25 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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Markers have removed already twice:
1: fc5377668c3d808e1d53c4aee152c836f55c3490
2: eb878b3bc0349344dbf70c51bf01fc734d5cf2d3But a little bit is still here.
Signed-off-by: Tkhai Kirill
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
25 May, 2011
1 commit
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* '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_SIZEFix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun
24 May, 2011
1 commit
20 May, 2011
1 commit
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits)
perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts
perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events
ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build
ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users
ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops
ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers
ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering
ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched()
ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced
ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions
ftrace: Add enabled_functions file
ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace
ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment
ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes
ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER
ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions
perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper
x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit
x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
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19 May, 2011
1 commit
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This patch places every exported symbol in its own section
(i.e. "___ksymtab+printk"). Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive
to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section
(i.e. "__ksymtab").The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols.
To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary
section names.This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (folded in '+' fixup)
Tested-by: Dirk Behme
27 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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…stedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.hMerge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
05 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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Introduce:
static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key);
instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro.
In this way, jump labels become really easy to use:
Define:
struct jump_label_key jump_key;
Can be used as:
if (static_branch(&jump_key))
do unlikely codeenable/disale via:
jump_label_inc(&jump_key);
jump_label_dec(&jump_key);that's it!
For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an
atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(),
atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below.Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct.
Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into
the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in
basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous
hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write.Testing:
I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3
configurations, where tracepoints were disabled.jump label configured in
avg: 815.6jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads)
avg: 800.1jump label *not* configured in (regular reads)
avg: 803.4Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin
Tested-by: David Daney
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
04 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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The two percpu helper macros have the section names duplicated. So create
a new define to merge the two. This also allows arches who need to link
things more directly themselves to avoid duplicating the input sections in
their linker script.Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
31 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi
25 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
addresses should be aligned accordingly. The calculation of the
former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel
image.The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
percpu memory alignment.This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE. While at it,
add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
there.For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area. As the area
is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference.This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot
failure on mn10300.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
16 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() support
percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double()
alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script
percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cachelineFix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S due to the
percpu alignment having changed ("x86: Reduce back the alignment of the
per-CPU data section")
09 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Put x86 entry code into a separate link section: .entry.text.
Separating the entry text section seems to have performance
benefits - caused by more efficient instruction cache usage.Running hackbench with perf stat --repeat showed that the change
compresses the icache footprint. The icache load miss rate went
down by about 15%:before patch:
19417627 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.147% )after patch:
16490788 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.180% )The motivation of the patch was to fix a particular kprobes
bug that relates to the entry text section, the performance
advantage was discovered accidentally.Whole perf output follows:
- results for current tip tree:
Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):
19417627 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.147% )
2676914223 instructions # 0.497 IPC ( +- 0.079% )
5389516026 cycles ( +- 0.144% )0.206267711 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.138% )
- results for current tip tree with the patch applied:
Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):
16490788 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.180% )
2717734941 instructions # 0.502 IPC ( +- 0.079% )
5414756975 cycles ( +- 0.148% )0.206747566 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.137% )
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Eric Dumazet
Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
03 Feb, 2011
3 commits
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Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.Suggested-by: David Miller
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.History:
commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.(this patch applies on top of -tip)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Acked-by: David S. Miller
LKML-Reference:
CC: Frederic Weisbecker
CC: Ingo Molnar
CC: Thomas Gleixner
CC: Andrew Morton
CC: Peter Zijlstra
CC: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.Suggested-by: David Miller
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
25 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and performance degradation.This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
size and use it to align percpu subsections.This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Shaohua Li
24 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
shown in /sys/module//version, but this information might
also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important
for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if
built-in, are completely invisible from userspace.This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are
compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate
section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute
in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters.Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
14 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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The readmostly section should end at a cacheline aligned address,
otherwise the last several data might share cachline with other data and
make the readmostly data still have cache bounce.For example, in ia64, secpath_cachep is the last readmostly data, and it
shares cacheline with init_uts_ns.a000000100e80480 d secpath_cachep
a000000100e80488 D init_uts_nsSigned-off-by: Shaohua Li
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Eric Dumazet
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into
vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking
.dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt
driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location
before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image.Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to
compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to
wrap the blobs for linking.STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to
create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib. The
STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the
STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition.The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob
with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob
to get the structure alignment GCC expects.A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to
be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using
obj-y += foo.dtb.oSigned-off-by: Dirk Brandewie
Acked-by: Michal Marek
[grant.likely@secretlab.ca: cleaned up whitespace inconsistencies]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely
29 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs
initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation
initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants
scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings
scripts/setlocalversion: update comment
kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules
kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree)
scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes
kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
27 Oct, 2010
2 commits
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The new init ramfs format (cpio based) requires an alignment of 4 (per the
documentation and per the source files themselves). As for compressed
sources, the decompressors can all deal with unaligned buffers.The cpio source is also found in the __init sections of the kernel, so
once they are read and expanded into a tmpfs, the source is freed. That
means there is no need to force page alignment here either.This has been used on Blackfin systems for many releases without issue.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
With the recent change "net: remove time limit in process_backlog()", the
softnet_data variable changed from "DEFINE_PER_CPU()" to
"DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED()" which moved it from the .data section to the
.data.shared_align section. I'm not saying this patch is wrong, just that
is what caused me to notice this larger problem. No one else in the
kernel is using this aligned macro variant, so I imagine that's why no one
has noticed yet.Since .data..shared_align isn't declared in any vmlinux files that I can
see, the linker just places it last. This "just works" for most people,
but when building a ROM kernel on Blackfin systems, it causes section
overlap errors:bfin-uclinux-ld.real:
section .init.data [00000000202e06b8 -> 00000000202e48b7] overlaps
section .data.shared_aligned [00000000202e06b8 -> 00000000202e0723]I imagine other arches which support the ROM config option and thus do
funky placement would see similar issues ...On x86, it is stuck in a dedicated section at the end:
[8] .data PROGBITS ffffffff810ec000 2ec0000303a8 00 WA 0 0 4096
[9] .data.shared_alig PROGBITS ffffffff8111c3c0 31c3c00000c8 00 WA 0 0 64So make sure we include this section in the DATA_DATA macro so that it is
placed in the right location.Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Alan Jenkins
Cc: Greg Ungerer
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-32, percpu: Correct the ordering of the percpu readmostly section
x86, mm: Enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT with X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G
x86: Spread tlb flush vector between nodes
percpu: Introduce a read-mostly percpu API
x86, mm: Fix incorrect data type in vmalloc_sync_all()
x86, mm: Hold mm->page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync
x86, mm: Fix bogus whitespace in sync_global_pgds()
x86-32: Fix sparse warning for the __PHYSICAL_MASK calculation
x86, mm: Add RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY() helper
mm, x86: Saving vmcore with non-lazy freeing of vmas
x86, kdump: Change copy_oldmem_page() to use cached addressing
x86, mm: fix uninitialized addr in kernel_physical_mapping_init()
x86, kmemcheck: Remove double test
x86, mm: Make spurious_fault check explicitly check the PRESENT bit
x86-64, mem: Update all PGDs for direct mapping and vmemmap mapping changes
x86, mm: Separate x86_64 vmalloc_sync_all() into separate functions
x86, mm: Avoid unnecessary TLB flush
21 Oct, 2010
2 commits
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Checkin c957ef2c59e952803766ddc22e89981ab534606f had inconsistent
ordering of .data..percpu..page_aligned and .data..percpu..readmostly;
the still-broken version affected x86-32 at least.The page aligned version really must be page aligned...
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
LKML-Reference:
Cc: Shaohua Li
Cc: Eric Dumazet -
Add a new readmostly percpu section and API. This can be used to
avoid dirtying data lines which are generally not written to, which is
especially important for data which may be accessed by processors
other than the one for which the percpu area belongs to.[ hpa: moved it *after* the page-aligned section, for obvious
reasons. ]Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li
LKML-Reference:
Cc: Eric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
29 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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The size of a built-in initramfs is calculated in init/initramfs.c by
"__initramfs_end - __initramfs_start". Those symbols are defined in the
linker script include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h:#define INIT_RAM_FS \
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_start) = .; \
*(.init.ramfs) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_end) = .;If the initramfs file has an odd number of bytes, the "__initramfs_end"
symbol points to an odd address, for example, the symbols in the
System.map might look like:0000000000572000 T __initramfs_start
00000000005bcd05 T __initramfs_end :
540a9c: eb cf f0 78 00 24 stmg %r12,%r15,120(%r15),
540aa2: c0 10 00 01 8a af larl %r1,572000
540aa8: c0 c0 00 03 e1 2e larl %r12,5bcd04
(Instead of 5bcd05)
...
540abe: 1b c1 sr %r12,%r1To fix the problem, this patch introduces the global variable
__initramfs_size, which is calculated in the "usr/initramfs_data.S" file.
The populate_rootfs() function can then use the start marker of the
.init.ramfs section and the value of __initramfs_size for loading the
initramfs. Because the start marker and size is sufficient, the
__initramfs_end symbol is no longer needed and is removed.Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong
Acked-by: Michal Marek
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
23 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
LKML-Reference:[ cleaned up some formating ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
07 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
perf: expose event__process function
perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
perf: New migration tool overview
tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
...Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
05 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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* upstream/pvhvm:
Introduce CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM compile option
blkfront: do not create a PV cdrom device if xen_hvm_guest
support multiple .discard.* sections to avoid section type conflicts
xen/pvhvm: fix build problem when !CONFIG_XEN
xenfs: enable for HVM domains too
x86: Call HVMOP_pagetable_dying on exit_mmap.
x86: Unplug emulated disks and nics.
x86: Use xen_vcpuop_clockevent, xen_clocksource and xen wallclock.
xen: Fix find_unbound_irq in presence of ioapic irqs.
xen: Add suspend/resume support for PV on HVM guests.
xen: Xen PCI platform device driver.
x86/xen: event channels delivery on HVM.
x86: early PV on HVM features initialization.
xen: Add support for HVM hypercalls.Conflicts:
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
arch/x86/xen/time.c
02 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Conflicts:
tools/perf/Makefile
tools/perf/util/hist.cMerge reason: Resolve the conflicts and update to latest upstream.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
28 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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gcc 4.4.4 will complain if you use a .discard section for both text and
data ("causes a section type conflict"). Add support for ".discard.*"
sections, and use .discard.text for a dummy function in the x86
RESERVE_BRK() macro.Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
24 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
vmlinux.lds: fix .data..init_task output section (fix popwerpc boot)
powerpc: Fix erroneous lmb->memblock conversions
powerpc/mm: Add some debug output when hash insertion fails
powerpc/mm: Fix bugs in huge page hashing
powerpc/mm: Move around testing of _PAGE_PRESENT in hash code
powerpc/mm: Handle hypervisor pte insert failure in __hash_page_huge
powerpc/kexec: Fix boundary case for book-e kexec memory limits
23 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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The .data..init_task output section was missing
a load offset causing a popwerpc target to fail to boot.Sean MacLennan tracked it down to the definition of
INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION().There are only two users of INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION()
in the kernel today: cris and popwerpc.
cris do not support relocatable kernels and is thus not
impacted by this change.Fix INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION() to specify load offset like
all other output sections.Reported-by: Sean MacLennan
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
21 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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We define a number of symbols in the linker scipt like this:
__start_syscalls_metadata = .;
*(__syscalls_metadata)But we do not know the alignment of "." when we assign
the __start_syscalls_metadata symbol.
gcc started to uses bigger alignment for structs (32 bytes),
so we saw situations where the linker due to alignment
constraints increased the value of "." after the symbol assignment.This resulted in boot fails.
Fix this by forcing a 32 byte alignment of "." before the
assignment.This patch introduces the forced alignment for
ftrace_events and syscalls_metadata.
It may be required in more places.Reported-by: Zeev Tarantov
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
LKML-Reference:
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
16 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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Markers have been removed, but we forgot to remove their
section.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
01 Jun, 2010
1 commit
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* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits)
kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts
menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
gconfig: remove show_debug option
gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype()
kconfig: fix zconfdump()
kconfig: some small fixes
add random binaries to .gitignore
kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file
kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results
.gitignore: ignore *.lzo files
headerdep: perlcritic warning
scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO
kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install
Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope"
kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin
headers_install: use local file handles
headers_check: fix perl warnings
export_report: fix perl warnings
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28 May, 2010
2 commits
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Modify the way how RapidIO switch operations are declared. Multiple
assignments through the linker script replaced by single initialization
call.Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine
Cc: Matt Porter
Cc: Li Yang
Cc: Kumar Gala
Cc: Thomas Moll
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add RapidIO Port-Write message handling in the context of Error
Management Extensions Specification Rev.1.3.Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine
Tested-by: Thomas Moll
Cc: Matt Porter
Cc: Li Yang
Cc: Kumar Gala
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Mar, 2010
2 commits
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Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek -
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
