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Linus Torvalds
d614aec475 Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (29 commits)
  ide: re-implement ide_pci_init_one() on top of ide_pci_init_two()
  ide: unexport ide_find_dma_mode()
  ide: fix PowerMac bootup oops
  ide: skip probe if there are no devices on the port (v2)
  sl82c105: add printk() logging facility
  ide-tape: fix proc warning
  ide: add IDE_DFLAG_NIEN_QUIRK device flag
  ide: respect quirk_drives[] list on all controllers
  hpt366: enable all quirks for devices on quirk_drives[] list
  hpt366: sync quirk_drives[] list with pdc202xx_{new,old}.c
  ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from do_rw_taskfile()
  ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from ide_driveid_update()
  icside: remove superfluous ->maskproc method
  ide-tape: fix IDE_AFLAG_* atomic accesses
  ide-tape: change IDE_AFLAG_IGNORE_DSC non-atomically
  pdc202xx_old: kill resetproc() method
  pdc202xx_old: don't call pdc202xx_reset() on IRQ timeout
  pdc202xx_old: use ide_dma_test_irq()
  ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)
  ide-gd: implement block device ->set_capacity method (v2)
  ...
2009-06-12 09:29:42 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek
638772c755 fb: add support of LCD display controller on pxa168/910 (base layer)
This driver is originally written by Lennert, modified by Green to be
feature complete,  and ported by Jun Nie and Kevin Liu for pxa168/910
processors.

The patch adds support for the on-chip LCD display controller, it
currently supports the base (graphics) layer only.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Green Wan <gwan@marvell.com>
Cc: Peter Liao <pliao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun Nie <njun@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Liu <kliu5@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
2009-06-13 00:09:09 +08:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
7ea2ac9b66 Trivial: fix typo s/balence/balance/
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:45 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
7e85ee0c1d slab,slub: don't enable interrupts during early boot
As explained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

  Oh and btw, your patch alone doesn't fix powerpc, because it's missing
  a whole bunch of GFP_KERNEL's in the arch code... You would have to
  grep the entire kernel for things that check slab_is_available() and
  even then you'll be missing some.

  For example, slab_is_available() didn't always exist, and so in the
  early days on powerpc, we used a mem_init_done global that is set form
  mem_init() (not perfect but works in practice). And we still have code
  using that to do the test.

Therefore, mask out __GFP_WAIT, __GFP_IO, and __GFP_FS in the slab allocators
in early boot code to avoid enabling interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-12 18:53:33 +03:00
Jiri Kosina
6341de0527 Merge branches 'upstream' and 'ntrig-multitouch' into for-linus 2009-06-12 17:42:13 +02:00
James Bottomley
82681a318f [SCSI] Merge branch 'linus'
Conflicts:
	drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c

fixed up conflict between req->data_len accessors and mptsas driver updates.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-06-12 10:02:03 -05:00
Rusty Russell
5dac051bc6 lguest: remove obsolete LHREQ_BREAK call
We no longer need an efficient mechanism to force the Guest back into
host userspace, as each device is serviced without bothering the main
Guest process (aka. the Launcher).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:11 +09:30
Rusty Russell
df60aeef4f lguest: use eventfds for device notification
Currently, when a Guest wants to perform I/O it calls LHCALL_NOTIFY with
an address: the main Launcher process returns with this address, and figures
out what device to run.

A far nicer model is to let processes bind an eventfd to an address: if we
find one, we simply signal the eventfd.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
2009-06-12 22:27:10 +09:30
Rusty Russell
a32a8813d0 lguest: improve interrupt handling, speed up stream networking
lguest never checked for pending interrupts when enabling interrupts, and
things still worked.  However, it makes a significant difference to TCP
performance, so it's time we fixed it by introducing a pending_irq flag
and checking it on irq_restore and irq_enable.

These two routines are now too big to patch into the 8/10 bytes
patch space, so we drop that code.

Note: The high latency on interrupt delivery had a very curious
effect: once everything else was optimized, networking without GSO was
faster than networking with GSO, since more interrupts were sent and
hence a greater chance of one getting through to the Guest!

Note2: (Almost) Closing the same loophole for iret doesn't have any
measurable effect, so I'm leaving that patch for the moment.

Before:
	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host:		30.7 seconds
	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO):	76.0 seconds

After:
	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host:		6.8 seconds
	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO):	27.8 seconds

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:03 +09:30
Mark McLoughlin
9fa29b9df3 virtio: indirect ring entries (VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC)
Add a new feature flag for indirect ring entries. These are ring
entries which point to a table of buffer descriptors.

The idea here is to increase the ring capacity by allowing a larger
effective ring size whereby the ring size dictates the number of
requests that may be outstanding, rather than the size of those
requests.

This should be most effective in the case of block I/O where we can
potentially benefit by concurrently dispatching a large number of
large requests. Even in the simple case of single segment block
requests, this results in a threefold increase in ring capacity.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:39 +09:30
Mark McLoughlin
ee006b353f virtio: teach virtio_has_feature() about transport features
Drivers don't add transport features to their table, so we
shouldn't check these with virtio_check_driver_offered_feature().

We could perhaps add an ->offered_feature() virtio_config_op,
but that perhaps that would be overkill for a consitency check
like this.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:38 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin
82af8ce84e virtio_pci: optional MSI-X support
This implements optional MSI-X support in virtio_pci.
MSI-X is used whenever the host supports at least 2 MSI-X
vectors: 1 for configuration changes and 1 for virtqueues.
Per-virtqueue vectors are allocated if enough vectors
available.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (+ whitespace, style)
2009-06-12 22:16:37 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin
d2a7ddda9f virtio: find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations
This replaces find_vq/del_vq with find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations,
and updates all drivers. This is needed for MSI support, because MSI
needs to know the total number of vectors upfront.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (+ lguest/9p compile fixes)
2009-06-12 22:16:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell
9499f5e7ed virtio: add names to virtqueue struct, mapping from devices to queues.
Add a linked list of all virtqueues for a virtio device: this helps for
debugging and is also needed for upcoming interface change.

Also, add a "name" field for clearer debug messages.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell
20f77f5654 virtio: fix obsolete documentation on probe function
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:35 +09:30
Peter Zijlstra
974802eaa1 perf_counter: Add forward/backward attribute ABI compatibility
Provide for means of extending the perf_counter_attr in a 'natural' way.

We allow growing the structure by appending fields at the end by specifying
the full structure size inside it.

When a new kernel sees a smaller (old) structure, it will 0 pad the tail.
When an old kernel sees a larger (new) structure, it will verify the tail
consists of 0s, otherwise fail.

If we fail due to a size-mismatch, we return -E2BIG and write the kernel's
native attribe size back into the provided structure.

Furthermore, add some attribute verification, so that we'll fail counter
creation when unknown bits are present (PERF_SAMPLE, PERF_FORMAT, or in
the __reserved fields).

(This ABI detail is introduced while keeping the existing syscall ABI.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 14:28:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f1a3c97905 perf_counter: PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE is a hardware counter too
is_software_counter() was missing the new HW_CACHE category.

( This could have caused some counter scheduling artifacts
  with mixed sw and hw counters and counter groups. )

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 14:28:51 +02:00
Rusty Russell
ad6561dffa module: trim exception table on init free.
It's theoretically possible that there are exception table entries
which point into the (freed) init text of modules.  These could cause
future problems if other modules get loaded into that memory and cause
an exception as we'd see the wrong fixup.  The only case I know of is
kvm-intel.ko (when CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n).

Amerigo fixed this long-standing FIXME in the x86 version, but this
patch is more general.

This implements trim_init_extable(); most archs are simple since they
use the standard lib/extable.c sort code.  Alpha and IA64 use relative
addresses in their fixups, so thier trimming is a slight variation.

Sparc32 is unique; it doesn't seem to define ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE,
yet it defines its own sort_extable() which overrides the one in lib.
It doesn't sort, so we have to mark deleted entries instead of
actually trimming them.

Inspired-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
2009-06-12 21:47:04 +09:30
Rusty Russell
fddd520122 module_param: allow 'bool' module_params to be bool, not just int.
Impact: API cleanup

For historical reasons, 'bool' parameters must be an int, not a bool.
But there are around 600 users, so a conversion seems like useless churn.

So we use __same_type() to distinguish, and handle both cases.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:46:58 +09:30
Rusty Russell
d2c123c27d module_param: add __same_type convenience wrapper for __builtin_types_compatible_p
Impact: new API

__builtin_types_compatible_p() is a little awkward to use: it takes two
types rather than types or variables, and it's just damn long.

(typeof(type) == type, so this works on types as well as vars).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:46:57 +09:30
Rusty Russell
45fcc70c0b module_param: split perm field into flags and perm
Impact: cleanup

Rather than hack KPARAM_KMALLOCED into the perm field, separate it out.
Since the perm field was 32 bits and only needs 16, we don't add bloat.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:46:56 +09:30
Rusty Russell
9a71af2c36 module_param: invbool should take a 'bool', not an 'int'
It takes an 'int' for historical reasons, and there are only two
users: simply switch it over to bool.

The other user (uvesafb.c) will get a (harmless-on-x86) warning until
the next patch is applied.

Cc: Brad Douglas <brad@neruo.com>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 21:46:56 +09:30
Arnd Bergmann
5b02ee3d21 asm-generic: merge branch 'master' of torvalds/linux-2.6
Fixes a merge conflict against the x86 tree caused by a fix to
atomic.h which I renamed to atomic_long.h.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2009-06-12 11:32:58 +02:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
ca371c0d7e memcg: fix page_cgroup fatal error in FLATMEM
Now, SLAB is configured in very early stage and it can be used in
init routine now.

But replacing alloc_bootmem() in FLAT/DISCONTIGMEM's page_cgroup()
initialization breaks the allocation, now.
(Works well in SPARSEMEM case...it supports MEMORY_HOTPLUG and
 size of page_cgroup is in reasonable size (< 1 << MAX_ORDER.)

This patch revive FLATMEM+memory cgroup by using alloc_bootmem.

In future,
We stop to support FLATMEM (if no users) or rewrite codes for flatmem
completely.But this will adds more messy codes and overheads.

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-12 11:00:54 +03:00
Jerome Glisse
3c24475c1e drm: include kernel list header file in hashtab header
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2009-06-12 15:56:34 +10:00
Jerome Glisse
249d6048ca drm: Split out the mm declarations in a separate header. Add atomic operations.
this is a TTM preparation patch, it rearranges the mm and
add operations needed to do mm operations in atomic context.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2009-06-12 15:56:31 +10:00
Alex Deucher
715cbb05c9 drm/radeon: add support for RV790.
This adds the PCI IDs for the rv790 which are equiv to the rv770.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2009-06-12 15:56:30 +10:00
Alex Deucher
2a71ebcd85 drm/radeon: add rv740 drm support.
This adds drm support for the RV740 family of chips to the r600 support code.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2009-06-12 15:56:28 +10:00
Kristian Høgsberg
fbe0efb869 drm_calloc_large: check right size, check integer overflow, use GFP_ZERO
Previously we would check size instead of size * nmemb, and so would
never hit the vmalloc path.  Also add integer overflow check as in kcalloc,
and allocate GFP_ZERO pages instead of memset()ing them.

Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2009-06-12 15:37:28 +10:00
David S. Miller
adf76cfe24 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-06-11 20:00:44 -07:00
Al Viro
964f536966 fs/qnx4: sanitize includes
fs-internal parts of qnx4_fs.h taken to fs/qnx4/qnx4.h, includes adjusted,
qnx4_fs.h doesn't need unifdef anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:12 -04:00
Al Viro
79d2576758 Sanitize qnx4 fsync handling
* have directory operations use mark_buffer_dirty_inode(),
  so that sync_mapping_buffers() would get those.
* make qnx4_write_inode() honour its last argument.
* get rid of insane copies of very ancient "walk the indirect blocks"
  in qnx4/fsync - they never matched the actual fs layout and, fortunately,
  never'd been called.  Again, all this junk is not needed; ->fsync()
  should just do sync_mapping_buffers + sync_inode (and if we implement
  block allocation for qnx4, we'll need to use mark_buffer_dirty_inode()
  for extent blocks)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:11 -04:00
Al Viro
d5aacad548 New helper - simple_fsync()
writes associated buffers, then does sync_inode() to write
the inode itself (and to make it clean).  Depends on
->write_inode() honouring the second argument.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:11 -04:00
Mike Frysinger
8688b86352 linux/magic.h: move cramfs magic out of cramfs_fs.h
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
CC: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:10 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
28ad0c118b fs: Rearrange inode structure elements to avoid waste due to padding
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:09 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
9fd5746fd3 fs: Remove i_cindex from struct inode
The only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used
is by the firewire drivers.  As part of an attempt to slim down the
inode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will
have hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a
reduction in the size inode has high leverage.

The firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it's
simple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space
in the inode structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: krh@redhat.com
Cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:09 -04:00
Al Viro
62c6943b4b Trim a bit of crap from fs.h
do_remount_sb() is fs/internal.h fodder, fsync_no_super() is long gone.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:07 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
f3da392e9f dcache: extrace and use d_unlinked()
d_unlinked() will be used in middle-term to ban checkpointing when opened
but unlinked file is detected, and in long term, to detect such situation
and special case on it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:06 -04:00
Jan Kara
c3f8a40c1c quota: Introduce writeout_quota_sb() (version 4)
Introduce this function which just writes all the quota structures but
avoids all the syncing and cache pruning work to expose quota structures
to userspace. Use this function from __sync_filesystem when wait == 0.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:04 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
850b201b08 quota: cleanup dquota sync functions (version 4)
Currently the VFS calls vfs_dq_sync to sync out disk quotas for a given
superblock.  This is a small wrapper around sync_dquots which for the
case of a non-NULL superblock is a small wrapper around quota_sync_sb.

Just make quota_sync_sb global (rename it to sync_quota_sb) and call it
directly.  Also call it directly for those cases in quota.c that have a
superblock and leave sync_dquots purely an iterator over sync_quota_sb and
remove it's superblock argument.

To make this nicer move the check for the lack of a quota_sync method
from the callers into sync_quota_sb.

[folded build fix from Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:04 -04:00
Jan Kara
60b0680fa2 vfs: Rename fsync_super() to sync_filesystem() (version 4)
Rename the function so that it better describe what it really does. Also
remove the unnecessary include of buffer_head.h.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:04 -04:00
Jan Kara
c15c54f5f0 vfs: Move syncing code from super.c to sync.c (version 4)
Move sync_filesystems(), __fsync_super(), fsync_super() from
super.c to sync.c where it fits better.

[build fixes folded]

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:04 -04:00
Jan Kara
5cee5815d1 vfs: Make sys_sync() use fsync_super() (version 4)
It is unnecessarily fragile to have two places (fsync_super() and do_sync())
doing data integrity sync of the filesystem. Alter __fsync_super() to
accommodate needs of both callers and use it. So after this patch
__fsync_super() is the only place where we gather all the calls needed to
properly send all data on a filesystem to disk.

Nice bonus is that we get a complete livelock avoidance and write_supers()
is now only used for periodic writeback of superblocks.

sync_blockdevs() introduced a couple of patches ago is gone now.

[build fixes folded]

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:03 -04:00
Jan Kara
429479f031 vfs: Make __fsync_super() a static function (version 4)
__fsync_super() does the same thing as fsync_super(). So change the only
caller to use fsync_super() and make __fsync_super() static. This removes
unnecessarily duplicated call to sync_blockdev() and prepares ground
for the changes to __fsync_super() in the following patches.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:03 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
876a9f76ab remove s_async_list
Remove the unused s_async_list in the superblock, a leftover of the
broken async inode deletion code that leaked into mainline.  Having this
in the middle of the sync/unmount path is not helpful for the following
cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:02 -04:00
npiggin@suse.de
96029c4e09 fs: introduce mnt_clone_write
This patch speeds up lmbench lat_mmap test by about another 2% after the
first patch.

Before:
 avg = 462.286
 std = 5.46106

After:
 avg = 453.12
 std = 9.58257

(50 runs of each, stddev gives a reasonable confidence)

It does this by introducing mnt_clone_write, which avoids some heavyweight
operations of mnt_want_write if called on a vfsmount which we know already
has a write count; and mnt_want_write_file, which can call mnt_clone_write
if the file is open for write.

After these two patches, mnt_want_write and mnt_drop_write go from 7% on
the profile down to 1.3% (including mnt_clone_write).

[AV: mnt_want_write_file() should take file alone and derive mnt from it;
not only all callers have that form, but that's the only mnt about which
we know that it's already held for write if file is opened for write]

Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:02 -04:00
npiggin@suse.de
d3ef3d7351 fs: mnt_want_write speedup
This patch speeds up lmbench lat_mmap test by about 8%. lat_mmap is set up
basically to mmap a 64MB file on tmpfs, fault in its pages, then unmap it.
A microbenchmark yes, but it exercises some important paths in the mm.

Before:
 avg = 501.9
 std = 14.7773

After:
 avg = 462.286
 std = 5.46106

(50 runs of each, stddev gives a reasonable confidence, but there is quite
a bit of variation there still)

It does this by removing the complex per-cpu locking and counter-cache and
replaces it with a percpu counter in struct vfsmount. This makes the code
much simpler, and avoids spinlocks (although the msync is still pretty
costly, unfortunately). It results in about 900 bytes smaller code too. It
does increase the size of a vfsmount, however.

It should also give a speedup on large systems if CPUs are frequently operating
on different mounts (because the existing scheme has to operate on an atomic in
the struct vfsmount when switching between mounts). But I'm most interested in
the single threaded path performance for the moment.

[AV: minor cleanup]

Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:02 -04:00
Al Viro
3174c21b74 Move junk from proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:01 -04:00
Al Viro
1c755af4df switch lookup_mnt()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:01 -04:00
Al Viro
9393bd07cf switch follow_down()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:01 -04:00