1. 01 7月, 2006 3 次提交
  2. 30 6月, 2006 29 次提交
  3. 29 6月, 2006 2 次提交
  4. 28 6月, 2006 6 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Add the use of the firmware soft-reset-nmi to kdump. · c0ce7d08
      David Wilder 提交于
      With this patch, kdump uses the firmware soft-reset NMI for two purposes:
      1) Initiate the kdump (take a crash dump) by issuing a soft-reset.
      2) Break a CPU out of a deadlock condition that is detected during kdump
      processing.
      
      When a soft-reset is initiated each CPU will enter
      system_reset_exception() and set its corresponding bit in the global
      bit-array cpus_in_sr then call die(). When die() finds the CPU's bit set
      in cpu_in_sr crash_kexec() is called to initiate a crash dump. The first
      CPU to enter crash_kexec() is called the "crashing CPU". All other CPUs
      are "secondary CPUs". The secondary CPU's pass through to
      crash_kexec_secondary() and sleep. The crashing CPU waits for all CPUs
      to enter via soft-reset then boots the kdump kernel (see
      crash_soft_reset_check())
      
      When the system crashes due to a panic or exception, crash_kexec() is
      called by panic() or die(). The crashing CPU sends an IPI to all other
      CPUs to notify them of the pending shutdown. If a CPU is in a deadlock
      or hung state with interrupts disabled, the IPI will not be delivered.
      The result being, that the kdump kernel is not booted. This problem is
      solved with the use of a firmware generated soft-reset. After the
      crashing_cpu has issued the IPI, it waits for 10 sec for all CPUs to
      enter crash_ipi_callback(). A CPU signifies its entry to
      crash_ipi_callback() by setting its corresponding bit in the
      cpus_in_crash bit array. After 10 sec, if one or more CPUs have not set
      their bit in cpus_in_crash we assume that the CPU(s) is deadlocked. The
      operator is then prompted to generate a soft-reset to break the
      deadlock. Each CPU enters the soft reset handler as described above.
      
      Two conditions must be handled at this point:
      1) The system crashed because the operator generated a soft-reset. See
      2) The system had crashed before the soft-reset was generated ( in the
      case of a Panic or oops).
      
      The first CPU to enter crash_kexec() uses the state of the kexec_lock to
      determine this state. If kexec_lock is already held then condition 2 is
      true and crash_kexec_secondary() is called, else; this CPU is flagged as
      the crashing CPU, the kexec_lock is acquired and crash_kexec() proceeds
      as described above.
      
      Each additional CPUs responding to the soft-reset will pass through
      crash_kexec() to kexec_secondary(). All secondary CPUs call
      crash_ipi_callback() readying them self's for the shutdown. When ready
      they clear their bit in cpus_in_sr. The crashing CPU waits in
      kexec_secondary() until all other CPUs have cleared their bits in
      cpus_in_sr. The kexec kernel boot is then started.
      Signed-off-by: NHaren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      c0ce7d08
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      [PATCH] Remove redundant NULL checks before [kv]free - in kernel/ · 9a66a53f
      Jesper Juhl 提交于
      Remove redundant kfree NULL checks from kernel/
      Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9a66a53f
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      [PATCH] futex_requeue() optimization · 59e0e0ac
      Sebastien Dugue 提交于
      In futex_requeue(), when the 2 futexes keys hash to the same bucket, there
      is no need to move the futex_q to the end of the bucket list.
      Signed-off-by: NSebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      59e0e0ac
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      [PATCH] rtmutex: Propagate priority settings into PI lock chains · 95e02ca9
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      When the priority of a task, which is blocked on a lock, changes we must
      propagate this change into the PI lock chain.  Therefor the chain walk code
      is changed to get rid of the references to current to avoid false positives
      in the deadlock detector, as setscheduler might be called by a task which
      holds the lock on which the task whose priority is changed is blocked.
      
      Also add some comments about the get/put_task_struct usage to avoid
      confusion.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      95e02ca9
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      [PATCH] rtmutex: Modify rtmutex-tester to test the setscheduler propagation · 0bafd214
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      Make test suite setscheduler calls asynchronously.  Remove the waits in the
      test cases and add a new testcase to verify the correctness of the
      setscheduler priority propagation.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      0bafd214
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      [PATCH] Drop tasklist lock in do_sched_setscheduler · e74c69f4
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      There is no need to hold tasklist_lock across the setscheduler call, when
      we pin the task structure with get_task_struct().  Interrupts are disabled
      in setscheduler anyway and the permission checks do not need interrupts
      disabled.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e74c69f4