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Linus Torvalds
2e3ee61348 Merge tag 'writeback-proportions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
Pull writeback updates from Wu Fengguang:
 "Use time based periods to age the writeback proportions, which can
  adapt equally well to fast/slow devices."

Fix up trivial conflict in comment in fs/sync.c

* tag 'writeback-proportions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Fix some comment errors
  block: Convert BDI proportion calculations to flexible proportions
  lib: Fix possible deadlock in flexible proportion code
  lib: Proportions with flexible period
2012-07-30 22:14:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
27c1ee3f92 Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge Andrew's first set of patches:
 "Non-MM patches:

   - lots of misc bits

   - tree-wide have_clk() cleanups

   - quite a lot of printk tweaks.  I draw your attention to "printk:
     convert the format for KERN_<LEVEL> to a 2 byte pattern" which
     looks a bit scary.  But afaict it's solid.

   - backlight updates

   - lib/ feature work (notably the addition and use of memweight())

   - checkpatch updates

   - rtc updates

   - nilfs updates

   - fatfs updates (partial, still waiting for acks)

   - kdump, proc, fork, IPC, sysctl, taskstats, pps, etc

   - new fault-injection feature work"

* Merge emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (128 commits)
  drivers/misc/lkdtm.c: fix missing allocation failure check
  lib/scatterlist: do not re-write gfp_flags in __sg_alloc_table()
  fault-injection: add tool to run command with failslab or fail_page_alloc
  fault-injection: add selftests for cpu and memory hotplug
  powerpc: pSeries reconfig notifier error injection module
  memory: memory notifier error injection module
  PM: PM notifier error injection module
  cpu: rewrite cpu-notifier-error-inject module
  fault-injection: notifier error injection
  c/r: fcntl: add F_GETOWNER_UIDS option
  resource: make sure requested range is included in the root range
  include/linux/aio.h: cpp->C conversions
  fs: cachefiles: add support for large files in filesystem caching
  pps: return PTR_ERR on error in device_create
  taskstats: check nla_reserve() return
  sysctl: suppress kmemleak messages
  ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION
  ipc: compat: use signed size_t types for msgsnd and msgrcv
  ipc: allow compat IPC version field parsing if !ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
  ipc: add COMPAT_SHMLBA support
  ...
2012-07-30 17:25:34 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
08dfb4ddee powerpc: pSeries reconfig notifier error injection module
This provides the ability to inject artifical errors to pSeries reconfig
notifier chain callbacks.  It is controlled through debugfs interface
under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pSeries-reconfig

If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events
notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:22 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
9579f5bd31 memory: memory notifier error injection module
This provides the ability to inject artifical errors to memory hotplug
notifier chain callbacks.  It is controlled through debugfs interface
under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory

If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events notified,
write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".

Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)

	# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
	# echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
	# echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
	bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:22 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
048b9c3549 PM: PM notifier error injection module
This provides the ability to inject artifical errors to PM notifier chain
callbacks.  It is controlled through debugfs interface under
/sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm

Each of the files in "error" directory represents an event which can be
failed and contains the error code.  If the notifier call chain should be
failed with some events notified, write the error code to the files.

If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events notified,
write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error".

Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)

	# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm
	# echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
	# echo mem > /sys/power/state
	bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:22 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
8d43828814 fault-injection: notifier error injection
This patchset provides kernel modules that can be used to test the error
handling of notifier call chain failures by injecting artifical errors to
the following notifier chain callbacks.

 * CPU notifier
 * PM notifier
 * memory hotplug notifier
 * powerpc pSeries reconfig notifier

Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM)

  # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu
  # echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error
  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted

The patchset also adds cpu and memory hotplug tests to
tools/testing/selftests These tests first do simple online and offline
test and then do fault injection tests if notifier error injection
module is available.

This patch:

The notifier error injection provides the ability to inject artifical
errors to specified notifier chain callbacks.  It is useful to test the
error handling of notifier call chain failures.

This adds common basic functions to define which type of events can be
fail and to initialize the debugfs interface to control what error code
should be returned and which event should be failed.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:22 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
639b9e34f1 string: introduce memweight()
memweight() is the function that counts the total number of bits set in
memory area.  Unlike bitmap_weight(), memweight() takes pointer and size
in bytes to specify a memory area which does not need to be aligned to
long-word boundary.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename `w' to `ret']
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:16 -07:00
David Daney
ab25383983 of/lib: Allow scripts/dtc/libfdt to be used from kernel code
libfdt is part of the device tree support in scripts/dtc/libfdt.  For
some platforms that use the Device Tree, we want to be able to edit
the flattened device tree form.

We don't want to burden kernel builds that do not require it, so we
gate compilation of libfdt files with CONFIG_LIBFDT.  So if it is
needed, you need to do this in your Kconfig:

	select LIBFDT

And in the Makefile of the code using libfdt something like:

ccflags-y := -I$(src)/../../../scripts/dtc/libfdt

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-07-23 13:54:52 +01:00
Jan Kara
f3109a51f8 lib: Proportions with flexible period
Implement code computing proportions of events of different type (like code in
lib/proportions.c) but allowing periods to have different lengths. This allows
us to have aging periods of fixed wallclock time which gives better proportion
estimates given the hugely varying throughput of different devices - previous
measuring of aging period by number of events has the problem that a reasonable
period length for a system with low-end USB stick is not a reasonable period
length for a system with high-end storage array resulting either in too slow
proportion updates or too fluctuating proportion updates.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-06-09 08:37:55 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
1e2aec873a Merge branch 'generic-string-functions'
This makes <asm/word-at-a-time.h> actually live up to its promise of
allowing architectures to help tune the string functions that do their
work a word at a time.

David had already taken the x86 strncpy_from_user() function, modified
it to work on sparc, and then done the extra work to make it generically
useful.  This then expands on that work by making x86 use that generic
version, completing the circle.

But more importantly, it fixes up the word-at-a-time interfaces so that
it's now easy to also support things like strnlen_user(), and pretty
much most random string functions.

David reports that it all works fine on sparc, and Jonas Bonn reported
that an earlier version of this worked on OpenRISC too.  It's pretty
easy for architectures to add support for this and just replace their
private versions with the generic code.

* generic-string-functions:
  sparc: use the new generic strnlen_user() function
  x86: use the new generic strnlen_user() function
  lib: add generic strnlen_user() function
  word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic
  x86: use generic strncpy_from_user routine
2012-05-26 16:57:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
39b6cc668c Merge tag 'stmp-dev' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull arm-soc stmp-dev library code from Olof Johansson:
 "A number of devices are using a common register layout, this adds
  support code for it in lib/stmp_device.c so we do not need to
  duplicate it in each driver."

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mxs.c and
lib/Makefile

* tag 'stmp-dev' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
  i2c: mxs: use global reset function
  lib: add support for stmp-style devices
2012-05-26 12:50:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a08c5356a3 lib: add generic strnlen_user() function
This adds a new generic optimized strnlen_user() function that uses the
<asm/word-at-a-time.h> infrastructure to portably do efficient string
handling.

In many ways, strnlen is much simpler than strncpy, and in particular we
can always pre-align the words we load from memory.  That means that all
the worries about alignment etc are a non-issue, so this one can easily
be used on any architecture.  You obviously do have to do the
appropriate word-at-a-time.h macros.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-26 11:33:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ce004178be Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc
Pull sparc changes from David S. Miller:
 "This has the generic strncpy_from_user() implementation architectures
  can now use, which we've been developing on linux-arch over the past
  few days.

  For good measure I ran both a 32-bit and a 64-bit glibc testsuite run,
  and the latter of which pointed out an adjustment I needed to make to
  sparc's user_addr_max() definition.  Linus, you were right, STACK_TOP
  was not the right thing to use, even on sparc itself :-)

  From Sam Ravnborg, we have a conversion of sparc32 over to the common
  alloc_thread_info_node(), since the aspect which originally blocked
  our doing so (sun4c) has been removed."

Fix up trivial arch/sparc/Kconfig and lib/Makefile conflicts.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  sparc: Fix user_addr_max() definition.
  lib: Sparc's strncpy_from_user is generic enough, move under lib/
  kernel: Move REPEAT_BYTE definition into linux/kernel.h
  sparc: Increase portability of strncpy_from_user() implementation.
  sparc: Optimize strncpy_from_user() zero byte search.
  sparc: Add full proper error handling to strncpy_from_user().
  sparc32: use the common implementation of alloc_thread_info_node()
2012-05-24 15:10:28 -07:00
David S. Miller
2922585b93 lib: Sparc's strncpy_from_user is generic enough, move under lib/
To use this, an architecture simply needs to:

1) Provide a user_addr_max() implementation via asm/uaccess.h

2) Add "select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER" to their arch Kcnfig

3) Remove the existing strncpy_from_user() implementation and symbol
   exports their architecture had.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-05-24 13:12:28 -07:00
Aneesh V
9c1c21a053 ddr: add LPDDR2 data from JESD209-2
add LPDDR2 data from the JEDEC spec JESD209-2. The data
includes:

1. Addressing information for LPDDR2 memories of different
   densities and types(S2/S4)
2. AC timing data.

This data will useful for memory controller device drivers.
Right now this is used by the TI EMIF SDRAM controller
driver.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com>
[santosh.shilimkar@ti.com: Moved to drivers/memory from drivers/misc]
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Tested-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-02 00:04:06 -07:00
Wolfram Sang
4ccf4beab8 lib: add support for stmp-style devices
MX23/28 use IP cores which follow a register layout I have first seen on
STMP3xxx SoCs. In this layout, every register actually has four u32:

 1.) to store a value directly
 2.) a SET register where every 1-bit sets the corresponding bit,
     others are unaffected
 3.) same with a CLR register
 4.) same with a TOG (toggle) register

Also, the 2 MSBs in register 0 are always the same and can be used to reset
the IP core.

All this is strictly speaking not mach-specific (but IP core specific) and,
thus, doesn't need to be in mach-mxs/include. At least mx6 also uses IP cores
following this stmp-style. So:

Introduce a stmp-style device, put the code and defines for that in a public
place (lib/), and let drivers for stmp-style devices select that code.
To avoid regressions and ease reviewing, the actual code is simply copied from
mach-mxs. It definately wants updates, but those need a seperate patch series.

Voila, mach dependency gone, reusable code introduced. Note that I didn't
remove the duplicated code from mach-mxs yet, first the drivers have to be
converted.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>
2012-04-20 23:27:08 +02:00
David Miller
c6df4b17c8 lib: Fix multiple definitions of clz_tab
Both sparc 32-bit's software divide assembler and MPILIB provide
clz_tab[] with identical contents.

Break it out into a seperate object file and select it when
SPARC32 or MPILIB is set.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2012-02-02 10:34:23 +11:00
Dmitry Kasatkin
5e8898e97a lib: digital signature config option name change
It was reported that DIGSIG is confusing name for digital signature
module. It was suggested to rename DIGSIG to SIGNATURE.

Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2012-01-18 10:46:21 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
e7691a1ce3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security
* 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security: (32 commits)
  ima: fix invalid memory reference
  ima: free duplicate measurement memory
  security: update security_file_mmap() docs
  selinux: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless
  apparmor: fix module parameter handling
  Security: tomoyo: add .gitignore file
  tomoyo: add missing rcu_dereference()
  apparmor: add missing rcu_dereference()
  evm: prevent racing during tfm allocation
  evm: key must be set once during initialization
  mpi/mpi-mpow: NULL dereference on allocation failure
  digsig: build dependency fix
  KEYS: Give key types their own lockdep class for key->sem
  TPM: fix transmit_cmd error logic
  TPM: NSC and TIS drivers X86 dependency fix
  TPM: Export wait_for_stat for other vendor specific drivers
  TPM: Use vendor specific function for status probe
  tpm_tis: add delay after aborting command
  tpm_tis: Check return code from getting timeouts/durations
  tpm: Introduce function to poll for result of self test
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in lib/Makefile due to addition of CONFIG_MPI
and SIGSIG next to CONFIG_DQL addition.
2012-01-10 21:51:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e343a895a9 Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost
lib: use generic pci_iomap on all architectures

Many architectures don't want to pull in iomap.c,
so they ended up duplicating pci_iomap from that file.
That function isn't trivial, and we are going to modify it
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/14/183
so the duplication hurts.

This reduces the scope of the problem significantly,
by moving pci_iomap to a separate file and
referencing that from all architectures.

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
  alpha: drop pci_iomap/pci_iounmap from pci-noop.c
  mn10300: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  mn10300: add missing __iomap markers
  frv: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  tile: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  tile: don't panic on iomap
  sparc: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  sh: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  powerpc: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  parisc: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  mips: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  microblaze: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  arm: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  alpha: switch to GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  lib: add GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  lib: move GENERIC_IOMAP to lib/Kconfig

Fix up trivial conflicts due to changes nearby in arch/{m68k,score}/Kconfig
2012-01-10 18:04:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7affca3537 Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (73 commits)
  arm: fix up some samsung merge sysdev conversion problems
  firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file
  Drivers:hv: Fix a bug in vmbus_driver_unregister()
  driver core: remove __must_check from device_create_file
  debugfs: add missing #ifdef HAS_IOMEM
  arm: time.h: remove device.h #include
  driver-core: remove sysdev.h usage.
  clockevents: remove sysdev.h
  arm: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  arm: leds: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  kobject: remove kset_find_obj_hinted()
  m86k: gpio - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  mips: txx9_sram - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  mips: 7segled - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  sh: dma - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  sh: intc - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  power: suspend - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  power: qe_ic - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  power: cmm - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  s390: time - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  ...

Fix up conflicts with 'struct sysdev' removal from various platform
drivers that got changed:
 - arch/arm/mach-exynos/cpu.c
 - arch/arm/mach-exynos/irq-eint.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/common.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/cpu.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s5p64x0/cpu.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/common.c
 - arch/arm/plat-samsung/include/plat/cpu.h
 - arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
and fix up cpu_is_hotpluggable() as per Greg in include/linux/cpu.h
2012-01-07 12:03:30 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
4af679cd7c kref: Inline all functions
These are tiny functions, there's no point in having them out-of-line.

Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8eccvi2ur2fzgi00xdjlbf5z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-12-13 08:18:25 -08:00
Tom Herbert
75957ba36c dql: Dynamic queue limits
Implementation of dynamic queue limits (dql).  This is a libary which
allows a queue limit to be dynamically managed.  The goal of dql is
to set the queue limit, number of objects to the queue, to be minimized
without allowing the queue to be starved.

dql would be used with a queue which has these properties:

1) Objects are queued up to some limit which can be expressed as a
   count of objects.
2) Periodically a completion process executes which retires consumed
   objects.
3) Starvation occurs when limit has been reached, all queued data has
   actually been consumed but completion processing has not yet run,
   so queuing new data is blocked.
4) Minimizing the amount of queued data is desirable.

A canonical example of such a queue would be a NIC HW transmit queue.

The queue limit is dynamic, it will increase or decrease over time
depending on the workload.  The queue limit is recalculated each time
completion processing is done.  Increases occur when the queue is
starved and can exponentially increase over successive intervals.
Decreases occur when more data is being maintained in the queue than
needed to prevent starvation.  The number of extra objects, or "slack",
is measured over successive intervals, and to avoid hysteresis the
limit is only reduced by the miminum slack seen over a configurable
time period.

dql API provides routines to manage the queue:
- dql_init is called to intialize the dql structure
- dql_reset is called to reset dynamic values
- dql_queued called when objects are being enqueued
- dql_avail returns availability in the queue
- dql_completed is called when objects have be consumed in the queue

Configuration consists of:
- max_limit, maximum limit
- min_limit, minimum limit
- slack_hold_time, time to measure instances of slack before reducing
  queue limit

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-29 12:46:19 -05:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
66eab4df28 lib: add GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
Many architectures want a generic pci_iomap but
not the rest of iomap.c. Split that to a separate .c
file and add a new config symbol. select automatically
by GENERIC_IOMAP.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-11-28 21:12:42 +02:00
Dmitry Kasatkin
051dbb918c crypto: digital signature verification support
This patch implements RSA digital signature verification using GnuPG library.

The format of the signature and the public key is defined by their respective
headers. The signature header contains version information, algorithm,
and keyid, which was used to generate the signature.
The key header contains version and algorythim type.
The payload of the signature and the key are multi-precision integers.

The signing and key management utilities evm-utils provide functionality
to generate signatures and load keys into the kernel keyring.
When the key is added to the kernel keyring, the keyid defines the name
of the key.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
2011-11-09 12:10:37 +02:00