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Dmitry Adamushko
18dbc91605 x86: moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.c
Combine both generic and arch-specific parts of microcode into a
single module (arch-specific parts are config-dependent).

Also while we are at it, move arch-specific parts from microcode.h
into their respective arch-specific .c files.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: "Peter Oruba" <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 12:21:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a1c75cc501 x86, microcode rework, v2, fix
based on patch from Dmitry Adamushko.

- add missing vfree()
- update debug printks

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 14:53:00 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
a0a29b62a9 x86, microcode rework, v2
this is a rework of the microcode splitup in tip/x86/microcode

(1) I think this new interface is cleaner (look at the changes
    in 'struct microcode_ops' in microcode.h);

(2) it's -64 lines of code;

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-12 12:20:27 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
5b792d320f x86, microcode_amd: fix shift warning
microcode_amd.c uses ">> 32" on a 32-bit value, so gcc warns about that.
The code could use something like this *untested* patch.

linux-next-20080821/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c:229: warning: right shift count >= width of type

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-22 06:55:21 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
d45de40934 x86-microcode: generic interface refactoring
This is the 1st patch in the series. Here the aim was to avoid any
significant changes, logically-wise.

So it's mainly about generic interface refactoring: e.g. make
microcode_{intel,amd}.c more about arch-specific details and less
about policies like make-sure-we-run-on-a-target-cpu
(no more set_cpus_allowed_ptr() here) and generic synchronization (no
more microcode_mutex here).

All in all, more line have been deleted than added.

4 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 198 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-20 12:18:57 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
8343ef2437 x86-microcode: fix unbalanced use of get_cpu()
Don't use get_cpu() at all. Resort to checking a boot-up CPU (#0) in
microcode_{intel,amd}_module_init().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-20 12:18:55 +02:00
Peter Oruba
636a317816 x86: Fixed NULL function pointer dereference in AMD microcode patch loader.
Dereference took place in code part responsible for manual installation
of microcode patches through /dev/cpu/microcode.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 17:18:46 +02:00
Peter Oruba
d33dcb9e7d x86: Microcode patch loader style corrections
Style corrections to main microcode module.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 17:18:45 +02:00
David Woodhouse
34a1b9fc49 Fix date output in x86 microcode driver.
The microcode stores its date in a uint32_t in some weird order
approximating pdp-endian. Rather than printing it like that, print it
properly in ISO standard form.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-13 18:54:56 +02:00
Peter Oruba
daa9c0fee1 x86: minor pointer type cast in AMD microcode patch loader
Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-31 23:26:17 +02:00
Peter Oruba
831f9bd315 x86: moved function declarations out from AMD microcode patch loader to heade file
Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-31 23:26:16 +02:00
Peter Oruba
f516526feb x86: Intel microcode patch loader style corrections
Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-31 23:26:16 +02:00
Peter Oruba
a0ac87d61b x86: AMD microcode patch loader style corrections
Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-31 23:26:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3825c9e8d0 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc1' into x86/microcode
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/microcode.c

Manual resolutions:

	arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
	arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 11:54:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5d7b605245 x86, microcode: fix module license string
fix:

 FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module microcode_amd.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'set_cpus_allowed_ptr'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 10:05:43 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
224e946b81 x86, microcode: fix symbol exports
fix tons of build errors:

 arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `microcode_fini_cpu':
 microcode_intel.c:(.text+0x11598): undefined reference to `microcode_mutex'
 microcode_intel.c:(.text+0x115a4): undefined reference to `ucode_cpu_info'
 microcode_intel.c:(.text+0x115ae): undefined reference to `ucode_cpu_info'
 microcode_intel.c:(.text+0x115bc): undefined reference to `microcode_mutex'
 [...]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 09:54:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
45b1e23eca x86, microcode support: fix build error
fix:

  arch/x86/kernel/microcode.c:412: error: static declaration of ‘microcode_init’ follows non-static declaration
  include/asm/microcode.h:1: error: previous declaration of ‘microcode_init’ was here
  arch/x86/kernel/microcode.c:454: error: static declaration of ‘microcode_exit’ follows non-static declaration
  include/asm/microcode.h:2: error: previous declaration of ‘microcode_exit’ was here

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-29 09:47:29 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
6e86841d05 Linux 2.6.27-rc1 2008-07-28 19:40:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7874d35173 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  lguest: turn Waker into a thread, not a process
  lguest: Enlarge virtio rings
  lguest: Use GSO/IFF_VNET_HDR extensions on tun/tap
  lguest: Remove 'network: no dma buffer!' warning
  lguest: Adaptive timeout
  lguest: Tell Guest net not to notify us on every packet xmit
  lguest: net block unneeded receive queue update notifications
  lguest: wrap last_avail accesses.
  lguest: use cpu capability accessors
  lguest: virtio-rng support
  lguest: Support assigning a MAC address
  lguest: Don't leak /dev/zero fd
  lguest: fix verbose printing of device features.
  lguest: fix switcher_page leak on unload
  lguest: Guest int3 fix
  lguest: set max_pfn_mapped, growl loudly at Yinghai Lu
2008-07-28 18:16:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5dfb66ba8c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-mfd
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-mfd:
  mfd: accept pure device as a parent, not only platform_device
  mfd: add platform_data to mfd_cell
  mfd: Coding style fixes
  mfd: Use to_platform_device instead of container_of
2008-07-28 18:15:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1d9b9f6a53 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (21 commits)
  x86/PCI: use dev_printk when possible
  PCI: add D3 power state avoidance quirk
  PCI: fix bogus "'device' may be used uninitialized" warning in pci_slot
  PCI: add an option to allow ASPM enabled forcibly
  PCI: disable ASPM on pre-1.1 PCIe devices
  PCI: disable ASPM per ACPI FADT setting
  PCI MSI: Don't disable MSIs if the mask bit isn't supported
  PCI: handle 64-bit resources better on 32-bit machines
  PCI: rewrite PCI BAR reading code
  PCI: document pci_target_state
  PCI hotplug: fix typo in pcie hotplug output
  x86 gart: replace to_pages macro with iommu_num_pages
  x86, AMD IOMMU: replace to_pages macro with iommu_num_pages
  iommu: add iommu_num_pages helper function
  dma-coherent: add documentation to new interfaces
  Cris: convert to using generic dma-coherent mem allocator
  Sh: use generic per-device coherent dma allocator
  ARM: support generic per-device coherent dma mem
  Generic dma-coherent: fix DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE
  x86: use generic per-device dma coherent allocator
  ...
2008-07-28 18:14:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a3ad7f128c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: fix msleep compile error
2008-07-28 18:13:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b79022ca9 Fix 'get_user_pages_fast()' with non-page-aligned start address
Alexey Dobriyan reported trouble with LTP with the new fast-gup code,
and Johannes Weiner debugged it to non-page-aligned addresses, where the
new get_user_pages_fast() code would do all the wrong things, including
just traversing past the end of the requested area due to 'addr' never
matching 'end' exactly.

This is not a pretty fix, and we may actually want to move the alignment
into generic code, leaving just the core code per-arch, but Alexey
verified that the vmsplice01 LTP test doesn't crash with this.

Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Debugged-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 17:54:21 -07:00
Rusty Russell
8c79873da0 lguest: turn Waker into a thread, not a process
lguest uses a Waker process to break it out of the kernel (ie.
actually running the guest) when file descriptor needs attention.

Changing this from a process to a thread somewhat simplifies things:
it can directly access the fd_set of things to watch.  More
importantly, it means that the Waker can see Guest memory correctly,
so /dev/vring file descriptors will work as anticipated (the
alternative is to actually mmap MAP_SHARED, but you can't do that with
/dev/zero).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:39 +10:00
Rusty Russell
0f0c4fab82 lguest: Enlarge virtio rings
With big packets, 128 entries is a little small.

Guest -> Host 1GB TCP:
Before: 8.43625 seconds xmit 95640 recv 198266 timeout 49771 usec 1252
After: 8.01099 seconds xmit 49200 recv 102263 timeout 26014 usec 2118

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:38 +10:00
Rusty Russell
398f187d74 lguest: Use GSO/IFF_VNET_HDR extensions on tun/tap
Guest -> Host 1GB TCP:
Before 20.1974 seconds xmit 214510 recv 5 timeout 214491 usec 278
After 8.43625 seconds xmit 95640 recv 198266 timeout 49771 usec 1252

Host -> Guest 1GB TCP:
Before: Seconds 9.98854 xmit 172166 recv 5344 timeout 172157 usec 251
After: Seconds 5.72803 xmit 244322 recv 9919 timeout 244302 usec 156

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:37 +10:00
Rusty Russell
9254926f85 lguest: Remove 'network: no dma buffer!' warning
This warning can happen a lot under load, and it should be warnx not
warn anwyay.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:37 +10:00
Rusty Russell
aa1249840b lguest: Adaptive timeout
Since the correct timeout value varies, use a heuristic which adjusts
the timeout depending on how many packets we've seen.  This gives
slightly worse results, but doesn't need tweaking when GSO is
introduced.

500 usec	19.1887		xmit 561141 recv 1 timeout 559657
Dynamic (278)	20.1974		xmit 214510 recv 5 timeout 214491 usec 278

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:36 +10:00
Rusty Russell
a161883a29 lguest: Tell Guest net not to notify us on every packet xmit
virtio_ring has the ability to suppress notifications.  This prevents
a guest exit for every packet, but we need to set a timer on packet
receipt to re-check if there were any remaining packets.

Here are the times for 1G TCP Guest->Host with different timeout
settings (it matters because the TCP window doesn't grow big enough to
fill the entire buffer):

Timeout value	Seconds		Xmit/Recv/Timeout
None (before)	25.3784		xmit 7750233 recv 1
2500 usec	62.5119		xmit 207020 recv 2 timeout 207020
1000 usec	34.5379		xmit 207003 recv 2 timeout 207003
750 usec	29.2305		xmit 207002 recv 1 timeout 207002
500 usec	19.1887		xmit 561141 recv 1 timeout 559657
250 usec	20.0465		xmit 214128 recv 2 timeout 214110
100 usec	19.2583		xmit 561621 recv 1 timeout 560153

(Note that these values are sensitive to the GSO patches which come
 later, and probably other traffic-related variables, so take with a
 large grain of salt).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:36 +10:00
Rusty Russell
5dae785a82 lguest: net block unneeded receive queue update notifications
Number of exits transmitting 10GB Guest->Host before:
	network xmit 7858610 recv 118136

After:
	network xmit 7750233 recv 1

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:35 +10:00
Rusty Russell
b5111790fa lguest: wrap last_avail accesses.
To simplify the transition to when we publish indices in the ring
(and make shuffling my patch queue easier), wrap them in a lg_last_avail()
macro.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:35 +10:00
Andrew Morton
cf485e566b lguest: use cpu capability accessors
To support my little make-x86-bitops-use-proper-typechecking projectlet.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:34 +10:00
Rusty Russell
28fd6d7f95 lguest: virtio-rng support
This is a simple patch to add support for the virtio "hardware random
generator" to lguest.  It gets about 1.2 MB/sec reading from /dev/hwrng
in the guest.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:34 +10:00
Mark McLoughlin
dec6a2be08 lguest: Support assigning a MAC address
If you've got a nice DHCP configuration which maps MAC
addresses to specific IP addresses, then you're going to
want to start your guest with one of those MAC addresses.

Also, in Fedora, we have persistent network interface naming
based on the MAC address, so with randomly assigned
addresses you're soon going to hit eth13. Who knows what
will happen then!

Allow assigning a MAC address to the network interface with
e.g.

  --tunnet=bridge:eth0:00:FF:95:6B:DA:3D

or:

  --tunnet=192.168.121.1:00:FF:95:6B:DA:3D

which is pretty unintelligable, but ...

(includes Rusty's minor rework)

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:33 +10:00
Mark McLoughlin
34bdaab44d lguest: Don't leak /dev/zero fd
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:33 +10:00
Rusty Russell
32c68e5c56 lguest: fix verbose printing of device features.
%02x is more appropriate for bytes than %08x.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:32 +10:00
Johannes Weiner
0a707210aa lguest: fix switcher_page leak on unload
map_switcher allocates the array, unmap_switcher has to free it
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:32 +10:00
Rusty Russell
0c12091d82 lguest: Guest int3 fix
Ron Minnich noticed that guest userspace gets a GPF when it tries to int3:
we need to copy the privilege level from the guest-supplied IDT to the real
IDT.  int3 is the only common case where guest userspace expects to invoke
an interrupt, so that's the symptom of failing to do this.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:31 +10:00
Rusty Russell
5d006d8d09 lguest: set max_pfn_mapped, growl loudly at Yinghai Lu
6af61a7614 'x86: clean up max_pfn_mapped
usage - 32-bit' makes the following comment:

    XEN PV and lguest may need to assign max_pfn_mapped too.

But no CC.  Yinghai, wasting fellow developers' time is a VERY bad
habit.  If you do it again, I will hunt you down and try to extract
the three hours of my life I just lost :)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
2008-07-29 09:58:31 +10:00
Dmitry Baryshkov
424f525a12 mfd: accept pure device as a parent, not only platform_device
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com>
2008-07-29 01:30:26 +02:00
Andrew Morton
34ee550142 include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopmd.h: macros are noxious, reason #435
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c: In function 'pgd_mop_up_pmds':
  arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:194: warning: unused variable 'pmd'

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Manuel Lauss
c27ef92d8e sh7760fb: write colormap value to hardware
The computed color value is never actually written to hardware
colormap register.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Cc: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu.nobuhiro@renesas.com>
Cc: Munakata Hisao <munakata.hisao@renesas.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
7fcba05437 eCryptfs: use page_alloc not kmalloc to get a page of memory
With SLUB debugging turned on in 2.6.26, I was getting memory corruption
when testing eCryptfs.  The root cause turned out to be that eCryptfs was
doing kmalloc(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); virt_to_page() and treating that as a nice
page-aligned chunk of memory.  But at least with SLUB debugging on, this
is not always true, and the page we get from virt_to_page does not
necessarily match the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE worth of memory we got from kmalloc.

My simple testcase was 2 loops doing "rm -f fileX; cp /tmp/fileX ." for 2
different multi-megabyte files.  With this change I no longer see the
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
25947d5ac5 gpio: fix build on CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS=n
If CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO=y && CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS=n, gpio_export() in
asm-generic/gpio.h refers -ENOSYS and causes build error.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa
e3b6e806cf bio-integrity: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL for bio_integrity_init_slab()
I got section mismatch message about bio_integrity_init_slab().

WARNING: fs/built-in.o(__ksymtab+0xb60): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_bio_integrity_init_slab to the function .init.text:bio_integrity_init_slab()

The symbol bio_integrity_init_slab is exported and annotated __init Fix
this by removing the __init annotation of bio_integrity_init_slab or drop
the export.

It only call from init_bio().  The EXPORT_SYMBOL() can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Hisashi Hifumi
8ab22b9abb vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize
When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a
pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO
is issued and this page will be uptodate.

I think this is good for pagesize == blocksize environment but there is
room for improvement on pagesize != blocksize environment.  Because in
this case a page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not
uptodate, some buffers can be uptodate.

So I suggest that when all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate, use this pagecache and copy data from
this pagecache to user buffer even if a page is not uptodate.  This can
reduce read IO and improve system throughput.

I wrote a benchmark program and got result number with this program.

This benchmark do:

  1: mount and open a test file.

  2: create a 512MB file.

  3: close a file and umount.

  4: mount and again open a test file.

  5: pwrite randomly 300000 times on a test file.  offset is aligned
     by IO size(1024bytes).

  6: measure time of preading randomly 100000 times on a test file.

The result was:
	2.6.26
        330 sec

	2.6.26-patched
        226 sec

Arch:i386
Filesystem:ext3
Blocksize:1024 bytes
Memory: 1GB

On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block.  So random read/write
mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads are optimized
with this patch under pagesize != blocksize environment.  This test result
showed this.

The benchmark program is as follows:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>

#define LEN 1024
#define LOOP 1024*512 /* 512MB */

main(void)
{
	unsigned long i, offset, filesize;
	int fd;
	char buf[LEN];
	time_t t1, t2;

	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) {
		perror("cannot mount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	memset(buf, 0, LEN);
	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC);
	if (fd < 0) {
		perror("cannot open file\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	for (i = 0; i < LOOP; i++)
		write(fd, buf, LEN);
	close(fd);
	if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) {
		perror("cannot umount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) {
		perror("cannot mount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_RDWR);
	if (fd < 0) {
		perror("cannot open file\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	filesize = LEN * LOOP;
	for (i = 0; i < 300000; i++){
		offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1));
		pwrite(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
	}
	printf("start test\n");
	time(&t1);
	for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++){
		offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1));
		pread(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
	}
	time(&t2);
	printf("%ld sec\n", t2-t1);
	close(fd);
	if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) {
		perror("cannot umount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
}

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Simon Horman
d84a52f62f kdump: update kdump documentation as kexec-tools-resting has been renamed kexec-tools
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Ben Dooks
cb1d0a7a5d spi_s3c24xx: really assign busnum
The original "Pass the bus number we expect the S3C24XX SPI driver to
attach to via the platform data." [1] patch was mis-sent, and missed two
important parts of the diff, which was to actually set the bus_num field
and add the relevant field to the platform data.

The previous commit 50f426b55d promised to
add a bus_num field, but failed to include the two hunks that added this
field to include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410/spi.h and then pass it to the spi
core when creating the new master field in drivers/spi/spi_s3c24xx.c.

[1] git commit 50f426b55d

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Luotao Fu
9a7867e1b3 mpc52xx_psc_spi: fix block transfer
The block transfer routine in the mpc52xx psc spi driver misinterpret
the datasheet.  According to the processor datasheet the chipselect is
held as long as the EOF is not written.

Theoretically blocks of any sizes can be transferred in this way.  The
old routine however writes an EOF after every word, which has the size
of size_of_word.  This makes the transfer slow.

Also fixed some duplicate code.

Signed-off-by: Luotao Fu <l.fu@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
78a34ae29b mm/hugetlb.c must #include <asm/io.h>
This patch fixes the following build error on sh caused by commit
aa888a7497 ("hugetlb: support larger than
MAX_ORDER"):

  mm/hugetlb.c: In function 'alloc_bootmem_huge_page':
  mm/hugetlb.c:958: error: implicit declaration of function 'virt_to_phys'

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00