The current code groups up to 16 nodes in a level and then puts an
ALLNODES domain spanning the entire tree on top of that. This doesn't
reflect the numa topology and esp for the smaller not-fully-connected
machines out there today this might make a difference.
Therefore, build a proper numa topology based on node_distance().
Since there's no fixed numa layers anymore, the static SD_NODE_INIT
and SD_ALLNODES_INIT aren't usable anymore, the new code tries to
construct something similar and scales some values either on the
number of cpus in the domain and/or the node_distance() ratio.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Greg Pearson <greg.pearson@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: bob.picco@oracle.com
Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-r74n3n8hhuc2ynbrnp3vt954@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This continues the theme started with vm_brk() and vm_munmap():
vm_mmap() does the same thing as do_mmap(), but additionally does the
required VM locking.
This uninlines (and rewrites it to be clearer) do_mmap(), which sadly
duplicates it in mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c. But that way we don't have
to export our internal do_mmap_pgoff() function.
Some day we hopefully don't have to export do_mmap() either, if all
modular users can become the simpler vm_mmap() instead. We're actually
very close to that already, with the notable exception of the (broken)
use in i810, and a couple of stragglers in binfmt_elf.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Until we push the unaligned access support for tilegx, it's silly
to have arch/tile/kernel/proc.c generate a warning about an unused
variable. Extend the #ifdef to cover all the code and data for now.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
The scheduler depends on receiving the CPU_STARTING notification, without
which we end up into a lot of trouble. So add the missing call to
notify_cpu_starting() in the bringup code.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Pull arch/tile bug fixes from Chris Metcalf:
"This includes Paul Gortmaker's change to fix the <asm/system.h>
disintegration issues on tile, a fix to unbreak the tilepro ethernet
driver, and a backlog of bugfix-only changes from internal Tilera
development over the last few months.
They have all been to LKML and on linux-next for the last few days.
The EDAC change to MAINTAINERS is an oddity but discussion on the
linux-edac list suggested I ask you to pull that change through my
tree since they don't have a tree to pull edac changes from at the
moment."
* 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (39 commits)
drivers/net/ethernet/tile: fix netdev_alloc_skb() bombing
MAINTAINERS: update EDAC information
tilepro ethernet driver: fix a few minor issues
tile-srom.c driver: minor code cleanup
edac: say "TILEGx" not "TILEPro" for the tilegx edac driver
arch/tile: avoid accidentally unmasking NMI-type interrupt accidentally
arch/tile: remove bogus performance optimization
arch/tile: return SIGBUS for addresses that are unaligned AND invalid
arch/tile: fix finv_buffer_remote() for tilegx
arch/tile: use atomic exchange in arch_write_unlock()
arch/tile: stop mentioning the "kvm" subdirectory
arch/tile: export the page_home() function.
arch/tile: fix pointer cast in cacheflush.c
arch/tile: fix single-stepping over swint1 instructions on tilegx
arch/tile: implement panic_smp_self_stop()
arch/tile: add "nop" after "nap" to help GX idle power draw
arch/tile: use proper memparse() for "maxmem" options
arch/tile: fix up locking in pgtable.c slightly
arch/tile: don't leak kernel memory when we unload modules
arch/tile: fix bug in delay_backoff()
...
The return path as we reload registers and core state requires that r30
hold a boolean indicating whether we are returning from an NMI, but in a
couple of cases we weren't setting this properly, with the result that we
could accidentally unmask the NMI interrupt(s), which could cause confusion.
Now we set r30 in every place where we jump into the interrupt return path.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
We were re-homing the initial task's kernel stack on the boot cpu,
but in fact it's better to let it stay globally homed, since that
task isn't bound to the boot cpu anyway. This is more of a general
cleanup than an actual performance optimization, but it removes
code, which is a good thing. :-)
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Previously we were returning SIGSEGV in this case. It seems cleaner
to return SIGBUS since the hardware figures out alignment traps
before TLB violations, so SIGBUS is the "more correct" signal.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
There were some correctness issues with this code that are now fixed
with this change. The change is likely less performant than it could
be, but it should no longer be vulnerable to any races with memory
operations on the memory network while invalidating a range of memory.
This code is run infrequently so performance isn't critical, but
correctness definitely is.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
This idiom is used elsewhere when we do an unlock by writing a zero,
but I missed it here. Using an atomic operation avoids waiting
on the write buffer for the unlocking write to be sent to the home cache.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
It causes "make clean" to fail, for example. Once we have KVM support
complete, we'll reinstate the subdir reference.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Pragmatically it couldn't be wrong to cast pointers to long to compare
them (since all kernel addresses are in the top half of VA space),
but it's more correct to cast to unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
If we are single-stepping and make a syscall, we call ptrace_notify()
explicitly on the return path back to user space, since we are returning
to a pc value set artificially to the next instruction, and otherwise
we won't register that we stepped over the syscall instruction (swint1).
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
This allows the later-panicking tiles to wait in a lower power state
until they get interrupted with an smp_send_stop().
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
We should be holding the init_mm.page_table_lock in shatter_huge_page()
since we are modifying the kernel page tables. Then, only if we are
walking the other root page tables to update them, do we want to take
the pgd_lock.
Add a comment about taking the pgd_lock that we always do it with
interrupts disabled and therefore are not at risk from the tlbflush
IPI deadlock as is seen on x86.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
We were carefully computing a value to use for the number of loops
to spin for, and then ignoring it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Previously we only handled kernels up to a single huge page in size.
Now we create additional PTEs appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
If we took a page fault while we had interrupts disabled, we
shouldn't enable them in the page fault handler.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
We make sure not to try to set the home for an MMIO PTE (on tilegx)
or a PTE that isn't referencing memory managed by Linux.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Doing so raises the possibility of self-deadlock if we are waiting
for a backtrace for an oprofile or perf interrupt while we are
in the middle of migrating our own stack page.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Not associated with any code changes, so I'm just lumping these
comment changes into a commit by themselves.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
We now respond to MEM_ERROR traps (e.g. an atomic instruction to
non-cacheable memory) with a SIGBUS.
We also no longer generate a console crash message if a user
process die due to a SIGTRAP.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
In certain circumstances we need to do a bunch of jump-and-link
instructions to fill the hardware return-address stack with nonzero values.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Fix a long-standing bug in the stack backtracer where we would print
garbage to the console instead of kernel function names, if the kernel
wasn't built with symbol support (e.g. mboot).
Make sure to tag every line of userspace backtrace output if we actually
have the mmap_sem, since that way if there's no tag, we know that it's
because we couldn't trylock the semaphore.
Stop doing a TLB flush and examining page tables during backtrace.
Instead, just trust that __copy_from_user_inatomic() will properly fault
and return a failure, which it should do in all cases.
Fix a latent bug where the backtracer would directly examine a signal
context in user space, rather than copying it safely to kernel memory
first. This meant that a race with another thread could potentially
have caused a kernel panic.
Guard against unaligned sp when trying to restart backtrace at an
interrupt or signal handler point in the kernel backtracer.
Report kernel symbolic information for the call instruction rather
than for the following instruction. We still report the actual numeric
address corresponding to the instruction after the call, for the sake
of consistency with the normal expectations for stack backtracers.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Add a comment explaining why this is important, and add a CFLAGS_REMOVE
clause to the Makefile to make sure it happens.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
With lockstat we can end up trying to get a backtrace before
"high_memory" is initialized, so don't worry about range testing
if it is zero.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
It still returns whether @v was not @u, not the old value,
unlike __atomic_add_unless().
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
We aren't yet using this definition in the kernel, but fix it up
before someone goes looking for it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Commit bd119c6923
"Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile"
created the asm/switch_to.h file, but did not add an include
of it to all its users.
Also, commit b4816afa39
"Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h"
introduced the concept of asm/cmpxchg.h but the tile arch
never got one. Fork the cmpxchg content out of the asm/atomic.h
file to create one.
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux
Pull cpumask cleanups from Rusty Russell:
"(Somehow forgot to send this out; it's been sitting in linux-next, and
if you don't want it, it can sit there another cycle)"
I'm a sucker for things that actually delete lines of code.
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c, where Rusty fixed
a user of &cpu_online_map to be cpu_online_mask, but that code got
deleted by commit b21d55e98a ("ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch
function from kprobes").
* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
cpumask: remove old cpu_*_map.
documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map.
drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq: remove references to cpu_*_map.
remove references to cpu_*_map in arch/
Pull arch/tile (really asm-generic) update from Chris Metcalf:
"These are a couple of asm-generic changes that apply to tile."
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
compat: use sys_sendfile64() implementation for sendfile syscall
[PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls
This has been obsolescent for a while; time for the final push.
In adjacent context, replaced old cpus_* with cpumask_*.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> (arch/sparc)
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> (arch/tile)
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
- Some MM stragglers
- core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask)
- Some IPI optimisations
- kexec
- kdump
- IPMI
- the radix-tree iterator work
- various other misc bits.
"That'll do for -rc1. I still have ~10 patches for 3.4, will send
those along when they've baked a little more."
* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (35 commits)
backlight: fix typo in tosa_lcd.c
crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option
mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm
mm: move slabinfo.c to tools/vm
mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm
selftests/Makefile: make `run_tests' depend on `all'
selftests: launch individual selftests from the main Makefile
radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions
radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator
radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator
fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is empty
nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd
pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall
sysctl: use bitmap library functions
ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot
ipmi: simplify locking
ipmi: fix message handling during panics
ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages
ipmi: increase KCS timeouts
ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode
...
We have lots of infrastructure in place to partition multi-core systems
such that we have a group of CPUs that are dedicated to specific task:
cgroups, scheduler and interrupt affinity, and cpuisol= boot parameter.
Still, kernel code will at times interrupt all CPUs in the system via IPIs
for various needs. These IPIs are useful and cannot be avoided
altogether, but in certain cases it is possible to interrupt only specific
CPUs that have useful work to do and not the entire system.
This patch set, inspired by discussions with Peter Zijlstra and Frederic
Weisbecker when testing the nohz task patch set, is a first stab at trying
to explore doing this by locating the places where such global IPI calls
are being made and turning the global IPI into an IPI for a specific group
of CPUs. The purpose of the patch set is to get feedback if this is the
right way to go for dealing with this issue and indeed, if the issue is
even worth dealing with at all. Based on the feedback from this patch set
I plan to offer further patches that address similar issue in other code
paths.
This patch creates an on_each_cpu_mask() and on_each_cpu_cond()
infrastructure API (the former derived from existing arch specific
versions in Tile and Arm) and uses them to turn several global IPI
invocation to per CPU group invocations.
Core kernel:
on_each_cpu_mask() calls a function on processors specified by cpumask,
which may or may not include the local processor.
You must not call this function with disabled interrupts or from a
hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler.
arch/arm:
Note that the generic version is a little different then the Arm one:
1. It has the mask as first parameter
2. It calls the function on the calling CPU with interrupts disabled,
but this should be OK since the function is called on the other CPUs
with interrupts disabled anyway.
arch/tile:
The API is the same as the tile private one, but the generic version
also calls the function on the with interrupts disabled in UP case
This is OK since the function is called on the other CPUs
with interrupts disabled.
Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.org>
Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
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>
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Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.
I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.
The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().
This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.
The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).
These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.
(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().
(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..
* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
...
The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
can be quite large. There are already a number of filter flags in
/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
case).
Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag. The flag is used internally by
the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages. However, it is simple
enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
for this flag.
The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'. The core dump filters
continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
region.
The qemu code which implements this features is at:
http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch
In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this
patch.
I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
dumped.
This patch:
The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section. However, we
can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
arch_vma_name(). Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
