1. 30 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  2. 11 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  3. 22 7月, 2007 2 次提交
  4. 18 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Add a sched_clock paravirt_op · 688340ea
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      The tsc-based get_scheduled_cycles interface is not a good match for
      Xen's runstate accounting, which reports everything in nanoseconds.
      
      This patch replaces this interface with a sched_clock interface, which
      matches both Xen and VMI's requirements.
      
      In order to do this, we:
         1. replace get_scheduled_cycles with sched_clock
         2. hoist cycles_2_ns into a common header
         3. update vmi accordingly
      
      One thing to note: because sched_clock is implemented as a weak
      function in kernel/sched.c, we must define a real function in order to
      override this weak binding.  This means the usual paravirt_ops
      technique of using an inline function won't work in this case.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
      Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
      688340ea
  5. 03 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] i386: pit_latch_buggy has no effect · f5e88615
      takada 提交于
      Eliminated the arch/i386/kernel/timers in 2.6.18, use clocksoures instead.
      pit_latch_buggy was referred in timers/timer_tsc.c, and currently removed.
      Therefore nobody refer it.
      
      Until 2.6.17, MediaGX's TSC works correctly.  after 2.6.18, warned "TSC
      appears to be running slowly.  Marking it as unstable".  So marked unstable
      TSC when CS55x0.
      
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      f5e88615
  6. 05 3月, 2007 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] vmi: cpu cycles fix · 1182d852
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      In order to share the common code in tsc.c which does CPU Khz calibration, we
      need to make an accurate value of CPU speed available to the tsc.c code.  This
      value loses a lot of precision in a VM because of the timing differences with
      real hardware, but we need it to be as precise as possible so the guest can
      make accurate time calculations with the cycle counters.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1182d852
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      [PATCH] vmi: sched clock paravirt op fix · 6cb9a835
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      The custom_sched_clock hook is broken.  The result from sched_clock needs to
      be in nanoseconds, not in CPU cycles.  The TSC is insufficient for this
      purpose, because TSC is poorly defined in a virtual environment, and mostly
      represents real world time instead of scheduled process time (which can be
      interrupted without notice when a virtual machine is descheduled).
      
      To make the scheduler consistent, we must expose a different nature of time,
      that is scheduled time.  So deprecate this custom_sched_clock hack and turn it
      into a paravirt-op, as it should have been all along.  This allows the tsc.c
      code which converts cycles to nanoseconds to be shared by all paravirt-ops
      backends.
      
      It is unfortunate to add a new paravirt-op, but this is a very distinct
      abstraction which is clearly different for all virtual machine
      implementations, and it gets rid of an ugly indirect function which I
      ashamedly admit I hacked in to try to get this to work earlier, and then even
      got in the wrong units.
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6cb9a835
  7. 13 2月, 2007 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] i386: vMI timer patches · bbab4f3b
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      VMI timer code.  It works by taking over the local APIC clock when APIC is
      configured, which requires a couple hooks into the APIC code.  The backend
      timer code could be commonized into the timer infrastructure, but there are
      some pieces missing (stolen time, in particular), and the exact semantics of
      when to do accounting for NO_IDLE need to be shared between different
      hypervisors as well.  So for now, VMI timer is a separate module.
      
      [Adrian Bunk: cleanups]
      
      Subject: VMI timer patches
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      bbab4f3b
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      [PATCH] i386: vMI backend for paravirt-ops · 7ce0bcfd
      Zachary Amsden 提交于
      Fairly straightforward implementation of VMI backend for paravirt-ops.
      
      [Adrian Bunk: some cleanups]
      Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      7ce0bcfd
  8. 27 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 05 9月, 2005 1 次提交
  10. 24 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Platform SMIs and their interferance with tsc based delay calibration · 8a9e1b0f
      Venkatesh Pallipadi 提交于
      Issue:
      Current tsc based delay_calibration can result in significant errors in
      loops_per_jiffy count when the platform events like SMIs
      (System Management Interrupts that are non-maskable) are present. This could
      lead to potential kernel panic(). This issue is becoming more visible with 2.6
      kernel (as default HZ is 1000) and on platforms with higher SMI handling
      latencies. During the boot time, SMIs are mostly used by BIOS (for things
      like legacy keyboard emulation).
      
      Description:
      The psuedocode for current delay calibration with tsc based delay looks like
      (0) Estimate a value for loops_per_jiffy
      (1) While (loops_per_jiffy estimate is accurate enough)
      (2)   wait for jiffy transition (jiffy1)
      (3)   Note down current tsc (tsc1)
      (4)   loop until tsc becomes tsc1 + loops_per_jiffy
      (5)   check whether jiffy changed since jiffy1 or not and refine
      loops_per_jiffy estimate
      
      Consider the following cases
      Case 1:
      If SMIs happen between (2) and (3) above, we can end up with a
      loops_per_jiffy value that is too low. This results in shorted delays and
      kernel can panic () during boot (Mostly at IOAPIC timer initialization
      timer_irq_works() as we don't have enough timer interrupts in a specified
      interval).
      
      Case 2:
      If SMIs happen between (3) and (4) above, then we can end up with a
      loops_per_jiffy value that is too high. And with current i386 code, too
      high lpj value (greater than 17M) can result in a overflow in
      delay.c:__const_udelay() again resulting in shorter delay and panic().
      
      Solution:
      The patch below makes the calibration routine aware of asynchronous events
      like SMIs. We increase the delay calibration time and also identify any
      significant errors (greater than 12.5%) in the calibration and notify it to
      user.
      
      Patch below changes both i386 and x86-64 architectures to use this
      new and improved calibrate_delay_direct() routine.
      Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8a9e1b0f
  11. 01 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  12. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4