1. 23 1月, 2019 1 次提交
  2. 04 2月, 2018 1 次提交
  3. 18 11月, 2017 3 次提交
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      lib/int_sqrt: adjust comments · e813a614
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      Our current int_sqrt() is not rough nor any approximation; it calculates
      the exact value of: floor(sqrt()).  Document this.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171020164645.001652117@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Anshul Garg <aksgarg1989@gmail.com>
      Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
      Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e813a614
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      lib/int_sqrt: optimize initial value compute · f8ae107e
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      The initial value (@m) compute is:
      
      	m = 1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG - 2);
      	while (m > x)
      		m >>= 2;
      
      Which is a linear search for the highest even bit smaller or equal to @x
      We can implement this using a binary search using __fls() (or better when
      its hardware implemented).
      
      	m = 1UL << (__fls(x) & ~1UL);
      
      Especially for small values of @x; which are the more common arguments
      when doing a CDF on idle times; the linear search is near to worst case,
      while the binary search of __fls() is a constant 6 (or 5 on 32bit)
      branches.
      
            cycles:                 branches:              branch-misses:
      
      PRE:
      
      hot:   43.633557 +- 0.034373  45.333132 +- 0.002277  0.023529 +- 0.000681
      cold: 207.438411 +- 0.125840  45.333132 +- 0.002277  6.976486 +- 0.004219
      
      SOFTWARE FLS:
      
      hot:   29.576176 +- 0.028850  26.666730 +- 0.004511  0.019463 +- 0.000663
      cold: 165.947136 +- 0.188406  26.666746 +- 0.004511  6.133897 +- 0.004386
      
      HARDWARE FLS:
      
      hot:   24.720922 +- 0.025161  20.666784 +- 0.004509  0.020836 +- 0.000677
      cold: 132.777197 +- 0.127471  20.666776 +- 0.004509  5.080285 +- 0.003874
      
      Averages computed over all values <128k using a LFSR to generate order.
      Cold numbers have a LFSR based branch trace buffer 'confuser' ran between
      each int_sqrt() invocation.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171020164644.936577234@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Suggested-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Acked-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Anshul Garg <aksgarg1989@gmail.com>
      Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
      Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f8ae107e
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      lib/int_sqrt: optimize small argument · 3f329570
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      The current int_sqrt() computation is sub-optimal for the case of small
      @x.  Which is the interesting case when we're going to do cumulative
      distribution functions on idle times, which we assume to be a random
      variable, where the target residency of the deepest idle state gives an
      upper bound on the variable (5e6ns on recent Intel chips).
      
      In the case of small @x, the compute loop:
      
      	while (m != 0) {
      		b = y + m;
      		y >>= 1;
      
      		if (x >= b) {
      			x -= b;
      			y += m;
      		}
      		m >>= 2;
      	}
      
      can be reduced to:
      
      	while (m > x)
      		m >>= 2;
      
      Because y==0, b==m and until x>=m y will remain 0.
      
      And while this is computationally equivalent, it runs much faster
      because there's less code, in particular less branches.
      
            cycles:                 branches:              branch-misses:
      
      OLD:
      
      hot:   45.109444 +- 0.044117  44.333392 +- 0.002254  0.018723 +- 0.000593
      cold: 187.737379 +- 0.156678  44.333407 +- 0.002254  6.272844 +- 0.004305
      
      PRE:
      
      hot:   67.937492 +- 0.064124  66.999535 +- 0.000488  0.066720 +- 0.001113
      cold: 232.004379 +- 0.332811  66.999527 +- 0.000488  6.914634 +- 0.006568
      
      POST:
      
      hot:   43.633557 +- 0.034373  45.333132 +- 0.002277  0.023529 +- 0.000681
      cold: 207.438411 +- 0.125840  45.333132 +- 0.002277  6.976486 +- 0.004219
      
      Averages computed over all values <128k using a LFSR to generate order.
      Cold numbers have a LFSR based branch trace buffer 'confuser' ran between
      each int_sqrt() invocation.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171020164644.876503355@infradead.org
      Fixes: 30493cc9 ("lib/int_sqrt.c: optimize square root algorithm")
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Suggested-by: NAnshul Garg <aksgarg1989@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3f329570
  4. 02 11月, 2017 1 次提交
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      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
      Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
      makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
      
      By default all files without license information are under the default
      license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
      
      Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
      SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
      shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
      
      This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
      Philippe Ombredanne.
      
      How this work was done:
      
      Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
      the use cases:
       - file had no licensing information it it.
       - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
       - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
      
      Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
      where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
      had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
      
      The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
      a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
      output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
      tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
      base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
      
      The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
      assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
      results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
      to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
      immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
       - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
       - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
         lines of source
       - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
         lines).
      
      All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
      
      The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
      identifiers to apply.
      
       - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
         considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
         COPYING file license applied.
      
         For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0                                              11139
      
         and resulted in the first patch in this series.
      
         If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
         Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930
      
         and resulted in the second patch in this series.
      
       - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
         of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
         any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
         it (per prior point).  Results summary:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
         GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
         LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
         GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
         ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
         LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
         LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1
      
         and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
      
       - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
         the concluded license(s).
      
       - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
         license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
         licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
      
       - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
         resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
         which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
      
       - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
         confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
       - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
         the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
         in time.
      
      In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
      spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
      source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
      by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
      FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
      disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
      Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
      they are related.
      
      Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
      for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
      files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
      in about 15000 files.
      
      In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
      copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
      correct identifier.
      
      Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
      inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
      version early this week with:
       - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
         license ids and scores
       - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
         files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
       - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
         was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
         SPDX license was correct
      
      This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
      worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
      different types of files to be modified.
      
      These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
      parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
      format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
      based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
      distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
      comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
      generate the patches.
      Reviewed-by: NKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: NPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
      Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b2441318
  5. 30 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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      lib/int_sqrt.c: optimize square root algorithm · 30493cc9
      Davidlohr Bueso 提交于
      Optimize the current version of the shift-and-subtract (hardware)
      algorithm, described by John von Newmann[1] and Guy L Steele.
      
      Iterating 1,000,000 times, perf shows for the current version:
      
       Performance counter stats for './sqrt-curr' (10 runs):
      
               27.170996 task-clock                #    0.979 CPUs utilized            ( +-  3.19% )
                       3 context-switches          #    0.103 K/sec                    ( +-  4.76% )
                       0 cpu-migrations            #    0.004 K/sec                    ( +-100.00% )
                     104 page-faults               #    0.004 M/sec                    ( +-  0.16% )
              64,921,199 cycles                    #    2.389 GHz                      ( +-  0.03% )
              28,967,789 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   44.62% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.18% )
         <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
             104,502,623 instructions              #    1.61  insns per cycle
                                                   #    0.28  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.00% )
              34,088,368 branches                  # 1254.587 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
                   4,901 branch-misses             #    0.01% of all branches          ( +-  1.32% )
      
             0.027763015 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  3.22% )
      
      And for the new version:
      
      Performance counter stats for './sqrt-new' (10 runs):
      
                0.496869 task-clock                #    0.519 CPUs utilized            ( +-  2.38% )
                       0 context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                       0 cpu-migrations            #    0.403 K/sec                    ( +-100.00% )
                     104 page-faults               #    0.209 M/sec                    ( +-  0.15% )
                 590,760 cycles                    #    1.189 GHz                      ( +-  2.35% )
                 395,053 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   66.87% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  3.67% )
         <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
                 398,963 instructions              #    0.68  insns per cycle
                                                   #    0.99  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.39% )
                  70,228 branches                  #  141.341 M/sec                    ( +-  0.36% )
                   3,364 branch-misses             #    4.79% of all branches          ( +-  5.45% )
      
             0.000957440 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  2.42% )
      
      Furthermore, this saves space in instruction text:
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
          111       0       0     111      6f lib/int_sqrt-baseline.o
           89       0       0      89      59 lib/int_sqrt.o
      
      [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the_EDVACSigned-off-by: NDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
      Reviewed-by: NJonathan Gonzalez <jgonzlez@linets.cl>
      Tested-by: NJonathan Gonzalez <jgonzlez@linets.cl>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      30493cc9
  6. 08 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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  8. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4