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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug</title>
<updated>2007-05-09T19:30:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-09T09:35:10+00:00</published>
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Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy &lt;ego@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy &lt;ego@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) -&gt;nlink settings</title>
<updated>2007-02-11T18:51:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-10T09:45:54+00:00</published>
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Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets -&gt;nlink to 1.

create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set -&gt;nlink for you.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Corey Minyard &lt;minyard@acm.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets -&gt;nlink to 1.

create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set -&gt;nlink for you.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Corey Minyard &lt;minyard@acm.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] fix "kvm: add vm exit profiling"</title>
<updated>2007-01-23T15:52:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-23T04:40:33+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
export profile_hits() on !SMP too.

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@qumranet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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export profile_hits() on !SMP too.

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@qumranet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] KVM: add VM-exit profiling</title>
<updated>2007-01-12T02:18:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-11T07:15:38+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This adds the profile=kvm boot option, which enables KVM to profile VM
exits.

Use: "readprofile -m ./System.map | sort -n" to see the resulting
output:

   [...]
   18246 serial_out                               148.3415
   18945 native_flush_tlb                         378.9000
   23618 serial_in                                212.7748
   29279 __spin_unlock_irq                        622.9574
   43447 native_apic_write                        2068.9048
   52702 enable_8259A_irq                         742.2817
   54250 vgacon_scroll                             89.3740
   67394 ide_inb                                  6126.7273
   79514 copy_page_range                           98.1654
   84868 do_wp_page                                86.6000
  140266 pit_read                                 783.6089
  151436 ide_outb                                 25239.3333
  152668 native_io_delay                          21809.7143
  174783 mask_and_ack_8259A                       783.7803
  362404 native_set_pte_at                        36240.4000
 1688747 total                                      0.5009

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@qumranet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<pre>
This adds the profile=kvm boot option, which enables KVM to profile VM
exits.

Use: "readprofile -m ./System.map | sort -n" to see the resulting
output:

   [...]
   18246 serial_out                               148.3415
   18945 native_flush_tlb                         378.9000
   23618 serial_in                                212.7748
   29279 __spin_unlock_irq                        622.9574
   43447 native_apic_write                        2068.9048
   52702 enable_8259A_irq                         742.2817
   54250 vgacon_scroll                             89.3740
   67394 ide_inb                                  6126.7273
   79514 copy_page_range                           98.1654
   84868 do_wp_page                                86.6000
  140266 pit_read                                 783.6089
  151436 ide_outb                                 25239.3333
  152668 native_io_delay                          21809.7143
  174783 mask_and_ack_8259A                       783.7803
  362404 native_set_pte_at                        36240.4000
 1688747 total                                      0.5009

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@qumranet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] profiling: fix sched profiling typo</title>
<updated>2007-01-06T07:55:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-06T00:36:29+00:00</published>
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<id>a75acf850ca80136a4f845cf9a7cd26e7465c1f4</id>
<content type='text'>
Fix sched profiling typo, introduced by the sleep profiling patch.  This
bug caused profile=sched to not work.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<pre>
Fix sched profiling typo, introduced by the sleep profiling patch.  This
bug caused profile=sched to not work.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification</title>
<updated>2006-12-07T16:39:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-07T04:40:36+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
 - move some file_operations structs into the .rodata section

 - move static strings from policy_types[] array into the .rodata section

 - fix generic seq_operations usages, so that those structs may be defined
   as "const" as well

[akpm@osdl.org: couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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 - move some file_operations structs into the .rodata section

 - move static strings from policy_types[] array into the .rodata section

 - fix generic seq_operations usages, so that those structs may be defined
   as "const" as well

[akpm@osdl.org: couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use</title>
<updated>2006-12-07T16:39:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-07T04:38:17+00:00</published>
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There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn,
prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus
generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add
#ifdefs.

the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.before
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.after

[akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn,
prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus
generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add
#ifdefs.

the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.before
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.after

[akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] sleep profiling</title>
<updated>2006-12-07T16:39:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-07T04:37:24+00:00</published>
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Implement prof=sleep profiling.  TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken
as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit
for the call site that initiated the sleep.

Sample readprofile output on i386:

   306 ps2_sendbyte                               1.3973
   432 call_usermodehelper_keys                   1.9548
   484 ps2_command                                0.6453
   790 __driver_attach                            4.7879
  1593 msleep                                    44.2500
  3976 sync_buffer                               64.1290
  4076 do_lookup                                 12.4648
  8587 sync_page                                122.6714
 20820 total                                      0.0067

(NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from
deep within the wakeup path.)

akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched.  lock_sock(), msleep(), others..

akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise.  Presumably doing disk
reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex.

[akpm@osdl.org: various fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<pre>
Implement prof=sleep profiling.  TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken
as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit
for the call site that initiated the sleep.

Sample readprofile output on i386:

   306 ps2_sendbyte                               1.3973
   432 call_usermodehelper_keys                   1.9548
   484 ps2_command                                0.6453
   790 __driver_attach                            4.7879
  1593 msleep                                    44.2500
  3976 sync_buffer                               64.1290
  4076 do_lookup                                 12.4648
  8587 sync_page                                122.6714
 20820 total                                      0.0067

(NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from
deep within the wakeup path.)

akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched.  lock_sock(), msleep(), others..

akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise.  Presumably doing disk
reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex.

[akpm@osdl.org: various fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] profile: fix uaccess handling</title>
<updated>2006-12-07T16:39:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-07T04:36:37+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] bitmap: parse input from kernel and user buffers</title>
<updated>2006-10-11T18:14:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Reinette Chatre</name>
<email>reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-11T08:21:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=01a3ee2b203e511e20f98b85a9172fd32c53e87c'/>
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<content type='text'>
lib/bitmap.c:bitmap_parse() is a library function that received as input a
user buffer.  This seemed to have originated from the way the write_proc
function of the /proc filesystem operates.

This has been reworked to not use kmalloc and eliminates a lot of
get_user() overhead by performing one access_ok before using __get_user().

We need to test if we are in kernel or user space (is_user) and access the
buffer differently.  We cannot use __get_user() to access kernel addresses
in all cases, for example in architectures with separate address space for
kernel and user.

This function will be useful for other uses as well; for example, taking
input for /sysfs instead of /proc, so it was changed to accept kernel
buffers.  We have this use for the Linux UWB project, as part as the
upcoming bandwidth allocator code.

Only a few routines used this function and they were changed too.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez &lt;inaky@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Jackson &lt;pj@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Korty &lt;joe.korty@ccur.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<pre>
lib/bitmap.c:bitmap_parse() is a library function that received as input a
user buffer.  This seemed to have originated from the way the write_proc
function of the /proc filesystem operates.

This has been reworked to not use kmalloc and eliminates a lot of
get_user() overhead by performing one access_ok before using __get_user().

We need to test if we are in kernel or user space (is_user) and access the
buffer differently.  We cannot use __get_user() to access kernel addresses
in all cases, for example in architectures with separate address space for
kernel and user.

This function will be useful for other uses as well; for example, taking
input for /sysfs instead of /proc, so it was changed to accept kernel
buffers.  We have this use for the Linux UWB project, as part as the
upcoming bandwidth allocator code.

Only a few routines used this function and they were changed too.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez &lt;inaky@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Jackson &lt;pj@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Korty &lt;joe.korty@ccur.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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