This patch adds support for Dynamic Tick Timer for ARM. Dynamic Tick is
also known as VST (Variable Scheduling Timeouts).
Dynamic Tick has been in use in the OMAP tree since last October. The
patch is not intrusive, and does not do anything unless CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
is defined. This patch has the following fixed based on comments from
RMK:
- Time is updated before calling interrupt handlers.
- Added new interrupt flag SA_TIMER to avoid duplicate timer interrupts
- Moved struct dyn_tick_timer to time.h until we at some point probably
have an arch independent dyn-tick.h
- Cleaned up testing for DYN_TICK_ENABLED in irq.c
I've cleaned up this patch to fix some remaining issues:
- Call the timer tick handler with irqs disabled, as it would be from
a normal interrupt
- if we have a dyn_tick, we better implement all methods.
- generic timer_dyn_reprogram() call, to be called before sleeping
- added command line option - "dyntick=" to allow boot-time control
of this feature
-- rmk
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Move the signal return code into the vector page instead of placing
it on the user mode stack, which will allow us to avoid flushing
the instruction cache on signals, as well as eventually allowing
non-exec stack.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
We need to re-initialise the stack pointers for undefined, IRQ
and abort mode handlers whenever we resume.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Create a temporary page table to startup secondary processors. This
page table must have a 1:1 virtual/physical mapping for the kernel
in addition to the standard mappings to ensure that the secondary
CPU can enable its MMU safely.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
Not that there might be many of them on the planet, but at least RMK
apparently has one.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The current vector entry system does not allow for SMP. In
order to work around this, we need to eliminate our reliance
on the fixed save areas, which breaks the way we enable
alignment traps. This patch changes the way we handle the
save areas such that we can have one per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
The current vector entry system does not allow for SMP. In
order to work around this, we need to eliminate our reliance
on the fixed save areas, which breaks the way we enable
alignment traps. This patch makes the alignment trap enable
code independent of the way we handle the save areas.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
By changing r9 -> r8 and r8 to 'tsk' (r9) we are able to remove
one instruction from the preempt path.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
This better express things, and should cover RMK's weird SMP toys.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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>
Convert most of the current code that uses _NSIG directly to instead use
valid_signal(). This avoids gcc -W warnings and off-by-one errors.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
This patch entirely reworks the kernel assistance for NPTL on ARM.
In particular this provides an efficient way to retrieve the TLS
value and perform atomic operations without any instruction emulation
nor special system call. This even allows for pre ARMv6 binaries to
be forward compatible with SMP systems without any penalty.
The problematic and performance critical operations are performed
through segment of kernel provided user code reachable from user space
at a fixed address in kernel memory. Those fixed entry points are
within the vector page so we basically get it for free as no extra
memory page is required and nothing else may be mapped at that
location anyway.
This is different from (but doesn't preclude) a full blown VDSO
implementation, however a VDSO would prevent some assembly tricks with
constants that allows for efficient branching to those code segments.
And since those code segments only use a few cycles before returning to
user code, the overhead of a VDSO far call would add a significant
overhead to such minimalistic operations.
The ARM_NR_set_tls syscall also changed number. This is done for two
reasons:
1) this patch changes the way the TLS value was previously meant to be
retrieved, therefore we ensure whatever library using the old way
gets fixed (they only exist in private tree at the moment since the
NPTL work is still progressing).
2) the previous number was allocated in a range causing an undefined
instruction trap on kernels not supporting that syscall and it was
determined that allocating it in a range returning -ENOSYS would be
much nicer for libraries trying to determine if the feature is
present or not.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
SVC_MODE reflects the MODE_SVC definition in asm/ptrace.h. Use
the asm/ptrace.h definition instead, and remove SVC_MODE.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS as PAGE_SIZE (beyond the machine vectors when
they are mapped low), and use that definition in place of locally defined
MIN_MAP_ADDR.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>
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!
Russell King