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Ingo Molnar
389d1ea508 [PATCH] CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT Kconfig fix
Move CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT from the main Kconfig menu (!) into its proper
place: the "Processor Type and features" submenu.

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 08:53:09 -08:00
Olaf Hering
577bca9eff [PATCH] CONFIG_ISA does not make sense for CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES
Older pSeries systems with serial ports dont get any console output after
recent changes.  CONFIG_ISA does not make sense for CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES
because it enables lots of old drivers.  Instead, remove the dependency on
CONFIG_ISA from the serial port discovery code.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:08 -08:00
Andrew Morton
3833a70585 [PATCH] x86_64: compat_sys_futimesat fix
We need to use the compat function here.

Pointer out by Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.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 08:53:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e1762ec6d7 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2006-01-31 19:24:43 -08:00
Andi Kleen
3103039cc2 [PATCH] PCI: handle bogus MCFG entries
Handle more bogus MCFG entries

Some Asus P4 boards seem to have broken MCFG tables with
only a single entry for busses 0-0.  Special case these
and assume they mean all busses can be accessed.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:13 -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 S. Miller
7fb76aa07f [SUNGEM]: Unbreak Sun GEM chips.
Revert: 40727198bf

These PHY changes hang the sungem driver on startup with Sun chips on
sparc64.  Hopefully we can redo these changes in a way that doesn't
break non-Apple systems.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-31 17:12:55 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b8c475be7b Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/x86 2006-01-31 16:21:44 -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
9aef3b7c20 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-01-31 14:14:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bb4bc81a23 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2006-01-31 11:31:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0827f2b698 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2006-01-31 10:29:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7fcdf327be Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2006-01-31 10:21:13 -08:00
David S. Miller
22f01da398 [SPARC]: Fix compile failures in math-emu.
Kill debugging default switch cases in do_one_mathemu().
That case is handled properly already and gcc hates
the empty statement that results when the debug code is
disabled.

Pointed out by kaffe.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-30 16:46:24 -08:00
David S. Miller
cddfc12e25 [SPARC64]: Kill compat_sys_clock_settime sign extension stub.
It's wrong and totally unneeded.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-30 01:31:09 -08:00
Catalin Marinas
14e54cc391 [ARM] 3289/1: Enable the LCD support for Integrator/CP
Patch from Catalin Marinas

The LCD displays were no longer working with Integrator/CP after some
changes to the setup code. This patch re-enables them.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-28 20:54:50 +00:00
Dale Farnsworth
6651a5c383 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Fix for building as a module
Enable mv643xx_eth driver to work when built as a module on
mv64x60-based embedded systems.

Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-27 11:09:24 -05:00
Dave Jones
6fe8f479d0 [X86] Add new Intel cache descriptors.
From http://www.intel.com/design/xeon/applnots/24161830.pdf

16MB of 16-way assoc 64 byte per cacheline L3 cache anyone? Yum.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-26 22:40:40 -08:00
Prarit Bhargava
61d67f2e07 [IA64-SGI] Add PROM feature set for device flush list
Introduce PRF_DEVICE_FLUSH_LIST flag for older PROMs.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-26 13:50:40 -08:00
Ben Collins
c70ca00f77 [CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod: Workaround for CPU's with N60 errata
Ignore clock frequencies below 2Ghz for CPU's detected with N60 errata bug.

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-26 10:44:11 -08:00
George G. Davis
7efb83002b [ARM] 3269/1: Add ARMv6 MT_NONSHARED_DEVICE mem_types[] index
Patch from George G. Davis

This Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. contributed patch adds mem_types[]
support for ARMv6 non-shared device memory region attributes. This
implementation provides support for only first level section mapped
non-shared devices. Second level non-shared device mappings are not
yet supported.

Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-26 15:21:28 +00:00
Lucas Correia Villa Real
0367a8d37a [ARM] 3266/1: S3C2400 - adds macro S3C24XX
Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real

This patch defines S3C2400 memory map and adds a S3C24XX macro for
common resources between S3C2400, S3C2410 and S3C2440 cpus.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-26 15:20:50 +00:00
Jes Sorensen
139366a093 [IA64-SGI] XPC remove unnecessary GFP_DMA flag
Remove the GFP_DMA flag from XPC kmalloc() calls.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-24 15:49:49 -08:00
Jack Steiner
79c83bd15a [IA64] Scaling fix for simultaneous unaligned accesses
Eliminate a hot shared cacheline that occurs if multiple cpus are
taking unaligned exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-24 14:39:50 -08:00
Takashi Iwai
dc64161343 [IA64-SGI] sn_dma_alloc_coherent should use gfp flags
Takashi helped us track down a bad page state bug we thought was coming
from alsa.  It turns out we weren't paying attention to the gfp flags
that were passed in to sn_dma_alloc_coherent().

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
2006-01-24 14:30:56 -08:00
Keith Owens
2a792058c3 [IA64] Set the correct default OS status in the MCA handler
sos->os_status is set to a default value of IA64_MCA_COLD_BOOT for an
MCA, but then is incorrectly overwritten with IA64_MCA_SAME_CONTEXT (0).
This makes SAL think that all MCAs have been recovered.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-24 11:50:07 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
40727198bf [SUNGEM]: Make PM of PHYs more reliable (#2)
On my latest laptop, I've had occasional PHY dead on wakeup from
sleep... the PHY would be totally unresponsive even to toggling the hard
reset line until the machine is powered down... Looking closely at the
code, I found some possible issues in the way we setup the MDIO lines
during suspend along with slight divergences from what Darwin does when
resetting it that may explain the problem. That patch change these and
the problem appear to be gone for me at least... I also fixed an mdelay
-> msleep while I was at it to the pmac feature code that is called
when toggling the PHY reset line since sungem doesn't call it in an
atomic context anymore.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>b
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-23 16:30:04 -08:00
David S. Miller
4415863773 [SPARC]: Increase NR_SYSCALLS to 299
To let new syscalls through.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-22 12:12:01 -08:00
Russell King
20a2c88f50 [ARM] Fix ioremap.c vfree type warning
arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c:145: warning: passing argument 1 of 'vfree' makes pointer from integer without a cast

resulted from commit id 9d4ae7276a

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-20 20:52:50 +00:00
David S. Miller
3ee68c4af3 [SPARC64]: Use compat_sys_futimesat in 32-bit syscall table.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-20 01:49:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
02829f7377 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2006-01-19 22:17:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
497992917e Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-01-19 22:16:58 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
cdc9cc1d74 [CPUFREQ] X86_GX_SUSPMOD must depend on PCI
This patch fixes the following compile error:

...
  CC      arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.o
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.c: In function 'gx_detect_chipset':
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.c:193: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_match_id'
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.c:193: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
make[3]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.o] Error 1

<--  snip  -->

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-19 16:44:27 -08:00
John Hawkes
386d1d50c8 [IA64] eliminate softlockup warning
Fix an unnecessary softlockup watchdog warning in the ia64
uncached_build_memmap() that occurs occasionally at 256p and always at
512p.  The problem occurs at boot time.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-19 11:18:25 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
60f1c4443c [IA64] sem2mutex: arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
Migrate perfmon from using an old semaphore to a completion handler.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-19 11:17:56 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
92ff2ecd0d [IA64] sem2mutex: arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c
Migrate arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32 to using a mutex for mmap protection.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-19 11:17:33 -08:00
Al Viro
fa1b4f91d6 [ARM] safer handling of syscall table padding
ARM entry-common.S needs to know syscall table size; in itself that would
not be a problem, but there's an additional constraint - some of the
instructions using it want a constant that would be a multiple of 4.
So we have to pad syscall table with sys_ni_syscall and that's where
the trouble begins.  .rept pseudo-op wants a constant expression for
number of repetitions and subtraction of two labels (before and after
syscall table) doesn't always get simplified to constant early enough
for .rept.  If labels end up in different frags, we lose.  And while
the frag size is large enough (slightly below 4Kb), the syscall table
is about 1/3 of that.  We used to get away with that, but the recent
changes had been enough to trigger the breakage.

Proper fix is simple: have a macro (CALL(x)) to populate the table
instead of using explicit .long x and the first time we include calls.S
have it defined to .equ NR_syscalls,NR_syscalls+1.  Then we can find
the proper amount of padding on the first inclusion simply by looking
at NR_syscalls at that time.  And that will be constant, no matter what.

Moreover, the same trick kills the need of having an estimate of padded
NR_syscalls - it will be calculated for free at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-19 12:57:01 +00:00
Russell King
ea49772598 [ARM] Remove CONFIG_BROKEN=y from defconfigs
Remove CONFIG_BROKEN=y from the ARM defconfigs, and update with
the appropriate changes.  This results in only some unselected
configuration symbols being removed - hence no material effect
on the configuration.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-19 12:32:54 +00:00
David S. Miller
2d7d5f0511 [SPARC]: Add support for *at(), ppoll, and pselect syscalls.
This also includes by necessity _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support,
which actually resulted in a lot of cleanups.

The sparc signal handling code is quite a mess and I should
clean it up some day.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-19 02:42:49 -08:00
Alan Cox
da9bb1d27b [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code
This is a subset of the bluesmoke project core code, stripped of the NMI work
which isn't ready to merge and some of the "interesting" proc functionality
that needs reworking or just has no place in kernel.  It requires no core
kernel changes except the added scrub functions already posted.

The goal is to merge further functionality only after the core code is
accepted and proven in the base kernel, and only at the point the upstream
extras are really ready to merge.

From: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com>

  This converts EDAC to sysfs and is the final chunk neccessary before EDAC
  has a stable user space API and can be considered for submission into the
  base kernel.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:31 -08:00
David Woodhouse
3213e913b0 [PATCH] Add pselect/ppoll system calls on i386
Add the sys_pselect6() and sys_poll() calls to the i386 syscall table.

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 19:20:30 -08:00
Jeff Dike
36a7878a22 [PATCH] uml: use generic sys_rt_sigsuspend
Use the generic sys_rt_sigsuspend.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
Jeff Dike
2fc10620e7 [PATCH] uml: add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support
Add support for TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK.  I copy the i386 handling of the flag.
sys_sigsuspend is also changed to follow i386.
Also a bit of cleanup -
   turn an if into a switch
   get rid of a couple more emacs formatting comments

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
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
f27201da5c [PATCH] TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
Implement the TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag in the new arch/powerpc kernel, for
both 32-bit and 64-bit system call paths.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
David Howells
283828f3c1 [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for i386
Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK as added by David Woodhouse's patch entitled:

        [PATCH] 2/3 Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
        [PATCH] 3/3 Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend

It does the following:

 (1) Declares TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for i386.

 (2) Invokes it over to do_signal() when TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set.

 (3) Makes do_signal() support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, using the signal mask saved
     in current->saved_sigmask.

 (4) Discards sys_rt_sigsuspend() from the arch, using the generic one instead.

 (5) Makes sys_sigsuspend() save the signal mask and set TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
     rather than attempting to fudge the return registers.

 (6) Makes sys_sigsuspend() return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than looping
     intrinsically.

 (7) Makes setup_frame(), setup_rt_frame() and handle_signal() return 0 or
     -EFAULT rather than true/false to be consistent with the rest of the
     kernel.

Due to the fact do_signal() is then only called from one place:

 (8) Makes do_signal() no longer have a return value is it was just being
     ignored; force_sig() takes care of this.

 (9) Discards the old sigmask argument to do_signal() as it's no longer
     necessary.

(10) Makes do_signal() static.

(11) Marks the second argument to do_notify_resume() as unused. The unused
     argument should remain in the middle as the arguments are passed in as
     registers, and the ordering is specific in entry.S

Given the way do_signal() is now no longer called from sys_{,rt_}sigsuspend(),
they no longer need access to the exception frame, and so can just take
arguments normally.

This patch depends on sys_rt_sigsuspend patch.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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
David Howells
a411aee96e [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRV
Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK as added by David Woodhouse's patch entitled:

        [PATCH] 2/3 Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
        [PATCH] 3/3 Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend

It does the following:

 (1) Declares TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRV.

 (2) Invokes it over to do_signal() when TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set.

 (3) Makes do_signal() support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, using the signal mask saved
     in current->saved_sigmask.

 (4) Discards sys_rt_sigsuspend() from the arch, using the generic one instead.

 (5) Makes sys_sigsuspend() save the signal mask and set TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
     rather than attempting to fudge the return registers.

 (6) Makes sys_sigsuspend() return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than looping
     intrinsically.

 (7) Makes setup_frame(), setup_rt_frame() and handle_signal() return 0 or
     -EFAULT rather than true/false to be consistent with the rest of the
      kernel.

Due to the fact do_signal() is then only called from one place:

 (8) Make do_signal() no longer have a return value is it was just being
     ignored; force_sig() takes care of this.

 (9) Discards the old sigmask argument to do_signal() as it's no longer
     necessary.

This patch depends on the FRV signalling patches as well as the
sys_rt_sigsuspend patch.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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
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
a60fc5190a [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: x86_64
Wire up the x86_64 syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
4f08550723 [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: i386
Wire up the x86 syscalls

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 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