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* timers: Fix endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer()Hildner, Christian2012-10-091-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding two (or more) timers with large values for "expires" (they have to reside within tv5 in the same list) leads to endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer() in case CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is one and jiffies are crossing the value 1 << 18. The bug was introduced between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 (and survived for quite some time). This patch ensures that when cascade() is called timers within tv5 are not added endlessly to their own list again, instead they are added to the next lower tv level tv4 (as expected). Signed-off-by: Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@siemens.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/98673C87CB31274881CFFE0B65ECC87B0F5FC1963E@DEFTHW99EA4MSX.ww902.siemens.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
* Merge branch 'fortglx/3.7/time' of git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux ↵Thomas Gleixner2012-10-091-9/+0
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| * alpha: take a bunch of syscalls into osf_sys.cAl Viro2012-08-191-9/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New helper: current_thread_info(). Allows to do a bunch of odd syscalls in C. While we are at it, there had never been a reason to do osf_getpriority() in assembler. We also get "namespace"-aware (read: consistent with getuid(2), etc.) behaviour from getx?id() syscalls now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Acked-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | timer: Implement TIMER_IRQSAFETejun Heo2012-08-211-11/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Timer internals are protected with irq-safe locks but timer execution isn't, so a timer being dequeued for execution and its execution aren't atomic against IRQs. This makes it impossible to wait for its completion from IRQ handlers and difficult to shoot down a timer from IRQ handlers. This issue caused some issues for delayed_work interface. Because there's no way to reliably shoot down delayed_work->timer from IRQ handlers, __cancel_delayed_work() can't share the logic to steal the target delayed_work with cancel_delayed_work_sync(), and can only steal delayed_works which are on queued on timer. Similarly, the pending mod_delayed_work() can't be used from IRQ handlers. This patch adds a new timer flag TIMER_IRQSAFE, which makes the timer to be executed without enabling IRQ after dequeueing such that its dequeueing and execution are atomic against IRQ handlers. This makes it safe to wait for the timer's completion from IRQ handlers, for example, using del_timer_sync(). It can never be executing on the local CPU and if executing on other CPUs it won't be interrupted until done. This will enable simplifying delayed_work cancel/mod interface. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344449428-24962-5-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | timer: Clean up timer initializersTejun Heo2012-08-211-42/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Over time, timer initializers became messy with unnecessarily duplicated code which are inconsistently spread across timer.h and timer.c. This patch cleans up timer initializers. * timer.c::__init_timer() is renamed to do_init_timer(). * __TIMER_INITIALIZER() added. It takes @flags and all initializers are wrappers around it. * init_timer[_on_stack]_key() now take @flags. * __init_timer[_on_stack]() added. They take @flags and all init macros are wrappers around them. * __setup_timer[_on_stack]() added. It uses __init_timer() and takes @flags. All setup macros are wrappers around the two. Note that this patch doesn't add missing init/setup combinations - e.g. init_timer_deferrable_on_stack(). Adding missing ones is trivial. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344449428-24962-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | timer: Generalize timer->base flags handlingTejun Heo2012-08-211-8/+13
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To prepare for addition of another flag, generalize timer->base flags handling. * Rename from TBASE_*_FLAG to TIMER_* and make them LU constants. * Define and use TIMER_FLAG_MASK for flags masking so that multiple flags can be handled correctly. * Don't dereference timer->base directly even if !tbase_get_deferrable(). All two such places are already passed in @base, so use it instead. * Make sure tvec_base's alignment is large enough for timer->base flags using BUILD_BUG_ON(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344449428-24962-2-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* timers: Improve get_next_timer_interrupt()Thomas Gleixner2012-06-061-5/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Gilad reported at http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336056962-10465-2-git-send-email-gilad@benyossef.com "Current timer code fails to correctly return a value meaning that there is no future timer event, with the result that the timer keeps getting re-armed in HZ one shot mode even when we could turn it off, generating unneeded interrupts. What is happening is that when __next_timer_interrupt() wishes to return a value that signifies "there is no future timer event", it returns (base->timer_jiffies + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA). However, the code in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(), which called __next_timer_interrupt() via get_next_timer_interrupt(), compares the return value to (last_jiffies + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA) to see if the timer needs to be re-armed. base->timer_jiffies != last_jiffies and so tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() interperts the return value as indication that there is a distant future event 12 days from now and programs the timer to fire next after KTIME_MAX nsecs instead of avoiding to arm it. This ends up causing a needless interrupt once every KTIME_MAX nsecs." Fix this by using the new active timer accounting. This avoids scans when no active timer is enqueued completely, so we don't have to rely on base->timer_next and base->timer_jiffies anymore. Reported-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.317535385@linutronix.de
* timers: Add accounting of non deferrable timersThomas Gleixner2012-06-061-8/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code in get_next_timer_interrupt() is suboptimal as it has to run through the cascade to find the next expiring timer. On a completely idle core we should only do that when there is an active timer enqueued and base->next_timer does not give us a fast answer. Add accounting of the active timers to the now consolidated attach/detach code. I deliberately avoided sanity checks because the code is fully symetric and any fiddling with timers w/o using the API functions will lead to cute explosions anyway. ulong is big enough even on 32bit and if we really run into the situation to have more than 1<<32 timers enqueued there, then we are definitely not in a state to go idle and run through that code. This allows us to fix another shortcoming of get_next_timer_interrupt(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.236377028@linutronix.de
* timers: Consolidate base->next_timer updateThomas Gleixner2012-06-061-11/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Another bunch of mindlessly copied code. All callers of internal_add_timer() except the recascading code updates base->next_timer. Move this into internal_add_timer() and let the cascading code call __internal_add_timer(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.189946224@linutronix.de
* timers: Create detach_if_pending() and use itThomas Gleixner2012-06-061-33/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most callers of detach_timer() have the same pattern around them. Check whether the timer is pending and eventually updating base->next_timer. Create detach_if_pending() and replace the duplicated code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.131246037@linutronix.de
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-05-231-4/+4
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull user namespace enhancements from Eric Biederman: "This is a course correction for the user namespace, so that we can reach an inexpensive, maintainable, and reasonably complete implementation. Highlights: - Config guards make it impossible to enable the user namespace and code that has not been converted to be user namespace safe. - Use of the new kuid_t type ensures the if you somehow get past the config guards the kernel will encounter type errors if you enable user namespaces and attempt to compile in code whose permission checks have not been updated to be user namespace safe. - All uids from child user namespaces are mapped into the initial user namespace before they are processed. Removing the need to add an additional check to see if the user namespace of the compared uids remains the same. - With the user namespaces compiled out the performance is as good or better than it is today. - For most operations absolutely nothing changes performance or operationally with the user namespace enabled. - The worst case performance I could come up with was timing 1 billion cache cold stat operations with the user namespace code enabled. This went from 156s to 164s on my laptop (or 156ns to 164ns per stat operation). - (uid_t)-1 and (gid_t)-1 are reserved as an internal error value. Most uid/gid setting system calls treat these value specially anyway so attempting to use -1 as a uid would likely cause entertaining failures in userspace. - If setuid is called with a uid that can not be mapped setuid fails. I have looked at sendmail, login, ssh and every other program I could think of that would call setuid and they all check for and handle the case where setuid fails. - If stat or a similar system call is called from a context in which we can not map a uid we lie and return overflowuid. The LFS experience suggests not lying and returning an error code might be better, but the historical precedent with uids is different and I can not think of anything that would break by lying about a uid we can't map. - Capabilities are localized to the current user namespace making it safe to give the initial user in a user namespace all capabilities. My git tree covers all of the modifications needed to convert the core kernel and enough changes to make a system bootable to runlevel 1." Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby independent changes in fs/stat.c * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits) userns: Silence silly gcc warning. cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids. userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate. userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe userns: signal remove unnecessary map_cred_ns userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces. userns: Fail exec for suid and sgid binaries with ids outside our user namespace. userns: Convert stat to return values mapped from kuids and kgids userns: Convert user specfied uids and gids in chown into kuids and kgid userns: Use uid_eq gid_eq helpers when comparing kuids and kgids in the vfs ...
| * userns: Convert setting and getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and ↵Eric W. Biederman2012-05-031-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kgid Convert setregid, setgid, setreuid, setuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setfsuid, setfsgid, getuid, geteuid, getgid, getegid, waitpid, waitid, wait4. Convert userspace uids and gids into kuids and kgids before being placed on struct cred. Convert struct cred kuids and kgids into userspace uids and gids when returning them. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds2012-05-221-1/+3
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "Nothing exciting. Most are updates to debug stuff and related fixes. Two not-too-critical bugs are fixed - WARN_ON() triggering spurious during cpu offlining and unlikely lockdep related oops." * 'for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueue workqueue: skip nr_running sanity check in worker_enter_idle() if trustee is active workqueue: Catch more locking problems with flush_work() workqueue: change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON() trace: Remove unused workqueue tracer
| * | lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueuePeter Zijlstra2012-05-151-1/+3
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Under memory load, on x86_64, with lockdep enabled, the workqueue's process_one_work() has been seen to oops in __lock_acquire(), barfing on a 0xffffffff00000000 pointer in the lockdep_map's class_cache[]. Because it's permissible to free a work_struct from its callout function, the map used is an onstack copy of the map given in the work_struct: and that copy is made without any locking. Surprisingly, gcc (4.5.1 in Hugh's case) uses "rep movsl" rather than "rep movsq" for that structure copy: which might race with a workqueue user's wait_on_work() doing lock_map_acquire() on the source of the copy, putting a pointer into the class_cache[], but only in time for the top half of that pointer to be copied to the destination map. Boom when process_one_work() subsequently does lock_map_acquire() on its onstack copy of the lockdep_map. Fix this, and a similar instance in call_timer_fn(), with a lockdep_copy_map() function which additionally NULLs the class_cache[]. Note: this oops was actually seen on 3.4-next, where flush_work() newly does the racing lock_map_acquire(); but Tejun points out that 3.4 and earlier are already vulnerable to the same through wait_on_work(). * Patch orginally from Peter. Hugh modified it a bit and wrote the description. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1205070951170.1544@eggly.anvils> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* | timer: Fix mod_timer_pinned() header commentPaul E. McKenney2012-04-261-1/+7
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | The mod_timer_pinned() header comment states that it prevents timers from being migrated to a different CPU. This is not the case, instead, it ensures that the timer is posted to the current CPU, but does nothing to prevent CPU-hotplug operations from migrating the timer. This commit therefore brings the comment header into alignment with reality. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Merge branch 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-01-061-6/+56
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timer: Use debugobjects to catch deletion of uninitialized timers timer: Setup uninitialized timer with a stub callback debugobjects: Extend to assert that an object is initialized debugobjects: Be smarter about static objects
| * timer: Use debugobjects to catch deletion of uninitialized timersChristine Chan2011-11-231-5/+48
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | del_timer_sync() calls debug_object_assert_init() to assert that a timer has been initialized before calling lock_timer_base(). lock_timer_base() would spin forever on a NULL(uninit-ed) base. The check is added to del_timer() to prevent silent failure, even though it would not get stuck in an infinite loop. [ sboyd@codeaurora.org: Remove WARN, intialize timer function] Signed-off-by: Christine Chan <cschan@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320724108-20788-4-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * timer: Setup uninitialized timer with a stub callbackStephen Boyd2011-11-231-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the WARN_ON() in timer_fixup_activate() as we now get the debugobjects printout in the debugobjects activate check. We also assign a dummy timer callback so that if the timer is actually set to fire we don't oops. [ tglx@linutronix.de: Split out the debugobjects vs. the timer change ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Christine Chan <cschan@codeaurora.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320724108-20788-2-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | sys_getppid: add missing rcu_dereferenceMandeep Singh Baines2011-12-091-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to safely dereference current->real_parent inside an rcu_read_lock, we need an rcu_dereference. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.hPaul Gortmaker2011-10-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them onto the isolated export header for faster compile times. Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of: -#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/export.h> This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* timers: Consider slack value in mod_timer()Sebastian Andrzej Siewior2011-06-031-8/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is an optimization which does not update the timer if the timer was pending and the expiration time was unchanged. Since commit 3bbb9ec9 ("timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers") this optimization is no longer applied for timers where the expiration time got extended due to the slack value. So we need to check again after the expiration time might have been updated. [ tglx: Made it a single check by applying slack first and sorting out the slack = 0 value (all timeouts < 256 jiffies) early ] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110521105828.GA29442@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-151-13/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits) posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer() hrtimer: Update hrtimer->state documentation hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update() posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks posix-timers: Cleanup namespace posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86 posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning. time: Splitout compat timex accessors ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset posix-timer: Update comment ... Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S (name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in: kernel/time.c
| * time: Move do_timer() to kernel/time/timekeeping.cTorben Hohn2011-01-311-13/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | do_timer() is primary timekeeping related. calc_global_load() is called from do_timer() as well, but that's more for historical reasons. [ tglx: Fixed up the calc_global_load() reject andmassaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com Cc: hch@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <20110127145855.23248.56933.stgit@localhost> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-151-0/+23
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: rtmutex: tester: Remove the remaining BKL leftovers lockdep/timers: Explain in detail the locking problems del_timer_sync() may cause rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock rwsem: Remove redundant asmregparm annotation rwsem: Move duplicate function prototypes to linux/rwsem.h rwsem: Unify the duplicate rwsem_is_locked() inlines rwsem: Move duplicate init macros and functions to linux/rwsem.h rwsem: Move duplicate struct rwsem declaration to linux/rwsem.h x86: Cleanup rwsem_count_t typedef rwsem: Cleanup includes locking: Remove deprecated lock initializers cred: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization kthread: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization xtensa: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization um: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization sparc: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization mips: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization cris: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization alpha: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization rtmutex-tester: Remove BKL tests
| * | lockdep/timers: Explain in detail the locking problems del_timer_sync() may ↵Steven Rostedt2011-02-161-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cause Twice I had to explain the output about why lockdep gives an error with locks in IRQ context and with del_timer_sync(). Might as well write it up and place it in the comments above the code in del_timer_sync(). Perhaps the next time this lockdep dump triggers people will understand the issues. It is a ticky issue and very subtle, explaining it in detail in the code may help others understand the issue when they stumble upon the bug again. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1297186794.23343.19.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | debugobjects: Add hint for better object identificationStanislaw Gruszka2011-03-081-0/+6
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In complex subsystems like mac80211 structures can contain several timers and work structs, so identifying a specific instance from the call trace and object type output of debugobjects can be hard. Allow the subsystems which support debugobjects to provide a hint function. This function returns a pointer to a kernel address (preferrably the objects callback function) which is printed along with the debugobjects type. Add hint methods for timer_list, work_struct and hrtimer. [ tglx: Massaged changelog, made it compile ] Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation"Peter Zijlstra2011-02-081-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both attempts at trying to allow softirq usage for del_timer_sync() failed (produced bogus warnings), so revert the commit for this release: f266a5110d45: lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation and try again later. Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1297174680.13327.107.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotationPeter Zijlstra2011-02-041-1/+5
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Calling local_bh_enable() will want to actually start processing softirqs, which isn't a good idea since this can get called with IRQs disabled. Cure this by using _local_bh_enable() which doesn't start processing softirqs, and use raw_local_irq_save() to avoid any softirqs from happening without letting lockdep think IRQs are in fact disabled. Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20110203141548.039540914@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-061-36/+14
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: MAINTAINERS: Update timer related entries timers: Use this_cpu_read timerqueue: Make timerqueue_getnext() static inline hrtimer: fix timerqueue conversion flub hrtimers: Convert hrtimers to use timerlist infrastructure timers: Fixup allmodconfig build issue timers: Rename timerlist infrastructure to timerqueue timers: Introduce timerlist infrastructure. hrtimer: Remove stale comment on curr_timer timer: Warn when del_timer_sync() is called in hardirq context timer: Del_timer_sync() can be used in softirq context timer: Make try_to_del_timer_sync() the same on SMP and UP posix-timers: Annotate lock_timer() timer: Permit statically-declared work with deferrable timers time: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro in timecompare.c timer: Initialize the field slack of timer_list timer_list: Remove alignment padding on 64 bit when CONFIG_TIMER_STATS time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources Fix up trivial conflict in MAINTAINERS
| * timers: Use this_cpu_readChristoph Lameter2010-12-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eric asked for this. [tglx: Because it generates faster code according to Erics ] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1011301404490.4039@router.home> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * timer: Warn when del_timer_sync() is called in hardirq contextYong Zhang2010-10-221-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add explict warning when del_timer_sync() is called in hardirq context. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * timer: Del_timer_sync() can be used in softirq contextYong Zhang2010-10-221-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Actually we have used del_timer_sync() in softirq context for a long time, e.g. in __dst_free()::cancel_delayed_work(). So change the comments of it to warn on hardirq context only, and make lockdep know about this change. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * timer: Make try_to_del_timer_sync() the same on SMP and UPYong Zhang2010-10-221-14/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On UP try_to_del_timer_sync() is mapped to del_timer() which does not take the running timer callback into account, so it has different semantics. Remove the SMP dependency of try_to_del_timer_sync() by using base->running_timer in the UP case as well. [ tglx: Removed set_running_timer() inline and tweaked the changelog ] Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * timer: Permit statically-declared work with deferrable timersPhil Carmody2010-10-211-14/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, you have to just define a delayed_work uninitialised, and then initialise it before first use. That's a tad clumsy. At risk of playing mind-games with the compiler, fooling it into doing pointer arithmetic with compile-time-constants, this lets clients properly initialise delayed work with deferrable timers statically. This patch was inspired by the issues which lead Artem Bityutskiy to commit 8eab945c5616fc984 ("sunrpc: make the cache cleaner workqueue deferrable"). Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | nohz: Fix get_next_timer_interrupt() vs cpu hotplugHeiko Carstens2010-12-081-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a bug as seen on 2.6.32 based kernels where timers got enqueued on offline cpus. If a cpu goes offline it might still have pending timers. These will be migrated during CPU_DEAD handling after the cpu is offline. However while the cpu is going offline it will schedule the idle task which will then call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(). That function in turn will call get_next_timer_intterupt() to figure out if the tick of the cpu can be stopped or not. If it turns out that the next tick is just one jiffy off (delta_jiffies == 1) tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() incorrectly assumes that the tick should not stop and takes an early exit and thus it won't update the load balancer cpu. Just afterwards the cpu will be killed and the load balancer cpu could be the offline cpu. On 2.6.32 based kernel get_nohz_load_balancer() gets called to decide on which cpu a timer should be enqueued (see __mod_timer()). Which leads to the possibility that timers get enqueued on an offline cpu. These will never expire and can cause a system hang. This has been observed 2.6.32 kernels. On current kernels __mod_timer() uses get_nohz_timer_target() which doesn't have that problem. However there might be other problems because of the too early exit tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() in case a cpu goes offline. The easiest and probably safest fix seems to be to let get_next_timer_interrupt() just lie and let it say there isn't any pending timer if the current cpu is offline. I also thought of moving migrate_[hr]timers() from CPU_DEAD to CPU_DYING, but seeing that there already have been fixes at least in the hrtimer code in this area I'm afraid that this could add new subtle bugs. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101201091109.GA8984@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | sched: Cure more NO_HZ load average woesPeter Zijlstra2010-12-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a long-running regression that proved difficult to fix and which is hitting certain people and is rather annoying in its effects. Damien reported that after 74f5187ac8 (sched: Cure load average vs NO_HZ woes) his load average is unnaturally high, he also noted that even with that patch reverted the load avgerage numbers are not correct. The problem is that the previous patch only solved half the NO_HZ problem, it addressed the part of going into NO_HZ mode, not of comming out of NO_HZ mode. This patch implements that missing half. When comming out of NO_HZ mode there are two important things to take care of: - Folding the pending idle delta into the global active count. - Correctly aging the averages for the idle-duration. So with this patch the NO_HZ interaction should be complete and behaviour between CONFIG_NO_HZ=[yn] should be equivalent. Furthermore, this patch slightly changes the load average computation by adding a rounding term to the fixed point multiplication. Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> Reported-by: Tim McGrath <tmhikaru@gmail.com> Tested-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> Tested-by: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com> Tested-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> LKML-Reference: <1291129145.32004.874.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacksPeter Zijlstra2010-10-181-2/+5
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers. Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also benefit. The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately. Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in processing the work. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [ various fixes ] Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* kernel/timer.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warningRandy Dunlap2010-08-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc warning, add @timer description: Warning(kernel/timer.c:335): No description found for parameter 'timer' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-061-2/+29
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt timer: Added usleep_range timer Revert "timer: Added usleep[_range] timer" clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew posix_timer: Move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create() timer: Added usleep[_range] timer timers: Document meaning of deferrable timer
| * timer: Added usleep_range timerPatrick Pannuto2010-08-041-0/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | usleep_range is a finer precision implementations of msleep and is designed to be a drop-in replacement for udelay where a precise sleep / busy-wait is unnecessary. Since an easy interface to hrtimers could lead to an undesired proliferation of interrupts, we provide only a "range" API, forcing the caller to think about an acceptable tolerance on both ends and hopefully avoiding introducing another interrupt. INTRO As discussed here ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/3/250 ), msleep(1) is not precise enough for many drivers (yes, sleep precision is an unfair notion, but consistently sleeping for ~an order of magnitude greater than requested is worth fixing). This patch adds a usleep API so that udelay does not have to be used. Obviously not every udelay can be replaced (those in atomic contexts or being used for simple bitbanging come to mind), but there are many, many examples of mydriver_write(...) /* Wait for hardware to latch */ udelay(100) in various drivers where a busy-wait loop is neither beneficial nor necessary, but msleep simply does not provide enough precision and people are using a busy-wait loop instead. CONCERNS FROM THE RFC Why is udelay a problem / necessary? Most callers of udelay are in device/ driver initialization code, which is serial... As I see it, there is only benefit to sleeping over a delay; the notion of "refactoring" areas that use udelay was presented, but I see usleep as the refactoring. Consider i2c, if the bus is busy, you need to wait a bit (say 100us) before trying again, your current options are: * udelay(100) * msleep(1) <-- As noted above, actually as high as ~20ms on some platforms, so not really an option * Manually set up an hrtimer to try again in 100us (which is what usleep does anyway...) People choose the udelay route because it is EASY; we need to provide a better easy route. Device / driver / boot code is *currently* serial, but every few months someone makes noise about parallelizing boot, and IMHO, a little forward-thinking now is one less thing to worry about if/when that ever happens udelay's could be preempted Sure, but if udelay plans on looping 1000 times, and it gets preempted on loop 200, whenever it's scheduled again, it is going to do the next 800 loops. Is the interruptible case needed? Probably not, but I see usleep as a very logical parallel to msleep, so it made sense to include the "full" API. Processors are getting faster (albeit not as quickly as they are becoming more parallel), so if someone wanted to be interruptible for a few usecs, why not let them? If this is a contentious point, I'm happy to remove it. OTHER THOUGHTS I believe there is also value in exposing the usleep_range option; it gives the scheduler a lot more flexibility and allows the programmer to express his intent much more clearly; it's something I would hope future driver writers will take advantage of. To get the results in the NUMBERS section below, I literally s/udelay/usleep the kernel tree; I had to go in and undo the changes to the USB drivers, but everything else booted successfully; I find that extremely telling in and of itself -- many people are using a delay API where a sleep will suit them just fine. SOME ATTEMPTS AT NUMBERS It turns out that calculating quantifiable benefit on this is challenging, so instead I will simply present the current state of things, and I hope this to be sufficient: How many udelay calls are there in 2.6.35-rc5? udealy(ARG) >= | COUNT 1000 | 319 500 | 414 100 | 1146 20 | 1832 I am working on Android, so that is my focus for this. The following table is a modified usleep that simply printk's the amount of time requested to sleep; these tests were run on a kernel with udelay >= 20 --> usleep "boot" is power-on to lock screen "power collapse" is when the power button is pushed and the device suspends "resume" is when the power button is pushed and the lock screen is displayed (no touchscreen events or anything, just turning on the display) "use device" is from the unlock swipe to clicking around a bit; there is no sd card in this phone, so fail loading music, video, camera ACTION | TOTAL NUMBER OF USLEEP CALLS | NET TIME (us) boot | 22 | 1250 power-collapse | 9 | 1200 resume | 5 | 500 use device | 59 | 7700 The most interesting category to me is the "use device" field; 7700us of busy-wait time that could be put towards better responsiveness, or at the least less power usage. Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org> Cc: apw@canonical.com Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * Revert "timer: Added usleep[_range] timer"Thomas Gleixner2010-08-041-22/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 22b8f15c2f7130bb0386f548428df2ffd4e81903 to merge an advanced version. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * timer: Added usleep[_range] timerPatrick Pannuto2010-07-231-0/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | usleep[_range] are finer precision implementations of msleep and are designed to be drop-in replacements for udelay where a precise sleep / busy-wait is unnecessary. They also allow an easy interface to specify slack when a precise (ish) wakeup is unnecessary to help minimize wakeups Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org> Cc: akinobu.mita@gmail.com Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <4C44CDD2.1070708@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * timers: Document meaning of deferrable timerJ. Bruce Fields2010-07-231-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Steal some text from 6e453a67510 "Add support for deferrable timers". A reader shouldn't have to dig through the git logs for the basic description of a deferrable timer. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-061-6/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: (27 commits) sched: Use correct macro to display sched_child_runs_first in /proc/sched_debug sched: No need for bootmem special cases sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now sched: Reduce update_group_power() calls sched: Update rq->clock for nohz balanced cpus sched: Fix spelling of sibling sched, cpuset: Drop __cpuexit from cpu hotplug callbacks sched: Fix the racy usage of thread_group_cputimer() in fastpath_timer_check() sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand() sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" check sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacks sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check sched: __sched_setscheduler: Read the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value lockless sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happy sched: Fix fix_small_capacity powerpc: Exclude arch_sd_sibiling_asym_packing() on UP powerpc: Enable asymmetric SMT scheduling on POWER7 sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain sched: Fix capacity calculations for SMT4 sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model ...
| * | sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push modelVenkatesh Pallipadi2010-06-091-6/+2
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the new push model, all idle CPUs indeed go into nohz mode. There is still the concept of idle load balancer (performing the load balancing on behalf of all the idle cpu's in the system). Busy CPU kicks the nohz balancer when any of the nohz CPUs need idle load balancing. The kickee CPU does the idle load balancing on behalf of all idle CPUs instead of the normal idle balance. This addresses the below two problems with the current nohz ilb logic: * the idle load balancer continued to have periodic ticks during idle and wokeup frequently, even though it did not have any rebalancing to do on behalf of any of the idle CPUs. * On x86 and CPUs that have APIC timer stoppage on idle CPUs, this periodic wakeup can result in a periodic additional interrupt on a CPU doing the timer broadcast. Also currently we are migrating the unpinned timers from an idle to the cpu doing idle load balancing (when all the cpus in the system are idle, there is no idle load balancing cpu and timers get added to the same idle cpu where the request was made. So the existing optimization works only on semi idle system). And In semi idle system, we no longer have periodic ticks on the idle load balancer CPU. Using that cpu will add more delays to the timers than intended (as that cpu's timer base may not be uptodate wrt jiffies etc). This was causing mysterious slowdowns during boot etc. For now, in the semi idle case, use the nearest busy cpu for migrating timers from an idle cpu. This is good for power-savings anyway. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1274486981.2840.46.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-061-1/+0
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits) tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex perf: expose event__process function perf events: Fix mmap offset determination perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events perf: New migration tool overview tracing: Drop cpparg() macro perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call ... Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
| * \ Merge branch 'perf/nmi' into perf/coreIngo Molnar2010-08-051-1/+0
| |\ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: kernel/Makefile Merge reason: Add the now complete topic, fix the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * lockup_detector: Touch_softlockup cleanups and softlockup_tick removalDon Zickus2010-05-121-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Just some code cleanup to make touch_softlockup clearer and remove the softlockup_tick function as it is no longer needed. Also remove the /proc softlockup_thres call as it has been changed to watchdog_thres. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* | | timer: add on-stack deferrable timer interfacesJesse Barnes2010-08-031-0/+13
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In some cases (for instance with kernel threads) it may be desireable to use on-stack deferrable timers to get their power saving benefits. Add interfaces to support this for the IPS driver. Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
* | kernel/: fix BUG_ON checks for cpu notifier callbacks direct callAkinobu Mita2010-06-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The commit 80b5184cc537718122e036afe7e62d202b70d077 ("kernel/: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value") changed the return value of cpu notifier callbacks. Those callbacks don't return NOTIFY_BAD on failures anymore. But there are a few callbacks which are called directly at init time and checking the return value. I forgot to change BUG_ON checking by the direct callers in the commit. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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