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Linus Torvalds
6de71484cf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6: (98 commits)
  sparc: move select of ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI
  sparc: drop SUN_IO
  sparc: unify sections.h
  sparc: use .data.init_task section for init_thread_union
  sparc: fix array overrun check in of_device_64.c
  sparc: unify module.c
  sparc64: prepare module_64.c for unification
  sparc64: use bit neutral Elf symbols
  sparc: unify module.h
  sparc: introduce CONFIG_BITS
  sparc: fix hardirq.h removal fallout
  sparc64: do not export pus_fs_struct
  sparc: use sparc64 version of scatterlist.h
  sparc: Commonize memcmp assembler.
  sparc: Unify strlen assembler.
  sparc: Add asm/asm.h
  sparc: Kill memcmp_32.S code which has been ifdef'd out for centuries.
  sparc: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu
  sparc: fix sparse warnings in irq_32.c
  sparc: add include guards to kernel.h
  ...
2008-12-30 17:23:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1dff81f20c Merge branch 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
  bio: get rid of bio_vec clearing
  bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list
  cciss: simplify parameters to deregister_disk function
  cfq-iosched: fix race between exiting queue and exiting task
  loop: Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device.
  loop: Flush possible running bios when loop device is released.
  alpha: remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY
  Get rid of CONFIG_LSF
  block: make blk_softirq_init() static
  block: use min_not_zero in blk_queue_stack_limits
  block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup
  cfq-iosched: remove limit of dispatch depth of max 4 times quantum
  nbd: tell the block layer that it is not a rotational device
  block: get rid of elevator_t typedef
  aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless
  bio: add support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio
  bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_set
  bio: move the slab pointer inside the bio_set
  bio: only mempool back the largest bio_vec slab cache
  block: don't use plugging on SSD devices
  ...
2008-12-30 17:20:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
179475a3b4 Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, sparseirq: clean up Kconfig entry
  x86: turn CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ off by default
  sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and comments
  sparseirq: add kernel-doc notation for new member in irq_desc, -v2
  locking, irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class in CONFIG_LOCKDEP
  sparseirq, xen: make sure irq_desc is allocated for interrupts
  sparseirq: fix !SMP building, #2
  x86, sparseirq: move irq_desc according to smp_affinity, v7
  proc: enclose desc variable of show_stat() in CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
  sparse irqs: add irqnr.h to the user headers list
  sparse irqs: handle !GENIRQ platforms
  sparseirq: fix !SMP && !PCI_MSI && !HT_IRQ build
  sparseirq: fix Alpha build failure
  sparseirq: fix typo in !CONFIG_IO_APIC case
  x86, MSI: pass irq_cfg and irq_desc
  x86: MSI start irq numbering from nr_irqs_gsi
  x86: use NR_IRQS_LEGACY
  sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes
  genirq: record IRQ_LEVEL in irq_desc[]
  irq.h: remove padding from irq_desc on 64bits
2008-12-30 16:20:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bb758e9637 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of 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:
  hrtimers: fix warning in kernel/hrtimer.c
  x86: make sure we really have an hpet mapping before using it
  x86: enable HPET on Fujitsu u9200
  linux/timex.h: cleanup for userspace
  posix-timers: simplify de_thread()->exit_itimers() path
  posix-timers: check ->it_signal instead of ->it_pid to validate the timer
  posix-timers: use "struct pid*" instead of "struct task_struct*"
  nohz: suppress needless timer reprogramming
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: put acpi_pm_read_slow() under CONFIG_PCI
  nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus
  hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix
  hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix hotplug
  hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes
  x86: correct link to HPET timer specification
  rtc-cmos: export second NVRAM bank

Fixed up conflicts in sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c and sound/core/hrtimer.c
manually.
2008-12-30 16:16:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
5f34fe1cfc Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits)
  stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias
  rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too
  printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug
  futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling
  "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
  futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics
  x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping
  x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion
  x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit
  x86: add swiotlb allocation functions
  swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing
  swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages
  swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device
  swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping
  swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions
  swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit
  rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot
  resources: skip sanity check of busy resources
  swiotlb: move some definitions to header
  swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
  arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
  include/linux/hardirq.h
as per Ingo's suggestions.
2008-12-30 16:10:19 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
3fd4bc015e tracing/kmemtrace: export kmemtrace_mark_alloc_node() / kmemtrace_mark_free()
Impact: build fix

Also fix up Kconfig dependencies and include files.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30 16:06:00 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
36994e58a4 tracing/kmemtrace: normalize the raw tracer event to the unified tracing API
Impact: new tracer plugin

This patch adapts kmemtrace raw events tracing to the unified tracing API.

To enable and use this tracer, just do the following:

 echo kmemtrace > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer
 cat /debugfs/tracing/trace

You will have the following output:

 # tracer: kmemtrace
 #
 #
 # ALLOC  TYPE  REQ   GIVEN  FLAGS           POINTER         NODE    CALLER
 # FREE   |      |     |       |              |   |            |        |
 # |

type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565527833 ptr 18446612134395152256
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345164672 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345164912 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345165152 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071566144042 ptr 18446612134346191680 bytes_req 1304 bytes_alloc 1312 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584

That was to stay backward compatible with the format output produced in
inux/tracepoint.h.

This is the default ouput, but note that I tried something else.

If you change an option:

echo kmem_minimalistic > /debugfs/trace_options

and then cat /debugfs/trace, you will have the following output:

 # tracer: kmemtrace
 #
 #
 # ALLOC  TYPE  REQ   GIVEN  FLAGS           POINTER         NODE    CALLER
 # FREE   |      |     |       |              |   |            |        |
 # |

   -      C                            0xffff88007c088780          file_free_rcu
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dc780     -1   d_alloc
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dc870     -1   d_alloc
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dc960     -1   d_alloc
   +      K   1304   1312   000000d0   0xffff8800791d7340     -1   reiserfs_alloc_inode
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K    992   1000   000000d0   0xffff880079045b58     -1   alloc_inode
   +      K    768   1024   000080d0   0xffff88007c096400     -1   alloc_pipe_info
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dca50     -1   d_alloc
   +      K    272    320   000080d0   0xffff88007c088780     -1   get_empty_filp
   +      K    272    320   000080d0   0xffff88007c088000     -1   get_empty_filp

Yeah I shall confess kmem_minimalistic should be: kmem_alternative.

Whatever, I find it more readable but this a personal opinion of course.
We can drop it if you want.

On the ALLOC/FREE column, + means an allocation and - a free.

On the type column, you have K = kmalloc, C = cache, P = page

I would like the flags to be GFP_* strings but that would not be easy to not
break the column with strings....

About the node...it seems to always be -1. I don't know why but that shouldn't
be difficult to find.

I moved linux/tracepoint.h to trace/tracepoint.h as well. I think that would
be more easy to find the tracer headers if they are all in their common
directory.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30 09:36:13 +01:00
Sebastien Dugue
5762ba1873 hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpus
Impact: fix CPU hotplug hang on Power6 testbox

On architectures that support offlining all cpus (at least powerpc/pseries),
hot-unpluging the tick_do_timer_cpu can result in a system hang.

This comes from the fact that if the cpu going down happens to be the
cpu doing the tick, then as the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happens after the
cpu is dead (via the CPU_DEAD notification), we're left without ticks,
jiffies are frozen and any task relying on timers (msleep, ...) is stuck.
That's particularly the case for the cpu looping in __cpu_die() waiting
for the dying cpu to be dead.

This patch addresses this by having the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happen
earlier during the CPU_DYING notification. For this, a new clockevent
notification type is introduced (CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_CPU_DYING) which is triggered
in hrtimer_cpu_notify().

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30 07:37:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
7a51cffbd1 relayfs: replace BUG() with WARN_ON() in relay_late_setup_files()
Impact: turn boot crash into boot warning

This BUG() can trigger:

[   16.684131] initcall fail_page_alloc_debugfs+0x0/0xc1 returned 0 after 0 usecs
[   16.692035] calling  kmemtrace_setup_late+0x0/0xd5 @ 1
[   16.700087] relay_late_setup_files: CPU 1 has no buffer, it must have!
[   16.704044] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   16.708030] kernel BUG at kernel/relay.c:680!
[   16.708030] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[   16.708030] last sysfs file:
[   16.708030]
[   16.708030] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.28-tip-03903-g9a39f58-dirty #13207) System Product Name
[   16.708030] EIP: 0060:[<c01604ae>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 1
[   16.708030] EIP is at relay_late_setup_files+0x8c/0x176

Reduce it to a more reportable WARN_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30 06:57:11 +01:00
Darren Hart
42d35d48ce futex: make futex_(get|put)_key() calls symmetric
Impact: cleanup

This patch makes the calls to futex_get_key_refs() and futex_drop_key_refs()
explicitly symmetric by only "putting" keys we successfully "got".  Also
cleanup a couple return points that didn't "put" after a successful "get".

Build and boot tested on an x86_64 system.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30 06:38:15 +01:00
Rusty Russell
ce47d974f7 cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: core
Impact: new API to reduce stack usage

We're weaning the core code off handing cpumask's around on-stack.
This introduces arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask().

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-12-30 09:05:17 +10:30
Rusty Russell
54b11e6d57 cpumask: smp_call_function_many()
Impact: Implementation change to remove cpumask_t from stack.

Actually change smp_call_function_mask() to smp_call_function_many().
We avoid cpumasks on the stack in this version.

(S390 has its own version, but that's going away apparently).

We have to do some dancing to figure out if 0 or 1 other cpus are in
the mask supplied and the online mask without allocating a tmp
cpumask.  It's still fairly cheap.

We allocate the cpumask at the end of the call_function_data
structure: if allocation fails we fallback to smp_call_function_single
rather than using the baroque quiescing code (which needs a cpumask on
stack).

(Thanks to Hiroshi Shimamoto for spotting several bugs in previous versions!)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
2008-12-30 09:05:16 +10:30
Rusty Russell
3fa4152069 cpumask: make set_cpu_*/init_cpu_* out-of-line
They're only for use in boot/cpu hotplug code anyway, and this avoids
the use of deprecated cpu_*_map.

Stephen Rothwell points out that gcc 4.2.4 (on powerpc at least)
didn't like the cast away of const anyway:

  include/linux/cpumask.h: In function 'set_cpu_possible':
  include/linux/cpumask.h:1052: warning: passing argument 2 of 'cpumask_set_cpu' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

So this kills two birds with one stone.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-12-30 09:05:16 +10:30
Rusty Russell
b3199c025d cpumask: switch over to cpu_online/possible/active/present_mask: core
Impact: cleanup

This implements the obsolescent cpu_online_map in terms of
cpu_online_mask, rather than the other way around.  Same for the other
maps.

The documentation comments are also updated to refer to _mask rather
than _map.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2008-12-30 09:05:14 +10:30
Rusty Russell
33edcf133b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-12-30 08:02:35 +10:30
Gregory Haskins
1563513d34 RT: fix push_rt_task() to handle dequeue_pushable properly
A panic was discovered by Chirag Jog where a BUG_ON sanity check
in the new "pushable_task" logic would trigger a panic under
certain circumstances:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/25/189

Gilles Carry discovered that the root cause was attributed to the
pushable_tasks list getting corrupted in the push_rt_task logic.
This was the result of a dropped rq lock in double_lock_balance
allowing a task in the process of being pushed to potentially migrate
away, and thus corrupt the pushable_tasks() list.

I traced back the problem as introduced by the pushable_tasks patch
that went in recently.   There is a "retry" path in push_rt_task()
that actually had a compound conditional to decide whether to
retry or exit.  I missed the meaning behind the rationale for the
virtual "if(!task) goto out;" portion of the compound statement and
thus did not handle it properly.  The new pushable_tasks logic
actually creates three distinct conditions:

1) an untouched and unpushable task should be dequeued
2) a migrated task where more pushable tasks remain should be retried
3) a migrated task where no more pushable tasks exist should exit

The original logic mushed (1) and (3) together, resulting in the
system dequeuing a migrated task (against an unlocked foreign run-queue
nonetheless).

To fix this, we get rid of the notion of "paranoid" and we support the
three unique conditions properly.  The paranoid feature is no longer
relevant with the new pushable logic (since pushable naturally limits
the loop) anyway, so lets just remove it.

Reported-By: Chirag Jog <chirag@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Found-by: Gilles Carry <gilles.carry@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:53 -05:00
Gregory Haskins
917b627d4d sched: create "pushable_tasks" list to limit pushing to one attempt
The RT scheduler employs a "push/pull" design to actively balance tasks
within the system (on a per disjoint cpuset basis).  When a task is
awoken, it is immediately determined if there are any lower priority
cpus which should be preempted.  This is opposed to the way normal
SCHED_OTHER tasks behave, which will wait for a periodic rebalancing
operation to occur before spreading out load.

When a particular RQ has more than 1 active RT task, it is said to
be in an "overloaded" state.  Once this occurs, the system enters
the active balancing mode, where it will try to push the task away,
or persuade a different cpu to pull it over.  The system will stay
in this state until the system falls back below the <= 1 queued RT
task per RQ.

However, the current implementation suffers from a limitation in the
push logic.  Once overloaded, all tasks (other than current) on the
RQ are analyzed on every push operation, even if it was previously
unpushable (due to affinity, etc).  Whats more, the operation stops
at the first task that is unpushable and will not look at items
lower in the queue.  This causes two problems:

1) We can have the same tasks analyzed over and over again during each
   push, which extends out the fast path in the scheduler for no
   gain.  Consider a RQ that has dozens of tasks that are bound to a
   core.  Each one of those tasks will be encountered and skipped
   for each push operation while they are queued.

2) There may be lower-priority tasks under the unpushable task that
   could have been successfully pushed, but will never be considered
   until either the unpushable task is cleared, or a pull operation
   succeeds.  The net result is a potential latency source for mid
   priority tasks.

This patch aims to rectify these two conditions by introducing a new
priority sorted list: "pushable_tasks".  A task is added to the list
each time a task is activated or preempted.  It is removed from the
list any time it is deactivated, made current, or fails to push.

This works because a task only needs to be attempted to push once.
After an initial failure to push, the other cpus will eventually try to
pull the task when the conditions are proper.  This also solves the
problem that we don't completely analyze all tasks due to encountering
an unpushable tasks.  Now every task will have a push attempted (when
appropriate).

This reduces latency both by shorting the critical section of the
rq->lock for certain workloads, and by making sure the algorithm
considers all eligible tasks in the system.

[ rostedt: added a couple more BUG_ONs ]

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:53 -05:00
Gregory Haskins
967fc04671 sched: add sched_class->needs_post_schedule() member
We currently run class->post_schedule() outside of the rq->lock, which
means that we need to test for the need to post_schedule outside of
the lock to avoid a forced reacquistion.  This is currently not a problem
as we only look at rq->rt.overloaded.  However, we want to enhance this
going forward to look at more state to reduce the need to post_schedule to
a bare minimum set.  Therefore, we introduce a new member-func called
needs_post_schedule() which tests for the post_schedule condtion without
actually performing the work.  Therefore it is safe to call this
function before the rq->lock is released, because we are guaranteed not
to drop the lock at an intermediate point (such as what post_schedule()
may do).

We will use this later in the series

[ rostedt: removed paranoid BUG_ON ]

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:52 -05:00
Gregory Haskins
8f45e2b516 sched: make double-lock-balance fair
double_lock balance() currently favors logically lower cpus since they
often do not have to release their own lock to acquire a second lock.
The result is that logically higher cpus can get starved when there is
a lot of pressure on the RQs.  This can result in higher latencies on
higher cpu-ids.

This patch makes the algorithm more fair by forcing all paths to have
to release both locks before acquiring them again.  Since callsites to
double_lock_balance already consider it a potential preemption/reschedule
point, they have the proper logic to recheck for atomicity violations.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:51 -05:00
Gregory Haskins
7e96fa5875 sched: pull only one task during NEWIDLE balancing to limit critical section
git-id c4acb2c066 attempted to limit
newidle critical section length by stopping after at least one task
was moved.  Further investigation has shown that there are other
paths nested further inside the algorithm which still remain that allow
long latencies to occur with newidle balancing.  This patch applies
the same technique inside balance_tasks() to limit the duration of
this optional balancing operation.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2008-12-29 09:39:50 -05:00
Gregory Haskins
777c2f389e sched: only try to push a task on wakeup if it is migratable
There is no sense in wasting time trying to push a task away that
cannot move anywhere else.  We gain no benefit from trying to push
other tasks at this point, so if the task being woken up is non
migratable, just skip the whole operation.  This reduces overhead
in the wakeup path for certain tasks.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:50 -05:00
Gregory Haskins
74ab8e4f64 sched: use highest_prio.next to optimize pull operations
We currently take the rq->lock for every cpu in an overload state during
pull_rt_tasks().  However, we now have enough information via the
highest_prio.[curr|next] fields to determine if there is any tasks of
interest to warrant the overhead of the rq->lock, before we actually take
it.  So we use this information to reduce lock contention during the
pull for the case where the source-rq doesnt have tasks that preempt
the current task.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:50 -05:00
Gregory Haskins
a8728944ef sched: use highest_prio.curr for pull threshold
highest_prio.curr is actually a more accurate way to keep track of
the pull_rt_task() threshold since it is always up to date, even
if the "next" task migrates during double_lock.  Therefore, stop
looking at the "next" task object and simply use the highest_prio.curr.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:49 -05:00
Gregory Haskins
e864c499d9 sched: track the next-highest priority on each runqueue
We will use this later in the series to reduce the amount of rq-lock
contention during a pull operation

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:49 -05:00
Gregory Haskins
4d9842776a sched: cleanup inc/dec_rt_tasks
Move some common definitions up to the function prologe to simplify the
body logic.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2008-12-29 09:39:49 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
a103e2ab73 tracing/selftest: remove TRACE_CONT reference
Impact: build fix

TRACE_CONT is gone - fix up the self-test too.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 15:07:47 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f7d48cbde5 tracing/ftrace: make trace_find_cmdline() generally available
Impact: build fix

On !CONFIG_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER trace_find_cmdline() is not defined:

 kernel/trace/trace_output.c: In function 'trace_ctxwake_print':
 kernel/trace/trace_output.c:499: error: implicit declaration of function 'trace_find_cmdline'
 kernel/trace/trace_output.c:499: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

Move it to the generic section in trace.h.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 13:06:24 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e302cf3f96 tracing/branch-tracer: adapt to the stat tracing API
Impact: refactor the branch tracer

This patch adapts the branch tracer to the tracing API.

This is a proof of concept because the branch tracer implements two
"stat tracing" that were split in two files.

So I added an option to the branch tracer: stat_all_branch.
If it is set, then trace_stat will output all of the branches
entries stats. Otherwise, it will print the annotated branches.

Its is a kind of quick trick, waiting for a better solution.

By default, the annotated branches stat are sorted by incorrect branch
prediction percentage.

Ie:

 correct incorrect  %        Function                  File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
       0        1 100 native_smp_prepare_cpus        smpboot.c            1228
       0        1 100 hpet_rtc_timer_reinit          hpet.c               1057
       0    18032 100 sched_info_queued              sched_stats.h        223
       0      684 100 yield_task_fair                sched_fair.c         984
       0      282 100 pre_schedule_rt                sched_rt.c           1263
       0    13414 100 sched_info_dequeued            sched_stats.h        178
       0    21724 100 sched_info_switch              sched_stats.h        270
       0        1 100 get_signal_to_deliver          signal.c             1820
       0        8 100 __cancel_work_timer            workqueue.c          560
       0      212 100 verify_export_symbols          module.c             1509
       0       17 100 __rmqueue_fallback             page_alloc.c         793
       0       43 100 clear_page_mlock               internal.h           129
       0      124 100 try_to_unmap_anon              rmap.c               1021
       0       53 100 try_to_unmap_anon              rmap.c               1013
       0        6 100 vma_address                    rmap.c               232
       0     3301 100 try_to_unmap_file              rmap.c               1082
       0      466 100 try_to_unmap_file              rmap.c               1077
       0        1 100 mem_cgroup_create              memcontrol.c         1090
       0        3 100 inotify_find_update_watch      inotify.c            726
       2    30163  99 perf_counter_task_sched_out    perf_counter.c       385
       1     2935  99 percpu_free                    allocpercpu.c        138
    1544   297672  99 dentry_lru_del_init            dcache.c             153
       8     1074  99 input_pass_event               input.c              86
    1390    76781  98 mapping_unevictable            pagemap.h            50
     280     6665  95 pick_next_task_rt              sched_rt.c           889
     750     4826  86 next_pidmap                    pid.c                194
       2        8  80 blocking_notifier_chain_regist notifier.c           220
      36      130  78 ioremap_pte_range              ioremap.c            22
    1093     3247  74 IS_ERR                         err.h                34
    1023     2908  73 sched_slice                    sched_fair.c         445
      22       60  73 disk_put_part                  genhd.h              206
[...]

It enables a developer to quickly address the source of incorrect branch
predictions.  Note that this sorting would be better with a second sort on
the number of incorrect predictions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:55:46 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
dbd0b4b330 tracing/ftrace: provide the base infrastructure for histogram tracing
Impact: extend the tracing API

The goal of this patch is to normalize and make more easy the
implementation of statistical (histogram) tracing.

It implements a trace_stat file into the /debugfs/tracing directory where
one can print a one-shot output of statistics/histogram entries.

A tracer has to provide two basic iterator callbacks:

  stat_start() => the first entry
  stat_next(prev, idx) => the next one.

Note that it is adapted for arrays or hash tables or lists.... since it
provides a pointer to the previous entry and the current index of the
iterator.

These two callbacks are called to get a snapshot of the statistics at each
opening of the trace_stat file because. The values are so updated between
two "cat trace_stat". And the tracer is free to lock its datas during the
iteration to keep consistent values.

Since it is almost always interesting to sort statisticals values to
address the problems by priority, this infrastructure provides a "sorting"
of the stat entries too if desired. A tracer has just to provide a
stat_cmp callback to compare two entries and the stat tracing
infrastructure will build a sorted list of the given entries.

A last callback, called stat_headers, can be implemented by a tracer to
output headers on its trace.

If one of these callbacks is changed on runtime, it just have to signal it
to the stat tracing API by calling the init_tracer_stat() helper.

Changes in V2:

- Fix a memory leak if the user opens multiple times the trace_stat file
  without closing it. Now we always free our list before rebuilding it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:55:45 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
f633cef020 ftrace: change trace.c to use registered events
Impact: rework trace.c to use new event register API

Almost every ftrace event has to implement its output display in
trace.c through a different function. Some events did not handle
all the formats (trace, latency-trace, raw, hex, binary), and
this method does not scale well.

This patch converts the format functions to use the event API to
find the event and and print its format. Currently, we have
a print function for trace, latency_trace, raw, hex and binary.
A trace_nop_print is available if the event wants to avoid output
on a particular format.

Perhaps other tracers could use this in the future (like mmiotrace and
function_graph).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:46:12 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
f0868d1e23 ftrace: set up trace event hash infrastructure
Impact: simplify/generalize/refactor trace.c

The trace.c file is becoming more difficult to maintain due to the
growing number of events. There is several formats that an event may
be printed. This patch sets up the infrastructure of an event hash to
allow for events to register how they should be printed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:46:11 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
c47956d9ae ftrace: remove obsolete print continue functionality
Impact: cleanup, remove obsolete code

Now that the ring buffer used by ftrace allows for variable length
entries, we do not need the 'cont' feature of the buffer.  This code
makes other parts of ftrace more complex and by removing this it
simplifies the ftrace code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:46:10 +01:00
Wang Chen
efdc64f0c7 genirq: check chip->ack before calling
Impact: fix theoretical NULL dereference

The generic irq layer doesn't know whether irq_chip has ack routine on some
architectures or not. Upon that, before calling chip->ack, we should check
that it's not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:22:29 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
43a256322a sparseirq: move __weak symbols into separate compilation unit
GCC has a bug with __weak alias functions: if the functions are in
the same compilation unit as their call site, GCC can decide to
inline them - and thus rob the linker of the opportunity to override
the weak alias with the real thing.

So move all the IRQ handling related __weak symbols to kernel/irq/chip.c.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:15:49 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0f01f07fad Merge branches 'tracing/docs', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2008-12-29 11:25:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0ce74d9296 Merge branch 'linus' into timers/hrtimers
Conflicts:
	sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c

Semantic conflict:

        sound/core/hrtimer.c
2008-12-29 10:37:07 +01:00
Jens Axboe
abf137dd77 aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless
The mm->ioctx_list is currently protected by a reader-writer lock,
so we always grab that lock on the read side for doing ioctx
lookups. As the workload is extremely reader biased, turn this into
an rcu hlist so we can make lookup_ioctx() lockless. Get rid of
the rwlock and use a spinlock for providing update side exclusion.

There's usually only 1 entry on this list, so it doesn't make sense
to look into fancier data structures.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
7c0990c7ee Do not free io context when taking recursive faults in do_exit
When taking recursive faults in do_exit, if the io_context is not null,
exit_io_context() is being called. But it might decrement the refcount
more than once. It is better to leave this task alone.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Lachlan McIlroy
0a8c5395f9 [XFS] Fix merge failures
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

	fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h
	fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_globals.h
	fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
	fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.h

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-12-29 16:47:18 +11:00
David S. Miller
e3c6d4ee54 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc64/kernel/idprom.c
2008-12-28 20:19:47 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
b2e2fe9962 sparseirq: work around __weak alias bug
Impact: fix boot crash if the kernel is built with certain GCC versions

GCC has a bug with __weak alias functions: if the functions are in
the same compilation unit as their call site, GCC can decide to
inline them - and thus rob the linker of the opportunity to override
the weak alias with the real thing.

This can lead to the boot crash reported by Kamalesh Babulal:

 ACPI: Core revision 20080926
 Setting APIC routing to flat
 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
 0000000000000000
 IP: [<ffffffff8021f9a8>] add_pin_to_irq_cpu+0x14/0x74
 PGD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
 [...]

So move the arch_init_chip_data() function from handle.c to manage.c.

Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 00:19:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
96faec945f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (25 commits)
  allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
  kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko
  kbuild: simplify use of genksyms
  kernel-doc: check for extra kernel-doc notations
  kbuild: add headerdep used to detect inclusion cycles in header files
  kbuild: fix string equality testing in tags.sh
  kbuild: fix make tags/cscope
  kbuild: fix make incompatibility
  kbuild: remove TAR_IGNORE
  setlocalversion: add git-svn support
  setlocalversion: print correct subversion revision
  scripts: improve the decodecode script
  scripts/package: allow custom options to rpm
  genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes
  genksyms: track symbol checksum changes
  tags and cscope support really belongs in a shell script
  kconfig: fix options to check-lxdialog.sh
  kbuild: gen_init_cpio expands shell variables in file names
  remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig
  kbuild: teach mkmakfile to be silent
  ...
2008-12-28 15:13:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a39b863342 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of 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: (31 commits)
  sched: fix warning in fs/proc/base.c
  schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime stats
  sched: use RCU variant of list traversal in for_each_leaf_rt_rq()
  sched, cpuacct: export percpu cpuacct cgroup stats
  sched, cpuacct: refactoring cpuusage_read / cpuusage_write
  sched: optimize update_curr()
  sched: fix wakeup preemption clock
  sched: add missing arch_update_cpu_topology() call
  sched: let arch_update_cpu_topology indicate if topology changed
  sched: idle_balance() does not call load_balance_newidle()
  sched: fix sd_parent_degenerate on non-numa smp machine
  sched: add uid information to sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED
  sched: move double_unlock_balance() higher
  sched: update comment for move_task_off_dead_cpu
  sched: fix inconsistency when redistribute per-cpu tg->cfs_rq shares
  sched/rt: removed unneeded defintion
  sched: add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller
  sched: include group statistics in /proc/sched_debug
  sched: rename SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER => SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
  sched: clean up SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC
  ...
2008-12-28 12:27:58 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b0f4b285d7 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
  sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
  tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
  Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
  ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
  ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
  ftrace: enable format arguments checking
  x86, bts: memory accounting
  x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
  ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
  tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
  tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
  tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
  trace: fix task state printout
  ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
  trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
  trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
  x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
  tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
  tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
  x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
Yinghai Lu
12026ea16a sparseirq: fix hang with !SPARSE_IRQ
Impact: fix hang

Suresh report his two sockets system only works with SPARSE_IRQ enable
it turns out we miss the setting desc->irq

so provide early_irq_init() even !SPARSE_IRQ to set desc->irq

Reported-by: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-27 17:52:07 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
fa6beb37b0 sparseirq: set lock_class for legacy irq when sparse_irq is selected
Impact: add lockdep annotation to legacy IRQ descs

Warnings resulting out of this were not seen in practice, but it's prudent
to initialize the legacy descriptors to the lock class as well, symmetric
to how we do it with other descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-27 17:51:45 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
13a0c3c269 sparseirq: work around compiler optimizing away __weak functions
Impact: fix panic on null pointer with sparseirq

Some GCC versions seem to inline the weak global function,
when that function is empty.

Work it around, by making the functions return a (dummy) integer.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-27 13:24:00 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1cc4fff0b3 hrtimers: increase clock min delta threshold while interrupt hanging
Impact: avoid timer IRQ hanging slow systems

While using the function graph tracer on a virtualized system, the
hrtimer_interrupt can hang the system on an infinite loop.

This can be caused in several situations:

 - the hardware is very slow and HZ is set too high

 - something intrusive is slowing the system down (tracing under emulation)

... and the next clock events to program are always before the current time.

This patch implements a reasonable compromise: if such a situation is
detected, we share the CPUs time in 1/4 to process the hrtimer interrupts.
This is enough to let the system running without serious starvation.

It has been successfully tested under VirtualBox with 1000 HZ and 100 HZ
with function graph tracer launched. On both cases, the clock events were
increased until about 25 ms periodic ticks, which means 40 HZ.

So we change a hard to debug hang into a warning message and a system that
still manages to limp along.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-27 11:53:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
793f7b12a0 sparseirq: fix desc->lock init
Impact: cleanup

init_one_irq_desc() does not initialize the desc->lock properly -
you cannot init a lock by memcpying some other lock on it.

This happens to work right now (because irq_desc_init is never in use),
but it's a dangerous construct nevertheless, so fix it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-27 09:29:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8b07cd4451 sparseirq: do not printk when migrating IRQ descriptors
Impact: reduce printk noise

There were a couple of leftover KERN_DEBUG debugging printks, remove
them. Also clarify an error message.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-27 09:29:21 +01:00