linux-toradex.git/kernel/softirq.c, branch v2.6.36-rc7

kernel/: fix BUG_ON checks for cpu notifier callbacks direct call

2010-06-04T22:21:45+00:00

The commit 80b5184cc537718122e036afe7e62d202b70d077 ("kernel/: convert cpu
notifier to return encapsulate errno value") changed the return value of
cpu notifier callbacks.

Those callbacks don't return NOTIFY_BAD on failures anymore.  But there
are a few callbacks which are called directly at init time and checking
the return value.

I forgot to change BUG_ON checking by the direct callers in the commit.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value

2010-05-27T16:12:48+00:00

By the previous modification, the cpu notifier can return encapsulate
errno value.  This converts the cpu notifiers for kernel/*.c

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu: refactor RCU's context-switch handling

2010-05-10T18:08:33+00:00

The addition of preemptible RCU to treercu resulted in a bit of
confusion and inefficiency surrounding the handling of context switches
for RCU-sched and for RCU-preempt.  For RCU-sched, a context switch
is a quiescent state, pure and simple, just like it always has been.
For RCU-preempt, a context switch is in no way a quiescent state, but
special handling is required when a task blocks in an RCU read-side
critical section.

However, the callout from the scheduler and the outer loop in ksoftirqd
still calls something named rcu_sched_qs(), whose name is no longer
accurate.  Furthermore, when rcu_check_callbacks() notes an RCU-sched
quiescent state, it ends up unnecessarily (though harmlessly, aside
from the performance hit) enqueuing the current task if it happens to
be running in an RCU-preempt read-side critical section.  This not only
increases the maximum latency of scheduler_tick(), it also needlessly
increases the overhead of the next outermost rcu_read_unlock() invocation.

This patch addresses this situation by separating the notion of RCU's
context-switch handling from that of RCU-sched's quiescent states.
The context-switch handling is covered by rcu_note_context_switch() in
general and by rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() for preemptible RCU.
This permits rcu_sched_qs() to handle quiescent states and only quiescent
states.  It also reduces the maximum latency of scheduler_tick(), though
probably by much less than a microsecond.  Finally, it means that tasks
within preemptible-RCU read-side critical sections avoid incurring the
overhead of queuing unless there really is a context switch.

Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan 
Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra

hrtimer, softirq: Fix hrtimer->softirq trampoline

2010-02-03T17:17:40+00:00

hrtimers callbacks are always done from hardirq context, either the
jiffy tick interrupt or the hrtimer device interrupt.

[ there is currently one exception that can still call a hrtimer
  callback from softirq, but even in that case this will still
  work correctly. ]

Reported-by: Wei Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Yury Polyanskiy 
Tested-by: Wei Yongjun 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

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

2009-12-14T17:58:24+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c

rcu: Cleanup: balance rcu_irq_enter()/rcu_irq_exit() calls

2009-11-02T15:06:37+00:00

Currently, rcu_irq_exit() is invoked only for CONFIG_NO_HZ,
while rcu_irq_enter() is invoked unconditionally.  This patch
moves rcu_irq_exit() out from under CONFIG_NO_HZ so that the
calls are balanced.

This patch has no effect on the behavior of the kernel because
both rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() are empty for
!CONFIG_NO_HZ, but the code is easier to understand if the calls
are obviously balanced in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
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
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique

2009-10-29T13:34:13+00:00

This patch updates percpu related symbols under kernel/ and mm/ such
that percpu symbols are unique and don't clash with local symbols.
This serves two purposes of decreasing the possibility of global
percpu symbol collision and allowing dropping per_cpu__ prefix from
percpu symbols.

* kernel/lockdep.c: s/lock_stats/cpu_lock_stats/

* kernel/sched.c: s/init_rq_rt/init_rt_rq_var/	(any better idea?)
  		  s/sched_group_cpus/sched_groups/

* kernel/softirq.c: s/ksoftirqd/run_ksoftirqd/a

* kernel/softlockup.c: s/(*)_timestamp/softlockup_\1_ts/
  		       s/watchdog_task/softlockup_watchdog/
		       s/timestamp/ts/ for local variables

* kernel/time/timer_stats: s/lookup_lock/tstats_lookup_lock/

* mm/slab.c: s/reap_work/slab_reap_work/
  	     s/reap_node/slab_reap_node/

* mm/vmstat.c: local variable changed to avoid collision with vmstat_work

Partly based on Rusty Russell's "alloc_percpu: rename percpu vars
which cause name clashes" patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: (slab/vmstat) Christoph Lameter 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Nick Piggin

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 
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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
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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 
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner