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Author SHA1 Message Date
David Woodhouse
f5e70d0fe3 md: Factor out RAID6 algorithms into lib/
We'll want to use these in btrfs too.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 14:38:47 +00:00
Philipp Reisner
b411b3637f The DRBD driver
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2009-10-01 21:17:49 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
09d4e0edd4 lib: Provide generic atomic64_t implementation
Many processor architectures have no 64-bit atomic instructions, but
we need atomic64_t in order to support the perf_counter subsystem.

This adds an implementation of 64-bit atomic operations using hashed
spinlocks to provide atomicity.  For each atomic operation, the address
of the atomic64_t variable is hashed to an index into an array of 16
spinlocks.  That spinlock is taken (with interrupts disabled) around the
operation, which can then be coded non-atomically within the lock.

On UP, all the spinlock manipulation goes away and we simply disable
interrupts around each operation.  In fact gcc eliminates the whole
atomic64_lock variable as well.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-15 13:27:38 +10:00
Oskar Schirmer
8759ef32d9 lib: isolate rational fractions helper function
Provide a helper function to determine optimum numerator
denominator value pairs taking into account restricted
register size. Useful especially with PLL and other clock
configurations.

Signed-off-by: Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11 08:51:08 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
38a6ed3ed8 Merge branch 'linus' into core/printk 2009-03-28 23:34:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6e15cf0486 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2
Conflicts:
	arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
	kernel/irq/handle.c

Semantic merge:
        arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
831576fe40 Merge branch 'sched-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
  sched: Add comments to find_busiest_group() function
  sched: Refactor the power savings balance code
  sched: Optimize the !power_savings_balance during fbg()
  sched: Create a helper function to calculate imbalance
  sched: Create helper to calculate small_imbalance in fbg()
  sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_domain stats for fbg()
  sched: Define structure to store the sched_domain statistics for fbg()
  sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_group stats for fbg()
  sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg()
  sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotos
  sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group()
  sched: remove unused fields from struct rq
  sched: jiffies not printed per CPU
  sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task()
  sched: fix typos in documentation
  sched: add avg_overlap decay
  x86, sched_clock(): mark variables read-mostly
  sched: optimize ttwu vs group scheduling
  sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanup
  sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain
  ...
2009-03-26 16:05:01 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
4370aa4aa7 vsprintf: add binary printf
Impact: add new APIs for binary trace printk infrastructure

vbin_printf(): write args to binary buffer, string is copied
when "%s" is occurred.

bstr_printf(): read from binary buffer for args and format a string

[fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 17:39:04 +01:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
e9cc8bddae netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set.
Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new
config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-03-04 14:53:30 +08:00
Peter Zijlstra
ceacc2c1c8 sched: make plist a library facility
Ingo Molnar wrote:

> here's a new build failure with tip/sched/rt:
>
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `set_curr_task_rt':
> sched.c:(.text+0x3675): undefined reference to `plist_del'
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `pick_next_task_rt':
> sched.c:(.text+0x37ce): undefined reference to `plist_del'
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `enqueue_pushable_task':
> sched.c:(.text+0x381c): undefined reference to `plist_del'

Eliminate the plist library kconfig and make it available
unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 15:01:31 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
7856a16ea0 bzip2/lzma: DECOMPRESS_GZIP should select ZLIB_INFLATE
Impact: Partial resolution of build failure

DECOMPRESS_GZIP is just a common-interface wrapper around the
zlib_inflate code; it thus need to select it.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-07 00:02:37 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
c8531ab343 bzip2/lzma: proper Kconfig dependencies for the ramdisk options
Impact: Partial resolution of build failure

Make all the compression algorithms properly configurable, and make
sure the ramdisk options pull in the proper compression algorithms, as
they should.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-05 13:48:31 -08:00
Rusty Russell
8c384cdee3 cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
Impact: new debug CONFIG options

This helps find unconverted code.  It currently breaks compile horribly,
but we never wanted a flag day so that's expected.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-01 10:12:30 +10:30
Rusty Russell
ab53d472e7 bitmap: find_last_bit()
Impact: New API

As the name suggests.  For the moment everyone uses the generic one.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-01 10:12:19 +10:30
Rusty Russell
33edcf133b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-12-30 08:02:35 +10:30
Herbert Xu
93027354d6 libcrc32c: Select CRYPTO in Kconfig
Selecting CRYPTO_CRC32C is not enough as CRYPTO which CRYPTO_CRC32C
depends on may be disabled.  This patch adds the select on CRYPTO.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-12-25 11:01:48 +11:00
Herbert Xu
69c35efcf1 libcrc32c: Move implementation to crypto crc32c
This patch swaps the role of libcrc32c and crc32c.  Previously
the implementation was in libcrc32c and crc32c was a wrapper.
Now the code is in crc32c and libcrc32c just calls the crypto
layer.

The reason for the change is to tap into the algorithm selection
capability of the crypto API so that optimised implementations
such as the one utilising Intel's CRC32C instruction can be
used where available.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-12-25 11:01:40 +11:00
Rusty Russell
aab46da052 cpumask: Add CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
Impact: Add config option to enable code in cpumask.h

Currently it can be set if DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS, or set specifically by
an arch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-12-13 21:20:27 +10:30
Jan Beulich
9ba16087d9 Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructs
Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more
appropriate.

Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't
selected by anything seems also at least questionable.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen
f11f594edb [SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRC
The SCSI Block Protocol uses this 16-bit CRC to verify the integrity
of each data sector.  crc_t10dif() is used by sd_dif.c when performing
I/O to or from disks formatted with protection information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-12 08:22:32 -05:00
Alexander van Heukelum
19870def58 x86, bitops: select the generic bitmap search functions
Introduce GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT and GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT in
lib/Kconfig, defaulting to off. An arch that wants to use the
generic implementation now only has to use a select statement
to include them.

I added an always-y option (X86_CPU) to arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
and used that to select the generic search functions. This
way ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386 automatically picks up the change
too, and arch/um/Kconfig.i386 can therefore be simplified a
bit. ARCH=um SUBARCH=x86_64 does things differently, but
still compiles fine. It seems that a "def_bool y" always
wins over a "def_bool n"?

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 19:21:17 +02:00
David S. Miller
d9b2b2a277 [LIB]: Make PowerPC LMB code generic so sparc64 can use it too.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-13 16:56:49 -08:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
928923c76b Introduce CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE
Introduce CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE to control inclusion of check_signature()
and avoid problems on platforms that don't have readb().

Let the few legacy (ISA || PCI || X86) drivers that need check_signature()
select CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-22 19:52:45 -07:00
Jan Nikitenko
ad241528c4 CRC7 support
Add CRC7 routines, used for example in MMC over SPI communication.
Kerneldoc updates

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix funny mix of const and non-const]
Signed-off-by: Jan Nikitenko <jan.nikitenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:04 -07:00
Richard Purdie
64c70b1cf4 Add LZO1X algorithm to the kernel
This is a hybrid version of the patch to add the LZO1X compression
algorithm to the kernel.  Nitin and myself have merged the best parts of
the various patches to form this version which we're both happy with (and
are jointly signing off).

The performance of this version is equivalent to the original minilzo code
it was based on.  Bytecode comparisons have also been made on ARM, i386 and
x86_64 with favourable results.

There are several users of LZO lined up including jffs2, crypto and reiser4
since its much faster than zlib.

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-10 17:51:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b6a51746f Merge branch 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (138 commits)
  firewire: Convert OHCI driver to use standard goto unwinding for error handling.
  firewire: Always use parens with sizeof.
  firewire: Drop single buffer request support.
  firewire: Add a comment to describe why we split the sg list.
  firewire: Return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY for out of memory cases in queuecommand.
  firewire: Handle the last few DMA mapping error cases.
  firewire: Allocate scsi_host up front and allocate the sbp2_device as hostdata.
  firewire: Provide module aliase for backwards compatibility.
  firewire: Add to fw-core-y instead of assigning fw-core-objs in Makefile.
  firewire: Break out shared IEEE1394 constant to separate header file.
  firewire: Use linux/*.h instead of asm/*.h header files.
  firewire: Uppercase most macro names.
  firewire: Coding style cleanup: no spaces after function names.
  firewire: Convert card_rwsem to a regular mutex.
  firewire: Clean up comment style.
  firewire: Use lib/ implementation of CRC ITU-T.
  CRC ITU-T V.41
  firewire: Rename fw-device-cdev.c to fw-cdev.c and move header to include/linux.
  firewire: Future proof the iso ioctls by adding a handle for the iso context.
  firewire: Add read/write and size annotations to IOC numbers.
  ...

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-10 13:30:08 -07:00
Ivo van Doorn
3e7cbae7c6 CRC ITU-T V.41
This will add the CRC calculation according
to the CRC ITU-T V.41 to the kernel lib/ folder.

This code has been derived from the rt2x00 driver,
currently found only in the wireless-dev tree, but
this library is generic and could be used by more
drivers who currently use their own implementation.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>

Also useful for the new firewire stack.

Signed-off-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-05-10 18:24:13 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
411f0f3edc Introduce CONFIG_HAS_DMA
Architectures that don't support DMA can say so by adding a config NO_DMA
to their Kconfig file.  This will prevent compilation of some dma specific
driver code.  Also dma-mapping-broken.h isn't needed anymore on at least
s390.  This avoids compilation and linking of otherwise dead/broken code.

Other architectures that include dma-mapping-broken.h are arm26, h8300,
m68k, m68knommu and v850.  If these could be converted as well we could get
rid of the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
Al Viro
5ea8176994 [PATCH] sort the devres mess out
* Split the implementation-agnostic stuff in separate files.
* Make sure that targets using non-default request_irq() pull
  kernel/irq/devres.o
* Introduce new symbols (HAS_IOPORT and HAS_IOMEM) defaulting to positive;
  allow architectures to turn them off (we needed these symbols anyway for
  dependencies of quite a few drivers).
* protect the ioport-related parts of lib/devres.o with CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 11:18:07 -08:00
Al Viro
ee36c2bf8e [PATCH] uml problems with linux/io.h
Remove useless includes of linux/io.h, don't even try to build iomap_copy
on uml (it doesn't have readb() et.al., so...)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:52 -08:00
Akinobu Mita
906d66df18 [PATCH] crc32: replace bitreverse by bitrev32
This patch replaces bitreverse() by bitrev32.  The only users of bitreverse()
are crc32 itself and via-velocity.

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:39 -08:00
Akinobu Mita
a5cfc1ec58 [PATCH] bit reverse library
This patch provides two bit reverse functions and bit reverse table.

- reverse the order of bits in a u32 value

	u8 bitrev8(u8 x);

- reverse the order of bits in a u32 value

	u32 bitrev32(u32 x);

- byte reverse table

	const u8 byte_rev_table[256];

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:39 -08:00
Al Viro
e65e1fc2d2 [PATCH] syscall class hookup for all normal targets
Take default arch/*/kernel/audit.c to lib/, have those with special
needs (== biarch) define AUDIT_ARCH in their Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-12 03:04:40 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
77ba89c5cf [PATCH] pi-futex: add plist implementation
Add the priority-sorted list (plist) implementation.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:46 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
7657ec1fcb [PATCH] lib/crc16: added crc16 algorithm.
Add the crc16 routines, as used by w1 devices.

Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-08 14:41:27 -07:00
David S. Miller
29cb9f9c55 [LIB]: Make TEXTSEARCH_BM plain tristate like the others
And select it when the relevant modules are enabled.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:11:11 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
8082e4ed0a [LIB]: Boyer-Moore extension for textsearch infrastructure strike #2
Attached the implementation of the Boyer-Moore string search
algorithm for the new textsearch infrastructure.

I've added as well a note about the limitations that this approach
presents, as Thomas has remarked.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@eurodev.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:11:06 -07:00
David S. Miller
f7704347a7 [PKT_SCHED]: Make TEXTSEARCH* options only selected.
Do not present these confusing new options to the user
unless he picked some facility that makes use of it,
such as NET_EMATCH_TEXT.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-24 17:39:03 -07:00
Thomas Graf
6408f79cce [LIB]: Naive finite state machine based textsearch
A finite state machine consists of n states (struct ts_fsm_token)
representing the pattern as a finite automation. The data is read
sequentially on a octet basis. Every state token specifies the number
of recurrences and the type of value accepted which can be either a
specific character or ctype based set of characters. The available
type of recurrences include 1, (0|1), [0 n], and [1 n].

The algorithm differs between strict/non-strict mode specyfing
whether the pattern has to start at the first octect. Strict mode
is enabled by default and can be disabled by inserting
TS_FSM_HEAD_IGNORE as the first token in the chain.

The runtime performance of the algorithm should be around O(n),
however while in strict mode the average runtime can be better.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:59:16 -07:00
Thomas Graf
df3fb93ad9 [LIB]: Knuth-Morris-Pratt textsearch algorithm
Implements a linear-time string-matching algorithm due to Knuth,
Morris, and Pratt [1]. Their algorithm avoids the explicit
computation of the transition function DELTA altogether. Its
matching time is O(n), for n being length(text), using just an
auxiliary function PI[1..m], for m being length(pattern),
precomputed from the pattern in time O(m). The array PI allows
the transition function DELTA to be computed efficiently
"on the fly" as needed. Roughly speaking, for any state
"q" = 0,1,...,m and any character "a" in SIGMA, the value
PI["q"] contains the information that is independent of "a" and
is needed to compute DELTA("q", "a") [2]. Since the array PI
has only m entries, whereas DELTA has O(m|SIGMA|) entries, we
save a factor of |SIGMA| in the preprocessing time by computing
PI rather than DELTA.
 
[1] Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein
    Introdcution to Algorithms, 2nd Edition, MIT Press
[2] See finite automation theory

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:58:37 -07:00
Thomas Graf
2de4ff7bd6 [LIB]: Textsearch infrastructure.
The textsearch infrastructure provides text searching
facitilies for both linear and non-linear data.
Individual search algorithms are implemented in modules
and chosen by the user.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 20:49:30 -07:00
Jes Sorensen
f14f75b811 [PATCH] ia64 uncached alloc
This patch contains the ia64 uncached page allocator and the generic
allocator (genalloc).  The uncached allocator was formerly part of the SN2
mspec driver but there are several other users of it so it has been split
off from the driver.

The generic allocator can be used by device driver to manage special memory
etc.  The generic allocator is based on the allocator from the sym53c8xx_2
driver.

Various users on ia64 needs uncached memory.  The SGI SN architecture requires
it for inter-partition communication between partitions within a large NUMA
cluster.  The specific user for this is the XPC code.  Another application is
large MPI style applications which use it for synchronization, on SN this can
be done using special 'fetchop' operations but it also benefits non SN
hardware which may use regular uncached memory for this purpose.  Performance
of doing this through uncached vs cached memory is pretty substantial.  This
is handled by the mspec driver which I will push out in a seperate patch.

Rather than creating a specific allocator for just uncached memory I came up
with genalloc which is a generic purpose allocator that can be used by device
drivers and other subsystems as they please.  For instance to handle onboard
device memory.  It was derived from the sym53c7xx_2 driver's allocator which
is also an example of a potential user (I am refraining from modifying sym2
right now as it seems to have been under fairly heavy development recently).

On ia64 memory has various properties within a granule, ie.  it isn't safe to
access memory as uncached within the same granule as currently has memory
accessed in cached mode.  The regular system therefore doesn't utilize memory
in the lower granules which is mixed in with device PAL code etc.  The
uncached driver walks the EFI memmap and pulls out the spill uncached pages
and sticks them into the uncached pool.  Only after these chunks have been
utilized, will it start converting regular cached memory into uncached memory.
Hence the reason for the EFI related code additions.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00