Use the this_cpu_cmpxchg_double functionality to implement a lockless
allocation algorithm on arches that support fast this_cpu_ops.
Each of the per cpu pointers is paired with a transaction id that ensures
that updates of the per cpu information can only occur in sequence on
a certain cpu.
A transaction id is a "long" integer that is comprised of an event number
and the cpu number. The event number is incremented for every change to the
per cpu state. This means that the cmpxchg instruction can verify for an
update that nothing interfered and that we are updating the percpu structure
for the processor where we picked up the information and that we are also
currently on that processor when we update the information.
This results in a significant decrease of the overhead in the fastpaths. It
also makes it easy to adopt the fast path for realtime kernels since this
is lockless and does not require the use of the current per cpu area
over the critical section. It is only important that the per cpu area is
current at the beginning of the critical section and at the end.
So there is no need even to disable preemption.
Test results show that the fastpath cycle count is reduced by up to ~ 40%
(alloc/free test goes from ~140 cycles down to ~80). The slowpath for kfree
adds a few cycles.
Sadly this does nothing for the slowpath which is where the main issues with
performance in slub are but the best case performance rises significantly.
(For that see the more complex slub patches that require cmpxchg_double)
Kmalloc: alloc/free test
Before:
10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 134 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 152 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 144 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 142 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 142 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 132 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 132 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 135 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 135 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 135 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 144 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 754 cycles
After:
10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 78 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 78 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 82 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 88 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 79 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 79 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 85 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 82 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 82 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 85 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 82 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 706 cycles
Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
Before:
10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 211 cycles kfree -> 113 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 174 cycles kfree -> 115 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 235 cycles kfree -> 129 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 222 cycles kfree -> 120 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 343 cycles kfree -> 139 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 827 cycles kfree -> 147 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 1048 cycles kfree -> 272 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 2043 cycles kfree -> 528 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 4002 cycles kfree -> 571 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 7740 cycles kfree -> 628 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 8062 cycles kfree -> 850 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 8895 cycles kfree -> 1249 cycles
After:
10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 190 cycles kfree -> 129 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 76 cycles kfree -> 123 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 126 cycles kfree -> 124 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 181 cycles kfree -> 128 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 310 cycles kfree -> 140 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 809 cycles kfree -> 165 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 1005 cycles kfree -> 269 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 1999 cycles kfree -> 527 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 3967 cycles kfree -> 570 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 7658 cycles kfree -> 637 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 8111 cycles kfree -> 859 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 8791 cycles kfree -> 1173 cycles
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
It is used in unfreeze_slab() which is a performance critical
function.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
This is a new software BCH encoding/decoding library, similar to the shared
Reed-Solomon library.
Binary BCH (Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem) codes are widely used to correct
errors in NAND flash devices requiring more than 1-bit ecc correction; they
are generally better suited for NAND flash than RS codes because NAND bit
errors do not occur in bursts. Latest SLC NAND devices typically require at
least 4-bit ecc protection per 512 bytes block.
This library provides software encoding/decoding, but may also be used with
ASIC/SoC hardware BCH engines to perform error correction. It is being
currently used for this purpose on an OMAP3630 board (4bit/8bit HW BCH). It
has also been used to decode raw dumps of NAND devices with on-die BCH ecc
engines (e.g. Micron 4bit ecc SLC devices).
Latest NAND devices (including SLC) can exhibit high error rates (typically
a dozen or more bitflips per hour during stress tests); in order to
minimize the performance impact of error correction, this library
implements recently developed algorithms for fast polynomial root finding
(see bch.c header for details) instead of the traditional exhaustive Chien
root search; a few performance figures are provided below:
Platform: arm926ejs @ 468 MHz, 32 KiB icache, 16 KiB dcache
BCH ecc : 4-bit per 512 bytes
Encoding average throughput: 250 Mbits/s
Error correction time (compared with Chien search):
average worst average (Chien) worst (Chien)
----------------------------------------------------------
1 bit 8.5 µs 11 µs 200 µs 383 µs
2 bit 9.7 µs 12.5 µs 477 µs 728 µs
3 bit 18.1 µs 20.6 µs 758 µs 1010 µs
4 bit 19.5 µs 23 µs 1028 µs 1280 µs
In the above figures, "worst" is meant in terms of error pattern, not in
terms of cache miss / page faults effects (not taken into account here).
The library has been extensively tested on the following platforms: x86,
x86_64, arm926ejs, omap3630, qemu-ppc64, qemu-mips.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
A new option ONENAND_SKIP_INITIAL_UNLOCKING is added. This allows
to disable initial onenand unlocking when the driver is initialized.
Signed-off-by: Roman Tereshonkov <roman.tereshonkov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
OMAP-L137/AM17x has limited number of dedicated EMIFA
address pins, enough to interface directly to an SDRAM.
If a device such as an asynchronous flash needs to be
attached to the EMIFA, then either GPIO pins or a chip
select may be used to control the flash device's upper
address lines.
This patch adds support for the NOR flash on the OMAP-L137/
AM17x user interface daughter board using the latch-addr-flash
MTD mapping driver which allows flashes to be partially
physically addressed. The upper address lines are set by
a board specific code which is a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: David Griego <dgriego@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <amakarov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Savinay Dharmappa <savinay.dharmappa@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Add a new background method into mtd_blktrans_ops, add background support
into mtd_blktrans_thread(), and add mtd_blktrans_cease_background().
If the mtd blktrans dev has the background support, the thread will
call background function when the request queue becomes empty. The background
operation may run as long as needs to until
mtd_blktrans_cease_background() tells to stop.
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Add proper documentation for previously added net_device_ops ops for FCoE.
Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
All callers are under rcu_read_lock() protection already.
Rename to ip_check_mc_rcu() to make it even more clear.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Although they run as rpciod background tasks, under normal operation
(i.e. no SIGKILL), functions like nfs_sillyrename(), nfs4_proc_unlck()
and nfs4_do_close() want to be fully synchronous. This means that when we
exit, we want all references to the rpc_task to be gone, and we want
any dentry references etc. held by that task to be released.
For this reason these functions call __rpc_wait_for_completion_task(),
followed by rpc_put_task() in the expectation that the latter will be
releasing the last reference to the rpc_task, and thus ensuring that the
callback_ops->rpc_release() has been called synchronously.
This patch fixes a race which exists due to the fact that
rpciod calls rpc_complete_task() (in order to wake up the callers of
__rpc_wait_for_completion_task()) and then subsequently calls
rpc_put_task() without ensuring that these two steps are done atomically.
In order to avoid adding new spin locks, the patch uses the existing
waitqueue spin lock to order the rpc_task reference count releases between
the waiting process and rpciod.
The common case where nobody is waiting for completion is optimised for by
checking if the RPC_TASK_ASYNC flag is cleared and/or if the rpc_task
reference count is 1: in those cases we drop trying to grab the spin lock,
and immediately free up the rpc_task.
Those few processes that need to put the rpc_task from inside an
asynchronous context and that do not care about ordering are given a new
helper: rpc_put_task_async().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We changed some of the state bits and combinations thereof over time,
but never updated the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The lock_depth field in the event headers was added as a temporary
data point for help in removing the BKL. Now that the BKL is pretty
much been removed, we can remove this field.
This in turn changes the header from 12 bytes to 8 bytes,
removing the 4 byte buffer that gcc would insert if the first field
in the data load was 8 bytes in size.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the user clears the sync-pause flag, and sync stays in pause
state, give hints to the user, why it still is in pause state.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
As the network connection can be lost at any time, a --force option
for disconnect is just a matter of completeness.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
In case we ever should add an other packet type,
we must not reuse 27, as that currently used for
"empty" return code only replies.
Document it as such.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
In this connection mode, the ahead node no longer replicates
application IO. The behind's disk becomes out dated.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
This patch adds code to verify the checksum stored in the "RV" info
keyword of the RODATA VPD section.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
move NILFS_SUPER_MAGIC macro to linux/magic.h from linux/nilfs2_fs.h
in the same manner as other filesystem magic number defined in the file.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.
The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.
The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Fixes this build-check error:
include/linux/sysctl.h:28: included file 'linux/rcupdate.h' is not exported
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since a8f80e8ff9 any process with
CAP_NET_ADMIN may load any module from /lib/modules/. This doesn't mean
that CAP_NET_ADMIN is a superset of CAP_SYS_MODULE as modules are
limited to /lib/modules/**. However, CAP_NET_ADMIN capability shouldn't
allow anybody load any module not related to networking.
This patch restricts an ability of autoloading modules to netdev modules
with explicit aliases. This fixes CVE-2011-1019.
Arnd Bergmann suggested to leave untouched the old pre-v2.6.32 behavior
of loading netdev modules by name (without any prefix) for processes
with CAP_SYS_MODULE to maintain the compatibility with network scripts
that use autoloading netdev modules by aliases like "eth0", "wlan0".
Currently there are only three users of the feature in the upstream
kernel: ipip, ip_gre and sit.
root@albatros:~# capsh --drop=$(seq -s, 0 11),$(seq -s, 13 34) --
root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: fffffff800001000
CapEff: fffffff800001000
CapBnd: fffffff800001000
root@albatros:~# modprobe xfs
FATAL: Error inserting xfs
(/lib/modules/2.6.38-rc6-00001-g2bf4ca3/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko): Operation not permitted
root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit
sit: error fetching interface information: Device not found
root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit0
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
sit 10457 0
tunnel4 2957 1 sit
For CAP_SYS_MODULE module loading is still relaxed:
root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: ffffffffffffffff
CapEff: ffffffffffffffff
CapBnd: ffffffffffffffff
root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
xfs 745319 0
Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/203
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
In contrast to SIOCOUTQ which returns the amount of data sent
but not yet acknowledged plus data not yet sent this patch only
returns the data not sent.
For various methods of live streaming bitrate control it may
be helpful to know how much data are in the tcp outqueue are
not sent yet.
Signed-off-by: Mario Schuknecht <m.schuknecht@dresearch.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
nd->inode is not set on the second attempt in path_walk()
unfuck proc_sysctl ->d_compare()
minimal fix for do_filp_open() race
This is now a run-time choice so that a single kernel can support both
old and new generation ISI modems. Support for manually enabling the
pipe flow is removed as it did not work properly, does not fit well
with the socket API, and I am not aware of any use at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
User-space sometimes needs this information. In particular, the GPRS
context or the AT commands pipe setups may use the pipe handle as a
reference.
This removes the settable pipe handle with CONFIG_PHONET_PIPECTRLR.
It did not handle error cases correctly. Furthermore, the kernel
*could* implement a smart scheme for allocating handles (if ever
needed), but userspace really cannot.
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that the generic code handles UIE mode irqs via periodic
alarm interrupts, no one calls the
rtc_class_ops->update_irq_enable() method anymore.
This patch removes the driver hooks and implementations of
update_irq_enable if no one else is calling it.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
CC: Marcelo Roberto Jimenez <mroberto@cpti.cetuc.puc-rio.br>
CC: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Mark Brown pointed out a corner case: that RTC alarms should
be allowed to be persistent across reboots if the hardware
supported it.
The rework of the generic layer to virtualize the RTC alarm
virtualized much of the alarm handling, and removed the
code used to read the alarm time from the hardware.
Mark noted if we want the alarm to be persistent across
reboots, we need to re-read the alarm value into the
virtualized generic layer at boot up, so that the generic
layer properly exposes that value.
This patch restores much of the earlier removed
rtc_read_alarm code and wires it in so that we
set the kernel's alarm value to what we find in the
hardware at boot time.
NOTE: Not all hardware supports persistent RTC alarm state across
system reset. rtc-cmos for example will keep the alarm time, but
disables the AIE mode irq. Applications should not expect the RTC
alarm to be valid after a system reset. We will preserve what
we can, to represent the hardware state at boot, but its not
guarenteed.
Further, in the future, with multiplexed RTC alarms, the
soonest alarm to fire may not be the one set via the /dev/rt
ioctls. So an application may set the alarm with RTC_ALM_SET,
but after a reset find that RTC_ALM_READ returns an earlier
time. Again, we preserve what we can, but applications should
not expect the RTC alarm state to persist across a system reset.
Big thanks to Mark for pointing out the issue!
Thanks also to Marcelo for helping think through the solution.
CC: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
CC: Marcelo Roberto Jimenez <mroberto@cpti.cetuc.puc-rio.br>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
CC: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Add an "overwrite" trace_option for ftrace to control whether the buffer should
be overwritten on overflow or not. The default remains to overwrite old events
when the buffer is full. This patch adds the option to instead discard newest
events when the buffer is full. This is useful to get a snapshot of traces just
after enabling traces. Dropping the current event is also a simpler code path.
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291844807-15481-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In complex subsystems like mac80211 structures can contain several
timers and work structs, so identifying a specific instance from the
call trace and object type output of debugobjects can be hard.
Allow the subsystems which support debugobjects to provide a hint
function. This function returns a pointer to a kernel address
(preferrably the objects callback function) which is printed along
with the debugobjects type.
Add hint methods for timer_list, work_struct and hrtimer.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog, made it compile ]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Provide the LEB offset information in the UBI device information data
structure. This piece of information is required by UBIFS to find out
what are the LEB offsets which are aligned to the max. write size.
If LEB offset not aligned to max. write size, then UBIFS has to take
this into account to write more optimally.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
