1. 04 Oct, 2011 1 commit
  2. 03 Aug, 2011 1 commit
    • Huang Ying's avatar
      lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list · f49f23ab
      Huang Ying authored
      
      Cmpxchg is used to implement adding new entry to the list, deleting
      all entries from the list, deleting first entry of the list and some
      other operations.
      
      Because this is a single list, so the tail can not be accessed in O(1).
      
      If there are multiple producers and multiple consumers, llist_add can
      be used in producers and llist_del_all can be used in consumers.  They
      can work simultaneously without lock.  But llist_del_first can not be
      used here.  Because llist_del_first depends on list->first->next does
      not changed if list->first is not changed during its operation, but
      llist_del_first, llist_add, llist_add (or llist_del_all, llist_add,
      llist_add) sequence in another consumer may violate that.
      
      If there are multiple producers and one consumer, llist_add can be
      used in producers and llist_del_all or llist_del_first can be used in
      the consumer.
      
      This can be summarized as follow:
      
                 |   add    | del_first |  del_all
       add       |    -     |     -     |     -
       del_first |          |     L     |     L
       del_all   |          |           |     -
      
      Where "-" stands for no lock is needed, while "L" stands for lock is
      needed.
      
      The list entries deleted via llist_del_all can be traversed with
      traversing function such as llist_for_each etc.  But the list entries
      can not be traversed safely before deleted from the list.  The order
      of deleted entries is from the newest to the oldest added one.  If you
      want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you must reverse the
      order by yourself before traversing.
      
      The basic atomic operation of this list is cmpxchg on long.  On
      architectures that don't have NMI-safe cmpxchg implementation, the
      list can NOT be used in NMI handler.  So code uses the list in NMI
      handler should depend on CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
      f49f23ab
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    • Ivan Djelic's avatar
      lib: add shared BCH ECC library · 437aa565
      Ivan Djelic authored
      This is a new software BCH encoding/decoding library, similar to the shared
      Reed-Solomon library.
      
      Binary BCH (Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem) codes are widely used to correct
      errors in NAND flash devices requiring more than 1-bit ecc correction; they
      are generally better suited for NAND flash than RS codes because NAND bit
      errors do not occur in bursts. Latest SLC NAND devices typically require at
      least 4-bit ecc protection per 512 bytes block.
      
      This library provides software encoding/decoding, but may also be used with
      ASIC/SoC hardware BCH engines to perform error correction. It is being
      currently used for this purpose on an OMAP3630 board (4bit/8bit HW BCH). It
      has also been used to decode raw dumps of NAND devices with on-die BCH ecc
      engines (e.g. Micron 4bit ecc SLC devices).
      
      Latest NAND devices (including SLC) can exhibit high error rates (typically
      a dozen or more bitflips per hour during stress tests); in order to
      minimize the performance impact of error correction, t...
      437aa565
  7. 04 Mar, 2011 1 commit
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    • Lasse Collin's avatar
      decompressors: add boot-time XZ support · 3ebe1243
      Lasse Collin authored
      
      This implements the API defined in <linux/decompress/generic.h> which is
      used for kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression.  This patch together
      with the first patch is enough for XZ-compressed initramfs and initrd;
      XZ-compressed kernel will need arch-specific changes.
      
      The buffering requirements described in decompress_unxz.c are stricter
      than with gzip, so the relevant changes should be done to the
      arch-specific code when adding support for XZ-compressed kernel.
      Similarly, the heap size in arch-specific pre-boot code may need to be
      increased (30 KiB is enough).
      
      The XZ decompressor needs memmove(), memeq() (memcmp() == 0), and
      memzero() (memset(ptr, 0, size)), which aren't available in all
      arch-specific pre-boot environments.  I'm including simple versions in
      decompress_unxz.c, but a cleaner solution would naturally be nicer.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
      Cc: Albin T...
      3ebe1243
    • Lasse Collin's avatar
      decompressors: add XZ decompressor module · 24fa0402
      Lasse Collin authored
      In userspace, the .lzma format has become mostly a legacy file format that
      got superseded by the .xz format.  Similarly, LZMA Utils was superseded by
      XZ Utils.
      
      These patches add support for XZ decompression into the kernel.  Most of
      the code is as is from XZ Embedded <http://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html>.
      It was written for the Linux kernel but is usable in other projects too.
      
      Advantages of XZ over the current LZMA code in the kernel:
        - Nice API that can be used by other kernel modules; it's
          not limited to kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression.
        - Integrity check support (CRC32)
        - BCJ filters improve compression of executable code on
          certain architectures. These together with LZMA2 can
          produce a few percent smaller kernel or Squashfs images
          than plain LZMA without making the decompression slower.
      
      This patch: Add the main decompression code (xz_dec), testing module
      (xz_dec_test), wrapper script (xz_wrap.sh) for the xz command line tool...
      24fa0402
  10. 18 Nov, 2010 1 commit
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Revert "lib: build list_sort() only if needed" · b8fa0571
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This reverts commit a069c266
      
      .
      
      It turns ou that not only was it missing a case (XFS) that needed it,
      but perhaps more importantly, people sometimes want to enable new
      modules that they hadn't had enabled before, and if such a module uses
      list_sort(), it can't easily be inserted any more.
      
      So rather than add a "select LIST_SORT" to the XFS case, just leave it
      compiled in.  It's not all _that_ big, after all, and the inconvenience
      isn't worth it.
      Requested-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b8fa0571
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    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      lib: Provide generic atomic64_t implementation · 09d4e0ed
      Paul Mackerras authored
      
      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: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      09d4e0ed
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    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      sched: make plist a library facility · ceacc2c1
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      
      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: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ceacc2c1
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    • Alexander van Heukelum's avatar
      x86, bitops: select the generic bitmap search functions · 19870def
      Alexander van Heukelum authored
      
      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: default avatarAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      19870def
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    • Heiko Carstens's avatar
      Introduce CONFIG_HAS_DMA · 411f0f3e
      Heiko Carstens authored
      
      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: default avatarHeiko 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      411f0f3e