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2013-05-15xen/tmem: Don't use self[ballooning|shrinking] if frontswap is off.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
There is no point. We would just squeeze the guest to put more and more pages in the swap disk without any purpose. The only time it makes sense to use the selfballooning and shrinking is when frontswap is being utilized. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15xen/tmem: Remove the boot options and fold them in the tmem.X parameters.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
If tmem is built-in or a module, the user has the option on the command line to influence it by doing: tmem.<some option> instead of having a variety of "nocleancache", and "nofrontswap". The others: "noselfballooning" and "selfballooning"; and "noselfshrink" are in a different driver xen-selfballoon.c and the patches: xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfshrink' and use 'tmem.selfshrink' bool instead. xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfballoon','selfballoon' and use 'tmem.selfballon' bool instead. remove them. Also add documentation. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-06Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v3.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel: "The updates are mostly about the x86 IOMMUs this time. Exceptions are the groundwork for the PAMU IOMMU from Freescale (for a PPC platform) and an extension to the IOMMU group interface. On the x86 side this includes a workaround for VT-d to disable interrupt remapping on broken chipsets. On the AMD-Vi side the most important new feature is a kernel command-line interface to override broken information in IVRS ACPI tables and get interrupt remapping working this way. Besides that there are small fixes all over the place." * tag 'iommu-updates-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (24 commits) iommu/tegra: Fix printk formats for dma_addr_t iommu: Add a function to find an iommu group by id iommu/vt-d: Remove warning for HPET scope type iommu: Move swap_pci_ref function to drivers/iommu/pci.h. iommu/vt-d: Disable translation if already enabled iommu/amd: fix error return code in early_amd_iommu_init() iommu/AMD: Per-thread IOMMU Interrupt Handling iommu: Include linux/err.h iommu/amd: Workaround for ERBT1312 iommu/amd: Document ivrs_ioapic and ivrs_hpet parameters iommu/amd: Don't report firmware bugs with cmd-line ivrs overrides iommu/amd: Add ioapic and hpet ivrs override iommu/amd: Add early maps for ioapic and hpet iommu/amd: Extend IVRS special device data structure iommu/amd: Move add_special_device() to __init iommu: Fix compile warnings with forward declarations iommu/amd: Properly initialize irq-table lock iommu/amd: Use AMD specific data structure for irq remapping iommu/amd: Remove map_sg_no_iommu() iommu/vt-d: add quirk for broken interrupt remapping on 55XX chipsets ...
2013-05-05Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar: "This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks', or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y. This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly. This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than that: - HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on typical distro configs even on modern systems. - Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick. - A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation, especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature helps desktop and mobile workloads as well. The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency. Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing two NOHZ kconfig modes: - CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of whether a CPU is idle or not. - CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode. - CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a CPU. The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by default. This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already. This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull request is marked RFC because: - it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is small but did not get ready in time. - it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I marked it RFC. - it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and while the components have been in testing for some time, the full combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either. - the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100% equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this feature at this point. - it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed. Without flaming us to crisp! :-) Future plans: - there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go for the 0 Hz target though. - once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do - once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running. I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long - but the final word is up to you as usual. More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt" * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits) sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch() nohz_full: Add documentation. cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle nohz: Add basic tracing nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit nohz: Implement full dynticks kick nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued. perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed ...
2013-05-02Merge tag 'soc-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Olof Johansson: "This branch contains part 1 of the platform updates for 3.10. Among the highlights: - Support for the new Atmel Cortex-A5 based platforms (SAMA5D3) - New support for CSR SiRFatlas6 SoCs - A handful of updates for NVidia T114 (a.k.a. Tegra 4) - A bunch of updates for the shmobile platforms - A handful of updates for davinci - A few updates for Qualcomm MSM - Plus a handful of other patches, defconfig updates, etc." * tag 'soc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (135 commits) ARM: tegra: pm: fix build error w/o PM_SLEEP ARM: davinci: ensure global variables are declared ARM: davinci: sram.c: fix incorrect type in assignment ARM: davinci: da8xx dt: make file local symbols static ARM: davinci: da8xx: add remoteproc support ARM: socfpga: Upgrade clk driver for socfpga to make use of dts clock entries ARM: socfpga: Add clock entries into device tree ARM: socfpga: Enable soft reset ARM: EXYNOS: replace cpumask by the corresponding macro ARM: EXYNOS: handle properly the return values ARM: EXYNOS: factor out the idle states ARM: OMAP4: Enable fix for Cortex-A9 erratas ARM: OMAP2+: Export SoC information to userspace ARM: OMAP2+: SoC name and revision unification ARM: OMAP2+: Move common part of late init into common function ARM: tegra: pm: remove duplicated include from pm.c ARM: davinci: da850: override mmc DT node device name ARM: davinci: da850: add mmc DT entries mmc: davinci_mmc: add DT support ARM: SAMSUNG: check processor type before cache restoration in resume ...
2013-05-02Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohzFrederic Weisbecker
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies. Merge a common upstream merge point that has these updates. Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h kernel/rcutree.h kernel/rcutree_plugin.h Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-05-02Merge branches 'iommu/fixes', 'x86/vt-d', 'x86/amd', 'ppc/pamu', 'core' and ↵Joerg Roedel
'arm/tegra' into next
2013-04-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual stuff, mostly comment fixes, typo fixes, printk fixes and small code cleanups" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (45 commits) mm: Convert print_symbol to %pSR gfs2: Convert print_symbol to %pSR m32r: Convert print_symbol to %pSR iostats.txt: add easy-to-find description for field 6 x86 cmpxchg.h: fix wrong comment treewide: Fix typo in printk and comments doc: devicetree: Fix various typos docbook: fix 8250 naming in device-drivers pata_pdc2027x: Fix compiler warning treewide: Fix typo in printks mei: Fix comments in drivers/misc/mei treewide: Fix typos in kernel messages pm44xx: Fix comment for "CONFIG_CPU_IDLE" doc: Fix typo "CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEMCG_SWAP" mmzone: correct "pags" to "pages" in comment. kernel-parameters: remove outdated 'noresidual' parameter Remove spurious _H suffixes from ifdef comments sound: Remove stray pluses from Kconfig file radio-shark: Fix printk "CONFIG_LED_CLASS" doc: put proper reference to CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ENFORCE ...
2013-04-30Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 debug update from Ingo Molnar: "Two small changes: a documentation update and a constification" * 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy) x86: Constify a few items
2013-04-30Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle are mostly related to preparatory work for the full-dynticks work: - Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks, do callback accelerations based on numbered callbacks. Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/960 - RCU documentation updates. Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/570 - Miscellaneous fixes. Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/594" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) rcu: Make rcu_accelerate_cbs() note need for future grace periods rcu: Abstract rcu_start_future_gp() from rcu_nocb_wait_gp() rcu: Rename n_nocb_gp_requests to need_future_gp rcu: Push lock release to rcu_start_gp()'s callers rcu: Repurpose no-CBs event tracing to future-GP events rcu: Rearrange locking in rcu_start_gp() rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks rcu: Accelerate RCU callbacks at grace-period end rcu: Export RCU_FAST_NO_HZ parameters to sysfs rcu: Distinguish "rcuo" kthreads by RCU flavor rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' grace periods rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' callback registration rcu: Introduce proper blocking to no-CBs kthreads GP waits rcu: Provide compile-time control for no-CBs CPUs rcu: Tone down debugging during boot-up and shutdown. rcu: Add softirq-stall indications to stall-warning messages rcu: Documentation update rcu: Make bugginess of code sample more evident rcu: Fix hlist_bl_set_first_rcu() annotation rcu: Delete unused rcu_node "wakemask" field ...
2013-04-30Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on workqueue side this time. The changes achieve the followings. - WQ_UNBOUND workqueues - the workqueues which are per-cpu - are updated to be able to interface with multiple backend worker pools. This involved a lot of churning but the end result seems actually neater as unbound workqueues are now a lot closer to per-cpu ones. - The ability to interface with multiple backend worker pools are used to implement unbound workqueues with custom attributes. Currently the supported attributes are the nice level and CPU affinity. It may be expanded to include cgroup association in future. The attributes can be specified either by calling apply_workqueue_attrs() or through /sys/bus/workqueue/WQ_NAME/* if the workqueue in question is exported through sysfs. The backend worker pools are keyed by the actual attributes and shared by any workqueues which share the same attributes. When attributes of a workqueue are changed, the workqueue binds to the worker pool with the specified attributes while leaving the work items which are already executing in its previous worker pools alone. This allows converting custom worker pool implementations which want worker attribute tuning to use workqueues. The writeback pool is already converted in block tree and there are a couple others are likely to follow including btrfs io workers. - WQ_UNBOUND's ability to bind to multiple worker pools is also used to make it NUMA-aware. Because there's no association between work item issuer and the specific worker assigned to execute it, before this change, using unbound workqueue led to unnecessary cross-node bouncing and it couldn't be helped by autonuma as it requires tasks to have implicit node affinity and workers are assigned randomly. After these changes, an unbound workqueue now binds to multiple NUMA-affine worker pools so that queued work items are executed in the same node. This is turned on by default but can be disabled system-wide or for individual workqueues. Crypto was requesting NUMA affinity as encrypting data across different nodes can contribute noticeable overhead and doing it per-cpu was too limiting for certain cases and IO throughput could be bottlenecked by one CPU being fully occupied while others have idle cycles. While the new features required a lot of changes including restructuring locking, it didn't complicate the execution paths much. The unbound workqueue handling is now closer to per-cpu ones and the new features are implemented by simply associating a workqueue with different sets of backend worker pools without changing queue, execution or flush paths. As such, even though the amount of change is very high, I feel relatively safe in that it isn't likely to cause subtle issues with basic correctness of work item execution and handling. If something is wrong, it's likely to show up as being associated with worker pools with the wrong attributes or OOPS while workqueue attributes are being changed or during CPU hotplug. While this creates more backend worker pools, it doesn't add too many more workers unless, of course, there are many workqueues with unique combinations of attributes. Assuming everything else is the same, NUMA awareness costs an extra worker pool per NUMA node with online CPUs. There are also a couple things which are being routed outside the workqueue tree. - block tree pulled in workqueue for-3.10 so that writeback worker pool can be converted to unbound workqueue with sysfs control exposed. This simplifies the code, makes writeback workers NUMA-aware and allows tuning nice level and CPU affinity via sysfs. - The conversion to workqueue means that there's no 1:1 association between a specific worker, which makes writeback folks unhappy as they want to be able to tell which filesystem caused a problem from backtrace on systems with many filesystems mounted. This is resolved by allowing work items to set debug info string which is printed when the task is dumped. As this change involves unifying implementations of dump_stack() and friends in arch codes, it's being routed through Andrew's -mm tree." * 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (84 commits) workqueue: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree() workqueue: avoid false negative WARN_ON() in destroy_workqueue() workqueue: update sysfs interface to reflect NUMA awareness and a kernel param to disable NUMA affinity workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues workqueue: introduce put_pwq_unlocked() workqueue: introduce numa_pwq_tbl_install() workqueue: use NUMA-aware allocation for pool_workqueues workqueue: break init_and_link_pwq() into two functions and introduce alloc_unbound_pwq() workqueue: map an unbound workqueues to multiple per-node pool_workqueues workqueue: move hot fields of workqueue_struct to the end workqueue: make workqueue->name[] fixed len workqueue: add workqueue->unbound_attrs workqueue: determine NUMA node of workers accourding to the allowed cpumask workqueue: drop 'H' from kworker names of unbound worker pools workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[] workqueue: move pwq_pool_locking outside of get/put_unbound_pool() workqueue: fix memory leak in apply_workqueue_attrs() workqueue: fix unbound workqueue attrs hashing / comparison workqueue: fix race condition in unbound workqueue free path workqueue: remove pwq_lock which is no longer used ...
2013-04-29Merge tag 'clk-for-linus-3.10' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mturquette/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull clock framework update from Michael Turquette: "The common clock framework changes for 3.10 include many fixes for existing platforms, as well as adoption of the framework by new platforms and devices. Some long-needed fixes to the core framework are here as well as new features such as improved initialization of clocks from DT as well as framework reentrancy for nested clock operations." * tag 'clk-for-linus-3.10' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mturquette/linux: (44 commits) clk: add clk_ignore_unused option to keep boot clocks on clk: ux500: fix mismatched types clk: vexpress: Add separate SP810 driver clk: si5351: make clk-si5351 depend on CONFIG_OF clk: export __clk_get_flags for modular clock providers clk: vt8500: Missing breaks in vtwm_pll_round_rate/_set_rate. clk: sunxi: Unify oscillator clock clk: composite: allow fixed rates & fixed dividers clk: composite: rename 'div' references to 'rate' clk: add si5351 i2c common clock driver clk: add device tree fixed-factor-clock binding support clk: Properly handle notifier return values clk: ux500: abx500: Define clock tree for ab850x clk: ux500: Add support for sysctrl clocks clk: mvebu: Fix valid value range checking for cpu_freq_select clk: Fixup locking issues for clk_set_parent clk: Fixup errorhandling for clk_set_parent clk: Restructure code for __clk_reparent clk: sunxi: drop an unnecesary kmalloc clk: sunxi: drop CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED ...
2013-04-29Merge tag 'trace-3.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major changes with this pull request. 1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility This feature has been requested by many people over the last few years. I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves. I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different events go to different buffers. This way, a low frequency event will not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event. Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers (ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only be written to the main buffer. 2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended. The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable an event to be traced when a function is hit. 3) A perf clock has been added. A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis." * tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits) tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type() tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry() tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move() tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy tracing: Update debugfs README file tracing: Fix ftrace_dump() tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name() tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock ... Conflicts: kernel/trace/ftrace.c kernel/trace/trace.c
2013-04-28clk: add clk_ignore_unused option to keep boot clocks onOlof Johansson
This is primarily useful when there's a driver that doesn't claim clocks properly, but the bootloader leaves them on. It's not expected to be used in normal cases, but for bringup and debug it's very useful to have the option to not gate unclaimed clocks that are still on. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org> [mturquette@linaro.org: fixed up trivial merge issue]
2013-04-21Merge branch 'x86-kdump-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull kdump fixes from Peter Anvin: "The kexec/kdump people have found several problems with the support for loading over 4 GiB that was introduced in this merge cycle. This is partly due to a number of design problems inherent in the way the various pieces of kdump fit together (it is pretty horrifically manual in many places.) After a *lot* of iterations this is the patchset that was agreed upon, but of course it is now very late in the cycle. However, because it changes both the syntax and semantics of the crashkernel option, it would be desirable to avoid a stable release with the broken interfaces." I'm not happy with the timing, since originally the plan was to release the final 3.9 tomorrow. But apparently I'm doing an -rc8 instead... * 'x86-kdump-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low x86, kdump: Change crashkernel_high/low= to crashkernel=,high/low x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896M x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically
2013-04-19iommu/amd: Document ivrs_ioapic and ivrs_hpet parametersJoerg Roedel
Document the new kernel commandline parameters in the appropriate file. Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
2013-04-19nohz: Ensure full dynticks CPUs are RCU nocbsFrederic Weisbecker
We need full dynticks CPU to also be RCU nocb so that we don't have to keep the tick to handle RCU callbacks. Make sure the range passed to nohz_full= boot parameter is a subset of rcu_nocbs= The CPUs that fail to meet this requirement will be excluded from the nohz_full range. This is checked early in boot time, before any CPU has the opportunity to stop its tick. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2013-04-19nohz: Force boot CPU outside full dynticks rangeFrederic Weisbecker
The timekeeping job must be able to run early on boot because there may be some pre-SMP (and thus pre-initcalls ) components that rely on it. The IO-APIC is one such users as it tests the timer health by watching jiffies progression. Given that it happens before we know the initial online set, we can't rely on it to select a timekeeper. We need one before SMP time otherwise we simply crash on boot. To fix this and keep things simple for now, force the boot CPU outside of the full dynticks range in any case and do this early on kernel parameter parsing time. We might want a trickier solution later, expecially for aSMP architectures that need to assign housekeeping tasks to arbitrary low power CPUs. But it's still first pass KISS time for now. Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2013-04-17x86, kdump: Change crashkernel_high/low= to crashkernel=,high/lowYinghai Lu
Per hpa, use crashkernel=X,high crashkernel=Y,low instead of crashkernel_hign=X crashkernel_low=Y. As that could be extensible. -v2: according to Vivek, change delimiter to ; -v3: let hign and low only handle simple form and it conforms to description in kernel-parameters.txt still keep crashkernel=X override any crashkernel=X,high crashkernel=Y,low -v4: update get_last_crashkernel returning and add more strict checking in parse_crashkernel_simple() found by HATAYAMA. -v5: Change delimiter back to , according to HPA. also separate parse_suffix from parse_simper according to vivek. so we can avoid @pos in that path. -v6: Tight the checking about crashkernel=X,highblahblah,high found by HTYAYAMA. Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-5-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-04-17x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896MYinghai Lu
Vivek found old kexec-tools does not work new kernel anymore. So change back crashkernel= back to old behavoir, and add crashkernel_high= to let user decide if buffer could be above 4G, and also new kexec-tools will be needed. -v2: let crashkernel=X override crashkernel_high= update description about _high will be ignored by crashkernel=X -v3: update description about kernel-parameters.txt according to Vivek. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-4-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-04-17x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automaticallyYinghai Lu
Chao said that kdump does does work well on his system on 3.8 without extra parameter, even iommu does not work with kdump. And now have to append crashkernel_low=Y in first kernel to make kdump work. We have now modified crashkernel=X to allocate memory beyong 4G (if available) and do not allocate low range for crashkernel if the user does not specify that with crashkernel_low=Y. This causes regression if iommu is not enabled. Without iommu, swiotlb needs to be setup in first 4G and there is no low memory available to second kernel. Set crashkernel_low automatically if the user does not specify that. For system that does support IOMMU with kdump properly, user could specify crashkernel_low=0 to save that 72M low ram. -v3: add swiotlb_size() according to Konrad. -v4: add comments what 8M is for according to hpa. also update more crashkernel_low= in kernel-parameters.txt -v5: update changelog according to Vivek. -v6: Change description about swiotlb referring according to HATAYAMA. Reported-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com> Tested-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-2-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-04-17x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameterRichard Weinberger
Using this parameter one can disable the storage_size/2 check if he is really sure that the UEFI does sane gc and fulfills the spec. This parameter is useful if a devices uses more than 50% of the storage by default. The Intel DQSW67 desktop board is such a sucker for exmaple. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-04-17ARM: davinci: da8xx: add remoteproc supportRobert Tivy
Add remoteproc platform device for controlling the DSP on da8xx. The patch uses CMA-based reservation of physical memory block for DSP use. A new kernel command-line parameter has been added to allow boot-time specification of the physical memory block. Signed-off-by: Robert Tivy <rtivy@ti.com> [nsekhar@ti.com: edit commit message for readability and style improvements] Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
2013-04-15nohz: Switch from "extended nohz" to "full nohz" based namingFrederic Weisbecker
"Extended nohz" was used as a naming base for the full dynticks API and Kconfig symbols. It reflects the fact the system tries to stop the tick in more places than just idle. But that "extended" name is a bit opaque and vague. Rename it to "full" makes it clearer what the system tries to do under this config: try to shutdown the tick anytime it can. The various constraints that prevent that to happen shouldn't be considered as fundamental properties of this feature but rather technical issues that may be solved in the future. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2013-04-11x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy)Dave Hansen
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt contain virtually identical text describing earlyprintk. This consolidates the two copies and updates the documentation a bit. No one ever documented the: earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 syntax, nor mentioned that ARM is now a supported earlyprintk arch. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130410210338.E2930E98@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-01workqueue: update sysfs interface to reflect NUMA awareness and a kernel ↵Tejun Heo
param to disable NUMA affinity Unbound workqueues are now NUMA aware. Let's add some control knobs and update sysfs interface accordingly. * Add kernel param workqueue.numa_disable which disables NUMA affinity globally. * Replace sysfs file "pool_id" with "pool_ids" which contain node:pool_id pairs. This change is userland-visible but "pool_id" hasn't seen a release yet, so this is okay. * Add a new sysf files "numa" which can toggle NUMA affinity on individual workqueues. This is implemented as attrs->no_numa whichn is special in that it isn't part of a pool's attributes. It only affects how apply_workqueue_attrs() picks which pools to use. After "pool_ids" change, first_pwq() doesn't have any user left. Removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-03-27kernel-parameters: remove outdated 'noresidual' parameterPaul Bolle
The PPC specific kernel parameter 'noresidual' was removed in v2.6.27, though commit 917f0af9e5a9ceecf9e72537fabb501254ba321d ("powerpc: Remove arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc"). Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-03-27doc: put proper reference to CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ENFORCEPaul Bolle
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-03-26rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacksPaul E. McKenney
Because RCU callbacks are now associated with the number of the grace period that they must wait for, CPUs can now take advance callbacks corresponding to grace periods that ended while a given CPU was in dyntick-idle mode. This eliminates the need to try forcing the RCU state machine while entering idle, thus reducing the CPU intensiveness of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, which should increase its energy efficiency. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-03-26rcu: Distinguish "rcuo" kthreads by RCU flavorPaul E. McKenney
Currently, the per-no-CBs-CPU kthreads are named "rcuo" followed by the CPU number, for example, "rcuo". This is problematic given that there are either two or three RCU flavors, each of which gets a per-CPU kthread with exactly the same name. This commit therefore introduces a one-letter abbreviation for each RCU flavor, namely 'b' for RCU-bh, 'p' for RCU-preempt, and 's' for RCU-sched. This abbreviation is used to distinguish the "rcuo" kthreads, for example, for CPU 0 we would have "rcuob/0", "rcuop/0", and "rcuos/0". Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
2013-03-21nohz: Basic full dynticks interfaceFrederic Weisbecker
For extreme usecases such as Real Time or HPC, having the ability to shutdown the tick when a single task runs on a CPU is a desired feature: * Reducing the amount of interrupts improves throughput for CPU-bound tasks. The CPU is less distracted from its real job, from an execution time and from the cache point of views. * This also improve latency response as we have less critical sections. Start with introducing a very simple interface to define full dynticks CPU: use a boot time option defined cpumask through the "nohz_extended=" kernel parameter. CPUs that are part of this range will have their tick shutdown whenever possible: provided they run a single task and they don't do kernel activity that require the periodic tick. These details will be later documented in Documentation/* An online CPU must be kept outside this range to handle the timekeeping. Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.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>
2013-03-15tracing: Add alloc_snapshot kernel command line parameterSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
If debugging the kernel, and the developer wants to use tracing_snapshot() in places where tracing_snapshot_alloc() may be difficult (or more likely, the developer is lazy and doesn't want to bother with tracing_snapshot_alloc() at all), then adding alloc_snapshot to the kernel command line parameter will tell ftrace to allocate the snapshot buffer (if configured) when it allocates the main tracing buffer. I also noticed that ring_buffer_expanded and tracing_selftest_disabled had inconsistent use of boolean "true" and "false" with "0" and "1". I cleaned that up too. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-03Merge tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan: "This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and fixes which I kept separate to ease review: - Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture - A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes - A few privilege protection fixes - Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of metag_ksyms.c) - Fix some missing exports - Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area() - Copy device tree to non-init memory - Provide dma_get_sgtable()" * tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits) metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable() metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve() metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area() metag: export clear_page and copy_page metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe() ...
2013-03-02metag: Basic documentationJames Hogan
Add basic metag documentation. This includes an outline description of the ABIs (including syscall ABI) and calling conventions, similar to the one in Documentation/frv/. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2013-03-02x86, ACPI, mm: Revert movablemem_map supportYinghai Lu
Tim found: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:324 topology_sane.isra.2+0x6f/0x80() Hardware name: S2600CP sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node! [node: 1 != 0]. Ignoring dependency. smpboot: Booting Node 1, Processors #1 Modules linked in: Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.9.0-0-generic #1 Call Trace: set_cpu_sibling_map+0x279/0x449 start_secondary+0x11d/0x1e5 Don Morris reproduced on a HP z620 workstation, and bisected it to commit e8d195525809 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock is ready") It turns out movable_map has some problems, and it breaks several things 1. numa_init is called several times, NOT just for srat. so those nodes_clear(numa_nodes_parsed) memset(&numa_meminfo, 0, sizeof(numa_meminfo)) can not be just removed. Need to consider sequence is: numaq, srat, amd, dummy. and make fall back path working. 2. simply split acpi_numa_init to early_parse_srat. a. that early_parse_srat is NOT called for ia64, so you break ia64. b. for (i = 0; i < MAX_LOCAL_APIC; i++) set_apicid_to_node(i, NUMA_NO_NODE) still left in numa_init. So it will just clear result from early_parse_srat. it should be moved before that.... c. it breaks ACPI_TABLE_OVERIDE...as the acpi table scan is moved early before override from INITRD is settled. 3. that patch TITLE is total misleading, there is NO x86 in the title, but it changes critical x86 code. It caused x86 guys did not pay attention to find the problem early. Those patches really should be routed via tip/x86/mm. 4. after that commit, following range can not use movable ram: a. real_mode code.... well..funny, legacy Node0 [0,1M) could be hot-removed? b. initrd... it will be freed after booting, so it could be on movable... c. crashkernel for kdump...: looks like we can not put kdump kernel above 4G anymore. d. init_mem_mapping: can not put page table high anymore. e. initmem_init: vmemmap can not be high local node anymore. That is not good. If node is hotplugable, the mem related range like page table and vmemmap could be on the that node without problem and should be on that node. We have workaround patch that could fix some problems, but some can not be fixed. So just remove that offending commit and related ones including: f7210e6c4ac7 ("mm/memblock.c: use CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP to protect movablecore_map in memblock_overlaps_region().") 01a178a94e8e ("acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from SRAT") 27168d38fa20 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: extend movablemem_map ranges to the end of node") e8d195525809 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock is ready") fb06bc8e5f42 ("page_alloc: bootmem limit with movablecore_map") 42f47e27e761 ("page_alloc: make movablemem_map have higher priority") 6981ec31146c ("page_alloc: introduce zone_movable_limit[] to keep movable limit for nodes") 34b71f1e04fc ("page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter") 4d59a75125d5 ("x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node") Later we should have patches that will make sure kernel put page table and vmemmap on local node ram instead of push them down to node0. Also need to find way to put other kernel used ram to local node ram. Reported-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Reported-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com> Bisected-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com> Tested-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull more x86 fixes from Peter Anvin: "Additional x86 fixes. Three of these patches are pure documentation, two are pretty trivial; the remaining one fixes boot problems on some non-BIOS machines." * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Make sure we can boot in the case the BDA contains pure garbage x86, efi: Mark disable_runtime as __initdata x86, doc: Fix incorrect comment about 64-bit code segment descriptors doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>' doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation. ACPI: Overriding ACPI tables via initrd only works with an initrd and on X86
2013-02-26Merge tag 'pci-v3.9-changes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci Pull PCI changes from Bjorn Helgaas: "Host bridge hotplug - Major overhaul of ACPI host bridge add/start (Rafael Wysocki, Yinghai Lu) - Major overhaul of PCI/ACPI binding (Rafael Wysocki, Yinghai Lu) - Split out ACPI host bridge and ACPI PCI device hotplug (Yinghai Lu) - Stop caching _PRT and make independent of bus numbers (Yinghai Lu) PCI device hotplug - Clean up cpqphp dead code (Sasha Levin) - Disable ARI unless device and upstream bridge support it (Yijing Wang) - Initialize all hot-added devices (not functions 0-7) (Yijing Wang) Power management - Don't touch ASPM if disabled (Joe Lawrence) - Fix ASPM link state management (Myron Stowe) Miscellaneous - Fix PCI_EXP_FLAGS accessor (Alex Williamson) - Disable Bus Master in pci_device_shutdown (Konstantin Khlebnikov) - Document hotplug resource and MPS parameters (Yijing Wang) - Add accessor for PCIe capabilities (Myron Stowe) - Drop pciehp suspend/resume messages (Paul Bolle) - Make pci_slot built-in only (not a module) (Jiang Liu) - Remove unused PCI/ACPI bind ops (Jiang Liu) - Removed used pci_root_bus (Bjorn Helgaas)" * tag 'pci-v3.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (51 commits) PCI/ACPI: Don't cache _PRT, and don't associate them with bus numbers PCI: Fix PCI Express Capability accessors for PCI_EXP_FLAGS ACPI / PCI: Make pci_slot built-in only, not a module PCI/PM: Clear state_saved during suspend PCI: Use atomic_inc_return() rather than atomic_add_return() PCI: Catch attempts to disable already-disabled devices PCI: Disable Bus Master unconditionally in pci_device_shutdown() PCI: acpiphp: Remove dead code for PCI host bridge hotplug PCI: acpiphp: Create companion ACPI devices before creating PCI devices PCI: Remove unused "rc" in virtfn_add_bus() PCI: pciehp: Drop suspend/resume ENTRY messages PCI/ASPM: Don't touch ASPM if forcibly disabled PCI/ASPM: Deallocate upstream link state even if device is not PCIe PCI: Document MPS parameters pci=pcie_bus_safe, pci=pcie_bus_perf, etc PCI: Document hpiosize= and hpmemsize= resource reservation parameters PCI: Use PCI Express Capability accessor PCI: Introduce accessor to retrieve PCIe Capabilities Register PCI: Put pci_dev in device tree as early as possible PCI: Skip attaching driver in device_add() PCI: acpiphp: Keep driver loaded even if no slots found ...
2013-02-25doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the hvc driver. Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-02-25doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall (console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console. Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all' to output said information. Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-02-24acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from SRATTang Chen
We now provide an option for users who don't want to specify physical memory address in kernel commandline. /* * For movablemem_map=acpi: * * SRAT: |_____| |_____| |_________| |_________| ...... * node id: 0 1 1 2 * hotpluggable: n y y n * movablemem_map: |_____| |_________| * * Using movablemem_map, we can prevent memblock from allocating memory * on ZONE_MOVABLE at boot time. */ So user just specify movablemem_map=acpi, and the kernel will use hotpluggable info in SRAT to determine which memory ranges should be set as ZONE_MOVABLE. If all the memory ranges in SRAT is hotpluggable, then no memory can be used by kernel. But before parsing SRAT, memblock has already reserve some memory ranges for other purposes, such as for kernel image, and so on. We cannot prevent kernel from using these memory. So we need to exclude these ranges even if these memory is hotpluggable. Furthermore, there could be several memory ranges in the single node which the kernel resides in. We may skip one range that have memory reserved by memblock, but if the rest of memory is too small, then the kernel will fail to boot. So, make the whole node which the kernel resides in un-hotpluggable. Then the kernel has enough memory to use. NOTE: Using this way will cause NUMA performance down because the whole node will be set as ZONE_MOVABLE, and kernel cannot use memory on it. If users don't want to lose NUMA performance, just don't use it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use strcmp()] Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Jianguo <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-24page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameterTang Chen
Add functions to parse movablemem_map boot option. Since the option could be specified more then once, all the maps will be stored in the global variable movablemem_map.map array. And also, we keep the array in monotonic increasing order by start_pfn. And merge all overlapped ranges. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded parens] Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Jianguo <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-22Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin: "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than one would like. The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we create initial page tables. In particular, rather than estimating how much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" -- a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand. This has several advantages: 1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way early in the kernel startup). 2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked from above the 4 GB limit. This allows kdump to work on very large systems. 3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks. The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X. Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to __phys_addr()/__pa()." * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits) x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time() x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user() x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap() x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva() x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic() x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit memblock: Add memblock_mem_size() x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data ...
2013-02-18Merge branch 'release' of ↵Rafael J. Wysocki
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux: (35 commits) PM idle: remove global declaration of pm_idle unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment openrisc idle: delete pm_idle mn10300 idle: delete pm_idle microblaze idle: delete pm_idle m32r idle: delete pm_idle, and other dead idle code ia64 idle: delete pm_idle cris idle: delete idle and pm_idle ARM64 idle: delete pm_idle ARM idle: delete pm_idle blackfin idle: delete pm_idle sparc idle: rename pm_idle to sparc_idle sh idle: rename global pm_idle to static sh_idle x86 idle: rename global pm_idle to static x86_idle APM idle: register apm_cpu_idle via cpuidle tools/power turbostat: display SMI count by default intel_idle: export both C1 and C1E cpuidle: remove vestage definition of cpuidle_state_usage.driver_data x86 idle: remove 32-bit-only "no-hlt" parameter, hlt_works_ok flag x86 idle: remove mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param ... Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/process.c (with PM / tracing commit 43720bd) drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c (with ACPICA commit 4f84291)
2013-02-17Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'Rafael J. Wysocki
* pm-cpufreq: cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate. cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to disallow module build
2013-02-15cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate.Dirk Brandewie
When intel_pstate is configured into the kernel it will become the preferred scaling driver for processors that it supports. Allow the user to override this by adding: intel_pstate=disable on the kernel command line. Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-02-10x86 idle: remove 32-bit-only "no-hlt" parameter, hlt_works_ok flagLen Brown
Remove 32-bit x86 a cmdline param "no-hlt", and the cpuinfo_x86.hlt_works_ok that it sets. If a user wants to avoid HLT, then "idle=poll" is much more useful, as it avoids invocation of HLT in idle, while "no-hlt" failed to do so. Indeed, hlt_works_ok was consulted in only 3 places. First, in /proc/cpuinfo where "hlt_bug yes" would be printed if and only if the user booted the system with "no-hlt" -- as there was no other code to set that flag. Second, check_hlt() would not invoke halt() if "no-hlt" were on the cmdline. Third, it was consulted in stop_this_cpu(), which is invoked by native_machine_halt()/reboot_interrupt()/smp_stop_nmi_callback() -- all cases where the machine is being shutdown/reset. The flag was not consulted in the more frequently invoked play_dead()/hlt_play_dead() used in processor offline and suspend. Since Linux-3.0 there has been a run-time notice upon "no-hlt" invocations indicating that it would be removed in 2012. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org
2013-02-10x86 idle: remove mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline paramLen Brown
mwait_idle() is a C1-only idle loop intended to be more efficient than HLT, starting on Pentium-4 HT-enabled processors. But mwait_idle() has been replaced by the more general mwait_idle_with_hints(), which handles both C1 and deeper C-states. ACPI processor_idle and intel_idle use only mwait_idle_with_hints(), and no longer use mwait_idle(). Here we simplify the x86 native idle code by removing mwait_idle(), and the "idle=mwait" bootparam used to invoke it. Since Linux 3.0 there has been a boot-time warning when "idle=mwait" was invoked saying it would be removed in 2012. This removal was also noted in the (now removed:-) feature-removal-schedule.txt. After this change, kernels configured with (CONFIG_ACPI=n && CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=n) when run on hardware that supports MWAIT will simply use HLT. If MWAIT is desired on those systems, cpuidle and the cpuidle drivers above can be enabled. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org
2013-01-31PCI: Document MPS parameters pci=pcie_bus_safe, pci=pcie_bus_perf, etcYijing Wang
Document PCIe bus MPS parameters pcie_bus_tune_off, pcie_bus_safe, pcie_bus_peer2peer, pcie_bus_perf. These parameters were introduced by Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> at commit 5f39e6705 and commit b03e7495a8. [bhelgaas: mention hot-add for pcie_bus_peer2peer] Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
2013-01-31PCI: Document hpiosize= and hpmemsize= resource reservation parametersYijing Wang
Document PCI hotplug resource reservation parameters hpiosize and hpmemsize. These parameters override default hotplug I/O size (256 bytes) and default mem size (2M). Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
2013-01-30x86: Add Crash kernel low reservationYinghai Lu
During kdump kernel's booting stage, it need to find low ram for swiotlb buffer when system does not support intel iommu/dmar remapping. kexed-tools is appending memmap=exactmap and range from /proc/iomem with "Crash kernel", and that range is above 4G for 64bit after boot protocol 2.12. We need to add another range in /proc/iomem like "Crash kernel low", so kexec-tools could find that info and append to kdump kernel command line. Try to reserve some under 4G if the normal "Crash kernel" is above 4G. User could specify the size with crashkernel_low=XX[KMG]. -v2: fix warning that is found by Fengguang's test robot. -v3: move out get_mem_size change to another patch, to solve compiling warning that is found by Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> -v4: user must specify crashkernel_low if system does not support intel or amd iommu. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-31-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>