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2008-10-11Merge phase #3 (IOMMU) of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (74 commits) AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index, fix AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index x86: add PCI IDs for AMD Barcelona PCI devices x86/iommu: use __GFP_ZERO instead of memset for GART x86/iommu: convert GART need_flush to bool x86/iommu: make GART driver checkpatch clean x86 gart: remove unnecessary initialization x86: restore old GART alloc_coherent behavior revert "x86: make GART to respect device's dma_mask about virtual mappings" x86: export pci-nommu's alloc_coherent iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option x86: remove set_bit_string() iommu: export iommu_area_reserve helper function AMD IOMMU: use coherent_dma_mask in alloc_coherent add AMD IOMMU tree to MAINTAINERS file AMD IOMMU: use cmd_buf_size when freeing the command buffer AMD IOMMU: calculate IVHD size with a function AMD IOMMU: remove unnecessary cast to u64 in the init code AMD IOMMU: free domain bitmap with its allocation order AMD IOMMU: simplify dma_mask_to_pages ...
2008-10-11Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] Fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code [CPUFREQ] Don't export governors for default governor [CPUFREQ][6/6] cpufreq: Add idle microaccounting in ondemand governor [CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand governor [CPUFREQ][4/6] cpufreq_ondemand: Parameterize down differential [CPUFREQ][3/6] cpufreq: get_cpu_idle_time() changes in ondemand for idle-microaccounting [CPUFREQ][2/6] cpufreq: Change load calculation in ondemand for software coordination [CPUFREQ][1/6] cpufreq: Add cpu number parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg() [CPUFREQ] use deferrable delayed work init in conservative governor [CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: Adjust error handling code involving cpufreq_cpu_put [CPUFREQ] add error handling for cpufreq_register_governor() error [CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: add error handling for cpufreq_register_driver() error [CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k6.c [CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c
2008-10-10Merge branch 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits) rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU rcu: add rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched() rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt rcuclassic: fix compiler warning rcu: use irq-safe locks rcuclassic: fix compilation NG rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.c rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu() rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.h rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2) ...
2008-10-10Merge branches 'core/iommu', 'x86/amd-iommu' and 'x86/iommu' into ↵Ingo Molnar
x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-09[CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand ↵venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
governor export get_cpu_idle_time_us() for it to be used in ondemand governor. Last update time can be current time when the CPU is currently non-idle, accounting for the busy time since last idle. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09sched debug: add name to sched_domain sysctl entriesIngo Molnar
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/name, to make it easier to see which specific scheduler domain remained at that entry. Since we process the scheduler domain tree and simplify it, it's not always immediately clear during debugging which domain came from where. depends on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-09Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-10-08sched: sync wakeups vs avg_overlapPeter Zijlstra
While looking at the code I wondered why we always do: sync && avg_overlap < migration_cost Which is a bit odd, since the overlap test was meant to detect sync wakeups so using it to specialize sync wakeups doesn't make much sense. Hence change the code to do: sync || avg_overlap < migration_cost Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-08Merge branches 'sched/devel', 'sched/cpu-hotplug', 'sched/cpusets' and ↵Ingo Molnar
'sched/urgent' into sched/core
2008-10-06kgdb: call touch_softlockup_watchdog on resumeJason Wessel
The softlockup watchdog needs to be touched when resuming the from the kgdb stopped state to avoid the printk that a CPU is stuck if the debugger was active for longer than the softlockup threshold. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-10-06sched: remove redundant code in cpu_cgroup_create()Li Zefan
css will be initialized by cgroup core. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-06Merge branch 'linus' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-10-04sched_rt.c: resch needed in rt_rq_enqueue() for the root rt_rqDario Faggioli
While working on the new version of the code for SCHED_SPORADIC I noticed something strange in the present throttling mechanism. More specifically in the throttling timer handler in sched_rt.c (do_sched_rt_period_timer()) and in rt_rq_enqueue(). The problem is that, when unthrottling a runqueue, rt_rq_enqueue() only asks for rescheduling if the runqueue has a sched_entity associated to it (i.e., rt_rq->rt_se != NULL). Now, if the runqueue is the root rq (which has a rt_se = NULL) rescheduling does not take place, and it is delayed to some undefined instant in the future. This imply some random bandwidth usage by the RT tasks under throttling. For instance, setting rt_runtime_us/rt_period_us = 950ms/1000ms an RT task will get less than 95%. In our tests we got something varying between 70% to 95%. Using smaller time values, e.g., 95ms/100ms, things are even worse, and I can see values also going down to 20-25%!! The tests we performed are simply running 'yes' as a SCHED_FIFO task, and checking the CPU usage with top, but we can investigate thoroughly if you think it is needed. Things go much better, for us, with the attached patch... Don't know if it is the best approach, but it solved the issue for us. Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-04clockevents: check broadcast tick device not the clock events deviceThomas Gleixner
Impact: jiffies increment too fast. Hugh Dickins noted that with NOHZ=n and HIGHRES=n jiffies get incremented too fast. The reason is a wrong check in the broadcast enter/exit code, which keeps the local apic timer in periodic mode when the switch happens. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-03cpusets: scan_for_empty_cpusets(), cpuset doesn't seem to be so constFrederic Weisbecker
This fixes a warning on latest -tip: kernel/cpuset.c: Dans la fonction «scan_for_empty_cpusets» : kernel/cpuset.c:1932: attention : passing argument 1 of «list_add_tail» discards qualifiers from pointer target type Actually the struct cpuset *root passed in parameter to scan_for_empty_cpusets is not supposed to be const since an entry is added on the tail of its list. Just correct the qualifier. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fixIngo Molnar
fix the !CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR path: kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_pending': kernel/rcuclassic.c:609: error: too few arguments to function 'check_cpu_stall' Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCUPaul E. McKenney
This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU. This capability is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which defaults disabled. This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about. This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds. This is essentially a port of this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4). The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature is enabled. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-10-02fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()Dan Carpenter
Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-30Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers hrtimer: mark migration state hrtimer: fix migration of CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ hrtimers hrtimer: migrate pending list on cpu offline Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-09-30sched: minor optimizations in wake_affine and select_task_rq_fairAmit K. Arora
This patch does following: o Removes unused variable and argument "rq". o Optimizes one of the "if" conditions in wake_affine() - i.e. if "balanced" is true, we need not do rest of the calculations in the condition. o If this cpu is same as the previous cpu (on which woken up task was running when it went to sleep), no need to call wake_affine at all. Signed-off-by: Amit K Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-29mm owner: fix race between swapoff and exitBalbir Singh
There's a race between mm->owner assignment and swapoff, more easily seen when task slab poisoning is turned on. The condition occurs when try_to_unuse() runs in parallel with an exiting task. A similar race can occur with callers of get_task_mm(), such as /proc/<pid>/<mmstats> or ptrace or page migration. CPU0 CPU1 try_to_unuse looks at mm = task0->mm increments mm->mm_users task 0 exits mm->owner needs to be updated, but no new owner is found (mm_users > 1, but no other task has task->mm = task0->mm) mm_update_next_owner() leaves mmput(mm) decrements mm->mm_users task0 freed dereferencing mm->owner fails The fix is to notify the subsystem via mm_owner_changed callback(), if no new owner is found, by specifying the new task as NULL. Jiri Slaby: mm->owner was set to NULL prior to calling cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(), but must be set after that, so as not to pass NULL as old owner causing oops. Daisuke Nishimura: mm_update_next_owner() may set mm->owner to NULL, but mem_cgroup_from_task() and its callers need to take account of this situation to avoid oops. Hugh Dickins: Lockdep warning and hang below exec_mmap() when testing these patches. exit_mm() up_reads mmap_sem before calling mm_update_next_owner(), so exec_mmap() now needs to do the same. And with that repositioning, there's now no point in mm_need_new_owner() allowing for NULL mm. Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-29hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimersThomas Gleixner
Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is active at migration time. Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29hrtimer: mark migration stateThomas Gleixner
Impact: during migration active hrtimers can be seen as inactive The migration code removes the hrtimers from the queues of the dead CPU and sets the state temporary to INACTIVE. The enqueue code sets it to ACTIVE/PENDING again. Prevent that the wrong state can be seen by using a separate migration state bit. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29hrtimer: fix migration of CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ hrtimersThomas Gleixner
Impact: Stale timers after a CPU went offline. commit 37bb6cb4097e29ffee970065b74499cbf10603a3 hrtimer: unlock hrtimer_wakeup changed the hrtimer sleeper callback mode to CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ due to locking problems. A result of this change is that when enqueue is called for an already expired hrtimer the callback function is not longer called directly from the enqueue code. The normal callers have been fixed in the code, but the migration code which moves hrtimers from a dead CPU to a live CPU was not made aware of this. This can be fixed by checking the timer state after the call to enqueue in the migration code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29hrtimer: migrate pending list on cpu offlineThomas Gleixner
Impact: hrtimers which are on the pending list are not migrated at cpu offline and can be stale forever Add the pending list migration when CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is enabled Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-26kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single steppingJason Wessel
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a system call. First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb, any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the exception. On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb core. The arch specific stub should always set the kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping. This allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26kgdb: could not write to the last of valid memory with kgdbAtsuo Igarashi
On the ARM architecture, kgdb will crash the kernel if the last byte of valid memory is written due to a flush_icache_range flushing beyond the memory boundary. Signed-off-by: Atsuo Igarashi <atsuo_igarashi@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-25sched: maintain only task entities in cfs_rq->tasks listBharata B Rao
cfs_rq->tasks list is used by the load balancer to iterate over all the tasks. Currently it holds all the entities (both task and group entities) because of which there is a need to check for group entities explicitly during load balancing. This patch changes the cfs_rq->tasks list to hold only task entities. Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: fix build error in !oneshot case x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machines clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
2008-09-23Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warning
2008-09-23kexec: fix segmentation fault in kimage_add_entryJonathan Steel
A segmentation fault can occur in kimage_add_entry in kexec.c when loading a kernel image into memory. The fault occurs because a page is requested by calling kimage_alloc_page with gfp_mask GFP_KERNEL and the function may actually return a page with gfp_mask GFP_HIGHUSER. The high mem page is returned because it was swapped with the kernel page due to the kernel page being a page that will shortly be copied to. This patch ensures that kimage_alloc_page returns a page that was created with the correct gfp flags. I have verified the change and fixed the whitespace damage of the original patch. Jonathan did a great job of tracking this down after he hit the problem. -- Eric Signed-off-by: Jonathan Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23sched: fixup buddy selectionPeter Zijlstra
We should set the buddy even though we might already have the TIF_RESCHED flag set. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: more sanity checks on the bandwidth settingsPeter Zijlstra
While playing around with it, I noticed we missed some sanity checks. Also add some comments while we're there. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: add some comments to the bandwidth codePeter Zijlstra
Hopefully clarify some of this code a little. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: fixlet for group load balancePeter Zijlstra
We should not only correct the increment for the initial group, but should be consistent and do so for all the groups we encounter. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23Merge branches 'sched/urgent' and 'sched/rt' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-09-23sched: rework wakeup preemptionPeter Zijlstra
Rework the wakeup preemption to work on real runtime instead of the virtual runtime. This greatly simplifies the code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23timers: fix build error in !oneshot caseIngo Molnar
kernel/time/tick-common.c: In function ‘tick_setup_periodic’: kernel/time/tick-common.c:113: error: implicit declaration of function ‘tick_broadcast_oneshot_active’ Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu onlineThomas Gleixner
Impact: timer hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E systems When a CPU is brought online then the broadcast machinery can be in the one shot state already. Check this and setup the timer device of the new CPU in one shot mode so the broadcast code can pick up the next_event value correctly. Another AMD C1E oddity, as we switch to broadcast immediately and not after the full bring up via the ACPI cpu idle code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23clockevents: check broadcast device not tick deviceThomas Gleixner
Impact: Possible hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E machines. The broadcast setup code looks at the mode of the tick device to determine whether it needs to be shut down or setup. This is wrong when the broadcast mode is set to one shot already. This can happen when a CPU is brought online as it goes through the periodic setup first. The problem went unnoticed as sane systems do not call into that code before the switch to one shot for the clock event device happens. The AMD C1E idle routine switches over immediately and thereby shuts down the just setup device before the first interrupt happens. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUsThomas Gleixner
Impact: possible hang on CPU onlining in timer one shot mode. The tick_next_period variable is only used during boot on nohz/highres enabled systems, but for CPU onlining it needs to be maintained when the per cpu clock events device operates in one shot mode. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohzThomas Gleixner
Impact: rare hang which can be triggered on CPU online. tick_do_timer_cpu keeps track of the CPU which updates jiffies via do_timer. The value -1 is used to signal, that currently no CPU is doing this. There are two cases, where the variable can have this state: boot: necessary for systems where the boot cpu id can be != 0 nohz long idle sleep: When the CPU which did the jiffies update last goes into a long idle sleep it drops the update jiffies duty so another CPU which is not idle can pick it up and keep jiffies going. Using the same value for both situations is wrong, as the CPU online code can see the -1 state when the timer of the newly onlined CPU is setup. The setup for a newly onlined CPU goes through periodic mode and can pick up the do_timer duty without being aware of the nohz / highres mode of the already running system. Use two separate states and make them constants to avoid magic numbers confusion. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warningHarvey Harrison
kernel/rcuclassic.c:564:18: warning: symbol 'flags' shadows an earlier one kernel/rcuclassic.c:527:16: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: clarify ifdef tangleAndrew Morton
- Add some comments to try to make the ifdef puzzle a bit clearer - Explicitly inline one of the three init_hrtick() implementations. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warningRakib Mullick
LD kernel/built-in.o WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x326): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_hrtick() to the variable .cpuinit.data:hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 The function init_hrtick() references the variable __cpuinitdata hotplug_hrtick_nb.8. This is often because init_hrtick lacks a __cpuinitdata annotation or the annotation of hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 is wrong. Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22sched: fix list traversal to use _rcu variantChris Friesen
load_balance_fair() calls rcu_read_lock() but then traverses the list using the regular list traversal routine. This patch converts the list traversal to use the _rcu version. Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22sched: turn off WAKEUP_OVERLAPIngo Molnar
WAKEUP_OVERLAP is not a winner on a 16way box, running psql+sysbench: .27-rc7-NO_WAKEUP_OVERLAP .27-rc7-WAKEUP_OVERLAP ------------------------------------------------- 1: 694 811 +14.39% 2: 1454 1427 -1.86% 4: 3017 3070 +1.70% 8: 5694 5808 +1.96% 16: 10592 10612 +0.19% 32: 9693 9647 -0.48% 64: 8507 8262 -2.97% 128: 8402 7087 -18.55% 256: 8419 5124 -64.30% 512: 7990 3671 -117.62% ------------------------------------------------- SUM: 64466 55524 -16.11% ... so turn it off by default. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22sched: wakeup preempt when small overlapPeter Zijlstra
Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4. The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness, which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective cache trashing. Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule back to it - saving a wakeup. Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-19Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fix deadlock in setting scheduler parameter to zero sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomly