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2008-10-14tracing: Kernel TracepointsMathieu Desnoyers
Implementation of kernel tracepoints. Inspired from the Linux Kernel Markers. Allows complete typing verification by declaring both tracing statement inline functions and probe registration/unregistration static inline functions within the same macro "DEFINE_TRACE". No format string is required. See the tracepoint Documentation and Samples patches for usage examples. Taken from the documentation patch : "A tracepoint placed in code provides a hook to call a function (probe) that you can provide at runtime. A tracepoint can be "on" (a probe is connected to it) or "off" (no probe is attached). When a tracepoint is "off" it has no effect, except for adding a tiny time penalty (checking a condition for a branch) and space penalty (adding a few bytes for the function call at the end of the instrumented function and adds a data structure in a separate section). When a tracepoint is "on", the function you provide is called each time the tracepoint is executed, in the execution context of the caller. When the function provided ends its execution, it returns to the caller (continuing from the tracepoint site). You can put tracepoints at important locations in the code. They are lightweight hooks that can pass an arbitrary number of parameters, which prototypes are described in a tracepoint declaration placed in a header file." Addition and removal of tracepoints is synchronized by RCU using the scheduler (and preempt_disable) as guarantees to find a quiescent state (this is really RCU "classic"). The update side uses rcu_barrier_sched() with call_rcu_sched() and the read/execute side uses "preempt_disable()/preempt_enable()". We make sure the previous array containing probes, which has been scheduled for deletion by the rcu callback, is indeed freed before we proceed to the next update. It therefore limits the rate of modification of a single tracepoint to one update per RCU period. The objective here is to permit fast batch add/removal of probes on _different_ tracepoints. Changelog : - Use #name ":" #proto as string to identify the tracepoint in the tracepoint table. This will make sure not type mismatch happens due to connexion of a probe with the wrong type to a tracepoint declared with the same name in a different header. - Add tracepoint_entry_free_old. - Change __TO_TRACE to get rid of the 'i' iterator. Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> : Tested on x86-64. Performance impact of a tracepoint : same as markers, except that it adds about 70 bytes of instructions in an unlikely branch of each instrumented function (the for loop, the stack setup and the function call). It currently adds a memory read, a test and a conditional branch at the instrumentation site (in the hot path). Immediate values will eventually change this into a load immediate, test and branch, which removes the memory read which will make the i-cache impact smaller (changing the memory read for a load immediate removes 3-4 bytes per site on x86_32 (depending on mov prefixes), or 7-8 bytes on x86_64, it also saves the d-cache hit). About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code scheduler code) was added. Quoting Hideo Aoki about Markers : I evaluated overhead of kernel marker using linux-2.6-sched-fixes git tree, which includes several markers for LTTng, using an ia64 server. While the immediate trace mark feature isn't implemented on ia64, there is no major performance regression. So, I think that we don't have any issues to propose merging marker point patches into Linus's tree from the viewpoint of performance impact. I prepared two kernels to evaluate. The first one was compiled without CONFIG_MARKERS. The second one was enabled CONFIG_MARKERS. I downloaded the original hackbench from the following URL: http://devresources.linux-foundation.org/craiger/hackbench/src/hackbench.c I ran hackbench 5 times in each condition and calculated the average and difference between the kernels. The parameter of hackbench: every 50 from 50 to 800 The number of CPUs of the server: 2, 4, and 8 Below is the results. As you can see, major performance regression wasn't found in any case. Even if number of processes increases, differences between marker-enabled kernel and marker- disabled kernel doesn't increase. Moreover, if number of CPUs increases, the differences doesn't increase either. Curiously, marker-enabled kernel is better than marker-disabled kernel in more than half cases, although I guess it comes from the difference of memory access pattern. * 2 CPUs Number of | without | with | diff | diff | processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] | [Sec] | [%] | -------------------------------------------------------------- 50 | 4.811 | 4.872 | +0.061 | +1.27 | 100 | 9.854 | 10.309 | +0.454 | +4.61 | 150 | 15.602 | 15.040 | -0.562 | -3.6 | 200 | 20.489 | 20.380 | -0.109 | -0.53 | 250 | 25.798 | 25.652 | -0.146 | -0.56 | 300 | 31.260 | 30.797 | -0.463 | -1.48 | 350 | 36.121 | 35.770 | -0.351 | -0.97 | 400 | 42.288 | 42.102 | -0.186 | -0.44 | 450 | 47.778 | 47.253 | -0.526 | -1.1 | 500 | 51.953 | 52.278 | +0.325 | +0.63 | 550 | 58.401 | 57.700 | -0.701 | -1.2 | 600 | 63.334 | 63.222 | -0.112 | -0.18 | 650 | 68.816 | 68.511 | -0.306 | -0.44 | 700 | 74.667 | 74.088 | -0.579 | -0.78 | 750 | 78.612 | 79.582 | +0.970 | +1.23 | 800 | 85.431 | 85.263 | -0.168 | -0.2 | -------------------------------------------------------------- * 4 CPUs Number of | without | with | diff | diff | processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] | [Sec] | [%] | -------------------------------------------------------------- 50 | 2.586 | 2.584 | -0.003 | -0.1 | 100 | 5.254 | 5.283 | +0.030 | +0.56 | 150 | 8.012 | 8.074 | +0.061 | +0.76 | 200 | 11.172 | 11.000 | -0.172 | -1.54 | 250 | 13.917 | 14.036 | +0.119 | +0.86 | 300 | 16.905 | 16.543 | -0.362 | -2.14 | 350 | 19.901 | 20.036 | +0.135 | +0.68 | 400 | 22.908 | 23.094 | +0.186 | +0.81 | 450 | 26.273 | 26.101 | -0.172 | -0.66 | 500 | 29.554 | 29.092 | -0.461 | -1.56 | 550 | 32.377 | 32.274 | -0.103 | -0.32 | 600 | 35.855 | 35.322 | -0.533 | -1.49 | 650 | 39.192 | 38.388 | -0.804 | -2.05 | 700 | 41.744 | 41.719 | -0.025 | -0.06 | 750 | 45.016 | 44.496 | -0.520 | -1.16 | 800 | 48.212 | 47.603 | -0.609 | -1.26 | -------------------------------------------------------------- * 8 CPUs Number of | without | with | diff | diff | processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] | [Sec] | [%] | -------------------------------------------------------------- 50 | 2.094 | 2.072 | -0.022 | -1.07 | 100 | 4.162 | 4.273 | +0.111 | +2.66 | 150 | 6.485 | 6.540 | +0.055 | +0.84 | 200 | 8.556 | 8.478 | -0.078 | -0.91 | 250 | 10.458 | 10.258 | -0.200 | -1.91 | 300 | 12.425 | 12.750 | +0.325 | +2.62 | 350 | 14.807 | 14.839 | +0.032 | +0.22 | 400 | 16.801 | 16.959 | +0.158 | +0.94 | 450 | 19.478 | 19.009 | -0.470 | -2.41 | 500 | 21.296 | 21.504 | +0.208 | +0.98 | 550 | 23.842 | 23.979 | +0.137 | +0.57 | 600 | 26.309 | 26.111 | -0.198 | -0.75 | 650 | 28.705 | 28.446 | -0.259 | -0.9 | 700 | 31.233 | 31.394 | +0.161 | +0.52 | 750 | 34.064 | 33.720 | -0.344 | -1.01 | 800 | 36.320 | 36.114 | -0.206 | -0.57 | -------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-09init: DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT requires explicit root= paramTejun Heo
DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT shuffles SCSI and IDE device numbers and root device number set using rdev become meaningless. Root devices should be explicitly specified using textual names. Warn about it if root can't be found and DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is enabled. Also, add warning to the help text. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-03Fix init/main.c to use regular printk with '%pF' for initcall fnLinus Torvalds
.. small detail, but the silly e1000e initcall warning debugging caused me to look at this code. Rather than gouge my eyes out with a spoon, I just fixed it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-16Move sysctl check into debugging section and don't make it default yAndi Kleen
I noticed that sysctl_check.o was the largest object file in a allnoconfig build in kernel/*. 36243 0 0 36243 8d93 kernel/sysctl_check.o This is because it was default y and && EMBEDDED. But I don't really see a need for a non kernel developer to have their sysctls checked all the time. So move the Kconfig into the kernel debugging section and also drop the default y and the EMBEDDED check. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12modules: extend initcall_debug functionality to the module loaderArjan van de Ven
The kernel has this really nice facility where if you put "initcall_debug" on the kernel commandline, it'll print which function it's going to execute just before calling an initcall, and then after the call completes it will 1) print if it had an error code 2) checks for a few simple bugs (like leaving irqs off) and 3) print how long the init call took in milliseconds. While trying to optimize the boot speed of my laptop, I have been loving number 3 to figure out what to optimize... ... and then I wished that the same thing was done for module loading. This patch makes the module loader use this exact same functionality; it's a logical extension in my view (since modules are just sort of late binding initcalls anyway) and so far I've found it quite useful in finding where things are too slow in my boot. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-06Kconfig: Extend "menuconfig" for modules to simplify Kconfig fileRobert P. J. Day
Given that the init/Kconfig file uses a "menuconfig" directive for modules already, might as well wrap all the submenu entries in an "if" to toss all those dependencies. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-08-05remove unnecessary <linux/hdreg.h> includesBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Following files don't need <linux/hdreg.h> at all: - arch/mips/jazz/setup.c - arch/sh/boards/mach-systemh/irq.c - drivers/macintosh/mediabay.c - drivers/scsi/hptiop.c - drivers/usb/storage/freecom.c - arch/powerpc/include/asm/ide.h - init/main.c Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-08-01Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kbuild: scripts/ver_linux: don't set PATH Kconfig/init: change help text to match default value kbuild: genksyms: Include extern information in dumps kbuild: genksyms parser: fix the __attribute__ rule kbuild: scripts/genksyms/lex.l: add %option noinput kconfig: scripts/kconfig/zconf.l: add %option noinput kbuild: fix O=... build of um
2008-08-01Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: generic, x86: fix add iommu_num_pages helper function x86: remove stray <6> in BogoMIPS printk x86: move dma32_reserve_bootmem() after reserve_crashkernel()
2008-07-31Kconfig/init: change help text to match default valuejkacur
Change the "If unsure" message to match the default value. Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur at gmail dot com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-07-30initrd: cast `initrd_start' to `void *'Geert Uytterhoeven
commit fb6624ebd912e3d6907ca6490248e73368223da9 (initrd: Fix virtual/physical mix-up in overwrite test) introduced the compiler warning below on mips, as its virt_to_page() doesn't cast the passed address to unsigned long internally, unlike on most other architectures: init/main.c: In function `start_kernel': init/main.c:633: warning: passing argument 1 of `virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast init/main.c:636: warning: passing argument 1 of `virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast For now, kill the warning by explicitly casting initrd_start to `void *', as that's the type it should really be. Reported-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-29Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc1' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar
2008-07-29Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherentIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28x86: remove stray <6> in BogoMIPS printkJoe Perches
Rabin Vincent noticed that there's a stray <6> in BogoMIPS printk: > Remove the extra KERN_INFO which causes this: > Calibrating delay loop... <6>179.40 BogoMIPS (lpj=897024) > - printk(KERN_INFO "%lu.%02lu BogoMIPS (lpj=%lu)\n", > - loops_per_jiffy/(500000/HZ), > - (loops_per_jiffy/(5000/HZ)) % 100, loops_per_jiffy); > + printk("%lu.%02lu BogoMIPS (lpj=%lu)\n", > + loops_per_jiffy/(500000/HZ), > + (loops_per_jiffy/(5000/HZ)) % 100, loops_per_jiffy); > } How about just using KERN_CONT and leaving the whitespace for a patch that does the entire file? Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
2008-07-27Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-nextLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (25 commits) setlocalversion: do not describe if there is nothing to describe kconfig: fix typos: "Suport" -> "Support" kconfig: make defconfig is no longer chatty kconfig: make oldconfig is now less chatty kconfig: speed up all*config + randconfig kconfig: set all new symbols automatically kconfig: add diffconfig utility kbuild: remove Module.markers during mrproper kbuild: sparse needs CF not CHECKFLAGS kernel-doc: handle/strip __init vmlinux.lds: move __attribute__((__cold__)) functions back into final .text section init: fix URL of "The GNU Accounting Utilities" kbuild: add arch/$ARCH/include to search path kbuild: asm symlink support for arch/$ARCH/include kbuild: support arch/$ARCH/include for tags, cscope kbuild: prepare headers_* for arch/$ARCH/include kbuild: install all headers when arch is changed kbuild: make clean removes *.o.* as well kbuild: optimize headers_* targets kbuild: only one call for include/ in make headers_* ...
2008-07-26make init/do_mounts.c:root_device_name staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global root_device_name static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26Full conversion to early_initcall() interface, remove old interfaceEduard - Gabriel Munteanu
A previous patch added the early_initcall(), to allow a cleaner hooking of pre-SMP initcalls. Now we remove the older interface, converting all existing users to the new one. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix] Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26Better interface for hooking early initcallsEduard - Gabriel Munteanu
Added early initcall (pre-SMP) support, using an identical interface to that of regular initcalls. Functions called from do_pre_smp_initcalls() could be converted to use this cleaner interface. This is required by CPU hotplug, because early users have to register notifiers before going SMP. One such CPU hotplug user is the relay interface with buffer-only channels, which needs to register such a notifier, to be usable in early code. This in turn is used by kmemtrace. Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25kconfig: fix typos: "Suport" -> "Support"Heikki Orsila
Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-07-25init: fix URL of "The GNU Accounting Utilities"S.Çağlar Onur
Following patch corrects URL of "The GNU Accounting Utilities" in init/Kconfig. Noticed by: Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-07-25proper pid{hash,map}_init() prototypesAdrian Bunk
This patch adds proper prototypes for pid{hash,map}_init() in include/linux/pid_namespace.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25init/version.c: define version_string only if CONFIG_KALLSYMS is not definedDaniel Guilak
int Version_* is only used with ksymoops, which is only needed (according to README and Documentation/Changes) if CONFIG_KALLSYMS is NOT defined. Therefore this patch defines version_string only if CONFIG_KALLSYMS is not defined. Signed-off-by: Daniel Guilak <daniel@danielguilak.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25init/version.c: silence sparse warning by declaring the version stringDaniel Guilak
Signed-off-by: Daniel Guilak <daniel@danielguilak.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25inflate: refactor inflate malloc codeThomas Petazzoni
Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot process and this is provided with a set of four functions: malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release. The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement free. This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena. This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying all the malloc/free implementations. The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses: - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which allocations should be made - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog() function call. This function will be called several times during the decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is still running. If an architecture provides such a call, then it must define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls arch_decomp_wdog(). Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the kernel and improved by me. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25init/: delete hard-coded setting and testing of BUILD_CRAMDISKRobert P. J. Day
There seems to be little point in explicitly setting, then testing the macro BUILD_CRAMDISK within the context of a single source file. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25init/do_mounts.c should #include <linux/initrd.h>Adrian Bunk
Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its global code (in this case for rd_doload). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-23Merge branch 'sched/for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: hrtick_enabled() should use cpu_active() sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation sched: fix build error, provide partition_sched_domains() unconditionally sched: fix warning in inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2) sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones" sched: reduce stack size in isolated_cpu_setup() Revert parts of "ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions" Fixed up conflicts in include/asm-x86/thread_info.h (due to the TIF_SINGLESTEP unification vs TIF_HRTICK_RESCHED removal) and kernel/sched_fair.c (due to cpu_active_map vs for_each_cpu_mask_nr() introduction).
2008-07-22make CONFIG_KMOD invisibleJohannes Berg
... as preparation for removing it completely, make it an invisible bool defaulting to yes. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22Shrink struct module: CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS ifdefsDenys Vlasenko
module.c and module.h conatains code for finding exported symbols which are declared with EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL, and this code is compiled in even if CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS is not set and thus there can be no EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOLs in modules anyway (because EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(x) are compiled out to nothing then). This patch adds required #ifdefs. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-20initrd: Fix virtual/physical mix-up in overwrite testGeert Uytterhoeven
On recent kernels, I get the following error when using an initrd: | initrd overwritten (0x00b78000 < 0x07668000) - disabling it. My Amiga 4000 has 12 MiB of RAM at physical address 0x07400000 (virtual 0x00000000). The initrd is located at the end of RAM: 0x00b78000 - 0x00c00000 (virtual). The overwrite test compares the (virtual) initrd location to the (physical) first available memory location, which fails. This patch converts initrd_start to a page frame number, so it can safely be compared with min_low_pfn. Before the introduction of discontiguous memory support on m68k (12d810c1b8c2b913d48e629e2b5c01d105029839), min_low_pfn was just left untouched by the m68k-specific code (zero, I guess), and everything worked fine. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-18Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherentIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/Makefile Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment ↵Max Krasnyansky
(take 2) This is based on Linus' idea of creating cpu_active_map that prevents scheduler load balancer from migrating tasks to the cpu that is going down. It allows us to simplify domain management code and avoid unecessary domain rebuilds during cpu hotplug event handling. Please ignore the cpusets part for now. It needs some more work in order to avoid crazy lock nesting. Although I did simplfy and unify domain reinitialization logic. We now simply call partition_sched_domains() in all the cases. This means that we're using exact same code paths as in cpusets case and hence the test below cover cpusets too. Cpuset changes to make rebuild_sched_domains() callable from various contexts are in the separate patch (right next after this one). This not only boots but also easily handles while true; do make clean; make -j 8; done and while true; do on-off-cpu 1; done at the same time. (on-off-cpu 1 simple does echo 0/1 > /sys/.../cpu1/online thing). Suprisingly the box (dual-core Core2) is quite usable. In fact I'm typing this on right now in gnome-terminal and things are moving just fine. Also this is running with most of the debug features enabled (lockdep, mutex, etc) no BUG_ONs or lockdep complaints so far. I believe I addressed all of the Dmitry's comments for original Linus' version. I changed both fair and rt balancer to mask out non-active cpus. And replaced cpu_is_offline() with !cpu_active() in the main scheduler code where it made sense (to me). Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Cc: dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com Cc: pj@sgi.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-16Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for_linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs-2.6: UBIFS: include to compilation UBIFS: add new flash file system UBIFS: add brief documentation MAINTAINERS: add UBIFS section do_mounts: allow UBI root device name VFS: export sync_sb_inodes VFS: move inode_lock into sync_sb_inodes
2008-07-15Merge branch 'generic-ipi-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'generic-ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (22 commits) generic-ipi: more merge fallout generic-ipi: merge fix x86, visws: use mach-default/entry_arch.h x86, visws: fix generic-ipi build generic-ipi: fixlet generic-ipi: fix s390 build bug generic-ipi: fix linux-next tree build failure fix: "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument" fix: "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument" fix "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument" on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument sh: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls parisc: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls mips: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls m32r: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls arm: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls alpha: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls ia64: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls powerpc: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls ... Fix trivial conflicts due to rcu updates in kernel/rcupdate.c manually
2008-07-15Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linusIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/s390/kernel/time.c arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c arch/x86/xen/smp.c include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h include/asm-x86/smp.h kernel/Makefile Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15Merge branch 'core/rcu' into core/rcu-for-linusIngo Molnar
2008-07-14do_mounts: allow UBI root device nameAdrian Hunter
Similarly to MTD devices, allow UBI devices. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
2008-06-30generic: per-device coherent dma allocatorDmitry Baryshkov
Currently x86_32, sh and cris-v32 provide per-device coherent dma memory allocator. However their implementation is nearly identical. Refactor out common code to be reused by them. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-26Add generic helpers for arch IPI function callsJens Axboe
This adds kernel/smp.c which contains helpers for IPI function calls. In addition to supporting the existing smp_call_function() in a more efficient manner, it also adds a more scalable variant called smp_call_function_single() for calling a given function on a single CPU only. The core of this is based on the x86-64 patch from Nick Piggin, lots of changes since then. "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> has contributed lots of fixes and suggestions as well. Also thanks to Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for reviewing RCU usage and getting rid of the data allocation fallback deadlock. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-24x86: use cpu_khz for loops_per_jiffy calculation, cleanupAlok Kataria
As suggested by Ingo, remove all references to tsc from init/calibrate.c TSC is x86 specific, and using tsc in variable names in a generic file should be avoided. lpj_tsc is now called lpj_fine, since it is related to fine tuning of lpj value. Also tsc_rate_* is called timer_rate_* Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> Cc: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com> Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Sahil Rihan <srihan@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-23x86: use cpu_khz for loops_per_jiffy calculationAlok Kataria
On the x86 platform we can use the value of tsc_khz computed during tsc calibration to calculate the loops_per_jiffy value. Its very important to keep the error in lpj values to minimum as any error in that may result in kernel panic in check_timer. In virtualization environment, On a highly overloaded host the guest delay calibration may sometimes result in errors beyond the ~50% that timer_irq_works can handle, resulting in the guest panicking. Does some formating changes to lpj_setup code to now have a single printk to print the bogomips value. We do this only for the boot processor because the AP's can have different base frequencies or the BIOS might boot a AP at a different frequency. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> Cc: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com> Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Sahil Rihan <srihan@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-16Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-05-25Kconfig: introduce ARCH_DEFCONFIG to DEFCONFIG_LISTSam Ravnborg
init/Kconfig contains a list of configs that are searched for if 'make *config' are used with no .config present. Extend this list to look at the config identified by ARCH_DEFCONFIG. With this change we now try the defconfig targets last. This fixes a regression reported by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-05-24md: proper extern for mdp_majorAdrian Bunk
This patch adds a proper extern for mdp_major in include/linux/raid/md.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-19rcu: add call_rcu_sched()Paul E. McKenney
Fourth cut of patch to provide the call_rcu_sched(). This is again to synchronize_sched() as call_rcu() is to synchronize_rcu(). Should be fine for experimental and -rt use, but not ready for inclusion. With some luck, I will be able to tell Andrew to come out of hiding on the next round. Passes multi-day rcutorture sessions with concurrent CPU hotplugging. Fixes since the first version include a bug that could result in indefinite blocking (spotted by Gautham Shenoy), better resiliency against CPU-hotplug operations, and other minor fixes. Fixes since the second version include reworking grace-period detection to avoid deadlocks that could happen when running concurrently with CPU hotplug, adding Mathieu's fix to avoid the softlockup messages, as well as Mathieu's fix to allow use earlier in boot. Fixes since the third version include a wrong-CPU bug spotted by Andrew, getting rid of the obsolete synchronize_kernel API that somehow snuck back in, merging spin_unlock() and local_irq_restore() in a few places, commenting the code that checks for quiescent states based on interrupting from user-mode execution or the idle loop, removing some inline attributes, and some code-style changes. Known/suspected shortcomings: o I still do not entirely trust the sleep/wakeup logic. Next step will be to use a private snapshot of the CPU online mask in rcu_sched_grace_period() -- if the CPU wasn't there at the start of the grace period, we don't need to hear from it. And the bit about accounting for changes in online CPUs inside of rcu_sched_grace_period() is ugly anyway. o It might be good for rcu_sched_grace_period() to invoke resched_cpu() when a given CPU wasn't responding quickly, but resched_cpu() is declared static... This patch also fixes a long-standing bug in the earlier preemptable-RCU implementation of synchronize_rcu() that could result in loss of concurrent external changes to a task's CPU affinity mask. I still cannot remember who reported this... Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-15initcalls: Fix m68k build and possible buffer overflowCyrill Gorcunov
This patch fixes a build bug on m68k - gcc decides to emit a call to the strlen library function, which we don't implement. More importantly - my previous patch "init: don't lose initcall return values" (commit e662e1cfd434aa234b72fbc781f1d70211cb785b) had introduced potential buffer overflow by wrong calculation of string accumulator size. Use strlcat() instead, fixing both bugs. Many thanks Andreas Schwab and Geert Uytterhoeven for helping to catch and fix the bug. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15Split up 'do_initcalls()' into two simpler functionsLinus Torvalds
One function to just loop over the entries, one function to actually do the call and the associated debugging code. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-15Clean up 'print_fn_descriptor_symbol()' typesLinus Torvalds
Everybody wants to pass it a function pointer, and in fact, that is what you _must_ pass it for it to make sense (since it knows that ia64 and ppc64 use descriptors for function pointers and fetches the actual address from there). So don't make the argument be a 'unsigned long' and force everybody to add a cast. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-14block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>Kay Sievers
Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access, so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting. This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and broke some users machines :( Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-13init: don't lose initcall return valuesCyrill Gorcunov
There is an ability to lose an initcall return value if it happened with irq disabled or imbalanced preemption (and if we debug initcall). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>