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Linus Torvalds b8bf17d311 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix lockup by limiting load-balance retries on lock-break
  sched: Fix CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED dependency
  sched: Remove empty #ifdefs
2012-01-11 22:52:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9fc5c3e323 Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/intel config: Fix the APB_TIMER selection
  x86/mrst: Add additional debug prints for pb_keys
  x86/intel config: Revamp configuration to allow for Moorestown and Medfield
  x86/intel/scu/ipc: Match the changes in the x86 configuration
  x86/apb: Fix configuration constraints
  x86: Fix INTEL_MID silly
  x86/Kconfig: Cyclone-timer depends on x86-summit
  x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup
  x86/config: Revamp configuration for MID devices
  x86/sfi: Kill the IRQ as id hack
2012-01-11 19:13:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d0b9706c20 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/numa: Add constraints check for nid parameters
  mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
  x86/mm: Initialize high mem before free_all_bootmem()
  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: quiet sparse noise about plain integer as NULL pointer
  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: Eliminate bubble sort from sanitize_e820_map()
  x86: Fix mmap random address range
  x86, mm: Unify zone_sizes_init()
  x86, mm: Prepare zone_sizes_init() for unification
  x86, mm: Use max_low_pfn for ZONE_NORMAL on 64-bit
  x86, mm: Wrap ZONE_DMA32 with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
  x86, mm: Use max_pfn instead of highend_pfn
  x86, mm: Move zone init from paging_init() on 64-bit
  x86, mm: Use MAX_DMA_PFN for ZONE_DMA on 32-bit
2012-01-11 19:12:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 57eccf1c2a Merge branch 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
* 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
  NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter
  NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open
  NFS: Remove pNFS bloat from the generic write path
  pnfs-obj: Must return layout on IO error
  pnfs-obj: pNFS errors are communicated on iodata->pnfs_error
  NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed
  NFS: Clean up nfs4_find_state_owners_locked()
  NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data
  nfs: fix a minor do_div portability issue
  NFSv4.1: cleanup comment and debug printk
  NFSv4.1: change nfs4_free_slot parameters for dynamic slots
  NFSv4.1: cleanup init and reset of session slot tables
  NFSv4.1: fix backchannel slotid off-by-one bug
  nfs: fix regression in handling of context= option in NFSv4
  NFS - fix recent breakage to NFS error handling.
  NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
  SUNRPC: Clean up the RPCSEC_GSS service ticket requests
2012-01-10 14:57:40 -08:00
Fabio Estevam 6db9dc150e sched: Fix CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED dependency
The dependency bug was pointed out by this build warning:

 warning: (SCHED_AUTOGROUP) selects CGROUP_SCHED which has unmet direct dependencies (CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL)

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326192383-5113-1-git-send-email-festevam@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-10 13:44:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 972b2c7199 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
  reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
  vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
  vfs: count unlinked inodes
  vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
  vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
  vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
  switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
  vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
  vfs: trim includes a bit
  switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount
  vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
  vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
  vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
  vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
  vfs: move mnt_devname
  vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
  vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
  ...
2012-01-08 12:19:57 -08:00
Al Viro d8c9584ea2 vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-06 23:16:53 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 9753dfe19a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1958 commits)
  net: pack skb_shared_info more efficiently
  net_sched: red: split red_parms into parms and vars
  net_sched: sfq: extend limits
  cnic: Improve error recovery on bnx2x devices
  cnic: Re-init dev->stats_addr after chip reset
  net_sched: Bug in netem reordering
  bna: fix sparse warnings/errors
  bna: make ethtool_ops and strings const
  xgmac: cleanups
  net: make ethtool_ops const
  vmxnet3" make ethtool ops const
  xen-netback: make ops structs const
  virtio_net: Pass gfp flags when allocating rx buffers.
  ixgbe: FCoE: Add support for ndo_get_fcoe_hbainfo() call
  netdev: FCoE: Add new ndo_get_fcoe_hbainfo() call
  igb: reset PHY after recovering from PHY power down
  igb: add basic runtime PM support
  igb: Add support for byte queue limits.
  e1000: cleanup CE4100 MDIO registers access
  e1000: unmap ce4100_gbe_mdio_base_virt in e1000_remove
  ...
2012-01-06 17:22:09 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 423d091dfe Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
  cpu: Export cpu_up()
  rcu: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_boost() return value
  Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled"
  docs: Additional LWN links to RCU API
  rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state
  rcu: Add rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw()
  rcu: Make rcutorture test for hotpluggability before offlining CPUs
  driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel
  rcu: Remove redundant rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declaration
  rcu: Adaptive dyntick-idle preparation
  rcu: Keep invoking callbacks if CPU otherwise idle
  rcu: Irq nesting is always 0 on rcu_enter_idle_common
  rcu: Don't check irq nesting from rcu idle entry/exit
  rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending
  rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints
  rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass
  rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures
  rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle()
  rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang
  rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end
  ...
2012-01-06 08:02:40 -08:00
Chuck Lever 43717c7dae NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name> reports that on his SPARC system,
booting with an NFS root file system stopped working after commit
56463e50 "NFS: Use super.c for NFSROOT mount option parsing."

We found that the network switch to which Lukas' client was attached
was delaying access to the LAN after the client's NIC driver reported
that its link was up.  The delay was longer than the timeouts used in
the NFS client during mounting.

NFSROOT worked for Lukas before commit 56463e50 because in those
kernels, the client's first operation was an rpcbind request to
determine which port the NFS server was listening on.  When that
request failed after a long timeout, the client simply selected the
default NFS port (2049).  By that time the switch was allowing access
to the LAN, and the mount succeeded.

Neither of these client behaviors is desirable, so reverting 56463e50
is really not a choice.  Instead, introduce a mechanism that retries
the NFSROOT mount request several times.  This is the same tactic that
normal user space NFS mounts employ to overcome server and network
delays.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name>
[ cel: match kernel coding style, add proper patch description ]
[ cel: add exponential back-off ]
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # > 2.6.38
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-01-05 10:42:39 -05:00
Al Viro 685dd2d5be init/initramfs.c: should use umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:55:14 -05:00
Glauber Costa e5671dfae5 Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory Controller
This patch lays down the foundation for the kernel memory component
of the Memory Controller.

As of today, I am only laying down the following files:

 * memory.independent_kmem_limit
 * memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes (currently ignored)
 * memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes (always zero)

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
CC: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
CC: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
CC: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
CC: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-12 19:03:55 -05:00
Paul E. McKenney b807fbff31 rcu: Permit RCU_FAST_NO_HZ to be used by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
The new implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is compatible with preemptible
RCU, so this commit removes the Kconfig restriction that previously
prohibited this.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:45 -08:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 54c29c635a mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled
When (no)bootmem finish operation, it pass pages to buddy
allocator. Since debug_pagealloc_enabled is not set, we will do
not protect pages, what is not what we want with
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y.

To fix remove debug_pagealloc_enabled. That variable was
introduced by commit 12d6f21e "x86: do not PSE on
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y" to get more CPA (change page
attribude) code testing. But currently we have CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG,
which test CPA.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322582711-14571-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
Ming Lei 73839c5b2e init/main.c: Execute lockdep_init() as early as possible
This patch fixes a lockdep warning on ARM platforms:

  [    0.000000] WARNING: lockdep init error! Arch code didn't call lockdep_init() early enough?
  [    0.000000] Call stack leading to lockdep invocation was:
  [    0.000000]  [<c00164bc>] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x0/0x90
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

The warning is caused by printk inside smp_setup_processor_id().

It is safe to do this because lockdep_init() doesn't depend on
smp_setup_processor_id(), so improve things that printk can be
called as early as possible without lockdep complaint.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321508072-23853-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:16:53 +01:00
Jack Steiner b565201cf7 x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup
Reduce the startup time for slave cpus.

Adds hooks for an arch-specific function for clock calibration.
These hooks are used on x86.  If a newly started cpu has the
same phys_proc_id as a core already active, uses the TSC for the
delay loop and has a CONSTANT_TSC, use the already-calculated
value of loops_per_jiffy.

This patch reduces the time required to start slave cpus on a
4096 cpu system from: 465 sec OLD 62 sec NEW

This reduces boot time on a 4096p system by almost 7 minutes.
Nice...

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
[fix CONFIG_SMP=n build]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05 17:12:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds b32fc0a062 Merge branch 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
  jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
  x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
  jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates
  sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
  jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
  stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
  jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer

Conflicts:
 - arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
	Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs
	removal of that function entirely
 - kernel/stop_machine.c
	same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient
	to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version
2011-11-06 20:20:46 -08:00
WANG Cong c736de60ae sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n
When I tried to send a patch to remove it, Andi told me we still need to
keep compabitlies for old libc, so we can't remove this completely.  Then
just make it default to n and remove the doc from
feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:02 -07:00
Will Drewry 79975f1327 init: add root=PARTUUID=UUID/PARTNROFF=%d support
Expand root=PARTUUID=UUID syntax to support selecting a root partition by
integer offset from a known, unique partition.  This approach provides
similar properties to specifying a device and partition number, but using
the UUID as the unique path prior to evaluating the offset.

For example,
  root=PARTUUID=99DE9194-FC15-4223-9192-FC243948F88B/PARTNROFF=1
selects the partition with UUID 99DE.. then select the next
partition.

This change is motivated by a particular usecase in Chromium OS where the
bootloader can easily determine what partition it is on (by UUID) but
doesn't perform general partition table walking.

That said, support for this model provides a direct mechanism for the user
to modify the root partition to boot without specifically needing to
extract each UUID or update the bootloader explicitly when the root
partition UUID is changed (if it is recreated to be larger, for instance).
 Pinning to a /boot-style partition UUID allows the arbitrary root
partition reconfiguration/modifications with slightly less ambiguity than
just [dev][partition] and less stringency than the specific root partition
UUID.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix init sections warning]
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:01 -07:00
Neil Armstrong f919b9235f init/do_mounts_rd.c: fix ramdisk identification for padded cramfs
When a cramfs ramdisk padded with 512 bytes is given to the kernel, the
current identify_ramdisk_image function fails to identify it.

Tested with a padded cramfs image on an ARM based board.

Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@neotion.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:06:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8a4a8918ed Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  llist: Add back llist_add_batch() and llist_del_first() prototypes
  sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints
  sched: Warn on rt throttling
  sched: Unify the ->cpus_allowed mask copy
  sched: Wrap scheduler p->cpus_allowed access
  sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance
  sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
  sched: Fix idle_cpu()
  llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
  sched: Convert to struct llist
  llist: Add llist_next()
  irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic
  llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
  llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()
  llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks
  llist: Make some llist functions inline
  sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
  sched: Remove redundant test in check_preempt_tick()
  sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
  sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue
  ...
2011-10-26 17:08:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 19b4a8d520 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  rcu: Move propagation of ->completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
  rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
  rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
  rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
  rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
  rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
  rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
  rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
  rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
  rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
  rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
  rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
  rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
  rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
  nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
  rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
  rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
  ...
2011-10-26 16:26:53 +02:00
Michal Schmidt b1e4d20cbf params: make dashes and underscores in parameter names truly equal
The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.

Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.

The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.

With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (neatened implementations)
2011-10-26 13:10:39 +10:30
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 97ce2c88f9 jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2011-10-25 11:55:15 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 22f92bacbe Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-04 11:09:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 048b718029 Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://github.com/paulmckrcu/linux into core/rcu 2011-10-01 14:21:36 +02:00
wangyanqing b0f84374b6 bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' a little earlier
Commit d5767c5353 ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls.  But then I get failed to let
uvesafb work on my computer, and lose the splash boot.

So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early to make
some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.

[ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
  the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
  it really does look like we don't have much choice.

  I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
  depending on config options that is in multiple places.  We could do
  the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..

  So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch.  It's not wonderful,
  but it's simple and should work.  We should revisit this some day,
  though.      - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-29 19:21:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 8008e129dc rcu: Drive configuration directly from SMP and PREEMPT
This commit eliminates the possibility of running TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
when SMP=n and of running TINY_RCU when PREEMPT=y.  People who really
want these combinations can hand-edit init/Kconfig, but eliminating
them as choices for production systems reduces the amount of testing
required.  It will also allow cutting out a few #ifdefs.

Note that running TREE_RCU and TINY_RCU on single-CPU systems using
SMP-built kernels is still supported.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:36:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d5767c5353 bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end of do_basic_setup()
Doing it just before starting to call into cpu_idle() made a sick kind
of sense only because the original bug we fixed (see commit
288d5abec831: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled") was about problems
with some scheduler data structures not being initialized, and they had
better be initialized at that point.

But it really didn't make any other conceptual sense, and doing it after
the initial "schedule()" call for the idle thread actually opened up a
race: what if the main initialization thread did everything without
needing to sleep, and got all the way into user land too? Without
actually having scheduled back to the idle thread?

Now, in normal circumstances that doesn't ever happen, but it looks like
Richard Cochran triggered exactly that on his ARM IXP4xx machines:

  "I have some ARM IXP4xx based machines that use the two on chip MAC
   ports (aka NPEs).  The NPE needs a firmware in order to function.
   Ever since the following commit [that 288d5abec8 one], it is no
   longer possible to bring up the interfaces during the init scripts."

with a call trace showing an ioctl coming from user space. Richard says:

  "The init is busybox, and the startup script does mount, syslogd, and
   then ifup, so that all can go by quickly."

The fix is to move the usermodehelper_enable() into the main 'init'
thread, and just put it after we've done all our initcalls.  By then,
everything really should be up, but we've obviously not actually started
the user-mode portion of init yet.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-28 10:23:44 -07:00
Alexander Sverdlin 808bf29b91 init: carefully handle loglevel option on kernel cmdline.
When a malformed loglevel value (for example "${abc}") is passed on the
kernel cmdline, the loglevel itself is being set to 0.

That then suppresses all following messages, including all the errors
and crashes caused by other malformed cmdline options.  This could make
debugging process quite tricky.

This patch leaves the previous value of loglevel if the new value is
incorrect and reports an error code in this case.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-21 13:18:52 -07:00
Paul Turner ab84d31e15 sched: Introduce primitives to account for CFS bandwidth tracking
In this patch we introduce the notion of CFS bandwidth, partitioned into
globally unassigned bandwidth, and locally claimed bandwidth.

 - The global bandwidth is per task_group, it represents a pool of unclaimed
   bandwidth that cfs_rqs can allocate from.
 - The local bandwidth is tracked per-cfs_rq, this represents allotments from
   the global pool bandwidth assigned to a specific cpu.

Bandwidth is managed via cgroupfs, adding two new interfaces to the cpu subsystem:
 - cpu.cfs_period_us : the bandwidth period in usecs
 - cpu.cfs_quota_us : the cpu bandwidth (in usecs) that this tg will be allowed
   to consume over period above.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184756.972636699@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:20 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 288d5abec8 Boot up with usermodehelper disabled
The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device
it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode
helper binary for all these events very early in the boot.

Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we
literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process
handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly
problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in
executing.

So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers
to make the kernel start out with them disabled.  We enable them when
we've at least initialized stuff a bit.

Problems related to an uninitialized

	init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex

reported by various people.

Reported-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 22:03:29 -10:00
Hugh Dickins 41ffe5d5ce tmpfs: miscellaneous trivial cleanups
While it's at its least, make a number of boring nitpicky cleanups to
shmem.c, mostly for consistency of variable naming.  Things like "swap"
instead of "entry", "pgoff_t index" instead of "unsigned long idx".

And since everything else here is prefixed "shmem_", better change
init_tmpfs() to shmem_init().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 14:25:23 -10:00
Sameer Nanda 7afe1845dd init: skip calibration delay if previously done
For each CPU, do the calibration delay only once.  For subsequent calls,
use the cached per-CPU value of loops_per_jiffy.

This saves about 200ms of resume time on dual core Intel Atom N5xx based
systems.  This helps bring down the kernel resume time on such systems
from about 500ms to about 300ms.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make cpu_loops_per_jiffy static]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up message text]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix things up after upstream rmk changes]
Signed-off-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org>
Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25 20:57:17 -07:00
WANG Cong 00a66d2974 mm: remove the leftovers of noswapaccount
In commit a2c8990aed ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter"),
Michal forgot to remove some left pieces of noswapaccount in the tree,
this patch removes them all.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c0c463d34a Merge branches 'x86-urgent-for-linus', 'core-debug-for-linus', 'irq-core-for-linus' and 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  um: Make rwsem.S depend on CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM

* 'core-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  debug: Make CONFIG_EXPERT select CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL to unhide debug options

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: Remove unused CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU()

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf tools, x86: Fix 32-bit compile on 64-bit system
2011-07-23 10:33:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a99a7d1436 Merge branch 'timers-cleanup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-cleanup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  mips: Fix i8253 clockevent fallout
  i8253: Cleanup outb/inb magic
  arm: Footbridge: Use common i8253 clockevent
  mips: Use common i8253 clockevent
  x86: Use common i8253 clockevent
  i8253: Create common clockevent implementation
  i8253: Export i8253_lock unconditionally
  pcpskr: MIPS: Make config dependencies finer grained
  pcspkr: Cleanup Kconfig dependencies
  i8253: Move remaining content and delete asm/i8253.h
  i8253: Consolidate definitions of PIT_LATCH
  x86: i8253: Consolidate definitions of global_clock_event
  i8253: Alpha, PowerPC: Remove unused asm/8253pit.h
  alpha: i8253: Cleanup remaining users of i8253pit.h
  i8253: Remove I8253_LOCK config
  i8253: Make pcsp sound driver use the shared i8253_lock
  i8253: Make pcspkr input driver use the shared i8253_lock
  i8253: Consolidate all kernel definitions of i8253_lock
  i8253: Unify all kernel declarations of i8253_lock
  i8253: Create linux/i8253.h and use it in all 8253 related files
2011-07-22 16:51:56 -07:00
Russell King 1b19ca9f0b Fix CPU spinlock lockups on secondary CPU bringup
Secondary CPU bringup typically calls calibrate_delay() during its
initialization.  However, calibrate_delay() modifies a global variable
(loops_per_jiffy) used for udelay() and __delay().

A side effect of 71c696b1 ("calibrate: extract fall-back calculation
into own helper") introduced in the 2.6.39 merge window means that we
end up with a substantial period where loops_per_jiffy is zero.  This
causes the spinlock debugging code to malfunction:

	u64 loops = loops_per_jiffy * HZ;
	for (;;) {
		for (i = 0; i < loops; i++) {
			if (arch_spin_trylock(&lock->raw_lock))
				return;
			__delay(1);
		}
		...
	}

by never calling arch_spin_trylock() - resulting in the CPU locking
up in an infinite loop inside __spin_lock_debug().

Work around this by only writing to loops_per_jiffy only once we have
completed all the calibration decisions.

Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> (2.6.39-stable)
--
Better solutions (such as omitting the calibration for secondary CPUs,
or arranging for calibrate_delay() to return the LPJ value and leave
it to the caller to decide where to store it) are a possibility, but
would be much more invasive into each architecture.

I think this is the best solution for -rc and stable, but it should be
revisited for the next merge window.

 init/calibrate.c |   14 ++++++++------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-23 08:59:38 -07:00
Takao Indoh d8ad7d1123 generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts
There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due
to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI
comes before call_single_queue is initialized.

To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init()
and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be
initialized before enabling interrupts.

The details of the crash are:

 (1) 2nd kernel boots up

 (2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled
     in start_kernel().

 (3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue
     is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the
     generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer
     dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access
     &q->list.next.

Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data()
to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable()
in start_kernel().

Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-17 10:17:12 +02:00
Josh Triplett d2c3225879 gcov: disable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS when not needed by CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS controls support for running constructor functions at
kernel init time.  According to commit b99b87f70c ("kernel:
constructor support"), gcov (CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) needs this.  However,
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS currently defaults to y, with no option to disable it,
and CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL depends on it.  Instead, default it to n and have
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL select it, so that the normal case of
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=n will result in CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=n.

Observed in the short list of =y values in a minimal kernel configuration.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
Borislav Petkov de695e159e init/calibrate.c: remove annoying printk
Remove calibrate_delay_direct()'s KERN_DEBUG printk related to bogomips
calculation as it appears when booting every core on setups with
'ignore_loglevel' which dmesg people scan for possible issues.  As the
message doesn't show very useful information to the widest audience of
kernel boot message gazers, it should be removed.

Introduced by commit d2b463135f ("init/calibrate.c: fix for critical
bogoMIPS intermittent calculation failure").

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com>
Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
Josh Triplett bd5dc17be8 uts: make default hostname configurable, rather than always using "(none)"
The "hostname" tool falls back to setting the hostname to "localhost" if
/etc/hostname does not exist.  Distribution init scripts have the same
fallback.  However, if userspace never calls sethostname, such as when
booting with init=/bin/sh, or otherwise booting a minimal system without
the usual init scripts, the default hostname of "(none)" remains,
unhelpfully appearing in various places such as prompts ("root@(none):~#")
and logs.  Furthermore, "(none)" doesn't typically resolve to anything
useful.

Make the default hostname configurable.  This removes the need for the
standard fallback, provides a useful default for systems that never call
sethostname, and makes minimal systems that much more useful with less
configuration.  Distributions could choose to use "localhost" here to
avoid the fallback, while embedded systems may wish to use a specific
target hostname.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:00 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 8761f1ab71 pcspkr: Cleanup Kconfig dependencies
Lenghty lists of the kind "depends on ARCH1 || ARCH2 ... || ARCH123" are
usually either wrong or too coarse grained.  Or plain an ugly sin.

[ tglx: Fixed up amigaone ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Gerhard Pircher <gerhard_pircher@gmx.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110601180610.984881988@duck.linux-mips.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-06-09 15:01:41 +02:00
Ralf Baechle 15f304b664 i8253: Consolidate all kernel definitions of i8253_lock
Move them to drivers/clocksource/i8253.c and remove the
implementations in arch/

[ tglx: Avoid the extra file in lib - folded arch patches in. The
  export will become conditional in a later step ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110601180610.221426078@duck.linux-mips.net
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-06-09 15:01:38 +02:00
Josh Triplett f505c553db debug: Make CONFIG_EXPERT select CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL to unhide debug options
Several debugging options currently default to y, such as
CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE and CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.  Embedded users
might want to turn those options off to save space; however,
turning them off requires turning on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL to
unhide them.  Since CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL exists specifically to
unhide debugging options, and CONFIG_EXPERT exists specifically
to unhide options potentially needed by experts and/or embedded
users, make CONFIG_EXPERT automatically imply
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110606012358.GA1909@leaf
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-07 00:05:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 6345d24daf mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc()
Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
    IP: [<c11ae035>] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     [<c11addda>] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70
     [<c102396b>] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80
     [<c1022705>] pud_populate+0x35/0x50
     [<c10227ba>] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0
     [<c103a3fc>] mm_init+0xec/0x120
     [<c103a7a3>] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0

which was introduced by commit de03c72cfc ("mm: convert
mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of
mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask

Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I
hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead
doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-29 11:32:28 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano a77aea9201 cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup
The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and
leads to some problems:

  * cgroup creation is out-of-control
  * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping
  * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of
    namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time
  * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup

  The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children',
  where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values.
  The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to
  the 'tasks' file.

This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html

The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used.

This is a userspace-visible change.  Commit 45531757b4 ("cgroup: notify
ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a
printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal.  Since that
time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Mike Travis 162a7e7500 printk: allocate kernel log buffer earlier
On larger systems, because of the numerous ACPI, Bootmem and EFI messages,
the static log buffer overflows before the larger one specified by the
log_buf_len param is allocated.  Minimize the overflow by allocating the
new log buffer as soon as possible.

On kernels without memblock, a later call to setup_log_buf from
kernel/init.c is the fallback.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_PRINTK=n build]
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:48 -07:00
Andrew Worsley d2b463135f init/calibrate.c: fix for critical bogoMIPS intermittent calculation failure
A fix to the TSC (Time Stamp Counter) based bogoMIPS calculation used on
secondary CPUs which has two faults:

1: Not handling wrapping of the lower 32 bits of the TSC counter on
   32bit kernel - perhaps TSC is not reset by a warm reset?

2: TSC and Jiffies are no incrementing together properly.  Either
   jiffies increment too quickly or Time Stamp Counter isn't incremented
   in during an SMI but the real time clock is and jiffies are
   incremented.

Case 1 can result in a factor of 16 too large a value which makes udelay()
values too small and can cause mysterious driver errors.  Case 2 appears
to give smaller 10-15% errors after averaging but enough to cause
occasional failures on my own board

I have tested this code on my own branch and attach patch suitable for
current kernel code.  See below for examples of the failures and how the
fix handles these situations now.

I reported this issue earlier here:
     Intermittent problem with BogoMIPs calculation on Intel AP CPUs -
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129947246316875&w=4

I suspect this issue has been seen by others but as it is intermittent and
bogoMIPS for secondary CPUs are no longer printed out it might have been
difficult to identify this as the cause.  Perhaps these unresolved issues,
although quite old, might be relevant as possibly this fault has been
around for a while.  In particular Case 1 may only be relevant to 32bit
kernels on newer HW (most people run 64bit kernels?).  Case 2 is less
dramatic since the earlier fix in this area and also intermittent.

   Re: bogomips discrepancy on Intel Core2 Quad CPU -
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118929277524298&w=4
   slow system and bogus bogomips  -
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116791286716107&w=4
   Re: Re: [RFC-PATCH] clocksource: update lpj if clocksource has -
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128952775819467&w=4

This issue is masked a little by commit feae3203d7 ("timers, init:
Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages") which only
prints out the first bogoMIPS value making it much harder to notice other
values differing.  Perhaps it should be changed to only suppress them when
they are similar values?

Here are some outputs showing faults occurring and the new code handling
them properly.  See my earlier message for examples of the original
failure.

    Case 1:   A Time Stamp Counter wrap:
...
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer
frequency.. 6332.70 BogoMIPS (lpj=31663540)
....
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666493
timer_rate_min=31666151 pre_start=4170369255 pre_end=4202035539
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=2425955274
timer_rate_min=2425954941 pre_start=4265368533 pre_end=2396356387
calibrate_delay_direct() ignoring timer_rate as we had a TSC wrap
around start=4265368581 >=post_end=2396356511
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666274
timer_rate_min=31665942 pre_start=2440373374 pre_end=2472039515
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666492
timer_rate_min=31666160 pre_start=2535372139 pre_end=2567038422
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666455
timer_rate_min=31666207 pre_start=2630371084 pre_end=2662037415
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6333.28 BogoMIPS (lpj=31666428)
Total of 2 processors activated (12665.99 BogoMIPS).
....

    Case 2:  Some thing (presumably the SMM interrupt?) causing the
very low increase in TSC counter for the DELAY_CALIBRATION_TICKS
increase in jiffies
...
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer
frequency.. 6333.25 BogoMIPS (lpj=31666270)
...
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666483
timer_rate_min=31666074 pre_start=4199536526 pre_end=4231202809
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=864348 timer_rate_min=864016
pre_start=2405343672 pre_end=2406207897
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666483
timer_rate_min=31666179 pre_start=2469540464 pre_end=2501206823
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666511
timer_rate_min=31666122 pre_start=2564539400 pre_end=2596205712
calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666084
timer_rate_min=31665685 pre_start=2659538782 pre_end=2691204657
calibrate_delay_direct() dropping min bogoMips estimate 1 = 864348
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6333.27 BogoMIPS (lpj=31666390)
Total of 2 processors activated (12666.53 BogoMIPS).
...

After 70 boots I saw 2 variations <1% slip through

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix straggly printk mess]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:46 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro de03c72cfc mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t
cpumask_t is very big struct and cpu_vm_mask is placed wrong position.
It might lead to reduce cache hit ratio.

This patch has two change.
1) Move the place of cpumask into last of mm_struct. Because usually cpumask
   is accessed only front bits when the system has cpu-hotplug capability
2) Convert cpu_vm_mask into cpumask_var_t. It may help to reduce memory
   footprint if cpumask_size() will use nr_cpumask_bits properly in future.

In addition, this patch change the name of cpu_vm_mask with cpu_vm_mask_var.
It may help to detect out of tree cpu_vm_mask users.

This patch has no functional change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:21 -07:00