Upcoming server platforms from Intel based on the Nehalem performance
have significantly improved CPU based copy performance.
However, the DMA engine can still be effective at higher I/O sizes
for TCP traffic and at this time copybreak
should be set to 256k for TCP traffic only.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
On some systems with I/OAT ver.2 when DCA is disabled in BIOS
situations have been observed
that zero DMA channels are detected instead of four.
To avoid kernel panic driver should fail gracefully with appropriate message.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
BIOS versions for systems with I/OAT ver.2 have been found
which fail to program APICID_TAG_MAP for DCA.
The ioatdma driver should recognize incorrectly set APICID_TAG_MAP
and disable DCA in that case.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Some of the kerneldoc comments in the dmaengine header describe
already removed structure members. Remove them.
Also add a short description for dma_device->device_is_tx_complete.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jw@emlix.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers
timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix
x86: clean up hpet timer reinit
timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, remove spurious warning
timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers
signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats.
x86: fix hpet timer reinit for x86_64
sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork()
i8327: fix outb() parameter order
x86: fix math_emu register frame access
x86: math_emu info cleanup
x86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump
x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor
x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing
x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series
x86: disable intel_iommu support by default
x86: don't apply __supported_pte_mask to non-present ptes
x86: fix grammar in user-visible BIOS warning
x86/Kconfig.cpu: make Kconfig help readable in the console
x86, 64-bit: print DMI info in the oops trace
The POSIX timer interface allows for absolute time expiry values through the
TIMER_ABSTIME flag, therefore we have to synchronize the timer to the clock
every time we start it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To decrease the chance of a missed enable, always enable the timer when we
sample it, we'll always disable it when we find that there are no active timers
in the jiffy tick.
This fixes a flood of warnings reported by Mike Galbraith.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In dasd_device_set_timer and dasd_block_set_timer we interpret the
return value of mod_timer in a wrong way. If the timer expires in
the small window between our check of timer_pending and the call to
mod_timer, then the timer will be set, mod_timer returns zero and
we will call add_timer for a timer that is already pending.
As del_timer and mod_timer do all the necessary checking themselves,
we can simplify our code and remove the race a the same time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The vdso_per_cpu_data entry in the lowcore structure uses __u32
instead of __u64. If the data page is above 4GB the pointer is
truncated and the kernel crashes.
Reported-by: Mijo Safradin <mijo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
I noticed by pure accident we have ptrace_fork() and friends. This was
added by "x86, bts: add fork and exit handling", commit
bf53de907d.
I can't test this, ds_request_bts() returns -EOPNOTSUPP, but I strongly
believe this needs the fix. I think something like this program
int main(void)
{
int pid = fork();
if (!pid) {
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL);
kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);
fork();
} else {
struct ptrace_bts_config bts = {
.flags = PTRACE_BTS_O_ALLOC,
.size = 4 * 4096,
};
wait(NULL);
ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, NULL, PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK);
ptrace(PTRACE_BTS_CONFIG, pid, &bts, sizeof(bts));
ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, NULL, NULL);
sleep(1);
}
return 0;
}
should crash the kernel.
If the task is traced by its natural parent ptrace_reparented() returns 0
but we should clear ->btsxxx anyway.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The constraint used for retrieving and restoring the parent function
pointer is incorrect. The parent variable is a pointer, and the
address of the pointer is modified by the asm statement and not
the pointer itself. It is incorrect to pass it in as an output
constraint since the asm will never update the pointer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The following commit:
commit 64b3d0e812
Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Thu Dec 18 19:13:51 2008 +0000
powerpc/mm: Rework usage of _PAGE_COHERENT/NO_CACHE/GUARDED
broke setting of the _PAGE_COHERENT bit in the PPC HW PTE. Since we now
actually set _PAGE_COHERENT in the Linux PTE we shouldn't be clearing it
out before we propogate it to the PPC HW PTE.
Reported-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] AACI: timeout will reach -1
[ARM] Storage class should be before const qualifier
[ARM] pxa: stop and disable IRQ for each DMA channels at startup
[ARM] pxa: make more SSCR0 bit definitions visible on multiple processors
[ARM] pxa: fix missing of __REG() definition for ac97 registers access
[ARM] pxa: fix NAND and MMC clock initialization for pxa3xx
Maciej Sosnowski
Johannes Weiner
Linus Torvalds
Peter Zijlstra
Martin Schwidefsky
Stefan Weinhuber
Cornelia Huck
Sachin Sant
Oleg Nesterov
Steven Rostedt
Ingo Molnar
Kumar Gala