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Linus Torvalds 42776163e1 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
  perf session: Fix infinite loop in __perf_session__process_events
  perf evsel: Support perf_evsel__open(cpus > 1 && threads > 1)
  perf sched: Use PTHREAD_STACK_MIN to avoid pthread_attr_setstacksize() fail
  perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return
  perf stat: better error message for unsupported events
  perf sched: Fix allocation result check
  perf, x86: P4 PMU - Fix unflagged overflows handling
  dynamic debug: Fix build issue with older gcc
  tracing: Fix TRACE_EVENT power tracepoint creation
  tracing: Fix preempt count leak
  tracepoint: Add __rcu annotation
  tracing: remove duplicate null-pointer check in skb tracepoint
  tracing/trivial: Add missing comma in TRACE_EVENT comment
  tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h
  x86: Save rbp in pt_regs on irq entry
  x86, dumpstack: Fix unused variable warning
  x86, NMI: Clean-up default_do_nmi()
  x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU
  x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI
  x86, NMI: Add priorities to handlers
  ...
2011-01-11 11:02:13 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 870915e047 tracing: Fix TRACE_EVENT power tracepoint creation
DEFINE_TRACE should also exist when CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING=n. Otherwise, setting
only TRACEPOINTS=y is broken.

Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101028153117.GA4051@Krystal>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-01-07 23:26:29 -05:00
Ben Gardiner 41263fc671 kbuild: fix interaction of CONFIG_IKCONFIG and KCONFIG_CONFIG
If you try to build a kernel with KCONFIG_CONFIG set (to a value
not equal to .config) and that config sets CONFIG_IKCONFIG then the
build will fail with:

make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.config', needed by \
`kernel/config_data.gz'.  Stop.

because the kernel/Makefile contains a direct reference to .config.

This issue has been present since the introduction of KCONFIG_CONFIG
in 14cdd3c402.

Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
CC: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
CC: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-12-14 23:05:02 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 3044100e58 Merge branch 'core-memblock-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-memblock-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (74 commits)
  x86-64: Only set max_pfn_mapped to 512 MiB if we enter via head_64.S
  xen: Cope with unmapped pages when initializing kernel pagetable
  memblock, bootmem: Round pfn properly for memory and reserved regions
  memblock: Annotate memblock functions with __init_memblock
  memblock: Allow memblock_init to be called early
  memblock/arm: Fix memblock_region_is_memory() typo
  x86, memblock: Remove __memblock_x86_find_in_range_size()
  memblock: Fix wraparound in find_region()
  x86-32, memblock: Make add_highpages honor early reserved ranges
  x86, memblock: Fix crashkernel allocation
  arm, memblock: Fix the sparsemem build
  memblock: Fix section mismatch warnings
  powerpc, memblock: Fix memblock API change fallout
  memblock, microblaze: Fix memblock API change fallout
  x86: Remove old bootmem code
  x86, memblock: Use memblock_memory_size()/memblock_free_memory_size() to get correct dma_reserve
  x86: Remove not used early_res code
  x86, memblock: Replace e820_/_early string with memblock_
  x86: Use memblock to replace early_res
  x86, memblock: Use memblock_debug to control debug message print out
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c and kernel/Makefile
2010-10-21 18:52:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5d70f79b5e Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (163 commits)
  tracing: Fix compile issue for trace_sched_wakeup.c
  [S390] hardirq: remove pointless header file includes
  [IA64] Move local_softirq_pending() definition
  perf, powerpc: Fix power_pmu_event_init to not use event->ctx
  ftrace: Remove recursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty
  jump_label: Add COND_STMT(), reducer wrappery
  perf: Optimize sw events
  perf: Use jump_labels to optimize the scheduler hooks
  jump_label: Add atomic_t interface
  jump_label: Use more consistent naming
  perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation
  perf: Find task before event alloc
  perf: Fix task refcount bugs
  perf: Fix group moving
  irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
  perf_events: Fix transaction recovery in group_sched_in()
  perf_events: Fix bogus AMD64 generic TLB events
  perf_events: Fix bogus context time tracking
  tracing: Remove parent recording in latency tracer graph options
  tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers
  ...
2010-10-21 12:54:49 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra e360adbe29 irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.

Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.

The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.

Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 19:58:50 +02:00
Jason Baron bf5438fca2 jump label: Base patch for jump label
base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>

[ cleaned up some formating ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 16:29:41 -04:00
Ingo Molnar daab7fc734 Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc3' into x86/memblock
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c
	mm/memblock.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-31 09:45:46 +02:00
Yinghai Lu a587d2daeb x86: Remove not used early_res code
and some functions in e820.c that are not used anymore

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-08-27 11:13:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a57eb940d1 rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of
preemptible RCU.  This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks
list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies
processing.  This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution
to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers.

The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.

This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven
off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can
happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience.

Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as
suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering
issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183).

As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte
savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.  Of course, for non-real-time
workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better.

	CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	   6170	    825	     28	   7023	   kernel/rcutree.o
				   ----
				   7026    Total

	CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	   2081	     81	      8	   2170	   kernel/rcutiny.o
				   ----
				   2183    Total

	CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible)

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	    719	     25	      0	    744	   kernel/rcutiny.o
				    ---
				    757    Total

Requested-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-20 08:55:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8c8946f509 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: (132 commits)
  fanotify: use both marks when possible
  fsnotify: pass both the vfsmount mark and inode mark
  fsnotify: walk the inode and vfsmount lists simultaneously
  fsnotify: rework ignored mark flushing
  fsnotify: remove global fsnotify groups lists
  fsnotify: remove group->mask
  fsnotify: remove the global masks
  fsnotify: cleanup should_send_event
  fanotify: use the mark in handler functions
  audit: use the mark in handler functions
  dnotify: use the mark in handler functions
  inotify: use the mark in handler functions
  fsnotify: send fsnotify_mark to groups in event handling functions
  fsnotify: Exchange list heads instead of moving elements
  fsnotify: srcu to protect read side of inode and vfsmount locks
  fsnotify: use an explicit flag to indicate fsnotify_destroy_mark has been called
  fsnotify: use _rcu functions for mark list traversal
  fsnotify: place marks on object in order of group memory address
  vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput
  fsnotify: store struct file not struct path
  ...

Fix up trivial delete/modify conflict in fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c.
2010-08-10 11:39:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3b7433b8a8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (55 commits)
  workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall()
  workqueue: explain for_each_*cwq_cpu() iterators
  fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL
  slow-work: kill it
  gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work
  fscache: drop references to slow-work
  fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work
  fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work
  workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work->data
  workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP
  workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP
  workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker()
  async: use workqueue for worker pool
  workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead
  workqueue: implement unbound workqueue
  workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation
  libata: take advantage of cmwq and remove concurrency limitations
  workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in fs/cifs/* as per Tejun. Other trivial conflicts in
include/linux/workqueue.h, kernel/trace/Kconfig and kernel/workqueue.c
2010-08-07 12:42:58 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 61be7fdec2 Merge branch 'perf/nmi' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile

Merge reason: Add the now complete topic, fix the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-05 08:45:05 +02:00
Eric Paris 939a67fc4c Audit: split audit watch Kconfig
Audit watch should depend on CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL and should select
FSNOTIFY.  This splits the spagetti like mixing of audit_watch and
audit_filter code so they can be configured seperately.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:19 -04:00
Tejun Heo 181a51f6e0 slow-work: kill it
slow-work doesn't have any user left.  Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-07-23 13:14:49 +02:00
Jason Wessel c433820971 Move kernel/kgdb.c to kernel/debug/debug_core.c
Move kgdb.c in preparation to separate the gdbstub from the debug
core and exception handling.

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20 21:04:18 -05:00
Don Zickus 58687acba5 lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector
The new nmi_watchdog (which uses the perf event subsystem) is very
similar in structure to the softlockup detector.  Using Ingo's
suggestion, I combined the two functionalities into one file:
kernel/watchdog.c.

Now both the nmi_watchdog (or hardlockup detector) and softlockup
detector sit on top of the perf event subsystem, which is run every
60 seconds or so to see if there are any lockups.

To detect hardlockups, cpus not responding to interrupts, I
implemented an hrtimer that runs 5 times for every perf event
overflow event.  If that stops counting on a cpu, then the cpu is
most likely in trouble.

To detect softlockups, tasks not yielding to the scheduler, I used the
previous kthread idea that now gets kicked every time the hrtimer fires.
If the kthread isn't being scheduled neither is anyone else and the
warning is printed to the console.

I tested this on x86_64 and both the softlockup and hardlockup paths
work.

V2:
- cleaned up the Kconfig and softlockup combination
- surrounded hardlockup cases with #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
- seperated out the softlockup case from perf event subsystem
- re-arranged the enabling/disabling nmi watchdog from proc space
- added cpumasks for hardlockup failure cases
- removed fallback to soft events if no PMU exists for hard events

V3:
- comment cleanups
- drop support for older softlockup code
- per_cpu cleanups
- completely remove software clock base hardlockup detector
- use per_cpu masking on hard/soft lockup detection
- #ifdef cleanups
- rename config option NMI_WATCHDOG to LOCKUP_DETECTOR
- documentation additions

V4:
- documentation fixes
- convert per_cpu to __get_cpu_var
- powerpc compile fixes

V5:
- split apart warn flags for hard and soft lockups

TODO:
- figure out how to make an arch-agnostic clock2cycles call
  (if possible) to feed into perf events as a sample period

[fweisbec: merged conflict patch]

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-12 23:55:33 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker a9aa1d02de Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc7' into perf/nmi
Merge reason: catch up with latest softlockup detector changes.
2010-05-12 23:20:33 +02:00
Tejun Heo bbf1bb3eee cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UP
When !CONFIG_SMP, cpu_stop functions weren't defined at all which
could lead to build failures if UP code uses cpu_stop facility.  Add
dummy cpu_stop implementation for UP.  The waiting variants execute
the work function directly with preempt disabled and
stop_one_cpu_nowait() schedules a workqueue work.

Makefile and ifdefs around stop_machine implementation are updated to
accomodate CONFIG_SMP && !CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE case.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-08 17:12:33 +02:00
Daisuke HATAYAMA 1fcccbac89 elf coredump: replace ELF_CORE_EXTRA_* macros by functions
elf_core_dump() and elf_fdpic_core_dump() use #ifdef and the corresponding
macro for hiding _multiline_ logics in functions.  This patch removes
#ifdef and replaces ELF_CORE_EXTRA_* by corresponding functions.  For
architectures not implemeonting ELF_CORE_EXTRA_*, we use weak functions in
order to reduce a range of modification.

This cleanup is for my next patches, but I think this cleanup itself is
worth doing regardless of my firnal purpose.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a626b46e17 Merge branch 'x86-bootmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-bootmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
  early_res: Need to save the allocation name in drop_range_partial()
  sparsemem: Fix compilation on PowerPC
  early_res: Add free_early_partial()
  x86: Fix non-bootmem compilation on PowerPC
  core: Move early_res from arch/x86 to kernel/
  x86: Add find_fw_memmap_area
  Move round_up/down to kernel.h
  x86: Make 32bit support NO_BOOTMEM
  early_res: Enhance check_and_double_early_res
  x86: Move back find_e820_area to e820.c
  x86: Add find_early_area_size
  x86: Separate early_res related code from e820.c
  x86: Move bios page reserve early to head32/64.c
  sparsemem: Put mem map for one node together.
  sparsemem: Put usemap for one node together
  x86: Make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab
  x86: Only call dma32_reserve_bootmem 64bit !CONFIG_NUMA
  x86: Make early_node_mem get mem > 4 GB if possible
  x86: Dynamically increase early_res array size
  x86: Introduce max_early_res and early_res_count
  ...
2010-03-03 08:15:05 -08:00
Yinghai Lu 580e0ad21d core: Move early_res from arch/x86 to kernel/
This makes the range reservation feature available to other
architectures.

-v2: add get_max_mapped, max_pfn_mapped only defined in x86...
     to fix PPC compiling
-v3: according to hpa, add CONFIG_HAVE_EARLY_RES
-v4: fix typo about EARLY_RES in config

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B7B5723.4070009@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-16 21:43:39 -08:00
Yinghai Lu 27811d8cab x86: Move range related operation to one file
We have almost the same code for mtrr cleanup and amd_bus checkup, and
this code  will also be used in replacing bootmem with early_res,
so try to move them together and reuse it from different parts.

Also rename update_range to subtract_range as that is what the
function is actually doing.

-v2: update comments as Christoph requested

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265793639-15071-4-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-10 17:47:17 -08:00
Don Zickus 84e478c6f1 nmi_watchdog: Config option to enable new nmi_watchdog
These are the bits that enable the new nmi_watchdog and safely
isolate the old nmi_watchdog.  Only one or the other can run,
not both at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1265424425-31562-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-08 08:29:03 +01:00
Steffen Klassert 16295bec63 padata: Generic parallelization/serialization interface
This patch introduces an interface to process data objects
in parallel. The parallelized objects return after serialization
in the same order as they were before the parallelization.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-01-06 19:47:10 +11:00
Linus Torvalds ed9216c171 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (84 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix comparison of guest efer with stale host value
  KVM: s390: Fix prefix register checking in arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
  KVM: Drop user return notifier when disabling virtualization on a cpu
  KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
  KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes
  KVM: s390: Make psw available on all exits, not just a subset
  KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
  KVM: VMX: Report unexpected simultaneous exceptions as internal errors
  KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data
  KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h
  KVM: x86: Polish exception injection via KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG
  KVM: only clear irq_source_id if irqchip is present
  KVM: x86: disallow KVM_{SET,GET}_LAPIC without allocated in-kernel lapic
  KVM: x86: disallow multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
  KVM: VMX: Remove vmx->msr_offset_efer
  KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment
  KVM: VMX: move CR3/PDPTR update to vmx_set_cr3
  KVM: remove duplicated task_switch check
  KVM: powerpc: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON condition
  KVM: VMX: Use shared msr infrastructure
  ...

Trivial conflicts due to new Kconfig options in arch/Kconfig and kernel/Makefile
2009-12-08 08:02:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1557d33007 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits)
  security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl.
  security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount.
  sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
  sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED
  sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions.
  sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
  sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
  sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name
  sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support
  sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support
  sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic
  ...
2009-12-08 07:38:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds c3fa27d136 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (470 commits)
  x86: Fix comments of register/stack access functions
  perf tools: Replace %m with %a in sscanf
  hw-breakpoints: Keep track of user disabled breakpoints
  tracing/syscalls: Make syscall events print callbacks static
  tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT(), DEFINE_SINGLE_EVENT() support to docbook
  perf: Don't free perf_mmap_data until work has been done
  perf_event: Fix compile error
  perf tools: Fix _GNU_SOURCE macro related strndup() build error
  trace_syscalls: Remove unused syscall_name_to_nr()
  trace_syscalls: Simplify syscall profile
  trace_syscalls: Remove duplicate init_enter_##sname()
  trace_syscalls: Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata
  trace_syscalls: Remove enter_id exit_id
  trace_syscalls: Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata
  trace_syscalls: Remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exit
  perf_event: Initialize data.period in perf_swevent_hrtimer()
  perf probe: Simplify event naming
  perf probe: Add --list option for listing current probe events
  perf probe: Add argv_split() from lib/argv_split.c
  perf probe: Move probe event utility functions to probe-event.c
  ...
2009-12-05 15:30:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 607781762e Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
  rcu: Make RCU's CPU-stall detector be default
  rcu: Add expedited grace-period support for preemptible RCU
  rcu: Enable fourth level of TREE_RCU hierarchy
  rcu: Rename "quiet" functions
  rcu: Re-arrange code to reduce #ifdef pain
  rcu: Eliminate unneeded function wrapping
  rcu: Fix grace-period-stall bug on large systems with CPU hotplug
  rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives
  rcu: Further cleanups of use of lastcomp
  rcu: Simplify association of forced quiescent states with grace periods
  rcu: Accelerate callback processing on CPUs not detecting GP end
  rcu: Mark init-time-only rcu_bootup_announce() as __init
  rcu: Simplify association of quiescent states with grace periods
  rcu: Rename dynticks_completed to completed_fqs
  rcu: Enable synchronize_sched_expedited() fastpath
  rcu: Remove inline from forward-referenced functions
  rcu: Fix note_new_gpnum() uses of ->gpnum
  rcu: Fix synchronization for rcu_process_gp_end() uses of ->completed counter
  rcu: Prepare for synchronization fixes: clean up for non-NO_HZ handling of ->completed counter
  rcu: Cleanup: balance rcu_irq_enter()/rcu_irq_exit() calls
  ...
2009-12-05 09:52:14 -08:00
Avi Kivity 58988b07cf Merge remote branch 'tip/x86/entry' into kvm-updates/2.6.33
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:30:06 +02:00
David Howells f13a48bd79 SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs
Move slow_work's debugging proc file to debugfs.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Requested-and-acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 6e3d8330ae perf events: Do not generate function trace entries in perf code
Decreases perf overhead when function tracing is enabled,
by about 50%.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-23 10:19:20 +01:00
David Howells 8fba10a42d SLOW_WORK: Allow the work items to be viewed through a /proc file
Allow the executing and queued work items to be viewed through a /proc file
for debugging purposes.  The contents look something like the following:

    THR PID   ITEM ADDR        FL MARK  DESC
    === ===== ================ == ===== ==========
      0  3005 ffff880023f52348  a 952ms FSC: OBJ17d3: LOOK
      1  3006 ffff880024e33668  2 160ms FSC: OBJ17e5 OP60d3b: Write1/Store fl=2
      2  3165 ffff8800296dd180  a 424ms FSC: OBJ17e4: LOOK
      3  4089 ffff8800262c8d78  a 212ms FSC: OBJ17ea: CRTN
      4  4090 ffff88002792bed8  2 388ms FSC: OBJ17e8 OP60d36: Write1/Store fl=2
      5  4092 ffff88002a0ef308  2 388ms FSC: OBJ17e7 OP60d2e: Write1/Store fl=2
      6  4094 ffff88002abaf4b8  2 132ms FSC: OBJ17e2 OP60d4e: Write1/Store fl=2
      7  4095 ffff88002bb188e0  a 388ms FSC: OBJ17e9: CRTN
    vsq     - ffff880023d99668  1 308ms FSC: OBJ17e0 OP60f91: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff8800295d1740  1 212ms FSC: OBJ16be OP4d4b6: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880025ba3308  1 160ms FSC: OBJ179a OP58dec: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880024ec83e0  1 160ms FSC: OBJ17ae OP599f2: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880026618e00  1 160ms FSC: OBJ17e6 OP60d33: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880025a2a4b8  1 132ms FSC: OBJ16a2 OP4d583: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880023cbe6d8  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17eb: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880024d37590  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ec: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880027746cb0  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ed: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880024d37ae8  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ee: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880024d37cb0  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ef: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880025036550  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f0: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff8800250368e0  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f1: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880025036aa8  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f2: LOOK

In the 'THR' column, executing items show the thread they're occupying and
queued threads indicate which queue they're on.  'PID' shows the process ID of
a slow-work thread that's executing something.  'FL' shows the work item flags.
'MARK' indicates how long since an item was queued or began executing.  Lastly,
the 'DESC' column permits the owner of an item to give some information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:10:51 +00:00
Eric W. Biederman afa588b265 sysctl: Separate the binary sysctl logic into it's own file.
In preparation for more invasive cleanups separate the core
binary sysctl logic into it's own file.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-06 03:20:07 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 9b1d82fa16 rcu: "Tiny RCU", The Bloatwatch Edition
This patch is a version of RCU designed for !SMP provided for a
small-footprint RCU implementation.  In particular, the
implementation of synchronize_rcu() is extremely lightweight and
high performance. It passes rcutorture testing in each of the
four relevant configurations (combinations of NO_HZ and PREEMPT)
on x86.  This saves about 1K bytes compared to old Classic RCU
(which is no longer in mainline), and more than three kilobytes
compared to Hierarchical RCU (updated to 2.6.30):

	CONFIG_TREE_RCU:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    filename
	    183       4       0     187     kernel/rcupdate.o
	   2783     520      36    3339     kernel/rcutree.o
				   3526 Total (vs 4565 for v7)

	CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    filename
	    263       4       0     267     kernel/rcupdate.o
	   4594     776      52    5422     kernel/rcutree.o
	   			   5689 Total (6155 for v7)

	CONFIG_TINY_RCU:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    filename
	     96       4       0     100     kernel/rcupdate.o
	    734      24       0     758     kernel/rcutiny.o
	    			    858 Total (vs 848 for v7)

The above is for x86.  Your mileage may vary on other platforms.
Further compression is possible, but is being procrastinated.

Changes from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/9/388)

o	Apply Lai Jiangshan's review comments (aside from
might_sleep() 	in synchronize_sched(), which is covered by SMP builds).

o	Fix up expedited primitives.

Changes from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/23/293).

o	Forward ported to put it into the 2.6.33 stream.

o	Added lockdep support.

o	Make lightweight rcu_barrier.

Changes from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/23/12).

o	Ported to latest pre-2.6.32 merge window kernel.

	- Renamed rcu_qsctr_inc() to rcu_sched_qs().
	- Renamed rcu_bh_qsctr_inc() to rcu_bh_qs().
	- Provided trivial rcu_cpu_notify().
	- Provided trivial exit_rcu().
	- Provided trivial rcu_needs_cpu().
	- Fixed up the rcu_*_enter/exit() functions in linux/hardirq.h.

o	Removed the dependence on EMBEDDED, with a view to making
	TINY_RCU default for !SMP at some time in the future.

o	Added (trivial) support for expedited grace periods.

Changes from v4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/2/91) include:

o	Squeeze the size down a bit further by removing the
	->completed field from struct rcu_ctrlblk.

o	This permits synchronize_rcu() to become the empty function.
	Previous concerns about rcutorture were unfounded, as
	rcutorture correctly handles a constant value from
	rcu_batches_completed() and rcu_batches_completed_bh().

Changes from v3 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/29/221) include:

o	Changed rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_completed_bh()
	rcu_enter_nohz(), rcu_exit_nohz(), rcu_nmi_enter(), and
	rcu_nmi_exit(), to be static inlines, as suggested by David
	Howells.  Doing this saves about 100 bytes from rcutiny.o.
	(The numbers between v3 and this v4 of the patch are not directly
	comparable, since they are against different versions of Linux.)

Changes from v2 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/3/333) include:

o	Fix whitespace issues.

o	Change short-circuit "||" operator to instead be "+" in order
to 	fix performance bug noted by "kraai" on LWN.

		(http://lwn.net/Articles/324348/)

Changes from v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/13/440) include:

o	This version depends on EMBEDDED as well as !SMP, as suggested
	by Ingo.

o	Updated rcu_needs_cpu() to unconditionally return zero,
	permitting the CPU to enter dynticks-idle mode at any time.
	This works because callbacks can be invoked upon entry to
	dynticks-idle mode.

o	Paul is now OK with this being included, based on a poll at
the 	Kernel Miniconf at linux.conf.au, where about ten people said
	that they cared about saving 900 bytes on single-CPU systems.

o	Applies to both mainline and tip/core/rcu.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: avi@redhat.com
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12565226351355-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26 09:40:29 +01:00
Avi Kivity 7a04109751 x86: Fix user return notifier build
When CONFIG_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER is set, we need to link
kernel/user-return-notifier.o.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1256473485-23109-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-25 17:37:57 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 0f8f86c7bd Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/trace/Makefile
	kernel/trace/trace.h
	samples/Makefile

Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
2009-10-18 01:12:33 +02:00
Paul Menage fe6934354f cgroups: move the cgroup debug subsys into cgroup.c to access internal state
While it's architecturally clean to have the cgroup debug subsystem be
completely independent of the cgroups framework, it limits its usefulness
for debugging the contents of internal data structures.  Move the debug
subsystem code into the scope of all the cgroups data structures to make
more detailed debugging possible.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 43c1266ce4 Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Tidy up after the big rename
  perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
  perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event
  perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list

Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in
include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.
2009-09-21 09:15:07 -07:00
Ingo Molnar cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig fc5377668c tracing: Remove markers
Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event
tracer we can kill off the (now orphan) support code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090917173527.GA1699@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 21:22:08 +02:00
Ming Lei a56af87648 driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base
Placing dma-coherent.c in driver/base is better than in kernel,
since it contains code to do per-device coherent dma memory
handling.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 09:50:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar dca2d6ac09 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c

Semantic conflict fixed in:
	arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 12:18:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds c91d7d54ea Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfig
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfig:
  kconfig: add missing dependency of conf to localyesconfig
  kconfig: test if a .config already exists
  kconfig: make local .config default for streamline_config
  kconfig: test for /boot/config-uname after /proc/config.gz in localconfig
  kconfig: unset IKCONFIG_PROC and clean up nesting
  kconfig: search for a config to base the local(mod|yes)config on
  kconfig: keep config.gz around even if CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not set
  kconfig: have extract-ikconfig read ELF files
  kconfig: add check if end exists in extract-ikconfig
  kconfig: enable CONFIG_IKCONFIG from streamline_config.pl
  kconfig: do not warn about modules built in
  kconfig: streamline_config.pl do not stop with no depends
  kconfig: add make localyesconfig option
  kconfig: make localmodconfig to run streamline_config.pl
  kconfig: add streamline_config.pl to scripts
2009-09-14 19:59:37 -07:00
Ingo Molnar a1922ed661 Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/Kconfig
	kernel/trace/trace.h

Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new
              ring-buffer APIs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07 08:19:51 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 6b3ef48adf rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no
further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.  Remove it, along with
whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <125097461396-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney f41d911f8c rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions
for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef,
empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics).
These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c
for this purpose.

This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose
read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU
under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense
is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence
of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic
hierarchical RCU.  Perhaps more important, this new algorithm
has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines
of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable
RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new
algorithm.

The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task
nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple
lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block
within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons
learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations
over the past 18 months.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
Steven Rostedt de481560eb kconfig: keep config.gz around even if CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not set
If CONFIG_IKCONFIG is set but CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not, then
gcc will optimize the config.gz out, because nobody uses it.

This patch adds "__used" to the config.gz data to keep it around so that
code like extract-ikconfig can still find it.

[ Impact: allow extract-ikconfig to find config.gz ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-18 22:01:08 -04:00
Ingo Molnar fa08661af8 Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc6' into core/rcu
Merge reason: the branch was on pre-rc1 .30, update to latest.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-15 18:56:13 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 9b71272b6a Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ftrace: Fix the output of profile
  ring-buffer: Make it generally available
  ftrace: Remove duplicate newline
  tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot option
  ftrace: Fix t_hash_start()
  ftrace: Don't manipulate @pos in t_start()
  ftrace: Don't increment @pos in g_start()
  tracing: Reset iterator in t_start()
  trace_stat: Don't increment @pos in seq start()
  tracing_bprintk: Don't increment @pos in t_start()
  tracing/events: Don't increment @pos in s_start()
2009-06-28 11:05:04 -07:00