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Atsushi Nemoto 3418ff7611 [PATCH] RTC: rtc-dev tweak for 64-bit kernel
Make rtc-dev work well on 64-bit platforms with 32-bit userland.  On those
platforms, users might try to read 32-bit integer value.  This patch make
rtc-dev's read() work well for both "int" and "long" size.  This tweak is came
from genrtc driver.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:46 -07:00
Heiko Carstens b44df334a7 [PATCH] s390: bug in setup_rt_frame
Consider return value of __put_user() when setting up a signal frame
instead of ignoring it.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:46 -07:00
Heiko Carstens 022e4fc0fb [PATCH] s390: fix ipd handling
As pointed out by Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> MAX_IPD_TIME is by
a factor of ten too small.  Since this means that we allow ten times more
IPDs in the intended time frame this could result in a cpu check stop of a
physical cpu.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:46 -07:00
Jeremy Kerr 8261aa6009 [PATCH] powerpc: cell: Add numa id to struct spu
Add an nid member to the spu structure, and store the numa id of the spu there
on creation.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:46 -07:00
Jeremy Kerr 953039c8df [PATCH] powerpc: Allow devices to register with numa topology
Change of_node_to_nid() to traverse the device tree, looking for a numa id.
Cell uses this to assign ids to SPUs, which are children of the CPU node.
Existing users of of_node_to_nid() are altered to use of_node_to_nid_single(),
which doesn't do the traversal.

Export an attach_sysdev_to_node() function, allowing system devices (eg.
SPUs) to link themselves into the numa topology in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:46 -07:00
Joel H Schopp bed120c64e [PATCH] spufs: fix for CONFIG_NUMA
Based on an older patch from  Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>

We need to have a mem_map for high addresses in order to make fops->no_page
work on spufs mem and register files.  So far, we have used the
memory_present() function during early bootup, but that did not work when
CONFIG_NUMA was enabled.

We now use the __add_pages() function to add the mem_map when loading the
spufs module, which is a lot nicer.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:46 -07:00
Mike Kravetz 46a66eecdf [PATCH] sparsemem interaction with memory add bug fixes
This patch fixes two bugs with the way sparsemem interacts with memory add.
They are:

- memory leak if memmap for section already exists

- calling alloc_bootmem_node() after boot

These bugs were discovered and a first cut at the fixes were provided by
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> and Joel Schopp <jschopp@us.ibm.com>.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:46 -07:00
Pat Gefre 2c43630fb0 [PATCH] Altix: correct ioc3 port order
Currently loading the ioc3 as a module will cause the ports to be numbered
in reverse order.  This mod maintains the proper order of cards for port
numbering.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:45 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 4c28f81193 [PATCH] page migration: Fix fallback behavior for dirty pages
Currently we check PageDirty() in order to make the decision to swap out
the page.  However, the dirty information may be only be contained in the
ptes pointing to the page.  We need to first unmap the ptes before checking
for PageDirty().  If unmap is successful then the page count of the page
will also be decreased so that pageout() works properly.

This is a fix necessary for 2.6.17.  Without this fix we may migrate dirty
pages for filesystems without migration functions.  Filesystems may keep
pointers to dirty pages.  Migration of dirty pages can result in the
filesystem keeping pointers to freed pages.

Unmapping is currently not be separated out from removing all the
references to a page and moving the mapping.  Therefore try_to_unmap will
be called again in migrate_page() if the writeout is successful.  However,
it wont do anything since the ptes are already removed.

The coming updates to the page migration code will restructure the code
so that this is no longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:45 -07:00
Jeff Dike a4b741e380 [PATCH] uml: uml-makefile-nicer uses SYMLINK incorrectly
Blaisorblade's uml-makefile-nicer makes a V=0 build say SYMLINK where
what's happening is really a LINK.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Acked-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:45 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso cead61a671 [PATCH] uml: export symbols added by GCC hardened
GCC hardened introduces additional symbol refererences (for the canary and
friends), also in modules - add weak export_symbols for them.  We already
tested that the weak declaration creates no problem on both GCC's providing
the function definition and on GCC's which don't provide it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:45 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 7b12b91379 [PATCH] uml: cleanup unprofile expression and build infrastructure
*) Rather than duplicate in various buggy ways the application of
   CFLAGS_NO_HARDENING and UNPROFILE (which apply to the same files),
   centralize it in Makefile.rules.  UNPROFILE_OBJS mustn't be listed in
   USER_OBJS but are compiled as such.

I've also verified that unprofile didn't work in the current form, because we
set _c_flags directly (using CFLAGS and not USER_CFLAGS, which is wrong),
which is normally used by c_flags, but we also override c_flags for all
USER_OBJS, and there we don't call unprofile.

Instead it only worked for unmap.o, the only one which wasn't a USER_OBJ.

We need to set c_flags (which is not a public Kbuild API) to clear a lot of
compilation flags like -nostdinc which Kbuild forces on everything.

*) Rather than $(CFLAGS_$(notdir $@)), which expands to CFLAGS_anObj.s when
   building "anObj.s", use $(CFLAGS_$(*F).o) which always accesses
   CFLAGS_anObj.o, like done by Kbuild.

*) Make c_flags apply to all targets having the same basename, rather than
   listing .s, .i, .lst and .o, with the use (which I tested) of

	$(USER_OBJS:.o=.%): c_flags = ...

and of

 -      $(obj)/unmap.c: _c_flags = ...
 +      $(obj)/unmap.%: _c_flags = ...

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:45 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 275e6e1ee2 [PATCH] uml: fix compilation and execution with hardened GCC
To make some half-assembly stubs compile, disable various "hardened" GCC
features:

*) we can't make it build PIC code as we need %ebx to do syscalls and GCC
   wants it free for PIC

*) we can't leave stack protection as the stub is moved (not relocated!) in
   memory so the RIP-relative access to the canary tries reading from an
   unmapped address and causes a segfault, since we move the stub of various
   megabytes (the exact amount will be decided at runtime) away from the
   link-time address.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:45 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso cb8aa3d29b [PATCH] uml: use Kbuild tracking for all files and fix compilation output
Move the build of user-offsets to arch/um/sys-$(SUBARCH), where it's located.
So we can also build it via Kbuild with its dependency tracking rather than by
hand.  While hacking here, fix also a lot of little cosmetic things.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:45 -07:00
Mattia Dongili cb98cdcd0d [PATCH] uml: search from uml_net in a more reasonable PATH
Append /usr/lib/uml to the existing PATH environment variable to let execvp()
search uml_net in FHS compliant locations.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:45 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso b15fb6b157 [PATCH] uml: fix patch mismerge
I sent a patch, it was applied as cda402b283,
then it was applied again as 181ae4005d by
mistake.  But while the 1st time it modified (correctly) cow_header_v3, the
2nd it modified cow_header_v3_broken.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:44 -07:00
Jeff Dike 2ace87b950 [PATCH] uml: error handling fixes
Blairsorblade noticed some confusion between our use of a system
call's return value and errno.  This patch fixes a number of related
bugs -
	using errno instead of a return value
	using a return value instead of errno
	forgetting to negate a error return to get a positive error code

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:44 -07:00
Jeff Dike 347b3dc2fa [PATCH] uml: update defconfig
Bring defconfig up to date.

Also disable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC by default.  By performing synchronous
I/O to the host, it slows things down, only protects against host crashes, and
can make a UML appear to hang while it waits for the host's disk.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:44 -07:00
Jeff Dike e3104f50d8 [PATCH] uml: clean up after MADVISE_REMOVE
The MADVISE_REMOVE-checking code didn't clean up after itself.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:44 -07:00
Jesper Juhl 191ef966ac [PATCH] uml: remove NULL checks and add some CodingStyle
Remove redundant NULL checks before [kv]free + small CodingStyle cleanup for
arch/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:44 -07:00
Joris van Rantwijk 893bb96a29 [PATCH] uml: skas0 support for 2G/2G hosts
A quick hack to allow skas0 mode to run on 2G/2G hosts.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:43 -07:00
Victor V. Vengerov c39e50b4ba [PATCH] uml: fix iomem list traversal
We need to walk the region list properly.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:43 -07:00
Andrew Morton f3a19cb45f [PATCH] silence initcall warnings
Suppress the initcall-return-value warnings unless initcall_debug was
specified.

They do find bugs, but they're extremely small ones and as Andi points out,
people get distressed.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:43 -07:00
Andi Kleen 42e4c8585f [PATCH] i386: Remove apic= warning
The apic= option can be used to set the APIC driver too.  When that is done
this code would always produce bogus warnings.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:43 -07:00
Andi Kleen 5871aa6d5a [PATCH] i386: Fix overflow in e820_all_mapped
The 32bit version of e820_all_mapped() needs to use u64 to avoid overflows on
PAE systems.  Pointed out by Jan Beulich

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:43 -07:00
Andi Kleen 32828546b3 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix ACPI disabled LAPIC handling mismerge
The patch I submitted earlier to fix disabled LAPIC handling in ACPI was
mismerged for some reason I still don't quite understand.  Parts of it was
applied to the wrong function.

This patch fixes it up.

Cc: <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:43 -07:00
Andi Kleen d261020229 [PATCH] x86_64: Add compat_sys_vmsplice and use it in x86-64
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:43 -07:00
NeilBrown 5e7dd2ab6b [PATCH] md: Fix 'rdev->nr_pending' count when retrying barrier requests
When retrying a failed BIO_RW_BARRIER request, we need to keep the reference
in ->nr_pending over the whole retry.  Currently, we only hold the reference
if the failed request is the *last* one to finish - which is silly, because it
would normally be the first to finish.

So move the rdev_dec_pending call up into the didn't-fail branch.  As the rdev
isn't used in the later code, calling rdev_dec_pending earlier doesn't hurt.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:42 -07:00
NeilBrown 62de608da0 [PATCH] md: Improve detection of lack of barrier support in raid1
Move the test for 'do barrier work' down a bit so that if the first write to a
raid1 is a BIO_RW_BARRIER write, the checking done by superblock writes will
cause the right thing to happen.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:42 -07:00
NeilBrown bea2771871 [PATCH] md: Change ENOTSUPP to EOPNOTSUPP
Because that is what you get if a BIO_RW_BARRIER isn't supported!

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:42 -07:00
NeilBrown e0a33270ed [PATCH] md: Fixed refcounting/locking when attempting read error correction in raid10
We need to hold a reference to rdevs while reading and writing to attempt to
correct read errors.  This reference must be taken under an rcu lock.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:42 -07:00
NeilBrown df30d0f4ca [PATCH] md: Avoid oops when attempting to fix read errors on raid10
We should add to the counter for the rdev *after* checking if the rdev is
NULL!!!

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:42 -07:00
Bastian Blank 235acec78e [PATCH] s390: make qeth buildable
Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01 18:17:42 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan f6f0413e10 IB/ipath: tidy up white space in a few files
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:23 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan d562a5ae69 IB/ipath: fix label name in interrupt handler
Names that are the opposite of their intended meanings are not so helpful.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:22 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan ae15f540cc IB/ipath: improve sparse annotation
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:21 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan 9b2017f1e1 IB/ipath: simplify IB timer usage
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:21 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan 76f0dd141b IB/ipath: simplify RC send posting
Remove some unnecessarily complicated tests.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:20 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan c71c30dcba IB/ipath: prevent hardware from being accessed during reset
The reset code now turns off the PRESENT flag during a reset, so that
other code won't attempt to access a device that's in mid-reset.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:16 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan fccea66364 IB/ipath: fix verbs registration
Remember when the verbs layer unregisters from the lower-level code.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:15 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan 52e7fad825 IB/ipath: change handling of PIO buffers
Different ipath hardware types have different numbers of buffers
available, so we decide on the counts ourselves unless we are specifically
overridden with a module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:14 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan 23e86a4584 IB/ipath: iterate over correct number of ports during reset
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:13 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan 68dd43a162 IB/ipath: set up 32-bit DMA mask if 64-bit setup fails
Some systems do not set up 64-bit maps on systems with 2GB or less of
memory installed, so we have to fall back to trying a 32-bit setup.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:12 -07:00
Bryan O'Sullivan 755e4ca4a9 IB/ipath: fix race with exposing reset file
We were accidentally exposing the "reset" sysfs file more than once
per device.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-05-01 12:14:11 -07:00
Jens Axboe 7afa6fd037 [PATCH] vmsplice: allow user to pass in gift pages
If SPLICE_F_GIFT is set, the user is basically giving this pages away to
the kernel. That means we can steal them for eg page cache uses instead
of copying it.

The data must be properly page aligned and also a multiple of the page size
in length.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01 20:02:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe f6762b7ad8 [PATCH] pipe: enable atomic copying of pipe data to/from user space
The pipe ->map() method uses kmap() to virtually map the pages, which
is both slow and has known scalability issues on SMP. This patch enables
atomic copying of pipe pages, by pre-faulting data and using kmap_atomic()
instead.

lmbench bw_pipe and lat_pipe measurements agree this is a Good Thing. Here
are results from that on a UP machine with highmem (1.5GiB of RAM), running
first a UP kernel, SMP kernel, and SMP kernel patched.

Vanilla-UP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1622.28 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1610.59 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1608.30 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 7.3275 microseconds
Pipe latency: 7.2995 microseconds
Pipe latency: 7.3097 microseconds

Vanilla-SMP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1382.19 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1317.27 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1355.61 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 9.6402 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.6696 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.6153 microseconds

Patched-SMP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1578.70 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1579.95 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1578.63 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 9.1654 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.2266 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.1527 microseconds

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01 20:02:05 +02:00
Jens Axboe e27dedd84c [PATCH] splice: call handle_ra_miss() on failure to lookup page
Notify the readahead logic of the missing page. Suggested by
Oleg Nesterov.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01 19:59:54 +02:00
Jens Axboe 7f9c51f0d9 [PATCH] Add ->splice_read/splice_write to def_blk_fops
It can use the generic handlers.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01 19:59:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe f84d751994 [PATCH] pipe: introduce ->pin() buffer operation
The ->map() function is really expensive on highmem machines right now,
since it has to use the slower kmap() instead of kmap_atomic(). Splice
rarely needs to access the virtual address of a page, so it's a waste
of time doing it.

Introduce ->pin() to take over the responsibility of making sure the
page data is valid. ->map() is then reduced to just kmap(). That way we
can also share a most of the pipe buffer ops between pipe.c and splice.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01 19:59:03 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0568b409c7 [PATCH] splice: fix bugs in pipe_to_file()
Found by Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, fixed by me.

- Only allow full pages to go to the page cache.
- Check page != buf->page instead of using PIPE_BUF_FLAG_STOLEN.
- Remember to clear 'stolen' if add_to_page_cache() fails.

And as a cleanup on that:

- Make the bottom fall-through logic a little less convoluted. Also make
  the steal path hold an extra reference to the page, so we don't have
  to differentiate between stolen and non-stolen at the end.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-05-01 19:50:48 +02:00