Al Viro [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:06:35 +0000 (01:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] m68k: Moved initialisation of conswitchp from subarches to global arch setup
Signed-off-by: Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:06:23 +0000 (01:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] m68k: compile fixes for dmasound (static vs. extern)
sound/oss/dmasound/dmasound_atari.c has static expand_bal
sound/oss/dmasound/dmasound_q40.c has static expand_bal
sound/oss/dmasound/dmasound_awacs.c has non-static expand_bal
sound/oss/dmasound/trans_16.c uses expand_bal from dmasound_awacs.c
all 4 include dmasound.h; extern for expand_bal used to be there,
which is a bloody bad idea, considering _atari and _q40. Moved the
extern to trans_16.c.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Avoid warnings about use of cast expressions as lvalues
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:06:19 +0000 (01:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] m68k: broken constraints on mulu.l
Too permissive constraint on mulu.l - the first argument should not be
an a-register. Fixed by replacing "g" with "dm"; with older gcc we got
lucky and it had never attempted mulu.l %a0, %d1:%d0. These days it
does, with predictable objections from as(1).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:06:14 +0000 (01:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] m68k: oktagon makefile fix
oktagon_esp is described as modular. However, drivers/scsi/Makefile doesn't
handle it right - it's multi-object module, with one of the parts being built
from .S. Current makefile tries to declare each part a module of its own;
that not only wouldn't work (oktagon_io.o doesn't have the right parts for
that), it actually doesn't even build since kbuild doesn't believe in
single-object modules built from .S. Turned into proper multi-object
module...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
in amigahw.h custom renamed to amiga_custom, in drivers with few instances the
same replacement, in the rest - #define custom amiga_custom in driver itself
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:06:10 +0000 (01:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] m68k: compile fix - hardirq checks were in wrong place
move the sanity check for NR_IRQS being no more than 1<<HARDIRQ_BITS from
asm-m68k/hardirq.h to asm-m68k/irq.h; needed since NR_IRQS is not necessary
know at the points of inclusion of asm/hardirq.h due to the rather ugly header
dependencies on m68k. Fix is by far simpler than trying to massage those
dependencies...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:06:05 +0000 (01:06 -0800)]
[PATCH] ia64: task_thread_info()
on ia64 thread_info is at the constant offset from task_struct and stack
is embedded into the same beast. Set __HAVE_THREAD_FUNCTIONS, made
task_thread_info() just add a constant.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:05:34 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] missing helper - task_stack_page()
Patchset annotates arch/* uses of ->thread_info. Ones that really are about
access of thread_info of given process are simply switched to
task_thread_info(task); ones that deal with access to objects on stack are
switched to new helper - task_stack_page(). A _lot_ of the latter are
actually open-coded instances of "find where pt_regs are"; those are
consolidated into task_pt_regs(task) (many architectures actually have such
helper already).
Note that these annotations are not mandatory - any code not converted to
these helpers still works. However, they clean up a lot of places and have
actually caught a number of bugs, so converting out of tree ports would be a
good idea...
As an example of breakage caught by that stuff, see i386 pt_regs mess - we
used to have it open-coded in a bunch of places and when back in April Stas
had fixed a bug in copy_thread(), the rest had been left out of sync. That
required two followup patches (the latest - just before 2.6.15) _and_ still
had left /proc/*/stat eip field broken. Try ps -eo eip on i386 and watch the
junk...
This patch:
new helper - task_stack_page(task). Returns pointer to the memory object
containing task stack; usually thread_info of task sits in the beginning
of that object.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
akpm@osdl.org [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:05:32 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups
\r)
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Track the last waker CPU, and only consider wakeup-balancing if there's a
match between current waker CPU and the previous waker CPU. This ensures
that there is some correlation between two subsequent wakeup events before
we move the task. Should help random-wakeup workloads on large SMP
systems, by reducing the migration attempts by a factor of nr_cpus.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
akpm@osdl.org [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:05:30 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] scheduler cache-hot-autodetect
\r)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch.
The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is
unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this:
- I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache
measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means
that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT
distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks
the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows
whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot
time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption
is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain
distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems,
and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems.
[ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this
assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with
the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to
the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first
see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ]
Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring
the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable
up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with
L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often
have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem:
- Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and
sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration
cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of
cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which
occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the
'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for
the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs.
This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two
CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost
will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share
any caches.
(The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source
for details.)
Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune
migration behavior.
Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection:
migration_cost=1000,2000,3000
will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values.
Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or
decrease) the autodetected values:
migration_factor=120
will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to
tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is
cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying
migration_factor=0.
I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3
P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good:
Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT
siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory
system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs.
Tejun Heo [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:39:26 +0000 (15:39 +0100)]
[PATCH] fix queue stalling while barrier sequencing
If ordered tag isn't supported, request ordering for barrier
sequencing is performed by queue draining, which basically hangs the
request queue until elv_completed_request() reports completion of all
previous fs requests.
The condition check in elv_completed_request() was only performed for
fs requests. If a special request is queued between the last
to-be-drained request and the barrier sequence, draining is never
completed and the queue is stalled forever.
This patch moves the end-of-draining condition check such that it's
performed for all requests.
o This patch fixes the problem of secondary cpus boot up. This situation
is faced when kernel is built for default locations like 16MB and
onwards. In this configuration, only primary cpu (BP) comes and
secondary cpus don't boot.
o Problem occurs because in trampoline code, lgdt is not able to load the
GDT as it happens to be situated beyond 16MB. This is due to the fact
that cpu is still in real mode and default operand size is 16bit.
o This patch uses lgdtl instead of lgdt to force operand size to 32
instead of 16.