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David S. Miller 4da808c352 [SPARC64]: Fix bogus flush instruction usage.
Some of the trap code was still assuming that alternate
global %g6 was hard coded with current_thread_info().
Let's just consistently flush at KERNBASE when we need
a pipeline synchronization.  That's locked into the TLB
and will always work.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:22 -08:00
David S. Miller 96c6e0d8e2 [SPARC64]: Kill {save,restore}_alternate_globals()
No longer needed now that we no longer have hard-coded
alternate global register usage.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:20 -08:00
David S. Miller b70c0fa161 [SPARC64]: Preload TSB entries from update_mmu_cache().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:19 -08:00
David S. Miller bd40791e1d [SPARC64]: Dynamically grow TSB in response to RSS growth.
As the RSS grows, grow the TSB in order to reduce the likelyhood
of hash collisions and thus poor hit rates in the TSB.

This definitely needs some serious tuning.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:18 -08:00
David S. Miller 98c5584cfc [SPARC64]: Add infrastructure for dynamic TSB sizing.
This also cleans up tsb_context_switch().  The assembler
routine is now __tsb_context_switch() and the former is
an inline function that picks out the bits from the mm_struct
and passes it into the assembler code as arguments.

setup_tsb_parms() computes the locked TLB entry to map the
TSB.  Later when we support using the physical address quad
load instructions of Cheetah+ and later, we'll simply use
the physical address for the TSB register value and set
the map virtual and PTE both to zero.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:17 -08:00
David S. Miller 09f94287f7 [SPARC64]: TSB refinements.
Move {init_new,destroy}_context() out of line.

Do not put huge pages into the TSB, only base page size translations.
There are some clever things we could do here, but for now let's be
correct instead of fancy.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:16 -08:00
David S. Miller 56fb4df6da [SPARC64]: Elminate all usage of hard-coded trap globals.
UltraSPARC has special sets of global registers which are switched to
for certain trap types.  There is one set for MMU related traps, one
set of Interrupt Vector processing, and another set (called the
Alternate globals) for all other trap types.

For what seems like forever we've hard coded the values in some of
these trap registers.  Some examples include:

1) Interrupt Vector global %g6 holds current processors interrupt
   work struct where received interrupts are managed for IRQ handler
   dispatch.

2) MMU global %g7 holds the base of the page tables of the currently
   active address space.

3) Alternate global %g6 held the current_thread_info() value.

Such hardcoding has resulted in some serious issues in many areas.
There are some code sequences where having another register available
would help clean up the implementation.  Taking traps such as
cross-calls from the OBP firmware requires some trick code sequences
wherein we have to save away and restore all of the special sets of
global registers when we enter/exit OBP.

We were also using the IMMU TSB register on SMP to hold the per-cpu
area base address, which doesn't work any longer now that we actually
use the TSB facility of the cpu.

The implementation is pretty straight forward.  One tricky bit is
getting the current processor ID as that is different on different cpu
variants.  We use a stub with a fancy calling convention which we
patch at boot time.  The calling convention is that the stub is
branched to and the (PC - 4) to return to is in register %g1.  The cpu
number is left in %g6.  This stub can be invoked by using the
__GET_CPUID macro.

We use an array of per-cpu trap state to store the current thread and
physical address of the current address space's page tables.  The
TRAP_LOAD_THREAD_REG loads %g6 with the current thread from this
table, it uses __GET_CPUID and also clobbers %g1.

TRAP_LOAD_IRQ_WORK is used by the interrupt vector processing to load
the current processor's IRQ software state into %g6.  It also uses
__GET_CPUID and clobbers %g1.

Finally, TRAP_LOAD_PGD_PHYS loads the physical address base of the
current address space's page tables into %g7, it clobbers %g1 and uses
__GET_CPUID.

Many refinements are possible, as well as some tuning, with this stuff
in place.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:16 -08:00
David S. Miller 3c93646524 [SPARC64]: Kill pgtable quicklists and use SLAB.
Taking a nod from the powerpc port.

With the per-cpu caching of both the page allocator and SLAB, the
pgtable quicklist scheme becomes relatively silly and primitive.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:14 -08:00
David S. Miller 74bf4312ff [SPARC64]: Move away from virtual page tables, part 1.
We now use the TSB hardware assist features of the UltraSPARC
MMUs.

SMP is currently knowingly broken, we need to find another place
to store the per-cpu base pointers.  We hid them away in the TSB
base register, and that obviously will not work any more :-)

Another known broken case is non-8KB base page size.

Also noticed that flush_tlb_all() is not referenced anywhere, only
the internal __flush_tlb_all() (local cpu only) is used by the
sparc64 port, so we can get rid of flush_tlb_all().

The kernel gets it's own 8KB TSB (swapper_tsb) and each address space
gets it's own private 8K TSB.  Later we can add code to dynamically
increase the size of per-process TSB as the RSS grows.  An 8KB TSB is
good enough for up to about a 4MB RSS, after which the TSB starts to
incur many capacity and conflict misses.

We even accumulate OBP translations into the kernel TSB.

Another area for refinement is large page size support.  We could use
a secondary address space TSB to handle those.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:11:13 -08:00
Bernhard R Link 94bbc1763b [SPARC64]: fix sparc_floppy_irq's auxio_register reseting
The patch "[SPARC64]: Get rid of fast IRQ feature"
moved the the code from arch/sparc64/kernel/entry.S:
      lduba           [%g7] ASI_PHYS_BYPASS_EC_E, %g5
      or              %g5, AUXIO_AUX1_FTCNT, %g5
      stba            %g5, [%g7] ASI_PHYS_BYPASS_EC_E
      andn            %g5, AUXIO_AUX1_FTCNT, %g5
      stba            %g5, [%g7] ASI_PHYS_BYPASS_EC_E
to arch/sparc64/kernel/irq.c:
              val = readb(auxio_register);
              val |= AUXIO_AUX1_FTCNT;
              writeb(val, auxio_register);
              val &= AUXIO_AUX1_FTCNT;
              writeb(val, auxio_register);
This looks like it it missing a bitwise not, which is reintroduced
by this patch.

Due to lack of a floppy device, I could not test it, but it looks
evident.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard R Link <brlink@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:10:34 -08:00
David S. Miller 4d000d5b96 [SPARC64]: Mark __ex_table section correctly.
We must use the "a" (allocate) attribute every time we
emit an entry into the __ex_table section.

For consistency, use "a" instead of #alloc which is some
Solaris compat cruft GNU as provides on Sparc.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-04 23:23:56 -08:00
David S. Miller 7abea92145 [SPARC64]: Make cpu_present_map available earlier.
The change to kernel/sched.c's init code to use for_each_cpu()
requires that the cpu_possible_map be setup much earlier.

Set it up via setup_arch(), constrained to NR_CPUS, and later
constrain it to max_cpus in smp_prepare_cpus().

This fixes SMP booting on sparc64.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-26 19:36:00 -08:00
David S. Miller 40ad7a6afc [SPARC]: sys_newfstatat --> sys_fstatat64
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-12 23:30:11 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 642fe301c3 [SPARC64]: Fix sys_newfstatat syscall table entry for 64-bit.
The sparc64 64 bit syscall table seems to be broken as it has
compat_sys_newfstatat in its syscall table instead of sys_newfstatat.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-09 15:09:15 -08:00
David S. Miller 1b9a428901 [SPARC]: Wire up sys_unshare().
Also, the Solaris syscall table is sized differrently,
and does not go beyond entry 255, so trim off the excess
entries.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-07 18:11:24 -08:00
David S. Miller cddfc12e25 [SPARC64]: Kill compat_sys_clock_settime sign extension stub.
It's wrong and totally unneeded.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-30 01:31:09 -08:00
David S. Miller 4415863773 [SPARC]: Increase NR_SYSCALLS to 299
To let new syscalls through.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-22 12:12:01 -08:00
David S. Miller 3ee68c4af3 [SPARC64]: Use compat_sys_futimesat in 32-bit syscall table.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-20 01:49:15 -08:00
David S. Miller 2d7d5f0511 [SPARC]: Add support for *at(), ppoll, and pselect syscalls.
This also includes by necessity _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support,
which actually resulted in a lot of cleanups.

The sparc signal handling code is quite a mess and I should
clean it up some day.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-19 02:42:49 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper 5590ff0d55 [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core
Here is a series of patches which introduce in total 13 new system calls
which take a file descriptor/filename pair instead of a single file
name.  These functions, openat etc, have been discussed on numerous
occasions.  They are needed to implement race-free filesystem traversal,
they are necessary to implement a virtual per-thread current working
directory (think multi-threaded backup software), etc.

We have in glibc today implementations of the interfaces which use the
/proc/self/fd magic.  But this code is rather expensive.  Here are some
results (similar to what Jim Meyering posted before).

The test creates a deep directory hierarchy on a tmpfs filesystem.  Then
rm -fr is used to remove all directories.  Without syscall support I get
this:

real    0m31.921s
user    0m0.688s
sys     0m31.234s

With syscall support the results are much better:

real    0m20.699s
user    0m0.536s
sys     0m20.149s

The interfaces are for obvious reasons currently not much used.  But they'll
be used.  coreutils (and Jeff's posixutils) are already using them.
Furthermore, code like ftw/fts in libc (maybe even glob) will also start using
them.  I expect a patch to make follow soon.  Every program which is walking
the filesystem tree will benefit.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
David S. Miller 959a85ada5 [SPARC64]: Fix build with CONFIG_COMPAT disabled.
Based upon a report and preliminary patch from Jim Gifford.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-18 14:58:05 -08:00
Eddie C. Dost c126cf80d4 [SPARC64]: Serial Console for E250 Patch
From: Eddie C. Dost <ecd@brainaid.de>

I have the following patch for serial console over the RSC
(remote system controller) on my E250 machine. It basically adds
support for input-device=rsc and output-device=rsc from OBP, and
allows 115200,8,n,1,- serial mode setting.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-18 14:54:31 -08:00
Richard Mortimer 9eb3394bf2 [SPARC64]: Eliminate race condition reading Hummingbird STICK register
Ensure a consistent value is read from the STICK register by ensuring
that both high and low are read without high changing due to a roll
over of the low register.

Various Debian/SPARC users (myself include) have noticed problems with
Hummingbird based systems. The symptoms are that the system time is
seen to jump forward 3 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes give or take a few
seconds. In many cases the system then hangs some time afterwards.

I've spotted a race condition in the code to read the STICK register.
I could not work out why 3d, 6h, 11m is important but guess that it is
due to the 2^32 jump of STICK (forwards on one read and then the next
read will seem to be backwards) during a timer interrupt. I'm guessing
that a change of -2^32 will get converted to a large unsigned
increment after the arithmetic manipulation between STICK,
nanoseconds, jiffies etc.

I did a test where I modified __hbird_read_stick to artificially
inject rollover faults forcefully every few seconds. With this I saw
the clock jump over 6 times in 12 hours compared to once every month
or so.

Signed-off-by: Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 15:21:01 -08:00
Al Viro 26ecbdea4b [PATCH] sparc64: task_pt_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:52 -08:00
Al Viro ee3eea165e [PATCH] sparc64: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:52 -08:00
Al Viro f3169641c1 [PATCH] sparc64: task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:52 -08:00
Randy Dunlap a941564458 [PATCH] capable/capability.h (arch/)
arch: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S eb3a72921c [PATCH] kprobes: fix race in recovery of reentrant probe
There is a window where a probe gets removed right after the probe is hit
on some different cpu.  In this case probe handlers can't find a matching
probe instance related to break address.  In this case we need to read the
original instruction at break address to see if that is not a break/int3
instruction and recover safely.

Previous code had a bug where we were not checking for the above race in
case of reentrant probes and the below patch fixes this race.

Tested on IA64, Powerpc, x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds dd49f96777 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2006-01-10 08:28:53 -08:00
Anil S Keshavamurthy e597c2984c [PATCH] kprobes: arch_remove_kprobe
Currently arch_remove_kprobes() is only implemented/required for x86_64 and
powerpc.  All other architecture like IA64, i386 and sparc64 implementes a
dummy function which is being called from arch independent kprobes.c file.

This patch removes the dummy functions and replaces it with
#define arch_remove_kprobe(p, s)	do { } while(0)

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Anil S Keshavamurthy 49a2a1b83b [PATCH] kprobes: changed from using spinlock to mutex
Since Kprobes runtime exception handlers is now lock free as this code path is
now using RCU to walk through the list, there is no need for the
register/unregister{_kprobe} to use spin_{lock/unlock}_isr{save/restore}.  The
serialization during registration/unregistration is now possible using just a
mutex.

In the above process, this patch also fixes a minor memory leak for x86_64 and
powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig e6a6d2efcb [PATCH] sanitize building of fs/compat_ioctl.c
Now that all these entries in the arch ioctl32.c files are gone [1], we can
build fs/compat_ioctl.c as a normal object and kill tons of cruft.  We need a
special do_ioctl32_pointer handler for s390 so the compat_ptr call is done.
This is not needed but harmless on all other architectures.  Also remove some
superflous includes in fs/compat_ioctl.c

Tested on ppc64.

[1] parisc still had it's PPP handler left, which is not fully correct
    for ppp and besides that ppp uses the generic SIOCPRIV ioctl so it'd
    kick in for all netdevice users.  We can introduce a proper handler
    in one of the next patch series by adding a compat_ioctl method to
    struct net_device but for now let's just kill it - parisc doesn't
    compile in mainline anyway and I don't want this to block this
    patchset.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:33 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 3a0f69d59b [PATCH] common compat_sys_timer_create
The comment in compat.c is wrong, every architecture provides a
get_compat_sigevent() for the IPC compat code already.

This basically moves the x86_64 version to common code and removes all the
others.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:32 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org df2e71fb91 [PATCH] dump_thread() cleanup
)

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

- create one common dump_thread() prototype in kernel.h

- dump_thread() is only used in fs/binfmt_aout.c and can therefore be
  removed on all architectures where CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not
  available

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:25 -08:00
David S. Miller cdade109d3 [SPARC64]: Fix sys_fstat64() entry in 64-bit syscall table.
Noticed by Jakub Jelinek.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-09 20:43:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 977127174a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 2006-01-09 18:41:42 -08:00
Richard Mortimer 695ca07bf1 [SPARC64]: Fix ptrace/strace
Don't clobber register %l0 while checking TI_SYS_NOERROR value in
syscall return path.  This bug was introduced by:

db7d9a4eb7

Problem narrowed down by Luis F. Ortiz and Richard Mortimer.

I tried using %l2 as suggested by Luis and that works for me.

Looking at the code I wonder if it makes sense to simplify the code
a little bit. The following works for me but I'm not sure how to
exercise the "NOERROR" codepath.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-09 14:35:50 -08:00
David S. Miller 90bf811664 [SPARC64]: Add needed pm_power_off symbol.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-09 14:12:50 -08:00
Jiri Slaby d08fa1a22e [PATCH] PCI: pci_find_device remove (sparc64/kernel/ebus.c)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:15 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 6b9c7ed848 [PATCH] use ptrace_get_task_struct in various places
The ptrace_get_task_struct() helper that I added as part of the ptrace
consolidation is useful in variety of places that currently opencode it.
Switch them to the common helpers.

Add a ptrace_traceme() helper that needs to be explicitly called, and simplify
the ptrace_get_task_struct() interface.  We don't need the request argument
now, and we return the task_struct directly, using ERR_PTR() for error
returns.  It's a bit more code in the callers, but we have two sane routines
that do one thing well now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:51 -08:00
David S. Miller d5784b57d2 [SPARC]: Use STABS_DEBUG and DWARF_DEBUG macros in vmlinux.lds.S
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-28 13:22:54 -08:00
David S. Miller 597d1f0622 [SPARC]: Kill CHILD_MAX.
It's definition is wrong (-1 means "no limit" not 999),
only the Sparc SunOS/Solaris compat code uses it, so
let's just kill it off completely from limits.h and
all referencing code.

Noticed by Ulrich Drepper.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-22 23:10:03 -08:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S bf8d5c52c3 [PATCH] kprobes: increment kprobe missed count for multiprobes
When multiple probes are registered at the same address and if due to some
recursion (probe getting triggered within a probe handler), we skip calling
pre_handlers and just increment nmissed field.

The below patch make sure it walks the list for multiple probes case.
Without the below patch we get incorrect results of nmissed count for
multiple probe case.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-12 08:57:45 -08:00
Hugh Dickins f3d48f0373 [PATCH] unpaged: fix sound Bad page states
Earlier I unifdefed PageCompound, so that snd_pcm_mmap_control_nopage and
others can give out a 0-order component of a higher-order page, which won't
be mistakenly freed when zap_pte_range unmaps it.  But many Bad page states
reported a PG_reserved was freed after all: I had missed that we need to
say __GFP_COMP to get compound page behaviour.

Some of these higher-order pages are allocated by snd_malloc_pages, some by
snd_malloc_dev_pages; or if SBUS, by sbus_alloc_consistent - but that has
no gfp arg, so add __GFP_COMP into its sparc32/64 implementations.

I'm still rather puzzled that DRM seems not to need a similar change.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22 09:13:43 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 9ffb83bcc5 [SBUSFB]: implement ->compat_ioctl
This patch adds a new function, sbusfb_compat_ioctl() to
drivers/video/sbuslib.c and uses it as compat_ioctl in all sbus fb
drivers

This remove the last per-arch compat ioctl bits in
arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c so it would be nice if people could test
if this actually copiles and works and if yes apply it :)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-12 12:11:12 -08:00
David S. Miller 4d45cbacb8 [SPARC64]: Restore 2.4.x /proc/cpuinfo behavior for "ncpus probed" field.
Noticed by Tom 'spot' Callaway.

Even on uniprocessor we always reported the number of physical
cpus in the system via /proc/cpuinfo.  But when this got changed
to use num_possible_cpus() it always reads as "1" on uniprocessor.
This change was unintentional.

So scan the firmware device tree and count the number of cpu
nodes, and report that, as we always did.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-11 12:48:56 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 8ca2bdc7a9 [SPARC] sbus rtc: implement ->compat_ioctl
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-09 12:07:18 -08:00
Tobias Klauser 84c1a13a30 [SPARC64]: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove a
duplicate of ARRAY_SIZE which is never used anyways.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-09 12:03:42 -08:00
Nick Piggin 64c7c8f885 [PATCH] sched: resched and cpu_idle rework
Make some changes to the NEED_RESCHED and POLLING_NRFLAG to reduce
confusion, and make their semantics rigid.  Improves efficiency of
resched_task and some cpu_idle routines.

* In resched_task:
- TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the task's runqueue lock held,
  and as we hold it during resched_task, then there is no need for an
  atomic test and set there. The only other time this should be set is
  when the task's quantum expires, in the timer interrupt - this is
  protected against because the rq lock is irq-safe.

- If TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, then we don't need to do anything. It
  won't get unset until the task get's schedule()d off.

- If we are running on the same CPU as the task we resched, then set
  TIF_NEED_RESCHED and no further action is required.

- If we are running on another CPU, and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is *not* set
  after TIF_NEED_RESCHED has been set, then we need to send an IPI.

Using these rules, we are able to remove the test and set operation in
resched_task, and make clear the previously vague semantics of
POLLING_NRFLAG.

* In idle routines:
- Enter cpu_idle with preempt disabled. When the need_resched() condition
  becomes true, explicitly call schedule(). This makes things a bit clearer
  (IMO), but haven't updated all architectures yet.

- Many do a test and clear of TIF_NEED_RESCHED for some reason. According
  to the resched_task rules, this isn't needed (and actually breaks the
  assumption that TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the runqueue lock
  held). So remove that. Generally one less locked memory op when switching
  to the idle thread.

- Many idle routines clear TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG, and only set it in the inner
  most polling idle loops. The above resched_task semantics allow it to be
  set until before the last time need_resched() is checked before going into
  a halt requiring interrupt wakeup.

  Many idle routines simply never enter such a halt, and so POLLING_NRFLAG
  can be always left set, completely eliminating resched IPIs when rescheduling
  the idle task.

  POLLING_NRFLAG width can be increased, to reduce the chance of resched IPIs.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 07:56:33 -08:00
Nick Piggin 5bfb5d690f [PATCH] sched: disable preempt in idle tasks
Run idle threads with preempt disabled.

Also corrected a bugs in arm26's cpu_idle (make it actually call schedule()).
How did it ever work before?

Might fix the CPU hotplugging hang which Nigel Cunningham noted.

We think the bug hits if the idle thread is preempted after checking
need_resched() and before going to sleep, then the CPU offlined.

After calling stop_machine_run, the CPU eventually returns from preemption and
into the idle thread and goes to sleep.  The CPU will continue executing
previous idle and have no chance to call play_dead.

By disabling preemption until we are ready to explicitly schedule, this bug is
fixed and the idle threads generally become more robust.

From: alexs <ashepard@u.washington.edu>

  PPC build fix

From: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>

  MIPS build fix

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 07:56:33 -08:00