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Jesper Juhl
b2325fe1b7 [PATCH] kfree cleanup: arch
This is the arch/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in arch/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
d217d5450f [PATCH] Kprobes: preempt_disable/enable() simplification
Reorganize the preempt_disable/enable calls to eliminate the extra preempt
depth.  Changes based on Paul McKenney's review suggestions for the kprobes
RCU changeset.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:46 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
991a51d83a [PATCH] Kprobes: Use RCU for (un)register synchronization - arch changes
Changes to the arch kprobes infrastructure to take advantage of the locking
changes introduced by usage of RCU for synchronization.  All handlers are now
run without any locks held, so they have to be re-entrant or provide their own
synchronization.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:46 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
8a5c4dc5e5 [PATCH] Kprobes: Track kprobe on a per_cpu basis - ia64 changes
IA64 changes to track kprobe execution on a per-cpu basis.  We now track the
kprobe state machine independently on each cpu using an arch specific kprobe
control block.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:45 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
66ff2d0691 [PATCH] Kprobes: rearrange preempt_disable/enable() calls
The following set of patches are aimed at improving kprobes scalability.  We
currently serialize kprobe registration, unregistration and handler execution
using a single spinlock - kprobe_lock.

With these changes, kprobe handlers can run without any locks held.  It also
allows for simultaneous kprobe handler executions on different processors as
we now track kprobe execution on a per processor basis.  It is now necessary
that the handlers be re-entrant since handlers can run concurrently on
multiple processors.

All changes have been tested on i386, ia64, ppc64 and x86_64, while sparc64
has been compile tested only.

The patches can be viewed as 3 logical chunks:

patch 1: 	Reorder preempt_(dis/en)able calls
patches 2-7: 	Introduce per_cpu data areas to track kprobe execution
patches 8-9: 	Use RCU to synchronize kprobe (un)registration and handler
		execution.

Thanks to Maneesh Soni, James Keniston and Anil Keshavamurthy for their
review and suggestions. Thanks again to Anil, Hien Nguyen and Kevin Stafford
for testing the patches.

This patch:

Reorder preempt_disable/enable() calls in arch kprobes files in preparation to
introduce locking changes.  No functional changes introduced by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayahanalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:45 -08:00
John W. Linville
e1531b4218 [PATCH] ia64: re-implement dma_get_cache_alignment to avoid EXPORT_SYMBOL
The current ia64 implementation of dma_get_cache_alignment does not work
for modules because it relies on a symbol which is not exported.  Direct
access to a global is a little ugly anyway, so this patch re-implements
dma_get_cache_alignment in a manner similar to what is currently used for
x86_64.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
Tim Schmielau
4e57b68178 [PATCH] fix missing includes
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.

In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch.  This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other.  So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it.  My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
ecea8d19c9 [PATCH] jiffies_64 cleanup
Define jiffies_64 in kernel/timer.c rather than having 24 duplicated
defines in each architecture.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:25 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
ab50b8ed81 [PATCH] mm: vm_stat_account unshackled
The original vm_stat_account has fallen into disuse, with only one user, and
only one user of vm_stat_unaccount.  It's easier to keep track if we convert
them all to __vm_stat_account, then free it from its __shackles.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Tony Luck
0e1f606092 [IA64] fix warning unused variable `g'
4ac0068f44 forgot to delete
the declaration of this variable which is no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-28 15:52:13 -07:00
Tony Luck
9590204d31 Pull optimize-ptrace-threads into release branch 2005-10-28 15:27:48 -07:00
Tony Luck
d73dee6ee4 Pull for-each-cpu into release branch 2005-10-28 15:26:43 -07:00
Tony Luck
9acd3fa2e1 Pull asm-slot-fix into release branch 2005-10-28 14:33:50 -07:00
Tony Luck
5a2b1722e1 Pull proc-cpuinfo-siblings into release branch 2005-10-28 14:33:35 -07:00
Tony Luck
5833f1420b Pull new-efi-memmap into release branch 2005-10-28 14:32:30 -07:00
Tony Luck
dbcb25e621 Pull move-iosapic-to-acpi into release branch 2005-10-28 13:22:55 -07:00
Tony Luck
0ace57a96b Pull ar-k0-usage into release branch 2005-10-28 11:16:32 -07:00
Cliff Wickman
4ac0068f44 [IA64] ptrace - find memory sharers on children list
In arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c there is a test for a peek or poke of a
register image (in register backing storage).
The test can be unnecessarily long (and occurs while holding the tasklist_lock).
Especially long on a large system with thousands of active tasks.

The ptrace caller (presumably a debugger) specifies the pid of
its target and an address to peek or poke.  But the debugger could be
attached to several tasks.
The idea of find_thread_for_addr() is to find whether the target address
is in the RBS for any of those tasks.

Currently it searches the thread-list of the target pid.  If that search
does not find a match, and the shared mm-struct's user count indicates
that there are other tasks sharing this address space (a rare occurrence),
a search is made of all the tasks in the system.

Another approach can drastically shorten this procedure.
It depends upon the fact that in order to peek or poke from/to any task,
the debugger must first attach to that task.  And when it does, the
attached task is made a child of the debugger (is chained to its children list).

Therefore we can search just the debugger's children list.

Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-27 16:15:03 -07:00
hawkes@sgi.com
ddf6d0a00c [IA64] another place to use for_each_cpu_mask() in arch/ia64
In arch/ia64 change the explicit use of a for-loop using NR_CPUS into the
general for_each_online_cpu() construct.  This widens the scope of potential
future optimizations of the general constructs, as well as takes advantage
of the existing optimizations of first_cpu() and next_cpu(), which is
advantageous when the true CPU count is much smaller than NR_CPUS.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-25 15:12:05 -07:00
hawkes@sgi.com
dc565b525d [IA64] wider use of for_each_cpu_mask() in arch/ia64
In arch/ia64 change the explicit use of for-loops and NR_CPUS into the
general for_each_cpu() or for_each_online_cpu() constructs, as
appropriate.  This widens the scope of potential future optimizations
of the general constructs, as well as takes advantage of the existing
optimizations of first_cpu() and next_cpu().

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-25 15:10:08 -07:00
H. J. Lu
9c184a073b [IA64] Fix 2.6 kernel for the new ia64 assembler
The new ia64 assembler uses slot 1 for the offset of a long (2-slot)
instruction and the old assembler uses slot 2. The 2.6 kernel assumes
slot 2 and won't boot when the new assembler is used:

http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1433

This patch will work with either slot 1 or 2.

Patch provided by H.J. Lu

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-25 15:05:45 -07:00
Siddha, Suresh B
ce6e71ad48 [IA64] fix siblings field value in /proc/cpuinfo
Fix the "siblings" field value in /proc/cpuinfo so that it now shows the
number of siblings as seen by OS, instead of what is available from
hardware perspective.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-25 15:00:36 -07:00
Bryan Sutula
76e677e25d [IA64] Avoid kernel hang during CMC interrupt storm
I've noticed a kernel hang during a storm of CMC interrupts, which was
tracked down to the continual execution of the interrupt handler.

There's code in the CMC handler that's supposed to disable CMC
interrupts and switch to polling mode when it sees a bunch of CMCs.
Because disabling CMCs across all CPUs isn't safe in interrupt context,
the disable is done with a schedule_work().  But with continual CMC
interrupts, the schedule_work() never gets executed.

The following patch immediately disables CMC interrupts for the current
CPU.  This then allows (at least) one CPU to ignore CMC interrupts,
execute the schedule_work() code, and disable CMC interrupts on the rest
of the CPUs.

Acked-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Sutula <Bryan.Sutula@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-06 15:04:11 -07:00
Tony Luck
d719948e62 [IA64] end of kernel 'data' is at _end, not _edata
/proc/iomem describes a block of memory as "Kernel data",
but the end address is derived from "_edata".  The kernel
actually has many other sections beyond _edata.  Get the
real end address from _end.

Acked-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-28 16:09:46 -07:00
Hidetoshi Seto
4881e2cd25 [IA64] MCA recovery verify pfn_valid
Verify the pfn is valid before calling pfn_to_page(),
and cut isolation message if nothing was done.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-22 13:27:59 -07:00
Keith Owens
20bb86852a [IA64] Wire in the MCA/INIT handler stacks
Wire the MCA/INIT handler stacks into DTR[2] and track them in
IA64_KR(CURRENT_STACK).  This gives the MCA/INIT handler stacks the
same TLB status as normal kernel stacks.  Reload the old CURRENT_STACK
data on return from OS to SAL.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-22 13:24:19 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
650316f122 [IA64] move ACPI IOSAPIC locality domain mapping from pci.c to acpi.c
Move acpi_map_iosapics() from pci.c to acpi.c, since it doesn't
have anything to do with PCI.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-19 15:57:48 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
44c451208d [IA64] ia64: add ar.k0 usage note
Update comment about how ar.k0 is used.  Make the initialization the
same as in start_secondary() (no functional change, just make it look
more similar).

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-19 15:55:48 -07:00
Khalid Aziz
be379124c0 [IA64] include EFI memory information in /proc/iomem
User mode kexec tools expect to find information about physical
memory in /proc/iomem (as they do on x86) to validate the addresses
that the new kernel will use.

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-19 15:42:36 -07:00
Dipankar Sarma
4fb3a53860 [PATCH] files: fix preemption issues
With the new fdtable locking rules, you have to protect fdtable with either
->file_lock or rcu_read_lock/unlock().  There are some places where we
aren't doing either.  This patch fixes those places.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
Hidetoshi Seto
20305e5972 [IA64] mca_drv cleanup
There were some trailing white spaces, long lines, brackets in
weird style etc.  This patch cleans them up.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-16 10:39:40 -07:00
Peter Chubb
24b8e0cc09 [IA64] Remove warnings for gcc 4.0 IA64 compilation.
This patch removes some compilation warnings, mostly
trivially. acpi.c fix also noted by Kenji Kaneshige.

Signed-off-by; Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-16 09:45:27 -07:00
Tony Luck
82f1b07b9a [IA64] fix circular dependency on generation of asm-offsets.h
Fix?  One ugly hack is replaced by a different ugly hack.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-13 08:50:39 -07:00
Tony Luck
c85b2a5fe2 Pull sim-fixes into release branch 2005-09-11 14:27:15 -07:00
Keith Owens
49a28cc8fd [IA64] MCA/INIT: remove obsolete unwind code
Delete the special case unwind code that was only used by the old
MCA/INIT handler.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11 14:09:34 -07:00
Keith Owens
05f335ea04 [IA64] MCA/INIT: remove the physical mode path from minstate.h
Remove the physical mode path from minstate.h.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11 14:09:12 -07:00
Keith Owens
7f613c7d22 [PATCH] MCA/INIT: use per cpu stacks
The bulk of the change.  Use per cpu MCA/INIT stacks.  Change the SAL
to OS state (sos) to be per process.  Do all the assembler work on the
MCA/INIT stacks, leaving the original stack alone.  Pass per cpu state
data to the C handlers for MCA and INIT, which also means changing the
mca_drv interfaces slightly.  Lots of verification on whether the
original stack is usable before converting it to a sleeping process.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11 14:08:41 -07:00
Keith Owens
289d773ee8 [IA64] MCA/INIT: avoid reading INIT record during INIT event
Reading the INIT record from SAL during the INIT event has proved to be
unreliable, and a source of hangs during INIT processing.  The new
MCA/INIT handlers remove the need to get the INIT record from SAL.
Change salinfo.c so mca.c can just flag that a new record is available,
without having to read the record during INIT processing.  This patch
can be applied without the new MCA/INIT handlers.

Also clean up some usage of NR_CPUS which should have been using
cpu_online().

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11 14:02:43 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
fb1c8f93d8 [PATCH] spinlock consolidation
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 of the spinlock code - all the rest that can be generalized now
lives in the generic headers:

 include/asm-i386/spinlock_types.h       |   16
 include/asm-x86_64/spinlock_types.h     |   16

I have also split up the various spinlock variants into separate files,
making it easier to see which does what. The new layout is:

   SMP                         |  UP
   ----------------------------|-----------------------------------
   asm/spinlock_types_smp.h    |  linux/spinlock_types_up.h
   linux/spinlock_types.h      |  linux/spinlock_types.h
   asm/spinlock_smp.h          |  linux/spinlock_up.h
   linux/spinlock_api_smp.h    |  linux/spinlock_api_up.h
   linux/spinlock.h            |  linux/spinlock.h

/*
 * here's the role of the various spinlock/rwlock related include files:
 *
 * on SMP builds:
 *
 *  asm/spinlock_types.h: contains the raw_spinlock_t/raw_rwlock_t and the
 *                        initializers
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_types.h:
 *                        defines the generic type and initializers
 *
 *  asm/spinlock.h:       contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. lowlevel
 *                        implementations, mostly inline assembly code
 *
 *   (also included on UP-debug builds:)
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:
 *                        contains the prototypes for the _spin_*() APIs.
 *
 *  linux/spinlock.h:     builds the final spin_*() APIs.
 *
 * on UP builds:
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_type_up.h:
 *                        contains the generic, simplified UP spinlock type.
 *                        (which is an empty structure on non-debug builds)
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_types.h:
 *                        defines the generic type and initializers
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_up.h:
 *                        contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. version of UP
 *                        builds. (which are NOPs on non-debug, non-preempt
 *                        builds)
 *
 *   (included on UP-non-debug builds:)
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_api_up.h:
 *                        builds the _spin_*() APIs.
 *
 *  linux/spinlock.h:     builds the final spin_*() APIs.
 */

All SMP and UP architectures are converted by this patch.

arm, i386, ia64, ppc, ppc64, s390/s390x, x64 was build-tested via
crosscompilers.  m32r, mips, sh, sparc, have not been tested yet, but should
be mostly fine.

From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>

  Booted and lightly tested on a500-44 (64-bit, SMP kernel, dual CPU).
  Builds 32-bit SMP kernel (not booted or tested).  I did not try to build
  non-SMP kernels.  That should be trivial to fix up later if necessary.

  I converted bit ops atomic_hash lock to raw_spinlock_t.  Doing so avoids
  some ugly nesting of linux/*.h and asm/*.h files.  Those particular locks
  are well tested and contained entirely inside arch specific code.  I do NOT
  expect any new issues to arise with them.

 If someone does ever need to use debug/metrics with them, then they will
  need to unravel this hairball between spinlocks, atomic ops, and bit ops
  that exist only because parisc has exactly one atomic instruction: LDCW
  (load and clear word).

From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>

   ia64 fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
486a153f0e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2005-09-09 15:46:49 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
a9f6a0dd54 [PATCH] more SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED -> DEFINE_SPINLOCK conversions
This converts the final 20 DEFINE_SPINLOCK holdouts.  (another 580 places
are already using DEFINE_SPINLOCK).  Build tested on x86.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Dipankar Sarma
badf16621c [PATCH] files: break up files struct
In order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must
be updated atomically.  Instead of ensuring this through too many memory
barriers, we put the arrays and their sizes in a separate structure.  This
patch takes the first step of putting the file table elements in a separate
structure fdtable that is embedded withing files_struct.  It also changes all
the users to refer to the file table using files_fdtable() macro.  Subsequent
applciation of RCU becomes easier after this.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:55 -07:00
Chen, Kenneth W
383f2835eb [PATCH] Prefetch kernel stacks to speed up context switch
For architecture like ia64, the switch stack structure is fairly large
(currently 528 bytes).  For context switch intensive application, we found
that significant amount of cache misses occurs in switch_to() function.
The following patch adds a hook in the schedule() function to prefetch
switch stack structure as soon as 'next' task is determined.  This allows
maximum overlap in prefetch cache lines for that structure.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:31 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
39e01cb874 kbuild: ia64 use generic asm-offsets.h support
Delete obsolete stuff from arch Makefile
Rename file to asm-offsets.h
The trick used in the arch Makefile to circumvent the circular
dependency is kept.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09 22:03:13 +02:00
Tony Luck
344a076110 [IA64] Manual merge fix for 3 files
arch/ia64/Kconfig
	arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c
	include/asm-ia64/irq.h

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-08 14:27:13 -07:00
Tony Luck
d8c97d5f3a [IA64] simplified efi memory map parsing
New version leaves the original memory map unmodified.
Also saves any granule trimmings for use by the uncached
memory allocator.

Inspired by Khalid Aziz (various traces of his patch still
remain).  Fixes to uncached_build_memmap() and sn2 testing
by Martin Hicks.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-08 12:39:59 -07:00
Len Brown
64e47488c9 Merge linux-2.6 with linux-acpi-2.6 2005-09-08 01:45:47 -04:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S
deac66ae45 [PATCH] kprobes: fix bug when probed on task and isr functions
This patch fixes a race condition where in system used to hang or sometime
crash within minutes when kprobes are inserted on ISR routine and a task
routine.

The fix has been stress tested on i386, ia64, pp64 and on x86_64.  To
reproduce the problem insert kprobes on schedule() and do_IRQ() functions
and you should see hang or system crash.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:58:01 -07:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S
661e5a3d99 [PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: fix race when break hits and kprobe not found
This patch addresses a potential race condition for a case where Kprobe has
been removed right after another CPU has taken a break hit.

The way this is addressed here is when the CPU that has taken a break hit
does not find its corresponding kprobe, then we check to see if the
original instruction got replaced with other than break.  If it got
replaced with other than break instruction, then we continue to execute
from the replaced instruction, else if we find that it is still a break,
then we let the kernel handle this, as this might be the break instruction
inserted by other than kprobe(may be kernel debugger).

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:58:00 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
1f7ad57b75 [PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions ia64 changes
This patch contains the ia64 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:58:00 -07:00