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Javier Martinez Canillas
49b4854772 Staging: spectra: removes unused functions
Fix compilation warning removing unused functions.


Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23 18:15:35 -07:00
Javier Martinez Canillas
fd484b86a2 Staging: spectra: initializa lblk variable
Fix a compile warning by initializaing lblk. Since FTL_Get_Block_Index()
returns BAD_BLOCK if it doesn't find the logical block number, lblk
number is initizalized to BAD_BLOCK.


Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23 18:15:35 -07:00
Javier Martinez Canillas
676cecaadd Staging: spectra: removes unused variable
Fix a compile warning by removing an unused variable int i.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23 18:15:34 -07:00
Javier Martinez Canillas
c321da6dc5 Staging: spectra: remove duplicate GLOB_VERSION definition
This is the first patch of a patchset that removes all compilations
warnings in staging/spectra.

These patches are a delta from a previous patchset and it assumes that
these three patches all already applied:

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23 18:15:34 -07:00
Javier Martinez Canillas
6e19d2db49 Staging: spectra: don't use locked_ioctl, fix build
Last patch has a style problem. Sending the correct one. Sorry for the noise

Since BKL was removed from block ioctl handling code, locked_ioctl doesn't
exist anymore.

Using ioctl instead and doing the locking manually.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23 18:15:34 -07:00
Javier Martinez Canillas
7b633f6624 Staging: use new REQ_FLUSH flag, fix build breakage
REQ_TYPE_LINUX_BLOCK and REQ_LB_OP_FLUSH doesn't exist anymore. Using
the new REQ_FLUSH flag instead

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23 18:15:33 -07:00
Javier Martinez Canillas
09e74c794f Staging: spectra: removes q->prepare_flush_fn, fix build breakage
This patch is the first one of a patchset that allows 
stagin/spectra driver to compile in linux-next. 

blk_queue_ordered doesn't receive a prepare flush function anymore

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23 18:15:33 -07:00
Xiaotian Feng
f6e6e7799e kobject_uevent: fix typo in comments
s/ending/sending, s/kobject_uevent()/kobject_uevent_env() in the comments.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23 18:12:46 -07:00
Johannes Berg
f45f3c1f3f firmware_class: fix typo in error path
In the error path, _request_firmware sets
firmware_p to NULL rather than *firmware_p,
which leads to passing a freed firmware
struct to drivers when the firmware file
cannot be found. Fix this.

Broken by commit f8a4bd3456.

Reported-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23 18:12:46 -07:00
David Howells
8488a38f4d kobject: Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header
Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header to avoid a header file
inclusion ordering problem between linux/sysfs.h and linux/kobject.h.

This fixes the build breakage on older versions of gcc.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23 18:12:46 -07:00
Florian Westphal
cca77b7c81 netfilter: fix CONFIG_COMPAT support
commit f3c5c1bfd4
(netfilter: xtables: make ip_tables reentrant) forgot to
also compute the jumpstack size in the compat handlers.

Result is that "iptables -I INPUT -j userchain" turns into -j DROP.

Reported by Sebastian Roesner on #netfilter, closes
http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669.

Note: arptables change is compile-tested only.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-23 14:41:22 -07:00
Matthew Garrett
a8ec105c07 hp-wmi: Fix query interface
The machines I have appear to provide their return value in the arguments
structure, not the output structure. Rework the driver to use that again
in order to get rfkill working again.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-23 16:27:08 -04:00
Jonathan Corbet
c76a3e1d6c ACPI_TOSHIBA needs LEDS support
Don't ask how ACPI_TOSHIBA got enabled on in desktop system's .config -
I don't know.  But it has silently been there until I tried 2.6.36-rc2,
where it broke the build because I don't have LED support turned on.
Attached patch fixes things up.

(I had to change BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE to "depends" because otherwise
I get unsightly core dumps out of scripts/kconfig/conf).

jon

--
toshiba: make sure we pull in LED support

The Toshiba extras driver uses the LED module, so make sure we have it
configure in.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-23 15:56:43 -04:00
Julia Lawall
6e0c64f4dd arch/mn10300/mm: eliminate NULL dereference
dev_name always dereferences its argument, so it should not be called if
the argument is NULL.  The function indeed later tests the argument for
being NULL.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

  // <smpl>
  @@
  expression dev,E;
  @@

  *dev_name(dev)
  ... when != dev = E
  (
  *dev == NULL
  |
  *dev != NULL
  )
  // </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-23 11:41:24 -07:00
Jeff Layton
24e6cf92fd cifs: check for NULL session password
It's possible for a cifsSesInfo struct to have a NULL password, so we
need to check for that prior to running strncmp on it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-23 17:38:31 +00:00
Shirish Pargaonkar
3ec6bbcdb4 missing changes during ntlmv2/ntlmssp auth and sign
Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-23 17:38:24 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
dc4c26bfed Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  ipheth: add support for iPhone 4
2010-08-23 10:36:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
847bb224fb 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: i.MX ssi: use SSI_STCCR in synchronous mode
  ALSA: hda - Add support for Lenovo S10-3t
  ALSA: hda - Fix stream and channel-ids codec-bus wide
  ALSA: hda - Fix conflict of sticky PCM parameter in HDMI codecs
  ALSA: intel8x0: Mute External Amplifier by default for ThinkPad X31
  ALSA: hda - Fix build error with CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
  ALSA: hda - Add support for IDT 92HD89XX codecs
2010-08-23 10:34:51 -07:00
Takashi Iwai
e9a8a85d9f Merge branch 'fix/asoc' into for-linus 2010-08-23 15:09:52 +02:00
Sascha Hauer
70bf043b13 ASoC: i.MX ssi: use SSI_STCCR in synchronous mode
In synchronous mode the SSI_SRCCR values are ignored. Instead
SSI_STCCR must be used for both receiving and transmitting.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2010-08-23 13:33:05 +01:00
Jens Axboe
52cc2eef31 block: switch s390 tape_block and mg_disk to elevator_change()
Now that we have this API, switch the two in-kernel users to it.
Resolves an oops introduced by commit
1abec4fdbb.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 14:02:44 +02:00
Jens Axboe
5dd531a03a block: add function call to switch the IO scheduler from a driver
Currently drivers must do an elevator_exit() + elevator_init()
to switch IO schedulers. There are a few problems with this:

- Since commit 1abec4fdbb,
  elevator_init() requires a zeroed out q->elevator
  pointer. The two existing in-kernel users don't do that.

- It will only work at initialization time, since using the
  above two-staged construct does not properly quisce the queue.

So add elevator_change() which takes care of this, and convert
the elv_iosched_store() sysfs interface to use this helper as well.

Reported-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Kevin Vigor <kevin@vigor.nu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 13:52:19 +02:00
Dave Kleikamp
32412aa214 powerpc/47x: Add an isync before the tlbivax instruction
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-23 07:38:31 -04:00
Dave Kleikamp
3e7f45ad52 powerpc/4xx: Index interrupt stacks by physical cpu
The interrupt stacks need to be indexed by the physical cpu since the
critical, debug and machine check handlers use the contents of SPRN_PIR to
index the critirq_ctx, dbgirq_ctx, and mcheckirq_ctx arrays.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-23 07:37:53 -04:00
Dave Kleikamp
66477466b8 powerpc/47x: Remove redundant line from cputable.c
There are two entries for .cpu_user_features in
arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c.  Remove the one that doesn't belong

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-23 07:37:01 -04:00
Andrew Morton
220eb7fd98 fs/bio-integrity.c: return -ENOMEM on kmalloc failure
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 13:36:59 +02:00
Dave Kleikamp
029b8f662b powerpc/47x: Make sure mcsr is cleared before enabling machine check interrupts
Clear the machine check syndrom register before enabling machine check
interrupts.  The initial state of the tlb can lead to parity errors being
flagged early after a cold boot.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-23 07:36:58 -04:00
David Rientjes
72f4650337 bio-integrity.c: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
The kmalloc() in bio_integrity_prep() is failable, so remove __GFP_NOFAIL
from its mask.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 13:36:58 +02:00
Rupjyoti Sarmah
31fc0bd4aa powerpc/4xx: Device tree update for the 460ex DWC SATA
Device tree update for the Applied micro processor 460ex on-chip SATA

Signed-off-by: Rupjyoti Sarmah <rsarmah@amcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-23 07:36:51 -04:00
Ian Campbell
9c35e90c6f xen: pvhvm: make it clearer that XEN_UNPLUG_* define bits in a bitfield
by defining in terms of (1<<N).

XEN_UNPLUG_UNNECESSARY and XEN_UNPLUG_NEVER are only used within the
kernel and are not defined as a bit on the unplug IO port. Therefore
use a bit which is outside the potentially valid range of the 16 bit
IO port.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
2010-08-23 12:01:35 +01:00
Ian Campbell
1dc7ce99b0 xen: pvhvm: rename xen_emul_unplug=ignore to =unnnecessary
It is not immediately clear what this option causes to become
ignored. The actual meaning is that it is not necessary to unplug the
emulated devices to safely use the PV ones, even if the platform does
not support the unplug protocol. (pressumably the user will only add
this option if they have ensured that their domain configuration is
safe).

I think xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary better captures this.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
2010-08-23 11:59:29 +01:00
Ian Campbell
c93a4dfb31 xen: pvhvm: allow user to request no emulated device unplug
this allows the user to disable pvhvm and revert to emulated devices
in case of a system misconfiguration (e.g. initramfs with only
emulated drivers in it).

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01:00
Jens Axboe
f95d76ab82 ipheth: add support for iPhone 4
This adds support for the iPhone 4 to the ipheth driver.

Acked-by: Diego Giagio <diego@giagio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:39:29 +02:00
Jiri Slaby
5e00d1b5b4 BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling
Return of the bi_rw tests is no longer bool after commit 74450be1. But
results of such tests are stored in bools. This doesn't fit in there
for some compilers (gcc 4.5 here), so either use !! magic to get real
bools or use ulong where the result is assigned somewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:33:10 +02:00
Xiaotian Feng
c87ffbb812 block: put dev->kobj in blk_register_queue fail path
kernel needs to kobject_put on dev->kobj if elv_register_queue fails.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:30:29 +02:00
Dan Carpenter
4ee69851cd cciss: handle allocation failure
If kmalloc() fails then cleanup and return failure (-1).

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:28:15 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
6d6ac1c1a3 cfq-iosched: Documentation help for new tunables
Some documentation to provide help with tunables.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:25:29 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
c4e7893ebc cfq-iosched: blktrace print per slice sector stats
o Divyesh had gotten rid of this code in the past. I want to re-introduce it
  back as it helps me a lot during debugging.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:25:03 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
80bdf0c78f cfq-iosched: Implement tunable group_idle
o Implement a new tunable group_idle, which allows idling on the group
  instead of a cfq queue. Hence one can set slice_idle = 0 and not idle
  on the individual queues but idle on the group. This way on fast storage
  we can get fairness between groups at the same time overall throughput
  improves.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:24:26 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
02b35081fc cfq-iosched: Do group share accounting in IOPS when slice_idle=0
o Implement another CFQ mode where we charge group in terms of number
  of requests dispatched instead of measuring the time. Measuring in terms
  of time is not possible when we are driving deeper queue depths and there
  are requests from multiple cfq queues in the request queue.

o This mode currently gets activated if one sets slice_idle=0 and associated
  disk supports NCQ. Again the idea is that on an NCQ disk with idling disabled
  most of the queues will dispatch 1 or more requests and then cfq queue
  expiry happens and we don't have a way to measure time. So start providing
  fairness in terms of IOPS.

o Currently IOPS mode works only with cfq group scheduling. CFQ is following
  different scheduling algorithms for queue and group scheduling. These IOPS
  stats are used only for group scheduling hence in non-croup mode nothing
  should change.

o For CFQ group scheduling one can disable slice idling so that we don't idle
  on queue and drive deeper request queue depths (achieving better throughput),
  at the same time group idle is enabled so one should get service
  differentiation among groups.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:23:53 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
b6508c1618 cfq-iosched: Do not idle if slice_idle=0
Do not idle either on cfq queue or service tree if slice_idle=0. User does
not want any queue or service tree idling. Currently even if slice_idle=0,
we were waiting for request to finish before expiring the queue and that
can lead to lower queue depths.

Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:23:33 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
972fa1c531 workqueue: mark lock acquisition on worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()
worker_maybe_bind_and_lock() actually grabs gcwq->lock but was missing proper
annotation. Add it. So this patch will remove following sparse warnings:

 kernel/workqueue.c:1214:13: warning: context imbalance in 'worker_maybe_bind_and_lock' - wrong count at exit
 arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:44:9: warning: context imbalance in 'worker_rebind_fn' - unexpected unlock
 kernel/workqueue.c:1991:17: warning: context imbalance in 'rescuer_thread' - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-08-23 11:37:49 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
06bd6ebffa workqueue: annotate lock context change
Some of internal functions called within gcwq->lock context releases and
regrabs the lock but were missing proper annotations. Add it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-08-23 11:37:49 +02:00
Stephen M. Cameron
75230ff275 cciss: disable doorbell reset on reset_devices
The doorbell reset initially appears to work correctly,
the controller resets, comes up, some i/o can even be
done, but on at least some Smart Arrays in some servers,
it eventually causes a subsequent controller lockup due
to some kind of PCIe error, and kdump can end up leaving
the root filesystem in an unbootable state.  For this
reason, until the problem is fixed, or at least isolated
to certain hardware enough to be avoided, the doorbell
reset should not be used at all.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 11:02:17 +02:00
Ciju Rajan K
96aa1b419d blkio: Fix return code for mkdir calls
If the cgroup hierarchy for blkio control groups is deeper than two
levels, kernel should not allow the creation of further levels. mkdir
system call does not except EINVAL as a return value. This patch
replaces EINVAL with more appropriate EPERM

Signed-off-by: Ciju Rajan K <ciju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 10:56:30 +02:00
Tim Chen
9d0f4dcc5c mutex: Improve the scalability of optimistic spinning
There is a scalability issue for current implementation of optimistic
mutex spin in the kernel.  It is found on a 8 node 64 core Nehalem-EX
system (HT mode).

The intention of the optimistic mutex spin is to busy wait and spin on a
mutex if the owner of the mutex is running, in the hope that the mutex
will be released soon and be acquired, without the thread trying to
acquire mutex going to sleep. However, when we have a large number of
threads, contending for the mutex, we could have the mutex grabbed by
other thread, and then another ……, and we will keep spinning, wasting cpu
cycles and adding to the contention.  One possible fix is to quit
spinning and put the current thread on wait-list if mutex lock switch to
a new owner while we spin, indicating heavy contention (see the patch
included).

I did some testing on a 8 socket Nehalem-EX system with a total of 64
cores. Using Ingo's test-mutex program that creates/delete files with 256
threads (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/50) , I see the following speed up
after putting in the mutex spin fix:

 ./mutex-test V 256 10
                 Ops/sec
 2.6.34          62864
 With fix        197200

Repeating the test with Aim7 fserver workload, again there is a speed up
with the fix:

                 Jobs/min
 2.6.34          91657
 With fix        149325

To look at the impact on the distribution of mutex acquisition time, I
collected the mutex acquisition time on Aim7 fserver workload with some
instrumentation.  The average acquisition time is reduced by 48% and
number of contentions reduced by 32%.

                 #contentions    Time to acquire mutex (cycles)
 2.6.34          72973           44765791
 With fix        49210           23067129

The histogram of mutex acquisition time is listed below.  The acquisition
time is in 2^bin cycles.  We see that without the fix, the acquisition
time is mostly around 2^26 cycles.  With the fix, we the distribution get
spread out a lot more towards the lower cycles, starting from 2^13.
However, there is an increase of the tail distribution with the fix at
2^28 and 2^29 cycles.  It seems a small price to pay for the reduced
average acquisition time and also getting the cpu to do useful work.

 Mutex acquisition time distribution (acq time = 2^bin cycles):
         2.6.34                  With Fix
 bin     #occurrence     %       #occurrence     %
 11      2               0.00%   120             0.24%
 12      10              0.01%   790             1.61%
 13      14              0.02%   2058            4.18%
 14      86              0.12%   3378            6.86%
 15      393             0.54%   4831            9.82%
 16      710             0.97%   4893            9.94%
 17      815             1.12%   4667            9.48%
 18      790             1.08%   5147            10.46%
 19      580             0.80%   6250            12.70%
 20      429             0.59%   6870            13.96%
 21      311             0.43%   1809            3.68%
 22      255             0.35%   2305            4.68%
 23      317             0.44%   916             1.86%
 24      610             0.84%   233             0.47%
 25      3128            4.29%   95              0.19%
 26      63902           87.69%  122             0.25%
 27      619             0.85%   286             0.58%
 28      0               0.00%   3536            7.19%
 29      0               0.00%   903             1.83%
 30      0               0.00%   0               0.00%

I've done similar experiments with 2.6.35 kernel on smaller boxes as
well.  One is on a dual-socket Westmere box (12 cores total, with HT).
Another experiment is on an old dual-socket Core 2 box (4 cores total, no
HT)

On the 12-core Westmere box, I see a 250% increase for Ingo's mutex-test
program with my mutex patch but no significant difference in aim7's
fserver workload.

On the 4-core Core 2 box, I see the difference with the patch for both
mutex-test and aim7 fserver are negligible.

So far, it seems like the patch has not caused regression on smaller
systems.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .35.x
LKML-Reference: <1282168827.9542.72.camel@schen9-DESK>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-23 10:56:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c6db67cda7 watchdog: Don't throttle the watchdog
Stephane reported that when the machine locks up, the regular ticks,
which are responsible to resetting the throttle count, stop too.

Hence the NMI watchdog can end up being throttled before it reports on
the locked up state, and we end up being sad..

Cure this by having the watchdog overflow reset its own throttle count.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1282215916.1926.4696.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-23 10:48:05 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
f3411b16c7 Blackfin: wire up new fanotify/prlimit64 syscalls
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-08-23 04:24:09 -04:00
Mike Frysinger
4bdef3bd7e ADI/ASoC: add MAINTAINERS entries
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-08-23 04:24:09 -04:00
Mike Frysinger
97e94c3a57 Blackfin: fix hweight breakage
The recent commit to add constant optimization to hweight implicitly broke
the Blackfin arch.  Seems we were missed when all the other arches were
fixed with renames.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-08-23 04:24:08 -04:00