| Age | Commit message (Collapse) | Author | Files | Lines |
|---|
|
asm/cmpxchg.h can be included on its own and needs to be self-consistent.
The definitions for the cmpxchg*_local macros, as such, need to be part
of this file.
This fixes a build issue on OpenRISC since the system.h smashing patch
96f951edb1f1bdbbc99b0cd458f9808bb83d58ae that introdued the direct inclusion
asm/cmpxchg.h into linux/llist.h.
CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
|
|
Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan:
"This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
fixes which I kept separate to ease review:
- Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
- A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
- A few privilege protection fixes
- Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of
metag_ksyms.c)
- Fix some missing exports
- Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
- Copy device tree to non-init memory
- Provide dma_get_sgtable()"
* tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits)
metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable()
metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve()
metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes
metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP
genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols
metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area()
metag: export clear_page and copy_page
metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all
metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions
metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit
metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes
perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta
metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check
metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe()
...
|
|
Some architectures have symbol prefixes and set CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX,
but this wasn't taken into account by the generic cond_syscall. It's
easy enough to fix in a generic fashion, so add the symbol prefix to
symbol names in cond_syscall when CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
|
|
Make asm-generic/io.h check CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS before defining
virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt(), otherwise it's easy to accidentally
have a silently failing incorrect direct mapped definition rather then
no definition at all.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
|
|
Pull new ARC architecture from Vineet Gupta:
"Initial ARC Linux port with some fixes on top for 3.9-rc1:
I would like to introduce the Linux port to ARC Processors (from
Synopsys) for 3.9-rc1. The patch-set has been discussed on the public
lists since Nov and has received a fair bit of review, specially from
Arnd, tglx, Al and other subsystem maintainers for DeviceTree, kgdb...
The arch bits are in arch/arc, some asm-generic changes (acked by
Arnd), a minor change to PARISC (acked by Helge).
The series is a touch bigger for a new port for 2 main reasons:
1. It enables a basic kernel in first sub-series and adds
ptrace/kgdb/.. later
2. Some of the fallout of review (DeviceTree support, multi-platform-
image support) were added on top of orig series, primarily to
record the revision history.
This updated pull request additionally contains
- fixes due to our GNU tools catching up with the new syscall/ptrace
ABI
- some (minor) cross-arch Kconfig updates."
* tag 'arc-v3.9-rc1-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (82 commits)
ARC: split elf.h into uapi and export it for userspace
ARC: Fixup the current ABI version
ARC: gdbserver using regset interface possibly broken
ARC: Kconfig cleanup tracking cross-arch Kconfig pruning in merge window
ARC: make a copy of flat DT
ARC: [plat-arcfpga] DT arc-uart bindings change: "baud" => "current-speed"
ARC: Ensure CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS is not enabled
ARC: Fix pt_orig_r8 access
ARC: [3.9] Fallout of hlist iterator update
ARC: 64bit RTSC timestamp hardware issue
ARC: Don't fiddle with non-existent caches
ARC: Add self to MAINTAINERS
ARC: Provide a default serial.h for uart drivers needing BASE_BAUD
ARC: [plat-arcfpga] defconfig for fully loaded ARC Linux
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #8: platform registers SMP callbacks
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #7: SMP common code to use callbacks
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #6: cpu-to-dma-addr optional
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #5: NR_IRQS defined by ARC core
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #4: Isolate platform headers
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #3: switch to board callback
...
|
|
Pull microblaze update from Michal Simek:
"Microblaze changes.
After my discussion with Arnd I have also added there asm-generic io
patch which is Acked by him and Geert."
* 'next' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze:
asm-generic: io: Fix ioread16/32be and iowrite16/32be
microblaze: Do not use module.h in files which are not modules
microblaze: Fix coding style issues
microblaze: Add missing return from debugfs_tlb
microblaze: Makefile clean
microblaze: Add .gitignore entries for auto-generated files
microblaze: Fix strncpy_from_user macro
|
|
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
cputime: Use local_clock() for full dynticks cputime accounting
cputime: Constify timeval_to_cputime(timeval) argument
sched: Move RR_TIMESLICE from sysctl.h to rt.h
sched: Fix /proc/sched_debug failure on very very large systems
sched: Fix /proc/sched_stat failure on very very large systems
sched/core: Remove the obsolete and unused nr_uninterruptible() function
|
|
Pull GPIO changes from Grant Likely:
"This branch contains the usual set of individual driver improvements
and bug fixes, as well as updates to the core code. The more notable
changes include:
- Internally add new API for referencing GPIOs by gpio_desc instead
of number. Eventually this will become a public API
- ACPI GPIO binding support"
* tag 'gpio-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux: (33 commits)
arm64: select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
gpio: em: Use irq_domain_add_simple() to fix runtime error
gpio: using common order: let 'static const' instead of 'const static'
gpio/vt8500: memory cleanup missing
gpiolib: Fix locking on gpio debugfs files
gpiolib: let gpio_chip reference its descriptors
gpiolib: use descriptors internally
gpiolib: use gpio_chips list in gpiochip_find_base
gpiolib: use gpio_chips list in sysfs ops
gpiolib: use gpio_chips list in gpiochip_find
gpiolib: use gpio_chips list in gpiolib_sysfs_init
gpiolib: link all gpio_chips using a list
gpio/langwell: cleanup driver
gpio/langwell: Add Cloverview ids to pci device table
gpio/lynxpoint: add chipset gpio driver.
gpiolib: add missing braces in gpio_direction_show
gpiolib-acpi: Fix error checks in interrupt requesting
gpio: mpc8xxx: don't set IRQ_TYPE_NONE when creating irq mapping
gpiolib: remove gpiochip_reserve()
arm: pxa: tosa: do not use gpiochip_reserve()
...
|
|
Saw the following compiler warning on the linux-next tree:
kernel/itimer.c: In function 'set_cpu_itimer':
kernel/itimer.c:152:2: warning: passing argument 1 of 'timeval_to_cputime' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
...
timeval_to_cputime() is always passed a constant timeval in
argument, we need to teach the nsecs based cputime
implementation about that.
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361636925-22288-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
|
|
Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
"This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.
- a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
unified.
- a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
(fixing several potential problems with missing argument
validation, while we are at it)
- a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed
- a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
(uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.
- microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once
- saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
architectures switched to using those."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
x86: convert to ksignal
sparc: convert to ksignal
arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
burying unused conditionals
make do_sigaltstack() static
arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
kill sparc32_open()
sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
...
|
|
Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is the rwsem lock-steal improvements, both to the
assembly optimized and the spinlock based variants.
The other notable change is the clean up of the seqlock implementation
to be based on the seqcount infrastructure.
The rest is assorted smaller debuggability, cleanup and continued -rt
locking changes."
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rwsem-spinlock: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
futex: Revert "futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated"
generic: Use raw local irq variant for generic cmpxchg
lockdep: Selftest: convert spinlock to raw spinlock
seqlock: Use seqcount infrastructure
seqlock: Remove unused functions
ntp: Make ntp_lock raw
intel_idle: Convert i7300_idle_lock to raw_spinlock
locking: Various static lock initializer fixes
lockdep: Print more info when MAX_LOCK_DEPTH is exceeded
rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
lockdep: Silence warning if CONFIG_LOCKDEP isn't set
watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp()
lockdep: Rename print_unlock_inbalance_bug() to print_unlock_imbalance_bug()
locking/stat: Fix a typo
|
|
Pull s390 update from Martin Schwidefsky:
"The most prominent change in this patch set is the software dirty bit
patch for s390. It removes __HAVE_ARCH_PAGE_TEST_AND_CLEAR_DIRTY and
the page_test_and_clear_dirty primitive which makes the common memory
management code a bit less obscure.
Heiko fixed most of the PCI related fallout, more often than not
missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependencies. Notable is one of the 3270
patches which adds an export to tty_io to be able to resize a tty.
The rest is the usual bunch of cleanups and bug fixes."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits)
s390/module: Add missing R_390_NONE relocation type
drivers/gpio: add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQ dependency
drivers/input: add couple of missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependencies
s390/cleanup: rename SPP to LPP
s390/mm: implement software dirty bits
s390/mm: Fix crst upgrade of mmap with MAP_FIXED
s390/linker skript: discard exit.data at runtime
drivers/media: add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependency
s390/bpf,jit: add vlan tag support
drivers/net,AT91RM9200: add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependency
iucv: fix kernel panic at reboot
s390/Kconfig: sort list of arch selected config options
phylib: remove !S390 dependeny from Kconfig
uio: remove !S390 dependency from Kconfig
dasd: fix sysfs cleanup in dasd_generic_remove
s390/pci: fix hotplug module init
s390/pci: cleanup clp page allocation
s390/pci: cleanup clp inline assembly
s390/perf: cpum_cf: fallback to software sampling events
s390/mm: provide PAGE_SHARED define
...
|
|
Pull ARM SoC cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
"A large number of cleanups, all over the platforms. This is dominated
largely by the Samsung platforms (s3c, s5p, exynos) and a few of the
others moving code out of arch/arm into more appropriate subsystems.
The clocksource and irqchip drivers are now abstracted to the point
where platforms that are already cleaned up do not need to even
specify the driver they use, it can all get configured from the device
tree as we do for normal device drivers. The clocksource changes
basically touch every single platform in the process.
We further clean up the use of platform specific header files here,
with the goal of turning more of the platforms over to being
"multiplatform" enabled, which implies that they cannot expose their
headers to architecture independent code any more.
It is expected that no functional changes are part of the cleanup.
The overall reduction in total code lines is mostly the result of
removing broken and obsolete code."
* tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (133 commits)
ARM: mvebu: correct gated clock documentation
ARM: kirkwood: add missing include for nsa310
ARM: exynos: move exynos4210-combiner to drivers/irqchip
mfd: db8500-prcmu: update resource passing
drivers/db8500-cpufreq: delete dangling include
ARM: at91: remove NEOCORE 926 board
sunxi: Cleanup the reset code and add meaningful registers defines
ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-mem.h local
ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-power.h local
ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-s3c2412-mem.h local
ARM: S3C24XX: Remove plat-s3c24xx directory in arch/arm/
ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2443 subirqs into new structure
ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2443 irq init to initialize all irqs
ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2443 irq code to irq.c
ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2416 irqs into new structure
ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2416 irq init to initialize all irqs
ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2416 irq init to common irq code
ARM: S3C24XX: Modify s3c_irq_wake to use the hwirq property
ARM: S3C24XX: Move irq syscore-ops to irq-pm
clocksource: always define CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE
...
|
|
Pull clock framework update from Michael Turquette:
"The common clock framework changes for 3.9 are almost entirely fixes.
None are dire enough to be Cc'd to stable which may be interpreted to
mean that users of the framework are reaching stability. Lots of new
adoption of this framework is via DeviceTree data and that comes
through the respective architecture and platform trees instead of
through the clk framework tree.
Two new features are improved debugfs output and an improvement to how
DT clocks are initialized by reusing a common method."
* tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mturquette/linux: (25 commits)
clk: sunxi: remove stale Makefile entry
clk: vexpress: Use common of_clk_init() function
clk: zynq: Use common of_clk_init() function
clk: vt8500: Use common of_clk_init() function
clk: highbank: Use common of_clk_init() function
clk: sunxi: Use common of_clk_init() function
clk: add common of_clk_init() function
clk: Deduplicate exit code in clk_set_rate
clk: beautify Makefile
clk-divider: fix macros
clk: prima2: enable dt-binding clkdev mapping
clk: mxs: Index is always positive
clk: max77686: Avoid double free at remove time
clk: remove exported function from __init section
clk: vt8500: Add support for WM8750/WM8850 PLL clocks
clk: vt8500: Fix division-by-0 when requested rate=0
clk: vt8500: Fix device clock divisor calculations
clk: vt8500: Fix error in PLL calculations on non-exact match.
clk: max77686: Remove unnecessary NULL checking for container_of()
clk: JSON debugfs clock tree summary
...
|
|
The interrupt disabled region is extremly tiny and therefor not
latency relevant. Avoid cluttering the traces with those pointless
entries.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
|
The s390 architecture is unique in respect to dirty page detection,
it uses the change bit in the per-page storage key to track page
modifications. All other architectures track dirty bits by means
of page table entries. This property of s390 has caused numerous
problems in the past, e.g. see git commit ef5d437f71afdf4a
"mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390".
To avoid future issues in regard to per-page dirty bits convert
s390 to a fault based software dirty bit detection mechanism. All
user page table entries which are marked as clean will be hardware
read-only, even if the pte is supposed to be writable. A write by
the user process will trigger a protection fault which will cause
the user pte to be marked as dirty and the hardware read-only bit
is removed.
With this change the dirty bit in the storage key is irrelevant
for Linux as a host, but the storage key is still required for
KVM guests. The effect is that page_test_and_clear_dirty and the
related code can be removed. The referenced bit in the storage
key is still used by the page_test_and_clear_young primitive to
provide page age information.
For page cache pages of mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty
there will not be any change in behavior as the dirty bit tracking
already uses read-only ptes to control the amount of dirty pages.
Only for swap cache pages and pages of mappings without
mapping_cap_account_dirty there can be additional protection faults.
To avoid an excessive number of additional faults the mk_pte
primitive checks for PageDirty if the pgprot value allows for writes
and pre-dirties the pte. That avoids all additional faults for
tmpfs and shmem pages until these pages are added to the swap cache.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
|
|
E.g. readl is defined like this
#define readl(addr) __le32_to_cpu(__raw_readl(addr))
If a there is a readl() call that doesn't check the return value
this will cause a compile warning on big endian machines due to
the __le32_to_cpu macro magic.
E.g. code like this:
readl(addr);
will generate the following compile warning:
warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]
With this patch we get rid of dozens of compile warnings on s390.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
|
|
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION,
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_SCHED_RR_GET_INTERVAL - not used anymore
CONFIG_GENERIC_{SIGALTSTACK,COMPAT_RT_SIG{ACTION,QUEUEINFO,PENDING,PROCMASK}} -
can be assumed always set.
|
|
Fix ioreadXXbe and iowriteXXbe functions which did
additional little endian conversion on native big endian systems.
Using be_to_cpu (cpu_to_be) conversions with __raw_read/write
functions have resolved it.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
|
|
Add a pointer to the gpio_chip structure that references the array of
GPIO descriptors belonging to the chip, and update gpiolib code to use
this pointer instead of the global gpio_desc[] array. This is another
step towards the removal of the gpio_desc[] global array.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.orh>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
|
|
arches can have more efficient implementation of these routines
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
|
|
As of now these default to calling the arch provided __copy_{to,from}_user()
routines which being general purpose (w.r.t buffer alignment and lengths)
would lead to alignment checks in generated code (for arches which don't
support unaligned load/stores).
Given that in this case we already know that data involved is "unit"
sized and aligned, using the vanilla copy backend is a bit wasteful.
This change thus allows arches to over-ride the aforementioned routines.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
|
|
This is because mm_segment_t is exported by arch code, while seqment_eq
assumes it will have .seg element.
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
|
|
Add a list member to gpio_chip that allows all chips to be parsed
quickly. The current method requires parsing the entire GPIO integer
space, which is painfully slow. Using a list makes many chip operations
that involve lookup or parsing faster, and also simplifies the code. It
is also necessary to eventually get rid of the global gpio_desc[] array.
The list of gpio_chips is always ordered by base GPIO number to ensure
chips traversal is done in the right order.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
|
|
Device driver features, cleanups and bug fixes.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
|
|
Pull full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed and
receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready,
from Frederic Weisbecker:
"This implements the cputime accounting on full dynticks CPUs.
Typical cputime stats infrastructure relies on the timer tick and
its periodic polling on the CPU to account the amount of time
spent by the CPUs and the tasks per high level domains such as
userspace, kernelspace, guest, ...
Now we are preparing to implement full dynticks capability on
Linux for Real Time and HPC users who want full CPU isolation.
This feature requires a cputime accounting that doesn't depend
on the timer tick.
To implement it, this new cputime infrastructure plugs into
kernel/user/guest boundaries to take snapshots of cputime and
flush these to the stats when needed. This performs pretty
much like CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING except that context location
and cputime snaphots are synchronized between write and read
side such that the latter can safely retrieve the pending tickless
cputime of a task and add it to its latest cputime snapshot to
return the correct result to the user."
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
|
|
gpiochip_reserve() has no user and stands in the way of the removal of
the static gpio_desc[] array. Remove this function as well as the now
unneeded RESERVED flag of struct gpio_desc.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
|
|
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
|
|
Switch from __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION to opposite
(!CONFIG_ODD_RT_SIGACTION); the only two architectures that
need it are alpha and sparc. The reason for use of CONFIG_...
instead of __ARCH_... is that it's needed only kernel-side
and doing it that way avoids a mess with include order on many
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
|
|
Linux 3.8-rc5
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
|
|
If we want to stop the tick further idle, we need to be
able to account the cputime without using the tick.
Virtual based cputime accounting solves that problem by
hooking into kernel/user boundaries.
However implementing CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING require
low level hooks and involves more overhead. But we already
have a generic context tracking subsystem that is required
for RCU needs by archs which plan to shut down the tick
outside idle.
This patch implements a generic virtual based cputime
accounting that relies on these generic kernel/user hooks.
There are some upsides of doing this:
- This requires no arch code to implement CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
if context tracking is already built (already necessary for RCU in full
tickless mode).
- We can rely on the generic context tracking subsystem to dynamically
(de)activate the hooks, so that we can switch anytime between virtual
and tick based accounting. This way we don't have the overhead
of the virtual accounting when the tick is running periodically.
And one downside:
- There is probably more overhead than a native virtual based cputime
accounting. But this relies on hooks that are already set anyway.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
|
If the architecture doesn't provide an implementation of
nsecs_to_cputime(), the cputime accounting core uses a
default one that converts the nanoseconds to jiffies. However
this only makes sense if we use the jiffies based cputime.
For now it doesn't matter much because this API is only
called on code that uses jiffies based cputime accounting.
But the code may evolve and this API may be used more
broadly in the future. Keeping this default implementation
around is very error prone as it may introduce a bug and
hide it on architectures that don't override this API.
Fix this by moving this definition to the jiffies based
cputime headers as it is the only place where it belongs to.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
|
The full dynticks cputime accounting that we'll soon introduce
will rely on sched_clock(). And its clock can have a per
nanosecond granularity.
To prepare for this, we need to have a cputime_t implementation
that has this precision.
ia64 virtual cputime accounting already uses that granularity
so all we need is to librarize its implementation in the asm
generic headers.
Also librarize the default per jiffy granularity cputime_t
as well so that we can easily pick either implementation
depending on the cputime accounting config we choose.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
|
|
Modify of_clk_init function so that it will determine which
driver to initialize based on device tree instead of each driver
registering to it.
Based on a similar patch for drivers/irqchip by Thomas Petazzoni and
drivers/clocksource by Stephen Warren.
Signed-off-by: Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>
Tested-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Tested-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Tested-by: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@anandra.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
[mturquette@linaro.org: merge conflict from missing CLKSRC_OF_TABLES()]
Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
|
|
Pull m68k fixes from Geert Uytterhoeven:
"The asm-generic changeset has been ack'ed by Arnd."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k:
m68k: Wire up finit_module
asm-generic/dma-mapping-broken.h: Provide dma_alloc_attrs()/dma_free_attrs()
m68k: Provide dma_alloc_attrs()/dma_free_attrs()
|
|
Some architectures (e.g. blackfin) provide gpio API without requiring
GPIOLIB support (ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB). devm_gpio_* functions
should also work for these architectures, since they do not really
depend on GPIOLIB.
Add a new option GPIO_DEVRES (enabled by default) to control the build
of devres.c. It also removes the empty version of devm_gpio_*
functions for !GENERIC_GPIO build from linux/gpio.h, and moves the
function declarations from asm-generic/gpio.h into linux/gpio.h.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
|
|
The struct gpio_chip is only defined inside #ifdef CONFIG_GPIOLIB,
but it's referenced by gpiochip_add_pin_range() and
gpiochip_remove_pin_ranges() which are outside #ifdef CONFIG_GPIOLIB.
Thus, we see the following warning when building blackfin image, where
GPIOLIB is not required.
CC arch/blackfin/kernel/bfin_gpio.o
CC init/version.o
In file included from arch/blackfin/include/asm/gpio.h:321,
from arch/blackfin/kernel/bfin_gpio.c:15:
include/asm-generic/gpio.h:298: warning: 'struct gpio_chip' declared inside parameter list
include/asm-generic/gpio.h:298: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
include/asm-generic/gpio.h:304: warning: 'struct gpio_chip' declared inside parameter list
Move pinctrl trunk into #ifdef CONFIG_GPIOLIB to fix the warning,
since it appears that pinctrl gpio range support depends on GPIOLIB.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
|
|
Pull misc syscall fixes from Al Viro:
- compat syscall fixes (discussed back in December)
- a couple of "make life easier for sigaltstack stuff by reducing
inter-tree dependencies"
- fix up compiler/asmlinkage calling convention disagreement of
sys_clone()
- misc
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
sys_clone() needs asmlinkage_protect
make sure that /linuxrc has std{in,out,err}
x32: fix sigtimedwait
x32: fix waitid()
switch compat_sys_wait4() and compat_sys_waitid() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch compat_sys_sigaltstack() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK build breakage with asm-generic/syscalls.h
Ensure that kernel_init_freeable() is not inlined into non __init code
|
|
Commit 816422ad7647 ("asm-generic, mm: pgtable: consolidate zero page
helpers") broke the compile on MIPS if SPARSEMEM is enabled. We get
this:
In file included from arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h:552,
from include/linux/mm.h:44,
from arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function 'my_zero_pfn':
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:466: error: implicit declaration of function 'page_to_section'
In file included from arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:
include/linux/mm.h: At top level:
include/linux/mm.h:738: error: conflicting types for 'page_to_section'
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:466: note: previous implicit declaration of 'page_to_section' was here
Due header files inter-dependencies, the only way I see to fix it is
convert my_zero_pfn() for __HAVE_COLOR_ZERO_PAGE to macros.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
|
From Rob Herring:
Initial irqchip init infrastructure and GIC and VIC clean-ups
This creates irqchip initialization infrastructure from Thomas
Petazzoni. The VIC and GIC irqchip code is moved to drivers/irqchips
and adapted to use the new infrastructure. All DT enabled platforms
using GIC and VIC are converted over to use the new irqchip_init.
* tag 'gic-vic-to-irqchip' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux:
irqchip: Move ARM vic.h to include/linux/irqchip/arm-vic.h
ARM: picoxcell: use common irqchip_init function
ARM: spear: use common irqchip_init function
irqchip: Move ARM VIC to drivers/irqchip
ARM: samsung: remove unused tick.h
ARM: remove unneeded vic.h includes
ARM: remove mach .handle_irq for VIC users
ARM: VIC: set handle_arch_irq in VIC initialization
ARM: VIC: shrink down vic.h
irqchip: Move ARM gic.h to include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h
ARM: use common irqchip_init for GIC init
irqchip: Move ARM GIC to drivers/irqchip
ARM: remove mach .handle_irq for GIC users
ARM: GIC: set handle_arch_irq in GIC initialization
ARM: GIC: remove direct use of gic_raise_softirq
ARM: GIC: remove assembly ifdefs from gic.h
ARM: mach-ux500: use SGI0 to wake up the other core
arm: add set_handle_irq() to register the parent IRQ controller handler function
irqchip: add basic infrastructure
irqchip: add to the directories part of the IRQ subsystem in MAINTAINERS
Fixed up massive merge conflicts with the timer cleanup due to adjacent changes:
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm.c
arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/cns3420vb.c
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/adssphere.c
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/edb93xx.c
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/gesbc9312.c
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/micro9.c
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/simone.c
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/snappercl15.c
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/ts72xx.c
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/vision_ep9307.c
arch/arm/mach-highbank/highbank.c
arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imx6q.c
arch/arm/mach-msm/board-dt-8960.c
arch/arm/mach-netx/nxdb500.c
arch/arm/mach-netx/nxdkn.c
arch/arm/mach-netx/nxeb500hmi.c
arch/arm/mach-nomadik/board-nhk8815.c
arch/arm/mach-picoxcell/common.c
arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_eb.c
arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb1176.c
arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb11mp.c
arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pba8.c
arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pbx.c
arch/arm/mach-socfpga/socfpga.c
arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear1310.c
arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear1340.c
arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear13xx.c
arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear300.c
arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear310.c
arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear320.c
arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear3xx.c
arch/arm/mach-spear6xx/spear6xx.c
arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-dt-tegra20.c
arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-dt-tegra30.c
arch/arm/mach-u300/core.c
arch/arm/mach-ux500/board-mop500.c
arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpu-db8500.c
arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_ab.c
arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_dt.c
arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_pb.c
arch/arm/mach-vexpress/v2m.c
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
|
|
Clockevent cleanup series from Shawn Guo.
Resolved move/change conflict in mach-pxa/time.c due to the sys_timer
cleanup.
* clocksource/cleanup:
clocksource: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible
ARM: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible
clockevents: export clockevents_config_and_register for module use
+ sync to Linux 3.8-rc3
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-pxa/time.c
|
|
With the recent creation of the drivers/irqchip/ directory, it is
desirable to move irq controller drivers here. At the moment, the only
driver here is irq-bcm2835, the driver for the irq controller found in
the ARM BCM2835 SoC, present in Rasberry Pi systems. This irq
controller driver was exporting its initialization function and its
irq handling function through a header file in
<linux/irqchip/bcm2835.h>.
When proposing to also move another irq controller driver in
drivers/irqchip, Rob Herring raised the very valid point that moving
things to drivers/irqchip was good in order to remove more stuff from
arch/arm, but if it means adding gazillions of headers files in
include/linux/irqchip/, it would not be very nice.
So, upon the suggestion of Rob Herring and Arnd Bergmann, this commit
introduces a small infrastructure that defines a central
irqchip_init() function in drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c, which is meant
to be called as the ->init_irq() callback of ARM platforms. This
function calls of_irq_init() with an array of match strings and init
functions generated from a special linker section.
Note that the irq controller driver initialization function is
responsible for setting the global handle_arch_irq() variable, so that
ARM platforms no longer have to define the ->handle_irq field in their
DT_MACHINE structure.
A global header, <linux/irqchip.h> is also added to expose the single
irqchip_init() function to the reset of the kernel.
A further commit moves the BCM2835 irq controller driver to this new
small infrastructure, therefore removing the include/linux/irqchip/
directory.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[rob.herring: reword commit message to reflect use of linker sections.]
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
|
|
Since commit e303297e6c3a ("mm: extended batches for generic
mmu_gather") we are batching pages to be freed until either
tlb_next_batch cannot allocate a new batch or we are done.
This works just fine most of the time but we can get in troubles with
non-preemptible kernel (CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE or CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY)
on large machines where too aggressive batching might lead to soft
lockups during process exit path (exit_mmap) because there are no
scheduling points down the free_pages_and_swap_cache path and so the
freeing can take long enough to trigger the soft lockup.
The lockup is harmless except when the system is setup to panic on
softlockup which is not that unusual.
The simplest way to work around this issue is to limit the maximum
number of batches in a single mmu_gather. 10k of collected pages should
be safe to prevent from soft lockups (we would have 2ms for one) even if
they are all freed without an explicit scheduling point.
This patch doesn't add any new explicit scheduling points because it
relies on zap_pmd_range during page tables zapping which calls
cond_resched per PMD.
The following lockup has been reported for 3.0 kernel with a huge
process (in order of hundreds gigs but I do know any more details).
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#56 stuck for 22s! [kernel:31053]
Modules linked in: af_packet nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc mptctl mptbase autofs4 binfmt_misc dm_round_robin dm_multipath bonding cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave pcc_cpufreq mperf microcode fuse loop osst sg sd_mod crc_t10dif st qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt netxen_nic i7core_edac iTCO_wdt joydev e1000e serio_raw pcspkr edac_core iTCO_vendor_support acpi_power_meter rtc_cmos hpwdt hpilo button container usbhid hid dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log linear uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh dm_snapshot pcnet32 mii edd dm_mod raid1 ext3 mbcache jbd fan thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon cciss scsi_mod
Supported: Yes
CPU 56
Pid: 31053, comm: kernel Not tainted 3.0.31-0.9-default #1 HP ProLiant DL580 G7
RIP: 0010: _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x8/0x10
RSP: 0018:ffff883ec1037af0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000e00 RBX: ffffea01a0817e28 RCX: ffff88803ffd9e80
RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 0000000000000206 RDI: 0000000000000206
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff887ec724a400
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dead000000200200 R12: ffffffff8144c26e
R13: 0000000000000030 R14: 0000000000000297 R15: 000000000000000e
FS: 00007ed834282700(0000) GS:ffff88c03f200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 000000000068b240 CR3: 0000003ec13c5000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process kernel (pid: 31053, threadinfo ffff883ec1036000, task ffff883ebd5d4100)
Call Trace:
release_pages+0xc5/0x260
free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x9d/0xc0
tlb_flush_mmu+0x5c/0x80
tlb_finish_mmu+0xe/0x50
exit_mmap+0xbd/0x120
mmput+0x49/0x120
exit_mm+0x122/0x160
do_exit+0x17a/0x430
do_group_exit+0x3d/0xb0
get_signal_to_deliver+0x247/0x480
do_signal+0x71/0x1b0
do_notify_resume+0x98/0xb0
int_signal+0x12/0x17
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at int_signal+0x12/0x17
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.0+]
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
|
CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option. As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.
This change removes the use of __devinit from some include files that
were previously missed.
Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
|
|
It is desirable to move all clocksource drivers to drivers/clocksource,
yet each requires its own initialization function. We'd rather not
pollute <linux/> with a header for each function. Instead, create a
single of_clksrc_init() function which will determine which clocksource
driver to initialize based on device tree.
Based on a similar patch for drivers/irqchip by Thomas Petazzoni.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
|
|
Saner transition plan for GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK conversion - instead of
adding #define sys_sigaltstack sys_sigaltstack in asm/syscalls.h of
architecture if it's pulls asm-generic/syscalls.h, only to have those
defines removed once all architectures are converted, make the
declaration in said asm-generic/syscalls.h conditional on the lack
of GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK. Less messy in intermediate stages that way...
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
|
|
Since commit 0049fb2603b7afb1080776ee691dfa5a3d282357 ("OMAPFB: use
dma_alloc_attrs to allocate memory") we have one non-arch user of
dma_{alloc,free}_attrs().
Hence provide these functions, as wrappers around
dma_{alloc,free}_coherent().
Note that most architectures do it the other way around. But as these are
dummy functions, we don't care.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
|
|
Pull asm-generic cleanup from Arnd Bergmann:
"These are a few cleanups for asm-generic:
- a set of patches from Lars-Peter Clausen to generalize asm/mmu.h
and use it in the architectures that don't need any special
handling.
- A patch from Will Deacon to remove the {read,write}s{b,w,l} as
discussed during the arm64 review
- A patch from James Hogan that helps with the meta architecture
series."
* tag 'asm-generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
xtensa: Use generic asm/mmu.h for nommu
h8300: Use generic asm/mmu.h
c6x: Use generic asm/mmu.h
asm-generic/mmu.h: Add support for FDPIC
asm-generic/mmu.h: Remove unused vmlist field from mm_context_t
asm-generic: io: remove {read,write} string functions
asm-generic/io.h: remove asm/cacheflush.h include
|
|
The {in,out}s{b,w,l} functions are designed to operate on a stream of
bytes and therefore should not perform any byte-swapping, regardless of
the CPU byte order.
This patch fixes the generic IO header so that {in,out}s{b,w,l} call the
__raw_{read,write} functions directly rather than going via the
endian-correcting accessors.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
|
Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
"There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
(balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
autonuma which is in aa.git.
In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
scheduling. In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.
The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are
mel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
mingo: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
tglx: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397
The results are a mixed bag. In my own tests, balancenuma does
reasonably well. It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
mainline. On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts. Thomas'
results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
numacore or autonuma. Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
large machine with imbalanced node sizes.
My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
There are also cases where it regresses. Of interest is that for
specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports. Recently I
reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
this problem is. Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case. It's possible
numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.
These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."
* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships
mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
...
|
Jonas Bonn
Linus Torvalds
James Hogan
Li Zhong
Ingo Molnar
Martin Schwidefsky
Heiko Carstens
Al Viro
Michal Simek
Alexandre Courbot
Vineet Gupta
Grant Likely
Ingo Molnar
Olof Johansson
Frederic Weisbecker
Prashant Gaikwad
Shawn Guo
Kirill A. Shutemov
Thomas Petazzoni
Michal Hocko
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Stephen Warren
Vineet Gupta
Geert Uytterhoeven
Will Deacon