dwmw2: Do it only when (cmd_ofs & 0xff) == 0xaa]
v4: Fix  stupid typo in cfi_build_cmd_addr that failed to compile
    I'm writing this patch way to late at night.
v3: Bring all of the work back into cfi_build_cmd_addr
    including calling of map_bankwidth(map) and cfi_interleave(cfi)
    So every caller doesn't need to.
v2: Only modified the address if we our device_type is larger than our
    bus width.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-11-05 14:40:25 +01:00
Gerrit Renker
ac75773c27 dccp: Per-socket initialisation of feature negotiation
This provides feature-negotiation initialisation for both DCCP sockets
and DCCP request_sockets, to support feature negotiation during
connection setup.

It also resolves a FIXME regarding the congestion control
initialisation.

Thanks to Wei Yongjun for help with the IPv6 side of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-04 23:55:49 -08:00