1. 03 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      this_cpu: Introduce this_cpu_ptr() and generic this_cpu_* operations · 7340a0b1
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      This patch introduces two things: First this_cpu_ptr and then per cpu
      atomic operations.
      
      this_cpu_ptr
      ------------
      
      A common operation when dealing with cpu data is to get the instance of the
      cpu data associated with the currently executing processor. This can be
      optimized by
      
      this_cpu_ptr(xx) = per_cpu_ptr(xx, smp_processor_id).
      
      The problem with per_cpu_ptr(x, smp_processor_id) is that it requires
      an array lookup to find the offset for the cpu. Processors typically
      have the offset for the current cpu area in some kind of (arch dependent)
      efficiently accessible register or memory location.
      
      We can use that instead of doing the array lookup to speed up the
      determination of the address of the percpu variable. This is particularly
      significant because these lookups occur in performance critical paths
      of the core kernel. this_cpu_ptr() can avoid memory accesses and
      
      this_cpu_ptr comes in two flavors. The preemption context matters since we
      are referring the the currently executing processor. In many cases we must
      insure that the processor does not change while a code segment is executed.
      
      __this_cpu_ptr 	-> Do not check for preemption context
      this_cpu_ptr	-> Check preemption context
      
      The parameter to these operations is a per cpu pointer. This can be the
      address of a statically defined per cpu variable (&per_cpu_var(xxx)) or
      the address of a per cpu variable allocated with the per cpu allocator.
      
      per cpu atomic operations: this_cpu_*(var, val)
      -----------------------------------------------
      this_cpu_* operations (like this_cpu_add(struct->y, value) operate on
      abitrary scalars that are members of structures allocated with the new
      per cpu allocator. They can also operate on static per_cpu variables
      if they are passed to per_cpu_var() (See patch to use this_cpu_*
      operations for vm statistics).
      
      These operations are guaranteed to be atomic vs preemption when modifying
      the scalar. The calculation of the per cpu offset is also guaranteed to
      be atomic at the same time. This means that a this_cpu_* operation can be
      safely used to modify a per cpu variable in a context where interrupts are
      enabled and preemption is allowed. Many architectures can perform such
      a per cpu atomic operation with a single instruction.
      
      Note that the atomicity here is different from regular atomic operations.
      Atomicity is only guaranteed for data accessed from the currently executing
      processor. Modifications from other processors are still possible. There
      must be other guarantees that the per cpu data is not modified from another
      processor when using these instruction. The per cpu atomicity is created
      by the fact that the processor either executes and instruction or not.
      Embedded in the instruction is the relocation of the per cpu address to
      the are reserved for the current processor and the RMW action. Therefore
      interrupts or preemption cannot occur in the mids of this processing.
      
      Generic fallback functions are used if an arch does not define optimized
      this_cpu operations. The functions come also come in the two flavors used
      for this_cpu_ptr().
      
      The firstparameter is a scalar that is a member of a structure allocated
      through allocpercpu or a per cpu variable (use per_cpu_var(xxx)). The
      operations are similar to what percpu_add() and friends do.
      
      this_cpu_read(scalar)
      this_cpu_write(scalar, value)
      this_cpu_add(scale, value)
      this_cpu_sub(scalar, value)
      this_cpu_inc(scalar)
      this_cpu_dec(scalar)
      this_cpu_and(scalar, value)
      this_cpu_or(scalar, value)
      this_cpu_xor(scalar, value)
      
      Arch code can override the generic functions and provide optimized atomic
      per cpu operations. These atomic operations must provide both the relocation
      (x86 does it through a segment override) and the operation on the data in a
      single instruction. Otherwise preempt needs to be disabled and there is no
      gain from providing arch implementations.
      
      A third variant is provided prefixed by irqsafe_. These variants are safe
      against hardware interrupts on the *same* processor (all per cpu atomic
      primitives are *always* *only* providing safety for code running on the
      *same* processor!). The increment needs to be implemented by the hardware
      in such a way that it is a single RMW instruction that is either processed
      before or after an interrupt.
      
      cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      7340a0b1
  2. 04 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  3. 01 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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      alpha: fix percpu build breakage · b01e8dc3
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      alpha percpu access requires custom SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR() definition for
      modules to work around addressing range limitation.  This is done via
      generating inline assembly using C preprocessing which forces the
      assembler to generate external reference.  This happens behind the
      compiler's back and makes the compiler think that static percpu variables
      in modules are unused.
      
      This used to be worked around by using __unused attribute for percpu
      variables which prevent the compiler from omitting the variable; however,
      recent declare/definition attribute unification change broke this as
      __used can't be used for declaration.  Also, in the process,
      PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES definition in alpha percpu.h got broken.
      
      This patch adds PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES which is only used for definitions
      and make alpha use it to add __used for percpu variables in modules.  This
      also fixes the PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES double definition bug.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Tested-by: Nmaximilian attems <max@stro.at>
      Acked-by: NIvan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b01e8dc3
  4. 22 4月, 2009 2 次提交
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      PERCPU: Collect the DECLARE/DEFINE declarations together · 5028eaa9
      David Howells 提交于
      Collect the DECLARE/DEFINE declarations together in linux/percpu-defs.h so
      that they're in one place, and give them descriptive comments, particularly
      the SHARED_ALIGNED variant.
      
      It would be nice to collect these in linux/percpu.h, but that's not possible
      without sorting out the severe #include recursion between the x86 arch headers
      and the general headers (and possibly other arches too).
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5028eaa9
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      FRV: Fix the section attribute on UP DECLARE_PER_CPU() · 9b8de747
      David Howells 提交于
      In non-SMP mode, the variable section attribute specified by DECLARE_PER_CPU()
      does not agree with that specified by DEFINE_PER_CPU().  This means that
      architectures that have a small data section references relative to a base
      register may throw up linkage errors due to too great a displacement between
      where the base register points and the per-CPU variable.
      
      On FRV, the .h declaration says that the variable is in the .sdata section, but
      the .c definition says it's actually in the .data section.  The linker throws
      up the following errors:
      
      kernel/built-in.o: In function `release_task':
      kernel/exit.c:78: relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol `per_cpu__process_counts' defined in .data section in kernel/built-in.o
      kernel/exit.c:78: relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol `per_cpu__process_counts' defined in .data section in kernel/built-in.o
      
      To fix this, DECLARE_PER_CPU() should simply apply the same section attribute
      as does DEFINE_PER_CPU().  However, this is made slightly more complex by
      virtue of the fact that there are several variants on DEFINE, so these need to
      be matched by variants on DECLARE.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9b8de747
  5. 11 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      percpu: unbreak alpha percpu · 066123a5
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      For the time being, move the generic percpu_*() accessors to
      linux/percpu.h.
      
      asm-generic/percpu.h is meant to carry generic stuff for low level
      stuff - declarations, definitions and pointer offset calculation
      and so on but not for generic interface.
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      066123a5
  6. 16 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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      percpu: add optimized generic percpu accessors · 6dbde353
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      It is an optimization and a cleanup, and adds the following new
      generic percpu methods:
      
        percpu_read()
        percpu_write()
        percpu_add()
        percpu_sub()
        percpu_and()
        percpu_or()
        percpu_xor()
      
      and implements support for them on x86. (other architectures will fall
      back to a default implementation)
      
      The advantage is that for example to read a local percpu variable,
      instead of this sequence:
      
       return __get_cpu_var(var);
      
       ffffffff8102ca2b:	48 8b 14 fd 80 09 74 	mov    -0x7e8bf680(,%rdi,8),%rdx
       ffffffff8102ca32:	81
       ffffffff8102ca33:	48 c7 c0 d8 59 00 00 	mov    $0x59d8,%rax
       ffffffff8102ca3a:	48 8b 04 10          	mov    (%rax,%rdx,1),%rax
      
      We can get a single instruction by using the optimized variants:
      
       return percpu_read(var);
      
       ffffffff8102ca3f:	65 48 8b 05 91 8f fd 	mov    %gs:0x7efd8f91(%rip),%rax
      
      I also cleaned up the x86-specific APIs and made the x86 code use
      these new generic percpu primitives.
      
      tj: * fixed generic percpu_sub() definition as Roel Kluin pointed out
          * added percpu_and() for completeness's sake
          * made generic percpu ops atomic against preemption
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      6dbde353
  7. 24 2月, 2008 1 次提交
    • H
      percpu: fix DEBUG_PREEMPT per_cpu checking · 1e835278
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      2.6.25-rc1 percpu changes broke CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT's per_cpu checking
      on several architectures.  On s390, sparc64 and x86 it's been weakened to
      not checking at all; whereas on powerpc64 it's become too strict, issuing
      warnings from __raw_get_cpu_var in io_schedule and init_timer for example.
      
      Fix this by weakening powerpc's __my_cpu_offset to use the non-checking
      local_paca instead of get_paca (which itself contains such a check);
      and strengthening the generic my_cpu_offset to go the old slow way via
      smp_processor_id when CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT (debug_smp_processor_id is
      where all the knowledge of what's correct when lives).
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Reviewed-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1e835278
  8. 30 1月, 2008 4 次提交
  9. 20 7月, 2007 1 次提交
    • F
      define new percpu interface for shared data · 5fb7dc37
      Fenghua Yu 提交于
      per cpu data section contains two types of data.  One set which is
      exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu,
      but also shared by remote cpus.  In the current kernel, these two sets are
      not clearely separated out.  This can potentially cause the same data
      cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in
      unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus.
      
      One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per
      cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end.  Because of the padding at
      both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the
      interface to achieve this is not clean.
      
      This patch:
      
      Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked
      as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data
      elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local
      only data and remotely accessed data cleanly.
      Signed-off-by: NFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5fb7dc37
  10. 03 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  11. 06 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  12. 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  13. 04 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 26 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  15. 29 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 23 3月, 2006 1 次提交
    • A
      [PATCH] more for_each_cpu() conversions · 394e3902
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      When we stop allocating percpu memory for not-possible CPUs we must not touch
      the percpu data for not-possible CPUs at all.  The correct way of doing this
      is to test cpu_possible() or to use for_each_cpu().
      
      This patch is a kernel-wide sweep of all instances of NR_CPUS.  I found very
      few instances of this bug, if any.  But the patch converts lots of open-coded
      test to use the preferred helper macros.
      
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      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: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
      Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      394e3902
  17. 24 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  18. 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