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2006-10-11[PATCH] mm: kevent threads: use MPOL_DEFAULTChristoph Lameter
Switch the memory policy of the kevent threads to MPOL_DEFAULT while leaving the kzalloc of the workqueue structure on interleave. This means that all code executed in the context of the kevent thread is allocating node local. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Alok Kataria <alok.kataria@calsoftinc.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: <pj@sgi.com> Cc: <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03remove duplicate "until" from kernel/workqueue.cRolf Eike Beer
s/until until/until/ Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-08-14[PATCH] workqueue: remove lock_cpu_hotplug()Andrew Morton
Use a private lock instead. It protects all per-cpu data structures in workqueue.c, including the workqueues list. Fix a bug in schedule_on_each_cpu(): it was forgetting to lock down the per-cpu resources. Unfixed long-standing bug: if someone unplugs the CPU identified by `singlethread_cpu' the kernel will get very sick. Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-31[PATCH] Add DocBook documentation for workqueue functionsRolf Eike Beer
kernel/workqueue.c was omitted from generating kernel documentation. This adds a new section "Workqueues and Kevents" and adds documentation for some of the functions. Some functions in this file already had DocBook-style comments, now they finally become visible. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-04Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: Move workqueue exports to where the functions are defined. [CPUFREQ] Misc cleanups in ondemand. [CPUFREQ] Make ondemand sampling per CPU and remove the mutex usage in sampling path. [CPUFREQ] Add queue_delayed_work_on() interface for workqueues. [CPUFREQ] Remove slowdown from ondemand sampling path.
2006-07-03[PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_structIngo Molnar
cleanup: remove task_t and convert all the uses to struct task_struct. I introduced it for the scheduler anno and it was a mistake. Conversion was mostly scripted, the result was reviewed and all secondary whitespace and style impact (if any) was fixed up by hand. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Move workqueue exports to where the functions are defined.Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-06-30[CPUFREQ] Add queue_delayed_work_on() interface for workqueues.Venkatesh Pallipadi
Add queue_delayed_work_on() interface for workqueues. Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-06-27[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert init patch submitted for 2.6.17Chandra Seetharaman
In 2.6.17, there was a problem with cpu_notifiers and XFS. I provided a band-aid solution to solve that problem. In the process, i undid all the changes you both were making to ensure that these notifiers were available only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined). We deferred the real fix to 2.6.18. Here is a set of patches that fixes the XFS problem cleanly and makes the cpu notifiers available only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined). If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined then cpu notifiers are available at run time. This patch reverts the notifier_call changes made in 2.6.17 Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] cpu hotplug: fix CPU_UP_CANCEL handlingHeiko Carstens
If a cpu hotplug callback fails on CPU_UP_PREPARE, all callbacks will be called with CPU_UP_CANCELED. A few of these callbacks assume that on CPU_UP_PREPARE a pointer to task has been stored in a percpu array. This assumption is not true if CPU_UP_PREPARE fails and the following calls to kthread_bind() in CPU_UP_CANCELED will cause an addressing exception because of passing a NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] schedule_on_each_cpu(): reduce kmalloc() sizeAndrew Morton
schedule_on_each_cpu() presently does a large kmalloc - 96 kbytes on 1024 CPU 64-bit. Rework it so that we do one 8192-byte allocation and then a pile of tiny ones, via alloc_percpu(). This has a much higher chance of success (100% in the current VM). This also has the effect of reducing the memory requirements from NR_CPUS*n to num_possible_cpus()*n. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] list: use list_replace_init() instead of list_splice_init()Oleg Nesterov
list_splice_init(list, head) does unneeded job if it is known that list_empty(head) == 1. We can use list_replace_init() instead. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-26[PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitionsChandra Seetharaman
Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __init in the definition of notifier_call. It is incorrect as the function definition should be available after the initializations (they do not unregister them during initializations). This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_call __init section. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-27[SCSI] add execute_in_process_context() APIJames Bottomley
We have several points in the SCSI stack (primarily for our device functions) where we need to guarantee process context, but (given the place where the last reference was released) we cannot guarantee this. This API gets around the issue by executing the function directly if the caller has process context, but scheduling a workqueue to execute in process context if the caller doesn't have it. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-14[PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functionsArjan van de Ven
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] fix workqueue oops during cpu offlineNathan Lynch
Use first_cpu(cpu_possible_map) for the single-thread workqueue case. We used to hardcode 0, but that broke on systems where !cpu_possible(0) when workqueue_struct->cpu_workqueue_struct was changed from a static array to alloc_percpu. Commit id bce61dd49d6ba7799be2de17c772e4c701558f14 ("Fix hardcoded cpu=0 in workqueue for per_cpu_ptr() calls") fixed that for Ben's funky sparc64 system, but it regressed my Power5. Offlining cpu 0 oopses upon the next call to queue_work for a single-thread workqueue, because now we try to manipulate per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, 1), which is uninitialized. So we need to establish an unchanging "slot" for single-thread workqueues which will have a valid percpu allocation. Since alloc_percpu keys off of cpu_possible_map, which must not change after initialization, make this slot == first_cpu(cpu_possible_map). Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] Unchecked alloc_percpu() return in __create_workqueue()Ben Collins
__create_workqueue() not checking return of alloc_percpu() NULL dereference was possible. Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] add schedule_on_each_cpu()Christoph Lameter
swap migration's isolate_lru_page() currently uses an IPI to notify other processors that the lru caches need to be drained if the page cannot be found on the LRU. The IPI interrupt may interrupt a processor that is just processing lru requests and cause a race condition. This patch introduces a new function run_on_each_cpu() that uses the keventd() to run the LRU draining on each processor. Processors disable preemption when dealing the LRU caches (these are per processor) and thus executing LRU draining from another process is safe. Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> for finding this race condition. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-28[PATCH] Fix hardcoded cpu=0 in workqueue for per_cpu_ptr() callsBen Collins
Tracked this down on an Ultra Enterprise 3000. It's a 6-way machine. Odd thing about this machine (and it's good for finding bugs like this) is that the CPU id's are not 0 based. For instance, on my machine the CPU's are 6/7/10/11/14/15. This caused some NULL pointer dereference in kernel/workqueue.c because for single_threaded workqueue's, it hardcoded the cpu to 0. I changed the 0's to any_online_cpu(cpu_online_mask), which cpumask.h claims is "First cpu in mask". So this fits the same usage. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible codeHeiko Carstens
Replace smp_processor_id() with any_online_cpu(cpu_online_map) in order to avoid lots of "BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code:..." messages in case taking a cpu online fails. All the traces start at the last notifier_call_chain(...) in kernel/cpu.c. Since we hold the cpu_control semaphore it shouldn't be any problem to access cpu_online_map. The reason why cpu_up failed is simply that the cpu that was supposed to be taken online wasn't even there. That is because on s390 we never know when a new cpu comes and therefore cpu_possible_map consists of only ones and doesn't reflect reality. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30[PATCH] Use alloc_percpu to allocate workqueues locallyChristoph Lameter
This patch makes the workqueus use alloc_percpu instead of an array. The workqueues are placed on nodes local to each processor. The workqueue structure can grow to a significant size on a system with lots of processors if this patch is not applied. 64 bit architectures with all debugging features enabled and configured for 512 processors will not be able to boot without this patch. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] introduce and use kzallocPekka J Enberg
This patch introduces a kzalloc wrapper and converts kernel/ to use it. It saves a little program text. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] create_workqueue_thread() signedness fixMika Kukkonen
With "-W -Wno-unused -Wno-sign-compare" I get the following compile warning: CC kernel/workqueue.o kernel/workqueue.c: In function `workqueue_cpu_callback': kernel/workqueue.c:504: warning: ordered comparison of pointer with integer zero On error create_workqueue_thread() returns NULL, not negative pointer, so following trivial patch suggests itself. Signed-off-by: Mika Kukkonen <mikukkon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-10[PATCH] remove name length check in a workqueueJames Bottomley
We have a chek in there to make sure that the name won't overflow task_struct.comm[], but it's triggering for scsi with lots of HBAs, only scsi is using single-threaded workqueues which don't append the "/%d" anyway. All too hard. Just kill the BUG_ON. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [ kthread_create() uses vsnprintf() and limits the thing, so no actual overflow can actually happen regardless ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] re-export cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueueJames Bottomley
This was unexported by Arjan because we have no current users. However, during a conversion from tasklets to workqueues of the parisc led functions, we ran across a case where this was needed. In particular, the open coded equivalent of cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue was implemented incorrectly, which is, I think, all the evidence necessary that this is a useful API. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!