1. 20 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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      container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem · dc52ddc0
      Matt Helsley 提交于
      This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups
      framework.  It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in
      a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem.
      
      The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named
      freezer.state.  Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks
      in the cgroup.  Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in
      the cgroup.  Reading will return the current state.
      
      * Examples of usage :
      
         # mkdir /containers/freezer
         # mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer  /containers
         # mkdir /containers/0
         # echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks
      
      to get status of the freezer subsystem :
      
         # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
         RUNNING
      
      to freeze all tasks in the container :
      
         # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
         # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
         FREEZING
         # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
         FROZEN
      
      to unfreeze all tasks in the container :
      
         # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
         # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
         RUNNING
      
      This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space
      task in a simple scenario.
      
      It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete.  In that case we
      return EBUSY.  This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
      something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this
      time.  After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected
      by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read.  The state will remain
      "FREEZING" until one of these things happens:
      
      	1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to
      		the freezer.state file
      	2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
      		the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
      		and returns EIO)
      	3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
      		state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process]
      Signed-off-by: NCedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Tested-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dc52ddc0
  2. 17 10月, 2008 2 次提交
  3. 16 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 27 9月, 2008 5 次提交
  5. 14 9月, 2008 1 次提交
  6. 09 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      kernel/cpu.c: create a CPU_STARTING cpu_chain notifier · e545a614
      Manfred Spraul 提交于
      Right now, there is no notifier that is called on a new cpu, before the new
      cpu begins processing interrupts/softirqs.
      Various kernel function would need that notification, e.g. kvm works around
      by calling smp_call_function_single(), rcu polls cpu_online_map.
      
      The patch adds a CPU_STARTING notification. It also adds a helper function
      that sends the message to all cpu_chain handlers.
      
      Tested on x86-64.
      All other archs are untested. Especially on sparc, I'm not sure if I got
      it right.
      Signed-off-by: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e545a614
  7. 07 9月, 2008 1 次提交
  8. 27 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  9. 26 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      inflate: refactor inflate malloc code · 2d6ffcca
      Thomas Petazzoni 提交于
      Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
      process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
      malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.
      
      The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
      free.  This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
      allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.
      
      This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
      all the malloc/free implementations.
      
      The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
       - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
         allocations should be made
       - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
         allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
         the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed
      
      The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
      function call.  This function will be called several times during the
      decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
      still running.  If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
      define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
      arch_decomp_wdog().
      
      Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
      kernel and improved by me.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Acked-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Acked-by: NYoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2d6ffcca
  10. 25 7月, 2008 3 次提交
  11. 26 6月, 2008 2 次提交
  12. 17 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  13. 09 5月, 2008 2 次提交
  14. 29 4月, 2008 2 次提交
  15. 17 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  16. 09 2月, 2008 4 次提交
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      ide: introduce HAVE_IDE · ec7748b5
      Sam Ravnborg 提交于
      To allow flexible configuration of IDE introduce HAVE_IDE.
      All archs except arm, um and s390 unconditionally select it.
      For arm the actual configuration determine if IDE is supported.
      
      This is a step towards introducing drivers/Kconfig for arm.
      Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Acked-by: NRussell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Acked-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
      ec7748b5
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      avoid overflows in kernel/time.c · bdc80787
      H. Peter Anvin 提交于
      When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds is
      not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we currently
      do a multiply followed by a divide.  The intervening result, however, is
      subject to overflows, especially since the fraction is not simplified (for
      HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and divide by 1000).
      
      This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(), for
      example.
      
      This patch replaces the multiply-divide with a reciprocal multiplication on
      32-bit platforms.  When the input is an unsigned long, there is no portable
      way to do this on 64-bit platforms there is no portable way to do this
      since it requires a 128-bit intermediate result (which gcc does support on
      64-bit platforms but may generate libgcc calls, e.g.  on 64-bit s390), but
      since the output is a 32-bit integer in the cases affected, just simplify
      the multiply-divide (*3/10 instead of *300/1000).
      
      The reciprocal multiply used can have off-by-one errors in the upper half
      of the valid output range.  This could be avoided at the expense of having
      to deal with a potential 65-bit intermediate result.  Since the intent is
      to avoid overflow problems and most of the other time conversions are only
      semiexact, the off-by-one errors were considered an acceptable tradeoff.
      
      At Ralf Baechle's suggestion, this version uses a Perl script to compute
      the necessary constants.  We already have dependencies on Perl for kernel
      compiles.  This does, however, require the Perl module Math::BigInt, which
      is included in the standard Perl distribution starting with version 5.8.0.
      In order to support older versions of Perl, include a table of canned
      constants in the script itself, and structure the script so that
      Math::BigInt isn't required if pulling values from said table.
      
      Running the script requires that the HZ value is available from the
      Makefile.  Thus, this patch also adds the Kconfig variable CONFIG_HZ to the
      architectures which didn't already have it (alpha, cris, frv, h8300, m32r,
      m68k, m68knommu, sparc, v850, and xtensa.) It does *not* touch the sh or
      sh64 architectures, since Paul Mundt has dealt with those separately in the
      sh tree.
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
      Cc: Michael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>,
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>,
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
      Cc: William L. Irwin <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>,
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
      Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bdc80787
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      aout: mark arches that support A.OUT format · b0b933c0
      David Howells 提交于
      Mark arches that support A.OUT format by including the following in their
      master Kconfig files:
      
      	config ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT
      		def_bool y
      
      This should also be set if the arch provides compatibility A.OUT support for
      an older arch, for instance x86_64 for i386 or sparc64 for sparc.
      
      I've guessed at which arches don't, based on comments in the code, however I'm
      sure that some of the ones I've marked as 'yes' actually should be 'no'.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b0b933c0
  17. 08 2月, 2008 2 次提交
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      m32r: build fix of arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c · df0f65f0
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      This patch is for Mathieu Desnoyers's include/asm-m32r/local.h.
      Applying the new include/asm-m32r/local.h, inclusion of linux/sched.h
      is needed to fix a build error of arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c.
      
      <--  snip  -->
        ...
        CC      arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.o
      /project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c: In function 'do_boot_cpu':
      /project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:279: error: implicit declaration of function 'fork_idle'
      /project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:279: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
      /project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:283: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
      /project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:289: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
      /project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:290: error: implicit declaration of function 'task_thread_info'
      /project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:290: error: invalid type argument of '->'
      /project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c: In function 'start_secondary':
      /project/m32r-linux/kernel/work/linux-2.6_dev.git/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c:429: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpu_init'
      make[2]: *** [arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.o] Error 1
      <--  snip  -->
      Signed-off-by: NHirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      df0f65f0
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      Introduce flags for reserve_bootmem() · 72a7fe39
      Bernhard Walle 提交于
      This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the
      BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions
      between crashkernel area and already used memory.
      
      This patch:
      
      Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE.
      If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already
      has been reserved in the past.  This is to avoid conflicts.
      
      Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition
      inside reserve_bootmem_core().
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
      Signed-off-by: NBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      72a7fe39
  18. 06 2月, 2008 2 次提交
  19. 03 2月, 2008 4 次提交
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      arch/m32r/: Spelling fixes · ec9674e7
      Joe Perches 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      ec9674e7
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      remove Documentation/smp.txt · 03502faa
      Adrian Bunk 提交于
      After seeing the filename I'd have expected something about the
      implementation of SMP in the Linux kernel - not some notes on kernel
      configuration and building trivialities noone would search at this
      place.
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      03502faa
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      Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig · 125e5645
      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>
      125e5645
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      Add HAVE_OPROFILE · 42d4b839
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      Linus:
      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...
      
      Changelog:
      
      Actually, I know I gave this as the magic incantation, but now that I see
      it, I realize that I should have told you to just use
      
              config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                      def_bool y
      
      instead, which is a bit denser.
      
      We seem to use both kinds of syntax for these things, but this is really
      what "def_bool" is there for...
      
      Changelog :
      
      - Moving to HAVE_*.
      - Add AVR32 oprofile.
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      42d4b839
  20. 02 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  21. 30 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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      spinlock: lockbreak cleanup · 95c354fe
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      The break_lock data structure and code for spinlocks is quite nasty.
      Not only does it double the size of a spinlock but it changes locking to
      a potentially less optimal trylock.
      
      Put all of that under CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK, and introduce a
      __raw_spin_is_contended that uses the lock data itself to determine whether
      there are waiters on the lock, to be used if CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK is
      not set.
      
      Rename need_lockbreak to spin_needbreak, make it use spin_is_contended to
      decouple it from the spinlock implementation, and make it typesafe (rwlocks
      do not have any need_lockbreak sites -- why do they even get bloated up
      with that break_lock then?).
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      95c354fe
  22. 29 1月, 2008 1 次提交