linux-toradex.git/kernel/softirq.c, branch v2.6.32.2

softirq: add BLOCK_IOPOLL to softirq_to_name

2009-09-17T19:53:44+00:00

With BLOCK_IOPOLL_SOFTIRQ added, softirq_to_name[] and
show_softirq_name() needs to be updated.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
LKML-Reference: <4AB20398.8070209@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarity

2009-08-23T08:32:37+00:00

Make RCU-sched, RCU-bh, and RCU-preempt be underlying
implementations, with "RCU" defined in terms of one of the
three.  Update the outdated rcu_qsctr_inc() names, as these
functions no longer increment anything.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <12509746132696-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

softirq: introduce tasklet_hrtimer infrastructure

2009-07-22T15:01:17+00:00

commit ca109491f (hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes) moved all
hrtimer callbacks into hard interrupt context when high resolution
timers are active. That breaks code which relied on the assumption
that the callback happens in softirq context.

Provide a generic infrastructure which combines tasklets and hrtimers
together to provide an in-softirq hrtimer experience.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: kaber@trash.net
Cc: David Miller 
LKML-Reference: <1248265724.27058.1366.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

softirq: introduce statistics for softirq

2009-06-18T20:03:40+00:00

Statistics for softirq doesn't exist.
It will be helpful like statistics for interrupts.
This patch introduces counting the number of softirq,
which will be exported in /proc/softirqs.

When softirq handler consumes much CPU time,
/proc/stat is like the following.

$ while :; do  cat /proc/stat | head -n1 ; sleep 10 ; done
cpu  88 0 408 739665 583 28 2 0 0
cpu  450 0 1090 740970 594 28 1294 0 0
                              ^^^^
                             softirq

In such a situation,
/proc/softirqs shows us which softirq handler is invoked.
We can see the increase rate of softirqs.


$ cat /proc/softirqs
                CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
HI                 0          0          0          0
TIMER         462850     462805     462782     462718
NET_TX             0          0          0        365
NET_RX          2472          2          2         40
BLOCK              0          0        381       1164
TASKLET            0          0          0        224
SCHED         462654     462689     462698     462427
RCU             3046       2423       3367       3173


$ cat /proc/softirqs
                CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
HI                 0          0          0          0
TIMER         463361     465077     465056     464991
NET_TX            53          0          1        365
NET_RX          3757          2          2         40
BLOCK              0          0        398       1170
TASKLET            0          0          0        224
SCHED         463074     464318     464612     463330
RCU             3505       2948       3947       3673

When CPU TIME of softirq is high,
the rates of increase is the following.
  TIMER  : 220/sec     : CPU1-3
  NET_TX : 5/sec       : CPU0
  NET_RX : 120/sec     : CPU0
  SCHED  : 40-200/sec  : all CPU
  RCU    : 45-58/sec   : all CPU

The rates of increase in an idle mode is the following.
  TIMER  : 250/sec
  SCHED  : 250/sec
  RCU    : 2/sec

It seems many softirqs for receiving packets and rcu are invoked.  This
gives us help for checking system.

Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi 
Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tasklets: new tasklet scheduling function

2009-06-13T08:02:24+00:00

Rationale: kmemcheck needs to be able to schedule a tasklet without
touching any dynamically allocated memory _at_ _all_ (since that would
lead to a recursive page fault). This tasklet is used for writing the
error reports to the kernel log.

The new scheduling function avoids touching any other tasklets by
inserting the new tasklist as the head of the "tasklet_hi" list instead
of on the tail.

Also don't wake up the softirq thread lest the scheduler access some
tracked memory and we go down with a recursive page fault.

In this case, we'd better just wait for the maximum time of 1/HZ for the
message to appear.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum

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

2009-06-11T02:53:40+00:00

* '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
  ...

Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core

2009-05-07T09:17:34+00:00

Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
              on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: fix build failure on s390

2009-04-29T12:06:21+00:00

"tracing: create automated trace defines" causes this compile error on s390,
as reported by Sachin Sant against linux-next:

 kernel/built-in.o: In function `__do_softirq':
 (.text+0x1c680): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_softirq_entry'

This happens because the definitions of the softirq tracepoints were moved
from kernel/softirq.c to kernel/irq/handle.c. Since s390 doesn't support
generic hardirqs handle.c doesn't get compiled and the definitions are
missing.

So move the tracepoints to softirq.c again.

[ Impact: fix build failure on s390 ]

Reported-by: Sachin Sant 
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20090429135139.5fac79b8@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/irq: change irq_desc_alloc() to take node instead of cpu

2009-04-28T10:21:17+00:00

This simplifies the node awareness of the code. All our allocators
only deal with a NUMA node ID locality not with CPU ids anyway - so
there's no need to maintain (and transform) a CPU id all across the
IRq layer.

v2: keep move_irq_desc related

[ Impact: cleanup, prepare IRQ code to be NUMA-aware ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Suresh Siddha 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
LKML-Reference: <49F65536.2020300@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kernel/softirq.c: fix sparse warning

2009-04-16T23:57:54+00:00

Fix sparse warning in kernel/softirq.c.

  warning: do-while statement is not a compound statement

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar