as reported by Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
ioatdma 0000:00:08.0: DMA-API: device driver frees DMA memory with
wrong function [device address=0x000000007f76f800] [size=2000 bytes]
[map
ped as single] [unmapped as page]
The ioatdma driver was unmapping all regions
(either allocated as page or single) using unmap_page.
This patch lets dma driver recognize if unmap_single or unmap_page should be used.
It introduces two new dma control flags:
DMA_COMPL_SRC_UNMAP_SINGLE and DMA_COMPL_DEST_UNMAP_SINGLE.
They should be set to indicate dma driver to do dma-unmapping as single
(first one for the source, tha latter for the destination).
If respective flag is not set, the driver assumes dma-unmapping as page.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
In order to build the generic syscall table, we need a declaration for
every system call. sys_pipe2 was added without a proper declaration, so
add this to syscalls.h now.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
Revert driver core: move platform_data into platform_device
Revert driver core: fix passing platform_data
Remove old PRINTK_DEBUG config item
Doc/sysfs-rules: Swap the order of the words so the sentence makes more sense
Driver core: platform: fix kernel-doc warnings
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (22 commits)
Fix the race between capifs remount and node creation
Fix races around the access to ->s_options
switch ufs directories to ufs_sync_file()
Switch open_exec() and sys_uselib() to do_open_filp()
Make open_exec() and sys_uselib() use may_open(), instead of duplicating its parts
Reduce path_lookup() abuses
Make checkpatch.pl shut up on fs/inode.c
NULL noise in fs/super.c:kill_bdev_super()
romfs: cleanup romfs_fs.h
ROMFS: romfs_dev_read() error ignored
fs: dcache fix LRU ordering
ocfs2: Use nd_set_link().
Fix deadlock in ipathfs ->get_sb()
Fix a leak in failure exit in 9p ->get_sb()
Convert obvious places to deactivate_locked_super()
New helper: deactivate_locked_super()
reiserfs: remove privroot hiding in lookup
reiserfs: dont associate security.* with xattr files
reiserfs: fixup xattr_root caching
Always lookup priv_root on reiserfs mount and keep it
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (26 commits)
bonding: fix panic if initialization fails
IXP4xx: complete Ethernet netdev setup before calling register_netdev().
IXP4xx: use "ENODEV" instead of "ENOSYS" in module initialization.
ipvs: Fix IPv4 FWMARK virtual services
ipv4: Make INET_LRO a bool instead of tristate.
net: remove stale reference to fastroute from Kconfig help text
net: update skb_recycle_check() for hardware timestamping changes
bnx2: Fix panic in bnx2_poll_work().
net-sched: fix bfifo default limit
igb: resolve panic on shutdown when SR-IOV is enabled
wimax: oops: wimax_dev_add() is the only one that can initialize the state
wimax: fix oops if netlink fails to add attribute
Bluetooth: Move dev_set_name() to a context that can sleep
netfilter: ctnetlink: fix wrong message type in user updates
netfilter: xt_cluster: fix use of cluster match with 32 nodes
netfilter: ip6t_ipv6header: fix match on packets ending with NEXTHDR_NONE
netfilter: add missing linux/types.h include to xt_LED.h
mac80211: pid, fix memory corruption
mac80211: minstrel, fix memory corruption
cfg80211: fix comment on regulatory hint processing
...
Put generic_show_options read access to s_options under rcu_read_lock,
split save_mount_options() into "we are setting it the first time"
(uses in foo_fill_super()) and "we are relacing and freeing the old one",
synchronize_rcu() before kfree() in the latter.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
There's no kernel-only content in it anymore, so move it to header-y
and remove the superflous #ifdef __KERNEL__.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Does equivalent of up_write(&s->s_umount); deactivate_super(s);
However, it does not does not unlock it until it's all over.
As the result, it's safe to use to dispose of new superblock on ->get_sb()
failure exits - nobody will see the sucker until it's all over.
Equivalent using up_write/deactivate_super is safe for that purpose
if superblock is either safe to use or has NULL ->s_root when we unlock.
Normally filesystems take the required precautions, but
a) we do have bugs in that area in some of them.
b) up_write/deactivate_super sequence is extremely common,
so the helper makes sense anyway.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
With Al Viro's patch to move privroot lookup to fs mount, there's no need
to have special code to hide the privroot in reiserfs_lookup.
I've also cleaned up the privroot hiding in reiserfs_readdir_dentry and
removed the last user of reiserfs_xattrs().
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The xattr_root caching was broken from my previous patch set. It wouldn't
cause corruption, but could cause decreased performance due to allocating
a larger chunk of the journal (~ 27 blocks) than it would actually use.
This patch loads the xattr root dentry at xattr initialization and creates
it on-demand. Since we're using the cached dentry, there's no point
in keeping lookup_or_create_dir around, so that's removed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... even if it's a negative dentry. That way we can set ->d_op on
root before anyone could race with us. Simplify d_compare(), while
we are at it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This reverts commit 006f4571a1:
This patch moves platform_data from struct device into
struct platform_device, based on the two ideas:
1. Now all platform_driver is registered by platform_driver_register,
which makes probe()/release()/... of platform_driver passed parameter
of platform_device *, so platform driver can get platform_data from
platform_device;
2. Other kind of devices do not need to use platform_data, we can
decrease size of device if moving it to platform_device.
Taking into consideration of thousands of files to be fixed and they
can't be finished in one night(maybe it will take a long time), so we
keep platform_data in device to allow two kind of cases coexist until
all platform devices pass its platfrom data from
platform_device->platform_data.
All patches to do this kind of conversion are welcome.
As we don't really want to do it, it was a bad idea.
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Allow recording the CPU number the event was generated on.
RFC: this leaves a u32 as reserved, should we fill in the
node_id() there, or leave this open for future extention,
as userspace can already easily do the cpu->node mapping
if needed.
[ Impact: extend perfcounter output record format ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170029.008627711@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Corey noticed that ioctl()s on grouped counters didn't work on
the whole group. This extends the ioctl() interface to take a
second argument that is interpreted as a flags field. We then
provide PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP to toggle the behaviour.
Having this flag gives the greatest flexibility, allowing you
to individually enable/disable/reset counters in a group, or
all together.
[ Impact: fix group counter enable/disable semantics ]
Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170028.837558214@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (32 commits)
[CIFS] Fix double list addition in cifs posix open code
[CIFS] Allow raw ntlmssp code to be enabled with sec=ntlmssp
[CIFS] Fix SMB uid in NTLMSSP authenticate request
[CIFS] NTLMSSP reenabled after move from connect.c to sess.c
[CIFS] Remove sparse warning
[CIFS] remove checkpatch warning
[CIFS] Fix final user of old string conversion code
[CIFS] remove cifs_strfromUCS_le
[CIFS] NTLMSSP support moving into new file, old dead code removed
[CIFS] Fix endian conversion of vcnum field
[CIFS] Remove trailing whitespace
[CIFS] Remove sparse endian warnings
[CIFS] Add remaining ntlmssp flags and standardize field names
[CIFS] Fix build warning
cifs: fix length handling in cifs_get_name_from_search_buf
[CIFS] Remove unneeded QuerySymlink call and fix mapping for unmapped status
[CIFS] rename cifs_strndup to cifs_strndup_from_ucs
Added loop check when mounting DFS tree.
Enable dfs submounts to handle remote referrals.
[CIFS] Remove older session setup implementation
...
Merge reason: we moved a mutex.h commit that originated from the
perfcounters tree into core/locking - but now merge
back that branch to solve a merge artifact and to
pick up cleanups of this commit that happened in
core/locking.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Provide a way to reset an existing counter - this eases PAPI
libraries around perfcounters.
Similar to read() it doesn't collapse pending child counters.
[ Impact: new perfcounter fd ioctl method to reset counters ]
Suggested-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.022272933@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Keep data_head up-to-date irrespective of notifications. This fixes
the case where you disable a counter and don't get a notification for
the last few pending events, and it also allows polling usage.
[ Impact: increase precision of perfcounter mmap-ed fields ]
Suggested-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155436.925084300@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch fixes a problem when you use 32 nodes in the cluster
match:
% iptables -I PREROUTING -t mangle -i eth0 -m cluster \
--cluster-total-nodes 32 --cluster-local-node 32 \
--cluster-hash-seed 0xdeadbeef -j MARK --set-mark 0xffff
iptables: Invalid argument. Run `dmesg' for more information.
% dmesg | tail -1
xt_cluster: this node mask cannot be higher than the total number of nodes
The problem is related to this checking:
if (info->node_mask >= (1 << info->total_nodes)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "xt_cluster: this node mask cannot be "
"higher than the total number of nodes\n");
return false;
}
(1 << 32) is 1. Thus, the checking fails.
BTW, I said this before but I insist: I have only tested the cluster
match with 2 nodes getting ~45% extra performance in an active-active setup.
The maximum limit of 32 nodes is still completely arbitrary. I'd really
appreciate if people that have more nodes in their setups let me know.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (30 commits)
e1000: fix virtualization bug
bonding: fix alb mode locking regression
Bluetooth: Fix issue with sysfs handling for connections
usbnet: CDC EEM support (v5)
tcp: Fix tcp_prequeue() to get correct rto_min value
ehea: fix invalid pointer access
ne2k-pci: Do not register device until initialized.
Subject: [PATCH] br2684: restore net_dev initialization
net: Only store high 16 bits of kernel generated filter priorities
virtio_net: Fix function name typo
virtio_net: Cleanup command queue scatterlist usage
bonding: correct the cleanup in bond_create()
virtio: add missing include to virtio_net.h
smsc95xx: add support for LAN9512 and LAN9514
smsc95xx: configure LED outputs
netconsole: take care of NETDEV_UNREGISTER event
xt_socket: checks for the state of nf_conntrack
bonding: bond_slave_info_query() fix
cxgb3: fixing gcc 4.4 compiler warning: suggest parentheses around operand of ‘!’
netfilter: use likely() in xt_info_rdlock_bh()
...
Pointed out by Dave Miller:
CHECK include/linux/netfilter (57 files)
/home/davem/src/GIT/net-2.6/usr/include/linux/netfilter/xt_LED.h:6: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
This introduces a CDC Ethernet Emulation Model (EEM) host side
driver to support USB EEM devices.
EEM is different from the Ethernet Control Model (ECM) currently
supported by the "CDC Ethernet" driver. One key difference is
that it doesn't require of USB interface alternate settings to
manage interface state; some maldesigned hardware can't handle
that part of USB. It also avoids a separate USB interface for
control and status updates.
[ dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: fix skb leaks, add rx packet
checks, improve fault handling, EEM conformance updates, cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Omar Laazimani <omar.oberthur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
percpu scheduling for perfcounters wants to take the context lock,
but that lock first needs to be initialized. Currently it is an
early_initcall() - but that is too late, the task tick runs much
sooner than that.
Call it explicitly from the scheduler init sequence instead.
[ Impact: fix access-before-init crash ]
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6:
ide-cd: fix REQ_QUIET tests in cdrom_decode_status
Fix up trivial conflicts in include/linux/blkdev.h
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: document the multi-touch (MT) protocol
Input: add detailed multi-touch finger data report protocol
Input: allow certain EV_ABS events to bypass all filtering
Input: bcm5974 - add documentation for the driver
Input: bcm5974 - augment debug information
Input: bcm5974 - Add support for the Macbook 5 (Unibody)
Input: bcm5974 - add quad-finger tapping
Input: bcm5974 - prepare for a new trackpad header type
Input: appletouch - fix DMA to/from stack buffer
Input: wacom - fix TabletPC touch bug
Input: lifebook - add DMI entry for Fujitsu B-2130
Input: ALPS - add signature for Toshiba Satellite Pro M10
Input: elantech - make sure touchpad is really in absolute mode
Input: elantech - provide a workaround for jumpy cursor on firmware 2.34
Input: ucb1400 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
Input: tsc2007 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
Input: sa1111ps2 - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handlers
Input: omap-keypad - use disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
The Committed_AS field can underflow in certain situations:
> # while true; do cat /proc/meminfo | grep _AS; sleep 1; done | uniq -c
> 1 Committed_AS: 18446744073709323392 kB
> 11 Committed_AS: 18446744073709455488 kB
> 6 Committed_AS: 35136 kB
> 5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454400 kB
> 7 Committed_AS: 35904 kB
> 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB
> 2 Committed_AS: 34752 kB
> 9 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB
> 8 Committed_AS: 34752 kB
> 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB
> 7 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB
> 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB
> 5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB
> 6 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB
Because NR_CPUS can be greater than 1000 and meminfo_proc_show() does
not check for underflow.
But NR_CPUS proportional isn't good calculation. In general,
possibility of lock contention is proportional to the number of online
cpus, not theorical maximum cpus (NR_CPUS).
The current kernel has generic percpu-counter stuff. using it is right
way. it makes code simplify and percpu_counter_read_positive() don't
make underflow issue.
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [All kernel versions]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some drivers using of_register_platform_driver() wrapper break on sparc
because the wrapper isn't in the header file. This patch moves it from
Microblaze and PowerPC implementations and makes it common code.
Fixes this sparc64 allmodconfig build error (at least):
drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: In function `gpio_led_init':
drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c:295: error: implicit declaration of function `of_register_platform_driver'
drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: In function `gpio_led_exit':
drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c:311: error: implicit declaration of function `of_unregister_platform_driver'
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes the problem introduced by commit 3bfacef412 (get rid of
special-casing the /sbin/loader on alpha): osf/1 ecoff binary segfaults
when binfmt_aout built as module. That happens because aout binary
handler gets on the top of the binfmt list due to late registration, and
kernel attempts to execute the binary without preparatory work that must
be done by binfmt_loader.
Fixed by changing the registration order of the default binfmt handlers
using list_add_tail() and introducing insert_binfmt() function which
places new handler on the top of the binfmt list. This might be generally
useful for installing arch-specific frontends for default handlers or just
for overriding them.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
virtio_net.h uses the macro ETH_ALEN which is defined in linux/if_ether.h.
Discovered when hacking on virtio-over-pci patches.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When two (or more) contexts output to the same buffer, it is possible
to observe half written output.
Suppose we have CPU0 doing perf_counter_mmap(), CPU1 doing
perf_counter_overflow(). If CPU1 does a wakeup and exposes head to
user-space, then CPU2 can observe the data CPU0 is still writing.
[ Impact: fix occasionally corrupted profiling records ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090501102533.007821627@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is necessary to avoid the conflict of syscall numbers.
Conflicts:
arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
Fixes up the borked syscall numbers of perfcounters versus
preadv/pwritev as well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
sys_kill has the per thread counterpart sys_tgkill. sigqueueinfo is
missing a thread directed counterpart. Such an interface is important
for migrating applications from other OSes which have the per thread
delivery implemented.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Original patch (dfa4411cc3) was buggy.
This is a more proper fix which introduces blk_rq_quiet() macro
alleviating the need for dumb, too short caching variables.
Thanks to Helge Deller and Bart for debugging this.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
It's possible for character sets to require a multi-byte null
string terminator. Add a helper function that determines the size
of the null terminator at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits)
e100: do not go D3 in shutdown unless system is powering off
netfilter: revised locking for x_tables
Bluetooth: Fix connection establishment with low security requirement
Bluetooth: Add different pairing timeout for Legacy Pairing
Bluetooth: Ensure that HCI sysfs add/del is preempt safe
net: Avoid extra wakeups of threads blocked in wait_for_packet()
net: Fix typo in net_device_ops description.
ipv4: Limit size of route cache hash table
Add reference to CAPI 2.0 standard
Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI
update Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
ixgbe: Fix WoL functionality for 82599 KX4 devices
veth: prevent oops caused by netdev destructor
xfrm: wrong hash value for temporary SA
forcedeth: tx timeout fix
net: Fix LL_MAX_HEADER for CONFIG_TR_MODULE
mlx4_en: Handle page allocation failure during receive
mlx4_en: Fix cleanup flow on cq activation
vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down
netfilter: xt_recent: fix stack overread in compat code
...
Much like the atomic_dec_and_lock() function in which we take an hold a
spin_lock if we drop the atomic to 0 this function takes and holds the
mutex if we dec the atomic to 0.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090323172417.410913479@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch renames struct hw_perf_counter_ops into struct pmu. It
introduces a structure to describe a cpu specific pmu (performance
monitoring unit). It may contain ops and data. The new name of the
structure fits better, is shorter, and thus better to handle. Where it
was appropriate, names of function and variable have been changed too.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1241002046-8832-7-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The x_tables are organized with a table structure and a per-cpu copies
of the counters and rules. On older kernels there was a reader/writer
lock per table which was a performance bottleneck. In 2.6.30-rc, this
was converted to use RCU and the counters/rules which solved the performance
problems for do_table but made replacing rules much slower because of
the necessary RCU grace period.
This version uses a per-cpu set of spinlocks and counters to allow to
table processing to proceed without the cache thrashing of a global
reader lock and keeps the same performance for table updates.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
