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When running Active Memory Sharing, pages can get marked as
"loaned" with the hypervisor by the CMM driver. This state gets
cleared by the system firmware when rebooting the partition.
When using kexec to boot a new kernel, this state never gets
cleared and the hypervisor and CMM driver can get out of sync
with respect to the number of pages currently marked "loaned".
Fix this by adding a reboot notifier to the CMM driver to deflate
the balloon and mark all pages as active.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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When running Active Memory Sharing, the Collaborative Memory Manager
(CMM) may mark some pages as "loaned" with the hypervisor.
Periodically, the CMM will query the hypervisor for a loan request,
which is a single signed value. When kexec'ing into a kdump kernel,
the CMM driver in the kdump kernel is not aware of the pages the
previous kernel had marked as "loaned", so the hypervisor and the CMM
driver are out of sync. This results in the CMM driver getting a
negative loan request, which can then get treated as a large unsigned
value and can cause kdump to hang due to the CMM driver inflating too
large. Since there really is no clean way for the CMM driver in the
kdump kernel to clean this up, simply disable CMM in the kdump kernel.
This fixes hangs we were seeing doing kdump with AMS.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Otherwise you get lot of errors like these:
drivers/block/viodasd.c:72: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/block/viodasd.c: In function 'viodasd_open':
drivers/block/viodasd.c:135: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/block/viodasd.c: In function 'viodasd_release':
drivers/block/viodasd.c:184: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/block/viodasd.c: In function 'viodasd_getgeo':
drivers/block/viodasd.c:209: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/block/viodasd.c:214: error: implicit declaration of function 'get_capacity'
drivers/block/viodasd.c: At top level:
drivers/block/viodasd.c:222: error: variable 'viodasd_fops' has initializer but incomplete type
drivers/block/viodasd.c:223: error: unknown field 'owner' specified in initializer
Discovered by a randconfig build.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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ibm_configure_kernel_dump is passed as the token to rtas_call() is
never initialised. This sets it to something sane.
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Acked-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Manish Ahuja <mahujam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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print_dump_header() will be called at least once with a NULL pointer in
a normal boot sequence. If DEBUG is defined then we will dereference
the pointer and crash. Add a quick fix to exit early in the NULL pointer
case.
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Acked-by: Manish Ahuja <mahujam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Rename PowerPC's struct vm_region so that I can introduce my own
global version for NOMMU. It's feasible that the PowerPC version may
wish to use my global one instead.
The NOMMU vm_region struct defines areas of the physical memory map
that are under mmap. This may include chunks of RAM or regions of
memory mapped devices, such as flash. It is also used to retain
copies of file content so that shareable private memory mappings of
files can be made. As such, it may be compatible with what is
described in the banner comment for PowerPC's vm_region struct.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Using the common code means that more complete cache information will
provided in sysfs on platforms that don't use the l2-cache property
convention.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The smp code uses cache information to populate cpu_core_map; change
it to use common code for cache lookup.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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We have more than one piece of code that looks up cache nodes manually
using the "l2-cache" property. Add a common helper routine which does
this and handles ePAPR's "next-level-cache" property as well as
powermac.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: fix resume (S2R) broken by Intel microcode module, on A110L
x86 gart: don't complain if no AMD GART found
AMD IOMMU: panic if completion wait loop fails
AMD IOMMU: set cmd buffer pointers to zero manually
x86: re-enable MCE on secondary CPUS after suspend/resume
AMD IOMMU: allocate rlookup_table with __GFP_ZERO
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Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
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Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
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Split off Orion GPIO IRQ handling code into plat-orion/.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
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Split off Orion GPIO handling code into plat-orion/, and add
support for multiple sets of (32) GPIO pins.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
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Impact: fix deadlock
This is in response to the following bug report:
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12100
Subject : resume (S2R) broken by Intel microcode module, on A110L
Submitter : Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Date : 2008-11-25 08:48 (19 days old)
Handled-By : Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
[ The deadlock scenario has been discovered by Andreas Mohr ]
I think I might have a logical explanation why the system:
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12100)
might hang upon resuming, OTOH it should have likely hanged each and every time.
(1) possible deadlock in microcode_resume_cpu() if either 'if' section is
taken;
(2) now, I don't see it in spec. and can't experimentally verify it (newer
ucodes don't seem to be available for my Core2duo)... but logically-wise, I'd
think that when read upon resuming, the 'microcode revision' (MSR 0x8B) should
be back to its original one (we need to reload ucode anyway so it doesn't seem
logical if a cpu doesn't drop the version)... if so, the comparison with
memcmp() for the full 'struct cpu_signature' is wrong... and that's how one of
the aforementioned 'if' sections might have been triggered - leading to a
deadlock.
Obviously, in my tests I simulated loading/resuming with the ucode of the same
version (just to see that the file is loaded/re-loaded upon resuming) so this
issue has never popped up.
I'd appreciate if someone with an appropriate system might give a try to the
2nd patch (titled "fix a comparison && deadlock...").
In any case, the deadlock situation is a must-have fix.
Reported-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: move the BTS buffer accounting to the mlock bucket
Add alloc_locked_buffer() and free_locked_buffer() functions to mm/mlock.c
to kalloc a buffer and account the locked memory to current.
Account the memory for the BTS buffer to the tracer.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: introduce new ptrace facility
Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.
Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
traced task is forked.
Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.
Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
that when the traced task dies.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: Cleanup and branch hints only.
Move the track and untrack pfn stub routines from memory.c to asm-generic.
Also add unlikely to pfnmap related calls in fork and exit path.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: Cleanup - removes a new function in favor of a recently modified older one.
Replace follow_pfnmap_pte in pat code with follow_phys. follow_phys lso
returns protection eliminating the need of pte_pgprot call. Using follow_phys
also eliminates the need for pte_pa.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: cleanup
No need to declare do_signal().
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup, avoid sparse warnings, reduce kernel size a bit
Fixes these sparse warnings:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:869:6: warning: symbol 'boot_cpu_stack' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:910:6: warning: symbol 'boot_exception_stacks' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: reduce kconfig variable scope and clean up
Bartlomiej pointed out that the config dependencies and comments are not right.
update it depend to NUMA, and fix some comments
Reported-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Building upon parts of the module stripping patch, this patch
introduces similar stripping for vmlinux when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y.
Using CONFIG_KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED reduces the overhead of
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL from 245k/310k to 65k/80k for the (i386/x86-64)
kernels I tested with.
The patch also does away with the need to special case the kallsyms-
internal symbols by making them available even in the first linking
stage.
While it is a generated file, the patch includes the changes to
scripts/genksyms/keywords.c_shipped, as I'm unsure what the procedure
here is.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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On some machines it may be necessary to disable the saving/restoring
of the ACPI NVS memory region during hibernation/resume. For this
purpose, introduce new ACPI kernel command line option
acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs.
Based on a patch by Zhang Rui.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Introduce new initcall for marking the ACPI NVS memory at startup, so
that it can be saved/restored during hibernation/resume.
Based on a patch by Zhang Rui.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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into tracing/core
Conflicts:
include/linux/ftrace.h
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this warning:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c: In function ‘ir_set_msi_irq_affinity’:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c:3373: warning: ‘cfg’ may be used uninitialized in this function
triggers because the variable was truly uninitialized. We'd crash on
entering this code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix wrong cache sharing detection on platforms supporting > 8 bit apicid's
In the presence of extended topology eumeration leaf 0xb provided
by cpuid, 32bit extended initial_apicid in cpuinfo_x86 struct will be
updated by detect_extended_topology(). At this instance, we should also
reinit the apicid (which could also potentially be extended to 32bit).
With out this there will potentially be duplicate apicid's populated in the
per cpu's cpuinfo_x86 struct, resulting in wrong cache sharing topology etc
detected by init_intel_cacheinfo().
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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this warning:
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c: In function ‘apply_microcode_amd’:
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c:163: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c:163: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
triggers because we want to pass the address to the microcode MSR,
which is 64-bit even on 32-bit. Cast it explicitly to express this.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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as per 0560cf5aa51216b06874333a2fa26ca034d97bdb
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Impact: cleanup
Remove struct sigfram32 and rt_sigframe32 because there is no user.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: cleanup
Use rt_sigframe_ia32 instead of rt_sigframe32.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: cleanup
Include following headers for dependency.
asm/sigcontext.h
asm/siginfo.h
asm/ucontext.h
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Select CPU_V6 with the S3C64XX series.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
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Impact: cleanup
In asm/traps.h :-
do_double_fault : added under X86_64
sync_regs : added under X86_64
math_error : moved out from X86_32 as it is common for both 32 and 64 bit
math_emulate : moved from X86_32 as it is common for both 32 and 64 bit
smp_thermal_interrupt : added under X86_64
mce_threshold_interrupt : added under X86_64
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: New mm functionality.
Add pgprot_writecombine. pgprot_writecombine will be aliased to
pgprot_noncached when not supported by the architecture.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: mm behavior change.
Make pgprot_noncached uc_minus instead of strong UC. This will make
pgprot_noncached to be in line with ioremap_nocache() and all the other
APIs that map page uc_minus on uc request.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: New mm functionality.
Hookup remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn and corresponding copy and free
routines with reserve and free tracking.
reserve and free here only takes care of non RAM region mapping. For RAM
region, driver should use set_memory_[uc|wc|wb] to set the cache type and
then setup the mapping for user pte. We can bypass below
reserve/free in that case.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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When CONFIG_PM is selected, the VFP code does not have any handler
installed to deal with either saving the VFP state of the current
task, nor does it do anything to try and restore the VFP after a
resume.
On resume, the VFP will have been reset and the co-processor access
control registers are in an indeterminate state (very probably the
CP10 and CP11 the VFP uses will have been disabled by the ARM core
reset). When this happens, resume will break as soon as it tries to
unfreeze the tasks and restart scheduling.
Add a sys device to allow us to hook the suspend call to save the
current thread state if the thread is using VFP and a resume hook
which restores the CP10/CP11 access and ensures the VFP is disabled
so that the lazy swapping will take place on next access.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Impact: cleanup, avoid sparse warning
Included asm/idle.h for c1e_remove_cpu() declaration. Fixes this
sparse warning:
CHECK arch/x86/kernel/process.c
arch/x86/kernel/process.c:284:6: warning: symbol 'c1e_remove_cpu' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup
Add missing guard macro _ASM_X86_SIGFRAME_H.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch fixes a long-standing performance bug in classic RCU that
results in massive internal-to-RCU lock contention on systems with
more than a few hundred CPUs. Although this patch creates a separate
flavor of RCU for ease of review and patch maintenance, it is intended
to replace classic RCU.
This patch still handles stress better than does mainline, so I am still
calling it ready for inclusion. This patch is against the -tip tree.
Nevertheless, experience on an actual 1000+ CPU machine would still be
most welcome.
Most of the changes noted below were found while creating an rcutiny
(which should permit ejecting the current rcuclassic) and while doing
detailed line-by-line documentation.
Updates from v9 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/2/334):
o Fixes from remainder of line-by-line code walkthrough,
including comment spelling, initialization, undesirable
narrowing due to type conversion, removing redundant memory
barriers, removing redundant local-variable initialization,
and removing redundant local variables.
I do not believe that any of these fixes address the CPU-hotplug
issues that Andi Kleen was seeing, but please do give it a whirl
in case the machine is smarter than I am.
A writeup from the walkthrough may be found at the following
URL, in case you are suffering from terminal insomnia or
masochism:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/tmp/rcutree-walkthrough.2008.12.16a.pdf
o Made rcutree tracing use seq_file, as suggested some time
ago by Lai Jiangshan.
o Added a .csv variant of the rcudata debugfs trace file, to allow
people having thousands of CPUs to drop the data into
a spreadsheet. Tested with oocalc and gnumeric. Updated
documentation to suit.
Updates from v8 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/139):
o Fix a theoretical race between grace-period initialization and
force_quiescent_state() that could occur if more than three
jiffies were required to carry out the grace-period
initialization. Which it might, if you had enough CPUs.
o Apply Ingo's printk-standardization patch.
o Substitute local variables for repeated accesses to global
variables.
o Fix comment misspellings and redundant (but harmless) increments
of ->n_rcu_pending (this latter after having explicitly added it).
o Apply checkpatch fixes.
Updates from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/291):
o Fixed a number of problems noted by Gautham Shenoy, including
the cpu-stall-detection bug that he was having difficulty
convincing me was real. ;-)
o Changed cpu-stall detection to wait for ten seconds rather than
three in order to reduce false positive, as suggested by Ingo
Molnar.
o Produced a design document (http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/).
The act of writing this document uncovered a number of both
theoretical and "here and now" bugs as noted below.
o Fix dynticks_nesting accounting confusion, simplify WARN_ON()
condition, fix kerneldoc comments, and add memory barriers
in dynticks interface functions.
o Add more data to tracing.
o Remove unused "rcu_barrier" field from rcu_data structure.
o Count calls to rcu_pending() from scheduling-clock interrupt
to use as a surrogate timebase should jiffies stop counting.
o Fix a theoretical race between force_quiescent_state() and
grace-period initialization. Yes, initialization does have to
go on for some jiffies for this race to occur, but given enough
CPUs...
Updates from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/448):
o Fix a number of checkpatch.pl complaints.
o Apply review comments from Ingo Molnar and Lai Jiangshan
on the stall-detection code.
o Fix several bugs in !CONFIG_SMP builds.
o Fix a misspelled config-parameter name so that RCU now announces
at boot time if stall detection is configured.
o Run tests on numerous combinations of configurations parameters,
which after the fixes above, now build and run correctly.
Updates from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/15/92, bad subject line):
o Fix a compiler error in the !CONFIG_FANOUT_EXACT case (blew a
changeset some time ago, and finally got around to retesting
this option).
o Fix some tracing bugs in rcupreempt that caused incorrect
totals to be printed.
o I now test with a more brutal random-selection online/offline
script (attached). Probably more brutal than it needs to be
on the people reading it as well, but so it goes.
o A number of optimizations and usability improvements:
o Make rcu_pending() ignore the grace-period timeout when
there is no grace period in progress.
o Make force_quiescent_state() avoid going for a global
lock in the case where there is no grace period in
progress.
o Rearrange struct fields to improve struct layout.
o Make call_rcu() initiate a grace period if RCU was
idle, rather than waiting for the next scheduling
clock interrupt.
o Invoke rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() only when
idle, as suggested by Andi Kleen. I still don't
completely trust this change, and might back it out.
o Make CONFIG_RCU_TRACE be the single config variable
manipulated for all forms of RCU, instead of the prior
confusion.
o Document tracing files and formats for both rcupreempt
and rcutree.
Updates from v4 for those missing v5 given its bad subject line:
o Separated dynticks interface so that NMIs and irqs call separate
functions, greatly simplifying it. In particular, this code
no longer requires a proof of correctness. ;-)
o Separated dynticks state out into its own per-CPU structure,
avoiding the duplicated accounting.
o The case where a dynticks-idle CPU runs an irq handler that
invokes call_rcu() is now correctly handled, forcing that CPU
out of dynticks-idle mode.
o Review comments have been applied (thank you all!!!).
For but one example, fixed the dynticks-ordering issue that
Manfred pointed out, saving me much debugging. ;-)
o Adjusted rcuclassic and rcupreempt to handle dynticks changes.
Attached is an updated patch to Classic RCU that applies a hierarchy,
greatly reducing the contention on the top-level lock for large machines.
This passes 10-hour concurrent rcutorture and online-offline testing on
128-CPU ppc64 without dynticks enabled, and exposes some timekeeping
bugs in presence of dynticks (exciting working on a system where
"sleep 1" hangs until interrupted...), which were fixed in the
2.6.27 kernel. It is getting more reliable than mainline by some
measures, so the next version will be against -tip for inclusion.
See also Manfred Spraul's recent patches (or his earlier work from
2004 at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546384711797&w=2).
We will converge onto a common patch in the fullness of time, but are
currently exploring different regions of the design space. That said,
I have already gratefully stolen quite a few of Manfred's ideas.
This patch provides CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, which controls the bushiness
of the RCU hierarchy. Defaults to 32 on 32-bit machines and 64 on
64-bit machines. If CONFIG_NR_CPUS is less than CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT,
there is no hierarchy. By default, the RCU initialization code will
adjust CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT to balance the hierarchy, so strongly NUMA
architectures may choose to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to disable
this balancing, allowing the hierarchy to be exactly aligned to the
underlying hardware. Up to two levels of hierarchy are permitted
(in addition to the root node), allowing up to 16,384 CPUs on 32-bit
systems and up to 262,144 CPUs on 64-bit systems. I just know that I
am going to regret saying this, but this seems more than sufficient
for the foreseeable future. (Some architectures might wish to set
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4, which would limit such architectures to 64 CPUs.
If this becomes a real problem, additional levels can be added, but I
doubt that it will make a significant difference on real hardware.)
In the common case, a given CPU will manipulate its private rcu_data
structure and the rcu_node structure that it shares with its immediate
neighbors. This can reduce both lock and memory contention by multiple
orders of magnitude, which should eliminate the need for the strange
manipulations that are reported to be required when running Linux on
very large systems.
Some shortcomings:
o More bugs will probably surface as a result of an ongoing
line-by-line code inspection.
Patches will be provided as required.
o There are probably hangs, rcutorture failures, &c. Seems
quite stable on a 128-CPU machine, but that is kind of small
compared to 4096 CPUs. However, seems to do better than
mainline.
Patches will be provided as required.
o The memory footprint of this version is several KB larger
than rcuclassic.
A separate UP-only rcutiny patch will be provided, which will
reduce the memory footprint significantly, even compared
to the old rcuclassic. One such patch passes light testing,
and has a memory footprint smaller even than rcuclassic.
Initial reaction from various embedded guys was "it is not
worth it", so am putting it aside.
Credits:
o Manfred Spraul for ideas, review comments, and bugs spotted,
as well as some good friendly competition. ;-)
o Josh Triplett, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Mathieu Desnoyers,
Lai Jiangshan, Andi Kleen, Andy Whitcroft, and Andrew Morton
for reviews and comments.
o Thomas Gleixner for much-needed help with some timer issues
(see patches below).
o Jon M. Tollefson, Tim Pepper, Andrew Theurer, Jose R. Santos,
Andy Whitcroft, Darrick Wong, Nishanth Aravamudan, Anton
Blanchard, Dave Kleikamp, and Nathan Lynch for keeping machines
alive despite my heavy abuse^Wtesting.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6:
avr32: favr-32 build fix
ATSTK1006: Fix boot from NAND flash
avr32: remove .note.gnu.build-id section when making vmlinux.bin
avr32: Enable pullup on USART TX lines
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc: We need to implement arch_ptrace_stop().
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This commit:
commit 5cb04df8d3f03e37a19f2502591a84156be71772
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sun May 4 19:49:04 2008 +0200
x86: defconfig updates
changed CONFIG_RELOCATABLE from n to y, which may lead to a mismatch
between the vmlinux debug information and the runtime location of the
kernel, even when the bootloader does not relocate the kernel.
Revert the specific change. Works for me with GRUB and qemu.
Reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/25/243
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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As per Russell King's last review comment, find and remove
all unnecessary includes of <linux/delay.h> in the files
that do not need them.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
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