1. 27 2月, 2010 29 次提交
  2. 26 2月, 2010 8 次提交
  3. 25 2月, 2010 3 次提交
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      tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5 · 86c38a31
      Jeff Mahoney 提交于
      GCC 4.5 introduces behavior that forces the alignment of structures to
       use the largest possible value. The default value is 32 bytes, so if
       some structures are defined with a 4-byte alignment and others aren't
       declared with an alignment constraint at all - it will align at 32-bytes.
      
       For things like the ftrace events, this results in a non-standard array.
       When initializing the ftrace subsystem, we traverse the _ftrace_events
       section and call the initialization callback for each event. When the
       structures are misaligned, we could be treating another part of the
       structure (or the zeroed out space between them) as a function pointer.
      
       This patch forces the alignment for all the ftrace_event_call structures
       to 4 bytes.
      
       Without this patch, the kernel fails to boot very early when built with
       gcc 4.5.
      
       It's trivial to check the alignment of the members of the array, so it
       might be worthwhile to add something to the build system to do that
       automatically. Unfortunately, that only covers this case. I've asked one
       of the gcc developers about adding a warning when this condition is seen.
      
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
      LKML-Reference: <4B85770B.6010901@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      86c38a31
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      rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU · 8bd93a2c
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      Currently, rcu_needs_cpu() simply checks whether the current CPU
      has an outstanding RCU callback, which means that the last CPU
      to go into dyntick-idle mode might wait a few ticks for the
      relevant grace periods to complete.  However, if all the other
      CPUs are in dyntick-idle mode, and if this CPU is in a quiescent
      state (which it is for RCU-bh and RCU-sched any time that we are
      considering going into dyntick-idle mode), then the grace period
      is instantly complete.
      
      This patch therefore repeatedly invokes the RCU grace-period
      machinery in order to force any needed grace periods to complete
      quickly.  It does so a limited number of times in order to
      prevent starvation by an RCU callback function that might pass
      itself to call_rcu().
      
      However, if any CPU other than the current one is not in
      dyntick-idle mode, fall back to simply checking (with fix to bug
      noted by Lai Jiangshan).  Also, take advantage of last
      grace-period forcing, the opportunity to do so noted by Steve
      Rostedt.  And apply simplified #ifdef condition suggested by
      Frederic Weisbecker.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
      Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
      Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
      Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
      Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
      Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
      Cc: peterz@infradead.org
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
      Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
      LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-15-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8bd93a2c
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      vfs: Abstract rcu_dereference_check for files-fdtable use · af61b96b
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      Create an rcu_dereference_check_fdtable() that encapsulates the
      rcu_dereference_check() condition for fcheck_files() use.  This
      has the beneficial side-effect of getting rid of a very long
      line.
      Suggested-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
      Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
      Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
      Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
      Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
      Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
      Cc: peterz@infradead.org
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
      Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
      LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-9-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      af61b96b