1. 03 4月, 2012 20 次提交
  2. 02 4月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 29 3月, 2012 3 次提交
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      smp: introduce a generic on_each_cpu_mask() function · 3fc498f1
      Gilad Ben-Yossef 提交于
      We have lots of infrastructure in place to partition multi-core systems
      such that we have a group of CPUs that are dedicated to specific task:
      cgroups, scheduler and interrupt affinity, and cpuisol= boot parameter.
      Still, kernel code will at times interrupt all CPUs in the system via IPIs
      for various needs.  These IPIs are useful and cannot be avoided
      altogether, but in certain cases it is possible to interrupt only specific
      CPUs that have useful work to do and not the entire system.
      
      This patch set, inspired by discussions with Peter Zijlstra and Frederic
      Weisbecker when testing the nohz task patch set, is a first stab at trying
      to explore doing this by locating the places where such global IPI calls
      are being made and turning the global IPI into an IPI for a specific group
      of CPUs.  The purpose of the patch set is to get feedback if this is the
      right way to go for dealing with this issue and indeed, if the issue is
      even worth dealing with at all.  Based on the feedback from this patch set
      I plan to offer further patches that address similar issue in other code
      paths.
      
      This patch creates an on_each_cpu_mask() and on_each_cpu_cond()
      infrastructure API (the former derived from existing arch specific
      versions in Tile and Arm) and uses them to turn several global IPI
      invocation to per CPU group invocations.
      
      Core kernel:
      
      on_each_cpu_mask() calls a function on processors specified by cpumask,
      which may or may not include the local processor.
      
      You must not call this function with disabled interrupts or from a
      hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler.
      
      arch/arm:
      
      Note that the generic version is a little different then the Arm one:
      
      1. It has the mask as first parameter
      2. It calls the function on the calling CPU with interrupts disabled,
         but this should be OK since the function is called on the other CPUs
         with interrupts disabled anyway.
      
      arch/tile:
      
      The API is the same as the tile private one, but the generic version
      also calls the function on the with interrupts disabled in UP case
      
      This is OK since the function is called on the other CPUs
      with interrupts disabled.
      Signed-off-by: NGilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Acked-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.org>
      Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
      Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3fc498f1
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      Delete all instances of asm/system.h · 141124c0
      David Howells 提交于
      Delete all instances of asm/system.h as they should be redundant by this
      point.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      141124c0
    • D
      Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile · bd119c69
      David Howells 提交于
      Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      bd119c69
  4. 24 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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      coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag · 909af768
      Jason Baron 提交于
      The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
      qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
      can be quite large.  There are already a number of filter flags in
      /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
      of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
      case).
      
      Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
      the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag.  The flag is used internally by
      the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages.  However, it is simple
      enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
      for this flag.
      
      The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
      'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
      'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'.  The core dump filters
      continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
      region.
      
      The qemu code which implements this features is at:
      
        http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch
      
      In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this
      patch.
      
      I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
      security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
      dumped.
      
      This patch:
      
      The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
      indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section.  However, we
      can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
      the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
      arch_vma_name().  Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.
      Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      909af768
  5. 20 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  6. 16 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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      [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls · 48b25c43
      Chris Metcalf 提交于
      When using the "compat" APIs, architectures will generally want to
      be able to make direct syscalls to msgsnd(), shmctl(), etc., and
      in the kernel we would want them to be handled directly by
      compat_sys_xxx() functions, as is true for other compat syscalls.
      
      However, for historical reasons, several of the existing compat IPC
      syscalls do not do this.  semctl() expects a pointer to the fourth
      argument, instead of the fourth argument itself.  msgsnd(), msgrcv()
      and shmat() expect arguments in different order.
      
      This change adds an ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC config option that can be
      set to preserve this behavior for ports that use it (x86, sparc, powerpc,
      s390, and mips).  No actual semantics are changed for those architectures,
      and there is only a minimal amount of code refactoring in ipc/compat.c.
      
      Newer architectures like tile (and perhaps future architectures such
      as arm64 and unicore64) should not select this option, and thus can
      avoid having any IPC-specific code at all in their architecture-specific
      compat layer.  In the same vein, if this option is not selected, IPC_64
      mode is assumed, since that's what the <asm-generic> headers expect.
      
      The workaround code in "tile" for msgsnd() and msgrcv() is removed
      with this change; it also fixes the bug that shmat() and semctl() were
      not being properly handled.
      Reviewed-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      48b25c43
  7. 15 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  8. 14 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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      tile: Use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask() · ad092338
      Matt Fleming 提交于
      As described in e6fa16ab ("signal: sigprocmask() should do
      retarget_shared_pending()") the modification of current->blocked is
      incorrect as we need to check whether the signal we're about to block
      is pending in the shared queue.
      
      Also, use the new helper function introduced in commit 5e6292c0
      ("signal: add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked")
      which centralises the code for updating current->blocked after
      successfully delivering a signal and reduces the amount of duplicate
      code across architectures. In the past some architectures got this
      code wrong, so using this helper function should stop that from
      happening again.
      
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Acked-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      ad092338
  9. 13 3月, 2012 3 次提交
  10. 01 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  11. 13 1月, 2012 2 次提交
  12. 07 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  13. 22 12月, 2011 1 次提交
    • K
      cpu: convert 'cpu' and 'machinecheck' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem · 8a25a2fd
      Kay Sievers 提交于
      This moves the 'cpu sysdev_class' over to a regular 'cpu' subsystem
      and converts the devices to regular devices. The sysdev drivers are
      implemented as subsystem interfaces now.
      
      After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
      sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
      
      Userspace relies on events and generic sysfs subsystem infrastructure
      from sysdev devices, which are made available with this conversion.
      
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
      Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
      Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
      Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
      Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      8a25a2fd
  14. 13 12月, 2011 1 次提交
  15. 12 12月, 2011 2 次提交