linux.git/arch/tile, branch v3.9-rc4

Merge tag 'md-3.9-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2013-03-23T22:49:49+00:00

Pull md fixes from NeilBrown:
 "A few bugfixes for md

   - recent regressions in raid5
   - recent regressions in dmraid
   - a few instances of CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 linger

  Several tagged for -stable"

* tag 'md-3.9-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 entirely
  md/raid5: ensure sync and DISCARD don't happen at the same time.
  MD: Prevent sysfs operations on uninitialized kobjects
  MD RAID5: Avoid accessing gendisk or queue structs when not available
  md/raid5: schedule_construction should abort if nothing to do.

md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 entirely

2013-03-20T02:21:14+00:00

Once instance of this Kconfig macro remained after commit
51acbcec6c42b24482bac18e42befc822524535d ("md: remove
CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456"). Remove that one too. And, while we're at it,
also remove it from the defconfig files that carry it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed

2013-03-12T18:16:40+00:00

In commit 887cbce0adea ("arch Kconfig: centralise ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS")
I introduced the config sybmol HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and selected that where
needed.  I am not sure what I was thinking.  Instead, just directly
select VIRT_TO_BUS where it is needed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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