1. 08 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86, timers: Check for pending timers after (device) interrupts · 9bcbdd9c
      Arjan van de Ven 提交于
      Now that range timers and deferred timers are common, I found a
      problem with these using the "perf timechart" tool. Frans Pop also
      reported high scheduler latencies via LatencyTop, when using
      iwlagn.
      
      It turns out that on x86, these two 'opportunistic' timers only get
      checked when another "real" timer happens. These opportunistic
      timers have the objective to save power by hitchhiking on other
      wakeups, as to avoid CPU wakeups by themselves as much as possible.
      
      The change in this patch runs this check not only at timer
      interrupts, but at all (device) interrupts. The effect is that:
      
       1) the deferred timers/range timers get delayed less
      
       2) the range timers cause less wakeups by themselves because
          the percentage of hitchhiking on existing wakeup events goes up.
      
      I've verified the working of the patch using "perf timechart", the
      original exposed bug is gone with this patch. Frans also reported
      success - the latencies are now down in the expected ~10 msec
      range.
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Tested-by: NFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      LKML-Reference: <20091008064041.67219b13@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      9bcbdd9c
  2. 04 10月, 2009 9 次提交
  3. 03 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86: Simplify bound checks in the MTRR code · 11879ba5
      Arjan van de Ven 提交于
      The current bound checks for copy_from_user in the MTRR driver are
      not as obvious as they could be, and gcc agrees with that.
      
      This patch simplifies the boundary checks to the point that gcc can
      now prove to itself that the copy_from_user() is never going past
      its bounds.
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      LKML-Reference: <20090926205150.30797709@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      11879ba5
  4. 02 10月, 2009 3 次提交
  5. 01 10月, 2009 7 次提交
  6. 30 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  7. 28 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  8. 27 9月, 2009 2 次提交
  9. 24 9月, 2009 11 次提交
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      sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler · 8d65af78
      Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
      It's unused.
      
      It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
      shouldn't care about the rest.
      
      It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8d65af78
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      x86: Remove redundant non-NUMA topology functions · b0c6fbe4
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h declares inline fns cpu_to_node and
      cpumask_of_node for !NUMA, even though they are then declared as
      macros by asm-generic/topology.h, which is #included just below.
      
      The macros (which are the same) end up being used; these functions
      are just confusing.
      Noticed-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
      Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@suse.de>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      LKML-Reference: <200909241748.45629.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b0c6fbe4
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      x86: early_printk: Protect against using the same device twice · 429a6e5e
      Jason Wessel 提交于
      If you use the kernel argument:
      
        earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200
      
      This will cause a recursive hang printing the same line
      again and again:
      
       BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data)
       BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
       BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
      bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled
      Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6b (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009
      Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6b (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009
      Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6b (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009
      Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6b (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009
      Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6b (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009
      
      Instead warn the end user that they specified the device
      a second time, and ignore that second console.
      Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
      Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
      Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      LKML-Reference: <4ABAAB89.1080407@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      429a6e5e
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      x86: Reduce verbosity of "PAT enabled" kernel message · e23a8b6a
      Roland Dreier 提交于
      On modern systems, the kernel prints the message
      
          x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
      
      once for every CPU.
      
      This gets kind of ridiculous on huge systems; for example, on a
      64-thread system I was lucky enough to get:
      
          dmesg| grep 'PAT enabled' | wc
               64     704    5174
      
      There is already a BUG() if non-boot CPUs have PAT capabilities
      that don't match the boot CPU, so just print the message on the
      boot CPU. (I kept the print after the wrmsrl() that enables PAT,
      so that the log output continues to mean that the system survived
      enabling PAT on the boot CPU)
      Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
      LKML-Reference: <adavdj92sso.fsf@cisco.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e23a8b6a
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      x86: Reduce verbosity of "TSC is reliable" message · ea01c0d7
      Roland Dreier 提交于
      On modern systems, the kernel prints the message
      
          Skipping synchronization checks as TSC is reliable.
      
      once for every non-boot CPU.
      
      This gets kind of ridiculous on huge systems; for example, on a
      64-thread system I was lucky enough to get:
      
          $ dmesg | grep 'TSC is reliable' | wc
               63     567    4221
      
      There's no point to doing this for every CPU, since the code is
      just checking the boot CPU anyway, so change this to a
      printk_once() to make the message appears only once.
      Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      LKML-Reference: <adazl8l2swc.fsf@cisco.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ea01c0d7
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      headers: utsname.h redux · 2bcd57ab
      Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
      * remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from linux/utsname.h --
         not needed after kref conversion
       * remove linux/utsname.h inclusion from files which do not need it
      
      NOTE: it looks like fs/binfmt_elf.c do not need utsname.h, however
      due to some personality stuff it _is_ needed -- cowardly leave ELF-related
      headers and files alone.
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2bcd57ab
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      cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: x86 · 78f1c4d6
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Makes code futureproof against the impending change to mm->cpu_vm_mask (to be a pointer).
      
      It's also a chance to use the new cpumask_ ops which take a pointer
      (the older ones are deprecated, but there's no hurry for arch code).
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      78f1c4d6
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      cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi · 0748bd01
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Now everyone is converted to arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask, remove
      the shim and the #defines.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      0748bd01
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      cpumask: remove last assignment to mask field of struct irqaction. · 1d1afc19
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      This snuck in after the patch which removed all the others.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1d1afc19
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      cpumask: use zalloc_cpumask_var() where possible · 79f55997
      Li Zefan 提交于
      Remove open-coded zalloc_cpumask_var() and zalloc_cpumask_var_node().
      Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      79f55997
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      x86: mce: Use safer ways to access MCE registers · 11868a2d
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Use rdmsrl_safe() when accessing MCE registers. While in
      theory we always 'know' which ones are safe to access from
      the capability bits, there's a lot of hardware variations
      and reality might differ from theory, as it did in this case:
      
         http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14204
      
      [    0.010016] mce: CPU supports 5 MCE banks
      [    0.011029] general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
      [    0.011998] last sysfs file:
      [    0.011998] Modules linked in:
      [    0.011998]
      [    0.011998] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.31_router #1) HP Vectra
      [    0.011998] EIP: 0060:[<c100d9b9>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
      [    0.011998] EIP is at mce_rdmsrl+0x19/0x60
      [    0.011998] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00000407 EDX: 08000000
      [    0.011998] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 8c000000 EBP: 00000405 ESP: c17d5eac
      
      So WARN_ONCE() instead of crashing the box.
      
      ( also fix a number of stylistic inconsistencies in the code. )
      
      Note, we might still crash in wrmsrl() if we get that far, but
      we shouldnt if the registers are truly inaccessible.
      Reported-by: NGNUtoo <GNUtoo@no-log.org>
      Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      LKML-Reference: <bug-14204-5438@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      11868a2d
  10. 23 9月, 2009 4 次提交