Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity:
"Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO,
faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped
guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations
and fixes. Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc
update.
Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches
that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while
others are true pulls. In either case the signoffs should be correct
now."
Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h.
I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid"
check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different
commits), but better safe than sorry ;)
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits)
KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block
KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers
KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field
KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390
KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support
KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection
KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking
KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber
KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path
KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
...
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner.
Various trivial conflict fixups in arch Kconfig due to addition of
unrelated entries nearby. And one slightly more subtle one for sparc32
(new user of GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS), fixed up as per Thomas.
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
timekeeping: Fix a few minor newline issues.
time: remove obsolete declaration
ntp: Fix a stale comment and a few stray newlines.
ntp: Correct TAI offset during leap second
timers: Fixup the Kconfig consolidation fallout
x86: Use generic time config
unicore32: Use generic time config
um: Use generic time config
tile: Use generic time config
sparc: Use: generic time config
sh: Use generic time config
score: Use generic time config
s390: Use generic time config
openrisc: Use generic time config
powerpc: Use generic time config
mn10300: Use generic time config
mips: Use generic time config
microblaze: Use generic time config
m68k: Use generic time config
m32r: Use generic time config
...
Pull first series of signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
"This is just the first part of the queue (about a half of it);
assorted fixes all over the place in signal handling.
This one ends with all sigsuspend() implementations switched to
generic one (->saved_sigmask-based).
With this, a bunch of assorted old buglets are fixed and most of the
missing bits of NOTIFY_RESUME hookup are in place. Two more fixes sit
in arm and um trees respectively, and there's a couple of broken ones
that need obvious fixes - parisc and avr32 check TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
only on one of two codepaths; fixes for that will happen in the next
series"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (55 commits)
unicore32: if there's no handler we need to restore sigmask, syscall or no syscall
xtensa: add handling of TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
microblaze: drop 'oldset' argument of do_notify_resume()
microblaze: handle TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
score: add handling of NOTIFY_RESUME to do_notify_resume()
m68k: add TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME and handle it.
sparc: kill ancient comment in sparc_sigaction()
h8300: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
frv: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
cris: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
powerpc: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
sh: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
sparc: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values
avr32: struct old_sigaction is never used
m32r: struct old_sigaction is never used
xtensa: xtensa_sigaction doesn't exist
alpha: tidy signal delivery up
score: don't open-code force_sigsegv()
cris: don't open-code force_sigsegv()
blackfin: don't open-code force_sigsegv()
...
Pull fpu state cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree streamlines further aspects of FPU handling by eliminating
the prepare_to_copy() complication and moving that logic to
arch_dup_task_struct().
It also fixes the FPU dumps in threaded core dumps, removes and old
(and now invalid) assumption plus micro-optimizes the exit path by
avoiding an FPU save for dead tasks."
Fixed up trivial add-add conflict in arch/sh/kernel/process.c that came
in because we now do the FPU handling in arch_dup_task_struct() rather
than the legacy (and now gone) prepare_to_copy().
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit
x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state()
coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump
fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
Commit d065bd810b
(mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and
commit 37b23e0525
(x86,mm: make pagefault killable)
The above commits introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler
for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable.
These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial
during OOM killer invocation.
Port these changes to hexagon.
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
This function is only used in the same file, and the other similar
functions in this file are also static.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
[rkuo@codeaurora.org: adjusted patch to apply to latest]
Signed-off-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
"make versioncheck" points out that arch/hexagon/include/asm/spinlock_types.h
does not need to include version.h .
A quick look at the file seems to confirm its findings, so here's a patch that
removes the include.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Use resource_size function on resource object
instead of explicit computation.
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/resource_size.cocci.
More information about semantic patching is available at
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
arch/hexagon/kernel/signal.c:do_notify_resume() forgets to call
tracehook_notify_resume() if TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is set.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull core irq changes from Ingo Molnar:
"A collection of small fixes."
By Thomas Gleixner
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
hexagon: Remove select of not longer existing Kconfig switches
arm: Select core options instead of redefining them
genirq: Do not consider disabled wakeup irqs
genirq: Allow check_wakeup_irqs to notice level-triggered interrupts
genirq: Be more informative on irq type mismatch
genirq: Reject bogus threaded irq requests
genirq: Streamline irq_action
Sigh, I missed to check which architecture Kconfig files actually
include the core Kconfig file. There are a few which did not. So we
broke them.
Instead of adding the includes to those, we are better off to move the
include to init/Kconfig like we did already with irqs and others.
This does not change anything for the architectures using the old
style periodic timer mode. It just solves the build wreckage there.
For those architectures which use the clock events infrastructure it
moves the include of the core Kconfig file to "General setup" which is
a way more logical place than having it at random locations specified
by the architecture specific Kconfigs.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@glx-um.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
config GENERIC_TIME not longer used.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@glx-um.de>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120518163105.416570309@glx-um.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of
the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended
register state like fpu there.
Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead.
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The core now has a threadinfo allocator which uses a kmemcache when
THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150141.812612113@linutronix.de
Same code. Use the generic version. The special Makefile treatment is
pointless anyway as init_task.o contains only data which is handled by
the linker script. So no point on being treated like head text.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085034.692078846@linutronix.de
Acked-and-tested-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-and-tested-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.581762105@linutronix.de
Preparatory patch to make the idle thread allocation for secondary
cpus generic.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124556.964170564@linutronix.de
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: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
When a host stops or suspends a VM it will set a flag to show this. The
watchdog will use these functions to determine if a softlockup is real, or the
result of a suspended VM.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
asm-generic changes Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Pull DMA mapping branch from Marek Szyprowski:
"Short summary for the whole series:
A few limitations have been identified in the current dma-mapping
design and its implementations for various architectures. There exist
more than one function for allocating and freeing the buffers:
currently these 3 are used dma_{alloc, free}_coherent,
dma_{alloc,free}_writecombine, dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent.
For most of the systems these calls are almost equivalent and can be
interchanged. For others, especially the truly non-coherent ones
(like ARM), the difference can be easily noticed in overall driver
performance. Sadly not all architectures provide implementations for
all of them, so the drivers might need to be adapted and cannot be
easily shared between different architectures. The provided patches
unify all these functions and hide the differences under the already
existing dma attributes concept. The thread with more references is
available here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg09777.html
These patches are also a prerequisite for unifying DMA-mapping
implementation on ARM architecture with the common one provided by
dma_map_ops structure and extending it with IOMMU support. More
information is available in the following thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/12819
More works on dma-mapping framework are planned, especially in the
area of buffer sharing and managing the shared mappings (together with
the recently introduced dma_buf interface: commit d15bd7ee44
"dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism").
The patches in the current set introduce a new alloc/free methods
(with support for memory attributes) in dma_map_ops structure, which
will later replace dma_alloc_coherent and dma_alloc_writecombine
functions."
People finally started piping up with support for merging this, so I'm
merging it as the last of the pending stuff from the merge window.
Looks like pohmelfs is going to wait for 3.5 and more external support
for merging.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
common: DMA-mapping: add NON-CONSISTENT attribute
common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute
common: dma-mapping: introduce mmap method
common: dma-mapping: remove old alloc_coherent and free_coherent methods
Hexagon: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Unicore32: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Microblaze: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
SH: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Alpha: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
SPARC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
PowerPC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
MIPS: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
X86 & IA64: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
common: dma-mapping: introduce generic alloc() and free() methods
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
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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
...
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Hexagon. Not compiled.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Adapt core Hexagon architecture code for dma_map_ops changes: replace
alloc/free_coherent with generic alloc/free methods.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
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>
As described in e6fa16ab9c ("signal: sigprocmask() should do
retarget_shared_pending()") the modification of current->blocked is
incorrect as we need to check whether the signal we're about to block is
pending in the shared queue.
Also, use the new helper function introduced in commit 5e6292c0f2
("signal: add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked")
which centralises the code for updating current->blocked after
successfully delivering a signal and reduces the amount of duplicate
code across architectures. In the past some architectures got this code
wrong, so using this helper function should stop that from happening
again.
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK
sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset
sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again!
sched: Update yield() docs
printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments
sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer
sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness
sched: Fix load-balance wreckage
sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice()
sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing
sched: Rename load-balancing fields
sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct
sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked
sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting
sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API
sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites
sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled()
sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting
sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active
...
Stepan found:
CPU0 CPUn
_cpu_up()
__cpu_up()
boostrap()
notify_cpu_starting()
set_cpu_online()
while (!cpu_active())
cpu_relax()
<PREEMPT-out>
smp_call_function(.wait=1)
/* we find cpu_online() is true */
arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
/* wait-forever-more */
<PREEMPT-in>
local_irq_enable()
cpu_notify(CPU_ONLINE)
sched_cpu_active()
set_cpu_active()
Now the purpose of cpu_active is mostly with bringing down a cpu, where
we mark it !active to avoid the load-balancer from moving tasks to it
while we tear down the cpu. This is required because we only update the
sched_domain tree after we brought the cpu-down. And this is needed so
that some tasks can still run while we bring it down, we just don't want
new tasks to appear.
On cpu-up however the sched_domain tree doesn't yet include the new cpu,
so its invisible to the load-balancer, regardless of the active state.
So instead of setting the active state after we boot the new cpu (and
consequently having to wait for it before enabling interrupts) set the
cpu active before we set it online and avoid the whole mess.
Reported-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323965362.18942.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Put the logic to compute the event index into a per pmu method. This
is required because the x86 rules are weird and wonderful and don't
match the capabilities of the current scheme.
AFAIK only powerpc actually has a usable userspace read of the PMCs
but I'm not at all sure anybody actually used that.
ARM is restored to the default since it currently does not support
userspace access at all. And all software events are provided with a
method that reports their index as 0 (disabled).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dfydxodki16lylkt3gl2j7cw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
define GENERIC_IOMAP in a central location
instead of all architectures. This will be helpful
for the follow-up patch which makes it select
other configs. Code is also a bit shorter this way.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Mostly all stubs, as the TLB is managed by the hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds