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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2009-03-30 19:07:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-06 09:30:36 +0200 |
| commit | 925d519ab82b6dd7aca9420d809ee83819c08db2 (patch) | |
| tree | aa05bd7eb607915aa691d5434ec74521b487b466 /arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | |
| parent | 53cfbf593758916aac41db728f029986a62f1254 (diff) | |
perf_counter: unify and fix delayed counter wakeup
While going over the wakeup code I noticed delayed wakeups only work
for hardware counters but basically all software counters rely on
them.
This patch unifies and generalizes the delayed wakeup to fix this
issue.
Since we're dealing with NMI context bits here, use a cmpxchg() based
single link list implementation to track counters that have pending
wakeups.
[ This should really be generic code for delayed wakeups, but since we
cannot use cmpxchg()/xchg() in generic code, I've let it live in the
perf_counter code. -- Eric Dumazet could use it to aggregate the
network wakeups. ]
Furthermore, the x86 method of using TIF flags was flawed in that its
quite possible to end up setting the bit on the idle task, loosing the
wakeup.
The powerpc method uses per-cpu storage and does appear to be
sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.153932974@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h index 3ffd5d2a367..8820a73ae09 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ struct thread_info { #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT 7 /* syscall auditing active */ #define TIF_SECCOMP 8 /* secure computing */ #define TIF_MCE_NOTIFY 10 /* notify userspace of an MCE */ -#define TIF_PERF_COUNTERS 11 /* notify perf counter work */ #define TIF_NOTSC 16 /* TSC is not accessible in userland */ #define TIF_IA32 17 /* 32bit process */ #define TIF_FORK 18 /* ret_from_fork */ @@ -107,7 +106,6 @@ struct thread_info { #define _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT (1 << TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT) #define _TIF_SECCOMP (1 << TIF_SECCOMP) #define _TIF_MCE_NOTIFY (1 << TIF_MCE_NOTIFY) -#define _TIF_PERF_COUNTERS (1 << TIF_PERF_COUNTERS) #define _TIF_NOTSC (1 << TIF_NOTSC) #define _TIF_IA32 (1 << TIF_IA32) #define _TIF_FORK (1 << TIF_FORK) @@ -141,7 +139,7 @@ struct thread_info { /* Only used for 64 bit */ #define _TIF_DO_NOTIFY_MASK \ - (_TIF_SIGPENDING|_TIF_MCE_NOTIFY|_TIF_PERF_COUNTERS|_TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME) + (_TIF_SIGPENDING|_TIF_MCE_NOTIFY|_TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME) /* flags to check in __switch_to() */ #define _TIF_WORK_CTXSW \ |