Commit 8ee294cd9d converted serio
subsystem event handling from using a dedicated thread to using
common workqueue. Unfortunately, this regressed our boot times,
due to the fact that serio jobs take long time to execute. While
the new concurrency managed workqueue code manages long-playing
works just fine and schedules additional workers as needed, such
works wreck havoc among remaining users of flush_scheduled_work().
To solve this problem let's move serio/gameport works from system_wq
to system_long_wq which nobody tries to flush.
Reported-and-tested-by: Hernando Torque <pantherchen@versanet.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits)
gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup
x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation
x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter
x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops
x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code
vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable
irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics
cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics
x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations
percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support
percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends
connector: Use this_cpu operations
xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return
taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops
random: Use this_cpu_inc_return
fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c
highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations
vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics
x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
...
Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c}
as per Tejun.
Instead of creating an exclusive thread to handle gameport events (which
happen rarely), let's switch to common workqueue. With the arrival
of concurrency-managed workqueue infrastructure we are not concerned
that our callers or callees also using workqueue (no deadlocks anymore)
and it should reduce total number of threads in the system.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
pr_xxx() and dev_xxx() helpers ensure that all messages emitted by the
module have consistent prefixes, so let's use them. Also fix some
formatting issues.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Current style calls for placing EXPORT_SYMBOL() markings directly
after exported symbol definition; let's follow it.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
The commit 6902c0bead that moved
driver registration out of kgameportd thread was incomplete and
did not add the code necessary to actually attach driver to
already registered devices, rectify that.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Perform actual driver registration right in gameport_register_driver()
instead of offloading it to kgameportd and return proper error code to
callers if driver registration fails.
Note that driver <-> port matching is still done by kgameportd.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
They have never been used and are unlikely to be used in the future
so remove them altogether.
Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
This does not make sense and moreover causes build failures
on alpha.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
cpu_data is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS. This means that
we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpus.
When NR_CPU count is raised to 4096 the size of cpu_data becomes
3,145,728 bytes.
These changes were adopted from the sparc64 (and ia64) code. An
additional field was added to cpuinfo_x86 to be a non-ambiguous cpu
index. This corresponds to the index into a cpumask_t as well as the
per_cpu index. It's used in various places like show_cpuinfo().
cpu_data is defined to be the boot_cpu_data structure for the NON-SMP
case.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Introduce freezer-friendly wrappers around wait_event_interruptible() and
wait_event_interruptible_timeout(), originally defined in <linux/wait.h>, to
be used in freezable kernel threads. Make some of the freezable kernel
threads use them.
This is necessary for the freezer to stop sending signals to kernel threads,
which is implemented in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so there is
no point in trying to access it.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds
Dmitry Torokhov
Christoph Lameter
Thomas Gleixner
Kay Sievers
Andre Haupt
Ivan Kokshaysky
Mike Travis
Rafael J. Wysocki
Dmitry Torokhov
Nigel Cunningham