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The scheduler IPI is used by the scheduler to kick
full dynticks CPUs asynchronously when more than one
task are running or when a new timer list timer is
enqueued. This way the destination CPU can decide
to restart the tick to handle this new situation.
Now let's call that kick in the scheduler IPI.
(Reusing the scheduler IPI rather than implementing
a new IPI was suggested by Peter Zijlstra a while ago)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Provide a new helper to be called from the full dynticks engine
before stopping the tick in order to make sure we don't stop
it when there is more than one task running on the CPU.
This way we make sure that the tick stays alive to maintain
fairness.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Provide a new helper that help full dynticks CPUs to prevent
from stopping their tick in case there are events in the local
rotation list.
This way we make sure that perf_event_task_tick() is serviced
on demand.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz
Pull posix cpu timers handling on full dynticks from Frederic Weisbecker.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Bring a new helper that the full dynticks infrastructure can
call in order to know if it can safely stop the tick from
the posix cpu timers subsystem point of view.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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We need full dynticks CPU to also be RCU nocb so
that we don't have to keep the tick to handle RCU
callbacks.
Make sure the range passed to nohz_full= boot
parameter is a subset of rcu_nocbs=
The CPUs that fail to meet this requirement will be
excluded from the nohz_full range. This is checked
early in boot time, before any CPU has the opportunity
to stop its tick.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Provide two new helpers in order to notify the full dynticks CPUs about
some internal system changes against which they may reconsider the state
of their tick. Some practical examples include: posix cpu timers, perf tick
and sched clock tick.
For now the notifying handler, implemented through IPIs, is a stub
that will be implemented when we get the tick stop/restart infrastructure
in.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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"Extended nohz" was used as a naming base for the full dynticks
API and Kconfig symbols. It reflects the fact the system tries
to stop the tick in more places than just idle.
But that "extended" name is a bit opaque and vague. Rename it to
"full" makes it clearer what the system tries to do under this
config: try to shutdown the tick anytime it can. The various
constraints that prevent that to happen shouldn't be considered
as fundamental properties of this feature but rather technical
issues that may be solved in the future.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.
As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.
It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.
On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.
But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:
1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE
We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.
So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.
Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Wake up a CPU when a timer list timer is enqueued there and
the target is part of the full dynticks range. Sending an IPI
to it makes it reconsidering the next timer to program on top
of recent updates.
This may later be improved by checking if the tick is really
stopped on the target. This would need some careful
synchronization though. So deal with such optimization later
and start simple.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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For extreme usecases such as Real Time or HPC, having
the ability to shutdown the tick when a single task runs
on a CPU is a desired feature:
* Reducing the amount of interrupts improves throughput
for CPU-bound tasks. The CPU is less distracted from its
real job, from an execution time and from the cache point
of views.
* This also improve latency response as we have less critical
sections.
Start with introducing a very simple interface to define
full dynticks CPU: use a boot time option defined cpumask
through the "nohz_extended=" kernel parameter. CPUs that
are part of this range will have their tick shutdown
whenever possible: provided they run a single task and
they don't do kernel activity that require the periodic
tick. These details will be later documented in
Documentation/*
An online CPU must be kept outside this range to handle the
timekeeping.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Provide an extended version of div64_u64() that
also returns the remainder of the division.
We are going to need this to refine the cputime
scaling code.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into sched/core
Pull cputime changes from Frederic Weisbecker:
* Generalize exception handling
* Fix race in context tracking state restore on return from exception
and irq exit kernel preemption
* Fix cputime scaling in full dynticks accounting dynamic off-case
* Fix default Kconfig value
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The full dynticks cputime accounting is able to account either
using the tick or the context tracking subsystem. This way
the housekeeping CPU can keep the low overhead tick based
solution.
This latter mode has a low jiffies resolution granularity and
need to be scaled against CFS precise runtime accounting to
improve its result. We are doing this for CONFIG_TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING,
now we also need to expand it to full dynticks accounting dynamic
off-case as well.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@enea.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On exception exit, we restore the previous context tracking state based on
the regs of the interrupted frame. Iff that frame is in user mode as
stated by user_mode() helper, we restore the context tracking user mode.
However there is a tiny chunck of low level arch code after we pass through
user_enter() and until the CPU eventually resumes userspace.
If an exception happens in this tiny area, exception_enter() correctly
exits the context tracking user mode but exception_exit() won't restore
it because of the value returned by user_mode(regs).
As a result we may return to userspace with the wrong context tracking
state.
To fix this, change exception_enter() to return the context tracking state
prior to its call and pass this saved state to exception_exit(). This restores
the real context tracking state of the interrupted frame.
(May be this patch was suggested to me, I don't recall exactly. If so,
sorry for the missing credit).
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@enea.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Exceptions handling on context tracking should share common
treatment: on entry we exit user mode if the exception triggered
in that context. Then on exception exit we return to that previous
context.
Generalize this to avoid duplication across archs.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@enea.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- Make sched_group_{set_,}runtime(), sched_group_{set_,}period()
and sched_rt_can_attach() static.
- Move sched_{create,destroy,online,offline}_group() to
kernel/sched/sched.h.
- Remove declaration of sched_group_shares().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A7C5.3000708@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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As default_scale_{freq,smt}_power() and update_rt_power() are
used in kernel/sched/fair.c only, annotate them as static
functions.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A7AF.8010900@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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It's used internally only.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A79F.8090502@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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They are used internally only.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A78E.7040609@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Move struct sched_group_power and sched_group and related inline
functions to kernel/sched/sched.h, as they are used internally
only.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A77F.2010705@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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They are used internally only.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A771.4070104@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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It's unused.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A75F.4070202@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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No one will call those functions if CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=n.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A748.3050206@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers
Pull fbdev UAPI disintegration from David Howells:
"You'll be glad to here that the end is nigh for the UAPI patches.
Only the fbdev/framebuffer piece remains now that the SCSI stuff has
gone in.
Here are the UAPI disintegration bits for the fbdev drivers. It
appears that Florian hasn't had time to deal with my patch, but back
in December he did say he didn't mind if I pushed it forward."
Yay. No more uapi movement. And hopefully no more big header file
cleanups coming up either, it just tends to be very painful.
* tag 'disintegrate-fbdev-20121220' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers:
UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/video
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull more VFS bits from Al Viro:
"Unfortunately, it looks like xattr series will have to wait until the
next cycle ;-/
This pile contains 9p cleanups and fixes (races in v9fs_fid_add()
etc), fixup for nommu breakage in shmem.c, several cleanups and a bit
more file_inode() work"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
constify path_get/path_put and fs_struct.c stuff
fix nommu breakage in shmem.c
cache the value of file_inode() in struct file
9p: if v9fs_fid_lookup() gets to asking server, it'd better have hashed dentry
9p: make sure ->lookup() adds fid to the right dentry
9p: untangle ->lookup() a bit
9p: double iput() in ->lookup() if d_materialise_unique() fails
9p: v9fs_fid_add() can't fail now
v9fs: get rid of v9fs_dentry
9p: turn fid->dlist into hlist
9p: don't bother with private lock in ->d_fsdata; dentry->d_lock will do just fine
more file_inode() open-coded instances
selinux: opened file can't have NULL or negative ->f_path.dentry
(In the meantime, the hlist traversal macros have changed, so this
required a semantic conflict fixup for the newly hlistified fid->dlist)
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag
Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan:
"This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
fixes which I kept separate to ease review:
- Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
- A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
- A few privilege protection fixes
- Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of
metag_ksyms.c)
- Fix some missing exports
- Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
- Copy device tree to non-init memory
- Provide dma_get_sgtable()"
* tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits)
metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable()
metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve()
metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes
metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP
genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols
metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area()
metag: export clear_page and copy_page
metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all
metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions
metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit
metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes
perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta
metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check
metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe()
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Pull watchdog updates from Wim Van Sebroeck:
"This contains:
- fixes and improvements
- devicetree bindings
- conversion to watchdog generic framework of the following drivers:
- booke_wdt
- bcm47xx_wdt.c
- at91sam9_wdt
- Removal of old STMP3xxx driver
- Addition of following new drivers:
- new driver for STMP3xxx and i.MX23/28
- Retu watchdog driver"
* git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog: (30 commits)
watchdog: sp805_wdt depends on ARM
watchdog: davinci_wdt: update to devm_* API
watchdog: davinci_wdt: use devm managed clk get
watchdog: at91rm9200: add DT support
watchdog: add timeout-sec property binding
watchdog: at91sam9_wdt: Convert to use the watchdog framework
watchdog: omap_wdt: Add option nowayout
watchdog: core: dt: add support for the timeout-sec dt property
watchdog: bcm47xx_wdt.c: add hard timer
watchdog: bcm47xx_wdt.c: rename wdt_time to timeout
watchdog: bcm47xx_wdt.c: rename ops methods
watchdog: bcm47xx_wdt.c: use platform device
watchdog: bcm47xx_wdt.c: convert to watchdog core api
watchdog: Convert BookE watchdog driver to watchdog infrastructure
watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: Use devm_* functions
watchdog: remove old STMP3xxx driver
watchdog: add new driver for STMP3xxx and i.MX23/28
rtc: stmp3xxx: add wdt-accessor function
watchdog: introduce retu_wdt driver
watchdog: intel_scu_watchdog: fix Kconfig dependency
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Pull second set of slave-dmaengine updates from Vinod Koul:
"Arnd's patch moves the dw_dmac to use generic DMA binding. I agreed
to merge this late as it will avoid the conflicts between trees.
The second patch from Matt adding a dma_request_slave_channel_compat
API was supposed to be picked up, but somehow never got picked up.
Some patches dependent on this are already in -next :("
* 'next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma:
dmaengine: dw_dmac: move to generic DMA binding
dmaengine: add dma_request_slave_channel_compat()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Various bug fixes for ext4. The most important is a fix for the new
extent cache's slab shrinker which can cause significant, user-visible
pauses when the system is under memory pressure."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: enable quotas before orphan cleanup
ext4: don't allow quota mount options when quota feature enabled
ext4: fix a warning from sparse check for ext4_dir_llseek
ext4: convert number of blocks to clusters properly
ext4: fix possible memory leak in ext4_remount()
jbd2: fix ERR_PTR dereference in jbd2__journal_start
ext4: use percpu counter for extent cache count
ext4: optimize ext4_es_shrink()
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Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust:
"We've just concluded another Connectathon interoperability testing
week, and so here are the fixes for the bugs that were discovered:
- Don't allow NFS silly-renamed files to be deleted
- Don't start the retransmission timer when out of socket space
- Fix a couple of pnfs-related Oopses.
- Fix one more NFSv4 state recovery deadlock
- Don't loop forever when LAYOUTGET returns NFS4ERR_LAYOUTTRYLATER"
* tag 'nfs-for-3.9-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
SUNRPC: One line comment fix
NFSv4.1: LAYOUTGET EDELAY loops timeout to the MDS
SUNRPC: add call to get configured timeout
PNFS: set the default DS timeout to 60 seconds
NFSv4: Fix another open/open_recovery deadlock
nfs: don't allow nfs_find_actor to match inodes of the wrong type
NFSv4.1: Hold reference to layout hdr in layoutget
pnfs: fix resend_to_mds for directio
SUNRPC: Don't start the retransmission timer when out of socket space
NFS: Don't allow NFS silly-renamed files to be deleted, no signal
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs
Pull btrfs update from Chris Mason:
"The biggest feature in the pull is the new (and still experimental)
raid56 code that David Woodhouse started long ago. I'm still working
on the parity logging setup that will avoid inconsistent parity after
a crash, so this is only for testing right now. But, I'd really like
to get it out to a broader audience to hammer out any performance
issues or other problems.
scrub does not yet correct errors on raid5/6 either.
Josef has another pass at fsync performance. The big change here is
to combine waiting for metadata with waiting for data, which is a big
latency win. It is also step one toward using atomics from the
hardware during a commit.
Mark Fasheh has a new way to use btrfs send/receive to send only the
metadata changes. SUSE is using this to make snapper more efficient
at finding changes between snapshosts.
Snapshot-aware defrag is also included.
Otherwise we have a large number of fixes and cleanups. Eric Sandeen
wins the award for removing the most lines, and I'm hoping we steal
this idea from XFS over and over again."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: (118 commits)
btrfs: fixup/remove module.h usage as required
Btrfs: delete inline extents when we find them during logging
btrfs: try harder to allocate raid56 stripe cache
Btrfs: cleanup to make the function btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata more logic
Btrfs: don't call btrfs_qgroup_free if just btrfs_qgroup_reserve fails
Btrfs: remove reduplicate check about root in the function btrfs_clean_quota_tree
Btrfs: return ENOMEM rather than use BUG_ON when btrfs_alloc_path fails
Btrfs: fix missing deleted items in btrfs_clean_quota_tree
btrfs: use only inline_pages from extent buffer
Btrfs: fix wrong reserved space when deleting a snapshot/subvolume
Btrfs: fix wrong reserved space in qgroup during snap/subv creation
Btrfs: remove unnecessary dget_parent/dput when creating the pending snapshot
btrfs: remove a printk from scan_one_device
Btrfs: fix NULL pointer after aborting a transaction
Btrfs: fix memory leak of log roots
Btrfs: copy everything if we've created an inline extent
btrfs: cleanup for open-coded alignment
Btrfs: do not change inode flags in rename
Btrfs: use reserved space for creating a snapshot
clear chunk_alloc flag on retryable failure
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Pull MTD update from David Woodhouse:
"Fairly unexciting MTD merge for 3.9:
- misc clean-ups in the MTD command-line partitioning parser
(cmdlinepart)
- add flash locking support for STmicro chips serial flash chips, as
well as for CFI command set 2 chips.
- new driver for the ELM error correction HW module found in various
TI chips, enable the OMAP NAND driver to use the ELM HW error
correction
- added number of new serial flash IDs
- various fixes and improvements in the gpmi NAND driver
- bcm47xx NAND driver improvements
- make the mtdpart module actually removable"
* tag 'for-linus-20130301' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (45 commits)
mtd: map: BUG() in non handled cases
mtd: bcm47xxnflash: use pr_fmt for module prefix in messages
mtd: davinci_nand: Use managed resources
mtd: mtd_torturetest can cause stack overflows
mtd: physmap_of: Convert device allocation to managed devm_kzalloc()
mtd: at91: atmel_nand: for PMECC, add code to check the ONFI parameter ECC requirement.
mtd: atmel_nand: make pmecc-cap, pmecc-sector-size in dts is optional.
mtd: atmel_nand: avoid to report an error when lookup table offset is 0.
mtd: bcm47xxsflash: adjust names of bus-specific functions
mtd: bcm47xxpart: improve probing of nvram partition
mtd: bcm47xxpart: add support for other erase sizes
mtd: bcm47xxnflash: register this as normal driver
mtd: bcm47xxnflash: fix message
mtd: bcm47xxsflash: register this as normal driver
mtd: bcm47xxsflash: write number of written bytes
mtd: gpmi: add sanity check for the ECC
mtd: gpmi: set the Golois Field bit for mx6q's BCH
mtd: devices: elm: Removes <xx> literals in elm DT node
mtd: gpmi: fix a dereferencing freed memory error
mtd: fix the wrong timeo for panic_nand_wait()
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Commit cc2383ec06be093789469852e1fe96e1148e9a2c ("mm: introduce
arch-specific vma flag VM_ARCH_1") merged in v3.7-rc1.
The above commit combined several arch-specific vma flags into one, and
in the process it changed the VM_GROWSUP definition to depend on
specific architectures rather than CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP. Therefore add
an ifdef for CONFIG_METAG to also set VM_GROWSUP.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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Meta core internal interrupts (from HWSTATMETA and friends) are vectored
onto the TR1 core trigger for the current thread. This is demultiplexed
in irq-metag.c to individual Linux IRQs for each internal interrupt.
External SoC interrupts (from HWSTATEXT and friends) are vectored onto
the TR2 core trigger for the current thread. This is demultiplexed in
irq-metag-ext.c to individual Linux IRQs for each external SoC interrupt.
The external irqchip has devicetree bindings for configuring the number
of irq banks and the type of masking available.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Dom Cobley <popcornmix@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
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Add time keeping code for metag. Meta hardware threads have 2 timers.
The background timer (TXTIMER) is used as a free-running time base, and
the interrupt timer (TXTIMERI) is used for the timer interrupt. Both
counters traditionally count at approximately 1MHz.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The ptrace interface for metag provides access to some core register
sets using the PTRACE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET operations. The
details of the internal context structures is abstracted into user API
structures to both ease use and allow flexibility to change the internal
context layouts. Copyin and copyout functions for these register sets
are exposed to allow signal handling code to use them to copy to and
from the signal context.
struct user_gp_regs (NT_PRSTATUS) provides access to the core general
purpose register context.
struct user_cb_regs (NT_METAG_CBUF) provides access to the TXCATCH*
registers which contains information abuot a memory fault, unaligned
access error or watchpoint. This can be modified to alter the way the
fault is replayed on resume ("catch replay"), or to prevent the replay
taking place.
struct user_rp_state (NT_METAG_RPIPE) provides access to the state of
the Meta read pipeline which can be used to hide memory latencies in
hand optimised data loops.
Extended DSP register state, DSP RAM, and hardware breakpoint registers
aren't yet exposed through ptrace.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Some architectures have symbol prefixes and set CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX,
but this wasn't taken into account by the generic cond_syscall. It's
easy enough to fix in a generic fashion, so add the symbol prefix to
symbol names in cond_syscall when CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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Make asm-generic/io.h check CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS before defining
virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt(), otherwise it's easy to accidentally
have a silently failing incorrect direct mapped definition rather then
no definition at all.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm
Pull device-mapper update from Alasdair G Kergon:
"The main addition here is a long-desired target framework to allow an
SSD to be used as a cache in front of a slower device. Cache tuning
is delegated to interchangeable policy modules so these can be
developed independently of the mechanics needed to shuffle the data
around.
Other than that, kcopyd users acquire a throttling parameter, ioctl
buffer usage gets streamlined, more mempool reliance is reduced and
there are a few other bug fixes and tidy-ups."
* tag 'dm-3.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm: (30 commits)
dm cache: add cleaner policy
dm cache: add mq policy
dm: add cache target
dm persistent data: add bitset
dm persistent data: add transactional array
dm thin: remove cells from stack
dm bio prison: pass cell memory in
dm persistent data: add btree_walk
dm: add target num_write_bios fn
dm kcopyd: introduce configurable throttling
dm ioctl: allow message to return data
dm ioctl: optimize functions without variable params
dm ioctl: introduce ioctl_flags
dm: merge io_pool and tio_pool
dm: remove unused _rq_bio_info_cache
dm: fix limits initialization when there are no data devices
dm snapshot: add missing module aliases
dm persistent data: set some btree fn parms const
dm: refactor bio cloning
dm: rename bio cloning functions
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This is an assorted set of stragglers into the merge window with
driver updates for qla2xxx, megaraid_sas, storvsc and ufs.
It also includes pulls of the uapi tree (all the remaining SCSI
pieces) and the fcoe tree (updates to fcoe and libfc)"
* tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (81 commits)
[SCSI] ufs: Separate PCI code into glue driver
[SCSI] ufs: Segregate PCI Specific Code
[SCSI] scsi: fix lpfc build when wmb() is defined as mb()
[SCSI] storvsc: Handle dynamic resizing of the device
[SCSI] storvsc: Restructure error handling code on command completion
[SCSI] storvsc: avoid usage of WRITE_SAME
[SCSI] aacraid: suppress two GCC warnings
[SCSI] hpsa: check for dma_mapping_error in hpsa_passthru ioctls
[SCSI] hpsa: reorganize error handling in hpsa_passthru_ioctl
[SCSI] hpsa: check for dma_mapping_error in hpsa_map_sg_chain_block
[SCSI] hpsa: Check for dma_mapping_error for all code paths using fill_cmd
[SCSI] hpsa: Check for dma_mapping_error in hpsa_map_one
[SCSI] dc395x: uninitialized variable in device_alloc()
[SCSI] Fix range check in scsi_host_dif_capable()
[SCSI] storvsc: Initialize the sglist
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Add support for OEM specific controller
[SCSI] ipr: Fix oops while resetting an ipr adapter
[SCSI] fnic: Fnic Trace Utility
[SCSI] fnic: New debug flags and debug log messages
[SCSI] fnic: fnic driver may hit BUG_ON on device reset
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Tim found:
WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:324 topology_sane.isra.2+0x6f/0x80()
Hardware name: S2600CP
sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node! [node: 1 != 0]. Ignoring dependency.
smpboot: Booting Node 1, Processors #1
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.9.0-0-generic #1
Call Trace:
set_cpu_sibling_map+0x279/0x449
start_secondary+0x11d/0x1e5
Don Morris reproduced on a HP z620 workstation, and bisected it to
commit e8d195525809 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock
is ready")
It turns out movable_map has some problems, and it breaks several things
1. numa_init is called several times, NOT just for srat. so those
nodes_clear(numa_nodes_parsed)
memset(&numa_meminfo, 0, sizeof(numa_meminfo))
can not be just removed. Need to consider sequence is: numaq, srat, amd, dummy.
and make fall back path working.
2. simply split acpi_numa_init to early_parse_srat.
a. that early_parse_srat is NOT called for ia64, so you break ia64.
b. for (i = 0; i < MAX_LOCAL_APIC; i++)
set_apicid_to_node(i, NUMA_NO_NODE)
still left in numa_init. So it will just clear result from early_parse_srat.
it should be moved before that....
c. it breaks ACPI_TABLE_OVERIDE...as the acpi table scan is moved
early before override from INITRD is settled.
3. that patch TITLE is total misleading, there is NO x86 in the title,
but it changes critical x86 code. It caused x86 guys did not
pay attention to find the problem early. Those patches really should
be routed via tip/x86/mm.
4. after that commit, following range can not use movable ram:
a. real_mode code.... well..funny, legacy Node0 [0,1M) could be hot-removed?
b. initrd... it will be freed after booting, so it could be on movable...
c. crashkernel for kdump...: looks like we can not put kdump kernel above 4G
anymore.
d. init_mem_mapping: can not put page table high anymore.
e. initmem_init: vmemmap can not be high local node anymore. That is
not good.
If node is hotplugable, the mem related range like page table and
vmemmap could be on the that node without problem and should be on that
node.
We have workaround patch that could fix some problems, but some can not
be fixed.
So just remove that offending commit and related ones including:
f7210e6c4ac7 ("mm/memblock.c: use CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP to
protect movablecore_map in memblock_overlaps_region().")
01a178a94e8e ("acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from
SRAT")
27168d38fa20 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: extend movablemem_map ranges to
the end of node")
e8d195525809 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock is
ready")
fb06bc8e5f42 ("page_alloc: bootmem limit with movablecore_map")
42f47e27e761 ("page_alloc: make movablemem_map have higher priority")
6981ec31146c ("page_alloc: introduce zone_movable_limit[] to keep
movable limit for nodes")
34b71f1e04fc ("page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter")
4d59a75125d5 ("x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node")
Later we should have patches that will make sure kernel put page table
and vmemmap on local node ram instead of push them down to node0. Also
need to find way to put other kernel used ram to local node ram.
Reported-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com>
Bisected-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com>
Tested-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull signal/compat fixes from Al Viro:
"Fixes for several regressions introduced in the last signal.git pile,
along with fixing bugs in truncate and ftruncate compat (on just about
anything biarch at least one of those two had been done wrong)."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
compat: restore timerfd settime and gettime compat syscalls
[regression] braino in "sparc: convert to ksignal"
fix compat truncate/ftruncate
switch lseek to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
lseek() and truncate() on sparc really need sign extension
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc
Pull new ARC architecture from Vineet Gupta:
"Initial ARC Linux port with some fixes on top for 3.9-rc1:
I would like to introduce the Linux port to ARC Processors (from
Synopsys) for 3.9-rc1. The patch-set has been discussed on the public
lists since Nov and has received a fair bit of review, specially from
Arnd, tglx, Al and other subsystem maintainers for DeviceTree, kgdb...
The arch bits are in arch/arc, some asm-generic changes (acked by
Arnd), a minor change to PARISC (acked by Helge).
The series is a touch bigger for a new port for 2 main reasons:
1. It enables a basic kernel in first sub-series and adds
ptrace/kgdb/.. later
2. Some of the fallout of review (DeviceTree support, multi-platform-
image support) were added on top of orig series, primarily to
record the revision history.
This updated pull request additionally contains
- fixes due to our GNU tools catching up with the new syscall/ptrace
ABI
- some (minor) cross-arch Kconfig updates."
* tag 'arc-v3.9-rc1-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (82 commits)
ARC: split elf.h into uapi and export it for userspace
ARC: Fixup the current ABI version
ARC: gdbserver using regset interface possibly broken
ARC: Kconfig cleanup tracking cross-arch Kconfig pruning in merge window
ARC: make a copy of flat DT
ARC: [plat-arcfpga] DT arc-uart bindings change: "baud" => "current-speed"
ARC: Ensure CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS is not enabled
ARC: Fix pt_orig_r8 access
ARC: [3.9] Fallout of hlist iterator update
ARC: 64bit RTSC timestamp hardware issue
ARC: Don't fiddle with non-existent caches
ARC: Add self to MAINTAINERS
ARC: Provide a default serial.h for uart drivers needing BASE_BAUD
ARC: [plat-arcfpga] defconfig for fully loaded ARC Linux
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #8: platform registers SMP callbacks
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #7: SMP common code to use callbacks
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #6: cpu-to-dma-addr optional
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #5: NR_IRQS defined by ARC core
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #4: Isolate platform headers
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #3: switch to board callback
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Note that this thing does *not* contribute to inode refcount;
it's pinned down by dentry.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Add a num_write_bios function to struct target.
If an instance of a target sets this, it will be queried before the
target's mapping function is called on a write bio, and the response
controls the number of copies of the write bio that the target will
receive.
This provides a convenient way for a target to send the same data to
more than one device. The new cache target uses this in writethrough
mode, to send the data both to the cache and the backing device.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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This patch allows the administrator to reduce the rate at which kcopyd
issues I/O.
Each module that uses kcopyd acquires a throttle parameter that can be
set in /sys/module/*/parameters.
We maintain a history of kcopyd usage by each module in the variables
io_period and total_period in struct dm_kcopyd_throttle. The actual
kcopyd activity is calculated as a percentage of time equal to
"(100 * io_period / total_period)". This is compared with the user-defined
throttle percentage threshold and if it is exceeded, we sleep.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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This patch introduces enhanced message support that allows the
device-mapper core to recognise messages that are common to all devices,
and for messages to return data to userspace.
Core messages are processed by the function "message_for_md". If the
device mapper doesn't support the message, it is passed to the target
driver.
If the message returns data, the kernel sets the flag
DM_MESSAGE_OUT_FLAG.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Device-mapper ioctls receive and send data in a buffer supplied
by userspace. The buffer has two parts. The first part contains
a 'struct dm_ioctl' and has a fixed size. The second part depends
on the ioctl and has a variable size.
This patch recognises the specific ioctls that do not use the variable
part of the buffer and skips allocating memory for it.
In particular, when a device is suspended and a resume ioctl is sent,
this now avoid memory allocation completely.
The variable "struct dm_ioctl tmp" is moved from the function
copy_params to its caller ctl_ioctl and renamed to param_kernel.
It is used directly when the ioctl function doesn't need any arguments.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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