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Henrik Rydberg cd72ad3f57 Input: bcm5974 - switch back to normal mode when closing
Staying in multi-touch mode after closing the device sometimes makes
the keyboard drop keys or repeat keys irratically. The conjecture is
that some internal buffer starts to overflow, resulting in undefined
behavior. Switching back to normal mode when closing the device makes
the problem go away.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-09-16 12:28:13 -04:00
Jiri Kosina 9ce1ca284a Input: i8042 - make Lenovo 3000 N100 blacklist entry more specific
Apparently, there are more different versions of Lenovo 3000 N100, some
of them working properly with active mux, and some of them requiring it
being switched off.

This patch applies 'nomux' only to the specific product name that is
reported to behave badly unless 'nomux' is specified.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-09-04 22:57:35 -04:00
Henrik Rydberg a6821f345f Input: bcm5974 - add BTN_TOUCH event for mousedev benefit
The mousedev driver requires the use of BTN_TOUCH events to process
ABS_X and ABS_Y events properly, which is what is needed for the
bcm5974-based apple computers to have a functional pointer out-of-the-box.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-09-04 22:57:26 -04:00
Henrik Rydberg 75e21e3f3b Input: bcm5974 - improve finger tracking and counting
The problem of finger tracking, i.e., when to switch focus from one
finger to another on the trackpad, has been improved by utilizing more
information from the bcm5974 chip output. This results in less pointer
hopping when many fingers are on the trackpad. In addition, a finger
counting method based on pressure information from all fingers is
introduced. Together with a pressure hysteresis window, this yields a
more stable counting of the number of fingers on the trackpad.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-09-04 22:57:15 -04:00
Henrik Rydberg 158e0fb602 Input: bcm5974 - small formatting cleanup
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-09-04 22:57:06 -04:00
Henrik Rydberg 2338263e2c Input: bcm5974 - add maintainer entry
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-08-22 16:35:52 -04:00
Geert Uytterhoeven c85e2031eb Input: evdev - fix printf() format for sizeof
commit f2afa7711f ("Input: paper over a bug in
Synaptics X driver") introduced a compiler warning on 64-bit platforms, as
sizeof() returns a size_t, not an (unsigned) int:

| drivers/input/evdev.c: In function 'handle_eviocgbit':
| drivers/input/evdev.c:684: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'

Use the proper `z' modifier for size_t, and make the printf() formats for the
sizes unsigned while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-08-19 11:35:27 -04:00
Huang Weiyi 0cc1fe2238 Input: remove version.h from drivers that don't need it
If a driver dies not use LINUX_VERSION_CODE nor KERNEL_VERSION
then it does not need to include version.h

Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-08-18 11:00:47 -04:00
Martin Michlmayr 26135ed322 Input: cobalt_btns - add missing MODULE_LICENSE
Export the module license and other information about the Cobalt
button module in order to avoid the following warning:

| WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/input/misc/cobalt_btns.o

Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Acked-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-08-18 11:00:37 -04:00
Andrew Morton cbbdece304 Input: xilinx_ps2 - fix warning
drivers/input/serio/xilinx_ps2.c:272: warning: cast from pointer
to integer of different size

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-08-10 23:13:15 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov 88da765f4d Input: bcm5974 - implement autosuspend support
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-08-08 16:24:21 -04:00
Henrik Rydberg f89bd95c5c Input: bcm5974 - add driver for Macbook Air and Pro Penryn touchpads
This driver adds support for the multitouch trackpad on the new
Apple Macbook Air and Macbook Pro Penryn laptops. It replaces the
appletouch driver on those computers, and integrates well with the
synaptics driver of the Xorg system.

[dtor@mail.ru: various cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-08-08 16:23:01 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov e4ddcb0a6b Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc1' into for-linus 2008-08-08 16:21:02 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov f2afa7711f Input: paper over a bug in Synaptics X driver
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-08-08 14:54:59 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 5402a7349d Input: evdev - split EVIOCGBIT handlig into a separate function
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-08-08 11:54:58 -04:00
Carlos Corbacho 8e4ae1017a Input: i8042 - Add Dritek quirk for Acer TravelMate 4280
Reported-by: Mattias Jernberg <nostrad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-08-06 14:38:56 -04:00
Harley Laue d488d3ed00 Input: xpad - add Pelican Eclipse D-Pad to the list of devices
Signed-off-by: Harley Laue <losinggeneration@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-07-31 00:45:59 -04:00
Uwe Kleine-König 9b07044cd8 Input: gpio-keys - make gpio_keys_device_driver static
This fixes the sparse warning

	symbol 'gpio_keys_device_driver' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-07-30 10:40:44 -04:00
Uwe Kleine-König 74dd439344 Input: gpio-keys - fix possible NULL pointer dereference
bdata->button is used in gpio_check_button but never initialized.  Having a
device with debounce_interval != 0 without this patch resulted on an oops on
my machine.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-07-30 10:40:35 -04:00
Mark Brown 558a171d77 Input: wm97xx - enable sub-drivers by default
Currently the support for each WM97xx touchscreen model is compiled out
by default, meaning that the default configuration when the driver is
built is for it to support no hardware.  This is suboptimal and leads to
problems like distribution kernels shipping a non-functional driver.

Change the default to support all controllers and update the help text
to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-07-29 01:27:03 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 6e86841d05 Linux 2.6.27-rc1 2008-07-28 19:40:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7874d35173 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  lguest: turn Waker into a thread, not a process
  lguest: Enlarge virtio rings
  lguest: Use GSO/IFF_VNET_HDR extensions on tun/tap
  lguest: Remove 'network: no dma buffer!' warning
  lguest: Adaptive timeout
  lguest: Tell Guest net not to notify us on every packet xmit
  lguest: net block unneeded receive queue update notifications
  lguest: wrap last_avail accesses.
  lguest: use cpu capability accessors
  lguest: virtio-rng support
  lguest: Support assigning a MAC address
  lguest: Don't leak /dev/zero fd
  lguest: fix verbose printing of device features.
  lguest: fix switcher_page leak on unload
  lguest: Guest int3 fix
  lguest: set max_pfn_mapped, growl loudly at Yinghai Lu
2008-07-28 18:16:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5dfb66ba8c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-mfd
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-mfd:
  mfd: accept pure device as a parent, not only platform_device
  mfd: add platform_data to mfd_cell
  mfd: Coding style fixes
  mfd: Use to_platform_device instead of container_of
2008-07-28 18:15:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1d9b9f6a53 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (21 commits)
  x86/PCI: use dev_printk when possible
  PCI: add D3 power state avoidance quirk
  PCI: fix bogus "'device' may be used uninitialized" warning in pci_slot
  PCI: add an option to allow ASPM enabled forcibly
  PCI: disable ASPM on pre-1.1 PCIe devices
  PCI: disable ASPM per ACPI FADT setting
  PCI MSI: Don't disable MSIs if the mask bit isn't supported
  PCI: handle 64-bit resources better on 32-bit machines
  PCI: rewrite PCI BAR reading code
  PCI: document pci_target_state
  PCI hotplug: fix typo in pcie hotplug output
  x86 gart: replace to_pages macro with iommu_num_pages
  x86, AMD IOMMU: replace to_pages macro with iommu_num_pages
  iommu: add iommu_num_pages helper function
  dma-coherent: add documentation to new interfaces
  Cris: convert to using generic dma-coherent mem allocator
  Sh: use generic per-device coherent dma allocator
  ARM: support generic per-device coherent dma mem
  Generic dma-coherent: fix DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE
  x86: use generic per-device dma coherent allocator
  ...
2008-07-28 18:14:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a3ad7f128c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: fix msleep compile error
2008-07-28 18:13:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9b79022ca9 Fix 'get_user_pages_fast()' with non-page-aligned start address
Alexey Dobriyan reported trouble with LTP with the new fast-gup code,
and Johannes Weiner debugged it to non-page-aligned addresses, where the
new get_user_pages_fast() code would do all the wrong things, including
just traversing past the end of the requested area due to 'addr' never
matching 'end' exactly.

This is not a pretty fix, and we may actually want to move the alignment
into generic code, leaving just the core code per-arch, but Alexey
verified that the vmsplice01 LTP test doesn't crash with this.

Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Debugged-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 17:54:21 -07:00
Rusty Russell 8c79873da0 lguest: turn Waker into a thread, not a process
lguest uses a Waker process to break it out of the kernel (ie.
actually running the guest) when file descriptor needs attention.

Changing this from a process to a thread somewhat simplifies things:
it can directly access the fd_set of things to watch.  More
importantly, it means that the Waker can see Guest memory correctly,
so /dev/vring file descriptors will work as anticipated (the
alternative is to actually mmap MAP_SHARED, but you can't do that with
/dev/zero).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:39 +10:00
Rusty Russell 0f0c4fab82 lguest: Enlarge virtio rings
With big packets, 128 entries is a little small.

Guest -> Host 1GB TCP:
Before: 8.43625 seconds xmit 95640 recv 198266 timeout 49771 usec 1252
After: 8.01099 seconds xmit 49200 recv 102263 timeout 26014 usec 2118

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:38 +10:00
Rusty Russell 398f187d74 lguest: Use GSO/IFF_VNET_HDR extensions on tun/tap
Guest -> Host 1GB TCP:
Before 20.1974 seconds xmit 214510 recv 5 timeout 214491 usec 278
After 8.43625 seconds xmit 95640 recv 198266 timeout 49771 usec 1252

Host -> Guest 1GB TCP:
Before: Seconds 9.98854 xmit 172166 recv 5344 timeout 172157 usec 251
After: Seconds 5.72803 xmit 244322 recv 9919 timeout 244302 usec 156

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:37 +10:00
Rusty Russell 9254926f85 lguest: Remove 'network: no dma buffer!' warning
This warning can happen a lot under load, and it should be warnx not
warn anwyay.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:37 +10:00
Rusty Russell aa1249840b lguest: Adaptive timeout
Since the correct timeout value varies, use a heuristic which adjusts
the timeout depending on how many packets we've seen.  This gives
slightly worse results, but doesn't need tweaking when GSO is
introduced.

500 usec	19.1887		xmit 561141 recv 1 timeout 559657
Dynamic (278)	20.1974		xmit 214510 recv 5 timeout 214491 usec 278

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:36 +10:00
Rusty Russell a161883a29 lguest: Tell Guest net not to notify us on every packet xmit
virtio_ring has the ability to suppress notifications.  This prevents
a guest exit for every packet, but we need to set a timer on packet
receipt to re-check if there were any remaining packets.

Here are the times for 1G TCP Guest->Host with different timeout
settings (it matters because the TCP window doesn't grow big enough to
fill the entire buffer):

Timeout value	Seconds		Xmit/Recv/Timeout
None (before)	25.3784		xmit 7750233 recv 1
2500 usec	62.5119		xmit 207020 recv 2 timeout 207020
1000 usec	34.5379		xmit 207003 recv 2 timeout 207003
750 usec	29.2305		xmit 207002 recv 1 timeout 207002
500 usec	19.1887		xmit 561141 recv 1 timeout 559657
250 usec	20.0465		xmit 214128 recv 2 timeout 214110
100 usec	19.2583		xmit 561621 recv 1 timeout 560153

(Note that these values are sensitive to the GSO patches which come
 later, and probably other traffic-related variables, so take with a
 large grain of salt).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:36 +10:00
Rusty Russell 5dae785a82 lguest: net block unneeded receive queue update notifications
Number of exits transmitting 10GB Guest->Host before:
	network xmit 7858610 recv 118136

After:
	network xmit 7750233 recv 1

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:35 +10:00
Rusty Russell b5111790fa lguest: wrap last_avail accesses.
To simplify the transition to when we publish indices in the ring
(and make shuffling my patch queue easier), wrap them in a lg_last_avail()
macro.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:35 +10:00
Andrew Morton cf485e566b lguest: use cpu capability accessors
To support my little make-x86-bitops-use-proper-typechecking projectlet.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:34 +10:00
Rusty Russell 28fd6d7f95 lguest: virtio-rng support
This is a simple patch to add support for the virtio "hardware random
generator" to lguest.  It gets about 1.2 MB/sec reading from /dev/hwrng
in the guest.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:34 +10:00
Mark McLoughlin dec6a2be08 lguest: Support assigning a MAC address
If you've got a nice DHCP configuration which maps MAC
addresses to specific IP addresses, then you're going to
want to start your guest with one of those MAC addresses.

Also, in Fedora, we have persistent network interface naming
based on the MAC address, so with randomly assigned
addresses you're soon going to hit eth13. Who knows what
will happen then!

Allow assigning a MAC address to the network interface with
e.g.

  --tunnet=bridge:eth0:00:FF:95:6B:DA:3D

or:

  --tunnet=192.168.121.1:00:FF:95:6B:DA:3D

which is pretty unintelligable, but ...

(includes Rusty's minor rework)

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:33 +10:00
Mark McLoughlin 34bdaab44d lguest: Don't leak /dev/zero fd
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:33 +10:00
Rusty Russell 32c68e5c56 lguest: fix verbose printing of device features.
%02x is more appropriate for bytes than %08x.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:32 +10:00
Johannes Weiner 0a707210aa lguest: fix switcher_page leak on unload
map_switcher allocates the array, unmap_switcher has to free it
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:32 +10:00
Rusty Russell 0c12091d82 lguest: Guest int3 fix
Ron Minnich noticed that guest userspace gets a GPF when it tries to int3:
we need to copy the privilege level from the guest-supplied IDT to the real
IDT.  int3 is the only common case where guest userspace expects to invoke
an interrupt, so that's the symptom of failing to do this.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-29 09:58:31 +10:00
Rusty Russell 5d006d8d09 lguest: set max_pfn_mapped, growl loudly at Yinghai Lu
6af61a7614 'x86: clean up max_pfn_mapped
usage - 32-bit' makes the following comment:

    XEN PV and lguest may need to assign max_pfn_mapped too.

But no CC.  Yinghai, wasting fellow developers' time is a VERY bad
habit.  If you do it again, I will hunt you down and try to extract
the three hours of my life I just lost :)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
2008-07-29 09:58:31 +10:00
Dmitry Baryshkov 424f525a12 mfd: accept pure device as a parent, not only platform_device
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com>
2008-07-29 01:30:26 +02:00
Andrew Morton 34ee550142 include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopmd.h: macros are noxious, reason #435
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c: In function 'pgd_mop_up_pmds':
  arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:194: warning: unused variable 'pmd'

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Manuel Lauss c27ef92d8e sh7760fb: write colormap value to hardware
The computed color value is never actually written to hardware
colormap register.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Cc: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu.nobuhiro@renesas.com>
Cc: Munakata Hisao <munakata.hisao@renesas.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Eric Sandeen 7fcba05437 eCryptfs: use page_alloc not kmalloc to get a page of memory
With SLUB debugging turned on in 2.6.26, I was getting memory corruption
when testing eCryptfs.  The root cause turned out to be that eCryptfs was
doing kmalloc(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); virt_to_page() and treating that as a nice
page-aligned chunk of memory.  But at least with SLUB debugging on, this
is not always true, and the page we get from virt_to_page does not
necessarily match the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE worth of memory we got from kmalloc.

My simple testcase was 2 loops doing "rm -f fileX; cp /tmp/fileX ." for 2
different multi-megabyte files.  With this change I no longer see the
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto 25947d5ac5 gpio: fix build on CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS=n
If CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO=y && CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS=n, gpio_export() in
asm-generic/gpio.h refers -ENOSYS and causes build error.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa e3b6e806cf bio-integrity: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL for bio_integrity_init_slab()
I got section mismatch message about bio_integrity_init_slab().

WARNING: fs/built-in.o(__ksymtab+0xb60): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_bio_integrity_init_slab to the function .init.text:bio_integrity_init_slab()

The symbol bio_integrity_init_slab is exported and annotated __init Fix
this by removing the __init annotation of bio_integrity_init_slab or drop
the export.

It only call from init_bio().  The EXPORT_SYMBOL() can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Hisashi Hifumi 8ab22b9abb vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize
When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a
pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO
is issued and this page will be uptodate.

I think this is good for pagesize == blocksize environment but there is
room for improvement on pagesize != blocksize environment.  Because in
this case a page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not
uptodate, some buffers can be uptodate.

So I suggest that when all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate, use this pagecache and copy data from
this pagecache to user buffer even if a page is not uptodate.  This can
reduce read IO and improve system throughput.

I wrote a benchmark program and got result number with this program.

This benchmark do:

  1: mount and open a test file.

  2: create a 512MB file.

  3: close a file and umount.

  4: mount and again open a test file.

  5: pwrite randomly 300000 times on a test file.  offset is aligned
     by IO size(1024bytes).

  6: measure time of preading randomly 100000 times on a test file.

The result was:
	2.6.26
        330 sec

	2.6.26-patched
        226 sec

Arch:i386
Filesystem:ext3
Blocksize:1024 bytes
Memory: 1GB

On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block.  So random read/write
mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads are optimized
with this patch under pagesize != blocksize environment.  This test result
showed this.

The benchmark program is as follows:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>

#define LEN 1024
#define LOOP 1024*512 /* 512MB */

main(void)
{
	unsigned long i, offset, filesize;
	int fd;
	char buf[LEN];
	time_t t1, t2;

	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) {
		perror("cannot mount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	memset(buf, 0, LEN);
	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC);
	if (fd < 0) {
		perror("cannot open file\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	for (i = 0; i < LOOP; i++)
		write(fd, buf, LEN);
	close(fd);
	if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) {
		perror("cannot umount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) {
		perror("cannot mount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_RDWR);
	if (fd < 0) {
		perror("cannot open file\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	filesize = LEN * LOOP;
	for (i = 0; i < 300000; i++){
		offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1));
		pwrite(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
	}
	printf("start test\n");
	time(&t1);
	for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++){
		offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1));
		pread(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
	}
	time(&t2);
	printf("%ld sec\n", t2-t1);
	close(fd);
	if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) {
		perror("cannot umount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
}

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Simon Horman d84a52f62f kdump: update kdump documentation as kexec-tools-resting has been renamed kexec-tools
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00