Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt:
"The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes
that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have
been marked for stable.
As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN
about. These include:
New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the
function.
Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called
"traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any
WARN_ON() is triggered. This is useful if you want to debug what
caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the
ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it. There's
also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot
up called the same thing"
* tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits)
tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static
tracing: Remove ftrace() function
tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition
tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static
tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing
uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path
tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files
tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better
tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer
ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set
tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe->files into list_head
tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment
tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock
...
Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:
"Overview of changes:
- The rest of maintainer email address updates.
- Some core updates - more robust default behavior for port
multipliers, better error reporting for SG_IO commands, and a way
to better work around now ancient and probably pretty rare PATA ->
SATA bridges with ATAPI devices.
- sata_rcar stabilization.
- Some hardware PCI ID additions and one-off low level driver
updates."
* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata: (22 commits)
AHCI: use ATA_BUSY
libata-zpodd: must use ata_tf_init()
ahci: AHCI-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs
ata_piix: IDE-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs
libata: cleanup SAT error translation
ahci: sata: add support for exynos5440 sata
libata: skip SRST for all SIMG [34]7x port-multipliers
ahci: remove pmp link online check in FBS EH
sata highbank: add bit-banged SGPIO driver support
ahci: make ahci_transmit_led_message into a function pointer
sata_rcar: fix compilation warning in sata_rcar_thaw()
sata_highbank: increase retry count but shorten duration for Calxeda controller
ata: use pci_get_drvdata()
ipr: qc_fill_rtf() method should not store alternate status register
sata_rcar: add 'base' local variable to some functions
sata_rcar: correct 'sata_rcar_sht'
sata_rcar: kill superfluous code in sata_rcar_bmdma_fill_sg()
libata: do not limit R-Car SATA driver to shmobile
ata: use platform_{get,set}_drvdata()
AHCI: Make distinct names for ports in /proc/interrupts
...
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"This time the total number of ACPI commits is slightly greater than
the number of cpufreq commits, but Viresh Kumar (who works on cpufreq)
remains the most active patch submitter.
To me, the most significant change is the addition of offline/online
device operations to the driver core (with the Greg's blessing) and
the related modifications of the ACPI core hotplug code. Next are the
freezer updates from Colin Cross that should make the freezing of
tasks a bit less heavy weight.
We also have a couple of regression fixes, a number of fixes for
issues that have not been identified as regressions, two new drivers
and a bunch of cleanups all over.
Highlights:
- Hotplug changes to support graceful hot-removal failures.
It sometimes is necessary to fail device hot-removal operations
gracefully if they cannot be carried out completely. For example,
if memory from a memory module being hot-removed has been allocated
for the kernel's own use and cannot be moved elsewhere, it's
desirable to fail the hot-removal operation in a graceful way
rather than to crash the kernel, but currenty a success or a kernel
crash are the only possible outcomes of an attempted memory
hot-removal. Needless to say, that is not a very attractive
alternative and it had to be addressed.
However, in order to make it work for memory, I first had to make
it work for CPUs and for this purpose I needed to modify the ACPI
processor driver. It's been split into two parts, a resident one
handling the low-level initialization/cleanup and a modular one
playing the actual driver's role (but it binds to the CPU system
device objects rather than to the ACPI device objects representing
processors). That's been sort of like a live brain surgery on a
patient who's riding a bike.
So this is a little scary, but since we found and fixed a couple of
regressions it caused to happen during the early linux-next testing
(a month ago), nobody has complained.
As a bonus we remove some duplicated ACPI hotplug code, because the
ACPI-based CPU hotplug is now going to use the common ACPI hotplug
code.
- Lighter weight freezing of tasks.
These changes from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines are
targeted at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight
operation. They reduce the number of tasks woken up every time
during the freezing, by using the observation that the freezer
simply doesn't need to wake up some of them and wait for them all
to call refrigerator(). The time needed for the freezer to decide
to report a failure is reduced too.
Also reintroduced is the check causing a lockdep warining to
trigger when try_to_freeze() is called with locks held (which is
generally unsafe and shouldn't happen).
- cpufreq updates
First off, a commit from Srivatsa S Bhat fixes a resume regression
introduced during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs
attributes to return wrong values to user space after resume. The
fix is kind of fresh, but also it's pretty obvious once Srivatsa
has identified the root cause.
Second, we have a new freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the
acpi-cpufreq driver to provide information previously available via
related_cpus. From Lan Tianyu.
Finally, we fix a number of issues, mostly related to the
CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and cpufreq Kconfig options and clean
up some code. The majority of changes from Viresh Kumar with bits
from Jacob Shin, Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia,
Arnd Bergmann, and Tang Yuantian.
- ACPICA update
A usual bunch of updates from the ACPICA upstream.
During the 3.4 cycle we introduced support for ACPI 5 extended
sleep registers, but they are only supposed to be used if the
HW-reduced mode bit is set in the FADT flags and the code attempted
to use them without checking that bit. That caused suspend/resume
regressions to happen on some systems. Fix from Lv Zheng causes
those registers to be used only if the HW-reduced mode bit is set.
Apart from this some other ACPICA bugs are fixed and code cleanups
are made by Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng, Chao Guan, and
Zhang Rui.
- cpuidle updates
New driver for Xilinx Zynq processors is added by Michal Simek.
Multidriver support simplification, addition of some missing
kerneldoc comments and Kconfig-related fixes come from Daniel
Lezcano.
- ACPI power management updates
Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, sparse warning fix from Fengguang Wu and
cleanups and fixes of the ACPI device power state selection
routine.
- ACPI documentation updates
Some previously missing pieces of ACPI documentation are added by
Lv Zheng and Aaron Lu (hopefully, that will help people to
uderstand how the ACPI subsystem works) and one outdated doc is
updated by Hanjun Guo.
- Assorted ACPI updates
We finally nailed down the IA-64 issue that was the reason for
reverting commit 9f29ab11dd ("ACPI / scan: do not match drivers
against objects having scan handlers"), so we can fix it and move
the ACPI scan handler check added to the ACPI video driver back to
the core.
A mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers is
introduced by Lan Tianyu to allow some EC-related breakage to be
fixed on some systems.
A spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() is added by
Mika Westerberg.
The evaluation of _STA is added to do_acpi_find_child() to avoid
situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object is
returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value. From
Jeff Wu.
Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support is added to
the ACPI driver for Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) and that
driver is modified to work around a couple of known BIOS issues.
Changes from Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.
The EC driver is fixed by Vasiliy Kulikov to use get_user() and
put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.
Code cleanups are made by Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and Toshi
Kani.
- Assorted power management updates
The "runtime idle" helper routine is changed to take the return
values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows us to reduce the
overall code bloat a bit (by dropping some code that's not
necessary any more after that modification).
The runtime PM documentation is updated by Alan Stern (to reflect
the "runtime idle" behavior change).
New trace points for PM QoS are added by Sahara
(<keun-o.park@windriver.com>).
PM QoS documentation is updated by Lan Tianyu.
Code cleanups are made and minor issues are addressed by Bernie
Thompson, Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.
- devfreq updates
New driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.
Minor cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from MyungJoo Ham,
Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and Wei Yongjun.
- OMAP power management updates
Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control driver
updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon."
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits)
cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume
ACPI / PM: Fix possible NULL pointer deref in acpi_pm_device_sleep_state()
PM / Sleep: Warn about system time after resume with pm_trace
cpufreq: don't leave stale policy pointer in cdbs->cur_policy
acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus
cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized
ACPI: implement acpi_os_get_timer() according the spec
ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to skip DSDT scan
ACPI: Add CMOS RTC Operation Region handler support
ACPI / processor: Drop unused variable from processor_perflib.c
cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
...
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"In this update, Smack learns to love IPv6 and to mount a filesystem
with a transmutable hierarchy (i.e. security labels are inherited
from parent directory upon creation rather than creating process).
The rest of the changes are maintenance"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (37 commits)
tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: Remove unused header file
tpm: tpm_i2c_infinion: Don't modify i2c_client->driver
evm: audit integrity metadata failures
integrity: move integrity_audit_msg()
evm: calculate HMAC after initializing posix acl on tmpfs
maintainers: add Dmitry Kasatkin
Smack: Fix the bug smackcipso can't set CIPSO correctly
Smack: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference at smk_netlbl_mls()
Smack: Add smkfstransmute mount option
Smack: Improve access check performance
Smack: Local IPv6 port based controls
tpm: fix regression caused by section type conflict of tpm_dev_release() in ppc builds
maintainers: Remove Kent from maintainers
tpm: move TPM_DIGEST_SIZE defintion
tpm_tis: missing platform_driver_unregister() on error in init_tis()
security: clarify cap_inode_getsecctx description
apparmor: no need to delay vfree()
apparmor: fix fully qualified name parsing
apparmor: fix setprocattr arg processing for onexec
apparmor: localize getting the security context to a few macros
...
Pull thermal power-limit update from Tony Luck:
"Thermal limit warnings are too scary and cause unnecessary concern"
* tag 'please-pull-mce-therm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
x86 thermal: Disable power limit notification interrupt by default
x86 thermal: Delete power-limit-notification console messages
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
"Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing
custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up
changes necessary at this point.
The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some
per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot
param whose default can be configured via a config option. This leads
to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are
bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in
certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a
big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh.
This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler
perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on
them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions
less effective.
Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous
configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made
automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected
workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some
configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes."
* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq
block: queue work on power efficient wq
PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq
workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues
workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues
Add description for video module's parameter brightness_switch_enabled
into kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This patch moves the integrity_audit_msg() function and defintion to
security/integrity/, the parent directory, renames the 'ima_audit'
boot command line option to 'integrity_audit', and fixes the Kconfig
help text to reflect the actual code.
Changelog:
- Fixed ifdef inclusion of integrity_audit_msg() (Fengguang Wu)
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well
as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause
the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the
ring buffer.
This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When
a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with
the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the
resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse,
by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The package power limit notification interrupt is primarily for
system diagnosis, and should not be blindly enabled on every
system by default -- particuarly since Linux does nothing in the
handler except count how many times it has been called...
Add a new kernel cmdline parameter "int_pln_enable" for situations where
users want to oberve these events via existing system counters:
$ grep TRM /proc/interrupts
$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/thermal_throttle/*
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36182
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
"Outside of bcache (which really isn't super big), these are all
few-liners. There are a few important fixes in here:
- Fix blk pm sleeping when holding the queue lock
- A small collection of bcache fixes that have been done and tested
since bcache was included in this merge window.
- A fix for a raid5 regression introduced with the bio changes.
- Two important fixes for mtip32xx, fixing an oops and potential data
corruption (or hang) due to wrong bio iteration on stacked devices."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
scatterlist: sg_set_buf() argument must be in linear mapping
raid5: Initialize bi_vcnt
pktcdvd: silence static checker warning
block: remove refs to XD disks from documentation
blkpm: avoid sleep when holding queue lock
mtip32xx: Correctly handle bio->bi_idx != 0 conditions
mtip32xx: Fix NULL pointer dereference during module unload
bcache: Fix error handling in init code
bcache: clarify free/available/unused space
bcache: drop "select CLOSURES"
bcache: Fix incompatible pointer type warning
Some device require DMADIR to be enabled, but are not detected as such
by atapi_id_dmadir. One such example is "Asus Serillel 2"
SATA-host-to-PATA-device bridge: the bridge itself requires DMADIR,
even if the bridged device does not.
As atapi_dmadir module parameter can cause problems with some devices
(as per Tejun Heo's memory), enabling it globally may not be possible
depending on the hardware.
This patch adds atapi_dmadir in the form of a "force" horkage value,
allowing global, per-bus and per-device control.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Commit d1a6f4f197
"block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware"
deleted the XD disk driver, but there are still a few
references to it in the documentation directory. Delete
the remnants and thus also free up the major block device
13 for reuse.
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
There is no point. We would just squeeze the guest to put more and
more pages in the swap disk without any purpose.
The only time it makes sense to use the selfballooning and shrinking
is when frontswap is being utilized.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
If tmem is built-in or a module, the user has the option on
the command line to influence it by doing: tmem.<some option>
instead of having a variety of "nocleancache", and
"nofrontswap". The others: "noselfballooning" and "selfballooning";
and "noselfshrink" are in a different driver xen-selfballoon.c
and the patches:
xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfshrink' and use 'tmem.selfshrink' bool instead.
xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfballoon','selfballoon' and use 'tmem.selfballon' bool instead.
remove them.
Also add documentation.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Workqueues can be performance or power-oriented. Currently, most workqueues are
bound to the CPU they were created on. This gives good performance (due to cache
effects) at the cost of potentially waking up otherwise idle cores (Idle from
scheduler's perspective. Which may or may not be physically idle) just to
process some work. To save power, we can allow the work to be rescheduled on a
core that is already awake.
Workqueues created with the WQ_UNBOUND flag will allow some power savings.
However, we don't change the default behaviour of the system. To enable
power-saving behaviour, a new config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT needs to
be turned on. This option can also be overridden by the
workqueue.power_efficient boot parameter.
tj: Updated config description and comments. Renamed
CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT to CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel:
"The updates are mostly about the x86 IOMMUs this time.
Exceptions are the groundwork for the PAMU IOMMU from Freescale (for a
PPC platform) and an extension to the IOMMU group interface.
On the x86 side this includes a workaround for VT-d to disable
interrupt remapping on broken chipsets. On the AMD-Vi side the most
important new feature is a kernel command-line interface to override
broken information in IVRS ACPI tables and get interrupt remapping
working this way.
Besides that there are small fixes all over the place."
* tag 'iommu-updates-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (24 commits)
iommu/tegra: Fix printk formats for dma_addr_t
iommu: Add a function to find an iommu group by id
iommu/vt-d: Remove warning for HPET scope type
iommu: Move swap_pci_ref function to drivers/iommu/pci.h.
iommu/vt-d: Disable translation if already enabled
iommu/amd: fix error return code in early_amd_iommu_init()
iommu/AMD: Per-thread IOMMU Interrupt Handling
iommu: Include linux/err.h
iommu/amd: Workaround for ERBT1312
iommu/amd: Document ivrs_ioapic and ivrs_hpet parameters
iommu/amd: Don't report firmware bugs with cmd-line ivrs overrides
iommu/amd: Add ioapic and hpet ivrs override
iommu/amd: Add early maps for ioapic and hpet
iommu/amd: Extend IVRS special device data structure
iommu/amd: Move add_special_device() to __init
iommu: Fix compile warnings with forward declarations
iommu/amd: Properly initialize irq-table lock
iommu/amd: Use AMD specific data structure for irq remapping
iommu/amd: Remove map_sg_no_iommu()
iommu/vt-d: add quirk for broken interrupt remapping on 55XX chipsets
...
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.
This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.
This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
that:
- HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at
HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature
removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
typical distro configs even on modern systems.
- Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining
source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.
- A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.
The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.
Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
two NOHZ kconfig modes:
- CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
whether a CPU is idle or not.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
CPU.
The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
default.
This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.
This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull
request is marked RFC because:
- it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
small but did not get ready in time.
- it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
marked it RFC.
- it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off
should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.
- the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In
particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact
correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
feature at this point.
- it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
Without flaming us to crisp! :-)
Future plans:
- there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
for the 0 Hz target though.
- once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.
I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
but the final word is up to you as usual.
More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
nohz_full: Add documentation.
cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
nohz: Add basic tracing
nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
...
Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Olof Johansson:
"This branch contains part 1 of the platform updates for 3.10. Among
the highlights:
- Support for the new Atmel Cortex-A5 based platforms (SAMA5D3)
- New support for CSR SiRFatlas6 SoCs
- A handful of updates for NVidia T114 (a.k.a. Tegra 4)
- A bunch of updates for the shmobile platforms
- A handful of updates for davinci
- A few updates for Qualcomm MSM
- Plus a handful of other patches, defconfig updates, etc."
* tag 'soc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (135 commits)
ARM: tegra: pm: fix build error w/o PM_SLEEP
ARM: davinci: ensure global variables are declared
ARM: davinci: sram.c: fix incorrect type in assignment
ARM: davinci: da8xx dt: make file local symbols static
ARM: davinci: da8xx: add remoteproc support
ARM: socfpga: Upgrade clk driver for socfpga to make use of dts clock entries
ARM: socfpga: Add clock entries into device tree
ARM: socfpga: Enable soft reset
ARM: EXYNOS: replace cpumask by the corresponding macro
ARM: EXYNOS: handle properly the return values
ARM: EXYNOS: factor out the idle states
ARM: OMAP4: Enable fix for Cortex-A9 erratas
ARM: OMAP2+: Export SoC information to userspace
ARM: OMAP2+: SoC name and revision unification
ARM: OMAP2+: Move common part of late init into common function
ARM: tegra: pm: remove duplicated include from pm.c
ARM: davinci: da850: override mmc DT node device name
ARM: davinci: da850: add mmc DT entries
mmc: davinci_mmc: add DT support
ARM: SAMSUNG: check processor type before cache restoration in resume
...
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.
Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Pull x86 debug update from Ingo Molnar:
"Two small changes: a documentation update and a constification"
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy)
x86: Constify a few items
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are mostly related to preparatory work
for the full-dynticks work:
- Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take
advantage of numbered callbacks, do callback accelerations based on
numbered callbacks. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/960
- RCU documentation updates. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/570
- Miscellaneous fixes. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/594"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
rcu: Make rcu_accelerate_cbs() note need for future grace periods
rcu: Abstract rcu_start_future_gp() from rcu_nocb_wait_gp()
rcu: Rename n_nocb_gp_requests to need_future_gp
rcu: Push lock release to rcu_start_gp()'s callers
rcu: Repurpose no-CBs event tracing to future-GP events
rcu: Rearrange locking in rcu_start_gp()
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks
rcu: Accelerate RCU callbacks at grace-period end
rcu: Export RCU_FAST_NO_HZ parameters to sysfs
rcu: Distinguish "rcuo" kthreads by RCU flavor
rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' grace periods
rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' callback registration
rcu: Introduce proper blocking to no-CBs kthreads GP waits
rcu: Provide compile-time control for no-CBs CPUs
rcu: Tone down debugging during boot-up and shutdown.
rcu: Add softirq-stall indications to stall-warning messages
rcu: Documentation update
rcu: Make bugginess of code sample more evident
rcu: Fix hlist_bl_set_first_rcu() annotation
rcu: Delete unused rcu_node "wakemask" field
...
Linus Torvalds
Robin Holt
Aaron Lu
Mimi Zohar
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Fenghua Yu
Vincent Pelletier
Linus Walleij
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Viresh Kumar
Frederic Weisbecker
Joerg Roedel