Implement get_user_pages_fast without locking in the fastpath on x86.
Do an optimistic lockless pagetable walk, without taking mmap_sem or any
page table locks or even mmap_sem. Page table existence is guaranteed by
turning interrupts off (combined with the fact that we're always looking
up the current mm, means we can do the lockless page table walk within the
constraints of the TLB shootdown design). Basically we can do this
lockless pagetable walk in a similar manner to the way the CPU's pagetable
walker does not have to take any locks to find present ptes.
This patch (combined with the subsequent ones to convert direct IO to use
it) was found to give about 10% performance improvement on a 2 socket 8
core Intel Xeon system running an OLTP workload on DB2 v9.5
"To test the effects of the patch, an OLTP workload was run on an IBM
x3850 M2 server with 2 processors (quad-core Intel Xeon processors at
2.93 GHz) using IBM DB2 v9.5 running Linux 2.6.24rc7 kernel. Comparing
runs with and without the patch resulted in an overall performance
benefit of ~9.8%. Correspondingly, oprofiles showed that samples from
__up_read and __down_read routines that is seen during thread contention
for system resources was reduced from 2.8% down to .05%. Monitoring the
/proc/vmstat output from the patched run showed that the counter for
fast_gup contained a very high number while the fast_gup_slow value was
zero."
(fast_gup is the old name for get_user_pages_fast, fast_gup_slow is a
counter we had for the number of times the slowpath was invoked).
The main reason for the improvement is that DB2 has multiple threads each
issuing direct-IO. Direct-IO uses get_user_pages, and thus the threads
contend the mmap_sem cacheline, and can also contend on page table locks.
I would anticipate larger performance gains on larger systems, however I
think DB2 uses an adaptive mix of threads and processes, so it could be
that thread contention remains pretty constant as machine size increases.
In which case, we stuck with "only" a 10% gain.
The downside of using get_user_pages_fast is that if there is not a pte
with the correct permissions for the access, we end up falling back to
get_user_pages and so the get_user_pages_fast is a bit of extra work.
However this should not be the common case in most performance critical
code.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Kconfig fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Makefile fix/cleanup]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement the pte_special bit for x86. This is required to support
lockless get_user_pages, because we need to know whether or not we can
refcount a particular page given only its pte (and no vma).
[hugh@veritas.com: fix a BUG]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements the
following features:
- Backup/restore memory used by the original kernel before/after
kexec.
- Save/restore CPU state before/after kexec.
The features of this patch can be used as a general method to call program in
physical mode (paging turning off). This can be used to call BIOS code under
Linux.
kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches and
the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL:
source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2
patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2
binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10
Usage example of calling some physical mode code and return:
1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected:
CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y
2. Build patched kexec-tool or download the pre-built one.
3. Build some physical mode executable named such as "phy_mode"
4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1.
5. Load physical mode executable with /sbin/kexec. The shell command
line can be as follow:
/sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context --args-none phy_mode
6. Call physical mode executable with following shell command line:
/sbin/kexec -e
Implementation point:
To support jumping without reserving memory. One shadow backup page (source
page) is allocated for each page used by kexeced code image (destination
page). When do kexec_load, the image of kexeced code is loaded into source
pages, and before executing, the destination pages and the source pages are
swapped, so the contents of destination pages are backupped. Before jumping
to the kexeced code image and after jumping back to the original kernel, the
destination pages and the source pages are swapped too.
C ABI (calling convention) is used as communication protocol between
kernel and called code.
A flag named KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT for sys_kexec_load is added to
indicate that the loaded kernel image is used for jumping back.
Now, only the i386 architecture is supported.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The calgary code can give drivers addresses above 4GB which is very bad
for hardware that is only 32bit DMA addressable.
With this patch, the calgary code sets the global dma_ops to swiotlb or
nommu properly, and the dma_ops of devices behind the Calgary/CalIOC2
to calgary_dma_ops. So the calgary code can handle devices safely that
aren't behind the Calgary/CalIOC2.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexis Bruemmer <alexisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add per-device dma_mapping_ops support for CONFIG_X86_64 as POWER
architecture does:
This enables us to cleanly fix the Calgary IOMMU issue that some devices
are not behind the IOMMU (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/423).
I think that per-device dma_mapping_ops support would be also helpful for
KVM people to support PCI passthrough but Andi thinks that this makes it
difficult to support the PCI passthrough (see the above thread). So I
CC'ed this to KVM camp. Comments are appreciated.
A pointer to dma_mapping_ops to struct dev_archdata is added. If the
pointer is non NULL, DMA operations in asm/dma-mapping.h use it. If it's
NULL, the system-wide dma_ops pointer is used as before.
If it's useful for KVM people, I plan to implement a mechanism to register
a hook called when a new pci (or dma capable) device is created (it works
with hot plugging). It enables IOMMUs to set up an appropriate
dma_mapping_ops per device.
The major obstacle is that dma_mapping_error doesn't take a pointer to the
device unlike other DMA operations. So x86 can't have dma_mapping_ops per
device. Note all the POWER IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function
so this is not a problem for POWER but x86 IOMMUs use different
dma_mapping_error functions.
The first patch adds the device argument to dma_mapping_error. The patch
is trivial but large since it touches lots of drivers and dma-mapping.h in
all the architecture.
This patch:
dma_mapping_error() doesn't take a pointer to the device unlike other DMA
operations. So we can't have dma_mapping_ops per device.
Note that POWER already has dma_mapping_ops per device but all the POWER
IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function. x86 IOMMUs use device
argument.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sge]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix svc_rdma]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bnx2x]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s2io]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix pasemi_mac]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sdhci]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ibmvscsi]
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:43:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So how about this patch as a starting point? This is the RightThing(tm) to
> do regardless, and if it then makes it easier to do some other cleanups,
> we should do it first. What do you think?
restore_fpu_checking() calls init_fpu() in error conditions.
While this is wrong(as our main intention is to clear the fpu state of
the thread), this was benign before commit 92d140e21f ("x86: fix taking
DNA during 64bit sigreturn").
Post commit 92d140e21f, live FPU registers may not belong to this
process at this error scenario.
In the error condition for restore_fpu_checking() (especially during the
64bit signal return), we are doing init_fpu(), which saves the live FPU
register state (possibly belonging to some other process context) into
the thread struct (through unlazy_fpu() in init_fpu()). This is wrong
and can leak the FPU data.
For the signal handler restore error condition in restore_i387(), clear
the fpu state present in the thread struct(before ultimately sending a
SIGSEGV for badframe).
For the paranoid error condition check in math_state_restore(), send a
SIGSEGV, if we fail to restore the state.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86 kernels on IBM Summit based systems will only online 1 CPU because the
phys_cpu_present_map is not set up correctly. Patch below applied to
2.6.26-git10.
Signed-off-by: Chris McDermott <lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Tim Pepper <lnxninga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch removes the dummy asm/kvm.h files on architectures not (yet)
supporting KVM and uses the same conditional headers installation as
already used for a.out.h .
Also removed are superfluous install rules in the s390 and x86 Kbuild
files (they are already in Kbuild.asm).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
This patch contains the following cleanups for the asm/ptrace.h
userspace headers:
- include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm already lists ptrace.h, remove
the superfluous listings in the Kbuild files of the following
architectures:
- cris
- frv
- powerpc
- x86
- don't expose function prototypes and macros to userspace:
- arm
- blackfin
- cris
- mn10300
- parisc
- remove #ifdef CONFIG_'s around #define's:
- blackfin
- m68knommu
- sh: AFAIK __SH5__ should work in both kernel and userspace,
no need to leak CONFIG_SUPERH64 to userspace
- xtensa: cosmetical change to remove empty
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ #else #endif
from the userspace headers
Not changed by this patch is the fact that the following architectures
have a different struct pt_regs depending on CONFIG_ variables:
- h8300
- m68knommu
- mips
This does not work in userspace.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds functionality to the gpio-lib subsystem to make it
possible to enable the gpio-lib code even if the architecture code didn't
request to get it built in.
The archtitecture code does still need to implement the gpiolib accessor
functions in its asm/gpio.h file. This patch adds the implementations for
x86 and PPC.
With these changes it is possible to run generic GPIO expansion cards on
every architecture that implements the trivial wrapper functions. Support
for more architectures can easily be added.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We duplicate alloc/free_thread_info defines on many platforms (the
majority uses __get_free_pages/free_pages). This patch defines common
defines and removes these duplicated defines.
__HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR is introduced for platforms that do
something different.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suresh Siddha wants to fix a possible FPU leakage in error conditions,
but the fact that save/restore_i387() are inlines in a header file makes
that harder to do than necessary. So start off with an obvious cleanup.
This just moves the x86-64 version of save/restore_i387() out of the
header file, and moves it to the only file that it is actually used in:
arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c. So exposing it in a header file was wrong
to begin with.
[ Side note: I'd like to fix up some of the games we play with the
32-bit version of these functions too, but that's a separate
matter. The 32-bit versions are shared - under different names
at that! - by both the native x86-32 code and the x86-64 32-bit
compatibility code ]
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (76 commits)
ide: use proper printk() KERN_* levels in ide-probe.c
ide: fix for EATA SCSI HBA in ATA emulating mode
ide: remove stale comments from drivers/ide/Makefile
ide: enable local IRQs in all handlers for TASKFILE_NO_DATA data phase
ide-scsi: remove kmalloced struct request
ht6560b: remove old history
ht6560b: update email address
ide-cd: fix oops when using growisofs
gayle: release resources on ide_host_add() failure
palm_bk3710: add UltraDMA/100 support
ide: trivial sparse annotations
ide: ide-tape.c sparse annotations and unaligned access removal
ide: drop 'name' parameter from ->init_chipset method
ide: prefix messages from IDE PCI host drivers by driver name
it821x: remove DECLARE_ITE_DEV() macro
it8213: remove DECLARE_ITE_DEV() macro
ide: include PCI device name in messages from IDE PCI host drivers
ide: remove <asm/ide.h> for some archs
ide-generic: remove ide_default_{io_base,irq}() inlines (take 3)
ide-generic: is no longer needed on ppc32
...
* Remove <linux/irq.h> include from <asm-ia64.h> (<linux/ide.h> includes
<linux/interrupt.h> which is enough).
* Remove <asm/ide.h> for alpha/blackfin/h8300/ia64/m32r/sh/x86/xtensa
(this leaves us with arm/frv/m68k/mips/mn10300/parisc/powerpc/sparc[64]).
There should be no functional changes caused by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Replace ide_default_{io_base,irq}() inlines by legacy_{bases,irqs}[].
v2:
Add missing zero-ing of hws[] (caught during testing by Borislav Petkov).
v3:
Fix zero-oing of hws[] for _real_ this time.
There should be no functional changes caused by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* Now that ide_hwif_t instances are allocated dynamically
the difference between MAX_HWIFS == 2 and MAX_HWIFS == 10
is ~100 bytes (x86-32) so use MAX_HWIFS == 10 on all archs
except these ones that use MAX_HWIFS == 1.
* Define MAX_HWIFS in <linux/ide.h> instead of <asm/ide.h>.
[ Please note that avr32/cris/v850 have no <asm/ide.h>
and alpha/ia64/sh always define CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS. ]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Since the decision to probe for ISA ide2-6 is now left to the user
"no_pci_devices()" quirk is no longer needed and may be removed.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: fix header export, asm-x86/processor-flags.h, CONFIG_* leaks
x86: BUILD_IRQ say .text to avoid .data.percpu
xen: don't use sysret for sysexit32
x86: call early_cpu_init at the same point
* 'semaphore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc:
Remove __DECLARE_SEMAPHORE_GENERIC
Remove asm/semaphore.h
Remove use of asm/semaphore.h
Add missing semaphore.h includes
Remove mention of semaphores from kernel-locking
This patch introduces the new syscall inotify_init1 (note: the 1 stands for
the one parameter the syscall takes, as opposed to no parameter before). The
values accepted for this parameter are function-specific and defined in the
inotify.h header. Here the values must match the O_* flags, though. In this
patch CLOEXEC support is introduced.
The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#ifndef __NR_inotify_init1
# ifdef __x86_64__
# define __NR_inotify_init1 294
# elif defined __i386__
# define __NR_inotify_init1 332
# else
# error "need __NR_inotify_init1"
# endif
#endif
#define IN_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
int
main (void)
{
int fd;
fd = syscall (__NR_inotify_init1, 0);
if (fd == -1)
{
puts ("inotify_init1(0) failed");
return 1;
}
int coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
{
puts ("inotify_init1(0) set close-on-exit");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
fd = syscall (__NR_inotify_init1, IN_CLOEXEC);
if (fd == -1)
{
puts ("inotify_init1(IN_CLOEXEC) failed");
return 1;
}
coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
{
puts ("inotify_init1(O_CLOEXEC) does not set close-on-exit");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
puts ("OK");
return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_ni stub]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch introduces the new syscall pipe2 which is like pipe but it also
takes an additional parameter which takes a flag value. This patch implements
the handling of O_CLOEXEC for the flag. I did not add support for the new
syscall for the architectures which have a special sys_pipe implementation. I
think the maintainers of those archs have the chance to go with the unified
implementation but that's up to them.
The implementation introduces do_pipe_flags. I did that instead of changing
all callers of do_pipe because some of the callers are written in assembler.
I would probably screw up changing the assembly code. To avoid breaking code
do_pipe is now a small wrapper around do_pipe_flags. Once all callers are
changed over to do_pipe_flags the old do_pipe function can be removed.
The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#ifndef __NR_pipe2
# ifdef __x86_64__
# define __NR_pipe2 293
# elif defined __i386__
# define __NR_pipe2 331
# else
# error "need __NR_pipe2"
# endif
#endif
int
main (void)
{
int fd[2];
if (syscall (__NR_pipe2, fd, 0) != 0)
{
puts ("pipe2(0) failed");
return 1;
}
for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
{
int coe = fcntl (fd[i], F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
{
printf ("pipe2(0) set close-on-exit for fd[%d]\n", i);
return 1;
}
}
close (fd[0]);
close (fd[1]);
if (syscall (__NR_pipe2, fd, O_CLOEXEC) != 0)
{
puts ("pipe2(O_CLOEXEC) failed");
return 1;
}
for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
{
int coe = fcntl (fd[i], F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
{
printf ("pipe2(O_CLOEXEC) does not set close-on-exit for fd[%d]\n", i);
return 1;
}
}
close (fd[0]);
close (fd[1]);
puts ("OK");
return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds the new dup3 syscall. It extends the old dup2 syscall by one
parameter which is meant to hold a flag value. Support for the O_CLOEXEC flag
is added in this patch.
The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#ifndef __NR_dup3
# ifdef __x86_64__
# define __NR_dup3 292
# elif defined __i386__
# define __NR_dup3 330
# else
# error "need __NR_dup3"
# endif
#endif
int
main (void)
{
int fd = syscall (__NR_dup3, 1, 4, 0);
if (fd == -1)
{
puts ("dup3(0) failed");
return 1;
}
int coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
{
puts ("dup3(0) set close-on-exec flag");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
fd = syscall (__NR_dup3, 1, 4, O_CLOEXEC);
if (fd == -1)
{
puts ("dup3(O_CLOEXEC) failed");
return 1;
}
coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
{
puts ("dup3(O_CLOEXEC) set close-on-exec flag");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
puts ("OK");
return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds the new epoll_create2 syscall. It extends the old epoll_create
syscall by one parameter which is meant to hold a flag value. In this
patch the only flag support is EPOLL_CLOEXEC which causes the close-on-exec
flag for the returned file descriptor to be set.
A new name EPOLL_CLOEXEC is introduced which in this implementation must
have the same value as O_CLOEXEC.
The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#ifndef __NR_epoll_create2
# ifdef __x86_64__
# define __NR_epoll_create2 291
# elif defined __i386__
# define __NR_epoll_create2 329
# else
# error "need __NR_epoll_create2"
# endif
#endif
#define EPOLL_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
int
main (void)
{
int fd = syscall (__NR_epoll_create2, 1, 0);
if (fd == -1)
{
puts ("epoll_create2(0) failed");
return 1;
}
int coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
{
puts ("epoll_create2(0) set close-on-exec flag");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
fd = syscall (__NR_epoll_create2, 1, EPOLL_CLOEXEC);
if (fd == -1)
{
puts ("epoll_create2(EPOLL_CLOEXEC) failed");
return 1;
}
coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
{
puts ("epoll_create2(EPOLL_CLOEXEC) set close-on-exec flag");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
puts ("OK");
return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds the new eventfd2 syscall. It extends the old eventfd
syscall by one parameter which is meant to hold a flag value. In this
patch the only flag support is EFD_CLOEXEC which causes the close-on-exec
flag for the returned file descriptor to be set.
A new name EFD_CLOEXEC is introduced which in this implementation must
have the same value as O_CLOEXEC.
The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#ifndef __NR_eventfd2
# ifdef __x86_64__
# define __NR_eventfd2 290
# elif defined __i386__
# define __NR_eventfd2 328
# else
# error "need __NR_eventfd2"
# endif
#endif
#define EFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
int
main (void)
{
int fd = syscall (__NR_eventfd2, 1, 0);
if (fd == -1)
{
puts ("eventfd2(0) failed");
return 1;
}
int coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
{
puts ("eventfd2(0) sets close-on-exec flag");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
fd = syscall (__NR_eventfd2, 1, EFD_CLOEXEC);
if (fd == -1)
{
puts ("eventfd2(EFD_CLOEXEC) failed");
return 1;
}
coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
{
puts ("eventfd2(EFD_CLOEXEC) does not set close-on-exec flag");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
puts ("OK");
return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_ni stub]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds the new signalfd4 syscall. It extends the old signalfd
syscall by one parameter which is meant to hold a flag value. In this
patch the only flag support is SFD_CLOEXEC which causes the close-on-exec
flag for the returned file descriptor to be set.
A new name SFD_CLOEXEC is introduced which in this implementation must
have the same value as O_CLOEXEC.
The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#ifndef __NR_signalfd4
# ifdef __x86_64__
# define __NR_signalfd4 289
# elif defined __i386__
# define __NR_signalfd4 327
# else
# error "need __NR_signalfd4"
# endif
#endif
#define SFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
int
main (void)
{
sigset_t ss;
sigemptyset (&ss);
sigaddset (&ss, SIGUSR1);
int fd = syscall (__NR_signalfd4, -1, &ss, 8, 0);
if (fd == -1)
{
puts ("signalfd4(0) failed");
return 1;
}
int coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
{
puts ("signalfd4(0) set close-on-exec flag");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
fd = syscall (__NR_signalfd4, -1, &ss, 8, SFD_CLOEXEC);
if (fd == -1)
{
puts ("signalfd4(SFD_CLOEXEC) failed");
return 1;
}
coe = fcntl (fd, F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
{
puts ("signalfd4(SFD_CLOEXEC) does not set close-on-exec flag");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
puts ("OK");
return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_ni stub]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is by far the most complex in the series. It adds a new syscall
paccept. This syscall differs from accept in that it adds (at the userlevel)
two additional parameters:
- a signal mask
- a flags value
The flags parameter can be used to set flag like SOCK_CLOEXEC. This is
imlpemented here as well. Some people argued that this is a property which
should be inherited from the file desriptor for the server but this is against
POSIX. Additionally, we really want the signal mask parameter as well
(similar to pselect, ppoll, etc). So an interface change in inevitable.
The flag value is the same as for socket and socketpair. I think diverging
here will only create confusion. Similar to the filesystem interfaces where
the use of the O_* constants differs, it is acceptable here.
The signal mask is handled as for pselect etc. The mask is temporarily
installed for the thread and removed before the call returns. I modeled the
code after pselect. If there is a problem it's likely also in pselect.
For architectures which use socketcall I maintained this interface instead of
adding a system call. The symmetry shouldn't be broken.
The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#ifndef __NR_paccept
# ifdef __x86_64__
# define __NR_paccept 288
# elif defined __i386__
# define SYS_PACCEPT 18
# define USE_SOCKETCALL 1
# else
# error "need __NR_paccept"
# endif
#endif
#ifdef USE_SOCKETCALL
# define paccept(fd, addr, addrlen, mask, flags) \
({ long args[6] = { \
(long) fd, (long) addr, (long) addrlen, (long) mask, 8, (long) flags }; \
syscall (__NR_socketcall, SYS_PACCEPT, args); })
#else
# define paccept(fd, addr, addrlen, mask, flags) \
syscall (__NR_paccept, fd, addr, addrlen, mask, 8, flags)
#endif
#define PORT 57392
#define SOCK_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
static pthread_barrier_t b;
static void *
tf (void *arg)
{
pthread_barrier_wait (&b);
int s = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
struct sockaddr_in sin;
sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
sin.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl (INADDR_LOOPBACK);
sin.sin_port = htons (PORT);
connect (s, (const struct sockaddr *) &sin, sizeof (sin));
close (s);
pthread_barrier_wait (&b);
s = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
sin.sin_port = htons (PORT);
connect (s, (const struct sockaddr *) &sin, sizeof (sin));
close (s);
pthread_barrier_wait (&b);
pthread_barrier_wait (&b);
sleep (2);
pthread_kill ((pthread_t) arg, SIGUSR1);
return NULL;
}
static void
handler (int s)
{
}
int
main (void)
{
pthread_barrier_init (&b, NULL, 2);
struct sockaddr_in sin;
pthread_t th;
if (pthread_create (&th, NULL, tf, (void *) pthread_self ()) != 0)
{
puts ("pthread_create failed");
return 1;
}
int s = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
int reuse = 1;
setsockopt (s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &reuse, sizeof (reuse));
sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
sin.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl (INADDR_LOOPBACK);
sin.sin_port = htons (PORT);
bind (s, (struct sockaddr *) &sin, sizeof (sin));
listen (s, SOMAXCONN);
pthread_barrier_wait (&b);
int s2 = paccept (s, NULL, 0, NULL, 0);
if (s2 < 0)
{
puts ("paccept(0) failed");
return 1;
}
int coe = fcntl (s2, F_GETFD);
if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
{
puts ("paccept(0) set close-on-exec-flag");
return 1;
}
close (s2);
pthread_barrier_wait (&b);
s2 = paccept (s, NULL, 0, NULL, SOCK_CLOEXEC);
if (s2 < 0)
{
puts ("paccept(SOCK_CLOEXEC) failed");
return 1;
}
coe = fcntl (s2, F_GETFD);
if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
{
puts ("paccept(SOCK_CLOEXEC) does not set close-on-exec flag");
return 1;
}
close (s2);
pthread_barrier_wait (&b);
struct sigaction sa;
sa.sa_handler = handler;
sa.sa_flags = 0;
sigemptyset (&sa.sa_mask);
sigaction (SIGUSR1, &sa, NULL);
sigset_t ss;
pthread_sigmask (SIG_SETMASK, NULL, &ss);
sigaddset (&ss, SIGUSR1);
pthread_sigmask (SIG_SETMASK, &ss, NULL);
sigdelset (&ss, SIGUSR1);
alarm (4);
pthread_barrier_wait (&b);
errno = 0 ;
s2 = paccept (s, NULL, 0, &ss, 0);
if (s2 != -1 || errno != EINTR)
{
puts ("paccept did not fail with EINTR");
return 1;
}
close (s);
puts ("OK");
return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make it compile]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_ni stub]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit
boundary. For example:
u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB.
The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for
example):
#define PAGE_SHIFT 12
#define PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
...
#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)
The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with
PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary.
Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses
typeof(addr) for the mask.
Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
include/linux/mm.h.
See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add an hugepagesz=... option similar to IA64, PPC etc. to x86-64.
This finally allows to select GB pages for hugetlbfs in x86 now that all
the infrastructure is in place.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The goal of this patchset is to support multiple hugetlb page sizes. This
is achieved by introducing a new struct hstate structure, which
encapsulates the important hugetlb state and constants (eg. huge page
size, number of huge pages currently allocated, etc).
The hstate structure is then passed around the code which requires these
fields, they will do the right thing regardless of the exact hstate they
are operating on.
This patch adds the hstate structure, with a single global instance of it
(default_hstate), and does the basic work of converting hugetlb to use the
hstate.
Future patches will add more hstate structures to allow for different
hugetlbfs mounts to have different page sizes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The double indirection here is not needed anywhere and hence (at least)
confusing.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using
the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory
through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem.
This patch:
Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place
to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory.
[riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
All users have now been converted to linux/semaphore.h and we don't need
to keep these files around any longer.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Apparently,
commit 6330a30a76
Author: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Date: Wed May 28 09:46:19 2008 +0200
x86: break mutual header inclusion
introduced some CONFIG names to processor-flags.h, which was exported in
commit 6093015db2
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sun Mar 30 11:45:23 2008 +0200
x86: cleanup replace most vm86 flags with flags from processor-flags.h, fix
Fix it by wrapping the CONFIG parts in __KERNEL__.
Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: hrtick_enabled() should use cpu_active()
sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
sched: fix build error, provide partition_sched_domains() unconditionally
sched: fix warning in inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed
cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear
cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)
sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones"
sched: reduce stack size in isolated_cpu_setup()
Revert parts of "ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions"
Fixed up conflicts in include/asm-x86/thread_info.h (due to the
TIF_SINGLESTEP unification vs TIF_HRTICK_RESCHED removal) and
kernel/sched_fair.c (due to cpu_active_map vs for_each_cpu_mask_nr()
introduction).
* 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in speedstep-centrino.c
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros, FIXUP
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in cpufreq userspace routines
NR_CPUS: Replace per_cpu(..., smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genapic_flat_64.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c, fix
cpumask: Use optimized CPUMASK_ALLOC macros in the centrino_target
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in kernel/time/tick-common.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
cpumask: Replace cpumask_of_cpu with cpumask_of_cpu_ptr
Revert "cpumask: introduce new APIs"
cpumask: make for_each_cpu_mask a bit smaller
net: Pass reference to cpumask variable in net/sunrpc/svc.c
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c manually
PTE_PFN_MASK was getting lonely, so I made it a friend.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rusty, in his peevish way, complained that macros defining constants
should have a name which somewhat accurately reflects the actual
purpose of the constant.
Aside from the fact that PTE_MASK gives no clue as to what's actually
being masked, and is misleadingly similar to the functionally entirely
different PMD_MASK, PUD_MASK and PGD_MASK, I don't really see what the
problem is.
But if this patch silences the incessent noise, then it will have
achieved its goal (TODO: write test-case).
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
(Jeremy said:
rusty: use PTE_MASK
rusty: use PTE_MASK
rusty: use PTE_MASK
When I asked:
jsgf: does that include the NX flag?
He responded eloquently:
rusty: use PTE_MASK
rusty: use PTE_MASK
yes, it's the official constant of masking flags out of ptes
)
Change a15af1c9ea 'x86/paravirt: add
pte_flags to just get pte flags' removed lguest's private pte_flags()
in favor of a generic one.
Unfortunately, the generic one doesn't filter out the non-flags bits:
this results in lguest creating corrupt shadow page tables and blowing
up host memory.
Since noone is supposed to use the pfn part of pte_flags(), it seems
safest to always do the filtering.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-and-morning-tea-spilled-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There are a couple of places where (P)Dprintk is used which is an old
compile time enabled printk wrapper. Convert it to the generic
pr_debug().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-tip testing found this build bug:
arch/x86/kvm/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x1): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_32 against `.text'
arch/x86/kvm/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0xb): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_32 against `.text'
arch/x86/kvm/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x15): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_32 against `.text'
arch/x86/kvm/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x1f): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_32 against `.text'
arch/x86/kvm/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x29): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_32 against `.text'
Introduced by commit 4ecac3fd. The problem is that 'push' will default
to 32-bit, which is not wide enough as a fixup address. (and which would
crash on any real fixup event even if it was wide enough)
Introduce KVM_EX_PUSH to get the proper address push width on 64-bit too.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Instead of prefetching all segment bases before emulation, read them at the
last moment. Since most of them are unneeded, we save some cycles on
Intel machines where this is a bit expensive.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
rip relative decoding is relative to the instruction pointer of the next
instruction; by moving address adjustment until after decoding is complete,
we remove the need to determine the instruction size.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch enables coalesced MMIO for x86 architecture.
It defines KVM_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET and KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO.
It enables the compilation of coalesced_mmio.c.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Prefixes functions that will be exported with kvm_.
We also prefixed set_segment() even if it still static
to be coherent.
signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent.vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Add emulation for the memory type range registers, needed by VMware esx 3.5,
and by pci device assignment.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
KVM turns off hardware virtualization extensions during reboot, in order
to disassociate the memory used by the virtualization extensions from the
processor, and in order to have the system in a consistent state.
Unfortunately virtual machines may still be running while this goes on,
and once virtualization extensions are turned off, any virtulization
instruction will #UD on execution.
Fix by adding an exception handler to virtualization instructions; if we get
an exception during reboot, we simply spin waiting for the reset to complete.
If it's a true exception, BUG() so we can have our stack trace.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The KVM MMU tries to detect when a speculative pte update is not actually
used by demand fault, by checking the accessed bit of the shadow pte. If
the shadow pte has not been accessed, we deem that page table flooded and
remove the shadow page table, allowing further pte updates to proceed
without emulation.
However, if the pte itself points at a page table and only used for write
operations, the accessed bit will never be set since all access will happen
through the emulator.
This is exactly what happens with kscand on old (2.4.x) HIGHMEM kernels.
The kernel points a kmap_atomic() pte at a page table, and then
proceeds with read-modify-write operations to look at the dirty and accessed
bits. We get a false flood trigger on the kmap ptes, which results in the
mmu spending all its time setting up and tearing down shadows.
Fix by setting the shadow accessed bit on emulated accesses.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To distinguish between real page faults and nested page faults they should be
traced as different events. This is implemented by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
random uvesafb failures were reported against Gentoo:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222799
and Mihai Moldovan bisected it back to:
> 8f4d37ec07 is first bad commit
> commit 8f4d37ec07
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:29 2008 +0100
>
> sched: high-res preemption tick
Linus suspected it to be hrtick + vm86 interaction and observed:
> Btw, Peter, Ingo: I think that commit is doing bad things. They aren't
> _incorrect_ per se, but they are definitely bad.
>
> Why?
>
> Using random _TIF_WORK_MASK flags is really impolite for doing
> "scheduling" work. There's a reason that arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> special-cases the _TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag: we don't want to exit out of
> vm86 mode unnecessarily.
>
> See the "work_notifysig_v86" label, and how it does that
> "save_v86_state()" thing etc etc.
Right, I never liked having to fiddle with those TIF flags. Initially I
needed it because the hrtimer base lock could not nest in the rq lock.
That however is fixed these days.
Currently the only reason left to fiddle with the TIF flags is remote
wakeups. We cannot program a remote cpu's hrtimer. I've been thinking
about using the new and improved IPI function call stuff to implement
hrtimer_start_on().
However that does require that smp_call_function_single(.wait=0) works
from interrupt context - /me looks at the latest series from Jens - Yes
that does seem to be supported, good.
Here's a stab at cleaning this stuff up ...
Mihai reported test success as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
so NUMAQ can use that to call numaq_pre_time_init()
This allows us to remove a NUMAQ special from arch/x86/kernel/setup.c.
(and paves the way to remove the NUMAQ subarch)
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
add these new x86_quirks methods:
int *mpc_record;
int (*mpc_apic_id)(struct mpc_config_processor *m);
void (*mpc_oem_bus_info)(struct mpc_config_bus *m, char *name);
void (*mpc_oem_pci_bus)(struct mpc_config_bus *m);
void (*smp_read_mpc_oem)(struct mp_config_oemtable *oemtable,
unsigned short oemsize);
... and move NUMAQ related mps table handling to numaq_32.c.
also move the call to smp_read_mpc_oem() to smp_read_mpc() directly.
Should not change functionality, albeit it would be nice to get it
tested on real NUMAQ as well ...
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
introduce x86_quirks array of boot-time quirk methods.
No change in functionality intended.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As 256 entries are needed, aligning to a 256-entry boundary is
sufficient and still guarantees the single pte table requirement.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
It's not used anywhere outside its single referencing file.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Declaring x86 traps under one hood.
Declaring x86 do_traps before defining them.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The force_mwait variable iss defined either in
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c or in arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c, but it is
only initialized and used in arch/x86/kernel/process.c. This patch
moves the declaration to arch/x86/kernel/process.c.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: michael@free-electrons.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fallout from commit 33185c504f ("x86:
merge signal_32/64.h")
Thanks to Dick Streefland who provided an useful testcase on
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/17/205 (only applicable to 2.6.24.x), that
helped a lot as a deterministic way to bisect an issue that leaded to
this fix.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Real-time code needs to know the number of cycles per second
on SGI UV. The information is provided via a run time BIOS
call. This patch provides the linux side of that interface.
This is the first of several run time BIOS calls to be defined
in uv/bios.h and bios_uv.c.
Note that BIOS_CALL() is just a stub for now. The bios
side is being worked on.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ricardo M. Correia spotted that the use of __fls() in fls64() did
not seem to make sense. In fact fls64()'s implementation is fine,
but the description of __fls() was wrong. Fix that.
Reported-by: "Ricardo M. Correia" <Ricardo.M.Correia@Sun.COM>
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ mingo@elte.hu: picked up this patch from Maciej, lets make apic=debug
print out more info - we had a lot of APIC changes ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As a microoptimisation, make apic_verbosity unsigned. This will make
apic_printk(APIC_QUIET, ...) expand into just printk(...) with the
surrounding condition and a reference to apic_verbosity removed.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
it's separate functionality that deserves its own file.
This also prepares 32-bit memtest support.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use alternatives to select the workaround for the 11AP Pentium erratum
for the affected steppings on the fly rather than build time. Remove the
X86_GOOD_APIC configuration option and replace all the calls to
apic_write_around() with plain apic_write(), protecting accesses to the
ESR as appropriate due to the 3AP Pentium erratum. Remove
apic_read_around() and all its invocations altogether as not needed.
Remove apic_write_atomic() and all its implementing backends. The use of
ASM_OUTPUT2() is not strictly needed for input constraints, but I have
used it for readability's sake.
I had the feeling no one else was brave enough to do it, so I went ahead
and here it is. Verified by checking the generated assembly and tested
with both a 32-bit and a 64-bit configuration, also with the 11AP
"feature" forced on and verified with gdb on /proc/kcore to work as
expected (as an 11AP machines are quite hard to get hands on these days).
Some script complained about the use of "volatile", but apic_write() needs
it for the same reason and is effectively a replacement for writel(), so I
have disregarded it.
I am not sure what the policy wrt defconfig files is, they are generated
and there is risk of a conflict resulting from an unrelated change, so I
have left changes to them out. The option will get removed from them at
the next run.
Some testing with machines other than mine will be needed to avoid some
stupid mistake, but despite its volume, the change is not really that
intrusive, so I am fairly confident that because it works for me, it will
everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge the GDT_ENTRY() macro between arch/x86/boot/pm.c and
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c and put the new one in
<asm-x86/segment.h>.
While we're at it, correct the bitmasks for the limit and flags. The
new version relies on using ULL constants in order to cause type
promotion rather than explicit casts; this avoids having to include
<linux/types.h> in <asm-x86/segments.h>.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: fix asm/e820.h for userspace inclusion
x86: fix numaq_tsc_disable
x86: fix kernel_physical_mapping_init() for large x86 systems
asm-x86/e820.h is included from userspace. 'x86: make e820.c to have
common functions' (b79cd8f126) broke it:
make -C Documentation/lguest
cc -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include
lguest.c -lz -o lguest
In file included from ../../include/asm-x86/bootparam.h:8,
from lguest.c:45:
../../include/asm/e820.h:66: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
../../include/asm/e820.h:67: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
../../include/asm/e820.h:68: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
../../include/asm/e820.h:72: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’
or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘e820_update_range’
...
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (72 commits)
Revert "x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation"
PCI: remove unnecessary volatile in PCIe hotplug struct controller
x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation
PCI: include linux/pm_wakeup.h for device_set_wakeup_capable
PCI PM: Fix pci_prepare_to_sleep
x86/PCI: Fix PCI config space for domains > 0
Fix acpi_pm_device_sleep_wake() by providing a stub for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n
PCI: Simplify PCI device PM code
PCI PM: Introduce pci_prepare_to_sleep and pci_back_from_sleep
PCI ACPI: Rework PCI handling of wake-up
ACPI: Introduce new device wakeup flag 'prepared'
ACPI: Introduce acpi_device_sleep_wake function
PCI: rework pci_set_power_state function to call platform first
PCI: Introduce platform_pci_power_manageable function
ACPI: Introduce acpi_bus_power_manageable function
PCI: make pci_name use dev_name
PCI: handle pci_name() being const
PCI: add stub for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask()
PCI: remove unused arch pcibios_update_resource() functions
PCI: fix pci_setup_device()'s sprinting into a const buffer
...
Fixed up conflicts in various files (arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c,
arch/x86/pci/irq.c, arch/x86/pci/pci.h, drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c,
drivers/pci/pci.c, drivers/pci/pci.h, include/acpi/acpi_bus.h) from x86
and ACPI updates manually.
"idle=nomwait" disables the use of the MWAIT
instruction from both C1 (C1_FFH) and deeper (C2C3_FFH)
C-states.
When MWAIT is unavailable, the BIOS and OS generally
negotiate to use the HALT instruction for C1,
and use IO accesses for deeper C-states.
This option is useful for power and performance
comparisons, and also to work around BIOS bugs
where broken MWAIT support is advertised.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10807http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10914
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
"idle=halt" limits the idle loop to using
the halt instruction. No MWAIT, no IO accesses,
no C-states deeper than C1.
If something is broken in the idle code,
"idle=halt" is a less severe workaround
than "idle=poll" which disables all power savings.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
This closes some arcane holes in single-step handling that can arise
only when user programs set TF directly (via popf or sigreturn) and
then use vDSO (syscall/sysenter) system call entry. In those entry
paths, the clear_TF_reenable case hits and we must check TIF_SINGLESTEP
to be sure our bookkeeping stays correct wrt the user's view of TF.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
This unifies and cleans up the syscall tracing code on i386 and x86_64.
Using a single function for entry and exit tracing on 32-bit made the
do_syscall_trace() into some terrible spaghetti. The logic is clear and
simple using separate syscall_trace_enter() and syscall_trace_leave()
functions as on 64-bit.
The unification adds PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP support
on x86_64, for 32-bit ptrace() callers and for 64-bit ptrace() callers
tracing either 32-bit or 64-bit tasks. It behaves just like 32-bit.
Changing syscall_trace_enter() to return the syscall number shortens
all the assembly paths, while adding the SYSEMU feature in a simple way.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
This unifies the treatment of TIF_SINGLESTEP on i386 and x86_64.
The bit is now excluded from _TIF_WORK_MASK on i386 as it has been
on x86_64. This means the do_notify_resume() path using it is never
used, so TIF_SINGLESTEP is not cleared on returning to user mode.
Both now leave TIF_SINGLESTEP set when returning to user, so that
it's already set on an int $0x80 system call entry. This removes
the need for testing TF on the system_call path. Doing it this way
fixes the regression for PTRACE_SINGLESTEP into a sigreturn syscall,
introduced by commit 1e2e99f0e4.
The clear_TF_reenable case that sets TIF_SINGLESTEP can only happen
on a non-exception kernel entry, i.e. sysenter/syscall instruction.
That will always get to the syscall exit tracing path.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
The standard ticket spinlocks are very expensive in a virtual
environment, because their performance depends on Xen's scheduler
giving vcpus time in the order that they're supposed to take the
spinlock.
This implements a Xen-specific spinlock, which should be much more
efficient.
The fast-path is essentially the old Linux-x86 locks, using a single
lock byte. The locker decrements the byte; if the result is 0, then
they have the lock. If the lock is negative, then locker must spin
until the lock is positive again.
When there's contention, the locker spin for 2^16[*] iterations waiting
to get the lock. If it fails to get the lock in that time, it adds
itself to the contention count in the lock and blocks on a per-cpu
event channel.
When unlocking the spinlock, the locker looks to see if there's anyone
blocked waiting for the lock by checking for a non-zero waiter count.
If there's a waiter, it traverses the per-cpu "lock_spinners"
variable, which contains which lock each CPU is waiting on. It picks
one CPU waiting on the lock and sends it an event to wake it up.
This allows efficient fast-path spinlock operation, while allowing
spinning vcpus to give up their processor time while waiting for a
contended lock.
[*] 2^16 iterations is threshold at which 98% locks have been taken
according to Thomas Friebel's Xen Summit talk "Preventing Guests from
Spinning Around". Therefore, we'd expect the lock and unlock slow
paths will only be entered 2% of the time.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Xen devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Thomas Friebel <thomas.friebel@amd.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Implement a version of the old spinlock algorithm, in which everyone
spins waiting for a lock byte. In order to be compatible with the
ticket-lock's use of a zero initializer, this uses the convention of
'0' for unlocked and '1' for locked.
This algorithm is much better than ticket locks in a virtual
envionment, because it doesn't interact badly with the vcpu scheduler.
If there are multiple vcpus spinning on a lock and the lock is
released, the next vcpu to be scheduled will take the lock, rather
than cycling around until the next ticketed vcpu gets it.
To use this, you must call paravirt_use_bytelocks() very early, before
any spinlocks have been taken.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Xen devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Thomas Friebel <thomas.friebel@amd.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
