while lock-profiling the -rt kernel i noticed weird contention during
mmap-intense workloads, and the tracer showed the following gem, in one
of our MM hotpaths:
threaded-2771 1.... 65us : sys_munmap (sysenter_do_call)
threaded-2771 1.... 66us : profile_munmap (sys_munmap)
threaded-2771 1.... 66us : blocking_notifier_call_chain (profile_munmap)
threaded-2771 1.... 66us : rt_down_read (blocking_notifier_call_chain)
ouch! a global rw-semaphore taken in one of the most performance-
sensitive codepaths of the kernel. And i dont even have oprofile
enabled! All distro kernels have CONFIG_PROFILING enabled, so this
scalability problem affects the majority of Linux users.
The fix is to enhance blocking_notifier_call_chain() to only take the
lock if there appears to be work on the call-chain.
With this patch applied i get nicely saturated system, and much higher
munmap performance, on SMP systems.
And as a bonus this also fixes a similar scalability bottleneck in the
thread-exit codepath: profile_task_exit() ...
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
NetXen: Use pci_register_driver() instead of pci_module_init() in init_module
NetXen: Firmware check modifications
ehea: Fixed possible nullpointer access
ehea: Added logging off associated errors
ehea: Improved logging of permission issues
ehea: New method to determine number of available ports
ehea: Modified initial autoneg state determination
ehea: Fixing firmware queue config issue
ehea: Fixed wrong dereferencation
PHY: Export phy ethtool helpers
modify 3c589_cs to be SMP safe
* 'kill-jffs-prep' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6:
Note that JFFS (v1) is to be deleted, in feature-removal-schedule.txt
A flag was recently added to the elevator code to avoid
performing an unplug when reuests are being re-queued.
The goal of this flag was to avoid a deep recursion that
can occur when re-queueing requests after a SCSI device/host
reset. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/17/254
However, that fix added the flag near the bottom of a case
statement, where an earlier break (in an if statement) could
transport one out of the case, without setting the flag.
This patch sets the flag earlier in the case statement.
I re-discovered the deep recursion recently during testing;
I was told that it was a known problem, and the fix to it was
in the kernel I was testing. Indeed it was ... but it didn't
fix the bug. With the patch below, I no longer see the bug.
Signed-off by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Seems to be some left-over debug code.
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
this patch fills in the portions for ia64 kexec.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: "Zou, Nanhai" <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mohan Kumar suggested making kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz a link to the
latest version. I have done this and this patch updates the documentation
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes a confusion reiserfs has for a long time.
On release file operation reiserfs used to try to pack file data stored in
last incomplete page of some files into metadata blocks. After packing the
page got cleared with clear_page_dirty. It did not take into account that
the page may be mmaped into other process's address space. Recent
replacement for clear_page_dirty cancel_dirty_page found the confusion with
sanity check that page has to be not mapped.
The patch fixes the confusion by making reiserfs avoid tail packing if an
inode was ever mmapped. reiserfs_mmap and reiserfs_file_release are
serialized with mutex in reiserfs specific inode. reiserfs_mmap locks the
mutex and sets a bit in reiserfs specific inode flags.
reiserfs_file_release checks the bit having the mutex locked. If bit is
set - tail packing is avoided. This eliminates a possibility that mmapped
page gets cancel_page_dirty-ed.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently one can specify an arbitrary node mask to mbind that includes
nodes not allowed. If that is done with an interleave policy then we will
go around all the nodes. Those outside of the currently allowed cpuset
will be redirected to the border nodes. Interleave will then create
imbalances at the borders of the cpuset.
This patch restricts the nodes to the currently allowed cpuset.
The RFC for this patch was discussed at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116793842100004&r=1&w=2
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The following patch fixes a few problems with the tlclk driver.
* bug in the select_amcb1_transmit_clock
* racy read sys call
* racy open sys call
* use of add_timer where mod_timer would be better
* change to the timer data parameter use
Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For large size DIO that needs multiple bio, one full page worth of data was
lost at the boundary of bio's maximum sector or segment limits. After a
bio is full and got submitted. The outer while (nbytes) { ... } loop will
allocate a new bio and just march on to index into next page. It just
forgets about the page that bio_add_page() rejected when previous bio is
full. Fix it by put the rejected page back to pvec so we pick it up again
for the next bio.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes the SH rtc driver correctly act on the "enabled" flag when
setting an alarm.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lenehan <lenehan@twibble.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If a page is marked as dirty in the guest pte, set_pte_common() can set the
writable bit on newly-instantiated shadow pte. This optimization avoids
a write fault after the initial read fault.
However, if a write fault instantiates the pte, fix_write_pf() incorrectly
reports the fault as a guest page fault, and the guest oopses on what appears
to be a correctly-mapped page.
Fix is to detect the condition and only report a guest page fault on a user
access to a kernel page.
With the fix, a kvm guest can survive a whole night of running the kernel
hacker's screensaver (make -j9 in a loop).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The various bit string instructions (bts, btc, etc.) fail to adjust the
address correctly if the bit address is beyond BITS_PER_LONG.
This bug creeped in as the emulator originally relied on cr2 to contain the
memory address; however we now decode it from the mod r/m bits, and must
adjust the offset to account for large bit indices.
The patch is rather large because it switches src and dst decoding around, so
that the bit index is available when decoding the memory address.
This fixes workloads like the FC5 installer.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The kvm mmio read path looks like:
1. guest read faults
2. kvm emulates read, calls emulator_read_emulated()
3. fails as a read requires userspace help
4. exit to userspace
5. userspace emulates read, kvm sets vcpu->mmio_read_completed
6. re-enter guest, fault again
7. kvm emulates read, calls emulator_read_emulated()
8. succeeds as vcpu->mmio_read_emulated is set
9. instruction completes and guest is resumed
A problem surfaces if the userspace exit (step 5) also requests an interrupt
injection. In that case, the guest does not re-execute the original
instruction, but the interrupt handler. The next time an mmio read is
exectued (likely for a different address), step 3 will find
vcpu->mmio_read_completed set and return the value read for the original
instruction.
The problem manifested itself in a few annoying ways:
- little squares appear randomly on console when switching virtual terminals
- ne2000 fails under nfs read load
- rtl8139 complains about "pci errors" even though the device model is
incapable of issuing them.
Fix by skipping interrupt injection if an mmio read is pending.
A better fix is to avoid re-entry into the guest, and re-emulating immediately
instead. However that's a bit more complex.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This makes the vmwrite errors on vm shutdown go away.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The paravirt subsystem is still in flux so all exports from it are
definitely internal use only. The APIs around this /will/ change.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sing the praises of `gcc -W'. Would have prevented that blockdev direct-IO
bug.
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit f2802e7f57 and its x86 version
(b7471c6da9) adds nmi_known_cpu() check
while parsing boot options in x86_64 and i386.
With that, "nmi_watchdog=2" stops working for me on Intel Core 2 CPU
based system.
The problem is, setup_nmi_watchdog is called while parsing the boot
option and identify_cpu is not done yet. So, the return value of
nmi_known_cpu() is not valid at this point.
So revert that check. This should not have any adverse effect as the
nmi_known_cpu() check is done again later in enable_lapic_nmi_watchdog().
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The previous patch 'Repair snd-usb-usx2y for usb 2.6.18' assumed
urb->start_frame roll over beyond MAX_INT for both UHCI & OHCI.
This isn't true until now (kernel 2.6.20).
Fix this by only looking at the common between OHCI & UHCI Frame number
range.
This is for mainline and stable kernels >= 2.6.18.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
This will use pci_register_driver() instead of pci_module_init().
Signed-off-by: Amit S. Kale <amitkale@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
This patch is to make the driver work with multiple minor firmware versions
Signed-off-by: Amit S. Kale <amitkale@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Fixed possible nullpointer access in event queue processing
Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Added logging of error events associated with a specific queue pair
Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Disabled dump of hcall regs on some permission issues and
fixed appropriate misleading logmessages
Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Count OFDT nodes to determine the number of available ports
instead of using the possibly outdated value from the hypervisor
Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Logical partitions are not allowed to (try to) set the autonegotiation status.
This patch removes the respective function call from the port setup function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Fix to use exactly one queue for incoming packets in all
firmware configurations
Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Not only check the pointer against 0 but also the dereferenced value
Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
We need to export phy_ethtool_gset and phy_ethtool_sset to allow drivers that
use these functions to be built as modules.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
1. EL3WINDOW is always 1 when lock is not held.
2. The second argument of el3_interrupt is 'void *dev_id',
not 'struct el3_private *lp'.
Signed-off-by: komurojun-mbn@nifty.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The current PDA code, which went in in post 2.6.19 has a flaw in that it
doesn't correctly cycle the GDT and %GS segment through the boot PDA,
the CPU PDA and finally the per-cpu PDA.
The bug generally doesn't show up if the boot CPU id is zero, but
everything falls apart for a non zero boot CPU id. The basically kills
voyager which is perfectly capable of doing non zero CPU id boots, so
voyager currently won't boot without this.
The fix is to be careful and actually do the GDT setups correctly.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Both "=r" and "=g" breaks my build on i386:
$ make
CC [M] drivers/kvm/vmx.o
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:3318: Error: bad register name `%sil'
make[1]: *** [drivers/kvm/vmx.o] Error 1
make: *** [_module_drivers/kvm] Error 2
The reason is that setbe requires an 8-bit register but "=r" does not
constrain the target register to be one that has an 8-bit version on
i386.
According to
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10153
the correct constraint is "=q".
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
PCI: fix pci-driver kernel-doc
PCI: rework Documentation/pci.txt
PCI: Unhide the SMBus on the Asus P4P800-X
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
USB: unusual_devs.h entry for nokia 6233
USB: Fix for typo in ohci-ep93xx.c
USB: disable USB_MULTITHREAD_PROBE
USB: add vendor/device id for Option GT Max 3.6 cards
USB: unusual_devs.h for 0x046b:ff40
USB: make usbhid ignore Imation Disc Stakka
USB: rndis_host: fix crash while probing a Nokia S60 mobile
USB: asix: Detect internal PHY and enable/use accordingly
usbtouchscreen: make ITM screens report BTN_TOUCH as zero when not touched
Function short description should be on only one line.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Rewrite Documentation/pci.txt:
o restructure document to match how API is used when writing init code.
o update to reflect changes in struct pci_driver function pointers.
o removed language on "new style vs old style" device discovery.
"Old style" is now deprecated. Don't use it. Left description in
to document existing driver behaviors.
o add section "Legacy I/O Port free driver" by Kenji Kaneshige
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/22/25
(renamed to "pci_enable_device_bars() and Legacy I/O Port space")
o add "MMIO space and write posting" section to help avoid common pitfall
when converting drivers from IO Port space to MMIO space.
Orignally posted http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/27/24
o many typo/grammer/spelling corrections from Randy Dunlap
o two more spelling corrections from Stephan Richter
o fix CodingStyle as per Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Unhide the SMBus on the Asus P4P800-X (and probably some other
models of the family.) This gives access to the memory module SPD
EEPROMs.
Thanks to Winbond for supporting the lm-sensors project with the
donation of this motherboard.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
In appendix a patch for the nokia 6233 mobile phone is included.
The patch is against 2.6.20-rc5. It is my first patch. Hopefully it has
the right format. The code makes my nokia 6233 on my computer work.
From: Manuel Osdoba <manuel.osdoba@tu-ilmenau.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Attached patch fixes typo in USB driver reported by Chase Douglas on linux-cirrus mailing
list. http://www.freelists.org/archives/linux-cirrus/12-2006/msg00003.html
Signed-off-by: Petr Stetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Disable the USB_MULTITHREAD_PROBE option because it causes crashes on
people's machines and they never remember to actually read the config
help files.
No one likes this, everyone hates it, I'm going to go eat worms...
The full logic will be ripped out later.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
