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Jan Beulich a750036f35 x86: Fix write lock scalability 64-bit issue
With the write lock path simply subtracting RW_LOCK_BIAS there
is, on large systems, the theoretical possibility of overflowing
the 32-bit value that was used so far (namely if 128 or more
CPUs manage to do the subtraction, but don't get to do the
inverse addition in the failure path quickly enough).

A first measure is to modify RW_LOCK_BIAS itself - with the new
value chosen, it is good for up to 2048 CPUs each allowed to
nest over 2048 times on the read path without causing an issue.
Quite possibly it would even be sufficient to adjust the bias a
little further, assuming that allowing for significantly less
nesting would suffice.

However, as the original value chosen allowed for even more
nesting levels, to support more than 2048 CPUs (possible
currently only for 64-bit kernels) the lock itself gets widened
to 64 bits.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E258E0D020000780004E3F0@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 09:03:36 +02:00
Borislav Petkov 38e6b75d3b x86, asm: Cleanup thunk_64.S
Drop thunk_ra macro in favor of an additional argument to the thunk
macro since their bodies are almost identical. Do a whitespace scrubbing
and use CFI-aware macros for full annotation.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306873314-32523-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-06-03 14:38:55 -07:00
Jan Beulich 039e13890b x86: Remove unused bits from lib/thunk_*.S
Some of the items removed were apparently never used, others
simply didn't get removed with their last user.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D6BD3A002000078000341F1@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-28 18:06:22 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 81d68a96a3 ftrace: trace irq disabled critical timings
This patch adds latency tracing for critical timings
(how long interrupts are disabled for).

 "irqsoff" is added to /debugfs/tracing/available_tracers

Note:
  tracing_max_latency
    also holds the max latency for irqsoff (in usecs).
   (default to large number so one must start latency tracing)

  tracing_thresh
    threshold (in usecs) to always print out if irqs off
    is detected to be longer than stated here.
    If irq_thresh is non-zero, then max_irq_latency
    is ignored.

Here's an example of a trace with ftrace_enabled = 0

=======
preemption latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.24-rc7
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 latency: 100 us, #3/3, CPU#1 | (M:rt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
    -----------------
    | task: swapper-0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
    -----------------
 => started at: _spin_lock_irqsave+0x2a/0xb7
 => ended at:   _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x32/0x5f

                 _------=> CPU#
                / _-----=> irqs-off
               | / _----=> need-resched
               || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
               ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
               |||| /
               |||||     delay
   cmd     pid ||||| time  |   caller
      \   /    |||||   \   |   /
 swapper-0     1d.s3    0us+: _spin_lock_irqsave+0x2a/0xb7 (e1000_update_stats+0x47/0x64c [e1000])
 swapper-0     1d.s3  100us : _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x32/0x5f (e1000_update_stats+0x641/0x64c [e1000])
 swapper-0     1d.s3  100us : trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x75/0x89 (_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x32/0x5f)

vim:ft=help
=======

And this is a trace with ftrace_enabled == 1

=======
preemption latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.24-rc7
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 latency: 102 us, #12/12, CPU#1 | (M:rt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
    -----------------
    | task: swapper-0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
    -----------------
 => started at: _spin_lock_irqsave+0x2a/0xb7
 => ended at:   _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x32/0x5f

                 _------=> CPU#
                / _-----=> irqs-off
               | / _----=> need-resched
               || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
               ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
               |||| /
               |||||     delay
   cmd     pid ||||| time  |   caller
      \   /    |||||   \   |   /
 swapper-0     1dNs3    0us+: _spin_lock_irqsave+0x2a/0xb7 (e1000_update_stats+0x47/0x64c [e1000])
 swapper-0     1dNs3   46us : e1000_read_phy_reg+0x16/0x225 [e1000] (e1000_update_stats+0x5e2/0x64c [e1000])
 swapper-0     1dNs3   46us : e1000_swfw_sync_acquire+0x10/0x99 [e1000] (e1000_read_phy_reg+0x49/0x225 [e1000])
 swapper-0     1dNs3   46us : e1000_get_hw_eeprom_semaphore+0x12/0xa6 [e1000] (e1000_swfw_sync_acquire+0x36/0x99 [e1000])
 swapper-0     1dNs3   47us : __const_udelay+0x9/0x47 (e1000_read_phy_reg+0x116/0x225 [e1000])
 swapper-0     1dNs3   47us+: __delay+0x9/0x50 (__const_udelay+0x45/0x47)
 swapper-0     1dNs3   97us : preempt_schedule+0xc/0x84 (__delay+0x4e/0x50)
 swapper-0     1dNs3   98us : e1000_swfw_sync_release+0xc/0x55 [e1000] (e1000_read_phy_reg+0x211/0x225 [e1000])
 swapper-0     1dNs3   99us+: e1000_put_hw_eeprom_semaphore+0x9/0x35 [e1000] (e1000_swfw_sync_release+0x50/0x55 [e1000])
 swapper-0     1dNs3  101us : _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xe/0x5f (e1000_update_stats+0x641/0x64c [e1000])
 swapper-0     1dNs3  102us : _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x32/0x5f (e1000_update_stats+0x641/0x64c [e1000])
 swapper-0     1dNs3  102us : trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x75/0x89 (_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x32/0x5f)

vim:ft=help
=======

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:32:46 +02:00
Matthew Wilcox 64ac24e738 Generic semaphore implementation
Semaphores are no longer performance-critical, so a generic C
implementation is better for maintainability, debuggability and
extensibility.  Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for fixing the lockdep
warning.  Thanks to Harvey Harrison for pointing out that the
unlikely() was unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 10:42:34 -04:00
Sam Ravnborg c6c2d7a084 x86: fix usage of .section .sched.text in assembler code
Without this patch the linker will generate a section
named .sched.text.1 which is unexpected.
This is because the gcc generated section has "ax" but the
assembler usage of .sched.text lacks the "ax" specifier.

It would be better to have a definition we could use from
assembler code but I did not find a suitable header
file for it.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:37 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 10cd706d18 lockdep: x86_64: connect the sysexit hook
Run the lockdep_sys_exit hook after all other C code on the syscall
return path.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 22:11:12 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 185f3d3890 x86_64: move lib
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 11:17:08 +02:00