We call led_classdev_unregister/led_classdev_register in
asic3_led_remove/asic3_led_probe, thus make LEDS_ASIC3 depend on
LEDS_CLASS.
This patch fixes below build error if LEDS_CLASS is not configured.
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
drivers/built-in.o: In function `asic3_led_remove':
clkdev.c:(.devexit.text+0x1860): undefined reference to `led_classdev_unregister'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `asic3_led_probe':
clkdev.c:(.devinit.text+0xcee8): undefined reference to `led_classdev_register'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Parsons <lost.distance@yahoo.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update my email address. Email will start to the old address bouncing
soon
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The "hostname" tool falls back to setting the hostname to "localhost" if
/etc/hostname does not exist. Distribution init scripts have the same
fallback. However, if userspace never calls sethostname, such as when
booting with init=/bin/sh, or otherwise booting a minimal system without
the usual init scripts, the default hostname of "(none)" remains,
unhelpfully appearing in various places such as prompts ("root@(none):~#")
and logs. Furthermore, "(none)" doesn't typically resolve to anything
useful.
Make the default hostname configurable. This removes the need for the
standard fallback, provides a useful default for systems that never call
sethostname, and makes minimal systems that much more useful with less
configuration. Distributions could choose to use "localhost" here to
avoid the fallback, while embedded systems may wish to use a specific
target hostname.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO and BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL must return values, even in the
CHECKER case otherwise various users of it become syntactically invalid.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 56de7263fc ("mm: compaction: direct compact when a high-order
allocation fails") introduced a check for cc->order == -1 in
compact_finished. We should continue compacting in that case because
the request came from userspace and there is no particular order to
compact for. Similar check has been added by 82478fb7 (mm: compaction:
prevent division-by-zero during user-requested compaction) for
compaction_suitable.
The check is, however, done after zone_watermark_ok which uses order as a
right hand argument for shifts. Not only watermark check is pointless if
we can break out without it but it also uses 1 << -1 which is not well
defined (at least from C standard). Let's move the -1 check above
zone_watermark_ok.
[minchan.kim@gmail.com> - caught compaction_suitable]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hioryu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Running a ktest.pl test, I hit the following bug on x86_32:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:81 __kunmap_atomic+0x64/0xc1()
Hardware name:
Modules linked in:
Pid: 93, comm: sh Not tainted 2.6.39-test+ #1
Call Trace:
[<c04450da>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x91
[<c042f5df>] ? __kunmap_atomic+0x64/0xc1
[<c042f5df>] ? __kunmap_atomic+0x64/0xc1^M
[<c0445111>] warn_slowpath_null+0x22/0x24
[<c042f5df>] __kunmap_atomic+0x64/0xc1
[<c04d4a22>] unmap_vmas+0x43a/0x4e0
[<c04d9065>] exit_mmap+0x91/0xd2
[<c0443057>] mmput+0x43/0xad
[<c0448358>] exit_mm+0x111/0x119
[<c044855f>] do_exit+0x1ff/0x5fa
[<c0454ea2>] ? set_current_blocked+0x3c/0x40
[<c0454f24>] ? sigprocmask+0x7e/0x8e
[<c0448b55>] do_group_exit+0x65/0x88
[<c0448b90>] sys_exit_group+0x18/0x1c
[<c0c3915f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38
---[ end trace 8055f74ea3c0eb62 ]---
Running a ktest.pl git bisect, found the culprit: commit e303297e6c
("mm: extended batches for generic mmu_gather")
But although this was the commit triggering the bug, it was not the one
originally responsible for the bug. That was commit d16dfc550f ("mm:
mmu_gather rework").
The code in zap_pte_range() has something that looks like the following:
pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
do {
[...]
} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
The pte starts off pointing at the first element in the page table
directory that was returned by the pte_offset_map_lock(). When it's done
with the page, pte will be pointing to anything between the next entry and
the first entry of the next page inclusive. By doing a pte - 1, this puts
the pte back onto the original page, which is all that pte_unmap_unlock()
needs.
In most archs (64 bit), this is not an issue as the pte is ignored in the
pte_unmap_unlock(). But on 32 bit archs, where things may be kmapped, it
is essential that the pte passed to pte_unmap_unlock() resides on the same
page that was given by pte_offest_map_lock().
The problem came in d16dfc55 ("mm: mmu_gather rework") where it introduced
a "break;" from the while loop. This alone did not seem to easily trigger
the bug. But the modifications made by e303297e6 caused that "break;" to
be hit on the first iteration, before the pte++.
The pte not being incremented will now cause pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1) to
be pointing to the previous page. This will cause the wrong page to be
unmapped, and also trigger the warning above.
The simple solution is to just save the pointer given by
pte_offset_map_lock() and use it in the unlock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the wrong `if' condition for the check if the requested timer is
available.
The bitmap avail is used to store if a timer is used already. test_bit()
is used to check if the requested timer is available. If a bit in the
avail bitmap is set it means that the timer is available.
The runtime effect would be that allocating a specific timer always fails
(versus telling cs5535_mfgpt_alloc_timer to allocate the first available
timer, which works).
Signed-off-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the case of goto err_kzalloc, we should kfree target.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Recently, Robert Mueller reported (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/12/236)
that zone_reclaim_mode doesn't work properly on his new NUMA server (Dual
Xeon E5520 + Intel S5520UR MB). He is using Cyrus IMAPd and it's built on
a very traditional single-process model.
* a master process which reads config files and manages the other
process
* multiple imapd processes, one per connection
* multiple pop3d processes, one per connection
* multiple lmtpd processes, one per connection
* periodical "cleanup" processes.
There are thousands of independent processes. The problem is, recent
Intel motherboard turn on zone_reclaim_mode by default and traditional
prefork model software don't work well on it. Unfortunatelly, such models
are still typical even in the 21st century. We can't ignore them.
This patch raises the zone_reclaim_mode threshold to 30. 30 doesn't have
any specific meaning. but 20 means that one-hop QPI/Hypertransport and
such relatively cheap 2-4 socket machine are often used for traditional
servers as above. The intention is that these machines don't use
zone_reclaim_mode.
Note: ia64 and Power have arch specific RECLAIM_DISTANCE definitions.
This patch doesn't change such high-end NUMA machine behavior.
Dave Hansen said:
: I know specifically of pieces of x86 hardware that set the information
: in the BIOS to '21' *specifically* so they'll get the zone_reclaim_mode
: behavior which that implies.
:
: They've done performance testing and run very large and scary benchmarks
: to make sure that they _want_ this turned on. What this means for them
: is that they'll probably be de-optimized, at least on newer versions of
: the kernel.
:
: If you want to do this for particular systems, maybe _that_'s what we
: should do. Have a list of specific configurations that need the
: defaults overridden either because they're buggy, or they have an
: unusual hardware configuration not really reflected in the distance
: table.
And later said:
: The original change in the hardware tables was for the benefit of a
: benchmark. Said benchmark isn't going to get run on mainline until the
: next batch of enterprise distros drops, at which point the hardware where
: this was done will be irrelevant for the benchmark. I'm sure any new
: hardware will just set this distance to another yet arbitrary value to
: make the kernel do what it wants. :)
:
: Also, when the hardware got _set_ to this initially, I complained. So, I
: guess I'm getting my way now, with this patch. I'm cool with it.
Reported-by: Robert Mueller <robm@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Warn about uses of printk_ratelimit() because it uses a global state and
can hide subsequent useful messages.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix <linux/kmsg_dump.h> when CONFIG_PRINTK is not enabled:
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h:56: error: 'EINVAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h:61: error: 'EINVAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
Looks like commit 595dd3d8bf ("kmsg_dump: fix build for
CONFIG_PRINTK=n") uses EINVAL without having the needed header file(s),
but I'm sure that I build tested that patch also. oh well.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While testing for memcg aware swap token, I observed a swap token was
often grabbed an intermittent running process (eg init, auditd) and they
never release a token.
Why?
Some processes (eg init, auditd, audispd) wake up when a process exiting.
And swap token can be get first page-in process when a process exiting
makes no swap token owner. Thus such above intermittent running process
often get a token.
And currently, swap token priority is only decreased at page fault path.
Then, if the process sleep immediately after to grab swap token, the swap
token priority never be decreased. That's obviously undesirable.
This patch implement very poor (and lightweight) priority aging. It only
be affect to the above corner case and doesn't change swap tendency
workload performance (eg multi process qsbench load)
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, memcg reclaim can disable swap token even if the swap token mm
doesn't belong in its memory cgroup. It's slightly risky. If an admin
creates very small mem-cgroup and silly guy runs contentious heavy memory
pressure workload, every tasks are going to lose swap token and then
system may become unresponsive. That's bad.
This patch adds 'memcg' parameter into disable_swap_token(). and if the
parameter doesn't match swap token, VM doesn't disable it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit a8bef8ff6e ("mm: migration: avoid race between shift_arg_pages()
and rmap_walk() during migration by not migrating temporary stacks")
introduced a BUG_ON() to ensure that VM_STACK_FLAGS and
VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP do not overlap. The check is a compile time
one, so BUILD_BUG_ON is more appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix new kernel-doc warnings in lib/bitmap.c:
Warning(lib/bitmap.c:596): No description found for parameter 'buf'
Warning(lib/bitmap.c:596): Excess function parameter 'bp' description in '__bitmap_parselist'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix new kernel-doc warnings in mm/memory.c:
Warning(mm/memory.c:1327): No description found for parameter 'tlb'
Warning(mm/memory.c:1327): Excess function parameter 'tlbp' description in 'unmap_vmas'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes noticed the vmstat update is already taken care of by
khugepaged_alloc_hugepage() internally. The only places that are required
to update the vmstat are the callers of alloc_hugepage (callers of
khugepaged_alloc_hugepage aren't).
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Don't call iput with the inode half setup to be a namespace filedescriptor.
Instead rearrange the code so that we don't initialize ei->ns_ops until
after I ns_ops->get succeeds, preventing us from invoking ns_ops->put
when ns_ops->get failed.
Reported-by: Ingo Saitz <Ingo.Saitz@stud.uni-hannover.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
.. As it won't actually power off the machine.
Reported-by: Sven Köhler <sven.koehler@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sven Köhler <sven.koehler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Goetz <tom.goetz@virtualcomputer.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The script has the executable bit in git, but plain old patch(1) can't
create executable files.
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
When generating the perf version from the kernel version using 'make
kernelver' it is necessary to clear out any MAKEFLAGS otherwise they may
trigger additional output which pollute the contents.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The MAXSMP config option requires CPUMASK_OFFSTACK, which in turn
requires we init the memory for the maps while we bring up the cpus.
MAXSMP also increases NR_CPUS to 4096. This increase in size exposed an
issue in the argument construction for multicalls from
xen_flush_tlb_others. The args should only need space for the actual
number of cpus.
Also in 2.6.39 it exposes a bootup problem.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffff8157a1d3>] set_cpu_sibling_map+0x123/0x30d
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81039a3f>] ? xen_restore_fl_direct_reloc+0x4/0x4
[<ffffffff819dc4db>] xen_smp_prepare_cpus+0x36/0x135
..
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
[v2: Updated to compile on 3.0]
[v3: Updated to compile when CONFIG_SMP is not defined]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
We can lockup if we try to allow new writers join the transaction and we have
flushoncommit set or have a pending snapshot. This is because we set
no_trans_join and then loop around and try to wait for ordered extents again.
The problem is the ordered endio stuff needs to join the transaction, which it
can't do because no_trans_join is set. So instead wait until after this loop to
set no_trans_join and then make sure to wait for num_writers == 1 in case
anybody got started in between us exiting the loop and setting no_trans_join.
This could easily be reproduced by mounting -o flushoncommit and running xfstest
13. It cannot be reproduced with this patch. Thanks,
Reported-by: Jim Schutt <jaschut@sandia.gov>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Currently there is nothing protecting the pending_snapshots list on the
transaction. We only hold the directory mutex that we are snapshotting and a
read lock on the subvol_sem, so we could race with somebody else creating a
snapshot in a different directory and end up with list corruption. So protect
this list with the trans_lock. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
The delayed ref patch accidently removed the btrfs_free_path in
btrfs_unlink_subvol, this puts it back and means we don't leak a path. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Post commit e4eefec73e, the stack is
not generating the CCMP header for us anymore. This broke the CCMP
functionality since firmware was not doing this either. Set a flag
to tell the firmware to generate the CCMP header
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Following OOPS was seen when booting with card inserted
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000004c
IP: [<f8b7718c>] cfg80211_get_drvinfo+0x21/0x115 [cfg80211]
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: iwl3945 iwl_legacy mwifiex_sdio mac80211 11 sdhci_pci sdhci pl2303
'ethtool' on the mwifiex device returned this OOPS as
wiphy_dev() returned NULL.
Adding missing set_wiphy_dev() call to fix the problem.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On system boot up, the lowest_mask is initialized with an
early_initcall(). But RT tasks may wake up on other
early_initcall() callers before the lowest_mask is initialized,
causing a system crash.
Commit "d72bce0e67 rcu: Cure load woes" was the first commit
to wake up RT tasks in early init. Before this commit this bug
should not happen.
Reported-by: Andrew Theurer <habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Theurer <habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110614223657.824872966@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The RT preempt check tests the wrong task if NEED_RESCHED is
set. It currently checks the local CPU task. It is supposed to
check the task that is running on the runqueue we are about to
wake another task on.
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110614223657.450239027@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- usb0 pipe is same as default. own pipe config is not needed
- usb1 lost get_id function
Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <morimoto.kuninori@renesas.com>
Acked-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
A recent modification to the runtime PM code on mach-shmobile made a wrong
RTPM implementation in the sh_mobile_hdmi driver apparent, which broke
HDMI hotplug detection support on ap4evb. This patch does not implement a
proper dynamic RTPM support for sh_mobile_hdmi, instead it restores the
previous working state by statically enabling it. A more power-efficient
solution should be implemented for the next kernel version.
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Fix kernel-doc warnings in signal.c:
Warning(kernel/signal.c:2374): No description found for parameter 'nset'
Warning(kernel/signal.c:2374): Excess function parameter 'set' description in 'sys_rt_sigprocmask'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.
The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.
Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.)
This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Make the functions creating the kthreads wake them up. Leverage the
fact that the per-node and boost kthreads can run anywhere, thus
dispensing with the need to wake them up once the incoming CPU has
gone fully online.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
[ Also from Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> and Vitaliy Ivanov
<vitalivanov@gmail.com> ]
Commit 06ae40ce07 ("x86 idle: EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle, pm_idle)
only when APM demands it") removed the export for pm_idle/default_idle
unless the apm module was modularised and CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE was set.
But the apm module uses pm_idle/default_idle unconditionally,
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE only affects the bios idle threshold. Adjust the
export accordingly.
[ Used #ifdef instead of #if defined() as it's shorter, and what both
Ben and Vitaliy used.. Andy, you're out-voted ;) - Linus ]
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Ivanov <vitalivanov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu:
m68k: use kernel processor defines for conditional optimizations
m68knommu: create config options for CPU classes
m68knommu: fix linker script exported name sections
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/egtvedt/avr32-2.6:
avr32, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
avr32: make intc_resume() return void to conform to syscore_ops
avr32: add some more at91 to cpu.h definition
avr32: set CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y for all defconfigs
avr32/at32ap: fix mapping of platform device id for USART
avr32: fix use of non-existing portnr variable in at32_map_usart()
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm: Compare only lower 32 bits of framebuffer map offsets
drm/i915: Don't leak in i915_gem_shmem_pread_slow()
drm/radeon/kms: do bounds checking for 3D_LOAD_VBPNTR and bump array limit
drm/radeon/kms: fix mac g5 quirk
x86/uv/x2apic: update for change in pci bridge handling.
alpha, drm: Remove obsolete Alpha support in MGA DRM code
alpha/drm: Cleanup Alpha support in DRM generic code
savage: remove unnecessary if statement
drm/radeon: fix GUI idle IH debug statements
drm/radeon/kms: check modes against max pixel clock
drm: fix fbs in DRM_IOCTL_MODE_GETRESOURCES ioctl
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md/raid5: remove unusual use of bio_iovec_idx()
md/raid5: fix FUA request handling in ops_run_io()
md/raid5: fix raid5_set_bi_hw_segments
md:Documentation/md.txt - fix typo
md/bitmap: remove unused fields from struct bitmap
md/bitmap: use proper accessor macro
md: check ->hot_remove_disk when removing disk
md: Using poll /proc/mdstat can monitor the events of adding a spare disks
MD: use is_power_of_2 macro
MD: raid5 do not set fullsync
MD: support initial bitmap creation in-kernel
MD: add sync_super to mddev_t struct
MD: raid1 changes to allow use by device mapper
MD: move thread wakeups into resume
MD: possible typo
MD: no sync IO while suspended
MD: no integrity register if no gendisk
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] Remove cpufreq_stats sysfs entries on module unload.
MAINTAINERS: Update CPU FREQUENCY patterns
When policy version is less than POLICYDB_VERSION_FILENAME_TRANS,
skip file_name_trans_write().
Signed-off-by: Roy.Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Axel Lin
Balbir Singh
Josh Triplett
Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Michal Hocko
Steven Rostedt
Christian Gmeiner
KOSAKI Motohiro
Joe Perches
Randy Dunlap
Ying Han
Andrew Morton
Michael Hennerich
Andrea Arcangeli
Eric W. Biederman
Tom Goetz
Michal Marek
Andy Whitcroft
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Andrew Jones
Josef Bacik
Takashi Iwai
Nishant Sarmukadam
Yogesh Ashok Powar
Hillf Danton
Kuninori Morimoto
Guennadi Liakhovetski
James Morris
Shaohua Li
Paul E. McKenney
Linus Torvalds
Roy.Li