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Sam Ravnborg
92cc6b0725 kbuild: remove hardcoded _logo names from modpost
Replaced this with a __init_refok marker
in front of fb_find_logo().

I think that the __initdata marker for the logo's are
wrong but I have not justified this so I did not remove it.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 23:24:55 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
d3ab78560b kbuild: remove hardcoded apic_es7000 from modpost
Replace the hardcoded variable name apic_es7000 in modpost
with a __initdata_refok marker.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 23:24:51 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
6fc53bae3d kbuild: warn about references from .init.text to .exit.text
The .exit.text section may be discarded either at build or at runtime.
So let modpost warn if this situation is detected.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 23:24:47 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
1d8af559f9 kbuild: consolidate section checks
Move more checks from whitelist to the section check functions.
Remove the redundent pci_fixup check.
Renumber the patterns.
No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 23:24:13 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
1087247b7d kbuild: refactor code in modpost to improve maintainability
There were a great deal of overlap between the two functions
that check which sections may reference .init.text and .exit.text.
Factor out common check to a separate function and
sort entries in the original functions.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 23:21:34 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
b28242e7e3 kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section
.note* sections are ELF notes, which are typically used by external
tools to examine the kernel image.  Since this is removed from any
runtime consideration, it's OK to reference any section from a .note*
section.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 22:41:47 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
1de564bbf8 kbuild: .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn't need to handle it
The .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn't need to handle it.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 22:41:11 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell
1abe02fef9 kbuild: suppress modpost warnings for references from the .toc section as used by powerpc
We should do better here by effetively "dereferencing" references to
the .toc (or the .got2) section, but that is much harder.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 22:40:22 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
56a974fa2d kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on arm
With this change we can find more symbols hereby improving
the readability of the warnings.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 22:39:35 +02:00
Atsushi Nemoto
ae4ac12323 kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on i386 and mips
On i386 and MIPS, warn_sec_mismatch() sometimes fails to show
usefull symbol name.  This is because empty 'refsym' due to 0 r_addend
value.  This patch is to adjust r_addend value, consulting with
apply_relocate() routine in kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 21:48:49 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
b70e325cfe kconfig: fix update-po-config
Massimo Maiurana <maiurana@gmail.com> reported that
update-po-config was broken:
1) spelling errors in Makefile so arch/um failed
2) UTF-8 was not supported

The following patch address the above problems.
kxgettext now append the output to the .pot file
generated by xgettext - so we have a header.
In all places UFT-8 is specifed so we now flawlessly
support UTF-8.
The Kconfig files had an empty string in a few cases -
these are now supressed in kxgettext.

With this the translators can now pick up where they left
and get it all translated.
There are ~11000 strings to be translated...

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc:  Massimo Maiurana <maiurana@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-07-16 21:15:53 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
4c6f2eb979 kbuild: add support for squashing uid/gid in gen_initramfs_list.sh
Sometimes it is useful to squash all uid's/gid's to 0:0 regardless of
current owner.  For example, in build systems that get run as arbitrary
users (uClinux-dist).  This adds a special "squash" keyword so you can do
'-g squash -u squash' and have ownership squashed to root.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 21:15:52 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
f2434ec1e0 kbuild: add support for reading stdin with gen_init_cpio
Treat an argument of "-" as meaning "read stdin for cpio files" so
gen_init_cpio can be piped into.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 21:15:52 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
e99c343f16 kconfig: use POSIX equality test in check-lxdialog.sh
The "==" operator is not in POSIX, so use -eq instead.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 21:15:51 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
cb3ed5b7e0 scripts: Make cleanfile/cleanpatch warn about long lines
Make the "cleanfile" and "cleanpatch" script warn about long lines,
by default lines whose visual width exceeds 79 characters.

Per suggestion from Auke Kok.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 21:15:50 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
d72e5edbf4 kbuild: avoid environment to set variables used by kbuild
A few of the variables used by kbuild has fixed naming.
Make sure we do not pick up random values from the environment.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 21:15:49 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
7015030faf kbuild: document cc-fullversion
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 21:15:48 +02:00
Segher Boessenkool
f5e83fa4c0 powerpc: Refuse to build 64-bit with GCC-4.2.0 and CONFIG_MODULES
...since this won't work (compiler bug, see <http://gcc.gnu.org/PR31490>).

Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 21:15:48 +02:00
Segher Boessenkool
0ab2a272e6 kbuild: New 'cc-fullversion' macro
Prints a six-digit string including the GCC patchlevel.  Also fix
the 'usage' comment for cc-version.

Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 21:15:47 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
f241182b51 kbuild: asm-offsets.h is now cleaned with O=.. builds
Reported by: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
2007-07-16 21:15:46 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
7144521f5a Remove duplicate comments from sysctl.c
Randy Dunlap noticed that the recent comment clarifications from Andrew
had somehow gotten duplicated.  Quoth Andrew: "hm, that could have been
some late-night reject-fixing."

Fix it up.

Cc: From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 11:50:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
abce891a10 Fix new generic block device SG compile
We had a merge issue with the "dentry" field going away from the
kobject, and being replaced by a sysfs_dirent field (named "sd")
instead.  That broke the BSG compile.

Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 11:18:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
10b275ddfd Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  [PATCH] sched: fix up fs/proc/array.c whitespace problems
  [PATCH] sched: prettify prio_to_wmult[]
  [PATCH] sched: document prio_to_wmult[]
  [PATCH] sched: improve weight-array comments
  [PATCH] sched: remove dead code from task_stime()

Fixed up trivial conflict in fs/proc/array.c
2007-07-16 11:02:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
add096909d Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: (32 commits)
  [PATCH] ocfs2: zero_user_page conversion
  ocfs2: Support xfs style space reservation ioctls
  ocfs2: support for removing file regions
  ocfs2: update truncate handling of partial clusters
  ocfs2: btree support for removal of arbirtrary extents
  ocfs2: Support creation of unwritten extents
  ocfs2: support writing of unwritten extents
  ocfs2: small cleanup of ocfs2_write_begin_nolock()
  ocfs2: btree changes for unwritten extents
  ocfs2: abstract btree growing calls
  ocfs2: use all extent block suballocators
  ocfs2: plug truncate into cached dealloc routines
  ocfs2: simplify deallocation locking
  ocfs2: harden buffer check during mapping of page blocks
  ocfs2: shared writeable mmap
  ocfs2: factor out write aops into nolock variants
  ocfs2: rework ocfs2_buffered_write_cluster()
  ocfs2: take ip_alloc_sem during entire truncate
  ocfs2: Add "preferred slot" mount option
  [KJ PATCH] Replacing memset(<addr>,0,PAGE_SIZE) with clear_page() in fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c
  ...
2007-07-16 10:52:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e245befce7 Merge branch 'bsg' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'bsg' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: (25 commits)
  bsg: Kconfig updates
  bsg: add SCSI transport-level request support
  bsg: add bidi support
  add a struct request pointer to the request structure
  bsg: fix the deadlock on discarding done commands
  bsg: fix a blocking read bug
  bsg: minor bug fixes
  improve bsg device allocation
  bind bsg to all SCSI devices
  bsg: bind bsg to request_queue instead of gendisk
  bsg: add a request_queue argument to scsi_cmd_ioctl()
  bsg: simplify __bsg_alloc_command failpath
  bsg: add cheasy error checks for sysfs stuff
  Add queue resizing support
  Replace s32, u32 and u64 with __s32, __u32 and __u64 in bsg.h for userspace
  bsg: silence a bogus gcc warning
  bsg: style cleanup
  bsg: use u32 etc instead of uint32_t
  bsg: add SG_IO to SG v4
  bsg: replace SG v3 with SG v4
  ...
2007-07-16 10:50:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
14dc524972 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  splice: direct splicing updates ppos twice
  more ACSI removal
  umem: Fix match of pci_ids in umem driver
  umem: Remove references to dead CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY variable
  remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers
2007-07-16 10:48:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
02b2318e07 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: (26 commits)
  [SPARC64]: Fix UP build.
  [SPARC64]: dr-cpu unconfigure support.
  [SERIAL]: Fix console write locking in sparc drivers.
  [SPARC64]: Give more accurate errors in dr_cpu_configure().
  [SPARC64]: Clear cpu_{core,sibling}_map[] in smp_fill_in_sib_core_maps()
  [SPARC64]: Fix leak when DR added cpu does not bootup.
  [SPARC64]: Add ->set_affinity IRQ handlers.
  [SPARC64]: Process dr-cpu events in a kthread instead of workqueue.
  [SPARC64]: More sensible udelay implementation.
  [SPARC64]: SMP build fixes.
  [SPARC64]: mdesc.c needs linux/mm.h
  [SPARC64]: Fix build regressions added by dr-cpu changes.
  [SPARC64]: Unconditionally register vio_bus_type.
  [SPARC64]: Initial LDOM cpu hotplug support.
  [SPARC64]: Fix setting of variables in LDOM guest.
  [SPARC64]: Fix MD property lifetime bugs.
  [SPARC64]: Abstract out mdesc accesses for better MD update handling.
  [SPARC64]: Use more mearningful names for IRQ registry.
  [SPARC64]: Initial domain-services driver.
  [SPARC64]: Export powerd facilities for external entities.
  ...
2007-07-16 10:45:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b91cba52e9 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (68 commits)
  sh: sh-rtc support for SH7709.
  sh: Revert __xdiv64_32 size change.
  sh: Update r7785rp defconfig.
  sh: Export div symbols for GCC 4.2 and ST GCC.
  sh: fix race in parallel out-of-tree build
  sh: Kill off dead mach.c for hp6xx.
  sh: hd64461.h cleanup and added comments.
  sh: Update the alignment when 4K stacks are used.
  sh: Add a .bss.page_aligned section for 4K stacks.
  sh: Don't let SH-4A clobber SH-4 CFLAGS.
  sh: Add parport stub for SuperIO ports.
  sh: Drop -Wa,-dsp for DSP tuning.
  sh: Update dreamcast defconfig.
  fb: pvr2fb: A few more __devinit annotations for PCI.
  fb: pvr2fb: Fix up section mismatch warnings.
  sh: Select IPR-IRQ for SH7091.
  sh: Correct __xdiv64_32/div64_32 return value size.
  sh: Fix timer-tmu build for SH-3.
  sh: Add cpu and mach links to CLEAN_FILES.
  sh: Preliminary support for the SH-X3 CPU.
  ...
2007-07-16 10:32:02 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
98283bb49c fat: Fix the race of read/write the FAT12 entry
FAT12 entry is 12bits, so it needs 2 phase to update the value.  And
writer and reader access it without any lock, so reader can get the
half updated value.

This fixes the long standing race condition by adding a global
spinlock to only FAT12 for avoiding any impact against FAT16/32.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 10:31:01 -07:00
Andrew Morton
347e03df16 cpwatchdog build fix
sparc64:

drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c: In function `wd_toggleintr':
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c:523: error: implicit declaration of function `readb'
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c:533: error: implicit declaration of function `writeb'
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c: In function `wd_pingtimer':
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c:545: error: implicit declaration of function `readw'
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c: In function `wd_starttimer':
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c:584: error: implicit declaration of function `writew'
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c: In function `wd_init':
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c:767: error: implicit declaration of function `ioremap'
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c:767: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c: In function `wd_cleanup':
drivers/sbus/char/cpwatchdog.c:849: error: implicit declaration of function `iounmap'

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:53 -07:00
Jes Sorensen
17e0c7cc1d sn_console section mismatch warning
Do not mark sn_sal_console_setup as __init since it's referenced from
non init data structures.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:53 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
98701dc19e compat32: ignore the LOOP_CLR_FD ioctl
compat32: Ignore the LOOP_CLR_FD ioctl for the loop block device, to kill an
annoying kernel message when e.g. busybox umount is used.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
29e3f34777 NLS: Remove obsolete Makefile entries
Since the corresponding source files no longer exist, remove the
irrelevant Makefile entries for them.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Rusty Russell
c80e7a826c permit mempool_free(NULL)
Christian Borntraeger points out that mempool_free() doesn't noop when
handed NULL.  This is inconsistent with the other free-like functions
in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty
5e70030d4c ext4: statfs speed up
This is a patch that speeds up statfs.  It is very simple - the "overhead"
calculation, which takes a huge amount of time for large filesystems, never
changes unless the size of the filesystem itself changes.  That means we can
store it in memory and only recalculate if the filesystem has been resized
(almost never).

It also fixes a minor problem that we never update the on-disk superblock free
blocks/inodes counts until the filesystem is unmounted.  While not fatal, we
may as well update that on disk when we have the information, and it makes
things like debugfs and dumpe2fs report a bit more accurate info.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty
a71ce8c6c9 ext3: statfs speed up
This is a patch that speeds up statfs.  It is very simple - the "overhead"
calculation, which takes a huge amount of time for large filesystems, never
changes unless the size of the filesystem itself changes.  That means we can
store it in memory and only recalculate if the filesystem has been resized
(almost never).

It also fixes a minor problem that we never update the on-disk superblock free
blocks/inodes counts until the filesystem is unmounted.  While not fatal, we
may as well update that on disk when we have the information, and it makes
things like debugfs and dumpe2fs report a bit more accurate info.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty
2235219b77 ext2: statfs speed up
This is a patch that speeds up statfs.  It is very simple - the "overhead"
calculation, which takes a huge amount of time for large filesystems, never
changes unless the size of the filesystem itself changes.  That means we can
store it in memory and only recalculate if the filesystem has been resized
(almost never).

It also fixes a minor problem that we never update the on-disk superblock free
blocks/inodes counts until the filesystem is unmounted.  While not fatal, we
may as well update that on disk when we have the information, and it makes
things like debugfs and dumpe2fs report a bit more accurate info.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Dan Aloni
8f14137e28 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: lower printk severity
Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Dan Aloni
e5fa4998eb drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_poweroff.c: lower printk severity
Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Denis Vlasenko
4277eedd79 vsprintf.c: optimizing, part 2: base 10 conversion speedup, v2
Optimize integer-to-string conversion in vsprintf.c for base 10.  This is
by far the most used conversion, and in some use cases it impacts
performance.  For example, top reads /proc/$PID/stat for every process, and
with 4000 processes decimal conversion alone takes noticeable time.

Using code from

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/decimal.html
(with permission from the author, Douglas W. Jones)

binary-to-decimal-string conversion is done in groups of five digits at
once, using only additions/subtractions/shifts (with -O2; -Os throws in
some multiply instructions).

On i386 arch gcc 4.1.2 -O2 generates ~500 bytes of code.

This patch is run tested. Userspace benchmark/test is also attached.
I tested it on PIII and AMD64 and new code is generally ~2.5 times
faster. On AMD64:

# ./vsprintf_verify-O2
Original decimal conv: .......... 151 ns per iteration
Patched decimal conv:  .......... 62 ns per iteration
Testing correctness
12895992590592 ok...        [Ctrl-C]
# ./vsprintf_verify-O2
Original decimal conv: .......... 151 ns per iteration
Patched decimal conv:  .......... 62 ns per iteration
Testing correctness
26025406464 ok...        [Ctrl-C]

More realistic test: top from busybox project was modified to
report how many us it took to scan /proc (this does not account
any processing done after that, like sorting process list),
and then I test it with 4000 processes:

#!/bin/sh
i=4000
while test $i != 0; do
    sleep 30 &
    let i--
done
busybox top -b -n3 >/dev/null

on unpatched kernel:

top: 4120 processes took 102864 microseconds to scan
top: 4120 processes took 91757 microseconds to scan
top: 4120 processes took 92517 microseconds to scan
top: 4120 processes took 92581 microseconds to scan

on patched kernel:

top: 4120 processes took 75460 microseconds to scan
top: 4120 processes took 66451 microseconds to scan
top: 4120 processes took 67267 microseconds to scan
top: 4120 processes took 67618 microseconds to scan

The speedup comes from much faster generation of /proc/PID/stat
by sprintf() calls inside the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Douglas W Jones <jones@cs.uiowa.edu>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Denis Vlasenko
b39a734097 vsprintf.c: optimizing, part 1 (easy and obvious stuff)
* There is no point in having full "0...9a...z" constant vector,
  if we use only "0...9a...f" (and "x" for "0x").

* Post-decrement usually needs a few more instructions, so use
  pre decrement instead where makes sense:
-       while (i < precision--) {
+       while (i <= --precision) {

* if base != 10 (=> base 8 or 16), we can avoid using division
  in a loop and use mask/shift, obtaining much faster conversion.
  (More complex optimization for base 10 case is in the second patch).

Overall, size vsprintf.o shows ~80 bytes smaller text section
with this patch applied.

Signed-off-by: Douglas W Jones <jones@cs.uiowa.edu>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
4b4e5a1411 Fix trivial typos in anon_inodes.c comments
Trivial typo and grammar fixes.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
b2111217df isapnp: remove pointless check of 'type' against 0 in isapnp_read_tag()
In drivers/pnp/isapnp/core.c::isapnp_read_tag() there is a test of 'type'
being == 0 a bit down in the function.  That test doesn't make any sense.
If 'type' could indeed be NULL, then the test happens way too late as we'd
already have tried to dereference the pointer earlier and looking at the
callers it also turns out that there is no way type can ever actually be
NULL.

So the test is completely pointless and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3f1b0e1f28 .gitignore update
headers_install by default puts headers into usr/include/ .
They're auto-generated, so should be ignored.

Same for *.orig, *.rej .

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
8f8a68ee48 remove mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()
congestion_wait_interruptible() is no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
1492192b4a kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler
kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler

The printk's comment states that it can be called from every context,
which might lead to false illusion that it could be called from everywhere
without any restrictions.

This is however not true - a call to printk() could deadlock if called from
scheduler code (namely from schedule(), wake_up(), etc) on runqueue lock
when it tries to wake up klogd. Document this.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
017f021c7e docs: static initialization of spinlocks is OK
Static initialization of spinlocks is preferable to dynamic initialization
when it is practical.  This patch updates documentation for consistency
with comments in spinlock_types.h.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Alan Cox
7e7d136e9e serial: remove termios checks from various old char serial drivers
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Alan Cox
d471d340ef 68360serial: remove broken optimisation
Remove the broken 'no termios change' optimisation for this driver.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Alan Cox
de1764af27 synclink: remove bogus 'no change' termios optimisation from synclink drivers
Again this check is wrong now, and un-needed

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00