This patch cleans up sata_promise's mmio accesses.
In sata_promise there are three distinct mmio address spaces:
1. global registers, offsets from host->iomap[PDC_MMIO_BAR]
2. per-port ATA registers, offsets from ap->ioaddr.cmd_addr
3. per-port SATA registers, offsets from ap->ioaddr.scr_addr
The driver currently often fails to indicate which address space
a given mmio base pointer refers to, which is a source of bugs
and confusion (see recent pdc_thaw() irq clearing bug; it's also
been an obstacle for the pending NCQ extensions).
To reduce these problems, adopt a coding style where the name of
a base pointer always indicates which address space it refers to:
1. global registers: host_mmio
2. per-port ATA registers: ata_mmio
3. per-port SATA registers: sata_mmio
Also rearrange register offset definitions to clearly indicate
which address space they belong to, and add a symbolic definition
for the previously hard-coded PHYMODE4 register.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
This patch fixes two bugs in sata_promise's irq status clearing paths:
1. When clearing the irq status for a specific port, the driver
read the global SEQMASK register. This is wrong because that
clears the irq status for _all_ ports.
2. pdc_thaw() incorrectly added the PDC_INT_SEQMASK host register
offset to a per-port ata engine base address. This resulted in
it reading the unrelated PDC_PKT_SUBMIT register, which did not
have the desired irq status clearing effect.
In both cases the fix is to read from the port's Command/Status
register. This also matches what Promise's own driver does.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Harvey Harrison [Wed, 14 May 2008 23:17:00 +0000 (16:17 -0700)]
ata: remove FIT() macro
Use the kernel-provided clamp_val() macro.
FIT was always applied to a member of struct ata_timing (unsigned short)
and two constants. clamp_val will not cast to short anymore.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Mark Lord [Sat, 17 May 2008 17:36:30 +0000 (13:36 -0400)]
sata_mv: fix pmp drives not found
Part three of simplifying/fixing handling of the main_irq_mask register
to resolve unexpected interrupt issues observed in 2.6.26-rc*.
Partially fix a reported bug whereby we sometimes miss seeing drives on
a port-multiplier, as reported by Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@google.com>.
The problem was that we were receiving unexpected interrupts
during EH from POLLed commands while accessing port-multiplier registers.
These unexpected interrupts can be prevented by masking the DONE_IRQ bit
for the port whenever not operating in EDMA mode.
Also fix port_stop() to mask all port interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Mark Lord [Sat, 17 May 2008 17:35:21 +0000 (13:35 -0400)]
sata_mv: consolidate main_irq_mask updates
Part two of simplifying/fixing handling of the main_irq_mask register
to resolve unexpected interrupt issues observed in 2.6.26-rc*.
Consolidate all updates of the host main_irq_mask register
into a single function. This simplifies maintenance,
and also prepares the way for caching it (later).
No functionality changes in this update.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Mark Lord [Wed, 14 May 2008 13:19:30 +0000 (09:19 -0400)]
sata_mv: fis irq register fixes
Fix handling of the FIS_IRQ_CAUSE register in sata_mv.
This register exists *only* on GenIIe devices, so don't bother
writing to it on older chips. Also, it has to be read/cleared
in mv_err_intr() before clearing the main ERR_IRQ_CAUSE register.
This keeps sata_mv from getting stuck forever on certain error types.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Sonic Zhang [Mon, 12 May 2008 04:12:16 +0000 (12:12 +0800)]
pata-bf54x: Set ATAPI HSM to control IDE device terminate sequence.
Set ATAPI host state machine to control IDE device terminate sequence.
Some IDE harddisk may assert terminate sequence in the middle of a
formal DMA transaction and resume later. Bit DETECT_TERM in ATAPI_CTRL
register determines whether the ATAPI host state machine or the kernel
driver should take care of this case.
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 19 May 2008 20:30:40 +0000 (13:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'drm-patches' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-patches' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/i915: save and restore dsparb and d_state registers.
drm/i915: fix off by one in VGA save/restore of AR & CR regs.
drm: disable tasklets not IRQs when taking the drm lock spinlock
Revert "drm/vbl rework: rework how the drm deals with vblank."
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
Don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
kconfig: incorrect 'len' field initialisation ?
kernel-doc: allow unnamed bit-fields
kbuild: filter away debug symbols from kernel symbols
Remove *.rej pattern from .gitignore
MAINTAINERS: document names of new kbuild trees
kbuild: disable modpost warnings for linkonce sections
kbuild: escape meta characters in regular expression in make TAGS
Jan Blunck [Fri, 16 May 2008 11:54:59 +0000 (13:54 +0200)]
Don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
Since 97965478a66fbdf0f4ad5e4ecc4828f0cb548a45 ("mm: Get rid of __ZONE_COUNT")
mmzone.h includes bounds.h.
Calling make clean after make prepare removes bounds.h
again so when building external modules this fails.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
--
1) The field 'len' of the 'gstr' structure seems to track the size of the memory
already allocated for the "growable string". So the value of this field should be
the same as the 'malloc()' just above, shouldn't it ?
Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 19 May 2008 16:24:49 +0000 (09:24 -0700)]
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:
snd-pcsp: silent misleading warning
snd-pcsp: depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
snd-pcsp: put back the compatibility code for the older alsa-libs
snd-pcsp: adjust help texts to frighten users
Stas Sergeev [Sun, 18 May 2008 16:30:03 +0000 (18:30 +0200)]
snd-pcsp: silent misleading warning
It appears that alsa allows a sound buffer with size not
evenly devided by the period size. This triggers a warning in
snd-pcsp and floods the log. As a quick fix, the warning should
be disabled.
Stas Sergeev [Sat, 17 May 2008 06:46:55 +0000 (08:46 +0200)]
snd-pcsp: depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
Considering all the feedbacks I got, depending snd-pcsp on
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL looks like the only safe way to get out
of all the troubles at one go. :)
Stas Sergeev [Sat, 17 May 2008 06:44:41 +0000 (08:44 +0200)]
snd-pcsp: put back the compatibility code for the older alsa-libs
The attached patch adds back the compatibility code, allowing the
driver to work with older alsa-libs.
The removal was premature, it breaks the real-life configs.
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 18 May 2008 22:32:44 +0000 (15:32 -0700)]
Merge branch 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
SUNRPC: AUTH_SYS "machine creds" shouldn't use negative valued uid/gid
nfs: make nfs4_drop_state_owner() static
nfs: path_{get,put}() cleanups
nfs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
nfs/lsm: make NFSv4 set LSM mount options
NFSv4: Check the return value of decode_compound_hdr_arg()
nfs: fix race in nfs_dirty_request
NFS: Ensure that 'noac' and/or 'actimeo=0' turn off attribute caching
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 18 May 2008 20:56:54 +0000 (13:56 -0700)]
Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
i2c/max6875: Really prevent 24RF08 corruption
i2c-amd756: Fix functionality flags
i2c: Kill the old driver matching scheme
i2c: Convert remaining new-style drivers to use module aliasing
i2c: Switch pasemi to the new device/driver matching scheme
i2c: Clean up Blackfin BF527 I2C device declarations
i2c-nforce2: Disable the second SMBus channel on the DFI Lanparty NF4 Expert
i2c: New co-maintainer
Add multi_defconfig, to build a kernel for all supported m68k platforms,
excluding Sun 3 (Sun 3 kernels are incompatible with all other m68k platforms)
The *_ISA type defines are quite generic and cause namespace conflicts
(e.g. with `AMIGAHW_DECLARE(GG2_ISA)' in <asm/amigahw.h>) for some kernel
configurations. Use ISA_TYPE_* to avoid such conflicts.
Use `__builtin_trap()' instead of `asm volatile("illegal")' in the m68k BUG()
macros (as suggested by Andrew Pinski), to kill warnings in code that assumes
BUG() does not return.
m68k: FB_HP300 depends on DIO and doesnt need FB_CFB_FILLRECT
Correct FB_HP300 dependencies:
- FB_HP300 doesn't depend only on HP300, but also on DIO (which depends on
HP300)
- FB_HP300 does not need FB_CFB_FILLRECT
Jean Delvare [Sun, 18 May 2008 18:49:41 +0000 (20:49 +0200)]
i2c/max6875: Really prevent 24RF08 corruption
i2c-core takes care of the possible corruption of 24RF08 chips for
quite some times, so device devices no longer need to do it. And they
really should not, as applying the prevention twice voids it.
I thought that I had fixed all drivers long ago but apparently I had
missed that one.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
Jean Delvare [Sun, 18 May 2008 18:49:40 +0000 (20:49 +0200)]
i2c: Convert remaining new-style drivers to use module aliasing
Update all the remaining new-style i2c drivers to use standard module
aliasing instead of the old driver_name/type driver matching scheme.
Note that the tuner driver is a bit quirky at the moment, as it
overwrites i2c_client.name with arbitrary strings. We write "tuner"
back on remove, to make sure that driver cycling will work properly,
but there may still be troublesome corner cases.
Jean Delvare [Sun, 18 May 2008 18:49:40 +0000 (20:49 +0200)]
i2c-nforce2: Disable the second SMBus channel on the DFI Lanparty NF4 Expert
There is a strange chip at 0x2e on the second SMBus channel of the
DFI Lanparty NF4 Expert motherboard. Accessing the chip reboots the
system. As there's nothing interesting on this SMBus channel, the
easiest and safest thing to do is to disable it on that board.
This is a better fix to bug #5889 than the it87 driver update that was
done originally:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5889
Jean Delvare [Sun, 18 May 2008 18:49:40 +0000 (20:49 +0200)]
i2c: New co-maintainer
Ben Dooks agreed to become my co-maintainer for the i2c subsystem. In
particular, Ben will help with drivers for embedded systems, of which
my experience is inexistent. Thanks Ben and welcome on board!
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Trond Myklebust [Sun, 11 May 2008 19:18:51 +0000 (12:18 -0700)]
SUNRPC: AUTH_SYS "machine creds" shouldn't use negative valued uid/gid
Apparently this causes Solaris 10 servers to refuse our NFSv4 SETCLIENTID
calls. Fall back to root creds for now, since most servers that care are
very likely to have root squashing enabled.
[ARM] fix parenthesis in include/asm-arm/arch-omap/control.h
Parenthesis fix in include/asm-arm/arch-omap/control.h
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Michael Abbott [Wed, 14 May 2008 23:29:24 +0000 (16:29 -0700)]
[ARM] colibri: fix support for DM9000 ethernet device
Two changes are necessary to enable proper operation of the DM9000 device with
the Colibri PXA 270 board: firstly, the IRQ type needs to be configured for
rising edge interrupts, and secondly this configuration needs to be
communicated through to the DM9000.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove set_irq_type() call as per ben-linux request] Signed-off-by: Michael Abbott <michael.abbott@diamond.ac.uk> Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 5037/1: Orion: fix DNS323/Kurobox Pro PCI initialisation
Whereas most Orion 5x machine support code would initialise the PCI
subsystem with nr_controllers in their struct hw_pci set to 2, the
DNS323 and Kurobox Pro machine support code had nr_controllers set
to 1.
This was presumably done because on those two machines, the PCI(-X)
controller (nr == 1) isn't used, requiring initialisation of only
the PCIe controller (nr == 0.) However, not initialising the PCI(-X)
controller on boards that don't use it leads to a situation where
both the PCIe and the PCI(-X) controller think that their root bus is
zero, and it messes up IRQ assignment.
This patch changes the DNS323 and Kurobox Pro support code to always
use nr_controllers == 2.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 5034/1: fix arm{925,926,940,946} dma_flush_range() in WT mode
The CPU's dma_flush_range() operation needs to clean+invalidate the
given memory area if the cache is in writeback mode, or do just the
invalidate part if the cache is in writethrough mode, but the current
proc-arm{925,926,940,946} (incorrectly) do a cache clean in the
latter case. This patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 17 May 2008 21:21:43 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: disable mwait for AMD family 10H/11H CPUs
x86: fix crash on cpu hotplug on pat-incapable machines
x86: remove mwait capability C-state check
It depends on the CPU. For AMD CPUs that support MWAIT this is wrong.
Family 0x10 and 0x11 CPUs will enter C1 on HLT. Powersavings then
depend on a clock divisor and current Pstate of the core.
If all cores of a processor are in halt state (C1) the processor can
enter the C1E (C1 enhanced) state. If mwait is used this will never
happen.
Thus HLT saves more power than MWAIT here.
It might be best to switch off the mwait flag for these AMD CPU
families like it was introduced with commit f039b754714a422959027cb18bb33760eb8153f0 (x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD
Family 10)
Re-add the AMD families 10H/11H check and disable the mwait usage for
those.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Avi Kivity [Wed, 14 May 2008 09:20:32 +0000 (12:20 +0300)]
x86: fix crash on cpu hotplug on pat-incapable machines
pat_disable() is __init, which means it goes away after booting is complete.
Unfortunately it is used by the hotplug code if the machine is not
pat-capable, causing a crash.
Fix by marking pat_disable() as __cpuinit.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 14 May 2008 06:47:40 +0000 (08:47 +0200)]
x86: remove mwait capability C-state check
Vegard Nossum reports:
| powertop shows between 200-400 wakeups/second with the description
| "<kernel IPI>: Rescheduling interrupts" when all processors have load (e.g.
| I need to run two busy-loops on my 2-CPU system for this to show up).
|
| The bisect resulted in this commit:
|
| commit 0c07ee38c9d4eb081758f5ad14bbffa7197e1aec
| Date: Wed Jan 30 13:33:16 2008 +0100
|
| x86: use the correct cpuid method to detect MWAIT support for C states
remove the functional effects of this patch and make mwait unconditional.
A future patch will turn off mwait on specific CPUs where that causes
power to be wasted.
Eric Paris [Fri, 2 May 2008 20:42:42 +0000 (13:42 -0700)]
nfs/lsm: make NFSv4 set LSM mount options
NFSv3 get_sb operations call into the LSM layer to set security options passed
from userspace. NFSv4 hooks were not originally added since it was reasonably
late in the merge window and NFSv3 was the only thing that had regressed (v4
has never supported any LSM options)
This patch makes NFSv4 call into the LSM to set security options rather than
just blindly dropping them with no notice to the user as happens today. This
patch was tested in a simple NFSv4 environment with the context= option and
appeared to work as expected.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Trond Myklebust [Tue, 6 May 2008 17:32:40 +0000 (13:32 -0400)]
NFSv4: Check the return value of decode_compound_hdr_arg()
If decode_compound_hdr_arg() returns a resource error, then we cannot
proceed to process the callback. Return a 'GARBAGE_ARGS' rpc-level error to
the caller instead.
If, however, the minor version field is incorrect, then we need to
propagate the resulting NFS4ERR_MINOR_VERS_MISMATCH error back as the
compound status field (setting the nops field to 0).
Finally, if encode_compound_hdr_res() returns an error, we need to return
an RPC_SYSTEM_ERR to the caller.
Trond Myklebust [Mon, 5 May 2008 15:45:41 +0000 (11:45 -0400)]
NFS: Ensure that 'noac' and/or 'actimeo=0' turn off attribute caching
Both the 'noac' and 'actimeo=0' mount options should ensure that attributes
are not cached, however a bug in nfs_attribute_timeout() means that
currently, the attributes may in fact get cached for up to one jiffy. This
has been seen to cause corruption in some applications.
The reason for the bug is that the time_in_range() test returns 'true' as
long as the current time lies between nfsi->read_cache_jiffies and
nfsi->read_cache_jiffies + nfsi->attrtimeo. In other words, if jiffies
equals nfsi->read_cache_jiffies, then we still cache the attribute data.
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 16 May 2008 01:28:46 +0000 (18:28 -0700)]
Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] macintosh: Replace deprecated __initcall with device_initcall
[POWERPC] cell: Fix section mismatches in io-workarounds code
[POWERPC] spufs: Fix compile error
[POWERPC] Fix uninitialized variable bug in copy_{to|from}_user
[POWERPC] Add null pointer check to of_find_property
[POWERPC] vmemmap fixes to use smaller pages
[POWERPC] spufs: Fix pointer reference in find_victim
[POWERPC] 85xx: SBC8548 - Add flash support and HW Rev reporting
[POWERPC] 85xx: Fix some sparse warnings for 85xx MDS
[POWERPC] 83xx: Enable DMA engine on the MPC8377 MDS board.
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: fix second serial port
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: add support for NOR and NAND flashes
[POWERPC] 85xx: Add 8568 PHY workarounds to board code
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: use ULI526X driver for on-board ethernet
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 16 May 2008 01:28:28 +0000 (18:28 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
jbd2: update transaction t_state to T_COMMIT fix
ext4: Retry block allocation if new blocks are allocated from system zone.
ext4: mballoc fix mb_normalize_request algorithm for 1KB block size filesystems
ext4: fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled)
ext4: fix synchronization of quota files in journal=data mode
ext4: Fix mount messages when quota disabled
ext4: correct mount option parsing to detect when quota options can be changed
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 16 May 2008 00:50:37 +0000 (17:50 -0700)]
Clean up 'print_fn_descriptor_symbol()' types
Everybody wants to pass it a function pointer, and in fact, that is what
you _must_ pass it for it to make sense (since it knows that ia64 and
ppc64 use descriptors for function pointers and fetches the actual
address from there).
So don't make the argument be a 'unsigned long' and force everybody to
add a cast.
Mingming Cao [Thu, 15 May 2008 18:46:17 +0000 (14:46 -0400)]
jbd2: update transaction t_state to T_COMMIT fix
Updating the current transaction's t_state is protected by j_state_lock. We
need to do the same when updating the t_state to T_COMMIT.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ext4: Retry block allocation if new blocks are allocated from system zone.
If the block allocator gets blocks out of system zone ext4 calls
ext4_error. But if the file system is mounted with errors=continue
retry block allocation. We need to mark the system zone blocks as
in use to make sure retry don't pick them again
System zone is the block range mapping block bitmap, inode bitmap and inode
table.
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 14 May 2008 15:11:46 +0000 (17:11 +0200)]
tty: fix BKL related leak and crash
Enabling the BKL to be lockdep tracked uncovered the following
upstream kernel bug in the tty code, which caused a BKL
reference leak:
================================================
[ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
------------------------------------------------
dmesg/3121 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
1 lock held by dmesg/3121:
#0: (kernel_mutex){--..}, at: [<c02f34d9>] opost+0x24/0x194
this might explain some of the atomicity warnings and crashes
that -tip tree testing has been experiencing since the BKL
was converted back to a spinlock.
The patch aims to fix a performance issue for the syscall
personality(PER_LINUX32).
On IA-64 box, the syscall personality (PER_LINUX32) has poor performance
because it failed to find the Linux/x86 execution domain. Then it tried
to load the kernel module however it failed always and it used the default
execution domain PER_LINUX instead. Requesting kernel modules is very
expensive. It caused the performance issue. (see the function
lookup_exec_domain in kernel/exec_domain.c).
To resolve the issue, execution domain Linux/x86 is always registered in
initialization time for IA-64 architecture.
Signed-off-by: Xiaolan Huang <xiaolan.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 15 May 2008 16:10:13 +0000 (09:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] show_interrupts: prevent cpu hotplug when walking cpu_online_map.
[S390] smp: __smp_call_function_map vs cpu_online_map fix.
[S390] tape: Use ccw_dev_id to build cdev_id.
[S390] dasd: fix timeout handling in interrupt handler
[S390] s390dbf: Use const char * for dbf name.
[S390] dasd: Use const in busid functions.
[S390] blacklist.c: removed duplicated include
[S390] vmlogrdr: module initialization function should return negative errors
[S390] sparsemem vmemmap: initialize memmap.
[S390] Remove last traces of cio_msg=.
[S390] cio: Remove CCW_CMD_SUSPEND_RECONN in front of CCW_CMD_SET_PGID.
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