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2007-10-25x86: move i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files to x86 directorySam Ravnborg
After a small change in kconfig Makefile we could move all x86 Kconfig files to x86 directory. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-25x86: unification of i386 and x86_64 Kconfig.debugRandy Dunlap
Adding proper dependencies so the two Kconfig.debug files are now identical and move the result file to x86. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-23x86: add instrumentation menuAdrian Bunk
It seems commit 09cadedbdc01f1a4bea1f427d4fb4642eaa19da9 was incomplete due to a clash with the x86 architecture merge. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-23Move lguest guest support to arch/x86.Rusty Russell
Lguest has two sides: host support (to launch guests) and guest support (replacement boot path and paravirt_ops). This moves the guest side to arch/x86/lguest where it's closer to related code. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-10-23Normalize config options for guest supportRusty Russell
1) Group all the "guest OS" support options together, under a PARAVIRT_GUEST menu. 2) Make those options select CONFIG_PARAVIRT, as suggested by Andi. 3) Make kconfig help titles consistent. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-10-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (74 commits) fix do_sys_open() prototype sysfs: trivial: fix sysfs_create_file kerneldoc spelling mistake Documentation: Fix typo in SubmitChecklist. Typo: depricated -> deprecated Add missing profile=kvm option to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt fix typo about TBI in e1000 comment proc.txt: Add /proc/stat field small documentation fixes Fix compiler warning in smount example program from sharedsubtree.txt docs/sysfs: add missing word to sysfs attribute explanation documentation/ext3: grammar fixes Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fix include/asm-*/system.h: remove unused set_rmb(), set_wmb() macros trivial copy_data_pages() tidy up Fix typo in arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c file link fix for Pegasus USB net driver help remove unused return within void return function Typo fixes retrun -> return x86 hpet.h: remove broken links ...
2007-10-20small documentation fixesPhilipp Marek
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86Linus Torvalds
* ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86: (33 commits) x86: convert cpuinfo_x86 array to a per_cpu array x86: introduce frame_pointer() and stack_pointer() x86 & generic: change to __builtin_prefetch() i386: do not BUG_ON() when MSR is unknown x86: acpi use cpu_physical_id x86: convert cpu_llc_id to be a per cpu variable x86: convert cpu_to_apicid to be a per cpu variable i386: introduce "used_vectors" bitmap which can be used to reserve vectors. x86: use raw locks during oopses x86: honor _PAGE_PSE bit on page walks i386: do cpuid_device_create() in CPU_UP_PREPARE instead of CPU_ONLINE. x86: implement missing x86_64 function smp_call_function_mask() x86: use descriptor's functions instead of inline assembly i386: consolidate show_regs and show_registers for i386 i386: make callgraph use dump_trace() on i386/x86_64 x86: enable iommu_merge by default i386: i386 add AMD64 Barcelona PMU MSR definitions to msr.h x86: Unify i386 and x86-64 early quirks x86: enable HPET on ICH3 and ICH4 x86: force enable HPET on VT8235/8237 chipsets ... Manually fix trivial conflict with task pid container helper changes in arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
2007-10-19Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (41 commits) ACPICA: hw: Don't carry spinlock over suspend ACPICA: hw: remove use_lock flag from acpi_hw_register_{read, write} ACPI: cpuidle: port idle timer suspend/resume workaround to cpuidle ACPI: clean up acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep Hibernation: Make sure that ACPI is enabled in acpi_hibernation_finish ACPI: suppress uninitialized var warning cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patch ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: skip blanks before the data when parsing sysfs ACPI: AC: Add sysfs interface ACPI: SBS: Add sysfs alarm ACPI: SBS: Add ACPI_PROCFS around procfs handling code. ACPI: SBS: Add support for power_supply class (and sysfs) ACPI: SBS: Make SBS reads table-driven. ACPI: SBS: Simplify data structures in SBS ACPI: SBS: Split host controller (ACPI0001) from SBS driver (ACPI0002) ACPI: EC: Add new query handler to list head. ACPI: Add acpi_bus_generate_event4() function ACPI: Battery: add sysfs alarm ACPI: Battery: Add sysfs support ACPI: Battery: Misc clean-ups, no functional changes ... Fix up conflicts in drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.[ch] manually
2007-10-19Combine instrumentation menus in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentationMathieu Desnoyers
Quoting Randy: "It seems sad that this patch sources Kconfig.marker, a 7-line file, 20-something times. Yes, you (we) don't want to put those 7 lines into 20-something different files, so sourcing is the right thing. However, what you did for avr32 seems more on the right track to me: make _one_ Instrumentation support menu that includes PROFILING, OPROFILE, KPROBES, and MARKERS and then use (source) that in all of the arches." Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19x86: move cpufreq Kconfigs to the same directoryThomas Gleixner
Move the 64bit Kconfig file to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq, so we can unify them. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-17x86: voyager don't try to support uniprocessor buildsJames Bottomley
A while ago Randy Dunlap and Adrian Bunk suggested we simply prevent UP voyager building. I resisted this on the grounds that the nagging was the only thing that was going to cause me to look at this. However, now I think we should probably take this course. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-17Update help text for CONFIG_CRASH_DUMPRandy Dunlap
Fix typos in CONFIG_RELOCATABLE. Use tab + 2 spaces for indentation on all lines. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17KCONFIG: Make "Instrumentation support" non-EXPERIMENTALRobert P. J. Day
It makes more sense to make instrumentation support experimental on a case-by-case basis. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-15sched: x86: allow single-depth wchan outputIngo Molnar
sched.o gets smaller and faster if we compile it with -fomit-frame-pointers, so make this a config option. The cost is the loss of multi-depth wchan lookups - but SysRq-T is a sufficient replacement for them anyway, so their utility is much lower these days. the size difference is significant: text data bss dec hex filename 34005 3462 24 37491 9273 sched.o.before 33470 3462 24 36956 905c sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (37 commits) PCI: merge almost all of pci_32.h and pci_64.h together PCI: X86: Introduce and enable PCI domain support PCI: Add 'nodomains' boot option, and pci_domains_supported global PCI: modify PCI bridge control ISA flag for clarity PCI: use _CRS for PCI resource allocation PCI: avoid P2P prefetch window for expansion ROMs PCI: skip ISA ioresource alignment on some systems PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing pci: write file size to inode on proc bus file write pci: use size stored in proc_dir_entry for proc bus files pci: implement "pci=noaer" PCI: fix IDE legacy mode resources MSI: Use correct data offset for 32-bit MSI in read_msi_msg() PCI: Fix incorrect argument order to list_add_tail() in PCI dynamic ID code PCI: i386: Compaq EVO N800c needs PCI bus renumbering PCI: Remove no longer correct documentation regarding MSI vector assignment PCI: re-enable onboard sound on "MSI K8T Neo2-FIR" PCI: quirk_vt82c586_acpi: Omit reading PCI revision ID PCI: quirk amd_8131_mmrbc: Omit reading pci revision ID cpqphp: Use PCI_CLASS_REVISION instead of PCI_REVISION_ID for read ...
2007-10-12PCI: X86: Introduce and enable PCI domain supportJeff Garzik
* fix bug in pci_read() and pci_write() which prevented PCI domain support from working (hardcoded domain 0). * unconditionally enable CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS * implement pci_domain_nr() and pci_proc_domain(), as required of all arches when CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS is enabled. * store domain in struct pci_sysdata, as assigned by ACPI * support "pci=nodomains" Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12x86: Geode MFGPT clock event device supportAndres Salomon
Add support for an MFGPT clock event device; this allows us to use MFGPTs as the basis for high-resolution timers. Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-11i386: move oprofileThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11i386: move xenThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11i386: move math-emuThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11i386: move kernel/cpu/cpufreqThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-10cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patchLen Brown
commit e5a16b1f9eec0af7cfa0830304b41c1c0833cf9f Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Tue Oct 2 23:44:44 2007 -0400 cpuidle: shrink diff processor_idle.c | 440 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 429 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit dfbb9d5aedfb18848a3e0d6f6e3e4969febb209c Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Wed Sep 26 02:17:55 2007 -0400 cpuidle: reduce diff size Reduces the cpuidle processor_idle.c diff vs 2.6.22 from this processor_idle.c | 2006 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 1219 insertions(+), 787 deletions(-) to this: processor_idle.c | 502 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 458 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) ...for the purpose of making the cpuilde patch less invasive and easier to review. no functional changes. build tested only. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 889172fc915f5a7fe20f35b133cbd205ce69bf6c Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Sep 13 13:40:05 2007 -0700 cpuidle: Retain old ACPI policy for !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE Retain the old policy in processor_idle, so that when CPU_IDLE is not configured, old C-state policy will still be used. This provides a clean gradual migration path from old ACPI policy to new cpuidle based policy. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 9544a8181edc7ecc33b3bfd69271571f98ed08bc Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Sep 13 13:39:17 2007 -0700 cpuidle: Configure governors by default Quoting Len "Do not give an option to users to shoot themselves in the foot". Remove the configurability of ladder and menu governors as they are needed for default policy of cpuidle. That way users will not be able to have cpuidle without any policy loosing all C-state power savings. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 8975059a2c1e56cfe83d1bcf031bcf4cb39be743 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:27:07 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: load ACPI properly when CPUIDLE is disabled Change the registration return codes for when CPUIDLE support is not compiled into the kernel. As a result, the ACPI processor driver will load properly even if CPUIDLE is unavailable. However, it may be possible to cleanup the ACPI processor driver further and eliminate some dead code paths. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit e0322e2b58dd1b12ec669bf84693efe0dc2414a8 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:26:06 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: remove cpuidle_get_bm_activity() Remove cpuidle_get_bm_activity() and updates governors accordingly. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 18a6e770d5c82ba26653e53d240caa617e09e9ab Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:25:58 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: max_cstate fix Currently max_cstate is limited to 0, resulting in no idle processor power management on ACPI platforms. This patch restores the value to the array size. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 1fdc0887286179b40ce24bcdbde663172e205ef0 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:25:40 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: handle BM detection inside the ACPI Processor driver Update the ACPI processor driver to detect BM activity and limit state entry depth internally, rather than exposing such requirements to CPUIDLE. As a result, CPUIDLE can drop this ACPI-specific interface and become more platform independent. BM activity is now handled much more aggressively than it was in the original implementation, so some testing coverage may be needed to verify that this doesn't introduce any DMA buffer under-run issues. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 0ef38840db666f48e3cdd2b769da676c57228dd9 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:25:14 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: menu governor updates Tweak the menu governor to more effectively handle non-timer break events. Non-timer break events are detected by comparing the actual sleep time to the expected sleep time. In future revisions, it may be more reliable to use the timer data structures directly. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit bb4d74fca63fa96cf3ace644b15ae0f12b7df5a1 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:24:40 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: fix 'current_governor' sysfs entry Allow the "current_governor" sysfs entry to properly handle input terminated with '\n'. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit df3c71559bb69b125f1a48971bf0d17f78bbdf47 Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Sun Aug 12 02:00:45 2007 -0400 cpuidle: fix IA64 build (again) Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit a02064579e3f9530fd31baae16b1fc46b5a7bca8 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Sun Aug 12 01:39:27 2007 -0400 cpuidle: Remove support for runtime changing of max_cstate Remove support for runtime changeability of max_cstate. Drivers can use use latency APIs. max_cstate can still be used as a boot time option and dmi override. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 0912a44b13adf22f5e3f607d263aed23b4910d7e Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Sun Aug 12 01:39:16 2007 -0400 cpuidle: Remove ACPI cstate_limit calls from ipw2100 ipw2100 already has code to use accetable_latency interfaces to limit the C-state. Remove the calls to acpi_set_cstate_limit and acpi_get_cstate_limit as they are redundant. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit c649a76e76be6bff1fd770d0a775798813a3f6e0 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Sun Aug 12 01:35:39 2007 -0400 cpuidle: compile fix for pause and resume functions Fix the compilation failure when cpuidle is not compiled in. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Acked-by: Adam Belay <adam.belay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 2305a5920fb8ee6ccec1c62ade05aa8351091d71 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Thu Jul 19 00:49:00 2007 -0400 cpuidle: re-write Some portions have been rewritten to make the code cleaner and lighter weight. The following is a list of changes: 1.) the state name is now included in the sysfs interface 2.) detection, hotplug, and available state modifications are handled by CPUIDLE drivers directly 3.) the CPUIDLE idle handler is only ever installed when at least one cpuidle_device is enabled and ready 4.) the menu governor BM code no longer overflows 5.) the sysfs attributes are now printed as unsigned integers, avoiding negative values 6.) a variety of other small cleanups Also, Idle drivers are no longer swappable during runtime through the CPUIDLE sysfs inteface. On i386 and x86_64 most idle handlers (e.g. poll, mwait, halt, etc.) don't benefit from an infrastructure that supports multiple states, so I think using a more general case idle handler selection mechanism would be cleaner. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit df25b6b56955714e6e24b574d88d1fd11f0c3ee5 Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 24 17:08:21 2007 -0400 cpuidle: fix IA64 buid Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit fd6ada4c14488755ff7068860078c437431fbccd Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Date: Mon Jul 9 11:33:13 2007 -0700 cpuidle: static make cpuidle_replace_governor() static Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit c1d4a2cebcadf2429c0c72e1d29aa2a9684c32e0 Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:54:40 2007 -0400 cpuidle: static This patch makes the needlessly global struct menu_governor static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit dbf8780c6e8d572c2c273da97ed1cca7608fd999 Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:49:14 2007 -0400 export symbol tick_nohz_get_sleep_length ERROR: "tick_nohz_get_sleep_length" [drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.ko] undefined! ERROR: "tick_nohz_get_idle_jiffies" [drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.ko] undefined! And please be sure to get your changes to core kernel suitably reviewed. Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 29f0e248e7017be15f99febf9143a2cef00b2961 Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:43:04 2007 -0400 tick.h needs hrtimer.h It uses hrtimers. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit e40cede7d63a029e92712a3fe02faee60cc38fb4 Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:40:34 2007 -0400 cpuidle: first round of documentation updates Documentation changes based on Pavel's feedback. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 83b42be2efece386976507555c29e7773a0dfcd1 Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:39:25 2007 -0400 cpuidle: add rating to the governors and pick the one with highest rating by default Introduce a governor rating scheme to pick the right governor by default. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit d2a74b8c5e8f22def4709330d4bfc4a29209b71c Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:38:08 2007 -0400 cpuidle: make cpuidle sysfs driver governor switch off by default Make default cpuidle sysfs to show current_governor and current_driver in read-only mode. More elaborate available_governors and available_drivers with writeable current_governor and current_driver interface only appear with "cpuidle_sysfs_switch" boot parameter. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 1f60a0e80bf83cf6b55c8845bbe5596ed8f6307b Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:37:00 2007 -0400 cpuidle: menu governor: change the early break condition Change the C-state early break out algorithm in menu governor. We only look at early breakouts that result in wakeups shorter than idle state's target_residency. If such a breakout is frequent enough, eliminate the particular idle state upto a timeout period. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 45a42095cf64b003b4a69be3ce7f434f97d7af51 Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:35:38 2007 -0400 cpuidle: fix uninitialized variable in sysfs routine Fix the uninitialized usage of ret. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 80dca7cdba3e6ee13eae277660873ab9584eb3be Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:34:16 2007 -0400 cpuidle: reenable /proc/acpi//power interface for the time being Keep /proc/acpi/processor/CPU*/power around for a while as powertop depends on it. It will be marked deprecated and removed in future. powertop can use cpuidle interfaces instead. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 589c37c2646c5e3813a51255a5ee1159cb4c33fc Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:32:37 2007 -0400 cpuidle: menu governor and hrtimer compile fix Compile fix for menu governor. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 0ba80bd9ab3ed304cb4f19b722e4cc6740588b5e Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Thu May 31 22:51:43 2007 -0400 cpuidle: build fix - cpuidle vs ipw2100 module ERROR: "acpi_set_cstate_limit" [drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit d7d8fa7f96a7f7682be7c6cc0cc53fa7a18c3b58 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Sat Mar 24 03:47:07 2007 -0400 cpuidle: add the 'menu' governor Here is my first take at implementing an idle PM governor that takes full advantage of NO_HZ. I call it the 'menu' governor because it considers the full list of idle states before each entry. I've kept the implementation fairly simple. It attempts to guess the next residency time and then chooses a state that would meet at least the break-even point between power savings and entry cost. To this end, it selects the deepest idle state that satisfies the following constraints: 1. If the idle time elapsed since bus master activity was detected is below a threshold (currently 20 ms), then limit the selection to C2-type or above. 2. Do not choose a state with a break-even residency that exceeds the expected time remaining until the next timer interrupt. 3. Do not choose a state with a break-even residency that exceeds the elapsed time between the last pair of break events, excluding timer interrupts. This governor has an advantage over "ladder" governor because it proactively checks how much time remains until the next timer interrupt using the tick infrastructure. Also, it handles device interrupt activity more intelligently by not including timer interrupts in break event calculations. Finally, it doesn't make policy decisions using the number of state entries, which can have variable residency times (NO_HZ makes these potentially very large), and instead only considers sleep time deltas. The menu governor can be selected during runtime using the cpuidle sysfs interface like so: "echo "menu" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governor" Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit a4bec7e65aa3b7488b879d971651cc99a6c410fe Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Sat Mar 24 03:47:03 2007 -0400 cpuidle: export time until next timer interrupt using NO_HZ Expose information about the time remaining until the next timer interrupt expires by utilizing the dynticks infrastructure. Also modify the main idle loop to allow dynticks to handle non-interrupt break events (e.g. DMA). Finally, expose sleep ticks information to external code. Thomas Gleixner is responsible for much of the code in this patch. However, I've made some additional changes, so I'm probably responsible if there are any bugs or oversights :) Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 2929d8996fbc77f41a5ff86bb67cdde3ca7d2d72 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Sat Mar 24 03:46:58 2007 -0400 cpuidle: governor API changes This patch prepares cpuidle for the menu governor. It adds an optional stage after idle state entry to give the governor an opportunity to check why the state was exited. Also it makes sure the idle loop returns after each state entry, allowing the appropriate dynticks code to run. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 3a7fd42f9825c3b03e364ca59baa751bb350775f Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Apr 26 00:03:59 2007 -0700 cpuidle: hang fix Prevent hang on x86-64, when ACPI processor driver is added as a module on a system that does not support C-states. x86-64 expects all idle handlers to enable interrupts before returning from idle handler. This is due to enter_idle(), exit_idle() races. Make cpuidle_idle_call() confirm to this when there is no pm_idle_old. Also, cpuidle look at the return values of attch_driver() and set current_driver to NULL if attach fails on all CPUs. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 4893339a142afbd5b7c01ffadfd53d14746e858e Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Date: Thu Apr 26 10:40:09 2007 +0800 cpuidle: add support for max_cstate limit With CPUIDLE framework, the max_cstate (to limit max cpu c-state) parameter is ingored. Some systems require it to ignore C2/C3 and some drivers like ipw require it too. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 43bbbbe1cb998cbd2df656f55bb3bfe30f30e7d1 Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Date: Thu Apr 26 10:40:13 2007 +0800 cpuidle: add cpuidle_fore_redetect_devices API add cpuidle_force_redetect_devices API, which forces all CPU redetect idle states. Next patch will use it. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit d1edadd608f24836def5ec483d2edccfb37b1d19 Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Date: Thu Apr 26 10:40:01 2007 +0800 cpuidle: fix sysfs related issue Fix the cpuidle sysfs issue. a. make kobject dynamicaly allocated b. fixed sysfs init issue to avoid suspend/resume issue Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 7169a5cc0d67b263978859672e86c13c23a5570d Author: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Date: Wed Mar 28 22:52:53 2007 -0400 cpuidle: 1-bit field must be unsigned A 1-bit bitfield has no room for a sign bit. drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c:54:16: error: dubious bitfield without explicit `signed' or `unsigned' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 4658620158dc2fbd9e4bcb213c5b6fb5d05ba7d4 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Wed Mar 28 22:52:41 2007 -0400 cpuidle: fix boot hang Patch for cpuidle boot hang reported by Larry Finger here. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0703.2/2025.html Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit c17e168aa6e5fe3851baaae8df2fbc1cf11443a9 Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Wed Mar 7 04:37:53 2007 -0500 cpuidle: ladder does not depend on ACPI build fix for CONFIG_ACPI=n In file included from drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c:21: include/acpi/processor.h:88: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘acpi_integer’ include/acpi/processor.h:106: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘acpi_integer’ include/acpi/processor.h:168: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘acpi_handle’ Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 8c91d958246bde68db0c3f0c57b535962ce861cb Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Date: Tue Mar 6 02:29:40 2007 -0800 cpuidle: make code static This patch makes the following needlessly global code static: - driver.c: __cpuidle_find_driver() - governor.c: __cpuidle_find_governor() - ladder.c: struct ladder_governor Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 0c39dc3187094c72c33ab65a64d2017b21f372d2 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Wed Mar 7 02:38:22 2007 -0500 cpu_idle: fix build break This patch fixes a build breakage with !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU and CONFIG_CPU_IDLE. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 8112e3b115659b07df340ef170515799c0105f82 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Mar 6 02:29:39 2007 -0800 cpuidle: build fix for !CPU_IDLE Fix the compile issues when CPU_IDLE is not configured. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 1eb4431e9599cd25e0d9872f3c2c8986821839dd Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Feb 22 13:54:57 2007 -0800 cpuidle take2: Basic documentation for cpuidle Documentation for cpuidle infrastructure Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit ef5f15a8b79123a047285ec2e3899108661df779 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Feb 22 13:54:03 2007 -0800 cpuidle take2: Hookup ACPI C-states driver with cpuidle Hookup ACPI C-states onto generic cpuidle infrastructure. drivers/acpi/procesor_idle.c is now a ACPI C-states driver that registers as a driver in cpuidle infrastructure and the policy part is removed from drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c. We use governor in cpuidle instead. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 987196fa82d4db52c407e8c9d5dec884ba602183 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Feb 22 13:52:57 2007 -0800 cpuidle take2: Core cpuidle infrastructure Announcing 'cpuidle', a new CPU power management infrastructure to manage idle CPUs in a clean and efficient manner. cpuidle separates out the drivers that can provide support for multiple types of idle states and policy governors that decide on what idle state to use at run time. A cpuidle driver can support multiple idle states based on parameters like varying power consumption, wakeup latency, etc (ACPI C-states for example). A cpuidle governor can be usage model specific (laptop, server, laptop on battery etc). Main advantage of the infrastructure being, it allows independent development of drivers and governors and allows for better CPU power management. A huge thanks to Adam Belay and Shaohua Li who were part of this mini-project since its beginning and are greatly responsible for this patchset. This patch: Core cpuidle infrastructure. Introduces a new abstraction layer for cpuidle: * which manages drivers that can support multiple idles states. Drivers can be generic or particular to specific hardware/platform * allows pluging in multiple policy governors that can take idle state policy decision * The core also has a set of sysfs interfaces with which administrato can know about supported drivers and governors and switch them at run time. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-21i386: Mark NUMA support experimentalAndi Kleen
I did some testing and found quite a lot of problems (doesn't boot at all on non NUMA and misassigns cores on Opteron systems). Mark it as experimental and warn against its use for now. It's still default y for SUMMIT/NUMAQ because it'll presumably work on these systems. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-18Add some help texts to recently-introduced kconfig itemsJan Engelhardt
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (edited MACINTOSH_DRIVERS per Geert Uytterhoeven's remark) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31Remove one more leftover reference to devfsMichael Tokarev
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-30APM support depends on CONFIG_PM_SLEEPStephen Rothwell
Commit 296699de6bdc717189a331ab6bbe90e05c94db06 broke building APM support if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is not set. Reported by Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> [ Simplified a bit as suggested by Rafael. -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21i386: move the kernel to 16MB for NUMA-QAndy Whitcroft
We are seeing corruption of the decompressed kernel. It is suspected that this is platform specific as it has yet to be seen on any other x86. Move the kernel to the 16MB boundary. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21i386: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64GWilliam Lee Irwin III
PAE is useful for more than supporting more than 4GB RAM. It supports expanded swapspace and NX executable protections. Some users may want NX or expanded swapspace support without the overhead or instability of highmem. For these reasons, the following patch divorces CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G. Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> Signed-off-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21NTP: move the cmos update code into ntp.cThomas Gleixner
i386 and sparc64 have the identical code to update the cmos clock. Move it into kernel/time/ntp.c as there are other architectures coming along with the same requirements. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-18xen: configurationJeremy Fitzhardinge
Put config options for Xen after the core pieces are in place. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-17Kprobes on select architectures no longer EXPERIMENTALAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli
Based on usage and testing over the past couple of years, kprobes on i386, ia64, powerpc and x86_64 is no longer EXPERIMENTAL. This is a follow-up to Robert P.J. Day's patch making "Instrumentation support" non-EXPERIMENTAL: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118396955423812&w=2 Arch maintainers for sparc64, avr32 and s390 need to take a similar call. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Use menuconfig objects II - oprofileJan Engelhardt
Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu", so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once instead of having to disable each option separately. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-06GEODE: reboot fixup for geode machines with CS5536 boardsAndres Salomon
Writing to MSR 0x51400017 forces a hard reset on CS5536-based machines, this has the reboot fixup do just that if such a board is detected. Acked-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-22i386: Make CMPXCHG64 only dependent on PAEAndi Kleen
It is only used for PAE kernels in set_64bit. The problem is that due to a old Windows bug many CPUs need magic MSRs to enable CMPXCHG64, and we can't do that nicely early enough before it is potentially used. But since we only need it in PAE kernels so only force the checking for CMPXCHG65 with PAE. This fixes a boot failure on Transmeta Crusoe Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23i386, x86-64: show that CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required for suspend on SMPStefan Richter
It's not sufficiently documented that CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required for suspend/hibernation on SMP. Point out the non-obvious. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-12SLUB: i386 supportChristoph Lameter
SLUB cannot run on i386 at this point because i386 uses the page->private and page->index field of slab pages for the pgd cache. Make SLUB run on i386 by replacing the pgd slab cache with a quicklist. Limit the changes as much as possible. Leave the improvised linked list in place etc etc. This has been working here for a couple of weeks now. Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/KconfigRobert P. J. Day
Fix a couple grammatical errors in arch/i386/Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-07SLUB coreChristoph Lameter
This is a new slab allocator which was motivated by the complexity of the existing code in mm/slab.c. It attempts to address a variety of concerns with the existing implementation. A. Management of object queues A particular concern was the complex management of the numerous object queues in SLAB. SLUB has no such queues. Instead we dedicate a slab for each allocating CPU and use objects from a slab directly instead of queueing them up. B. Storage overhead of object queues SLAB Object queues exist per node, per CPU. The alien cache queue even has a queue array that contain a queue for each processor on each node. For very large systems the number of queues and the number of objects that may be caught in those queues grows exponentially. On our systems with 1k nodes / processors we have several gigabytes just tied up for storing references to objects for those queues This does not include the objects that could be on those queues. One fears that the whole memory of the machine could one day be consumed by those queues. C. SLAB meta data overhead SLAB has overhead at the beginning of each slab. This means that data cannot be naturally aligned at the beginning of a slab block. SLUB keeps all meta data in the corresponding page_struct. Objects can be naturally aligned in the slab. F.e. a 128 byte object will be aligned at 128 byte boundaries and can fit tightly into a 4k page with no bytes left over. SLAB cannot do this. D. SLAB has a complex cache reaper SLUB does not need a cache reaper for UP systems. On SMP systems the per CPU slab may be pushed back into partial list but that operation is simple and does not require an iteration over a list of objects. SLAB expires per CPU, shared and alien object queues during cache reaping which may cause strange hold offs. E. SLAB has complex NUMA policy layer support SLUB pushes NUMA policy handling into the page allocator. This means that allocation is coarser (SLUB does interleave on a page level) but that situation was also present before 2.6.13. SLABs application of policies to individual slab objects allocated in SLAB is certainly a performance concern due to the frequent references to memory policies which may lead a sequence of objects to come from one node after another. SLUB will get a slab full of objects from one node and then will switch to the next. F. Reduction of the size of partial slab lists SLAB has per node partial lists. This means that over time a large number of partial slabs may accumulate on those lists. These can only be reused if allocator occur on specific nodes. SLUB has a global pool of partial slabs and will consume slabs from that pool to decrease fragmentation. G. Tunables SLAB has sophisticated tuning abilities for each slab cache. One can manipulate the queue sizes in detail. However, filling the queues still requires the uses of the spin lock to check out slabs. SLUB has a global parameter (min_slab_order) for tuning. Increasing the minimum slab order can decrease the locking overhead. The bigger the slab order the less motions of pages between per CPU and partial lists occur and the better SLUB will be scaling. G. Slab merging We often have slab caches with similar parameters. SLUB detects those on boot up and merges them into the corresponding general caches. This leads to more effective memory use. About 50% of all caches can be eliminated through slab merging. This will also decrease slab fragmentation because partial allocated slabs can be filled up again. Slab merging can be switched off by specifying slub_nomerge on boot up. Note that merging can expose heretofore unknown bugs in the kernel because corrupted objects may now be placed differently and corrupt differing neighboring objects. Enable sanity checks to find those. H. Diagnostics The current slab diagnostics are difficult to use and require a recompilation of the kernel. SLUB contains debugging code that is always available (but is kept out of the hot code paths). SLUB diagnostics can be enabled via the "slab_debug" option. Parameters can be specified to select a single or a group of slab caches for diagnostics. This means that the system is running with the usual performance and it is much more likely that race conditions can be reproduced. I. Resiliency If basic sanity checks are on then SLUB is capable of detecting common error conditions and recover as best as possible to allow the system to continue. J. Tracing Tracing can be enabled via the slab_debug=T,<slabcache> option during boot. SLUB will then protocol all actions on that slabcache and dump the object contents on free. K. On demand DMA cache creation. Generally DMA caches are not needed. If a kmalloc is used with __GFP_DMA then just create this single slabcache that is needed. For systems that have no ZONE_DMA requirement the support is completely eliminated. L. Performance increase Some benchmarks have shown speed improvements on kernbench in the range of 5-10%. The locking overhead of slub is based on the underlying base allocation size. If we can reliably allocate larger order pages then it is possible to increase slub performance much further. The anti-fragmentation patches may enable further performance increases. Tested on: i386 UP + SMP, x86_64 UP + SMP + NUMA emulation, IA64 NUMA + Simulator SLUB Boot options slub_nomerge Disable merging of slabs slub_min_order=x Require a minimum order for slab caches. This increases the managed chunk size and therefore reduces meta data and locking overhead. slub_min_objects=x Mininum objects per slab. Default is 8. slub_max_order=x Avoid generating slabs larger than order specified. slub_debug Enable all diagnostics for all caches slub_debug=<options> Enable selective options for all caches slub_debug=<o>,<cache> Enable selective options for a certain set of caches Available Debug options F Double Free checking, sanity and resiliency R Red zoning P Object / padding poisoning U Track last free / alloc T Trace all allocs / frees (only use for individual slabs). To use SLUB: Apply this patch and then select SLUB as the default slab allocator. [hugh@veritas.com: fix an oops-causing locking error] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various stupid cleanups and small fixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (231 commits) [PATCH] i386: Don't delete cpu_devs data to identify different x86 types in late_initcall [PATCH] i386: type may be unused [PATCH] i386: Some additional chipset register values validation. [PATCH] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split. [PATCH] x86-64: Don't exclude asm-offsets.c in Documentation/dontdiff [PATCH] i386: avoid redundant preempt_disable in __unlazy_fpu [PATCH] i386: white space fixes in i387.h [PATCH] i386: Drop noisy e820 debugging printks [PATCH] x86-64: Fix allnoconfig error in genapic_flat.c [PATCH] x86-64: Shut up warnings for vfat compat ioctls on other file systems [PATCH] x86-64: Share identical video.S between i386 and x86-64 [PATCH] x86-64: Remove CONFIG_REORDER [PATCH] x86-64: Print type and size correctly for unknown compat ioctls [PATCH] i386: Remove copy_*_user BUG_ONs for (size < 0) [PATCH] i386: Little cleanups in smpboot.c [PATCH] x86-64: Don't enable NUMA for a single node in K8 NUMA scanning [PATCH] x86: Use RDTSCP for synchronous get_cycles if possible [PATCH] i386: Add X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP [PATCH] i386: Implement X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC on i386 [PATCH] i386: Implement alternative_io for i386 ... Fix up trivial conflict in include/linux/highmem.h manually. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02msi: introduce ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI Kconfig option (rev2)Dan Williams
Allows architectures to advertise that they support MSI rather than listing each architecture as a PCI_MSI dependency. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02[PATCH] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split.Bill Irwin
Only 1GB-aligned kernel/user splits are now handled for PAE. The 2GB/2GB split attempts to avoid aliasing vmallocspace with the 1:1 mapping for physical memory by using an actual split of 1.875/2.125 to accommodate 128MB of vmallocspace out of what would otherwise be a full 2GB for userspace. That attempt disturbs the alignment required by PAE for 2GB/2GB splits, and furthermore does not provide a 2GB/2GB split as advertised. This patch resolves the issues here in two manners. The first is by providing a true 2GB/2GB split in addition to the 1.875/2.125 split. The second is by renaming the 1.875/2.125 split to CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G_OPT analogously to CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT, which performs a similar manuever to avoid aliasing vmallocspace with the 1:1 mapping for physical memory around the 3GB boundary. With the 1.875/2.125 split properly-named, its config option is then tagged as depending on !HIGHMEM to express the PAE implementation's current inability to deal with such unaligned splits. This patch is essentially a combination of two patches, one written by Eric Biederman and the other by Eric Dumazet. If they could add their Signed-off-by: to this, I'd be much obliged. Signed-off-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02[PATCH] i386: Now that the VDSO can be relocated, we can support it in VMI ↵Zachary Amsden
configurations. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02[PATCH] i386: Use menuconfig objects - APMJan Engelhardt
(I hope Andi is the right one to Cc, otherwise please add, thanks!) Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at once instead of going through all options. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02[PATCH] i386: remove the APM_RTC_IS_GMT config option.Parag Warudkar
Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-03-12[PATCH] Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21Zachary Amsden
VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO is used. However, I believe at this time that the fix is going to be too radical to consider at this stage in the release of 2.6.21. We don't expect this config option to be turned on by vendors for new distributions, so at this point we are willing to drop support for it when VMI is compiled in, and work on a patch for 2.6.22 which more fully addresses the problem. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05[PATCH] paravirt: re-enable COMPAT_VDSOIngo Molnar
CONFIG_PARAVIRT broke old glibc bootup: it silently turned off the selectability of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO and thus rendered distro kernels unbootable on old-style VDSO glibc setups. the proper solution is to keep COMPAT_VDSO available - if a hypervisor needs any modification of that concept then we'll judge those changes in full context, once those changes are submitted. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05[PATCH] paravirt: let users decide whether they want VMIIngo Molnar
do not use default=y for CONFIG_VMI (we do not do that for any driver or special-hardware feature): the overwhelming majority of Linux users does not need it, and interested users and distributions can enable it as-needed. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05[PATCH] paravirt: clarify VMI descriptionIngo Molnar
Clarify the description of the CONFIG_VMI option: describe the reality that VMI is a VMWare-only interface for now. Once that changes and another hypervisor adopts the VMI ABI we can change the text. As can be seen from the Xen paravirtualization patches submitted to lkml the Xen project has chosen its own, non-VMI interface between Xen and the para-Linux - so remove Xen from the description. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05[PATCH] paravirt: remove NO_IDLE_HZ on x86Ingo Molnar
Temove the mistaken turning on of NO_IDLE_HZ on x86+PARAVIRT kernels. It's an obsolete, limited form of dynticks. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>