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Trond Myklebust
16fb24252a NLM: Fix arguments to NLM_CANCEL call
The OpenGroup docs state that the arguments "block", "exclusive" and
 "alock" must exactly match the arguments for the lock call that we are
 trying to cancel.
 Currently, "block" is always set to false, which is wrong.

 See bug# 5956 on bugzilla.kernel.org.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-02-01 12:52:23 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
c87d0c07ea [PATCH] reiserfs: remove reiserfs_permission_locked
This function is completely unused since the xattr permission checking
changes.  Remove it and fold __reiserfs_permission into
reiserfs_permission.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:25 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
d739b42b82 [PATCH] reiserfs: remove kmalloc wrapper
Remove kmalloc() wrapper from fs/reiserfs/.  Please note that a reiserfs
/proc entry format is changed because kmalloc statistics is removed.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:25 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
7fd6b14130 [PATCH] slab: fix kzalloc and kstrdup caller report for CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
Fix kzalloc() and kstrdup() caller report for CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB.  We must
pass the caller to __cache_alloc() instead of directly doing
__builtin_return_address(0) there; otherwise kzalloc() and kstrdup() are
reported as the allocation site instead of the real one.

Thanks to Valdis Kletnieks for reporting the problem and Steven Rostedt for
the original idea.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:18 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e965f9630c [PATCH] Direct Migration V9: Avoid writeback / page_migrate() method
Migrate a page with buffers without requiring writeback

This introduces a new address space operation migratepage() that may be used
by a filesystem to implement its own version of page migration.

A version is provided that migrates buffers attached to pages.  Some
filesystems (ext2, ext3, xfs) are modified to utilize this feature.

The swapper address space operation are modified so that a regular
migrate_page() will occur for anonymous pages without writeback (migrate_pages
forces every anonymous page to have a swap entry).

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:17 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
a3351e525e [PATCH] Direct Migration V9: remove_from_swap() to remove swap ptes
Add remove_from_swap

remove_from_swap() allows the restoration of the pte entries that existed
before page migration occurred for anonymous pages by walking the reverse
maps.  This reduces swap use and establishes regular pte's without the need
for page faults.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:16 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
a48d07afdf [PATCH] Direct Migration V9: migrate_pages() extension
Add direct migration support with fall back to swap.

Direct migration support on top of the swap based page migration facility.

This allows the direct migration of anonymous pages and the migration of file
backed pages by dropping the associated buffers (requires writeout).

Fall back to swap out if necessary.

The patch is based on lots of patches from the hotplug project but the code
was restructured, documented and simplified as much as possible.

Note that an additional patch that defines the migrate_page() method for
filesystems is necessary in order to avoid writeback for anonymous and file
backed pages.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:16 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
2a11ff06d7 [PATCH] zone_reclaim: configurable off node allocation period.
Currently the zone_reclaim code has a fixed window of 30 seconds of off node
allocations should a local zone have no unused pagecache pages left.  Reclaim
will be attempted again after this timeout period to avoid repeated useless
scans for memory.  This is also useful to established sufficiently large off
node allocation chunks to relieve the local node.

It may be beneficial to adjust that time period for some special situations.
For example if memory use was exceeding node capacity one may want to give up
for longer periods of time.  If memory spikes intermittendly then one may want
to shorten the time period to reduce the number of off node allocations.

This patch allows just that....

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:16 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
ce2ea89ba1 [PATCH] GFP_ZONETYPES: calculate from GFP_ZONEMASK
GFP_ZONETYPES calculate from GFP_ZONEMASK

GFP_ZONETYPES's value is directly related to the value of GFP_ZONEMASK.  It
takes one of two forms depending whether the top bit of GFP_ZONEMASK is a
'loner'.  Supply both forms, enabling the loner.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:15 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
79046ae07a [PATCH] GFP_ZONETYPES: add commentry on how to calculate
GFP_ZONETYPES define using GFP_ZONEMASK and add commentry

Add commentry explaining the optimisation that we can apply to GFP_ZONETYPES
when the leftmost bit is a 'loaner', it can only be set in isolation.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:14 -08:00
Bryan O'Sullivan
c27a0d75b3 [PATCH] Introduce __iowrite32_copy
This arch-independent routine copies data to a memory-mapped I/O region,
using 32-bit accesses.  The naming is double-underscored to make it clear
that it does not guarantee write ordering, nor does it perform a memory
barrier afterwards; the kernel doc also explicitly states this.  This style
of access is required by some devices.

This change also introduces include/linux/io.h, at Andrew's suggestion.  It
only has one occupant at the moment, but is a logical destination for
oft-replicated contents of include/asm-*/{io,iomap}.h to migrate to.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
Bryan O'Sullivan
f7589f28d7 [PATCH] Define BITS_PER_BYTE
This can make the intent behind some arithmetic expressions clearer.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
493f01d1d0 [PATCH] kernel/posix-timers.c: remove do_posix_clock_notimer_create()
This function is neither used nor has any real contents.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
66188fae3b [PATCH] hrtimers: add back lost credit lines
At some point we added credits to people who actively helped to bring
k/hr-timers along.  This was lost in the big code revamp.  Add it back.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
George Anzinger
7978672c4d [PATCH] hrtimers: cleanups and simplifications
Clean up the interface to hrtimers by changing the init code to pass the mode
as well as the clock.  This allow the init code to select the correct base and
eliminates extra timer re-init code in posix-timers.  We also simplify the
restart interface nanosleep use.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
ff60a5dc4f [PATCH] hrtimers: fix posix-timer requeue race
From: Steven Rostedtrostedt@goodmis.org <rostedt@goodmis.org>

CPU0 expires a posix-timer and runs the callback function.  The signal is
queued.

After releasing the posix-timer lock and before returning to hrtimer_run_queue
CPU0 gets interrupted.  CPU1 delivers the queued signal and rearms the timer.
CPU0 comes back to hrtimer_run_queue and sets the timer state to expired.

The next modification of the timer can result in an oops, because the state
information is wrong.

Keep track of state = RUNNING and check if the state has been in the return
path of hrtimer_run_queue.  In case the state has been changed, ignore a
restart request and do not touch the state variable.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
ed5a92700d [PATCH] tpm_bios: needs more securityfs_ functions
tpm_bios.c needs securityfs_xyz() functions.

Does include/linux/security.h need stubs for these, or should
char/tpm/Makefile just be modified to say:

ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
	obj-$(CONFIG_TCG_TPM) += tpm_bios.o
endif
endif

drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.c:494: warning: implicit declaration of function 'securityfs_create_dir'
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.c:494: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.c:499: warning: implicit declaration of function 'securityfs_create_file'
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.c:501: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.c:508: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.c:523: warning: implicit declaration of function 'securityfs_remove'
*** Warning: "securityfs_create_file" [drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "securityfs_create_dir" [drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "securityfs_remove" [drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.ko] undefined!

There are also some gcc and sparse warnings that could be fixed.
(see http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/build-tpm.out)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:11 -08:00
Alasdair G Kergon
3ee247ebce [PATCH] dm: dm-table warning fix
drivers/md/dm-table.c:500: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:11 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
9cd6845511 [PATCH] fuse: fix async read for legacy filesystems
While asynchronous reads mean a performance improvement in most cases, if
the filesystem assumed that reads are synchronous, then async reads may
degrade performance (filesystem may receive reads out of order, which can
confuse it's own readahead logic).

With sshfs a 1.5 to 4 times slowdown can be measured.

There's also a need for userspace filesystems to know whether asynchronous
reads are supported by the kernel or not.

To achive these, negotiate in the INIT request whether async reads will be
used and the maximum readahead value.  Update interface version to 7.6

If userspace uses a version earlier than 7.6, then disable async reads, and
set maximum readahead value to the maximum read size, as done in previous
versions.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:09 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
3a2ca64496 [PATCH] prototypes for *at functions & typo fix
Here's the follow-up patch which introduces the prototypes for the new
syscalls.  There was also a typo in one of the new symbols.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:09 -08:00
Chris Wright
bd3f8f2b12 [PATCH] Make sure to always check upper bits of tv_nsec in timespec_valid.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-31 19:30:25 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ef59c4e935 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 2006-01-31 18:13:32 -08:00
Grant Coady
2181c97195 [PATCH] PCI: pci_ids: remove duplicates gathered during merge period
pci_ids.h: remove duplicates.  Compile tested allmodconfig.

Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:11 -08:00
Mark Rustad
8cea8e9303 [PATCH] PCI: restore 2 missing pci ids
Somewhere between 2.6.14 and 2.6.15-rc3, some PCI ids were apparently
removed.  The ecc.c module, which is not a part of the kernel.org tree, but
included in some distributions, fails to compile.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mrustad@mac.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:11 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
f8d6571333 [PATCH] PCI: drivers/pci/pci.c: #if 0 pci_find_ext_capability()
This patch #if 0's the unused global function pci_find_ext_capability().

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:11 -08:00
Jason Gaston
b6ebb26590 [PATCH] PCI: irq and pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH8
This patch adds the Intel ICH8 DID's to the irq.c and pci_ids.h files.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <Jason.d.gaston@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:11 -08:00
David Brownell
c02c4bb205 [PATCH] USB: USB authentication states
Another hook needed for wireless USB:  there are states associated with the
device authentication protocol.  Wireless devices must authenticate using
the host system's keystore.

Note that wired connections could also use this authentication protocol, if
for no other reason than to support the most secure "simple" key exchange
protocols for wireless devices.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 17:23:44 -08:00
Luca Risolia
7ce08c93e3 [PATCH] USB: Add ET61X[12]51 Video4Linux2 driver
This patch adds a Video4Linux2 driver giving support
to ET61X151 and ET61X251 PC Camera Controllers made by
Etoms Electronics.

Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 17:23:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
10379a25fe Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/agpgart 2006-01-31 16:20:55 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
28e0cf22c1 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2006-01-31 15:09:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d195ea4b14 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2006-01-31 11:31:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d5bee77513 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block 2006-01-31 11:22:40 -08:00
Jens Axboe
2cb2e147a6 [BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: make max_sectors and max_hw_sectors unsigned ints
IDE lba48 can support full 64k request size, which overflows the
max_hw_sectors variable.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-24 10:06:19 +01:00
Russell King
0077d45e46 [SERIAL] Make uart_port flags a bitwise type
Same reasoning as commit 747c8a5594
but this time we're making uart_port flags a bitwise type - not
all of these flags correspond with the old ASYNC_ flags, so there
is the possibility for bugs if the wrong ASYNC_* constants are
used.  Always use UPF_* constants for uart_port->flags.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-21 23:03:28 +00:00
Russell King
27ae7a7435 [SERIAL] Fix UPF_ flag usage with uart_info->flags
The previous change found a bug in the serial SAK handling - because
we were looking for UPF_SAK set in uart_info->flags, we would never
raise a SAK condition.  UPF_SAK is in uart_port->flags.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-21 22:54:06 +00:00
Russell King
747c8a5594 [SERIAL] Make uart_info flags a bitwise type
The potential for confusing the flags is fairly high.  Make
uart_info's flags a bitwise type so sparse can check that the
right flag definitions are used with the right structure.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-21 22:50:36 +00:00
Russell King
ba899dbc03 [SERIAL] Make port->ops constant
No one should write to the port->ops structure, so make it constant.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-21 22:45:50 +00:00
Russell King
ca74080385 [SERIAL] Remove UPF_AUTOPROBE and UPF_BOOT_ONLYMCA
The functionality UPF_BOOT_ONLYMCA provided has been replaced by
the 8250_mca module, which only registers MCA ports if MCA is
present.

UPF_AUTOPROBE has no functional effect - in fact, it's never
tested.  Only ibmasm set the flag.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-21 20:06:14 +00:00
David S. Miller
6fbfc96884 [NETFILTER]: Unbreak x-tables on x86.
x86 defines __alignof__(long long) as 8 yet it gives 4
for a struct containing a long long, ho hum... so my
simplified form doesn't work everywhere.

So use Harald Welte's original patch, which should work
on all platforms.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-20 11:57:07 -08:00
David S. Miller
4f2d7680cb [NETFILTER] x_tables: Make XT_ALIGN align as strictly as necessary.
Or else we break on ppc32 and other 32-bit platforms.

Based upon a patch from Harald Welte.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-19 16:58:37 -08:00
Alan Hourihane
3b0e8eadc5 [AGPGART] 945GM support for agpgart
Here's a very small diff for 945GM support for agpgart.

Patch against 2.6.15.

From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-19 16:19:35 -08:00
David Woodhouse
9f72949f67 [PATCH] Add pselect/ppoll system call implementation
The following implementation of ppoll() and pselect() system calls
depends on the architecture providing a TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag in the
thread_info.

These system calls have to change the signal mask during their
operation, and signal handlers must be invoked using the new, temporary
signal mask. The old signal mask must be restored either upon successful
exit from the system call, or upon returning from the invoked signal
handler if the system call is interrupted. We can't simply restore the
original signal mask and return to userspace, since the restored signal
mask may actually block the signal which interrupted the system call.

The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag deals with this by causing the syscall exit
path to trap into do_signal() just as TIF_SIGPENDING does, and by
causing do_signal() to use the saved signal mask instead of the current
signal mask when setting up the stack frame for the signal handler -- or
by causing do_signal() to simply restore the saved signal mask in the
case where there is no handler to be invoked.

The first patch implements the sys_pselect() and sys_ppoll() system
calls, which are present only if TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined. That
#ifdef should go away in time when all architectures have implemented
it. The second patch implements TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for the PowerPC
kernel (in the -mm tree), and the third patch then removes the
arch-specific implementations of sys_rt_sigsuspend() and replaces them
with generic versions using the same trick.

The fourth and fifth patches, provided by David Howells, implement
TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FR-V and i386 respectively, and the sixth patch
adds the syscalls to the i386 syscall table.

This patch:

Add the pselect() and ppoll() system calls, providing core routines usable by
the original select() and poll() system calls and also the new calls (with
their semantics w.r.t timeouts).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
David Woodhouse
150256d8aa [PATCH] Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend()
The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag allows us to have a generic implementation of
sys_rt_sigsuspend() instead of duplicating it for each architecture.  This
provides such an implementation and makes arch/powerpc use it.

It also tidies up the ppc32 sys_sigsuspend() to use TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
5590ff0d55 [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core
Here is a series of patches which introduce in total 13 new system calls
which take a file descriptor/filename pair instead of a single file
name.  These functions, openat etc, have been discussed on numerous
occasions.  They are needed to implement race-free filesystem traversal,
they are necessary to implement a virtual per-thread current working
directory (think multi-threaded backup software), etc.

We have in glibc today implementations of the interfaces which use the
/proc/self/fd magic.  But this code is rather expensive.  Here are some
results (similar to what Jim Meyering posted before).

The test creates a deep directory hierarchy on a tmpfs filesystem.  Then
rm -fr is used to remove all directories.  Without syscall support I get
this:

real    0m31.921s
user    0m0.688s
sys     0m31.234s

With syscall support the results are much better:

real    0m20.699s
user    0m0.536s
sys     0m20.149s

The interfaces are for obvious reasons currently not much used.  But they'll
be used.  coreutils (and Jeff's posixutils) are already using them.
Furthermore, code like ftw/fts in libc (maybe even glob) will also start using
them.  I expect a patch to make follow soon.  Every program which is walking
the filesystem tree will benefit.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
3a65588adc [PATCH] nfsd4: rename lk_stateowner
One of the things that's confusing about nfsd4_lock is that the lk_stateowner
field could be set to either of two different lockowners: the open owner or
the lock owner.  Rename to lk_replay_owner and add a comment to make it clear
that it's used for whichever stateowner has its sequence id bumped for replay
detection.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:24 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
1918e34138 [PATCH] svcrpc: save and restore the daddr field when request deferred
The server code currently keeps track of the destination address on every
request so that it can reply using the same address.  However we forget to do
that in the case of a deferred request.  Remedy this oversight.  >From folks
at PolyServe.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:24 -08:00
YAMAMOTO Takashi
f193fbab2e [PATCH] nfsd: check error status from nfsd_sync_dir
Change nfsd_sync_dir to return an error if ->sync fails, and pass that error
up through the stack.  This involves a number of rearrangements of error
paths, and care to distinguish between Linux -errno numbers and NFSERR
numbers.

In the 'create' routines, we continue with the 'setattr' even if a previous
sync_dir failed.

This patch is quite different from Takashi's in a few ways, but there is still
a strong lineage.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:24 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
5131cf154a [PATCH] add missing syscall declarations
All standard system calls should be declared in include/linux/syscalls.h.

Add some of the new additions that were previously missed.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:22 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
dc85da15d4 [PATCH] NUMA policies in the slab allocator V2
This patch fixes a regression in 2.6.14 against 2.6.13 that causes an
imbalance in memory allocation during bootup.

The slab allocator in 2.6.13 is not numa aware and simply calls
alloc_pages().  This means that memory policies may control the behavior of
alloc_pages().  During bootup the memory policy is set to MPOL_INTERLEAVE
resulting in the spreading out of allocations during bootup over all
available nodes.  The slab allocator in 2.6.13 has only a single list of
slab pages.  As a result the per cpu slab cache and the spinlock controlled
page lists may contain slab entries from off node memory.  The slab
allocator in 2.6.13 makes no effort to discern the locality of an entry on
its lists.

The NUMA aware slab allocator in 2.6.14 controls locality of the slab pages
explicitly by calling alloc_pages_node().  The NUMA slab allocator manages
slab entries by having lists of available slab pages for each node.  The
per cpu slab cache can only contain slab entries associated with the node
local to the processor.  This guarantees that the default allocation mode
of the slab allocator always assigns local memory if available.

Setting MPOL_INTERLEAVE as a default policy during bootup has no effect
anymore.  In 2.6.14 all node unspecific slab allocations are performed on
the boot processor.  This means that most of key data structures are
allocated on one node.  Most processors will have to refer to these
structures making the boot node a potential bottleneck.  This may reduce
performance and cause unnecessary memory pressure on the boot node.

This patch implements NUMA policies in the slab layer.  There is the need
of explicit application of NUMA memory policies by the slab allcator itself
since the NUMA slab allocator does no longer let the page_allocator control
locality.

The check for policies is made directly at the beginning of __cache_alloc
using current->mempolicy.  The memory policy is already frequently checked
by the page allocator (alloc_page_vma() and alloc_page_current()).  So it
is highly likely that the cacheline is present.  For MPOL_INTERLEAVE
kmalloc() will spread out each request to one node after another so that an
equal distribution of allocations can be obtained during bootup.

It is not possible to push the policy check to lower layers of the NUMA
slab allocator since the per cpu caches are now only containing slab
entries from the current node.  If the policy says that the local node is
not to be preferred or forbidden then there is no point in checking the
slab cache or local list of slab pages.  The allocation better be directed
immediately to the lists containing slab entries for the allowed set of
nodes.

This way of applying policy also fixes another strange behavior in 2.6.13.
alloc_pages() is controlled by the memory allocation policy of the current
process.  It could therefore be that one process is running with
MPOL_INTERLEAVE and would f.e.  obtain a new page following that policy
since no slab entries are in the lists anymore.  A page can typically be
used for multiple slab entries but lets say that the current process is
only using one.  The other entries are then added to the slab lists.  These
are now non local entries in the slab lists despite of the possible
availability of local pages that would provide faster access and increase
the performance of the application.

Another process without MPOL_INTERLEAVE may now run and expect a local slab
entry from kmalloc().  However, there are still these free slab entries
from the off node page obtained from the other process via MPOL_INTERLEAVE
in the cache.  The process will then get an off node slab entry although
other slab entries may be available that are local to that process.  This
means that the policy if one process may contaminate the locality of the
slab caches for other processes.

This patch in effect insures that a per process policy is followed for the
allocation of slab entries and that there cannot be a memory policy
influence from one process to another.  A process with default policy will
always get a local slab entry if one is available.  And the process using
memory policies will get its memory arranged as requested.  Off-node slab
allocation will require the use of spinlocks and will make the use of per
cpu caches not possible.  A process using memory policies to redirect
allocations offnode will have to cope with additional lock overhead in
addition to the latency added by the need to access a remote slab entry.

Changes V1->V2
- Remove #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA by moving forward declaration into
  prior #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA section.

- Give the function determining the node number to use a saner
  name.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:18 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
1743660b91 [PATCH] Zone reclaim: proc override
proc support for zone reclaim

This patch creates a proc entry /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode that may be
used to override the automatic determination of the zone reclaim made on
bootup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00