1. 30 3月, 2013 1 次提交
  2. 17 1月, 2013 1 次提交
  3. 17 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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      sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs · 8e7fbcbc
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power
      aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending
      patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ...
      so remove it to make space free for something better.
      
      There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first
      and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology
      levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a
      state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to
      master and almost nobody does.
      
      Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it
      means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either
      under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if
      there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of
      it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads.
      
      So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea
      even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs
      on every node of the topology.
      
      There is a proposal to replace the user interface with a single
      3 state knob:
      
       sched_balance_policy := { performance, power, auto }
      
      where 'auto' would be the preferred default which looks at things
      like Battery/AC mode and possible cpufreq state or whatever the hw
      exposes to show us power use expectations - but there's been no
      progress on it in the past many months.
      
      Aside from that, the actual implementation of the various knobs
      is known to be broken. There have been sporadic attempts at
      fixing things but these always stop short of reaching a mergable
      state.
      
      Therefore this wholesale removal with the hopes of spurring
      people who care to come forward once again and work on a
      coherent replacement.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
      Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326104915.2442.53.camel@twinsSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      8e7fbcbc
  4. 09 2月, 2012 1 次提交
  5. 03 2月, 2012 1 次提交
  6. 27 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  7. 12 1月, 2012 2 次提交
  8. 22 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      cpu: convert 'cpu' and 'machinecheck' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem · 8a25a2fd
      Kay Sievers 提交于
      This moves the 'cpu sysdev_class' over to a regular 'cpu' subsystem
      and converts the devices to regular devices. The sysdev drivers are
      implemented as subsystem interfaces now.
      
      After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
      sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
      
      Userspace relies on events and generic sysfs subsystem infrastructure
      from sysdev devices, which are made available with this conversion.
      
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
      Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
      Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
      Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
      Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      8a25a2fd
  9. 12 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel · 2987557f
      Josh Triplett 提交于
      When architectures register CPUs, they indicate whether the CPU allows
      hotplugging; notably, x86 and ARM don't allow hotplugging CPU 0.
      Userspace can easily query the hotpluggability of a CPU via sysfs;
      however, the kernel has no convenient way of accessing that property in
      an architecture-independent way.  While the kernel can simply try it and
      see, some code needs to distinguish between "hotplug failed" and
      "hotplug has no hope of working on this CPU"; for example, rcutorture's
      CPU hotplug tests want to avoid drowning out real hotplug failures with
      expected failures.
      
      Expose this property via a new cpu_is_hotpluggable function, so that the
      rest of the kernel can access it in an architecture-independent way.
      Signed-off-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      2987557f
  10. 22 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  11. 30 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  12. 19 3月, 2010 1 次提交
  13. 08 3月, 2010 5 次提交
  14. 09 12月, 2009 2 次提交
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      powerpc/pseries: Serialize cpu hotplug operations during deactivate Vs deallocate · 51badebd
      Gautham R Shenoy 提交于
      Currently the cpu-allocation/deallocation process comprises of two steps:
      - Set the indicators and to update the device tree with DLPAR node
        information.
      
      - Online/offline the allocated/deallocated CPU.
      
      This is achieved by writing to the sysfs tunables "probe" during allocation
      and "release" during deallocation.
      
      At the sametime, the userspace can independently online/offline the CPUs of
      the system using the sysfs tunable "online".
      
      It is quite possible that when a userspace tool offlines a CPU
      for the purpose of deallocation and is in the process of updating the device
      tree, some other userspace tool could bring the CPU back online by writing to
      the "online" sysfs tunable thereby causing the deallocate process to fail.
      
      The solution to this is to serialize writes to the "probe/release" sysfs
      tunable with the writes to the "online" sysfs tunable.
      
      This patch employs a mutex to provide this serialization, which is a no-op on
      all architectures except PPC_PSERIES
      Signed-off-by: NGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NVaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      51badebd
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      sysfs/cpu: Add probe/release files · 12633e80
      Nathan Fontenot 提交于
      Version 3 of this patch is updated with documentation added to
      Documentation/ABI.  There are no changes to any of the C code from v2
      of the patch.
      
      In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an
      interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system.
      This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate
      cpu probe/release.  The probe/release interface provides for allowing each
      arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding
      and removing cpus to/from the system.
      
      This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts
      from writes to the sysfs files.
      
      The creation and use of these files is regulated by the
      CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE option so that only architectures that need the
      capability will have the files created.
      Signed-off-by: NNathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      12633e80
  15. 25 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page · 3b034b0d
      Vivek Goyal 提交于
      o kdump functionality reserves a per cpu area at boot time and exports the
        physical address of that area to user space through sys interface. This
        area stores some dump related information like cpu register states etc
        at the time of crash.
      
      o We were assuming that per cpu area always come from linearly mapped meory
        region and using __pa() to determine physical address.
        With percpu_alloc=page, per cpu area can come from vmalloc region also and
        __pa() breaks.
      
      o This patch implments a new function to convert per cpu address to
        physical address.
      
      Before the patch, crash_notes addresses looked as follows.
      
      cpu0 60fffff49800
      cpu1 60fffff60800
      cpu2 60fffff77800
      
      These are bogus phsyical addresses.
      
      After the patch, address are following.
      
      cpu0 13eb44000
      cpu1 13eb43000
      cpu2 13eb42000
      cpu3 13eb41000
      
      These look fine. I got 4G of memory and /proc/iomem tell me following.
      
      100000000-13fffffff : System RAM
      
      tj: * added missing asm/io.h include reported by Stephen Rothwell
          * repositioned per_cpu_ptr_phys() in percpu.c and added comment.
      Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      3b034b0d
  16. 30 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  17. 12 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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      cpumask: convert misc driver functions · f7df8ed1
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Impact: use new cpumask API.
      
      Convert misc driver functions to use struct cpumask.
      
      To Do:
        - Convert iucv_buffer_cpumask to cpumask_var_t.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
      Acked-by: NDean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
      Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
      Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
      Cc: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
      Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
      f7df8ed1
  18. 04 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  19. 19 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      cpumask: add sysfs displays for configured and disabled cpu maps · e057d7ae
      Mike Travis 提交于
      Impact: add new sysfs files.
      
      Add sysfs files "kernel_max" and "offline" to display the max CPU index
      allowed (NR_CPUS-1), and the map of cpus that are offline.
      
      Cpus can be offlined via HOTPLUG, disabled by the BIOS ACPI tables, or
      if they exceed the number of cpus allowed by the NR_CPUS config option,
      or the "maxcpus=NUM" kernel start parameter.
      
      The "possible_cpus=NUM" parameter can also extend the number of possible
      cpus allowed, in which case the cpus not present at startup will be
      in the offline state.  (These cpus can be HOTPLUGGED ON after system
      startup [pending a follow-on patch to provide the capability via the
      /sys/devices/sys/cpu/cpuN/online mechanism to bring them online.])
      
      By design, the "offlined cpus > possible cpus" display will always
      use the following formats:
      
        * all possible cpus online:   "x$"    or "x-y$"
        * some possible cpus offline: ".*,x$" or ".*,x-y$"
      
      where:
        x == number of possible cpus (nr_cpu_ids); and
        y == number of cpus >= NR_CPUS or maxcpus (if y > x).
      
      One use of this feature is for distros to select (or configure) the
      appropriate kernel to install for the resident system.
      
      Notes:
        * cpus offlined <= possible cpus will be printed for all architectures.
        * cpus offlined >  possible cpus will only be printed for arches that
        	set 'total_cpus' [X86 only in this patch].
      
      Based on tip/cpus4096 + .../rusty/linux-2.6-for-ingo.git/master +
      	 x86-only-patches sent 12/15.
      Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      e057d7ae
  20. 13 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      cpumask: change cpumask_scnprintf, cpumask_parse_user, cpulist_parse, and... · 29c0177e
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      cpumask: change cpumask_scnprintf, cpumask_parse_user, cpulist_parse, and cpulist_scnprintf to take pointers.
      
      Impact: change calling convention of existing cpumask APIs
      
      Most cpumask functions started with cpus_: these have been replaced by
      cpumask_ ones which take struct cpumask pointers as expected.
      
      These four functions don't have good replacement names; fortunately
      they're rarely used, so we just change them over.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: paulus@samba.org
      Cc: mingo@redhat.com
      Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
      Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org
      Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
      29c0177e
  21. 22 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function · 4a0b2b4d
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      This allow to dynamically generate attributes and share show/store
      functions between attributes. Right now most attributes are generated
      by special macros and lots of duplicated code. With the attribute
      passed it's instead possible to attach some data to the attribute
      and then use that in shared low level functions to do different things.
      
      I need this for the dynamically generated bank attributes in the x86
      machine check code, but it'll allow some further cleanups.
      
      I converted all users in tree to the new show/store prototype. It's a single
      huge patch to avoid unbisectable sections.
      
      Runtime tested: x86-32, x86-64
      Compiled only: ia64, powerpc
      Not compile tested/only grep converted: sh, arm, avr32
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      4a0b2b4d
  22. 24 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  23. 01 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  24. 20 4月, 2008 2 次提交
  25. 07 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  26. 25 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  27. 01 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  28. 18 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  29. 07 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  30. 04 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  31. 28 6月, 2006 2 次提交
    • S
      [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
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      [PATCH] node hotplug: register cpu: remove node struct · 76b67ed9
      KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
      With Goto-san's patch, we can add new pgdat/node at runtime.  I'm now
      considering node-hot-add with cpu + memory on ACPI.
      
      I found acpi container, which describes node, could evaluate cpu before
      memory. This means cpu-hot-add occurs before memory hot add.
      
      In most part, cpu-hot-add doesn't depend on node hot add.  But register_cpu(),
      which creates symbolic link from node to cpu, requires that node should be
      onlined before register_cpu().  When a node is onlined, its pgdat should be
      there.
      
      This patch-set holds off creating symbolic link from node to cpu
      until node is onlined.
      
      This removes node arguments from register_cpu().
      
      Now, register_cpu() requires 'struct node' as its argument.  But the array of
      struct node is now unified in driver/base/node.c now (By Goto's node hotplug
      patch).  We can get struct node in generic way.  So, this argument is not
      necessary now.
      
      This patch also guarantees add cpu under node only when node is onlined.  It
      is necessary for node-hot-add vs.  cpu-hot-add patch following this.
      
      Moreover, register_cpu calculates cpu->node_id by cpu_to_node() without regard
      to its 'struct node *root' argument.  This patch removes it.
      
      Also modify callers of register_cpu()/unregister_cpu, whose args are changed
      by register-cpu-remove-node-struct patch.
      
      [Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org: fix it]
      Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBrice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      76b67ed9
  32. 26 3月, 2006 1 次提交