1. 09 2月, 2008 2 次提交
  2. 08 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  3. 06 2月, 2008 2 次提交
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      latency.c: use QoS infrastructure · f011e2e2
      Mark Gross 提交于
      Replace latency.c use with pm_qos_params use.
      Signed-off-by: Nmark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
      Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f011e2e2
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      pm qos infrastructure and interface · d82b3518
      Mark Gross 提交于
      The following patch is a generalization of the latency.c implementation done
      by Arjan last year.  It provides infrastructure for more than one parameter,
      and exposes a user mode interface for processes to register pm_qos
      expectations of processes.
      
      This interface provides a kernel and user mode interface for registering
      performance expectations by drivers, subsystems and user space applications on
      one of the parameters.
      
      Currently we have {cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput} as
      the initial set of pm_qos parameters.
      
      The infrastructure exposes multiple misc device nodes one per implemented
      parameter.  The set of parameters implement is defined by pm_qos_power_init()
      and pm_qos_params.h.  This is done because having the available parameters
      being runtime configurable or changeable from a driver was seen as too easy to
      abuse.
      
      For each parameter a list of performance requirements is maintained along with
      an aggregated target value.  The aggregated target value is updated with
      changes to the requirement list or elements of the list.  Typically the
      aggregated target value is simply the max or min of the requirement values
      held in the parameter list elements.
      
      >From kernel mode the use of this interface is simple:
      
      pm_qos_add_requirement(param_id, name, target_value):
      
        Will insert a named element in the list for that identified PM_QOS
        parameter with the target value.  Upon change to this list the new target is
        recomputed and any registered notifiers are called only if the target value
        is now different.
      
      pm_qos_update_requirement(param_id, name, new_target_value):
      
        Will search the list identified by the param_id for the named list element
        and then update its target value, calling the notification tree if the
        aggregated target is changed.  with that name is already registered.
      
      pm_qos_remove_requirement(param_id, name):
      
        Will search the identified list for the named element and remove it, after
        removal it will update the aggregate target and call the notification tree
        if the target was changed as a result of removing the named requirement.
      
      >From user mode:
      
        Only processes can register a pm_qos requirement.  To provide for
        automatic cleanup for process the interface requires the process to register
        its parameter requirements in the following way:
      
        To register the default pm_qos target for the specific parameter, the
        process must open one of /dev/[cpu_dma_latency, network_latency,
        network_throughput]
      
        As long as the device node is held open that process has a registered
        requirement on the parameter.  The name of the requirement is
        "process_<PID>" derived from the current->pid from within the open system
        call.
      
        To change the requested target value the process needs to write a s32
        value to the open device node.  This translates to a
        pm_qos_update_requirement call.
      
        To remove the user mode request for a target value simply close the device
        node.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build again]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: Nmark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
      Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
      Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
      Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d82b3518
  4. 03 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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      kobject: Always build in kernel/ksysfs.o. · dfacd68e
      Paul Mundt 提交于
      kernel/ksysfs.c seems to be a random dumping group for misc globals
      that the rest of the tree depend on. This has caused problems with
      exports in the past when sysfs is disabled, which can already be
      observed in commit-id 51107301.
      
      The latest one is the kernel_kobj usage, which presently results in:
      
      fs/built-in.o: In function `debugfs_init':
      inode.c:(.init.text+0xc34): undefined reference to `kernel_kobj'
      make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
      
      kernel/ksysfs.c itself at this point only contains globals and some
      basic sysfs initialization, the sysfs initialization code is optimized
      out when we build with sysfs disabled. Given that, it's easier to just
      build in unconditionally, rather than trying to find some other random
      place to dump and initialize the globals.
      
      Additionally, the current trend seems to be decoupling of kobjects from
      sysfs, in which case it still makes sense to perform the kernel_kobj
      initialization that happens here even if sysfs is disabled, as
      lib/kobject.o is built-in unconditionally.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      dfacd68e
  5. 30 1月, 2008 2 次提交
  6. 26 1月, 2008 3 次提交
  7. 15 11月, 2007 1 次提交
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      revert "Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem" · cfb52856
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Revert 62d0df64.
      
      This was originally intended as a simple initial example of how to create a
      control groups subsystem; it wasn't intended for mainline, but I didn't make
      this clear enough to Andrew.
      
      The CFS cgroup subsystem now has better functionality for the per-cgroup usage
      accounting (based directly on CFS stats) than the "usage" status file in this
      patch, and the "load" status file is rather simplistic - although having a
      per-cgroup load average report would be a useful feature, I don't believe this
      patch actually provides it.  If it gets into the final 2.6.24 we'd probably
      have to support this interface for ever.
      
      Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cfb52856
  8. 21 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] audit: watching subtrees · 74c3cbe3
      Al Viro 提交于
      New kind of audit rule predicates: "object is visible in given subtree".
      The part that can be sanely implemented, that is.  Limitations:
      	* if you have hardlink from outside of tree, you'd better watch
      it too (or just watch the object itself, obviously)
      	* if you mount something under a watched tree, tell audit
      that new chunk should be added to watched subtrees
      	* if you umount something in a watched tree and it's still mounted
      elsewhere, you will get matches on events happening there.  New command
      tells audit to recalculate the trees, trimming such sources of false
      positives.
      
      Note that it's _not_ about path - if something mounted in several places
      (multiple mount, bindings, different namespaces, etc.), the match does
      _not_ depend on which one we are using for access.
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      74c3cbe3
  9. 20 10月, 2007 7 次提交
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      sysctl: Don't compile sysctl_check when !CONFIG_SYSCTL · c1cb8e48
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      Weird I thought I had written the makefile so this would be handled.  Oh
      well this should fix it.
      
      Sorry about that.
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Acked-and-tested-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c1cb8e48
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      Linux Kernel Markers · 8256e47c
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      The marker activation functions sits in kernel/marker.c.  A hash table is used
      to keep track of the registered probes and armed markers, so the markers
      within a newly loaded module that should be active can be activated at module
      load time.
      
      marker_query has been removed. marker_get_first, marker_get_next and
      marker_release should be used as iterators on the markers.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Acked-by: N"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8256e47c
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      cgroups: implement namespace tracking subsystem · 858d72ea
      Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
      When a task enters a new namespace via a clone() or unshare(), a new cgroup
      is created and the task moves into it.
      
      This version names cgroups which are automatically created using
      cgroup_clone() as "node_<pid>" where pid is the pid of the unsharing or
      cloned process.  (Thanks Pavel for the idea) This is safe because if the
      process unshares again, it will create
      
      	/cgroups/(...)/node_<pid>/node_<pid>
      
      The only possibilities (AFAICT) for a -EEXIST on unshare are
      
      	1. pid wraparound
      	2. a process fails an unshare, then tries again.
      
      Case 1 is unlikely enough that I ignore it (at least for now).  In case 2, the
      node_<pid> will be empty and can be rmdir'ed to make the subsequent unshare()
      succeed.
      
      Changelog:
      	Name cloned cgroups as "node_<pid>".
      
      [clg@fr.ibm.com: fix order of cgroup subsystems in init/Kconfig]
      Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NCedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      858d72ea
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      Task Control Groups: simple task cgroup debug info subsystem · 006cb992
      Paul Menage 提交于
      This example subsystem exports debugging information as an aid to diagnosing
      refcount leaks, etc, in the cgroup framework.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
      Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
      Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      006cb992
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      Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem · 62d0df64
      Paul Menage 提交于
      This example demonstrates how to use the generic cgroup subsystem for a
      simple resource tracker that counts, for the processes in a cgroup, the
      total CPU time used and the %CPU used in the last complete 10 second interval.
      
      Portions contributed by Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
      Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
      Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      62d0df64
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      Task Control Groups: basic task cgroup framework · ddbcc7e8
      Paul Menage 提交于
      Generic Process Control Groups
      --------------------------
      
      There have recently been various proposals floating around for
      resource management/accounting and other task grouping subsystems in
      the kernel, including ResGroups, User BeanCounters, NSProxy
      cgroups, and others.  These all need the basic abstraction of being
      able to group together multiple processes in an aggregate, in order to
      track/limit the resources permitted to those processes, or control
      other behaviour of the processes, and all implement this grouping in
      different ways.
      
      This patchset provides a framework for tracking and grouping processes
      into arbitrary "cgroups" and assigning arbitrary state to those
      groupings, in order to control the behaviour of the cgroup as an
      aggregate.
      
      The intention is that the various resource management and
      virtualization/cgroup efforts can also become task cgroup
      clients, with the result that:
      
      - the userspace APIs are (somewhat) normalised
      
      - it's easier to test e.g. the ResGroups CPU controller in
       conjunction with the BeanCounters memory controller, or use either of
      them as the resource-control portion of a virtual server system.
      
      - the additional kernel footprint of any of the competing resource
       management systems is substantially reduced, since it doesn't need
       to provide process grouping/containment, hence improving their
       chances of getting into the kernel
      
      This patch:
      
      Add the main task cgroups framework - the cgroup filesystem, and the
      basic structures for tracking membership and associating subsystem state
      objects to tasks.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
      Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
      Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ddbcc7e8
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      Add kernel/notifier.c · fe9d4f57
      Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
      There is separate notifier header, but no separate notifier .c file.
      
      Extract notifier code out of kernel/sys.c which will remain for
      misc syscalls I hope. Merge kernel/die_notifier.c into kernel/notifier.c.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fe9d4f57
  10. 19 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      sysctl: Error on bad sysctl tables · fc6cd25b
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has become
      clear that code review and testing is just not effective in prevent
      problematic sysctl tables from being used in the stable kernel.  I certainly
      can't seem to fix the problems as fast as they are introduced.
      
      Therefore this patch adds sysctl_check_table which is called when a sysctl
      table is registered and checks to see if we have a problematic sysctl table.
      
      The biggest part of the code is the table of valid binary sysctl entries, but
      since we have frozen our set of binary sysctls this table should not need to
      change, and it makes it much easier to detect when someone unintentionally
      adds a new binary sysctl value.
      
      As best as I can determine all of the several hundred errors spewed on boot up
      now are legitimate.
      
      [bunk@kernel.org: kernel/sysctl_check.c must #include <linux/string.h>]
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fc6cd25b
  11. 17 7月, 2007 2 次提交
  12. 09 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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      move die notifier handling to common code · 1eeb66a1
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code.  Previous
      various architectures had exactly the same code for it.  Note that the new
      code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
      the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
      sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)
      
      arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
      arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
      declared and used at.  avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
      this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
      [bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1eeb66a1
  13. 15 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  14. 16 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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      Remove stack unwinder for now · d1526e2c
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      It has caused more problems than it ever really solved, and is
      apparently not getting cleaned up and fixed.  We can put it back when
      it's stable and isn't likely to make warning or bug events worse.
      
      In the meantime, enable frame pointers for more readable stack traces.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      d1526e2c
  15. 04 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] srcu-3: RCU variant permitting read-side blocking · 621934ee
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      Updated patch adding a variant of RCU that permits sleeping in read-side
      critical sections.  SRCU is as follows:
      
      o	Each use of SRCU creates its own srcu_struct, and each
      	srcu_struct has its own set of grace periods.  This is
      	critical, as it prevents one subsystem with a blocking
      	reader from holding up SRCU grace periods for other
      	subsystems.
      
      o	The SRCU primitives (srcu_read_lock(), srcu_read_unlock(),
      	and synchronize_srcu()) all take a pointer to a srcu_struct.
      
      o	The SRCU primitives must be called from process context.
      
      o	srcu_read_lock() returns an int that must be passed to
      	the matching srcu_read_unlock().  Realtime RCU avoids the
      	need for this by storing the state in the task struct,
      	but SRCU needs to allow a given code path to pass through
      	multiple SRCU domains -- storing state in the task struct
      	would therefore require either arbitrary space in the
      	task struct or arbitrary limits on SRCU nesting.  So I
      	kicked the state-storage problem up to the caller.
      
      	Of course, it is not permitted to call synchronize_srcu()
      	while in an SRCU read-side critical section.
      
      o	There is no call_srcu().  It would not be hard to implement
      	one, but it seems like too easy a way to OOM the system.
      	(Hey, we have enough trouble with call_rcu(), which does
      	-not- permit readers to sleep!!!)  So, if you want it,
      	please tell me why...
      
      [josht@us.ibm.com: sparse notation]
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      621934ee
  16. 02 10月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: implement utsname namespaces · 4865ecf1
      Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
      This patch defines the uts namespace and some manipulators.
      Adds the uts namespace to task_struct, and initializes a
      system-wide init namespace.
      
      It leaves a #define for system_utsname so sysctl will compile.
      This define will be removed in a separate patch.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: build fix, cleanup]
      Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
      Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      4865ecf1
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      [PATCH] namespaces: add nsproxy · ab516013
      Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
      This patch adds a nsproxy structure to the task struct.  Later patches will
      move the fs namespace pointer into this structure, and introduce a new utsname
      namespace into the nsproxy.
      
      The vserver and openvz functionality, then, would be implemented in large part
      by virtualizing/isolating more and more resources into namespaces, each
      contained in the nsproxy.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
      Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ab516013
  17. 01 10月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] csa: basic accounting over taskstats · f3cef7a9
      Jay Lan 提交于
      Add some basic accounting fields to the taskstats struct, add a new
      kernel/tsacct.c to handle basic accounting data handling upon exit.  A handle
      is added to taskstats.c to invoke the basic accounting data handling.
      Signed-off-by: NJay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
      Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com>
      Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com>
      Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
      Cc: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f3cef7a9
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      [PATCH] maximum latency tracking infrastructure · 5c87579e
      Arjan van de Ven 提交于
      Add infrastructure to track "maximum allowable latency" for power saving
      policies.
      
      The reason for adding this infrastructure is that power management in the
      idle loop needs to make a tradeoff between latency and power savings
      (deeper power save modes have a longer latency to running code again).  The
      code that today makes this tradeoff just does a rather simple algorithm;
      however this is not good enough: There are devices and use cases where a
      lower latency is required than that the higher power saving states provide.
       An example would be audio playback, but another example is the ipw2100
      wireless driver that right now has a very direct and ugly acpi hook to
      disable some higher power states randomly when it gets certain types of
      error.
      
      The proposed solution is to have an interface where drivers can
      
      * announce the maximum latency (in microseconds) that they can deal with
      * modify this latency
      * give up their constraint
      
      and a function where the code that decides on power saving strategy can
      query the current global desired maximum.
      
      This patch has a user of each side: on the consumer side, ACPI is patched
      to use this, on the producer side the ipw2100 driver is patched.
      
      A generic maximum latency is also registered of 2 timer ticks (more and you
      lose accurate time tracking after all).
      
      While the existing users of the patch are x86 specific, the infrastructure
      is not.  I'd like to ask the arch maintainers of other architectures if the
      infrastructure is generic enough for their use (assuming the architecture
      has such a tradeoff as concept at all), and the sound/multimedia driver
      owners to look at the driver facing API to see if this is something they
      can use.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Acked-by: NJesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
      Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5c87579e
  18. 15 7月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: taskstats interface · c757249a
      Shailabh Nagar 提交于
      Create a "taskstats" interface based on generic netlink (NETLINK_GENERIC
      family), for getting statistics of tasks and thread groups during their
      lifetime and when they exit.  The interface is intended for use by multiple
      accounting packages though it is being created in the context of delay
      accounting.
      
      This patch creates the interface without populating the fields of the data
      that is sent to the user in response to a command or upon the exit of a task.
      Each accounting package interested in using taskstats has to provide an
      additional patch to add its stats to the common structure.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, Kconfig fix]
      Signed-off-by: NShailabh Nagar <nagar@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
      Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
      Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c757249a
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      [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: setup · ca74e92b
      Shailabh Nagar 提交于
      Initialization code related to collection of per-task "delay" statistics which
      measure how long it had to wait for cpu, sync block io, swapping etc.  The
      collection of statistics and the interface are in other patches.  This patch
      sets up the data structures and allows the statistics collection to be
      disabled through a kernel boot parameter.
      Signed-off-by: NShailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
      Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
      Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ca74e92b
  19. 04 7月, 2006 5 次提交
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      [PATCH] lockdep: prove spinlock rwlock locking correctness · 8a25d5de
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Use the lock validator framework to prove spinlock and rwlock locking
      correctness.
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8a25d5de
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      [PATCH] lockdep: prove rwsem locking correctness · 4ea2176d
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Use the lock validator framework to prove rwsem locking correctness.
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      4ea2176d
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      [PATCH] lockdep: procfs · a8f24a39
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Lock validator /proc/lockdep and /proc/lockdep_stats support.
      (FIXME: should go into debugfs)
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      a8f24a39
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      [PATCH] lockdep: core · fbb9ce95
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Do 'make oldconfig' and accept all the defaults for new config options -
      reboot into the kernel and if everything goes well it should boot up fine and
      you should have /proc/lockdep and /proc/lockdep_stats files.
      
      Typically if the lock validator finds some problem it will print out
      voluminous debug output that begins with "BUG: ..." and which syslog output
      can be used by kernel developers to figure out the precise locking scenario.
      
      What does the lock validator do?  It "observes" and maps all locking rules as
      they occur dynamically (as triggered by the kernel's natural use of spinlocks,
      rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems).  Whenever the lock validator subsystem detects a
      new locking scenario, it validates this new rule against the existing set of
      rules.  If this new rule is consistent with the existing set of rules then the
      new rule is added transparently and the kernel continues as normal.  If the
      new rule could create a deadlock scenario then this condition is printed out.
      
      When determining validity of locking, all possible "deadlock scenarios" are
      considered: assuming arbitrary number of CPUs, arbitrary irq context and task
      context constellations, running arbitrary combinations of all the existing
      locking scenarios.  In a typical system this means millions of separate
      scenarios.  This is why we call it a "locking correctness" validator - for all
      rules that are observed the lock validator proves it with mathematical
      certainty that a deadlock could not occur (assuming that the lock validator
      implementation itself is correct and its internal data structures are not
      corrupted by some other kernel subsystem).  [see more details and conditionals
      of this statement in include/linux/lockdep.h and
      Documentation/lockdep-design.txt]
      
      Furthermore, this "all possible scenarios" property of the validator also
      enables the finding of complex, highly unlikely multi-CPU multi-context races
      via single single-context rules, increasing the likelyhood of finding bugs
      drastically.  In practical terms: the lock validator already found a bug in
      the upstream kernel that could only occur on systems with 3 or more CPUs, and
      which needed 3 very unlikely code sequences to occur at once on the 3 CPUs.
      That bug was found and reported on a single-CPU system (!).  So in essence a
      race will be found "piecemail-wise", triggering all the necessary components
      for the race, without having to reproduce the race scenario itself!  In its
      short existence the lock validator found and reported many bugs before they
      actually caused a real deadlock.
      
      To further increase the efficiency of the validator, the mapping is not per
      "lock instance", but per "lock-class".  For example, all struct inode objects
      in the kernel have inode->inotify_mutex.  If there are 10,000 inodes cached,
      then there are 10,000 lock objects.  But ->inotify_mutex is a single "lock
      type", and all locking activities that occur against ->inotify_mutex are
      "unified" into this single lock-class.  The advantage of the lock-class
      approach is that all historical ->inotify_mutex uses are mapped into a single
      (and as narrow as possible) set of locking rules - regardless of how many
      different tasks or inode structures it took to build this set of rules.  The
      set of rules persist during the lifetime of the kernel.
      
      To see the rough magnitude of checking that the lock validator does, here's a
      portion of /proc/lockdep_stats, fresh after bootup:
      
       lock-classes:                            694 [max: 2048]
       direct dependencies:                  1598 [max: 8192]
       indirect dependencies:               17896
       all direct dependencies:             16206
       dependency chains:                    1910 [max: 8192]
       in-hardirq chains:                      17
       in-softirq chains:                     105
       in-process chains:                    1065
       stack-trace entries:                 38761 [max: 131072]
       combined max dependencies:         2033928
       hardirq-safe locks:                     24
       hardirq-unsafe locks:                  176
       softirq-safe locks:                     53
       softirq-unsafe locks:                  137
       irq-safe locks:                         59
       irq-unsafe locks:                      176
      
      The lock validator has observed 1598 actual single-thread locking patterns,
      and has validated all possible 2033928 distinct locking scenarios.
      
      More details about the design of the lock validator can be found in
      Documentation/lockdep-design.txt, which can also found at:
      
         http://redhat.com/~mingo/lockdep-patches/lockdep-design.txt
      
      [bunk@stusta.de: cleanups]
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      fbb9ce95
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      [PATCH] lockdep: stacktrace subsystem, core · 8637c099
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Framework to generate and save stacktraces quickly, without printing anything
      to the console.
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8637c099
  20. 28 6月, 2006 2 次提交