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  1. 17 Apr, 2008 1 commit
  3. 26 Mar, 2008 1 commit
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      NOHZ: reevaluate idle sleep length after add_timer_on() · 06d8308c
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      
add_timer_on() can add a timer on a CPU which is currently in a long
idle sleep, but the timer wheel is not reevaluated by the nohz code on
that CPU. So a timer can be delayed for quite a long time. This
triggered a false positive in the clocksource watchdog code.

To avoid this we need to wake up the idle CPU and enforce the
reevaluation of the timer wheel for the next timer event.

Add a function, which checks a given CPU for idle state, marks the
idle task with NEED_RESCHED and sends a reschedule IPI to notify the
other CPU of the change in the timer wheel.

Call this function from add_timer_on().
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

--
 include/linux/sched.h |    6 ++++++
 kernel/sched.c        |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/timer.c        |   10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
      06d8308c
  5. 08 Feb, 2008 2 commits
  7. 06 Feb, 2008 1 commit
    • Michael Neuling's avatar
      taskstats scaled time cleanup · 06b8e878
      Michael Neuling authored 
      
This moves the ability to scale cputime into generic code.  This allows us
to fix the issue in kernel/timer.c (noticed by Balbir) where we could only
add an unscaled value to the scaled utime/stime.

This adds a cputime_to_scaled function.  As before, the POWERPC version
does the scaling based on the last SPURR/PURR ratio calculated.  The
generic and s390 (only other arch to implement asm/cputime.h) versions are
both NOPs.

Also moves the SPURR and PURR snapshots closer.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      06b8e878
  9. 30 Jan, 2008 2 commits
  11. 25 Jan, 2008 1 commit
  13. 21 Jan, 2008 1 commit
    • Randy Dunlap's avatar
      timer: fix section mismatch · 48ccf3da
      Randy Dunlap authored 
      
The caller is __cpuinit.
Also, this code block and its caller are inside #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
blocks, so this code should reflect that config symbol's usage.

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4252f): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'msleep')
Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      48ccf3da
  15. 13 Jan, 2008 1 commit
    • Roland McGrath's avatar
      remove task_ppid_nr_ns · 84427eae
      Roland McGrath authored 
      
task_ppid_nr_ns is called in three places.  One of these should never
have called it.  In the other two, using it broke the existing
semantics.  This was presumably accidental.  If the function had not
been there, it would have been much more obvious to the eye that those
patches were changing the behavior.  We don't need this function.

In task_state, the pid of the ptracer is not the ppid of the ptracer.

In do_task_stat, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid.
I also moved the call outside of lock_task_sighand, since it doesn't
need it.

In sys_getppid, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      84427eae
  17. 18 Dec, 2007 1 commit
  19. 06 Dec, 2007 1 commit
  21. 09 Nov, 2007 1 commit
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      sched: restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc · fa13a5a1
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      
Since powerpc started using CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, the
deterministic CPU accounting (CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING) has been
broken on powerpc, because we end up counting user time twice: once in
timer_interrupt() and once in update_process_times().

This fixes the problem by pulling the code in update_process_times
that updates utime and stime into a separate function called
account_process_tick.  If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined,
there is a version of account_process_tick in kernel/timer.c that
simply accounts a whole tick to either utime or stime as before.  If
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is defined, then arch code gets to
implement account_process_tick.

This also lets us simplify the s390 code a bit; it means that the s390
timer interrupt can now call update_process_times even when
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is turned on, and can just implement a
suitable account_process_tick().

account_process_tick() now takes the task_struct * as an argument.
Tested both with and without CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      fa13a5a1
  23. 05 Nov, 2007 1 commit
  25. 19 Oct, 2007 1 commit
    • Pavel Emelyanov's avatar
      pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user · b488893a
      Pavel Emelyanov authored 
      
This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.

The idea is:
 - all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
   or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
 - when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
   should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
 - when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
   should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
   task's namespace the global one is to be used;
 - when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
   the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b488893a
  27. 18 Oct, 2007 2 commits
  29. 20 Jul, 2007 1 commit
  31. 19 Jul, 2007 1 commit
  33. 17 Jul, 2007 1 commit
  35. 16 Jul, 2007 2 commits
  37. 29 May, 2007 1 commit
  39. 14 May, 2007 1 commit
  41. 10 May, 2007 1 commit
  43. 09 May, 2007 3 commits
  45. 08 May, 2007 3 commits
    • Pavel Emelianov's avatar
      Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro · b5e61818
      Pavel Emelianov authored 
      
There are many places in the kernel where the construction like

   foo = list_entry(head->next, struct foo_struct, list);

are used.
The code might look more descriptive and neat if using the macro

   list_first_entry(head, type, member) \
             list_entry((head)->next, type, member)

Here is the macro itself and the examples of its usage in the generic code.
 If it will turn out to be useful, I can prepare the set of patches to
inject in into arch-specific code, drivers, networking, etc.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b5e61818
    • john stultz's avatar
      Move timekeeping code to timekeeping.c · 8524070b
      john stultz authored 
      
Move the timekeeping code out of kernel/timer.c and into
kernel/time/timekeeping.c.  I made no cleanups or other changes in transit.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8524070b
    • Venki Pallipadi's avatar
      Add support for deferrable timers · 6e453a67
      Venki Pallipadi authored 
      
Introduce a new flag for timers - deferrable: Timers that work normally
when system is busy.  But, will not cause CPU to come out of idle (just to
service this timer), when CPU is idle.  Instead, this timer will be
serviced when CPU eventually wakes up with a subsequent non-deferrable
timer.

The main advantage of this is to avoid unnecessary timer interrupts when
CPU is idle.  If the routine currently called by a timer can wait until
next event without any issues, this new timer can be used to setup timer
event for that routine.  This, with dynticks, allows CPUs to be lazy,
allowing them to stay in idle for extended period of time by reducing
unnecesary wakeup and thereby reducing the power consumption.

This patch:

Builds this new timer on top of existing timer infrastructure.  It uses
last bit in 'base' pointer of timer_list structure to store this deferrable
timer flag.  __next_timer_interrupt() function skips over these deferrable
timers when CPU looks for next timer event for which it has to wake up.

This is exported by a new interface init_timer_deferrable() that can be
called in place of regular init_timer().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Privatise a #define]
Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6e453a67
  47. 26 Apr, 2007 1 commit
  49. 07 Apr, 2007 1 commit
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      [PATCH] high-res timers: resume fix · 995f054f
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      
Soeren Sonnenburg reported that upon resume he is getting
this backtrace:

 [<c0119637>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x57/0x90
 [<c0142d30>] retrigger_next_event+0x0/0xb0
 [<c0104d30>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30
 [<c0142d30>] retrigger_next_event+0x0/0xb0
 [<c0140068>] __kfifo_put+0x8/0x90
 [<c0130fe5>] on_each_cpu+0x35/0x60
 [<c0143538>] clock_was_set+0x18/0x20
 [<c0135cdc>] timekeeping_resume+0x7c/0xa0
 [<c02aabe1>] __sysdev_resume+0x11/0x80
 [<c02ab0c7>] sysdev_resume+0x47/0x80
 [<c02b0b05>] device_power_up+0x5/0x10

it turns out that on resume we mistakenly re-enable interrupts too
early.  Do the timer retrigger only on the current CPU.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarSoeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      995f054f
  51. 25 Mar, 2007 1 commit
  53. 06 Mar, 2007 2 commits
  55. 05 Mar, 2007 1 commit
    • Heiko Carstens's avatar
      [PATCH] timer/hrtimer: take per cpu locks in sane order · e81ce1f7
      Heiko Carstens authored 
      Doing something like this on a two cpu system

  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online
  # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online
  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online

will give me this:

  =======================================================
  [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
  2.6.21-rc2-g562aa1d4

-dirty #7
  -------------------------------------------------------
  bash/1282 is trying to acquire lock:
   (&cpu_base->lock_key){.+..}, at: [<000000000005f17e>] hrtimer_cpu_notify+0xc6/0x240

  but task is already holding lock:
   (&cpu_base->lock_key#2){.+..}, at: [<000000000005f174>] hrtimer_cpu_notify+0xbc/0x240

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

This happens because we have the following code in kernel/hrtimer.c:

  migrate_hrtimers(int cpu)
  [...]
  old_base = &per_cpu(hrtimer_bases, cpu);
  new_base = &get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases);
  [...]
  spin_lock(&new_base->lock);
  spin_lock(&old_base->lock);

Which means the spinlocks are taken in an order which depends on which cpu
gets shut down from which other cpu. Therefore lockdep complains that there
might be an ABBA deadlock. Since migrate_hrtimers() gets only called on
cpu hotplug it's safe to assume that it isn't executed concurrently on a

The same problem exists in kernel/timer.c: migrate_timers().

As pointed out by Christian Borntraeger one possible solution to avoid
the locking order complaints would be to make sure that the locks are
always taken in the same order. E.g. by taking the lock of the cpu with
the lower number first.

To achieve this we introduce two new spinlock functions double_spin_lock
and double_spin_unlock which lock or unlock two locks in a given order.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e81ce1f7
  57. 01 Mar, 2007 2 commits
  59. 16 Feb, 2007 1 commit