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2009-03-26Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (26 commits) posix timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork() time: ntp: fix bug in ntp_update_offset() & do_adjtimex(), fix time: ntp: clean up second_overflow() time: ntp: simplify ntp_tick_adj calculations time: ntp: make 64-bit constants more robust time: ntp: refactor do_adjtimex() some more time: ntp: refactor do_adjtimex() time: ntp: fix bug in ntp_update_offset() & do_adjtimex() time: ntp: micro-optimize ntp_update_offset() time: ntp: simplify ntp_update_offset_fll() time: ntp: refactor and clean up ntp_update_offset() time: ntp: refactor up ntp_update_frequency() time: ntp: clean up ntp_update_frequency() time: ntp: simplify the MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED definition time: ntp: simplify the second_overflow() code flow time: ntp: clean up kernel/time/ntp.c x86: hpet: stop HPET_COUNTER when programming periodic mode x86: hpet: provide separate functions to stop and start the counter x86: hpet: print HPET registers during setup (if hpet=verbose is used) time: apply NTP frequency/tick changes immediately ...
2009-03-26Merge branch 'sched-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits) sched: Add comments to find_busiest_group() function sched: Refactor the power savings balance code sched: Optimize the !power_savings_balance during fbg() sched: Create a helper function to calculate imbalance sched: Create helper to calculate small_imbalance in fbg() sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_domain stats for fbg() sched: Define structure to store the sched_domain statistics for fbg() sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_group stats for fbg() sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg() sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotos sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group() sched: remove unused fields from struct rq sched: jiffies not printed per CPU sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task() sched: fix typos in documentation sched: add avg_overlap decay x86, sched_clock(): mark variables read-mostly sched: optimize ttwu vs group scheduling sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanup sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain ...
2009-03-26Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: (35 commits) [CPUFREQ] Prevent p4-clockmod from auto-binding to the ondemand governor. [CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq-nforce2 less obnoxious [CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod reports wrong frequency. [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Use a common exit path. [CPUFREQ] Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules [CPUFREQ] conservative: remove 10x from def_sampling_rate [CPUFREQ] conservative: fixup governor to function more like ondemand logic [CPUFREQ] conservative: fix dbs_cpufreq_notifier so freq is not locked [CPUFREQ] conservative: amend author's email address [CPUFREQ] Use swap() in longhaul.c [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for acpi-cpufreq [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Only print error message once, not per core. [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max} [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Always compile powernow-k8 driver with ACPI support [CPUFREQ] Introduce /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_transition_latency [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8 [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for ondemand governor. [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k7 [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for speedstep related drivers. ...
2009-03-26Merge branch 'timers/hpet' into timers/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-26Merge commit 'v2.6.29' into timers/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-18Merge branches 'sched/cleanups' and 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-17prevent boosting kprobes on exception addressMasami Hiramatsu
Don't boost at the addresses which are listed on exception tables, because major page fault will occur on those addresses. In that case, kprobes can not ensure that when instruction buffer can be freed since some processes will sleep on the buffer. kprobes-ia64 already has same check. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-17Fast TSC calibration: calculate proper frequency error boundsLinus Torvalds
In order for ntpd to correctly synchronize the clocks, the frequency of the system clock must not be off by more than 500 ppm (or, put another way, 1:2000), or ntpd will end up giving up on trying to synchronize properly, and ends up reseting the clock in jumps instead. The fast TSC PIT calibration sometimes failed this test - it was assuming that the PIT reads always took about one microsecond each (2us for the two reads to get a 16-bit timer), and that calibrating TSC to the PIT over 15ms should thus be sufficient to get much closer than 500ppm (max 2us error on both sides giving 4us over 15ms: a 270 ppm error value). However, that assumption does not always hold: apparently some hardware is either very much slower at reading the PIT registers, or there was other noise causing at least one machine to get 700+ ppm errors. So instead of using a fixed 15ms timing loop, this changes the fast PIT calibration to read the TSC delta over the individual PIT timer reads, and use the result to calculate the error bars on the PIT read timing properly. We then successfully calibrate the TSC only if the maximum error bars fall below 500ppm. In the process, we also relax the timing to allow up to 25ms for the calibration, although it can happen much faster depending on hardware. Reported-and-tested-by: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-17Fix potential fast PIT TSC calibration startup glitchLinus Torvalds
During bootup, when we reprogram the PIT (programmable interval timer) to start counting down from 0xffff in order to use it for the fast TSC calibration, we should also make sure to delay a bit afterwards to allow the PIT hardware to actually start counting with the new value. That will happens at the next CLK pulse (1.193182 MHz), so the easiest way to do that is to just wait at least one microsecond after programming the new PIT counter value. We do that by just reading the counter value back once - which will take about 2us on PC hardware. Reported-and-tested-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-13Merge branches 'sched/clock', 'sched/urgent' and 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-10x86, sched_clock(): mark variables read-mostlyIngo Molnar
Impact: micro-optimization There's a number of variables in the sched_clock() path that are in .data/.bss - but not marked __read_mostly. This creates the danger of accidental false cacheline sharing with some other, write-often variable. So mark them __read_mostly. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-10Merge branches 'sched/cleanups' and 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-09Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] Add p4-clockmod sysfs-ui removal to feature-removal schedule. Revert "[CPUFREQ] Disable sysfs ui for p4-clockmod."
2009-03-09Revert "[CPUFREQ] Disable sysfs ui for p4-clockmod."Dave Jones
This reverts commit e088e4c9cdb618675874becb91b2fd581ee707e6. Removing the sysfs interface for p4-clockmod was flagged as a regression in bug 12826. Course of action: - Find out the remaining causes of overheating, and fix them if possible. ACPI should be doing the right thing automatically. If it isn't, we need to fix that. - mark p4-clockmod ui as deprecated - try again with the removal in six months. It's not really feasible to printk about the deprecation, because it needs to happen at all the sysfs entry points, which means adding a lot of strcmp("p4-clockmod".. calls to the core, which.. bleuch. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-03-06x86, pebs: correct qualifier passed to ds_write_config() from ds_request_pebs()Markus Metzger
ds_write_config() can write the BTS as well as the PEBS part of the DS config. ds_request_pebs() passes the wrong qualifier, which results in the wrong configuration to be written. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20090305085721.A22550@sedona.ch.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06x86, bts: remove bad warningMarkus Metzger
In case a ptraced task is reaped (while the tracer is still attached), ds_exit_thread() is called before ptrace_exit(). The latter will release the bts_tracer and remove the thread's ds_ctx. The former will WARN() if the context is not NULL. Oleg Nesterov submitted patches that move ptrace_exit() before exit_thread() and thus reverse the order of the above calls. Remove the bad warning. I will add it again when Oleg's changes are in. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20090305084954.A22000@sedona.ch.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-05Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc7' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-05[CPUFREQ] Prevent p4-clockmod from auto-binding to the ondemand governor.Dave Jones
The latency of p4-clockmod sucks so hard that scaling on a regular basis with ondemand is a really bad idea. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-03-04x86: add Dell XPS710 reboot quirkLeann Ogasawara
Dell XPS710 will hang on reboot. This is resolved by adding a quirk to set bios reboot. Signed-off-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Cc: "manoj.iyer" <manoj.iyer@canonical.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1236196380.3231.89.camel@emiko> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04x86, math-emu: fix init_fpu for task != currentDaniel Glöckner
Impact: fix math-emu related crash while using GDB/ptrace init_fpu() calls finit to initialize a task's xstate, while finit always works on the current task. If we use PTRACE_GETFPREGS on another process and both processes did not already use floating point, we get a null pointer exception in finit. This patch creates a new function finit_task that takes a task_struct parameter. finit becomes a wrapper that simply calls finit_task with current. On the plus side this avoids many calls to get_current which would each resolve to an inline assembler mov instruction. An empty finit_task has been added to i387.h to avoid linker errors in case the compiler still emits the call in init_fpu when CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not defined. The declaration of finit in i387.h has been removed as the remaining code using this function gets its prototype from fpu_proto.h. Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Bill Metzenthen <billm@melbpc.org.au> LKML-Reference: <E1Lew31-0004il-Fg@mailer.emlix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04x86: EFI: Back efi_ioremap with init_memory_mapping instead of FIX_MAPHuang Ying
Impact: Fix boot failure on EFI system with large runtime memory range Brian Maly reported that some EFI system with large runtime memory range can not boot. Because the FIX_MAP used to map runtime memory range is smaller than run time memory range. This patch fixes this issue by re-implement efi_ioremap() with init_memory_mapping(). Reported-and-tested-by: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1236135513.6204.306.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04x86: fix DMI on EFIBrian Maly
Impact: reactivate DMI quirks on EFI hardware DMI tables are loaded by EFI, so the dmi calls must happen after efi_init() and not before. Currently Apple hardware uses DMI to determine the framebuffer mappings for efifb. Without DMI working you also have no video on MacBook Pro. This patch resolves the DMI issue for EFI hardware (DMI is now properly detected at boot), and additionally efifb now loads on Apple hardware (i.e. video works). Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: ying.huang@intel.com LKML-Reference: <49ADEDA3.1030406@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
2009-03-02x86-64: syscall-audit: fix 32/64 syscall holeRoland McGrath
On x86-64, a 32-bit process (TIF_IA32) can switch to 64-bit mode with ljmp, and then use the "syscall" instruction to make a 64-bit system call. A 64-bit process make a 32-bit system call with int $0x80. In both these cases, audit_syscall_entry() will use the wrong system call number table and the wrong system call argument registers. This could be used to circumvent a syscall audit configuration that filters based on the syscall numbers or argument details. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-26x86: set X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLEIngo Molnar
If the TSC is constant and non-stop, also set it reliable. (We will turn this off in DMI quirks for multi-chassis systems) The performance number on a 16-way Nehalem system running 32 tasks that context-switch between each other is significant: sched_clock_stable=0 sched_clock_stable=1 .................... .................... 22.456925 million/sec 24.306972 million/sec [+8.2%] lmbench's "lat_ctx -s 0 2" goes from 0.63 microseconds to 0.59 microseconds - a 6.7% increase in context-switching performance. Perfstat of 1 million pipe context switches between two tasks: Performance counter stats for './pipe-test-1m': [before] [after] ............ ............ 37621.421089 36436.848378 task clock ticks (msecs) 0 0 CPU migrations (events) 2000274 2000189 context switches (events) 194 193 pagefaults (events) 8433799643 8171016416 CPU cycles (events) -3.21% 8370133368 8180999694 instructions (events) -2.31% 4158565 3895941 cache references (events) -6.74% 44312 46264 cache misses (events) 2349.287976 2279.362465 wall-time (msecs) -3.06% The speedup comes straight from the reduction in the instruction count. sched_clock_cpu() got simpler and the whole workload thus executes faster. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq-nforce2 less obnoxiousMatthew Garrett
Not owning an nforce2 is a sign of good taste, not an error. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod reports wrong frequency.Matthias-Christian Ott
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10968 [ Updated for current tree, and fixed compile failure when p4-clockmod was built modular -- davej] From: Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Use a common exit path.Dave Jones
a0abd520fd69295f4a3735e29a9448a32e101d47 introduced a slew of extra kfree/return -ENODEV pairs. This replaces them all with gotos. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] Change link order of x86 cpufreq modulesMatthew Garrett
Change the link order of the cpufreq modules to ensure that they're probed in the preferred order when statically linked in. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] Use swap() in longhaul.cDave Jones
Remove hand-coded implementation of swap() Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for acpi-cpufreqDave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Only print error message once, not per core.Thomas Renninger
This is the typical message you get if you plug in a CPU which is newer than your BIOS. It's annoying seeing this message for each core. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Always compile powernow-k8 driver with ACPI supportThomas Renninger
powernow-k8 driver should always try to get cpufreq info from ACPI. Otherwise it will not be able to detect the transition latency correctly which results in ondemand governor taking a wrong sampling rate which will then result in sever performance loss. Let the user not shoot himself in the foot and always compile in ACPI support for powernow-k8. This also fixes a wrong message if ACPI_PROCESSOR is compiled as a module and #ifndef CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR path is chosen. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8Dave Jones
This driver has so many long function names, and deep nested if's The remaining warnings will need some code restructuring to clean up. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k7Dave Jones
The asm/timer.h warning can be ignored, it's needed for recalibrate_cpu_khz() Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for speedstep related drivers.Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for sc520Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k6Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for longrunDave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for longhaulDave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for gx-suspmodDave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for e_powersaverDave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for elanfreqDave Jones
The remaining warning about the simple_strtoul conversion to strict_strtoul seems kind of pointless to me. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] nforce2: Use driver prefix, not cpufreq prefix.Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for cpufreq-nforce2Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24[CPUFREQ] Stupidly trivial CodingStyle fixDave Jones
GNU indent complains about this being ambiguous, because it's dumb. One of my automated tests relies on the output of indent, so this shuts it up. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-22PM: Split up sysdev_[suspend|resume] from device_power_[down|up]Rafael J. Wysocki
Move the sysdev_suspend/resume from the callee to the callers, with no real change in semantics, so that we can rework the disabling of interrupts during suspend/hibernation. This is based on an earlier patch from Linus. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22x86: Add IRQF_TIMER to legacy x86 timer interrupt descriptorsLinus Torvalds
Right now nobody cares, but the suspend/resume code will eventually want to suspend device interrupts without suspending the timer, and will depend on this flag to know. The modern x86 timer infrastructure uses the local APIC timers and never shows up as a device interrupt at all, so it isn't affected and doesn't need any of this. Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22x86: hpet: stop HPET_COUNTER when programming periodic modeAndreas Herrmann
Impact: fix system hang on some systems operating with HZ_1000 On a system that stalled with HZ_1000, the first value written to T0_CMP (when the main counter was not stopped) did not trigger an interrupt. Instead after the main counter wrapped around (after several minutes) an interrupt was triggered and afterwards the periodic interrupt took effect. This can be fixed by implementing HPET spec recommendation for programming the periodic mode (i.e. stopping the main counter). Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22x86: hpet: provide separate functions to stop and start the counterAndreas Herrmann
By splitting up existing hpet_start_counter function. Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22x86: hpet: print HPET registers during setup (if hpet=verbose is used)Andreas Herrmann
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>