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2010-05-28Merge branch 'idle-release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6 * 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6: intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors ACPI: acpi_idle: touch TS_POLLING only in the non-MWAIT case acpi_pad: uses MONITOR/MWAIT, so it doesn't need to clear TS_POLLING sched: clarify commment for TS_POLLING ACPI: allow a native cpuidle driver to displace ACPI cpuidle: make cpuidle_curr_driver static cpuidle: add cpuidle_unregister_driver() error check cpuidle: fail to register if !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
2010-05-27sched: clarify commment for TS_POLLINGLen Brown
TS_POLLING set tells the scheduler an idle_task will poll need_resched() to look for work. TS_POLLING clear tells resched_task() and wake_up_idle_cpu() that the remote CPU's idle_task is now sleeping in idle, and thus requires a reschedule interrupt notice work. Update the description of TS_POLLING to reflect how it works. "idle task polling need_resched, skip sending interrupt" Wordsmithing-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2010-05-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (44 commits) vlynq: make whole Kconfig-menu dependant on architecture add descriptive comment for TIF_MEMDIE task flag declaration. EEPROM: max6875: Header file cleanup EEPROM: 93cx6: Header file cleanup EEPROM: Header file cleanup agp: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed rtc-v3020: make bitfield unsigned PCI: make bitfield unsigned jbd2: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed cciss: fix shadows sparse warning doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore. uml: i386: Avoid redefinition of NR_syscalls fix "seperate" typos in comments cocbalt_lcdfb: correct sections doc: Change urls for sparse Powerpc: wii: Fix typo in comment i2o: cleanup some exit paths Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate UML: Fix compiler warning due to missing task_struct declaration UML: add kernel.h include to signal.c ...
2010-05-18Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, fpu: Use static_cpu_has() to implement use_xsave() x86: Add new static_cpu_has() function using alternatives x86, fpu: Use the proper asm constraint in use_xsave() x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation x86: Introduce 'struct fpu' and related API x86: Eliminate TS_XSAVE x86-32: Don't set ignore_fpu_irq in simd exception x86: Merge kernel_math_error() into math_error() x86: Merge simd_math_error() into math_error() x86-32: Rework cache flush denied handler Fix trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
2010-05-14add descriptive comment for TIF_MEMDIE task flag declaration.Andreas Dilger
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-10x86: Eliminate TS_XSAVEAvi Kivity
The fpu code currently uses current->thread_info->status & TS_XSAVE as a way to distinguish between XSAVE capable processors and older processors. The decision is not really task specific; instead we use the task status to avoid a global memory reference - the value should be the same across all threads. Eliminate this tie-in into the task structure by using an alternative instruction keyed off the XSAVE cpu feature; this results in shorter and faster code, without introducing a global memory reference. [ hpa: in the future, this probably should use an asm jmp ] Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1273135546-29690-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-03-26x86, ptrace: Fix block-stepPeter Zijlstra
Implement ptrace-block-step using TIF_BLOCKSTEP which will set DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF when set for a task while preserving any other DEBUGCTLMSR bits. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100325135414.017536066@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-26x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace codePeter Zijlstra
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS, as Linus noticed it not so long ago. It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility needed for perf either. Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a much simpler approach. So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*() APIs in mm/mlock.c as well. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-29x86: get rid of the insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bitH. Peter Anvin
Now that the previous commit made it possible to do the personality setting at the point of no return, we do just that for ELF binaries. And suddenly all the reasons for that insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bit go away, and we can just make SET_PERSONALITY() just do the obvious thing for a 32-bit compat process. Everything becomes much more straightforward this way. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01core, x86: Add user return notifiersAvi Kivity
Add a general per-cpu notifier that is called whenever the kernel is about to return to userspace. The notifier uses a thread_info flag and existing checks, so there is no impact on user return or context switch fast paths. This will be used initially to speed up KVM task switching by lazily updating MSRs. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1253342422-13811-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-09-14Merge branch 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, percpu: Collect hot percpu variables into one cacheline x86, percpu: Fix DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() x86, percpu: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses
2009-08-26tracing: Rename FTRACE_SYSCALLS for tracepointsJosh Stone
s/HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS/HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS/g s/TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE/TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT/g The syscall enter/exit tracing is no longer specific to just ftrace, so they now have names that reflect their tie to tracepoints instead. Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1251150194-1713-2-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-04x86, percpu: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accessesLinus Torvalds
This is very useful for some common things like 'get_current()' and 'get_thread_info()', which can be used multiple times in a function, and where the result is cacheable. tj: Added the magical undocumented "P" modifier to UP __percpu_arg() to force gcc to dereference the pointer value passed in via the "p" input constraint. Without this, percpu_read_stable() returns the address of the percpu variable. Also added comment explaining the difference between percpu_read() and percpu_read_stable(). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-07-10sched: INIT_PREEMPT_COUNTPeter Zijlstra
Pull the initial preempt_count value into a single definition site. Maintainers for: alpha, ia64 and m68k, please have a look, your arch code is funny. The header magic is a bit odd, but similar to the KERNEL_DS one, CPP waits with expanding these macros until the INIT_THREAD_INFO macro itself is expanded, which is in arch/*/kernel/init_task.c where we've already included sched.h so we're good. Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: rth@twiddle.net Cc: geert@linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-15kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocatorVegard Nossum
This adds support for tracking the initializedness of memory that was allocated with the page allocator. Highmem requests are not tracked. Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> [build fix for !CONFIG_KMEMCHECK] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-04-07Merge commit 'origin/master' into for-linus/xen/masterJeremy Fitzhardinge
* commit 'origin/master': (4825 commits) Fix build errors due to CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y parport: Use the PCI IRQ if offered tty: jsm cleanups Adjust path to gpio headers KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE check for module Change KCONFIG name tty: Blackin CTS/RTS Change hardware flow control from poll to interrupt driven Add support for the MAX3100 SPI UART. lanana: assign a device name and numbering for MAX3100 serqt: initial clean up pass for tty side tty: Use the generic RS485 ioctl on CRIS tty: Correct inline types for tty_driver_kref_get() splice: fix deadlock in splicing to file nilfs2: support nanosecond timestamp nilfs2: introduce secondary super block nilfs2: simplify handling of active state of segments nilfs2: mark minor flag for checkpoint created by internal operation nilfs2: clean up sketch file nilfs2: super block operations fix endian bug ... Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h arch/x86/lguest/boot.c drivers/xen/manage.c
2009-03-29x86/paravirt: flush pending mmu updates on context switchJeremy Fitzhardinge
Impact: allow preemption during lazy mmu updates If we're in lazy mmu mode when context switching, leave lazy mmu mode, but remember the task's state in TIF_LAZY_MMU_UPDATES. When we resume the task, check this flag and re-enter lazy mmu mode if its set. This sets things up for allowing lazy mmu mode while preemptible, though that won't actually be active until the next change. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-03-13tracing/x86: basic implementation of syscall tracing for x86Frederic Weisbecker
Provide the x86 trace callbacks to trace syscalls. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1236401580-5758-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10Merge branch 'x86/uaccess' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
2009-01-23x86: uaccess: introduce try and catch frameworkHiroshi Shimamoto
Impact: introduce new uaccess exception handling framework Introduce {get|put}_user_try and {get|put}_user_catch as new uaccess exception handling framework. {get|put}_user_try begins exception block and {get|put}_user_catch(err) ends the block and gets err if an exception occured in {get|put}_user_ex() in the block. The exception is stored thread_info->uaccess_err. The example usage of this framework is below; int func() { int err = 0; get_user_try { get_user_ex(...); get_user_ex(...); : } get_user_catch(err); return err; } Note: get_user_ex() is not clear the value when an exception occurs, it's different from the behavior of __get_user(), but I think it doesn't matter. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-19x86-64: Move kernelstack from PDA to per-cpu.Brian Gerst
Also clean up PER_CPU_VAR usage in xen-asm_64.S tj: * remove now unused stack_thread_info() * s/kernelstack/kernel_stack/ * added FIXME comment in xen-asm_64.S Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2008-12-28Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (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.
2008-12-12x86, bts: provide in-kernel branch-trace interfaceMarkus Metzger
Impact: cleanup Move the BTS bits from ptrace.c into ds.c. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04x86: change thread_info's flag field back to 32 bitsJoe Korty
Impact: pack struct thread_info more tightly Change x86_64's thread_info 'flags' field back to __u32. This was changed to 'unsigned long' when the thread_info*.h for i386 and x86_64 were merged. Change it back. We can do this as only 27 bits of 'flags' are actually used. This change actually packs down thread_info by 64 bits: 32 bits are saved by the smaller flags, and 32 bits are saved by the following 'mm_segment_t field' becoming naturally 64-bit aligned. Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23tracing/function-return-tracer: store return stack into task_struct and ↵Frederic Weisbecker
allocate it dynamically Impact: use deeper function tracing depth safely Some tests showed that function return tracing needed a more deeper depth of function calls. But it could be unsafe to store these return addresses to the stack. So these arrays will now be allocated dynamically into task_struct of current only when the tracer is activated. Typical scheme when tracer is activated: - allocate a return stack for each task in global list. - fork: allocate the return stack for the newly created task - exit: free return stack of current - idle init: same as fork I chose a default depth of 50. I don't have overruns anymore. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18tracing/function-return-tracer: add the overrun fieldFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: help to find the better depth of trace We decided to arbitrary define the depth of function return trace as "20". Perhaps this is not enough. To help finding an optimal depth, we measure now the overrun: the number of functions that have been missed for the current thread. By default this is not displayed, we have to do set a particular flag on the return tracer: echo overrun > /debug/tracing/trace_options And the overrun will be printed on the right. As the trace shows below, the current 20 depth is not enough. update_wall_time+0x37f/0x8c0 -> update_xtime_cache (345 ns) (Overruns: 2838) update_wall_time+0x384/0x8c0 -> clocksource_get_next (1141 ns) (Overruns: 2838) do_timer+0x23/0x100 -> update_wall_time (3882 ns) (Overruns: 2838) tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xbf/0x160 -> do_timer (5339 ns) (Overruns: 2838) tick_sched_timer+0x6a/0xf0 -> tick_do_update_jiffies64 (7209 ns) (Overruns: 2838) vgacon_set_cursor_size+0x98/0x120 -> native_io_delay (2613 ns) (Overruns: 274) vgacon_cursor+0x16e/0x1d0 -> vgacon_set_cursor_size (33151 ns) (Overruns: 274) set_cursor+0x5f/0x80 -> vgacon_cursor (36432 ns) (Overruns: 274) con_flush_chars+0x34/0x40 -> set_cursor (38790 ns) (Overruns: 274) release_console_sem+0x1ec/0x230 -> up (721 ns) (Overruns: 274) release_console_sem+0x225/0x230 -> wake_up_klogd (316 ns) (Overruns: 274) con_flush_chars+0x39/0x40 -> release_console_sem (2996 ns) (Overruns: 274) con_write+0x22/0x30 -> con_flush_chars (46067 ns) (Overruns: 274) n_tty_write+0x1cc/0x360 -> con_write (292670 ns) (Overruns: 274) smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x90 -> native_apic_mem_write (330 ns) (Overruns: 274) irq_enter+0x17/0x70 -> idle_cpu (413 ns) (Overruns: 274) smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2f/0x90 -> irq_enter (1525 ns) (Overruns: 274) ktime_get_ts+0x40/0x70 -> getnstimeofday (465 ns) (Overruns: 274) ktime_get_ts+0x60/0x70 -> set_normalized_timespec (436 ns) (Overruns: 274) ktime_get+0x16/0x30 -> ktime_get_ts (2501 ns) (Overruns: 274) hrtimer_interrupt+0x77/0x1a0 -> ktime_get (3439 ns) (Overruns: 274) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracingFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing Add low level support for ftrace return tracing. This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of the current task. The index of the current return address is initialized when the task is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall, it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called. Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3. For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution. That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on this function enabled. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guardsH. Peter Anvin
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since: a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless. b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22x86, um: ... and asm-x86 moveAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>