1. 08 May, 2015 3 commits
    • Waiman Long's avatar
      locking/qspinlock: Introduce a simple generic 4-byte queued spinlock · a33fda35
      Waiman Long authored
      This patch introduces a new generic queued spinlock implementation that
      can serve as an alternative to the default ticket spinlock. Compared
      with the ticket spinlock, this queued spinlock should be almost as fair
      as the ticket spinlock. It has about the same speed in single-thread
      and it can be much faster in high contention situations especially when
      the spinlock is embedded within the data structure to be protected.
      
      Only in light to moderate contention where the average queue depth
      is around 1-3 will this queued spinlock be potentially a bit slower
      due to the higher slowpath overhead.
      
      This queued spinlock is especially suit to NUMA machines with a large
      number of cores as the chance of spinlock contention is much higher
      in those machines. The cost of contention is also higher because of
      slower inter-node memory traffic.
      
      Due to the fact that spinlocks are acquired with preemption disabled,
      the process will not be migrated to another CPU while it is trying
      to get a spinlock. Ignoring interrupt handling, a CPU can only be
      contending in one spinlock at any one time. Counting soft IRQ, hard
      IRQ and NMI, a CPU can only have a maximum of 4 concurrent lock waiting
      activities.  By allocating a set of per-cpu queue nodes and used them
      to form a waiting queue, we can encode the queue node address into a
      much smaller 24-bit size (including CPU number and queue node index)
      leaving one byte for the lock.
      
      Please note that the queue node is only needed when waiting for the
      lock. Once the lock is acquired, the queue node can be released to
      be used later.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
      Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
      Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
      Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      a33fda35
    • Preeti U Murthy's avatar
      kernel: Replace reference to ASSIGN_ONCE() with WRITE_ONCE() in comment · 663fdcbe
      Preeti U Murthy authored
      Looks like commit :
      
       43239cbe ("kernel: Change ASSIGN_ONCE(val, x) to WRITE_ONCE(x, val)")
      
      left behind a reference to ASSIGN_ONCE(). Update this to WRITE_ONCE().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPreeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
      Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
      Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150430115721.22278.94082.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      663fdcbe
    • Waiman Long's avatar
      locking/rwsem: Reduce spinlock contention in wakeup after up_read()/up_write() · 59aabfc7
      Waiman Long authored
      In up_write()/up_read(), rwsem_wake() will be called whenever it
      detects that some writers/readers are waiting. The rwsem_wake()
      function will take the wait_lock and call __rwsem_do_wake() to do the
      real wakeup.  For a heavily contended rwsem, doing a spin_lock() on
      wait_lock will cause further contention on the heavily contended rwsem
      cacheline resulting in delay in the completion of the up_read/up_write
      operations.
      
      This patch makes the wait_lock taking and the call to __rwsem_do_wake()
      optional if at least one spinning writer is present. The spinning
      writer will be able to take the rwsem and call rwsem_wake() later
      when it calls up_write(). With the presence of a spinning writer,
      rwsem_wake() will now try to acquire the lock using trylock. If that
      fails, it will just quit.
      Suggested-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
      Acked-by: default avatarJason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430428337-16802-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      59aabfc7
  2. 07 May, 2015 6 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm · 3e0283a5
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull power management and ACPI fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
       "These include three regression fixes (PCI resources management,
        ACPI/PNP device enumeration, ACPI SBS on MacBook) and two ACPI
        documentation fixes related to GPIO.
      
        Specifics:
      
         - Fix for a PCI resources management regression introduced during the
           4.0 cycle and related to the handling of ACPI resources'
           Producer/Consumer flags that turn out to be useless (Jiang Liu)
      
         - Fix for a MacBook regression related to the Smart Battery Subsystem
           (SBS) driver causing various problems (stalls on boot, failure to
           detect or report battery) to happen and introduced during the 3.18
           cycle (Chris Bainbridge)
      
         - Fix for an ACPI/PNP device enumeration regression introduced during
           the 3.16 cycle caused by failing to include two PNP device IDs into
           the list of IDs that PNP device objects need to be created for
           (Witold Szczeponik)
      
         - Fixes for two minor mistakes in the ACPI GPIO properties
           documentation (Antonio Ospite, Rafael J Wysocki)"
      
      * tag 'pm+acpi-4.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
        ACPI / PNP: add two IDs to list for PNPACPI device enumeration
        ACPI / documentation: Fix ambiguity in the GPIO properties document
        ACPI / documentation: fix a sentence about GPIO resources
        ACPI / SBS: Add 5 us delay to fix SBS hangs on MacBook
        x86/PCI/ACPI: Make all resources except [io 0xcf8-0xcff] available on PCI bus
      3e0283a5
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      Merge branches 'acpi-resources', 'acpi-battery', 'acpi-doc' and 'acpi-pnp' · 9a5d9315
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored
      * acpi-resources:
        x86/PCI/ACPI: Make all resources except [io 0xcf8-0xcff] available on PCI bus
      
      * acpi-battery:
        ACPI / SBS: Add 5 us delay to fix SBS hangs on MacBook
      
      * acpi-doc:
        ACPI / documentation: Fix ambiguity in the GPIO properties document
        ACPI / documentation: fix a sentence about GPIO resources
      
      * acpi-pnp:
        ACPI / PNP: add two IDs to list for PNPACPI device enumeration
      9a5d9315
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'for-f2fs-4.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs · 68c2f356
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull f2fs fixes from Jaegeuk Kim:
       "Fix a performance regression and a bug"
      
      * tag 'for-f2fs-4.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs:
        f2fs: fix wrong error hanlder in f2fs_follow_link
        Revert "f2fs: enhance multi-threads performance"
      68c2f356
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'pinctrl-v4.1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl · fbb7b92f
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull pin control fixes from Linus Walleij:
       "Here is a smallish set of pin control fixes for the v4.1 cycle,
        collected the last two weeks:
      
         - fix a real nasty legacy bug that has screwed up the protection of
           adding pinctrl maps dynamically.  Normally this didn't happen so
           much but Dough Anderson ran into it and fixed it, kudos!
      
        - minor driver fixes for Qualcomm spmi, mediatek and Marvell drivers"
      
      * tag 'pinctrl-v4.1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl:
        pinctrl: Don't just pretend to protect pinctrl_maps, do it for real
        pinctrl: mediatek: mtk-common: initialize unmask
        pinctrl: qcom-spmi-mpp: Fix input value report
        pinctrl: qcom-spmi: Fix pin direction configuration
        pinctrl: mvebu: Fix mapping of pin 63 (gpo -> gpio)
      fbb7b92f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'vfio-v4.1-rc3' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio · 7bbcd1b8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull vfio fixes from Alex Williamson:
       "Fix some undesirable behavior with the vfio device request interface:
      
         - increase verbosity of device request channel (Alex Williamson)
      
         - fix runaway interruptible timeout (Alex Williamson)"
      
      * tag 'vfio-v4.1-rc3' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
        vfio: Fix runaway interruptible timeout
        vfio-pci: Log device requests more verbosely
      7bbcd1b8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/dledford/linux · 8cb7c15b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull infiniband updates from Doug Ledford:
       "Minor updates for 4.1-rc
      
        Most of the changes are fairly small and well confined.  The iWARP
        address reporting changes are the only ones that are a medium size.  I
        had these queued up prior to rc1, but due to the shuffle in
        maintainers, they did not get submitted when I expected.  My apologies
        for that.  I feel comfortable with them however due to the testing
        they've received, so I left them in this submission"
      
      * tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/dledford/linux:
        MAINTAINERS: Update InfiniBand subsystem maintainer
        MAINTAINERS: add include/rdma/ to InfiniBand subsystem
        IPoIB/CM: Fix indentation level
        iw_cxgb4: Remove negative advice dmesg warnings
        IB/core: Fix unaligned accesses
        IB/core: change rdma_gid2ip into void function as it always return zero
        IB/qib: use arch_phys_wc_add()
        IB/qib: add acounting for MTRR
        IB/core: dma unmap optimizations
        IB/core: dma map/unmap locking optimizations
        RDMA/cxgb4: Report the actual address of the remote connecting peer
        RDMA/nes: Report the actual address of the remote connecting peer
        RDMA/core: Enable the iWarp Port Mapper to provide the actual address of the connecting peer to its clients
        iw_cxgb4: enforce qp/cq id requirements
        iw_cxgb4: use BAR2 GTS register for T5 kernel mode CQs
        iw_cxgb4: 32b platform fixes
        iw_cxgb4: Cleanup register defines/MACROS
        RDMA/CMA: Canonize IPv4 on IPV6 sockets properly
      8cb7c15b
  3. 06 May, 2015 31 commits