<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/arch/sparc/include/asm, branch v2.6.32</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Add a comment about why we only use certain memory barriers these days.</title>
<updated>2009-11-06T04:24:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-06T04:24:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4eb0c00b6221f28b8988df37c9cb1bc5a2b91b39'/>
<id>4eb0c00b6221f28b8988df37c9cb1bc5a2b91b39</id>
<content type='text'>
Based upon feedback from Mathieu Desnoyers.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Based upon feedback from Mathieu Desnoyers.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc32: convert to asm-generic/hardirq.h</title>
<updated>2009-10-01T20:45:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-01T20:45:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c416850580cbdcca7e601dda8a243f5cac35aa88'/>
<id>c416850580cbdcca7e601dda8a243f5cac35aa88</id>
<content type='text'>
From: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: /arch/sparc/include/asm/irq_32.h: move NR_IRQS definition]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
From: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: /arch/sparc/include/asm/irq_32.h: move NR_IRQS definition]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Increase vmalloc size to fix percpu regressions.</title>
<updated>2009-09-28T21:39:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-28T21:39:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1b6b9d62475bdea00b366cb80b0fadba446f176d'/>
<id>1b6b9d62475bdea00b366cb80b0fadba446f176d</id>
<content type='text'>
Since we now use the embedding percpu allocator we have to make the
vmalloc area at least as large as the stretch can be between nodes.

Besides some minor asm adjustments, this turned out to be pretty
trivial.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Since we now use the embedding percpu allocator we have to make the
vmalloc area at least as large as the stretch can be between nodes.

Besides some minor asm adjustments, this turned out to be pretty
trivial.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-09-26T17:08:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-26T17:08:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=052a0cf6f85a136dc0654ec3c2d25ddd4495c65d'/>
<id>052a0cf6f85a136dc0654ec3c2d25ddd4495c65d</id>
<content type='text'>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  sparc64: vio: Kill BUILD_BUG_ON() in vio_dring_avail().

Trivial conflict in arch/sparc/include/asm/vio.h due to David removing
the whole messy BUG_ON that was confused.
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<pre>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  sparc64: vio: Kill BUILD_BUG_ON() in vio_dring_avail().

Trivial conflict in arch/sparc/include/asm/vio.h due to David removing
the whole messy BUG_ON that was confused.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi</title>
<updated>2009-09-24T00:04:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T15:34:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0748bd01773395003208996c4c0b3f80caf80976'/>
<id>0748bd01773395003208996c4c0b3f80caf80976</id>
<content type='text'>
Now everyone is converted to arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask, remove
the shim and the #defines.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Now everyone is converted to arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask, remove
the shim and the #defines.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpumask: remove obsolete topology_core_siblings and topology_thread_siblings: sparc</title>
<updated>2009-09-24T00:04:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T15:34:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=434e2187e69b97ad8d035258766e1ea56067625d'/>
<id>434e2187e69b97ad8d035258766e1ea56067625d</id>
<content type='text'>
There were replaced by topology_core_cpumask and topology_thread_cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
There were replaced by topology_core_cpumask and topology_thread_cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpumask: remove obsolete node_to_cpumask now everyone uses cpumask_of_node</title>
<updated>2009-09-24T00:04:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T15:34:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=29c337a034b5526e80a785409d15d3b7c7edecf4'/>
<id>29c337a034b5526e80a785409d15d3b7c7edecf4</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BUILD_BUG_ON(): fix it and a couple of bogus uses of it</title>
<updated>2009-09-23T14:39:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@novell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T23:43:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8c87df457cb58fe75b9b893007917cf8095660a0'/>
<id>8c87df457cb58fe75b9b893007917cf8095660a0</id>
<content type='text'>
gcc permitting variable length arrays makes the current construct used for
BUILD_BUG_ON() useless, as that doesn't produce any diagnostic if the
controlling expression isn't really constant.  Instead, this patch makes
it so that a bit field gets used here.  Consequently, those uses where the
condition isn't really constant now also need fixing.

Note that in the gfp.h, kmemcheck.h, and virtio_config.h cases
MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON() really just serves documentation purposes - even if
the expression is compile time constant (__builtin_constant_p() yields
true), the array is still deemed of variable length by gcc, and hence the
whole expression doesn't have the intended effect.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make arch/sparc/include/asm/vio.h compile]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: more nonsensical assertions in tpm.c..]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rajiv Andrade &lt;srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
gcc permitting variable length arrays makes the current construct used for
BUILD_BUG_ON() useless, as that doesn't produce any diagnostic if the
controlling expression isn't really constant.  Instead, this patch makes
it so that a bit field gets used here.  Consequently, those uses where the
condition isn't really constant now also need fixing.

Note that in the gfp.h, kmemcheck.h, and virtio_config.h cases
MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON() really just serves documentation purposes - even if
the expression is compile time constant (__builtin_constant_p() yields
true), the array is still deemed of variable length by gcc, and hence the
whole expression doesn't have the intended effect.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make arch/sparc/include/asm/vio.h compile]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: more nonsensical assertions in tpm.c..]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rajiv Andrade &lt;srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions</title>
<updated>2009-09-22T14:17:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T00:03:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=90f72aa58bbf076b68e289fbd71eb829bc505923'/>
<id>90f72aa58bbf076b68e289fbd71eb829bc505923</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that
will look like anonymous memory to user space.  This is accomplished by
using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of
MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The region will behave
the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.

The patch also adds the MAP_STACK flag, which was previously defined only
on some architectures but not on others.  Since MAP_STACK is meant to be a
hint only, architectures can define it without assigning a specific
meaning to it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Eric B Munson &lt;ebmunson@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that
will look like anonymous memory to user space.  This is accomplished by
using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of
MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The region will behave
the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.

The patch also adds the MAP_STACK flag, which was previously defined only
on some architectures but not on others.  Since MAP_STACK is meant to be a
hint only, architectures can define it without assigning a specific
meaning to it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Eric B Munson &lt;ebmunson@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -&gt; Performance Events</title>
<updated>2009-09-21T12:28:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-21T10:02:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cdd6c482c9ff9c55475ee7392ec8f672eddb7be6'/>
<id>cdd6c482c9ff9c55475ee7392ec8f672eddb7be6</id>
<content type='text'>
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

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

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

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

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

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

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

This patch has been generated via the following script:

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

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

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

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

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\&lt;event\&gt;/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

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

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

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

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

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

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

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

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

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

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

This patch has been generated via the following script:

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

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

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

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

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\&lt;event\&gt;/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

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

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

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

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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