Merge branch 'linux-2.6'

3 files changed, 59 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index b170aa1d43bd..ebe04f56d834 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -80,16 +80,20 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
 	default y
 	help
 	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
-	  release tree by looking for git tags that
-	  belong to the current top of tree revision.
+	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
+	  top of tree revision.
 
 	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
-	  if a git based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
+	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
 	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
-	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
+	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
 
-	  Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
-	  the git or cogito tools to be installed.
+	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
+	  by running the command:
+
+	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
+
+	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
 
 config SWAP
 	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
@@ -352,7 +356,7 @@ menuconfig EMBEDDED
 
 config UID16
 	bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
-	depends on ARM || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
+	depends on ARM || BFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
 	default y
 	help
 	  This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
@@ -474,15 +478,6 @@ config SHMEM
 	  option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
 	  which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
 
-config SLAB
-	default y
-	bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if (EMBEDDED && !SMP && !SPARSEMEM)
-	help
-	  Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
-	  kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
-	  SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
-	  more susceptible to fragmentation.
-
 config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
 	default y
 	bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
@@ -492,6 +487,46 @@ config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
 	  on EMBEDDED systems.  /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
 	  if VM event counters are disabled.
 
+choice
+	prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
+	default SLAB
+	help
+	   This option allows to select a slab allocator.
+
+config SLAB
+	bool "SLAB"
+	help
+	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
+	  well in all environments. It organizes chache hot objects in
+	  per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
+	  slab allocator.
+
+config SLUB
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT
+	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
+	help
+	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
+	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
+	   Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
+	   of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
+	   way and has enhanced diagnostics.
+
+config SLOB
+#
+#	SLOB cannot support SMP because SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does not work
+#	properly.
+#
+	depends on EMBEDDED && !SMP && !SPARSEMEM
+	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
+	help
+	   SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
+	   allocator.  SLOB is more space efficient that SLAB but does not
+	   scale well (single lock for all operations) and is more susceptible
+	   to fragmentation. SLOB it is a great choice to reduce
+	   memory usage and code size for embedded systems.
+
+endchoice
+
 endmenu		# General setup
 
 config RT_MUTEXES
@@ -507,10 +542,6 @@ config BASE_SMALL
 	default 0 if BASE_FULL
 	default 1 if !BASE_FULL
 
-config SLOB
-	default !SLAB
-	bool
-
 menu "Loadable module support"
 
 config MODULES
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
index 2cfd7cb36e79..b222ce9e1c8b 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c
@@ -55,11 +55,12 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void)
 	sys_mount(".", "/", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
 	sys_chroot(".");
 
-	current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
 	pid = kernel_thread(do_linuxrc, "/linuxrc", SIGCHLD);
 	if (pid > 0) {
-		while (pid != sys_wait4(-1, NULL, 0, NULL))
+		while (pid != sys_wait4(-1, NULL, 0, NULL)) {
+			try_to_freeze();
 			yield();
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* move initrd to rootfs' /old */
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index a92989e7836a..0e22f40487bb 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
 #warning gcc-4.1.0 is known to miscompile the kernel.  A different compiler version is recommended.
 #endif
 
-static int init(void *);
+static int kernel_init(void *);
 
 extern void init_IRQ(void);
 extern void fork_init(unsigned long);
@@ -369,12 +369,8 @@ static void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
 	unsigned long nr_possible_cpus = num_possible_cpus();
 
 	/* Copy section for each CPU (we discard the original) */
-	size = ALIGN(__per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
-#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
-	if (size < PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM)
-		size = PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM;
-#endif
-	ptr = alloc_bootmem(size * nr_possible_cpus);
+	size = ALIGN(PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM, PAGE_SIZE);
+	ptr = alloc_bootmem_pages(size * nr_possible_cpus);
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
 		__per_cpu_offset[i] = ptr - __per_cpu_start;
@@ -388,11 +384,6 @@ static void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
 static void __init smp_init(void)
 {
 	unsigned int cpu;
-	unsigned highest = 0;
-
-	for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, cpu_possible_map)
-		highest = cpu;
-	nr_cpu_ids = highest + 1;
 
 	/* FIXME: This should be done in userspace --RR */
 	for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
@@ -435,7 +426,7 @@ static void __init setup_command_line(char *command_line)
 static void noinline rest_init(void)
 	__releases(kernel_lock)
 {
-	kernel_thread(init, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_SIGHAND);
+	kernel_thread(kernel_init, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_SIGHAND);
 	numa_default_policy();
 	unlock_kernel();
 
@@ -772,7 +763,7 @@ static int noinline init_post(void)
 	panic("No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.");
 }
 
-static int __init init(void * unused)
+static int __init kernel_init(void * unused)
 {
 	lock_kernel();
 	/*