Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to
discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis
operation requires root permissions.
It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first.
Caveats:
a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time.
b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through
so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis.
This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between
filesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but
it's less than 300 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
For some reason there is an #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA within another #ifdef
CONFIG_NUMA in the page allocator. Remove innermost #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The slab allocator code is inconsistent in coding style and messy. For this
patch, I ran Lindent for mm/slab.c and fixed up goofs by hand.
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>
This patch moves the ugly loop that determines the 'optimal' size (page order)
of cache slabs from kmem_cache_create() to a separate function and cleans it
up a bit.
Thanks to Matthew Wilcox for the help with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch extracts slabinfo header printing to a separate function
print_slabinfo_header() to make s_start() more readable.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
__alloc_percpu and alloc_percpu both take an 'align' argument which is
completely ignored. snmp6_mib_init() in net/ipv6/af_inet6.c attempts to use
it, but it will be ignored. Therefore, remove the 'align' argument and fixup
the lone caller.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix compilation with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y and gcc41.
Also remove unneeded declations, add a public function.
drivers/base/memory.c:53: error: static declaration of 'register_memory_notifier' follows non-static declaration
include/linux/memory.h:85: error: previous declaration of 'register_memory_notifier' was here
drivers/base/memory.c:58: error: static declaration of 'unregister_memory_notifier' follows non-static declaration
include/linux/memory.h:86: error: previous declaration of 'unregister_memory_notifier' was here
drivers/base/memory.c:68: error: static declaration of 'register_memory' follows non-static declaration
include/linux/memory.h:73: error: previous declaration of 'register_memory' was here
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cleanup for the ARM-only watchdog driver wdt977.
This is probably the last update, since we want to merge with w83977f_wdt.
Jose Goncalves has ported this driver to i386, so probably we can iron out
configuration differences.
Signed-off-by: Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hugh says:
page_alloc_cpu_notify() specifically contains code to
/* Add dead cpu's page_states to our own. */
which handles this more efficiently.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- addrconf.c: make addrconf_dad_stop() static
- inet6_connection_sock.c should #include <net/inet6_connection_sock.h>
for getting the prototypes of it's global functions
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since there's no longer any external user of ip_fragment() we can make
it static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The unlocking disappeared during commit
5793f4be23.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Handle NAT of decapsulated IPsec packets by reconstructing the struct flowi
of the original packet from the conntrack information for IPsec policy
checks.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Keep the conntrack reference until policy checks have been performed for
IPsec NAT support. The reference needs to be dropped before a packet is
queued to avoid having the conntrack module unloadable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When NAT changes the key used for the xfrm lookup it needs to be done
again. If a new policy is returned in POST_ROUTING the packet needs
to be passed to xfrm4_output_one manually after all hooks were called
because POST_ROUTING is called with fixed okfn (ip_finish_output).
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Preparation for IPsec support for NAT:
Use conntrack information instead of saving the saving and comparing the
addresses to determine if a packet was NATed and needs to be rerouted to
make it easier to extend the key.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ip_route_me_harder doesn't use the port numbers of the xfrm lookup and
uses ip_route_input for non-local addresses which doesn't do a xfrm
lookup, ip6_route_me_harder doesn't do a xfrm lookup at all.
Use xfrm_decode_session and do the lookup manually, make sure both
only do the lookup if the packet hasn't been transformed already.
Makeing sure the lookup only happens once needs a new field in the
IP6CB, which exceeds the size of skb->cb. The size of skb->cb is
increased to 48b. Apparently the IPv6 mobile extensions need some
more room anyway.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reset IPSKB_XFRM_TUNNEL_SIZE flags in ipip and ip_gre hard_start_xmit
function before the packet reenters IP. This is neccessary so the
encapsulated packets are checked not to be oversized in xfrm4_output.c
again. Reset all flags in sit when a packet changes its address family.
Also remove some obsolete IPSKB flags.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When the innermost transform uses transport mode the decapsulated packet
is not visible to netfilter. Pass the packet through the PRE_ROUTING and
LOCAL_IN hooks again before handing it to upper layer protocols to make
netfilter-visibility symetrical to the output path.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move nextheader offset to the IP6CB to make it possible to pass a
packet to ip6_input_finish multiple times and have it skip already
parsed headers. As a nice side effect this gets rid of the manual
hopopts skipping in ip6_input_finish.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Call netfilter hooks before IPsec transforms. Packets visit the
FORWARD/LOCAL_OUT and POST_ROUTING hook before the first encapsulation
and the LOCAL_OUT and POST_ROUTING hook before each following tunnel mode
transform.
Patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>:
Move the loop from dst_output into xfrm4_output/xfrm6_output since they're
the only ones who need to it. xfrm{4,6}_output_one() processes the first SA
all subsequent transport mode SAs and is called in a loop that calls the
netfilter hooks between each two calls.
In order to avoid the tail call issue, I've added the inline function
nf_hook which is nf_hook_slow plus the empty list check.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
security/selinux/xfrm.c:155:10: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Nothing prevents a user to modprobe a framebuffer driver from e.g. the
xterm prompt. As a result, the set_par() function of the driver will be
called from fbcon_init().
This is fatal as a lot of X / framebuffer combinations are unable to
recover from set_par() reprogramming the graphics controller in
KD_GRAPHICS mode.
It is also unnecessary as the set_par() function will be called during a
switch to KD_TEXT anyway. Because of this no side effects are possible.
Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update the ibmasm driver to use the dynamic allocation of input_dev
structs to work with the sysfs subsystem.
Vojtech: Fixed some problems/bugs in the patch.
Dmitry: Fixed some more.
Signed-off-by: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Since the ARM AMBA bus is used on MIPS as well as ARM, we need
to make the bus available for other architectures to use. Move
the AMBA include files from include/asm-arm/hardware/ to
include/linux/amba/
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Andre McCurdy
Replaces generic swab32 routine with a more ARM friendly version.
Reduces kernel text size by approx 1200 bytes when compiled with
3.4.4 and approx 2400 bytes with 4.0.2
Probably some performance benefit as well.
Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@yahoo.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Richard Purdie
Fix a gcc4 build error (incomplete element type) in the pxa SharpSL
PM code.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Pavel Pisa
Correction of the code broken by update
whole-tree platform devices update.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
I've spent the past 3 days digging into a glibc testsuite failure in
current CVS, specifically libc/rt/tst-cputimer1.c The thr1 and thr2
timers fire too early in the second pass of this test. The second
pass is noteworthy because it makes use of intervals, whereas the
first pass does not.
All throughout the posix-cpu-timers.c code, the calculation of the
process sched_time sum is implemented roughly as:
unsigned long long sum;
sum = tsk->signal->sched_time;
t = tsk;
do {
sum += t->sched_time;
t = next_thread(t);
} while (t != tsk);
In fact this is the exact scheme used by check_process_timers().
In the case of check_process_timers(), current->sched_time has just
been updated (via scheduler_tick(), which is invoked by
update_process_times(), which subsequently invokes
run_posix_cpu_timers()) So there is no special processing necessary
wrt. that.
In other contexts, we have to allot for the fact that tsk->sched_time
might be a bit out of date if we are current. And the
posix-cpu-timers.c code uses current_sched_time() to deal with that.
Unfortunately it does so in an erroneous and inconsistent manner in
one spot which is what results in the early timer firing.
In cpu_clock_sample_group_locked(), it does this:
cpu->sched = p->signal->sched_time;
/* Add in each other live thread. */
while ((t = next_thread(t)) != p) {
cpu->sched += t->sched_time;
}
if (p->tgid == current->tgid) {
/*
* We're sampling ourselves, so include the
* cycles not yet banked. We still omit
* other threads running on other CPUs,
* so the total can always be behind as
* much as max(nthreads-1,ncpus) * (NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ).
*/
cpu->sched += current_sched_time(current);
} else {
cpu->sched += p->sched_time;
}
The problem is the "p->tgid == current->tgid" test. If "p" is
not current, and the tgids are the same, we will add the process
t->sched_time twice into cpu->sched and omit "p"'s sched_time
which is very very very wrong.
posix-cpu-timers.c has a helper function, sched_ns(p) which takes care
of this, so my fix is to use that here instead of this special tgid
test.
The fact that current can be one of the sub-threads of "p" points out
that we could make things a little bit more accurate, perhaps by using
sched_ns() on every thread we process in these loops. It also points
out that we don't use the most accurate value for threads in the group
actively running other cpus (and this is mentioned in the comment).
But that is a future enhancement, and this fix here definitely makes
sense.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
