1. 12 Mar, 2010 1 commit
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  3. 21 Sep, 2009 1 commit
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events · cdd6c482
      Ingo Molnar authored
      
      Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
      
      In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
      initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
      becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
      monitoring, analysis facility.
      
      Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
      'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
      code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
      less appropriate.
      
      All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
      events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
      and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
      
      The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
      it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
      
      Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
      suggested a rename.
      
      User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
      should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
      keep the size down.)
      
      This patch has been generated via the following script:
      
        FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
          -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
          -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
          -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
          -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
          $FILES
      
        for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
          M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
          mv $N $M
        done
      
        FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
          -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
          -e 's/counter/event/g' \
          -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
          $FILES
      
      ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
      used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
      a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
      change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
      is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
      
      Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
      stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
      
      ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
        with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
        over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
        in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
        better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
        instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
      Suggested-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cdd6c482
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  10. 30 Jan, 2008 1 commit
    • Dmitri Vorobiev's avatar
      x86_32: remove the useless NR_syscalls macro · 770181d9
      Dmitri Vorobiev authored
      
      This is against current x86.git.
      
      The size of the system call table for 32-bit x86 kernels is obtained by
      compile-time calculation of the sys_call_table array, not from the value,
      which the NR_syscalls macro expands to. This trivial patch removes the
      fossil macro.
      
      Manually tested by grepping the x86 files for the "NR_syscalls" string.
      No relevant use cases found.
      
      Build-tested using allyesconfig, allnoconfig and a couple of randconfig
      instances. All builds successfully finished.
      
      Runtime test performed using a stripped-down Debian-ish config. The system
      booted successfully.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      770181d9
  11. 11 Oct, 2007 1 commit
  12. 17 Jul, 2007 1 commit
    • Amit Arora's avatar
      sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc · 97ac7350
      Amit Arora authored
      
      fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow
      applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system.
      Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature will need
      to support an inode operation called ->fallocate().
      Applications can use this feature to avoid fragmentation to certain
      level and thus get faster access speed. With preallocation, applications
      also get a guarantee of space for particular file(s) - even if later the
      the system becomes full.
      
      Currently, glibc provides an interface called posix_fallocate() which
      can be used for similar cause. Though this has the advantage of working
      on all file systems, but it is quite slow (since it writes zeroes to
      each block that has to be preallocated). Without a doubt, file systems
      can do this more efficiently within the kernel, by implementing
      the proposed fallocate() system call. It is expected that
      posix_fallocate() will be modified to call this new system call first
      and incase the kernel/filesystem does not implement it, it should fall
      back to the current implementation of writing zeroes to the new blocks.
      ToDos:
      1. Implementation on other architectures (other than i386, x86_64,
         and ppc). Patches for s390(x) and ia64 are already available from
         previous posts, but it was decided that they should be added later
         once fallocate is in the mainline. Hence not including those patches
         in this take.
      2. Changes to glibc,
         a) to support fallocate() system call
         b) to make posix_fallocate() and posix_fallocate64() call fallocate()
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAmit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>
      97ac7350
  13. 11 May, 2007 3 commits
  14. 08 May, 2007 1 commit
    • Ulrich Drepper's avatar
      utimensat implementation · 1c710c89
      Ulrich Drepper authored
      
      Implement utimensat(2) which is an extension to futimesat(2) in that it
      
      a) supports nano-second resolution for the timestamps
      b) allows to selectively ignore the atime/mtime value
      c) allows to selectively use the current time for either atime or mtime
      d) supports changing the atime/mtime of a symlink itself along the lines
         of the BSD lutimes(3) functions
      
      For this change the internally used do_utimes() functions was changed to
      accept a timespec time value and an additional flags parameter.
      
      Additionally the sys_utime function was changed to match compat_sys_utime
      which already use do_utimes instead of duplicating the work.
      
      Also, the completely missing futimensat() functionality is added.  We have
      such a function in glibc but we have to resort to using /proc/self/fd/* which
      not everybody likes (chroot etc).
      
      Test application (the syscall number will need per-arch editing):
      
      #include <errno.h>
      #include <fcntl.h>
      #include <time.h>
      #include <sys/time.h>
      #include <stddef.h>
      #include <syscall.h>
      
      #define __NR_utimensat 280
      
      #define UTIME_NOW       ((1l << 30) - 1l)
      #define UTIME_OMIT      ((1l << 30) - 2l)
      
      int
      main(void)
      {
        int status = 0;
      
        int fd = open("ttt", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666);
        if (fd == -1)
          error (1, errno, "failed to create test file \"ttt\"");
      
        struct stat64 st1;
        if (fstat64 (fd, &st1) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "fstat failed");
      
        struct timespec t[2];
        t[0].tv_sec = 0;
        t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
        t[1].tv_sec = 0;
        t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
        if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");
      
        struct stat64 st2;
        if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "fstat failed");
      
        if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
          {
            puts ("atim not reset to zero");
            status = 1;
          }
        if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
          {
            puts ("mtim not reset to zero");
            status = 1;
          }
        if (status != 0)
          goto out;
      
        t[0] = st1.st_atim;
        t[1].tv_sec = 0;
        t[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
        if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");
      
        if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "fstat failed");
      
        if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != st1.st_atim.tv_sec
            || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != st1.st_atim.tv_nsec)
          {
            puts ("atim not set");
            status = 1;
          }
        if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
          {
            puts ("mtim changed from zero");
            status = 1;
          }
        if (status != 0)
          goto out;
      
        t[0].tv_sec = 0;
        t[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
        t[1] = st1.st_mtim;
        if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");
      
        if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "fstat failed");
      
        if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != st1.st_atim.tv_sec
            || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != st1.st_atim.tv_nsec)
          {
            puts ("mtim changed from original time");
            status = 1;
          }
        if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != st1.st_mtim.tv_sec
            || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != st1.st_mtim.tv_nsec)
          {
            puts ("mtim not set");
            status = 1;
          }
        if (status != 0)
          goto out;
      
        sleep (2);
      
        t[0].tv_sec = 0;
        t[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
        t[1].tv_sec = 0;
        t[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
        if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "ttt", t, 0) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");
      
        if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "fstat failed");
      
        struct timeval tv;
        gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);
      
        if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec <= st1.st_atim.tv_sec
            || st2.st_atim.tv_sec > tv.tv_sec)
          {
            puts ("atim not set to NOW");
            status = 1;
          }
        if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec <= st1.st_mtim.tv_sec
            || st2.st_mtim.tv_sec > tv.tv_sec)
          {
            puts ("mtim not set to NOW");
            status = 1;
          }
      
        if (symlink ("ttt", "tttsym") != 0)
          error (1, errno, "cannot create symlink");
      
        t[0].tv_sec = 0;
        t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
        t[1].tv_sec = 0;
        t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
        if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, AT_FDCWD, "tttsym", t, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");
      
        if (lstat64 ("tttsym", &st2) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "lstat failed");
      
        if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
          {
            puts ("symlink atim not reset to zero");
            status = 1;
          }
        if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 0 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
          {
            puts ("symlink mtim not reset to zero");
            status = 1;
          }
        if (status != 0)
          goto out;
      
        t[0].tv_sec = 1;
        t[0].tv_nsec = 0;
        t[1].tv_sec = 1;
        t[1].tv_nsec = 0;
        if (syscall(__NR_utimensat, fd, NULL, t, 0) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "utimensat failed");
      
        if (fstat64 (fd, &st2) != 0)
          error (1, errno, "fstat failed");
      
        if (st2.st_atim.tv_sec != 1 || st2.st_atim.tv_nsec != 0)
          {
            puts ("atim not reset to one");
            status = 1;
          }
        if (st2.st_mtim.tv_sec != 1 || st2.st_mtim.tv_nsec != 0)
          {
            puts ("mtim not reset to one");
            status = 1;
          }
      
        if (status == 0)
           puts ("all OK");
      
       out:
        close (fd);
        unlink ("ttt");
        unlink ("tttsym");
      
        return status;
      }
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing i386 syscall table entry]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1c710c89
  15. 07 Dec, 2006 1 commit
  16. 11 Oct, 2006 1 commit
    • Davide Libenzi's avatar
      [PATCH] epoll_pwait() · b611967d
      Davide Libenzi authored
      Implement the epoll_pwait system call, that extend the event wait mechanism
      with the same logic ppoll and pselect do.  The definition of epoll_pwait
      is:
      
      int epoll_pwait(int epfd, struct epoll_event *events, int maxevents,
                       int timeout, const sigset_t *sigmask, size_t sigsetsize);
      
      The difference between the vanilla epoll_wait and epoll_pwait is that the
      latter allows the caller to specify a signal mask to be set while waiting
      for events.  Hence epoll_pwait will wait until either one monitored event,
      or an unmasked signal happen.  If sigmask is NULL, the epoll_pwait system
      call will act exactly like epoll_wait.  For the POSIX definition of
      pselect, information is available here:
      
      http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/select.html
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b611967d
  17. 02 Oct, 2006 1 commit
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      [PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ references · 135ab6ec
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      The last in-kernel user of errno is gone, so we should remove the definition
      and everything referring to it.  This also removes the now-unused lib/execve.c
      file that was introduced earlier.
      
      Also remove every trace of __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ that still remained in the
      kernel.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
      Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      135ab6ec
  18. 27 Sep, 2006 1 commit
  19. 26 Sep, 2006 1 commit
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      [PATCH] x86: Add portable getcpu call · 3cfc348b
      Andi Kleen authored
      
      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: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      3cfc348b
  20. 16 Sep, 2006 1 commit
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  24. 26 Apr, 2006 1 commit
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      [PATCH] Add support for the sys_vmsplice syscall · 912d35f8
      Jens Axboe authored
      
      sys_splice() moves data to/from pipes with a file input/output. sys_vmsplice()
      moves data to a pipe, with the input being a user address range instead.
      
      This uses an approach suggested by Linus, where we can hold partial ranges
      inside the pages[] map. Hopefully this will be useful for network
      receive support as well.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
      912d35f8
  25. 11 Apr, 2006 3 commits
  26. 31 Mar, 2006 1 commit
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] sys_sync_file_range() · f79e2abb
      Andrew Morton authored
      Remove the recently-added LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE and LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT
      fadvise() additions, do it in a new sys_sync_file_range() syscall instead.
      Reasons:
      
      - It's more flexible.  Things which would require two or three syscalls with
        fadvise() can be done in a single syscall.
      
      - Using fadvise() in this manner is something not covered by POSIX.
      
      The patch wires up the syscall for x86.
      
      The sycall is implemented in the new fs/sync.c.  The intention is that we can
      move sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and perhaps sys_sync() into there later.
      
      Documentation for the syscall is in fs/sync.c.
      
      A test app (sync_file_range.c) is in
      http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz
      
      .
      
      The available-to-GPL-modules do_sync_file_range() is for knfsd: "A COMMIT can
      say NFS_DATA_SYNC or NFS_FILE_SYNC.  I can skip the ->fsync call for
      NFS_DATA_SYNC which is hopefully the more common."
      
      Note: the `async' writeout mode SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE will turn synchronous if
      the queue is congested.  This is trivial to fix: add a new flag bit, set
      wbc->nonblocking.  But I'm not sure that we want to expose implementation
      details down to that level.
      
      Note: it's notable that we can sync an fd which wasn't opened for writing.
      Same with fsync() and fdatasync()).
      
      Note: the code takes some care to handle attempts to sync file contents
      outside the 16TB offset on 32-bit machines.  It makes such attempts appear to
      succeed, for best 32-bit/64-bit compatibility.  Perhaps it should make such
      requests fail...
      
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f79e2abb
  27. 30 Mar, 2006 1 commit
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      [PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system call · 5274f052
      Jens Axboe authored
      
      This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a
      transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only).
      
      From the splice.c comments:
      
         "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands.
      
         This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as
         an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel
         buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other.
      
         The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation
         that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer.
      
         Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by
         Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation
         bugs.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5274f052
  28. 27 Mar, 2006 1 commit
  29. 23 Mar, 2006 1 commit
  30. 12 Feb, 2006 1 commit
    • Ulrich Drepper's avatar
      [PATCH] fstatat64 support · cff2b760
      Ulrich Drepper authored
      
      The *at patches introduced fstatat and, due to inusfficient research, I
      used the newfstat functions generally as the guideline.  The result is that
      on 32-bit platforms we don't have all the information needed to implement
      fstatat64.
      
      This patch modifies the code to pass up 64-bit information if
      __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 is defined.  I renamed the syscall entry point to make
      this clear.  Other archs will continue to use the existing code.  On x86-64
      the compat code is implemented using a new sys32_ function.  this is what
      is done for the other stat syscalls as well.
      
      This patch might break some other archs (those which define
      __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 and which already wired up the syscall).  Yet others
      might need changes to accomodate the compatibility mode.  I really don't
      want to do that work because all this stat handling is a mess (more so in
      glibc, but the kernel is also affected).  It should be done by the arch
      maintainers.  I'll provide some stand-alone test shortly.  Those who are
      eager could compile glibc and run 'make check' (no installation needed).
      
      The patch below has been tested on x86 and x86-64.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      cff2b760
  31. 07 Feb, 2006 1 commit
  32. 18 Jan, 2006 3 commits
    • David Woodhouse's avatar
      [PATCH] Add pselect/ppoll system calls on i386 · 3213e913
      David Woodhouse authored
      
      Add the sys_pselect6() and sys_poll() calls to the i386 syscall table.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      3213e913
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for i386 · 283828f3
      David Howells authored
      
      Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK as added by David Woodhouse's patch entitled:
      
              [PATCH] 2/3 Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
              [PATCH] 3/3 Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend
      
      It does the following:
      
       (1) Declares TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for i386.
      
       (2) Invokes it over to do_signal() when TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set.
      
       (3) Makes do_signal() support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, using the signal mask saved
           in current->saved_sigmask.
      
       (4) Discards sys_rt_sigsuspend() from the arch, using the generic one instead.
      
       (5) Makes sys_sigsuspend() save the signal mask and set TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
           rather than attempting to fudge the return registers.
      
       (6) Makes sys_sigsuspend() return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than looping
           intrinsically.
      
       (7) Makes setup_frame(), setup_rt_frame() and handle_signal() return 0 or
           -EFAULT rather than true/false to be consistent with the rest of the
           kernel.
      
      Due to the fact do_signal() is then only called from one place:
      
       (8) Makes do_signal() no longer have a return value is it was just being
           ignored; force_sig() takes care of this.
      
       (9) Discards the old sigmask argument to do_signal() as it's no longer
           necessary.
      
      (10) Makes do_signal() static.
      
      (11) Marks the second argument to do_notify_resume() as unused. The unused
           argument should remain in the middle as the arguments are passed in as
           registers, and the ordering is specific in entry.S
      
      Given the way do_signal() is now no longer called from sys_{,rt_}sigsuspend(),
      they no longer need access to the exception frame, and so can just take
      arguments normally.
      
      This patch depends on sys_rt_sigsuspend patch.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      283828f3
    • Ulrich Drepper's avatar
      [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: i386 · 4f085507
      Ulrich Drepper authored
      
      Wire up the x86 syscalls
      Signed-off-by: default avatarUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      4f085507
  33. 08 Jan, 2006 1 commit
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: sys_migrate_pages interface · 39743889
      Christoph Lameter authored
      
      sys_migrate_pages implementation using swap based page migration
      
      This is the original API proposed by Ray Bryant in his posts during the first
      half of 2005 on linux-mm@kvack.org and linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org.
      
      The intent of sys_migrate is to migrate memory of a process.  A process may
      have migrated to another node.  Memory was allocated optimally for the prior
      context.  sys_migrate_pages allows to shift the memory to the new node.
      
      sys_migrate_pages is also useful if the processes available memory nodes have
      changed through cpuset operations to manually move the processes memory.  Paul
      Jackson is working on an automated mechanism that will allow an automatic
      migration if the cpuset of a process is changed.  However, a user may decide
      to manually control the migration.
      
      This implementation is put into the policy layer since it uses concepts and
      functions that are also needed for mbind and friends.  The patch also provides
      a do_migrate_pages function that may be useful for cpusets to automatically
      move memory.  sys_migrate_pages does not modify policies in contrast to Ray's
      implementation.
      
      The current code here is based on the swap based page migration capability and
      thus is not able to preserve the physical layout relative to it containing
      nodeset (which may be a cpuset).  When direct page migration becomes available
      then the implementation needs to be changed to do a isomorphic move of pages
      between different nodesets.  The current implementation simply evicts all
      pages in source nodeset that are not in the target nodeset.
      
      Patch supports ia64, i386 and x86_64.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      39743889
  34. 06 Jan, 2006 1 commit