Merge the same functions both in module_32.c and module_64.c into
module.c.
This is the first step to merge both of them finally.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
tracing: add protection around module events unload
tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
tracing: fix the block trace points print size
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
...
Conflicts:
arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c
arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c
Merge reason: we gathered a few conflicts plus update to latest upstream fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Xiaohui Xin and some other folks at Intel have been looking into what's
behind the performance hit of paravirt_ops when running native.
It appears that the hit is entirely due to the paravirtualized
spinlocks introduced by:
| commit 8efcbab674
| Date: Mon Jul 7 12:07:51 2008 -0700
|
| paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation
The extra call/return in the spinlock path is somehow
causing an increase in the cycles/instruction of somewhere around 2-7%
(seems to vary quite a lot from test to test). The working theory is
that the CPU's pipeline is getting upset about the
call->call->locked-op->return->return, and seems to be failing to
speculate (though I haven't seen anything definitive about the precise
reasons). This doesn't entirely make sense, because the performance
hit is also visible on unlock and other operations which don't involve
locked instructions. But spinlock operations clearly swamp all the
other pvops operations, even though I can't imagine that they're
nearly as common (there's only a .05% increase in instructions
executed).
If I disable just the pv-spinlock calls, my tests show that pvops is
identical to non-pvops performance on native (my measurements show that
it is actually about .1% faster, but Xiaohui shows a .05% slowdown).
Summary of results, averaging 10 runs of the "mmperf" test, using a
no-pvops build as baseline:
nopv Pv-nospin Pv-spin
CPU cycles 100.00% 99.89% 102.18%
instructions 100.00% 100.10% 100.15%
CPI 100.00% 99.79% 102.03%
cache ref 100.00% 100.84% 100.28%
cache miss 100.00% 90.47% 88.56%
cache miss rate 100.00% 89.72% 88.31%
branches 100.00% 99.93% 100.04%
branch miss 100.00% 103.66% 107.72%
branch miss rt 100.00% 103.73% 107.67%
wallclock 100.00% 99.90% 102.20%
The clear effect here is that the 2% increase in CPI is
directly reflected in the final wallclock time.
(The other interesting effect is that the more ops are
out of line calls via pvops, the lower the cache access
and miss rates. Not too surprising, but it suggests that
the non-pvops kernel is over-inlined. On the flipside,
the branch misses go up correspondingly...)
So, what's the fix?
Paravirt patching turns all the pvops calls into direct calls, so
_spin_lock etc do end up having direct calls. For example, the compiler
generated code for paravirtualized _spin_lock is:
<_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>: callq *0xffffffff805a5b30
<_spin_lock+22>: retq
The indirect call will get patched to:
<_spin_lock+0>: mov %gs:0xb4c8,%rax
<_spin_lock+9>: incl 0xffffffffffffe044(%rax)
<_spin_lock+15>: callq <__ticket_spin_lock>
<_spin_lock+20>: nop; nop /* or whatever 2-byte nop */
<_spin_lock+22>: retq
One possibility is to inline _spin_lock, etc, when building an
optimised kernel (ie, when there's no spinlock/preempt
instrumentation/debugging enabled). That will remove the outer
call/return pair, returning the instruction stream to a single
call/return, which will presumably execute the same as the non-pvops
case. The downsides arel 1) it will replicate the
preempt_disable/enable code at eack lock/unlock callsite; this code is
fairly small, but not nothing; and 2) the spinlock definitions are
already a very heavily tangled mass of #ifdefs and other preprocessor
magic, and making any changes will be non-trivial.
The other obvious answer is to disable pv-spinlocks. Making them a
separate config option is fairly easy, and it would be trivial to
enable them only when Xen is enabled (as the only non-default user).
But it doesn't really address the common case of a distro build which
is going to have Xen support enabled, and leaves the open question of
whether the native performance cost of pv-spinlocks is worth the
performance improvement on a loaded Xen system (10% saving of overall
system CPU when guests block rather than spin). Still it is a
reasonable short-term workaround.
[ Impact: fix pvops performance regression when running native ]
Analysed-by: "Xin Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Li Xin" <xin.li@intel.com>
Analysed-by: "Nakajima Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0B62F7.5030802@goop.org>
[ fixed the help text ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
dma-debug: make memory range checks more consistent
dma-debug: warn of unmapping an invalid dma address
dma-debug: fix dma_debug_add_bus() definition for !CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG
dma-debug/x86: register pci bus for dma-debug leak detection
dma-debug: add a check dma memory leaks
dma-debug: add checks for kernel text and rodata
dma-debug: print stacktrace of mapping path on unmap error
dma-debug: Documentation update
dma-debug: x86 architecture bindings
dma-debug: add function to dump dma mappings
dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_sg_*
dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_range_*
dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_*
dma-debug: add checking for [alloc|free]_coherent
dma-debug: add add checking for map/unmap_sg
dma-debug: add checking for map/unmap_page/single
dma-debug: add core checking functions
dma-debug: add debugfs interface
dma-debug: add kernel command line parameters
dma-debug: add initialization code
...
Fix trivial conflicts due to whitespace changes in arch/x86/kernel/pci-nommu.c
Partial revert of commit 129d8bc828
titled 'x86: don't compile vsmp_64 for 32bit'
Commit reverted to compile vsmp_64.c if CONFIG_X86_64 is defined,
since is_vsmp_box() needs to indicate that TSCs are not synchronized, and
hence, not a valid time source, even when CONFIG_X86_VSMP is not defined.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: shai@scalex86.org
LKML-Reference: <20090324061429.GH7278@localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix
kernel/built-in.o: In function `ftrace_syscall_exit':
(.text+0x76667): undefined reference to `syscall_nr_to_meta'
ftrace.o is built:
obj-$(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) += ftrace.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) += ftrace.o
But now a CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS dependency is needed too.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236401580-5758-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
that is only needed when CONFIG_X86_VSMP is defined with 64bit
also remove dead code about PCI, because CONFIG_X86_VSMP depends on PCI
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix, cleanup
A couple of arch setup callbacks were mistakenly in apic_32.c, breaking
the build.
Also simplify the code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move the 32-bit extended-arch APIC drivers to arch/x86/kernel/apic/
too, and rename apic_64.c to probe_64.c.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/ is getting a bit crowded, and the APIC
drivers are scattered into various different files.
Move them to arch/x86/kernel/apic/*, and also remove
the 'gen' prefix from those which had it.
Also move APIC related functionality: the IO-APIC driver,
the NMI and the IPI code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Voyager has this Kconfig quirk:
config X86_BIOS_REBOOT
bool
depends on !X86_VOYAGER
default y
Voyager should use the existing machine_ops.emergency_restart reboot
quirk mechanism instead of a build-time quirk.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The x86/Voyager subarch used to have this distinction between
'x86 SMP support' and 'Voyager SMP support':
config X86_SMP
bool
depends on SMP && ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER) || X86_64)
This is a pointless distinction - Voyager can (and already does) use
smp_ops to implement various SMP quirks it has - and it can be extended
more to cover all the specialities of Voyager.
So remove this complication in the Kconfig space.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove the 32-bit subarchitecture support code.
All subarchitectures but Voyager have been converted. Voyager will be
done later or will be removed.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove remaining bits of the subarchitecture code. Now that all the
special platforms are runtime probed and runtime handled, we can remove
these facilities.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move all code to arch/x86/kernel/bigsmp_32.c.
With this it ceases to rely on any build-time subarch features.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Amerigo Wang
Linus Torvalds
Ingo Molnar
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Pekka Enberg
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
Markus Metzger
Dimitri Sivanich
Yinghai Lu