linux-toradex.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch v2.6.34

revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits

2010-05-12T00:33:41+00:00

Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc//stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt 
Cc: Stefani Seibold 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2010-03-13T22:43:01+00:00

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  locking: Make sparse work with inline spinlocks and rwlocks
  x86/mce: Fix RCU lockdep splats
  rcu: Increase RCU CPU stall timeouts if PROVE_RCU
  ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw()
  rcu: Suppress RCU lockdep warnings during early boot
  rcu, ftrace: Fix RCU lockdep splat in ftrace_perf_buf_prepare()
  rcu: Suppress __mpol_dup() false positive from RCU lockdep
  rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() handle !PREEMPT
  rcu: Add control variables to lockdep_rcu_dereference() diagnostics
  rcu, cgroup: Relax the check in task_subsys_state() as early boot is now handled by lockdep-RCU
  rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock
  sched, rcu: Fix rcu_dereference() for RCU-lockdep
  rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use
  rcu: Fix holdoff for accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
  x86/gart: Unexport gart_iommu_aperture

Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/trace/ftrace.c

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2010-03-13T00:04:50+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
  doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
  Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
  doc: fix console doc typo
  doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
  Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
  Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
  Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
  doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
  tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments
  No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
  devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
  Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
  tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
  tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
  drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
  doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
  devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
  Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
  fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment
  tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX

copy_signal() cleanup: clean thread_group_cputime_init()

2010-03-12T23:52:39+00:00

Remove unneeded initializations in thread_group_cputime_init() and in
posix_cpu_timers_init_group().  They are useless after kmem_cache_zalloc()
was used in copy_signal().

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus

2010-03-08T15:55:37+00:00

Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c

mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter

2010-03-06T19:26:24+00:00

Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among
threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path.

This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter.  RSS value will be
counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at
events.

Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault.
Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls.

 rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows
 [before]
     4.5 cache-miss/faults
 [after]
     4.0 cache-miss/faults
 Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: clean up mm_counter

2010-03-06T19:26:23+00:00

Presently, per-mm statistics counter is defined by macro in sched.h

This patch modifies it to
  - defined in mm.h as inlinf functions
  - use array instead of macro's name creation.

This patch is for reducing patch size in future patch to modify
implementation of per-mm counter.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock

2010-03-04T10:46:14+00:00

Lockdep-RCU commit d11c563d exported tasklist_lock, which is not
a good thing.  This patch instead exports a function that uses
lockdep to check whether tasklist_lock is held.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
LKML-Reference: <1267631219-8713-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2010-03-01T17:00:29+00:00

* 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (38 commits)
  block: don't access jiffies when initialising io_context
  cfq: remove 8 bytes of padding from cfq_rb_root on 64 bit builds
  block: fix for "Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits"
  cfq-iosched: quantum check tweak
  blktrace: perform cleanup after setup error
  blkdev: fix merge_bvec_fn return value checks
  cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver" clarification
  cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver
  cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
  cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
  cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge
  cciss: simplify scatter gather code
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block allocation and freeing
  cciss: detect bad alignment of scsi commands at build time
  cciss: clarify command list padding calculation
  cfq-iosched: rethink seeky detection for SSDs
  cfq-iosched: rework seeky detection
  block: remove padding from io_context on 64bit builds
  block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
  ...

blk-core: use BIO list management functions

2010-02-23T07:55:42+00:00

Now that the bio list management stuff is generic, convert
generic_make_request to use bio lists instead of its own private bio
list implementation.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe