- 26 2月, 2010 3 次提交
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由 Robert Richter 提交于
OProfile support for IBS is now for several versions in the kernel. The feature is stable now and the code can be activated permanently. As a side effect IBS now works also on nosmp configs. Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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由 Robert Richter 提交于
OProfile is already used for a long time and no longer experimental. Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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由 Robert Richter 提交于
The commit 1155de47 ring-buffer: Make it generally available already made ring-buffer available without the TRACING option enabled. This patch removes the TRACING dependency from oprofile. Fixes also oprofile configuration on ia64. The patch also applies to the 2.6.32-stable kernel. Reported-by: NTony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- 18 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
The kbuild's select command doesn't propagate through the config dependencies. Hence the current rules of hardware breakpoint's config can't ensure perf can never be disabled under us. We have: config X86 selects HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS select PERF_EVENTS config PERF_EVENTS [...] x86 will select the breakpoints but that won't propagate to perf events. The user can still disable the latter, but it is necessary for the breakpoints. What we need is: - x86 selects HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS - HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS depends on PERF_EVENTS so that we ensure PERF_EVENTS is enabled and frozen for x86. This fixes the following kind of build errors: In file included from arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:31: include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h: In function 'hw_breakpoint_addr': include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:39: error: 'struct perf_event' has no member named 'attr' v2: Select also ANON_INODES from x86, required for perf Reported-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Reported-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Reported-by: NAndrew Randrianasulu <randrik_a@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1261010034-7786-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 08 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of perf events instances. Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc.. The new layering is now made as follows: ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall \ | / / \ | / / / Core breakpoint API / / | / | / Breakpoints perf events | | Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling (Part of core breakpoint API) | | Hardware debug registers Reasons of this rewrite: - Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling, implying an easier arch integration - More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...) Impact: - New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters - Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per thread breakpoints references. Todo (in the order): - Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement perf_bpcounter_event()) - Support from perf tools Changes in v2: - Follow the perf "event " rename - The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events weren't released when a task ended) - Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in perf_event_attr. - Separate core and arch specific headers, drop asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h - Use new generic len/type for breakpoint - Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch Changes in v3: - Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers to the host. Changes in v4: - Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a module - Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit: TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be set when the guest used debug registers. (Waiting for a reliable optimization) Changes in v5: - Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch - Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up address registers. - Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild - Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c Changes in v6: - Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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- 02 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
Add a general per-cpu notifier that is called whenever the kernel is about to return to userspace. The notifier uses a thread_info flag and existing checks, so there is no impact on user return or context switch fast paths. This will be used initially to speed up KVM task switching by lazily updating MSRs. Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1253342422-13811-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 18 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Christian Borntraeger 提交于
commit 85bac32c ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed broke oprofile (at least on s390, but likely on all platforms). this patch lets oprofile select RING_BUFER_ALLOW_SWAP to make ring_buffer_swap_cpu usable for oprofile. Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <200909162156.49239.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 20 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jason Yeh 提交于
The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching between events at an user specified time interval. A new file (/dev/oprofile/time_slice) is added for the user to specify the timer interval in ms. If the number of events to profile is higher than the number of hardware counters available, the patch will schedule a work queue that switches the event counter and re-writes the different sets of values into it. The switching mechanism needs to be implemented for each architecture to support multiplexing. This patch only implements AMD CPU support, but multiplexing can be easily extended for other models and architectures. There are follow-on patches that rework parts of this patch. Signed-off-by: NJason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- 19 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Peter Oberparleiter 提交于
Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux kernel. gcov may be useful for: * debugging (has this code been reached at all?) * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?) * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the associated code is never run?) The profiling patch incorporates the following changes: * change kbuild to include profiling flags * provide functions needed by profiling code * present profiling data as files in debugfs Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option "-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/ run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and others which require adjustment of architecture code. For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes. This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help text). [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.htmlSigned-off-by: NPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 03 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 K.Prasad 提交于
This patch introduces the generic Hardware Breakpoint interfaces for both user and kernel space requests. This core Api handles the hardware breakpoints through new helpers. It handles the user-space breakpoints and kernel breakpoints in front of arch implementation. One can choose kernel wide breakpoints using the following helpers and passing them a generic struct hw_breakpoint: - register_kernel_hw_breakpoint() - unregister_kernel_hw_breakpoint() - modify_kernel_hw_breakpoint() On the other side, you can choose per task breakpoints. - register_user_hw_breakpoint() - unregister_user_hw_breakpoint() - modify_user_hw_breakpoint() [ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against perfcounter ] Original-patch-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: NK.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 10 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
Impact: performance regression fix for s390 The adaptive spinning mutexes will not always do what one would expect on virtualized architectures like s390. Especially the cpu_relax() loop in mutex_spin_on_owner might hurt if the mutex holding cpu has been scheduled away by the hypervisor. We would end up in a cpu_relax() loop when there is no chance that the state of the mutex changes until the target cpu has been scheduled again by the hypervisor. For that reason we should change the default behaviour to no-spin on s390. We do have an instruction which allows to yield the current cpu in favour of a different target cpu. Also we have an instruction which allows us to figure out if the target cpu is physically backed. However we need to do some performance tests until we can come up with a solution that will do the right thing on s390. Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090409184834.7a0df7b2@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 06 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Clean up menu structure, introduce TRACING_SUPPORT switch that signals whether an architecture supports various instrumentation mechanisms. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 05 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Joerg Roedel 提交于
Impact: add a Kconfig entry for DMA-API debugging Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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- 14 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> By selecting HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS architectures can activate system call wrappers in order to sign extend system call arguments. All architectures where the ABI defines that the caller of a function has to perform sign extension probably need this. Reported-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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- 12 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Impact: build fix OProfile now depends on the ring buffer infrastructure: arch/x86/oprofile/built-in.o: In function `oprofile_add_ibs_sample': : undefined reference to `ring_buffer_unlock_commit' Select TRACING and RING_BUFFER when oprofile is enabled. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 01 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
All architectures now use the generic compat_sys_ptrace, as should every new architecture that needs 32bit compat (if we'll ever get another). Remove the now superflous __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE define, and also kill a comment about __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE that was added after __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE was already gone. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jesper Dangaard Brouer 提交于
Fixes screwing up text output when doing a make oldconfig and viewing help text of "OProfile AMD IBS support". When the terminal is not using an UTF8 locale / LANG. "make config" breaks terminal output and its not possible to continue. (Change added by changeset 852402cc Tue Jul 22 21:09:06 2008) Signed-off-by: NJesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- 17 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more appropriate. Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't selected by anything seems also at least questionable. Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 16 10月, 2008 5 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Revert the dynarray changes. They need more thought and polishing. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
Ingo said sparse_irq is some intrusive. need to make it selectable to make it simple, remove irq_desc as parameter in some functions. (ack, eoi, set_affinity). may need to make member if irq_chip to take irq_desc, or struct irq later. Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
add CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ to for use condensed array. Get rid of irq_desc[] array assumptions. Preallocate 32 irq_desc, and irq_desc() will try to get more. ( No change in functionality is expected anywhere, except the odd build failure where we missed a code site or where a crossing commit itroduces new irq_desc[] usage. ) v2: according to Eric, change get_irq_desc() to irq_desc() Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 27 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Roland McGrath 提交于
This adds the generic HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK kconfig item. Each arch should add to some Kconfig file: select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK if the arch code uses all the latest hooks to enable newfangled tracing and debugging code. The comment in arch/Kconfig lists all the prerequisite arch support. When all these are available, setting HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK will allow enabling any new features that depend on the modern arch interfaces. Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 26 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Robert Richter 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Johannes Berg 提交于
In many cases, especially in networking, it can be beneficial to know at compile time whether the architecture can do unaligned accesses efficiently. This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS for that purpose and adds it to the powerpc and x86 architectures. Also add some documentation about alignment and networking, and especially one intended use of this symbol. Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [x86 architecture part] Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 25 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Rik van Riel 提交于
In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem. This patch: Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory. [riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function] Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 David Brownell 提交于
Flag platforms as HAVE_CLK (or not) in Kconfig, based on whether they support <linux/clk.h> calls, so that otherwise portable drivers which need those calls can list that dependency. Something like this is a prerequisite for merging the musb_hdrc driver, currently used on platforms including Davinci, OMAP2430, OMAP3xx ... and the discrete TUSB6010 chip, which doesn't have a natural platform dependency. (Used with OMAP 2420 in current Nokia N8x0 tablets.) Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 26 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jens Axboe 提交于
This adds kernel/smp.c which contains helpers for IPI function calls. In addition to supporting the existing smp_call_function() in a more efficient manner, it also adds a more scalable variant called smp_call_function_single() for calling a given function on a single CPU only. The core of this is based on the x86-64 patch from Nick Piggin, lots of changes since then. "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> has contributed lots of fixes and suggestions as well. Also thanks to Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for reviewing RCU usage and getting rid of the data allocation fallback deadlock. Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- 29 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Arthur Kepner 提交于
Introduce new interfaces, dma_*map*_attrs(), for passing architecture-specific attributes when memory is mapped and unmapped for DMA. Give the interfaces default implementations which ignore attributes. Also introduce the dma_{set|get}_attr() interfaces for setting and retrieving individual attributes. Define one attribute, DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER, in anticipation of its use by ia64/sn. Select whether architectures implement arch-specific versions of the dma_*map*_attrs() interfaces via HAVE_DMA_ATTRS in Kconfig. [markn@au1.ibm.com: dma_{set,get}_attr() have to be static inline] Signed-off-by: NArthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NMark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 05 3月, 2008 1 次提交
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Add CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES to the arch/<arch>/Kconfig file for relevant architectures with kprobes support. This facilitates easy handling of in-kernel modules (like samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c) that depend on kretprobes being present in the kernel. Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for helping make the patch more lean. Per Mathieu's suggestion, added CONFIG_KRETPROBES and fixed up dependencies. Signed-off-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 03 2月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
Move the instrumentation Kconfig to arch/Kconfig for architecture dependent options - oprofile - kprobes and init/Kconfig for architecture independent options - profiling - markers Remove the "Instrumentation Support" menu. Everything moves to "General setup". Delete the kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation file. Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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由 Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
Puts the content of arch/Kconfig in the "General setup" menu. Linus: > Should it come with a re-duplication of it's content into each > architecture, which was the case previously ? The oprofile and kprobes > menu entries were litteraly cut and pasted from one architecture to > another. Should we put its content in init/Kconfig then ? I don't think it's a good idea to go back to making it per-architecture, although that extensive "depends on <list-of-archiectures-here>" might indicate that there certainly is room for cleanup there. And I don't think it's wrong keeping it in kernel/Kconfig.xyz per se, I just think it's wrong to (a) lump the code together when it really doesn't necessarily need to and (b) show it to users as some kind of choice that is tied together (whether it then has common code or not). On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32 really shouldn't exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation. It would be much better to do depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just have a bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES default y in *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical, and is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no clue - and don't care - about which architecture is supposed to support which interface... Sam Ravnborg: Stuff it into a new file: arch/Kconfig We can then extend this file to include all the 'trailing' Kconfig things that are anyway equal for all ARCHs. But it should be kept clean - so if we introduce such a file then we should use ARCH_HAS_whatever in the arch specific Kconfig files to enable stuff that is not shared. [...] The above suggestion is actually not exactly the best way to do it... First the naming.. A quick grep shows following usage today (in Kconfig files) ARCH_HAS 51 ARCH_SUPPORTS 4 HAVE_ARCH 7 ARCH_HAS is the clear winner. In the common Kconfig file do: config FOO depends on ARCH_HAS_FOO bool "bla bla" config ARCH_HAS_FOO def_bool n In the arch specific Kconfig file in a suitable place do: config SUITABLE_OPTION select ARCH_HAS_FOO The naming of ARCH_HAS_ is fixed and shall be: ARCH_HAS_<config option it will enable> Only a single line added pr. architecture. And we will end up with a (maybe even commented) list of trivial selects. - Yet another update : Moving to HAVE_* now. Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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