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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>
2009-09-14Merge branch 'for-linus3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: SELinux: inline selinux_is_enabled in !CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX KEYS: Fix garbage collector KEYS: Unlock tasklist when exiting early from keyctl_session_to_parent CRED: Allow put_cred() to cope with a NULL groups list SELinux: flush the avc before disabling SELinux SELinux: seperate avc_cache flushing Creds: creds->security can be NULL is selinux is disabled
2009-09-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: (23 commits) at_hdmac: Rework suspend_late()/resume_early() PM: Reset transition_started at dpm_resume_noirq PM: Update kerneldoc comments in drivers/base/power/main.c PM: Add convenience macro to make switching to dev_pm_ops less error-prone hp-wmi: Switch driver to dev_pm_ops floppy: Switch driver to dev_pm_ops PM: Trivial fixes PM / Hibernate / Memory hotplug: Always use for_each_populated_zone() PM/Hibernate: Do not try to allocate too much memory too hard (rev. 2) PM/Hibernate: Do not release preallocated memory unnecessarily (rev. 2) PM/Hibernate: Rework shrinking of memory PM: Fix typo in label name s/Platofrm_finish/Platform_finish/ PM: Run-time PM platform device bus support PM: Introduce core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17) Driver Core: Make PM operations a const pointer PM: Remove platform device suspend_late()/resume_early() V2 USB: Rework musb suspend()/resume_early() I2C: Rework i2c-s3c2410 suspend_late()/resume() V2 I2C: Rework i2c-pxa suspend_late()/resume_early() DMA: Rework txx9dmac suspend_late()/resume_early() ... Fix trivial conflict in drivers/base/platform.c (due to same constification patch being merged in both sides, along with some other PM work in the PM branch)
2009-09-14Merge 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
2009-09-14Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (29 commits) block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard Make DISCARD_BARRIER and DISCARD_NOBARRIER writes instead of reads block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store block: Optimal I/O limit wrapper cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests aoe: end barrier bios with EOPNOTSUPP block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs block: enable rq CPU completion affinity by default cfq: fix the log message after dispatched a request block: use printk_once cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one() splice: update mtime and atime on files block: make blk_iopoll_prep_sched() follow normal 0/1 return convention cfq-iosched: get rid of must_alloc flag block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff() block: fix comment in blk-iopoll.c block: adjust default budget for blk-iopoll block: fix long lines in block/blk-iopoll.c block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices ...
2009-09-14cleanup console_print()Anirban Sinha
console_print() is an old legacy interface mostly unused in the entire kernel tree. It's best to clean up its existing use and let developers use their own implementation of it as they feel fit. Signed-off-by: Anirban Sinha <asinha@zeugmasystems.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-15CRED: Allow put_cred() to cope with a NULL groups listDavid Howells
put_cred() will oops if given a NULL groups list, but that is now possible with the existence of cred_alloc_blank(), as used in keyctl_session_to_parent(). Added in commit: commit ee18d64c1f632043a02e6f5ba5e045bb26a5465f Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Date: Wed Sep 2 09:14:21 2009 +0100 KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-14PM: Trivial fixesWu Fengguang
Fix the definition of BM_BITS_PER_BLOCK and kerneldoc description of create_bm_block_list(). [rjw: Added changelog.] Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-09-14PM / Hibernate / Memory hotplug: Always use for_each_populated_zone()Gerald Schaefer
Use for_each_populated_zone() instead of for_each_zone() in hibernation code. This fixes a bug on s390, where we allow both config options HIBERNATION and MEMORY_HOTPLUG, so that we also have a ZONE_MOVABLE here. We only allow hibernation if no memory hotplug operation was performed, so in fact both features can only be used exclusively, but this way we don't need 2 differently configured (distribution) kernels. If we have an unpopulated ZONE_MOVABLE, we allow hibernation but run into a BUG_ON() in memory_bm_test/set/clear_bit() because hibernation code iterates through all zones, not only the populated zones, in several places. For example, swsusp_free() does for_each_zone() and then checks for pfn_valid(), which is true even if the zone is not populated, resulting in a BUG_ON() later because the pfn cannot be found in the memory bitmap. Replacing all occurences of for_each_zone() in hibernation code with for_each_populated_zone() would fix this issue. [rjw: Rebased on top of linux-next hibernation patches.] Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-09-14PM/Hibernate: Do not try to allocate too much memory too hard (rev. 2)Rafael J. Wysocki
We want to avoid attempting to free too much memory too hard during hibernation, so estimate the minimum size of the image to use as the lower limit for preallocating memory. The approach here is based on the (experimental) observation that we can't free more page frames than the sum of: * global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) * global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON) * global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON) * global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE) * global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE) minus * global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED) Namely, if this number is subtracted from the number of saveable pages in the system, we get a good estimate of the minimum reasonable size of a hibernation image. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2009-09-14PM/Hibernate: Do not release preallocated memory unnecessarily (rev. 2)Rafael J. Wysocki
Since the hibernation code is now going to use allocations of memory to make enough room for the image, it can also use the page frames allocated at this stage as image page frames. The low-level hibernation code needs to be rearranged for this purpose, but it allows us to avoid freeing a great number of pages and allocating these same pages once again later, so it generally is worth doing. [rev. 2: Take highmem into account correctly.] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-09-14PM/Hibernate: Rework shrinking of memoryRafael J. Wysocki
Rework swsusp_shrink_memory() so that it calls shrink_all_memory() just once to make some room for the image and then allocates memory to apply more pressure to the memory management subsystem, if necessary. Unfortunately, we don't seem to be able to drop shrink_all_memory() entirely just yet, because that would lead to huge performance regressions in some test cases. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
2009-09-14PM: Fix typo in label name s/Platofrm_finish/Platform_finish/Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Although the same label name is used somewhere else in the file, this particular label was consistently typoed in all of its uses. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-09-14Merge branch 'master' into for-linusRafael J. Wysocki
2009-09-14Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits) netxen: update copyright netxen: fix tx timeout recovery netxen: fix file firmware leak netxen: improve pci memory access netxen: change firmware write size tg3: Fix return ring size breakage netxen: build fix for INET=n cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr() ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded ... Fixed up trivial conflicts: - arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine. - drivers/net/tun.c fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use. Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
2009-09-11Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (105 commits) ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentation tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak tracing: remove users of tracing_reset tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem ring-buffer: do not count discarded events ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit ...
2009-09-11Merge 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: (64 commits) sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now sched: Keep kthreads at default priority sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies sched: Turn off child_runs_first sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork() sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLE sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine() sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair() sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE sched: Clean up topology.h sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats() sched: Try to deal with low capacity sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power sched: Add smt_gain sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING ...
2009-09-11Merge branch 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits) perf tools: Avoid unnecessary work in directory lookups perf stat: Clean up statistics calculations a bit more perf stat: More advanced variance computation perf stat: Use stddev_mean in stead of stddev perf stat: Remove the limit on repeat perf stat: Change noise calculation to use stddev x86, perf_counter, bts: Do not allow kernel BTS tracing for now x86, perf_counter, bts: Correct pointer-to-u64 casts x86, perf_counter, bts: Fail if BTS is not available perf_counter: Fix output-sharing error path perf trace: Fix read_string() perf trace: Print out in nanoseconds perf tools: Seek to the end of the header area perf trace: Fix parsing of perf.data perf trace: Sample timestamps as well perf_counter: Introduce new (non-)paranoia level to allow raw tracepoint access perf trace: Sample the CPU too perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warnings perf tools: Clean up warnings list in the Makefile perf tools: Complete support for dynamic strings ...
2009-09-11Merge branch 'irq-threaded-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-threaded-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Do not mask oneshot edge type interrupts genirq: Support nested threaded irq handling genirq: Add buslock support genirq: Add oneshot support
2009-09-11Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: pci/intr_remapping: Allocate irq_iommu on node irq: Add irq_node() primitive irq: Make sure irq_desc for legacy irq get correct node setting genirq: Add prototype for handle_nested_irq() irq: Remove superfluous NULL pointer check in check_irq_resend() irq: Clean up by removing irqfixup MODULE_PARM_DESC() genirq: Fix comment describing suspend_device_irqs() genirq: Remove obsolete defines and typedefs
2009-09-11Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits) rcu: Move end of special early-boot RCU operation earlier rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees rcu: Remove lockdep annotations from RCU's _notrace() API members rcu: Add #ifdef to suppress __rcu_offline_cpu() warning in !HOTPLUG_CPU builds rcu: Add CPU-offline processing for single-node configurations rcu: Add "notrace" to RCU function headers used by ftrace rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() API rcu: Use debugfs_remove_recursive() simplify code. rcu: Merge per-RCU-flavor initialization into pre-existing macro rcu: Fix online/offline indication for rcudata.csv trace file rcu: Consolidate sparse and lockdep declarations in include/linux/rcupdate.h rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarity rcu: Move private definitions from include/linux/rcutree.h to kernel/rcutree.h rcu: Expunge lingering references to CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU, optimize on !SMP rcu: Delay rcu_barrier() wait until beginning of next CPU-hotunplug operation. rcu: Fix typo in rcu_irq_exit() comment header rcu: Make rcupreempt_trace.c look at offline CPUs ...
2009-09-11Merge branch 'core-printk-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: printk: Fix "printk: Enable the use of more than one CON_BOOT (early console)" printk: Restore previous console_loglevel when re-enabling logging printk: Ensure that "console enabled" messages are printed on the console printk: Enable the use of more than one CON_BOOT (early console)
2009-09-11Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (32 commits) locking, m68k/asm-offsets: Rename signal defines locking: Inline spinlock code for all locking variants on s390 locking: Simplify spinlock inlining locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks locking: Move spinlock function bodies to header file locking, m68k: Calculate thread_info offset with asm offset locking, m68k/asm-offsets: Rename pt_regs offset defines locking, sparc: Rename __spin_try_lock() and friends locking, powerpc: Rename __spin_try_lock() and friends lockdep: Remove recursion stattistics lockdep: Simplify lock_stat seqfile code lockdep: Simplify lockdep_chains seqfile code lockdep: Simplify lockdep seqfile code lockdep: Fix missing entries in /proc/lock_chains lockdep: Fix missing entry in /proc/lock_stat lockdep: Fix memory usage info of BFS lockdep: Reintroduce generation count to make BFS faster lockdep: Deal with many similar locks lockdep: Introduce lockdep_assert_held() lockdep: Fix style nits ...
2009-09-11Merge branch 'core-futexes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: Detect mismatched requeue targets futex: Correct futex_wait_requeue_pi() commentary
2009-09-11Merge branch 'core-debug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: debug lockups: Improve lockup detection, fix generic arch fallback debug lockups: Improve lockup detection
2009-09-11Merge branch 'core-cleanups-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: workqueues: Improve schedule_work() documentation
2009-09-11Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty writeback: add name to backing_dev_info writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats writeback: get rid of pdflush completely writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export
2009-09-11block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devicesJens Axboe
This borrows some code from NAPI and implements a polled completion mode for block devices. The idea is the same as NAPI - instead of doing the command completion when the irq occurs, schedule a dedicated softirq in the hopes that we will complete more IO when the iopoll handler is invoked. Devices have a budget of commands assigned, and will stay in polled mode as long as they continue to consume their budget from the iopoll softirq handler. If they do not, the device is set back to interrupt completion mode. This patch holds the core bits for blk-iopoll, device driver support sold separately. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11writeback: add name to backing_dev_infoJens Axboe
This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can fix that up. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2009-09-10sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint fieldIngo Molnar
This weird perf trace output: cc1-9943 [001] 2802.059479616: sched_stat_wait: task: as:9944 wait: 2801938766276 [ns] Is caused by setting one component field of the delta to zero a bit too early. Move it to later. ( Note, this does not affect the NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS interactivity bug, it's just a reporting bug in essence. ) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <4AA93D34.8040500@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-10sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for nowIngo Molnar
Nikos Chantziaras and Jens Axboe reported that turning off NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS improves desktop interactivity visibly. Nikos described his experiences the following way: " With this setting, I can do "nice -n 19 make -j20" and still have a very smooth desktop and watch a movie at the same time. Various other annoyances (like the "logout/shutdown/restart" dialog of KDE not appearing at all until the background fade-out effect has finished) are also gone. So this seems to be the single most important setting that vastly improves desktop behavior, at least here. " Jens described it the following way, referring to a 10-seconds xmodmap scheduling delay he was trying to debug: " Then I tried switching NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS on, and then I get: Performance counter stats for 'xmodmap .xmodmap-carl': 9.009137 task-clock-msecs # 0.447 CPUs 18 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec 1 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 315 page-faults # 0.035 M/sec 0.020167093 seconds time elapsed Woot! " So disable it for now. In perf trace output i can see weird delta timestamps: cc1-9943 [001] 2802.059479616: sched_stat_wait: task: as:9944 wait: 2801938766276 [ns] That nsec field is not supposed to be that large. More digging is needed - but lets turn it off while the real bug is found. Reported-by: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> Tested-by: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Tested-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <4AA93D34.8040500@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-10Merge branch 'master' into for-linusRafael J. Wysocki
2009-09-09sched: Keep kthreads at default priorityMike Galbraith
Removes kthread/workqueue priority boost, they increase worst-case desktop latencies. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latenciesMike Galbraith
Reduce the latency target from 20 msecs to 5 msecs. Why? Larger latencies increase spread, which is good for scaling, but bad for worst case latency. We still have the ilog(nr_cpus) rule to scale up on bigger server boxes. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09sched: Turn off child_runs_firstMike Galbraith
Set child_runs_first default to off. It hurts 'optimal' make -j<NR_CPUS> workloads as make jobs get preempted by child tasks, reducing parallelism. Note, this patch might make existing races in user applications more prominent than before - so breakages might be bisected to this commit. Child-runs-first is broken on SMP to begin with, and we already had it off briefly in v2.6.23 so most of the offenders ought to be fixed. Would be nice not to revert this commit but fix those apps finally ... Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net> [ made the sysctl independent of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, in case people want to work around broken apps. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-08sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()Mike Galbraith
A fork/exec load is usually "pass the baton", so the child should never be placed behind the parent. With START_DEBIT we make room for the new task, but with child_runs_first, that room comes out of the _parent's_ hide. There's nothing to say that the parent wasn't ahead of min_vruntime at fork() time, which means that the "baton carrier", who is essentially the parent in drag, can gain time and increase scheduling latencies for waiters. With NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS + START_DEBIT + child_runs_first enabled, we essentially pass the sleeper fairness off to the child, which is fine, but if we don't base placement on the parent's updated vruntime, we can end up compounding latency woes if the child itself then does fork/exec. The debit incurred at fork doesn't hurt the parent who is then going to sleep and maybe exit, but the child who acquires the error harms all comers. This improves latencies of make -j<n> kernel build workloads. Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()Peter Zijlstra
wake_affine() would always fail under low-load situations where both prev and this were idle, because adding a single task will always be a significant imbalance, even if there's nothing around that could balance it. Deal with this by allowing imbalance when there's nothing you can do about it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()Peter Zijlstra
select_task_rq_fair() incorrectly skips the wake_affine() logic, remove this. When prev_cpu == this_cpu, the code jumps straight to the wake_idle() logic, this doesn't give the wake_affine() logic the chance to pin the task to this cpu. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07Security/SELinux: includecheck fix kernel/sysctl.cJaswinder Singh Rajput
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: kernel/sysctl.c: linux/security.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-06Merge branch 'tracing/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core
2009-09-06Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc9' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: move from -rc5 to -rc9. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-05Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf_counter/powerpc: Fix cache event codes for POWER7 perf_counter: Fix /0 bug in swcounters perf_counters: Increase paranoia level
2009-09-04ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when neededSteven Rostedt
Since the ability to swap the cpu buffers adds a small overhead to the recording of a trace, we only want to add it when needed. Only the irqsoff and preemptoff tracers use this feature, and both are not recommended for production kernels. This patch disables its use when neither irqsoff nor preemptoff is configured. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committingSteven Rostedt
Because the irqsoff tracer can swap an internal CPU buffer, it is possible that a swap happens between the start of the write and before the committing bit is set (the committing bit will disable swapping). This patch adds a check for this and will fail the write if it detects it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency bufferSteven Rostedt
The irqsoff tracer will fail to swap the cpu buffer with the max buffer if it preempts a commit. Instead of ignoring this, this patch makes the tracer report it if the last max latency failed due to preempting a current commit. The output of the latency tracer will look like this: # tracer: irqsoff # # irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.31-rc5 # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 112 us, #1/1, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4) # ----------------- # | task: -4281 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) # ----------------- # => started at: save_args # => ended at: __do_softirq # # # _------=> CPU# # / _-----=> irqs-off # | / _----=> need-resched # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth # |||| / # ||||| delay # cmd pid ||||| time | caller # \ / ||||| \ | / bash-4281 1d.s6 265us : update_max_tr_single: Failed to swap buffers due to commit in progress Note the latency time and the functions that disabled the irqs or preemption will still be listed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to useSteven Rostedt
This patch adds a trace_array_printk to allow a tracer to use the trace_printk on its own trace array. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracerSteven Rostedt
The latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup) can swap trace buffers on the fly. If an event is happening and has reserved data on one of the buffers, and the latency tracer swaps the global buffer with the max buffer, the result is that the event may commit the data to the wrong buffer. This patch changes the API to the trace recording to be recieve the buffer that was used to reserve a commit. Then this buffer can be passed in to the commit. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external useSteven Rostedt
Reseting the trace buffer without first disabling the buffer and waiting for any writers to complete, can corrupt the ring buffer. This patch makes the external version of tracing_reset safe from corruption by disabling the ring buffer and calling synchronize_sched. This version can no longer be called from interrupt context. But all those callers have been removed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency tracesSteven Rostedt
Currently the latency tracers reset the ring buffer. Unfortunately if a commit is in process (due to a trace event), this can corrupt the ring buffer. When this happens, the ring buffer will detect the corruption and then permanently disable the ring buffer. The bug does not crash the system, but it does prevent further tracing after the bug is hit. Instead of reseting the trace buffers, the timestamp of the start of the trace is used instead. The buffers will still contain the previous data, but the output will not count any data that is before the timestamp of the trace. Note, this only affects the static trace output (trace) and not the runtime trace output (trace_pipe). The runtime trace output does not make sense for the latency tracers anyway. Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>