14 Oct, 2009

2 commits

  • "name" is a poor name for a file-global variable. It was used in three
    different functions, with no mutual exclusion. But it's just a tiny,
    temporary string; let's just move it onto the stack in the functions that
    need it. Also use snprintf() just in case.

    Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
    LKML-Reference:
    Acked-by: Mark Gross
    Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Jonathan Corbet
     
  • pm_qos_power_open got its lock_kernel() calls from the open() pushdown. A
    look at the code shows that the only global resources accessed are
    pm_qos_array and "name". pm_qos_array doesn't change (things pointed to
    therein do change, but they are atomics and/or are protected by
    pm_qos_lock). Accesses to "name" are totally unprotected with or without
    the BKL; that will be fixed shortly. The BKL is not helpful here; take it
    out.

    Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
    LKML-Reference:
    Acked-by: Mark Gross
    Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Jonathan Corbet
     

03 Sep, 2008

1 commit

  • Make PM_QOS and CPU_IDLE play nicer when run with the RT-Preempt kernel.

    The purpose of the patch is to remove the spin_lock around the read in the
    function pm_qos_requirement - since spinlocks can sleep in -rt and this
    function is called from idle.

    CPU_IDLE polls the target_value's of some of the pm_qos parameters from
    the idle loop causing sleeping locking warnings. Changing the
    target_value to an atomic avoids this issue.

    Remove the spinlock in pm_qos_requirement by making target_value an atomic
    type.

    Signed-off-by: mark gross
    Signed-off-by: John Kacur
    Cc: Steven Rostedt
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    John Kacur
     

06 Aug, 2008

1 commit

  • A documentation cleanup patch. With a minor tweak to clarify units for
    kbs.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: mark gross
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Richard Hughes
     

03 Jul, 2008

1 commit


06 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • The following patch is a generalization of the latency.c implementation done
    by Arjan last year. It provides infrastructure for more than one parameter,
    and exposes a user mode interface for processes to register pm_qos
    expectations of processes.

    This interface provides a kernel and user mode interface for registering
    performance expectations by drivers, subsystems and user space applications on
    one of the parameters.

    Currently we have {cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput} as
    the initial set of pm_qos parameters.

    The infrastructure exposes multiple misc device nodes one per implemented
    parameter. The set of parameters implement is defined by pm_qos_power_init()
    and pm_qos_params.h. This is done because having the available parameters
    being runtime configurable or changeable from a driver was seen as too easy to
    abuse.

    For each parameter a list of performance requirements is maintained along with
    an aggregated target value. The aggregated target value is updated with
    changes to the requirement list or elements of the list. Typically the
    aggregated target value is simply the max or min of the requirement values
    held in the parameter list elements.

    >From kernel mode the use of this interface is simple:

    pm_qos_add_requirement(param_id, name, target_value):

    Will insert a named element in the list for that identified PM_QOS
    parameter with the target value. Upon change to this list the new target is
    recomputed and any registered notifiers are called only if the target value
    is now different.

    pm_qos_update_requirement(param_id, name, new_target_value):

    Will search the list identified by the param_id for the named list element
    and then update its target value, calling the notification tree if the
    aggregated target is changed. with that name is already registered.

    pm_qos_remove_requirement(param_id, name):

    Will search the identified list for the named element and remove it, after
    removal it will update the aggregate target and call the notification tree
    if the target was changed as a result of removing the named requirement.

    >From user mode:

    Only processes can register a pm_qos requirement. To provide for
    automatic cleanup for process the interface requires the process to register
    its parameter requirements in the following way:

    To register the default pm_qos target for the specific parameter, the
    process must open one of /dev/[cpu_dma_latency, network_latency,
    network_throughput]

    As long as the device node is held open that process has a registered
    requirement on the parameter. The name of the requirement is
    "process_" derived from the current->pid from within the open system
    call.

    To change the requested target value the process needs to write a s32
    value to the open device node. This translates to a
    pm_qos_update_requirement call.

    To remove the user mode request for a target value simply close the device
    node.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build again]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: mark gross
    Cc: "John W. Linville"
    Cc: Len Brown
    Cc: Jaroslav Kysela
    Cc: Takashi Iwai
    Cc: Arjan van de Ven
    Cc: Venki Pallipadi
    Cc: Adam Belay
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Mark Gross