linux/arch/powerpc
Peter Zijlstra 925d519ab8 perf_counter: unify and fix delayed counter wakeup
While going over the wakeup code I noticed delayed wakeups only work
for hardware counters but basically all software counters rely on
them.

This patch unifies and generalizes the delayed wakeup to fix this
issue.

Since we're dealing with NMI context bits here, use a cmpxchg() based
single link list implementation to track counters that have pending
wakeups.

[ This should really be generic code for delayed wakeups, but since we
  cannot use cmpxchg()/xchg() in generic code, I've let it live in the
  perf_counter code. -- Eric Dumazet could use it to aggregate the
  network wakeups. ]

Furthermore, the x86 method of using TIF flags was flawed in that its
quite possible to end up setting the bit on the idle task, loosing the
wakeup.

The powerpc method uses per-cpu storage and does appear to be
sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.153932974@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:36 +02:00
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boot powerpc/83xx: add mmc-spi support via the device tree for MPC8323E-RDB 2009-04-01 08:59:23 -07:00
configs powerpc/85xx: Add support for the "socrates" board (MPC8544). 2009-03-27 06:42:08 -05:00
include/asm perf_counter: unify and fix delayed counter wakeup 2009-04-06 09:30:36 +02:00
kernel perf_counter: unify and fix delayed counter wakeup 2009-04-06 09:30:36 +02:00
kvm KVM: ppc: e500: Fix the bug that KVM is unstable in SMP 2009-03-24 11:03:15 +02:00
lib Merge commit 'origin/master' into next 2009-03-11 17:10:07 +11:00
math-emu powerpc/math-emu: Fix efp dependence 2009-03-11 06:00:08 -05:00
mm perf_counter: provide major/minor page fault software events 2009-04-06 09:29:40 +02:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: G4 oprofile has variable number of counters 2009-03-11 17:10:16 +11:00
platforms Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2 2009-04-06 09:02:57 +02:00
sysdev Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
xmon powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump 2008-12-23 15:13:28 +11:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
Kconfig.debug generic debug pagealloc: build fix 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
Makefile powerpc/math-emu: Fix efp dependence 2009-03-11 06:00:08 -05:00