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Linus Torvalds
d3ab02a7c5 Merge branch 'gm_20090410' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/trivial-mods
* 'gm_20090410' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/trivial-mods:
  MAINTAINERS - Update MN10300 patterns
  MAINTAINERS - Update frv arch patterns
  scripts/get_maintainer.pl - Allow multiple files on command line
  MAINTAINERS - Update Freescale sound patterns
  MAINTAINERS - Add additional patterns
  MAINTAINERS - Add missing "/" to some pattern directories
  MAINTAINERS - Update DRIVER CORE patterns
  MAINTAINERS - Update M68K patterns
  MAINTAINERS - Coalesce sections "DVB" and "Video for Linux"
  MAINTAINERS - Remove cyblafb frame buffer no longer in tree
  MAINTAINERS - Remove x86/Voyager no longer in tree
  MAINTAINERS - Update FPU Emulator contact address and web page
  MAINTAINERS - i2c_tiny_usb T: should be W:
  MAINTAINERS - Add Linus Torvalds' git
  MAINTAINERS - standardize "T:       git urls"
  MAINTAINERS - Remove HP Fibre Channel HBA no longer in tree
  MAINTAINERS - Standardize style
  MAINTAINERS - Add file patterns
  Add scripts/get_maintainer.pl

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 08:24:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d811f236d9 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  percpu: unbreak alpha percpu
  mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
2009-04-13 08:22:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
29a1e26feb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds:
  leds: just ignore invalid GPIOs in leds-gpio
2009-04-13 08:19:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
01e4c5d39f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
  [WATCHDOG] omap_wdt.c: move probe function to .devinit.text
  [WATCHDOG] ks8695_wdt.c: move probe function to .devinit.text
  [WATCHDOG] at91rm9200_wdt.c: move probe function to .devinit.text
  [WATCHDOG] remove ARM26 sections
  [WATCHDOG] orion5x_wdt: Add shutdown callback, use watchdog ping function
  [WATCHDOG] i6300esb.c: Restructure initialization of the device
  [WATCHDOG] i6300esb.c: Fix the GETSTATUS and GETBOOTSTATUS ioctls.
  [WATCHDOG] i6300esb.c: Cleanup
2009-04-13 08:18:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cec5455e45 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (60 commits)
  microblaze_v8: Add MAINTAINERS fragment
  microblaze_v8: Uartlite for Microblaze
  microblaze_v8: Makefiles for Microblaze cpu
  microblaze_v8: Kconfig patches
  microblaze_v8: Interrupt handling and timer support
  microblaze_v8: syscalls.h
  microblaze_v8: pci headers
  microblaze_v8: Kbuild file
  microblaze_v8: string.h thread_info.h
  microblaze_v8: unistd.h
  microblaze_v8: fcntl.h sockios.h ucontext.h
  microblaze_v8: pool.h socket.h
  microblaze_v8: device.h param.h topology.h
  microblaze_v8: headers files entry.h current.h mman.h registers.h sembuf.h
  microblaze_v8: namei.h
  microblaze_v8: gpio.h, serial.h
  microblaze_v8: headers simple files - empty or redirect to asm-generic
  microblaze_v8: sigcontext.h siginfo.h
  microblaze_v8: termbits.h termios.h
  microblaze_v8: stats headers
  ...
2009-04-13 08:17:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b0cbc861a3 Revert "ACPI battery: fix async boot oops"
This reverts commit 5d38258ec0, since the
underlying problem got fixed properly in the previous commit ("async:
Fix module loading async-work regression").

Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-11 12:45:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d6de2c80e9 async: Fix module loading async-work regression
Several drivers use asynchronous work to do device discovery, and we
synchronize with them in the compiled-in case before we actually try to
mount root filesystems etc.

However, when compiled as modules, that synchronization is missing - the
module loading completes, but the driver hasn't actually finished
probing for devices, and that means that any user mode that expects to
use the devices after the 'insmod' is now potentially broken.

We already saw one case of a similar issue in the ACPI battery code,
where the kernel itself expected the module to be all done, and unmapped
the init memory - but the async device discovery was still running.
That got hacked around by just removing the "__init" (see commit
5d38258ec0 "ACPI battery: fix async boot
oops"), but the real fix is to just make the module loading wait for all
async work to be completed.

It will slow down module loading, but since common devices should be
built in anyway, and since the bug is really annoying and hard to handle
from user space (and caused several S3 resume regressions), the simple
fix to wait is the right one.

This fixes at least

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063

but probably a few other bugzilla entries too (12936, for example), and
is confirmed to fix Rafael's storage driver breakage after resume bug
report (no bugzilla entry).

We should also be able to now revert that ACPI battery fix.

Reported-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@suse.com>
Tested-by: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-11 12:44:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7933a3cfba Remove stale include/asm-mn10300/.gitignore file
Requested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-10 14:07:51 -07:00
Joe Perches
be79b09289 MAINTAINERS - Update MN10300 patterns
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:55 -07:00
Joe Perches
43fbc1eb71 MAINTAINERS - Update frv arch patterns
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:54 -07:00
Joe Perches
4a7fdb5f51 scripts/get_maintainer.pl - Allow multiple files on command line
Improve handling of "by:" signoffs
Sorting and frequency checks are done by name/email, not
by "by:" tag.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:54 -07:00
Joe Perches
69aefcead5 MAINTAINERS - Update Freescale sound patterns
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:53 -07:00
Joe Perches
d5ca6918bc MAINTAINERS - Add additional patterns
for sections:

FINTEK F75375S HARDWARE MONITOR
PCA9532 LED DRIVER
S390 ZCRYPT DRIVER
SERIAL ATA (SATA) SUBSYSTEM
TMIO MMC DRIVER

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:52 -07:00
Joe Perches
8081149332 MAINTAINERS - Add missing "/" to some pattern directories
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:51 -07:00
Joe Perches
7cfc51b9d3 MAINTAINERS - Update DRIVER CORE patterns
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:50 -07:00
Joe Perches
9db35182b9 MAINTAINERS - Update M68K patterns
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:49 -07:00
Joe Perches
127c49ae09 MAINTAINERS - Coalesce sections "DVB" and "Video for Linux"
Creating new section MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:49 -07:00
Joe Perches
0632973db2 MAINTAINERS - Remove cyblafb frame buffer no longer in tree
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:48 -07:00
Joe Perches
8ed01bbb89 MAINTAINERS - Remove x86/Voyager no longer in tree
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:47 -07:00
Joe Perches
e769980fee MAINTAINERS - Update FPU Emulator contact address and web page
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:46 -07:00
Joe Perches
932d18729d MAINTAINERS - i2c_tiny_usb T: should be W:
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:45 -07:00
Joe Perches
cfe81f76c8 MAINTAINERS - Add Linus Torvalds' git
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:44 -07:00
Joe Perches
54e5881d0c MAINTAINERS - standardize "T: git urls"
Various forms of "T:        git" entries exist:
git kernel.org:/
git kernel.org/
git://git.kernel.org/
Standardize on "T:  git git://git.kernel.org/<foo>" where appropriate
Fix a few bad git path entries

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:43 -07:00
Joe Perches
121ea23044 MAINTAINERS - Remove HP Fibre Channel HBA no longer in tree
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:43 -07:00
Joe Perches
7d2c86b5a0 MAINTAINERS - Standardize style
Use one email address per line
Remove file patterns from section names
Use tab after :

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:42 -07:00
Joe Perches
679655daff MAINTAINERS - Add file patterns
Better description of file pattern tag "F:"
Add file exclusion tag "X:"
Add patterns to sections

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
2009-04-10 13:10:41 -07:00
Joe Perches
cb7301c7a3 Add scripts/get_maintainer.pl
A script to parse file pattern information in MAINTAINERS
and return selected information about a file or patch

usage: scripts/get_maintainer.pl [options] patchfile
       scripts/get_maintainer.pl [options] -f file
version: 0.14

MAINTAINERS field selection options:
  --email => print email address(es) if any
    --git => include git "*-by:" signers in commit count order
    --git-chief-penguins => include (Linus Torvalds)
    --git-min-signatures => number of signatures required (default: 1)
    --git-max-maintainers => maximum maintainers to add (default: 5)
    --git-since => git history to use (default: 1-year-ago)
    --m => include maintainer(s) if any
    --n => include name 'Full Name <addr@domain.tld>'
    --l => include list(s) if any
    --s => include subscriber only list(s) if any
  --scm => print SCM tree(s) if any
  --status => print status if any
  --subsystem => print subsystem name if any
  --web => print website(s) if any

Output type options:
  --separator [, ] => separator for multiple entries on 1 line
  --multiline => print 1 entry per line

Default options:
  [--email --git --m --n --l --multiline]

Other options:
  --version => show version
  --help => show this help information

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
2009-04-10 13:10:40 -07:00
Tejun Heo
066123a535 percpu: unbreak alpha percpu
For the time being, move the generic percpu_*() accessors to
linux/percpu.h.

asm-generic/percpu.h is meant to carry generic stuff for low level
stuff - declarations, definitions and pointer offset calculation
and so on but not for generic interface.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10 21:36:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1e17d774db Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/firmware-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/firmware-2.6:
  qla1280: Fix off-by-some error in firmware loading.
  Add README.AddingFirmware file. Basically telling people not to.
  firmware: Remove newly-added slicoss and sxg firmware images
  firmware/WHENCE: Add missing origin information for Ambassador atmsar11.fw
  ALSA: wavefront - Always use request_firmware()
  Remove fdump tool for av7110 firmware
  firmware: convert av7110 driver to request_firmware()
  Partially revert "V4L/DVB (9533): cx88: Add support for TurboSight TBS8910 DVB-S PCI card"
  Revert "fix modules_install via NFS"

Add-add conflicts in firmware/WHENCE fixed manually
2009-04-10 12:01:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d848223808 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-mn10300
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-mn10300:
  Separate out the proc- and unit-specific header directories from the general
  Move arch headers from include/asm-mn10300/ to arch/mn10300/include/asm/.
2009-04-10 10:01:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5de4c51d2a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-frv
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-frv:
  FRV: Move to arch/frv/include/asm/
  FRV: Fix indentation errors to keep git-am happy when moving arch header files
2009-04-10 07:47:13 -07:00
David Howells
2f2a2132ff Separate out the proc- and unit-specific header directories from the general
MN10300 arch headers and place them instead in the same directories as contain
the .c files for the processor and unit implementations.

This permits the symlinks include/asm/proc and include/asm/unit to be
dispensed with.  This does, however, require that #include <asm/proc/xxx.h> be
converted to #include <proc/xxx.h> and similarly for asm/unit -> unit.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-04-10 14:33:48 +01:00
David Howells
da7616610c Move arch headers from include/asm-mn10300/ to arch/mn10300/include/asm/.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-04-10 14:19:03 +01:00
David Howells
e69cc92788 FRV: Move to arch/frv/include/asm/
Move arch headers from include/asm-frv/ to arch/frv/include/asm/.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-04-10 01:48:06 +01:00
David Howells
187934655f FRV: Fix indentation errors to keep git-am happy when moving arch header files
Fix indentation errors to keep git-am happy when moving arch header files.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-04-10 01:48:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
6594d0b1cd Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (27 commits)
  xsysace: Fix dereferencing of cf_id after hd_driveid removal
  at91_ide: turn on PIO 6 support
  at91_ide: remove unused ide_mm_{outb,inb}
  ide-cd: reverse NOT_READY sense key logic
  ide: refactor tf_read() method
  ide: refactor tf_load() method
  ide: call write_devctl() method from tf_read() method
  ide: move common code out of tf_load() method
  ide: simplify 'struct ide_taskfile'
  ide: replace IDE_TFLAG_* flags by IDE_VALID_*
  ide-cd: fix intendation in cdrom_decode_status()
  ide-cd: unify handling of fs and pc requests in cdrom_decode_status()
  ide-cd: convert cdrom_decode_status() to use switch statements
  ide-cd: update debugging support
  ide-cd: respect REQ_QUIET for fs requests in cdrom_decode_status()
  ide: remove unused #include <linux/version.h>
  tx4939ide: Fix tx4939ide_{in,out}put_data_swap argument
  tx493[89]ide: Remove big endian version of tx493[89]ide_tf_{load,read}
  ide-cd: carve out an ide_cd_breathe()-helper for fs write requests
  ide-cd: move status checking into the IRQ handler
  ...
2009-04-09 16:43:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0534c8cb5c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  RDMA/nes: Add support for new SFP+ PHY
  RDMA/nes: Add wide_ppm_offset parm for switch compatibility
  RDMA/nes: Fix SFP+ PHY initialization
  RDMA/nes: Fix nes_nic_cm_xmit() error handling
  RDMA/nes: Fix error handling issues
  RDMA/nes: Fix incorrect casts on 32-bit architectures
  IPoIB: Document newish features
  RDMA/cma: Create cm id even when IB port is down
  RDMA/cma: Use rate from IPoIB broadcast when joining IPoIB multicast groups
  IPoIB: Avoid free_netdev() BUG when destroying a child interface
  mlx4_core: Don't leak mailbox for SET_PORT on Ethernet ports
  RDMA/cxgb3: Release dependent resources only when endpoint memory is freed.
  RDMA/cxgb3: Handle EEH events
  IB/mlx4: Use pgprot_writecombine() for BlueFlame pages
2009-04-09 16:42:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
54f93b74cf 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:
  ext4: check block device size on mount
  ext4: Fix off-by-one-error in ext4_valid_extent_idx()
  ext4: Fix big-endian problem in __ext4_check_blockref()
2009-04-09 16:42:05 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
3b3809ac53 x86: fix set_fixmap to use phys_addr_t
Use phys_addr_t for receiving a physical address argument instead of
unsigned long.  This allows fixmap to handle pages higher than 4GB on
x86-32.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-09 16:41:45 -07:00
David Howells
62b8e680e6 MN10300: Kill MN10300's own profiling Kconfig
Kill MN10300's own profiling Kconfig as this is superfluous given that the
profiling options have moved to init/Kconfig and arch/Kconfig.  Not only is
this now superfluous, but the dependencies are not correct.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-09 10:53:16 -07:00
David Howells
6fde836b54 FRV: Use <asm-generic/pgtable.h> in NOMMU mode
asm-frv/pgtable.h could just #include <asm-generic/pgtable.h> in NOMMU mode
rather than #defining macros for lazy MMU and CPU stuff.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-09 10:46:05 -07:00
David Howells
34574dd10b keys: Handle there being no fallback destination keyring for request_key()
When request_key() is called, without there being any standard process
keyrings on which to fall back if a destination keyring is not specified, an
oops is liable to occur when construct_alloc_key() calls down_write() on
dest_keyring's semaphore.

Due to function inlining this may be seen as an oops in down_write() as called
from request_key_and_link().

This situation crops up during boot, where request_key() is called from within
the kernel (such as in CIFS mounts) where nobody is actually logged in, and so
PAM has not had a chance to create a session keyring and user keyrings to act
as the fallback.

To fix this, make construct_alloc_key() not attempt to cache a key if there is
no fallback key if no destination keyring is given specifically.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-09 10:41:19 -07:00
Stoyan Gaydarov
11ff5f6aff afs: BUG to BUG_ON changes
Signed-off-by: Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-09 10:41:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e66dd19092 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: cpu_debug remove execute permission
  x86: smarten /proc/interrupts output for new counters
  x86: DMI match for the Dell DXP061 as it needs BIOS reboot
  x86: make 64 bit to use default_inquire_remote_apic
  x86, setup: un-resequence mode setting for VGA 80x34 and 80x60 modes
  x86, intel-iommu: fix X2APIC && !ACPI build failure
2009-04-09 10:38:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c2ea122cd7 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: consolidate documents
  blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree()
  tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header
  tracing: append a comma to INIT_FTRACE_GRAPH
2009-04-09 10:37:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
17b2e9bf27 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: do not count frozen tasks toward load
  sched: refresh MAINTAINERS entry
  sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power in sched_domain_debug
  cpuacct: add per-cgroup utime/stime statistics
  posixtimers, sched: Fix posix clock monotonicity
  sched_rt: don't allocate cpumask in fastpath
  cpuacct: make cpuacct hierarchy walk in cpuacct_charge() safe when rcupreempt is used -v2
2009-04-09 10:37:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
422a253483 Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'irq-fixes-for-linus' and 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  printk: fix wrong format string iter for printk
  futex: comment requeue key reference semantics

* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  irq: fix cpumask memory leak on offstack cpumask kernels

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && setitimer(CPUCLOCK_PROF)
  posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()
  timers: add missing kernel-doc
2009-04-09 10:35:30 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
91e58b6e95 MN10300: Convert obsolete no_irq_type to no_irq_chip
Convert the last remaining users to no_irq_chip.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-09 10:33:21 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
36cd3c9f92 mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
Impact: performance regression fix for s390

The adaptive spinning mutexes will not always do what one would expect on
virtualized architectures like s390. Especially the cpu_relax() loop in
mutex_spin_on_owner might hurt if the mutex holding cpu has been scheduled
away by the hypervisor.

We would end up in a cpu_relax() loop when there is no chance that the
state of the mutex changes until the target cpu has been scheduled again by
the hypervisor.

For that reason we should change the default behaviour to no-spin on s390.

We do have an instruction which allows to yield the current cpu in favour of
a different target cpu. Also we have an instruction which allows us to figure
out if the target cpu is physically backed.

However we need to do some performance tests until we can come up with
a solution that will do the right thing on s390.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409184834.7a0df7b2@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 19:28:24 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
df5529297e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm:
  dm kcopyd: fix callback race
  dm kcopyd: prepare for callback race fix
  dm: implement basic barrier support
  dm: remove dm_request loop
  dm: rework queueing and suspension
  dm: simplify dm_request loop
  dm: split DMF_BLOCK_IO flag into two
  dm: rearrange dm_wq_work
  dm: remove limited barrier support
  dm: add integrity support
2009-04-09 08:01:21 -07:00