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Arjan van de Ven authored
Fix the menu idle governor which balances power savings, energy efficiency and performance impact. The reason for a reworked governor is that there have been serious performance issues reported with the existing code on Nehalem server systems. To show this I'm sure Andrew wants to see benchmark results: (benchmark is "fio", "no cstates" is using "idle=poll") no cstates current linux new algorithm 1 disk 107 Mb/s 85 Mb/s 105 Mb/s 2 disks 215 Mb/s 123 Mb/s 209 Mb/s 12 disks 590 Mb/s 320 Mb/s 585 Mb/s In various power benchmark measurements, no degredation was found by our measurement&diagnostics team. Obviously a small percentage more power was used in the "fio" benchmark, due to the much higher performance. While it would be a novel idea to describe the new algorithm in this commit message, I cheaped out and described it in comments in the code instead. [changes since first post: spelling fixes from akpm, review feedback, folded menu-tng into menu.c] Signed-off-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bernd Schmidt authored
Some architectures (like the Blackfin arch) implement some of the "simpler" features that one would expect out of a MMU such as memory protection. In our case, we actually get read/write/exec protection down to the page boundary so processes can't stomp on each other let alone the kernel. There is a performance decrease (which depends greatly on the workload) however as the hardware/software interaction was not optimized at design time. Signed-off-by:
Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de> Signed-off-by:
Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Currently, OOM logic callflow is here. __out_of_memory() select_bad_process() for each task badness() calculate badness of one task oom_kill_process() search child oom_kill_task() kill target task and mm shared tasks with it example, process-A have two thread, thread-A and thread-B and it have very fat memory and each thread have following oom_adj and oom_score. thread-A: oom_adj = OOM_DISABLE, oom_score = 0 thread-B: oom_adj = 0, oom_score = very-high Then, select_bad_process() select thread-B, but oom_kill_task() refuse kill the task because thread-A have OOM_DISABLE. Thus __out_of_memory() call select_bad_process() again. but select_bad_process() select the same task. It mean kernel fall in livelock. The fact is, select_bad_process() must select killable task. otherwise OOM logic go into livelock. And root cause is, oom_adj shouldn't be per-thread value. it should be per-process value because OOM-killer kill a process, not thread. Thus This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from struct task_struct to struct signal_struct. it naturally prevent select_bad_process() choose wrong task. Signed-off-by:KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
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Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
This is being done by allowing boot time allocations to specify that they may want a sub-page sized amount of memory. Overall this seems more consistent with the other hash table allocations, and allows making two supposedly mm-only variables really mm-only (nr_{kernel,all}_pages). Signed-off-by:Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
Since alloc_bootmem() will never return inaccessible (via virtual addressing) memory anyway, using the ..._low() variant only makes sense when the physical address range of the allocated memory must fulfill further constraints, espacially since on 64-bits (or more generally in all cases where the pools the two variants allocate from are than the full available range. Probably the use in alloc_tce_table() could also be eliminated (based on code inspection of pci-calgary_64.c), but that seems too risky given I know nothing about that hardware and have no way to test it. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
Rawhide users have reported hang at startup when cryptsetup is run: the same problem can be simply reproduced by running a program int main() { mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); return 0; } The problem is that exit_mmap() applies munlock_vma_pages_all() to clean up VM_LOCKED areas, and its current implementation (stupidly) tries to fault in absent pages, for example where PROT_NONE prevented them being faulted in when mlocking. Whereas the "ksm: fix oom deadlock" patch, knowing there's a race by which KSM might try to fault in pages after exit_mmap() had finally zapped the range, backs out of such faults doing nothing when its ksm_test_exit() notices mm_users 0. So revert that part of "ksm: fix oom deadlock" which moved the ksm_exit() call from before exit_mmap() to the middle of exit_mmap(); and remove those ksm_test_exit() checks from the page fault paths, so allowing the munlocking to proceed without interference. ksm_exit, if there are rmap_items still chained on this mm slot, takes mmap_sem write side: so preventing KSM from working on an mm while exit_mmap runs. And KSM will bail out as soon as it notices that mm_users is already zero, thanks to its internal ksm_test_exit checks. So that when a task is killed by OOM killer or the user, KSM will not indefinitely prevent it from running exit_mmap to release its memory. This does break a part of what "ksm: fix oom deadlock" was trying to achieve. When unmerging KSM (echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm), and even when ksmd itself has to cancel a KSM page, it is possible that the first OOM-kill victim would be the KSM process being faulted: then its memory won't be freed until a second victim has been selected (freeing memory for the unmerging fault to complete). But the OOM killer is already liable to kill a second victim once the intended victim's p->mm goes to NULL: so there's not much point in rejecting this KSM patch before fixing that OOM behaviour. It is very much more important to allow KSM users to boot up, than to haggle over an unlikely and poorly supported OOM case. We also intend to fix munlocking to not fault pages: at which point this patch _could_ be reverted; though that would be controversial, so we hope to find a better solution. Signed-off-by:Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> Acked-for-now-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by:
Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by:
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
The amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks can become significant and cause OOM conditions. However, we do not display the amount of memory consumed by stacks. Add code to display the amount of memory used for stacks in /proc/meminfo. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
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- Sep 21, 2009
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Joe Perches authored
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Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by:
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Uwe Kleine-König authored
this was introduced in 5e0a0939 (tracing: fix config options to not show when automatically selected) Signed-off-by:
Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: trivial@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Anand Gadiyar authored
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Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
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Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
- provide compatibility Kconfig entry for existing PERF_COUNTERS .config's - provide courtesy copy of old perf_counter.h, for user-space projects - small indentation fixups - fix up MAINTAINERS - fix small x86 printout fallout - fix up small PowerPC comment fallout (use 'counter' as in register) Reviewed-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by:Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
In preparation to the renames, to avoid a namespace clash. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: -
Ingo Molnar authored
This is in preparation of the big rename, but also makes sense in a standalone way: 'list_entry' is a bad name as we already have a list_entry() in list.h. Also, the 'counter list' is too vague, it doesnt tell us the purpose of that list. Clarify these names to show that it's all about the group hiearchy. Acked-by:
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Peter Williams authored
By removing the need for it to know details of scheduling classes. This allows PlugSched to define orthogonal scheduling classes. Signed-off-by:
Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Acked-by:
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- Sep 20, 2009
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Yong Zhang authored
If CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled but doms_cur alloc failed in arch_init_sched_domains(), doms_cur will move back to fallback_doms. But this time, fallback_doms has not been initialized yet. Signed-off-by:
Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl LKML-Reference: <1252930816-7672-1-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
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Andrew Morton authored
runqueue_is_locked() is unavoidably racy due to a poor interface design. It does cpu = get_cpu() ret = some_perpcu_thing(cpu); put_cpu(cpu); return ret; Its return value is unreliable. Fix. Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <200909191855.n8JItiko022148@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
ERROR: "trace_profile_buf_nmi" [fs/jbd2/jbd2.ko] undefined! ERROR: "trace_profile_buf" [fs/jbd2/jbd2.ko] undefined! ERROR: "trace_profile_buf_nmi" [fs/ext4/ext4.ko] undefined! ERROR: "trace_profile_buf" [fs/ext4/ext4.ko] undefined! ERROR: "trace_profile_buf_nmi" [arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko] undefined! ERROR: "trace_profile_buf" [arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by:
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Jaswinder Singh Rajput authored
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: trace.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by:Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> LKML-Reference: <1247068617.4382.107.camel@ht.satnam>
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- Sep 19, 2009
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Alan Cox authored
In the past someone gratuitiously borrowed chunks of kernel internal vt code and dumped them in kernel/power. They have all sorts of deep relations with the vt code so put them in the vt tree instead Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Alan Cox authored
Currently kfifo cannot be used by parts of the kernel that use "const" properly as kfifo itself does not use const for passed data blocks which are indeed const. Signed-off-by:
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Ian Schram authored
There is still some weird code in per_copy_attr(). Which supposedly checks that all bytes trailing a struct are zero. It doesn't seem to get pointer arithmetic right. Since it increments an iterating pointer by sizeof(unsigned long) rather than 1. Signed-off-by:
Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be> [ v2: clean up the messy PTR_ALIGN logic as well. ] Signed-off-by:
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Li Zefan authored
Simplify s_next() and t_next(). Acked-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4AB32389.1030005@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Li Zefan authored
Limit the length of a tracer's name within 100 chars, and then we don't have to play with max_tracer_type_len. Acked-by:
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Li Zefan authored
No need to store ftrace_graph_funcs in file->private. Acked-by:
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Mike Galbraith authored
While doing some testing, I pinned mplayer, only to find it following X around like a puppy. Looking at commit c88d5910, I found a cpu_allowed check that went AWOL. I plugged it back in where it looks like it needs to go, and now when I say "sit, stay!", mplayer obeys again. 'c88d5910 sched: Merge select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self()' accidentally dropped the check, causing wake_affine() to pull pinned tasks - put it back. [ v2: use a cheaper version from Peter ] Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer, so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be tracked via "perf". This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer; its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart. Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
perf timechart needs to know when a process forked, in order to be able to visualize properly when tasks start. This patch adds a time field to the event structure, and fills it in appropriately. Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Fix a number of whitespace ^Ierrors in the include/linux/rcu* and the kernel/rcu* files. Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu LKML-Reference: <20090918172819.GA24405@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ did more checkpatch fixlets ] Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Commit de078d87 ("rcu: Need to update rnp->gpnum if preemptable RCU is to be reliable") repeatedly and incorrectly initializes the root rcu_node structure's ->gpnum field rather than initializing the ->gpnum field of each node in the tree. Fix this. Also add an additional consistency check to catch this in the future. Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
o Drop the calls to cpu_quiet() from the online/offline code. These are unnecessary, since force_quiescent_state() will clean up, and removing them simplifies the code a bit. o Add a warning to check that we don't enqueue the same blocked task twice onto the ->blocked_tasks[] lists. o Rework the phase computation in rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() to be more readable, as suggested by Josh Triplett. o Disable irqs to close a race between the scheduling clock interrupt and rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() WRT the ->rcu_read_unlock_special field. o Add comments to rnp->lock acquisition and release within rcu_read_unlock_special() noting that irqs are already disabled. Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
o Verify that qsmask bits stay clear through GP initialization. o Verify that cpu_quiet_msk_finish() is never invoked unless there actually is an RCU grace period in progress. o Verify that all internal-node rcu_node structures have empty blocked_tasks[] lists. o Verify that child rcu_node structure's bits remain clear after acquiring parent's lock. Signed-off-by:
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- Sep 18, 2009
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event tracer we can kill off the (now orphan) support code. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by:
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