"idle=halt" limits the idle loop to using
the halt instruction. No MWAIT, no IO accesses,
no C-states deeper than C1.
If something is broken in the idle code,
"idle=halt" is a less severe workaround
than "idle=poll" which disables all power savings.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry
interchangably. So get rid of it.
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
[Bug-fix for "[BUG?][2.6.25-mm1] sleeping during IRQ disabled"]
This patch does:
- enable interrupts before calling schedule() as same as others, ex. x86
- enable interrupts during ia64_do_signal() and ia64_sync_krbs()
- do_notify_resume_user() is still called with interrupts disabled, since
we can take short path of fsys_mode if-statement quickly.
- pfm_handle_work() is also called with interrupts disabled, since
it can deal interrupt mask within itself.
- fix/add some comments/notes
Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
After we have regset support, we can use CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This is base kernel patch for ptrace RSE bug. It's basically a backport
from the utrace RSE patch I sent out several weeks ago. please review.
when a thread is stopped (ptraced), debugger might change thread's user
stack (change memory directly), and we must avoid the RSE stored in
kernel to override user stack (user space's RSE is newer than kernel's
in the case). To workaround the issue, we copy kernel RSE to user RSE
before the task is stopped, so user RSE has updated data. we then copy
user RSE to kernel after the task is resummed from traced stop and
kernel will use the newer RSE to return to user.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Since the RSE synchronization will need a TIF_ flag, but all
work-to-be-done bits are already used, so we have to multiplex
TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME again.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
I tried to upgrade an IA32 chroot on my IA64 to a new glibc with TLS.
It kept dying because set_thread_area was returning -ESRCH
(bugs.debian.org/451939).
I instrumented arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:get_free_idx() and ended up
seeing output like
[pid] idx desc->a desc->b
-----------------------------
[2710] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2710] 1 -> 0 0
[2710] 2 -> 0 0
[2710] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2710] 1 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2710] 2 -> 0 0
[2711] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2711] 1 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2711] 2 -> 48c0ffff 40dff317
which suggested to me that TLS pointers were surviving exec() calls,
leading to GDT pointers filling up and the eventual failure of
get_free_idx().
I think the solution is flushing the tls array on exec.
Signed-Off-By: Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The ia64 oops message doesn't include the kernel version, which
makes it hard to automatically categorize oops messages scraped
from mailing lists and bug databases.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log.
There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes
so for arch/xxx files.
It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the
printks in arch code.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While sending interrupts to a cpu to repeatedly wake a thread, on occasion
that thread will take a full timer tick cycle (4002 usec in my case)
to wakeup.
The problem concerns a race condition in the code around the safe_halt()
call in the default_idle() routine. Setting 'nohalt' on the kernel
command line causes the long wakeups to disappear.
void
default_idle (void)
{
local_irq_enable();
while (!need_resched()) {
--> if (can_do_pal_halt)
--> safe_halt();
else
A timer tick could arrive between the check for !need_resched and the
actual call to safe_halt() (which does a pal call to PAL_HALT_LIGHT).
By the time the timer tick completes, a thread that might now need to run
could get held up for as long as a timer tick waiting for the halted cpu.
I'm proposing that we disable irq's and check need_resched again before
calling safe_halt(). Does anyone see any problem with this approach?
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Jens has added a partial_page thing in splice whcih conflicts with the ia64
one. Rename ia64 out of the way. (ia64 chose poorly).
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tell GCC to stop spewing out unnecessary warnings for unused variables
passed to functions as pointers for ia64 files.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Unwinding a running task has proven problematic.
In one instance, the running task was attempting to unwind itself and
received an interrupt between when get_wchan allocated local variables on
the stack and when unw_init_from_blocked_task was called which resulted
in unw_init_frame_info to place this tasks task_struct pointer over the
switch stack's ar_bspstore entry.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] wire up pselect, ppoll
[IA64] Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
[IA64] unwind did not work for processes born with CLONE_STOPPED
[IA64] Optional method to purge the TLB on SN systems
[IA64] SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED macro cleanup in arch/ia64
[IA64-SN2][KJ] mmtimer.c-kzalloc
[IA64] fix stack alignment for ia32 signal handlers
[IA64] - Altix: hotplug after intr redirect can crash system
[IA64] save and restore cpus_allowed in cpu_idle_wait
[IA64] Removal of percpu TR cleanup in kexec code
[IA64] Fix some section mismatch errors
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.
Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code. Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it. Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)
arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at. avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Save and Restore the task's cpus_allowed mask, across the set_cpus_allowed()
in cpu_idle_wait(). Without this, we will endup corrupting task's cpu affinity.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This moves the ia64 implementation of machine_shutdown() from
machine_kexec.c to process.c, which is in keeping with the implelmentation
on other architectures, and seems like a much more appropriate home for it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano reported frequent scheduling latencies and audio
xruns starting at the 2.6.18-rt kernel, and those problems persisted all
until current -rt kernels. The latencies were serious and unjustified by
system load, often in the milliseconds range.
After a patient and heroic multi-month effort of Fernando, where he
tested dozens of kernels, tried various configs, boot options,
test-patches of mine and provided latency traces of those incidents, the
following 'smoking gun' trace was captured by him:
_------=> CPU#
/ _-----=> irqs-off
| / _----=> need-resched
|| / _---=> hardirq/softirq
||| / _--=> preempt-depth
|||| /
||||| delay
cmd pid ||||| time | caller
\ / ||||| \ | /
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __trace_start_sched_wakeup (try_to_wake_up)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __trace_start_sched_wakeup <<...>-5856> (37 0)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __trace_start_sched_wakeup (c01262ba 0 0)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : resched_task (try_to_wake_up)
IRQ_19-1479 1D..1 0us : __spin_unlock_irqrestore (try_to_wake_up)
...
<idle>-0 1...1 11us!: default_idle (cpu_idle)
...
<idle>-0 0Dn.1 602us : smp_apic_timer_interrupt (c0103baf 1 0)
...
<...>-5856 0D..2 618us : __switch_to (__schedule)
<...>-5856 0D..2 618us : __schedule <<idle>-0> (20 162)
<...>-5856 0D..2 619us : __spin_unlock_irq (__schedule)
<...>-5856 0...1 619us : trace_stop_sched_switched (__schedule)
<...>-5856 0D..1 619us : trace_stop_sched_switched <<...>-5856> (37 0)
what is visible in this trace is that CPU#1 ran try_to_wake_up() for
PID:5856, it placed PID:5856 on CPU#0's runqueue and ran resched_task()
for CPU#0. But it decided to not send an IPI that no CPU - due to
TS_POLLING. But CPU#0 never woke up after its NEED_RESCHED bit was set,
and only rescheduled to PID:5856 upon the next lapic timer IRQ. The
result was a 600+ usecs latency and a missed wakeup!
the bug turned out to be an idle-wakeup bug introduced into the mainline
kernel this summer via an optimization in the x86_64 tree:
commit 495ab9c045
Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Mon Jun 26 13:59:11 2006 +0200
[PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_status
During some profiling I noticed that default_idle causes a lot of
memory traffic. I think that is caused by the atomic operations
to clear/set the polling flag in thread_info. There is actually
no reason to make this atomic - only the idle thread does it
to itself, other CPUs only read it. So I moved it into ti->status.
the problem is this type of change:
if (!hlt_counter && boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok) {
- clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+ current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
while (!need_resched()) {
local_irq_disable();
this changes clear_thread_flag() to an explicit clearing of TS_POLLING.
clear_thread_flag() is defined as:
clear_bit(flag, &ti->flags);
and clear_bit() is a LOCK-ed atomic instruction on all x86 platforms:
static inline void clear_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long * addr)
{
__asm__ __volatile__( LOCK_PREFIX
"btrl %1,%0"
hence smp_mb__after_clear_bit() is defined as a simple compile barrier:
#define smp_mb__after_clear_bit() barrier()
but the explicit TS_POLLING clearing introduced by the patch:
+ current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
is not an atomic op! So the clearing of the TS_POLLING bit is freely
reorderable with the reading of the NEED_RESCHED bit - and both now
reside in different memory addresses.
CPU idle wakeup very much depends on ordered memory ops, the clearing of
the TS_POLLING flag must always be done before we test need_resched()
and hit the idle instruction(s). [Symmetrically, the wakeup code needs
to set NEED_RESCHED before it tests the TS_POLLING flag, so memory
ordering is paramount.]
Fernando's dual-core Athlon64 system has a sufficiently advanced memory
ordering model so that it triggered this scenario very often.
( And it also turned out that the reason why these latencies never
triggered on my testsystems is that i routinely use idle=poll, which
was the only idle variant not affected by this bug. )
The fix is to change the smp_mb__after_clear_bit() to an smp_mb(), to
act as an absolute barrier between the TS_POLLING write and the
NEED_RESCHED read. This affects almost all idling methods (default,
ACPI, APM), on all 3 x86 architectures: i386, x86_64, ia64.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
