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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio
Pull GPIO changes from Linus Walleij:
"Here is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v3.13 development cycle.
I've got ACKs for the things that affect other subsystems (or it's my
own subsystem, like pinctrl). Most of that pertain to an attempt from
my side to consolidate and get rid of custom GPIO implementations in
the ARM tree. I will continue doing this.
The main change this time is the new GPIO descriptor API, background
for this can be found in Corbet's summary from this january in LWN:
http://lwn.net/Articles/533632/
Summary:
- Merged the GPIO descriptor API from Alexandre Courbot. This is a
first step toward trying to get rid of the global GPIO numberspace
for the future.
- Add an API so that driver can flag that a certain GPIO line is
being used by a irqchip backend for generating IRQs, so that we can
enforce checks, like not allowing users to switch that line to an
output at runtime, since this makes no sense. Implemented
corresponding calls in a few select drivers.
- ACPI GPIO cleanups, refactorings and switch to using the
descriptor-based interface.
- Support for the TPS80036 Palmas GPIO variant.
- A new driver for the Broadcom Kona GPIO SoC IP block.
- Device tree support for the PCF857x driver.
- A set of ARM GPIO refactorings with the goal of getting rid of a
bunch of custom GPIO implementations from the arch/arm/* tree:
* Move the IOP GPIO driver to the GPIO subsystem and fix all users
to use the gpiolib API for accessing GPIOs. Delete the old
custom GPIO implementation.
* Delete the unused custom PXA GPIO implemention.
* Convert all users of the IXP4 custom GPIO implementation to use
gpiolib and delete the custom implementation.
* Delete the custom Gemini GPIO implementation, also completely
unused.
- Various cleanups and renamings"
* tag 'gpio-v3.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (85 commits)
gpio: gpio-mxs: Remove unneeded dt checks
gpio: pl061: don't depend on CONFIG_ARM
gpio: bcm-kona: add missing .owner to struct gpio_chip
gpiolib: provide a declaration of seq_file in gpio/driver.h
gpiolib: include gpio/consumer.h in of_gpio.h for desc_to_gpio()
gpio: provide stubs for devres gpio functions
gpiolib: devres: add missing headers
gpiolib: make GPIO_DEVRES depend on GPIOLIB
gpiolib: devres: fix devm_gpiod_get_index()
gpiolib / ACPI: document the GPIO descriptor based interface
gpiolib / ACPI: allow passing GPIOF_ACTIVE_LOW for GpioInt resources
gpiolib / ACPI: add ACPI support for gpiod_get_index()
gpiolib / ACPI: convert to gpiod interfaces
gpiolib: add gpiod_get() and gpiod_put() functions
gpiolib: port of_ functions to use gpiod
gpiolib: export descriptor-based GPIO interface
Fixup "MAINTAINERS: GPIO-INTEL-MID: add maintainer"
gpio: bcm281xx: Don't print addresses of GPIO area in probe()
gpio: tegra: use new gpio_lock_as_irq() API
gpio: rcar: Include linux/of.h header
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl
Pull pin control updates from Linus Walleij:
"Main pin control pull request for the v3.13 cycle.
The changes hitting arch/blackfin are ACKed by the Blackfin
maintainer, and the device tree bindings are ACKed to the extent
possible by someone from the device tree maintainers group.
- Blackfin ADI pin control driver, we move yet another architecture
under this subsystem umbrella.
- Incremental updates to the Renesas Super-H PFC pin control driver.
New subdriver for the r8a7791 SoC.
- Non-linear GPIO ranges from the gpiolib side of things, this
enabled simplified device tree bindings by referring entire groups
of pins on some pin controller to act as back-end for a certain
GPIO-chip driver.
- Add the Abilis TB10x pin control driver used on the ARC
architecture. Also the corresponding GPIO driver is merged through
this tree, so the ARC has full support for pins and GPIOs after
this.
- Subdrivers for Freescale i.MX1, i.MX27 and i.MX50 pin controller
instances. The i.MX1 and i.MX27 is an entirely new family
(silicon) of controllers whereas i.MX50 is a variant of the
previous supported controller.
- Then the usual slew of fixes, cleanups and incremental updates"
The ARC DT changes are apparently still pending, that hopefully gets
sorted out in a timely manner.
* tag 'pinctrl-for-v3.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: (48 commits)
pinctrl: imx50: add pinctrl support code for the IMX50 SoC
pinctrl: at91: copy define to driver
pinctrl: remove minor dead code
pinctrl: imx: fix using pin->input_val wrongly
pinctrl: imx1: fix return value check in imx1_pinctrl_core_probe()
gpio: tb10x: fix return value check in tb10x_gpio_probe()
gpio: tb10x: use module_platform_driver to simplify the code
pinctrl: imx27: imx27 pincontrol driver
pinctrl: imx1 core driver
pinctrl: sh-pfc: r8a7791 PFC support
sh-pfc: r8a7778: Add CAN pin groups
gpio: add TB10x GPIO driver
pinctrl: at91: correct a few typos
pinctrl: mvebu: remove redundant of_match_ptr
pinctrl: tb10x: use module_platform_driver to simplify the code
pinctrl: tb10x: fix the error handling in tb10x_pinctrl_probe()
pinctrl: add documentation for pinctrl_get_group_pins()
pinctrl: rockchip: emulate both edge triggered interrupts
pinctrl: rockchip: add rk3188 specifics
pinctrl: rockchip: remove redundant check
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This patch exports the gpiod_* family of API functions, a safer
alternative to the legacy GPIO interface. Differences between the gpiod
and legacy gpio APIs are:
- gpio works with integers, whereas gpiod operates on opaque handlers
which cannot be forged or used before proper acquisition
- gpiod get/set functions are aware of the active low state of a GPIO
- gpio consumers should now include <linux/gpio/consumer.h> to access
the new interface, whereas chips drivers will use
<linux/gpio/driver.h>
The legacy gpio API is now built as inline functions on top of gpiod.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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This patch adds the infrastructure required to register non-linear gpio
ranges through gpiolib and the standard GPIO device tree bindings.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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Linux 3.12-rc4
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It is currently often possible in many GPIO drivers to request
a GPIO line to be used as IRQ after calling gpio_to_irq() and,
as the gpiolib is not aware of this, set the same line to
output and start driving it, with undesired side effects.
As it is a bogus usage scenario to request a line flagged as
output to used as IRQ, we introduce APIs to let gpiolib track
the use of a line as IRQ, and also set this flag from the
userspace ABI.
The API is symmetric so that lines can also be flagged from
.irq_enable() and unflagged from IRQ by .irq_disable().
The debugfs file is altered so that we see if a line is
reserved for IRQ.
Cc: Enric Balletbo i Serra <eballetbo@gmail.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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Merge Linux v3.12-rc4 to fix a conflict and also to refresh the tree
before applying more scheduler patches.
Conflicts:
arch/avr32/include/asm/Kbuild
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h stubs that just vector huge_pte_*()
calls to the pte_*() implementations won't work in certain situations.
x86 and sparc, for example, return "unsigned long" from the bit
checks, and just go "return pte_val(pte) & PTE_BIT_FOO;"
But since huge_pte_*() returns 'int', if any high bits on 64-bit are
relevant, they get chopped off.
The net effect is that we can loop forever trying to COW a huge page,
because the huge_pte_write() check signals false all the time.
Reported-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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patch(1) can't handle zero-length files - it appears to simply not create
the file, so my powerpc build fails.
Put something in here to make life easier.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yuanhan reported a serious throughput regression in his pigz
benchmark. Using the ftrace patch I found that several idle
paths need more TLC before we can switch the generic
need_resched() over to preempt_need_resched.
The preemption paths benefit most from preempt_need_resched and
do indeed use it; all other need_resched() users don't really
care that much so reverting need_resched() back to
tif_need_resched() is the simple and safe solution.
Reported-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: lkp@linux.intel.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130927153003.GF15690@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Remove the bloat of the C calling convention out of the
preempt_enable() sites by creating an ASM wrapper which allows us to
do an asm("call ___preempt_schedule") instead.
calling.h bits by Andi Kleen
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tk7xdi1cvvxewixzke8t8le1@git.kernel.org
[ Fixed build error. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Rewrite the preempt_count macros in order to extract the 3 basic
preempt_count value modifiers:
__preempt_count_add()
__preempt_count_sub()
and the new:
__preempt_count_dec_and_test()
And since we're at it anyway, replace the unconventional
$op_preempt_count names with the more conventional preempt_count_$op.
Since these basic operators are equivalent to the previous _notrace()
variants, do away with the _notrace() versions.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ewbpdbupy9xpsjhg960zwbv8@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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We need a few special preempt_count accessors:
- task_preempt_count() for when we're interested in the preemption
count of another (non-running) task.
- init_task_preempt_count() for properly initializing the preemption
count.
- init_idle_preempt_count() a special case of the above for the idle
threads.
With these no generic code ever touches thread_info::preempt_count
anymore and architectures could choose to remove it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jf5swrio8l78j37d06fzmo4r@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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In order to prepare to per-arch implementations of preempt_count move
the required bits into an asm-generic header and use this for all
archs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-h5j0c1r3e3fk015m30h8f1zx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping
Pull DMA mapping update from Marek Szyprowski:
"This contains an addition of Device Tree support for reserved memory
regions (Contiguous Memory Allocator is one of the drivers for it) and
changes required by the KVM extensions for PowerPC architectue"
* 'for-v3.12' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
ARM: init: add support for reserved memory defined by device tree
drivers: of: add initialization code for dma reserved memory
drivers: of: add function to scan fdt nodes given by path
drivers: dma-contiguous: clean source code and prepare for device tree
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timers/nohz changes from Ingo Molnar:
"It mostly contains fixes and full dynticks off-case optimizations, by
Frederic Weisbecker"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
nohz: Include local CPU in full dynticks global kick
nohz: Optimize full dynticks's sched hooks with static keys
nohz: Optimize full dynticks state checks with static keys
nohz: Rename a few state variables
vtime: Always debug check snapshot source _before_ updating it
vtime: Always scale generic vtime accounting results
vtime: Optimize full dynticks accounting off case with static keys
vtime: Describe overriden functions in dedicated arch headers
m68k: hardirq_count() only need preempt_mask.h
hardirq: Split preempt count mask definitions
context_tracking: Split low level state headers
vtime: Fix racy cputime delta update
vtime: Remove a few unneeded generic vtime state checks
context_tracking: User/kernel broundary cross trace events
context_tracking: Optimize context switch off case with static keys
context_tracking: Optimize guest APIs off case with static key
context_tracking: Optimize main APIs off case with static key
context_tracking: Ground setup for static key use
context_tracking: Remove full dynticks' hacky dependency on wide context tracking
nohz: Only enable context tracking on full dynticks CPUs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Main RCU changes this cycle were:
- Full-system idle detection. This is for use by Frederic
Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism. Its purpose is to allow the
timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when all other CPUs are idle.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
- Improved rcutorture test coverage.
- Updated RCU documentation"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
nohz_full: Force RCU's grace-period kthreads onto timekeeping CPU
nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine
jiffies: Avoid undefined behavior from signed overflow
rcu: Simplify _rcu_barrier() processing
rcu: Make rcutorture emit online failures if verbose
rcu: Remove unused variable from rcu_torture_writer()
rcu: Sort rcutorture module parameters
rcu: Increase rcutorture test coverage
rcu: Add duplicate-callback tests to rcutorture
doc: Fix memory-barrier control-dependency example
rcu: Update RTFP documentation
nohz_full: Add full-system-idle arguments to API
nohz_full: Add full-system idle states and variables
nohz_full: Add per-CPU idle-state tracking
nohz_full: Add rcu_dyntick data for scalable detection of all-idle state
nohz_full: Add Kconfig parameter for scalable detection of all-idle state
nohz_full: Add testing information to documentation
rcu: Eliminate unused APIs intended for adaptive ticks
rcu: Select IRQ_WORK from TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
rculist: list_first_or_null_rcu() should use list_entry_rcu()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:
"
* Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/611.
* Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/619.
* Full-system idle detection. This is for use by Frederic
Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism. Its purpose is
to allow the timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when
all other CPUs are idle. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/648.
* Improve rcutorture test coverage. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/675.
"
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The last remaining use for the storage key of the s390 architecture
is reference counting. The alternative is to make page table entries
invalid while they are old. On access the fault handler marks the
pte/pmd as young which makes the pte/pmd valid if the access rights
allow read access. The pte/pmd invalidations required for software
managed reference bits cost a bit of performance, on the other hand
the RRBE/RRBM instructions to read and reset the referenced bits are
quite expensive as well.
Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This patch cleans the initialization of dma contiguous framework. The
all-in-one dma_declare_contiguous() function is now separated into
dma_contiguous_reserve_area() which only steals the the memory from
memblock allocator and dma_contiguous_add_device() function, which
assigns given device to the specified reserved memory area. This improves
the flexibility in defining contiguous memory areas and assigning device
to them, because now it is possible to assign more than one device to
the given contiguous memory area. Such split in initialization procedure
is also required for upcoming device tree support.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@samsung.com>
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Ben Tebulin reported:
"Since v3.7.2 on two independent machines a very specific Git
repository fails in 9/10 cases on git-fsck due to an SHA1/memory
failures. This only occurs on a very specific repository and can be
reproduced stably on two independent laptops. Git mailing list ran
out of ideas and for me this looks like some very exotic kernel issue"
and bisected the failure to the backport of commit 53a59fc67f97 ("mm:
limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT").
That commit itself is not actually buggy, but what it does is to make it
much more likely to hit the partial TLB invalidation case, since it
introduces a new case in tlb_next_batch() that previously only ever
happened when running out of memory.
The real bug is that the TLB gather virtual memory range setup is subtly
buggered. It was introduced in commit 597e1c3580b7 ("mm/mmu_gather:
enable tlb flush range in generic mmu_gather"), and the range handling
was already fixed at least once in commit e6c495a96ce0 ("mm: fix the TLB
range flushed when __tlb_remove_page() runs out of slots"), but that fix
was not complete.
The problem with the TLB gather virtual address range is that it isn't
set up by the initial tlb_gather_mmu() initialization (which didn't get
the TLB range information), but it is set up ad-hoc later by the
functions that actually flush the TLB. And so any such case that forgot
to update the TLB range entries would potentially miss TLB invalidates.
Rather than try to figure out exactly which particular ad-hoc range
setup was missing (I personally suspect it's the hugetlb case in
zap_huge_pmd(), which didn't have the same logic as zap_pte_range()
did), this patch just gets rid of the problem at the source: make the
TLB range information available to tlb_gather_mmu(), and initialize it
when initializing all the other tlb gather fields.
This makes the patch larger, but conceptually much simpler. And the end
result is much more understandable; even if you want to play games with
partial ranges when invalidating the TLB contents in chunks, now the
range information is always there, and anybody who doesn't want to
bother with it won't introduce subtle bugs.
Ben verified that this fixes his problem.
Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Ben Tebulin <tebulin@googlemail.com>
Build-testing-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Build-testing-by: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If the arch overrides some generic vtime APIs, let it describe
these on a dedicated and standalone header. This way it becomes
convenient to include it in vtime generic headers without irrelevant
stuff in such a low level header.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Andy reported that if file page get reclaimed we lose the soft-dirty bit
if it was there, so save _PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY bit when page address get
encoded into pte entry. Thus when #pf happens on such non-present pte
we can restore it back.
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Lutomirski reported that if a page with _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY bit set
get swapped out, the bit is getting lost and no longer available when
pte read back.
To resolve this we introduce _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY bit which is saved in
pte entry for the page being swapped out. When such page is to be read
back from a swap cache we check for bit presence and if it's there we
clear it and restore the former _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY bit back.
One of the problem was to find a place in pte entry where we can save
the _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY bit while page is in swap. The _PAGE_PSE was
chosen for that, it doesn't intersect with swap entry format stored in
pte.
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are several tracepoints (mostly in RCU), that reference a string
pointer and uses the print format of "%s" to display the string that
exists in the kernel, instead of copying the actual string to the
ring buffer (saves time and ring buffer space).
But this has an issue with userspace tools that read the binary buffers
that has the address of the string but has no access to what the string
itself is. The end result is just output that looks like:
rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeaa 1 0
rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000
rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000
rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b
rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b
The above is pretty useless when read by the userspace tools. Ideally
we would want something that looks like this:
rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0
rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000
rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0
rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880037aff710 func=put_cred_rcu 0/4
rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880078961980 func=file_free_rcu 0/5
rcu_dyntick: End 0 1
The trace_printk() which also only stores the address of the string
format instead of recording the string into the buffer itself, exports
the mapping of kernel addresses to format strings via the printk_format
file in the debugfs tracing directory.
The tracepoint strings can use this same method and output the format
to the same file and the userspace tools will be able to decipher
the address without any modification.
The tracepoint strings need its own section to save the strings because
the trace_printk section will cause the trace_printk() buffers to be
allocated if anything exists within the section. trace_printk() is only
used for debugging and should never exist in the kernel, we can not use
the trace_printk sections.
Add a new tracepoint_str section that will also be examined by the output
of the printk_format file.
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
Pull first stage of __cpuinit removal from Paul Gortmaker:
"The two commits here 1) dummy out all the __cpuinit macros so that we
no longer generate such sections, and then 2) remove all the section
processing that we used to do for those sections.
This makes all the __cpuinit and friends no-ops, so that we can remove
the use cases of it at our leisure. Expect stage 2, which does the
tree wide removal sweep at the end of the merge window."
* 'cpuinit-delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
modpost: remove all traces of cpuinit/cpuexit sections
init.h: remove __cpuinit sections from the kernel
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
"This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window. In addition to
the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are:
- Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit
server processors. This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent
huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size.
- Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy
- Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including
putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah
- Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling
and recovery) infrastructure. It is no longer specific to pseries
but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no
hypervisor) by Gavin Shan.
- I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it
usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with
hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded
processors).
- Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael
Ellerman. This facility allows what is basically "userspace
interrupts" for performance monitor events.
- A bunch of Transactional Memory vs. Signals bug fixes and HW
breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling.
And more ... I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight
something that somebody deemed worth it."
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call
powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support
powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object
powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support
powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards
powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx
powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use
powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps
powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end
powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore
powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code
pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback
powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again
powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs
powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support
powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events
...
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Rework RapidIO switch drivers to add an option to build them as loadable
kernel modules.
This patch removes RapidIO-specific vmlinux section and converts switch
drivers to be compatible with LDM driver registration method. To simplify
registration of device-specific callback routines this patch introduces
rio_switch_ops data structure. The sw_sysfs() callback is removed from
the list of device-specific operations because under the new structure its
functions can be handled by switch driver's probe() and remove() routines.
If a specific switch device driver is not loaded the RapidIO subsystem
core will use default standard-based operations to configure a switch.
Because the current implementation of RapidIO enumeration/discovery method
relies on availability of device-specific operations for error management,
switch device drivers must be loaded before the RapidIO
enumeration/discovery starts.
This patch also moves several common routines from enumeration/discovery
module into the RapidIO core code to make switch-specific operations
accessible to all components of RapidIO subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andre van Herk <andre.van.herk@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha.nelissen@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The original goal of this patchset is to fix the bug reported by
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53501 Now it has also been
expanded to reduce common code used by memory initializion.
Patch 1-7:
1) add comments for global variables exported by vmlinux.lds
2) normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds
Patch 8:
Introduce helper functions mem_init_print_info() and
get_num_physpages()
Patch 9:
Avoid using global variable num_physpages at runtime
Patch 10:
Don't update num_physpages in memory_hotplug.c
Patch 11-40:
Modify arch mm initialization code to:
1) Simplify mem_init() by using mem_init_print_info()
2) Prepare for killing global variable num_physpages
Patch 41:
Kill the global variable num_physpages
With all patches applied, mem_init(), free_initmem(), free_initrd_mem()
could be as simple as below. This patch series has reduced about 1.2K
lines of code in total.
#ifndef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
void __init
mem_init(void)
{
max_mapnr = max_low_pfn;
free_all_bootmem();
high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);
mem_init_print_info(NULL);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM */
void
free_initmem(void)
{
free_initmem_default(-1);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
void
free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
free_reserved_area(start, end, -1, "initrd");
}
#endif
Due to hardware resource limitations, I have only tested this on x86_64.
And the messages reported on an x86_64 system are:
Log message before applying patches:
Memory: 7745676k/8910848k available (6934k kernel code, 836024k absent, 329148k reserved, 6343k data, 1012k init)
Log message after applying patches:
Memory: 7744624K/8074824K available (6969K kernel code, 1011K data, 2828K rodata, 1016K init, 9640K bss, 330200K reserved)
Great thanks to Vineet Gupta for testing on ARC.
This patch:
Document global variables exported from vmlinux.lds.
1) Add comments about usage guidelines for global variables exported
from vmlinux.lds.S.
2) Remove unused __initdata_begin[] and __initdata_end[].
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to. In order to do this tracking one should
1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs)
2. Wait some time.
3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries)
To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the
soft-dirty bit is. Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a
page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the
soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.
Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after
the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed
fast. This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory,
and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back
writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE.
Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked
with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies
the virtual memory at mremap's new address.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull voluntary preemption fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree contains a speedup which is achieved through better
might_sleep()/might_fault() preemption point annotations for uaccess
functions, by Michael S Tsirkin:
1. The only reason uaccess routines might sleep is if they fault.
Make this explicit for all architectures.
2. A voluntary preemption point in uaccess functions means compiler
can't inline them efficiently, this breaks assumptions that they
are very fast and small that e.g. net code seems to make. Remove
this preemption point so behaviour matches with what callers
assume.
3. Accesses (e.g through socket ops) to kernel memory with KERNEL_DS
like net/sunrpc does will never sleep. Remove an unconditinal
might_sleep() in the might_fault() inline in kernel.h (used when
PROVE_LOCKING is not set).
4. Accesses with pagefault_disable() return EFAULT but won't cause
caller to sleep. Check for that and thus avoid might_sleep() when
PROVE_LOCKING is set.
These changes offer a nice speedup for CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
kernels, here's a network bandwidth measurement between a virtual
machine and the host:
before:
incoming: 7122.77 Mb/s
outgoing: 8480.37 Mb/s
after:
incoming: 8619.24 Mb/s [ +21.0% ]
outgoing: 9455.42 Mb/s [ +11.5% ]
I kept these changes in a separate tree, separate from scheduler
changes, because it's a mixed MM and scheduler topic"
* 'sched-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
mm, sched: Allow uaccess in atomic with pagefault_disable()
mm, sched: Drop voluntary schedule from might_fault()
x86: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
tile: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
powerpc: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
mn10300: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
microblaze: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
m32r: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
frv: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
arm64: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
asm-generic: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull WW mutex support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree adds support for wound/wait style locks, which the graphics
guys would like to make use of in the TTM graphics subsystem.
Wound/wait mutexes are used when other multiple lock acquisitions of a
similar type can be done in an arbitrary order. The deadlock handling
used here is called wait/wound in the RDBMS literature: The older
tasks waits until it can acquire the contended lock. The younger
tasks needs to back off and drop all the locks it is currently
holding, ie the younger task is wounded.
See this LWN.net description of W/W mutexes:
https://lwn.net/Articles/548909/
The comments there outline specific usecases for this facility (which
have already been implemented for the DRM tree).
Also see Documentation/ww-mutex-design.txt for more details"
* 'core-mutexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking-selftests: Handle unexpected failures more strictly
mutex: Add more w/w tests to test EDEADLK path handling
mutex: Add more tests to lib/locking-selftest.c
mutex: Add w/w tests to lib/locking-selftest.c
mutex: Add w/w mutex slowpath debugging
mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks
arch: Make __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval return whether fastpath succeeded or not
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big driver core merge for 3.11-rc1
Lots of little things, and larger firmware subsystem updates, all
described in the shortlog. Nice thing here is that we finally get rid
of CONFIG_HOTPLUG, after 10+ years, thanks to Stephen Rohtwell (it had
been always on for a number of kernel releases, now it's just
removed)"
* tag 'driver-core-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (27 commits)
driver core: device.h: fix doc compilation warnings
firmware loader: fix another compile warning with PM_SLEEP unset
build some drivers only when compile-testing
firmware loader: fix compile warning with PM_SLEEP set
kobject: sanitize argument for format string
sysfs_notify is only possible on file attributes
firmware loader: simplify holding module for request_firmware
firmware loader: don't export cache_firmware and uncache_firmware
drivers/base: Use attribute groups to create sysfs memory files
firmware loader: fix compile warning
firmware loader: fix build failure with !CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
Documentation: Updated broken link in HOWTO
Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG
driver core: firmware loader: kill FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG requests before suspend
driver core: firmware loader: don't cache FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG firmware
Documentation: Tidy up some drivers/base/core.c kerneldoc content.
platform_device: use a macro instead of platform_driver_register
firmware: move EXPORT_SYMBOL annotations
firmware: Avoid deadlock of usermodehelper lock at shutdown
dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly
...
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Delete all audit rules that were checking how the .cpuXYZ
related sections were inter-operating with other __init
like sections, now that __cpuinit is gone. Update the linker
script to not have any knowledge of .cpuinit sections.
[lds.h update courtesy of Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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This will allow me to call functions that have multiple
arguments if fastpath fails. This is required to support ticket
mutexes, because they need to be able to pass an extra argument
to the fail function.
Originally I duplicated the functions, by adding
__mutex_fastpath_lock_retval_arg. This ended up being just a
duplication of the existing function, so a way to test if
fastpath was called ended up being better.
This also cleaned up the reservation mutex patch some by being
able to call an atomic_set instead of atomic_xchg, and making it
easier to detect if the wrong unlock function was previously
used.
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Cc: robclark@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: daniel@ffwll.ch
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620113105.4001.83929.stgit@patser
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This will be later used by powerpc THP support. In powerpc we want to use
pgtable for storing the hash index values. So instead of adding them to
mm_context list, we would like to store them in the second half of pmd
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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We want these fixes here too.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Pull kvm bugfixes from Gleb Natapov:
"There is one more fix for MIPS KVM ABI here, MIPS and PPC build
breakage fixes and a couple of PPC bug fixes"
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
kvm/ppc/booke64: Fix lazy ee handling in kvmppc_handle_exit()
kvm/ppc/booke: Hold srcu lock when calling gfn functions
kvm/ppc/booke64: Disable e6500 support
kvm/ppc/booke64: Fix AltiVec interrupt numbers and build breakage
mips/kvm: Use KVM_REG_MIPS and proper size indicators for *_ONE_REG
kvm: Add definition of KVM_REG_MIPS
KVM: add kvm_para_available to asm-generic/kvm_para.h
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Since the introduction of preemptible mmu_gather TLB fast mode has been
broken. TLB fast mode relies on there being absolutely no concurrency;
it frees pages first and invalidates TLBs later.
However now we can get concurrency and stuff goes *bang*.
This patch removes all tlb_fast_mode() code; it was found the better
option vs trying to patch the hole by entangling tlb invalidation with
the scheduler.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reported-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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According to include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h architectures should define
kvm_para_available, so add an implementation to asm-generic/kvm_para.h
which just returns false.
This fixes intel8x0.c build failure on mips with KVM enabled.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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Ever since commit 45f035ab9b8f ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"),
it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG
turned off. Remove all the remaining references to it.
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The only reason uaccess routines might sleep
is if they fault. Make this explicit.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369577426-26721-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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On s390 the prefix page and absolute zero pages are not correctly
returned when reading /dev/mem. The reason is that the s390 asm/io.h
file includes the asm-generic/io.h file which then defines
xlate_dev_mem_ptr() and therefore overwrites the s390 specific
version that does the correct swap operation for prefix and absolute
zero pages. The problem is a regression that was introduced with git
commit cd248341 (s390/pci: base support).
To fix the problem add "#ifndef xlate_dev_mem_ptr" in asm-generic/io.h
and "#define xlate_dev_mem_ptr" in asm/io.h. This ensures that the
s390 version is used. For completeness also add the "#ifndef"
construct for xlate_dev_kmem_ptr().
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.
This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.
This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
that:
- HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at
HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature
removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
typical distro configs even on modern systems.
- Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining
source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.
- A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.
The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.
Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
two NOHZ kconfig modes:
- CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
whether a CPU is idle or not.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
CPU.
The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
default.
This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.
This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull
request is marked RFC because:
- it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
small but did not get ready in time.
- it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
marked it RFC.
- it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off
should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.
- the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In
particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact
correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
feature at this point.
- it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
Without flaming us to crisp! :-)
Future plans:
- there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
for the 0 Hz target though.
- once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.
I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
but the final word is up to you as usual.
More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
nohz_full: Add documentation.
cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
nohz: Add basic tracing
nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull mudule updates from Rusty Russell:
"We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config
option, fix a remove/insert race which Never Happens, and (my
favorite) handle the case when we have too many modules for a single
commandline. Seriously, the kernel is full, please go away!"
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
modpost: fix unwanted VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR expansion
X.509: Support parse long form of length octets in Authority Key Identifier
module: don't unlink the module until we've removed all exposure.
kernel: kallsyms: memory override issue, need check destination buffer length
MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature
modpost: handle huge numbers of modules.
modpost: add -T option to read module names from file/stdin.
modpost: minor cleanup.
genksyms: pass symbol-prefix instead of arch
module: fix symbol versioning with symbol prefixes
CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.
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The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.
Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
"Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
make do_mremap() static
sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
x86: trim sys_ia32.h
x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
merge compat sys_ipc instances
consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions
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On architectures where a pgd entry may be shared between user and kernel
(e.g. ARM+LPAE), freeing page tables needs a ceiling other than 0.
This patch introduces a generic USER_PGTABLES_CEILING that arch code can
override. It is the responsibility of the arch code setting the ceiling
to ensure the complete freeing of the page tables (usually in
pgd_free()).
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: commit log; shift_arg_pages(), asm-generic/pgtables.h changes]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit abf09bed3cce ("s390/mm: implement software dirty bits")
introduced another difference in the pte layout vs. the pmd layout on
s390, thoroughly breaking the s390 support for hugetlbfs. This requires
replacing some more pte_xxx functions in mm/hugetlbfs.c with a
huge_pte_xxx version.
This patch introduces those huge_pte_xxx functions and their generic
implementation in asm-generic/hugetlb.h, which will now be included on
all architectures supporting hugetlbfs apart from s390. This change
will be a no-op for those architectures.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> [for !s390 parts]
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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