sparc64, i386 and x86_64 have support for a special data section dedicated
to rarely updated data that is frequently read. The section was created to
avoid false sharing of those rarely read data with frequently written kernel
data.
This patch creates such a data section for ia64 and will group rarely written
data into this section.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
I see why the problem exists only on SN. SN uses a different hardware
mechanism to purge TLB entries across nodes.
It looks like there is a bug in the SN TLB flushing code. During context switch,
kernel threads inherit the mm of the task that was previously running on the
cpu. This confuses the code in sn2_global_tlb_purge().
The result is a missed TLB purge for the task that owns the "borrowed" mm.
(I hit the problem running heavy stress where kswapd was purging code pages of
a user task that woke kswapd. The user task took a SIGILL fault trying to
execute code in the page that had been ripped out from underneath it).
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Use raw_smp_processor_id() instead of get_cpu() as we don't need the
extra features of get_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
The logic that decides that a fork() might be able to avoid copying a VM
area when it can be re-created by page faults didn't know about the new
vm_insert_page() case.
Also make some things a bit more anal wrt VM_PFNMAP.
Pointed out by Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
The udelay() inline for ia64 uses the ITC. If CONFIG_PREEMPT is enabled
and the platform has unsynchronized ITCs and the calling task migrates
to another CPU while doing the udelay loop, then the effective delay may
be too short or very, very long.
This patch disables preemption around 100 usec chunks of the overall
desired udelay time. This minimizes preemption-holdoffs.
udelay() is now too big to be inline, move it out of line and export it.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
This finally fixes the radeon memory mapping bug that was incorrectly
fixed by the previous patch. This time, we use the actual vram size as
the size to calculate how far to move the AGP aperture from the
framebuffer in card's memory space.
If there are still issues with this patch, they are due to bugs in the X
driver that I'm working on fixing too.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
In the scenario that a link was broken, the devloss timer for each
rport was expire at roughly the same time, causing lots of "delete"
workqueue items being queued. Depth is dependent upon the number of
rports that were on the link.
The rport target remove calls were calling flush_scheduled_work(),
which would interrupt the stream, and start the next workqueue item,
which did the same thing, and so on until recursion depth was large.
This fix stops the recursion in the initial delete path, and pushes it
off to a host-level work item that reaps the dead rports.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
We have found some issues with Au1550 AC'97 OSS driver in 2.6
(sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c), though it also should concern 2.4 driver
(drivers/sound/au1550_psc.c).
start_dac() grabs a spinlock already held by its caller, au1550_write().
This doesn't show up with the standard UP spinlock impelmentation but when
the different one (mutex based) is in use, a lockup happens.
And the interrupt handlers also didn't grab the spinlock -- that's OK in
the usual kernel but not when the IRQ handlers are threaded. So, they're
grabbing the spinlock now (as every correct interrupt handler should do).
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Baidarov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
While doing some testing I discovered that if the BIOS on a board does not
properly setup the DMI information it leads to a panic in the IPMI code.
The panic is due to dereferencing a pointer which is not initialized. The
pointer is initialized in port_setup() and/or mem_setup() and used in
init_one_smi() and cleanup_one_si(), however if either port_setup() or
mem_setup() return ENODEV the pointer does not get initialized.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Galtieri <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
The following patch fixes a bug where if the journal is aborted, it can
leave a transaction open. The result will be a BUG when another code
path attempts to start a transaction and will get a "nesting into
different fs" error, since current->journal_info will be left non-NULL.
Original fix against SUSE kernel by Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
This should have been part of the original io error patch, but got
dropped somewhere along the way.
It's extremely important when handling the i/o error in the journal to
not commit the transaction with corrupt data. This patch adds that code
back in.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Without this patch Forward and Backward buttons on the touchpad do not
generate any events.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Also, disable on sparc64 - a number of people report breakage. Probably
a compiler bug, but it's quite possible that it tickles some latent
kernel problem too.
It still defaults to 'y' everywhere else (when enabled through
EXPERIMENTAL), and Dave Jones points out that Fedora (and RHEL4) has
been building with size optimizations for a long time on x86, x86-64,
ia64, s390, s390x, ppc32 and ppc64. So it is really only moderately
experimental, but the sparc64 breakage certainly shows that it can
trigger "issues".
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
