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Keshavamurthy Anil S
deac66ae45 [PATCH] kprobes: fix bug when probed on task and isr functions
This patch fixes a race condition where in system used to hang or sometime
crash within minutes when kprobes are inserted on ISR routine and a task
routine.

The fix has been stress tested on i386, ia64, pp64 and on x86_64.  To
reproduce the problem insert kprobes on schedule() and do_IRQ() functions
and you should see hang or system crash.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:58:01 -07:00
John Hawkes
9c1cfda20a [PATCH] cpusets: Move the ia64 domain setup code to the generic code
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:40 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
5ac353f9ba [PATCH] Clean up struct flock definitions
This patch just gathers together all the struct flock definitions except
xtensa into asm-generic/fcntl.h.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:38 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
1abf62afb6 [PATCH] Clean up the fcntl operations
This patch puts the most popular of each fcntl operation/flag into
asm-generic/fcntl.h and cleans up the arch files.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:38 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
e64ca97fd8 [PATCH] Clean up the open flags
This patch puts the most popular of each open flag into asm-generic/fcntl.h
and cleans up the arch files.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:38 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
9317259ead [PATCH] Create asm-generic/fcntl.h
This set of patches creates asm-generic/fcntl.h and consolidates as much as
possible from the asm-*/fcntl.h files into it.

This patch just gathers all the identical bits of the asm-*/fcntl.h files into
asm-generic/fcntl.h.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:37 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
97de50c0ad [PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove verify_area() from various uaccess.h headers
Remove the deprecated (and unused) verify_area() from various uaccess.h
headers.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:35 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
c8d127418d [PATCH] remove asm-*/hdreg.h
unused and useless..

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:30 -07:00
Karsten Wiese
f26fdd5992 [PATCH] CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU() to avoid dead code in __do_IRQ()
IRQ_PER_CPU is not used by all architectures.  This patch introduces the
macros ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU and CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU() to avoid the generation
of dead code in __do_IRQ().

ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU is defined by architectures using IRQ_PER_CPU in their
include/asm_ARCH/irq.h file.

Through grepping the tree I found the following architectures currently use
IRQ_PER_CPU:

        cris, ia64, ppc, ppc64 and parisc.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:29 -07:00
H. J. Lu
36d57ac4a8 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups
The size of auxiliary vector is fixed at 42 in linux/sched.h.  But it isn't
very obvious when looking at linux/elf.h.  This patch adds AT_VECTOR_SIZE
so that we can change it if necessary when a new vector is added.

Because of include file ordering problems, doing this necessitated the
extraction of the AT_* symbols into a standalone header file.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
202e5979af [PATCH] compat: be more consistent about [ug]id_t
When I first wrote the compat layer patches, I was somewhat cavalier about
the definition of compat_uid_t and compat_gid_t (or maybe I just
misunderstood :-)).  This patch makes the compat types much more consistent
with the types we are being compatible with and hopefully will fix a few
bugs along the way.

	compat type		type in compat arch
	__compat_[ug]id_t	__kernel_[ug]id_t
	__compat_[ug]id32_t	__kernel_[ug]id32_t
	compat_[ug]id_t		[ug]id_t

The difference is that compat_uid_t is always 32 bits (for the archs we
care about) but __compat_uid_t may be 16 bits on some.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:19 -07:00
Jakub Jelinek
4732efbeb9 [PATCH] FUTEX_WAKE_OP: pthread_cond_signal() speedup
ATM pthread_cond_signal is unnecessarily slow, because it wakes one waiter
(which at least on UP usually means an immediate context switch to one of
the waiter threads).  This waiter wakes up and after a few instructions it
attempts to acquire the cv internal lock, but that lock is still held by
the thread calling pthread_cond_signal.  So it goes to sleep and eventually
the signalling thread is scheduled in, unlocks the internal lock and wakes
the waiter again.

Now, before 2003-09-21 NPTL was using FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal
to avoid this performance issue, but it was removed when locks were
redesigned to the 3 state scheme (unlocked, locked uncontended, locked
contended).

Following scenario shows why simply using FUTEX_REQUEUE in
pthread_cond_signal together with using lll_mutex_unlock_force in place of
lll_mutex_unlock is not enough and probably why it has been disabled at
that time:

The number is value in cv->__data.__lock.
        thr1            thr2            thr3
0       pthread_cond_wait
1       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
0       lll_mutex_unlock (cv->__data.__lock)
0       lll_futex_wait (&cv->__data.__futex, futexval)
0                       pthread_cond_signal
1                       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
1                                       pthread_cond_signal
2                                       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
2                                         lll_futex_wait (&cv->__data.__lock, 2)
2                       lll_futex_requeue (&cv->__data.__futex, 0, 1, &cv->__data.__lock)
                          # FUTEX_REQUEUE, not FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE
2                       lll_mutex_unlock_force (cv->__data.__lock)
0                         cv->__data.__lock = 0
0                         lll_futex_wake (&cv->__data.__lock, 1)
1       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
0       lll_mutex_unlock (cv->__data.__lock)
          # Here, lll_mutex_unlock doesn't know there are threads waiting
          # on the internal cv's lock

Now, I believe it is possible to use FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal,
but it will cost us not one, but 2 extra syscalls and, what's worse, one of
these extra syscalls will be done for every single waiting loop in
pthread_cond_*wait.

We would need to use lll_mutex_unlock_force in pthread_cond_signal after
requeue and lll_mutex_cond_lock in pthread_cond_*wait after lll_futex_wait.

Another alternative is to do the unlocking pthread_cond_signal needs to do
(the lock can't be unlocked before lll_futex_wake, as that is racy) in the
kernel.

I have implemented both variants, futex-requeue-glibc.patch is the first
one and futex-wake_op{,-glibc}.patch is the unlocking inside of the kernel.
 The kernel interface allows userland to specify how exactly an unlocking
operation should look like (some atomic arithmetic operation with optional
constant argument and comparison of the previous futex value with another
constant).

It has been implemented just for ppc*, x86_64 and i?86, for other
architectures I'm including just a stub header which can be used as a
starting point by maintainers to write support for their arches and ATM
will just return -ENOSYS for FUTEX_WAKE_OP.  The requeue patch has been
(lightly) tested just on x86_64, the wake_op patch on ppc64 kernel running
32-bit and 64-bit NPTL and x86_64 kernel running 32-bit and 64-bit NPTL.

With the following benchmark on UP x86-64 I get:

for i in nptl-orig nptl-requeue nptl-wake_op; do echo time elf/ld.so --library-path .:$i /tmp/bench; \
for j in 1 2; do echo ( time elf/ld.so --library-path .:$i /tmp/bench ) 2>&1; done; done
time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-orig /tmp/bench
real 0m0.655s user 0m0.253s sys 0m0.403s
real 0m0.657s user 0m0.269s sys 0m0.388s
time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-requeue /tmp/bench
real 0m0.496s user 0m0.225s sys 0m0.271s
real 0m0.531s user 0m0.242s sys 0m0.288s
time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-wake_op /tmp/bench
real 0m0.380s user 0m0.176s sys 0m0.204s
real 0m0.382s user 0m0.175s sys 0m0.207s

The benchmark is at:
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00001.txt
Older futex-requeue-glibc.patch version is at:
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00002.txt
Older futex-wake_op-glibc.patch version is at:
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00003.txt
Will post a new version (just x86-64 fixes so that the patch
applies against pthread_cond_signal.S) to libc-hacker ml soon.

Attached is the kernel FUTEX_WAKE_OP patch as well as a simple-minded
testcase that will not test the atomicity of the operation, but at least
check if the threads that should have been woken up are woken up and
whether the arithmetic operation in the kernel gave the expected results.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:17 -07:00
Ashok Raj
54d5d42404 [PATCH] x86/x86_64: deferred handling of writes to /proc/irqxx/smp_affinity
When handling writes to /proc/irq, current code is re-programming rte
entries directly. This is not recommended and could potentially cause
chipset's to lockup, or cause missing interrupts.

CONFIG_IRQ_BALANCE does this correctly, where it re-programs only when the
interrupt is pending. The same needs to be done for /proc/irq handling as well.
Otherwise user space irq balancers are really not doing the right thing.

- Changed pending_irq_balance_cpumask to pending_irq_migrate_cpumask for
  lack of a generic name.
- added move_irq out of IRQ_BALANCE, and added this same to X86_64
- Added new proc handler for write, so we can do deferred write at irq
  handling time.
- Display of /proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity used to display CPU_MASKALL, instead
  it now shows only active cpu masks, or exactly what was set.
- Provided a common move_irq implementation, instead of duplicating
  when using generic irq framework.

Tested on i386/x86_64 and ia64 with CONFIG_PCI_MSI turned on and off.
Tested UP builds as well.

MSI testing: tbd: I have cards, need to look for a x-over cable, although I
did test an earlier version of this patch.  Will test in a couple days.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Grudgingly-acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:15 -07:00
Kyle Moffett
fa5b08d5f8 [PATCH] sab: consolidate kmem_bufctl_t
This is used only in slab.c and each architecture gets to define whcih
underlying type is to be used.

Seems a bit silly - move it to slab.c and use the same type for all
architectures: unsigned int.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:48 -07:00
Tony Luck
ff67b59726 [IA64] Low byte of current->personality is not a bitmask.
Peter Staubach pointed out that it is not correct to check
current->personality & PER_LINUX32 (this will have false
hits on several other personality values).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-30 14:59:24 -07:00
Tony Luck
288ceb8f14 Auto-update from upstream 2005-08-30 09:30:09 -07:00
Tony Luck
e438befd76 [IA64-SGI] One new use of "UNCACHED" needed fixing for sn2 region cleanup
Some shub2 changes were not in the tree when Greg cleaned up the sn2
region definitions in 1b66776da7, so this
one didn't get fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-29 16:13:36 -07:00
Tony Luck
3290580285 Pull rationalise-regions into release branch 2005-08-29 15:50:32 -07:00
Tony Luck
bcdd3a9114 Pull ngam-maule-steiner into release branch 2005-08-29 15:48:51 -07:00
Tony Luck
b946ecbb11 Pull pending-2.6.14 into release branch 2005-08-29 15:48:23 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
b0573dea1f [NET]: Introduce SO_{SND,RCV}BUFFORCE socket options
Allows overriding of sysctl_{wmem,rmrm}_max

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:31:35 -07:00
Tony Luck
7115c13bd6 Pull acpi-p-state into release branch 2005-08-29 14:15:10 -07:00
Tony Luck
87dbaaabde Pull lameter-rwsem-limit into release branch 2005-08-29 11:39:18 -07:00
Tony Luck
7ee175f741 Pull mm-context-fix into release branch 2005-08-29 11:38:48 -07:00
Tony Luck
dcf8296216 Pull lameter-spinlock-optimization into release branch 2005-08-29 11:38:01 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
4db8699bcf [IA64] Add ACPI based P-state support
Patch to support P-state transitions on ia64. This driver is based on ACPI,
and uses the ACPI processor driver interface to find out the P-state support
information for the processor. This driver plugs into generic cpufreq
infrastructure.

Once this driver is loaded successfully, ondemand/userspace governor can be
used to change the CPU frequency dynamically based on load or on request from
userspace process.

Refer :
ACPI specification -
      http://www.acpi.info
P-state related PAL calls -
      http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/downloads/24869909.pdf

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-26 15:09:24 -07:00
Mark Maule
8409668b56 [IA64] altix: Abstract irq_affinity at the sn pci provider
Altix patch to abstract irq_affinity down to the pci provider level since
different SGI hardware implements this in different ways.

Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-26 12:09:01 -07:00
Russ Anderson
5b9021bc58 [IA64] SGI SN remove redundant partition SAL call
Clean up of SGI SN partitioning related code.
The SN_SAL_GET_SN_INFO SAL call returns the partition ID, making
the SN_SAL_SYSCTL_PARTITION_GET SAL call redundant.  Remove sn_partid
and use sn_partition_id.

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-24 16:26:13 -07:00
Mark Goodwin
60a3ba0bb4 [IA64] - SGI SN hwperf enhancements -
Add a new exported function for determining the nearest node
with CPUs for I/O nodes and fix a bug where the hwperf dynamic
misc device was being registered before misc_init(). 

Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-24 16:24:42 -07:00
Mark Goodwin
ecc3c30ae3 [IA64] - SGI SN hwperf enhancements - export_pci_topology
Bugfix to export PCI topology information in /proc/sgi_sn/sn_topology.

Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-24 16:23:39 -07:00
Greg Edwards
1b66776da7 [IA64] clean up sn2 region definitions
Clean up some duplicate region definitions in sn2 code.

Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-24 15:37:26 -07:00
Peter Chubb
0a41e25011 [IA64] Rationalise Region Definitions
Currently, region numbers are defined in several files, with several 
names.  For example, we have REGION_KERNEL in asm/page.h and 
RGN_KERNEL in pgtable.h 
 
We also have address definitions that should depend on the 
RGN_XXX macros, but are currently just long constants. 
 
The following patch reorganises all the definitions so that they have 
the same form (RGN_XXX), are in one place, and that addresses that 
depend on RGN_XXX are derived from them. 

(This is a necessary but not sufficient patch to allow UML-like 
operation on IA64). 

Thanks to David Mosberger for catching the change I missed in mmu_context.h.
 
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-24 15:35:41 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
b5f3616ba7 [IA64] fix IO_SPACE_SPARSE_ENCODING macro ambiguity
Parenthesize "p" to avoid ambiguity.  No callers have a problem today;
this is just to clean up the bad form.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-24 14:55:09 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
16592d2698 [IA64] Remove rwsem limitation of 32k waiters
We ran into the limit with the maximum number of waiters at one of our sites.

This patch increases the number of possible waiters from 2^15 to 2^31 by using
a long for the counter in struct rw_semaphore. S390 and alpha already do this.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Kenneth Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-23 10:31:57 -07:00
Tony Luck
3a931d4cca [IA64] remove unused function __ia64_get_io_port_base
Not only was this unused, but its somewhat eccentric declaration
of "static inline const unsigned long" gives gcc4 heartburn.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-18 14:40:00 -07:00
Jack Steiner
470ceb05d9 [IA64-SGI] - New SN hardware support - ptc_fixes
Shub2 provides a much improved mechanism for issuing internode
TLB purges. Add code to support the newer mechanism. There is also 
some debug code (disabled) that is useful for testing.

Collect statistics on the number, type & duration of TLB purges.
This data will be useful for making future improvements in the algorithms.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-17 15:32:24 -07:00
Jack Steiner
68b9753f47 [IA64-SGI] - New SN hardware support - cpu_relax
Add a few missing calls to "hint @pause".

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-17 15:31:53 -07:00
Jack Steiner
3d14487b26 [IA64-SGI] - New SN hardware support - addr_macros
Update the SN address macros so that they work on both shub1 
and shub2. Most of the code to support shub2 was added last year
but this patch fixes a few bugs and adds macros to help generate
both processor-specific physical addresses & numalink physical
addresses. More cleanup & optimization will be done later.


Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-17 15:29:11 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang
badea125d7 [IA64] Fix race in mm-context wrap-around logic.
The patch below should fix a race which could cause stale TLB entries.
Specifically, when 2 CPUs ended up racing for entrance to
wrap_mmu_context().  The losing CPU would find that by the time it
acquired ctx.lock, mm->context already had a valid value, but then it
failed to (re-)check the delayed TLB flushing logic and hence could
end up using a context number when there were still stale entries in
its TLB.  The fix is to check for delayed TLB flushes only after
mm->context is valid (non-zero).  The patch also makes GCC v4.x
happier by defining a non-volatile variant of mm_context_t called
nv_mm_context_t.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-12 15:05:21 -07:00
Mark Maule
c9221da9f2 [IA64-SGI] sn pci provider for TIOCE (pci
Altix patch to add an SN pci provider for TIOCE, which is SGI's 
PCI Express implementation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-11 15:56:31 -07:00
Mark Maule
5b53ed1f2e [IA64-SGI] add support for TIO huge-window
Altix patch to add TIO "huge-window" address support to sn_dma_flush().

Update copyright in affected files.

Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-11 15:37:13 -07:00
Mark Maule
735e60f4c6 [IA64-SGI] abstract force_interrupt() mechanism
Altix patch to abstract the force_interrupt() mechanism away from the
pcibr provider.

Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-11 15:36:39 -07:00
Mark Maule
89963d16dc [IA64-SGI] altix: cosmetic rename of SGI_PCIBR_ERROR
Cosmetic altix patch to rename SGI_PCIBR_ERROR to something more generic and
remove a duplicate #define.

Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-11 15:36:00 -07:00
Colin Ngam
674c6479b7 [IA64-SGI] Altix only: Add PCI Domain number support.
This patch enables PCI Domain numbering on Altix.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ngam <cngam@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-11 15:35:13 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
f521089158 [IA64] Spinlock optimizations
1. Nontemporal store for spin unlock.

A nontemporal store will not update the LRU setting for the cacheline. The
cacheline with the lock may therefore be evicted faster from the cpu
caches. Doing so may be useful since it increases the chance that the
exclusive cache line has been evicted when another cpu is trying to
acquire the lock.

The time between dropping and reacquiring a lock on the same cpu is
typically very small so the danger of the cacheline being
evicted is negligible.

2. Avoid semaphore operation in write_unlock and use nontemporal store

write_lock uses a cmpxchg like the regular spin_lock but write_unlock uses
clear_bit which requires a load and then a loop over a cmpxchg. The
following patch makes write_unlock simply use a nontemporal store to clear
the highest 8 bits. We will then still have the lower 3 bytes (24 bits)
left to count the readers.

Doing the byte store will reduce the number of possible readers from 2^31
to 2^24 = 16 million.

These patches were discussed already:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111472054400001&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m=111401837707849&w=2

The nontemporal stores will only work using GCC. If a compiler is used
that does not support inline asm then fallback C code is used. This
will preserve the byte store but not be able to do the nontemporal stores.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-10 16:13:10 -07:00
Kenji Kaneshige
1c53e4357e [IA64] fix iosapic_remove build error for !HOTPLUG
This patch removes the following stupid compile error that happens
when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not defined on ia64.

     arch/ia64/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x712): In function `acpi_unregister_ioapic':
     : undefined reference to `iosapic_remove'

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-10 15:42:41 -07:00
Robert Love
d108919b2b [IA64] inotify: ia64 syscalls.
Attached patch adds the inotify syscalls to ia64.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-27 10:46:12 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
7c9034735e [PATCH] Add emergency_restart()
When the kernel is working well and we want to restart cleanly
kernel_restart is the function to use.   But in many instances
the kernel wants to reboot when thing are expected to be working
very badly such as from panic or a software watchdog handler.

This patch adds the function emergency_restart() so that
callers can be clear what semantics they expect when calling
restart.  emergency_restart() is expected to be callable
from interrupt context and possibly reliable in even more
trying circumstances.

This is an initial generic implementation for all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:41 -07:00
Tony Luck
99ad25a313 Auto merge with /home/aegl/GIT/linus 2005-07-13 12:15:43 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
7c2a6c62c0 [IA64] Altix pcibus_to_node implementation
The Altix subarch does not provide node information via ACPI. Instead hooks
are used to fixup pci structures. This patch determines the nodes for Altix
PCI busses.

Remote Bridges:
---------------
Altix supports remote I/O nodes without memory or processors but with bridges.
The TIOCA type of bridge is an AGP bridge and the PROM provides information
about the closest node. That information will be returned by pcibus_to_node.

The TIOCP remote bridge type is a PCI bridge but the PROM does not provide a
closest node id. pcibus_to_node will return -1 for devices on those bridges
meaning that device control structures may be allocated on any node.

Safeguard:
----------
Should the fixups result in invalid node information for a pci controller then
a warning will be printed and pcibus_to_node will return -1.


This patch also fixes the "FIXME" in sn_dma_alloc_coherent. This means that
dma_alloc_coherent will now use alloc_pages_node to allocate memory local to
the node that the PCI device is connected to.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-12 16:12:55 -07:00