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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 2b87965a1e ftrace/x86: Do no run CPU sync when there is only one CPU online
Moving enabling of function tracing to early boot, even before scheduling is
enabled, means that it is not safe to enable interrupts. When function
tracing was enabled at boot up, it use to happen after scheduling and the
other CPUs were brought up. That required running a sync across all CPUs
when modifying the function hook locations in the code. To do the
synchronization, interrupts had to be enabled. Now function tracing can be
started before the other CPUs are brought up, and enabling interrupts in
that case is dangerous. As only tho boot CPU is active, there is no reason
to run the synchronization. If the online CPU count is one, do not bother
doing the synchronization. This removes the need to enable interrupts.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-03-28 12:35:16 -04:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-14 21:31:23 -07:00
arch ftrace/x86: Do no run CPU sync when there is only one CPU online 2017-03-28 12:35:16 -04:00
block blk-mq-sched: don't run the queue async from blk_mq_try_issue_directly() 2017-03-14 11:51:59 -06:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
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fs NFS client fixes for 4.11 2017-03-17 14:16:22 -07:00
include tracing: Move trace_handle_return() out of line 2017-03-24 20:51:50 -04:00
init ftrace: Move ftrace_init() to right after memory initialization 2017-03-24 13:08:44 -04:00
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lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mm ftrace: Allow for function tracing to record init functions on boot up 2017-03-24 20:51:49 -04:00
net NFS client fixes for 4.11 2017-03-17 14:16:22 -07:00
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usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.