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Larry Finger
fe0b06b123 [PATCH] Fix softmac scan
Softmac scanning fails because the stop flag is not cleared before
scanning is started. The attached one-line patch fixes this.

Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:17:02 -05:00
Johannes Berg
1196862b79 [PATCH] softmac: remove dead code
This patch removes ieee80211softmac_reassoc which is neither implemented
nor used nor necessary.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:17:01 -05:00
Johannes Berg
b6c7658ef8 [PATCH] softmac: add reassociation code
This patch adds handling of reassociation to softmac when the AP
requests it. Patch from Larry Finger.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:17:01 -05:00
Johannes Berg
b10c991fa4 [PATCH] softmac: update deauth handler to quiet warning
Recently the deauth packet handler was updated to use a deauth packet
struct (identical to the auth packet struct) and this now gives a
warning. This patch updates the code to properly use a deauth struct and
deauth variable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:17:00 -05:00
Johannes Berg
f484d582d3 [PATCH] trivial fixes to softmac
This patch removes a blank line that shouldn't be there and fixes a
spelling error in softmac.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:59 -05:00
Johannes Berg
7985905106 [PATCH] update copyright in softmac
This patch updates the copyright statements in softmac that I
erroneously added for 2005 only (when we already had 2006).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:59 -05:00
Denis Vlasenko
1a995b45a5 [PATCH] ieee80211_rx_any: filter out packets, call ieee80211_rx or ieee80211_rx_mgt
Version 2 of the patch. Added checks for version 0
and proper from/to DS bits. Even in promisc
mode we won't receive packets from another BSSes.

bcm43xx_rx() contains code to filter out packets from
foreign BSSes and decide whether to call ieee80211_rx
or ieee80211_rx_mgt. This is not bcm specific.

Patch adapts that code and adds it to 80211
as ieee80211_rx_any() function.

Signed-off-by: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:58 -05:00
Johannes Berg
4c718cfd7d [PATCH] softmac: move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL right after functions
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:58 -05:00
Johannes Berg
9ebdd46681 [PATCH] softmac: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION and MODULE_AUTHORs
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:57 -05:00
Johannes Berg
4855d25b1e [PATCH] softmac: add copyright and license headers
add copyright and license headers to all softmac files

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:56 -05:00
Johannes Berg
b2b9b6518e [PATCH] softmac: some comment stuff
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:56 -05:00
Johannes Berg
bba52d5e9e [PATCH] softmac: properly check return value of ieee80211softmac_alloc_mgt
Properly check return value of ieee80211softmac_alloc_mgt
in ieee80211softmac_disassoc_deauth (patch by Denis Vlasenko)

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:55 -05:00
Johannes Berg
1dc09776d7 [PATCH] softmac: scan at least once before selecting a network by essid
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:55 -05:00
Johannes Berg
48b2e4ce69 [PATCH] softmac: check if disassociation is for us before processing it
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:54 -05:00
Johannes Berg
78e4f36e05 [PATCH] softmac: select "best" network based on rssi
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:54 -05:00
Johannes Berg
51da28a847 [PATCH] softmac: add fixme for disassoc
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:53 -05:00
Johannes Berg
d1469cf2c7 [PATCH] softmac: try to reassociate when being disassociated from the AP
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:53 -05:00
Johannes Berg
2dd50801b3 [PATCH] softmac: correctly use netif_carrier_{on,off}
TODO: add callbacks for ifup/ifdown (see mailing list)

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:52 -05:00
Johannes Berg
5c4df6da58 [PATCH] softmac: convert to use global workqueue
Convert softmac to use global workqueue instead of private one...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:52 -05:00
Johannes Berg
45867e6a55 [PATCH] softmac: fix Makefiles
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:51 -05:00
Johannes Berg
714e1a5116 [PATCH] softmac: fix some sparse warnings
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:51 -05:00
Johannes Berg
32821837fa [PATCH] make softmac depend on IEEE80211 and EXPERIMENTAL
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:50 -05:00
Johannes Berg
370121e519 [PATCH] wireless: Add softmac layer to the kernel
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-03-22 22:16:50 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
1c2e02750b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: (124 commits)
  [ALSA] version 1.0.11rc4
  [PATCH] Intruduce DMA_28BIT_MASK
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for ASUS P4GPL-X
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for HP nx9420 laptop
  [ALSA] Fix memory leaks in error path of control.c
  [ALSA] AMD Au1x00: AC'97 controller is memory mapped
  [ALSA] AMD Au1x00: fix DMA init/cleanup
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix generic auto-configurator
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix BIOS auto-configuration
  [ALSA] Fixes typos in Audiophile-USB.txt
  [ALSA] ice1712 - typo fixes for dxr_enable module option
  [ALSA] AMD Au1x00: make driver build after cleanup
  [ALSA] ice1712 - Fix wrong value types for enum items
  [ALSA] fix resource leak in usbmixer
  [ALSA] Fix gus_pcm dereference before NULL
  [ALSA] Fix seq_clientmgr dereferences before NULL check
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix for Samsung R65 and ASUS A6J
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for VAIO FE550G and SZ110
  [ALSA] usb-audio: add Maya44 mixer control names
  [ALSA] usb-audio: add Casio PL-40R support
  ...
2006-03-22 10:59:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8b4b6707ee Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
  fixed path to moved file in include/linux/device.h
  Fix spelling in E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT Kconfig description
  Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware: fix firmware URL
  Documentation: Update to BUG-HUNTING
  Remove superfluous NOTIFY_COOKIE_LEN define
  add "tags" to .gitignore
  Fix "frist", "fisrt", typos
  fix rwlock usage example
  It's UTF-8
2006-03-22 10:58:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d04ef3a795 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Add a secondary TSB for hugepage mappings.
  [SPARC]: Respect vm_page_prot in io_remap_page_range().
2006-03-22 10:56:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
36177ba655 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [TG3]: Bump driver version and reldate.
  [TG3]: Skip phy power down on some devices
  [TG3]: Fix SRAM access during tg3_init_one()
  [X25]: dte facilities 32 64 ioctl conversion
  [X25]: allow ITU-T DTE facilities for x25
  [X25]: fix kernel error message 64 bit kernel
  [X25]: ioctl conversion 32 bit user to 64 bit kernel
  [NET]: socket timestamp 32 bit handler for 64 bit kernel
  [NET]: allow 32 bit socket ioctl in 64 bit kernel
  [BLUETOOTH]: Return negative error constant
2006-03-22 10:56:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2152f85366 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (138 commits)
  [SCSI] libata: implement minimal transport template for ->eh_timed_out
  [SCSI] eliminate rphy allocation in favour of expander/end device allocation
  [SCSI] convert mptsas over to end_device/expander allocations
  [SCSI] allow displaying and setting of cache type via sysfs
  [SCSI] add scsi_mode_select to scsi_lib.c
  [SCSI] 3ware 9000 add big endian support
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: update MAINTAINERS
  [SCSI] scsi: move target_destroy call
  [SCSI] fusion - bump version
  [SCSI] fusion - expander hotplug suport in mptsas module
  [SCSI] fusion - exposing raid components in mptsas
  [SCSI] fusion - memory leak, and initializing fields
  [SCSI] fusion - exclosure misspelled
  [SCSI] fusion - cleanup mptsas event handling functions
  [SCSI] fusion - removing target_id/bus_id from the VirtDevice structure
  [SCSI] fusion - static fix's
  [SCSI] fusion - move some debug firmware event debug msgs to verbose level
  [SCSI] fusion - loginfo header update
  [SCSI] add scsi_reprobe_device
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix extended timeout handling
  ...
2006-03-22 10:47:24 -08:00
James Morris
7cae7e26f2 [PATCH] SELinux: add slab cache for inode security struct
Add a slab cache for the SELinux inode security struct, one of which is
allocated for every inode instantiated by the system.

The memory savings are considerable.

On 64-bit, instead of the size-128 cache, we have a slab object of 96
bytes, saving 32 bytes per object.  After booting, I see about 4000 of
these and then about 17,000 after a kernel compile.  With this patch, we
save around 530KB of kernel memory in the latter case.  On 32-bit, the
savings are about half of this.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:07 -08:00
James Morris
cf01efd098 [PATCH] SELinux: cleanup stray variable in selinux_inode_init_security()
Remove an unneded pointer variable in selinux_inode_init_security().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:07 -08:00
James Morris
edb20fb5be [PATCH] SELinux: fix hard link count for selinuxfs root directory
A further fix is needed for selinuxfs link count management, to ensure that
the count is correct for the parent directory when a subdirectory is
created.  This is only required for the root directory currently, but the
code has been updated for the general case.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:07 -08:00
James Morris
d6aafa6535 [PATCH] selinuxfs cleanups: sel_make_avc_files
Fix copy & paste error in sel_make_avc_files(), removing a supurious call to
d_genocide() in the error path.  All of this will be cleaned up by
kill_litter_super().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:07 -08:00
James Morris
253a8b1db1 [PATCH] selinuxfs cleanups: sel_make_bools
Remove the call to sel_make_bools() from sel_fill_super(), as policy needs to
be loaded before the boolean files can be created.  Policy will never be
loaded during sel_fill_super() as selinuxfs is kernel mounted during init and
the only means to load policy is via selinuxfs.

Also, the call to d_genocide() on the error path of sel_make_bools() is
incorrect and replaced with sel_remove_bools().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:07 -08:00
James Morris
161ce45a8a [PATCH] selinuxfs cleanups: sel_fill_super exit path
Unify the error path of sel_fill_super() so that all errors pass through the
same point and generate an error message.  Also, removes a spurious dput() in
the error path which breaks the refcounting for the filesystem
(litter_kill_super() will correctly clean things up itself on error).

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:07 -08:00
James Morris
cde174a885 [PATCH] selinuxfs cleanups: use sel_make_dir()
Use existing sel_make_dir() helper to create booleans directory rather than
duplicating the logic.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:07 -08:00
James Morris
40e906f822 [PATCH] selinuxfs cleanups: fix hard link count
Fix the hard link count for selinuxfs directories, which are currently one
short.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:07 -08:00
Stephen Smalley
68bdcf28a8 [PATCH] selinux: simplify sel_read_bool
Simplify sel_read_bool to use the simple_read_from_buffer helper, like the
other selinuxfs functions.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:07 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
bb0030797f [PATCH] sem2mutex: security/
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
Stephen Smalley
8aad38752e [PATCH] selinux: Disable automatic labeling of new inodes when no policy is loaded
This patch disables the automatic labeling of new inodes on disk
when no policy is loaded.

Discussion is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180296

In short, we're changing the behavior so that when no policy is loaded,
SELinux does not label files at all.  Currently it does add an 'unlabeled'
label in this case, which we've found causes problems later.

SELinux always maintains a safe internal label if there is none, so with this
patch, we just stick with that and wait until a policy is loaded before adding
a persistent label on disk.

The effect is simply that if you boot with SELinux enabled but no policy
loaded and create a file in that state, SELinux won't try to set a security
extended attribute on the new inode on the disk.  This is the only sane
behavior for SELinux in that state, as it cannot determine the right label to
assign in the absence of a policy.  That state usually doesn't occur, but the
rawhide installer seemed to be misbehaving temporarily so it happened to show
up on a test install.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
b20a35035f [PATCH] page migration reorg
Centralize the page migration functions in anticipation of additional
tinkering.  Creates a new file mm/migrate.c

1. Extract buffer_migrate_page() from fs/buffer.c

2. Extract central migration code from vmscan.c

3. Extract some components from mempolicy.c

4. Export pageout() and remove_from_swap() from vmscan.c

5. Make it possible to configure NUMA systems without page migration
   and non-NUMA systems with page migration.

I had to so some #ifdeffing in mempolicy.c that may need a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
Paul Jackson
442295c94b [PATCH] mm: slab cache interleave rotor fix
The alien cache rotor in mm/slab.c assumes that the first online node is
node 0.  Eventually for some archs, especially with hotplug, this will no
longer be true.

Fix the interleave rotor to handle the general case of node numbering.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
Paul Jackson
fdb7cc5908 [PATCH] mm: hugetlb alloc_fresh_huge_page bogus node loop fix
Fix bogus node loop in hugetlb.c alloc_fresh_huge_page(), which was
assuming that nodes are numbered contiguously from 0 to num_online_nodes().
Once the hotplug folks get this far, that will be false.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
Akinobu Mita
9b65ef59d4 [PATCH] fix swap cluster offset
When we've allocated SWAPFILE_CLUSTER pages, ->cluster_next should be the
first index of swap cluster.  But current code probably sets it wrong offset.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
879336c393 [PATCH] drain_node_pages: interrupt latency reduction / optimization
1. Only disable interrupts if there is actually something to free

2. Only dirty the pcp cacheline if we actually freed something.

3. Disable interrupts for each single pcp and not for cleaning
  all the pcps in all zones of a node.

drain_node_pages is called every 2 seconds from cache_reap. This
fix should avoid most disabling of interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
b18e7e654d [PATCH] slab: fix drain_array() so that it works correctly with the shared_array
The list_lock also protects the shared array and we call drain_array() with
the shared array.  Therefore we cannot go as far as I wanted to but have to
take the lock in a way so that it also protects the array_cache in
drain_pages.

(Note: maybe we should make the array_cache locking more consistent?  I.e.
always take the array cache lock for shared arrays and disable interrupts
for the per cpu arrays?)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
1b55253a7f [PATCH] slab: remove drain_array_locked
Remove drain_array_locked and use that opportunity to limit the time the l3
lock is taken further.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:05 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
aab2207cf8 [PATCH] slab: make drain_array more universal by adding more parameters
And a parameter to drain_array to control the freeing of all objects and
then use drain_array() to replace instances of drain_array_locked with
drain_array.  Doing so will avoid taking locks in those locations if the
arrays are empty.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:05 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
35386e3b0f [PATCH] slab: cache_reap(): further reduction in interrupt holdoff
cache_reap takes the l3->list_lock (disabling interrupts) unconditionally
and then does a few checks and maybe does some cleanup.  This patch makes
cache_reap() only take the lock if there is work to do and then the lock is
taken and released for each cleaning action.

The checking of when to do the next reaping is done without any locking and
becomes racy.  Should not matter since reaping can also be skipped if the
slab mutex cannot be acquired.

The same is true for the touched processing.  If we get this wrong once in
awhile then we will mistakenly clean or not clean the shared cache.  This
will impact performance slightly.

Note that the additional drain_array() function introduced here will fall
out in a subsequent patch since array cleaning will now be very similar
from all callers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:05 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
248a0301e7 [PATCH] mm: make shrink_all_memory try harder
Make shrink_all_memory() repeat the attempts to free more memory if there
seems to be no pages to free.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:05 -08:00
Chen, Kenneth W
d5d4b0aa4e [PATCH] optimize follow_hugetlb_page
follow_hugetlb_page() walks a range of user virtual address and then fills
in list of struct page * into an array that is passed from the argument
list.  It also gets a reference count via get_page().  For compound page,
get_page() actually traverse back to head page via page_private() macro and
then adds a reference count to the head page.  Since we are doing a virt to
pte look up, kernel already has a struct page pointer into the head page.
So instead of traverse into the small unit page struct and then follow a
link back to the head page, optimize that with incrementing the reference
count directly on the head page.

The benefit is that we don't take a cache miss on accessing page struct for
the corresponding user address and more importantly, not to pollute the
cache with a "not very useful" round trip of pointer chasing.  This adds a
moderate performance gain on an I/O intensive database transaction
workload.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:04 -08:00