1. 15 Apr, 2013 2 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      nohz: Switch from "extended nohz" to "full nohz" based naming · c5bfece2
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      "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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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>
      c5bfece2
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      nohz: Fix old dynticks idle Kconfig backward compatibility · 0644ca5c
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      In order to enforce backward compatibility with older
      config files, we want the new dynticks-idle Kconfig entry
      to default its value to the one of the old CONFIG_NO_HZ symbol
      if present.
      
      Namely we want:
      
      	config NO_HZ # old obsolete dynticks idle symbol
      		bool
      
      	config NO_HZ_IDLE # new dynticks idle symbol
      		default NO_HZ
      
      However Kconfig prevents this to work if the old symbol
      is not visible. And this is currently the case because
      NO_HZ lacks a title in order to show it in make oldconfig
      and alike.
      
      To fix this, bring a minimal title and help text to the
      obsolete Kconfig entry that explains its purpose. This
      makes the "defaulting" to work.
      Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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>
      0644ca5c
  2. 03 Apr, 2013 3 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      nohz: Print final full dynticks CPUs range on boot · 1034fc2f
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Given that we apply a few restrictions on the full dynticks
      CPUs range (keep an online timekeeper oustide the range,
      then in the future have the range be an RCU nocb CPUs subset),
      let's print the final resulting range of full dynticks CPUs to
      the user so that he knows what's really going to run.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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>
      1034fc2f
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      nohz: Pack nohz Kconfig option in a menu of choices · 3ca277e4
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Now the user has the choice between three implementations of
      the timer tick:
      
      * Static periodic tick
      * Idle dynticks
      * Full dynticks
      
      At least for now, these are mutually exclusive choices, so
      let's rely on the proper Kconfig feature to display these
      to the user.
      
      A new entry CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE is created and the old
      CONFIG_NO_HZ maps to it for config file backward compatibility.
      The old name was too general now that we have more
      granular dynticks implementations.
      
      While at it, add some explanation to help the user on
      his decision between the 3 entries.
      Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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>
      3ca277e4
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON · 3451d024
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      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: default avatarFrederic 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>
      3451d024
  3. 02 Apr, 2013 1 commit
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      nohz: Unhide full dynticks feature from its dependencies · ab71d36d
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      The full dynticks feature only shows up when all its
      Kconfig dependencies are met (RCU nocbs, RCU user mode, ...)
      
      This is far from being user friendly as those who want to
      activate this feature need to look into the Kconfig files
      and iterate through each dependency then activate these
      by hand in order to show and select the full dynticks
      Kconfig option.
      
      So process the other way around: show up the Kconfig option
      if the minimal low level dependencies are met and activate
      the high level ones when we enable the feature.
      
      Note there is one exception in the picture:
      CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN is part of a Kconfig choice
      menu and it appears we can't select it from another Kconfig
      selection when it's under such layout. So for now this
      particular item stays as a passive dependency.
      Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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>
      ab71d36d
  4. 21 Mar, 2013 3 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      nohz: Wake up full dynticks CPUs when a timer gets enqueued · 1c20091e
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      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: default avatarFrederic 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>
      1c20091e
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      nohz: Assign timekeeping duty to a CPU outside the full dynticks range · a382bf93
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      This way the full nohz CPUs can safely run with the tick
      stopped with a guarantee that somebody else is taking
      care of the jiffies and GTOD progression.
      
      Once the duty is attributed to a CPU, it won't change. Also that
      CPU can't enter into dyntick idle mode or be hot unplugged.
      
      This may later be improved from a power consumption POV. At
      least we should be able to share the duty amongst all CPUs
      outside the full dynticks range. Then the duty could even be
      shared with full dynticks CPUs when those can't stop their
      tick for any reason.
      
      But let's start with that very simple approach first.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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>
      [fix have_nohz_full_mask offcase]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      a382bf93
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      nohz: Basic full dynticks interface · a831881b
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      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: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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>
      a831881b
  5. 18 Mar, 2013 2 commits
  6. 14 Mar, 2013 1 commit
  7. 13 Mar, 2013 2 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      sched: Lower chances of cputime scaling overflow · d9a3c982
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Some users have reported that after running a process with
      hundreds of threads on intensive CPU-bound loads, the cputime
      of the group started to freeze after a few days.
      
      This is due to how we scale the tick-based cputime against
      the scheduler precise execution time value.
      
      We add the values of all threads in the group and we multiply
      that against the sum of the scheduler exec runtime of the whole
      group.
      
      This easily overflows after a few days/weeks of execution.
      
      A proposed solution to solve this was to compute that multiplication
      on stime instead of utime:
         62188451
         ("cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling")
      
      The rationale behind that was that it's easy for a thread to
      spend most of its time in userspace under intensive CPU-bound workload
      but it's much harder to do CPU-bound intensive long run in the kernel.
      
      This postulate got defeated when a user recently reported he was still
      seeing cputime freezes after the above patch. The workload that
      triggers this issue relates to intensive networking workloads where
      most of the cputime is consumed in the kernel.
      
      To reduce much more the opportunities for multiplication overflow,
      lets reduce the multiplication factors to the remainders of the division
      between sched exec runtime and cputime. Assuming the difference between
      these shouldn't ever be that large, it could work on many situations.
      
      This gets the same results as in the upstream scaling code except for
      a small difference: the upstream code always rounds the results to
      the nearest integer not greater to what would be the precise result.
      The new code rounds to the nearest integer either greater or not
      greater. In practice this difference probably shouldn't matter but
      it's worth mentioning.
      
      If this solution appears not to be enough in the end, we'll
      need to partly revert back to the behaviour prior to commit
           0cf55e1e
           ("sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()")
      
      Back then, the scaling was done on exit() time before adding the cputime
      of an exiting thread to the signal struct. And then we'll need to
      scale one-by-one the live threads cputime in thread_group_cputime(). The
      drawback may be a slightly slower code on exit time.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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>
      d9a3c982
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      math64: New div64_u64_rem helper · f7926850
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      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: default avatarFrederic 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>
      f7926850
  8. 11 Mar, 2013 2 commits
  9. 08 Mar, 2013 1 commit
  10. 07 Mar, 2013 5 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      context_tracking: Enable probes by default for selftesting · 8b438766
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Until we provide the nohz_mask boot parameter, keeping
      the context tracking probes disabled by default is pointless
      since what we want is to runtime test this code anyway.
      
      It's furthermore confusing for the users which don't expect
      the probes to be off when they select RCU user mode or full
      dynticks cputime accounting.
      
      Let's enable these probes selftests by default for now.
      
      Suggested: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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>
      8b438766
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      cputime: Dynamically scale cputime for full dynticks accounting · 9fbc42ea
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      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: default avatarFrederic 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>
      9fbc42ea
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      context_tracking: Restore preempted context state after preempt_schedule_irq() · b22366cd
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      From the context tracking POV, preempt_schedule_irq() behaves pretty much
      like an exception: It can be called anytime and schedule another task.
      
      But currently it doesn't restore the context tracking state of the preempted
      code on preempt_schedule_irq() return.
      
      As a result, if preempt_schedule_irq() is called in the tiny frame between
      user_enter() and the actual return to userspace, we resume userspace with
      the wrong context tracking state.
      
      Fix this by using exception_enter/exit() which are a perfect fit for this
      kind of issue.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic 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>
      b22366cd
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      context_tracking: Restore correct previous context state on exception exit · 6c1e0256
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      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: default avatarFrederic 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>
      6c1e0256
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      context_tracking: Move exception handling to generic code · 56dd9470
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      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: default avatarFrederic 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>
      56dd9470
  11. 06 Mar, 2013 9 commits
  12. 03 Mar, 2013 9 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 3.9-rc1 · 6dbe51c2
      Linus Torvalds authored
      6dbe51c2
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'disintegrate-fbdev-20121220' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers · ea882c2e
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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
      ea882c2e
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.9-rc1-tag' of... · 8e8b180a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.9-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
      
      Pull Xen bug-fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
       - Update the Xen ACPI memory and CPU hotplug locking mechanism.
       - Fix PAT issues wherein various applications would not start
       - Fix handling of multiple MSI as AHCI now does it.
       - Fix ARM compile failures.
      
      * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.9-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
        xenbus: fix compile failure on ARM with Xen enabled
        xen/pci: We don't do multiple MSI's.
        xen/pat: Disable PAT using pat_enabled value.
        xen/acpi: xen cpu hotplug minor updates
        xen/acpi: xen memory hotplug minor updates
      8e8b180a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs · 56a79b7b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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)
      56a79b7b
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs · 1c82315a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull btrfs fixup from Chris Mason:
       "Geert and James both sent this one in, sorry guys"
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
        btrfs/raid56: Add missing #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
      1c82315a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux · 530ede14
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull second set of s390 patches from Martin Schwidefsky:
       "The main part of this merge are Heikos uaccess patches.  Together with
        commit 09884964 ("mm: do not grow the stack vma just because of an
        overrun on preceding vma") the user string access is hopefully fixed
        for good.
      
        In addition some bug fixes and two cleanup patches."
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
        s390/module: fix compile warning
        qdio: remove unused parameters
        s390/uaccess: fix kernel ds access for page table walk
        s390/uaccess: fix strncpy_from_user string length check
        input: disable i8042 PC Keyboard controller for s390
        s390/dis: Fix invalid array size
        s390/uaccess: remove pointless access_ok() checks
        s390/uaccess: fix strncpy_from_user/strnlen_user zero maxlen case
        s390/uaccess: shorten strncpy_from_user/strnlen_user
        s390/dasd: fix unresponsive device after all channel paths were lost
        s390/mm: ignore change bit for vmemmap
        s390/page table dumper: add support for change-recording override bit
      530ede14
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'fixes-for-3.9-latest' of... · 6977c6fc
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'fixes-for-3.9-latest' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux
      
      Pull second round of PARISC updates from Helge Deller:
       "The most important fix in this branch is the switch of io_setup,
        io_getevents and io_submit syscalls to use the available compat
        syscalls when running 32bit userspace on 64bit kernel.  Other than
        that it's mostly removal of compile warnings."
      
      * 'fixes-for-3.9-latest' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
        parisc: fix redefinition of SET_PERSONALITY
        parisc: do not install modules when installing kernel
        parisc: fix compile warnings triggered by atomic_sub(sizeof(),v)
        parisc: check return value of down_interruptible() in hp_sdc_rtc.c
        parisc: avoid unitialized variable warning in pa_memcpy()
        parisc: remove unused variable 'compat_val'
        parisc: switch to compat_functions of io_setup, io_getevents and io_submit
        parisc: select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
      6977c6fc
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag · 8fd5e7a2
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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()
        ...
      8fd5e7a2
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm · 529e5fbc
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull late ARM updates from Russell King:
       "Here is the late set of ARM updates for this merge window; in here is:
      
         - The ARM parts of the broadcast timer support, core parts merged
           through tglx's tree.  This was left over from the previous merge to
           allow the dependency on tglx's tree to be resolved.
      
         - A fix to the VFP code which shows up on Raspberry Pi's, as well as
           fixing the fallout from a previous commit in this area.
      
         - A number of smaller fixes scattered throughout the ARM tree"
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
        ARM: Fix broken commit 0cc41e4a corrupting kernel messages
        ARM: fix scheduling while atomic warning in alignment handling code
        ARM: VFP: fix emulation of second VFP instruction
        ARM: 7656/1: uImage: Error out on build of multiplatform without LOADADDR
        ARM: 7640/1: memory: tegra_ahb_enable_smmu() depends on TEGRA_IOMMU_SMMU
        ARM: 7654/1: Preserve L_PTE_VALID in pte_modify()
        ARM: 7653/2: do not scale loops_per_jiffy when using a constant delay clock
        ARM: 7651/1: remove unused smp_timer_broadcast #define
      529e5fbc