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    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      time: Fixup fallout from recent clockevent/tick changes · f1689bb7
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      Make the stub function static inline instead of static and move the
clockevents related function into the proper ifdeffed section.
Reported-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      f1689bb7
    • Preeti U Murthy's avatar
      tick: Introduce hrtimer based broadcast · 5d1638ac
      Preeti U Murthy authored 
      On some architectures, in certain CPU deep idle states the local timers stop.
An external clock device is used to wakeup these CPUs. The kernel support for the
wakeup of these CPUs is provided by the tick broadcast framework by using the
external clock device as the wakeup source.

However not all implementations of architectures provide such an external
clock device. This patch includes support in the broadcast framework to handle
the wakeup of the CPUs in deep idle states on such systems by queuing a hrtimer
on one of the CPUs, which is meant to handle the wakeup of CPUs in deep idle states.

This patchset introduces a pseudo clock device which can be registered by the
archs as tick_broadcast_device in the absence of a real external clock
device. Once registered, the broadcast framework will work as is for these
architectures as long as the archs take care of the BROADCAST_ENTER
notification failing for one of the CPUs. This CPU is made the stand by CPU to
handle wakeup of the CPUs in deep idle and it *must not enter deep idle states*.

The CPU with the earliest wakeup is chosen to be this CPU. Hence this way the
stand by CPU dynamically moves around and so does the hrtimer which is queued
to trigger at the next earliest wakeup time. This is consistent with the case where
an external clock device is present. The smp affinity of this clock device is
set to the CPU with the earliest wakeup. This patchset handles the hotplug of
the stand by CPU as well by moving the hrtimer on to the CPU handling the CPU_DEAD
notification.

Originally-from: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPreeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140207080632.17187.80532.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      5d1638ac
    • Preeti U Murthy's avatar
      cpuidle: Handle clockevents_notify(BROADCAST_ENTER) failure · ba8f20c2
      Preeti U Murthy authored 
      Some archs set the CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP flag for idle states in which the
local timers stop. The cpuidle_idle_call() currently handles such idle states
by calling into the broadcast framework so as to wakeup CPUs at their next
wakeup event. With the hrtimer mode of broadcast, the BROADCAST_ENTER call
into the broadcast frameowork can fail for archs that do not have an external
clock device to handle wakeups and the CPU in question has thus to be made
the stand by CPU. This patch handles such cases by failing the call into
cpuidle so that the arch can take some default action. The arch will certainly
not enter a similar idle state because a failed cpuidle call will also implicitly
indicate that the broadcast framework has not registered this CPU to be woken up.
Hence we are safe if we fail the cpuidle call.

In the process move the functions that trace idle statistics just before and
after the entry and exit into idle states respectively. In other
scenarios where the call to cpuidle fails, we end up not tracing idle
entry and exit since a decision on an idle state could not be taken. Similarly
when the call to broadcast framework fails, we skip tracing idle statistics
because we are in no further position to take a decision on an alternative
idle state to enter into.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPreeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Acked-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140207080652.17187.66344.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      ba8f20c2
    • Preeti U Murthy's avatar
      time: Change the return type of clockevents_notify() to integer · da7e6f45
      Preeti U Murthy authored 
      The broadcast framework can potentially be made use of by archs which do not have an
external clock device as well. Then, it is required that one of the CPUs need
to handle the broadcasting of wakeup IPIs to the CPUs in deep idle. As a
result its local timers should remain functional all the time. For such
a CPU, the BROADCAST_ENTER notification has to fail indicating that its clock
device cannot be shutdown. To make way for this support, change the return
type of tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() and hence clockevents_notify() to
indicate such scenarios.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPreeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140207080606.17187.78306.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      da7e6f45
    • Soren Brinkmann's avatar
      clockevents: Adjust timer interval when frequency changes · fe79a9ba
      Soren Brinkmann authored 
      clockevent devices in periodic mode are not updated when the frequency
of the device changes. Issue a dev->set_mode() callback which forces
the device to reevaluate the timer settings.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSoren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391466877-28908-3-git-send-email-soren.brinkmann@xilinx.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      fe79a9ba
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      clockevents: Serialize calls to clockevents_update_freq() in the core · 627ee794
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      We can identify the broadcast device in the core and serialize all
callers including interrupts on a different CPU against the update.
Also, disabling interrupts is moved into the core allowing callers to
leave interrutps enabled when calling clockevents_update_freq().
Signed-off-by: default avatarSoren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Soeren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391466877-28908-2-git-send-email-soren.brinkmann@xilinx.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      627ee794
    • Shaibal Dutta's avatar
      timekeeping: Move clock sync work to power efficient workqueue · e8b17594
      Shaibal Dutta authored 
      For better use of CPU idle time, allow the scheduler to select the CPU
on which the CMOS clock sync work would be scheduled. This improves
idle residency time and conserver power.

This functionality is enabled when CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT is selected.
Signed-off-by: default avatarShaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com>
[zoran.markovic@linaro.org: Added commit message. Aligned code.]
Signed-off-by: default avatarZoran Markovic <zoran.markovic@linaro.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391195904-12497-1-git-send-email-zoran.markovic@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      e8b17594
  19. 03 Feb, 2014 4 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linus 3.14-rc1 · 38dbfb59
      Linus Torvalds authored
      38dbfb59
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'parisc-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux · 69048e01
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "The three major changes in this patchset is a implementation for
  flexible userspace memory maps, cache-flushing fixes (again), and a
  long-discussed ABI change to make EWOULDBLOCK the same value as
  EAGAIN.

  parisc has been the only platform where we had EWOULDBLOCK != EAGAIN
  to keep HP-UX compatibility.  Since we will probably never implement
  full HP-UX support, we prefer to drop this compatibility to make it
  easier for us with Linux userspace programs which mostly never checked
  for both values.  We don't expect major fall-outs because of this
  change, and if we face some, we will simply rebuild the necessary
  applications in the debian archives"

* 'parisc-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: add flexible mmap memory layout support
  parisc: Make EWOULDBLOCK be equal to EAGAIN on parisc
  parisc: convert uapi/asm/stat.h to use native types only
  parisc: wire up sched_setattr and sched_getattr
  parisc: fix cache-flushing
  parisc/sti_console: prefer Linux fonts over built-in ROM fonts
      69048e01
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      hpfs: optimize quad buffer loading · 1c0b8a7a
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      HPFS needs to load 4 consecutive 512-byte sectors when accessing the
directory nodes or bitmaps.  We can't switch to 2048-byte block size
because files are allocated in the units of 512-byte sectors.

Previously, the driver would allocate a 2048-byte area using kmalloc,
copy the data from four buffers to this area and eventually copy them
back if they were modified.

In the current implementation of the buffer cache, buffers are allocated
in the pagecache.  That means that 4 consecutive 512-byte buffers are
stored in consecutive areas in the kernel address space.  So, we don't
need to allocate extra memory and copy the content of the buffers there.

This patch optimizes the code to avoid copying the buffers.  It checks
if the four buffers are stored in contiguous memory - if they are not,
it falls back to allocating a 2048-byte area and copying data there.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1c0b8a7a
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      hpfs: remember free space · 2cbe5c76
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      Previously, hpfs scanned all bitmaps each time the user asked for free
space using statfs.  This patch changes it so that hpfs scans the
bitmaps only once, remembes the free space and on next invocation of
statfs it returns the value instantly.

New versions of wine are hammering on the statfs syscall very heavily,
making some games unplayable when they're stored on hpfs, with load
times in minutes.

This should be backported to the stable kernels because it fixes
user-visible problem (excessive level load times in wine).
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2cbe5c76
  21. 02 Feb, 2014 9 commits
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