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2009-09-18tracing: Remove markersChristoph Hellwig
Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event tracer we can kill off the (now orphan) support code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090917173527.GA1699@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/baseMing Lei
Placing dma-coherent.c in driver/base is better than in kernel, since it contains code to do per-device coherent dma memory handling. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpointsIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c Semantic conflict fixed in: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfig * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfig: kconfig: add missing dependency of conf to localyesconfig kconfig: test if a .config already exists kconfig: make local .config default for streamline_config kconfig: test for /boot/config-uname after /proc/config.gz in localconfig kconfig: unset IKCONFIG_PROC and clean up nesting kconfig: search for a config to base the local(mod|yes)config on kconfig: keep config.gz around even if CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not set kconfig: have extract-ikconfig read ELF files kconfig: add check if end exists in extract-ikconfig kconfig: enable CONFIG_IKCONFIG from streamline_config.pl kconfig: do not warn about modules built in kconfig: streamline_config.pl do not stop with no depends kconfig: add make localyesconfig option kconfig: make localmodconfig to run streamline_config.pl kconfig: add streamline_config.pl to scripts
2009-09-07Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpointsIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/Kconfig kernel/trace/trace.h Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new ring-buffer APIs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCUPaul E. McKenney
Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Remove it, along with whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <125097461396-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCUPaul E. McKenney
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef, empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics). These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c for this purpose. This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic hierarchical RCU. Perhaps more important, this new algorithm has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new algorithm. The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations over the past 18 months. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-19kconfig: keep config.gz around even if CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not setSteven Rostedt
If CONFIG_IKCONFIG is set but CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not, then gcc will optimize the config.gz out, because nobody uses it. This patch adds "__used" to the config.gz data to keep it around so that code like extract-ikconfig can still find it. [ Impact: allow extract-ikconfig to find config.gz ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-15Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc6' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
Merge reason: the branch was on pre-rc1 .30, update to latest. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-28Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ftrace: Fix the output of profile ring-buffer: Make it generally available ftrace: Remove duplicate newline tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot option ftrace: Fix t_hash_start() ftrace: Don't manipulate @pos in t_start() ftrace: Don't increment @pos in g_start() tracing: Reset iterator in t_start() trace_stat: Don't increment @pos in seq start() tracing_bprintk: Don't increment @pos in t_start() tracing/events: Don't increment @pos in s_start()
2009-06-25ring-buffer: Make it generally availablePaul Mundt
In hunting down the cause for the hwlat_detector ring buffer spew in my failed -next builds it became obvious that folks are now treating ring_buffer as something that is generic independent of tracing and thus, suitable for public driver consumption. Given that there are only a few minor areas in ring_buffer that have any reliance on CONFIG_TRACING or CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER, provide stubs for those and make it generally available. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20090625053012.GB19944@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24audit: inode watches depend on CONFIG_AUDIT not CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALLEric Paris
Even though one cannot make use of the audit watch code without CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL the spaghetti nature of the audit code means that the audit rule filtering requires that it at least be compiled. Thus build the audit_watch code when we build auditfilter like it was before cfcad62c74abfef83762dc05a556d21bdf3980a2 Clearly this is a point of potential future cleanup.. Reported-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24rcu: Remove Classic RCUPaul E. McKenney
Remove Classic RCU, given that the combination of Tree RCU and the proposed Bloatwatch RCU do everything that Classic RCU can with fewer bugs. Tree RCU has been default in x86 builds for almost six months, and seems to be quite reliable, so there does not seem to be much justification for keeping the Classic RCU code and config complexity around anymore. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org Cc: kernel@wantstofly.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24audit: seperate audit inode watches into a subfileEric Paris
In preparation for converting audit to use fsnotify instead of inotify we seperate the inode watching code into it's own file. This is similar to how the audit tree watching code is already seperated into audit_tree.c Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-06-18gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructurePeter Oberparleiter
Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux kernel. gcov may be useful for: * debugging (has this code been reached at all?) * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?) * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the associated code is never run?) The profiling patch incorporates the following changes: * change kbuild to include profiling flags * provide functions needed by profiling code * present profiling data as files in debugfs Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option "-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/ run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and others which require adjustment of architecture code. For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes. This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help text). [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-17Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpointsIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig arch/x86/kernel/traps.c arch/x86/power/cpu.c arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c kernel/Makefile Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, move from put_cpu_no_sched() to put_cpu() in arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17groups: move code to kernel/groups.cAlexey Dobriyan
Move supplementary groups implementation to kernel/groups.c . kernel/sys.c already accumulated quite a few random stuff. Do strictly copy/paste + add required headers to compile. Compile-tested on many configs and archs. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c arch/x86/kernel/traps.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c include/linux/sched.h kernel/exit.c
2009-06-02hw-breakpoints: introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfacesK.Prasad
This patch introduces the generic Hardware Breakpoint interfaces for both user and kernel space requests. This core Api handles the hardware breakpoints through new helpers. It handles the user-space breakpoints and kernel breakpoints in front of arch implementation. One can choose kernel wide breakpoints using the following helpers and passing them a generic struct hw_breakpoint: - register_kernel_hw_breakpoint() - unregister_kernel_hw_breakpoint() - modify_kernel_hw_breakpoint() On the other side, you can choose per task breakpoints. - register_user_hw_breakpoint() - unregister_user_hw_breakpoint() - modify_user_hw_breakpoint() [ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against perfcounter ] Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-04-24Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into tracing/hw-branch-tracingIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c Merge reason: fix the conflict above, and also pick up the CONFIG_BROKEN dependency change from upstream so that we can remove it here. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing: make the trace clocks available generallyIngo Molnar
Jeremy Fitzhardinge reported this build failure: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `ds_take_timestamp': git/linux/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:1380: undefined reference to `trace_clock_global' git/linux/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:1380: undefined reference to `trace_clock_global' Which is due to !CONFIG_TRACING && CONFIG_X86_DS=y. Expose the trace clock code to CONFIG_X86_DS as well. [ Unfortunately librarizing doesnt work well - ancient architectures with no raw_local_irq_save() primitive break the build. ] Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> LKML-Reference: <49E4413F.7070700@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h include/linux/init_task.h Merge reason: the conflicts are non-trivial: PowerPC placement of sys_perf_counter_open has to be mixed with the new preadv/pwrite syscalls. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockupIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/sysctl.c
2009-04-06Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2Ingo Molnar
Merge reason: we have gathered quite a few conflicts, need to merge upstream Conflicts: arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c arch/x86/kernel/irq.c arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c include/linux/sched.h kernel/Makefile Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-03Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work itemsDavid Howells
Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items, such as invoking mkdir() or rmdir() - things that may take a long time and may sleep, holding mutexes/semaphores and hogging a thread, and are thus unsuitable for workqueues. The number of threads is always at least a settable minimum, but more are started when there's more work to do, up to a limit. Because of the nature of the load, it's not suitable for a 1-thread-per-CPU type pool. A system with one CPU may well want several threads. This is used by FS-Cache to do slow caching operations in the background, such as looking up, creating or deleting cache objects. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-02-26Merge branch 'x86/core' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-18pm: fix build for CONFIG_PM unsetRafael J. Wysocki
Compilation of kprobes.c with CONFIG_PM unset is broken due to some broken config dependncies. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-12Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockupIngo Molnar
2009-01-21Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc2' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/syscalls.h
2009-01-18Merge branch 'core/percpu' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h We merge tip/core/percpu into tip/perfcounters/core because of a semantic and contextual conflict: the former eliminates the PDA, while the latter extends it with apic_perf_irqs field. Resolve the conflict by moving the new field to the irq_cpustat structure on 64-bit too. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detectionMandeep Singh Baines
Decoupling allows: * hung tasks check to happen at very low priority * hung tasks check and softlockup to be enabled/disabled independently at compile and/or run-time * individual panic settings to be enabled disabled independently at compile and/or run-time * softlockup threshold to be reduced without increasing hung tasks poll frequency (hung task check is expensive relative to softlock watchdog) * hung task check to be zero over-head when disabled at run-time Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14kernel/up.c: omit it if SMP=y, USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS=nAndrew Morton
Fix the sparc build - we were including `up.o' on SMP builds, when CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS=n. Tested-by: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net> Fixed-by: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-11smp_call_function_single(): be slightly less stupidAndrew Morton
If you do smp_call_function_single(expression-with-side-effects, ...) then expression-with-side-effects never gets evaluated on UP builds. As always, implementing it in C is the correct thing to do. While we're there, uninline it for size and possible header dependency reasons. And create a new kernel/up.c, as a place in which to put uniprocessor-specific code and storage. It should mirror kernel/smp.c. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/kernel_stat.h
2009-01-07async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel bootArjan van de Ven
Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that various hardware delays are done sequentially. In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays in practice. In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this patch does NOT do full parallel initialization. Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects (instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-12-31Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits) stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit x86: add swiotlb allocation functions swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot resources: skip sanity check of busy resources swiotlb: move some definitions to header swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/mm/init_32.c include/linux/hardirq.h as per Ingo's suggestions.
2008-12-29Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: fs/exec.c include/linux/init_task.h Simple context conflicts.
2008-12-28Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits) sched: fix warning in fs/proc/base.c schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime stats sched: use RCU variant of list traversal in for_each_leaf_rt_rq() sched, cpuacct: export percpu cpuacct cgroup stats sched, cpuacct: refactoring cpuusage_read / cpuusage_write sched: optimize update_curr() sched: fix wakeup preemption clock sched: add missing arch_update_cpu_topology() call sched: let arch_update_cpu_topology indicate if topology changed sched: idle_balance() does not call load_balance_newidle() sched: fix sd_parent_degenerate on non-numa smp machine sched: add uid information to sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED sched: move double_unlock_balance() higher sched: update comment for move_task_off_dead_cpu sched: fix inconsistency when redistribute per-cpu tg->cfs_rq shares sched/rt: removed unneeded defintion sched: add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller sched: include group statistics in /proc/sched_debug sched: rename SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER => SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER sched: clean up SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC ...
2008-12-18"Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementationPaul E. McKenney
This patch fixes a long-standing performance bug in classic RCU that results in massive internal-to-RCU lock contention on systems with more than a few hundred CPUs. Although this patch creates a separate flavor of RCU for ease of review and patch maintenance, it is intended to replace classic RCU. This patch still handles stress better than does mainline, so I am still calling it ready for inclusion. This patch is against the -tip tree. Nevertheless, experience on an actual 1000+ CPU machine would still be most welcome. Most of the changes noted below were found while creating an rcutiny (which should permit ejecting the current rcuclassic) and while doing detailed line-by-line documentation. Updates from v9 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/2/334): o Fixes from remainder of line-by-line code walkthrough, including comment spelling, initialization, undesirable narrowing due to type conversion, removing redundant memory barriers, removing redundant local-variable initialization, and removing redundant local variables. I do not believe that any of these fixes address the CPU-hotplug issues that Andi Kleen was seeing, but please do give it a whirl in case the machine is smarter than I am. A writeup from the walkthrough may be found at the following URL, in case you are suffering from terminal insomnia or masochism: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/tmp/rcutree-walkthrough.2008.12.16a.pdf o Made rcutree tracing use seq_file, as suggested some time ago by Lai Jiangshan. o Added a .csv variant of the rcudata debugfs trace file, to allow people having thousands of CPUs to drop the data into a spreadsheet. Tested with oocalc and gnumeric. Updated documentation to suit. Updates from v8 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/139): o Fix a theoretical race between grace-period initialization and force_quiescent_state() that could occur if more than three jiffies were required to carry out the grace-period initialization. Which it might, if you had enough CPUs. o Apply Ingo's printk-standardization patch. o Substitute local variables for repeated accesses to global variables. o Fix comment misspellings and redundant (but harmless) increments of ->n_rcu_pending (this latter after having explicitly added it). o Apply checkpatch fixes. Updates from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/291): o Fixed a number of problems noted by Gautham Shenoy, including the cpu-stall-detection bug that he was having difficulty convincing me was real. ;-) o Changed cpu-stall detection to wait for ten seconds rather than three in order to reduce false positive, as suggested by Ingo Molnar. o Produced a design document (http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/). The act of writing this document uncovered a number of both theoretical and "here and now" bugs as noted below. o Fix dynticks_nesting accounting confusion, simplify WARN_ON() condition, fix kerneldoc comments, and add memory barriers in dynticks interface functions. o Add more data to tracing. o Remove unused "rcu_barrier" field from rcu_data structure. o Count calls to rcu_pending() from scheduling-clock interrupt to use as a surrogate timebase should jiffies stop counting. o Fix a theoretical race between force_quiescent_state() and grace-period initialization. Yes, initialization does have to go on for some jiffies for this race to occur, but given enough CPUs... Updates from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/448): o Fix a number of checkpatch.pl complaints. o Apply review comments from Ingo Molnar and Lai Jiangshan on the stall-detection code. o Fix several bugs in !CONFIG_SMP builds. o Fix a misspelled config-parameter name so that RCU now announces at boot time if stall detection is configured. o Run tests on numerous combinations of configurations parameters, which after the fixes above, now build and run correctly. Updates from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/15/92, bad subject line): o Fix a compiler error in the !CONFIG_FANOUT_EXACT case (blew a changeset some time ago, and finally got around to retesting this option). o Fix some tracing bugs in rcupreempt that caused incorrect totals to be printed. o I now test with a more brutal random-selection online/offline script (attached). Probably more brutal than it needs to be on the people reading it as well, but so it goes. o A number of optimizations and usability improvements: o Make rcu_pending() ignore the grace-period timeout when there is no grace period in progress. o Make force_quiescent_state() avoid going for a global lock in the case where there is no grace period in progress. o Rearrange struct fields to improve struct layout. o Make call_rcu() initiate a grace period if RCU was idle, rather than waiting for the next scheduling clock interrupt. o Invoke rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() only when idle, as suggested by Andi Kleen. I still don't completely trust this change, and might back it out. o Make CONFIG_RCU_TRACE be the single config variable manipulated for all forms of RCU, instead of the prior confusion. o Document tracing files and formats for both rcupreempt and rcutree. Updates from v4 for those missing v5 given its bad subject line: o Separated dynticks interface so that NMIs and irqs call separate functions, greatly simplifying it. In particular, this code no longer requires a proof of correctness. ;-) o Separated dynticks state out into its own per-CPU structure, avoiding the duplicated accounting. o The case where a dynticks-idle CPU runs an irq handler that invokes call_rcu() is now correctly handled, forcing that CPU out of dynticks-idle mode. o Review comments have been applied (thank you all!!!). For but one example, fixed the dynticks-ordering issue that Manfred pointed out, saving me much debugging. ;-) o Adjusted rcuclassic and rcupreempt to handle dynticks changes. Attached is an updated patch to Classic RCU that applies a hierarchy, greatly reducing the contention on the top-level lock for large machines. This passes 10-hour concurrent rcutorture and online-offline testing on 128-CPU ppc64 without dynticks enabled, and exposes some timekeeping bugs in presence of dynticks (exciting working on a system where "sleep 1" hangs until interrupted...), which were fixed in the 2.6.27 kernel. It is getting more reliable than mainline by some measures, so the next version will be against -tip for inclusion. See also Manfred Spraul's recent patches (or his earlier work from 2004 at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546384711797&w=2). We will converge onto a common patch in the fullness of time, but are currently exploring different regions of the design space. That said, I have already gratefully stolen quite a few of Manfred's ideas. This patch provides CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, which controls the bushiness of the RCU hierarchy. Defaults to 32 on 32-bit machines and 64 on 64-bit machines. If CONFIG_NR_CPUS is less than CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, there is no hierarchy. By default, the RCU initialization code will adjust CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT to balance the hierarchy, so strongly NUMA architectures may choose to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to disable this balancing, allowing the hierarchy to be exactly aligned to the underlying hardware. Up to two levels of hierarchy are permitted (in addition to the root node), allowing up to 16,384 CPUs on 32-bit systems and up to 262,144 CPUs on 64-bit systems. I just know that I am going to regret saying this, but this seems more than sufficient for the foreseeable future. (Some architectures might wish to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4, which would limit such architectures to 64 CPUs. If this becomes a real problem, additional levels can be added, but I doubt that it will make a significant difference on real hardware.) In the common case, a given CPU will manipulate its private rcu_data structure and the rcu_node structure that it shares with its immediate neighbors. This can reduce both lock and memory contention by multiple orders of magnitude, which should eliminate the need for the strange manipulations that are reported to be required when running Linux on very large systems. Some shortcomings: o More bugs will probably surface as a result of an ongoing line-by-line code inspection. Patches will be provided as required. o There are probably hangs, rcutorture failures, &c. Seems quite stable on a 128-CPU machine, but that is kind of small compared to 4096 CPUs. However, seems to do better than mainline. Patches will be provided as required. o The memory footprint of this version is several KB larger than rcuclassic. A separate UP-only rcutiny patch will be provided, which will reduce the memory footprint significantly, even compared to the old rcuclassic. One such patch passes light testing, and has a memory footprint smaller even than rcuclassic. Initial reaction from various embedded guys was "it is not worth it", so am putting it aside. Credits: o Manfred Spraul for ideas, review comments, and bugs spotted, as well as some good friendly competition. ;-) o Josh Triplett, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Mathieu Desnoyers, Lai Jiangshan, Andi Kleen, Andy Whitcroft, and Andrew Morton for reviews and comments. o Thomas Gleixner for much-needed help with some timer issues (see patches below). o Jon M. Tollefson, Tim Pepper, Andrew Theurer, Jose R. Santos, Andy Whitcroft, Darrick Wong, Nishanth Aravamudan, Anton Blanchard, Dave Kleikamp, and Nathan Lynch for keeping machines alive despite my heavy abuse^Wtesting. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08performance counters: core codeThomas Gleixner
Implement the core kernel bits of Performance Counters subsystem. The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of performance counter hardware capabilities. It provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event capabilities on top of those. Performance counters are accessed via special file descriptors. There's one file descriptor per virtual counter used. The special file descriptor is opened via the perf_counter_open() system call: int perf_counter_open(u32 hw_event_type, u32 hw_event_period, u32 record_type, pid_t pid, int cpu); The syscall returns the new fd. The fd can be used via the normal VFS system calls: read() can be used to read the counter, fcntl() can be used to set the blocking mode, etc. Multiple counters can be kept open at a time, and the counters can be poll()ed. See more details in Documentation/perf-counters.txt. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-19Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/Makefile
2008-11-18Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
Conflicts: fs/cifs/misc.c Merge to resolve above, per the patch below. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> diff --cc fs/cifs/misc.c index ec36410,addd1dc..0000000 --- a/fs/cifs/misc.c +++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c @@@ -347,13 -338,13 +338,13 @@@ header_assemble(struct smb_hdr *buffer /* BB Add support for establishing new tCon and SMB Session */ /* with userid/password pairs found on the smb session */ /* for other target tcp/ip addresses BB */ - if (current->fsuid != treeCon->ses->linux_uid) { + if (current_fsuid() != treeCon->ses->linux_uid) { cFYI(1, ("Multiuser mode and UID " "did not match tcon uid")); - read_lock(&GlobalSMBSeslock); - list_for_each(temp_item, &GlobalSMBSessionList) { - ses = list_entry(temp_item, struct cifsSesInfo, cifsSessionList); + read_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); + list_for_each(temp_item, &treeCon->ses->server->smb_ses_list) { + ses = list_entry(temp_item, struct cifsSesInfo, smb_ses_list); - if (ses->linux_uid == current->fsuid) { + if (ses->linux_uid == current_fsuid()) { if (ses->server == treeCon->ses->server) { cFYI(1, ("found matching uid substitute right smb_uid")); buffer->Uid = ses->Suid;
2008-11-17Remove -mno-spe flags as they dont belongKumar Gala
For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the SPE instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit 6ec562328fda585be2d7f472cfac99d3b44d362a. We are removing it because: 1. It generates e500 kernels that don't work 2. its not the correct set of flags to do this 3. we handle this in the arch/powerpc/Makefile already 4. its unknown in talking to Steven why he did this Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-and-Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-13CRED: Detach the credentials from task_structDavid Howells
Detach the credentials from task_struct, duplicating them in copy_process() and releasing them in __put_task_struct(). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11sched: rename SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER => SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTERIngo Molnar
Impact: cleanup, change .config option name We had this ugly config name for a long time for hysteric raisons. Rename it to a saner name. We still cannot get rid of it completely, until /proc/<pid>/stack usage replaces WCHAN usage for good. We'll be able to do that in the v2.6.29/v2.6.30 timeframe. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03sched, ftrace: trace sched.cPeter Zijlstra
Impact: allow function tracing within sched.c Its useful to see what happens in sched.c. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into tracing/urgentIngo Molnar
2008-10-20Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits) tracing/fastboot: improve help text tracing/stacktrace: improve help text tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer ftrace: make some tracers reentrant ring-buffer: make reentrant ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace ... Manually fix conflicts: - init/main.c: initcall tracing - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.
2008-10-20ftrace: rename FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACERSteven Rostedt
Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER. The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same. This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystemMatt Helsley
This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups framework. It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem. The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named freezer.state. Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks in the cgroup. Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in the cgroup. Reading will return the current state. * Examples of usage : # mkdir /containers/freezer # mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer /containers # mkdir /containers/0 # echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks to get status of the freezer subsystem : # cat /containers/0/freezer.state RUNNING to freeze all tasks in the container : # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state # cat /containers/0/freezer.state FREEZING # cat /containers/0/freezer.state FROZEN to unfreeze all tasks in the container : # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state # cat /containers/0/freezer.state RUNNING This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space task in a simple scenario. It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete. In that case we return EBUSY. This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this time. After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read. The state will remain "FREEZING" until one of these things happens: 1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to the freezer.state file 2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal and returns EIO) 3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN" state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process] Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>