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When we debug something, we'd like to insert some information to every
page. For this purpose, we sometimes modify struct page itself. But,
this has drawbacks. First, it requires re-compile. This makes us
hesitate to use the powerful debug feature so development process is
slowed down. And, second, sometimes it is impossible to rebuild the
kernel due to third party module dependency. At third, system behaviour
would be largely different after re-compile, because it changes size of
struct page greatly and this structure is accessed by every part of
kernel. Keeping this as it is would be better to reproduce errornous
situation.
This feature is intended to overcome above mentioned problems. This
feature allocates memory for extended data per page in certain place
rather than the struct page itself. This memory can be accessed by the
accessor functions provided by this code. During the boot process, it
checks whether allocation of huge chunk of memory is needed or not. If
not, it avoids allocating memory at all. With this advantage, we can
include this feature into the kernel in default and can avoid rebuild and
solve related problems.
Until now, memcg uses this technique. But, now, memcg decides to embed
their variable to struct page itself and it's code to extend struct page
has been removed. I'd like to use this code to develop debug feature, so
this patch resurrect it.
To help these things to work well, this patch introduces two callbacks for
clients. One is the need callback which is mandatory if user wants to
avoid useless memory allocation at boot-time. The other is optional, init
callback, which is used to do proper initialization after memory is
allocated. Detailed explanation about purpose of these functions is in
code comment. Please refer it.
Others are completely same with previous extension code in memcg.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If a user puts init=/whatever on the command line and /whatever can't be
run, then the kernel will try a few default options before giving up. If
init=/whatever came from a bootloader prompt, then this is unexpected but
probably harmless. On the other hand, if it comes from a script (e.g. a
tool like virtme or perhaps a future kselftest script), then the fallbacks
are likely to exist, but they'll do the wrong thing. For example, they
might unexpectedly invoke systemd.
This adds a config option CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK. If unset, then a failure
to run the specified init= process be fatal.
The tentative plan is to remove CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK for 3.20.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that the external page_cgroup data structure and its lookup is
gone, let the generic bad_page() check for page->mem_cgroup sanity.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Memory cgroups used to have 5 per-page pointers. To allow users to
disable that amount of overhead during runtime, those pointers were
allocated in a separate array, with a translation layer between them and
struct page.
There is now only one page pointer remaining: the memcg pointer, that
indicates which cgroup the page is associated with when charged. The
complexity of runtime allocation and the runtime translation overhead is
no longer justified to save that *potential* 0.19% of memory. With
CONFIG_SLUB, page->mem_cgroup actually sits in the doubleword padding
after the page->private member and doesn't even increase struct page,
and then this patch actually saves space. Remaining users that care can
still compile their kernels without CONFIG_MEMCG.
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8827425 1725264 966656 11519345 afc571 vmlinux.new
[mhocko@suse.cz: update Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add the default enable config option after the NUMA_BALANCING option so
that it appears related in the nconfig interface.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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All memory accounting and limiting has been switched over to the
lockless page counters. Bye, res_counter!
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt]
[mhocko@suse.cz: ditch the last remainings of res_counter]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Abandon the spinlock-protected byte counters in favor of the unlocked
page counters in the hugetlb controller as well.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Memory is internally accounted in bytes, using spinlock-protected 64-bit
counters, even though the smallest accounting delta is a page. The
counter interface is also convoluted and does too many things.
Introduce a new lockless word-sized page counter API, then change all
memory accounting over to it. The translation from and to bytes then only
happens when interfacing with userspace.
The removed locking overhead is noticable when scaling beyond the per-cpu
charge caches - on a 4-socket machine with 144-threads, the following test
shows the performance differences of 288 memcgs concurrently running a
page fault benchmark:
vanilla:
18631648.500498 task-clock (msec) # 140.643 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.33% )
1,380,638 context-switches # 0.074 K/sec ( +- 0.75% )
24,390 cpu-migrations # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 8.44% )
1,843,305,768 page-faults # 0.099 M/sec ( +- 0.00% )
50,134,994,088,218 cycles # 2.691 GHz ( +- 0.33% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
8,049,712,224,651 instructions # 0.16 insns per cycle ( +- 0.04% )
1,586,970,584,979 branches # 85.176 M/sec ( +- 0.05% )
1,724,989,949 branch-misses # 0.11% of all branches ( +- 0.48% )
132.474343877 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.21% )
lockless:
12195979.037525 task-clock (msec) # 133.480 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.18% )
832,850 context-switches # 0.068 K/sec ( +- 0.54% )
15,624 cpu-migrations # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 10.17% )
1,843,304,774 page-faults # 0.151 M/sec ( +- 0.00% )
32,811,216,801,141 cycles # 2.690 GHz ( +- 0.18% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
9,999,265,091,727 instructions # 0.30 insns per cycle ( +- 0.10% )
2,076,759,325,203 branches # 170.282 M/sec ( +- 0.12% )
1,656,917,214 branch-misses # 0.08% of all branches ( +- 0.55% )
91.369330729 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.45% )
On top of improved scalability, this also gets rid of the icky long long
types in the very heart of memcg, which is great for 32 bit and also makes
the code a lot more readable.
Notable differences between the old and new API:
- res_counter_charge() and res_counter_charge_nofail() become
page_counter_try_charge() and page_counter_charge() resp. to match
the more common kernel naming scheme of try_do()/do()
- res_counter_uncharge_until() is only ever used to cancel a local
counter and never to uncharge bigger segments of a hierarchy, so
it's replaced by the simpler page_counter_cancel()
- res_counter_set_limit() is replaced by page_counter_limit(), which
expects its callers to serialize against themselves
- res_counter_memparse_write_strategy() is replaced by
page_counter_limit(), which rounds down to the nearest page size -
rather than up. This is more reasonable for explicitely requested
hard upper limits.
- to keep charging light-weight, page_counter_try_charge() charges
speculatively, only to roll back if the result exceeds the limit.
Because of this, a failing bigger charge can temporarily lock out
smaller charges that would otherwise succeed. The error is bounded
to the difference between the smallest and the biggest possible
charge size, so for memcg, this means that a failing THP charge can
send base page charges into reclaim upto 2MB (4MB) before the limit
would have been reached. This should be acceptable.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add includes for WARN_ON_ONCE and memparse]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add includes for WARN_ON_ONCE, memparse, strncmp, and PAGE_SIZE]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:
- Streamline RCU's use of per-CPU variables, shifting from "cpu"
arguments to functions to "this_"-style per-CPU variable accessors.
- Signal-handling RCU updates.
- Real-time updates.
- Torture-test updates.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
- Documentation updates.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Currently if the user passes an invalid value on the kernel command line
then the kernel will crash during argument parsing. On most systems this
is very hard to debug because the console hasn't been initialized yet.
This is a regression due to commit 51e158c12aca ("param: hand arguments
after -- straight to init") which, in response to the systemd debug
controversy, made it possible to explicitly pass arguments to init. To
achieve this parse_args() was extended from simply returning an error
code to returning a pointer. Regretably the new init args logic does not
perform a proper validity check on the pointer resulting in a crash.
This patch fixes the validity check. Should the check fail then no arguments
will be passed to init. This is reasonable and matches how the kernel treats
its own arguments (i.e. no error recovery).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU serve the same function after
TINY_PREEMPT_RCU has been removed. This patch removes TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
and uses PREEMPT_RCU config option in its place.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Rename CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO and use this
value for both the per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N) and the rcu boosting
threads (rcub/n).
Also, create the module_parameter rcutree.kthread_prio to be used on
the kernel command line at boot to set a new value (rcutree.kthread_prio=N).
Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Ported to rcu/dev, applied Paul Bolle and Peter Zijlstra feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Every choice item of the "Build-forced no-CBs CPUs" choice had a
dependency to RCU_NOCB_CPU. It's more comprehensible if the choice
itself has the dependency instead of every choice item. The choice
itself doesn't need to be visible if there are no items selectable
(i.e. on arch/frv) or RCU_NOCB_CPU is not defined.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hengelein <stefan.hengelein@fau.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ruprecht <rupran@einserver.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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introduce two configs:
- hidden CONFIG_BPF to select eBPF interpreter that classic socket filters
depend on
- visible CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL (default off) that tracing and sockets can use
that solves several problems:
- tracing and others that wish to use eBPF don't need to depend on NET.
They can use BPF_SYSCALL to allow loading from userspace or select BPF
to use it directly from kernel in NET-less configs.
- in 3.18 programs cannot be attached to events yet, so don't force it on
- when the rest of eBPF infra is there in 3.19+, it's still useful to
switch it off to minimize kernel size
bloat-o-meter on x64 shows:
add/remove: 0/60 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-15601 (-15601)
tested with many different config combinations. Hopefully didn't miss anything.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Consolidate the various external const and non-const declarations of
__start___param[] and __stop___param in <linux/moduleparam.h>. This
requires making a few struct kernel_param pointers in kernel/params.c
const.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Resolve shadow warnings that are produced in W=2 builds by renaming a
global with a too-generic name and renaming a formal parameter.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When configuring a uniprocessor kernel, don't bother the user with an
irrelevant LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT question, and don't build the unused
code.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Optimized support for Intel "Cluster-on-Die" (CoD) topologies (Dave
Hansen)
- Various sched/idle refinements for better idle handling (Nicolas
Pitre, Daniel Lezcano, Chuansheng Liu, Vincent Guittot)
- sched/numa updates and optimizations (Rik van Riel)
- sysbench speedup (Vincent Guittot)
- capacity calculation cleanups/refactoring (Vincent Guittot)
- Various cleanups to thread group iteration (Oleg Nesterov)
- Double-rq-lock removal optimization and various refactorings
(Kirill Tkhai)
- various sched/deadline fixes
... and lots of other changes"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (72 commits)
sched/dl: Use dl_bw_of() under rcu_read_lock_sched()
sched/fair: Delete resched_cpu() from idle_balance()
sched, time: Fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32 bit systems
sched: Improve sysbench performance by fixing spurious active migration
sched/x86: Fix up typo in topology detection
x86, sched: Add new topology for multi-NUMA-node CPUs
sched/rt: Use resched_curr() in task_tick_rt()
sched: Use rq->rd in sched_setaffinity() under RCU read lock
sched: cleanup: Rename 'out_unlock' to 'out_free_new_mask'
sched: Use dl_bw_of() under RCU read lock
sched/fair: Remove duplicate code from can_migrate_task()
sched, mips, ia64: Remove __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW
sched: print_rq(): Don't use tasklist_lock
sched: normalize_rt_tasks(): Don't use _irqsave for tasklist_lock, use task_rq_lock()
sched: Fix the task-group check in tg_has_rt_tasks()
sched/fair: Leverage the idle state info when choosing the "idlest" cpu
sched: Let the scheduler see CPU idle states
sched/deadline: Fix inter- exclusive cpusets migrations
sched/deadline: Clear dl_entity params when setscheduling to different class
sched/numa: Kill the wrong/dead TASK_DEAD check in task_numa_fault()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- changes related to No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL
- RCU-tasks implementation
- torture-test updates
- miscellaneous fixes
- locktorture updates
- RCU documentation updates"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (81 commits)
workqueue: Use cond_resched_rcu_qs macro
workqueue: Add quiescent state between work items
locktorture: Cleanup header usage
locktorture: Cannot hold read and write lock
locktorture: Fix __acquire annotation for spinlock irq
locktorture: Support rwlocks
rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods
locktorture: Document boot/module parameters
rcutorture: Rename rcutorture_runnable parameter
locktorture: Add test scenario for rwsem_lock
locktorture: Add test scenario for mutex_lock
locktorture: Make torture scripting account for new _runnable name
locktorture: Introduce torture context
locktorture: Support rwsems
locktorture: Add infrastructure for torturing read locks
torture: Address race in module cleanup
locktorture: Make statistics generic
locktorture: Teach about lock debugging
locktorture: Support mutexes
locktorture: Add documentation
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ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE was defined for architectures that implemented
_PAGE_NUMA using _PROT_NONE. This saved using an additional PTE bit and
relied on the fact that PROT_NONE vmas were skipped by the NUMA hinting
fault scanner. This was found to be conceptually confusing with a lot of
implicit assumptions and it was asked that an alternative be found.
Commit c46a7c81 "x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the
PMD and PTE levels" redefined _PAGE_NUMA on x86 to be one of the swap PTE
bits and shrunk the maximum possible swap size but it did not go far
enough. There are no architectures that reuse _PROT_NONE as _PROT_NUMA
but the relics still exist.
This patch removes ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE and removes some unnecessary
duplication in powerpc vs the generic implementation by defining the types
the core NUMA helpers expected to exist from x86 with their ppc64
equivalent. This necessitated that a PTE bit mask be created that
identified the bits that distinguish present from NUMA pte entries but it
is expected this will only differ between arches based on _PAGE_PROTNONE.
The naming for the generic helpers was taken from x86 originally but ppc64
has types that are equivalent for the purposes of the helper so they are
mapped instead of duplicating code.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- Fix the deadlock reported by Dave Jones et al
- Clean up and fix nohz_full interaction with arch abilities
- nohz init code consolidation/cleanup"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
nohz: nohz full depends on irq work self IPI support
nohz: Consolidate nohz full init code
arm64: Tell irq work about self IPI support
arm: Tell irq work about self IPI support
x86: Tell irq work about self IPI support
irq_work: Force raised irq work to run on irq work interrupt
irq_work: Introduce arch_irq_work_has_interrupt()
nohz: Move nohz full init call to tick init
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull "trivial tree" updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual pile from trivial tree everyone is so eagerly waiting for"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
Remove MN10300_PROC_MN2WS0038
mei: fix comments
treewide: Fix typos in Kconfig
kprobes: update jprobe_example.c for do_fork() change
Documentation: change "&" to "and" in Documentation/applying-patches.txt
Documentation: remove obsolete pcmcia-cs from Changes
Documentation: update links in Changes
Documentation: Docbook: Fix generated DocBook/kernel-api.xml
score: Remove GENERIC_HAS_IOMAP
gpio: fix 'CONFIG_GPIO_IRQCHIP' comments
tty: doc: Fix grammar in serial/tty
dma-debug: modify check_for_stack output
treewide: fix errors in printk
genirq: fix reference in devm_request_threaded_irq comment
treewide: fix synchronize_rcu() in comments
checkstack.pl: port to AArch64
doc: queue-sysfs: minor fixes
init/do_mounts: better syntax description
MIPS: fix comment spelling
powerpc/simpleboot: fix comment
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
"Nothing major: support for compressing modules, and auto-tainting
params.
PS. My virtio-next tree is empty: DaveM took the patches I had. There
might be a virtio-rng starvation fix, but so far it's a bit voodoo
so I will get to that in the next two days or it will wait"
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
moduleparam: Resolve missing-field-initializer warning
kbuild: handle module compression while running 'make modules_install'.
modinst: wrap long lines in order to enhance cmd_modules_install
modsign: lookup lines ending in .ko in .mod files
modpost: simplify file name generation of *.mod.c files
modpost: reduce visibility of symbols and constify r/o arrays
param: check for tainting before calling set op.
drm/i915: taint the kernel if unsafe module parameters are set
module: add module_param_unsafe and module_param_named_unsafe
module: make it possible to have unsafe, tainting module params
module: rename KERNEL_PARAM_FL_NOARG to avoid confusion
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux
Pull "tinification" patches from Josh Triplett.
Work on making smaller kernels.
* tag 'tiny/for-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux:
bloat-o-meter: Ignore syscall aliases SyS_ and compat_SyS_
mm: Support compiling out madvise and fadvise
x86: Support compiling out human-friendly processor feature names
x86: Drop support for /proc files when !CONFIG_PROC_FS
x86, boot: Don't compile early_serial_console.c when !CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
x86, boot: Don't compile aslr.c when !CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
x86, boot: Use the usual -y -n mechanism for objects in vmlinux
x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest possible kernel
x86, platform, kconfig: move kvmconfig functionality to a helper
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux
Pull kconfig fixes for tiny setups from Josh Triplett:
"Two Kconfig bugfixes for 3.17 related to tinification. These fixes
make the Kconfig "General Setup" menu much more usable"
* tag 'tiny/kconfig-for-3.17' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux:
init/Kconfig: Fix HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to not break up the EXPERT menu
init/Kconfig: Hide printk log config if CONFIG_PRINTK=n
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commit 03b8c7b623c80af264c4c8d6111e5c6289933666 ("futex: Allow
architectures to skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test") added the
HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG symbol right below FUTEX. This placed it right in
the middle of the options for the EXPERT menu. However,
HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG does not depend on EXPERT or FUTEX, so Kconfig stops
placing items in the EXPERT menu, and displays the remaining several
EXPERT items (starting with EPOLL) directly in the General Setup menu.
Since both users of HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG only select it "if FUTEX", make
HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG itself depend on FUTEX. With this change, the
subsequent items display as part of the EXPERT menu again; the EMBEDDED
menu now appears as the next top-level item in the General Setup menu,
which makes General Setup much shorter and more usable.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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The buffers sized by CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT and
CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT do not exist if CONFIG_PRINTK=n, so don't
ask about their size at all.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull the v3.18 RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:
"
* Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/378.
* Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/386. An additional fix that
eliminates a documented (but now inconvenient) deadlock between
RCU hotplug and expedited grace periods was posted at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/573.
* Changes related to No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL. These were posted
to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/412.
* Torture-test updates. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/546 and at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/11/1114.
* RCU-tasks implementation. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/540.
"
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Tasks get their end of stack set to STACK_END_MAGIC with the
aim to catch stack overruns. Currently this feature does not
apply to init_task. This patch removes this restriction.
Note that a similar patch was posted by Prarit Bhargava
some time ago but was never merged:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127144305403241&w=2
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Cc: bmr@redhat.com
Cc: jcastillo@redhat.com
Cc: jgh@redhat.com
Cc: minchan@kernel.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527779-8133-2-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This reverts commit 4dfe694f616e00e6fd83e5bbcd7a3c4d7113493d.
In that, we did:
Here we move the rootdelay code to be right beside the rootwait code, so
that their behaviour is consistent.
...which is fine, but in hindsight, perhaps moving the rootwait to be
beside the rootdelay would have been better. We also indicated:
It should be noted that in doing so, the actions based on the
saved_root_name[0] and initrd_load() were previously put on hold by
rootdelay=N and now currently will not be delayed. However, I think
consistent behaviour is more important than matching historical behaviour
of delaying the above two operations.
But Pavel reported an instance where an ARM target with root on MMC
was failing to mount root, and Russell diagnosed it to the fact that
the call to set ROOT_DEV within the saved_root_name[0] processing
block mentioned above was no longer being delayed.
Rather than moving both wait clauses to the original position of
rootdelay and risking unearthing other possible corner case breakage
at this point in time, we simply revert now and we can revisit
trying the alternate/earlier location in another development cycle.
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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rcu-tasks.2014.09.10a: Add RCU-tasks flavor of RCU.
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Commit b58cc46c5f6b (rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically
requested) failed to adjust the callback lists of the CPUs that are
known to be no-CBs CPUs only because they are also nohz_full= CPUs.
This failure can result in callbacks that are posted during early boot
getting stranded on nxtlist for CPUs whose no-CBs property becomes
apparent late, and there can also be spurious warnings about offline
CPUs posting callbacks.
This commit fixes these problems by adding an early-boot rcu_init_nohz()
that properly initializes the no-CBs CPUs.
Note that kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y or with
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=n do not exhibit this bug. Neither do kernels
booted without the nohz_full= boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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This way we unbloat a bit main.c and more importantly we initialize
nohz full after init_IRQ(). This dependency will be needed in further
patches because nohz full needs irq work to raise its own IRQ.
Information about the support for this ability on ARM64 is obtained on
init_IRQ() which initialize the pointer to __smp_call_function.
Since tick_init() is called right after init_IRQ(), this is a good place
to call tick_nohz_init() and prepare for that dependency.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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This commit adds a new RCU-tasks flavor of RCU, which provides
call_rcu_tasks(). This RCU flavor's quiescent states are voluntary
context switch (not preemption!) and userspace execution (not the idle
loop -- use some sort of schedule_on_each_cpu() if you need to handle the
idle tasks. Note that unlike other RCU flavors, these quiescent states
occur in tasks, not necessarily CPUs. Includes fixes from Steven Rostedt.
This RCU flavor is assumed to have very infrequent latency-tolerant
updaters. This assumption permits significant simplifications, including
a single global callback list protected by a single global lock, along
with a single task-private linked list containing all tasks that have not
yet passed through a quiescent state. If experience shows this assumption
to be incorrect, the required additional complexity will be added.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Specify hex device number unambiquously.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Since module-init-tools (gzip) and kmod (gzip and xz) support compressed
modules, it could be useful to include a support for compressing modules
right after having them installed. Doing this in kbuild instead of per
distro can permit to make this kind of usage more generic.
This patch add a Kconfig entry to "Enable loadable module support" menu
and let you choose to compress using gzip (default) or xz.
Both gzip and xz does not used any extra -[1-9] option since Andi Kleen
and Rusty Russell prove no gain is made using them. gzip is called with -n
argument to avoid storing original filename inside compressed file, that
way we can save some more bytes.
On a v3.16 kernel, 'make allmodconfig' generated 4680 modules for a
total of 378MB (no strip, no sign, no compress), the following table
shows observed disk space gain based on the allmodconfig .config :
| time |
+-------------+-----------------+
| manual .ko | make | size | percent
| compression | modules_install | | gain
+-------------+-----------------+------+--------
- | | 18.61s | 378M |
GZIP | 3m16s | 3m37s | 102M | 73.41%
XZ | 5m22s | 5m39s | 77M | 79.83%
The gain for restricted environnement seems to be interesting while
uncompress can be time consuming but happens only while loading a module,
that is generally done only once.
This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression
and provide to other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
Reviewed-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Bertrand Jacquin <beber@meleeweb.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Many embedded systems will not need these syscalls, and omitting them
saves space. Add a new EXPERT config option CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS
(default y) to support compiling them out.
bloat-o-meter:
add/remove: 0/3 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/-2250 (-2250)
function old new delta
sys_fadvise64 57 - -57
sys_fadvise64_64 691 - -691
sys_madvise 1502 - -1502
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge more incoming from Andrew Morton:
"Two new syscalls:
memfd_create in "shm: add memfd_create() syscall"
kexec_file_load in "kexec: implementation of new syscall kexec_file_load"
And:
- Most (all?) of the rest of MM
- Lots of the usual misc bits
- fs/autofs4
- drivers/rtc
- fs/nilfs
- procfs
- fork.c, exec.c
- more in lib/
- rapidio
- Janitorial work in filesystems: fs/ufs, fs/reiserfs, fs/adfs,
fs/cramfs, fs/romfs, fs/qnx6.
- initrd/initramfs work
- "file sealing" and the memfd_create() syscall, in tmpfs
- add pci_zalloc_consistent, use it in lots of places
- MAINTAINERS maintenance
- kexec feature work"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org: (193 commits)
MAINTAINERS: update nomadik patterns
MAINTAINERS: update usb/gadget patterns
MAINTAINERS: update DMA BUFFER SHARING patterns
kexec: verify the signature of signed PE bzImage
kexec: support kexec/kdump on EFI systems
kexec: support for kexec on panic using new system call
kexec-bzImage64: support for loading bzImage using 64bit entry
kexec: load and relocate purgatory at kernel load time
purgatory: core purgatory functionality
purgatory/sha256: provide implementation of sha256 in purgaotory context
kexec: implementation of new syscall kexec_file_load
kexec: new syscall kexec_file_load() declaration
kexec: make kexec_segment user buffer pointer a union
resource: provide new functions to walk through resources
kexec: use common function for kimage_normal_alloc() and kimage_crash_alloc()
kexec: move segment verification code in a separate function
kexec: rename unusebale_pages to unusable_pages
kernel: build bin2c based on config option CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C
bin2c: move bin2c in scripts/basic
shm: wait for pins to be released when sealing
...
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currently bin2c builds only if CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y. But bin2c will now be
used by kexec too. So make it compilation dependent on CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C
and this config option can be selected by CONFIG_KEXEC and CONFIG_IKCONFIG.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fixing some checkpatch warnings(remove global initialization, move
__initdata, coalesce formats ...)
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On a system with low memory extracting the initramfs may fail. If this
happens the user gets "Failed to execute /init" instead of an initramfs
error.
Check return value of sys_write and call error() when the write was
incomplete or failed.
Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now with 64bit bzImage and kexec tools, we support ramdisk that size is
bigger than 2g, as we could put it above 4G.
Found compressed initramfs image could not be decompressed properly. It
turns out that image length is int during decompress detection, and it
will become < 0 when length is more than 2G. Furthermore, during
decompressing len as int is used for inbuf count, that has problem too.
Change len to long, that should be ok as on 32 bit platform long is
32bits.
Tested with following compressed initramfs image as root with kexec.
gzip, bzip2, xz, lzma, lzop, lz4.
run time for populate_rootfs():
size name Nehalem-EX Westmere-EX Ivybridge-EX
9034400256 root_img : 26s 24s 30s
3561095057 root_img.lz4 : 28s 27s 27s
3459554629 root_img.lzo : 29s 29s 28s
3219399480 root_img.gz : 64s 62s 49s
2251594592 root_img.xz : 262s 260s 183s
2226366598 root_img.lzma: 386s 376s 277s
2901482513 root_img.bz2 : 635s 599s
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>
Cc: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: "Daniel M. Weeks" <dan@danweeks.net>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When initrd (compressed or not) is used, kernel report data corrupted with
/dev/ram0.
The root cause:
During initramfs checking, if it is initrd, it will be transferred to
/initrd.image with sys_write.
sys_write only support 2G-4K write, so if the initrd ram is more than
that, /initrd.image will not complete at all.
Add local xwrite to loop calling sys_write to workaround the problem.
Also need to use xwrite in write_buffer() to handle:
image is uncompressed cpio and there is one big file (>2G) in it.
unpack_to_rootfs ===> write_buffer ===> actions[]/do_copy
At the same time, we don't need to worry about sys_read/sys_write in
do_mounts_rd.c::crd_load. As decompressor will have fill/flush and local
buffer that is smaller than 2G.
Test with uncompressed initrd, and compressed ones with gz, bz2, lzma,xz,
lzop.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: "Daniel M. Weeks" <dan@danweeks.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently rootdelay=N and rootwait behave differently (aside from the
obvious unbounded wait duration) because they are at different places in
the init sequence.
The difference manifests itself for md devices because the call to
md_run_setup() lives between rootdelay and rootwait, so if you try to use
rootdelay=20 to try and allow a slow RAID0 array to assemble, you get
this:
[ 4.526011] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 22.972079] md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
i.e. you've achieved nothing other than delaying the probing 20s, when
what you wanted was a 20s delay _after_ the probing for md devices was
initiated.
Here we move the rootdelay code to be right beside the rootwait code, so
that their behaviour is consistent.
It should be noted that in doing so, the actions based on the
saved_root_name[0] and initrd_load() were previously put on hold by
rootdelay=N and now currently will not be delayed. However, I think
consistent behaviour is more important than matching historical behaviour
of delaying the above two operations.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC platform changes from Olof Johansson:
"This is the bulk of new SoC enablement and other platform changes for
3.17:
- Samsung S5PV210 has been converted to DT and multiplatform
- Clock drivers and bindings for some of the lower-end i.MX 1/2
platforms
- Kirkwood, one of the popular Marvell platforms, is folded into the
mvebu platform code, removing mach-kirkwood
- Hwmod data for TI AM43xx and DRA7 platforms
- More additions of Renesas shmobile platform support
- Removal of plat-samsung contents that can be removed with S5PV210
being multiplatform/DT-enabled and the other two old platforms
being removed
New platforms (most with only basic support right now):
- Hisilicon X5HD2 settop box chipset is introduced
- Mediatek MT6589 (mobile chipset) is introduced
- Broadcom BCM7xxx settop box chipset is introduced
+ as usual a lot other pieces all over the platform code"
* tag 'soc-for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (240 commits)
ARM: hisi: remove smp from machine descriptor
power: reset: move hisilicon reboot code
ARM: dts: Add hix5hd2-dkb dts file.
ARM: debug: Rename Hi3716 to HIX5HD2
ARM: hisi: enable hix5hd2 SoC
ARM: hisi: add ARCH_HISI
MAINTAINERS: add entry for Broadcom ARM STB architecture
ARM: brcmstb: select GISB arbiter and interrupt drivers
ARM: brcmstb: add infrastructure for ARM-based Broadcom STB SoCs
ARM: configs: enable SMP in bcm_defconfig
ARM: add SMP support for Broadcom mobile SoCs
Documentation: arm: misc updates to Marvell EBU SoC status
Documentation: arm: add URLs to public datasheets for the Marvell Armada XP SoC
ARM: mvebu: fix build without platforms selected
ARM: mvebu: add cpuidle support for Armada 38x
ARM: mvebu: add cpuidle support for Armada 370
cpuidle: mvebu: add Armada 38x support
cpuidle: mvebu: add Armada 370 support
cpuidle: mvebu: rename the driver from armada-370-xp to mvebu-v7
ARM: mvebu: export the SCU address
...
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The default size of the ring buffer is too small for machines with a
large amount of CPUs under heavy load. What ends up happening when
debugging is the ring buffer overlaps and chews up old messages making
debugging impossible unless the size is passed as a kernel parameter.
An idle system upon boot up will on average spew out only about one or
two extra lines but where this really matters is on heavy load and that
will vary widely depending on the system and environment.
There are mechanisms to help increase the kernel ring buffer for tracing
through debugfs, and those interfaces even allow growing the kernel ring
buffer per CPU. We also have a static value which can be passed upon
boot. Relying on debugfs however is not ideal for production, and
relying on the value passed upon bootup is can only used *after* an
issue has creeped up. Instead of being reactive this adds a proactive
measure which lets you scale the amount of contributions you'd expect to
the kernel ring buffer under load by each CPU in the worst case
scenario.
We use num_possible_cpus() to avoid complexities which could be
introduced by dynamically changing the ring buffer size at run time,
num_possible_cpus() lets us use the upper limit on possible number of
CPUs therefore avoiding having to deal with hotplugging CPUs on and off.
This introduces the kernel configuration option LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
which is used to specify the maximum amount of contributions to the
kernel ring buffer in the worst case before the kernel ring buffer flips
over, the size is specified as a power of 2. The total amount of
contributions made by each CPU must be greater than half of the default
kernel ring buffer size (1 << LOG_BUF_SHIFT bytes) in order to trigger
an increase upon bootup. The kernel ring buffer is increased to the
next power of two that would fit the required minimum kernel ring buffer
size plus the additional CPU contribution. For example if LOG_BUF_SHIFT
is 18 (256 KB) you'd require at least 128 KB contributions by other CPUs
in order to trigger an increase of the kernel ring buffer. With a
LOG_CPU_BUF_SHIFT of 12 (4 KB) you'd require at least anything over > 64
possible CPUs to trigger an increase. If you had 128 possible CPUs the
amount of minimum required kernel ring buffer bumps to:
((1 << 18) + ((128 - 1) * (1 << 12))) / 1024 = 764 KB
Since we require the ring buffer to be a power of two the new required
size would be 1024 KB.
This CPU contributions are ignored when the "log_buf_len" kernel
parameter is used as it forces the exact size of the ring buffer to an
expected power of two value.
[pmladek@suse.cz: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Arun KS <arunks.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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'maintainers.2014.07.08b', 'nocbs.2014.07.07a' and 'torture.2014.07.07a' into HEAD
doc.2014.07.08a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.07.09a: Miscellaneous fixes.
maintainers.2014.07.08b: Maintainership updates.
nocbs.2014.07.07a: Callback-offloading fixes.
torture.2014.07.07a: Torture-test updates.
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
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