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2011-05-26cgroup: remove the ns_cgroupDaniel Lezcano
The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and leads to some problems: * cgroup creation is out-of-control * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children', where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values. The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to the 'tasks' file. This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used. This is a userspace-visible change. Commit 45531757b45c ("cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal. Since that time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26cgroups: use flex_array in attach_procBen Blum
Convert cgroup_attach_proc to use flex_array. The cgroup_attach_proc implementation requires a pre-allocated array to store task pointers to atomically move a thread-group, but asking for a monolithic array with kmalloc() may be unreliable for very large groups. Using flex_array provides the same functionality with less risk of failure. This is a post-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26cgroups: make procs file writableBen Blum
Make procs file writable to move all threads by tgid at once. Add functionality that enables users to move all threads in a threadgroup at once to a cgroup by writing the tgid to the 'cgroup.procs' file. This current implementation makes use of a per-threadgroup rwsem that's taken for reading in the fork() path to prevent newly forking threads within the threadgroup from "escaping" while the move is in progress. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacksBen Blum
Add cgroup subsystem callbacks for per-thread attachment in atomic contexts Add can_attach_task(), pre_attach(), and attach_task() as new callbacks for cgroups's subsystem interface. Unlike can_attach and attach, these are for per-thread operations, to be called potentially many times when attaching an entire threadgroup. Also, the old "bool threadgroup" interface is removed, as replaced by this. All subsystems are modified for the new interface - of note is cpuset, which requires from/to nodemasks for attach to be globally scoped (though per-cpuset would work too) to persist from its pre_attach to attach_task and attach. This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-writable.patch. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26cgroups: read-write lock CLONE_THREAD forking per threadgroupBen Blum
Adds functionality to read/write lock CLONE_THREAD fork()ing per-threadgroup Add an rwsem that lives in a threadgroup's signal_struct that's taken for reading in the fork path, under CONFIG_CGROUPS. If another part of the kernel later wants to use such a locking mechanism, the CONFIG_CGROUPS ifdefs should be changed to a higher-up flag that CGROUPS and the other system would both depend on. This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26irq: Remove smp_affinity_list when unregister irq procYinghai Lu
commit 4b06042(bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irq) causes the following warning: [ 274.239500] WARNING: at fs/proc/generic.c:850 remove_proc_entry+0x24c/0x27a() [ 274.251761] remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/184', leaking at least 'smp_affinity_list' Remove the new file in the exit path. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DDDE094.6050505@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-05-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfdLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd: net: fix get_net_ns_by_fd for !CONFIG_NET_NS ns proc: Return -ENOENT for a nonexistent /proc/self/ns/ entry. ns: Declare sys_setns in syscalls.h net: Allow setting the network namespace by fd ns proc: Add support for the ipc namespace ns proc: Add support for the uts namespace ns proc: Add support for the network namespace. ns: Introduce the setns syscall ns: proc files for namespace naming policy.
2011-05-25Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc * 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: signal: sys_pause() should check signal_pending() ptrace: ptrace_resume() shouldn't wake up !TASK_TRACED thread
2011-05-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tileLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (26 commits) arch/tile: prefer "tilepro" as the name of the 32-bit architecture compat: include aio_abi.h for aio_context_t arch/tile: cleanups for tilegx compat mode arch/tile: allocate PCI IRQs later in boot arch/tile: support signal "exception-trace" hook arch/tile: use better definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg() include/linux/compat.h: coding-style fixes tile: add an RTC driver for the Tilera hypervisor arch/tile: finish enabling support for TILE-Gx 64-bit chip compat: fixes to allow working with tile arch arch/tile: update defconfig file to something more useful tile: do_hardwall_trap: do not play with task->sighand tile: replace mm->cpu_vm_mask with mm_cpumask() tile,mn10300: add device parameter to dma_cache_sync() audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h> arch/tile: clarify flush_buffer()/finv_buffer() function names arch/tile: kernel-related cleanups from removing static page size arch/tile: various header improvements for building drivers arch/tile: disable GX prefetcher during cache flush arch/tile: tolerate disabling CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD ...
2011-05-25hrtimers: Fix typo causing erratic timersThomas Gleixner
commit 9ec2690758a5 ("timerfd: Manage cancelable timers in timerfd") introduced a CONFIG_HIGHRES_TIMERS (should be CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS) typo, which caused applications depending on CLOCK_REALTIME timers to become sluggy due to the fact that the time base of the realtime timers was not updated when the wall clock time was set. This causes anything from 100% CPU use for some applications to odd delays and hickups. Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com> Tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Fatfingered-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25signal: sys_pause() should check signal_pending()Oleg Nesterov
ERESTART* is always wrong without TIF_SIGPENDING. Teach sys_pause() to handle the spurious wakeup correctly. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-05-25ptrace: ptrace_resume() shouldn't wake up !TASK_TRACED threadOleg Nesterov
It is not clear why ptrace_resume() does wake_up_process(). Unless the caller is PTRACE_KILL the tracee should be TASK_TRACED so we can use wake_up_state(__TASK_TRACED). If sys_ptrace() races with SIGKILL we do not need the extra and potentionally spurious wakeup. If the caller is PTRACE_KILL, wake_up_process() is even more wrong. The tracee can sleep in any state in any place, and if we have a buggy code which doesn't handle a spurious wakeup correctly PTRACE_KILL can be used to exploit it. For example: int main(void) { int child, status; child = fork(); if (!child) { int ret; assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0); ret = pause(); printf("pause: %d %m\n", ret); return 0x23; } sleep(1); assert(ptrace(PTRACE_KILL, child, 0,0) == 0); assert(child == wait(&status)); printf("wait: %x\n", status); return 0; } prints "pause: -1 Unknown error 514", -ERESTARTNOHAND leaks to the userland. In this case sys_pause() is buggy as well and should be fixed. I do not know what was the original rationality behind PTRACE_KILL. The man page is simply wrong and afaics it was always wrong. Imho it should be deprecated, or may be it should do send_sig(SIGKILL) as Denys suggests, but in any case I do not think that the current behaviour was intentional. Note: there is another problem, ptrace_resume() changes ->exit_code and this can race with SIGKILL too. Eventually we should change ptrace to not use ->exit_code. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-05-25Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: posix-timers: RCU conversion
2011-05-25printk: allocate kernel log buffer earlierMike Travis
On larger systems, because of the numerous ACPI, Bootmem and EFI messages, the static log buffer overflows before the larger one specified by the log_buf_len param is allocated. Minimize the overflow by allocating the new log buffer as soon as possible. On kernels without memblock, a later call to setup_log_buf from kernel/init.c is the fallback. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_PRINTK=n build] Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irqMike Travis
Manually adjusting the smp_affinity for IRQ's becomes unwieldy when the cpu count is large. Setting smp affinity to cpus 256 to 263 would be: echo 000000ff,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000 > smp_affinity instead of: echo 256-263 > smp_affinity_list Think about what it looks like for cpus around say, 4088 to 4095. We already have many alternate "list" interfaces: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/indexY/shared_cpu_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpulist /sys/devices/pci***/***/local_cpulist Add a companion interface, smp_affinity_list to use cpu lists instead of cpu maps. This conforms to other companion interfaces where both a map and a list interface exists. This required adding a bitmap_parselist_user() function in a manner similar to the bitmap_parse_user() function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __bitmap_parselist() static] Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_tKOSAKI Motohiro
cpumask_t is very big struct and cpu_vm_mask is placed wrong position. It might lead to reduce cache hit ratio. This patch has two change. 1) Move the place of cpumask into last of mm_struct. Because usually cpumask is accessed only front bits when the system has cpu-hotplug capability 2) Convert cpu_vm_mask into cpumask_var_t. It may help to reduce memory footprint if cpumask_size() will use nr_cpumask_bits properly in future. In addition, this patch change the name of cpu_vm_mask with cpu_vm_mask_var. It may help to detect out of tree cpu_vm_mask users. This patch has no functional change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutexPeter Zijlstra
Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: Remove i_mmap_lock lockbreakPeter Zijlstra
Hugh says: "The only significant loser, I think, would be page reclaim (when concurrent with truncation): could spin for a long time waiting for the i_mmap_mutex it expects would soon be dropped? " Counter points: - cpu contention makes the spin stop (need_resched()) - zap pages should be freeing pages at a higher rate than reclaim ever can I think the simplification of the truncate code is definitely worth it. Effectively reverts: 2aa15890f3c ("mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode") and takes out the code that caused its problem. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25lockdep, mutex: provide mutex_lock_nest_lockPeter Zijlstra
In order to convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex we need a mutex equivalent to spin_lock_nest_lock(), thus provide the mutex_lock_nest_lock() annotation. As with spin_lock_nest_lock(), mutex_lock_nest_lock() allows annotation of the locking pattern where an outer lock serializes the acquisition order of nested locks. That is, if every time you lock multiple locks A, say A1 and A2 you first acquire N, the order of acquiring A1 and A2 is irrelevant. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (43 commits) TOMOYO: Fix wrong domainname validation. SELINUX: add /sys/fs/selinux mount point to put selinuxfs CRED: Fix load_flat_shared_library() to initialise bprm correctly SELinux: introduce path_has_perm flex_array: allow 0 length elements flex_arrays: allow zero length flex arrays flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an end SELinux: pass last path component in may_create SELinux: put name based create rules in a hashtable SELinux: generic hashtab entry counter SELinux: calculate and print hashtab stats with a generic function SELinux: skip filename trans rules if ttype does not match parent dir SELinux: rename filename_compute_type argument to *type instead of *con SELinux: fix comment to state filename_compute_type takes an objname not a qstr SMACK: smack_file_lock can use the struct path LSM: separate LSM_AUDIT_DATA_DENTRY from LSM_AUDIT_DATA_PATH LSM: split LSM_AUDIT_DATA_FS into _PATH and _INODE SELINUX: Make selinux cache VFS RCU walks safe SECURITY: Move exec_permission RCU checks into security modules SELinux: security_read_policy should take a size_t not ssize_t ...
2011-05-24Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: Unify input section names percpu: Avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double percpu: Cast away printk format warning percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE Fix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun
2011-05-24Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2011-05-24posix-timers: RCU conversionEric Dumazet
Ben Nagy reported a scalability problem with KVM/QEMU that hit very hard a single spinlock (idr_lock) in posix-timers code, on its 48 core machine. Even on a 16 cpu machine (2x4x2), a single test can show 98% of cpu time used in ticket_spin_lock, from lock_timer Ref: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg51526.html Switching to RCU is quite easy, IDR being already RCU ready. idr_lock should be locked only for an insert/delete, not a lookup. Benchmark on a 2x4x2 machine, 16 processes calling timer_gettime(). Before : real 1m18.669s user 0m1.346s sys 1m17.180s After : real 0m3.296s user 0m1.366s sys 0m1.926s Reported-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-05-24Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.39' into for-2.6.40Tejun Heo
2011-05-23Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix sample type size calculation in 32 bits archs profile: Use vzalloc() rather than vmalloc() & memset()
2011-05-23kernel/watchdog.c: Use proper ANSI C prototypesLinus Torvalds
We try to enforce it by using -Wstrict-prototypes, but apparently they sometimes get through. Introduced by 4eec42f39204 ("watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based"). Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-23Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: sched: Increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolution sched: Introduce SCHED_POWER_SCALE to scale cpu_power calculations sched: Cleanup set_load_weight()
2011-05-23Merge branch 'staging-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6 * 'staging-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (970 commits) staging: usbip: replace usbip_u{dbg,err,info} and printk with dev_ and pr_ staging:iio: Trivial kconfig reorganization and uniformity improvements. staging:iio:documenation partial update. staging:iio: use pollfunc allocation helpers in remaining drivers. staging:iio:max1363 misc cleanups and use of for_each_bit_set to simplify event code spitting out. staging:iio: implement an iio_info structure to take some of the constant elements out of iio_dev. staging:iio:meter:ade7758: Use private data space from iio_allocate_device staging:iio:accel:lis3l02dq make write_reg_8 take value not a pointer to value. staging:iio: ring core cleanups + check if read_last available in lis3l02dq staging:iio:core cleanup: squash tiny wrappers and use dev_set_name to handle creation of event interface name. staging:iio: poll func allocation clean up. staging:iio:ad7780 trivial unused header cleanup. staging:iio:adc: AD7780: Use private data space from iio_allocate_device + trivial fixes staging:iio:adc:AD7780: Convert to new channel registration method staging:iio:adc: AD7606: Drop dev_data in favour of iio_priv() staging:iio:adc: AD7606: Consitently use indio_dev staging:iio: Rip out helper for software rings. staging:iio:adc:AD7298: Use private data space from iio_allocate_device staging:iio: rationalization of different buffer implementation hooks. staging:iio:imu:adis16400 avoid allocating rx, tx, and state separately from iio_dev. ... Fix up trivial conflicts in - drivers/staging/intel_sst/intelmid.c: patches applied in both branches - drivers/staging/rt2860/common/cmm_data_{pci,usb}.c: removed vs spelling - drivers/staging/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c: trivial header file inclusion
2011-05-23Merge 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: hrtimers: Reorder clock bases hrtimers: Avoid touching inactive timer bases hrtimers: Make struct hrtimer_cpu_base layout less stupid timerfd: Manage cancelable timers in timerfd clockevents: Move C3 stop test outside lock alarmtimer: Drop device refcount after rtc_open() alarmtimer: Check return value of class_find_device() timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set hrtimers: Prepare for cancel on clock was set timers
2011-05-23Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix sample size bit operations perf tools: Fix ommitted mmap data update on remap watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based on watchdog_thresh watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero watchdog: Only disable/enable watchdog if neccessary watchdog: Fix rounding bug in get_sample_period() perf tools: Propagate event parse error handling perf tools: Robustify dynamic sample content fetch perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing perf tools: Move evlist sample helpers to evlist area perf tools: Remove junk code in mmap size handling perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmap
2011-05-23Merge 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: (39 commits) b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined") perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course'). treewide: fix a few typos in comments regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations" audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured' arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option. treewide: remove extra semicolons ...
2011-05-23Merge commit '559fa6e76b27' into perf/urgentIngo Molnar
Merge reason: this commit was queued up quite some time ago but was forgotten about. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-23hrtimers: Reorder clock basesThomas Gleixner
The ordering of the clock bases is historical due to the CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC constants. Now the hrtimer bases have their own enumeration due to the gap between CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME. So we can be more clever as most timers end up on the CLOCK_MONOTONIC base due to the virtue of POSIX declaring that relative CLOCK_REALTIME timers are not affected by time changes. In desktop environments this is slowly changing as applications switch to absolute timers, but I've observed empty CLOCK_REALTIME bases often enough. There is no performance penalty or overhead when CLOCK_REALTIME timers are active, but in case they are not we don't skip over a full cache line. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2011-05-23hrtimers: Avoid touching inactive timer basesThomas Gleixner
Instead of iterating over all possible timer bases avoid it by marking the active bases in the cpu base. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2011-05-23timerfd: Manage cancelable timers in timerfdThomas Gleixner
Peter is concerned about the extra scan of CLOCK_REALTIME_COS in the timer interrupt. Yes, I did not think about it, because the solution was so elegant. I didn't like the extra list in timerfd when it was proposed some time ago, but with a rcu based list the list walk it's less horrible than the original global lock, which was held over the list iteration. Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2011-05-23watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based ↵Mandeep Singh Baines
on watchdog_thresh Before the conversion of the NMI watchdog to perf event, the watchdog timeout was 5 seconds. Now it is 60 seconds. For my particular application, netbooks, 5 seconds was a better timeout. With a short timeout, we catch faults earlier and are able to send back a panic. With a 60 second timeout, the user is unlikely to wait and will instead hit the power button, causing us to lose the panic info. This change configures the NMI period to watchdog_thresh and sets the softlockup_thresh to watchdog_thresh * 2. In addition, watchdog_thresh was reduced to 10 seconds as suggested by Ingo Molnar. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-4-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20110517071642.GF22305@elte.hu>
2011-05-23watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zeroMandeep Singh Baines
This restores the previous behavior of softlock_thresh. Currently, setting watchdog_thresh to zero causes the watchdog kthreads to consume a lot of CPU. In addition, the logic of proc_dowatchdog_thresh and proc_dowatchdog_enabled has been factored into proc_dowatchdog. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-3-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20110517071018.GE22305@elte.hu>
2011-05-23watchdog: Only disable/enable watchdog if neccessaryMandeep Singh Baines
Don't take any action on an unsuccessful write to /proc. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-2-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-23watchdog: Fix rounding bug in get_sample_period()Mandeep Singh Baines
In get_sample_period(), softlockup_thresh is integer divided by 5 before the multiplication by NSEC_PER_SEC. This results in softlockup_thresh being rounded down to the nearest integer multiple of 5. For example, a softlockup_thresh of 4 rounds down to 0. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6: (28 commits) sparc32: fix build, fix missing cpu_relax declaration SCHED_TTWU_QUEUE is not longer needed since sparc32 now implements IPI sparc32,leon: Remove unnecessary page_address calls in LEON DMA API. sparc: convert old cpumask API into new one sparc32, sun4d: Implemented SMP IPIs support for SUN4D machines sparc32, sun4m: Implemented SMP IPIs support for SUN4M machines sparc32,leon: Implemented SMP IPIs for LEON CPU sparc32: implement SMP IPIs using the generic functions sparc32,leon: SMP power down implementation sparc32,leon: added some SMP comments sparc: add {read,write}*_be routines sparc32,leon: don't rely on bootloader to mask IRQs sparc32,leon: operate on boot-cpu IRQ controller registers sparc32: always define boot_cpu_id sparc32: removed unused code, implemented by generic code sparc32: avoid build warning at mm/percpu.c:1647 sparc32: always register a PROM based early console sparc32: probe for cpu info only during startup sparc: consolidate show_cpuinfo in cpu.c sparc32,leon: implement genirq CPU affinity ...
2011-05-20ipc: Add missing sys_ni entries for ipc/compat.c functionsKevin Cernekee
When building with: CONFIG_64BIT=y CONFIG_MIPS32_COMPAT=y CONFIG_COMPAT=y CONFIG_MIPS32_O32=y CONFIG_MIPS32_N32=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC is not set (and implicitly: CONFIG_SYSVIPC_COMPAT is not set) the final link fails with unresolved symbols for: compat_sys_semctl, compat_sys_msgsnd, compat_sys_msgrcv, compat_sys_shmctl, compat_sys_msgctl, compat_sys_semtimedop The fix is to add cond_syscall declarations for all syscalls in ipc/compat.c Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1446 commits) macvlan: fix panic if lowerdev in a bond tg3: Add braces around 5906 workaround. tg3: Fix NETIF_F_LOOPBACK error macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call networking: NET_CLS_ROUTE4 depends on INET irda: Fix error propagation in ircomm_lmp_connect_response() irda: Kill set but unused variable 'bytes' in irlan_check_command_param() irda: Kill set but unused variable 'clen' in ircomm_connect_indication() rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport() be2net: Kill set but unused variable 'req' in lancer_fw_download() irda: Kill set but unused vars 'saddr' and 'daddr' in irlan_provider_connect_indication() atl1c: atl1c_resume() is only used when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is defined. rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_peer(). rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'local' in rxrpc_UDP_error_handler() rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_process_connection() rxrpc: Kill set but unused variable 'sp' in rxrpc_rotate_tx_window() pkt_sched: Kill set but unused variable 'protocol' in tc_classify() isdn: capi: Use pr_debug() instead of ifdefs. tg3: Update version to 3.119 tg3: Apply rx_discards fix to 5719/5720 ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and net/mac80211/agg-tx.c as per Davem.
2011-05-20Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/clocksource to TIMEKEEPING clockevents/source: Use u64 to make 32bit happy
2011-05-20Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: extable, core_kernel_data(): Make sure all archs define _sdata core_kernel_data(): Fix architectures that do not define _sdata
2011-05-20Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/miscLinus Torvalds
* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (41 commits) signal: trivial, fix the "timespec declared inside parameter list" warning job control: reorganize wait_task_stopped() ptrace: fix signal->wait_chldexit usage in task_clear_group_stop_trapping() signal: sys_sigprocmask() needs retarget_shared_pending() signal: cleanup sys_sigprocmask() signal: rename signandsets() to sigandnsets() signal: do_sigtimedwait() needs retarget_shared_pending() signal: introduce do_sigtimedwait() to factor out compat/native code signal: sys_rt_sigtimedwait: simplify the timeout logic signal: cleanup sys_rt_sigprocmask() x86: signal: sys_rt_sigreturn() should use set_current_blocked() x86: signal: handle_signal() should use set_current_blocked() signal: sigprocmask() should do retarget_shared_pending() signal: sigprocmask: narrow the scope of ->siglock signal: retarget_shared_pending: optimize while_each_thread() loop signal: retarget_shared_pending: consider shared/unblocked signals only signal: introduce retarget_shared_pending() ptrace: ptrace_check_attach() should not do s/STOPPED/TRACED/ signal: Turn SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED into GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED signal: do_signal_stop: Remove the unneeded task_clear_group_stop_pending() ...
2011-05-20SCHED_TTWU_QUEUE is not longer needed since sparc32 now implements IPIDaniel Hellstrom
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com> Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-20Merge commit '317f394160e9beb97d19a84c39b7e5eb3d7815a8'David S. Miller
Conflicts: arch/sparc/kernel/smp_32.c With merge conflict help from Daniel Hellstrom. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-20sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usageLinus Torvalds
Commit e66eed651fd1 ("list: remove prefetching from regular list iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather obscure header file dependency. So this fixes things up a bit, using grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]') grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]') to guide us in finding files that either need <linux/prefetch.h> inclusion, or have it despite not needing it. There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets many core ones. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-20Merge branch 'timers/urgent' into timers/coreThomas Gleixner
Reason: Get upstream fixes and kfree_rcu which is necessary for a follow up patch. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-05-20sched: Increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolutionNikhil Rao
Introduce SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION, which scales is added to SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT and increases the resolution of SCHED_LOAD_SCALE. This patch sets the value of SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION to 10, scaling up the weights for all sched entities by a factor of 1024. With this extra resolution, we can handle deeper cgroup hiearchies and the scheduler can do better shares distribution and load load balancing on larger systems (especially for low weight task groups). This does not change the existing user interface, the scaled weights are only used internally. We do not modify prio_to_weight values or inverses, but use the original weights when calculating the inverse which is used to scale execution time delta in calc_delta_mine(). This ensures we do not lose accuracy when accounting time to the sched entities. Thanks to Nikunj Dadhania for fixing an bug in c_d_m() that broken fairness. Below is some analysis of the performance costs/improvements of this patch. 1. Micro-arch performance costs: Experiment was to run Ingo's pipe_test_100k 200 times with the task pinned to one cpu. I measured instruction, cycles and stalled-cycles for the runs. See: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1129232/focus=1129389 for more info. -tip (baseline): Performance counter stats for '/root/load-scale/pipe-test-100k' (200 runs): 964,991,769 instructions # 0.82 insns per cycle # 0.33 stalled cycles per insn # ( +- 0.05% ) 1,171,186,635 cycles # 0.000 GHz ( +- 0.08% ) 306,373,664 stalled-cycles-backend # 26.16% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.28% ) 314,933,621 stalled-cycles-frontend # 26.89% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.34% ) 1.122405684 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.05% ) -tip+patches: Performance counter stats for './load-scale/pipe-test-100k' (200 runs): 963,624,821 instructions # 0.82 insns per cycle # 0.33 stalled cycles per insn # ( +- 0.04% ) 1,175,215,649 cycles # 0.000 GHz ( +- 0.08% ) 315,321,126 stalled-cycles-backend # 26.83% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.28% ) 316,835,873 stalled-cycles-frontend # 26.96% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.29% ) 1.122238659 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.06% ) With this patch, instructions decrease by ~0.10% and cycles increase by 0.27%. This doesn't look statistically significant. The number of stalled cycles in the backend increased from 26.16% to 26.83%. This can be attributed to the shifts we do in c_d_m() and other places. The fraction of stalled cycles in the frontend remains about the same, at 26.96% compared to 26.89% in -tip. 2. Balancing low-weight task groups Test setup: run 50 tasks with random sleep/busy times (biased around 100ms) in a low weight container (with cpu.shares = 2). Measure %idle as reported by mpstat over a 10s window. -tip (baseline): 06:47:48 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle intr/s 06:47:49 PM all 94.32 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.62 15888.00 06:47:50 PM all 94.57 0.00 0.62 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.81 16180.00 06:47:51 PM all 94.69 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.25 15966.00 06:47:52 PM all 95.81 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.19 16053.00 06:47:53 PM all 94.88 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.06 15984.00 06:47:54 PM all 93.31 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 6.69 15806.00 06:47:55 PM all 94.19 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.75 15896.00 06:47:56 PM all 92.87 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.13 15716.00 06:47:57 PM all 94.88 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.12 15982.00 06:47:58 PM all 95.44 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.56 16075.00 Average: all 94.49 0.01 0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.42 15954.60 -tip+patches: 06:47:03 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle intr/s 06:47:04 PM all 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16630.00 06:47:05 PM all 99.69 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.31 16580.20 06:47:06 PM all 99.69 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.25 16596.00 06:47:07 PM all 99.20 0.00 0.74 0.00 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 17838.61 06:47:08 PM all 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16540.00 06:47:09 PM all 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16575.00 06:47:10 PM all 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16614.00 06:47:11 PM all 99.94 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.06 16588.00 06:47:12 PM all 99.94 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16593.00 06:47:13 PM all 99.94 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16551.00 Average: all 99.84 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.06 16711.58 We see an improvement in idle% on the system (drops from 5.42% on -tip to 0.06% with the patches). We see an improvement in idle% on the system (drops from 5.42% on -tip to 0.06% with the patches). Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Stephan Barwolf <stephan.baerwolf@tu-ilmenau.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305754668-18792-1-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>