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Ingo Molnar
d2b0261506 alloc_percpu: fix UP build
Impact: build fix

the !SMP branch had a 'gfp' leftover:

 include/linux/percpu.h: In function '__alloc_percpu':
 include/linux/percpu.h:160: error: 'gfp' undeclared (first use in this function)
 include/linux/percpu.h:160: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 include/linux/percpu.h:160: error: for each function it appears in.)

Use GFP_KERNEL like the SMP version does.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 14:38:12 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
6e2756376c generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAIT
Oleg noticed that we don't strictly need CSD_FLAG_WAIT, rework
the code so that we can use CSD_FLAG_LOCK for both purposes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 14:13:44 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
17581ad812 gpu/drm, x86, PAT: PAT support for io_mapping_*
Make io_mapping_create_wc and io_mapping_free go through PAT to make sure
that there are no memory type aliases.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:09:52 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
4ab0d47d0a gpu/drm, x86, PAT: io_mapping_create_wc and resource_size_t
io_mapping_create_wc should take a resource_size_t parameter in place of
unsigned long. With unsigned long, there will be no way to map greater than 4GB
address in i386/32 bit.

On x86, greater than 4GB addresses cannot be mapped on i386 without PAE. Return
error for such a case.

Patch also adds a structure for io_mapping, that saves the base, size and
type on HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP archs, that can be used to verify the offset on
io_mapping_map calls.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:09:51 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3255aa2eb6 x86, mm: pass in 'total' to __copy_from_user_*nocache()
Impact: cleanup, enable future change

Add a 'total bytes copied' parameter to __copy_from_user_*nocache(),
and update all the callsites.

The parameter is not used yet - architecture code can use it to
more intelligently decide whether the copy should be cached or
non-temporal.

Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 10:20:03 +01:00
David S. Miller
f11c179eea Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.c
2009-02-25 00:02:05 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
1ce85fe402 netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logic
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows:

If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and
an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error;
else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that
requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the
unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast
notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener
that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag.

This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify()
wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification
(including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case
that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets
if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and
state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets.

This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return
value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify()
(before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification
which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This
is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that
requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification
fails and should resync itself.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24 23:18:28 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
7c37730cd3 tracing: add DEFINE_TRACE_FMT to tracepoint.h
This patch creates a DEFINE_TRACE_FMT to map to DECLARE_TRACE.
This allows for the developers to place format strings and
args in with their tracepoint declaration. A tracer may now
override the DEFINE_TRACE_FMT macro and use it to record
a default format.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 21:53:32 -05:00
David S. Miller
8b6f92b1bd Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6 2009-02-24 13:49:05 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
0edcf8d692 Merge branch 'tj-percpu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
2009-02-24 21:52:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a852cbfaaf Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/mm', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into x86/core 2009-02-24 21:50:43 +01:00
Jean Delvare
cd97f39b7c i2c-dev: Clarify the unit of ioctl I2C_TIMEOUT
The unit in which user-space can set the bus timeout value is jiffies
for historical reasons (back when HZ was always 100.) This is however
not good because user-space doesn't know how long a jiffy lasts. The
timeout value should instead be set in a fixed time unit. Given the
original value of HZ, this unit should be 10 ms, for compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2009-02-24 19:19:49 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a7f4463e03 Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into tracing/core 2009-02-24 18:22:39 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
d060ffc184 netfilter: install missing headers
iptables imports headers from (the unifdefed headers of a)
kernel tree, but some headers happened to not be installed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-24 15:23:58 +01:00
David S. Miller
e70049b9e7 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-02-24 03:50:29 -08:00
Tejun Heo
8d408b4be3 percpu: give more latitude to arch specific first chunk initialization
Impact: more latitude for first percpu chunk allocation

The first percpu chunk serves the kernel static percpu area and may or
may not contain extra room for further dynamic allocation.
Initialization of the first chunk needs to be done before normal
memory allocation service is up, so it has its own init path -
pcpu_setup_static().

It seems archs need more latitude while initializing the first chunk
for example to take advantage of large page mapping.  This patch makes
the following changes to allow this.

* Define PERCPU_DYNAMIC_RESERVE to give arch hint about how much space
  to reserve in the first chunk for further dynamic allocation.

* Rename pcpu_setup_static() to pcpu_setup_first_chunk().

* Make pcpu_setup_first_chunk() much more flexible by fetching page
  pointer by callback and adding optional @unit_size, @free_size and
  @base_addr arguments which allow archs to selectively part of chunk
  initialization to their likings.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-24 11:57:21 +09:00
Tejun Heo
c0c0a29379 vmalloc: add @align to vm_area_register_early()
Impact: allow larger alignment for early vmalloc area allocation

Some early vmalloc users might want larger alignment, for example, for
custom large page mapping.  Add @align to vm_area_register_early().
While at it, drop docbook comment on non-existent @size.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
2009-02-24 11:57:21 +09:00
Tejun Heo
2d0aae4169 bootmem: reorder interface functions and add a missing one
Impact: cleanup and addition of missing interface wrapper

The interface functions in bootmem.h was ordered in not so orderly
manner.  Reorder them such that

* functions allocating the same area group together -
  ie. alloc_bootmem group and alloc_bootmem_low group.

* functions w/o node parameter come before the ones w/ node parameter.

* nopanic variants are immediately below their panicky counterparts.

While at it, add alloc_bootmem_pages_node_nopanic() which was missing.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
2009-02-24 11:57:21 +09:00
Tejun Heo
c132937556 bootmem: clean up arch-specific bootmem wrapping
Impact: cleaner and consistent bootmem wrapping

By setting CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE, archs can define
arch-specific wrappers for bootmem allocation.  However, this is done
a bit strangely in that only the high level convenience macros can be
changed while lower level, but still exported, interface functions
can't be wrapped.  This not only is messy but also leads to strange
situation where alloc_bootmem() does what the arch wants it to do but
the equivalent __alloc_bootmem() call doesn't although they should be
able to be used interchangeably.

This patch updates bootmem such that archs can override / wrap the
backend function - alloc_bootmem_core() instead of the highlevel
interface functions to allow simpler and consistent wrapping.  Also,
HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE is renamed to HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
2009-02-24 11:57:20 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
d38e84ee39 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:
  netns: fix double free at netns creation
  veth : add the set_mac_address capability
  sunlance: Beyond ARRAY_SIZE of ib->btx_ring
  sungem: another error printed one too early
  ISDN: fix sc/shmem printk format warning
  SMSC: timeout reaches -1
  smsc9420: handle magic field of ethtool_eeprom
  sundance: missing parentheses?
  smsc9420: fix another postfixed timeout
  wimax/i2400m: driver loads firmware v1.4 instead of v1.3
  vlan: Update skb->mac_header in __vlan_put_tag().
  cxgb3: Add support for PCI ID 0x35.
  tcp: remove obsoleted comment about different passes
  TG3: &&/|| confusion
  ATM: misplaced parentheses?
  net/mv643xx: don't disable the mib timer too early and lock properly
  net/mv643xx: use GFP_ATOMIC while atomic
  atl1c: Atheros L1C Gigabit Ethernet driver
  net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives.
  net: forcedeth: Fix wake-on-lan regression
2009-02-23 14:36:05 -08:00
David Rientjes
3b89d7d881 slub: move min_partial to struct kmem_cache
Although it allows for better cacheline use, it is unnecessary to save a
copy of the cache's min_partial value in each kmem_cache_node.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-23 12:05:41 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
35f88e6b06 Merge commit 'ftrace/function-graph' into next 2009-02-23 10:47:23 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
fc6fc7f1b1 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c

Semantic conflict resolution:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
770824bdc4 PM: Split up sysdev_[suspend|resume] from device_power_[down|up]
Move the sysdev_suspend/resume from the callee to the callers, with
no real change in semantics, so that we can rework the disabling of
interrupts during suspend/hibernation.

This is based on an earlier patch from Linus.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22 10:33:44 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
c478f87869 Merge branch 'tip/x86/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace.h
	kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2009-02-22 18:12:01 +01:00
Alexander Clouter
9c3c133b1e hwrng: timeriomem - New driver
Some hardware platforms, the TS-7800[1] is one for example, can
supply the kernel with an entropy source, albeit a slow one for
TS-7800 users, by just reading a particular IO address.  This
source must not be read above a certain rate otherwise the quality
suffers.

The driver is then hooked into by calling
platform_device_(register|add|del) passing a structure similar to:
------
static struct timeriomem_rng_data ts78xx_ts_rng_data = {
        .address        = (u32 *__iomem) TS_RNG,
        .period         = 1000000, /* one second */
};

static struct platform_device ts78xx_ts_rng_device = {
        .name           = "timeriomem_rng",
        .id             = -1,
        .dev            = {
                .platform_data  = &ts78xx_ts_rng_data,
        },
        .num_resources  = 0,
};
------

[1] http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7800

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-02-22 12:03:56 +08:00
Linus Torvalds
adfafefd10 Merge branch 'hibernate'
* hibernate:
  PM: Fix suspend_console and resume_console to use only one semaphore
  PM: Wait for console in resume
  PM: Fix pm_notifiers during user mode hibernation
  swsusp: clean up shrink_all_zones()
  swsusp: dont fiddle with swappiness
  PM: fix build for CONFIG_PM unset
  PM/hibernate: fix "swap breaks after hibernation failures"
  PM/resume: wait for device probing to finish
  Consolidate driver_probe_done() loops into one place
2009-02-21 14:17:26 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
216773a787 Consolidate driver_probe_done() loops into one place
there's a few places that currently loop over driver_probe_done(), and
I'm about to add another one. This patch abstracts it into a helper
to reduce duplication.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-21 14:17:17 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
b6adea334c 8250: fix boot hang with serial console when using with Serial Over Lan port
Intel 8257x Ethernet boards have a feature called Serial Over Lan.

This feature works by emulating a serial port, and it is detected by
kernel as a normal 8250 port.  However, this emulation is not perfect, as
also noticed on changeset 7500b1f602.

Before this patch, the kernel were trying to check if the serial TX is
capable of work using IRQ's.

This were done with a code similar this:

        serial_outp(up, UART_IER, UART_IER_THRI);
        lsr = serial_in(up, UART_LSR);
        iir = serial_in(up, UART_IIR);
        serial_outp(up, UART_IER, 0);

        if (lsr & UART_LSR_TEMT && iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT)
		up->bugs |= UART_BUG_TXEN;

This works fine for other 8250 ports, but, on 8250-emulated SoL port, the
chip is a little lazy to down UART_IIR_NO_INT at UART_IIR register.

Due to that, UART_BUG_TXEN is sometimes enabled.  However, as TX IRQ keeps
working, and the TX polling is now enabled, the driver miss-interprets the
IRQ received later, hanging up the machine until a key is pressed at the
serial console.

This is the 6 version of this patch.  Previous versions were trying to
introduce a large enough delay between serial_outp and serial_in(up,
UART_IIR), but not taking forever.  However, the needed delay couldn't be
safely determined.

At the experimental tests, a delay of 1us solves most of the cases, but
still hangs sometimes.  Increasing the delay to 5us was better, but still
doesn't solve.  A very high delay of 50 ms seemed to work every time.

However, poking around with delays and pray for it to be enough doesn't
seem to be a good approach, even for a quirk.

So, instead of playing with random large arbitrary delays, let's just
disable UART_BUG_TXEN for all SoL ports.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20 17:57:50 -08:00
Michael Buesch
01b24fee28 spi_bitbang: add more lowlevel function documentation
This adds more documentation of the lowlevel API to avoid future bugs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20 17:57:49 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
3ef0e5ba46 slab: introduce kzfree()
kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the underlying
memory before releasing it to the slab allocator.

Currently there is code which memset()s the memory region of an object
before releasing it back to the slab allocator to make sure
security-sensitive data are really zeroed out after use.

These callsites can then just use kzfree() which saves some code, makes
users greppable and allows for a stupid destructor that isn't necessarily
aware of the actual object size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20 17:57:48 -08:00
Matthew Garrett
b1569e99c7 ACPI: move thermal trip handling to generic thermal layer
The ACPI code currently carries its own thermal trip handling, meaning that
any other thermal implementation will need to reimplement it. Move the code
to the generic thermal layer.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-20 18:41:56 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
b18018126f x86, mm, kprobes: fault.c, simplify notify_page_fault()
Impact: cleanup

Remove an #ifdef from notify_page_fault(). The function still
compiles to nothing in the !CONFIG_KPROBES case.

Introduce kprobes_built_in() and kprobe_fault_handler() helpers
to allow this - they returns 0 if !CONFIG_KPROBES.

No code changed:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   4618	     32	     24	   4674	   1242	fault.o.before
   4618	     32	     24	   4674	   1242	fault.o.after

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b814d41f09 x86, mm: fault.c, simplify kmmio_fault()
Impact: cleanup

Remove an #ifdef from kmmio_fault() - we can do this by
providing default implementations for is_kmmio_active()
and kmmio_handler(). The compiler optimizes it all away
in the !CONFIG_MMIOTRACE case.

Also, while at it, clean up mmiotrace.h a bit:

 - standard header guards
 - standard vertical spaces for structure definitions

No code changed (both with mmiotrace on and off in the config):

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   2947	     12	     12	   2971	    b9b	fault.o.before
   2947	     12	     12	   2971	    b9b	fault.o.after

Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:42 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
000ab69117 ftrace: allow archs to preform pre and post process for code modification
This patch creates the weak functions: ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare
and ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process that are called before and
after the stop machine is called to modify the kernel text.

If the arch needs to do pre or post processing, it only needs to define
these functions.

[ Update: Ingo Molnar suggested using the name ftrace_arch_code_modify_*
          over using ftrace_arch_modify_* ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-20 13:16:18 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
3b6f7b9beb Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:43 +01:00
Matthew Garrett
6503e5df08 thermal: use integers rather than strings for thermal values
The thermal API currently uses strings to pass values to userspace. This
makes it difficult to use from within the kernel. Change the interface
to use integers and fix up the consumers.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-20 10:52:37 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
057685cf57 Merge branch 'for-ingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 into tracing/kmemtrace
Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c
2009-02-20 12:15:30 +01:00
Christoph Lameter
fe1200b63d SLUB: Introduce and use SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT constants
As a preparational patch to bump up page allocator pass-through threshold,
introduce two new constants SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT and convert
mm/slub.c to use them.

Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-20 12:28:36 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
51735a7ca6 SLUB: Do not pass 8k objects through to the page allocator
Increase the maximum object size in SLUB so that 8k objects are not
passed through to the page allocator anymore. The network stack uses 8k
objects for performance critical operations.

The patch is motivated by a SLAB vs. SLUB regression in the netperf
benchmark. The problem is that the kfree(skb->head) call in
skb_release_data() that is subject to page allocator pass-through as the
size passed to __alloc_skb() is larger than 4 KB in this test.

As explained by Yanmin Zhang:

  I use 2.6.29-rc2 kernel to run netperf UDP-U-4k CPU_NUM client/server
  pair loopback testing on x86-64 machines. Comparing with SLUB, SLAB's
  result is about 2.3 times of SLUB's. After applying the reverting patch,
  the result difference between SLUB and SLAB becomes 1% which we might
  consider as fluctuation.

[ penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix oops in kmalloc() ]
Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-20 12:25:47 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
ffadd4d0fe SLUB: Introduce and use SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT constants
As a preparational patch to bump up page allocator pass-through threshold,
introduce two new constants SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT and convert
mm/slub.c to use them.

Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-20 12:22:44 +02:00
Adam Nielsen
268cb38e18 netfilter: x_tables: add LED trigger target
Kernel module providing implementation of LED netfilter target.  Each
instance of the target appears as a led-trigger device, which can be
associated with one or more LEDs in /sys/class/leds/

Signed-off-by: Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@shikadi.net>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-20 10:55:14 +01:00
Stephen Hemminger
784544739a netfilter: iptables: lock free counters
The reader/writer lock in ip_tables is acquired in the critical path of
processing packets and is one of the reasons just loading iptables can cause
a 20% performance loss. The rwlock serves two functions:

1) it prevents changes to table state (xt_replace) while table is in use.
   This is now handled by doing rcu on the xt_table. When table is
   replaced, the new table(s) are put in and the old one table(s) are freed
   after RCU period.

2) it provides synchronization when accesing the counter values.
   This is now handled by swapping in new table_info entries for each cpu
   then summing the old values, and putting the result back onto one
   cpu.  On a busy system it may cause sampling to occur at different
   times on each cpu, but no packet/byte counts are lost in the process.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Sucessfully tested on my dual quad core machine too, but iptables only (no ipv6 here)
BTW, my new "tbench 8" result is 2450 MB/s, (it was 2150 MB/s not so long ago)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-20 10:35:32 +01:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
be0c22a46c netlink: add NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option
This patch adds NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR which is a netlink
socket option that the listener can set to make netlink_broadcast()
return errors in the delivery to the caller. This option is useful
if the caller of netlink_broadcast() do something with the result
of the message delivery, like in ctnetlink where it drops a network
packet if the event delivery failed, this is used to enable reliable
logging and state-synchronization. If this socket option is not set,
netlink_broadcast() only reports ESRCH errors and silently ignore
ENOBUFS errors, which is what most netlink_broadcast() callers
should do.

This socket option is based on a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.
Patrick McHardy can exchange this patch for a beer from me ;).

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-20 01:01:08 -08:00
Santwona Behera
59089d8d16 ethtool: Add RX pkt classification interface
Signed-off-by: Santwona Behera <santwona.behera@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-20 00:58:13 -08:00
Tejun Heo
fbf59bc9d7 percpu: implement new dynamic percpu allocator
Impact: new scalable dynamic percpu allocator which allows dynamic
        percpu areas to be accessed the same way as static ones

Implement scalable dynamic percpu allocator which can be used for both
static and dynamic percpu areas.  This will allow static and dynamic
areas to share faster direct access methods.  This feature is optional
and enabled only when CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA is defined by
arch.  Please read comment on top of mm/percpu.c for details.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20 16:29:08 +09:00
Tejun Heo
8fc4898500 vmalloc: add un/map_kernel_range_noflush()
Impact: two more public map/unmap functions

Implement map_kernel_range_noflush() and unmap_kernel_range_noflush().
These functions respectively map and unmap address range in kernel VM
area but doesn't do any vcache or tlb flushing.  These will be used by
new percpu allocator.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
2009-02-20 16:29:08 +09:00
Tejun Heo
f0aa661790 vmalloc: implement vm_area_register_early()
Impact: allow multiple early vm areas

There are places where kernel VM area needs to be allocated before
vmalloc is initialized.  This is done by allocating static vm_struct,
initializing several fields and linking it to vmlist and later vmalloc
initialization picking up these from vmlist.  This is currently done
manually and if there's more than one such areas, there's no defined
way to arbitrate who gets which address.

This patch implements vm_area_register_early(), which takes vm_area
struct with flags and size initialized, assigns address to it and puts
it on the vmlist.  This way, multiple early vm areas can determine
which addresses they should use.  The only current user - alpha mm
init - is converted to use it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20 16:29:08 +09:00
Tejun Heo
f2a8205c4e percpu: kill percpu_alloc() and friends
Impact: kill unused functions

percpu_alloc() and its friends never saw much action.  It was supposed
to replace the cpu-mask unaware __alloc_percpu() but it never happened
and in fact __percpu_alloc_mask() itself never really grew proper
up/down handling interface either (no exported interface for
populate/depopulate).

percpu allocation is about to go through major reimplementation and
there's no reason to carry this unused interface around.  Replace it
with __alloc_percpu() and free_percpu().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20 16:29:08 +09:00
Rusty Russell
313e458f81 alloc_percpu: add align argument to __alloc_percpu.
This prepares for a real __alloc_percpu, by adding an alignment argument.
Only one place uses __alloc_percpu directly, and that's for a string.

tj: af_inet also uses __alloc_percpu(), update it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2009-02-20 16:29:08 +09:00