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Jeff Mahoney
b83674c0da reiserfs: fixup perms when xattrs are disabled
This adds CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR protection from reiserfs_permission.

This is needed to avoid warnings during file deletions and chowns with
xattrs disabled.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-17 11:45:45 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney
ceb5edc457 reiserfs: deal with NULL xattr root w/ xattrs disabled
This avoids an Oops in open_xa_root that can occur when deleting a file
with xattrs disabled.  It assumes that the xattr root will be there, and
that is not guaranteed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-17 11:45:45 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney
12abb35a03 reiserfs: clean up ifdefs
With xattr cleanup even with xattrs disabled, much of the initial setup
is still performed.  Some #ifdefs are just not needed since the options
they protect wouldn't be available anyway.

This cleans those up.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-17 11:45:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bba0b4ec3c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  mm: SLOB fix reclaim_state
  mm: SLUB fix reclaim_state
  slub: add Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab
  slub: enforce MAX_ORDER
2009-05-17 11:44:19 -07:00
Russell King
e1342f1da0 Merge branch 'smp-fix' 2009-05-17 17:13:18 +01:00
Russell King
ee348d5a1d [ARM] realview: fix broadcast tick support
Having discussed broadcast tick support with Thomas Glexiner, the
broadcast tick devices should be registered with a higher rating
than the global tick device, and it should have the ONESHOT and
PERIODIC feature flags set.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Glexiner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-17 17:11:35 +01:00
Russell King
78d236c2b3 [ARM] realview: remove useless smp_cross_call_done()
smp_cross_call_done() is a no-op for MPCore, and since it's only
used by platform code, there's no point in having it unless it's
doing something.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-17 16:23:45 +01:00
Russell King
826681043d [ARM] smp: fix cpumask usage in ARM SMP code
The ARM SMP code wasn't properly updated for the cpumask changes, which
results in smp_timer_broadcast() broadcasting ticks to non-online CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-17 16:22:46 +01:00
David S. Miller
17e4d43eb6 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6 2009-05-16 13:46:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0f6f49a8cd Fix caller information for warn_slowpath_null
Ian Campbell noticed that since "Eliminate thousands of warnings with
gcc 3.2 build" (commit 57adc4d2db) all
WARN_ON()'s currently appear to come from warn_slowpath_null(), eg:

  WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:143 warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x20()

because now that warn_slowpath_null() is in the call path, the
__builtin_return_address(0) returns that, rather than the place that
caused the warning.

Fix this by splitting up the warn_slowpath_null/fmt cases differently,
using a common helper function, and getting the return address in the
right place.  This also happens to avoid the unnecessary stack usage for
the non-stdargs case, and just generally cleans things up.

Make the function name printout use %pS while at it.

Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-16 13:41:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b41a080fa9 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6:
  piix: The Sony TZ90 needs the cable type hardcoding
  icside: register second channel of version 6 PCB
  ide-tape: remove back-to-back REQUEST_SENSE detection
2009-05-16 12:47:11 -07:00
Ricardo Martins
776abac817 [ARM] 5513/1: Eurotech VIPER SBC: fix compilation error
Compilation for this board yields the following errors:

arch/arm/mach-pxa/viper.c:511: error: 'FFUART' undeclared here (not in a function)
arch/arm/mach-pxa/viper.c:520: error: 'BTUART' undeclared here (not in a function)
arch/arm/mach-pxa/viper.c:529: error: 'STUART' undeclared here (not in a function)

Fix them by including the necessary header.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martins <rasm@fe.up.pt>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-16 19:55:56 +01:00
Hartley Sweeten
ff05c0330b [ARM] 5509/1: ep93xx: clkdev enable UARTS
Fix the clkdev API support for the ep93xx uart clocks.

The uarts available in the ep93xx have individual clock controls.
The current implementation assumes that the bootloader has enabled
the clocks before the kernel has booted. It also assumes that the
bootloader has set the UARTBAUD bit indicating that the uarts are
running off the 14.7456MHz external crystal.

This fixes both issues. It also allows the uart clocks to be stopped
when there are no users.

Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>

Cc: Ryan Mallon <ryan@bluewatersys.com>
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-16 19:55:56 +01:00
Russell King
cddb783552 Merge branch 'omap-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 2009-05-16 19:51:20 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
5fe4990a97 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  ACPI: Idle C-states disabled by max_cstate should not disable the TSC
  ACPI: idle: fix init-time TSC check regression
  ACPI processor: reset the throttling state once it's invalid
  ACPI processor: introduce module parameter processor.ignore_tpc
  ACPI, i915: build fix
  ACPI: suspend: restore BM_RLD on resume
  ACPI: resume: re-enable SCI-enable workaround
  thermal: fix off-by-1 error in trip point trigger condition
  eeepc-laptop: unregister_rfkill_notifier on failure
  asus-laptop: fix input keycode
  eeepc-laptop: support for super hybrid engine (SHE)
  eeepc-laptop: Work around rfkill firmware bug
  eeepc-laptop: report brightness control events via the input layer
  eeepc-laptop: fix wlan rfkill state change during init
  ACPI: suspend: don't let device _PS3 failure prevent suspend
  ACPI: power: update error message
  ACPI: video: DMI workaround another broken Acer BIOS enabling display brightness
  ACPICA: use acpi.* modparam namespace
  ACPI video: dmi check for broken _BQC on Acer Aspire 5720
2009-05-16 11:22:06 -07:00
Alan Cox
d8788298d4 piix: The Sony TZ90 needs the cable type hardcoding
The Sony TZ90 needs the cable type hardcoding. See bug #12734

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by:  Jonathan E. Snow <jesnow@uh.edu>
[bart: port it from ata_piix to piix and give reporter the proper credit]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-16 19:03:36 +02:00
Sergei Shtylyov
b019447ce7 icside: register second channel of version 6 PCB
The second IDE channel of version 6 PCB is not being registered anymore since
the commit 48c3c10726 (ide: add struct ide_host
(take 3)).

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-16 19:03:36 +02:00
Tejun Heo
36999a5af1 ide-tape: remove back-to-back REQUEST_SENSE detection
Impact: fix an oops which always triggers

ide_tape_issue_pc() assumed drive->pc isn't NULL on invocation when
checking for back-to-back request sense issues but drive->pc can be
NULL and even when it's not NULL, it's not safe to dereference it once
the previous command is complete because pc could have been freed or
was on stack.  Kill back-to-back REQUEST_SENSE detection.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-16 19:03:18 +02:00
Russell King
b477dfba38 Merge branch 'fixes-rc5' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux 2009-05-16 17:54:19 +01:00
Tony Lindgren
005187eeca ARM: OMAP2/3: Change omapfb to use clkdev for dispc and rfbi, v2
This makes the framebuffer work on omap3.

Also fix the clk_get usage for checkpatch.pl
"ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition".

Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@nokia.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
2009-05-16 08:28:17 -07:00
Kalle Jokiniemi
8dbe43930a ARM: OMAP3: Fix HW SAVEANDRESTORE shift define
The OMAP3430ES2_SAVEANDRESTORE_SHIFT macro is used
by powerdomain code in
"1 << OMAP3430ES2_SAVEANDRESTORE_SHIFT" manner, but
the definition was also (1 << 4), meaning we actually
modified bit 16. So the definition needs to be 4.

This fixes also a cold reset HW bug in OMAP3430 ES3.x
where some of the efuse bits are not isolated during
wake-up from off mode. This can cause randomish
cold resets with off mode. Enabling the USBTLL hardware
SAVEANDRESTORE causes the core power up assert to be
delayed in a way that we will not get faulty values
when boot ROM is reading the unisolated registers.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Jokiniemi <kalle.jokiniemi@digia.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Acked-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
2009-05-16 08:28:17 -07:00
Vikram Pandita
e102657ed1 ARM: OMAP3: Fix number of GPIO lines for 34xx
As per 3430 TRM, there are 6 banks [0 to 191]

Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <Tom.Rix@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Vikram Pandita <vikram.pandita@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
2009-05-16 08:28:16 -07:00
Len Brown
4e3507f718 Merge branches 'release', 'bugzilla-13032', 'bugzilla-13041+', 'bugzilla-13121', 'bugzilla-13165', 'bugzilla-13243', 'bugzilla-13259', 'resume-sci-en-regression', 'thermal-regression', 'tsc-regression' and 'asus-2.6.30' into release 2009-05-16 01:55:59 -04:00
Len Brown
a0bf284bfe ACPI: Idle C-states disabled by max_cstate should not disable the TSC
Processor idle power states C2 and C3 stop the TSC on many machines.
Linux recognizes this situation and marks the TSC as unstable:

Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle

But if those same machines are booted with "processor.max_cstate=1",
then there is no need to validate C2 and C3, and no need to
disable the TSC, which can be reliably used as a clocksource.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-16 01:52:39 -04:00
Len Brown
520daf7217 ACPI: idle: fix init-time TSC check regression
A previous 2.6.30 patch, a71e4917dc,
(ACPI: idle: mark_tsc_unstable() at init-time, not run-time)
erroneously disabled the TSC on systems that did not actually
have valid deep C-states.

Move the check after the deep-C-states are validated,
via new helper, tsc_check_state(), hich replaces tsc_halts_in_c().

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
2009-05-16 01:51:51 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
1406de8e11 Linux 2.6.30-rc6 2009-05-15 21:12:57 -07:00
Zhang Rui
4973b22aa8 ACPI processor: reset the throttling state once it's invalid
If the BIOS hands us an invalid throttling state,
write a valid state.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13259

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: James Ettle <theholyettlz@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-05-15 23:21:54 -04:00
Zhang Rui
56c213fa01 ACPI processor: introduce module parameter processor.ignore_tpc
Introduce module parameter processor.ignore_tpc.

Some laptops are shipped with buggy _TPC,
this module parameter is used to to disable the buggy support.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13259

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: James Ettle <theholyettlz@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-05-15 23:21:43 -04:00
Len Brown
ecb4aed78d ACPI, i915: build fix
drivers/built-in.o: In function `intel_opregion_init':
(.text+0x9d540): undefined reference to `acpi_video_register'

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13165

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-05-15 22:52:21 -04:00
Len Brown
815ab0fd40 ACPI: suspend: restore BM_RLD on resume
In 2.6.29,
31878dd86b
"ACPI: remove BM_RLD access from idle entry path"
moved BM_RLD initialization to init-time from run time.

But we discovered that some BIOS do not restore BM_RLD
after suspend, causing device errors on C3 and C4
after resume.  So now the kernel restores BM_RLD.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13032

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-05-15 22:44:05 -04:00
Lin Ming
975b3c474c ACPI: resume: re-enable SCI-enable workaround
The BIOS bug workaround mistakenly got disabled
when we followed the ACPI specification more closely
by ignoring OS updates to that bit.

(The BIOS is supposed to update SCI_EN, not the OS)

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13289

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-05-15 22:27:49 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
72357d5955 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:
  PCI MSI: Fix MSI-X with NIU cards
  PCI: Fix pci-e port driver slot_reset bad default return value
2009-05-15 16:47:55 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
4484079d51 PM: check sysdev_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) return value
Check the return value of sysdev_suspend().  I think this was a typo.
Without this change, the following "if" check is always false.
I also changed the error message so it's distinguishable from the
similar message a few lines above.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-05-15 23:30:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
7c7327d966 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6:
  Bluetooth: Don't trigger disconnect timeout for security mode 3 pairing
  Bluetooth: Don't use hci_acl_connect_cancel() for incoming connections
  Bluetooth: Fix wrong module refcount when connection setup fails

Another case of me handling the fallout from Davem's unfortunate
addiction to shuffleboard.

Won't anybody think of the children? Join the anti-shuffleboard league
today!
2009-05-15 14:30:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
40f293ff83 Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel
* 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel:
  drm/i915: Add new GET_PIPE_FROM_CRTC_ID ioctl.
  drm/i915: Set HDMI hot plug interrupt enable for only the output in question.
  drm/i915: Include 965GME pci ID in IS_I965GM(dev) to match UMS.
  drm/i915: Use the GM45 VGA hotplug workaround on G45 as well.
  drm/i915: ignore LVDS on intel graphics systems that lie about having it
  drm/i915: sanity check IER at wait_request time
  drm/i915: workaround IGD i2c bus issue in kernel side (v2)
  drm/i915: Don't allow binding objects into the last page of the aperture.
  drm/i915: save/restore fence registers across suspend/resume
  drm/i915: x86 always has writeq. Add I915_READ64 for symmetry.
2009-05-15 13:22:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8c21f34126 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  libata: Media rotation rate and form factor heuristics
  libata: Report disk alignment and physical block size
  sata_fsl: Fix the command description of FSL SATA controller
  sata_fsl: Fix compile warnings
  [libata] sata_sx4: fixup interrupt handling
  [libata] sata_sx4: convert to new exception handling methods
2009-05-15 12:04:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3346857f6f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6:
  iwlwifi: fix device id registration for 6000 series 2x2 devices
  ath5k: update channel in sw state after stopping RX and TX
  rtl8187: use DMA-aware buffers with usb_control_msg
  mac80211: avoid NULL ptr deref when finding max_rates in PID and minstrel
  airo: airo_get_encode{,ext} potential buffer overflow

Pulled directly by Linus because Davem is off playing shuffle-board at
some Alaskan cruise, and the NULL ptr deref issue hits people and should
get merged sooner rather than later.

David - make us proud on the shuffle-board tournament!
2009-05-15 12:02:06 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen
4bca328643 libata: Media rotation rate and form factor heuristics
This patch provides new heuristics for parsing both the form factor and
media rotation rate ATA IDENFITY words.

The reported ATA version must be 7 or greater and the device must return
values defined as valid in the standard.  Only then are the
characteristics reported to SCSI via the VPD B1 page.

This seems like a reasonable compromise to me considering that we have
been shipping several kernel releases that key off the rotation rate bit
without any version checking whatsoever.  With no complaints so far.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15 14:14:56 -04:00
Martin K. Petersen
61d79a8eb3 libata: Report disk alignment and physical block size
For disks with 4KB sectors, report the correct block size and alignment
when filling out the READ CAPACITY(16) response.

This patch is based upon code from Matthew Wilcox' 4KB ATA tree.  I
fixed the bug I reported a while back caused by ATA and SCSI using
different approaches to describing the alignment.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15 14:14:22 -04:00
Dave Liu
d358724385 sata_fsl: Fix the command description of FSL SATA controller
The bit 11 of command description is reserved bit in Freescale
SATA controller and needs to be set to '1'.  This is needed to
make sure the last write from the controller to the buffer
descriptor is seen before an interrupt is raised.

Signed-off-by: Dave Liu <daveliu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15 14:14:08 -04:00
Kumar Gala
f48c019f15 sata_fsl: Fix compile warnings
We we build with dma_addr_t as a 64-bit quantity we get:

drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c: In function 'sata_fsl_fill_sg':
drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c:340: warning: format '%x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'dma_addr_t'

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15 14:14:01 -04:00
David Milburn
19799bfc5d [libata] sata_sx4: fixup interrupt handling
Issuing ATA_CMD_SET_FEATURES (0xef) times out because
pdc20621_interrupt ignores command completion since
ATA_TFLAG_POLLING flag is set.

This has already been fixed for sata_promise:

commit 51b94d2a5a
Author: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jun 8 13:46:55 2007 -0700

    sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands

Also, this patch includes Mikael's original patches:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121135828227724&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121144512109826&w=2

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15 14:08:10 -04:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b4ecc12699 x86: Fix performance regression caused by paravirt_ops on native kernels
Xiaohui Xin and some other folks at Intel have been looking into what's
behind the performance hit of paravirt_ops when running native.

It appears that the hit is entirely due to the paravirtualized
spinlocks introduced by:

 | commit 8efcbab674
 | Date:   Mon Jul 7 12:07:51 2008 -0700
 |
 |     paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation

The extra call/return in the spinlock path is somehow
causing an increase in the cycles/instruction of somewhere around 2-7%
(seems to vary quite a lot from test to test).  The working theory is
that the CPU's pipeline is getting upset about the
call->call->locked-op->return->return, and seems to be failing to
speculate (though I haven't seen anything definitive about the precise
reasons).  This doesn't entirely make sense, because the performance
hit is also visible on unlock and other operations which don't involve
locked instructions.  But spinlock operations clearly swamp all the
other pvops operations, even though I can't imagine that they're
nearly as common (there's only a .05% increase in instructions
executed).

If I disable just the pv-spinlock calls, my tests show that pvops is
identical to non-pvops performance on native (my measurements show that
it is actually about .1% faster, but Xiaohui shows a .05% slowdown).

Summary of results, averaging 10 runs of the "mmperf" test, using a
no-pvops build as baseline:

		nopv		Pv-nospin	Pv-spin
CPU cycles	100.00%		99.89%		102.18%
instructions	100.00%		100.10%		100.15%
CPI		100.00%		99.79%		102.03%
cache ref	100.00%		100.84%		100.28%
cache miss	100.00%		90.47%		88.56%
cache miss rate	100.00%		89.72%		88.31%
branches	100.00%		99.93%		100.04%
branch miss	100.00%		103.66%		107.72%
branch miss rt	100.00%		103.73%		107.67%
wallclock	100.00%		99.90%		102.20%

The clear effect here is that the 2% increase in CPI is
directly reflected in the final wallclock time.

(The other interesting effect is that the more ops are
out of line calls via pvops, the lower the cache access
and miss rates.  Not too surprising, but it suggests that
the non-pvops kernel is over-inlined.  On the flipside,
the branch misses go up correspondingly...)

So, what's the fix?

Paravirt patching turns all the pvops calls into direct calls, so
_spin_lock etc do end up having direct calls.  For example, the compiler
generated code for paravirtualized _spin_lock is:

<_spin_lock+0>:		mov    %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>:		incl   0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>:	callq  *0xffffffff805a5b30
<_spin_lock+22>:	retq

The indirect call will get patched to:
<_spin_lock+0>:		mov    %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>:		incl   0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>:	callq <__ticket_spin_lock>
<_spin_lock+20>:	nop; nop		/* or whatever 2-byte nop */
<_spin_lock+22>:	retq

One possibility is to inline _spin_lock, etc, when building an
optimised kernel (ie, when there's no spinlock/preempt
instrumentation/debugging enabled).  That will remove the outer
call/return pair, returning the instruction stream to a single
call/return, which will presumably execute the same as the non-pvops
case.  The downsides arel 1) it will replicate the
preempt_disable/enable code at eack lock/unlock callsite; this code is
fairly small, but not nothing; and 2) the spinlock definitions are
already a very heavily tangled mass of #ifdefs and other preprocessor
magic, and making any changes will be non-trivial.

The other obvious answer is to disable pv-spinlocks.  Making them a
separate config option is fairly easy, and it would be trivial to
enable them only when Xen is enabled (as the only non-default user).
But it doesn't really address the common case of a distro build which
is going to have Xen support enabled, and leaves the open question of
whether the native performance cost of pv-spinlocks is worth the
performance improvement on a loaded Xen system (10% saving of overall
system CPU when guests block rather than spin).  Still it is a
reasonable short-term workaround.

[ Impact: fix pvops performance regression when running native ]

Analysed-by: "Xin Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Li Xin" <xin.li@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Nakajima Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0B62F7.5030802@goop.org>
[ fixed the help text ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 20:07:42 +02:00
Jeff Garzik
67651ee571 [libata] sata_sx4: convert to new exception handling methods
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15 14:05:22 -04:00
GeunSik Lim
88fc86c283 tracing: Append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file
append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file.

This is trivial issue. Fix typo Mini Howto file(README) for ftrace.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: williams <williams@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1242289418.31161.45.camel@centos51>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 19:43:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5d41343ac8 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: Fix race in ext4_inode_info.i_cached_extent
  ext4: Clear the unwritten buffer_head flag after the extent is initialized
  ext4: Use a fake block number for delayed new buffer_head
  ext4: Fix sub-block zeroing for writes into preallocated extents
2009-05-15 08:07:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c244450dac Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ASoC: DaVinci EVM board support buildfixes
  ASoC: DaVinci I2S updates
  ASoC: davinci-pcm buildfixes
  ALSA: pcsp: fix printk format warning
  ALSA: riptide: postfix increment and off by one
  pxa2xx-ac97: fix reset gpio mode setting
  ASoC: soc-core: fix crash when removing not instantiated card
2009-05-15 08:06:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ade385e4d1 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
  kgdb: gdb documentation fix
  kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frame
  sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collision
2009-05-15 08:06:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c653849981 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"
  viocd: needs to depend on BLOCK
  block: fix the bio_vec array index out-of-bounds test
2009-05-15 08:05:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
662f11cf2a Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc: Fix PCI ROM access
  powerpc/pseries: Really fix the oprofile CPU type on pseries
  serial/nwpserial: Fix wrong register read address and add interrupt acknowledge.
  powerpc/cell: Make ptcal more reliable
  powerpc: Allow mem=x cmdline to work with 4G+
  powerpc/mpic: Fix incorrect allocation of interrupt rev-map
  powerpc: Fix oprofile sampling of marked events on POWER7
  powerpc/iseries: Fix pci breakage due to bad dma_data initialization
  powerpc: Fix mktree build error on Mac OS X host
  powerpc/virtex: Fix duplicate level irq events.
  powerpc/virtex: Add uImage to the default images list
  powerpc/boot: add simpleImage.* to clean-files list
  powerpc/8xx: Update defconfigs
  powerpc/embedded6xx: Update defconfigs
  powerpc/86xx: Update defconfigs
  powerpc/85xx: Update defconfigs
  powerpc/83xx: Update defconfigs
  powerpc/fsl_soc: Remove mpc83xx_wdt_init, again
2009-05-15 08:05:02 -07:00