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2008-12-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-nextLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (25 commits) allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko kbuild: simplify use of genksyms kernel-doc: check for extra kernel-doc notations kbuild: add headerdep used to detect inclusion cycles in header files kbuild: fix string equality testing in tags.sh kbuild: fix make tags/cscope kbuild: fix make incompatibility kbuild: remove TAR_IGNORE setlocalversion: add git-svn support setlocalversion: print correct subversion revision scripts: improve the decodecode script scripts/package: allow custom options to rpm genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes genksyms: track symbol checksum changes tags and cscope support really belongs in a shell script kconfig: fix options to check-lxdialog.sh kbuild: gen_init_cpio expands shell variables in file names remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig kbuild: teach mkmakfile to be silent ...
2008-12-28Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits) sched: fix warning in fs/proc/base.c schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime stats sched: use RCU variant of list traversal in for_each_leaf_rt_rq() sched, cpuacct: export percpu cpuacct cgroup stats sched, cpuacct: refactoring cpuusage_read / cpuusage_write sched: optimize update_curr() sched: fix wakeup preemption clock sched: add missing arch_update_cpu_topology() call sched: let arch_update_cpu_topology indicate if topology changed sched: idle_balance() does not call load_balance_newidle() sched: fix sd_parent_degenerate on non-numa smp machine sched: add uid information to sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED sched: move double_unlock_balance() higher sched: update comment for move_task_off_dead_cpu sched: fix inconsistency when redistribute per-cpu tg->cfs_rq shares sched/rt: removed unneeded defintion sched: add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller sched: include group statistics in /proc/sched_debug sched: rename SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER => SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER sched: clean up SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC ...
2008-12-28Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits) sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup() tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3 Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS" ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race ftrace: enable format arguments checking x86, bts: memory accounting x86, bts: add fork and exit handling ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size trace: fix task state printout ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2 tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp() x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records ... Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-27sparseirq: fix hang with !SPARSE_IRQYinghai Lu
Impact: fix hang Suresh report his two sockets system only works with SPARSE_IRQ enable it turns out we miss the setting desc->irq so provide early_irq_init() even !SPARSE_IRQ to set desc->irq Reported-by: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-27sparseirq: set lock_class for legacy irq when sparse_irq is selectedYinghai Lu
Impact: add lockdep annotation to legacy IRQ descs Warnings resulting out of this were not seen in practice, but it's prudent to initialize the legacy descriptors to the lock class as well, symmetric to how we do it with other descriptors. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-27sparseirq: work around compiler optimizing away __weak functionsYinghai Lu
Impact: fix panic on null pointer with sparseirq Some GCC versions seem to inline the weak global function, when that function is empty. Work it around, by making the functions return a (dummy) integer. Signed-off-by: Yinghai <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-27sparseirq: fix desc->lock initIngo Molnar
Impact: cleanup init_one_irq_desc() does not initialize the desc->lock properly - you cannot init a lock by memcpying some other lock on it. This happens to work right now (because irq_desc_init is never in use), but it's a dangerous construct nevertheless, so fix it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-27sparseirq: do not printk when migrating IRQ descriptorsIngo Molnar
Impact: reduce printk noise There were a couple of leftover KERN_DEBUG debugging printks, remove them. Also clarify an error message. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26cpumask: Replace cpu_coregroup_map with cpu_coregroup_maskRusty Russell
cpu_coregroup_map returned a cpumask_t: it's going away. (Note, the sched part of this patch won't apply meaningfully to the sched tree, but I'm posting it to show the goal). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2008-12-26sparseirq: remove duplicated arch_early_irq_init()Yinghai Lu
Impact: clean up We already have a weak copy of this function in init/main.c Signed-off-by: Yinghai <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26irq: simplify for_each_irq_desc() usageKOSAKI Motohiro
Impact: cleanup all for_each_irq_desc() usage point have !desc check. then its check can move into for_each_irq_desc() macro. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26proc: remove ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ from stat.cKOSAKI Motohiro
Impact: cleanup irq_desc can be NULL when CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y only. therefore, NULL checking can move into kstat_irqs_cpu() of SPARSE_IRQ version. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26irq: for_each_irq_desc() move to irqnr.hKOSAKI Motohiro
Impact: cleanup before CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ age, for_each_irq_desc() sat in irqnr.h and could be called from generic code. CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ breaks this assumption, but SPARSE_IRQ version for_each_irq_desc() also can move into irqnr.h easily. Also, this patch unifies CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ and !CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ for_each_irq_desc(). Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26hrtimer: remove #include <linux/irq.h>KOSAKI Motohiro
Impact: cleanup <linux/irq.h> can be removed and should be, because: - hrtimer doesn't use any irq feature. - <linux/irq.h> shouldn't be include from generic code. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hpet', 'timers/hrtimers', ↵Ingo Molnar
'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/rtc' into timers/core
2008-12-25Merge branches 'irq/sparseirq', 'irq/genirq' and 'irq/urgent'; commit ↵Ingo Molnar
'v2.6.28' into irq/core
2008-12-25Merge branches 'core/debugobjects', 'core/iommu', 'core/locking', ↵Ingo Molnar
'core/printk', 'core/rcu', 'core/resources', 'core/softirq' and 'core/stacktrace' into core/core
2008-12-25Merge branch 'core/futexes' into core/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-25Merge branch 'core/debug' into core/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-25Merge commit 'v2.6.28' into core/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-25Merge branch 'sched/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.28' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-25Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' and ↵Ingo Molnar
'tracing/ring-buffer'; commit 'v2.6.28' into tracing/core
2008-12-25sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()Peter Zijlstra
Impact: extend the wakeup tracepoint with the info whether the wakeup was real Add the information needed to distinguish 'real' wakeups from 'false' wakeups. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak aliasIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix Some architectures have not implemented save_stack_trace_tsk() yet: fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_pid_stack': base.c:(.text+0x3f140): undefined reference to `save_stack_trace_tsk' So warn about that if the facility is used. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures tooIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix Some old architectures still do not use kernel/Kconfig.preempt, so the moving of the RCU options there broke their build: In file included from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sem.h:81, from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sched.h:69, from /home/mingo/tip/arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c:9: /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/rcupdate.h:62:2: error: #error "Unknown RCU implementation specified to kernel configuration" Move these options back to init/Kconfig, which every architecture includes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2008-12-24Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-branch-tracingIngo Molnar
2008-12-23cgroups: avoid accessing uninitialized data in failure pathLi Zefan
If cgroup_get_rootdir() failed, free_cg_links() will be called in the failure path, but tmp_cg_links hasn't been initialized at that time. I introduced this bug in the 2.6.27 merge window. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-23cgroups: suppress bogus warning messagesSharyathi Nagesh
Remove spurious warning messages that are thrown onto the console during cgroup operations. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyathi@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-23sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fixVaidyanathan Srinivasan
Andrew Morton reported: > kernel/sched.c: In function 'schedule': > kernel/sched.c:3679: warning: 'active_balance' may be used uninitialized in this function > > This warning is correct - the code is buggy. In sched.c load_balance_newidle, there's real potential use of uninitialised variable - fix it. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23ring-buffer: prevent false positive warningSteven Rostedt
Impact: eliminate false WARN_ON message If an interrupt goes off after the setting of the local variable tail_page and before incrementing the write index of that page, the interrupt could push the commit forward to the next page. Later a check is made to see if interrupts pushed the buffer around the entire ring buffer by comparing the next page to the last commited page. This can produce a false positive if the interrupt had pushed the commit page forward as stated above. Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race. Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23ring-buffer: fix dangling commit raceSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix stuck trace-buffers If an interrupt comes in during the rb_set_commit_to_write and pushes the tail page forward just at the right time, the commit updates will miss the adding of the interrupt data. This will cause the commit pointer to cease from moving forward. Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race. Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-22[XFS] Fix merge conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_rename.cLachlan McIlroy
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-12-20Null pointer deref with hrtimer_try_to_cancel()Thomas Gleixner
Impact: Prevent kernel crash with posix timer clockid CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW commit 2d42244ae71d6c7b0884b5664cf2eda30fb2ae68 (clocksource: introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW) introduced a new clockid, which is only available to read out the raw not NTP adjusted system time. The above commit did not prevent that a posix timer can be created with that clockid. The timer_create() syscall succeeds and initializes the timer to a non existing hrtimer base. When the timer is deleted either by timer_delete() or by the exit() cleanup the kernel crashes. Prevent the creation of timers for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW by setting the posix clock function to no_timer_create which returns an error code. Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-20x86, bts: add fork and exit handlingMarkus Metzger
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>
2008-12-19sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and commentsYinghai Lu
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>
2008-12-19printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bugHiroshi Shimamoto
Impact: fix truncated recursion bug message printout When recursion_bug is true, kernel discards original message because printk_buf contains recursion_bug_msg with NULL terminator. The sizeof(recursion_bug_msg) makes this, use strlen() to get correct length without NULL terminator. Reported-by: Toshikazu Nakayama <nakayama.ts@ncos.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALLJan Beulich
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>
2008-12-19ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helperPekka J Enberg
Impact: cleanup This patch factors out common code from multiple tracers into a tracing_reset_online_cpus() function and converts the tracers to use it. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19Hibernate: Replace unnecessary evaluation of pfn_to_page()Rafael J. Wysocki
Replace one evaluation of pfn_to_page() in copy_data_pages() with the value of a local variable containing the right number already. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19Hibernate: Take overlapping zones into account (rev. 2)Rafael J. Wysocki
It has been requested to make hibernation work with memory hotplugging enabled and for this purpose the hibernation code has to be reworked to take the possible overlapping of zones into account. Thus, rework the hibernation memory bitmaps code to prevent duplication of PFNs from occuring and add checks to make sure that one page frame will not be marked as saveable many times. Additionally, use list.h lists instead of open-coded lists to implement the memory bitmaps. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19Hibernate: Do not oops on resume if image data are incorrectRafael J. Wysocki
During resume from hibernation using the userland interface image data are being passed from the used space process to the kernel. These data need not be valid, but currently the kernel sometimes oopses if it gets invalid image data, which is wrong. Make the kernel return error codes to the user space in such cases. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19ACPI hibernate: Add a mechanism to save/restore ACPI NVS memoryRafael J. Wysocki
According to the ACPI Specification 3.0b, Section 15.3.2, "OSPM will call the _PTS control method some time before entering a sleeping state, to allow the platform's AML code to update this memory image before entering the sleeping state. After the system awakes from an S4 state, OSPM will restore this memory area and call the _WAK control method to enable the BIOS to reclaim its memory image." For this reason, implement a mechanism allowing us to save the NVS memory during hibernation and to restore it during the subsequent resume. Based on a patch by Zhang Rui. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19Hibernate: Call platform_begin before swsusp_shrink_memoryZhang Rui
Call platform_begin() before swsusp_shrink_memory() so that we can always allocate enough memory to save the ACPI NVS region from platform_begin(). Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' ↵Ingo Molnar
into tracing/core Conflicts: include/linux/ftrace.h
2008-12-19sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.cIngo Molnar
Impact: fix cpumask conversion bug this warning: kernel/sched.c: In function ‘find_busiest_group’: kernel/sched.c:3429: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘__first_cpu’ from incompatible pointer type shows that we forgot to convert a new patch to the new cpumask APIs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpusVaidyanathan Srinivasan
Impact: tweak task balancing to save power more agressively Active load balancing is a process by which migration thread is woken up on the target CPU in order to pull current running task on another package into this newly idle package. This method is already in use with normal load_balance(), this patch introduces this method to new idle cpus when sched_mc is set to POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE_WAKEUP. This logic provides effective consolidation of short running daemon jobs in a almost idle system The side effect of this patch may be ping-ponging of tasks if the system is moderately utilised. May need to adjust the iterations before triggering. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packagesVaidyanathan Srinivasan
Impact: tweak task wakeup to save power more agressively Preferred wakeup cpu (from a semi idle package) has been nominated in find_busiest_group() in the previous patch. Use this information in sched_mc_preferred_wakeup_cpu in function wake_idle() to bias task wakeups if the following conditions are satisfied: - The present cpu that is trying to wakeup the process is idle and waking the target process on this cpu will potentially wakeup a completely idle package - The previous cpu on which the target process ran is also idle and hence selecting the previous cpu may wakeup a semi idle cpu package - The task being woken up is allowed to run in the nominated cpu (cpu affinity and restrictions) Basically if both the current cpu and the previous cpu on which the task ran is idle, select the nominated cpu from semi idle cpu package for running the new task that is waking up. Cache hotness is considered since the actual biasing happens in wake_idle() only if the application is cache cold. This technique will effectively move short running bursty jobs in a mostly idle system. Wakeup biasing for power savings gets automatically disabled if system utilisation increases due to the fact that the probability of finding both this_cpu and prev_cpu idle decreases. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpuVaidyanathan Srinivasan
Impact: extend load-balancing code (no change in behavior yet) When the system utilisation is low and more cpus are idle, then the process waking up from sleep should prefer to wakeup an idle cpu from semi-idle cpu package (multi core package) rather than a completely idle cpu package which would waste power. Use the sched_mc balance logic in find_busiest_group() to nominate a preferred wakeup cpu. This info can be stored in appropriate sched_domain, but updating this info in all copies of sched_domain is not practical. Hence this information is stored in root_domain struct which is one copy per partitioned sched domain. The root_domain can be accessed from each cpu's runqueue and there is one copy per partitioned sched domain. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balanceVaidyanathan Srinivasan
Impact: change load-balancing direction to match that of irqbalanced Just in case two groups have identical load, prefer to move load to lower logical cpu number rather than the present logic of moving to higher logical number. find_busiest_group() tries to look for a group_leader that has spare capacity to take more tasks and freeup an appropriate least loaded group. Just in case there is a tie and the load is equal, then the group with higher logical number is favoured. This conflicts with user space irqbalance daemon that will move interrupts to lower logical number if the system utilisation is very low. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>