09 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (53 commits)
Kconfig: acpi: Fix typo in comment.
misc latin1 to utf8 conversions
devres: Fix a typo in devm_kfree comment
btrfs: free-space-cache.c: remove extra semicolon.
fat: Spelling s/obsolate/obsolete/g
SCSI, pmcraid: Fix spelling error in a pmcraid_err() call
tools/power turbostat: update fields in manpage
mac80211: drop spelling fix
types.h: fix comment spelling for 'architectures'
typo fixes: aera -> area, exntension -> extension
devices.txt: Fix typo of 'VMware'.
sis900: Fix enum typo 'sis900_rx_bufer_status'
decompress_bunzip2: remove invalid vi modeline
treewide: Fix comment and string typo 'bufer'
hyper-v: Update MAINTAINERS
treewide: Fix typos in various parts of the kernel, and fix some comments.
clockevents: drop unknown Kconfig symbol GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR
gpio: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol 'CS5535_GPIO'
leds: Kconfig: Fix typo 'D2NET_V2'
sound: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol ARCH_CLPS7500
...Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/Kconfig (some new
kconfig additions, close to removed commented-out old ones)
08 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (73 commits)
arm: fix up some samsung merge sysdev conversion problems
firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file
Drivers:hv: Fix a bug in vmbus_driver_unregister()
driver core: remove __must_check from device_create_file
debugfs: add missing #ifdef HAS_IOMEM
arm: time.h: remove device.h #include
driver-core: remove sysdev.h usage.
clockevents: remove sysdev.h
arm: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
arm: leds: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
kobject: remove kset_find_obj_hinted()
m86k: gpio - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
mips: txx9_sram - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
mips: 7segled - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
sh: dma - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
sh: intc - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
power: suspend - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
power: qe_ic - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
power: cmm - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
s390: time - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
...Fix up conflicts with 'struct sysdev' removal from various platform
drivers that got changed:
- arch/arm/mach-exynos/cpu.c
- arch/arm/mach-exynos/irq-eint.c
- arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/common.c
- arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/cpu.c
- arch/arm/mach-s5p64x0/cpu.c
- arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/common.c
- arch/arm/plat-samsung/include/plat/cpu.h
- arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
and fix up cpu_is_hotpluggable() as per Greg in include/linux/cpu.h
07 Jan, 2012
4 commits
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* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, tsc: Skip TSC synchronization checks for tsc=reliable
clocksource: Convert tcb_clksrc to use clocksource_register_hz/khz
clocksource: cris: Convert to clocksource_register_khz
clocksource: xtensa: Convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz
clocksource: um: Convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz
clocksource: parisc: Convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz
clocksource: m86k: Convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz
time: x86: Replace LATCH with PIT_LATCH in i8253 clocksource driver
time: x86: Remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE from acpi_pm clocksource driver
time: x86: Remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE from mach_timer.h
time: x86: Remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE from tsc code
time: Fix spelling mistakes in new comments
time: fix bogus comment in timekeeping_get_ns_raw -
This resolves the conflict in the arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/s3c6400.c file,
and it fixes the build error in the arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
file, that the merge did not catch.The microcode_core.c patch was provided by Stephen Rothwell
who was invaluable in the merge issues involved
with the large sysdev removal process in the driver-core tree.Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
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* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime
sched: Disable scheduler warnings during oopses
sched: Fix cgroup movement of waking process
sched: Fix cgroup movement of newly created process
sched: Fix cgroup movement of forking process
sched: Remove cfs bandwidth period check in tg_set_cfs_period()
sched: Fix load-balance lock-breaking
sched: Replace all_pinned with a generic flags field
sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries
sched: Add missing rcu_dereference() around ->real_parent usage
[S390] fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show
[S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu
sched, nohz: Fix missing RCU read lock
sched, nohz: Set the NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK flag for idle load balancer
sched, nohz: Fix the idle cpu check in nohz_idle_balance
sched: Use jump_labels for sched_feat
sched/accounting: Fix parameter passing in task_group_account_field
sched/accounting: Fix user/system tick double accounting
sched/accounting: Re-use scheduler statistics for the root cgroup
...Fix up conflicts in
- arch/ia64/include/asm/cputime.h, include/asm-generic/cputime.h
usecs_to_cputime64() vs the sparse cleanups
- kernel/sched/fair.c, kernel/time/tick-sched.c
scheduler changes in multiple branches -
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
cpu: Export cpu_up()
rcu: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_boost() return value
Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled"
docs: Additional LWN links to RCU API
rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state
rcu: Add rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw()
rcu: Make rcutorture test for hotpluggability before offlining CPUs
driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel
rcu: Remove redundant rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declaration
rcu: Adaptive dyntick-idle preparation
rcu: Keep invoking callbacks if CPU otherwise idle
rcu: Irq nesting is always 0 on rcu_enter_idle_common
rcu: Don't check irq nesting from rcu idle entry/exit
rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending
rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints
rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass
rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures
rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle()
rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang
rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end
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31 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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This reverts commit de28f25e8244c7353abed8de0c7792f5f883588c.
It results in resume problems for various people. See for example
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1233033
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1233389
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1233159
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1227868/focus=1230877and the fedora and ubuntu bug reports
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767248
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/904569which got bisected down to the stable version of this commit.
Reported-by: Jonathan Nieder
Reported-by: Phil Miller
Reported-by: Philip Langdale
Reported-by: Tim Gardner
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: stable@kernel.org # for stable kernels that applied the original
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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This isn't needed in the clockevents.c file, and the header file is
going away soon, so just remove the #includeCc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
19 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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Fix various KernelDoc build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi
Cc: John Stultz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111219091320.0D5AF6FC03D@msa105.auone-net.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
15 Dec, 2011
2 commits
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Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.Cc: John Stultz
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
12 Dec, 2011
4 commits
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Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of
tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single
irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would
needlessly process any RCU job.Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits
have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple
idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney -
It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless
mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always
true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after
the tick is stopped.To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs:
tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu().If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between
tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch
must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't
need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit().Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and
tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly:- rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put
to sleep.
- rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken
up.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Guan Xuetao
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney -
The tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() function, which tries to delay
the next timer tick as long as possible, can be called from two
places:- From the idle loop to start the dytick idle mode
- From interrupt exit if we have interrupted the dyntick
idle mode, so that we reprogram the next tick event in
case the irq changed some internal state that requires this
action.There are only few minor differences between both that
are handled by that function, driven by the ts->inidle
cpu variable and the inidle parameter. The whole guarantees
that we only update the dyntick mode on irq exit if we actually
interrupted the dyntick idle mode, and that we enter in RCU extended
quiescent state from idle loop entry only.Split this function into:
- tick_nohz_idle_enter(), which sets ts->inidle to 1, enters
dynticks idle mode unconditionally if it can, and enters into RCU
extended quiescent state.- tick_nohz_irq_exit() which only updates the dynticks idle mode
when ts->inidle is set (ie: if tick_nohz_idle_enter() has been called).To maintain symmetry, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick() has been renamed
into tick_nohz_idle_exit().This simplifies the code and micro-optimize the irq exit path (no need
for local_irq_save there). This also prepares for the split between
dynticks and rcu extended quiescent state logics. We'll need this split to
further fix illegal uses of RCU in extended quiescent states in the idle
loop.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Guan Xuetao
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett -
Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness
by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y. But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side
critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing. A more
fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required.This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service,
so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is
always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration. Similarly,
rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked
at the end of an idle-loop iteration. This allows the idle task to
use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and
rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to
specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used.Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks
to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that
the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts. This
patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits
and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions
and interrupt entry/exit transitions. It is presumed that userspace
upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution
(though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall).
The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which
avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating. Overflow
is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter.This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter
idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying
Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246).
In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
06 Dec, 2011
4 commits
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The expiry function compares the timer against current time and does
not expire the timer when the expiry time is >= now. That's wrong. If
the timer is set for now, then it must expire.Make the condition expiry > now for breaking out the loop.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: John Stultz
Cc: stable@kernel.org -
Introduce nr_busy_cpus in the struct sched_group_power [Not in sched_group
because sched groups are duplicated for the SD_OVERLAP scheduler domain]
and for each cpu that enters and exits idle, this parameter will
be updated in each scheduler group of the scheduler domain that this cpu
belongs to.To avoid the frequent update of this state as the cpu enters
and exits idle, the update of the stat during idle exit is
delayed to the first timer tick that happens after the cpu becomes busy.
This is done using NOHZ_IDLE flag in the struct rq's nohz_flags.Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.555984323@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clockevents: Set noop handler in clockevents_exchange_device()
tick-broadcast: Stop active broadcast device when replacing it
clocksource: Fix bug with max_deferment margin calculation
rtc: Fix some bugs that allowed accumulating time drift in suspend/resume
rtc: Disable the alarm in the hardware -
…z/linux into timers/core
02 Dec, 2011
3 commits
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If a device is shutdown, then there might be a pending interrupt,
which will be processed after we reenable interrupts, which causes the
original handler to be run. If the old handler is the (broadcast)
periodic handler the shutdown state might hang the kernel completely.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org -
When a better rated broadcast device is installed, then the current
active device is not disabled, which results in two running broadcast
devices.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org -
In order to leave a margin of 12.5% we should >> 3 not >> 5.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Honggang (Joseph)
[jstultz: Modified commit subject]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz
29 Nov, 2011
2 commits
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There's no Kconfig symbol GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR, so the check for it
will always fail.Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina -
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
hrtimer: Fix extra wakeups from __remove_hrtimer()
timekeeping: add arch_offset hook to ktime_get functions
clocksource: Avoid selecting mult values that might overflow when adjusted
time: Improve documentation of timekeeeping_adjust()
22 Nov, 2011
2 commits
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Fixup spelling issues caught by Richard
CC: Richard Cochran
CC: Chen Jie
CC: Steven Rostedt
CC: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: John Stultz -
The whole point of this function is to return a value not touched by
NTP; unfortunately the comment got copied wholesale without adjustment
from the timekeeping_get_ns function above.Signed-off-by: Dan McGee
Signed-off-by: John Stultz
18 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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ktime_get and ktime_get_ts were calling timekeeping_get_ns()
but later they were not calling arch_gettimeoffset() so architectures
using this mechanism returned 0 ns when calling these functions.This happened for example when running Busybox's ping which calls
syscall(__NR_clock_gettime, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ts) which eventually
calls ktime_get. As a result the returned ping travel time was zero.CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios
Signed-off-by: John Stultz
11 Nov, 2011
2 commits
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…tz/linux into timers/core
Conflicts:
kernel/time/timekeeping.c -
For some frequencies, the clocks_calc_mult_shift() function will
unfortunately select mult values very close to 0xffffffff. This
has the potential to overflow when NTP adjusts the clock, adding
to the mult value.This patch adds a clocksource.maxadj value, which provides
an approximation of an 11% adjustment(NTP limits adjustments to
500ppm and the tick adjustment is limited to 10%), which could
be made to the clocksource.mult value. This is then used to both
check that the current mult value won't overflow/underflow, as
well as warning us if the timekeeping_adjust() code pushes over
that 11% boundary.v2: Fix max_adjustment calculation, and improve WARN_ONCE
messages.v3: Don't warn before maxadj has actually been set
CC: Yong Zhang
CC: David Daney
CC: Thomas Gleixner
CC: Chen Jie
CC: zhangfx
CC: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Chen Jie
Reported-by: zhangfx
Tested-by: Yong Zhang
Signed-off-by: John Stultz
01 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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These files were getting via an implicit non-obvious
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
28 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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After getting a number of questions in private emails about the
math around admittedly very complex timekeeping_adjust() and
timekeeping_big_adjust(), I figure the code needs some better
comments.Hopefully the explanations are clear enough and don't muddy the
water any worse.Still needs documentation for ntp_error, but I couldn't recall
exactly the full explanation behind the code that's there
(although I do recall once working it out when Roman first
proposed it). Given a bit more time I can probably work it out,
but I don't want to hold back this documentation until then.Signed-off-by: John Stultz
Cc: Chen Jie
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1319764362-32367-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
26 Oct, 2011
2 commits
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* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
time, s390: Get rid of compile warning
dw_apb_timer: constify clocksource name
time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in
time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type to unsigned long
alarmtimers: Fix error handling
clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless
posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities
s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device
clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function
clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable
nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages
proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times
nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional
nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting
cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros
alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface
alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality
alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state tracking
alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structure
alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack
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* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
rcu: Move propagation of ->completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
...
29 Sep, 2011
1 commit
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RCU no longer uses this global variable, nor does anyone else. This
commit therefore removes this variable. This reduces memory footprint
and also removes some atomic instructions and memory barriers from
the dyntick-idle path.Signed-off-by: Alex Shi
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
14 Sep, 2011
1 commit
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commit 8bc0daf (alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class
interface) did not implement required error checks. Add them.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
13 Sep, 2011
2 commits
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The table_lock lock can be taken in atomic context and therefore
cannot be preempted on -rt - annotate it.In mainline this change documents the low level nature of
the lock - otherwise there's no functional difference. Lockdep
and Sparse checking will work as usual.Reported-by: Andreas Sundebo
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Tested-by: Andreas SundeboSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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KGDB needs to trylock watchdog_lock when trying to reset the
clocksource watchdog after the system has been stopped to avoid a
potential deadlock. When the trylock fails TSC usually becomes
unstable.We can be more clever by using an atomic counter and checking it in
the clocksource_watchdog callback. We restart the watchdog whenever
the counter is > 0 and only decrement the counter when we ran through
a full update cycle.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: John Stultz
Acked-by: Jason Wessel
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1109121326280.2723@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
08 Sep, 2011
3 commits
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There is at least one architecture (s390) with a sane clockevent device
that can be programmed with the equivalent of a ktime. No need to create
a delta against the current time, the ktime can be used directly.A new clock device function 'set_next_ktime' is introduced that is called
with the unmodified ktime for the timer if the clock event device has the
CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME bit set.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: john stultz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.815350967@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner -
The automatic increase of the min_delta_ns of a clockevents device
should be done in the clockevents code as the minimum delay is an
attribute of the clockevents device.In addition not all architectures want the automatic adjustment, on a
massively virtualized system it can happen that the programming of a
clock event fails several times in a row because the virtual cpu has
been rescheduled quickly enough. In that case the minimum delay will
erroneously be increased with no way back. The new config symbol
GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST is used to enable the automatic
adjustment. The config option is selected only for x86.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: john stultz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.494157493@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner -
When performing cpu hotplug tests the kernel printk log buffer gets flooded
with pointless "Switched to NOHz mode..." messages. Especially when afterwards
analyzing a dump this might have removed more interesting stuff out of the
buffer.
Assuming that switching to NOHz mode simply works just remove the printk.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823112046.GB2540@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
