16 Jan, 2009
2 commits
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Move Documentation/cpusets.txt and Documentation/controllers/* to
Documentation/cgroups/Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Acked-by: Balbir Singh
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
- move CONFIG_PROC_PID_CPUSET into cgroup menu
- move MM_OWNER to the bottom for better menu indent
- fix typos
- use tabs not spacesSigned-off-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Acked-by: Balbir Singh
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Jan, 2009
2 commits
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus:
MAINTAINERS: squashfs entry
Squashfs: documentation
Squashfs: initrd support
Squashfs: Kconfig entry
Squashfs: Makefiles
Squashfs: header files
Squashfs: block operations
Squashfs: cache operations
Squashfs: uid/gid lookup operations
Squashfs: fragment block operations
Squashfs: export operations
Squashfs: super block operations
Squashfs: symlink operations
Squashfs: regular file operations
Squashfs: directory readdir operations
Squashfs: directory lookup operations
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu:
NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs
NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions.
FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated
FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated
NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs
NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable.
NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux
NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables
NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region
NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
09 Jan, 2009
3 commits
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Config and control variable for mem+swap controller.
This patch adds CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
(memory resource controller swap extension.)For accounting swap, it's obvious that we have to use additional memory to
remember "who uses swap". This adds more overhead. So, it's better to
offer "choice" to users. This patch adds 2 choices.This patch adds 2 parameters to enable swap extension or not.
- CONFIG
- boot optionReviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
s/contoller/controller/
Signed-of-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Paul Menage
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Making CGROUP related configs be a sub-menu.
This patch make CGROUP related configs be a sub-menu and makes 1st level
configs of "General Setup" shorter.including following additional changes
- add help comment about CGROUPS and GROUP_SCHED.
- moved MM_OWNER config to the bottom.
(for good indent in menuconfig)Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Jan, 2009
4 commits
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Support XIP on files unpacked from the initramfs image on NOMMU systems. This
simply requires the length of the file to be preset so that the ramfs fs can
attempt to garner sufficient contiguous storage to store the file (NOMMU mmap
can only map contiguous RAM).All the other bits to do XIP on initramfs files are present:
(1) ramfs's truncate attempts to allocate a contiguous run of pages when a
file is truncated upwards from nothing.(2) ramfs sets BDI on its files to indicate direct mapping is possible, and
that its files can be mapped for read, write and exec.(3) NOMMU mmap() will use the above bits to determine that it can do XIP.
Possibly this needs better controls, because it will _always_ try and do
XIP.One disadvantage of this very simplistic approach is that sufficient space
will be allocated to store the whole file, and not just the bit that would be
XIP'd. To deal with this, though, the initramfs unpacker would have to be
able to parse the file contents.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Paul Mundt -
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async:
async: don't do the initcall stuff post boot
bootchart: improve output based on Dave Jones' feedback
async: make the final inode deletion an asynchronous event
fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async
fastboot: make the libata port scan asynchronous
fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous
async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
trivial: chack -> check typo fix in main Makefile
trivial: Add a space (and a comma) to a printk in 8250 driver
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in docs for ncr53c8xx/sym53c8xx
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in powerpc Makefile
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in usb.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in qla1280.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in a100u2w.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in megaraid.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ql4_mbx.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in acpi_memhotplug.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ipw2100.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in atmel.c
trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig
trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments
trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation
trivial: update Jesper Juhl CREDITS entry with new email
trivial: fix singal -> signal typo
trivial: Fix incorrect use of "loose" in event.c
trivial: printk: fix indentation of new_text_line declaration
trivial: rtc-stk17ta8: fix sparse warning
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Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that
various hardware delays are done sequentially.In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces
infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps
asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays
in practice.In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this
patch does NOT do full parallel initialization.Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may
be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects
(instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence.Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
07 Jan, 2009
8 commits
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (60 commits)
uio: make uio_info's name and version const
UIO: Documentation for UIO ioport info handling
UIO: Pass information about ioports to userspace (V2)
UIO: uio_pdrv_genirq: allow custom irq_flags
UIO: use pci_ioremap_bar() in drivers/uio
arm: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
libata: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
avr: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
chris: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
dmi: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
gadget: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
gpio: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
gpu: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
hwmon: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
i2o: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
IA64: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
i7300_idle: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
infiniband: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
ISDN: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
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Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The function autodetect_raid is only used by __init functions, and it refers
to __initdata, so it needs __init markings. Fixes this error:
The function autodetect_raid() references
the variable __initdata raid_noautodetect.
This is often because autodetect_raid lacks a __initdata
annotation or the annotation of raid_noautodetect is wrong.Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Gabor Gombas
Cc: Jan Beulich
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ingo Molnar ,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In the past, I used the root=... command line parameter to specify the
root filesystem to the kernel. Now it seems that specifying it is not
necessary. The kernel detects the root filesystem even if the kernel
command line is empty. My root fs is on a raid1 device by the way, and I
am not using initrd for the boot process.If the kernel detects the root filesystem somehow, I think it should print
out the result of this detection, otherwise I will not know which device
has the root filesystem. Or is there an easy way to get this information
on a running system? I had a quick look at the /proc and /sys
filesystems, but haven't found anything useful there.Signed-off-by: Marton Balint
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
checkpatch warns about 'static void noinline'. It wants `static noinline
void'.Both are permissible, but the kernel consistently uses `static inline' and
`static noinline', and consistency is good. Hence let's keep the
checkpatch warning and fix up this code site.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
tiny-shmem shares most of its 130 lines of code with shmem and tends to
break when particular bits of shmem get modified. Unifying saves code and
makes keeping these two in sync much easier.before:
14367 392 24 14783 39bf mm/shmem.o
396 72 8 476 1dc mm/tiny-shmem.oafter:
14367 392 24 14783 39bf mm/shmem.o
412 72 8 492 1ec mm/shmem.o tinySigned-off-by: Matt Mackall
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This should make the help text of SYSFS_DEPRECATED more clear, that this
is _not_ about (what some people think it is) suppressing a few symlinks
and variables, but a different sysfs _layout_ with new features.Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
06 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Add missing printk loglevel in start_kernel
Signed-off-by: Ron Lee
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
05 Jan, 2009
2 commits
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Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher
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Now that nothing depends on it any more, remove CONFIG_KMOD.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
04 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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* 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits)
x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup
cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined
cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate
cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t
x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c
x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids
sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus
ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
xtensa: define __fls
mn10300: define __fls
m32r: define __fls
h8300: define __fls
frv: define __fls
cris: define __fls
cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/
cpumask: convert mm/
...
03 Jan, 2009
2 commits
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* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
...Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
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Impact: cleanup
We now have a cleaner check for gcc 4.1.0/4.1.1 trouble in
include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h, so remove the 4.1.0 quirk from
init/main.c.Reported-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jan, 2009
3 commits
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Impact: cleanup
There's one obvious place to use it: to find the highest possible cpu.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Impact: use new API
cpu_*_map are going away in favour of cpu_*_mask, but const pointers.
So we have accessors where we really do want to frob them. Archs
will also need the (trivial) conversion before we can finally remove
cpu_*_map.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis -
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* 'irq-fixes-for-linus-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sparseirq: move __weak symbols into separate compilation unit
sparseirq: work around __weak alias bug
sparseirq: fix hang with !SPARSE_IRQ
sparseirq: set lock_class for legacy irq when sparse_irq is selected
sparseirq: work around compiler optimizing away __weak functions
sparseirq: fix desc->lock init
sparseirq: do not printk when migrating IRQ descriptors
sparseirq: remove duplicated arch_early_irq_init()
irq: simplify for_each_irq_desc() usage
proc: remove ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ from stat.c
irq: for_each_irq_desc() move to irqnr.h
hrtimer: remove #include <linux/irq.h>
31 Dec, 2008
3 commits
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
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* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, sparseirq: clean up Kconfig entry
x86: turn CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ off by default
sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and comments
sparseirq: add kernel-doc notation for new member in irq_desc, -v2
locking, irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class in CONFIG_LOCKDEP
sparseirq, xen: make sure irq_desc is allocated for interrupts
sparseirq: fix !SMP building, #2
x86, sparseirq: move irq_desc according to smp_affinity, v7
proc: enclose desc variable of show_stat() in CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
sparse irqs: add irqnr.h to the user headers list
sparse irqs: handle !GENIRQ platforms
sparseirq: fix !SMP && !PCI_MSI && !HT_IRQ build
sparseirq: fix Alpha build failure
sparseirq: fix typo in !CONFIG_IO_APIC case
x86, MSI: pass irq_cfg and irq_desc
x86: MSI start irq numbering from nr_irqs_gsi
x86: use NR_IRQS_LEGACY
sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes
genirq: record IRQ_LEVEL in irq_desc[]
irq.h: remove padding from irq_desc on 64bits -
* 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits)
stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias
rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too
printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug
futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling
"Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics
x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping
x86/swiotlb: add default physbus conversion
x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit
x86: add swiotlb allocation functions
swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing
swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages
swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device
swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping
swiotlb: allow architectures to override physbusphys conversions
swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit
rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot
resources: skip sanity check of busy resources
swiotlb: move some definitions to header
swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation
...Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
include/linux/hardirq.h
as per Ingo's suggestions.
30 Dec, 2008
1 commit
29 Dec, 2008
3 commits
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GCC has a bug with __weak alias functions: if the functions are in
the same compilation unit as their call site, GCC can decide to
inline them - and thus rob the linker of the opportunity to override
the weak alias with the real thing.So move all the IRQ handling related __weak symbols to kernel/irq/chip.c.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (25 commits)
allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko
kbuild: simplify use of genksyms
kernel-doc: check for extra kernel-doc notations
kbuild: add headerdep used to detect inclusion cycles in header files
kbuild: fix string equality testing in tags.sh
kbuild: fix make tags/cscope
kbuild: fix make incompatibility
kbuild: remove TAR_IGNORE
setlocalversion: add git-svn support
setlocalversion: print correct subversion revision
scripts: improve the decodecode script
scripts/package: allow custom options to rpm
genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes
genksyms: track symbol checksum changes
tags and cscope support really belongs in a shell script
kconfig: fix options to check-lxdialog.sh
kbuild: gen_init_cpio expands shell variables in file names
remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig
kbuild: teach mkmakfile to be silent
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* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
ftrace: enable format arguments checking
x86, bts: memory accounting
x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
trace: fix task state printout
ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
...Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
27 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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Impact: fix panic on null pointer with sparseirq
Some GCC versions seem to inline the weak global function,
when that function is empty.Work it around, by making the functions return a (dummy) integer.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
25 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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Impact: build fix
Some old architectures still do not use kernel/Kconfig.preempt, so the
moving of the RCU options there broke their build:In file included from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sem.h:81,
from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sched.h:69,
from /home/mingo/tip/arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c:9:
/home/mingo/tip/include/linux/rcupdate.h:62:2: error: #error "Unknown RCU implementation specified to kernel configuration"Move these options back to init/Kconfig, which every architecture
includes.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
20 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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Building upon parts of the module stripping patch, this patch
introduces similar stripping for vmlinux when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y.
Using CONFIG_KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED reduces the overhead of
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL from 245k/310k to 65k/80k for the (i386/x86-64)
kernels I tested with.The patch also does away with the need to special case the kallsyms-
internal symbols by making them available even in the first linking
stage.While it is a generated file, the patch includes the changes to
scripts/genksyms/keywords.c_shipped, as I'm unsure what the procedure
here is.Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
19 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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This patch fixes a long-standing performance bug in classic RCU that
results in massive internal-to-RCU lock contention on systems with
more than a few hundred CPUs. Although this patch creates a separate
flavor of RCU for ease of review and patch maintenance, it is intended
to replace classic RCU.This patch still handles stress better than does mainline, so I am still
calling it ready for inclusion. This patch is against the -tip tree.
Nevertheless, experience on an actual 1000+ CPU machine would still be
most welcome.Most of the changes noted below were found while creating an rcutiny
(which should permit ejecting the current rcuclassic) and while doing
detailed line-by-line documentation.Updates from v9 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/2/334):
o Fixes from remainder of line-by-line code walkthrough,
including comment spelling, initialization, undesirable
narrowing due to type conversion, removing redundant memory
barriers, removing redundant local-variable initialization,
and removing redundant local variables.I do not believe that any of these fixes address the CPU-hotplug
issues that Andi Kleen was seeing, but please do give it a whirl
in case the machine is smarter than I am.A writeup from the walkthrough may be found at the following
URL, in case you are suffering from terminal insomnia or
masochism:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/tmp/rcutree-walkthrough.2008.12.16a.pdf
o Made rcutree tracing use seq_file, as suggested some time
ago by Lai Jiangshan.o Added a .csv variant of the rcudata debugfs trace file, to allow
people having thousands of CPUs to drop the data into
a spreadsheet. Tested with oocalc and gnumeric. Updated
documentation to suit.Updates from v8 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/139):
o Fix a theoretical race between grace-period initialization and
force_quiescent_state() that could occur if more than three
jiffies were required to carry out the grace-period
initialization. Which it might, if you had enough CPUs.o Apply Ingo's printk-standardization patch.
o Substitute local variables for repeated accesses to global
variables.o Fix comment misspellings and redundant (but harmless) increments
of ->n_rcu_pending (this latter after having explicitly added it).o Apply checkpatch fixes.
Updates from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/291):
o Fixed a number of problems noted by Gautham Shenoy, including
the cpu-stall-detection bug that he was having difficulty
convincing me was real. ;-)o Changed cpu-stall detection to wait for ten seconds rather than
three in order to reduce false positive, as suggested by Ingo
Molnar.o Produced a design document (http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/).
The act of writing this document uncovered a number of both
theoretical and "here and now" bugs as noted below.o Fix dynticks_nesting accounting confusion, simplify WARN_ON()
condition, fix kerneldoc comments, and add memory barriers
in dynticks interface functions.o Add more data to tracing.
o Remove unused "rcu_barrier" field from rcu_data structure.
o Count calls to rcu_pending() from scheduling-clock interrupt
to use as a surrogate timebase should jiffies stop counting.o Fix a theoretical race between force_quiescent_state() and
grace-period initialization. Yes, initialization does have to
go on for some jiffies for this race to occur, but given enough
CPUs...Updates from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/448):
o Fix a number of checkpatch.pl complaints.
o Apply review comments from Ingo Molnar and Lai Jiangshan
on the stall-detection code.o Fix several bugs in !CONFIG_SMP builds.
o Fix a misspelled config-parameter name so that RCU now announces
at boot time if stall detection is configured.o Run tests on numerous combinations of configurations parameters,
which after the fixes above, now build and run correctly.Updates from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/15/92, bad subject line):
o Fix a compiler error in the !CONFIG_FANOUT_EXACT case (blew a
changeset some time ago, and finally got around to retesting
this option).o Fix some tracing bugs in rcupreempt that caused incorrect
totals to be printed.o I now test with a more brutal random-selection online/offline
script (attached). Probably more brutal than it needs to be
on the people reading it as well, but so it goes.o A number of optimizations and usability improvements:
o Make rcu_pending() ignore the grace-period timeout when
there is no grace period in progress.o Make force_quiescent_state() avoid going for a global
lock in the case where there is no grace period in
progress.o Rearrange struct fields to improve struct layout.
o Make call_rcu() initiate a grace period if RCU was
idle, rather than waiting for the next scheduling
clock interrupt.o Invoke rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() only when
idle, as suggested by Andi Kleen. I still don't
completely trust this change, and might back it out.o Make CONFIG_RCU_TRACE be the single config variable
manipulated for all forms of RCU, instead of the prior
confusion.o Document tracing files and formats for both rcupreempt
and rcutree.Updates from v4 for those missing v5 given its bad subject line:
o Separated dynticks interface so that NMIs and irqs call separate
functions, greatly simplifying it. In particular, this code
no longer requires a proof of correctness. ;-)o Separated dynticks state out into its own per-CPU structure,
avoiding the duplicated accounting.o The case where a dynticks-idle CPU runs an irq handler that
invokes call_rcu() is now correctly handled, forcing that CPU
out of dynticks-idle mode.o Review comments have been applied (thank you all!!!).
For but one example, fixed the dynticks-ordering issue that
Manfred pointed out, saving me much debugging. ;-)o Adjusted rcuclassic and rcupreempt to handle dynticks changes.
Attached is an updated patch to Classic RCU that applies a hierarchy,
greatly reducing the contention on the top-level lock for large machines.
This passes 10-hour concurrent rcutorture and online-offline testing on
128-CPU ppc64 without dynticks enabled, and exposes some timekeeping
bugs in presence of dynticks (exciting working on a system where
"sleep 1" hangs until interrupted...), which were fixed in the
2.6.27 kernel. It is getting more reliable than mainline by some
measures, so the next version will be against -tip for inclusion.
See also Manfred Spraul's recent patches (or his earlier work from
2004 at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546384711797&w=2).
We will converge onto a common patch in the fullness of time, but are
currently exploring different regions of the design space. That said,
I have already gratefully stolen quite a few of Manfred's ideas.This patch provides CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, which controls the bushiness
of the RCU hierarchy. Defaults to 32 on 32-bit machines and 64 on
64-bit machines. If CONFIG_NR_CPUS is less than CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT,
there is no hierarchy. By default, the RCU initialization code will
adjust CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT to balance the hierarchy, so strongly NUMA
architectures may choose to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to disable
this balancing, allowing the hierarchy to be exactly aligned to the
underlying hardware. Up to two levels of hierarchy are permitted
(in addition to the root node), allowing up to 16,384 CPUs on 32-bit
systems and up to 262,144 CPUs on 64-bit systems. I just know that I
am going to regret saying this, but this seems more than sufficient
for the foreseeable future. (Some architectures might wish to set
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4, which would limit such architectures to 64 CPUs.
If this becomes a real problem, additional levels can be added, but I
doubt that it will make a significant difference on real hardware.)In the common case, a given CPU will manipulate its private rcu_data
structure and the rcu_node structure that it shares with its immediate
neighbors. This can reduce both lock and memory contention by multiple
orders of magnitude, which should eliminate the need for the strange
manipulations that are reported to be required when running Linux on
very large systems.Some shortcomings:
o More bugs will probably surface as a result of an ongoing
line-by-line code inspection.Patches will be provided as required.
o There are probably hangs, rcutorture failures, &c. Seems
quite stable on a 128-CPU machine, but that is kind of small
compared to 4096 CPUs. However, seems to do better than
mainline.Patches will be provided as required.
o The memory footprint of this version is several KB larger
than rcuclassic.A separate UP-only rcutiny patch will be provided, which will
reduce the memory footprint significantly, even compared
to the old rcuclassic. One such patch passes light testing,
and has a memory footprint smaller even than rcuclassic.
Initial reaction from various embedded guys was "it is not
worth it", so am putting it aside.Credits:
o Manfred Spraul for ideas, review comments, and bugs spotted,
as well as some good friendly competition. ;-)o Josh Triplett, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Mathieu Desnoyers,
Lai Jiangshan, Andi Kleen, Andy Whitcroft, and Andrew Morton
for reviews and comments.o Thomas Gleixner for much-needed help with some timer issues
(see patches below).o Jon M. Tollefson, Tim Pepper, Andrew Theurer, Jose R. Santos,
Andy Whitcroft, Darrick Wong, Nishanth Aravamudan, Anton
Blanchard, Dave Kleikamp, and Nathan Lynch for keeping machines
alive despite my heavy abuse^Wtesting.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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