For NUMA optimization and some other algorithms it is useful to have a fast
to get the current CPU and node numbers in user space.
x86-64 added a fast way to do this in a vsyscall. This adds a generic
syscall for other architectures to make it a generic portable facility.
I expect some of them will also implement it as a faster vsyscall.
The cache is an optimization for the x86-64 vsyscall optimization. Since
what the syscall returns is an approximation anyways and user space
often wants very fast results it can be cached for some time. The norma
methods to get this information in user space are relatively slow
The vsyscall is in a better position to manage the cache because it has direct
access to a fast time stamp (jiffies). For the generic syscall optimization
it doesn't help much, but enforce a valid argument to keep programs
portable
I only added an i386 syscall entry for now. Other architectures can follow
as needed.
AK: Also added some cleanups from Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch adds a vgetcpu vsyscall, which depending on the CPU RDTSCP
capability uses either the RDTSCP or CPUID to obtain a CPU and node
numbers and pass them to the program.
AK: Lots of changes over Vojtech's original code:
Better prototype for vgetcpu()
It's better to pass the cpu / node numbers as separate arguments
to avoid mistakes when going from SMP to NUMA.
Also add a fast time stamp based cache using a user supplied
argument to speed things more up.
Use fast method from Chuck Ebbert to retrieve node/cpu from
GDT limit instead of CPUID
Made sure RDTSCP init is always executed after node is known.
Drop printk
Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To quote Alan Cox:
The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to
continue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing
it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than
an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated.
A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons
such as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects
the new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in
that directory.
This is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to
handle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least
panic rather than cause problems further down the line.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi call that will enable/disable the nmi
watchdog.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[NetLabel]: update docs with website information
[NetLabel]: rework the Netlink attribute handling (part 2)
[NetLabel]: rework the Netlink attribute handling (part 1)
[Netlink]: add nla_validate_nested()
[NETLINK]: add nla_for_each_nested() to the interface list
[NetLabel]: change the SELinux permissions
[NetLabel]: make the CIPSOv4 cache spinlocks bottom half safe
[NetLabel]: correct improper handling of non-NetLabel peer contexts
[TCP]: make cubic the default
[TCP]: default congestion control menu
[ATM] he: Fix __init/__devinit conflict
[NETFILTER]: Add dscp,DSCP headers to header-y
[DCCP]: Introduce dccp_probe
[DCCP]: Use constants for CCIDs
[DCCP]: Introduce constants for CCID numbers
[DCCP]: Allow default/fallback service code.
They all contain the same thing. Instead, have a single generic one in
include/asm-generic, and permit an arch to override as needed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
This patch adds xt_dscp.h and xt_DSCP.h to the kernel headers which are
exported via 'make headers_install'. These are necessary for userspace
to add rules using dscp match and DSCP target.
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: (28 commits)
ocfs2: Teach ocfs2_drop_lock() to use ->set_lvb() callback
ocfs2: Remove ->unblock lockres operation
ocfs2: move downconvert worker to lockres ops
ocfs2: Remove unused dlmglue functions
ocfs2: Have the metadata lock use generic dlmglue functions
ocfs2: Add ->set_lvb callback in dlmglue
ocfs2: Add ->check_downconvert callback in dlmglue
ocfs2: Check for refreshing locks in generic unblock function
ocfs2: don't unconditionally pass LVB flags
ocfs2: combine inode and generic blocking AST functions
ocfs2: Add ->get_osb() dlmglue locking operation
ocfs2: remove ->unlock_ast() callback from ocfs2_lock_res_ops
ocfs2: combine inode and generic AST functions
ocfs2: Clean up lock resource refresh flags
ocfs2: Remove i_generation from inode lock names
ocfs2: Encode i_generation in the meta data lvb
ocfs2: Free up some space in the lvb
ocfs2: Remove special casing for inode creation in ocfs2_dentry_attach_lock()
ocfs2: manually d_move() during ocfs2_rename()
[PATCH] Allow file systems to manually d_move() inside of ->rename()
...
Some file systems want to manually d_move() the dentries involved in a
rename. We can do this by making use of the FS_ODD_RENAME flag if we just
have nfs_rename() unconditionally do the d_move(). While there, we rename
the flag to be more descriptive.
OCFS2 uses this to protect that part of the rename operation with a cluster
lock.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
This has been discussed on dccp@vger and removes the necessity for applications
to supply service codes in each and every case.
If an application does not want to provide a service code, that's fine, it will
be given 0. Otherwise, service codes can be set via socket options as before.
This patch has been tested using various client/server configurations
(including listening on multiple service codes).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: (50 commits)
[libata] Delete pata_it8172 driver
[PATCH] libata: improve handling of diagostic fail (and hardware that misreports it)
[PATCH] libata: fix non-uniform ports handling
Fix libata resource conflict for legacy mode
[libata] ata_piix: build fix
[PATCH] pata_amd: Check enable bits on Nvidia
[PATCH] Update SiS PATA
[libata] Add pata_jmicron driver to Kconfig, Makefile
[libata #pata-drivers] Trim trailing whitespace.
[libata] Trim trailing whitespace.
[libata] Add a bunch of PATA drivers.
Rename libata-bmdma.c to libata-sff.c.
libata: Grand renaming.
Clean up drivers/ata/Kconfig a bit.
[PATCH] CONFIG_PM=n slim: drivers/scsi/sata_sil*
[PATCH] sata_via: Add SATA support for vt8237a
[PATCH] libata: change path to libata in libata.tmpl
[PATCH] libata: s/CONFIG_SCSI_SATA/CONFIG_[S]ATA/g in pci/quirks.c
libata: Make sure drivers/ata is a separate Kconfig menu
[libata] ata_piix: add missing kfree()
...
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (217 commits)
net/ieee80211: fix more crypto-related build breakage
[PATCH] Spidernet: add ethtool -S (show statistics)
[NET] GT96100: Delete bitrotting ethernet driver
[PATCH] mv643xx_eth: restrict to 32-bit PPC_MULTIPLATFORM
[PATCH] Cirrus Logic ep93xx ethernet driver
r8169: the MMIO region of the 8167 stands behin BAR#1
e1000, ixgb: Remove pointless wrappers
[PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver
[PATCH] s2io: Switch to pci_get_device
[PATCH] gt96100: move to pci_get_device API
[PATCH] ehea: bugfix for register access functions
[PATCH] e1000 disable device on PCI error
drivers/net/phy/fixed: #if 0 some incomplete code
drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations
[PATCH] ethtool: allow const ethtool_ops
[PATCH] sky2: big endian
[PATCH] sky2: fiber support
[PATCH] sky2: tx pause bug fix
drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace
[PATCH] ehea: IBM eHEA Ethernet Device Driver
...
Manually resolved conflicts in drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c and
drivers/net/sky2.c related to CHECKSUM_HW/CHECKSUM_PARTIAL changes by
commit 84fa7933a3 that just happened to be
next to unrelated changes in this update.
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (74 commits)
NFS: unmark NFS direct I/O as experimental
NFS: add comments clarifying the use of nfs_post_op_update()
NFSv4: rpc_mkpipe creating socket inodes w/out sk buffers
NFS: Use SEEK_END instead of hardcoded value
NFSv4: When mounting with a port=0 argument, substitute port=2049
NFSv4: Poll more aggressively when handling NFS4ERR_DELAY
NFSv4: Handle the condition NFS4ERR_FILE_OPEN
NFSv4: Retry lease recovery if it failed during a synchronous operation.
NFS: Don't invalidate the symlink we just stuffed into the cache
NFS: Make read() return an ESTALE if the file has been deleted
NFSv4: It's perfectly legal for clp to be NULL here....
NFS: nfs_lookup - don't hash dentry when optimising away the lookup
SUNRPC: Fix Oops in pmap_getport_done
SUNRPC: Add refcounting to the struct rpc_xprt
SUNRPC: Clean up soft task error handling
SUNRPC: Handle ENETUNREACH, EHOSTUNREACH and EHOSTDOWN socket errors
SUNRPC: rpc_delay() should not clobber the rpc_task->tk_status
Fix a referral error Oops
NFS: NFS_ROOT should use the new rpc_create API
NFS: Fix up compiler warnings on 64-bit platforms in client.c
...
Manually resolved conflict in net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
In a subsequent patch, this will allow the portmapper to take a reference
to the rpc_xprt for which it is updating the port number, fixing an Oops.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
