linux.git/arch/tile, branch v3.9-rc2

tile: properly use COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx

2013-03-04T18:37:32+00:00

This was pointed out by Al Viro.  Using the correct wrappers
properly does sign extension as necessary on syscall arguments.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

tile: work around bug in the generic sys_llseek

2013-03-04T16:19:09+00:00

sys_llseek should specify the high and low 32-bit seek values as "unsigned
int" but instead it specifies "unsigned long".  Since compat syscall
arguments are always sign-extended on tile, this means that a seek value
of 0xffffffff will be incorrectly interpreted as a value of -1ULL.

To avoid the risk of breaking binary compatibility on architectures
that already use sys_llseek this way, we follow the same path as MIPS
and provide a wrapper override.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: stable@kernel.org [v3.6 onwards]

arch Kconfig: centralise CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS

2013-02-28T03:10:23+00:00

Change it to CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and set it in all architecures
that already provide virt_to_bus().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Reviewed-by: James Hogan 
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas 
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

2013-02-24T02:50:11+00:00

Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
 "This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
  contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.

   - a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
     unified.

   - a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
     (fixing several potential problems with missing argument
     validation, while we are at it)

   - a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed

   - a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
     altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
     (uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.

   - microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once

   - saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
     architectures switched to using those."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
  x86: convert to ksignal
  sparc: convert to ksignal
  arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
  alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
  burying unused conditionals
  make do_sigaltstack() static
  arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
  arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
  arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
  sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
  sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
  sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
  kill sparc32_open()
  sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
  sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
  ...

swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile

2013-02-24T01:50:17+00:00

swap_lock is heavily contended when I test swap to 3 fast SSD (even
slightly slower than swap to 2 such SSD).  The main contention comes
from swap_info_get().  This patch tries to fix the gap with adding a new
per-partition lock.

Global data like nr_swapfiles, total_swap_pages, least_priority and
swap_list are still protected by swap_lock.

nr_swap_pages is an atomic now, it can be changed without swap_lock.  In
theory, it's possible get_swap_page() finds no swap pages but actually
there are free swap pages.  But sounds not a big problem.

Accessing partition specific data (like scan_swap_map and so on) is only
protected by swap_info_struct.lock.

Changing swap_info_struct.flags need hold swap_lock and
swap_info_struct.lock, because scan_scan_map() will check it.  read the
flags is ok with either the locks hold.

If both swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock must be hold, we always hold
the former first to avoid deadlock.

swap_entry_free() can change swap_list.  To delete that code, we add a
new highest_priority_index.  Whenever get_swap_page() is called, we
check it.  If it's valid, we use it.

It's a pity get_swap_page() still holds swap_lock().  But in practice,
swap_lock() isn't heavily contended in my test with this patch (or I can
say there are other much more heavier bottlenecks like TLB flush).  And
BTW, looks get_swap_page() doesn't really need the lock.  We never free
swap_info[] and we check SWAP_WRITEOK flag.  The only risk without the
lock is we could swapout to some low priority swap, but we can quickly
recover after several rounds of swap, so sounds not a big deal to me.
But I'd prefer to fix this if it's a real problem.

"swap: make each swap partition have one address_space" improved the
swapout speed from 1.7G/s to 2G/s.  This patch further improves the
speed to 2.3G/s, so around 15% improvement.  It's a multi-process test,
so TLB flush isn't the biggest bottleneck before the patches.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix it for nommu]
[hughd@google.com: add missing unlock]
[minchan@kernel.org: get rid of lockdep whinge on sys_swapon]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Seth Jennings 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Xiao Guangrong 
Cc: Dan Magenheimer 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memory-hotplug: introduce new arch_remove_memory() for removing page table

2013-02-24T01:50:12+00:00

For removing memory, we need to remove page tables.  But it depends on
architecture.  So the patch introduce arch_remove_memory() for removing
page table.  Now it only calls __remove_pages().

Note: __remove_pages() for some archtecuture is not implemented
      (I don't know how to implement it for s390).

Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang 
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Jiang Liu 
Cc: Jianguo Wu 
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki 
Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Cc: Wu Jianguo 
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove flags argument to mmap_region

2013-02-24T01:50:11+00:00

After the MAP_POPULATE handling has been moved to mmap_region() call
sites, the only remaining use of the flags argument is to pass the
MAP_NORESERVE flag.  This can be just as easily handled by
do_mmap_pgoff(), so do that and remove the mmap_region() flags
parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove double parens]
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Cc: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

2013-02-22T01:38:49+00:00

Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:

 - Florian has vanished so I appear to have become fbdev maintainer
   again :(

 - Joel and Mark are distracted to welcome to the new OCFS2 maintainer

 - The backlight queue

 - Small core kernel changes

 - lib/ updates

 - The rtc queue

 - Various random bits

* akpm: (164 commits)
  rtc: rtc-davinci: use devm_*() functions
  rtc: rtc-max8997: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-max8907: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-da9052: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-wm831x: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-tps80031: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-lp8788: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-coh901331: use devm_clk_get()
  rtc: rtc-vt8500: use devm_*() functions
  rtc: rtc-tps6586x: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-imxdi: use devm_clk_get()
  rtc: rtc-cmos: use dev_warn()/dev_dbg() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
  rtc: rtc-pcf8583: use dev_warn() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-sun4v: use pr_warn() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-vr41xx: use dev_info() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-rs5c313: use pr_err() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-at91rm9200: use dev_dbg()/dev_err() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
  rtc: rtc-rs5c372: use dev_dbg()/dev_warn() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
  rtc: rtc-ds2404: use dev_err() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-efi: use dev_err()/dev_warn()/pr_err() instead of printk()
  ...

block: optionally snapshot page contents to provide stable pages during write

2013-02-22T01:22:20+00:00

This provides a band-aid to provide stable page writes on jbd without
needing to backport the fixed locking and page writeback bit handling
schemes of jbd2.  The band-aid works by using bounce buffers to snapshot
page contents instead of waiting.

For those wondering about the ext3 bandage -- fixing the jbd locking
(which was done as part of ext4dev years ago) is a lot of surgery, and
setting PG_writeback on data pages when we actually hold the page lock
dropped ext3 performance by nearly an order of magnitude.  If we're
going to migrate iscsi and raid to use stable page writes, the
complaints about high latency will likely return.  We might as well
centralize their page snapshotting thing to one place.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen 
Cc: Ron Minnich 
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'tty-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2013-02-21T21:41:04+00:00

Pull tty/serial patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here's the big tty/serial driver patches for 3.9-rc1.

  More tty port rework and fixes from Jiri here, as well as lots of
  individual serial driver updates and fixes.

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while."

* tag 'tty-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (140 commits)
  tty: mxser: improve error handling in mxser_probe() and mxser_module_init()
  serial: imx: fix uninitialized variable warning
  serial: tegra: assume CONFIG_OF
  TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write
  lguest: select CONFIG_TTY to build properly.
  ARM defconfigs: add missing inclusions of linux/platform_device.h
  fb/exynos: include platform_device.h
  ARM: sa1100/assabet: include platform_device.h directly
  serial: imx: Fix recursive locking bug
  pps: Fix build breakage from decoupling pps from tty
  tty: Remove ancient hardpps()
  pps: Additional cleanups in uart_handle_dcd_change
  pps: Move timestamp read into PPS code proper
  pps: Don't crash the machine when exiting will do
  pps: Fix a use-after free bug when unregistering a source.
  pps: Use pps_lookup_dev to reduce ldisc coupling
  pps: Add pps_lookup_dev() function
  tty: serial: uartlite: Support uartlite on big and little endian systems
  tty: serial: uartlite: Fix sparse and checkpatch warnings
  serial/arc-uart: Miscll DT related updates (Grant's review comments)
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts, mostly just due to the TTY config option
clashing with the EXPERIMENTAL removal.