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    • Deepthi Dharwar's avatar
      cpuidle/powerpc: Fix snooze state problem in the cpuidle design on pseries. · 83dac594
      Deepthi Dharwar authored 
      Earlier without cpuidle framework on pseries, the native arch
idle routine comprised of both snooze and nap
states.  smt_snooze_delay variable was used to delay
the idle process entry to deeper idle state like  nap.
With the coming of cpuidle, this arch specific idle was replaced
by two different idle routines, one for supporting snooze and other
for nap. This enabled addition of more
low level idle states on pseries in the future.

On adopting the generic cpuidle framework for POWER systems,
the decision of which idle state to choose from,  given a predicted
idle time is taken by the menu governor based on
target_residency and  exit_latency of the idle states.
target_residency is the minimum time to be resident in that idle state.
Exit_latency is time taken to exit out of idle state.
Deeper the idle state, both the target residency and exit latency
would be higher.

In the current design, smt_snooze_delay is used as target_residency
for the  snooze state which is incorrect, as it is not the
minimum but the maximum duration to be in snooze state.
This would  result in the governor in taking bad decision,
as presently target_residency of nap < target_residency of snooze
inspite of nap being deeper idle state.

This patch aims to fix this problem by replacing the smt_snooze_delay loop
in snooze state, with the need_resched()  as the governor is aware of
entry and exit of various idle transitions based on which
next idle time prediction.

The governor is intelligent enough to determine the idle state the needs to
be transitioned to and maintains a whole of heuristics including
io load, previous idle states predictions etc for the same, based on
which idle state entry decision is taken.

With this fix, of setting target_residency of snooze to 0
					     nap to smt_snooze_delay
if the predicted idle time is less
than smt_snooze_delay (target_residency of nap)
value governor would pick snooze state, else nap. This adhers to the
previous native idle design.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDeepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      83dac594
    • Deepthi Dharwar's avatar
      cpuidle/powerpc: Fix smt_snooze_delay functionality. · 8ea959a1
      Deepthi Dharwar authored 
      smt_snooze_delay was designed to  delay idle loop's nap entry
in the native idle code before it got  ported over to use as part of
the cpuidle framework.

A -ve value  assigned to smt_snooze_delay should result in
busy looping, in other words disabling the entry to nap state.

	- https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2010-May/082450.html

This particular functionality can be achieved currently by
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/state1/disable
but it is broken when one assigns -ve value to  the smt_snooze_delay
variable either via sysfs entry or ppc64_cpu util.

This patch aims to fix this, by disabling nap state when smt_snooze_delay
variable is set to -ve value.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDeepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      8ea959a1
    • Deepthi Dharwar's avatar
      cpuidle/powerpc: Fix target residency initialisation in pseries cpuidle · 817deb05
      Deepthi Dharwar authored 
      Remove the redundant target residency initialisation in pseries_cpuidle_driver_init().
This is currently over-writing the residency time updated as part of the static
table, resulting in  all the idle states having the same target
residency of 100us which is incorrect. This may result in the menu governor making
wrong state decisions.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDeepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      817deb05
    • Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar
      powerpc: Build fix for powerpc KVM · ce236ab5
      Aneesh Kumar K.V authored 
      Fix build failure for powerpc KVM by adding missing VPN_SHIFT definition
and the ';'

arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c: In function 'kvmppc_mmu_map_page':
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c:176: error: 'VPN_SHIFT' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c:176: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c:176: error: for each function it appears in.)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c:178: error: expected ';' before 'next_pteg'
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c:190: error: label 'next_pteg' used but not defined
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      ce236ab5
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      Revert "powerpc/perf: Use pmc_overflow() to detect rolled back events" · 72523d80
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored 
      This reverts commit 81331211.

This revert was requested by the author of the patch as it seems
to cause system hangs with some low frequency events
      72523d80
    • John Johansen's avatar
      apparmor: fix apparmor OOPS in audit_log_untrustedstring+0x1c/0x40 · 43c422ed
      John Johansen authored 
      The capability defines have moved causing the auto generated names
of capabilities that apparmor uses in logging to be incorrect.

Fix the autogenerated table source to uapi/linux/capability.h
Reported-by: default avatarYanHong <clouds.yan@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarKrzysztof Kolasa <kkolasa@winsoft.pl>
Analyzed-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      43c422ed
    • Bill Pemberton's avatar
      staging: dgrp: check return value of alloc_tty_driver · 178e485a
      Bill Pemberton authored 
      alloc_tty_driver was always assumed to succeed.  Add code to check the
return value and return -ENOMEM if alloc_tty_driver fails.
Reported-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      178e485a
    • Bill Pemberton's avatar
      staging: dgrp: check for NULL pointer in (un)register_proc_table · d7c4660c
      Bill Pemberton authored 
      register_proc_table and unregister_proc_table didn't deal with the
possibility that the *table pointer could be NULL.  Check for this and
return if table is NULL.
Reported-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      d7c4660c
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      Merge tag 'disintegrate-tty-20121009' of... · 367ff459
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored 
      Merge tag 'disintegrate-tty-20121009' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers into tty-linus

UAPI Disintegration 2012-10-09
      367ff459
    • Stephen Warren's avatar
      dtc: fix for_each_*() to skip first object if deleted · 205a8eb7
      Stephen Warren authored 
      The previous definition of for_each_*() would always include the very
first object within the list, irrespective of whether it was marked
deleted, since the deleted flag was not checked on the first object,
but only on any "next" object.

Fix for_each_*() to check the deleted flag in the loop body every
iteration to correct this.

(upstream dtc commit 1762ab42ef77db7ab2776d0d6cba3515150f518a)
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
      205a8eb7
    • Kim Phillips's avatar
      of/platform: sparse fix · 24fb530f
      Kim Phillips authored 
      drivers/of/platform.c:110:59: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
drivers/of/platform.c:110:59:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/platform.c:110:59:    got unsigned int const [usertype] *[assigned] reg
Signed-off-by: default avatarKim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
      24fb530f
    • Kim Phillips's avatar
      of/irq: sparse fixes · d2e41518
      Kim Phillips authored 
      drivers/of/irq.c:195:57: warning: restricted __be32 degrades to integer
drivers/of/irq.c:196:51: warning: restricted __be32 degrades to integer
drivers/of/irq.c:199:57: warning: restricted __be32 degrades to integer
drivers/of/irq.c:201:58: warning: restricted __be32 degrades to integer
drivers/of/irq.c:470:37: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different modifiers)
drivers/of/irq.c:470:37:    expected int ( *[usertype] irq_init_cb )( ... )
drivers/of/irq.c:470:37:    got void const *const data
drivers/of/irq.c:96:5: error: symbol 'of_irq_map_raw' redeclared with different type (originally declared at include/linux/of_irq.h:61) - incompatible argument 2 (different base types)

drivers/of/of_pci_irq.c:91:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
drivers/of/of_pci_irq.c:91:40:    expected unsigned int const [usertype] *intspec
drivers/of/of_pci_irq.c:91:40:    got restricted __be32 *<noident>
drivers/of/of_pci_irq.c:91:53: warning: incorrect type in argument 4 (different base types)
drivers/of/of_pci_irq.c:91:53:    expected unsigned int const [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/of_pci_irq.c:91:53:    got restricted __be32 *<noident>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
      d2e41518
    • Kim Phillips's avatar
      of/address: sparse fixes · 47b1e689
      Kim Phillips authored 
      drivers/of/address.c:66:29: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:66:29:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *cell
drivers/of/address.c:66:29:    got unsigned int [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/address.c:87:32: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:87:32:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *cell
drivers/of/address.c:87:32:    got unsigned int [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/address.c:91:30: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:91:30:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] <noident>
drivers/of/address.c:91:30:    got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
drivers/of/address.c:92:22: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:92:22:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] <noident>
drivers/of/address.c:92:22:    got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
drivers/of/address.c:147:35: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:147:35:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/address.c:147:35:    got unsigned int [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/address.c:157:34: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:157:34:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *cell
drivers/of/address.c:157:34:    got unsigned int [usertype] *
drivers/of/address.c:256:29: warning: restricted __be32 degrades to integer
drivers/of/address.c:256:36: warning: restricted __be32 degrades to integer
drivers/of/address.c:262:34: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:262:34:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *cell
drivers/of/address.c:262:34:    got unsigned int [usertype] *
drivers/of/address.c:372:41: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:372:41:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *cell
drivers/of/address.c:372:41:    got unsigned int [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/address.c:395:53: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:395:53:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/address.c:395:53:    got unsigned int [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/address.c:443:50: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:443:50:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/address.c:443:50:    got unsigned int *<noident>
drivers/of/address.c:455:49: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:455:49:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *cell
drivers/of/address.c:455:49:    got unsigned int *<noident>
drivers/of/address.c:480:60: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
drivers/of/address.c:480:60:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *addr
drivers/of/address.c:480:60:    got unsigned int *<noident>
drivers/of/address.c:412:5: warning: symbol '__of_translate_address' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/of/address.c:520:14: error: symbol 'of_get_address' redeclared with different type (originally declared at include/linux/of_address.h:22) - different base types
Signed-off-by: default avatarKim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
      47b1e689
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