- 17 10月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Tony Luck 提交于
d5a7430d missed a spot where we use cpu_sibling_map and cpu_core_map. These don't exist on a uni-processor build. Wrap #ifdef CONFIG_SMP ... #endif around it. Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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由 Mike Travis 提交于
Convert cpu_sibling_map from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a per_cpu variable. This saves sizeof(cpumask_t) * NR unused cpus. Access is mostly from startup and CPU HOTPLUG functions. Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 01 9月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Peter Chubb 提交于
This patch cleans up the `enable early console for SKI' patch (471e7a44), and 1. potentially allows the gensparse_defconfig to work again. (there are other problems running a generic kernel on Ski) 2. fixes the `console registered twice' problem. 3. Cleans up the code by moving the `extern hpsim_cons' declaration to a new asm/hpsim.h file. Thanks to Jes for comments. Signed-off-by: NPeter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 29 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Kenji Kaneshige 提交于
The pending interrupts can be remaining at boot up time on some platform. This will cause spurious interrupts when interrupt is enabled for the first time. This patch clears IVR at the CPU initialization to eliminate such spurious interrupts. Signed-off-by: NKenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 18 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Peter Chubb 提交于
When using Ski to debug early startup, it's a bit of a pain not to have printk. This patch enables the simulated console very early. It may be worth conditionalising on the command line... but this is enough for now. Signed-off-by: NPeter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 31 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Jesper Juhl 提交于
This patch removes a few duplicate includes from arch/ia64/ Acked-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 26 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Horms 提交于
Parse the machvec command line option outside of the early_param() so that ia64_mv is set before any console intialisation that may result from early_param parsing. Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 20 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Ralf Baechle 提交于
Since Ingo's recent scheduler rewrite which was merged as commit 0437e109 sched_cacheflush is unused. Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 17 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=> register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0. that is too late. Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature. and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically. new command line will be: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 or earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 it will print in very early stage: Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8') console [uart0] enabled later for console it will print: console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0] Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 10 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
the SMP load-balancer uses the boot-time migration-cost estimation code to attempt to improve the quality of balancing. The reason for this code is that the discrete priority queues do not preserve the order of scheduling accurately, so the load-balancer skips tasks that were running on a CPU 'recently'. this code is fundamental fragile: the boot-time migration cost detector doesnt really work on systems that had large L3 caches, it caused boot delays on large systems and the whole cache-hot concept made the balancing code pretty undeterministic as well. (and hey, i wrote most of it, so i can say it out loud that it sucks ;-) under CFS the same purpose of cache affinity can be achieved without any special cache-hot special-case: tasks are sorted in the 'timeline' tree and the SMP balancer picks tasks from the left side of the tree, thus the most cache-cold task is balanced automatically. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 12 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Simon Arlott 提交于
Spelling and apostrophe fixes in arch/ia64/. Signed-off-by: NSimon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 08 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Tony Luck 提交于
Section mismatch: reference to ... .init.text:prefill_possible_map from .text between 'setup_per_cpu_areas' and 'cpu_init' .init.text:iosapic_override_isa_irq from .text between 'iosapic_init' and 'iosapic_remove' Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 07 4月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Venki Pallipadi 提交于
My patch: git commit=95235ca2 introduced a bug in IA64 cpuinfo output. Patch changed the proc_freq from 1HZ resolution to 1KHz resolution, but left format string unchanged at " %lu.%06lu". Below is the fix. Thanks to Bjorn for catching this. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 21 3月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Jack Steiner 提交于
If a system consists of mixed processor types, kmalloc() can be called before the per-cpu data page is initialized. If the slab contains sufficient memory, then kmalloc() works ok. However, if the slabs are empty, slab calls the memory allocator. This requires per-cpu data (NODE_DATA()) & the cpu dies. Also noted by Russ Anderson who had a very similar patch. Signed-off-by: NJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 08 3月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Horms 提交于
efi_initialize_iomem_resources() is declared in both include/linux/efi.h and arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c. This patch removes the latter. Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 07 3月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Magnus Damm 提交于
The address where the ELF core header is stored is passed to the secondary kernel as a kernel command line option. The memory area for this header is also marked as a separate EFI memory descriptor on ia64. The separate EFI memory descriptor is at the moment of the type EFI_UNUSABLE_MEMORY. With such a type the secondary kernel skips over the entire memory granule (config option, 16M or 64M) when detecting memory. If we are lucky we will just lose some memory, but if we happen to have data in the same granule (such as an initramfs image), then this data will never get mapped and the kernel bombs out when trying to access it. So this is an attempt to fix this by changing the EFI memory descriptor type into EFI_LOADER_DATA. This type is the same type used for the kernel data and for initramfs. In the secondary kernel we then handle the ELF core header data the same way as we handle the initramfs image. This patch contains the kernel changes to make this happen. Pretty straightforward, we reserve the area in reserve_memory(). The address for the area comes from the kernel command line and the size comes from the specialized EFI parsing function vmcore_find_descriptor_size(). The kexec-tools-testing code for this can be found here: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-February/005983.htmlSigned-off-by: NMagnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 13 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Alon Bar-Lev 提交于
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. [akpm@osdl.org: move some declarations to the right place] Signed-off-by: NAlon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 07 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Chen, Kenneth W 提交于
It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store how many physical stack register a cpu has. Ever since the incarnation of ia64 up till upcoming Montecito processor, that variable has "glued" to 96. Having a variable in memory means that the kernel is burning an extra cacheline access on every syscall and kernel exit path. Such "static" value is better served with the instruction patching utility exists today. Convert ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 into dynamic insn patching. This also has a pleasant side effect of eliminating access to per-cpu area while psr.ic=0 in the kernel exit path. (fixable for per-cpu DTC work, but why bother?) There are some concerns with the default value that the instruc- tion encoded in the kernel image. It shouldn't be concerned. The reasons are: (1) cpu_init() is called at CPU initialization. In there, we find out physical stack register size from PAL and patch two instructions in kernel exit code. The code in question can not be executed before the patching is done. (2) current implementation stores zero in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, and that's what the current kernel exit path loads the value with. With the new code, it is equivalent that we store reg size 96 in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, thus creating a better safety net. Given (1) above can never fail, having (2) is just a bonus. All in all, this patch allow one less memory reference in the kernel exit path, thus reducing syscall and interrupt return latency; and avoid polluting potential useful data in the CPU cache. Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 06 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Aron Griffis 提交于
Some patches have turned up on xen-devel recently to convert strcpy() to safer alternatives and so forth. While reviewing those patches I noticed that the features string building could be cleaned up. This patch uses snprintf() instead of strcpy() and direct character pointer manipulation. It makes the features string building safe and gets rid of the special case for features output in show_cpuinfo() Additionally I removed the (int) cast of ARRAY_SIZE, which seems to serve no purpose. Signed-off-by: NAron Griffis <aron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 13 12月, 2006 3 次提交
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由 Tony Luck 提交于
Stephane thought he saw a problem here (but was just confused by the return value from ia64_pal_get_brand_info()). But we should be more defensive here in case an prototype PAL for a future processor doesn't implement this PAL call. Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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由 Horms 提交于
There seems to be a value in both allowing the kernel to determine the base offset of the crashkernel automatically and allowing users's to sepcify it. The old behaviour on ia64, which is still the current behaviour on most architectures is for the user to always specify the address. Recently ia64 was changed so that it is always automatically determined. With this patch the kernel automatically determines the offset if the supplied value is 0, otherwise it uses the value provided. This should probably be backed by a documentation change. Signed-Off-By: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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由 Horms 提交于
Actually, on reflection I think that there is a good case for keeping the options separate. I am thinking particularly of people who want a very small crashdump kernel and thus don't want to compile in kexec. The patch below should fix things up so that all valid combinations of KEXEC, CRASH_DUMP and VMCORE compile cleanly - VMCORE depends on CRASH_DUMP which is why I said valid combinations. In a nutshell it just untangles unrelated code and switches around a few defines. Please note that it creats a new file, arch/ia64/kernel/crash_dump.c This is in keeping with the i386 implementation. Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Zou Nan hai 提交于
Changes and updates. 1. Remove fake rendz path and related code according to discuss with Khalid Aziz. 2. fc.i offset fix in relocate_kernel.S. 3. iospic shutdown code eoi and mask race fix from Fujitsu. 4. Warm boot hook in machine_kexec to SN SAL code from Jack Steiner. 5. Send slave to SAL slave loop patch from Jay Lan. 6. Kdump on non-recoverable MCA event patch from Jay Lan 7. Use CTL_UNNUMBERED in kdump_on_init sysctl. Signed-off-by: NZou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 01 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Troy Heber 提交于
The check to see if the firmware drops interrupts during a SAL_CACHE_FLUSH is done to early in the boot. SAL_CACHE_FLUSH expects to be able to make PAL calls in virtual mode, on some cell based machines a fault occurs causing a MCA. This patch moves the check after mmu_context_init so the TLB and VHPT are properly setup. Signed-off-by Troy Heber <troy.heber@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 02 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Russell King 提交于
asm/serial.h is supposed to contain the definitions for the architecture specific 8250 ports for the 8250 driver. It may also define BASE_BAUD, but this is the base baud for the architecture specific ports _only_. Therefore, nothing other than the 8250 driver should be including this header file. In order to move towards this goal, here is a patch which removes some of the more obvious incorrect includes of the file. Acked-by: NPaul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Acked-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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- 11 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Jon Smirl 提交于
screen_info.h doesn't have anything to do with the tty layer and shouldn't be included by tty.h. This patches removes the include and modifies all users to directly include screen_info.h. struct screen_info is mainly used to communicate with the console drivers in drivers/video/console. Note that this patch touches every arch and I have no way of testing it. If there is a mistake the worst thing that will happen is a compile error. [akpm@osdl.org: fix arm build] [akpm@osdl.org: fix alpha build] Signed-off-by: NJon Smirl <jonsmir@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Jörn Engel 提交于
Signed-off-by: NJörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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- 22 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Alex Williamson 提交于
One more trivial, stand-alone patch from the Xen/ia64 review. Sanity check usage of the reserved region numbers. Signed-off-by: NAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 06 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Tony Luck 提交于
Linux ia64 port tried to decode the processor family number to something human-readable, but Intel brandnames don't change synchronously with updates to the family number. Adopt a more i386-like approach and just print the family number in decimal. Add a new field "model name" that uses PAL_BRAND_INFO to find the official name for the cpu, or on older systems, falls back to using the well-known codenames (Merced, McKinley, Madison). Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 27 3月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 Bjorn Helgaas 提交于
Almost all users of the table addresses from the EFI system table want physical addresses. So rather than doing the pa->va->pa conversion, just keep physical addresses in struct efi. This fixes a DMI bug: the efi structure contained the physical SMBIOS address on x86 but the virtual address on ia64, so dmi_scan_machine() used ioremap() on a virtual address on ia64. This is essentially the same as an earlier patch by Matt Tolentino: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112130292316281&w=2 except that this changes all table addresses, not just ACPI addresses. Matt's original patch was backed out because it caused MCAs on HP sx1000 systems. That problem is resolved by the ioremap() attribute checking added for ia64. Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: N"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Matt Domsch 提交于
Enable DMI table parsing on ia64. Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of i386 dmi_scan.c on x86_64. dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found. This patch adds equivalent changes for ia64 as to what is in the x86_64 tree. In addition, I reworked the DMI detection, such that on EFI-capable systems, it uses the efi.smbios pointer to find the table, rather than brute-force searching from 0xF0000. On non-EFI systems, it continues the brute-force search. My test system, an Intel S870BN4 'Tiger4', aka Dell PowerEdge 7250, with latest BIOS, does not list the IPMI controller in the ACPI namespace, nor does it have an ACPI SPMI table. Also note, currently shipping Dell x8xx EM64T servers don't have these either, so DMI is the only method for obtaining the address of the IPMI controller. Signed-off-by: NMatt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: N"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 24 3月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
include/linux/platform.h contained nothing that was actually used except the default_idle() prototype, and is therefore removed by this patch. This patch does the following with the platform specific default_idle() functions on different architectures: - remove the unused function: - parisc - sparc64 - make the needlessly global function static: - arm - h8300 - m68k - m68knommu - s390 - v850 - x86_64 - add a prototype in asm/system.h: - cris - i386 - ia64 Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: NPatrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Horms 提交于
I'm not sure of the worthiness of this idea, so please consider it an RFC. Its key merits are: * Reuse existing infrastructure * Greatly tightens up the parsing of nomca * Greatly simplifies the parsing of machvec Addition cleanup (moving setup_mvec() to machvec.c) by Ken Chen. Signed-Off-By: NHorms <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-Off-By: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 23 3月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 Chen, Kenneth W 提交于
Add init declaration to variables/functions used for memory initialization. I don't think they would clash with memory hotplug. If they do, please yell. Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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由 Chen, Kenneth W 提交于
Add init declaration to cpu initialization functions. Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 15 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Ashok Raj 提交于
Have a facility to account for potentially hot-pluggable CPUs. ACPI doesnt give a determinstic method to find hot-pluggable CPUs. Hence we use 2 methods to assist. - BIOS can mark potentially hot-pluggable CPUs as disabled in the MADT tables. - User can specify the number of hot-pluggable CPUs via parameter additional_cpus=X The option is enabled only if ACPI_CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y which enables the physical hotplug option. Without which user can still use logical onlining and offlining of CPUs by enabling CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y Adds more bits to cpu_possible_map for potentially hot-pluggable cpus. Signed-off-by: NAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 08 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Tony Luck 提交于
There were two problems with enabling the PRINTK_TIME config option: 1) The first calls to printk() occur before per-cpu data virtual address is pinned into the TLB, so sched_clock() can fault. 2) sched_clock() is based on ar.itc, which may not be synchronized across cpus. Ken Chen started this patch, Tony Luck tinkered with it, and Jes Sorensen perfected it. Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 13 1月, 2006 3 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 akpm@osdl.org 提交于
) From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch. The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this: - I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems, and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems. [ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ] Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem: - Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the 'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs. This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share any caches. (The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source for details.) Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune migration behavior. Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection: migration_cost=1000,2000,3000 will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values. Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or decrease) the autodetected values: migration_factor=120 will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying migration_factor=0. I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3 P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good: Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache): --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [00]: - 1.7(1) [01]: 1.7(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008) --------------------- Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs. Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache): --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [02] [03] [00]: - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) [01]: 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) [02]: 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) [03]: 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514) --------------------- Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs. 8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]: --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [00]: - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [01]: 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [02]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [03]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [04]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [05]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [06]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) [07]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756) --------------------- This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the migration cost is 19 msecs. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJohn Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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