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Description: Use schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Also use helper functions to convert between human time units and jiffies rather than constant HZ division to avoid rounding errors. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> --- fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 7 ++----- fs/cifs/connect.c

Hi. I'm trying to use CentOS4.2 for some audio work (ie. sound editing, etc.). I found a site called PlanetCCRMA (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/) and decided that I would give some of their applications a try (hoping that it would not affect my system greatly!). At first I tried the Fedora 3 packages (and they do work), but what I really wanted to do is to download the

The following 6 patches cleanup the jbd code and kill about 200 lines. First of 4 patches can apply to 2.6.13-git8 and 2.6.13-mm2. The rest of them can apply to 2.6.13-mm2. fs/jbd/checkpoint.c | 179 +++++++++++-------------------------------- fs/jbd/commit.c | 101 ++++++++++-------------- fs/jbd/journal.c | 11 +- fs/jbd/revoke.c | 158

Introduce a write acessor for updating the current LDT. This is required for hypervisors like Xen that do not allow LDT pages to be directly written. Testing - here's a fun little LDT test that can be trivially modified to test limits as well. /* * Copyright (c) 2005, Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) * This is licensed under the GPL. */ #include <stdio.h> #include <signal.h>

Introduce a write acessor for updating the current LDT. This is required for hypervisors like Xen that do not allow LDT pages to be directly written. Testing - here's a fun little LDT test that can be trivially modified to test limits as well. /* * Copyright (c) 2005, Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) * This is licensed under the GPL. */ #include <stdio.h> #include <signal.h>

Add some convenient descriptor access functions and move them all into desc.h Patch-base: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Patch-keys: i386 desc cleanup Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2005-08-09 19:43:38.000000000 -0700 +++

Add some convenient descriptor access functions and move them all into desc.h Patch-base: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Patch-keys: i386 desc cleanup Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2005-08-09 19:43:38.000000000 -0700 +++

Hooks are provided for the mach-XXX subarchitecture at the time prior to a page being used as a page table at all levels, for PAE and non-PAE kernels. Note that in PAE mode, multiple PDP roots may exist on the same page with other data, so the root must be shadowed instead. This is not a performance issue, since PAE only uses 4 top level PDPEs. The hooks are: SetPagePTE(ppn) - indicates that a

Hooks are provided for the mach-XXX subarchitecture at the time prior to a page being used as a page table at all levels, for PAE and non-PAE kernels. Note that in PAE mode, multiple PDP roots may exist on the same page with other data, so the root must be shadowed instead. This is not a performance issue, since PAE only uses 4 top level PDPEs. The hooks are: SetPagePTE(ppn) - indicates that a

Add some convenient segment macros to the kernel. This makes the rather obfuscated 'seg & 4' go away. Patch-keys: i386 segment cleanup Patch-base: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/segment.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/segment.h

Add some convenient segment macros to the kernel. This makes the rather obfuscated 'seg & 4' go away. Patch-keys: i386 segment cleanup Patch-base: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/segment.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/segment.h

Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt. Callee must already have the CPU. Patch-base: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Patch-keys: i386 desc xen Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2005-08-09 20:17:21.000000000 -0700 +++

Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt. Callee must already have the CPU. Patch-base: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Patch-keys: i386 desc xen Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h 2005-08-09 20:17:21.000000000 -0700 +++

The per-CPU initialization code is copying in bogus data into thread->tls_array. Note that it copies &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu), not &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN). That is totally broken and unnecessary. Make the initialization explicitly NULL. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/processor.h

The per-CPU initialization code is copying in bogus data into thread->tls_array. Note that it copies &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu), not &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN). That is totally broken and unnecessary. Make the initialization explicitly NULL. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/processor.h

Create a configurable hole in the linear address space at the top of memory. A more advanced interface is needed to negotiate how much space the hypervisor is allowed to steal, but in the end, it seems most likely that a fixed constant size will be chosen for the compiled kernel, potentially propagated to an information page used by paravirtual initialization to determine interface compatibility.

Create a configurable hole in the linear address space at the top of memory. A more advanced interface is needed to negotiate how much space the hypervisor is allowed to steal, but in the end, it seems most likely that a fixed constant size will be chosen for the compiled kernel, potentially propagated to an information page used by paravirtual initialization to determine interface compatibility.

Add Xen accessors for LDT updates. Todo: Bring back return values from write_ldt_entry. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c 2005-08-08 21:13:56.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c 2005-08-08

Add Xen accessors for LDT updates. Todo: Bring back return values from write_ldt_entry. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Index: linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c 2005-08-08 21:13:56.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c 2005-08-08

* zach@vmware.com (zach@vmware.com) wrote: > Make the LDT a desc_struct pointer, since this is what it actually is. I like that plan. > There is code which relies on the fact that LDTs are allocated in page > chunks, and it is both cleaner and more convenient to keep the rather > poorly named "size" variable from the LDT in terms of LDT pages. I noticed it's replaced