Russell King [Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:08:32 +0000 (15:08 +0000)]
ARM: v6k: introduce CPU_V6K option
Introduce a CPU_V6K configuration option for platforms to select if they
have a V6K CPU core. This allows us to identify whether we need to
support ARMv6 CPUs without the V6K SMP extensions at build time.
Currently CPU_V6K is just an alias for CPU_V6, and all places which
reference CPU_V6 are replaced by (CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K).
Select CPU_V6K from platforms which are known to be V6K-only.
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Tested-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:22:12 +0000 (16:22 +0000)]
ARM: v6k: remove CPU_32v6K dependencies in asm/spinlock.h
SMP requires at least the ARMv6K extensions to be present, so if we're
running on SMP, the WFE and SEV instructions must be available.
However, when we run on UP, the v6K extensions may not be available,
and so we don't want WFE/SEV to be in the instruction stream. Use the
SMP alternatives infrastructure to replace these instructions with NOPs
if we build for SMP but run on UP.
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Tested-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:02:17 +0000 (18:02 +0000)]
ARM: bitops: switch set/clear/change bitops to use ldrex/strex
Switch the set/clear/change bitops to use the word-based exclusive
operations, which are only present in a wider range of ARM architectures
than the byte-based exclusive operations.
Tested record:
- Nicolas Pitre: ext3,rw,le
- Sourav Poddar: nfs,le
- Will Deacon: ext3,rw,le
- Tony Lindgren: ext3+nfs,le
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Tested-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:59:44 +0000 (17:59 +0000)]
ARM: bitops: ensure set/clear/change bitops take a word-aligned pointer
Add additional instructions to our assembly bitops functions to ensure
that they only operate on word-aligned pointers. This will be necessary
when we switch these operations to use the word-based exclusive
operations.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:00:01 +0000 (12:00 +0000)]
ARM: versatile: name configuration options after actual board names
Update the option text to those which appear on the front of the
appropriate board user guides. This gives consistent board naming, and
makes it obvious which option is for which platform.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:58:24 +0000 (10:58 +0000)]
ARM: realview: name configuration options after actual board names
As no one seems to really know which configuration options tie up with
which boards, I thought I'd do some investigation and try to work it
out. After discussion with some folk in linaro, I think I have this
nailed.
The names are updated to use the name on the front of the appropriate
board user guide for the various baseboards, which I've taken to be
the official name for each board.
I haven't significantly updated the descriptions for the tiles as that
is even less clear - as far as I can see on ARMs website, there is no
Cortex-A9 tile for Realview EB - only ARM11MPCore, ARM1156T2F-S,
ARM1176TZF-S and Cortex-R4F. So exactly what this 'Multicore Cortex-A9
Tile' is...
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:22:34 +0000 (17:22 +0000)]
ARM: realview,vexpress: fix section mismatch warning for pen_release
Fix two section mismatch warnings in the platform SMP bringup code for
Realview and Versatile Express:
WARNING: arch/arm/mach-realview/built-in.o(.text+0x8ac): Section mismatch in reference from the function write_pen_release() to the variable .cpuinit.data:pen_release
The function write_pen_release() references
the variable __cpuinitdata pen_release.
This is often because write_pen_release lacks a __cpuinitdata
annotation or the annotation of pen_release is wrong.
WARNING: arch/arm/mach-vexpress/built-in.o(.text+0x7b4): Section mismatch in reference from the function write_pen_release() to the variable .cpuinit.data:pen_release
The function write_pen_release() references
the variable __cpuinitdata pen_release.
This is often because write_pen_release lacks a __cpuinitdata
annotation or the annotation of pen_release is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:50:31 +0000 (16:50 -0800)]
Merge branch 'media_fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6
* 'media_fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (101 commits)
[media] staging/lirc: fix mem leaks and ptr err usage
[media] hdpvr: reduce latency of i2c read/write w/recycled buffer
[media] hdpvr: enable IR part
[media] rc/mceusb: timeout should be in ns, not us
[media] v4l2-device: fix 'use-after-freed' oops
[media] v4l2-dev: don't memset video_device.dev
[media] zoran: use video_device_alloc instead of kmalloc
[media] w9966: zero device state after a detach
[media] v4l: Fix a use-before-set in the control framework
[media] v4l: Include linux/videodev2.h in media/v4l2-ctrls.h
[media] DocBook/v4l: update V4L2 revision and update copyright years
[media] DocBook/v4l: fix validation error in dev-rds.xml
[media] v4l2-ctrls: queryctrl shouldn't attempt to replace V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_BASE IDs
[media] v4l2-ctrls: fix missing 'read-only' check
[media] pvrusb2: Provide more information about IR units to lirc_zilog and ir-kbd-i2c
[media] ir-kbd-i2c: Add back defaults setting for Zilog Z8's at addr 0x71
[media] lirc_zilog: Update TODO.lirc_zilog
[media] lirc_zilog: Add Andy Walls to copyright notice and authors list
[media] lirc_zilog: Remove useless struct i2c_driver.command function
[media] lirc_zilog: Remove unneeded tests for existence of the IR Tx function
...
David Howells [Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:38:27 +0000 (16:38 +0000)]
KEYS: Do some style cleanup in the key management code.
Do a bit of a style clean up in the key management code. No functional
changes.
Done using:
perl -p -i -e 's!^/[*]*/\n!!' security/keys/*.c
perl -p -i -e 's!} /[*] end [a-z0-9_]*[(][)] [*]/\n!}\n!' security/keys/*.c
sed -i -s -e ": next" -e N -e 's/^\n[}]$/}/' -e t -e P -e 's/^.*\n//' -e "b next" security/keys/*.c
To remove /*****/ lines, remove comments on the closing brace of a
function to name the function and remove blank lines before the closing
brace of a function.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: fix up CIFSSMBEcho for unaligned access
cifs: fix unaligned accesses in cifsConvertToUCS
cifs: clean up unaligned accesses in cifs_unicode.c
cifs: fix unaligned access in check2ndT2 and coalesce_t2
cifs: clean up unaligned accesses in validate_t2
cifs: use get/put_unaligned functions to access ByteCount
cifs: move time field in cifsInodeInfo
cifs: TCP_Server_Info diet
CIFS: Implement cifs_strict_readv (try #4)
CIFS: Implement cifs_file_strict_mmap (try #2)
CIFS: Implement cifs_strict_fsync
CIFS: Make cifsFileInfo_put work with strict cache mode
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:38:57 +0000 (13:38 -0800)]
Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: note the nested NOT_RUNNING test in worker_clr_flags() isn't a noop
workqueue: relax lockdep annotation on flush_work()
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:34:39 +0000 (13:34 -0800)]
Merge branches 'fixes' and 'fwnet' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
firewire: core: fix unstable I/O with Canon camcorder
* 'fwnet' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
firewire: net: is not experimental anymore
firewire: net: invalidate ARP entries of removed nodes
Michal Simek [Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:49:56 +0000 (08:49 +0100)]
mm: System without MMU do not need pte_mkwrite
The patch "thp: export maybe_mkwrite" (commit 14fd403f2146) breaks
systems without MMU.
Error log:
CC arch/microblaze/mm/init.o
In file included from include/linux/mman.h:14,
from arch/microblaze/mm/consistent.c:24:
include/linux/mm.h: In function 'maybe_mkwrite':
include/linux/mm.h:482: error: implicit declaration of function 'pte_mkwrite'
include/linux/mm.h:482: error: incompatible types in assignment
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> CC: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Although the last_pfn obtained from the startup info is 0x26700, which
should in turn not be hit, the additional 8MB which are added as extra
memory normally seem to be ok. This lead to looking into the initial
p2m tree construction, which uses the smaller value and assuming that
there is other code handling the extra memory.
When the p2m tree is set up, the leaves are directly pointed to the
array which the domain builder set up. But if the mapping is not on a
boundary that fits into one p2m page, this will result in the last leaf
being only partially valid. And as the invalid entries are not
initialized in that case, things go badly wrong.
I am trying to fix that by checking whether the current leaf is a
complete map and if not, allocate a completely new page and copy only
the valid pointers there. This may not be the most efficient or elegant
solution, but at least it seems to allow me booting DomUs with memory
assignments all over the range.
Thomas Gleixner [Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:41:35 +0000 (19:41 +0100)]
genirq: Remove __do_IRQ
All architectures are finally converted. Remove the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Thomas Gleixner [Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:13:16 +0000 (19:13 +0200)]
m32r: Cleanup direct irq_desc access
The irq descriptors are already initialized by the generic
code. Remove the redundant init code and set the irq chip with the
proper accessor function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:26:32 +0000 (12:26 +0100)]
h8300: Use generic irq Kconfig
Switch to the generic irq Kconfig. h8300 has all irq chips converted
to the new functions, so select the GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
switch as well. Fixup the resulting fallout in show_interrupts().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:18:57 +0000 (12:18 +0100)]
h8300: Convert interrupt handling to flow handler
__do_IRQ is deprecated so h8300 needs to be converted to proper flow
handling. The irq chip is simple and does not required any
mask/ack/eoi functions, so we can use handle_simple_irq.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Ben Hutchings [Sat, 8 Jan 2011 14:24:01 +0000 (14:24 +0000)]
powerpc/boot/dts: Install dts from the right directory
The dts-installed variable is initialised using a wildcard path that
will be expanded relative to the build directory. Use the existing
variable dtstree to generate an absolute wildcard path that will work
when building in a separate directory.
Reported-by: Gerhard Pircher <gerhard_pircher@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Tested-by: Gerhard Pircher <gerhard_pircher@gmx.net> [against 2.6.32] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Anton Blanchard [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:52:31 +0000 (19:52 +0000)]
powerpc: machine_check_generic is wrong on 64bit
Decoding machine checks is CPU specific and so machine_check_generic doesn't
do the right thing on 64bit chips. Luckily we never call into this code
because we call ppc_md.machine_check_exception instead if available.
Since we check cur_cpu_spec->machine_check before calling it, we may as
well remove machine_check_generic from 64bit archs.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Anton Blanchard [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:50:51 +0000 (19:50 +0000)]
powerpc: Fix corruption when grabbing FWNMI data
The FWNMI code uses a global buffer without any locks to read the RTAS error
information. If two CPUs take a machine check at once then we will corrupt
this buffer.
Since most FWNMI rtas messages are not of the extended type, we can create a
64bit percpu buffer and use it where possible. If we do receive an extended
RTAS log then we fall back to the old behaviour of using the global buffer.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Anton Blanchard [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:49:19 +0000 (19:49 +0000)]
powerpc: Rework pseries machine check handler
Rework pseries machine check handler:
- If MSR_RI isn't set, we cannot recover even if the machine check was fully
recovered
- Rename nonfatal to recovered
- Handle RTAS_DISP_LIMITED_RECOVERY
- Use BUS_MCEERR_AR instead of BUS_ADRERR
- Don't check all the RTAS error log fields when receiving a synchronous
machine check. Recent versions of the pseries firmware do not fill them
in during a machine check and instead send a follow up error log with
the detailed information. If we see a synchronous machine check, and we
came from userspace then kill the task.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Anton Blanchard [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:48:14 +0000 (19:48 +0000)]
powerpc: Don't silently handle machine checks from userspace
If a machine check comes from userspace we send a SIGBUS to the task and
fail to printk anything.
If we are taking machine checks due to bad hardware we want to know about
it right away. Furthermore if we don't complain loudly then it will look
a lot like a bug in the userspace application, potentially causing a lot
of confusion.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Anton Blanchard [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:46:29 +0000 (19:46 +0000)]
powerpc: Never halt RTAS error logging after receiving an unrecoverable machine check
Newer versions of the System p firwmare send a partial RTAS error log in the
machine check handler with a more detailed response appearing sometime later
via check event.
This means at machine check time we do not have enough information to
ascertain exactly what went on. Furthermore, I have found the RTAS error
logs in the machine check handler contain no useful information, so halting on
them makes little sense. If we want to halt it would make more sense to do
it following the error log received sometime later via check event.
In light of this, never halt the error log in the pseries machine
check handler.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Anton Blanchard [Thu, 6 Jan 2011 18:00:36 +0000 (18:00 +0000)]
powerpc/kdump: Disable ftrace during kexec
We should disable ftrace during kexec, some of the tracers are very invasive
and we do not want them going off while doing the low level work of swapping
one kernel out for another. This mirrors what we do on x86.
Even though we cannot return from a kexec on powerpc (since we do not implement
CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP), add the restore code in case we do one day.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tejun Heo [Mon, 3 Jan 2011 03:49:25 +0000 (03:49 +0000)]
powerpc/cell: Use system_wq in cpufreq_spudemand
With cmwq, there's no reason to use a separate workqueue in
cpufreq_spudemand. Use system_wq instead. The work items are already
sync canceled on stop, so it's already guaranteed that no work is
running when spu_gov_exit() is entered.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Steven Rostedt [Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:42:56 +0000 (16:42 +0000)]
powerpc/ppc32/tracing: Add stack frame to calls of trace_hardirqs_on/off
32-bit variant of the previous patch for 64-bit:
<<
When an interrupt occurs in userspace, we can call trace_hardirqs_on/off()
With one level stack. But if we have irqsoff tracing enabled,
it checks both CALLER_ADDR0 and CALLER_ADDR1. The second call
goes two stack frames up. If this is from user space, then there may
not exist a second stack....
>>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Steven Rostedt [Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:46:06 +0000 (19:46 +0000)]
powerpc/ppc64/tracing: Add stack frame to calls of trace_hardirqs_on/off
When an interrupt occurs in userspace, we can call trace_hardirqs_on/off()
With one level stack. But if we have irqsoff tracing enabled,
it checks both CALLER_ADDR0 and CALLER_ADDR1. The second call
goes two stack frames up. If this is from user space, then there may
not exist a second stack.
Add a second stack when calling trace_hardirqs_on/off() otherwise
the following oops might occur:
Reported-by: Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc: Ensure the else case of feature sections will fit
When we create an alternative feature section, the else case must be the
same size or smaller than the body. This is because when we patch the
else case in we just overwrite the body, so there must be room.
Up to now we just did this by inspection, but it's quite easy to enforce
it in the assembler, so we should.
The only change is to add the ifgt block, but that effects the alignment
of the tabs and so the whole macro is modified.
Also add a test, but #if 0 it because we don't want to break the build.
Anyone who's modifying the feature macros should enable the test.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:30:37 +0000 (18:30 -0800)]
Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
smp: Allow on_each_cpu() to be called while early_boot_irqs_disabled status to init/main.c
lockdep: Move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c
ACPI / PM: Call suspend_nvs_free() earlier during resume
It turns out that some device drivers map pages from the ACPI NVS region
during resume using ioremap(), which conflicts with ioremap_cache() used
for mapping those pages by the NVS save/restore code in nvs.c.
Make the NVS pages mapped by the code in nvs.c be unmapped before device
drivers' resume routines run.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit ca9b600be38c ("ACPI / PM: Make suspend_nvs_save() use
acpi_os_map_memory()") attempted to prevent the code in osl.c and nvs.c
from using different ioremap() variants by making the latter use
acpi_os_map_memory() for mapping the NVS pages. However, that also
requires acpi_os_unmap_memory() to be used for unmapping them, which
causes synchronize_rcu() to be executed many times in a row
unnecessarily and introduces substantial delays during resume on some
systems.
Instead of using acpi_os_map_memory() for mapping the NVS pages in nvs.c
introduce acpi_os_ioremap() calling ioremap_cache() and make the code in
both osl.c and nvs.c use it.
Reported-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:02:14 +0000 (17:02 -0800)]
Merge branch 'akpm'
* akpm:
kernel/smp.c: consolidate writes in smp_call_function_interrupt()
kernel/smp.c: fix smp_call_function_many() SMP race
memcg: correctly order reading PCG_USED and pc->mem_cgroup
backlight: fix 88pm860x_bl macro collision
drivers/leds/ledtrig-gpio.c: make output match input, tighten input checking
MAINTAINERS: update Atmel AT91 entry
mm: fix truncate_setsize() comment
memcg: fix rmdir, force_empty with THP
memcg: fix LRU accounting with THP
memcg: fix USED bit handling at uncharge in THP
memcg: modify accounting function for supporting THP better
fs/direct-io.c: don't try to allocate more than BIO_MAX_PAGES in a bio
mm: compaction: prevent division-by-zero during user-requested compaction
mm/vmscan.c: remove duplicate include of compaction.h
memblock: fix memblock_is_region_memory()
thp: keep highpte mapped until it is no longer needed
kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
Milton Miller [Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:44:34 +0000 (14:44 -0800)]
kernel/smp.c: consolidate writes in smp_call_function_interrupt()
We have to test the cpu mask in the interrupt handler before checking the
refs, otherwise we can start to follow an entry before its deleted and
find it partially initailzed for the next trip. Presently we also clear
the cpumask bit before executing the called function, which implies
getting write access to the line. After the function is called we then
decrement refs, and if they go to zero we then unlock the structure.
However, this implies getting write access to the call function data
before and after another the function is called. If we can assert that no
smp_call_function execution function is allowed to enable interrupts, then
we can move both writes to after the function is called, hopfully allowing
both writes with one cache line bounce.
On a 256 thread system with a kernel compiled for 1024 threads, the time
to execute testcase in the "smp_call_function_many race" changelog was
reduced by about 30-40ms out of about 545 ms.
I decided to keep this as WARN because its now a buggy function, even
though the stack trace is of no value -- a simple printk would give us the
information needed.
Raw data:
Without patch:
ipi_test startup took 1219366ns complete 539819014ns total 541038380ns
ipi_test startup took 1695754ns complete 543439872ns total 545135626ns
ipi_test startup took 7513568ns complete 539606362ns total 547119930ns
ipi_test startup took 13304064ns complete 533898562ns total 547202626ns
ipi_test startup took 8668192ns complete 544264074ns total 552932266ns
ipi_test startup took 4977626ns complete 548862684ns total 553840310ns
ipi_test startup took 2144486ns complete 541292318ns total 543436804ns
ipi_test startup took 21245824ns complete 530280180ns total 551526004ns
With patch:
ipi_test startup took 5961748ns complete 500859628ns total 506821376ns
ipi_test startup took 8975996ns complete 495098924ns total 504074920ns
ipi_test startup took 19797750ns complete 492204740ns total 512002490ns
ipi_test startup took 14824796ns complete 487495878ns total 502320674ns
ipi_test startup took 11514882ns complete 494439372ns total 505954254ns
ipi_test startup took 8288084ns complete 502570774ns total 510858858ns
ipi_test startup took 6789954ns complete 493388112ns total 500178066ns
projects / linux-beck.git / log