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2013-07-01powerpc/idle: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_tableJoe Perches
This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-04-08powerpc: Use generic idle loopThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215235.026838003@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-11-15powerpc: Remove no longer used ppc_md.idle_loop()Michael Ellerman
The last user of ppc_md.idle_loop() was removed when we dropped the legacy iSeries code, in commit 8ee3e0d. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-05-08powerpc: Remove unused cpu_idle_wait()Thomas Gleixner
cpuidle uses a generic function now. Remove the cruft. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.330322737@linutronix.de
2012-05-08powerpc: Fix broken cpu_idle_wait() implementationThomas Gleixner
commit 771dae818 (powerpc/cpuidle: Add cpu_idle_wait() to allow switching of idle routines) implemented cpu_idle_wait() for powerpc. The changelog says: "The equivalent routine for x86 is in arch/x86/kernel/process.c but the powerpc implementation is different.": Unfortunately the changelog is completely useless as it does not tell _WHY_ it is different. Aside of being different the implementation is patently wrong. The rescheduling IPI is async. That means that there is no guarantee, that the other cores have executed the IPI when cpu_idle_wait() returns. But that's the whole purpose of this function: to guarantee that no CPU uses the old idle handler anymore. Use the smp_functional_call() based implementation, which fulfils the requirements. [ This code is going to replaced by a core version to remove all the pointless copies in arch/*, but this one should go to stable ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com> Cc: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175651.980164748@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-03-28Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPCDavid Howells
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
2012-03-21Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc Pull powerpc merge from Benjamin Herrenschmidt: "Here's the powerpc batch for this merge window. It is going to be a bit more nasty than usual as in touching things outside of arch/powerpc mostly due to the big iSeriesectomy :-) We finally got rid of the bugger (legacy iSeries support) which was a PITA to maintain and that nobody really used anymore. Here are some of the highlights: - Legacy iSeries is gone. Thanks Stephen ! There's still some bits and pieces remaining if you do a grep -ir series arch/powerpc but they are harmless and will be removed in the next few weeks hopefully. - The 'fadump' functionality (Firmware Assisted Dump) replaces the previous (equivalent) "pHyp assisted dump"... it's a rewrite of a mechanism to get the hypervisor to do crash dumps on pSeries, the new implementation hopefully being much more reliable. Thanks Mahesh Salgaonkar. - The "EEH" code (pSeries PCI error handling & recovery) got a big spring cleaning, motivated by the need to be able to implement a new backend for it on top of some new different type of firwmare. The work isn't complete yet, but a good chunk of the cleanups is there. Note that this adds a field to struct device_node which is not very nice and which Grant objects to. I will have a patch soon that moves that to a powerpc private data structure (hopefully before rc1) and we'll improve things further later on (hopefully getting rid of the need for that pointer completely). Thanks Gavin Shan. - I dug into our exception & interrupt handling code to improve the way we do lazy interrupt handling (and make it work properly with "edge" triggered interrupt sources), and while at it found & fixed a wagon of issues in those areas, including adding support for page fault retry & fatal signals on page faults. - Your usual random batch of small fixes & updates, including a bunch of new embedded boards, both Freescale and APM based ones, etc..." I fixed up some conflicts with the generalized irq-domain changes from Grant Likely, hopefully correctly. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (141 commits) powerpc/ps3: Do not adjust the wrapper load address powerpc: Remove the rest of the legacy iSeries include files powerpc: Remove the remaining CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES pieces init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code tty/hvc_vio: FW_FEATURE_ISERIES is no longer selectable powerpc/spufs: Fix double unlocks powerpc/5200: convert mpc5200 to use of_platform_populate() powerpc/mpc5200: add options to mpc5200_defconfig powerpc/mpc52xx: add a4m072 board support powerpc/mpc5200: update mpc5200_defconfig to fit for charon board Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup powerpc/44x: Add additional device support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board powerpc/44x: Add support PCI-E for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board MAINTAINERS: Update PowerPC 4xx tree powerpc/44x: The bug fixed support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board powerpc: document the FSL MPIC message register binding powerpc: add support for MPIC message register API powerpc/fsl: Added aliased MSIIR register address to MSI node in dts powerpc/85xx: mpc8548cds - add 36-bit dts ...
2012-03-09powerpc: Rework lazy-interrupt handlingBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The current implementation of lazy interrupts handling has some issues that this tries to address. We don't do the various workarounds we need to do when re-enabling interrupts in some cases such as when returning from an interrupt and thus we may still lose or get delayed decrementer or doorbell interrupts. The current scheme also makes it much harder to handle the external "edge" interrupts provided by some BookE processors when using the EPR facility (External Proxy) and the Freescale Hypervisor. Additionally, we tend to keep interrupts hard disabled in a number of cases, such as decrementer interrupts, external interrupts, or when a masked decrementer interrupt is pending. This is sub-optimal. This is an attempt at fixing it all in one go by reworking the way we do the lazy interrupt disabling from the ground up. The base idea is to replace the "hard_enabled" field with a "irq_happened" field in which we store a bit mask of what interrupt occurred while soft-disabled. When re-enabling, either via arch_local_irq_restore() or when returning from an interrupt, we can now decide what to do by testing bits in that field. We then implement replaying of the missed interrupts either by re-using the existing exception frame (in exception exit case) or via the creation of a new one from an assembly trampoline (in the arch_local_irq_enable case). This removes the need to play with the decrementer to try to create fake interrupts, among others. In addition, this adds a few refinements: - We no longer hard disable decrementer interrupts that occur while soft-disabled. We now simply bump the decrementer back to max (on BookS) or leave it stopped (on BookE) and continue with hard interrupts enabled, which means that we'll potentially get better sample quality from performance monitor interrupts. - Timer, decrementer and doorbell interrupts now hard-enable shortly after removing the source of the interrupt, which means they no longer run entirely hard disabled. Again, this will improve perf sample quality. - On Book3E 64-bit, we now make the performance monitor interrupt act as an NMI like Book3S (the necessary C code for that to work appear to already be present in the FSL perf code, notably calling nmi_enter instead of irq_enter). (This also fixes a bug where BookE perfmon interrupts could clobber r14 ... oops) - We could make "masked" decrementer interrupts act as NMIs when doing timer-based perf sampling to improve the sample quality. Signed-off-by-yet: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> --- v2: - Add hard-enable to decrementer, timer and doorbells - Fix CR clobber in masked irq handling on BookE - Make embedded perf interrupt act as an NMI - Add a PACA_HAPPENED_EE_EDGE for use by FSL if they want to retrigger an interrupt without preventing hard-enable v3: - Fix or vs. ori bug on Book3E - Fix enabling of interrupts for some exceptions on Book3E v4: - Fix resend of doorbells on return from interrupt on Book3E v5: - Rebased on top of my latest series, which involves some significant rework of some aspects of the patch. v6: - 32-bit compile fix - more compile fixes with various .config combos - factor out the asm code to soft-disable interrupts - remove the C wrapper around preempt_schedule_irq v7: - Fix a bug with hard irq state tracking on native power7
2012-03-01sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sitesThomas Gleixner
Create a distinction between scheduler related preempt_enable_no_resched() calls and the nearly one hundred other places in the kernel that do not want to reschedule, for one reason or another. This distinction matters for -rt, where the scheduler and the non-scheduler preempt models (and checks) are different. For upstream it's purely documentational. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gs88fvx2mdv5psnzxnv575ke@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-01sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()Thomas Gleixner
Coccinelle based conversion. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-11powerpc: Fix RCU idle and hcall tracingAnton Blanchard
Tracepoints should not be called inside an rcu_idle_enter/rcu_idle_exit region. Since pSeries calls H_CEDE in the idle loop, we were violating this rule. commit a7b152d5342c (powerpc: Tell RCU about idle after hcall tracing) tried to work around it by delaying the rcu_idle_enter until after we called the hcall tracepoint, but there are a number of issues with it. The hcall tracepoint trampoline code is called conditionally when the tracepoint is enabled. If the tracepoint is not enabled we never call rcu_idle_enter. The idle_uses_rcu check was also done at compile time which breaks multiplatform builds. The simple fix is to avoid tracing H_CEDE and rely on other tracepoints and the hypervisor dispatch trace log to work out if we called H_CEDE. This fixes a hang during boot on pSeries. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-01-06Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (185 commits) powerpc: fix compile error with 85xx/p1010rdb.c powerpc: fix compile error with 85xx/p1023_rds.c powerpc/fsl: add MSI support for the Freescale hypervisor arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rmu.c: introduce missing kfree powerpc/fsl: Add support for Integrated Flash Controller powerpc/fsl: update compatiable on fsl 16550 uart nodes powerpc/85xx: fix PCI and localbus properties in p1022ds.dts powerpc/85xx: re-enable ePAPR byte channel driver in corenet32_smp_defconfig powerpc/fsl: Update defconfigs to enable some standard FSL HW features powerpc: Add TBI PHY node to first MDIO bus sbc834x: put full compat string in board match check powerpc/fsl-pci: Allow 64-bit PCIe devices to DMA to any memory address powerpc: Fix unpaired probe_hcall_entry and probe_hcall_exit offb: Fix setting of the pseudo-palette for >8bpp offb: Add palette hack for qemu "standard vga" framebuffer offb: Fix bug in calculating requested vram size powerpc/boot: Change the WARN to INFO for boot wrapper overlap message powerpc/44x: Fix build error on currituck platform powerpc/boot: Change the load address for the wrapper to fit the kernel powerpc/44x: Enable CRASH_DUMP for 440x ... Fix up a trivial conflict in arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h due to the additional sparse-checking code for cputime_t.
2011-12-11nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()Frederic Weisbecker
Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would needlessly process any RCU job. Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11powerpc: Tell RCU about idle after hcall tracingPaul E. McKenney
The PowerPC pSeries platform (CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES=y) enables hypervisor-call tracing for CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y kernels. One of the hypervisor calls that is traced is the H_CEDE call in the idle loop that tells the hypervisor that this OS instance no longer needs the current CPU. However, tracing uses RCU, so this combination of kernel configuration variables needs to avoid telling RCU about the current CPU's idleness until after the H_CEDE-entry tracing completes on the one hand, and must tell RCU that the the current CPU is no longer idle before the H_CEDE-exit tracing starts. In all other cases, it suffices to inform RCU of CPU idleness upon idle-loop entry and exit. This commit makes the required adjustments. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stopFrederic Weisbecker
It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after the tick is stopped. To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs: tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(). If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(). Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly: - rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep. - rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken up. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logicFrederic Weisbecker
The tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() function, which tries to delay the next timer tick as long as possible, can be called from two places: - From the idle loop to start the dytick idle mode - From interrupt exit if we have interrupted the dyntick idle mode, so that we reprogram the next tick event in case the irq changed some internal state that requires this action. There are only few minor differences between both that are handled by that function, driven by the ts->inidle cpu variable and the inidle parameter. The whole guarantees that we only update the dyntick mode on irq exit if we actually interrupted the dyntick idle mode, and that we enter in RCU extended quiescent state from idle loop entry only. Split this function into: - tick_nohz_idle_enter(), which sets ts->inidle to 1, enters dynticks idle mode unconditionally if it can, and enters into RCU extended quiescent state. - tick_nohz_irq_exit() which only updates the dynticks idle mode when ts->inidle is set (ie: if tick_nohz_idle_enter() has been called). To maintain symmetry, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick() has been renamed into tick_nohz_idle_exit(). This simplifies the code and micro-optimize the irq exit path (no need for local_irq_save there). This also prepares for the split between dynticks and rcu extended quiescent state logics. We'll need this split to further fix illegal uses of RCU in extended quiescent states in the idle loop. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-08powerpc/cpuidle: Add cpu_idle_wait() to allow switching of idle routinesDeepthi Dharwar
This patch provides cpu_idle_wait() routine for the powerpc platform which is required by the cpuidle subsystem. This routine is required to change the idle handler on SMP systems. The equivalent routine for x86 is in arch/x86/kernel/process.c but the powerpc implementation is different. cpuidle_disable variable is to enable/disable cpuidle framework if power_save option is set during the boot time. Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-08-24powerpc: Re-enable preemption before cpu_die()Signed-off-by: Darren Hart
start_secondary() is called shortly after _start and also via cpu_idle()->cpu_die()->pseries_mach_cpu_die() start_secondary() expects a preempt_count() of 0. pseries_mach_cpu_die() is called via the cpu_idle() routine with preemption disabled, resulting in the following repeating message during rapid cpu offline/online tests with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y: BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x00000002 Modules linked in: autofs4 binfmt_misc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] Call Trace: [c00000010e7079c0] [c0000000000133ec] .show_stack+0xd8/0x218 (unreliable) [c00000010e707aa0] [c0000000006a47f0] .dump_stack+0x28/0x3c [c00000010e707b20] [c00000000006e7a4] .__schedule_bug+0x7c/0x9c [c00000010e707bb0] [c000000000699d9c] .schedule+0x104/0x800 [c00000010e707cd0] [c000000000015b24] .cpu_idle+0x1c4/0x1d8 [c00000010e707d70] [c0000000006aa1b4] .start_secondary+0x398/0x3d4 [c00000010e707e30] [c000000000008278] .start_secondary_resume+0x10/0x14 Move the cpu_die() call inside the existing preemption enabled block of cpu_idle(). This is safe as the idle task is affined to a single CPU so the debug_smp_processor_id() tests (from cpu_should_die()) won't trigger as we are in a "migration disabled" region. Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-18sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.Eric W. Biederman
For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler. Explicity taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations like stubbing the proc_handlers to NULL. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl supportEric W. Biederman
Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys .ctl_name and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code. Remove them. Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2008-11-20powerpc: ftrace, do not latency trace idleSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix for irq off latency tracer When idle is called, interrupts are disabled, but the idle function will still wake up on an interrupt. The problem is that the interrupt disabled latency tracer will take this call to idle as a latency. This patch disables the latency tracing when going into idle. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-09-30powerpc: Fix failure to shutdown with CPU hotplugJohannes Berg
I tracked down the shutdown regression to CPUs not dying when being shut down during power-off. This turns out to be due to the system_state being SYSTEM_POWER_OFF, which this code doesn't take as a valid state for shutting off CPUs in. This has never made sense to me, but when I added hotplug code to implement hibernate I only "made it work" and did not question the need to check the system_state. Thomas Gleixner helped me dig, but the only thing we found is that it was added with the original commit that added CPU hotplug support. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-18nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loopThomas Gleixner
Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing problem in the NOHZ code: scheduler switch to idle task enable interrupts Window starts here ----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED) irq_exit() stops the tick ----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED) return from schedule() cpu_idle(): preempt_disable(); Window ends here The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick disabled. The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric. Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure that we can not run into such a situation ever again. cpu_idle() { preempt_disable(); while(1) { tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we are in the idle loop while (!need_resched()) halt(); tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode preempt_enable_no_resched(); schedule(); preempt_disable(); } } In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ... /me grabs a large brown paperbag. Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>, Debugged-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-08[POWERPC] Fix sysctl table check failure on PowerMacAlexey Dobriyan
kernel was marked with 0755. Everywhere else it's 0555. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-10-03[POWERPC] Enable tickless idle and high res timers for powerpcTony Breeds
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-05-07[POWERPC] powermac: Suspend to disk on G5Johannes Berg
Powermac G5 suspend to disk implementation. The code is platform agnostic but only tested on powermac, no other 64-bit powerpc machines. Because nvidiafb still breaks suspend I have marked it EXPERIMENTAL on powermac and because I can't test it and some lowlevel code will need changes it is BROKEN on all other 64-bit platforms. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctlEric W. Biederman
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented. I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register duplicate sysctl entries. So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future enhancments harder. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables in arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.cEric W. Biederman
This was partially done already and there was no ABI breakage what a relief. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-10-25[POWERPC] cell: use ppc_md->power_save instead of cbe_idle_looparnd@arndb.de
This moves the cell idle function to use the default cpu_idle with a special power_save callback, like all other platforms except iSeries already do. It also makes it possible to disable this power_save function with a new powerpc-specific boot option "powersave=off". Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-13[PATCH] powerpc: Ensure runlatch is off in the idle loopAnton Blanchard
Since external and decrementer interrupts set the runlatch on, we need to ensure its set off again in the idle loop. At the moment we dont turn it off in the inner loop. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-27powerpc: Unify the 32 and 64 bit idle loopsPaul Mackerras
This unifies the 32-bit (ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc) and 64-bit idle loops. It brings over the concept of having a ppc_md.power_save function from 32-bit to ARCH=powerpc, which lets us get rid of native_idle(). With this we will also be able to simplify the idle handling for pSeries and cell. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>