On our raw spinlocks, we currently have an attempt at the lock, and if we do
not get it we enter a spin loop. This spinloop will likely continue for
awhile, and we pridict likely.
Shouldn't we predict that we will get out of the loop so our next instructions
are already prefetched. Even when we miss because the lock is still held, it
won't matter since we are waiting anyways.
I did a couple quick benchmarks, but the results are inconclusive.
16-way 690 running specjbb with original code
# ./specjbb 3000 16 1 1 19 30 120
...
Valid run, Score is 59282
16-way 690 running specjbb with unlikely code
# ./specjbb 3000 16 1 1 19 30 120
...
Valid run, Score is 59541
I saw a smaller increase on a JS20 (~1.6%)
JS20 specjbb w/ original code
# ./specjbb 400 2 1 1 19 30 120
...
Valid run, Score is 20460
JS20 specjbb w/ unlikely code
# ./specjbb 400 2 1 1 19 30 120
...
Valid run, Score is 20803
Anton said:
Mispredicting the spinlock busy loop also means we slow down the rate at which
we do the loads which can be good for heavily contended locks.
Note: There are some gcc issues with our default build and branch prediction,
but a CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY build should emit them correctly. I'm working with
Alan Modra on it now.
Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We no longer use any ppcdebug stuff in a.out.h, so remove the define.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There were a few issues with the ppc64 noexec support:
The 64bit ABI has a non executable stack by default. At the moment 64bit apps
require a PT_GNU_STACK section in order to have a non executable stack.
Disable the read implies exec workaround on the 64bit ABI. The 64bit
toolchain has never had problems with incorrect mmap permissions (the 32bit
has, thats why we need to retain the workaround).
With these fixes as well as a gcc fix from Alan Modra (that was recently
committed) 64bit apps work as expected.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch converts ppc64 to use the generic pgtable-nopud.h instead of the
"fixup" header.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds support for the special adb buttons of the aluminium
PowerBook G4.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Jaggi <andreas.jaggi@waterwave.ch>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Moved common FPU exception handling code out of head.S so it can be used by
several of the sub-architectures that might of a full PowerPC FPU.
Also, uses new CONFIG_PPC_FPU define to fix alignment exception handling
for floating point load/store instructions to only occur if we have a
hardware FPU.
Signed-off-by: Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@timesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a patch for counting the number of pages for bounce buffers. It's
shown in /proc/vmstat.
Currently, the number of bounce pages are not counted anywhere. So, if
there are many bounce pages, it seems that there are leaked pages. And
it's difficult for a user to imagine the usage of bounce pages. So, it's
meaningful to show # of bouce pages.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mempools have 2 problems.
The first is that mempool_alloc can possibly get stuck in __alloc_pages
when they should opt to fail, and take an element from their reserved pool.
The second is that it will happily eat emergency PF_MEMALLOC reserves
instead of going to their reserved pools.
Fix the first by passing __GFP_NORETRY in the allocation calls in
mempool_alloc. Fix the second by introducing a __GFP_MEMPOOL flag which
directs the page allocator not to allocate from the reserve pool.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Address bug #4508: there's potential for wraparound in the various places
where we perform RLIMIT_AS checking.
(I'm a bit worried about acct_stack_growth(). Are we sure that vma->vm_mm is
always equal to current->mm? If not, then we're comparing some other
process's total_vm with the calling process's rlimits).
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The documentation on these values seems to be rather wrong.
These values have been determined by mere trial and error.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Olav Kongas
On ARM, the outX() and writeX() families of macros take the
result of cpu_to_leYY(), which is of restricted type __leYY,
and feed it to __raw_writeX(), which expect an argument of
unrestricted type. This results in 'sparse -Wbitwise'
warnings about incorrect types in assignments. Analogous
type mismatch warnings are issued for inX() and readX()
counterparts. The below patch resolves these warnings by
adding forced typecasts.
Signed-off-by: Olav Kongas
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
This patch entirely reworks the kernel assistance for NPTL on ARM.
In particular this provides an efficient way to retrieve the TLS
value and perform atomic operations without any instruction emulation
nor special system call. This even allows for pre ARMv6 binaries to
be forward compatible with SMP systems without any penalty.
The problematic and performance critical operations are performed
through segment of kernel provided user code reachable from user space
at a fixed address in kernel memory. Those fixed entry points are
within the vector page so we basically get it for free as no extra
memory page is required and nothing else may be mapped at that
location anyway.
This is different from (but doesn't preclude) a full blown VDSO
implementation, however a VDSO would prevent some assembly tricks with
constants that allows for efficient branching to those code segments.
And since those code segments only use a few cycles before returning to
user code, the overhead of a VDSO far call would add a significant
overhead to such minimalistic operations.
The ARM_NR_set_tls syscall also changed number. This is done for two
reasons:
1) this patch changes the way the TLS value was previously meant to be
retrieved, therefore we ensure whatever library using the old way
gets fixed (they only exist in private tree at the moment since the
NPTL work is still progressing).
2) the previous number was allocated in a range causing an undefined
instruction trap on kernels not supporting that syscall and it was
determined that allocating it in a range returning -ENOSYS would be
much nicer for libraries trying to determine if the feature is
present or not.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
Export ixp2000_pci_config_addr, to be used by the IXDP2800 platform
setup code to coordinate booting the master and slave NPU.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
In order to properly fix some issues with cpufreq vs. sleep on
PowerBooks, I had to add a suspend callback to the pmac_cpufreq driver.
I must force a switch to full speed before sleep and I switch back to
previous speed on resume.
I also added a driver flag to disable the warnings in suspend/resume
since it is expected in this case to have different speed (and I want it
to fixup the jiffies properly).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- Include chunk and skb sizes in sendbuffer accounting.
- 2 policies are supported. 0: per socket accouting, 1: per association
accounting
DaveM: I've made the default per-socket.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- Fixed sctp_vtag_verify_either() to comply with impguide 2.41 B) and C).
- Make sure vtag is reflected when T-bit is set in SHUTDOWN-COMPLETE sent
due to an OOTB SHUTDOWN-ACK and in ABORT sent due to an OOTB packet.
- Do not set T-Bit in ABORT chunk in response to INIT.
- Fixed some comments to reflect the new meaning of the T-Bit.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We ignore the bottom 4 bits of the X resolution, so we should
round X resolutions up to the nearest multiple of 16.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
We were supporting 24bpp. However, the pixel organisation in
memory was 0RGB, so it was 24bpp in 32bit words. This means
we're actually supporting 32bpp and not 24bpp.
Also, add a check to ensure that we don't exceed the available
framebuffer when changing display resolutions.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
clk_get() comments can be confusing. Add extra explaination of
the dev and id parameters to ensure correct usage.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
This is a fix to the pgtable_quicklist code. There is a GFP_KERNEL
allocation in pgtable_quicklist_alloc(), which spews the usual warnings
if the kernel is under heavy VM pressure and the reclaim code is
invoked. re-enable preempt before we allocate the new page.
This patch is against 2.6.12-rc2-mm2
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luckintel.com>
fs/isofs includes trimmed down to something resembling sanity.
Kernel-only parts of linux/iso_fs.h and entire linux/iso_fs_{sb,i}.h
moved to fs/isofs/isofs.h.
A lot of useless #include in fs/isofs/*.c killed.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Deepak Saxena
The current memset() and memzero() macros on ARM reference the
incoming parameters more than once and this can cause uninted
side-effects. The issue was found while debugging SCTP protocol
and with the specific usage of memzero(skb_put(skb,size),size).
This call would call skb_put(skb,size) twice leading to badness.
The fixed version copies the incoming parameters into local
variables and uses those instead.
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena
Signed-off-by: Russell King
Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real
Adds IISFCON definitions for the S3C2400 at
include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2400/regs-iis.h.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks
Signed-off-by: Russell King
Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real
The S3C2400 doesn't have a cpuid information stored anywhere. This patch adds
support to the S3C2400 at include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2400/uncompress.h by
initializing the cpuid variable to the S3C2410, as they share the same
routine. The GSTATUS1 pin is then used only if not compiling for the S3C2400.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks
Signed-off-by: Russell King
The following is an update of the patch I sent yesterday
(3/9/05) incorporating suggestions from Christoph Hellwig and
Andreas Schwab. It allows Altix and Altix-like systems to
handle environmental events generated by the system controllers,
and should apply on top of Jack Steiner's patch of 3/1/05 ("New
chipset support for SN platform") and Mark Goodwin's patch of
3/8/05 ("Altix SN topology support for new chipsets and pci
topology").
Signed-off-by: Greg Howard <ghoward@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Current ia64 linux cannot handle greater than 184 interrupt sources
because of the lack of vectors. The following patch enables ia64 linux
to handle greater than 184 interrupt sources by allowing the same
vector number to be shared by multiple IOSAPIC's RTEs. The design of
this patch is besed on "Intel(R) Itanium(R) Processor Family Interrupt
Architecture Guide".
Even if you don't have a large I/O system, you can see the behavior of
vector sharing by changing IOSAPIC_LAST_DEVICE_VECTOR to fewer value.
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Version 3 - rediffed to apply on top of Ashok's hotplug cpu
patch. /proc/cpuinfo output in step with x86.
This is an updated MC/MT identification patch based on the
previous discussions on list.
Add the Multi-core and Multi-threading detection for IPF.
- Add new core and threading related fields in /proc/cpuinfo.
Physical id
Core id
Thread id
Siblings
- setup the cpu_core_map and cpu_sibling_map appropriately
- Handles Hot plug CPU
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gordon Jin <gordon.jin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch against ia64-test-2.6.12 is needed for forthcoming
Altix chipsets. It renames geoid_any_t to geoid_common_t and
splits the 8bit 'slab' field into two 4bit fields for 'slab'
and 'slot'. Similar changes in the Altix SAL will retain backward
compatibility for old kernels.
Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
patch 2:
Shub2 BTE recovery code will be implemented in SAL.
Define the SAL interface.
Modify bte_error to call SAL for shub2.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch introduces using the quicklists for pgd, pmd, and pte levels
by combining the alloc and free functions into a common set of routines.
This greatly simplifies the reading of this header file.
This patch is simple but necessary for large numa configurations.
It simply ensures that only pages from the local node are added to a
cpus quicklist. This prevents the trapping of pages on a remote nodes
quicklist by starting a process, touching a large number of pages to
fill pmd and pte entries, migrating to another node, and then unmapping
or exiting. With those conditions, the pages get trapped and if the
machine has more than 100 nodes of the same size, the calculation of
the pgtable high water mark will be larger than any single node so page
table cache flushing will never occur.
I ran lmbench lat_proc fork and lat_proc exec on a zx1 with and without
this patch and did not notice any change.
On an sn2 machine, there was a slight improvement which is possibly
due to pages from other nodes trapped on the test node before starting
the run. I did not investigate further.
This patch shrinks the quicklist based upon free memory on the node
instead of the high/low water marks. I have written it to enable
preemption periodically and recalculate the amount to shrink every time
we have freed enough pages that the quicklist size should have grown.
I rescan the nodes zones each pass because other processess may be
draining node memory at the same time as we are adding.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch is to provide CX port infrastructure for SGI TIO-based
h/w. Also a 'core services' driver for SGI FPGA-based h/w.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Losure <blosure@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
- make pfm_sysctl a global such that it is possible
to enable/disable debug printk in sampling formats
using PFM_DEBUG.
- remove unused pfm_debug_var variable
- fix a bug in pfm_handle_work where an BUG_ON() could
be triggered. There is a path where pfm_handle_work()
can be called with interrupts enabled, i.e., when
TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set. The fix correct the masking
and unmasking of interrupts in pfm_handle_work() such
that we restore the interrupt mask as it was upon entry.
signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch enables our TIO IO chipset to support variable length nasids in
Shub2 chipset.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ngam <cngam@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
please accept this patch to the Altix SN platform topology export
interface to support new chipsets and to export PCI topology.
This follows on top of Jack Steiner's patch dated March 1st
("New chipset support for SN platform").
Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Change the value of the SAL call number for a new SAL request. The
initial implementation in the PROM did not match what the OS expected.
Since the OS can run on PROMs that do not implement the new call,
changing the call number avoids the issue. New PROMs will implement
the new call number. (This avoids problems with the 4.05 PROM).
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Provide a driver for the altix TIOCA AGP chipset. An agpgart backend will
be provided as a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Move a couple of headers out of arch/ia64/sn/include/pci and into
include/asm-ia64/sn.
Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real
Adds a define to the SPI Card Select bit on the S3C2400 into
include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410/regs-spi.h
Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real
Signed-off-by: Russell King
Denis Vlasenko