Greg Ungerer [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:19:33 +0000 (13:19 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: FEC driver event/irq fixes
Collection of fixes for the ColdFire FEC ethernet driver:
. reworked event setting so that it occurs after the MII setup.
roucaries bastien <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
. Do not read cbd_sc in memory for each bit we test. Once per buffer is enough.
. Overrun errors must increase `rx_fifo_errors', not `rx_crc_errors'
. No need for a special value to activate rx or tx. Only write access matters.
. Simplify parameter of eth_copy_and_sum : `data' has already the right value.
. Some spelling fixes.
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Willson Callan [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:13:44 +0000 (13:13 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: FEC driver set different priority/level on each IRQ
Set different irq priority levels for each IRQ requested.
According to the Freescale ColdFire documentation each separate IRQ
must have its own unique priority/level combination.
Here is a small patch that made my kernel .text segment shrink by 8k IIRC
on my 5272-based board, by removing `-Wa,-S' from CFLAGS.
The `-Wa,-S' option prevents `gas' from using short forms of jsr.
Without it, `gas' replaces `jsr xxx.l' (6 bytes) by `jsr xxx@pc'
(4 bytes) when possible. On 5272, both forms are equally fast.
The `-Wa,-m5307' option is useless, because gcc already gives it
to `gas' from the `-m5307' option.
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (26 commits)
V4L/DVB (4263): Fix warning when compiling on 64 bit machines
V4L/DVB (4261): Included required header for in-kernel compilation
V4L/DVB (4260): Stradis.c: make 2 functions static
V4L/DVB (4259): Pass an explicit log prefix to cx2341x_log_status
V4L/DVB (4257): Fix 64-bit compile warnings.
V4L/DVB (4255): Tda9887 default TOP value is 0x10
V4L/DVB (4254): Remove obsoleted tuner_debug option.
V4L/DVB (4253): IVTV VBI format description too long.
V4L/DVB (4252): Remove duplicate 'tda9887' in info messages.
V4L/DVB (4245): Reduce the amount of pvrusb2-sourced noise going into the system log
V4L/DVB (4244): Implement use of cx2341x module in pvrusb2 driver
V4L/DVB (4243): Exploit new V4L control features in pvrusb2
V4L/DVB (4242): Don't suspend encoder when changing its attributes (in pvrusb2)
V4L/DVB (4241): Fix faulty encoder error recovery in pvrusb2
V4L/DVB (4240): Various V4L control enhancements in pvrusb2
V4L/DVB (4239): Handle boolean controls in pvrusb2
V4L/DVB (4238): Make sure flags field is initialized when quering a control in pvrusb2
V4L/DVB (4237): Move LOG_STATUS bracketing to a different part of the pvrusb2 driver
V4L/DVB (4236): Rearrange things in pvrusb2 driver in preparation for using cx2341x module
V4L/DVB (4235): Increase the maximum number of controls that pvrusb2-sysfs.c can handle.
...
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:55:02 +0000 (02:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] rtmutex: Propagate priority settings into PI lock chains
When the priority of a task, which is blocked on a lock, changes we must
propagate this change into the PI lock chain. Therefor the chain walk code
is changed to get rid of the references to current to avoid false positives
in the deadlock detector, as setscheduler might be called by a task which
holds the lock on which the task whose priority is changed is blocked.
Also add some comments about the get/put_task_struct usage to avoid
confusion.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:55:01 +0000 (02:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] rtmutex: Modify rtmutex-tester to test the setscheduler propagation
Make test suite setscheduler calls asynchronously. Remove the waits in the
test cases and add a new testcase to verify the correctness of the
setscheduler priority propagation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:55:00 +0000 (02:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] Drop tasklist lock in do_sched_setscheduler
There is no need to hold tasklist_lock across the setscheduler call, when
we pin the task structure with get_task_struct(). Interrupts are disabled
in setscheduler anyway and the permission checks do not need interrupts
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:57 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex futex api
Add proxy-locking rt-mutex functionality needed by pi-futexes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:56 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex tester
RT-mutex tester: scriptable tester for rt mutexes, which allows userspace
scripting of mutex unit-tests (and dynamic tests as well), using the actual
rt-mutex implementation of the kernel.
[akpm@osdl.org: fixlet] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:55 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex debug
Runtime debugging functionality for rt-mutexes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Steven Rostedt [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:54 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex docs
Add rt-mutex documentation.
[rostedt@goodmis.org: Update rt-mutex-design.txt as per Randy Dunlap suggestions] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:53 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex core
Core functions for the rt-mutex subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:51 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] pi-futex: scheduler support for pi
Add framework to boost/unboost the priority of RT tasks.
This consists of:
- caching the 'normal' priority in ->normal_prio
- providing a functions to set/get the priority of the task
- make sched_setscheduler() aware of boosting
The effective_prio() cleanups also fix a priority-calculation bug pointed out
by Andrey Gelman, in set_user_nice().
has_rt_policy() fix: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrey Gelman <agelman@012.net.il> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:51 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] pi-futex: add plist implementation
Add the priority-sorted list (plist) implementation.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add debug_check_no_locks_freed(), as a central inline to add
bad-lock-free-debugging functionality to.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:47 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] pi-futex: futex code cleanups
We are pleased to announce "lightweight userspace priority inheritance" (PI)
support for futexes. The following patchset and glibc patch implements it,
ontop of the robust-futexes patchset which is included in 2.6.16-mm1.
We are calling it lightweight for 3 reasons:
- in the user-space fastpath a PI-enabled futex involves no kernel work
(or any other PI complexity) at all. No registration, no extra kernel
calls - just pure fast atomic ops in userspace.
- in the slowpath (in the lock-contention case), the system call and
scheduling pattern is in fact better than that of normal futexes, due to
the 'integrated' nature of FUTEX_LOCK_PI. [more about that further down]
- the in-kernel PI implementation is streamlined around the mutex
abstraction, with strict rules that keep the implementation relatively
simple: only a single owner may own a lock (i.e. no read-write lock
support), only the owner may unlock a lock, no recursive locking, etc.
Many of you heard the horror stories about the evil PI code circling Linux for
years, which makes no real sense at all and is only used by buggy applications
and which has horrible overhead. Some of you have dreaded this very moment,
when someone actually submits working PI code ;-)
So why would we like to see PI support for futexes?
We'd like to see it done purely for technological reasons. We dont think it's
a buggy concept, we think it's useful functionality to offer to applications,
which functionality cannot be achieved in other ways. We also think it's the
right thing to do, and we think we've got the right arguments and the right
numbers to prove that. We also believe that we can address all the
counter-arguments as well. For these reasons (and the reasons outlined below)
we are submitting this patch-set for upstream kernel inclusion.
What are the benefits of PI?
The short reply:
----------------
User-space PI helps achieving/improving determinism for user-space
applications. In the best-case, it can help achieve determinism and
well-bound latencies. Even in the worst-case, PI will improve the statistical
distribution of locking related application delays.
The longer reply:
-----------------
Firstly, sharing locks between multiple tasks is a common programming
technique that often cannot be replaced with lockless algorithms. As we can
see it in the kernel [which is a quite complex program in itself], lockless
structures are rather the exception than the norm - the current ratio of
lockless vs. locky code for shared data structures is somewhere between 1:10
and 1:100. Lockless is hard, and the complexity of lockless algorithms often
endangers to ability to do robust reviews of said code. I.e. critical RT
apps often choose lock structures to protect critical data structures, instead
of lockless algorithms. Furthermore, there are cases (like shared hardware,
or other resource limits) where lockless access is mathematically impossible.
Media players (such as Jack) are an example of reasonable application design
with multiple tasks (with multiple priority levels) sharing short-held locks:
for example, a highprio audio playback thread is combined with medium-prio
construct-audio-data threads and low-prio display-colory-stuff threads. Add
video and decoding to the mix and we've got even more priority levels.
So once we accept that synchronization objects (locks) are an unavoidable fact
of life, and once we accept that multi-task userspace apps have a very fair
expectation of being able to use locks, we've got to think about how to offer
the option of a deterministic locking implementation to user-space.
Most of the technical counter-arguments against doing priority inheritance
only apply to kernel-space locks. But user-space locks are different, there
we cannot disable interrupts or make the task non-preemptible in a critical
section, so the 'use spinlocks' argument does not apply (user-space spinlocks
have the same priority inversion problems as other user-space locking
constructs). Fact is, pretty much the only technique that currently enables
good determinism for userspace locks (such as futex-based pthread mutexes) is
priority inheritance:
Currently (without PI), if a high-prio and a low-prio task shares a lock [this
is a quite common scenario for most non-trivial RT applications], even if all
critical sections are coded carefully to be deterministic (i.e. all critical
sections are short in duration and only execute a limited number of
instructions), the kernel cannot guarantee any deterministic execution of the
high-prio task: any medium-priority task could preempt the low-prio task while
it holds the shared lock and executes the critical section, and could delay it
indefinitely.
Implementation:
---------------
As mentioned before, the userspace fastpath of PI-enabled pthread mutexes
involves no kernel work at all - they behave quite similarly to normal
futex-based locks: a 0 value means unlocked, and a value==TID means locked.
(This is the same method as used by list-based robust futexes.) Userspace uses
atomic ops to lock/unlock these mutexes without entering the kernel.
To handle the slowpath, we have added two new futex ops:
FUTEX_LOCK_PI
FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI
If the lock-acquire fastpath fails, [i.e. an atomic transition from 0 to TID
fails], then FUTEX_LOCK_PI is called. The kernel does all the remaining work:
if there is no futex-queue attached to the futex address yet then the code
looks up the task that owns the futex [it has put its own TID into the futex
value], and attaches a 'PI state' structure to the futex-queue. The pi_state
includes an rt-mutex, which is a PI-aware, kernel-based synchronization
object. The 'other' task is made the owner of the rt-mutex, and the
FUTEX_WAITERS bit is atomically set in the futex value. Then this task tries
to lock the rt-mutex, on which it blocks. Once it returns, it has the mutex
acquired, and it sets the futex value to its own TID and returns. Userspace
has no other work to perform - it now owns the lock, and futex value contains
FUTEX_WAITERS|TID.
If the unlock side fastpath succeeds, [i.e. userspace manages to do a TID ->
0 atomic transition of the futex value], then no kernel work is triggered.
If the unlock fastpath fails (because the FUTEX_WAITERS bit is set), then
FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI is called, and the kernel unlocks the futex on the behalf of
userspace - and it also unlocks the attached pi_state->rt_mutex and thus wakes
up any potential waiters.
Note that under this approach, contrary to other PI-futex approaches, there is
no prior 'registration' of a PI-futex. [which is not quite possible anyway,
due to existing ABI properties of pthread mutexes.]
Also, under this scheme, 'robustness' and 'PI' are two orthogonal properties
of futexes, and all four combinations are possible: futex, robust-futex,
PI-futex, robust+PI-futex.
glibc support:
--------------
Ulrich Drepper and Jakub Jelinek have written glibc support for PI-futexes
(and robust futexes), enabling robust and PI (PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT) POSIX
mutexes. (PTHREAD_PRIO_PROTECT support will be added later on too, no
additional kernel changes are needed for that). [NOTE: The glibc patch is
obviously inofficial and unsupported without matching upstream kernel
functionality.]
the patch-queue and the glibc patch can also be downloaded from:
http://redhat.com/~mingo/PI-futex-patches/
Many thanks go to the people who helped us create this kernel feature: Steven
Rostedt, Esben Nielsen, Benedikt Spranger, Daniel Walker, John Cooper, Arjan
van de Ven, Oleg Nesterov and others. Credits for related prior projects goes
to Dirk Grambow, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez, Bill Huey and many others.
Clean up the futex code, before adding more features to it:
- use u32 as the futex field type - that's the ABI
- use __user and pointers to u32 instead of unsigned long
- code style / comment style cleanups
- rename hash-bucket name from 'bh' to 'hb'.
I checked the pre and post futex.o object files to make sure this
patch has no code effects.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Steven Rostedt [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:44 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] BUG() if setscheduler is called from interrupt context
Thomas Gleixner is adding the call to a rtmutex function in setscheduler.
This call grabs a spin_lock that is not always protected by interrupts
disabled. So this means that setscheduler cant be called from interrupt
context.
To prevent this from happening in the future, this patch adds a
BUG_ON(in_interrupt()) in that function. (Thanks to akpm <aka. Andrew
Morton> for this suggestion).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Siddha, Suresh B [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:42 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] sched: mc/smt power savings sched policy
sysfs entries 'sched_mc_power_savings' and 'sched_smt_power_savings' in
/sys/devices/system/cpu/ control the MC/SMT power savings policy for the
scheduler.
Based on the values (1-enable, 0-disable) for these controls, sched groups
cpu power will be determined for different domains. When power savings
policy is enabled and under light load conditions, scheduler will minimize
the physical packages/cpu cores carrying the load and thus conserving
power(with a perf impact based on the workload characteristics... see OLS
2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details..)
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Try to handle mem allocation failures in build_sched_domains by bailing out
and cleaning up thus-far allocated memory. The patch has a direct consequence
that we disable load balancing completely (even at sibling level) upon *any*
memory allocation failure.
To help distribute high priority tasks evenly across the available CPUs
move_tasks() does not, under some circumstances, skip tasks whose load
weight is bigger than the designated amount. Because the highest priority
task on the busiest queue may be on the expired array it may be moved as a
result of this mechanism. Apart from not being the most desirable way to
redistribute the high priority tasks (we'd rather move the second highest
priority task), there is a risk that this could set up a loop with this
task bouncing backwards and forwards between the two queues. (This latter
possibility can be demonstrated by running a nice==-20 CPU bound task on an
otherwise quiet 2 CPU system.)
Solution:
Modify the mechanism so that it does not override skip for the highest
priority task on the CPU. Of course, if there are more than one tasks at
the highest priority then it will allow the override for one of them as
this is a desirable redistribution of high priority tasks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Peter Williams [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:36 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] sched: modify move_tasks() to improve load balancing outcomes
Problem:
The move_tasks() function is designed to move UP TO the amount of load it
is asked to move and in doing this it skips over tasks looking for ones
whose load weights are less than or equal to the remaining load to be
moved. This is (in general) a good thing but it has the unfortunate result
of breaking one of the original load balancer's good points: namely, that
(within the limits imposed by the active/expired array model and the fact
the expired is processed first) it moves high priority tasks before low
priority ones and this means there's a good chance (see active/expired
problem for why it's only a chance) that the highest priority task on the
queue but not actually on the CPU will be moved to the other CPU where (as
a high priority task) it may preempt the current task.
Solution:
Modify move_tasks() so that high priority tasks are not skipped when moving
them will make them the highest priority task on their new run queue.
Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Peter Williams [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:34 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] sched: implement smpnice
Problem:
The introduction of separate run queues per CPU has brought with it "nice"
enforcement problems that are best described by a simple example.
For the sake of argument suppose that on a single CPU machine with a
nice==19 hard spinner and a nice==0 hard spinner running that the nice==0
task gets 95% of the CPU and the nice==19 task gets 5% of the CPU. Now
suppose that there is a system with 2 CPUs and 2 nice==19 hard spinners and
2 nice==0 hard spinners running. The user of this system would be entitled
to expect that the nice==0 tasks each get 95% of a CPU and the nice==19
tasks only get 5% each. However, whether this expectation is met is pretty
much down to luck as there are four equally likely distributions of the
tasks to the CPUs that the load balancing code will consider to be balanced
with loads of 2.0 for each CPU. Two of these distributions involve one
nice==0 and one nice==19 task per CPU and in these circumstances the users
expectations will be met. The other two distributions both involve both
nice==0 tasks being on one CPU and both nice==19 being on the other CPU and
each task will get 50% of a CPU and the user's expectations will not be
met.
Solution:
The solution to this problem that is implemented in the attached patch is
to use weighted loads when determining if the system is balanced and, when
an imbalance is detected, to move an amount of weighted load between run
queues (as opposed to a number of tasks) to restore the balance. Once
again, the easiest way to explain why both of these measures are necessary
is to use a simple example. Suppose that (in a slight variation of the
above example) that we have a two CPU system with 4 nice==0 and 4 nice=19
hard spinning tasks running and that the 4 nice==0 tasks are on one CPU and
the 4 nice==19 tasks are on the other CPU. The weighted loads for the two
CPUs would be 4.0 and 0.2 respectively and the load balancing code would
move 2 tasks resulting in one CPU with a load of 2.0 and the other with
load of 2.2. If this was considered to be a big enough imbalance to
justify moving a task and that task was moved using the current
move_tasks() then it would move the highest priority task that it found and
this would result in one CPU with a load of 3.0 and the other with a load
of 1.2 which would result in the movement of a task in the opposite
direction and so on -- infinite loop. If, on the other hand, an amount of
load to be moved is calculated from the imbalance (in this case 0.1) and
move_tasks() skips tasks until it find ones whose contributions to the
weighted load are less than this amount it would move two of the nice==19
tasks resulting in a system with 2 nice==0 and 2 nice=19 on each CPU with
loads of 2.1 for each CPU.
One of the advantages of this mechanism is that on a system where all tasks
have nice==0 the load balancing calculations would be mathematically
identical to the current load balancing code.
Notes:
struct task_struct:
has a new field load_weight which (in a trade off of space for speed)
stores the contribution that this task makes to a CPU's weighted load when
it is runnable.
struct runqueue:
has a new field raw_weighted_load which is the sum of the load_weight
values for the currently runnable tasks on this run queue. This field
always needs to be updated when nr_running is updated so two new inline
functions inc_nr_running() and dec_nr_running() have been created to make
sure that this happens. This also offers a convenient way to optimize away
this part of the smpnice mechanism when CONFIG_SMP is not defined.
int try_to_wake_up():
in this function the value SCHED_LOAD_BALANCE is used to represent the load
contribution of a single task in various calculations in the code that
decides which CPU to put the waking task on. While this would be a valid
on a system where the nice values for the runnable tasks were distributed
evenly around zero it will lead to anomalous load balancing if the
distribution is skewed in either direction. To overcome this problem
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE has been replaced by the load_weight for the relevant task
or by the average load_weight per task for the queue in question (as
appropriate).
int move_tasks():
The modifications to this function were complicated by the fact that
active_load_balance() uses it to move exactly one task without checking
whether an imbalance actually exists. This precluded the simple
overloading of max_nr_move with max_load_move and necessitated the addition
of the latter as an extra argument to the function. The internal
implementation is then modified to move up to max_nr_move tasks and
max_load_move of weighted load. This slightly complicates the code where
move_tasks() is called and if ever active_load_balance() is changed to not
use move_tasks() the implementation of move_tasks() should be simplified
accordingly.
struct sched_group *find_busiest_group():
Similar to try_to_wake_up(), there are places in this function where
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE is used to represent the load contribution of a single
task and the same issues are created. A similar solution is adopted except
that it is now the average per task contribution to a group's load (as
opposed to a run queue) that is required. As this value is not directly
available from the group it is calculated on the fly as the queues in the
groups are visited when determining the busiest group.
A key change to this function is that it is no longer to scale down
*imbalance on exit as move_tasks() uses the load in its scaled form.
void set_user_nice():
has been modified to update the task's load_weight field when it's nice
value and also to ensure that its run queue's raw_weighted_load field is
updated if it was runnable.
With smpnice, sched groups with highest priority tasks can mask the imbalance
between the other sched groups with in the same domain. This patch fixes some
of the listed down scenarios by not considering the sched groups which are
lightly loaded.
a) on a simple 4-way MP system, if we have one high priority and 4 normal
priority tasks, with smpnice we would like to see the high priority task
scheduled on one cpu, two other cpus getting one normal task each and the
fourth cpu getting the remaining two normal tasks. but with current
smpnice extra normal priority task keeps jumping from one cpu to another
cpu having the normal priority task. This is because of the
busiest_has_loaded_cpus, nr_loaded_cpus logic.. We are not including the
cpu with high priority task in max_load calculations but including that in
total and avg_load calcuations.. leading to max_load < avg_load and load
balance between cpus running normal priority tasks(2 Vs 1) will always show
imbalanace as one normal priority and the extra normal priority task will
keep moving from one cpu to another cpu having normal priority task..
b) 4-way system with HT (8 logical processors). Package-P0 T0 has a
highest priority task, T1 is idle. Package-P1 Both T0 and T1 have 1 normal
priority task each.. P2 and P3 are idle. With this patch, one of the
normal priority tasks on P1 will be moved to P2 or P3..
c) With the current weighted smp nice calculations, it doesn't always make
sense to look at the highest weighted runqueue in the busy group..
Consider a load balance scenario on a DP with HT system, with Package-0
containing one high priority and one low priority, Package-1 containing one
low priority(with other thread being idle).. Package-1 thinks that it need
to take the low priority thread from Package-0. And find_busiest_queue()
returns the cpu thread with highest priority task.. And ultimately(with
help of active load balance) we move high priority task to Package-1. And
same continues with Package-0 now, moving high priority task from package-1
to package-0.. Even without the presence of active load balance, load
balance will fail to balance the above scenario.. Fix find_busiest_queue
to use "imbalance" when it is lightly loaded.
[kernel@kolivas.org: sched: store weighted load on up]
[kernel@kolivas.org: sched: add discrete weighted cpu load function]
[suresh.b.siddha@intel.com: sched: remove dead code] Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.com.au> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Cc: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kirill Korotaev [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:32 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] sched: CPU hotplug race vs. set_cpus_allowed()
There is a race between set_cpus_allowed() and move_task_off_dead_cpu().
__migrate_task() doesn't report any err code, so task can be left on its
runqueue if its cpus_allowed mask changed so that dest_cpu is not longer a
possible target. Also, chaning cpus_allowed mask requires rq->lock being
held.
Con Kolivas [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:30 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] sched: fix interactive ceiling code
The relationship between INTERACTIVE_SLEEP and the ceiling is not perfect
and not explicit enough. The sleep boost is not supposed to be any larger
than without this code and the comment is not clear enough about what
exactly it does, just the reason it does it. Fix it.
There is a ceiling to the priority beyond which tasks that only ever sleep
for very long periods cannot surpass. Fix it.
Prevent the on-runqueue bonus logic from defeating the idle sleep logic.
Opportunity to micro-optimise.
Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chen, Kenneth W [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:28 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] sched: fix smt nice lock contention and optimization
Initial report and lock contention fix from Chris Mason:
Recent benchmarks showed some performance regressions between 2.6.16 and
2.6.5. We tracked down one of the regressions to lock contention in
schedule heavy workloads (~70,000 context switches per second)
kernel/sched.c:dependent_sleeper() was responsible for most of the lock
contention, hammering on the run queue locks. The patch below is more of a
discussion point than a suggested fix (although it does reduce lock
contention significantly). The dependent_sleeper code looks very expensive
to me, especially for using a spinlock to bounce control between two
different siblings in the same cpu.
It is further optimized:
* perform dependent_sleeper check after next task is determined
* convert wake_sleeping_dependent to use trylock
* skip smt runqueue check if trylock fails
* optimize double_rq_lock now that smt nice is converted to trylock
* early exit in searching first SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER domain
* speedup fast path of dependent_sleeper
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:26 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: display pin values in/out in gpio_dump
Add current pin settings to gpio_dump() output. This adds the last 'word' to
the syslog lines, which displays the input and output values that the pin is
set to.
pc8736x_gpio.0: io00: 0x0044 TS OD PUE EDGE LO DEBOUNCE io:1/1
The 2 values may differ for a number of reasons:
1- the pin output circuitry is diaabled, (as the above 'TS' indicates)
2- it needs a pullup resistor to drive the attached circuit,
3- the external circuit needs a pullup so the open-drain has something
to pull-down
4- the pin is wired to Vcc or Ground
It might be appropriate to add a WARN for 2,3,4, since they could
damage the chip and/or circuit, esp if misconfig goes unnoticed.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:25 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] gpio-patchset-fixups: include linux/io.h
Hmm. Im somewhat ambivalent about this patch, since with it, driver wont
build for vanilla 17 or older.
Its also only 1/2 of your suggestion - when I tried it, I was building against
vanilla 17, and asm/uaccess.h cause compilation failure. Looking back, Im
perplexed as to why linux/io.h didnt cause same failure ?!?
use linux/io.h rather than asm/io.h
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:25 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: replace spinlocks w mutexes
Replace spinlocks guarding gpio config ops with mutexes. This is a me-too
patch, and is justifiable insofar as mutexes have stricter semantics and
better debugging support, so are preferred where they are applicable.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:24 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: fix gpio_current, use shadow regs
Add a working gpio_current() to pc8736x_gpio.c (the previous implementation
just threw a dev_warn), and fix gpio_change() to use gpio_current() rather
than the incorrect (and temporary) gpio_get(). Initialize shadow-regs so this
all works.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:23 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: use dev_dbg in common module
Use of dev_dbg() and friends is considered good practice. dev_dbg() needs a
struct device *devp, but nsc_gpio is only a helper module, so it doesnt
have/need its own. To provide devp to the user-modules (scx200 & pc8736x
_gpio), we add it to the vtable, and set it during init.
Also squeeze nsc_gpio_dump()'s format a little.
[ 199.259879] pc8736x_gpio.0: io09: 0x0044 TS OD PUE EDGE LO DEBOUNCE
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:22 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add platform_device for use w dev_dbg
Adds platform-device to (just introduced) driver, and uses it to replace many
printks with dev_dbg() etc. This could trivially be merged into previous
patch, but this way matches better with the corresponding patch that does the
same change to scx200_gpio.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:20 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: migrate gpio_dump to common module
Since the meaning of config-bits is the same for scx200 and pc8736x _gpios, we
can share a function to deliver this to user. Since it is called via the
vtable, its also completely replaceable. For now, we keep using printk...
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:20 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: migrate file-ops to common module
Now that the read(), write() file-ops are dispatching gpio-ops via the vtable,
they are generic, and can be moved 'verbatim' to the nsc_gpio common-support
module. After the move, various symbols are renamed to update 'scx200_' to
'nsc_', and headers are adjusted accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:17 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: refactor scx200_probe to better segregate _gpio initialization
Pull shadow-reg initialization into separate function now, rather than doing
it 2x later (scx200, pc8736x). When we revisit 2nd drvr below, it will be to
reimplement an init function, rather than another refactor.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:16 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add 'v' command to device-file
Add a new driver command: 'v' which calls gpio_dump() on the pin. The output
goes to the log, like all other INFO messages in the original driver. Giving
the user control over the feedback they 'need' is construed to be a
user-friendly feature, and allows us (later) to dial down many INFO messages
to DEBUG log-level.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:16 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: put gpio_dump on a diet
Shrink scx200_gpio_dump() to a single printk with ternary ops. The function
is still ifdef'd out, this is corrected in next patch, when it is actually
used.
The patch 'inadvertently' changed loglevel from DEBUG to INFO. This is Good,
because in next patch, its wired to a 'command' which the user can invoke when
they want. When they do so, its because they want INFO to support their
developement effort, and we want to give it to them without compiling a DEBUG
version of the driver.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:14 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add platforn_device for use w dev_dbg
Add a platform-device to scx200_gpio, and use its struct device dev member
(ie: devp) in dev_dbg() once.
There are 2 alternatives here (Im soliciting guidance/commentary):
- use isa_device, if/when its added to the kernel.
- alter scx200.c to EXPORT_GPL its private devp so that both scx200_gpio,
and the (to be added) nsc_gpio module can use it. Since the available devp
is in 'grandparent', this seems like too much 'action at a distance'.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:14 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: modernize driver init to 2.6 api
Adopt many modern 2.6 coding practices, ala LDD3, chapter 3. Changes are
limited to initialization calls from module init, ie: cdev_init, cdev_add,
*_chrdev_region, mkdev.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Cromie [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:13 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: whitespace pre-clean
GPIO SUPPORT FOR SCx200 & PC8736x
The patch-set reworks the 2.4 vintage scx200_gpio driver for modern 2.6, and
refactors GPIO support to reuse it in a new driver for the GPIO on PC-8736x
chips. Its handy for the Soekris.com net-4801, which has both chips.
These patches have been seen recently on Kernel-Mentors, and then
Kernel-Newbies ML, where Jesper Juhl kindly reviewed it. His feedback has
been incorporated. Thanks Jesper !
Its also gone to soekris-tech@soekris.com for possible testing by linux folks,
I've gotten 1 promise so far. Theyre mostly BSD folk over there, but we'll
see..
Device-file & Sysfs
The driver preserves the existing device-file interface, including the
write/cmd set, but adds v to 'view' the pin-settings & configs by inducing,
via gpio_dump(), a dev_info() call. Its a fairly crappy way to get status,
but it sticks to the syslog approach, conservatively.
Allowing users to voluntarily trigger logging is good, it gives them a
familiar way to confirm their app's control & use of the pins, and I've thus
reduced the pin-mode-updates from dev_info to dev_dbg.
I've recently bolted on a proto sysfs interface for both new drivers. Im not
including those patches here; they (the patch + doc-pre-patch) are still quite
raw (and unreviewed on KNML), and since they 'invent' a convention for GPIO, a
proper vetting is needed. Since this patchset is much bigger than my previous
ones, Id like to keep things simpler, and address it 1st, before bolting on
more stuff.
The driver-split
The Geode CPU and the PC-87366 Super-IO chip have GPIO units which share a
common pin-architecture (same pin features, with same bits controlling), but
with different addressing mechanics and port organizations.
The vintage driver expresses the pin capabilities with pin-mode commands
[OoPpTt],etc that change the pin configurations, and since the 2 chips share
pin-arch, we can reuse the read(), write() commands, once the implementation
is suitably adjusted.
The patchset adds a vtable: struct nsc_gpio_ops, to abstract the existing gpio
operations, then adjusts fileops.write() code to invoke operations via that
vtable. Driver specific open()s set private_data to the vtable so its
available for use by write().
The vtable gets the gpio_dump() too, since its user-friendly, and (could be
construed as) part of the current device-file interface. To support use of
dev_dbg() in write() & _dump(), the vtable gets a dev ptr too, set by both
scx200 & pc8736x _gpio drivers.
heres how the pins are presented in syslog:
[ 1890.176223] scx200_gpio.0: io00: 0x0044 TS OD PUE EDGE LO DEBOUNCE
[ 1890.287223] scx200_gpio.0: io01: 0x0003 OE PP PUD EDGE LO
nsc_gpio.c: new file is new home of several file-ops methods, which are
modified to get their vtable from filp->private_data, and use it where needed.
scx200_gpio.c: keeps some of its existing gpio routines, but now wires them up
via the vtable (they're invoked by nsc_gpio.c:nsc_gpio_write() thru this
vtable). A driver-spcific open() initializes filp->private_data with the
vtable.
Once the split is clean, and the scx200_gpio driver is working, we copy and
modify the function and variable names, and rework the access-method bodies
for the different addressing scheme.
Heres a working overview of the patchset:
# series file for GPIO
# Spring Cleaning
gpio-scx/patch.preclean # scripts/Lindent fixes, editor-ctrl comments
# API Modernization
gpio-scx/patch.api26 # what I learned from LDD3
gpio-scx/patch.platform-dev-2 # get pdev, support for dev_dbg()
gpio-scx/patch.unsigned-minor # fix to match std practice
# Debuggability
gpio-scx/patch.dump-diet # shrink gpio_dump()
gpio-scx/patch.viewpins # add new 'command' to call dump()
gpio-scx/patch.init-refactor # pull shadow-register init to sub
# Access-Abstraction (add vtable)
gpio-scx/patch.access-vtable # introduce nsg_gpio_ops vtable, w dump
gpio-scx/patch.vtable-calls # add & use the vtable in scx200_gpio
gpio-scx/patch.nscgpio-shell # add empty driver for common-fops
# move code under abstraction
gpio-scx/patch.migrate-fops # move file-ops methods from scx200_gpio
gpio-scx/patch.common-dump # mv scx200.c:scx200_gpio_dump() to nsc_gpio.c
gpio-scx/patch.add-pc8736x-gpio # add new driver, like old, w chip adapt
# gpio-scx/patch.add-DEBUG # enable all dev_dbg()s
# Cleanups
# finish printk -> dev_dbg() etc
gpio-scx/patch.pdev-pc8736x # new drvr needs pdev too,
gpio-scx/patch.devdbg-nscgpio # add device to 'vtable', use in dev_dbg()
# gpio-scx/patch.pin-config-view # another 'c' 'command'
# gpio-scx/quiet-getset # take out excess dbg stuff (pretty quiet
now)
gpio-scx/patch.shadow-current # imitate scx200_gpio's shadow regs in
pc87*
# post KMentors-post patches ..
gpio-scx/patch.mutexes # use mutexes for config-locks
gpio-scx/patch.viewpins-values # extend dump to obsolete separate 'c' cmd
gpio-scx/patch.kconfig # add stuff for kbuild
# TBC
# combine api26 with pdev, which is just one step.
# merge c&v commands to single do-all-fn
# delay viewpins, dump-diet should also un-ifdef it too.
diff.sys-gpio-rollup-1
This patch:
Removed editor format-control comments, and used scripts/Lindent to clean up
whitespace, then deleted the bogus chunks :-(
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: add hotplug versions of cpu_notifier
Define new macros register_hotcpu_notifier() and unregister_hotcpu_notifier()
that redefines register_cpu_notifier() and unregister_cpu_notifier() for use
only when HOTPLUG_CPU is defined.
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert init patch submitted for 2.6.17
In 2.6.17, there was a problem with cpu_notifiers and XFS. I provided a
band-aid solution to solve that problem. In the process, i undid all the
changes you both were making to ensure that these notifiers were available
only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).
We deferred the real fix to 2.6.18. Here is a set of patches that fixes the
XFS problem cleanly and makes the cpu notifiers available only at init time
(unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).
If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined then cpu notifiers are available at run
time.
This patch reverts the notifier_call changes made in 2.6.17
Alan Cox [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:05 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] stallion clean up
There are two locking sets involved. One locks the board mappings and the
other is the tty open/close locking. The low level code was clearly
designed to be ported to OS's with spin locks already so pretty much comes
out in the wash
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
akpm@osdl.org [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:04 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] IPMI: use schedule in kthread
Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
The kthread used to speed up polling for IPMI was using udelay in its
busy-wait polling loop when the lower-level state machine told it to do a
short delay. This just used CPU and didn't help scheduling, thus causing
bad problems with other tasks. Call schedule() instead.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul E. McKenney [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:02 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] rcutorture: catchup doc fixes for idle-hz tests
This just catches the RCU torture documentation up with the recent fixes
that test RCU for architectures that turn of the scheduling-clock interrupt
for idle CPUs and the addition of a SUCCESS/FAILURE indication, fixing up
an obsolete comment as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:54:01 +0000 (02:54 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix kernel-doc in kernel/ dir
Fix kernel-doc parameters in kernel/
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/auditsc.c:1376): No description found for parameter 'u_abs_timeout'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/auditsc.c:1420): No description found for parameter 'u_msg_prio'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/auditsc.c:1420): No description found for parameter 'u_abs_timeout'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/acct.c:526): No description found for parameter 'pacct'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add missed ufsi->i_dir_start_lookup initialization in ufs_read_inode in
UFS2 case. Also it cleans ufs_read_inode function to prevent such kind of
situation in the future: it move depend on UFS type parts of code into
separate functions and leaves in ufs_read_inode only generic code. It
cleans code and avoids duplication.
[PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored write
generic_file_buffered_write() prefaults in user pages in order to avoid
deadlock on copying from the same page as write goes to.
However, it looks like there is a problem when write is vectored:
fault_in_pages_readable brings in current segment or its part (maxlen).
OTOH, filemap_copy_from_user_iovec is called to copy number of bytes
(bytes) which may exceed current segment, so filemap_copy_from_user_iovec
switches to the next segment which is not brought in yet. Pagefault is
generated. That causes the deadlock if pagefault is for the same page
write goes to: page being written is locked and not uptodate, pagefault
will deadlock trying to lock locked page.
[akpm@osdl.org: somewhat rewritten] Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:53:55 +0000 (02:53 -0700)]
[PATCH] spin/rwlock init cleanups
locking init cleanups:
- convert " = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED" to spin_lock_init() or DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
- convert rwlocks in a similar manner
this patch was generated automatically.
Motivation:
- cleanliness
- lockdep needs control of lock initialization, which the open-coded
variants do not give
- it's also useful for -rt and for lock debugging in general
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:53:52 +0000 (02:53 -0700)]
[PATCH] add poison.h and patch primary users
Localize poison values into one header file for better documentation and
easier/quicker debugging and so that the same values won't be used for
multiple purposes.
Use these constants in core arch., mm, driver, and fs code.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:53:50 +0000 (02:53 -0700)]
[PATCH] vdso: randomize the i386 vDSO by moving it into a vma
Move the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it.
Besides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which
can COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do
single-stepping and other debugging features.
It's good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same
high-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they
get lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which
slows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the
VDSO).
There's a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default=y) option, which provides support
for older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO. Newer
distributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off. Turning
it off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the
predictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore.
There is a new vdso=[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime
/proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned
on/off.
(This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF
coredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.)
This code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization
code and Gerd Hoffmann's hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell
started this patch and i completed it.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3]
[akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
James Bottomley [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:53:50 +0000 (02:53 -0700)]
[PATCH] voyager: fix compile after setup rework
The following
[PATCH] Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup
Doesn't quite work, since it leaves out an include of asm/io.h, without
which the use of inb/outb in the setup file won.t work. This corrects that
and also removes a spurious acpi reference that apparently crept in ages
ago but should never have been there.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
James Bottomley [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:53:49 +0000 (02:53 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix subarchitecture breakage with CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
Commit 1e9f28fa1eb9773bf65bae08288c6a0a38eef4a7 ("[PATCH] sched: new
sched domain for representing multi-core") incorrectly made SCHED_SMT
and some of the structures it uses dependent on SMP.
However, this is wrong, the structures are only defined if X86_HT, so
SCHED_SMT has to depend on that as well.
The patch broke voyager, since it doesn't provide any of the multi-core
or hyperthreading structures.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Aleksey Gorelov [Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:53:48 +0000 (02:53 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix broken vm86 interrupt/signal handling
Commit c3ff8ec31c1249d268cd11390649768a12bec1b9 ("[PATCH] i386: Don't
miss pending signals returning to user mode after signal processing")
meant that vm86 interrupt/signal handling got broken for the case when
vm86 is called from kernel space.
In this scenario, if signal is pending because of vm86 interrupt,
do_notify_resume/do_signal exits immediately due to user_mode() check,
without processing any signals. Thus, resume_userspace handler is spinning
in a tight loop with signal pending and TIF_SIGPENDING is set. Previously
everything worked Ok.
No in-tree usage of vm86() from kernel space exists, but I've heard
about a number of projects out there which use vm86 calls from kernel,
one of them being this, for instance:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/
The following patch fixes the issue.
Signed-off-by: Aleksey Gorelov <aleksey_gorelov@phoenix.com> Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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