This makes sure that we pick the synchronous signals caused by a
processor fault over any pending regular asynchronous signals sent to
use by [t]kill().
This is not strictly required semantics, but it makes it _much_ easier
for programs like Wine that expect to find the fault information in the
signal stack.
Without this, if a non-synchronous signal gets picked first, the delayed
asynchronous signal will have its signal context pointing to the new
signal invocation, rather than the instruction that caused the SIGSEGV
or SIGBUS in the first place.
This is not all that pretty, and we're discussing making the synchronous
signals more explicit rather than have these kinds of implicit
preferences of SIGSEGV and friends. See for example
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15395
for some of the discussion. But in the meantime this is a simple and
fairly straightforward work-around, and the whole
if (x & Y)
x &= Y;
thing can be compiled into (and gcc does do it) just three instructions:
movq %rdx, %rax
andl $Y, %eax
cmovne %rax, %rdx
so it is at least a simple solution to a subtle issue.
Reported-and-tested-by: Pavel Vilim <wylda@volny.cz>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
x86: Fix out of order of gsi
x86: apic: Fix mismerge, add arch_probe_nr_irqs() again
x86, irq: Keep chip_data in create_irq_nr and destroy_irq
xen: Remove unnecessary arch specific xen irq functions.
smp: Use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early
x86, irq: Remove arch_probe_nr_irqs
sparseirq: Use radix_tree instead of ptrs array
sparseirq: Change irq_desc_ptrs to static
init: Move radix_tree_init() early
irq: Remove unnecessary bootmem code
x86: Add iMac9,1 to pci_reboot_dmi_table
x86: Convert i8259_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Convert nmi_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Convert ioapic_lock and vector_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Avoid race condition in pci_enable_msix()
x86: Fix SCI on IOAPIC != 0
x86, ia32_aout: do not kill argument mapping
x86, irq: Move __setup_vector_irq() before the first irq enable in cpu online path
x86, irq: Update the vector domain for legacy irqs handled by io-apic
x86, irq: Don't block IRQ0_VECTOR..IRQ15_VECTOR's on all cpu's
...
* 'x86-bootmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
early_res: Need to save the allocation name in drop_range_partial()
sparsemem: Fix compilation on PowerPC
early_res: Add free_early_partial()
x86: Fix non-bootmem compilation on PowerPC
core: Move early_res from arch/x86 to kernel/
x86: Add find_fw_memmap_area
Move round_up/down to kernel.h
x86: Make 32bit support NO_BOOTMEM
early_res: Enhance check_and_double_early_res
x86: Move back find_e820_area to e820.c
x86: Add find_early_area_size
x86: Separate early_res related code from e820.c
x86: Move bios page reserve early to head32/64.c
sparsemem: Put mem map for one node together.
sparsemem: Put usemap for one node together
x86: Make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab
x86: Only call dma32_reserve_bootmem 64bit !CONFIG_NUMA
x86: Make early_node_mem get mem > 4 GB if possible
x86: Dynamically increase early_res array size
x86: Introduce max_early_res and early_res_count
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (38 commits)
SELinux: Make selinux_kernel_create_files_as() shouldn't just always return 0
TOMOYO: Protect find_task_by_vpid() with RCU.
Security: add static to security_ops and default_security_ops variable
selinux: libsepol: remove dead code in check_avtab_hierarchy_callback()
TOMOYO: Remove __func__ from tomoyo_is_correct_path/domain
security: fix a couple of sparse warnings
TOMOYO: Remove unneeded parameter.
TOMOYO: Use shorter names.
TOMOYO: Use enum for index numbers.
TOMOYO: Add garbage collector.
TOMOYO: Add refcounter on domain structure.
TOMOYO: Merge headers.
TOMOYO: Add refcounter on string data.
TOMOYO: Reduce lines by using common path for addition and deletion.
selinux: fix memory leak in sel_make_bools
TOMOYO: Extract bitfield
syslog: clean up needless comment
syslog: use defined constants instead of raw numbers
syslog: distinguish between /proc/kmsg and syscalls
selinux: allow MLS->non-MLS and vice versa upon policy reload
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6:
sparc: Support show_unhandled_signals.
sparc: use __ratelimit
sunxvr500: Additional PCI id for sunxvr500 driver
sparc: use asm-generic/scatterlist.h
sparc64: If 'slot-names' property exist, create sysfs PCI slot information.
sparc: remove trailing space in messages
sparc: remove redundant return statements
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1341 commits)
virtio_net: remove forgotten assignment
be2net: fix tx completion polling
sis190: fix cable detect via link status poll
net: fix protocol sk_buff field
bridge: Fix build error when IGMP_SNOOPING is not enabled
bnx2x: Tx barriers and locks
scm: Only support SCM_RIGHTS on unix domain sockets.
vhost-net: restart tx poll on sk_sndbuf full
vhost: fix get_user_pages_fast error handling
vhost: initialize log eventfd context pointer
vhost: logging thinko fix
wireless: convert to use netdev_for_each_mc_addr
ethtool: do not set some flags, if others failed
ipoib: returned back addrlen check for mc addresses
netlink: Adding inode field to /proc/net/netlink
axnet_cs: add new id
bridge: Make IGMP snooping depend upon BRIDGE.
bridge: Add multicast count/interval sysfs entries
bridge: Add hash elasticity/max sysfs entries
bridge: Add multicast_snooping sysfs toggle
...
Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
During free_early_partial(), reserve_early_without_check() could end
extending the early_res area from __check_and_double_early_res(); as a
result, the location of the name for the current reservation could
change.
Therefore, we need to save a local copy of the name.
[ hpa: rewrote comment and checkin description ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B8C7C94.7070000@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The System RAM walk shall skip partial RAM pages and avoid calling
func() on them. So that page_is_ram() return 0 for a partial RAM page.
In particular, it shall not call func() with len=0.
This fixes a boot time bug reported by Sachin and root caused by Thomas:
> >>> WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:111 __ioremap_caller+0x169/0x2f1()
> >>> Hardware name: BladeCenter LS21 -[79716AA]-
> >>> Modules linked in:
> >>> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33-git6-autotest #1
> >>> Call Trace:
> >>> [<ffffffff81047cff>] ? __ioremap_caller+0x169/0x2f1
> >>> [<ffffffff81063b7d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa4
> >>> [<ffffffff81063bb9>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11
> >>> [<ffffffff81047cff>] __ioremap_caller+0x169/0x2f1
> >>> [<ffffffff813747a3>] ? acpi_os_map_memory+0x12/0x1b
> >>> [<ffffffff81047f10>] ioremap_nocache+0x12/0x14
> >>> [<ffffffff813747a3>] acpi_os_map_memory+0x12/0x1b
> >>> [<ffffffff81282fa0>] acpi_tb_verify_table+0x29/0x5b
> >>> [<ffffffff812827f0>] acpi_load_tables+0x39/0x15a
> >>> [<ffffffff8191c8f8>] acpi_early_init+0x60/0xf5
> >>> [<ffffffff818f2cad>] start_kernel+0x397/0x3a7
> >>> [<ffffffff818f2295>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xa5/0xa9
> >>> [<ffffffff818f237a>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe1/0xe8
> >>> ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---
> >>> ioremap reserve_memtype failed -22
The return code is -EINVAL, so it failed in the is_ram check, which is
not too surprising
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009c000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000000009c000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cffa3900 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000cffa3900 - 00000000cffa7400 (ACPI data)
The ACPI data is not starting on a page boundary and neither does the
usable RAM area end on a page boundary. Very useful !
> ACPI: DSDT 00000000cffa3900 036CE (v01 IBM SERLEWIS 00001000 INTL 20060912)
ACPI is trying to map DSDT at cffa3900, which results in a check
vs. cffa3000 which is the relevant page boundary. The generic is_ram
check correctly identifies that as RAM because it's in the usable
resource area. The old e820 based is_ram check does not take
overlapping resource areas into account. That's why it works.
CC: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100301135551.GA9998@localhost>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (38 commits)
block: don't access jiffies when initialising io_context
cfq: remove 8 bytes of padding from cfq_rb_root on 64 bit builds
block: fix for "Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits"
cfq-iosched: quantum check tweak
blktrace: perform cleanup after setup error
blkdev: fix merge_bvec_fn return value checks
cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver" clarification
cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver
cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data
cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge
cciss: simplify scatter gather code
cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block allocation and freeing
cciss: detect bad alignment of scsi commands at build time
cciss: clarify command list padding calculation
cfq-iosched: rethink seeky detection for SSDs
cfq-iosched: rework seeky detection
block: remove padding from io_context on 64bit builds
block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
...
* 'futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
futex: Protect pid lookup in compat code with RCU
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
genirq: Fix documentation of default chip disable()
* 'bkl-drivers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
nvram: Drop the BKL from nvram_open()
Currently even if BLKTRACESETUP ioctl has failed user must call
BLKTRACETEARDOWN to be shure what all staff was cleaned, which
is contr-intuitive.
Let's setup ioctl make necessery cleanup by it self.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, mm: Unify kernel_physical_mapping_init() API
x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot time
x86: Do not reserve brk for DMI if it's not going to be used
x86: Convert tlbstate_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Use the generic page_is_ram()
x86: Remove BIOS data range from e820
Move page_is_ram() declaration to mm.h
Generic page_is_ram: use __weak
resources: introduce generic page_is_ram()
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
sched: Fix SCHED_MC regression caused by change in sched cpu_power
sched: Don't use possibly stale sched_class
kthread, sched: Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
sched: cpuacct: Use bigger percpu counter batch values for stats counters
percpu_counter: Make __percpu_counter_add an inline function on UP
sched: Remove member rt_se from struct rt_rq
sched: Change usage of rt_rq->rt_se to rt_rq->tg->rt_se[cpu]
sched: Remove unused update_shares_locked()
sched: Use for_each_bit
sched: Queue a deboosted task to the head of the RT prio queue
sched: Implement head queueing for sched_rt
sched: Extend enqueue_task to allow head queueing
sched: Remove USER_SCHED
sched: Fix the place where group powers are updated
sched: Assume *balance is valid
sched: Remove load_balance_newidle()
sched: Unify load_balance{,_newidle}()
sched: Add a lock break for PREEMPT=y
sched: Remove from fwd decls
sched: Remove rq_iterator from move_one_task
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/sched.c
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Fix race between ttwu() and task_rq_lock()
sched: Fix SMT scheduler regression in find_busiest_queue()
sched: Fix sched_mv_power_savings for !SMT
kernel/sched.c: Suppress unused var warning
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
ftrace: Add function names to dangling } in function graph tracer
tracing: Simplify memory recycle of trace_define_field
tracing: Remove unnecessary variable in print_graph_return
tracing: Fix typo of info text in trace_kprobe.c
tracing: Fix typo in prof_sysexit_enable()
tracing: Remove CONFIG_TRACE_POWER from kernel config
tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5
ftrace: Remove memory barriers from NMI code when not needed
tracing/kprobes: Add short documentation for HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
s390: Add pt_regs register and stack access API
tracing/kprobes: Make Kconfig dependencies generic
tracing: Unify arch_syscall_addr() implementations
tracing: Add notrace to TRACE_EVENT implementation functions
ftrace: Allow to remove a single function from function graph filter
tracing: Add correct/incorrect to sort keys for branch annotation output
tracing: Simplify test for function_graph tracing start point
tracing: Drop the tr check from the graph tracing path
tracing: Add stack dump to trace_printk if stacktrace option is set
tracing: Use appropriate perl constructs in recordmcount.pl
tracing: optimize recordmcount.pl for offsets-handling
...
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (44 commits)
rcu: Fix accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
rcu: Make non-RCU_PROVE_LOCKING rcu_read_lock_sched_held() understand boot
rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU
rcu: Export rcu_scheduler_active
rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account
rcu: Make lockdep_rcu_dereference() message less alarmist
sched, cgroups: Fix module export
rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information
rcu: Fix rcutorture mod_timer argument to delay one jiffy
rcu: Fix deadlock in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU stall detection
rcu: Convert to raw_spinlocks
rcu: Stop overflowing signed integers
rcu: Use canonical URL for Mathieu's dissertation
rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU
rcu: Fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation
rcu: Documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
security: Apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses
idr: Apply lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() uses
radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree
vfs: Abstract rcu_dereference_check for files-fdtable use
...
* 'core-ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
generic-ipi: Optimize accesses by using DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for IPI data
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
plist: Fix grammar mistake, and c-style mistake
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
kprobes: Add mcount to the kprobes blacklist
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86_64: Print modules like i386 does
* 'x86-doc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Put 'nopat' in kernel-parameters
* 'x86-gpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64: Allow fbdev primary video code
* 'x86-rlimit-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Use helpers for rlimits
The function graph tracer is currently the most invasive tracer
in the ftrace family. It can easily overflow the buffer even with
10megs per CPU. This means that events can often be lost.
On start up, or after events are lost, if the function return is
recorded but the function enter was lost, all we get to see is the
exiting '}'.
Here is how a typical trace output starts:
[tracing] cat trace
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | |
0) + 91.897 us | }
0) ! 567.961 us | }
0) <========== |
0) ! 579.083 us | _raw_spin_lock_irqsave();
0) 4.694 us | _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0) ! 594.862 us | }
0) ! 603.361 us | }
0) ! 613.574 us | }
0) ! 623.554 us | }
0) 3.653 us | fget_light();
0) | sock_poll() {
There are a series of '}' with no matching "func() {". There's no information
to what functions these ending brackets belong to.
This patch adds a stack on the per cpu structure used in outputting
the function graph tracer to keep track of what function was outputted.
Then on a function exit event, it checks the depth to see if the
function exit has a matching entry event. If it does, then it only
prints the '}', otherwise it adds the function name after the '}'.
This allows function exit events to show what function they belong to
at trace output startup, when the entry was lost due to ring buffer
overflow, or even after a new task is scheduled in.
Here is what the above trace will look like after this patch:
[tracing] cat trace
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | |
0) + 91.897 us | } (irq_exit)
0) ! 567.961 us | } (smp_apic_timer_interrupt)
0) <========== |
0) ! 579.083 us | _raw_spin_lock_irqsave();
0) 4.694 us | _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0) ! 594.862 us | } (add_wait_queue)
0) ! 603.361 us | } (__pollwait)
0) ! 613.574 us | } (tcp_poll)
0) ! 623.554 us | } (sock_poll)
0) 3.653 us | fget_light();
0) | sock_poll() {
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The hibernate memory preallocation code allocates memory to push some
user space data out of physical RAM, so that the hibernation image is
not too large. It allocates more memory than necessary for creating
the image, so it has to release some pages to make room for
allocations made while suspending devices and disabling nonboot CPUs,
or the system will hang due to the lack of free pages to allocate
from. Unfortunately, the function used for freeing these pages,
free_unnecessary_pages(), contains a bug that prevents it from doing
the job on all systems without highmem.
Fix this problem, which is a regression from the 2.6.30 kernel, by
using the right condition for the termination of the loop in
free_unnecessary_pages().
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-and-tested-by: Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@googlemail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Its contents and entry in Makefile were already removed in
8e60c6a134
(Shift remaining code from swsusp.c to hibernate.c)
but somehow it remained in-place (rjw: which most likely was my
mistake).
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Remove a trailing space from a message in swsusp_save().
Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
It will never reach here if the sws_resume_bdev is erratic.
swsusp_read() is called only from software_resume(), but after
swsusp_check() which would catch the error state.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
They were deprecated and removed from exported headers more than 2
years ago. Inform users about their removal in the future now.
(Switch cases needed to be reorderded for an easy fall through.)
And add an entry to feature-removal-schedule.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Add configuration switch CONFIG_PM_ADVANCED_DEBUG for compiling in
extra PM debugging/testing code allowing one to access some
PM-related attributes of devices from the user space via sysfs.
If CONFIG_PM_ADVANCED_DEBUG is set, add sysfs attribute power/async
for every device allowing the user space to access the device's
power.async_suspend flag and modify it, if desired.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Add sysfs attribute /sys/power/pm_async allowing the user space to
disable/enable asynchronous suspend/resume of devices.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (48 commits)
x86/PCI: Prevent mmconfig memory corruption
ACPI: Use GPE reference counting to support shared GPEs
x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info by default on 2008 and newer machines
PCI: augment bus resource table with a list
PCI: add pci_bus_for_each_resource(), remove direct bus->resource[] refs
PCI: read bridge windows before filling in subtractive decode resources
PCI: split up pci_read_bridge_bases()
PCIe PME: use pci_pcie_cap()
PCI PM: Run-time callbacks for PCI bus type
PCIe PME: use pci_is_pcie()
PCI / ACPI / PM: Platform support for PCI PME wake-up
ACPI / ACPICA: Multiple system notify handlers per device
ACPI / PM: Add more run-time wake-up fields
ACPI: Use GPE reference counting to support shared GPEs
PCI PM: Make it possible to force using INTx for PCIe PME signaling
PCI PM: PCIe PME root port service driver
PCI PM: Add function for checking PME status of devices
PCI: mark is_pcie obsolete
PCI: set PCI_PREF_RANGE_TYPE_64 in pci_bridge_check_ranges
PCI: pciehp: second try to get big range for pcie devices
...
A recent commit introduced a preemption warning for
perf_clock(), use raw_smp_processor_id() to avoid this, it
really doesn't matter which cpu we use here.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1267198583.22519.684.camel@laptop>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On platforms like dual socket quad-core platform, the scheduler load
balancer is not detecting the load imbalances in certain scenarios. This
is leading to scenarios like where one socket is completely busy (with
all the 4 cores running with 4 tasks) and leaving another socket
completely idle. This causes performance issues as those 4 tasks share
the memory controller, last-level cache bandwidth etc. Also we won't be
taking advantage of turbo-mode as much as we would like, etc.
Some of the comparisons in the scheduler load balancing code are
comparing the "weighted cpu load that is scaled wrt sched_group's
cpu_power" with the "weighted average load per task that is not scaled
wrt sched_group's cpu_power". While this has probably been broken for a
longer time (for multi socket numa nodes etc), the problem got aggrevated
via this recent change:
|
| commit f93e65c186
| Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
| Date: Tue Sep 1 10:34:32 2009 +0200
|
| sched: Restore __cpu_power to a straight sum of power
|
Also with this change, the sched group cpu power alone no longer reflects
the group capacity that is needed to implement MC, MT performance
(default) and power-savings (user-selectable) policies.
We need to use the computed group capacity (sgs.group_capacity, that is
computed using the SD_PREFER_SIBLING logic in update_sd_lb_stats()) to
find out if the group with the max load is above its capacity and how
much load to move etc.
Reported-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
Initial-Analysis-by: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
[ -v2: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # [2.6.32.x, 2.6.33.x]
LKML-Reference: <1266970432.11588.22.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since the cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() is always
smp_processor_id(), simplify the code a little by removing this argument
and using the current cpu where needed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265890918.5396.3.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds correct AMD NorthBridge event scheduling.
NB events are events measuring L3 cache, Hypertransport traffic. They are
identified by an event code >= 0xe0. They measure events on the
Northbride which is shared by all cores on a package. NB events are
counted on a shared set of counters. When a NB event is programmed in a
counter, the data actually comes from a shared counter. Thus, access to
those counters needs to be synchronized.
We implement the synchronization such that no two cores can be measuring
NB events using the same counters. Thus, we maintain a per-NB allocation
table. The available slot is propagated using the event_constraint
structure.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In certain situations, the kernel may need to stop and start the same
event rapidly. The current PMU callbacks do not distinguish between stop
and release (i.e., stop + free the resource). Thus, a counter may be
released, then it will be immediately re-acquired. Event scheduling will
again take place with no guarantee to assign the same counter. On some
processors, this may event yield to failure to assign the event back due
to competion between cores.
This patch is adding a new pair of callback to stop and restart a counter
without actually release the underlying counter resource. On stop, the
counter is stopped, its values saved and that's it. On start, the value
is reloaded and counter is restarted (on x86, actual restart is delayed
until perf_enable()).
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ added fallback to ->enable/->disable for all other PMUs
fixed x86_pmu_start() to call x86_pmu.enable()
merged __x86_pmu_disable into x86_pmu_stop() ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
DaveM reported that currently perf interprets the pgoff value reported by
the MMAP events as a byte range, but the kernel reports it as a page
offset.
Since its broken (and unusable) anyway, change the kernel behaviour (ABI)
to report bytes indeed, avoiding the need for userspace to deal with
PAGE_SIZE things.
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
