1. 11 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  2. 09 5月, 2007 2 次提交
  3. 03 5月, 2007 5 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86-64: unexport cpu_llc_id · 425001fe
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      WARNING: arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:cpu_llc_id from __ksymtab between '__ksymtab_cpu_llc_id' (at offset 0x4a0) and '__ksymtab_smp_num_siblings'
      
      It is strange to export a __cpuinitdata symbols to modules, and no module
      appears to use it anyway.
      
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      425001fe
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      [PATCH] x86-64: use safe_apic_wait_icr_idle in smpboot.c - x86_64 · 3144c332
      Fernando Luis VazquezCao 提交于
      inquire_remote_apic is used for APIC debugging, so use
      safe_apic_wait_icr_idle  instead of apic_wait_icr_idle to avoid possible
      lockups when APIC delivery fails.
      Signed-off-by: NFernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      3144c332
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      [PATCH] x86-64: use safe_apic_wait_icr_idle in smpboot.c - x86_64 · ea8c733b
      Fernando Luis VazquezCao 提交于
      The functionality provided by the new safe_apic_wait_icr_idle is being
      open-coded all over "kernel/smpboot.c". Use safe_apic_wait_icr_idle
      instead to consolidate code and ease maintenance.
      Signed-off-by: NFernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      ea8c733b
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      [PATCH] x86: Save the MTRRs of the BSP before booting an AP · 2b1f6278
      Bernhard Kaindl 提交于
      Applied fix by Andew Morton:
      http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/8/88 - Fix `make headers_check'.
      
      AMD and Intel x86 CPU manuals state that it is the responsibility of
      system software to initialize and maintain MTRR consistency across
      all processors in Multi-Processing Environments.
      
      Quote from page 188 of the AMD64 System Programming manual (Volume 2):
      
      7.6.5 MTRRs in Multi-Processing Environments
      
      "In multi-processing environments, the MTRRs located in all processors must
      characterize memory in the same way. Generally, this means that identical
      values are written to the MTRRs used by the processors." (short omission here)
      "Failure to do so may result in coherency violations or loss of atomicity.
      Processor implementations do not check the MTRR settings in other processors
      to ensure consistency. It is the responsibility of system software to
      initialize and maintain MTRR consistency across all processors."
      
      Current Linux MTRR code already implements the above in the case that the
      BIOS does not properly initialize MTRRs on the secondary processors,
      but the case where the fixed-range MTRRs of the boot processor are changed
      after Linux started to boot, before the initialsation of a secondary
      processor, is not handled yet.
      
      In this case, secondary processors are currently initialized by Linux
      with MTRRs which the boot processor had very early, when mtrr_bp_init()
      did run, but not with the MTRRs which the boot processor uses at the
      time when that secondary processors is actually booted,
      causing differing MTRR contents on the secondary processors.
      
      Such situation happens on Acer Ferrari 1000 and 5000 notebooks where the
      BIOS enables and sets AMD-specific IORR bits in the fixed-range MTRRs
      of the boot processor when it transitions the system into ACPI mode.
      The SMI handler of the BIOS does this in SMM, entered while Linux ACPI
      code runs acpi_enable().
      
      Other occasions where the SMI handler of the BIOS may change bits in
      the MTRRs could occur as well. To initialize newly booted secodary
      processors with the fixed-range MTRRs which the boot processor uses
      at that time, this patch saves the fixed-range MTRRs of the boot
      processor before new secondary processors are started. When the
      secondary processors run their Linux initialisation code, their
      fixed-range MTRRs will be updated with the saved fixed-range MTRRs.
      
      If CONFIG_MTRR is not set, we define mtrr_save_state
      as an empty statement because there is nothing to do.
      
      Possible TODOs:
      
      *) CPU-hotplugging outside of SMP suspend/resume is not yet tested
         with this patch.
      
      *) If, even in this case, an AP never runs i386/do_boot_cpu or x86_64/cpu_up,
         then the calls to mtrr_save_state() could be replaced by calls to
         mtrr_save_fixed_ranges(NULL) and  mtrr_save_state() would not be
         needed.
      
         That would need either verification of the CPU-hotplug code or
         at least a test on a >2 CPU machine.
      
      *) The MTRRs of other running processors are not yet checked at this
         time but it might be interesting to syncronize the MTTRs of all
         processors before booting. That would be an incremental patch,
         but of rather low priority since there is no machine known so
         far which would require this.
      
      AK: moved prototypes on x86-64 around to fix warnings
      Signed-off-by: NBernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      2b1f6278
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      [PATCH] x86: revert x86_64-mm-fix-the-irqbalance-quirk-for-e7320-e7520-e7525 · a86f34b4
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Obsoleted by Ingo's genapic stuff.
      
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      a86f34b4
  4. 08 3月, 2007 1 次提交
  5. 17 2月, 2007 2 次提交
  6. 07 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  7. 22 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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      WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data · 65f27f38
      David Howells 提交于
      Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
      The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.
      
      For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
      pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
      structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.
      
      To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
      work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.
      
      Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
      scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
      work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
      that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
      else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
      problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).
      
      However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
      function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
      with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
      work_struct by calling work_release().
      
      In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
      initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).
      Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      65f27f38
  8. 25 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86-64: Only look at per_cpu data for online cpus. · 70a0a535
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      When I generalized __assign_irq_vector I failed to pay attention
      to what happens when you access a per cpu data structure for
      a cpu that is not online.   It is an undefined case making any
      code that does it have undefined behavior as well.
      
      The code still needs to be able to allocate a vector across cpus
      that are not online to properly handle combinations like lowest
      priority interrupt delivery and cpu_hotplug.  Not that we can do
      that today but the infrastructure shouldn't prevent it.
      
      So this patch updates the places where we touch per cpu data
      to only touch online cpus, it makes cpu vector allocation
      an atomic operation with respect to cpu hotplug, and it updates
      the cpu start code to properly initialize vector_irq so we
      don't have inconsistencies.
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      70a0a535
  9. 26 9月, 2006 6 次提交
  10. 11 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 04 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  12. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  13. 28 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] sched: mc/smt power savings sched policy · 5c45bf27
      Siddha, Suresh B 提交于
      sysfs entries 'sched_mc_power_savings' and 'sched_smt_power_savings' in
      /sys/devices/system/cpu/ control the MC/SMT power savings policy for the
      scheduler.
      
      Based on the values (1-enable, 0-disable) for these controls, sched groups
      cpu power will be determined for different domains.  When power savings
      policy is enabled and under light load conditions, scheduler will minimize
      the physical packages/cpu cores carrying the load and thus conserving
      power(with a perf impact based on the workload characteristics...  see OLS
      2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details..)
      Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
      Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5c45bf27
  14. 27 6月, 2006 3 次提交
  15. 01 4月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[] · 9b41046c
      OGAWA Hirofumi 提交于
      The boot cmdline is parsed in parse_early_param() and
      parse_args(,unknown_bootoption).
      
      And __setup() is used in obsolete_checksetup().
      
      	start_kernel()
      		-> parse_args()
      			-> unknown_bootoption()
      				-> obsolete_checksetup()
      
      If __setup()'s callback (->setup_func()) returns 1 in
      obsolete_checksetup(), obsolete_checksetup() thinks a parameter was
      handled.
      
      If ->setup_func() returns 0, obsolete_checksetup() tries other
      ->setup_func().  If all ->setup_func() that matched a parameter returns 0,
      a parameter is seted to argv_init[].
      
      Then, when runing /sbin/init or init=app, argv_init[] is passed to the app.
      If the app doesn't ignore those arguments, it will warning and exit.
      
      This patch fixes a wrong usage of it, however fixes obvious one only.
      Signed-off-by: NOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9b41046c
  16. 28 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] sched: new sched domain for representing multi-core · 1e9f28fa
      Siddha, Suresh B 提交于
      Add a new sched domain for representing multi-core with shared caches
      between cores.  Consider a dual package system, each package containing two
      cores and with last level cache shared between cores with in a package.  If
      there are two runnable processes, with this appended patch those two
      processes will be scheduled on different packages.
      
      On such systems, with this patch we have observed 8% perf improvement with
      specJBB(2 warehouse) benchmark and 35% improvement with CFP2000 rate(with 2
      users).
      
      This new domain will come into play only on multi-core systems with shared
      caches.  On other systems, this sched domain will be removed by domain
      degeneration code.  This new domain can be also used for implementing power
      savings policy (see OLS 2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details..
      I will post another patch for power savings policy soon)
      
      Most of the arch/* file changes are for cpu_coregroup_map() implementation.
      Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      1e9f28fa
  17. 27 2月, 2006 2 次提交
  18. 08 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  19. 06 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  20. 05 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  21. 13 1月, 2006 2 次提交
  22. 12 1月, 2006 3 次提交