- 14 Dec, 2009 2 commits
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Thomas Gleixner authored
kernel_lock.c emits a warning because a raw spinlock function is used with a spinlock. Convert BKL to raw_spinlock. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
The name space hierarchy for the internal lock functions is now a bit backwards. raw_spin* functions map to _spin* which use __spin*, while we would like to have _raw_spin* and __raw_spin*. _raw_spin* is already used by lock debugging, so rename those funtions to do_raw_spin* to free up the _raw_spin* name space. No functional change. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 12 Dec, 2009 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
As shown by the previous patch (6698e347 : "tty: Fix BKL taken under a spinlock bug introduced in the BKL split") the BKL removal is prone to some subtle issues, where removing the BKL in one place may in fact make a previously nested BKL call the new outer call, and then prone to nasty deadlocks with other spinlocks. In general, we should never take the BKL while we're holding a spinlock, so let's just add a "might_sleep()" to it (even though the BKL doesn't technically sleep - at least not yet), and we'll get nice warnings the next time this kind of problem happens during BKL removal. Acked-and-Tested-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Currently we are calling the bkl tracepoint callbacks just before the bkl lock/unlock operations, ie the tracepoint call is not inside a lock_kernel() function but inside a lock_kernel() macro. Hence the bkl trace event header must be included from smp_lock.h. This raises some nasty circular header dependencies: linux/smp_lock.h -> trace/events/bkl.h -> trace/define_trace.h -> trace/ftrace.h -> linux/ftrace_event.h -> linux/hardirq.h -> linux/smp_lock.h This results in incomplete event declarations, spurious event definitions and other kind of funny behaviours. This is hardly fixable without ugly workarounds. So instead, we push the file name, line number and function name as lock_kernel() parameters, so that we only deal with the trace event header from lib/kernel_lock.c This adds two parameters to lock_kernel() and unlock_kernel() but it should be fine wrt to performances because this pair dos not seem to be called in fast paths. Signed-off-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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- 24 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Add two events lock_kernel and unlock_kernel() to trace the bkl uses. This opens the door for userspace tools to perform statistics about the callsites that use it, dependencies with other locks (by pairing the trace with lock events), use with recursivity and so on... The {__reacquire,release}_kernel_lock() events are not traced because these are called from schedule, thus the sched events are sufficient to trace them. Example of a trace: hald-addon-stor-4152 [000] 165.875501: unlock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/block_dev.c:1358 __blkdev_put() hald-addon-stor-4152 [000] 167.832974: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/block_dev.c:1167 __blkdev_get() How to get the callsites that acquire it recursively: cd /debug/tracing/events/bkl echo "lock_depth > 0" > filter firefox-4951 [001] 206.276967: unlock_kernel: depth: 1, fs/reiserfs/super.c:575 reiserfs_dirty_inode() You can also filter by file and/or line. v2: Use of FILTER_PTR_STRING attribute for files and lines fields to make them traceable. Signed-off-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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- 06 Mar, 2009 1 commit
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Impact: cleanup Use test_tsk_need_resched(), set_tsk_need_resched(), need_resched() instead of using TIF_NEED_RESCHED. Signed-off-by:
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <49B10BA4.9070209@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 10 May, 2008 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
The generic semaphore rewrite had a huge performance regression on AIM7 (and potentially other BKL-heavy benchmarks) because the generic semaphores had been rewritten to be simple to understand and fair. The latter, in particular, turns a semaphore-based BKL implementation into a mess of scheduling. The attempt to fix the performance regression failed miserably (see the previous commit 00b41ec2 'Revert "semaphore: fix"'), and so for now the simple and sane approach is to instead just go back to the old spinlock-based BKL implementation that never had any issues like this. This patch also has the advantage of being reported to fix the regression completely according to Yanmin Zhang, unlike the semaphore hack which still left a couple percentage point regression. As a spinlock, the BKL obviously has the potential to be a latency issue, but it's not really any different from any other spinlock in that respect. We do want to get rid of the BKL asap, but that has been the plan for several years. These days, the biggest users are in the tty layer (open/release in particular) and Alan holds out some hope: "tty release is probably a few months away from getting cured - I'm afraid it will almost certainly be the very last user of the BKL in tty to get fixed as it depends on everything else being sanely locked." so while we're not there yet, we do have a plan of action. Tested-by:
Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 18 Apr, 2008 1 commit
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Matthew Wilcox authored
Signed-off-by:
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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- 17 Apr, 2008 1 commit
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Matthew Wilcox authored
kernel_lock.c uses DECLARE_MUTEX, up() and down() without explicitly including asm/semaphore.h. This is fragile and leaves it vulnerable to breakage during header reorganisations. Signed-off-by:
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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- 25 Jan, 2008 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code. this removes 160 lines of legacy code. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 19 Oct, 2007 1 commit
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Simon Arlott authored
Spelling fix in lib/. Signed-off-by:
Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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- 03 Jul, 2006 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
Use the lock validator framework to prove spinlock and rwlock locking correctness. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 26 Jun, 2006 1 commit
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Andreas Mohr authored
acquired (aquired) contiguous (contigious) successful (succesful, succesfull) surprise (suprise) whether (weather) some other misspellings Signed-off-by:
Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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- 10 Sep, 2005 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
This patch (written by me and also containing many suggestions of Arjan van de Ven) does a major cleanup of the spinlock code. It does the following things: - consolidates and enhances the spinlock/rwlock debugging code - simplifies the asm/spinlock.h files - encapsulates the raw spinlock type and moves generic spinlock features (such as ->break_lock) into the generic code. - cleans up the spinlock code hierarchy to get rid of the spaghetti. Most notably there's now only a single variant of the debugging code, located in lib/spinlock_debug.c. (previously we had one SMP debugging variant per architecture, plus a separate generic one for UP builds) Also, i've enhanced the rwlock debugging facility, it will now track write-owners. There is new spinlock-owner/CPU-tracking on SMP builds too. All locks have lockup detection now, which will work for both soft and hard spin/rwlock lockups. The arch-level include files now only contain the minimally necessary subset ...
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- 21 Jun, 2005 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
This patch implements a number of smp_processor_id() cleanup ideas that Arjan van de Ven and I came up with. The previous __smp_processor_id/_smp_processor_id/smp_processor_id API spaghetti was hard to follow both on the implementational and on the usage side. Some of the complexity arose from picking wrong names, some of the complexity comes from the fact that not all architectures defined __smp_processor_id. In the new code, there are two externally visible symbols: - smp_processor_id(): debug variant. - raw_smp_processor_id(): nondebug variant. Replaces all existing uses of _smp_processor_id() and __smp_processor_id(). Defined by every SMP architecture in include/asm-*/smp.h. There is one new internal symbol, dependent on DEBUG_PREEMPT: - debug_smp_processor_id(): internal debug variant, mapped to smp_processor_id(). Also, i moved debug_smp_processor_id() from lib/kernel_lock.c into a new lib/smp_processor_id.c file. All related comments got updated and/or clarified. I have build/boot tested the following 8 .config combinations on x86: {SMP,UP} x {PREEMPT,!PREEMPT} x {DEBUG_PREEMPT,!DEBUG_PREEMPT} I have also build/boot tested x64 on UP/PREEMPT/DEBUG_PREEMPT. (Other architectures are untested, but should work just fine.) Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 16 Apr, 2005 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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