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Impact: cleanup
This patch cleans up the NMI safe code for dynamic ftrace as suggested
by Andrew Morton.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix crashes that can occur in NMI handlers, if their code is modified
Modifying code is something that needs special care. On SMP boxes,
if code that is being modified is also being executed on another CPU,
that CPU will have undefined results.
The dynamic ftrace uses kstop_machine to make the system act like a
uniprocessor system. But this does not address NMIs, that can still
run on other CPUs.
One approach to handle this is to make all code that are used by NMIs
not be traced. But NMIs can call notifiers that spread throughout the
kernel and this will be very hard to maintain, and the chance of missing
a function is very high.
The approach that this patch takes is to have the NMIs modify the code
if the modification is taking place. The way this works is that just
writing to code executing on another CPU is not harmful if what is
written is the same as what exists.
Two buffers are used: an IP buffer and a "code" buffer.
The steps that the patcher takes are:
1) Put in the instruction pointer into the IP buffer
and the new code into the "code" buffer.
2) Set a flag that says we are modifying code
3) Wait for any running NMIs to finish.
4) Write the code
5) clear the flag.
6) Wait for any running NMIs to finish.
If an NMI is executed, it will also write the pending code.
Multiple writes are OK, because what is being written is the same.
Then the patcher must wait for all running NMIs to finish before
going to the next line that must be patched.
This is basically the RCU approach to code modification.
Thanks to Ingo Molnar for suggesting the idea, and to Arjan van de Ven
for his guidence on what is safe and what is not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (37 commits)
hrtimers: add missing docbook comments to struct hrtimer
hrtimers: simplify hrtimer_peek_ahead_timers()
hrtimers: fix docbook comments
DECLARE_PER_CPU needs linux/percpu.h
hrtimers: fix typo
rangetimers: fix the bug reported by Ingo for real
rangetimer: fix BUG_ON reported by Ingo
rangetimer: fix x86 build failure for the !HRTIMERS case
select: fix alpha OSF wrapper
select: fix alpha OSF wrapper
hrtimer: peek at the timer queue just before going idle
hrtimer: make the futex() system call use the per process slack value
hrtimer: make the nanosleep() syscall use the per process slack
hrtimer: fix signed/unsigned bug in slack estimator
hrtimer: show the timer ranges in /proc/timer_list
hrtimer: incorporate feedback from Peter Zijlstra
hrtimer: add a hrtimer_start_range() function
hrtimer: another build fix
hrtimer: fix build bug found by Ingo
hrtimer: make select() and poll() use the hrtimer range feature
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (46 commits)
[PATCH] fs: add a sanity check in d_free
[PATCH] i_version: remount support
[patch] vfs: make security_inode_setattr() calling consistent
[patch 1/3] FS_MBCACHE: don't needlessly make it built-in
[PATCH] move executable checking into ->permission()
[PATCH] fs/dcache.c: update comment of d_validate()
[RFC PATCH] touch_mnt_namespace when the mount flags change
[PATCH] reiserfs: add missing llseek method
[PATCH] fix ->llseek for more directories
[PATCH vfs-2.6 6/6] vfs: add LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET intent
[PATCH vfs-2.6 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENT lookup
[PATCH vfs-2.6 4/6] vfs: remove unnecessary fsnotify_d_instantiate()
[PATCH vfs-2.6 3/6] vfs: add __d_instantiate() helper
[PATCH vfs-2.6 2/6] vfs: add d_ancestor()
[PATCH vfs-2.6 1/6] vfs: replace parent == dentry->d_parent by IS_ROOT()
[PATCH] get rid of on-stack dentry in udf
[PATCH 2/2] anondev: switch to IDA
[PATCH 1/2] anondev: init IDR statically
[JFFS2] Use d_splice_alias() not d_add() in jffs2_lookup()
[PATCH] Optimise NFS readdir hack slightly.
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* 'x86/um-header' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
x86: canonicalize remaining header guards
x86: drop double underscores from header guards
x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guards
x86, um: get rid of uml-config.h
x86, um: get rid of arch/um/Kconfig.arch
x86, um: get rid of arch/um/os symlink
x86, um: get rid of excessive includes of uml-config.h
x86, um: get rid of header symlinks
x86, um: merge Kconfig.i386 and Kconfig.x86_64
x86, um: get rid of sysdep symlink
x86, um: trim the junk from uml ptrace-*.h
x86, um: take vm-flags.h to sysdep
x86, um: get rid of uml asm/arch
x86, um: get rid of uml highmem.h
x86, um: get rid of uml unistd.h
x86, um: get rid of system.h -> system.h include
x86, um: uml atomic.h is not needed anymore
x86, um: untangle uml ldt.h
x86, um: get rid of more uml asm/arch uses
x86, um: remove dead header (uml module-generic.h; never used these days)
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile: (21 commits)
OProfile: Fix buffer synchronization for IBS
oprofile: hotplug cpu fix
oprofile: fixing whitespaces in arch/x86/oprofile/*
oprofile: fixing whitespaces in arch/x86/oprofile/*
oprofile: fixing whitespaces in drivers/oprofile/*
x86/oprofile: add the logic for enabling additional IBS bits
x86/oprofile: reordering functions in nmi_int.c
x86/oprofile: removing unused function parameter in add_ibs_begin()
oprofile: more whitespace fixes
oprofile: whitespace fixes
OProfile: Rename IBS sysfs dir into "ibs_op"
OProfile: Rework string handling in setup_ibs_files()
OProfile: Rework oprofile_add_ibs_sample() function
oprofile: discover counters for op ppro too
oprofile: Implement Intel architectural perfmon support
oprofile: Don't report Nehalem as core_2
oprofile: drop const in num counters field
Revert "Oprofile Multiplexing Patch"
x86, oprofile: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
x86/oprofile: fix on_each_cpu build error
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Manually fixed trivial conflicts in
drivers/oprofile/{cpu_buffer.c,event_buffer.h}
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The entire file of ftrace.c in the arch code needs to be marked
as notrace. It is much cleaner to do this from the Makefile with
CFLAGS_REMOVE_ftrace.o.
[ powerpc already had this in its Makefile. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The arch dependent function ftrace_mcount_set was only used by the daemon
start up code. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The ftrace daemon is complex and can cause nasty races if something goes
wrong. Since it affects all of the kernel, this patch disables dynamic
ftrace from any arch that depends on the daemon. Until the archs are
ported over to the new MCOUNT_RECORD method, I am disabling dynamic
ftrace from them.
Note: I am leaving in the arch/<arch>/kernel/ftrace.c code alone since
that can be used when the arch is ported to MCOUNT_RECORD. To port
the arch to MCOUNT_RECORD, the scripts/recordmcount.pl needs to be
updated. I will make that easier to do for 2.6.29. For 28, we will keep
the archs disabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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the only theoretical reason for it these days is ppc; aside of uml/ppc
being dead, do_signal() would be happier in arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Conflicts:
kernel/time/tick-sched.c
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This adds relocatable kernel support for kdump. With this one can
use the same regular kernel to capture the kdump. A signature (0xfeed1234)
is passed in r6 from panic code to the next kernel through kexec_sequence
and purgatory code. The signature is used to differentiate between
kdump kernel and non-kdump kernels.
The purgatory code compares the signature and sets the __kdump_flag in
head_64.S. During the boot up, kernel code checks __kdump_flag and if it
is set, the kernel will behave as relocatable kdump kernel. This kernel
will boot at the address where it was loaded by kexec-tools ie. at the
address reserved through crashkernel boot parameter.
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depends on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE option to build kdump
kernel as relocatable. So the same kernel can be used as production and
kdump kernel.
This patch incorporates the changes suggested by Paul Mackerras to avoid
GOT use and to avoid two copies of the code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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If mem= is used on the boot command line to limit memory then the memory block where a 16G page resides may not be available.
Thanks to Michael Ellerman for finding the problem.
Signed-off-by: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Some platforms have variants that can share most of a flat device tree but need
a few devices selectively pruned at boot time. This adds del_node() to ops.h
to allow access to the existing fdt_del_node().
Signed-off-by: Mike Ditto <mditto@consentry.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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A patch of mine was recently committed to fix up STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS
behaviour on powerpc (f5ea64dcbad89875d130596df14c9b25d994a737).
However, something which breaks it again seems to have slipped in
afterwards. So, here's another small fix.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Remove empty/bogus #else from signal_64.c
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Most of the platforms were printing the size of the memory
in their show_cpuinfo implementations. This moves that to
the common show_cpuinfo, so that all 32-bit platforms will
now print the size of memory. I also update the code
to deal with the fact that total_memory is now a phys_addr_t.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Manual merge of:
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
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The RTC is sitting on the I2C2 bus at address 0x68. RTC interrupt signal
is connected to the IPIC's EXT2 interrupt line, the line is shared with
Vitesse 8201 Ethernet PHY.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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MCU is an external Freescale MC9S08QG8 microcontroller, mainly used to
provide soft power-off function, but also exports two GPIOs (wired to
the LEDs and also available from the external headers).
Added the MCU on mpc8349emitx, mpc837xrdb and mpc8315erdb boards.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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Change the top-level #address-cells and #size-cells to <2> so the
mpc8572ds.dts is easier to deal with both a true 32-bit physical
or 36-bit physical address space.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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We don't want to encourage the bogus device_type usage.
The device type isn't used in the code, so we can simply remove it from
the documentation and dts files.
Boards should specify proper compatible entries instead.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ed Swarthout <Ed.Swarthout@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jason Jin <Jason.jin@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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These functions should have been static, and inspection shows they
are no longer used. (We used to parse mem= but we now defer that
to early_param).
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Commit 9b09c6d909dfd8de96b99b9b9c808b94b0a71614 ("powerpc: Change the
default link address for pSeries zImage kernels") changed the
real-base value in the CHRP note added by addnote to the zImage from
12MB to 32MB. It turns out that this causes unnecessary extra reboots
on old 32-bit CHRP machines. This therefore adds a -r flag to addnote
to allow us to specify what real-base value it should put in the CHRP
note, and adjusts the wrapper script to pass -r c00000 to addnote when
making a zImage for a CHRP machine. Also, CHRP machines ignore the
RPA note, so we don't need to arrange for it to be the same as the
kernel's.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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numa_enforce_memory_limit tried to be smart and only call lmb_end_of_DRAM
when a memory limit was set via mem= on the command line. However,
the early boot code will also limit memory added to the lmb system
when iommu=off is specified. When this happens, the page allocator
is given pages not in the linear mapping and this results in a fatal
data reference to the unmapped page.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We used to assume that even numbered threads were the primary
threads, ie those that would be listed and started as a cpu from
open firmware. Replace a left over is even (% 2) check with a check
for it being a primary thread and update the comments.
Tested with a debug print on pseries, identical code found for cell.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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64 bit powerpc requires the kexec user space tools avoid overwriting
the static kernel image and translation hash table when choosing
where to put memory image data because it copies the data into place
using the kernels virtual memory system. Kexec userspace determines
these and other areas blocked by reading properties the kernel adds,
but does not filter these properties when creating the device tree
for the next kernel.
When the second kernel tries to add its values for these properties,
the export via /proc/device-tree is hidden by the pre-existing but
stale values from the flat tree. Kexec userspace reads the old
property, allocates the new kernel at the old kernel's end, and
gets rejected by the overlap check.
Search and remove these stale properties before adding the new values.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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There are no users of PPC_MERGE in tree so we can get rid of it.
It was a hold over from the arch/ppc days.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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There are two issues when we enable CONFIG_RELOCATABLE. The first is due
to the fact that phys_addr_t is now defined in linux/types.h. The second
is due to the fact that the DMA code changes expose memstart_addr to
prom_init.c
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This target is needed to build cuImages with an embedded ramdisk image.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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I noticed, when trying to use, e.g.,
node = find_node_by_prop_value(prev, "booleanprop", "", 0))
to search for all nodes with a certain boolean property, that memcmp()
returns garbage when comparing zero bytes. It should return zero.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Adjust amount to reserve based on previous nodes for reserves spanning
multiple nodes. Check if the node active range is empty before attempting
to pass the reserve to bootmem. In practice the range shouldn't be empty,
but to be sure we check.
Signed-off-by: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The issue is the SPU code is not holding the kernel mutex lock while
adding samples to the kernel buffer.
This patch creates per SPU buffers to hold the data. Data
is added to the buffers from in interrupt context. The data
is periodically pushed to the kernel buffer via a new Oprofile
function oprofile_put_buff(). The oprofile_put_buff() function
is called via a work queue enabling the funtion to acquire the
mutex lock.
The existing user controls for adjusting the per CPU buffer
size is used to control the size of the per SPU buffers.
Similarly, overflows of the SPU buffers are reported by
incrementing the per CPU buffer stats. This eliminates the
need to have architecture specific controls for the per SPU
buffers which is not acceptable to the OProfile user tool
maintainer.
The export of the oprofile add_event_entry() is removed as it
is no longer needed given this patch.
Note, this patch has not addressed the issue of indexing arrays
by the spu number. This still needs to be fixed as the spu
numbering is not guarenteed to be 0 to max_num_spus-1.
Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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"unsigned int" speed cannot be negative, it's thus pointless
to test if it is.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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The pfn of the memory to be removed should be validated prior to
attempting to remove the memory. In cases where the probe of a
memory section fails during hotplug add, the pfn for the lmb may
not be valid.
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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If the vmlinux binary in memory is larger than 4 MiB than it collides
with the initial boot code which is linked at 4 MiB in case of cuBoot.
If the the uncompressed image size (on disk size) is less than 4 MiB
then it would fit. The difference between those two sizes is the bss
section. In cuBoot we have the dtb embedded right after the data
section so it is very likely that the reset of the bss section (in
kernel's start up code) will overwrite the dtb blob. Therefore we
reallocate the dtb. Something similar is allready done to the initrd.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch adds a comment to clarify why atomic_dec_if_positive is being used
to decrement gang's aff_sched_count on SPU context unbind.
Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
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This patch improves redability of the code responsible for trying to find
a node with enough SPUs not committed to other affinity gangs.
An additional check is also added, to avoid taking into account gangs that
have no SPU affinity.
Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
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No need to zero the entire buffer, just the head and tail indices.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
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With most file readers (eg cat, dd), reading a context's regs file will
result in two reads: the first to read the data, and the second to
return EOF. Because each read performs a spu_acquire_saved, we end up
descheduling and re-scheduling the context twice.
This change does a simple check to see if we'd return EOF before
calling spu_acquire_saved(), saving the extra schedule operation.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
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Currently, read() on the sputrace log will block until the read buffer
is full. This makes it difficult to retrieve the end of the buffer, as
the user will need to read with the right-sized buffer.
In a similar method as 91553a1b5e0df006a3573a88d98ee7cd48a3818a, this
change makes the switch_log return if there has already been data
read.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
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Currently, we use ctx->mapping_lock and ctx->switch_log->lock for the
context switch log. The mapping lock only prevents concurrent open()s,
so we require the switch_lock->lock for reads.
Since writes to the switch log buffer occur on context switches, we're
better off synchronising with the state_mutex, which is held during a
switch. Since we're serialised througout the buffer reads and writes,
we can use the state mutex to protect open and release too, and
can now kfree() the log buffer on release. This allows us to perform
the switch log notify without taking any extra locks.
Because the buffer is only present while the file is open, we can use
it to prevent multiple simultaneous openers.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
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Steven Rostedt
Ingo Molnar
Linus Torvalds
Al Viro
Thomas Gleixner
Mohan Kumar M
Jon Tollefson
Mike Ditto
David Gibson
Michael Neuling
Becky Bruce
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Anton Vorontsov
Kumar Gala
Ed Swarthout
Jason Jin
Milton Miller
Paul Mackerras
Grant Likely
Carl Love
roel kluin
Nathan Fontenot
Sebastian Siewior
Andre Detsch
Jeremy Kerr