1. 04 1月, 2009 2 次提交
  2. 03 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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      swiotlb: add missing __init annotations · 79ff56eb
      Roland Dreier 提交于
      Impact: cleanup, reduce kernel size a bit
      
      The current kernel build warns:
      
          WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x11458): Section mismatch in reference from the function swiotlb_alloc_boot() to the function .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low()
          The function swiotlb_alloc_boot() references
          the function __init __alloc_bootmem_low().
          This is often because swiotlb_alloc_boot lacks a __init
          annotation or the annotation of __alloc_bootmem_low is wrong.
      
          WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1011f2): Section mismatch in reference from the function swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size() to the function .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low()
          The function swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size() references
          the function __init __alloc_bootmem_low().
          This is often because swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size lacks a __init
          annotation or the annotation of __alloc_bootmem_low is wrong.
      
      and indeed the functions calling __alloc_bootmem_low() can be marked
      __init as well.
      Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      79ff56eb
  3. 01 1月, 2009 4 次提交
  4. 29 12月, 2008 2 次提交
  5. 28 12月, 2008 5 次提交
  6. 25 12月, 2008 3 次提交
  7. 19 12月, 2008 3 次提交
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      cpumask: documentation for cpumask_var_t · ec26b805
      Mike Travis 提交于
      Impact: New kerneldoc comments
      
      Additional documentation added to all the alloc_cpumask and free_cpumask
      functions.
      Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor additions)
      ec26b805
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      cpumask: Add alloc_cpumask_var_node() · 7b4967c5
      Mike Travis 提交于
      Impact: New API
      
      This will be needed in x86 code to allocate the domain and old_domain
      cpumasks on the same node as where the containing irq_cfg struct is
      allocated.
      
      (Also fixes double-dump_stack on rare CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS case)
      Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (re-impl alloc_cpumask_var)
      7b4967c5
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      "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation · 64db4cff
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      This patch fixes a long-standing performance bug in classic RCU that
      results in massive internal-to-RCU lock contention on systems with
      more than a few hundred CPUs.  Although this patch creates a separate
      flavor of RCU for ease of review and patch maintenance, it is intended
      to replace classic RCU.
      
      This patch still handles stress better than does mainline, so I am still
      calling it ready for inclusion.  This patch is against the -tip tree.
      Nevertheless, experience on an actual 1000+ CPU machine would still be
      most welcome.
      
      Most of the changes noted below were found while creating an rcutiny
      (which should permit ejecting the current rcuclassic) and while doing
      detailed line-by-line documentation.
      
      Updates from v9 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/2/334):
      
      o	Fixes from remainder of line-by-line code walkthrough,
      	including comment spelling, initialization, undesirable
      	narrowing due to type conversion, removing redundant memory
      	barriers, removing redundant local-variable initialization,
      	and removing redundant local variables.
      
      	I do not believe that any of these fixes address the CPU-hotplug
      	issues that Andi Kleen was seeing, but please do give it a whirl
      	in case the machine is smarter than I am.
      
      	A writeup from the walkthrough may be found at the following
      	URL, in case you are suffering from terminal insomnia or
      	masochism:
      
      	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/tmp/rcutree-walkthrough.2008.12.16a.pdf
      
      o	Made rcutree tracing use seq_file, as suggested some time
      	ago by Lai Jiangshan.
      
      o	Added a .csv variant of the rcudata debugfs trace file, to allow
      	people having thousands of CPUs to drop the data into
      	a spreadsheet.	Tested with oocalc and gnumeric.  Updated
      	documentation to suit.
      
      Updates from v8 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/139):
      
      o	Fix a theoretical race between grace-period initialization and
      	force_quiescent_state() that could occur if more than three
      	jiffies were required to carry out the grace-period
      	initialization.  Which it might, if you had enough CPUs.
      
      o	Apply Ingo's printk-standardization patch.
      
      o	Substitute local variables for repeated accesses to global
      	variables.
      
      o	Fix comment misspellings and redundant (but harmless) increments
      	of ->n_rcu_pending (this latter after having explicitly added it).
      
      o	Apply checkpatch fixes.
      
      Updates from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/291):
      
      o	Fixed a number of problems noted by Gautham Shenoy, including
      	the cpu-stall-detection bug that he was having difficulty
      	convincing me was real.  ;-)
      
      o	Changed cpu-stall detection to wait for ten seconds rather than
      	three in order to reduce false positive, as suggested by Ingo
      	Molnar.
      
      o	Produced a design document (http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/).
      	The act of writing this document uncovered a number of both
      	theoretical and "here and now" bugs as noted below.
      
      o	Fix dynticks_nesting accounting confusion, simplify WARN_ON()
      	condition, fix kerneldoc comments, and add memory barriers
      	in dynticks interface functions.
      
      o	Add more data to tracing.
      
      o	Remove unused "rcu_barrier" field from rcu_data structure.
      
      o	Count calls to rcu_pending() from scheduling-clock interrupt
      	to use as a surrogate timebase should jiffies stop counting.
      
      o	Fix a theoretical race between force_quiescent_state() and
      	grace-period initialization.  Yes, initialization does have to
      	go on for some jiffies for this race to occur, but given enough
      	CPUs...
      
      Updates from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/448):
      
      o	Fix a number of checkpatch.pl complaints.
      
      o	Apply review comments from Ingo Molnar and Lai Jiangshan
      	on the stall-detection code.
      
      o	Fix several bugs in !CONFIG_SMP builds.
      
      o	Fix a misspelled config-parameter name so that RCU now announces
      	at boot time if stall detection is configured.
      
      o	Run tests on numerous combinations of configurations parameters,
      	which after the fixes above, now build and run correctly.
      
      Updates from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/15/92, bad subject line):
      
      o	Fix a compiler error in the !CONFIG_FANOUT_EXACT case (blew a
      	changeset some time ago, and finally got around to retesting
      	this option).
      
      o	Fix some tracing bugs in rcupreempt that caused incorrect
      	totals to be printed.
      
      o	I now test with a more brutal random-selection online/offline
      	script (attached).  Probably more brutal than it needs to be
      	on the people reading it as well, but so it goes.
      
      o	A number of optimizations and usability improvements:
      
      	o	Make rcu_pending() ignore the grace-period timeout when
      		there is no grace period in progress.
      
      	o	Make force_quiescent_state() avoid going for a global
      		lock in the case where there is no grace period in
      		progress.
      
      	o	Rearrange struct fields to improve struct layout.
      
      	o	Make call_rcu() initiate a grace period if RCU was
      		idle, rather than waiting for the next scheduling
      		clock interrupt.
      
      	o	Invoke rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() only when
      		idle, as suggested by Andi Kleen.  I still don't
      		completely trust this change, and might back it out.
      
      	o	Make CONFIG_RCU_TRACE be the single config variable
      		manipulated for all forms of RCU, instead of the prior
      		confusion.
      
      	o	Document tracing files and formats for both rcupreempt
      		and rcutree.
      
      Updates from v4 for those missing v5 given its bad subject line:
      
      o	Separated dynticks interface so that NMIs and irqs call separate
      	functions, greatly simplifying it.  In particular, this code
      	no longer requires a proof of correctness.  ;-)
      
      o	Separated dynticks state out into its own per-CPU structure,
      	avoiding the duplicated accounting.
      
      o	The case where a dynticks-idle CPU runs an irq handler that
      	invokes call_rcu() is now correctly handled, forcing that CPU
      	out of dynticks-idle mode.
      
      o	Review comments have been applied (thank you all!!!).
      	For but one example, fixed the dynticks-ordering issue that
      	Manfred pointed out, saving me much debugging.  ;-)
      
      o	Adjusted rcuclassic and rcupreempt to handle dynticks changes.
      
      Attached is an updated patch to Classic RCU that applies a hierarchy,
      greatly reducing the contention on the top-level lock for large machines.
      This passes 10-hour concurrent rcutorture and online-offline testing on
      128-CPU ppc64 without dynticks enabled, and exposes some timekeeping
      bugs in presence of dynticks (exciting working on a system where
      "sleep 1" hangs until interrupted...), which were fixed in the
      2.6.27 kernel.  It is getting more reliable than mainline by some
      measures, so the next version will be against -tip for inclusion.
      See also Manfred Spraul's recent patches (or his earlier work from
      2004 at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546384711797&w=2).
      We will converge onto a common patch in the fullness of time, but are
      currently exploring different regions of the design space.  That said,
      I have already gratefully stolen quite a few of Manfred's ideas.
      
      This patch provides CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, which controls the bushiness
      of the RCU hierarchy.  Defaults to 32 on 32-bit machines and 64 on
      64-bit machines.  If CONFIG_NR_CPUS is less than CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT,
      there is no hierarchy.  By default, the RCU initialization code will
      adjust CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT to balance the hierarchy, so strongly NUMA
      architectures may choose to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to disable
      this balancing, allowing the hierarchy to be exactly aligned to the
      underlying hardware.  Up to two levels of hierarchy are permitted
      (in addition to the root node), allowing up to 16,384 CPUs on 32-bit
      systems and up to 262,144 CPUs on 64-bit systems.  I just know that I
      am going to regret saying this, but this seems more than sufficient
      for the foreseeable future.  (Some architectures might wish to set
      CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4, which would limit such architectures to 64 CPUs.
      If this becomes a real problem, additional levels can be added, but I
      doubt that it will make a significant difference on real hardware.)
      
      In the common case, a given CPU will manipulate its private rcu_data
      structure and the rcu_node structure that it shares with its immediate
      neighbors.  This can reduce both lock and memory contention by multiple
      orders of magnitude, which should eliminate the need for the strange
      manipulations that are reported to be required when running Linux on
      very large systems.
      
      Some shortcomings:
      
      o	More bugs will probably surface as a result of an ongoing
      	line-by-line code inspection.
      
      	Patches will be provided as required.
      
      o	There are probably hangs, rcutorture failures, &c.  Seems
      	quite stable on a 128-CPU machine, but that is kind of small
      	compared to 4096 CPUs.  However, seems to do better than
      	mainline.
      
      	Patches will be provided as required.
      
      o	The memory footprint of this version is several KB larger
      	than rcuclassic.
      
      	A separate UP-only rcutiny patch will be provided, which will
      	reduce the memory footprint significantly, even compared
      	to the old rcuclassic.  One such patch passes light testing,
      	and has a memory footprint smaller even than rcuclassic.
      	Initial reaction from various embedded guys was "it is not
      	worth it", so am putting it aside.
      
      Credits:
      
      o	Manfred Spraul for ideas, review comments, and bugs spotted,
      	as well as some good friendly competition.  ;-)
      
      o	Josh Triplett, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Mathieu Desnoyers,
      	Lai Jiangshan, Andi Kleen, Andy Whitcroft, and Andrew Morton
      	for reviews and comments.
      
      o	Thomas Gleixner for much-needed help with some timer issues
      	(see patches below).
      
      o	Jon M. Tollefson, Tim Pepper, Andrew Theurer, Jose R. Santos,
      	Andy Whitcroft, Darrick Wong, Nishanth Aravamudan, Anton
      	Blanchard, Dave Kleikamp, and Nathan Lynch for keeping machines
      	alive despite my heavy abuse^Wtesting.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      64db4cff
  8. 18 12月, 2008 8 次提交
  9. 17 12月, 2008 3 次提交
  10. 13 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  11. 11 12月, 2008 4 次提交
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      lib/idr.c: Fix bug introduced by RCU fix · 711a49a0
      Manfred Spraul 提交于
      The last patch to lib/idr.c caused a bug if idr_get_new_above() was
      called on an empty idr.
      
      Usually, nodes stay on the same layer.  New layers are added to the top
      of the tree.
      
      The exception is idr_get_new_above() on an empty tree: In this case, the
      new root node is first added on layer 0, then moved upwards.  p->layer
      was not updated.
      
      As usual: You shall never rely on the source code comments, they will
      only mislead you.
      Signed-off-by: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      711a49a0
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      revert "percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set" · 02d21168
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Revert
      
          commit e8ced39d
          Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
          Date:   Fri Jul 11 19:27:31 2008 -0400
      
              percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set
      
      As described in
      
      	revert "percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()"
      
      the new percpu_counter_sum_and_set() is racy against updates to the
      cpu-local accumulators on other CPUs.  Revert that change.
      
      This means that ext4 will be slow again.  But correct.
      Reported-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.27.x]
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      02d21168
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      revert "percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()" · 71c5576f
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Revert
      
          commit 1f7c14c6
          Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
          Date:   Thu Oct 9 12:50:59 2008 -0400
      
              percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()
      
      Before this patch we had the following:
      
      percpu_counter_sum(): return the percpu_counter's value
      
      percpu_counter_sum_and_set(): return the percpu_counter's value, copying
      that value into the central value and zeroing the per-cpu counters before
      returning.
      
      After this patch, percpu_counter_sum_and_set() has gone, and
      percpu_counter_sum() gets the old percpu_counter_sum_and_set()
      functionality.
      
      Problem is, as Eric points out, the old percpu_counter_sum_and_set()
      functionality was racy and wrong.  It zeroes out counters on "other" cpus,
      without holding any locks which will prevent races agaist updates from
      those other CPUS.
      
      This patch reverts 1f7c14c6.  This means
      that percpu_counter_sum_and_set() still has the race, but
      percpu_counter_sum() does not.
      
      Note that this is not a simple revert - ext4 has since started using
      percpu_counter_sum() for its dirty_blocks counter as well.
      
      Note that this revert patch changes percpu_counter_sum() semantics.
      
      Before the patch, a call to percpu_counter_sum() will bring the counter's
      central counter mostly up-to-date, so a following percpu_counter_read()
      will return a close value.
      
      After this patch, a call to percpu_counter_sum() will leave the counter's
      central accumulator unaltered, so a subsequent call to
      percpu_counter_read() can now return a significantly inaccurate result.
      
      If there is any code in the tree which was introduced after
      e8ced39d was merged, and which depends
      upon the new percpu_counter_sum() semantics, that code will break.
      Reported-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      71c5576f
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      percpu_counter: fix CPU unplug race in percpu_counter_destroy() · fd3d664f
      Eric Dumazet 提交于
      We should first delete the counter from percpu_counters list
      before freeing memory, or a percpu_counter_hotcpu_callback()
      could dereference a NULL pointer.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
      Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fd3d664f
  12. 02 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  13. 26 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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      debugobjects: add boot parameter default value · 3ae70205
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Impact: add .config driven boot parameter default value
      
      Right now debugobjects can only be activated if the debug_objects
      boot parameter is passed in via the boot command line.
      
      Make this more convenient (and randomizable) by also providing
      a .config method. Enable it by default. (DEBUG_OBJECTS itself
      is default-off)
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3ae70205
  14. 25 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  15. 20 11月, 2008 1 次提交