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Stephen Rothwell
887cbce0ad arch Kconfig: centralise CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
Change it to CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and set it in all architecures
that already provide virt_to_bus().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9e2d59ad58 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
 "This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
  contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.

   - a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
     unified.

   - a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
     (fixing several potential problems with missing argument
     validation, while we are at it)

   - a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed

   - a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
     altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
     (uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.

   - microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once

   - saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
     architectures switched to using those."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
  x86: convert to ksignal
  sparc: convert to ksignal
  arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
  alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
  burying unused conditionals
  make do_sigaltstack() static
  arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
  arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
  arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
  sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
  sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
  sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
  kill sparc32_open()
  sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
  sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
  ...
2013-02-23 18:50:11 -08:00
Al Viro
d64008a8f3 burying unused conditionals
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION,
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_SCHED_RR_GET_INTERVAL - not used anymore
CONFIG_GENERIC_{SIGALTSTACK,COMPAT_RT_SIG{ACTION,QUEUEINFO,PENDING,PROCMASK}} -
can be assumed always set.
2013-02-14 09:21:15 -05:00
Al Viro
177b6703f6 frv: switch to generic old sigaction()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03 18:15:55 -05:00
Al Viro
39e08a9bae frv: switch to generic old sigsuspend
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03 18:15:55 -05:00
Al Viro
fe76141671 frv: switch to generic sigaltstack
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03 18:15:54 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
786133f6e8 Merge branch 'core/irq_work' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into irq/core
irq_work fixes and cleanups, in preparation for full dyntics support.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-01-24 12:48:41 +01:00
Al Viro
ae903caae2 Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
All architectures have
	CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD
	CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE
	__ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE
None of them have __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and there are only two callers
of kernel_execve() (which is a trivial wrapper for do_execve() now) left.
Kill the conditionals and make both callers use do_execve().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-19 18:07:38 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker
6147a9d807 irq_work: Remove CONFIG_HAVE_IRQ_WORK
irq work can run on any arch even without IPI
support because of the hook on update_process_times().

So lets remove HAVE_IRQ_WORK because it doesn't reflect
any backend requirement.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-11-17 19:25:12 +01:00
Al Viro
7b7ade1179 frv: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-02 12:05:04 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8213a2f3ee Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull pile 2 of execve and kernel_thread unification work from Al Viro:
 "Stuff in there: kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve conversions for
  several more architectures plus assorted signal fixes and cleanups.

  There'll be more (in particular, real fixes for the alpha
  do_notify_resume() irq mess)..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (43 commits)
  alpha: don't open-code trace_report_syscall_{enter,exit}
  Uninclude linux/freezer.h
  m32r: trim masks
  avr32: trim masks
  tile: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame
  microblaze: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_rt_frame()
  mn10300: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
  frv: no need to raise SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
  x86: get rid of duplicate code in case of CONFIG_VM86
  unicore32: remove pointless test
  h8300: trim _TIF_WORK_MASK
  parisc: decide whether to go to slow path (tracesys) based on thread flags
  parisc: don't bother looping in do_signal()
  parisc: fix double restarts
  bury the rest of TIF_IRET
  sanitize tsk_is_polling()
  bury _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
  unicore32: unobfuscate _TIF_WORK_MASK
  mips: NOTIFY_RESUME is not needed in TIF masks
  mips: merge the identical "return from syscall" per-ABI code
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
2012-10-12 10:49:08 +09:00
Catalin Marinas
9b2a60c484 Kconfig: clean up the long arch list for the DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE config option
Introduce HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE config option and select it in
corresponding architecture Kconfig files.  Architectures that already
select GENERIC_BUG don't need to select HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-09 16:22:14 +09:00
Catalin Marinas
af1839eb4b Kconfig: clean up the long arch list for the UID16 config option
Introduce HAVE_UID16 config option and select it in corresponding
architecture Kconfig files.  UID16 now only depends on HAVE_UID16.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-09 16:22:13 +09:00
Al Viro
49ed3398b7 frv: switch to generic kernel_thread() 2012-10-01 00:53:11 -04:00
Will Deacon
c1d7e01d78 ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Rather than #define the options manually in the architecture code, add
Kconfig options for them and select them there instead.  This also allows
us to select the compat IPC version parsing automatically for platforms
using the old compat IPC interface.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
9f13a1fd45 cpu: Register a generic CPU device on architectures that currently do not
frv, h8300, m68k, microblaze, openrisc, score, um and xtensa currently
do not register a CPU device.  Add the config option GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
which causes a generic CPU device to be registered for each present CPU,
and make all these architectures select it.

Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> covered UML and suggested using
per_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-11 15:50:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e343a895a9 lib: use generic pci_iomap on all architectures
Many architectures don't want to pull in iomap.c,
 so they ended up duplicating pci_iomap from that file.
 That function isn't trivial, and we are going to modify it
 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/14/183
 so the duplication hurts.
 
 This reduces the scope of the problem significantly,
 by moving pci_iomap to a separate file and
 referencing that from all architectures.
 
 Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

lib: use generic pci_iomap on all architectures

Many architectures don't want to pull in iomap.c,
so they ended up duplicating pci_iomap from that file.
That function isn't trivial, and we are going to modify it
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/14/183
so the duplication hurts.

This reduces the scope of the problem significantly,
by moving pci_iomap to a separate file and
referencing that from all architectures.

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
  alpha: drop pci_iomap/pci_iounmap from pci-noop.c
  mn10300: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  mn10300: add missing __iomap markers
  frv: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  tile: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  tile: don't panic on iomap
  sparc: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  sh: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  powerpc: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  parisc: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  mips: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  microblaze: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  arm: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  alpha: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  lib: add GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  lib: move GENERIC_IOMAP to lib/Kconfig

Fix up trivial conflicts due to changes nearby in arch/{m68k,score}/Kconfig
2012-01-10 18:04:27 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
5322418502 frv: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
frv uses a version of pci_iomap that simply
casts and returns back the start address.
Looking closely, both ioremap and ioport_map seem to
do this on this platform, so the generic pci_iomap
will DTRT automatically.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-12-04 16:00:12 +02:00
Paul Bolle
3007c48a6a treewide: remove commented out Kconfig entries
These Kconfig entries have been commented out since (at least)
v2.6.12-rc2 (the first commit of the git repository). There's no
indication why they're commented out. They might as well be removed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-10-29 21:31:21 +02:00
Huang Ying
df013ffb81 Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
cmpxchg() is widely used by lockless code, including NMI-safe lockless
code.  But on some architectures, the cmpxchg() implementation is not
NMI-safe, on these architectures the lockless code may need a
spin_trylock_irqsave() based implementation.

This patch adds a Kconfig option: ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, so that
NMI-safe lockless code can depend on it or provide different
implementation according to it.

On many architectures, cmpxchg is only NMI-safe for several specific
operand sizes. So, ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG define in this patch
only guarantees cmpxchg is NMI-safe for sizeof(unsigned long).

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
CC: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
CC: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
CC: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
CC: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
CC: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
CC: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
CC: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
CC: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-08-03 11:12:37 -04:00
Akinobu Mita
63e424c844 arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT}
By the previous style change, CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT,
CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE, and CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_LAST_BIT are not used
to test for existence of find bitops anymore.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:38 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
78c8982564 genirq: Remove the now obsolete config options and select statements
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-30 14:13:23 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
3062aa50a6 FRV: Use generic show_interrupts()
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2011-03-29 14:05:13 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
a9554c3a5d frv: Select GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
All chips converted

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2011-03-29 14:05:13 +01:00
Amerigo Wang
5ca7202bc4 FRV: Do some cleanups
1. frv doesn't support SMP, remove the useless SMP bits.

2. frv has its own alloc_task_struct, so define __HAVE_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
   (I am not sure if frv should use generic alloc_task_struct().)

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2011-03-29 14:05:12 +01:00
Akinobu Mita
0664996b7c bitops: introduce CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE
This introduces CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE to tell whether to use generic
implementation of find_*_bit_le() in lib/find_next_bit.c or not.

For now we select CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE for all architectures which
enable CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT.

But m68knommu wants to define own faster find_next_zero_bit_le() and
continues using generic find_next_{,zero_}bit().
(CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT and !CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE)

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:14 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
f39b02d6f9 frv: Use generic irq Kconfig
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2011-01-21 11:55:32 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
1c77ff22f5 genirq: Remove __do_IRQ
All architectures are finally converted. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
2011-01-21 11:55:31 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
51399a3919 Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (38 commits)
  kbuild: convert `arch/tile' to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade
  README: cite nconfig
  Revert "kconfig: Temporarily disable dependency warnings"
  kconfig: Use PATH_MAX instead of 128 for path buffer sizes.
  kconfig: Fix realloc usage()
  kconfig: Propagate const
  kconfig: Don't go out from read config loop when you read new symbol
  kconfig: fix menuconfig on debian lenny
  kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade
  kconfig: expand file names
  kconfig: use the file's name of sourced file
  kconfig: constify file name
  kconfig: don't emit warning upon rootmenu's prompt redefinition
  kconfig: replace KERNELVERSION usage by the mainmenu's prompt
  kconfig: delay gconf window initialization
  kconfig: expand by default the rootmenu's prompt
  kconfig: add a symbol string expansion helper
  kconfig: regen parser
  kconfig: implement the `mainmenu' directive
  kconfig: allow PACKAGE to be defined on the compiler's command-line
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/mn10300/Kconfig
2010-10-28 16:16:39 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
e360adbe29 irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.

Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.

The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.

Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 19:58:50 +02:00
Michal Marek
239060b93b Merge branch 'kbuild/rc-fixes' into kbuild/kconfig
We need to revert the temporary hack in 71ebc01, hence the merge.
2010-10-12 15:09:06 +02:00
Arnaud Lacombe
838a2e55e6 kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
John Stultz
592913ecb8 time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
Now that all arches have been converted over to use generic time via
clocksources or arch_gettimeoffset(), we can remove the GENERIC_TIME
config option and simplify the generic code.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-4-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-27 12:40:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
David Howells
42ca4fb691 FRV: Add basic performance counter support
Add basic performance counter support to the FRV arch.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-01 19:38:31 -07:00
David Howells
4a3b989322 FRV: Implement new-style ptrace
Implement the new-style ptrace for FRV, including adding appropriate
tracehooks.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11 09:01:26 -07:00
Matt Helsley
dc52ddc0e6 container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem
This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups
framework.  It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in
a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem.

The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named
freezer.state.  Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks
in the cgroup.  Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in
the cgroup.  Reading will return the current state.

* Examples of usage :

   # mkdir /containers/freezer
   # mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer  /containers
   # mkdir /containers/0
   # echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks

to get status of the freezer subsystem :

   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

to freeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FREEZING
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FROZEN

to unfreeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space
task in a simple scenario.

It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete.  In that case we
return EBUSY.  This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this
time.  After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected
by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read.  The state will remain
"FREEZING" until one of these things happens:

	1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to
		the freezer.state file
	2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
		the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
		and returns EIO)
	3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
		state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process]
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
ec7748b59e ide: introduce HAVE_IDE
To allow flexible configuration of IDE introduce HAVE_IDE.
All archs except arm, um and s390 unconditionally select it.
For arm the actual configuration determine if IDE is supported.

This is a step towards introducing drivers/Kconfig for arm.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
bdc807871d avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds is
not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we currently
do a multiply followed by a divide.  The intervening result, however, is
subject to overflows, especially since the fraction is not simplified (for
HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and divide by 1000).

This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(), for
example.

This patch replaces the multiply-divide with a reciprocal multiplication on
32-bit platforms.  When the input is an unsigned long, there is no portable
way to do this on 64-bit platforms there is no portable way to do this
since it requires a 128-bit intermediate result (which gcc does support on
64-bit platforms but may generate libgcc calls, e.g.  on 64-bit s390), but
since the output is a 32-bit integer in the cases affected, just simplify
the multiply-divide (*3/10 instead of *300/1000).

The reciprocal multiply used can have off-by-one errors in the upper half
of the valid output range.  This could be avoided at the expense of having
to deal with a potential 65-bit intermediate result.  Since the intent is
to avoid overflow problems and most of the other time conversions are only
semiexact, the off-by-one errors were considered an acceptable tradeoff.

At Ralf Baechle's suggestion, this version uses a Perl script to compute
the necessary constants.  We already have dependencies on Perl for kernel
compiles.  This does, however, require the Perl module Math::BigInt, which
is included in the standard Perl distribution starting with version 5.8.0.
In order to support older versions of Perl, include a table of canned
constants in the script itself, and structure the script so that
Math::BigInt isn't required if pulling values from said table.

Running the script requires that the HZ value is available from the
Makefile.  Thus, this patch also adds the Kconfig variable CONFIG_HZ to the
architectures which didn't already have it (alpha, cris, frv, h8300, m32r,
m68k, m68knommu, sparc, v850, and xtensa.) It does *not* touch the sh or
sh64 architectures, since Paul Mundt has dealt with those separately in the
sh tree.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Cc: Michael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>,
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>,
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
Cc: William L. Irwin <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>,
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:39 -08:00
David Howells
7038220aa5 FRV: permit the memory to be located elsewhere in NOMMU mode
Permit the memory to be located somewhere other than address 0xC0000000 in
NOMMU mode.  The configuration options are already present, it just
requires wiring up in the linker script.

Note that only a limited set of locations of runtime addresses are available
because of the way the CPU protection registers work.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f5bb3a5e9d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (79 commits)
  Jesper Juhl is the new trivial patches maintainer
  Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: spello fix
  do_invalidatepage() comment typo fix
  Documentation/filesystems/porting fixes
  typo fixes in net/core/net_namespace.c
  typo fix in net/rfkill/rfkill.c
  typo fixes in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
  lib/: Spelling fixes
  kernel/: Spelling fixes
  include/scsi/: Spelling fixes
  include/linux/: Spelling fixes
  include/asm-m68knommu/: Spelling fixes
  include/asm-frv/: Spelling fixes
  fs/: Spelling fixes
  drivers/watchdog/: Spelling fixes
  drivers/video/: Spelling fixes
  drivers/ssb/: Spelling fixes
  drivers/serial/: Spelling fixes
  drivers/scsi/: Spelling fixes
  ...
2008-02-04 07:58:52 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
0868ff7a42 move frv docs one level up
My first guess for "fujitsu" was it might be related to the
fujitsu-laptop.c driver...

Move the frv directory one level up since frv is the name of the
architecture in the Linux kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 15:54:28 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
125e564582 Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig
Move the instrumentation Kconfig to

arch/Kconfig for architecture dependent options
  - oprofile
  - kprobes

and

init/Kconfig for architecture independent options
  - profiling
  - markers

Remove the "Instrumentation Support" menu. Everything moves to "General setup".
Delete the kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation file.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-02-03 08:58:08 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
687fcdf741 Merge branch 'suspend' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'suspend' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (38 commits)
  suspend: cleanup reference to swsusp_pg_dir[]
  PM: Remove obsolete /sys/devices/.../power/state docs
  Hibernation: Invoke suspend notifications after console switch
  Suspend: Invoke suspend notifications after console switch
  Suspend: Clean up suspend_64.c
  Suspend: Add config option to disable the freezer if architecture wants that
  ACPI: Print message before calling _PTS
  ACPI hibernation: Call _PTS before suspending devices
  Hibernation: Introduce begin() and end() callbacks
  ACPI suspend: Call _PTS before suspending devices
  ACPI: Separate disabling of GPEs from _PTS
  ACPI: Separate invocations of _GTS and _BFS from _PTS and _WAK
  Suspend: Introduce begin() and end() callbacks
  suspend: fix ia64 allmodconfig build
  ACPI: clear GPE earily in resume to avoid warning
  Suspend: Clean up Kconfig (V2)
  Hibernation: Clean up Kconfig (V2)
  Hibernation: Update messages
  Suspend: Use common prefix in messages
  Hibernation: Remove unnecessary variable declaration
  ...
2008-02-02 14:29:57 +11:00
Johannes Berg
f4cb570076 Suspend: Clean up Kconfig (V2)
This cleans up the suspend Kconfig and removes the need to
declare centrally which architectures support suspend. All
architectures that currently support suspend are modified
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01 18:30:55 -05:00
Adrian Bunk
8f0e7d2405 PCI: Kconfig help: don't refer to the PCI-HOWTO
A HOWTO that hasn't been updated for half a dozen years no longer
"contains valuable information about which PCI hardware does work under
Linux and which doesn't".

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-01 15:04:26 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
09cadedbdc Combine instrumentation menus in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation
Quoting Randy:

"It seems sad that this patch sources Kconfig.marker, a 7-line file,
20-something times.  Yes, you (we) don't want to put those 7 lines into
20-something different files, so sourcing is the right thing.

However, what you did for avr32 seems more on the right track to me: make
_one_ Instrumentation support menu that includes PROFILING, OPROFILE, KPROBES,
and MARKERS and then use (source) that in all of the arches."

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:54 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
0aa817f078 Slab allocators: define common size limitations
Currently we have a maze of configuration variables that determine the
maximum slab size.  Worst of all it seems to vary between SLAB and SLUB.

So define a common maximum size for kmalloc.  For conveniences sake we use
the maximum size ever supported which is 32 MB.  We limit the maximum size
to a lower limit if MAX_ORDER does not allow such large allocations.

For many architectures this patch will have the effect of adding large
kmalloc sizes.  x86_64 adds 5 new kmalloc sizes.  So a small amount of
memory will be needed for these caches (contemporary SLAB has dynamically
sizeable node and cpu structure so the waste is less than in the past)

Most architectures will then be able to allocate object with sizes up to
MAX_ORDER.  We have had repeated breakage (in fact whenever we doubled the
number of supported processors) on IA64 because one or the other struct
grew beyond what the slab allocators supported.  This will avoid future
issues and f.e.  avoid fixes for 2k and 4k cpu support.

CONFIG_LARGE_ALLOCS is no longer necessary so drop it.

It fixes sparc64 with SLAB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
8defab3377 FRV: Replace pgd management via slabs through quicklists
This is done in order to be able to run SLUB which expects no modifications
to its page structs.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
81819f0fc8 SLUB core
This is a new slab allocator which was motivated by the complexity of the
existing code in mm/slab.c. It attempts to address a variety of concerns
with the existing implementation.

A. Management of object queues

   A particular concern was the complex management of the numerous object
   queues in SLAB. SLUB has no such queues. Instead we dedicate a slab for
   each allocating CPU and use objects from a slab directly instead of
   queueing them up.

B. Storage overhead of object queues

   SLAB Object queues exist per node, per CPU. The alien cache queue even
   has a queue array that contain a queue for each processor on each
   node. For very large systems the number of queues and the number of
   objects that may be caught in those queues grows exponentially. On our
   systems with 1k nodes / processors we have several gigabytes just tied up
   for storing references to objects for those queues  This does not include
   the objects that could be on those queues. One fears that the whole
   memory of the machine could one day be consumed by those queues.

C. SLAB meta data overhead

   SLAB has overhead at the beginning of each slab. This means that data
   cannot be naturally aligned at the beginning of a slab block. SLUB keeps
   all meta data in the corresponding page_struct. Objects can be naturally
   aligned in the slab. F.e. a 128 byte object will be aligned at 128 byte
   boundaries and can fit tightly into a 4k page with no bytes left over.
   SLAB cannot do this.

D. SLAB has a complex cache reaper

   SLUB does not need a cache reaper for UP systems. On SMP systems
   the per CPU slab may be pushed back into partial list but that
   operation is simple and does not require an iteration over a list
   of objects. SLAB expires per CPU, shared and alien object queues
   during cache reaping which may cause strange hold offs.

E. SLAB has complex NUMA policy layer support

   SLUB pushes NUMA policy handling into the page allocator. This means that
   allocation is coarser (SLUB does interleave on a page level) but that
   situation was also present before 2.6.13. SLABs application of
   policies to individual slab objects allocated in SLAB is
   certainly a performance concern due to the frequent references to
   memory policies which may lead a sequence of objects to come from
   one node after another. SLUB will get a slab full of objects
   from one node and then will switch to the next.

F. Reduction of the size of partial slab lists

   SLAB has per node partial lists. This means that over time a large
   number of partial slabs may accumulate on those lists. These can
   only be reused if allocator occur on specific nodes. SLUB has a global
   pool of partial slabs and will consume slabs from that pool to
   decrease fragmentation.

G. Tunables

   SLAB has sophisticated tuning abilities for each slab cache. One can
   manipulate the queue sizes in detail. However, filling the queues still
   requires the uses of the spin lock to check out slabs. SLUB has a global
   parameter (min_slab_order) for tuning. Increasing the minimum slab
   order can decrease the locking overhead. The bigger the slab order the
   less motions of pages between per CPU and partial lists occur and the
   better SLUB will be scaling.

G. Slab merging

   We often have slab caches with similar parameters. SLUB detects those
   on boot up and merges them into the corresponding general caches. This
   leads to more effective memory use. About 50% of all caches can
   be eliminated through slab merging. This will also decrease
   slab fragmentation because partial allocated slabs can be filled
   up again. Slab merging can be switched off by specifying
   slub_nomerge on boot up.

   Note that merging can expose heretofore unknown bugs in the kernel
   because corrupted objects may now be placed differently and corrupt
   differing neighboring objects. Enable sanity checks to find those.

H. Diagnostics

   The current slab diagnostics are difficult to use and require a
   recompilation of the kernel. SLUB contains debugging code that
   is always available (but is kept out of the hot code paths).
   SLUB diagnostics can be enabled via the "slab_debug" option.
   Parameters can be specified to select a single or a group of
   slab caches for diagnostics. This means that the system is running
   with the usual performance and it is much more likely that
   race conditions can be reproduced.

I. Resiliency

   If basic sanity checks are on then SLUB is capable of detecting
   common error conditions and recover as best as possible to allow the
   system to continue.

J. Tracing

   Tracing can be enabled via the slab_debug=T,<slabcache> option
   during boot. SLUB will then protocol all actions on that slabcache
   and dump the object contents on free.

K. On demand DMA cache creation.

   Generally DMA caches are not needed. If a kmalloc is used with
   __GFP_DMA then just create this single slabcache that is needed.
   For systems that have no ZONE_DMA requirement the support is
   completely eliminated.

L. Performance increase

   Some benchmarks have shown speed improvements on kernbench in the
   range of 5-10%. The locking overhead of slub is based on the
   underlying base allocation size. If we can reliably allocate
   larger order pages then it is possible to increase slub
   performance much further. The anti-fragmentation patches may
   enable further performance increases.

Tested on:
i386 UP + SMP, x86_64 UP + SMP + NUMA emulation, IA64 NUMA + Simulator

SLUB Boot options

slub_nomerge		Disable merging of slabs
slub_min_order=x	Require a minimum order for slab caches. This
			increases the managed chunk size and therefore
			reduces meta data and locking overhead.
slub_min_objects=x	Mininum objects per slab. Default is 8.
slub_max_order=x	Avoid generating slabs larger than order specified.
slub_debug		Enable all diagnostics for all caches
slub_debug=<options>	Enable selective options for all caches
slub_debug=<o>,<cache>	Enable selective options for a certain set of
			caches

Available Debug options
F		Double Free checking, sanity and resiliency
R		Red zoning
P		Object / padding poisoning
U		Track last free / alloc
T		Trace all allocs / frees (only use for individual slabs).

To use SLUB: Apply this patch and then select SLUB as the default slab
allocator.

[hugh@veritas.com: fix an oops-causing locking error]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various stupid cleanups and small fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00