13 Jan, 2006
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From: Al Viro
task_pt_regs() needs the same offset-by-8 to match copy_thread()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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From: Al Viro
rename alpha_task_regs() to task_pt_regs(), switch open-coded instances
to use of the helper.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
use task_stack_page() for accesses to stack page of task in alpha-specific
parts of treeSigned-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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use task_thread_info() for accesses to thread_info of task in arch/alpha
and include/asm-alphaSigned-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Patchset annotates arch/* uses of ->thread_info. Ones that really are about
access of thread_info of given process are simply switched to
task_thread_info(task); ones that deal with access to objects on stack are
switched to new helper - task_stack_page(). A _lot_ of the latter are
actually open-coded instances of "find where pt_regs are"; those are
consolidated into task_pt_regs(task) (many architectures actually have such
helper already).Note that these annotations are not mandatory - any code not converted to
these helpers still works. However, they clean up a lot of places and have
actually caught a number of bugs, so converting out of tree ports would be a
good idea...As an example of breakage caught by that stuff, see i386 pt_regs mess - we
used to have it open-coded in a bunch of places and when back in April Stas
had fixed a bug in copy_thread(), the rest had been left out of sync. That
required two followup patches (the latest - just before 2.6.15) _and_ still
had left /proc/*/stat eip field broken. Try ps -eo eip on i386 and watch the
junk...This patch:
new helper - task_stack_page(task). Returns pointer to the memory object
containing task stack; usually thread_info of task sits in the beginning
of that object.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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From: Nick Piggin
Track the last waker CPU, and only consider wakeup-balancing if there's a
match between current waker CPU and the previous waker CPU. This ensures
that there is some correlation between two subsequent wakeup events before
we move the task. Should help random-wakeup workloads on large SMP
systems, by reducing the migration attempts by a factor of nr_cpus.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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From: Ingo Molnar
This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch.
The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is
unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this:- I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache
measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means
that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT
distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks
the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows
whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot
time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption
is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain
distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems,
and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems.[ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this
assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with
the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to
the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first
see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ]Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring
the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable
up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with
L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often
have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem:- Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and
sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration
cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of
cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which
occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the
'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for
the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs.This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two
CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost
will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share
any caches.(The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source
for details.)Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune
migration behavior.Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection:
migration_cost=1000,2000,3000
will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values.
Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or
decrease) the autodetected values:migration_factor=120
will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to
tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is
cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying
migration_factor=0.I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3
P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good:Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache):
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migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz):
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[00] [01]
[00]: - 1.7(1)
[01]: 1.7(1) -
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cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008)
---------------------Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even
though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs.Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache):
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migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz):
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[00] [01] [02] [03]
[00]: - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1)
[01]: 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) 0.0(0)
[02]: 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - 0.4(1)
[03]: 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) -
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cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514)
---------------------Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT
siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory
system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs.8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]:
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migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz):
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[00] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07]
[00]: - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[01]: 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[02]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[03]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[04]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[05]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[06]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1)
[07]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) -
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cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756)
---------------------This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the
migration cost is 19 msecs.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen
Cc:
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by
the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Fixes bugzilla.kernel.org bug 2903.
Cc:
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Remove unecessary page++ from memmap_init_zone loop.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
e.g. The sx8 driver uses names like sx8/0.
This would make a md component dev name like
/sys/block/md0/md/dev-sx8/0
which is not allowed. So we change the '/' to '!' just like
fs/partitions/check.c(register_disk) does.Signed-off-by: Neil Brown
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Adapt tiny-shmem.c to the new do_truncate() prototype.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
Acked-by: Matt Mackall
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This ensures that reserved pages are not migrated. Reserved pages
currently cause the WARN_ON to trigger in migrate_page_add()Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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If ordered tag isn't supported, request ordering for barrier
sequencing is performed by queue draining, which basically hangs the
request queue until elv_completed_request() reports completion of all
previous fs requests.The condition check in elv_completed_request() was only performed for
fs requests. If a special request is queued between the last
to-be-drained request and the barrier sequence, draining is never
completed and the queue is stalled forever.This patch moves the end-of-draining condition check such that it's
performed for all requests.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Jan, 2006
22 commits
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o This fix was posted for i386 long back. Posting it for x86_64.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110380103229830&w=2
o This patch fixes the problem of secondary cpus boot up. This situation
is faced when kernel is built for default locations like 16MB and
onwards. In this configuration, only primary cpu (BP) comes and
secondary cpus don't boot.o Problem occurs because in trampoline code, lgdt is not able to load the
GDT as it happens to be situated beyond 16MB. This is due to the fact
that cpu is still in real mode and default operand size is 16bit.o This patch uses lgdtl instead of lgdt to force operand size to 32
instead of 16.Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Handling common prefixes is tricky.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
... reducing the amount of changes Xen has to do.
Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The explicit and implicit calls to setup_early_printk() were passing
inconsistent arguments.Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It has no business being elsewhere and x86-64 doesn't need/want it.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Previously they would be only allocated before the kernel text at
1MB. This limited the maximum supported memory to 128GB.
Now allow the e820 allocator to put them everywhere. Try
to put them beyond any DMA zones to avoid filling them up.
This should free some GFP_DMA memory compared to earlier kernels.Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
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hard_smp_processor_id would return the local APIC id instead
of the Linux processor id. On big systems they are often
not identical. safe_smp_processor_id is just a wrapper
around it that does the necessary conversions.Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Remove support for obsolete hardware and cleanup.
- Remove checks for non integrated APICs
- Replace apic_write_around with apic_write.
- Remove apic_read_around
- Remove APIC version reads used by old workarounds
- Remove old workaround for Simics
- Fix indentationSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When building in a separate objtree, file names produced by BUG() & Co. can
get fairly long; printing only the first 50 characters may thus result in
(almost) no useful information. The following change makes it so that rather
the last 50 characters of the filename get printed.Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Especially under Xen, where the console cannot be adjusted to more than 25
lines, it is fairly important that the information displayed during a panic
is as compact as possible. Below adjustments work towards that.Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Due to a broken condition, the body of the loop that is intended to wait for
the Update-In-Progress bit to get set and then cleared again was never
entered; in fact, the entire loop was optimized out by the compiler. Here is
a change to fix the condition (and to also move the initialization of locals
out of the spin lock protected region).Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It was only needed for APM
Pointed out by Jan Beulich
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
X86_FEATURE_K8_C was a synthetic Linux CPUID flag that was used for some
code optimizations in Opteron C stepping or later. But support for pre C
stepping optimizations has been removed, so this isn't needed anymore.Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
early_cpu_detect only runs on the BP, but this code needs to run
on all CPUs.Looks like a mismerge somewhere. Also add a warning comment.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Fix some trivial sparse warnings in x86_64 code.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Saves about ~18K .text in defconfig
There would be more optimization potential, but that's for later.
Suggestion originally from Bill Irwin.
Fix from Andy Whitcroft.Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
They used to be used by the reboot code, but not anymore.
Noticed by Jan Beulich
Cc: JBeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
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o Currently, during kexec reboot, IOAPIC is re-programmed back to virtual
wire mode if there was an i8259 connected to it. This enables getting
timer interrupts in second kernel in legacy mode.o After putting into virtual wire mode, IOAPIC delivers the i8259 interrupts
to CPU0. This works well for kexec but not for kdump as we might crash
on a different CPU and second kernel will not see timer interrupts.o This patch modifies the redirection table entry to deliver the timer
interrupts to the cpu we are rebooting (instead of hardcoding to zero).
This ensures that second kernel receives timer interrupts even on a
non-boot cpu.Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
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Introduce vSMP arch to the kernel.
This patch:
1. Adds CONFIG_X86_VSMP
2. Adds machine specific macros for local_irq_disabled, local_irq_enabled
and irqs_disabled
3. Writes to the vSMP CTL device to indicate kernel compiled with CONFIG_VSMPSigned-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
vSMP specific alignment patch to
1. Define INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT for vSMP
2. Use this for alignment of critical structures
3. Use INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT for ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN,
and let the slab align task_struct allocations to the internode cacheline size
4. Introduce and use ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN for mm_struct slab allocations.Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Fixes
CC fs/nfsctl.o
In file included from include2/asm/atomic.h:427,
from /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/include/linux/file.h:8,
from /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/fs/nfsctl.c:8:
/home/lsrc/quilt/linux/include/asm-generic/atomic.h:20:5: warning: "BITS_PER_LONG" is not definedSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
