quicklists cause a serious memory leak on 32-bit x86,
as documented at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991
the reason is that the quicklist pool is a special-purpose
cache that grows out of proportion. It is not accounted for
anywhere and users have no way to even realize that it's
the quicklists that are causing RAM usage spikes. It was
supposed to be a relatively small pool, but as demonstrated
by KOSAKI Motohiro, they can grow as large as:
Quicklists: 1194304 kB
given how much trouble this code has caused historically,
and given that Andrew objected to its introduction on x86
(years ago), the best option at this point is to remove them.
[ any performance benefits of caching constructed pgds should
be implemented in a more generic way (possibly within the page
allocator), while still allowing constructed pages to be
allocated by other workloads. ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
drivers: fix dma_get_required_mask
firmware: provide stubs for the FW_LOADER=n case
nozomi: fix initialization and early flow control access
sysdev: fix problem with sysdev_class being re-registered
Additional input received from JMicron on MemoryStick host interfaces showed
that some assumtions in fifo handling code were incorrect. This patch also
fixes data corruption used to occure during PIO transfers.
Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thanks to some input from kind people at JMicron it is now possible to have
more correct definitions of protocol structures and bit field semantics.
Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since the header file gadget.h isn't being exported to userspace,
there seems to be little point having a __KERNEL__ proprocessor check.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Since the header file g_printer.h doesn't depend on __KERNEL__,
there's no need to unifdef it in the Kbuild file.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
libsas has a case where it uses the firmware loader to provide services,
but doesn't want to select it all the time. This currently causes a
compile failure in libsas if FW_LOADER=n. Fix this by providing error
stubs for the firmware loader API in the FW_LOADER=n case.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt:
time: remove obsolete CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST
time: don't touch an offlined CPU's ts->tick_stopped in tick_cancel_sched_timer()
time: prevent the loop in timespec_add_ns() from being optimised away
ntp: use unsigned input for do_div()
The first version of the ntp_interval/tick_length inconsistent usage patch was
recently merged as bbe4d18ac2http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405
While the fix did greatly improve the situation, it was correctly pointed out
by Roman that it does have a small bug: If the users change clocksources after
the system has been running and NTP has made corrections, the correctoins made
against the old clocksource will be applied against the new clocksource,
causing error.
The second attempt, which corrects the issue in the NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH
definition has also made it up-stream as commit
e13a2e61ddhttp://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e13a2e61dd5152f5499d2003470acf9c838eab84
Roman has correctly pointed out that CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST is calculated
based on the PIT's frequency, and isn't really relevant to non-PIT
driven clocksources (that is, clocksources other then jiffies and pit).
This patch reverts both of those changes, and simply removes
CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST.
This does remove the granularity error correction for users of PIT and Jiffies
clocksource users, but the granularity error but for the majority of users, it
should be within the 500ppm range NTP can accommodate for.
For systems that have granularity errors greater then 500ppm, the
"ntp_tick_adj=" boot option can be used to compensate.
[johnstul@us.ibm.com: provided changelog]
[mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com: maek ntp_tick_adj static]
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The previous patch to move chainiv and eseqiv into blkcipher created
a section mismatch for the chainiv exit function which was also called
from __init. This patch removes the __exit marking on it.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
* 'slab-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm:
slub: fix typo in Documentation/vm/slub.txt
slab: NUMA slab allocator migration bugfix
slub: Do not cross cacheline boundaries for very small objects
slab - use angle brackets for include of kmalloc_sizes.h
slab numa fallback logic: Do not pass unfiltered flags to page allocator
slub statistics: Fix check for DEACTIVATE_REMOTE_FREES
* 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
NFS: Fix dentry revalidation for NFSv4 referrals and mountpoint crossings
NFS: Fix the fsid revalidation in nfs_update_inode()
SUNRPC: Fix a nfs4 over rdma transport oops
NFS: Fix an f_mode/f_flags confusion in fs/nfs/write.c
When we detect that we've crossed a mountpoint on the remote server, we
must take care not to use that inode to revalidate the fsid on our
current superblock. To do so, we label the inode as a remote mountpoint,
and check for that in nfs_update_inode().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Kei Tokunaga reported an interactivity problem when moving tasks
between control groups.
Tasks would retain their old vruntime when moved between groups, this
can cause funny lags. Re-set the vruntime on group move to fit within
the new tree.
Reported-by: Kei Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6:
[Blackfin] arch: current_l1_stack_save is a pointer, so use NULL rather than 0
[Blackfin] arch: fix atomic and32/xor32 comments and ENDPROC markings
[Blackfin] arch: fix bug - allow SDH driver to be used as module
[Blackfin] arch: to kill syscalls missing warning by adding new timerfd syscalls
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] kprobes arch consolidation build fix
[IA64] update efi region debugging to use MB, GB and TB as well as KB
[IA64] use dev_printk in video quirk
[IA64] remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
[IA64] remove unnecessary nfs includes from sys_ia32.c
[IA64] remove CONFIG_SMP ifdef in ia64_send_ipi()
[IA64] arch_ptrace() cleanup
[IA64] remove duplicate code from arch_ptrace()
[IA64] convert sys_ptrace to arch_ptrace
[IA64] remove find_thread_for_addr()
[IA64] do not sync RBS when changing PT_AR_BSP or PT_CFM
[IA64] access user RBS directly
ia64 named their handler kprobes_fault_handler while all other
arches used kprobe_fault_handler. Change the function definition
and header declaration.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
