- 29 Dec, 2008 7 commits
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Gregory Haskins authored
git-id c4acb2c0 attempted to limit newidle critical section length by stopping after at least one task was moved. Further investigation has shown that there are other paths nested further inside the algorithm which still remain that allow long latencies to occur with newidle balancing. This patch applies the same technique inside balance_tasks() to limit the duration of this optional balancing operation. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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Gregory Haskins authored
There is no sense in wasting time trying to push a task away that cannot move anywhere else. We gain no benefit from trying to push other tasks at this point, so if the task being woken up is non migratable, just skip the whole operation. This reduces overhead in the wakeup path for certain tasks. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
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Gregory Haskins authored
We currently take the rq->lock for every cpu in an overload state during pull_rt_tasks(). However, we now have enough information via the highest_prio.[curr|next] fields to determine if there is any tasks of interest to warrant the overhead of the rq->lock, before we actually take it. So we use this information to reduce lock contention during the pull for the case where the source-rq doesnt have tasks that preempt the current task. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
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Gregory Haskins authored
highest_prio.curr is actually a more accurate way to keep track of the pull_rt_task() threshold since it is always up to date, even if the "next" task migrates during double_lock. Therefore, stop looking at the "next" task object and simply use the highest_prio.curr. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
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Gregory Haskins authored
We will use this later in the series to reduce the amount of rq-lock contention during a pull operation Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
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Gregory Haskins authored
Move some common definitions up to the function prologe to simplify the body logic. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
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Sergio Luis authored
Impact: fix section mismatch warning Commit b2bb8554 ("x86: Remove cpumask games in x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c") introduced get_cpu_leaves(), which references __cpuinit cpuid4_cache_lookup(). Mark get_cpu_leaves() with a __cpuinit annotation. Signed-off-by: Sergio Luis <sergio@larces.uece.br> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 23 Dec, 2008 4 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: build fix lguest can be built as a module and makes use of this new symbol: ERROR: "vector_used_by_percpu_irq" [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined! export it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Suresh Siddha authored
These commits: commit 95d313cf Author: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Date: Tue Dec 16 17:33:54 2008 -0800 x86: Add cpu_mask_to_apicid_and and commit 6eeb7c5a Author: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Date: Tue Dec 16 17:33:55 2008 -0800 x86: update add-cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to use struct cpumask* broke interrupt delivery on x2apic platforms. As x2apic cluster mode uses logical delivery mode, we need to use logical apicid instead of physical apicid in x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() Impact: fixes the broken interrupt delivery issue on generic x2apic platforms. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Vaidyanathan Srinivasan authored
Andrew Morton reported: > kernel/sched.c: In function 'schedule': > kernel/sched.c:3679: warning: 'active_balance' may be used uninitialized in this function > > This warning is correct - the code is buggy. In sched.c load_balance_newidle, there's real potential use of uninitialised variable - fix it. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Yinghai Lu authored
Impact: fix lguest, clean up 32-bit lguest used used_vectors to record vectors, but that model of allocating vectors changed and got broken, after we changed vector allocation to a per_cpu array. Try enable that for 64bit, and the array is used for all vectors that are not managed by vector_irq per_cpu array. Also kill system_vectors[], that is now a duplication of the used_vectors bitmap. [ merged in cpus4096 due to io_apic.c cpumask changes. ] [ -v2, fix build failure ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 19 Dec, 2008 10 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
this warning: arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c: In function ‘ir_set_msi_irq_affinity’: arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c:3373: warning: ‘cfg’ may be used uninitialized in this function triggers because the variable was truly uninitialized. We'd crash on entering this code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: fix cpumask conversion bug this warning: kernel/sched.c: In function ‘find_busiest_group’: kernel/sched.c:3429: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘__first_cpu’ from incompatible pointer type shows that we forgot to convert a new patch to the new cpumask APIs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: build fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Vaidyanathan Srinivasan authored
Impact: change task balancing to save power more agressively Add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag at MC level and CPU level if sched_mc is set. This helps power savings and will not affect performance when sched_mc=0 Ingo and Mike Galbraith have optimised the SD flags by removing SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level. This helps performance but hurts power savings since this slows down task consolidation by reducing the number of times load_balance is run. sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT commit 14800984 Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Date: Fri Nov 7 15:26:50 2008 +0100 sched: re-tune balancing -- revert commit 9fcd18c9 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Wed Nov 5 16:52:08 2008 +0100 This patch selectively enables SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag only when sched_mc is set to 1 or 2. This helps power savings by task consolidation and also does not hurt performance at sched_mc=0 where all power saving optimisations are turned off. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Vaidyanathan Srinivasan authored
Impact: tweak task balancing to save power more agressively Active load balancing is a process by which migration thread is woken up on the target CPU in order to pull current running task on another package into this newly idle package. This method is already in use with normal load_balance(), this patch introduces this method to new idle cpus when sched_mc is set to POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE_WAKEUP. This logic provides effective consolidation of short running daemon jobs in a almost idle system The side effect of this patch may be ping-ponging of tasks if the system is moderately utilised. May need to adjust the iterations before triggering. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Vaidyanathan Srinivasan authored
Impact: tweak task wakeup to save power more agressively Preferred wakeup cpu (from a semi idle package) has been nominated in find_busiest_group() in the previous patch. Use this information in sched_mc_preferred_wakeup_cpu in function wake_idle() to bias task wakeups if the following conditions are satisfied: - The present cpu that is trying to wakeup the process is idle and waking the target process on this cpu will potentially wakeup a completely idle package - The previous cpu on which the target process ran is also idle and hence selecting the previous cpu may wakeup a semi idle cpu package - The task being woken up is allowed to run in the nominated cpu (cpu affinity and restrictions) Basically if both the current cpu and the previous cpu on which the task ran is idle, select the nominated cpu from semi idle cpu package for running the new task that is waking up. Cache hotness is considered since the actual biasing happens in wake_idle() only if the application is cache cold. This technique will effectively move short running bursty jobs in a mostly idle system. Wakeup biasing for power savings gets automatically disabled if system utilisation increases due to the fact that the probability of finding both this_cpu and prev_cpu idle decreases. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Vaidyanathan Srinivasan authored
Impact: extend load-balancing code (no change in behavior yet) When the system utilisation is low and more cpus are idle, then the process waking up from sleep should prefer to wakeup an idle cpu from semi-idle cpu package (multi core package) rather than a completely idle cpu package which would waste power. Use the sched_mc balance logic in find_busiest_group() to nominate a preferred wakeup cpu. This info can be stored in appropriate sched_domain, but updating this info in all copies of sched_domain is not practical. Hence this information is stored in root_domain struct which is one copy per partitioned sched domain. The root_domain can be accessed from each cpu's runqueue and there is one copy per partitioned sched domain. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Vaidyanathan Srinivasan authored
Impact: change load-balancing direction to match that of irqbalanced Just in case two groups have identical load, prefer to move load to lower logical cpu number rather than the present logic of moving to higher logical number. find_busiest_group() tries to look for a group_leader that has spare capacity to take more tasks and freeup an appropriate least loaded group. Just in case there is a tie and the load is equal, then the group with higher logical number is favoured. This conflicts with user space irqbalance daemon that will move interrupts to lower logical number if the system utilisation is very low. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Gautham R Shenoy authored
Impact: extend range of /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings Currently the sched_mc/smt_power_savings variable is a boolean, which either enables or disables topology based power savings. This patch extends the behaviour of the variable from boolean to multivalued, such that based on the value, we decide how aggressively do we want to perform powersavings balance at appropriate sched domain based on topology. Variable levels of power saving tunable would benefit end user to match the required level of power savings vs performance trade-off depending on the system configuration and workloads. This version makes the sched_mc_power_savings global variable to take more values (0,1,2). Later versions can have a single tunable called sched_power_savings instead of sched_{mc,smt}_power_savings. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Vaidyanathan Srinivasan authored
Impact: cleanup BALANCE_FOR_MC_POWER and similar macros defined in sched.h are not constants and have various condition checks and significant amount of code that is not suitable to be contain in a macro. Also there could be side effects on the expressions passed to some of them like test_sd_parent(). This patch converts all complex macros related to power savings balance to inline functions. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 18 Dec, 2008 4 commits
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Mike Travis authored
Impact: add new boot parameter Use possible_cpus=NUM kernel parameter to extend the number of possible cpus. The ability to HOTPLUG ON cpus that are "possible" but not "present" is dealt with in a later patch. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
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Mike Travis authored
Impact: fix potential APIC crash In determining the destination apicid, there are usually three cpumasks that are considered: the incoming cpumask arg, cfg->domain and the cpu_online_mask. Since we are just introducing the cpu_mask_to_apicid_and function, make sure it includes the cpu_online_mask in it's evaluation. [Added with this patch.] There are two io_apic.c functions that did not previously use the cpu_online_mask: setup_IO_APIC_irq and msi_compose_msg. Both of these simply used cpu_mask_to_apicid(cfg->domain & TARGET_CPUS), and all but one arch (NUMAQ[*]) returns only online cpus in the TARGET_CPUS mask, so the behavior is identical for all cases. [*: NUMAQ bug?] Note that alloc_cpumask_var is only used for the 32-bit cases where it's highly likely that the cpumask set size will be small and therefore CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n. But if that's not the case, failing the allocate will cause the same return value as the default. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
This done for conflict prevention: we merge it into the cpus4096 tree because upcoming cpumask changes will touch apic.c that would collide with x86/apic otherwise.
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Ingo Molnar authored
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- 17 Dec, 2008 15 commits
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git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
* 'i2c-fixes' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux: i2c-s3c2410: fix check for being in suspend. i2c-cpm: Detect and report NAK right away instead of timing out
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: ocfs2: Add JBD2 compat feature bit. ocfs2: Always update xattr search when creating bucket.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: USB: pl2303: add id for Hewlett-Packard LD220-HP POS pole display USB: set correct configuration in probe of ti_usb_3410_5052 USB: add 5372:2303 to pl2303 USB: skip Set-Interface(0) if already in altsetting 0 USB: fix comment about endianness of descriptors USB: Documentation/usb/gadget_serial.txt: update to match driver use_acm behaviour usbmon: drop bogus 0t from usbmon.txt USB: gadget: fix rndis working at high speed USB: ftdi_sio: Adding Ewert Energy System's CANdapter PID USB: tty: SprogII DCC controller identifiers usb-storage: update unusual_devs entry for Nokia 5310 USB: Unusual devs patch for Nokia 3500c USB: storage: unusual_devs.h: Nokia 3109c addition USB: fix problem with usbtmc driver not loading properly
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: STAGING: Move staging drivers back to staging-specific menu driver core: add newlines to debugging enabled/disabled messages xilinx_hwicap: remove improper wording in license statement driver core: fix using 'ret' variable in unregister_dynamic_debug_module
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Jeff Layton authored
While testing a kernel with memory poisoning enabled, I saw some warnings about the redzone getting clobbered when chasing DFS referrals. The buffer allocation for the unicode converted version of the searchName is too small and needs to take null termination into account. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc: powerpc: Fix corruption error in rh_alloc_fixed() powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix the miss interrupt restore
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Dmitry Baryshkov authored
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Marcel Holtmann authored
Both messages are missing the newline and thus dmesg output gets scrambled. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
GPLv2 doesn't allow additional restrictions to be imposed on any code, so this wording needs to be removed from these files. Signed-off-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Johann Felix Soden authored
The 'ret' variable is assigned, but not used in the return statement. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Mike Provencher authored
Add id for the Hewlett-Packard LD220-HP POS pole display. Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:3524 Hewlett-Packard Signed-off-by: Mike Provencher <mike.provencher@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Oliver Neukum authored
This driver transfers firmware. It may just as well set the correct configuration. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Matthew Arnold authored
This patch adds the "Superial" USB-Serial converter to pl2303 so that it is detected, by the correct driver. Adds the relevant vendor:product (5372:2303) to the device tables in pl2303.c & pl2303.h. The patch has been tested against 2.6.24-22-generic. Signed-off-by: Matthew D Arnold <matthew.arnold-1@uts.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Alan Stern authored
When a driver unbinds from an interface, usbcore always sends a Set-Interface request to reinstall altsetting 0. Unforunately, quite a few devices have buggy firmware that crashes when it receives this request. To avoid such problems, this patch (as1180) arranges to send the Set-Interface request only when the interface is not already in altsetting 0. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Phil Endecott authored
This patch fixes a comment and clarifies the documentation about the endianness of descriptors. The current policy is that descriptors will be little-endian at the API even on big-endian systems; however the /proc/bus/usb API predates this policy and presents descriptors with some multibyte fields byte-swapped. Signed-off-by: Phil Endecott <usb_endian_patch@chezphil.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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