1. 03 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      tracing: add a new workqueue tracer · e1d8aa9f
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Impact: new tracer
      
      The workqueue tracer provides some statistical informations
      about each cpu workqueue thread such as the number of the
      works inserted and executed since their creation. It can help
      to evaluate the amount of work each of them have to perform.
      For example it can help a developer to decide whether he should
      choose a per cpu workqueue instead of a singlethreaded one.
      
      It only traces statistical informations for now but it will probably later
      provide event tracing too.
      
      Such a tracer could help too, and be improved, to help rt priority sorted
      workqueue development.
      
      To have a snapshot of the workqueues state at any time, just do
      
      cat /debugfs/tracing/trace_stat/workqueues
      
      Ie:
      
        1    125        125       reiserfs/1
        1      0          0       scsi_tgtd/1
        1      0          0       aio/1
        1      0          0       ata/1
        1    114        114       kblockd/1
        1      0          0       kintegrityd/1
        1   2147       2147       events/1
      
        0      0          0       kpsmoused
        0    105        105       reiserfs/0
        0      0          0       scsi_tgtd/0
        0      0          0       aio/0
        0      0          0       ata_aux
        0      0          0       ata/0
        0      0          0       cqueue
        0      0          0       kacpi_notify
        0      0          0       kacpid
        0    149        149       kblockd/0
        0      0          0       kintegrityd/0
        0   1000       1000       khelper
        0   2270       2270       events/0
      
      Changes in V2:
      
      _ Drop the static array based on NR_CPU and dynamically allocate the stat array
        with num_possible_cpus() and other cpu mask facilities....
      _ Trace workqueue insertion at a bit lower level (insert_work instead of queue_work) to handle
        even the workqueue barriers.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e1d8aa9f
  6. 01 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  7. 14 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  8. 06 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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      cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything · 2d3854a3
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Impact: introduce new APIs
      
      We want to deprecate cpumasks on the stack, as we are headed for
      gynormous numbers of CPUs.  Eventually, we want to head towards an
      undefined 'struct cpumask' so they can never be declared on stack.
      
      1) New cpumask functions which take pointers instead of copies.
         (cpus_* -> cpumask_*)
      
      2) Several new helpers to reduce requirements for temporary cpumasks
         (cpumask_first_and, cpumask_next_and, cpumask_any_and)
      
      3) Helpers for declaring cpumasks on or offstack for large NR_CPUS
         (cpumask_var_t, alloc_cpumask_var and free_cpumask_var)
      
      4) 'struct cpumask' for explicitness and to mark new-style code.
      
      5) Make iterator functions stop at nr_cpu_ids (a runtime constant),
         not NR_CPUS for time efficiency and for smaller dynamic allocations
         in future.
      
      6) cpumask_copy() so we can allocate less than a full cpumask eventually
         (for alloc_cpumask_var), and so we can eliminate the 'struct cpumask'
         definition eventually.
      
      7) work_on_cpu() helper for doing task on a CPU, rather than saving old
         cpumask for current thread and manipulating it.
      
      8) smp_call_function_many() which is smp_call_function_mask() except
         taking a cpumask pointer.
      
      Note that this patch simply introduces the new functions and leaves
      the obsolescent ones in place.  This is to simplify the transition
      patches.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      2d3854a3
  9. 22 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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      lockdep: fix workqueue creation API lockdep interaction · eb13ba87
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Dave Young reported warnings from lockdep that the workqueue API
      can sometimes try to register lockdep classes with the same key
      but different names. This is not permitted in lockdep.
      
      Unfortunately, I was unaware of that restriction when I wrote
      the code to debug workqueue problems with lockdep and used the
      workqueue name as the lockdep class name. This can obviously
      lead to the problem if the workqueue name is dynamic.
      
      This patch solves the problem by always using a constant name
      for the workqueue's lockdep class, namely either the constant
      name that was passed in or a string consisting of the variable
      name.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      eb13ba87
  24. 20 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  25. 28 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  26. 18 7月, 2007 2 次提交
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      destroy_workqueue() can livelock · 13c22168
      Oleg Nesterov 提交于
      Pointed out by Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>.
      
      The bug was introduced in 2.6.22 by me.
      
      cleanup_workqueue_thread() does flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq) in a loop until
      ->worklist becomes empty.  This is live-lockable, a re-niced caller can get
      CPU after wake_up() and insert a new barrier before the lower-priority
      cwq->thread has a chance to clear ->current_work.
      
      Change cleanup_workqueue_thread() to do flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq) only once.
       We can rely on the fact that run_workqueue() won't return until it flushes
      all works.  So it is safe to call kthread_stop() after that, the "should
      stop" request won't be noticed until run_workqueue() returns.
      Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
      Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      13c22168
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      Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default · 83144186
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
      threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
      approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
      set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
      care for the freezing of tasks at all.
      
      It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
      be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
      freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
      done in this patch.
      
      The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
      have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
      function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
      unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
      threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
      change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
      describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Acked-by: NNigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
      Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      83144186