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Frantisek Hrbata
eb3057df73 kernel: add support for init_array constructors
This adds the .init_array section as yet another section with constructors. This
is needed because gcc could add __gcov_init calls to .init_array or .ctors
section, depending on gcc (and binutils) version .

v2: - reuse mod->ctors for .init_array section for modules, because gcc uses
      .ctors or .init_array, but not both at the same time
v3: - fail to load if that does happen somehow.

Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-10-17 15:05:17 +10:30
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
102c9323c3 tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointers
There are several tracepoints (mostly in RCU), that reference a string
pointer and uses the print format of "%s" to display the string that
exists in the kernel, instead of copying the actual string to the
ring buffer (saves time and ring buffer space).

But this has an issue with userspace tools that read the binary buffers
that has the address of the string but has no access to what the string
itself is. The end result is just output that looks like:

 rcu_dyntick:          ffffffff818adeaa 1 0
 rcu_dyntick:          ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000
 rcu_dyntick:          ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000
 rcu_utilization:      ffffffff8184333b
 rcu_utilization:      ffffffff8184333b

The above is pretty useless when read by the userspace tools. Ideally
we would want something that looks like this:

 rcu_dyntick:          Start 1 0
 rcu_dyntick:          End 0 140000000000000
 rcu_dyntick:          Start 140000000000000 0
 rcu_callback:         rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880037aff710 func=put_cred_rcu 0/4
 rcu_callback:         rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880078961980 func=file_free_rcu 0/5
 rcu_dyntick:          End 0 1

The trace_printk() which also only stores the address of the string
format instead of recording the string into the buffer itself, exports
the mapping of kernel addresses to format strings via the printk_format
file in the debugfs tracing directory.

The tracepoint strings can use this same method and output the format
to the same file and the userspace tools will be able to decipher
the address without any modification.

The tracepoint strings need its own section to save the strings because
the trace_printk section will cause the trace_printk() buffers to be
allocated if anything exists within the section. trace_printk() is only
used for debugging and should never exist in the kernel, we can not use
the trace_printk sections.

Add a new tracepoint_str section that will also be examined by the output
of the printk_format file.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-26 13:39:44 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8dce5f3dee Merge branch 'cpuinit-delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
Pull first stage of __cpuinit removal from Paul Gortmaker:
 "The two commits here 1) dummy out all the __cpuinit macros so that we
  no longer generate such sections, and then 2) remove all the section
  processing that we used to do for those sections.

  This makes all the __cpuinit and friends no-ops, so that we can remove
  the use cases of it at our leisure.  Expect stage 2, which does the
  tree wide removal sweep at the end of the merge window."

* 'cpuinit-delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  modpost: remove all traces of cpuinit/cpuexit sections
  init.h: remove __cpuinit sections from the kernel
2013-07-07 11:01:19 -07:00
Alexandre Bounine
2ec3ba69fa rapidio: convert switch drivers to modules
Rework RapidIO switch drivers to add an option to build them as loadable
kernel modules.

This patch removes RapidIO-specific vmlinux section and converts switch
drivers to be compatible with LDM driver registration method.  To simplify
registration of device-specific callback routines this patch introduces
rio_switch_ops data structure.  The sw_sysfs() callback is removed from
the list of device-specific operations because under the new structure its
functions can be handled by switch driver's probe() and remove() routines.

If a specific switch device driver is not loaded the RapidIO subsystem
core will use default standard-based operations to configure a switch.
Because the current implementation of RapidIO enumeration/discovery method
relies on availability of device-specific operations for error management,
switch device drivers must be loaded before the RapidIO
enumeration/discovery starts.

This patch also moves several common routines from enumeration/discovery
module into the RapidIO core code to make switch-specific operations
accessible to all components of RapidIO subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andre van Herk <andre.van.herk@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha.nelissen@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:08:04 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker
e24f662881 modpost: remove all traces of cpuinit/cpuexit sections
Delete all audit rules that were checking how the .cpuXYZ
related sections were inter-operating with other __init
like sections, now that __cpuinit is gone.  Update the linker
script to not have any knowledge of .cpuinit sections.

[lds.h update courtesy of Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-06-26 12:17:06 -04:00
Stephen Rothwell
40b313608a Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG
Ever since commit 45f035ab9b ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"),
it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG
turned off.  Remove all the remaining references to it.

Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03 14:20:18 -07:00
Rusty Russell
b92021b09d CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.
We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string
"_".  But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and
SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to
do so.

Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to
prefix it so something.  So various places define helpers which are
defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set:

1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX.
2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym)
3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7)
5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym)
6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if
   CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version
   for pasting.

(arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too).

Let's solve this properly:
1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm.
3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR().
4) Make everyone use them.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> (metag)
2013-03-15 15:09:43 +10:30
Linus Torvalds
b274776c54 Merge tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "A large number of cleanups, all over the platforms.  This is dominated
  largely by the Samsung platforms (s3c, s5p, exynos) and a few of the
  others moving code out of arch/arm into more appropriate subsystems.

  The clocksource and irqchip drivers are now abstracted to the point
  where platforms that are already cleaned up do not need to even
  specify the driver they use, it can all get configured from the device
  tree as we do for normal device drivers.  The clocksource changes
  basically touch every single platform in the process.

  We further clean up the use of platform specific header files here,
  with the goal of turning more of the platforms over to being
  "multiplatform" enabled, which implies that they cannot expose their
  headers to architecture independent code any more.

  It is expected that no functional changes are part of the cleanup.
  The overall reduction in total code lines is mostly the result of
  removing broken and obsolete code."

* tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (133 commits)
  ARM: mvebu: correct gated clock documentation
  ARM: kirkwood: add missing include for nsa310
  ARM: exynos: move exynos4210-combiner to drivers/irqchip
  mfd: db8500-prcmu: update resource passing
  drivers/db8500-cpufreq: delete dangling include
  ARM: at91: remove NEOCORE 926 board
  sunxi: Cleanup the reset code and add meaningful registers defines
  ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-mem.h local
  ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-power.h local
  ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-s3c2412-mem.h local
  ARM: S3C24XX: Remove plat-s3c24xx directory in arch/arm/
  ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2443 subirqs into new structure
  ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2443 irq init to initialize all irqs
  ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2443 irq code to irq.c
  ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2416 irqs into new structure
  ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2416 irq init to initialize all irqs
  ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2416 irq init to common irq code
  ARM: S3C24XX: Modify s3c_irq_wake to use the hwirq property
  ARM: S3C24XX: Move irq syscore-ops to irq-pm
  clocksource: always define CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE
  ...
2013-02-21 14:58:40 -08:00
Prashant Gaikwad
f2f6c2556d clk: add common of_clk_init() function
Modify of_clk_init function so that it will determine which
driver to initialize based on device tree instead of each driver
registering to it.

Based on a similar patch for drivers/irqchip by Thomas Petazzoni and
drivers/clocksource by Stephen Warren.

Signed-off-by: Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>
Tested-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Tested-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Tested-by: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@anandra.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
[mturquette@linaro.org: merge conflict from missing CLKSRC_OF_TABLES()]

Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
2013-01-24 11:09:28 -08:00
Olof Johansson
f8060f5446 Merge tag 'gic-vic-to-irqchip' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux into next/cleanup
From Rob Herring:

Initial irqchip init infrastructure and GIC and VIC clean-ups

This creates irqchip initialization infrastructure from Thomas
Petazzoni. The VIC and GIC irqchip code is moved to drivers/irqchips
and adapted to use the new infrastructure. All DT enabled platforms
using GIC and VIC are converted over to use the new irqchip_init.

* tag 'gic-vic-to-irqchip' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux:
  irqchip: Move ARM vic.h to include/linux/irqchip/arm-vic.h
  ARM: picoxcell: use common irqchip_init function
  ARM: spear: use common irqchip_init function
  irqchip: Move ARM VIC to drivers/irqchip
  ARM: samsung: remove unused tick.h
  ARM: remove unneeded vic.h includes
  ARM: remove mach .handle_irq for VIC users
  ARM: VIC: set handle_arch_irq in VIC initialization
  ARM: VIC: shrink down vic.h
  irqchip: Move ARM gic.h to include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h
  ARM: use common irqchip_init for GIC init
  irqchip: Move ARM GIC to drivers/irqchip
  ARM: remove mach .handle_irq for GIC users
  ARM: GIC: set handle_arch_irq in GIC initialization
  ARM: GIC: remove direct use of gic_raise_softirq
  ARM: GIC: remove assembly ifdefs from gic.h
  ARM: mach-ux500: use SGI0 to wake up the other core
  arm: add set_handle_irq() to register the parent IRQ controller handler function
  irqchip: add basic infrastructure
  irqchip: add to the directories part of the IRQ subsystem in MAINTAINERS

Fixed up massive merge conflicts with the timer cleanup due to adjacent changes:

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm.c
	arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/cns3420vb.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/adssphere.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/edb93xx.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/gesbc9312.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/micro9.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/simone.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/snappercl15.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/ts72xx.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/vision_ep9307.c
	arch/arm/mach-highbank/highbank.c
	arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imx6q.c
	arch/arm/mach-msm/board-dt-8960.c
	arch/arm/mach-netx/nxdb500.c
	arch/arm/mach-netx/nxdkn.c
	arch/arm/mach-netx/nxeb500hmi.c
	arch/arm/mach-nomadik/board-nhk8815.c
	arch/arm/mach-picoxcell/common.c
	arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_eb.c
	arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb1176.c
	arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb11mp.c
	arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pba8.c
	arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pbx.c
	arch/arm/mach-socfpga/socfpga.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear1310.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear1340.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear13xx.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear300.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear310.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear320.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear3xx.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear6xx/spear6xx.c
	arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-dt-tegra20.c
	arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-dt-tegra30.c
	arch/arm/mach-u300/core.c
	arch/arm/mach-ux500/board-mop500.c
	arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpu-db8500.c
	arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_ab.c
	arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_dt.c
	arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_pb.c
	arch/arm/mach-vexpress/v2m.c
	include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
2013-01-14 19:55:03 -08:00
Thomas Petazzoni
f6e916b820 irqchip: add basic infrastructure
With the recent creation of the drivers/irqchip/ directory, it is
desirable to move irq controller drivers here. At the moment, the only
driver here is irq-bcm2835, the driver for the irq controller found in
the ARM BCM2835 SoC, present in Rasberry Pi systems. This irq
controller driver was exporting its initialization function and its
irq handling function through a header file in
<linux/irqchip/bcm2835.h>.

When proposing to also move another irq controller driver in
drivers/irqchip, Rob Herring raised the very valid point that moving
things to drivers/irqchip was good in order to remove more stuff from
arch/arm, but if it means adding gazillions of headers files in
include/linux/irqchip/, it would not be very nice.

So, upon the suggestion of Rob Herring and Arnd Bergmann, this commit
introduces a small infrastructure that defines a central
irqchip_init() function in drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c, which is meant
to be called as the ->init_irq() callback of ARM platforms. This
function calls of_irq_init() with an array of match strings and init
functions generated from a special linker section.

Note that the irq controller driver initialization function is
responsible for setting the global handle_arch_irq() variable, so that
ARM platforms no longer have to define the ->handle_irq field in their
DT_MACHINE structure.

A global header, <linux/irqchip.h> is also added to expose the single
irqchip_init() function to the reset of the kernel.

A further commit moves the BCM2835 irq controller driver to this new
small infrastructure, therefore removing the include/linux/irqchip/
directory.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[rob.herring: reword commit message to reflect use of linker sections.]
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
2013-01-10 11:44:38 -06:00
Stephen Warren
ae278a935f clocksource: add common of_clksrc_init() function
It is desirable to move all clocksource drivers to drivers/clocksource,
yet each requires its own initialization function. We'd rather not
pollute <linux/> with a header for each function. Instead, create a
single of_clksrc_init() function which will determine which clocksource
driver to initialize based on device tree.

Based on a similar patch for drivers/irqchip by Thomas Petazzoni.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
2013-01-02 11:07:43 -07:00
David Daney
c87728ca82 vmlinux.lds.h: Allow architectures to add sections to the front of .bss
Follow-on MIPS patch will put an object here that needs 64K alignment
to minimize padding.

For those architectures that don't define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS, there is
no change.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4221/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-10-11 11:02:37 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
9fd49328fc ftrace: Sort all function addresses, not just per page
Instead of just sorting the ip's of the functions per ftrace page,
sort the entire list before adding them to the ftrace pages.

This will allow the bsearch algorithm to be sped up as it can
also sort by pages, not just records within a page.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-05-16 19:58:44 -04:00
Pawel Moll
026cee0086 params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parameters
This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare
kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen
level are executed.  We rename the now-unused "flags" field of
struct kernel_param as the level.  It's signed, for when we
use this for early params as well, in future.

Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order
to add additional symbols between levels that are later used
by the init code to split the calls into blocks.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-03-26 12:50:51 +10:30
Jan Beulich
7ccaba5314 consolidate WARN_...ONCE() static variables
Due to the alignment of following variables, these typically consume
more than just the single byte that 'bool' requires, and as there are a
few hundred instances, the cache pollution (not so much the waste of
memory) sums up.  Put these variables into their own section, outside of
any half way frequently used memory range.

Do the same also to the __warned variable of rcu_lockdep_assert().
(Don't, however, include the ones used by printk_once() and alike, as
they can potentially be hot.)

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:31 -07:00
Kirill Tkhai
bc74ee9769 m68k: Finally remove leftover markers sections
Markers have removed already twice:

1: fc5377668c
2: eb878b3bc0

But a little bit is still here.

Signed-off-by: Tkhai Kirill <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
2011-10-24 21:00:34 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5129df03d0 Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: Unify input section names
  percpu: Avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double
  percpu: Cast away printk format warning
  percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

Fix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun
2011-05-24 11:53:42 -07:00
Tejun Heo
6988f20fe0 Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.39' into for-2.6.40 2011-05-24 09:59:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
df48d8716e Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits)
  perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts
  perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events
  ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build
  ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users
  ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops
  ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers
  ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering
  ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched()
  ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced
  ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions
  ftrace: Add enabled_functions file
  ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace
  ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment
  ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes
  ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER
  ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions
  perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper
  x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit
  x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
  x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
  ...
2011-05-19 17:36:08 -07:00
Alessio Igor Bogani
f02e8a6596 module: Sort exported symbols
This patch places every exported symbol in its own section
(i.e. "___ksymtab+printk").  Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive
to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section
(i.e. "__ksymtab").

The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols.
To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary
section names.

This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (folded in '+' fixup)
Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
2011-05-19 16:55:27 +09:30
Ingo Molnar
32673822e4 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h

Merge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-27 10:40:21 +02:00
Jason Baron
d430d3d7e6 jump label: Introduce static_branch() interface
Introduce:

static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key);

instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro.

In this way, jump labels become really easy to use:

Define:

        struct jump_label_key jump_key;

Can be used as:

        if (static_branch(&jump_key))
                do unlikely code

enable/disale via:

        jump_label_inc(&jump_key);
        jump_label_dec(&jump_key);

that's it!

For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an
atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(),
atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below.

Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct.

Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into
the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in
basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous
hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write.

Testing:

I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3
configurations, where tracepoints were disabled.

jump label configured in
avg: 815.6

jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads)
avg: 800.1

jump label *not* configured in (regular reads)
avg: 803.4

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-04 12:48:08 -04:00
Mike Frysinger
6ea0c34dac percpu: Unify input section names
The two percpu helper macros have the section names duplicated.  So create
a new define to merge the two.  This also allows arches who need to link
things more directly themselves to avoid duplicating the input sections in
their linker script.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-04-04 01:41:32 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00