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* The DRBD driverPhilipp Reisner2009-10-011-0/+3
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
* lib: Provide generic atomic64_t implementationPaul Mackerras2009-06-151-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many processor architectures have no 64-bit atomic instructions, but we need atomic64_t in order to support the perf_counter subsystem. This adds an implementation of 64-bit atomic operations using hashed spinlocks to provide atomicity. For each atomic operation, the address of the atomic64_t variable is hashed to an index into an array of 16 spinlocks. That spinlock is taken (with interrupts disabled) around the operation, which can then be coded non-atomically within the lock. On UP, all the spinlock manipulation goes away and we simply disable interrupts around each operation. In fact gcc eliminates the whole atomic64_lock variable as well. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* lib: isolate rational fractions helper functionOskar Schirmer2009-06-111-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Provide a helper function to determine optimum numerator denominator value pairs taking into account restricted register size. Useful especially with PLL and other clock configurations. Signed-off-by: Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'linus' into core/printkIngo Molnar2009-03-281-6/+20
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| * Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2Ingo Molnar2009-03-271-0/+14
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h kernel/irq/handle.c Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * bzip2/lzma: DECOMPRESS_GZIP should select ZLIB_INFLATEH. Peter Anvin2009-01-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Partial resolution of build failure DECOMPRESS_GZIP is just a common-interface wrapper around the zlib_inflate code; it thus need to select it. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| | * bzip2/lzma: proper Kconfig dependencies for the ramdisk optionsH. Peter Anvin2009-01-051-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Partial resolution of build failure Make all the compression algorithms properly configurable, and make sure the ramdisk options pull in the proper compression algorithms, as they should. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| * | Merge branch 'sched-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-03-261-6/+0
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits) sched: Add comments to find_busiest_group() function sched: Refactor the power savings balance code sched: Optimize the !power_savings_balance during fbg() sched: Create a helper function to calculate imbalance sched: Create helper to calculate small_imbalance in fbg() sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_domain stats for fbg() sched: Define structure to store the sched_domain statistics for fbg() sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_group stats for fbg() sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg() sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotos sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group() sched: remove unused fields from struct rq sched: jiffies not printed per CPU sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task() sched: fix typos in documentation sched: add avg_overlap decay x86, sched_clock(): mark variables read-mostly sched: optimize ttwu vs group scheduling sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanup sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain ...
| | * | sched: make plist a library facilityPeter Zijlstra2009-01-161-6/+0
| | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ingo Molnar wrote: > here's a new build failure with tip/sched/rt: > > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > kernel/built-in.o: In function `set_curr_task_rt': > sched.c:(.text+0x3675): undefined reference to `plist_del' > kernel/built-in.o: In function `pick_next_task_rt': > sched.c:(.text+0x37ce): undefined reference to `plist_del' > kernel/built-in.o: In function `enqueue_pushable_task': > sched.c:(.text+0x381c): undefined reference to `plist_del' Eliminate the plist library kconfig and make it available unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * / netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to libGeert Uytterhoeven2009-03-041-0/+6
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set. Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
* / vsprintf: add binary printfLai Jiangshan2009-03-061-0/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: add new APIs for binary trace printk infrastructure vbin_printf(): write args to binary buffer, string is copied when "%s" is occurred. bstr_printf(): read from binary buffer for args and format a string [fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONSRusty Russell2009-01-011-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | Impact: new debug CONFIG options This helps find unconverted code. It currently breaks compile horribly, but we never wanted a flag day so that's expected. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* bitmap: find_last_bit()Rusty Russell2009-01-011-0/+4
| | | | | | | | Impact: New API As the name suggests. For the moment everyone uses the generic one. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵Rusty Russell2008-12-301-0/+2
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| * libcrc32c: Select CRYPTO in KconfigHerbert Xu2008-12-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Selecting CRYPTO_CRC32C is not enough as CRYPTO which CRYPTO_CRC32C depends on may be disabled. This patch adds the select on CRYPTO. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
| * libcrc32c: Move implementation to crypto crc32cHerbert Xu2008-12-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch swaps the role of libcrc32c and crc32c. Previously the implementation was in libcrc32c and crc32c was a wrapper. Now the code is in crc32c and libcrc32c just calls the crypto layer. The reason for the change is to tap into the algorithm selection capability of the crypto API so that optimised implementations such as the one utilising Intel's CRC32C instruction can be used where available. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
* | cpumask: Add CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACKRusty Russell2008-12-131-0/+7
|/ | | | | | | | | Impact: Add config option to enable code in cpumask.h Currently it can be set if DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS, or set specifically by an arch. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructsJan Beulich2008-10-161-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more appropriate. Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't selected by anything seems also at least questionable. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRCMartin K. Petersen2008-07-121-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | The SCSI Block Protocol uses this 16-bit CRC to verify the integrity of each data sector. crc_t10dif() is used by sd_dif.c when performing I/O to or from disks formatted with protection information. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* x86, bitops: select the generic bitmap search functionsAlexander van Heukelum2008-04-261-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT and GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT in lib/Kconfig, defaulting to off. An arch that wants to use the generic implementation now only has to use a select statement to include them. I added an always-y option (X86_CPU) to arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu and used that to select the generic search functions. This way ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386 automatically picks up the change too, and arch/um/Kconfig.i386 can therefore be simplified a bit. ARCH=um SUBARCH=x86_64 does things differently, but still compiles fine. It seems that a "def_bool y" always wins over a "def_bool n"? Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [LIB]: Make PowerPC LMB code generic so sparc64 can use it too.David S. Miller2008-02-131-0/+3
| | | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Introduce CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATUREGeert Uytterhoeven2007-08-221-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE to control inclusion of check_signature() and avoid problems on platforms that don't have readb(). Let the few legacy (ISA || PCI || X86) drivers that need check_signature() select CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* CRC7 supportJan Nikitenko2007-07-171-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add CRC7 routines, used for example in MMC over SPI communication. Kerneldoc updates [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix funny mix of const and non-const] Signed-off-by: Jan Nikitenko <jan.nikitenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add LZO1X algorithm to the kernelRichard Purdie2007-07-101-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a hybrid version of the patch to add the LZO1X compression algorithm to the kernel. Nitin and myself have merged the best parts of the various patches to form this version which we're both happy with (and are jointly signing off). The performance of this version is equivalent to the original minilzo code it was based on. Bytecode comparisons have also been made on ARM, i386 and x86_64 with favourable results. There are several users of LZO lined up including jffs2, crypto and reiser4 since its much faster than zlib. Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'juju' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-05-101-0/+8
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 * 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (138 commits) firewire: Convert OHCI driver to use standard goto unwinding for error handling. firewire: Always use parens with sizeof. firewire: Drop single buffer request support. firewire: Add a comment to describe why we split the sg list. firewire: Return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY for out of memory cases in queuecommand. firewire: Handle the last few DMA mapping error cases. firewire: Allocate scsi_host up front and allocate the sbp2_device as hostdata. firewire: Provide module aliase for backwards compatibility. firewire: Add to fw-core-y instead of assigning fw-core-objs in Makefile. firewire: Break out shared IEEE1394 constant to separate header file. firewire: Use linux/*.h instead of asm/*.h header files. firewire: Uppercase most macro names. firewire: Coding style cleanup: no spaces after function names. firewire: Convert card_rwsem to a regular mutex. firewire: Clean up comment style. firewire: Use lib/ implementation of CRC ITU-T. CRC ITU-T V.41 firewire: Rename fw-device-cdev.c to fw-cdev.c and move header to include/linux. firewire: Future proof the iso ioctls by adding a handle for the iso context. firewire: Add read/write and size annotations to IOC numbers. ... Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * CRC ITU-T V.41Ivo van Doorn2007-05-101-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This will add the CRC calculation according to the CRC ITU-T V.41 to the kernel lib/ folder. This code has been derived from the rt2x00 driver, currently found only in the wireless-dev tree, but this library is generic and could be used by more drivers who currently use their own implementation. Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Also useful for the new firewire stack. Signed-off-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
* | Introduce CONFIG_HAS_DMAHeiko Carstens2007-05-071-0/+5
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Architectures that don't support DMA can say so by adding a config NO_DMA to their Kconfig file. This will prevent compilation of some dma specific driver code. Also dma-mapping-broken.h isn't needed anymore on at least s390. This avoids compilation and linking of otherwise dead/broken code. Other architectures that include dma-mapping-broken.h are arm26, h8300, m68k, m68knommu and v850. If these could be converted as well we could get rid of the header file. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Cc: <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] sort the devres mess outAl Viro2007-02-111-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | * Split the implementation-agnostic stuff in separate files. * Make sure that targets using non-default request_irq() pull kernel/irq/devres.o * Introduce new symbols (HAS_IOPORT and HAS_IOMEM) defaulting to positive; allow architectures to turn them off (we needed these symbols anyway for dependencies of quite a few drivers). * protect the ioport-related parts of lib/devres.o with CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] uml problems with linux/io.hAl Viro2006-12-131-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | Remove useless includes of linux/io.h, don't even try to build iomap_copy on uml (it doesn't have readb() et.al., so...) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] crc32: replace bitreverse by bitrev32Akinobu Mita2006-12-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch replaces bitreverse() by bitrev32. The only users of bitreverse() are crc32 itself and via-velocity. Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] bit reverse libraryAkinobu Mita2006-12-081-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch provides two bit reverse functions and bit reverse table. - reverse the order of bits in a u32 value u8 bitrev8(u8 x); - reverse the order of bits in a u32 value u32 bitrev32(u32 x); - byte reverse table const u8 byte_rev_table[256]; Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] syscall class hookup for all normal targetsAl Viro2006-09-121-0/+5
| | | | | | | Take default arch/*/kernel/audit.c to lib/, have those with special needs (== biarch) define AUDIT_ARCH in their Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] pi-futex: add plist implementationIngo Molnar2006-06-271-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | Add the priority-sorted list (plist) implementation. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lib/crc16: added crc16 algorithm.Evgeniy Polyakov2005-09-081-0/+8
| | | | | | | | Add the crc16 routines, as used by w1 devices. Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [LIB]: Make TEXTSEARCH_BM plain tristate like the othersDavid S. Miller2005-08-291-8/+1
| | | | | | And select it when the relevant modules are enabled. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [LIB]: Boyer-Moore extension for textsearch infrastructure strike #2Pablo Neira Ayuso2005-08-291-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | Attached the implementation of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm for the new textsearch infrastructure. I've added as well a note about the limitations that this approach presents, as Thomas has remarked. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@eurodev.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PKT_SCHED]: Make TEXTSEARCH* options only selected.David S. Miller2005-06-241-22/+6
| | | | | | | | Do not present these confusing new options to the user unless he picked some facility that makes use of it, such as NET_EMATCH_TEXT. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [LIB]: Naive finite state machine based textsearchThomas Graf2005-06-231-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A finite state machine consists of n states (struct ts_fsm_token) representing the pattern as a finite automation. The data is read sequentially on a octet basis. Every state token specifies the number of recurrences and the type of value accepted which can be either a specific character or ctype based set of characters. The available type of recurrences include 1, (0|1), [0 n], and [1 n]. The algorithm differs between strict/non-strict mode specyfing whether the pattern has to start at the first octect. Strict mode is enabled by default and can be disabled by inserting TS_FSM_HEAD_IGNORE as the first token in the chain. The runtime performance of the algorithm should be around O(n), however while in strict mode the average runtime can be better. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [LIB]: Knuth-Morris-Pratt textsearch algorithmThomas Graf2005-06-231-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implements a linear-time string-matching algorithm due to Knuth, Morris, and Pratt [1]. Their algorithm avoids the explicit computation of the transition function DELTA altogether. Its matching time is O(n), for n being length(text), using just an auxiliary function PI[1..m], for m being length(pattern), precomputed from the pattern in time O(m). The array PI allows the transition function DELTA to be computed efficiently "on the fly" as needed. Roughly speaking, for any state "q" = 0,1,...,m and any character "a" in SIGMA, the value PI["q"] contains the information that is independent of "a" and is needed to compute DELTA("q", "a") [2]. Since the array PI has only m entries, whereas DELTA has O(m|SIGMA|) entries, we save a factor of |SIGMA| in the preprocessing time by computing PI rather than DELTA. [1] Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein Introdcution to Algorithms, 2nd Edition, MIT Press [2] See finite automation theory Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [LIB]: Textsearch infrastructure.Thomas Graf2005-06-231-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | The textsearch infrastructure provides text searching facitilies for both linear and non-linear data. Individual search algorithms are implemented in modules and chosen by the user. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] ia64 uncached allocJes Sorensen2005-06-211-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch contains the ia64 uncached page allocator and the generic allocator (genalloc). The uncached allocator was formerly part of the SN2 mspec driver but there are several other users of it so it has been split off from the driver. The generic allocator can be used by device driver to manage special memory etc. The generic allocator is based on the allocator from the sym53c8xx_2 driver. Various users on ia64 needs uncached memory. The SGI SN architecture requires it for inter-partition communication between partitions within a large NUMA cluster. The specific user for this is the XPC code. Another application is large MPI style applications which use it for synchronization, on SN this can be done using special 'fetchop' operations but it also benefits non SN hardware which may use regular uncached memory for this purpose. Performance of doing this through uncached vs cached memory is pretty substantial. This is handled by the mspec driver which I will push out in a seperate patch. Rather than creating a specific allocator for just uncached memory I came up with genalloc which is a generic purpose allocator that can be used by device drivers and other subsystems as they please. For instance to handle onboard device memory. It was derived from the sym53c7xx_2 driver's allocator which is also an example of a potential user (I am refraining from modifying sym2 right now as it seems to have been under fairly heavy development recently). On ia64 memory has various properties within a granule, ie. it isn't safe to access memory as uncached within the same granule as currently has memory accessed in cached mode. The regular system therefore doesn't utilize memory in the lower granules which is mixed in with device PAL code etc. The uncached driver walks the EFI memmap and pulls out the spill uncached pages and sticks them into the uncached pool. Only after these chunks have been utilized, will it start converting regular cached memory into uncached memory. Hence the reason for the EFI related code additions. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+61
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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