1. 11 11月, 2009 2 次提交
  2. 06 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  3. 24 9月, 2009 3 次提交
  4. 23 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  5. 21 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events · cdd6c482
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
      
      In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
      initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
      becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
      monitoring, analysis facility.
      
      Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
      'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
      code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
      less appropriate.
      
      All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
      events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
      and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
      
      The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
      it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
      
      Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
      suggested a rename.
      
      User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
      should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
      keep the size down.)
      
      This patch has been generated via the following script:
      
        FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
          -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
          -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
          -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
          -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
          $FILES
      
        for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
          M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
          mv $N $M
        done
      
        FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
          -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
          -e 's/counter/event/g' \
          -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
          $FILES
      
      ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
      used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
      a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
      change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
      is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
      
      Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
      stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
      
      ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
        with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
        over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
        in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
        better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
        instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
      Suggested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Reviewed-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cdd6c482
  6. 16 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7 · 6a46079c
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      Add the high level memory handler that poisons pages
      that got corrupted by hardware (typically by a two bit flip in a DIMM
      or a cache) on the Linux level. The goal is to prevent everyone
      from accessing these pages in the future.
      
      This done at the VM level by marking a page hwpoisoned
      and doing the appropriate action based on the type of page
      it is.
      
      The code that does this is portable and lives in mm/memory-failure.c
      
      To quote the overview comment:
      
      High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the
      hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache
      failure.
      
      This focuses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
      When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently
      running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies
      that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to
      just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead
      when that happens another machine check will happen.
      
      Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part
      here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM
      users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere,
      possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code
      has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking
      rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the
      error handling takes potentially a long time.
      
      Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non
      linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not
      been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case
      for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected
      to be rare we hope we can get away with this.
      
      There are in principle two strategies to kill processes on poison:
      - just unmap the data and wait for an actual reference before
      killing
      - kill as soon as corruption is detected.
      Both have advantages and disadvantages and should be used
      in different situations. Right now both are implemented and can
      be switched with a new sysctl vm.memory_failure_early_kill
      The default is early kill.
      
      The patch does some rmap data structure walking on its own to collect
      processes to kill. This is unusual because normally all rmap data structure
      knowledge is in rmap.c only. I put it here for now to keep
      everything together and rmap knowledge has been seeping out anyways
      
      Includes contributions from Johannes Weiner, Chris Mason, Fengguang Wu,
      Nick Piggin (who did a lot of great work) and others.
      
      Cc: npiggin@suse.de
      Cc: riel@redhat.com
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
      6a46079c
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      block: fix linkage problem with blk_iopoll and !CONFIG_BLOCK · cb684b5b
      Jens Axboe 提交于
       kernel/built-in.o:(.data+0x17b0): undefined reference to `blk_iopoll_enabled'
      
      Since the extern declaration makes the compile work, but the actual
      symbol is missing when block/blk-iopoll.o isn't linked in.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      cb684b5b
  7. 11 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices · 5e605b64
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      This borrows some code from NAPI and implements a polled completion
      mode for block devices. The idea is the same as NAPI - instead of
      doing the command completion when the irq occurs, schedule a dedicated
      softirq in the hopes that we will complete more IO when the iopoll
      handler is invoked. Devices have a budget of commands assigned, and will
      stay in polled mode as long as they continue to consume their budget
      from the iopoll softirq handler. If they do not, the device is set back
      to interrupt completion mode.
      
      This patch holds the core bits for blk-iopoll, device driver support
      sold separately.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      5e605b64
  8. 09 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      sched: Turn off child_runs_first · 2bba22c5
      Mike Galbraith 提交于
      Set child_runs_first default to off.
      
      It hurts 'optimal' make -j<NR_CPUS> workloads as make jobs
      get preempted by child tasks, reducing parallelism.
      
      Note, this patch might make existing races in user
      applications more prominent than before - so breakages
      might be bisected to this commit.
      
      Child-runs-first is broken on SMP to begin with, and we
      already had it off briefly in v2.6.23 so most of the
      offenders ought to be fixed. Would be nice not to revert
      this commit but fix those apps finally ...
      Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
      [ made the sysctl independent of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, in case
        people want to work around broken apps. ]
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      2bba22c5
  9. 07 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  10. 04 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  11. 19 8月, 2009 1 次提交
  12. 17 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      Security/SELinux: seperate lsm specific mmap_min_addr · 788084ab
      Eric Paris 提交于
      Currently SELinux enforcement of controls on the ability to map low memory
      is determined by the mmap_min_addr tunable.  This patch causes SELinux to
      ignore the tunable and instead use a seperate Kconfig option specific to how
      much space the LSM should protect.
      
      The tunable will now only control the need for CAP_SYS_RAWIO and SELinux
      permissions will always protect the amount of low memory designated by
      CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR.
      
      This allows users who need to disable the mmap_min_addr controls (usual reason
      being they run WINE as a non-root user) to do so and still have SELinux
      controls preventing confined domains (like a web server) from being able to
      map some area of low memory.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      788084ab
  13. 06 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      Security/SELinux: seperate lsm specific mmap_min_addr · a2551df7
      Eric Paris 提交于
      Currently SELinux enforcement of controls on the ability to map low memory
      is determined by the mmap_min_addr tunable.  This patch causes SELinux to
      ignore the tunable and instead use a seperate Kconfig option specific to how
      much space the LSM should protect.
      
      The tunable will now only control the need for CAP_SYS_RAWIO and SELinux
      permissions will always protect the amount of low memory designated by
      CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR.
      
      This allows users who need to disable the mmap_min_addr controls (usual reason
      being they run WINE as a non-root user) to do so and still have SELinux
      controls preventing confined domains (like a web server) from being able to
      map some area of low memory.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      a2551df7
  14. 26 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error · 5211a242
      Kurt Garloff 提交于
      This patch introduces a new sysctl:
      
          /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_io_nmi
      
      which defaults to 0 (off).
      
      When enabled, the kernel panics when the kernel receives an NMI
      caused by an IO error.
      
      The IO error triggered NMI indicates a serious system
      condition, which could result in IO data corruption. Rather
      than contiuing, panicing and dumping might be a better choice,
      so one can figure out what's causing the IO error.
      
      This could be especially important to companies running IO
      intensive applications where corruption must be avoided, e.g. a
      bank's databases.
      
      [ SuSE has been shipping it for a while, it was done at the
        request of a large database vendor, for their users. ]
      Signed-off-by: NKurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NRoberto Angelino <robertangelino@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090624213211.GA11291@kroah.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      5211a242
  15. 23 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  16. 19 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  17. 17 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  18. 13 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  19. 11 6月, 2009 2 次提交
  20. 04 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  21. 26 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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      perf_counter: Generic per counter interrupt throttle · a78ac325
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      Introduce a generic per counter interrupt throttle.
      
      This uses the perf_counter_overflow() quick disable to throttle a specific
      counter when its going too fast when a pmu->unthrottle() method is provided
      which can undo the quick disable.
      
      Power needs to implement both the quick disable and the unthrottle method.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a78ac325
  22. 15 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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      Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads" · cd17cbfd
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      This reverts commit fafd688e.
      
      Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing
      for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs
      to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not
      have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily
      revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API
      forever.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      cd17cbfd
  23. 13 5月, 2009 1 次提交
  24. 12 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version · 5031296c
      H. Peter Anvin 提交于
      A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
      There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
      header.  Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
      type and version.  This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
      but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.
      
      Add extension fields for both type and version.  The type will be
      extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
      extension.
      
      Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
      (type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
      /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
      number.
      
      [ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      5031296c
  25. 06 5月, 2009 1 次提交
  26. 03 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mm: prevent divide error for small values of vm_dirty_bytes · 9e4a5bda
      Andrea Righi 提交于
      Avoid setting less than two pages for vm_dirty_bytes: this is necessary to
      avoid potential division by 0 (like the following) in get_dirty_limits().
      
      [   49.951610] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
      [   49.952195] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/uevent
      [   49.952195] CPU 1
      [   49.952195] Modules linked in: pcspkr
      [   49.952195] Pid: 3064, comm: dd Not tainted 2.6.30-rc3 #1
      [   49.952195] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802d39a9>]  [<ffffffff802d39a9>] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0
      [   49.952195] RSP: 0018:ffff88001de03a98  EFLAGS: 00010202
      [   49.952195] RAX: 00000000000000c0 RBX: ffff88001de03b80 RCX: 28f5c28f5c28f5c3
      [   49.952195] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000000
      [   49.952195] RBP: ffff88001de03ae8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
      [   49.952195] R10: ffff88001ddda9a0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001
      [   49.952195] R13: ffff88001fbc8218 R14: ffff88001de03b70 R15: ffff88001de03b78
      [   49.952195] FS:  00007fe9a435b6f0(0000) GS:ffff8800025d9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
      [   49.952195] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
      [   49.952195] CR2: 00007fe9a39ab000 CR3: 000000001de38000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
      [   49.952195] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
      [   49.952195] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
      [   49.952195] Process dd (pid: 3064, threadinfo ffff88001de02000, task ffff88001ddda250)
      [   49.952195] Stack:
      [   49.952195]  ffff88001fa0de00 ffff88001f2dbd70 ffff88001f9fe800 000080b900000000
      [   49.952195]  00000000000000c0 ffff8800027a6100 0000000000000400 ffff88001fbc8218
      [   49.952195]  0000000000000000 0000000000000600 ffff88001de03bb8 ffffffff802d3ed7
      [   49.952195] Call Trace:
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802d3ed7>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x1d7/0x3f0
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80368f8e>] ? ext3_writeback_write_end+0x9e/0x120
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cc7df>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x12f/0x330
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cce8d>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x26d/0x460
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cda32>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x52/0xd0
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff802cda49>] generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xd0
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80365fa6>] ext3_file_write+0x26/0xc0
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff803034d1>] do_sync_write+0xf1/0x140
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80290d1a>] ? get_lock_stats+0x2a/0x60
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff80280730>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff8030411b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x190
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff803042d0>] sys_write+0x50/0x90
      [   49.952195]  [<ffffffff8022ff6b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
      [   49.952195] Code: 00 00 00 2b 05 09 1c 17 01 48 89 c6 49 0f af f4 48 c1 ee 02 48 89 f0 48 f7 e1 48 89 d6 31 d2 48 c1 ee 02 48 0f af 75 d0 48 89 f0 <48> f7 f7 41 8b 95 ac 01 00 00 48 89 c7 49 0f af d4 48 c1 ea 02
      [   49.952195] RIP  [<ffffffff802d39a9>] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0
      [   49.952195]  RSP <ffff88001de03a98>
      [   50.096523] ---[ end trace 008d7aa02f244d7b ]---
      Signed-off-by: NAndrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9e4a5bda
  27. 14 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  28. 09 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  29. 07 4月, 2009 2 次提交
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      mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads · fafd688e
      Peter W Morreale 提交于
      Add /proc entries to give the admin the ability to control the minimum and
      maximum number of pdflush threads.  This allows finer control of pdflush
      on both large and small machines.
      
      The rationale is simply one size does not fit all.  Admins on large and/or
      small systems may want to tune the min/max pdflush thread count to best
      suit their needs.  Right now the min/max is hardcoded to 2/8.  While
      probably a fair estimate for smaller machines, large machines with large
      numbers of CPUs and large numbers of filesystems/block devices may benefit
      from larger numbers of threads working on different block devices.
      
      Even if the background flushing algorithm is radically changed, it is
      still likely that multiple threads will be involved and admins would still
      desire finer control on the min/max other than to have to recompile the
      kernel.
      
      The patch adds '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_min' and
      '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max' with r/w permissions.
      
      The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_min is 1 and the maximum value is
      the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_max.  This minimum is required
      since additional thread creation is performed in a pdflush thread itself.
      
      The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_max is the current value of
      nr_pdflush_threads_min and the maximum value can be 1000.
      
      Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt is also updated.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, fix whitespace, use __read_mostly]
      Signed-off-by: NPeter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>
      Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fafd688e
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      kernel/sysctl.c: avoid annoying warnings · cd5f9a4c
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Some of the limit constants are used only depending on some complex
      configuration dependencies, yet it's not worth making the simple
      variables depend on those configuration details.  Just mark them as
      perhaps not being unused, and avoid the warning.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cd5f9a4c
  30. 03 4月, 2009 3 次提交
  31. 01 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  32. 13 2月, 2009 1 次提交