1. 14 Jan, 2009 2 commits
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      perf_counter: Add support for pinned and exclusive counter groups · 3b6f9e5c
      Paul Mackerras authored
      Impact: New perf_counter features
      
      A pinned counter group is one that the user wants to have on the CPU
      whenever possible, i.e. whenever the associated task is running, for
      a per-task group, or always for a per-cpu group.  If the system
      cannot satisfy that, it puts the group into an error state where
      it is not scheduled any more and reads from it return EOF (i.e. 0
      bytes read).  The group can be released from error state and made
      readable again using prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_COUNTERS_ENABLE).  When we
      have finer-grained enable/disable controls on counters we'll be able
      to reset the error state on individual groups.
      
      An exclusive group is one that the user wants to be the only group
      using the CPU performance monitor hardware whenever it is on.  The
      counter group scheduler will not schedule an exclusive group if there
      are already other groups on the CPU and will not schedule other groups
      onto the CPU if there is an exclusive group scheduled (that statement
      does not apply to groups containing only software counters, which can
      always go on and which do not prevent an exclusive group from going on).
      With an exclusive group, we will be able to let users program PMU
      registers at a low level without the concern that those settings will
      perturb other measurements.
      
      Along the way this reorganizes things a little:
      - is_software_counter() is moved to perf_counter.h.
      - cpuctx->active_oncpu now records the number of hardware counters on
        the CPU, i.e. it now excludes software counters.  Nothing was reading
        cpuctx->active_oncpu before, so this change is harmless.
      - A new cpuctx->exclusive field records whether we currently have an
        exclusive group on the CPU.
      - counter_sched_out moves higher up in perf_counter.c and gets called
        from __perf_counter_remove_from_context and __perf_counter_exit_task,
        where we used to have essentially the same code.
      - __perf_counter_sched_in now goes through the counter list twice, doing
        the pinned counters in the first loop and the non-pinned counters in
        the second loop, in order to give the pinned counters the best chance
        to be scheduled in.
      
      Note that only a group leader can be exclusive or pinned, and that
      attribute applies to the whole group.  This avoids some awkwardness in
      some corner cases (e.g. where a group leader is closed and the other
      group members get added to the context list).  If we want to relax that
      restriction later, we can, and it is easier to relax a restriction than
      to apply a new one.
      
      This doesn't yet handle the case where a pinned counter is inherited
      and goes into error state in the child - the error state is not
      propagated up to the parent when the child exits, and arguably it
      should.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      3b6f9e5c
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      powerpc/perf_counter: Make sure PMU gets enabled properly · 01d0287f
      Paul Mackerras authored
      This makes sure that we call the platform-specific ppc_md.enable_pmcs
      function on each CPU before we try to use the PMU on that CPU.  If the
      CPU goes off-line and then on-line, we need to do the enable_pmcs call
      again, so we use the hw_perf_counter_setup hook to ensure that.  It gets
      called as each CPU comes online, but it isn't called on the CPU that is
      coming up, so this adds the CPU number as an argument to it (there were
      no non-empty instances of hw_perf_counter_setup before).
      
      This also arranges to set the pmcregs_in_use field of the lppaca (data
      structure shared with the hypervisor) on each CPU when we are using the
      PMU and clear it when we are not.  This allows the hypervisor to optimize
      partition switches by not saving/restoring the PMU registers when we
      aren't using the PMU.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      01d0287f
  2. 12 Jan, 2009 1 commit
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      perf_counter: Always schedule all software counters in · dd0e6ba2
      Paul Mackerras authored
      Software counters aren't subject to the limitations imposed by the
      fixed number of hardware counter registers, so there is no reason not
      to enable them all in __perf_counter_sched_in.  Previously we used to
      break out of the loop when we got to a group that wouldn't fit on the
      PMU; with this we continue through the list but only schedule in
      software counters (or groups containing only software counters) from
      there on.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      dd0e6ba2
  3. 11 Jan, 2009 2 commits
  4. 10 Jan, 2009 19 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 2.6.29-rc1 · c5976504
      Linus Torvalds authored
      c5976504
    • Arjan van de Ven's avatar
      bootgraph: make the bootgraph script show async waiting time · d3f8ddea
      Arjan van de Ven authored
      It is useful for diagnosing boot performance to see where async function
      calls are waiting on serialization...  this patch adds this
      functionality to the bootgraph.pl script.
      
      The waiting time is shown as a half transparent, gray bar through the
      block that is waiting.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d3f8ddea
    • Arjan van de Ven's avatar
      libata: only ports >= 0 need to synchronize · fa853a48
      Arjan van de Ven authored
      In a discussio with Jeff Garzik, he mentioned that the serialization
      for the libata port probes only needs to be within the domain of a host.
      This means that for the first port of each host (with ID 0), we don't
      need to wait, so we can relax our serialization a little.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fa853a48
    • Arjan van de Ven's avatar
      libata: Add a per-host flag to opt-in into parallel port probes · 886ad09f
      Arjan van de Ven authored
      This patch adds a per host flag that allows drivers to opt in into
      having its busses scanned in parallel.
      
      Drivers that do not set this flag get their ports scanned in
      the "original" sequence.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      886ad09f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of... · 3d14bdad
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
      
      * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits)
        x86: fix section mismatch warnings in mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
        x86: offer frame pointers in all build modes
        x86: remove duplicated #include's
        x86: k8 numa register active regions later
        x86: update Alan Cox's email addresses
        x86: rename all fields of mpc_table mpc_X to X
        x86: rename all fields of mpc_oemtable oem_X to X
        x86: rename all fields of mpc_bus mpc_X to X
        x86: rename all fields of mpc_cpu mpc_X to X
        x86: rename all fields of mpc_intsrc mpc_X to X
        x86: rename all fields of mpc_lintsrc mpc_X to X
        x86: rename all fields of mpc_iopic mpc_X to X
        x86: irqinit_64.c init_ISA_irqs should be static
        Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_length
        x86: setup_percpu.c fix style problems
        x86: irqinit_64.c fix style problems
        x86: irqinit_32.c fix style problems
        x86: i8259.c fix style problems
        x86: irq_32.c fix style problems
        x86: ioport.c fix style problems
        ...
      3d14bdad
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus' of... · 4e9b1c18
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
      
      * 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
        [IA64] fix typo in cpumask_of_pcibus()
        x86: fix x86_32 builds for summit and es7000 arch's
        cpumask: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for read_measured_perf_ctrs
        cpumask: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for drv_read and drv_write
        cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in acpi-cpufreq.c
        cpumask: use work_on_cpu in acpi/cstate.c
        cpumask: convert struct cpufreq_policy to cpumask_var_t
        cpumask: replace CPUMASK_ALLOC etc with cpumask_var_t
        x86: cleanup remaining cpumask_t ops in smpboot code
        cpumask: update pci_bus_show_cpuaffinity to use new cpumask API
        cpumask: update local_cpus_show to use new cpumask API
        ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
      4e9b1c18
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      btrfs: fix for write_super_lockfs/unlockfs error handling · 0176260f
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Commit c4be0c1d added the ability for
      write_super_lockfs to return errors, and renamed them to match.  But
      btrfs didn't get converted.
      
      Do the minimal conversion to make it compile again.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0176260f
    • Artem Bityutskiy's avatar
      rbtree: add const qualifier to some functions · f4b477c4
      Artem Bityutskiy authored
      The 'rb_first()', 'rb_last()', 'rb_next()' and 'rb_prev()' calls
      take a pointer to an RB node or RB root. They do not change the
      pointed objects, so add a 'const' qualifier in order to make life
      of the users of these functions easier.
      
      Indeed, if I have my own constant pointer &const struct my_type *p,
      and I call 'rb_next(&p->rb)', I get a GCC warning:
      
      warning: passing argument 1 of ‘rb_next’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f4b477c4
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      powerpc/perf_counter: Add support for POWER6 · f7862837
      Paul Mackerras authored
      This adds the back-end for the PMU on the POWER6 processor.
      Fortunately, the event selection hardware is somewhat simpler on
      POWER6 than on other POWER family processors, so the constraints
      fit into only 32 bits.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      f7862837
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      powerpc/perf_counter: Add support for PPC970 family · 16b06799
      Paul Mackerras authored
      This adds the back-end for the PMU on the PPC970 family.
      
      The PPC970 allows events from the ISU to be selected in two different
      ways.  Rather than use alternative event codes to express this, we
      instead use a single encoding for ISU events and express the
      resulting constraint (that you can't select events from all three
      of FPU/IFU/VPU, ISU and IDU/STS at the same time, since they all come
      in through only 2 multiplexers) using a NAND constraint field, and
      work out which multiplexer is used for ISU events at compute_mmcr
      time.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      16b06799
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      powerpc/perf_counter: Add generic support for POWER-family PMU hardware · 4574910e
      Paul Mackerras authored
      This provides the architecture-specific functions needed to access
      PMU hardware on the 64-bit PowerPC processors.  It has been designed
      for the IBM POWER family (POWER 4/4+/5/5+/6 and PPC970) but will
      hopefully also suit other 64-bit PowerPC machines (although probably
      not Cell given how different it is in this area).  This doesn't
      include back-ends for any specific processors.
      
      This implements a system which allows back-ends to express the
      constraints that their hardware has on what events can be counted
      simultaneously.  The constraints are expressed as a 64-bit mask +
      64-bit value for each event, and the encoding is capable of
      expressing the constraints arising from having a set of multiplexers
      feeding an event bus, with some events being available through
      multiple multiplexer settings, such as we get on POWER4 and PPC970.
      Furthermore, the back-end can supply alternative event codes for
      each event, and the constraint checking code will try all possible
      combinations of alternative event codes to try to find a combination
      that will fit.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      4574910e
    • Eric Piel's avatar
      LIS3LV02D: separate the core from HP ACPI API · cfce41a6
      Eric Piel authored
      The sensor can be accessed via various buses.  In particular, SPI, I²C
      and, on HP laptops, via a specific ACPI API (the only one currently
      supported).  Separate this latest platform from the core of the sensor
      driver to allow support for the other bus type.  The second, and more
      direct goal is actually to be able to merge this part with the
      hp-disk-leds driver, which has the same ACPI PNP number.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cfce41a6
    • Takashi Sato's avatar
      filesystem freeze: remove XFS specific ioctl interfaces for freeze feature · 8e961870
      Takashi Sato authored
      It removes XFS specific ioctl interfaces and request codes
      for freeze feature.
      
      This patch has been supplied by David Chinner.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
      Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8e961870
    • Takashi Sato's avatar
      filesystem freeze: implement generic freeze feature · fcccf502
      Takashi Sato authored
      The ioctls for the generic freeze feature are below.
      o Freeze the filesystem
        int ioctl(int fd, int FIFREEZE, arg)
          fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint
          FIFREEZE: request code for the freeze
          arg: Ignored
          Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1
      
      o Unfreeze the filesystem
        int ioctl(int fd, int FITHAW, arg)
          fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint
          FITHAW: request code for unfreeze
          arg: Ignored
          Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1
          Error number: If the filesystem has already been unfrozen,
                        errno is set to EINVAL.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_BLOCK=n]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com>
      Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fcccf502
    • Takashi Sato's avatar
      filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfs · c4be0c1d
      Takashi Sato authored
      Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which
      suspends write requests.  So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the
      filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and
      replication) while it is mounted.
      
      In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g.  VxFS) has the freeze feature
      and it would be used to get the consistent backup.
      
      If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it
      without a commercial filesystem.
      
      So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature.
      I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps.
      1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl.
      2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot
         with the storage device's feature.
      3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl.
      4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume
         or the snapshot.
      
      This patch:
      
      VFS:
      Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
      to "int" so that they can return an error.
      Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation
      freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion.
      
      ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs:
      Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
      to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed,
      and unlockfs always returns 0.
      
      reiserfs:
      Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
      to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com>
      Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c4be0c1d
    • Harvey Harrison's avatar
      memstick: annotate endianness of attribute structs · 69347a23
      Harvey Harrison authored
      The code was shifting the endianness appropriately everywhere, annotate
      the structs to avoid the sparse warnings when assigning the endian types
      to the struct members, or passing them to be[16|32]_to_cpu:
      
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:331:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:333:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:335:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:337:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:341:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:347:4: warning: cast to restricted __be32
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:356:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:358:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:364:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:367:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:369:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:371:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:377:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:478:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:480:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:482:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:484:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:486:4: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:689:22:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [assigned] data_address
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:689:22:    got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:697:3: warning: cast to restricted __be32
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:960:17: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different base types)
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:960:17:    expected unsigned short [unsigned] data_count
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:960:17:    got restricted __be16 [usertype] <noident>
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:993:6: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c:995:28: warning: cast to restricted __be16
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
      Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      69347a23
    • Larry Finger's avatar
      hp-wmi: handle rfkill_register() failure · fe8e4e03
      Larry Finger authored
      Compilation of the HP WMI hotkeys code results in the following:
      
        CC [M]  drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.o
      drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c: In function hp_wmi_bios_setup:
      drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c:431: warning: ignoring return value of rfkill_register,
      	 declared with attribute warn_unused_result
      drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c:441: warning: ignoring return value of rfkill_register,
      	 declared with attribute warn_unused_result
      drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c:450: warning: ignoring return value of rfkill_register,
      	 declared with attribute warn_unused_result
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fe8e4e03
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      compiler-gcc.h: add more comments to RELOC_HIDE · 85c210ed
      Andi Kleen authored
      Requested by C. Lameter
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      85c210ed
    • David Brownell's avatar
      CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS depends on ELF_CORE · 2d96d105
      David Brownell authored
      Kernels that don't support ELF coredumps at all surely can't be supporting
      new partial-segment flavored ELF coredumps ...  don't make folk answer
      Kconfig questions about that flavor.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
      Acked-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2d96d105
  5. 09 Jan, 2009 16 commits