lcm() was defined to take integer-sized arguments. The supplied
arguments are multiplied, however, causing us to overflow given
sufficiently large input. That in turn led to incorrect optimal I/O
size reporting in some cases (RAID over RAID).
Switch lcm() over to unsigned long similar to gcd() and move the
function from blk-settings.c to lib.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This reverts commit a069c266ae.
It turns ou that not only was it missing a case (XFS) that needed it,
but perhaps more importantly, people sometimes want to enable new
modules that they hadn't had enabled before, and if such a module uses
list_sort(), it can't easily be inserted any more.
So rather than add a "select LIST_SORT" to the XFS case, just leave it
compiled in. It's not all _that_ big, after all, and the inconvenience
isn't worth it.
Requested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds separate I/O and memory specs, so we don't have to change the
field width in a shared spec, which then lets us make all the specs const
and static, since they never change.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add clues about what the SMALL and SPECIAL flags do.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reducing the size of struct printf_spec is a good thing because multiple
instances are commonly passed on stack.
It's possible for type to be u8 and field_width to be s8, but this is
likely small enough for now.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joern/logfs:
[LogFS] Change magic number
[LogFS] Remove h_version field
[LogFS] Check feature flags
[LogFS] Only write journal if dirty
[LogFS] Fix bdev erases
[LogFS] Silence gcc
[LogFS] Prevent 64bit divisions in hash_index
[LogFS] Plug memory leak on error paths
[LogFS] Add MAINTAINERS entry
[LogFS] add new flash file system
Fixed up trivial conflict in lib/Kconfig, and a semantic conflict in
fs/logfs/inode.c introduced by write_inode() being changed to use
writeback_control' by commit a9185b41a4
("pass writeback_control to ->write_inode")
The function name must be followed by a space, hypen, space, and a short
description.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Build list_sort() only for configs that need it -- those that don't save
~581 bytes (i386).
Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
XFS and UBIFS can pass long lists to list_sort(); this alternative
implementation scales better, reaching ~3x performance gain when list
length exceeds the L2 cache size.
Stand-alone program timings were run on a Core 2 duo L1=32KB L2=4MB,
gcc-4.4, with flags extracted from an Ubuntu kernel build. Object size is
581 bytes compared to 455 for Mark J. Roberts' code.
Worst case for either implementation is a list length just over a power of
two, and to roughly the same degree, so here are timing results for a
range of 2^N+1 lengths. List elements were 16 bytes each including malloc
overhead; initial order was random.
time (msec)
Tatham-Roberts
| generic-Mullis-v2
loop_count length | | ratio
4000000 2 206 294 1.427
2000000 3 176 227 1.289
1000000 5 199 172 0.864
500000 9 235 178 0.757
250000 17 243 182 0.748
125000 33 261 196 0.750
62500 65 277 209 0.754
31250 129 292 219 0.75
15625 257 317 235 0.741
7812 513 340 252 0.741
3906 1025 362 267 0.737
1953 2049 388 283 0.729 ~ L1 size
976 4097 556 323 0.580
488 8193 678 361 0.532
244 16385 773 395 0.510
122 32769 844 418 0.495
61 65537 917 454 0.495
30 131073 1128 543 0.481
15 262145 2355 869 0.369 ~ L2 size
7 524289 5597 1714 0.306
3 1048577 6218 2022 0.325
Mark's code does not actually implement the usual or generic mergesort,
but rather a variant from Simon Tatham described here:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/algorithms/listsort.html
Simon's algorithm performs O(log N) passes over the entire input list,
doing merges of sublists that double in size on each pass. The generic
algorithm instead merges pairs of equal length lists as early as possible,
in recursive order. For either algorithm, the elements that extend the
list beyond power-of-two length are a special case, handled as nearly as
possible as a "rounding-up" to a full POT.
Some intuition for the locality of reference implications of merge order
may be gotten by watching this animation:
http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/merge-sort
Simon's algorithm requires only O(1) extra space rather than the generic
algorithm's O(log N), but in my non-recursive implementation the actual
O(log N) data is merely a vector of ~20 pointers, which I've put on the
stack.
Long-running list_sort() calls: If the list passed in may be long, or the
client's cmp() callback function is slow, the client's cmp() may
periodically invoke cond_resched() to voluntarily yield the CPU. All
inner loops of list_sort() call back to cmp().
Stability of the sort: distinct elements that compare equal emerge from
the sort in the same order as with Mark's code, for simple test cases. A
boot-time test is provided to verify this and other correctness
requirements.
A kernel that uses drm.ko appears to run normally with this change; I have
no suitable hardware to similarly test the use by UBIFS.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: style tweaks, fix comment, make list_sort_test __init]
Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add adds a debugfs interface and additional failure modes to LKDTM to
provide similar functionality to the provoke-crash driver submitted here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/371208/
Crashes can now be induced either through module parameters (as before)
or through the debugfs interface as in provoke-crash.
The patch also provides a new "direct" interface, where KPROBES are not
used, i.e., the crash is invoked directly upon write to the debugfs
file. When built without KPROBES configured, only this mode is available.
Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Cc: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use the same log level for printk's in show_mem(), so that those messages
can be shown completely when using log level 6.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (44 commits)
rcu: Fix accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
rcu: Make non-RCU_PROVE_LOCKING rcu_read_lock_sched_held() understand boot
rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU
rcu: Export rcu_scheduler_active
rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account
rcu: Make lockdep_rcu_dereference() message less alarmist
sched, cgroups: Fix module export
rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information
rcu: Fix rcutorture mod_timer argument to delay one jiffy
rcu: Fix deadlock in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU stall detection
rcu: Convert to raw_spinlocks
rcu: Stop overflowing signed integers
rcu: Use canonical URL for Mathieu's dissertation
rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU
rcu: Fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation
rcu: Documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
security: Apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses
idr: Apply lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() uses
radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree
vfs: Abstract rcu_dereference_check for files-fdtable use
...
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (88 commits)
powerpc: Fix lwsync feature fixup vs. modules on 64-bit
powerpc: Convert pmc_owner_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert die.lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert tlbivax_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert mpic locks to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert pmac_pic_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert big_irq_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert feature_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert i8259_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert beat_htab_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert confirm_error_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert ipic_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert native_tlbie_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert beatic_irq_mask_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert nv_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc: Convert context_lock to raw_spinlock
powerpc/85xx: Add NOR, LEDs and PIB support for MPC8568E-MDS boards
powerpc/86xx: Enable VME driver on the GE SBC610
powerpc/86xx: Enable VME driver on the GE PPC9A
powerpc/86xx: Add MSI section to GE PPC9A DTS
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (187 commits)
sh: remove dead LED code for migo-r and ms7724se
sh: ecovec build fix for CONFIG_I2C=n
sh: ecovec r-standby support
sh: ms7724se r-standby support
sh: SH-Mobile R-standby register save/restore
clocksource: Fix up a registration/IRQ race in the sh drivers.
sh: ms7724: modify scan_timing for KEYSC
sh: ms7724: Add sh_sir support
sh: mach-ecovec24: Add sh_sir support
sh: wire up SET/GET_UNALIGN_CTL.
sh: allow alignment fault mode to be configured at kernel boot.
sh: sh7724: Update FSI/SPU2 clock
sh: always enable sh7724 vpu_clk and set to 166MHz on Ecovec
sh: add sh7724 kick callback to clk_div4_table
sh: introduce struct clk_div4_table
sh: clock-cpg div4 set_rate() shift fix
sh: Turn on speculative return for SH7785 and SH7786
sh: Merge legacy and dynamic PMB modes.
sh: Use uncached I/O helpers in PMB setup.
sh: Provide uncached I/O helpers.
...
Inspection is proving insufficient to catch all RCU misuses,
which is understandable given that rcu_dereference() might be
protected by any of four different flavors of RCU (RCU, RCU-bh,
RCU-sched, and SRCU), and might also/instead be protected by any
of a number of locking primitives. It is therefore time to
enlist the aid of lockdep.
This set of patches is inspired by earlier work by Peter
Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner, and takes the following approach:
o Set up separate lockdep classes for RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched.
o Set up separate lockdep classes for each instance of SRCU.
o Create primitives that check for being in an RCU read-side
critical section. These return exact answers if lockdep is
fully enabled, but if unsure, report being in an RCU read-side
critical section. (We want to avoid false positives!)
The primitives are:
For RCU: rcu_read_lock_held(void)
For RCU-bh: rcu_read_lock_bh_held(void)
For RCU-sched: rcu_read_lock_sched_held(void)
For SRCU: srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)
o Add rcu_dereference_check(), which takes a second argument
in which one places a boolean expression based on the above
primitives and/or lockdep_is_held().
o A new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, enables
rcu_dereference_check(). This depends on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING,
and should be quite helpful during the transition period while
CONFIG_PROVE_RCU-unaware patches are in flight.
The existing rcu_dereference() primitive does no checking, but
upcoming patches will change that.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is retry of reverted 859ddf0974
("idr: fix a critical misallocation bug") which contained two bugs.
* pa[idp->layers] should be cleared even if it's not used by
sub_alloc() because it's used by mark idr_mark_full().
* The original condition check also assigned pa[l] to p which the new
code didn't do thus leaving p pointing at the wrong layer.
Both problems have been fixed and the idr code has received good amount
testing using userland testing setup where simple bitmap allocator is
run parallel to verify the result of idr allocation.
The bug this patch fixes is caused by sub_alloc() optimization path
bypassing out-of-room condition check and restarting allocation loop
with starting value higher than maximum allowed value. For detailed
description, please read commit message of 859ddf09.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Based-on-patch-from: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 859ddf0974 tried to fix
misallocation bug but broke full bit marking by not clearing
pa[idp->layers] and also is causing X failures due to lookup failure
in drm code. The cause of the latter hasn't been found yet. Revert
the fix for now.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We can free memory allocated with lmb_alloc() by removing it from the
list of reserved LMBs. Rework lmb_remove() to allow that possibility
and add lmb_free() which exploits it.
BenH: Removed some useless parenthesis
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Eric Paris located a bug in idr. With IDR_BITS of 6, it grows to three
layers when id 4096 is first allocated. When that happens, idr wraps
incorrectly and searches the idr array ignoring the high bits. The
following test code from Eric demonstrates the bug nicely.
#include <linux/idr.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
static DEFINE_IDR(test_idr);
int init_module(void)
{
int ret, forty95, forty96;
void *addr;
/* add 2 entries both with 4095 as the start address */
again1:
if (!idr_pre_get(&test_idr, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;
ret = idr_get_new_above(&test_idr, (void *)4095, 4095, &forty95);
if (ret) {
if (ret == -EAGAIN)
goto again1;
return ret;
}
if (forty95 != 4095)
printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, forty95=%d\n", forty95);
again2:
if (!idr_pre_get(&test_idr, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;
ret = idr_get_new_above(&test_idr, (void *)4096, 4095, &forty96);
if (ret) {
if (ret == -EAGAIN)
goto again2;
return ret;
}
if (forty96 != 4096)
printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, forty96=%d\n", forty96);
/* try to find the 2 entries, noticing that 4096 broke */
addr = idr_find(&test_idr, forty95);
if ((int)addr != forty95)
printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, after find forty95=%d addr=%d\n", forty95, (int)addr);
addr = idr_find(&test_idr, forty96);
if ((int)addr != forty96)
printk(KERN_ERR "hmmm, after find forty96=%d addr=%d\n", forty96, (int)addr);
/* really weird, the entry which should be at 4096 is actually at 0!! */
addr = idr_find(&test_idr, 0);
if ((int)addr)
printk(KERN_ERR "found an entry at id=0 for addr=%d\n", (int)addr);
idr_remove(&test_idr, forty95);
idr_remove(&test_idr, forty96);
return 0;
}
void cleanup_module(void)
{
}
MODULE_AUTHOR("Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Simple idr test");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
This happens because when sub_alloc() back tracks it doesn't always do it
step-by-step while the over-the-limit detection assumes step-by-step
backtracking. The logic in sub_alloc() looks like the following.
restart:
clear pa[top level + 1] for end cond detection
l = top level
while (true) {
search for empty slot at this level
if (not found) {
push id to the next possible value
l++
A: if (pa[l] is clear)
failed, return asking caller to grow the tree
if (going up 1 level gives more slots to search)
continue the while loop above with the incremented l
else
C: goto restart
}
adjust id accordingly to the found slot
if (l == 0)
return found id;
create lower level if not there yet
record pa[l] and l--
}
Test A is the fail exit condition but this assumes that failure is
propagated upwared one level at a time but the B optimization path breaks
the assumption and restarts the whole thing with a start value which is
above the possible limit with the current layers. sub_alloc() assumes the
start id value is inside the limit when called and test A is the only exit
condition check, so it ends up searching for empty slot while ignoring
high set bit.
So, for 4095->4096 test, level0 search fails but pa[1] contains a valid
pointer. However, going up 1 level wouldn't give any more empty slot so
it takes C and when the whole thing restarts nobody notices the high bit
set beyond the top level.
This patch fixes the bug by changing the fail exit condition check to full
id limit check.
Based-on-patch-from: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
warning: symbol 'filter_fops' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing/filters: Add comment for match callbacks
tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FULL filter matching for PTR_STRING
tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_MIDDLE_ONLY filter matching
lib: Introduce strnstr()
tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY filter matching
tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FRONT_ONLY filter matching
ftrace: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY function filter
tracing/x86: Derive arch from bits argument in recordmcount.pl
ring-buffer: Add rb_list_head() wrapper around new reader page next field
ring-buffer: Wrap a list.next reference with rb_list_head()
It differs strstr() in that it limits the length to be searched
in the first string.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8743.6030805@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This should allow the removal of the #defines and uses
of NIPQUAD and NIPQUAD_FMT
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit ac4c2a3bbe broke the build
of all powerpc boot wrappers.
It attempts to add an include of autoconf.h but used the wrong
path for it. It also adds -D__KERNEL__ to our boot wrapper, both
things that we pretty much didn't do on purpose so far.
We want our boot wrapper to remain independent enough of the kernel
for various reasons, one of them being that you can "wrap" an existing
kernel at distro install time which allows to ship one kernel image
and a set of boot wrappers for different platforms, the wrappers
don't have to be built out of the same kernel build tree.
It's also incorrect to do what the patch does in our boot environment
since we may not have a proper alignment exception handler which means
we may not be able to fixup the few cases where an unaligned access will
need SW emulation (depends on the core variant, could be when crossing
page or segment boundaries for example).
This patch fixes it by putting the old code back in and using the
new "fancy" variant only when CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
is set, which happens not to be set on powerpc since we don't include
autoconf.h. It also reverts the changes to our boot wrapper Makefile.
This means that x86 should, afaik, keep the optimisations since its
boot wrapper does include autoconf.h and define __KERNEL__ (though I
doubt they make that much different outside of slow embedded processors).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are two copies of list_sort() in the tree already, one in the DRM
code, another in ubifs. Now XFS needs this as well. Create a generic
list_sort() function from the ubifs version and convert existing users
to it so we don't end up with yet another copy in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Reported-by: Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/rational.c:62: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
lib/rational.c:62: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL'
lib/rational.c:62: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch series adds generic support for creating and extracting
LZO-compressed kernel images, as well as support for using such images on
the x86 and ARM architectures, and support for creating and using
LZO-compressed initrd and initramfs images.
Russell King said:
: Testing on a Cortex A9 model:
: - lzo decompressor is 65% of the time gzip takes to decompress a kernel
: - lzo kernel is 9% larger than a gzip kernel
:
: which I'm happy to say confirms your figures when comparing the two.
:
: However, when comparing your new gzip code to the old gzip code:
: - new is 99% of the size of the old code
: - new takes 42% of the time to decompress than the old code
:
: What this means is that for a proper comparison, the results get even better:
: - lzo is 7.5% larger than the old gzip'd kernel image
: - lzo takes 28% of the time that the old gzip code took
:
: So the expense seems definitely worth the effort. The only reason I
: can think of ever using gzip would be if you needed the additional
: compression (eg, because you have limited flash to store the image.)
:
: I would argue that the default for ARM should therefore be LZO.
This patch:
The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at
extraction. Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on:
Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo
gzip 1.61Mo 0.72s
lzo 1.75Mo 0.48s
So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's
much faster to extract, at least in that case.
This part contains:
- Makefile routine to support lzo compression
- Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in
compressed kernels
- wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one
block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here
- config dialog for kernel compression
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
JFFS2 uses lesser compression ratio and inflate always ends up in "copy
direct from output" case.
This patch tries to optimize the direct copy procedure. Uses
get_unaligned() but only in one place.
The copy loop just above this one can also use this optimization, but I
havn't done so as I have not tested if it is a win there too.
On my MPC8321 this is about 17% faster on my JFFS2 root FS than the
original.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no need to perform full BIDIR sync (copying the buffers in case
of swiotlb and similar schemes) if we know that the owner (CPU or device)
hasn't altered the data.
Addresses the false-positive reported at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14169
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Martin K. Petersen
Linus Torvalds
Bjorn Helgaas
Joe Perches
Joakim Tjernlund
Akinobu Mita
Ben Hutchings
Don Mullis
André Goddard Rosa
Simon Kagstrom
Amerigo Wang
David S. Miller
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Paul E. McKenney
Ingo Molnar
Tejun Heo
Michael Ellerman
Paul Mundt
Chris Smith
Joerg Roedel
Thiago Farina
Li Zefan
Dave Chinner
Uwe Kleine-König
Sascha Hauer
Albin Tonnerre
Krzysztof Halasa