- 28 1月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
If we want to stop the tick further idle, we need to be able to account the cputime without using the tick. Virtual based cputime accounting solves that problem by hooking into kernel/user boundaries. However implementing CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING require low level hooks and involves more overhead. But we already have a generic context tracking subsystem that is required for RCU needs by archs which plan to shut down the tick outside idle. This patch implements a generic virtual based cputime accounting that relies on these generic kernel/user hooks. There are some upsides of doing this: - This requires no arch code to implement CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING if context tracking is already built (already necessary for RCU in full tickless mode). - We can rely on the generic context tracking subsystem to dynamically (de)activate the hooks, so that we can switch anytime between virtual and tick based accounting. This way we don't have the overhead of the virtual accounting when the tick is running periodically. And one downside: - There is probably more overhead than a native virtual based cputime accounting. But this relies on hooks that are already set anyway. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 30 4月, 2012 3 次提交
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
Reformat lppaca.h to match Linux coding standards. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
Remove all the iseries specific fields in the lppaca. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
We have a union containing fields from the old iseries hypervisor that has been reused for the cede latency hint. Since we no longer support iseries, remove the union completely. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 21 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Stephen Rothwell 提交于
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 19 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Nishanth Aravamudan 提交于
Future releases of fimrware will enforce a requirement that DTL buffers do not cross a 4k boundary. Commit 127493d5 satisfies this requirement for CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y kernels, but if !CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING && CONFIG_DTL=y, the current code will fail at dtl registration time. Fix this by making the kmem cache from 127493d5 visible outside of setup.c and using the same cache in both dtl.c and setup.c. This requires a bit of reorganization to ensure ordering of the kmem cache and buffer allocations. Note: Since firmware now limits the size of the buffer, I made dtl_buf_entries read-only in debugfs. Tested with upcoming firmware with the 4 combinations of CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_DTL. Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 31 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Lucas De Marchi 提交于
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
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- 10 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
The combination of commit 8154c5d2 and 93c22703 Broke boot on iSeries. The problem is that iSeries very early boot code, which generates the device-tree and runs before our normal early initializations does need access the lppaca's very early, before the PACA array is initialized, and in fact even before the boot PACA has been initialized (it contains all 0's at this stage). However, the first patch above makes that code use the new llpaca_of(cpu) accessor, which itself is changed by the second patch to use the PACA array. We fix that by reverting iSeries to directly dereferencing the array. In addition, we fix all iterators in the iSeries code to always skip CPU whose number is above 63 which is the maximum size of that array and the maximum number of supported CPUs on these machines. Additionally, we make sure the boot_paca is properly initialized in our early startup code. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 09 12月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Jesse Larrew 提交于
This patch sets a timer during boot that will periodically poll the associativity change counters in the VPA. When a change in associativity is detected, it retrieves the new associativity domain information via the H_HOME_NODE_ASSOCIATIVITY hcall and updates the NUMA node maps and sysfs entries accordingly. Note that since the ibm,associativity device tree property does not exist on configurations with both NUMA and SPLPAR enabled, no device tree updates are necessary. Signed-off-by: NJesse Larrew <jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 02 9月, 2010 4 次提交
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Since the cpu accounting code uses the hypervisor dispatch trace log now when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING = y, the previous commit disabled access to it via files in the /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dtl/ directory in that case. This restores those files. To do this, we now have a hook that the cpu accounting code will call as it processes each entry from the hypervisor dispatch trace log. The code in dtl.c now uses that to fill up its ring buffer, rather than having the hypervisor fill the ring buffer directly. This also fixes dtl_file_read() to handle overflow conditions a bit better and adds a spinlock to ensure that race conditions (multiple processes opening or reading the file concurrently) are handled correctly. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Currently, when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is enabled, we use the PURR register for measuring the user and system time used by processes, as well as other related times such as hardirq and softirq times. This turns out to be quite confusing for users because it means that a program will often be measured as taking less time when run on a multi-threaded processor (SMT2 or SMT4 mode) than it does when run on a single-threaded processor (ST mode), even though the program takes longer to finish. The discrepancy is accounted for as stolen time, which is also confusing, particularly when there are no other partitions running. This changes the accounting to use the timebase instead, meaning that the reported user and system times are the actual number of real-time seconds that the program was executing on the processor thread, regardless of which SMT mode the processor is in. Thus a program will generally show greater user and system times when run on a multi-threaded processor than on a single-threaded processor. On pSeries systems on POWER5 or later processors, we measure the stolen time (time when this partition wasn't running) using the hypervisor dispatch trace log. We check for new entries in the log on every entry from user mode and on every transition from kernel process context to soft or hard IRQ context (i.e. when account_system_vtime() gets called). So that we can correctly distinguish time stolen from user time and time stolen from system time, without having to check the log on every exit to user mode, we store separate timestamps for exit to user mode and entry from user mode. On systems that have a SPURR (POWER6 and POWER7), we read the SPURR in account_system_vtime() (as before), and then apportion the SPURR ticks since the last time we read it between scaled user time and scaled system time according to the relative proportions of user time and system time over the same interval. This avoids having to read the SPURR on every kernel entry and exit. On systems that have PURR but not SPURR (i.e., POWER5), we do the same using the PURR rather than the SPURR. This disables the DTL user interface in /sys/debug/kernel/powerpc/dtl for now since it conflicts with the use of the dispatch trace log by the time accounting code. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
This arranges for the lppaca structs for most cpus to be dynamically allocated in the same manner as the paca structs. If we don't include support for legacy iSeries, only the first lppaca is statically allocated; the rest are dynamically allocated. If we include legacy iSeries support, then we statically allocate the first 64 lppaca structs, since the iSeries hypervisor requires that the lppaca structs be present in the data section of the kernel image, but legacy iSeries supports at most 64 cpus. With CONFIG_NR_CPUS, the kernel image size for a typical pSeries config went from: text data bss dec hex filename 9524478 4734564 8469944 22728986 15ad11a ../test-1024/vmlinux to: text data bss dec hex filename 9524482 3751508 8469944 21745934 14bd10e ../test-1024/vmlinux a reduction of 983052 bytes overall. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Paul Mackerras 提交于
Currently we have the lppaca structs as a simple array of NR_CPUS entries, taking up space in the data section of the kernel image. In future we would like to allocate them dynamically, so this abstracts out the accesses to the array, making it easier to change how we locate the lppaca for a given cpu in future. Specifically, lppaca[cpu] changes to lppaca_of(cpu). Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 24 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Gautham R Shenoy 提交于
This patch provides an extended_cede_processor() helper function which takes the cede latency hint as an argument. This hint is to be passed on to the hypervisor to cede to the corresponding state on platforms which support it. Signed-off-by: NGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NArun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 09 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
This is a random collection of added ifdef's around portions of code that only mak sense on server processors. Using either CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_64 or CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S as seems appropriate. This is meant to make the future merging of Book3E 64-bit support easier. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 07 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Anton Blanchard 提交于
PHYP tells us how often a shared processor dispatch changed physical cpus. This can highlight performance problems caused by the hypervisor. Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 24 3月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Jeremy Kerr 提交于
PAPR v2.3 defines fields in the virtual processor area for a dispatch trace log (DLT). Since we'd like to use the DLT, add the necessary fields to struct lppaca. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Jeremy Kerr 提交于
The page_ins member ends at byte 0x3, not 0x4. Also, fix up the alignment. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 05 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Brian King 提交于
A new field has been added to the VPA as a method for the client OS to communicate to firmware the number of page-ins it is performing when running collaborative memory overcommit. The hypervisor will use this information to better determine if a partition is experiencing memory pressure and needs more memory allocated to it. Signed-off-by: NBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 04 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Stephen Rothwell 提交于
from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 25 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Brian King 提交于
With the addition of Cooperative Memory Overcommitment (CMO) support for IBM Power Systems, two fields have been added to the VPA to report paging statistics. Add support in lparcfg to report them to userspace. Signed-off-by: NBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NRobert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 14 6月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Jake Moilanen 提交于
A Power6 can give up CPU cycles on a dedicated CPU (as opposed to a shared CPU) to other shared processors if the administrator asks for it (via the HMC). This enables that to work properly on P6. This just involves setting a bit in the CAS structure as well as the VPA. To donate cycles, a CPU has to have all SMT threads idle and have the donate bit set in the VPA. Then call H_CEDE. The reason why shared processors just aren't used is because dedicated CPUs are guaranteed an actual processor, yet the system is still able to increase the capacity of the shared CPU pool. Also rename the VPA's cpuctls_task_attrs field to a more accurate name. Signed-off-by: NJake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 08 8月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
Update offset comments. No functional change. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
This adds a shadow buffer for the SLBs and regsiters it with PHYP. Only the bolted SLB entries (top 3) are shadowed. The SLB shadow buffer tells the hypervisor what the kernel needs to have in the SLB for the kernel to be able to function. The hypervisor can use this information to speed up partition context switches. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 18 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Bryan O'Sullivan 提交于
sparse can't parse a struct definition in include/asm-powerpc/lppaca.h, even though gcc can accept it. The form looks like this: struct __attribute__((whatever)) foo { }; An equivalent that both gcc and sparse can handle is struct foo { } __attribute__((whatever)); This is the only definition of this type in the tree, and fixing it is easier than fixing sparse. Signed-off-by: NBryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> [ Side note: fixing sparse wouldn't be hard, but the "attribute at the end" version is the canonical one, and the one that makes sense. So let's just fix the kernel instead. Luc Van Oostenryck already sent out a sparse patch to the sparse mailing list in case anybody cares. -- Linus ] Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 13 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 David Gibson 提交于
At present the lppaca - the structure shared with the iSeries hypervisor and phyp - is contained within the PACA, our own low-level per-cpu structure. This doesn't have to be so, the patch below removes it, making a separate array of lppaca structures. This saves approximately 500*NR_CPUS bytes of image size and kernel memory, because we don't need aligning gap between the Linux and hypervisor portions of every PACA. On the other hand it means an extra level of dereference in many accesses to the lppaca. The patch also gets rid of several places where we assign the paca address to a local variable for no particular reason. Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 09 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Arnd Bergmann 提交于
include/asm-ppc/ had #ifdef __KERNEL__ in all header files that are not meant for use by user space, include/asm-powerpc does not have this yet. This patch gets us a lot closer there. There are a few cases where I was not sure, so I left them out. I have verified that no CONFIG_* symbols are used outside of __KERNEL__ any more and that there are no obvious compile errors when including any of the headers in user space libraries. Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 10 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 David Gibson 提交于
This patch moves a bunch of files from arch/ppc64 and include/asm-ppc64 which have no equivalents in ppc32 code into arch/powerpc and include/asm-powerpc. The file affected are: abs_addr.h compat.h lppaca.h paca.h tce.h cpu_setup_power4.S ioctl32.c firmware.c pacaData.c The only changes apart from the move and corresponding Makefile changes are: - #ifndef/#define in includes updated to _ASM_POWERPC_ form - trailing whitespace removed - comments giving full paths removed - pacaData.c renamed paca.c to remove studlyCaps - Misplaced { moved in lppaca.h Built and booted on POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64), built for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc). Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 05 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 Olof Johansson 提交于
We need to indicate to the hypervisor that it needs to save our VMX registers when switching partitions on a shared-processor system, just as it needs to for FP and PMC registers. This could be made to be on-demand when VMX is used, but we don't do that for FP nor PMC right now either so let's not overcomplicate things. Signed-off-by: NOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: <engebret@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 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!
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