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1136 Commits (1eba8f84380bede3c602bd7758dea96925cead01)

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Ingo Molnar 4200efd9ac sched: properly define the sched_group::cpumask and sched_domain::span fields
Properly document the variable-size structure tricks we are doing
wrt. struct sched_group and sched_domain, and use the field[0] GCC
extension instead of defining a vla array.

Dont use unions for this, as pointed out by Linus.

[ Impact: cleanup, un-confuse Sparse and LLVM ]

Reported-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905180850110.3301@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-19 09:22:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar dc3f81b129 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: this branch was on an -rc4 base, merge it up to -rc6
              to get the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 07:37:49 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 2d02494f5a sched, timers: cleanup avenrun users
avenrun is an rough estimate so we don't have to worry about
consistency of the three avenrun values. Remove the xtime lock
dependency and provide a function to scale the values. Cleanup the
users.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-05-15 15:32:45 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner dce48a84ad sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler
Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across
calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long
latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems. 

The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is
no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem
when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values.

Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code
update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update
happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls
do_timer().

[ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-05-15 15:32:45 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj eea08f32ad timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

This patch migrates all non pinned timers and hrtimers to the current
idle load balancer, from all the idle CPUs. Timers firing on busy CPUs
are not migrated.

While migrating hrtimers, care should be taken to check if migrating
a hrtimer would result in a latency or not. So we compare the expiry of the
hrtimer with the next timer interrupt on the target cpu and migrate the
hrtimer only if it expires *after* the next interrupt on the target cpu.
So, added a clockevents_get_next_event() helper function to return the
next_event on the target cpu's clock_event_device.

[ tglx: cleanups and simplifications ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj cd1bb94b4a timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

This patch creates the /proc/sys sysctl interface at
/proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration

Timer migration is enabled by default.

To disable timer migration, when CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG = y,

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj 5c333864a6 timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked:
1)sched_rt_period_timer
2)tick_sched_timer
3)stack_trace_timer_fn

[ tglx: fixup the hrtimer pinned mode ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 7961386fe9 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into sched/core
Merge reason: sched/core was on .30-rc1 before, update to latest fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 12:59:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f066a15533 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/xen
Conflicts:
	arch/frv/include/asm/pgtable.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
	arch/x86/xen/mmu.c

Merge reason: x86/xen was on a .29 base still, move it to a fresher
              branch and pick up Xen fixes as well, plus resolve
              conflicts

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 10:50:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0ad5d703c6 Merge branch 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/core
Merge reason: this topic is ready for upstream now. It passed
              Oleg's review and Andrew had no further mm/*
              objections/observations either.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 13:36:22 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 44347d947f Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
              on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
David Rientjes aa47b7e0f8 sched: emit thread info flags with stack trace
When a thread is oom killed and fails to exit, it's helpful to know which
threads have access to memory reserves if the machine livelocks.  This is
done by testing for the TIF_MEMDIE thread info flag and should be
displayed alongside stack traces to identify tasks that have access to
such reserves but are still stuck allocating pages, for instance.

It would probably be helpful in other cases as well, so all thread info
flags are emitted when showing a task.

( v2: fix warning reported by Stephen Rothwell )

[ Impact: extend debug printout info ]

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905040136390.15831@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 09:36:28 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers de1d728606 tracepoint: trace_sched_migrate_task(): remove parameter
The orig_cpu parameter in trace_sched_migrate_task() is not necessary,
it can be got by using task_cpu(p) in the probe.

[ Impact: micro-optimization ]

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
[ modified from Mathieu's patch. The original patch is at:
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123791201716239&w=2 ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
LKML-Reference: <49FFFDB7.1050402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-06 12:15:51 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 60aa605dfc sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings
Thomas noted that we should disallow sysctl_sched_rt_runtime == 0 for
(!RT_GROUP) since the root group always has some RT tasks in it.

Further, update the documentation to inspire clue.

[ Impact: exclude corner-case sysctl_sched_rt_runtime value ]

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155436.863098054@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-05 20:07:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0d905bca23 perf_counter: initialize the per-cpu context earlier
percpu scheduling for perfcounters wants to take the context lock,
but that lock first needs to be initialized. Currently it is an
early_initcall() - but that is too late, the task tick runs much
sooner than that.

Call it explicitly from the scheduler init sequence instead.

[ Impact: fix access-before-init crash ]

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-04 19:30:32 +02:00
Eric Dumazet f5f293a4e3 sched: account system time properly
Andrew Gallatin reported that IRQ and SOFTIRQ times were
sometime not reported correctly on recent kernels, and even
bisected to commit 457533a7d3
([PATCH] fix scaled & unscaled cputime accounting) as the first
bad commit.

Further analysis pointed that commit
79741dd357 ([PATCH] idle cputime
accounting) was the real cause of the problem.

account_process_tick() was not taking into account timer IRQ
interrupting the idle task servicing a hard or soft irq.

On mostly idle cpu, irqs were thus not accounted and top or
mpstat could tell user/admin that cpu was 100 % idle, 0.00 %
irq, 0.00 % softirq, while it was not.

[ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect CPU statistics in top/mpstat ]

Reported-by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Re-reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: rick.jones2@hp.com
Cc: brice@myri.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
LKML-Reference: <49F84BC1.7080602@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 15:02:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e7fd5d4b3d Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
              the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:47:05 +02:00
David Howells 50fa610a3b sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives
Add a section to the memory barriers document to note the implied
memory barriers of sleep primitives (set_current_state() and wrappers)
and wake-up primitives (wake_up() and co.).

Also extend the in-code comments on the wake_up() functions to note
these implied barriers.

[ Impact: add documentation ]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090428140138.1192.94723.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:15:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 416dfdcdb8 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c

Merge reason: fix the conflict above, and also pick up the CONFIG_BROKEN
              dependency change from upstream so that we can remove it
	      here.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-24 10:11:23 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy 6e29ec5701 sched: Replace first_cpu() with cpumask_first() in ILB nomination code
Stephen Rothwell reported this build warning:

>  kernel/sched.c: In function 'find_new_ilb':
>  kernel/sched.c:4355: warning: passing argument 1 of '__first_cpu' from incompatible pointer type
>
> Possibly caused by commit f711f6090a
> ("sched: Nominate idle load balancer from a semi-idle package") from
> the sched tree.  Should this call to first_cpu be cpumask_first?

For !(CONFIG_SCHED_MC || CONFIG_SCHED_SMT), find_new_ilb() nominates the
Idle load balancer as the first cpu from the nohz.cpu_mask.

This code uses the older API first_cpu(). Replace it with cpumask_first(),
which is the correct API here.

[ Impact: cleanup, address build warning ]

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20090421031049.GA4140@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21 08:06:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ff743345bf sched: remove extra call overhead for schedule()
Lai Jiangshan's patch reminded me that I promised Nick to remove
that extra call overhead in schedule().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090313112300.927414207@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-20 20:49:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f1f9b3b179 perfcounters, sched: remove __task_delta_exec()
This function was left orphan by the latest round of sw-counter
cleanups.

[ Impact: remove unused kernel function ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-20 20:38:21 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy 381512cf3d sched: Avoid printing sched_group::__cpu_power for default case
Commit 46e0bb9c12 ("sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power
in sched_domain_debug") produces a messy dmesg output while
attempting to print the sched_group::__cpu_power for each
group in the sched_domain hierarchy.

Fix this by avoid printing the __cpu_power for default cases.
(i.e, __cpu_power == SCHED_LOAD_SCALE).

[ Impact: reduce syslog clutter ]

Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Fixed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LKML-Reference: <20090414033936.GA534@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-17 00:46:05 +02:00
Miao Xie 13318a7186 sched: use group_first_cpu() instead of cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus())
Impact: cleanup

This patch changes cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus()) to group_first_cpu()
for maintainability.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-15 13:34:07 +02:00
Steven Rostedt ad8d75fff8 tracing/events: move trace point headers into include/trace/events
Impact: clean up

Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the
trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that
declare trace points should be defined in this directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 22:05:43 -04:00
Steven Rostedt a8d154b009 tracing: create automated trace defines
This patch lowers the number of places a developer must modify to add
new tracepoints. The current method to add a new tracepoint
into an existing system is to write the trace point macro in the
trace header with one of the macros TRACE_EVENT, TRACE_FORMAT or
DECLARE_TRACE, then they must add the same named item into the C file
with the macro DEFINE_TRACE(name) and then add the trace point.

This change cuts out the needing to add the DEFINE_TRACE(name).
Every file that uses the tracepoint must still include the trace/<type>.h
file, but the one C file must also add a define before the including
of that file.

 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/mytrace.h>

This will cause the trace/mytrace.h file to also produce the C code
necessary to implement the trace point.

Note, if more than one trace/<type>.h is used to create the C code
it is best to list them all together.

 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/foo.h>
 #include <trace/bar.h>
 #include <trace/fido.h>

Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers and Christoph Hellwig for coming up with
the cleaner solution of the define above the includes over my first
design to have the C code include a "special" header.

This patch converts sched, irq and lockdep and skb to use this new
method.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 12:57:28 -04:00
Johannes Weiner 78ddb08feb wait: don't use __wake_up_common()
'777c6c5 wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation' made
__wake_up_common() global to be used from abort_exclusive_wait().

It was needed to do a wake-up with the waitqueue lock held while
passing down a key to the wake-up function.

Since '4ede816 epoll keyed wakeups: add __wake_up_locked_key() and
__wake_up_sync_key()' there is an appropriate wrapper for this case:
__wake_up_locked_key().

Use it here and make __wake_up_common() private to the scheduler
again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1239720785-19661-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 17:17:16 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy e790fb0ba6 sched: Nominate a power-efficient ilb in select_nohz_balancer()
The CPU that first goes idle becomes the idle-load-balancer and remains
that until either it picks up a task or till all the CPUs of the system
goes idle.

Optimize this further to allow it to relinquish it's post
once all it's siblings in the power-aware sched_domain go idle, thereby
allowing the whole package-core to go idle. While relinquising the post,
nominate another an idle-load balancer from a semi-idle core/package.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090414045535.7645.31641.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 11:49:19 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy f711f6090a sched: Nominate idle load balancer from a semi-idle package.
Currently the nomination of idle-load balancer is done by choosing the first
idle cpu in the nohz.cpu_mask. This may not be power-efficient, since
such an idle cpu could come from a completely idle core/package thereby
preventing the whole core/package from being in a low-power state.

For eg, consider a quad-core dual package system. The cpu numbering need
not be sequential and can something like [0, 2, 4, 6] and [1, 3, 5, 7].
With sched_mc/smt_power_savings and the power-aware IRQ balance, we try to keep
as fewer Packages/Cores active. But the current idle load balancer logic
goes against this by choosing the first_cpu in the nohz.cpu_mask and not
taking the system topology into consideration.

Improve the algorithm to nominate the idle load balancer from a semi idle
cores/packages thereby increasing the probability of the cores/packages being
in deeper sleep states for longer duration.

The algorithm is activated only when sched_mc/smt_power_savings != 0.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090414045530.7645.12175.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 11:49:19 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan 132380a06b tracing, sched: mark get_parent_ip() notrace
Impact: remove overly redundant tracing entries

When tracer is "function" or "function_graph", way too much
"get_parent_ip" entries are recorded in ring_buffer.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D458B1.5000703@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 02:11:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5af8c4e0fa Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into sched/urgent
Merge reason: update to latest upstream to queue up fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 17:26:00 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 38f4b8c0da Merge commit 'origin/master' into for-linus/xen/master
* commit 'origin/master': (4825 commits)
  Fix build errors due to CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y
  parport: Use the PCI IRQ if offered
  tty: jsm cleanups
  Adjust path to gpio headers
  KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE check for module
  Change KCONFIG name
  tty: Blackin CTS/RTS
  Change hardware flow control from poll to interrupt driven
  Add support for the MAX3100 SPI UART.
  lanana: assign a device name and numbering for MAX3100
  serqt: initial clean up pass for tty side
  tty: Use the generic RS485 ioctl on CRIS
  tty: Correct inline types for tty_driver_kref_get()
  splice: fix deadlock in splicing to file
  nilfs2: support nanosecond timestamp
  nilfs2: introduce secondary super block
  nilfs2: simplify handling of active state of segments
  nilfs2: mark minor flag for checkpoint created by internal operation
  nilfs2: clean up sketch file
  nilfs2: super block operations fix endian bug
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
	arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
	drivers/xen/manage.c
2009-04-07 13:34:16 -07:00
Markus Metzger a26b89f05d sched, hw-branch-tracer: add wait_task_context_switch() function to sched.h
Add a function to wait until some other task has been
switched out at least once.

This differs from wait_task_inactive() subtly, in that the
latter will wait until the task has left the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: markus.t.metzger@gmail.com
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144549.794157000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:36:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6c009ecef8 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: need the upstream facility added by:

  7f1e2ca: hrtimer: fix rq->lock inversion (again)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 12:05:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 849691a6cd perf_counter: remove rq->lock usage
Now that all the task runtime clock users are gone, remove the ugly
rq->lock usage from perf counters, which solves the nasty deadlock
seen when a software task clock counter was read from an NMI overflow
context.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.531137582@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:49:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 609862be07 Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: add stack dumps to asserts
  hrtimer: fix rq->lock inversion (again)
2009-04-06 13:37:30 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 4a0deca657 perf_counter: generic context switch event
Impact: cleanup

Use the generic software events for context switches.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.283522645@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f541ae326f Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2
Merge reason: we have gathered quite a few conflicts, need to merge upstream

Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
	arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c
	include/linux/sched.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:02:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 714f83d5d9 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
  tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
  tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
  ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
  function-graph: allow unregistering twice
  trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
  tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
  tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
  blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
  blktrace: extract duplidate code
  blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
  blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
  blktrace: make classic output more classic
  blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
  blktrace: fix the original blktrace
  blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
  blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
  tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
  tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
  ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
  x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
 arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
 include/linux/memory.h
 kernel/extable.c
 kernel/module.c
2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 90975ef712 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask: (36 commits)
  cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance, fix
  numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h, fix
  cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance
  x86: cpumask: x86 mmio-mod.c use cpumask_var_t for downed_cpus
  x86: cpumask: update 32-bit APM not to mug current->cpus_allowed
  x86: microcode: cleanup
  x86: cpumask: use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
  cpumask: fix CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpu hotunplug crash
  numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h
  cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: remove x86 cpumask_t uses.
  cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in uv_flush_tlb_others.
  cpumask: remove cpumask_t assignment from vector_allocation_domain()
  cpumask: make Xen use the new operators.
  cpumask: clean up summit's send_IPI functions
  cpumask: use new cpumask functions throughout x86
  x86: unify cpu_callin_mask/cpu_callout_mask/cpu_initialized_mask/cpu_sibling_setup_mask
  cpumask: convert struct cpuinfo_x86's llc_shared_map to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t
  x86: unify 32 and 64-bit node_to_cpumask_map
  ...
2009-04-05 10:33:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b1dbb67911 Merge branch 'ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  s390: remove arch specific smp_send_stop()
  panic: clean up kernel/panic.c
  panic, smp: provide smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too
  panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic
  generic-ipi: eliminate WARN_ON()s during oops/panic
  generic-ipi: cleanups
  generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAIT
  generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()
  generic IPI: simplify barriers and locking
2009-04-03 17:33:30 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 8302294f43 Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus
Conflicts:
	include/linux/slub_def.h
	lib/Kconfig.debug
	mm/slob.c
	mm/slub.c
2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
Davide Libenzi 4ede816ac3 epoll keyed wakeups: add __wake_up_locked_key() and __wake_up_sync_key()
This patchset introduces wakeup hints for some of the most popular (from
epoll POV) devices, so that epoll code can avoid spurious wakeups on its
waiters.

The problem with epoll is that the callback-based wakeups do not, ATM,
carry any information about the events the wakeup is related to.  So the
only choice epoll has (not being able to call f_op->poll() from inside the
callback), is to add the file* to a ready-list and resolve the real events
later on, at epoll_wait() (or its own f_op->poll()) time.  This can cause
spurious wakeups, since the wake_up() itself might be for an event the
caller is not interested into.

The rate of these spurious wakeup can be pretty high in case of many
network sockets being monitored.

By allowing devices to report the events the wakeups refer to (at least
the two major classes - POLLIN/POLLOUT), we are able to spare useless
wakeups by proper handling inside the epoll's poll callback.

Epoll will have in any case to call f_op->poll() on the file* later on,
since the change to be done in order to have the full event set sent via
wakeup, is too invasive for the way our f_op->poll() system works (the
full event set is calculated inside the poll function - there are too many
of them to even start thinking the change - also poll/select would need
change too).

Epoll is changed in a way that both devices which send event hints, and
the ones that don't, are correctly handled.  The former will gain some
efficiency though.

As a general rule for devices, would be to add an event mask by using
key-aware wakeup macros, when making up poll wait queues.  I tested it
(together with the epoll's poll fix patch Andrew has in -mm) and wakeups
for the supported devices are correctly filtered.

Test program available here:

http://www.xmailserver.org/epoll_test.c

This patch:

Nothing revolutionary here.  Just using the available "key" that our
wakeup core already support.  The __wake_up_locked_key() was no brainer,
since both __wake_up_locked() and __wake_up_locked_key() are thin wrappers
around __wake_up_common().

The __wake_up_sync() function had a body, so the choice was between
borrowing the body for __wake_up_sync_key() and calling it from
__wake_up_sync(), or make an inline and calling it from both.  I chose the
former since in most archs it all resolves to "mov $0, REG; jmp ADDR".

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:20 -07:00
Gautham R Shenoy 46e0bb9c12 sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power in sched_domain_debug
Impact: extend debug info /proc/sched_debug

If the user changes the value of the sched_mc/smt_power_savings sysfs
tunable, it'll trigger a rebuilding of the whole sched_domain tree,
with the SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE flag set at certain levels.

As a result, there would be a change in the __cpu_power of sched_groups
in the sched_domain hierarchy.

Print the __cpu_power values for each sched_group in sched_domain_debug
to help verify this change and correlate it with the change in the
load-balancing behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090330045520.2869.24777.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-01 17:58:03 +02:00
Bharata B Rao ef12fefabf cpuacct: add per-cgroup utime/stime statistics
Add per-cgroup cpuacct controller statistics like the system and user
time consumed by the group of tasks.

Changelog:

v7
- Changed the name of the statistic from utime to user and from stime to
  system so that in future we could easily add other statistics like irq,
  softirq, steal times etc easily.

v6
- Fixed a bug in the error path of cpuacct_create() (pointed by Li Zefan).

v5
- In cpuacct_stats_show(), use cputime64_to_clock_t() since we are
  operating on a 64bit variable here.

v4
- Remove comments in cpuacct_update_stats() which explained why rcu_read_lock()
  was needed (as per Peter Zijlstra's review comments).
- Don't say that percpu_counter_read() is broken in Documentation/cpuacct.txt
  as per KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's review comments.

v3
- Fix a small race in the cpuacct hierarchy walk.

v2
- stime and utime now exported in clock_t units instead of msecs.
- Addressed the code review comments from Balbir and Li Zefan.
- Moved to -tip tree.

v1
- Moved the stime/utime accounting to cpuacct controller.

Earlier versions
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/25/129

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090331043222.GA4093@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-01 16:49:38 +02:00
Hidetoshi Seto c5f8d99585 posixtimers, sched: Fix posix clock monotonicity
Impact: Regression fix (against clock_gettime() backwarding bug)

This patch re-introduces a couple of functions, task_sched_runtime
and thread_group_sched_runtime, which was once removed at the
time of 2.6.28-rc1.

These functions protect the sampling of thread/process clock with
rq lock.  This rq lock is required not to update rq->clock during
the sampling.

i.e.
  The clock_gettime() may return
   ((accounted runtime before update) + (delta after update))
  that is less than what it should be.

v2 -> v3:
	- Rename static helper function __task_delta_exec()
	  to do_task_delta_exec() since -tip tree already has
	  a __task_delta_exec() of different version.

v1 -> v2:
	- Revises comments of function and patch description.
	- Add note about accuracy of thread group's runtime.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org	[2.6.28.x][2.6.29.x]
LKML-Reference: <49D1CC93.4080401@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-01 16:44:16 +02:00
Bharata B Rao a18b83b7ef cpuacct: make cpuacct hierarchy walk in cpuacct_charge() safe when rcupreempt is used -v2
Impact: fix cgroups race under rcu-preempt

cpuacct_charge() obtains task's ca and does a hierarchy walk upwards.
This can race with the task's movement between cgroups. This race
can cause an access to freed ca pointer in cpuacct_charge() or access
to invalid cgroups pointer of the task. This will not happen with rcu or
tree rcu as cpuacct_charge() is called with preemption disabled. However if
rcupreempt is used, the race is seen. Thanks to Li Zefan for explaining this.

Fix this race by explicitly protecting ca and the hierarchy walk with
rcu_read_lock().

Changes for v2:

 - Update patch descrition (as per Li Zefan's review comments).

 - Remove comments in cpuacct_charge() which explained why rcu_read_lock()
   was needed (as per Peter Zijlstra's review comments).

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-31 18:27:59 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7f1e2ca9f0 hrtimer: fix rq->lock inversion (again)
It appears I inadvertly introduced rq->lock recursion to the
hrtimer_start() path when I delegated running already expired
timers to softirq context.

This patch fixes it by introducing a __hrtimer_start_range_ns()
method that will not use raise_softirq_irqoff() but
__raise_softirq_irqoff() which avoids the wakeup.

It then also changes schedule() to check for pending softirqs and
do the wakeup then, I'm not quite sure I like this last bit, nor
am I convinced its really needed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090313112301.096138802@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-31 14:52:52 +02:00
Rusty Russell 558f6ab910 Merge branch 'cpumask-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
	drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
(Both cases: changed in Linus' tree, removed in Ingo's).
2009-03-31 13:33:50 +10:30
Linus Torvalds c4e1aa67ed Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (33 commits)
  lockdep: fix deadlock in lockdep_trace_alloc
  lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix SLOB
  lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix
  lockdep: build fix for !PROVE_LOCKING
  lockstat: warn about disabled lock debugging
  lockdep: use stringify.h
  lockdep: simplify check_prev_add_irq()
  lockdep: get_user_chars() redo
  lockdep: simplify get_user_chars()
  lockdep: add comments to mark_lock_irq()
  lockdep: remove macro usage from mark_held_locks()
  lockdep: fully reduce mark_lock_irq()
  lockdep: merge the !_READ mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: merge the _READ mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers #3
  lockdep: further simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: simplify the mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: split up mark_lock_irq()
  lockdep: generate usage strings
  lockdep: generate the state bit definitions
  ...
2009-03-30 17:17:35 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 65fb0d23fc Merge branch 'linus' into cpumask-for-linus
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
2009-03-30 23:53:32 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 224101ed69 x86/paravirt: finish change from lazy cpu to context switch start/end
Impact: fix lazy context switch API

Pass the previous and next tasks into the context switch start
end calls, so that the called functions can properly access the
task state (esp in end_context_switch, in which the next task
is not yet completely current).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-03-29 23:36:01 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 7fd7d83d49 x86/pvops: replace arch_enter_lazy_cpu_mode with arch_start_context_switch
Impact: simplification, prepare for later changes

Make lazy cpu mode more specific to context switching, so that
it makes sense to do more context-switch specific things in
the callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-03-29 23:35:59 -07:00
Randy Dunlap d5ac537e5f sched: fix errors in struct & function comments
Fix kernel-doc errors in sched.c:  the structs don't have
kernel-doc notation and the short function description needs to
be one line only.

  Error(kernel/sched.c:3197): cannot understand prototype: 'struct sd_lb_stats '
  Error(kernel/sched.c:3228): cannot understand prototype: 'struct sg_lb_stats '
  Error(kernel/sched.c:3375): duplicate section name 'Description'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-29 08:12:39 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 6e15cf0486 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2
Conflicts:
	arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
	kernel/irq/handle.c

Semantic merge:
        arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy b7bb4c9bb0 sched: Add comments to find_busiest_group() function
Impact: cleanup

Add /** style comments around find_busiest_group(). Also add a few
explanatory comments.

This concludes the find_busiest_group() cleanup. The function is
now down to 72 lines from the original 313 lines.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091427.13992.18933.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 13:28:30 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy c071df1852 sched: Refactor the power savings balance code
Impact: cleanup

Create seperate helper functions to initialize the
power-savings-balance related variables, to update them and
to check if we have a scope for performing power-savings balance.

Add no-op inline functions for the !(CONFIG_SCHED_MC || CONFIG_SCHED_SMT)
case.

This will eliminate all the #ifdef jungle in find_busiest_group() and the
other helper functions.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091422.13992.73616.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:48 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy a021dc0337 sched: Optimize the !power_savings_balance during fbg()
Impact: cleanup, micro-optimization

We don't need to perform power_savings balance if either the
cpu is NOT_IDLE or if the sched_domain doesn't contain the
SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE flag set.

Currently, we check for these conditions multiple number of
times, even though these variables don't change over the scope
of find_busiest_group().

Check once, and store the value in the already exiting
"power_savings_balance" variable.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091417.13992.2657.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:48 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy dbc523a3b8 sched: Create a helper function to calculate imbalance
Move all the imbalance calculation out of find_busiest_group()
through this helper function.

With this change, the structure of find_busiest_group() will be
as follows:

- update_sched_domain_statistics.

- check if imbalance exits.

- update imbalance and return busiest.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091411.13992.43293.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:47 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy 2e6f44aeda sched: Create helper to calculate small_imbalance in fbg()
Impact: cleanup

We have two places in find_busiest_group() where we need to calculate
the minor imbalance before returning the busiest group. Encapsulate
this functionality into a seperate helper function.

Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091406.13992.54316.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:47 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy 37abe198b1 sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_domain stats for fbg()
Impact: cleanup

Create a helper function named update_sd_lb_stats() to update the
various sched_domain related statistics in find_busiest_group().

With this we would have moved all the statistics computation out of
find_busiest_group().

Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091401.13992.88737.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:46 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy 222d656dea sched: Define structure to store the sched_domain statistics for fbg()
Impact: cleanup

Currently we use a lot of local variables in find_busiest_group()
to capture the various statistics related to the sched_domain.
Group them together into a single data structure.

This will help us to offload the job of updating the sched_domain
statistics to a helper function.

Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091356.13992.25970.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:46 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy 1f8c553d0f sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_group stats for fbg()
Impact: cleanup

Create a helper function named update_sg_lb_stats() which
can be invoked to calculate the individual group's statistics
in find_busiest_group().

This reduces the lenght of find_busiest_group() considerably.

Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Aked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091351.13992.43461.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:45 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy 381be78fdc sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg()
Impact: cleanup

Currently a whole bunch of variables are used to store the
various statistics pertaining to the groups we iterate over
in find_busiest_group().

Group them together in a single data structure and add
appropriate comments.

This will be useful later on when we create helper functions
to calculate the sched_group statistics.

Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091345.13992.20099.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:45 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy 6dfdb06290 sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotos
Impact: cleanup

Some indentations in find_busiest_group() can minimized by using
early exits with the help of gotos. This improves readability in
a couple of cases.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091340.13992.45062.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:44 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy 67bb6c036d sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group()
Impact: cleanup

Currently the load idx calculation code is in find_busiest_group().
Move that to a static inline helper function.

Similary, to find the first cpu of a sched_group we use
cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus(group))

Use a helper to that. It improves readability in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091335.13992.55424.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:44 +01:00
Luis Henriques 67aa0f767a sched: remove unused fields from struct rq
Impact: cleanup, new schedstat ABI

Since they are used on in statistics and are always set to zero, the
following fields from struct rq have been removed: yld_exp_empty,
yld_act_empty and yld_both_empty.

Both Sched Debug and SCHEDSTAT_VERSION versions has also been
incremented since ABIs have been changed.

The schedtop tool has been updated to properly handle new version of
schedstat:

   http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Schedtop_utility

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090324221002.GA10061@hades.domain.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-24 23:16:51 +01:00
Rusty Russell 8c083f081d cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance, fix
Impact: fix boot crash

Fix typo in the size calculation.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903181729360.31583@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-19 13:49:44 +01:00
Rusty Russell df7c8e845e cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance
Impact: fix circular locking

Steven reports a circular locking from alloc_cpumask_var doing
a wakeup. We get rid of this using the tried-and-true technique
of using a per-cpu cpumask_var_t rather than doing an alloc
every time.

Simpler and more robust than a rare, implicit allocation within
an atomic codepath.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903181729360.31583@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-19 08:15:15 +01:00
Luis Henriques 708dc51253 sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task()
There were 3 invocations of task_hot() in can_migrate_task().

Replace these 3 invocations by only one invocation, cached in
a local variable.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
LKML-Reference: <20090316195902.GA6197@hades.domain.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-17 12:04:41 +01:00
Luis Henriques 80dd99b368 sched: fix typos in documentation
Fixed typos in function documentation.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
LKML-Reference: <20090316195809.GA6073@hades.domain.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-17 12:04:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar cd80a8142e Merge branch 'x86/core' into core/ipi 2009-03-13 11:05:58 +01:00
Rusty Russell c69fc56de1 cpumask: use topology_core_cpumask/topology_thread_cpumask instead of cpu_core_map/cpu_sibling_map
Impact: cleanup

This is presumably what those definitions are for, and while all archs
define cpu_core_map/cpu_sibling map, that's changing (eg. x86 wants to
change it to a pointer).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-13 14:49:46 +10:30
Ingo Molnar 25d500067d Merge branch 'linus' into core/ipi 2009-03-13 02:14:25 +01:00
Mike Galbraith df1c99d416 sched: add avg_overlap decay
Impact: more precise avg_overlap metric - better load-balancing

avg_overlap is used to measure the runtime overlap of the waker and
wakee.

However, when a process changes behaviour, eg a pipe becomes
un-congested and we don't need to go to sleep after a wakeup
for a while, the avg_overlap value grows stale.

When running we use the avg runtime between preemption as a
measure for avg_overlap since the amount of runtime can be
correlated to cache footprint.

The longer we run, the less likely we'll be wanting to be
migrated to another CPU.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1236709131.25234.576.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-11 11:31:50 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 57310a98a3 sched: optimize ttwu vs group scheduling
Impact: micro-optimization

We can avoid the sched domain walk on try_to_wake_up() when we know
there are no groups.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1236603381.8389.455.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-10 16:43:36 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f0ef039851 Merge branch 'x86/core' into tracing/textedit
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig
	block/blktrace.c
	kernel/irq/handle.c

Semantic conflict:
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 16:45:01 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan 5ed0cec0ac sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanup
Impact: cleanup

Use test_tsk_need_resched(), set_tsk_need_resched(), need_resched()
instead of using TIF_NEED_RESCHED.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <49B10BA4.9070209@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 12:48:55 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 7fc07d8410 Merge branch 'sched/core' into sched/cleanups 2009-03-06 11:47:52 +01:00
Ingo Molnar a1413c89ae Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
Semantic merge:
	arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-05 21:48:50 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 8a0be9ef82 sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain
Impact: fix function graph trace hang / drop pointless softirq on UP

While debugging a function graph trace hang on an old PII, I saw
that it consumed most of its time on the timer interrupt. And
the domain rebalancing softirq was the most concerned.

The timer interrupt calls trigger_load_balance() which will
decide if it is worth to schedule a rebalancing softirq.

In case of builtin UP kernel, no problem arises because there is
no domain question.

In case of builtin SMP kernel running on an SMP box, still no
problem, the softirq will be raised each time we reach the
next_balance time.

In case of builtin SMP kernel running on a UP box (most distros
provide default SMP kernels, whatever the box you have), then
the CPU is attached to the NULL sched domain. So a kind of
unexpected behaviour happen:

trigger_load_balance() -> raises the rebalancing softirq later
on softirq: run_rebalance_domains() -> rebalance_domains() where
the for_each_domain(cpu, sd) is not taken because of the NULL
domain we are attached at. Which means rq->next_balance is never
updated. So on the next timer tick, we will enter
trigger_load_balance() which will always reschedule() the
rebalacing softirq:

if (time_after_eq(jiffies, rq->next_balance))
	raise_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ);

So for each tick, we process this pointless softirq.

This patch fixes it by checking if we are attached to the null
domain before raising the softirq, another possible fix would be
to set the maximal possible JIFFIES value to rq->next_balance if
we are attached to the NULL domain.

v2: build fix on UP

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <49af242d.1c07d00a.32d5.ffffc019@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-05 14:04:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 28b1bd1cbc Merge branch 'core/locking' into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-04 18:49:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8163d88c79 Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc7' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c
2009-03-04 11:42:31 +01:00
Ingo Molnar a1be621dfa Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc7' into tracing/core 2009-03-04 11:14:47 +01:00
Wang Chen b67802ea80 sched: kill unused parameter of pick_next_task()
Impact: micro-optimization

Parameter "prev" is not used really.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02 12:02:53 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 5512b3ece0 Merge branches 'sched/clock', 'sched/urgent' and 'linus' into sched/core 2009-03-02 12:02:36 +01:00
Dhaval Giani 54e9912428 sched: don't allow setuid to succeed if the user does not have rt bandwidth
Impact: fix hung task with certain (non-default) rt-limit settings

Corey Hickey reported that on using setuid to change the uid of a
rt process, the process would be unkillable and not be running.
This is because there was no rt runtime for that user group. Add
in a check to see if a user can attach an rt task to its task group.
On failure, return EINVAL, which is also returned in
CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED.

Reported-by: Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-27 11:11:53 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto cac64d00c2 sched_rt: don't start timer when rt bandwidth disabled
Impact: fix incorrect condition check

No need to start rt bandwidth timer when rt bandwidth is disabled.
If this timer starts, it may stop at sched_rt_period_timer() on the first time.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 14:18:55 +01:00
Li Zefan c40c6f85a7 cpuacct: add a branch prediction
cpuacct_charge() is in fast-path, and checking of !cpuacct_susys.active
always returns false after cpuacct has been initialized at system boot.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 13:22:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8e818179eb Merge branch 'x86/core' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 13:02:23 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 6e2756376c generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAIT
Oleg noticed that we don't strictly need CSD_FLAG_WAIT, rework
the code so that we can use CSD_FLAG_LOCK for both purposes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 14:13:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 0edcf8d692 Merge branch 'tj-percpu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
2009-02-24 21:52:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar fc6fc7f1b1 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c

Semantic conflict resolution:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
Rusty Russell b36128c830 alloc_percpu: change percpu_ptr to per_cpu_ptr
Impact: cleanup

There are two allocated per-cpu accessor macros with almost identical
spelling.  The original and far more popular is per_cpu_ptr (44
files), so change over the other 4 files.

tj: kill percpu_ptr() and update UP too

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20 16:29:08 +09:00
Ingo Molnar 72c26c9a26 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/blktrace
Conflicts:
	block/blktrace.c

Semantic merge:
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-19 09:00:35 +01:00
Américo Wang 2b8f836fb1 sched: use TASK_NICE for task_struct
#define TASK_NICE(p)            PRIO_TO_NICE((p)->static_prio)

So it's better to use TASK_NICE here.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-16 13:45:52 +01:00
Henrik Austad a0a522ce3d sched: idle_at_tick is only used when CONFIG_SMP is set
Impact: struct rq size optimization

The idle_at_tick in struct rq is only used in SMP settings
and it does not make sense to have this in the rq in an UP setup.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15 21:16:10 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 5274f8354d Merge branch 'sched/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc5' into sched/core 2009-02-15 21:15:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 1c511f740f Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/sysprof', 'tracing/urgent' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-02-13 10:25:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f8a6b2b9ce Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-13 09:44:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar e9c4ffb11f Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
2009-02-13 09:34:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar a0490fa35d sched: cpu hotplug fix
rq_attach_root() does a kfree() with the runqueue lock held.

That's not a very wise move, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-12 11:57:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 6c6f1f0f4d Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: revert recent sync wakeup changes
2009-02-11 08:25:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 94dba89533 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers
  timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix
  x86: clean up hpet timer reinit
  timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, remove spurious warning
  timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers
  signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats.
  x86: fix hpet timer reinit for x86_64
  sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline
2009-02-11 08:24:32 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra fc631c82e1 sched: revert recent sync wakeup changes
Intel reported a 10% regression (mysql+sysbench) on a 16-way machine
with these patches:

  1596e29: sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap
  d942fb6: sched: fix sync wakeups

Revert them.

Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Bisected-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 14:43:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f437e8b53e Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into sched/core 2009-02-11 10:17:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 95fd4845ed Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
	drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
	kernel/irq/handle.c
2009-02-11 09:22:04 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 249d51b53a Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-09 14:58:11 +01:00
Paul Mackerras 23a185ca8a perf_counters: make software counters work as per-cpu counters
Impact: kernel crash fix

Yanmin Zhang reported that using a PERF_COUNT_TASK_CLOCK software
counter as a per-cpu counter would reliably crash the system, because
it calls __task_delta_exec with a null pointer.  The page fault,
context switch and cpu migration counters also won't function
correctly as per-cpu counters since they reference the current task.

This fixes the problem by redirecting the task_clock counter to the
cpu_clock counter when used as a per-cpu counter, and by implementing
per-cpu page fault, context switch and cpu migration counters.

Along the way, this:

- Initializes counter->ctx earlier, in perf_counter_alloc, so that
  sw_perf_counter_init can use it
- Adds code to kernel/sched.c to count task migrations into each
  cpu, in rq->nr_migrations_in
- Exports the per-cpu context switch and task migration counts
  via new functions added to kernel/sched.c
- Makes sure that if sw_perf_counter_init fails, we don't try to
  initialize the counter as a hardware counter.  Since the user has
  passed a negative, non-raw event type, they clearly don't intend
  for it to be interpreted as a hardware event.

Reported-by: "Zhang Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 12:47:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 4ad476e11f Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into tracing/core 2009-02-09 10:32:48 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 140573d33b Merge branches 'sched/rt' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2009-02-08 20:12:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 673f820591 Merge branch 'linus' into core/locking
Conflicts:
	fs/btrfs/locking.c
2009-02-07 18:31:54 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 9d45cf9e36 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c

Semantic merge:
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 22:30:01 +01:00
Johannes Weiner 777c6c5f1f wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation
With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must
ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished.

Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal.  And if
an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone
will ever wake up the next waiter.

This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by
lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when
the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently.  The aborted contender
didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by
waking up the next waiter.

Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from
the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise.
It does so under the waitqueue lock.  Racing with a wake up means the
aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will
wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the
concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it.

Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and
__wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake
up through the queue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		["after some testing"]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
Suresh Siddha 483b4ee60e sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline
Christian Borntraeger reports:

> After a logical cpu offline, even on a complete idle system, there
> is one cpu with full ticks. It turns out that nohz.cpu_mask has the
> the offlined cpu still set.
>
> In select_nohz_load_balancer() we check if the system is completely
> idle to turn of load balancing. We compare cpu_online_map with
> nohz.cpu_mask.  Since cpu_online_map is updated on cpu unplug,
> but nohz.cpu_mask is not, the check fails and the scheduler believes
> that we need an "idle load balancer" even on a fully idle system.
> Since the ilb cpu does not deactivate the timer tick this breaks NOHZ.

Fix the select_nohz_load_balancer() to not set the nohz.cpu_mask
while a cpu is going offline.

Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-04 22:31:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar dc573f9b20 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kmemtrace' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-02-03 06:25:38 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 1596e29773 sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap
Reinstate the weakening of the sync hint if set. This yields a more
symmetric usage of avg_overlap.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01 10:49:49 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra d942fb6c7d sched: fix sync wakeups
Pawel Dziekonski reported that the openssl benchmark and his
quantum chemistry application both show slowdowns due to the
scheduler under-parallelizing execution.

The reason are pipe wakeups still doing 'sync' wakeups which
overrides the normal buddy wakeup logic - even if waker and
wakee are loosely coupled.

Fix an inversion of logic in the buddy wakeup code.

Reported-by: Pawel Dziekonski <dzieko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01 10:49:06 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 7e49fcce1b trace, lockdep: manual preempt count adding for local_bh_disable
Impact: fix to preempt trace triggering lockdep check_flag failure

In local_bh_disable, the use of add_preempt_count causes the
preempt tracer to start recording the time preemption is off.
But because it already modified the preempt_count to show
softirqs disabled, and before it called the lockdep code to
handle this, it causes a state that lockdep can not handle.

The preempt tracer will reset the ring buffer on start of a trace,
and the ring buffer reset code does a spin_lock_irqsave. This
calls into lockdep and lockdep will fail when it detects the
invalid state of having softirqs disabled but the internal
current->softirqs_enabled is still set.

The fix is to manually add the SOFTIRQ_OFFSET to preempt count
and call the preempt tracer code outside the lockdep critical
area.

Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting this solution.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-23 11:10:57 +01:00
Ingo Molnar bfe2a3c3b5 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq_64.h

Semantic merge:
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h
	[ added apic_perf_irqs field. ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-23 10:20:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 77835492ed Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc2' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/syscalls.h
2009-01-21 16:37:27 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 198030782c Merge branch 'x86/mm' into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-01-21 10:39:51 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b2b062b816 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/system.h

Also, moved include/asm-x86/stackprotector.h to arch/x86/include/asm.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-18 18:37:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar af37501c79 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h

We merge tip/core/percpu into tip/perfcounters/core because of a
semantic and contextual conflict: the former eliminates the PDA,
while the latter extends it with apic_perf_irqs field.

Resolve the conflict by moving the new field to the irq_cpustat
structure on 64-bit too.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-18 18:15:49 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 7cb36b6ccd Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: sched_slice() fixlet
  sched: fix update_min_vruntime
  sched: SCHED_OTHER vs SCHED_IDLE isolation
  sched: SCHED_IDLE weight change
  sched: fix bandwidth validation for UID grouping
  Revert "sched: improve preempt debugging"
2009-01-15 16:55:00 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra cce7ade803 sched: SCHED_IDLE weight change
Increase the SCHED_IDLE weight from 2 to 3, this gives much more stable
vruntime numbers.

time advanced in 100ms:

 weight=2

 64765.988352
 67012.881408
 88501.412352

 weight=3

 35496.181411
 34130.971298
 35497.411573

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15 15:07:28 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 98a4826b99 sched: fix bandwidth validation for UID grouping
Impact: make rt-limit tunables work again

Mark Glines reported:

> I've got an issue on x86-64 where I can't configure the system to allow
> RT tasks for a non-root user.
>
> In 2.6.26.5, I was able to do the following to set things up nicely:
> echo 450000 >/sys/kernel/uids/0/cpu_rt_runtime
> echo 450000 >/sys/kernel/uids/1000/cpu_rt_runtime
>
> Seems like every value I try to echo into the /sys files returns EINVAL.

For UID grouping we initialize the root group with infinite bandwidth
which by default is actually more than the global limit, therefore the
bandwidth check always fails.

Because the root group is a phantom group (for UID grouping) we cannot
runtime adjust it, therefore we let it reflect the global bandwidth
settings.

Reported-by: Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15 15:07:27 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 831451ac4e sched: introduce avg_wakeup
Introduce a new avg_wakeup statistic.

avg_wakeup is a measure of how frequently a task wakes up other tasks, it
represents the average time between wakeups, with a limit of avg_runtime
for when it doesn't wake up anybody.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15 12:00:08 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 0d66bf6d35 mutex: implement adaptive spinning
Change mutex contention behaviour such that it will sometimes busy wait on
acquisition - moving its behaviour closer to that of spinlocks.

This concept got ported to mainline from the -rt tree, where it was originally
implemented for rtmutexes by Steven Rostedt, based on work by Gregory Haskins.

Testing with Ingo's test-mutex application (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/50)
gave a 345% boost for VFS scalability on my testbox:

 # ./test-mutex-shm V 16 10 | grep "^avg ops"
 avg ops/sec:               296604

 # ./test-mutex-shm V 16 10 | grep "^avg ops"
 avg ops/sec:               85870

The key criteria for the busy wait is that the lock owner has to be running on
a (different) cpu. The idea is that as long as the owner is running, there is a
fair chance it'll release the lock soon, and thus we'll be better off spinning
instead of blocking/scheduling.

Since regular mutexes (as opposed to rtmutexes) do not atomically track the
owner, we add the owner in a non-atomic fashion and deal with the races in
the slowpath.

Furthermore, to ease the testing of the performance impact of this new code,
there is means to disable this behaviour runtime (without having to reboot
the system), when scheduler debugging is enabled (CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y),
by issuing the following command:

 # echo NO_OWNER_SPIN > /debug/sched_features

This command re-enables spinning again (this is also the default):

 # echo OWNER_SPIN > /debug/sched_features

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14 18:09:02 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 41719b0309 mutex: preemption fixes
The problem is that dropping the spinlock right before schedule is a voluntary
preemption point and can cause a schedule, right after which we schedule again.

Fix this inefficiency by keeping preemption disabled until we schedule, do this
by explicity disabling preemption and providing a schedule() variant that
assumes preemption is already disabled.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14 18:09:00 +01:00
Gregory Haskins 398a153b16 sched: fix build error in kernel/sched_rt.c when RT_GROUP_SCHED && !SMP
Ingo found a build error in the scheduler when RT_GROUP_SCHED was
enabled, but SMP was not.  This patch rearranges the code such
that it is a little more streamlined and compiles under all permutations
of SMP, UP and RT_GROUP_SCHED.  It was boot tested on my 4-way x86_64
and it still passes preempt-test.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
2009-01-14 09:10:04 -05:00
Heiko Carstens 17da2bd90a [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 08
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:21 +01:00
Heiko Carstens 754fe8d297 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 07
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:20 +01:00
Heiko Carstens 5add95d4f7 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 06
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:20 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 01e3eb8227 Revert "sched: improve preempt debugging"
This reverts commit 7317d7b87e.

This has been reported (and bisected) by Alexey Zaytsev and
Kamalesh Babulal to produce annoying warnings during bootup
on both x86 and powerpc.

kernel_locked() is not a valid test in IRQ context (we update the
BKL's ->lock_depth and the preempt count separately and non-atomicalyy),
so we cannot put it into the generic preempt debugging checks which
can run in IRQ contexts too.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Reported-and-bisected-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-12 13:00:50 +01:00
Steven Noonan fd2ab30b65 kernel/sched.c: add missing forward declaration for 'double_rq_lock'
Impact: build fix on certain configs

Added 'double_rq_lock' forward declaration, allowing double_rq_lock
to be used in _double_lock_balance().

Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11 13:06:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 0a6d4e1dc9 Merge branch 'sched/latest' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ghaskins/linux-2.6-hacks into sched/rt 2009-01-11 04:58:49 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 506c10f26c Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/kernel_stat.h
2009-01-11 02:42:53 +01:00
Rusty Russell 62ea9ceb17 cpumask: fix CONFIG_NUMA=y sched.c
Impact: fix panic on ia64 with NR_CPUS=1024

struct sched_domain is now a dangling structure; where we really want
static ones, we need to use static_sched_domain.

(As the FIXME in this file says, cpumask_var_t would be better, but
this code is hairy enough without trying to add initialization code to
the right places).

Reported-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11 01:04:16 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra da8d5089da sched: fix possible recursive rq->lock
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan reported:

 > =============================================
 > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
 > 2.6.28-autotest-tip-sv #1
 > ---------------------------------------------
 > klogd/5062 is trying to acquire lock:
 >  (&rq->lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff8022aca2>] task_rq_lock+0x45/0x7e
 >
 > but task is already holding lock:
 >  (&rq->lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff805f7354>] schedule+0x158/0xa31

With sched_mc at 2. (it is default-off)

Strictly speaking we'll not deadlock, because ttwu will not be able to
place the migration task on our rq, but since the code can deal with
both rqs getting unlocked, this seems the easiest way out.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-07 16:10:54 +01:00
Li Zefan db2f59c8c9 sched: fix section mismatch
init_rootdomain() calls alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() at system boot,
so does cpupri_init().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-06 11:07:15 +01:00
Li Zefan 0c910d2895 sched: fix double kfree in failure path
It's not the responsibility of init_rootdomain() to free root_domain
allocated by alloc_rootdomain().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-06 11:07:04 +01:00
Li Zefan c70f22d203 sched: clean up arch_reinit_sched_domains()
- Make arch_reinit_sched_domains() static. It was exported to be used in
  s390, but now rebuild_sched_domains() is used instead.

- Make it return void.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-05 13:54:16 +01:00
Li Zefan 39aac64812 sched: mark sched_create_sysfs_power_savings_entries() as __init
Impact: cleanup

The only caller is cpu_dev_init() which is marked as __init.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-05 13:54:16 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 7d3b56ba37 Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits)
  x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup
  cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined
  cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate
  cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t
  x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c
  x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids
  sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
  x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus
  ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
  cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
  xtensa: define __fls
  mn10300: define __fls
  m32r: define __fls
  h8300: define __fls
  frv: define __fls
  cris: define __fls
  cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
  cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
  cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/
  cpumask: convert mm/
  ...
2009-01-03 12:04:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 61420f59a5 Merge branch 'cputime' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'cputime' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [PATCH] fast vdso implementation for CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
  [PATCH] improve idle cputime accounting
  [PATCH] improve precision of idle time detection.
  [PATCH] improve precision of process accounting.
  [PATCH] idle cputime accounting
  [PATCH] fix scaled & unscaled cputime accounting
2009-01-03 11:56:24 -08:00
Mike Travis 6ca09dfc9f sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
Impact: prevents panic from stack overflow on numa-capable machines.

Some of the "removal of stack hogs" changes in kernel/sched.c by using
node_to_cpumask_ptr were undone by the early cpumask API updates, and
causes a panic due to stack overflow.  This patch undoes those changes
by using cpumask_of_node() which returns a 'const struct cpumask *'.

In addition, cpu_coregoup_map is replaced with cpu_coregroup_mask further
reducing stack usage.  (Both of these updates removed 9 FIXME's!)

Also:
   Pick up some remaining changes from the old 'cpumask_t' functions to
   the new 'struct cpumask *' functions.

   Optimize memory traffic by allocating each percpu local_cpu_mask on the
   same node as the referring cpu.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-03 19:00:09 +01:00
Mike Travis 7eb1955336 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
	kernel/rcuclassic.c
	kernel/sched.c
	kernel/time/tick-sched.c

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
[ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-03 18:53:31 +01:00
Linus Torvalds b840d79631 Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
  x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
  x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
  sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
  x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
  x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
  sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
  sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
  sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
  sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
  sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
  sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
  sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
  sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
  sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
  x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
  x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
  x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
  x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
  x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
  x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
2009-01-02 11:44:09 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky 79741dd357 [PATCH] idle cputime accounting
The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is
currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures
that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the
time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first
is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time.
The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not
the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle
process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true
idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time
instead of just testing for the idle process.
To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture
primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context
points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu.

In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process.
This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should
be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as
every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle
time.

This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to
distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with
support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-31 15:11:46 +01:00