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7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Nick Piggin 5bfb5d690f [PATCH] sched: disable preempt in idle tasks
Run idle threads with preempt disabled.

Also corrected a bugs in arm26's cpu_idle (make it actually call schedule()).
How did it ever work before?

Might fix the CPU hotplugging hang which Nigel Cunningham noted.

We think the bug hits if the idle thread is preempted after checking
need_resched() and before going to sleep, then the CPU offlined.

After calling stop_machine_run, the CPU eventually returns from preemption and
into the idle thread and goes to sleep.  The CPU will continue executing
previous idle and have no chance to call play_dead.

By disabling preemption until we are ready to explicitly schedule, this bug is
fixed and the idle threads generally become more robust.

From: alexs <ashepard@u.washington.edu>

  PPC build fix

From: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>

  MIPS build fix

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 07:56:33 -08:00
Russell King a054a81159 [ARM SMP] Add hotplug CPU infrastructure
This patch adds the infrastructure to support hotplug CPU on ARM
platforms.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-02 22:24:33 +00:00
Eric W. Biederman 59586e5a26 [PATCH] Don't export machine_restart, machine_halt, or machine_power_off.
machine_restart, machine_halt and machine_power_off are machine
specific hooks deep into the reboot logic, that modules
have no business messing with.  Usually code should be calling
kernel_restart, kernel_halt, kernel_power_off, or
emergency_restart. So don't export machine_restart,
machine_halt, and machine_power_off so we can catch buggy users.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26 14:35:42 -07:00
Russell King 2ea83398b7 [PATCH] ARM: Add VST idle loop call
This call allows the dynamic tick support to reprogram the timer
immediately before the CPU idles.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-27 14:04:05 +01:00
Russell King 4f7a18124c [PATCH] ARM: Fix kernel stack offset calculations
Various places in the ARM kernel implicitly assumed that kernel
stacks are always 8K due to hard coded constants.  Replace these
constants with definitions.

Correct the allowable range of kernel stack pointer values within
the allocation.  Arrange for the entire kernel stack to be zeroed,
not just the upper 4K if CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is set.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-05 13:11:00 +01:00
Russell King 652a12ef98 [PATCH] ARM: showregs
Fix show_regs() to provide a backtrace.  Provide a new __show_regs()
function which implements the common subset of show_regs() and die().
Add prototypes to asm-arm/system.h

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-17 15:50:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00