27 May, 2011

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
    Cc: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim
    Reviewed-by: Li Zefan
    Acked-by: Paul Menage
    Acked-by: Matt Helsley
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Daniel Lezcano
     

25 May, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
    kbuild: make KBUILD_NOCMDDEP=1 handle empty built-in.o
    scripts/kallsyms.c: fix potential segfault
    scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Convert to a /bin/sh script
    kbuild: Fix GNU make v3.80 compatibility
    kbuild: Fix passing -Wno-* options to gcc 4.4+
    kbuild: move scripts/basic/docproc.c to scripts/docproc.c
    kbuild: Fix Makefile.asm-generic for um
    kbuild: Allow to combine multiple W= levels
    kbuild: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable for gcc 4.6.0
    Fix handling of backlash character in LINUX_COMPILE_BY name
    kbuild: asm-generic support
    kbuild: implement several W= levels
    kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19
    initramfs: Use KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP for generated entries
    kbuild: Allow to override LINUX_COMPILE_BY and LINUX_COMPILE_HOST macros
    kbuild: Drop unused LINUX_COMPILE_TIME and LINUX_COMPILE_DOMAIN macros
    kbuild: Use the deterministic mode of ar
    kbuild: Call gzip with -n
    kbuild: move KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile
    Kconfig: improve KALLSYMS_ALL documentation

    Fix up trivial conflict in Makefile

    Linus Torvalds
     

23 May, 2011

2 commits

  • * 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
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • I still happen to believe that I$ miss costs are a major thing, but
    sadly, -Os doesn't seem to be the solution. With or without it, gcc
    will miss some obvious code size improvements, and with it enabled gcc
    will sometimes make choices that aren't good even with high I$ miss
    ratios.

    For example, with -Os, gcc on x86 will turn a 20-byte constant memcpy
    into a "rep movsl". While I sincerely hope that x86 CPU's will some day
    do a good job at that, they certainly don't do it yet, and the cost is
    higher than a L1 I$ miss would be.

    Some day I hope we can re-enable this.

    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
     

21 May, 2011

1 commit


20 May, 2011

2 commits

  • * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (78 commits)
    Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof"
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(prl_entry_destroy_rcu) to kfree
    batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(softif_neigh_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu
    batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(neigh_node_free_rcu) to kfree()
    batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(gw_node_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(kfree_tid_tx) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xt_osf_finger_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
    net/mac80211,rcu: convert call_rcu(work_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(wq_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free) to kfree_rcu()
    perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(swevent_hlist_release_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
    perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(free_ctx) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(__nf_ct_ext_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(net_generic_release) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr6) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr4) to kfree_rcu()
    security,rcu: convert call_rcu(sel_netif_free) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_dev_maps_release) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_map_release) to kfree_rcu()
    net,rcu: convert call_rcu(rps_map_release) to kfree_rcu()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • …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: (60 commits)
    sched: Fix and optimise calculation of the weight-inverse
    sched: Avoid going ahead if ->cpus_allowed is not changed
    sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPU
    sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task()
    sched: Shorten the construction of the span cpu mask of sched domain
    sched: Wrap the 'cfs_rq->nr_spread_over' field with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
    sched: Remove unused 'this_best_prio arg' from balance_tasks()
    sched: Remove noop in alloc_rt_sched_group()
    sched: Get rid of lock_depth
    sched: Remove obsolete comment from scheduler_tick()
    sched: Fix sched_domain iterations vs. RCU
    sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt path
    sched: Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task entities
    sched: Remove need_migrate_task()
    sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu
    sched: Restructure ttwu() some more
    sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation() to ttwu_do_wakeup()
    sched: Remove rq argument from ttwu_stat()
    sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()
    sched: Drop rq->lock from sched_exec()
    ...

    * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
    sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug

    Linus Torvalds
     

12 May, 2011

1 commit


11 May, 2011

1 commit

  • This reverts commit 4a5fa3590f09, which did not allow SLUB to be used
    on architectures that use DISCONTIGMEM without compiling NUMA support
    without CONFIG_BROKEN also set.

    The slub panic that it was intended to prevent is addressed by
    d9b41e0b54fd ("[PARISC] set memory ranges in N_NORMAL_MEMORY when
    onlined") on parisc so there is no further slub issues with such a
    configuration.

    The reverts allows SLUB now to be used on such architectures since
    there haven't been any reports of additional errors.

    Cc: James Bottomley
    Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Rientjes
     

06 May, 2011

1 commit

  • Add priority boosting for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, similar to that for
    TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. This is enabled by the default-off RCU_BOOST
    kernel parameter. The priority to which to boost preempted
    RCU readers is controlled by the RCU_BOOST_PRIO kernel parameter
    (defaulting to real-time priority 1) and the time to wait before
    boosting the readers who are blocking a given grace period is
    controlled by the RCU_BOOST_DELAY kernel parameter (defaulting to
    500 milliseconds).

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     

28 Apr, 2011

1 commit


27 Apr, 2011

1 commit

  • The EXPERT menu list was recently broken by the insertion of a
    kconfig symbol (EMBEDDED) at the beginning of the EXPERT list of
    kconfig items. Broken by:

    commit 6a108a14fa356ef607be308b68337939e56ea94e
    Author: David Rientjes
    Date: Thu Jan 20 14:44:16 2011 -0800
    kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT

    Restore the EXPERT menu list -- don't inject a symbol (EMBEDDED)
    that does not depend on EXPERT into the list.

    Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
    Cc: David Rientjes
    Cc: Peter Foley
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Randy Dunlap
     

23 Apr, 2011

1 commit

  • Slub makes assumptions about page_to_nid() which are violated by
    DISCONTIGMEM and !NUMA. This violation results in a panic because
    page_to_nid() can be non-zero for pages in the discontiguous ranges and
    this leads to a null return by get_node(). The assertion by the
    maintainer is that DISCONTIGMEM should only be allowed when NUMA is also
    defined. However, at least six architectures: alpha, ia64, m32r, m68k,
    mips, parisc violate this. The panic is a regression against slab, so
    just mark slub broken in the problem configuration to prevent users
    reporting these panics.

    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Acked-by: David Rientjes
    Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    James Bottomley
     

15 Apr, 2011

2 commits

  • At the moment we have the CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS Kconfig switch,
    which users can enable or disable while configuring the kernel. This
    option is then used by 'make' to determine whether an extra kallsyms
    pass is needed or not.

    However, this approach is not nice and confusing, and this patch moves
    CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile instead. The
    rationale is below.

    1. CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is really about the build time, not
    run-time. There is no real need for it to be in Kconfig. It is
    just an additional work-around which should be used only in rare
    cases, when someone breaks kallsyms, so Kbuild/Makefile is much
    better place for this option.
    2. Grepping CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS shows that many defconfigs have
    it enabled, probably not because they try to work-around a kallsyms
    bug, but just because the Kconfig help text is confusing and does
    not really make it clear that this option should not be used unless
    except when kallsyms is broken.
    3. And since many people have CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS enabled in
    their Kconfig, we do might fail to notice kallsyms bugs in time. E.g.,
    many testers use "make allyesconfig" to test builds, which will enable
    CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS and kallsyms breakage will not be noticed.

    To address that, this patch:

    1. Kills CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
    2. Changes Makefile so that people can use "make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1"
    to enable the extra pass if needed. Additionally, they may define
    KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS as an environment variable.
    3. By default KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is disabled and if kallsyms has issues,
    "make" should print a warning and suggest using KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS

    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
    [mmarek: Removed make help text, is not necessary]
    Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

    Artem Bityutskiy
     
  • Dumb users like myself are not able to grasp from the existing KALLSYMS_ALL
    documentation that this option is not what they need. Improve the help
    message and make it clearer that KALLSYMS is enough in the majority of
    use cases, and KALLSYMS_ALL should really be used very rarely.

    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
    Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

    Artem Bityutskiy
     

14 Apr, 2011

1 commit

  • Now that we've removed the rq->lock requirement from the first part of
    ttwu() and can compute placement without holding any rq->lock, ensure
    we execute the second half of ttwu() on the actual cpu we want the
    task to run on.

    This avoids having to take rq->lock and doing the task enqueue
    remotely, saving lots on cacheline transfers.

    As measured using: http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/sembench.c

    $ for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor ; do echo performance > $i; done
    $ echo 4096 32000 64 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
    $ ./sembench -t 2048 -w 1900 -o 0

    unpatched: run time 30 seconds 647278 worker burns per second
    patched: run time 30 seconds 816715 worker burns per second

    Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand
    Cc: Mike Galbraith
    Cc: Nick Piggin
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.515897185@chello.nl

    Peter Zijlstra
     

19 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (47 commits)
    doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymore
    Update cpuset info & webiste for cgroups
    dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected
    arch/arm/Kconfig: remove one to many l's in the word.
    asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment
    drm: fix printk typo 'sracth'
    Remove one to many n's in a word
    Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs
    drivers:scsi Change printk typo initate -> initiate
    serial, pch uart: Remove duplicate inclusion of linux/pci.h header
    fs/eventpoll.c: fix spelling
    mm: Fix out-of-date comments which refers non-existent functions
    drm: Fix printk typo 'failled'
    coh901318.c: Change initate to initiate.
    mbox-db5500.c Change initate to initiate.
    edac: correct i82975x error-info reported
    edac: correct i82975x mci initialisation
    edac: correct commented info
    fs: update comments to point correct document
    target: remove duplicate include of target/target_core_device.h from drivers/target/target_core_hba.c
    ...

    Trivial conflict in fs/eventpoll.c (spelling vs addition)

    Linus Torvalds
     

17 Mar, 2011

2 commits

  • * 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
    BKL: That's all, folks
    fs/locks.c: Remove stale FIXME left over from BKL conversion
    ipx: remove the BKL
    appletalk: remove the BKL
    x25: remove the BKL
    ufs: remove the BKL
    hpfs: remove the BKL
    drivers: remove extraneous includes of smp_lock.h
    tracing: don't trace the BKL
    adfs: remove the big kernel lock

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • …/gregkh/driver-core-2.6

    * 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (50 commits)
    printk: do not mangle valid userspace syslog prefixes
    efivars: Add Documentation
    efivars: Expose efivars functionality to external drivers.
    efivars: Parameterize operations.
    efivars: Split out variable registration
    efivars: parameterize efivars
    efivars: Make efivars bin_attributes dynamic
    efivars: move efivars globals into struct efivars
    drivers:misc: ti-st: fix debugging code
    kref: Fix typo in kref documentation
    UIO: add PRUSS UIO driver support
    Fix spelling mistakes in Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches
    firmware: Fix unaligned memory accesses in dmi-sysfs
    firmware: Add documentation for /sys/firmware/dmi
    firmware: Expose DMI type 15 System Event Log
    firmware: Break out system_event_log in dmi-sysfs
    firmware: Basic dmi-sysfs support
    firmware: Add DMI entry types to the headers
    Driver core: convert platform_{get,set}_drvdata to static inline functions
    Translate linux-2.6/Documentation/magic-number.txt into Chinese
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

16 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • …git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

    * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (184 commits)
    perf probe: Clean up probe_point_lazy_walker() return value
    tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max buffer
    tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer
    tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event()
    tracing: Explain about unstable clock on resume with ring buffer warning
    ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before updating index
    ftrace: Add .ref.text as one of the safe areas to trace
    tracing: Adjust conditional expression latency formatting.
    tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb
    tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record
    tracing: Fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall
    tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request
    tracing: Fix event alignment: ftrace:context_switch and ftrace:wakeup
    tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
    perf header: Stop using 'self'
    perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes
    perf top: Don't let events to eat up whole header line
    perf top: Fix events overflow in top command
    ring-buffer: Remove unused #include <linux/trace_irq.h>
    tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

15 Mar, 2011

1 commit


05 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • This removes the implementation of the big kernel lock,
    at last. A lot of people have worked on this in the
    past, I so the credit for this patch should be with
    everyone who participated in the hunt.

    The names on the Cc list are the people that were the
    most active in this, according to the recorded git
    history, in alphabetical order.

    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Acked-by: Alan Cox
    Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: Andrew Hendry
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
    Cc: Hans Verkuil
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Jan Blunck
    Cc: John Kacur
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Oliver Neukum
    Cc: Paul Menage
    Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Trond Myklebust

    Arnd Bergmann
     

04 Mar, 2011

1 commit


16 Feb, 2011

1 commit

  • This kernel patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on
    container groups (cgroups). This is for use in per-cpu mode only.

    The cgroup to monitor is passed as a file descriptor in the pid
    argument to the syscall. The file descriptor must be opened to
    the cgroup name in the cgroup filesystem. For instance, if the
    cgroup name is foo and cgroupfs is mounted in /cgroup, then the
    file descriptor is opened to /cgroup/foo. Cgroup mode is
    activated by passing PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP in the flags argument
    to the syscall.

    For instance to measure in cgroup foo on CPU1 assuming
    cgroupfs is mounted under /cgroup:

    struct perf_event_attr attr;
    int cgroup_fd, fd;

    cgroup_fd = open("/cgroup/foo", O_RDONLY);
    fd = perf_event_open(&attr, cgroup_fd, 1, -1, PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP);
    close(cgroup_fd);

    Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian
    [ added perf_cgroup_{exit,attach} ]
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Stephane Eranian
     

15 Feb, 2011

1 commit


04 Feb, 2011

1 commit


21 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
    is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
    only small devices.

    This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
    references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
    option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
    can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
    considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).

    Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
    expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
    are making should enable it.

    Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: David Woodhouse
    Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
    Cc: Greg KH
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: Robin Holt
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Rientjes
     

17 Jan, 2011

2 commits

  • It would seem that `CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE' doesn't exist,
    as it is only referenced in the documentation for
    `CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP'. The only other choice is
    `CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING':

    $ git grep --cached THROTTL -- \*Kconfig
    block/Kconfig:config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
    init/Kconfig: CONFIG_BLK_THROTTLE=y.

    Signed-off-by: Michael Witten
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    Michael Witten
     
  • Also, I introduced some punctuation to facilitate reading.

    Signed-off-by: Michael Witten
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    Michael Witten
     

16 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • …linus' and 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

    * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
    rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings
    rcu: demote SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY from kernel-parameter status
    rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi()

    * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
    x86, olpc: Add missing Kconfig dependencies
    x86, mrst: Set correct APB timer IRQ affinity for secondary cpu
    x86: tsc: Fix calibration refinement conditionals to avoid divide by zero
    x86, ia64, acpi: Clean up x86-ism in drivers/acpi/numa.c

    * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
    timekeeping: Make local variables static
    time: Rename misnamed minsec argument of clocks_calc_mult_shift()

    * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
    tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields
    tracing: Only process module tracepoints once
    perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by default
    perf sched: Fix list of events, dropping unsupported ':r' modifier
    Revert "perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return"
    perf top: Fix annotate segv
    perf evsel: Fix order of event list deletion

    Linus Torvalds
     

14 Jan, 2011

4 commits

  • …/linux-2.6-rcu into core/urgent

    Ingo Molnar
     
  • Because the adaptive synchronize_srcu_expedited() approach has
    worked very well in testing, remove the kernel parameter and
    replace it by a C-preprocessor macro. If someone finds problems
    with this approach, a more complex and aggressively adaptive
    approach might be required.

    Longer term, SRCU will be merged with the other RCU implementations,
    at which point synchronize_srcu_expedited() will be event driven,
    just as synchronize_sched_expedited() currently is. At that point,
    there will be no need for this adaptive approach.

    Reported-by: Linus Torvalds
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
    Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
    writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
    ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
    drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
    m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
    wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
    media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
    remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
    remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
    Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
    Fix spelling mistakes in comments
    Revert conflicting V4L changes
    i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
    mm/rmap.c: fix comment
    sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
    hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
    init/Kconfig: fix typo
    anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
    fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
    poll: fix a typo in comment
    ...

    Fix up trivial conflicts in:
    - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
    - fs/ext4/ext4.h

    Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • This implements the API defined in which is
    used for kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. This patch together
    with the first patch is enough for XZ-compressed initramfs and initrd;
    XZ-compressed kernel will need arch-specific changes.

    The buffering requirements described in decompress_unxz.c are stricter
    than with gzip, so the relevant changes should be done to the
    arch-specific code when adding support for XZ-compressed kernel.
    Similarly, the heap size in arch-specific pre-boot code may need to be
    increased (30 KiB is enough).

    The XZ decompressor needs memmove(), memeq() (memcmp() == 0), and
    memzero() (memset(ptr, 0, size)), which aren't available in all
    arch-specific pre-boot environments. I'm including simple versions in
    decompress_unxz.c, but a cleaner solution would naturally be nicer.

    Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Cc: Alain Knaff
    Cc: Albin Tonnerre
    Cc: Phillip Lougher
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Lasse Collin
     

07 Jan, 2011

1 commit

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    * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
    sched: Change wait_for_completion_*_timeout() to return a signed long
    sched, autogroup: Fix reference leak
    sched, autogroup: Fix potential access to freed memory
    sched: Remove redundant CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED ifdef
    sched: Fix interactivity bug by charging unaccounted run-time on entity re-weight
    sched: Move periodic share updates to entity_tick()
    printk: Use this_cpu_{read|write} api on printk_pending
    sched: Make pushable_tasks CONFIG_SMP dependant
    sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
    sched: Fix unregister_fair_sched_group()
    sched: Remove unused argument dest_cpu to migrate_task()
    mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
    sched: Add some clock info to sched_debug
    cpu: Remove incorrect BUG_ON
    cpu: Remove unused variable
    sched: Fix UP build breakage
    sched: Make task dump print all 15 chars of proc comm
    sched: Update tg->shares after cpu.shares write
    sched: Allow update_cfs_load() to update global load
    sched: Implement demand based update_cfs_load()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

23 Dec, 2010

2 commits


09 Dec, 2010

1 commit


30 Nov, 2010

2 commits

  • A recurring complaint from CFS users is that parallel kbuild has
    a negative impact on desktop interactivity. This patch
    implements an idea from Linus, to automatically create task
    groups. Currently, only per session autogroups are implemented,
    but the patch leaves the way open for enhancement.

    Implementation: each task's signal struct contains an inherited
    pointer to a refcounted autogroup struct containing a task group
    pointer, the default for all tasks pointing to the
    init_task_group. When a task calls setsid(), a new task group
    is created, the process is moved into the new task group, and a
    reference to the preveious task group is dropped. Child
    processes inherit this task group thereafter, and increase it's
    refcount. When the last thread of a process exits, the
    process's reference is dropped, such that when the last process
    referencing an autogroup exits, the autogroup is destroyed.

    At runqueue selection time, IFF a task has no cgroup assignment,
    its current autogroup is used.

    Autogroup bandwidth is controllable via setting it's nice level
    through the proc filesystem:

    cat /proc//autogroup

    Displays the task's group and the group's nice level.

    echo > /proc//autogroup

    Sets the task group's shares to the weight of nice task.
    Setting nice level is rate limited for !admin users due to the
    abuse risk of task group locking.

    The feature is enabled from boot by default if
    CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y is selected, but can be disabled via
    the boot option noautogroup, and can also be turned on/off on
    the fly via:

    echo [01] > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

    ... which will automatically move tasks to/from the root task group.

    Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith
    Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf
    Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
    Cc: Paul Turner
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov
    [ Removed the task_group_path() debug code, and fixed !EVENTFD build failure. ]
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Mike Galbraith
     
  • The synchronize_srcu_expedited() function is currently quick if there
    are no active readers, but will delay a full jiffy if there are any.
    If these readers leave their SRCU read-side critical sections quickly,
    this is way too long to wait. So this commit first waits ten microseconds,
    and only then falls back to jiffy-at-a-time waiting.

    Reported-by: Avi Kivity
    Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti
    Tested-by: Takuya Yoshikawa
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

    Paul E. McKenney