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2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctlEric W. Biederman
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented. I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register duplicate sysctl entries. So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future enhancments harder. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables in arch/x86_64/mm/init.cEric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables in arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.cEric W. Biederman
Basically everything was done but I removed all element initializers from the trailing entries to make it clear the entire last entry should be zero filled. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables in arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.cEric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: x86_64: remove unnecessary use of insert_at_headEric W. Biederman
The only sysctl x86_64 provides are not provided elsewhere, so insert_at_head is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert arch/sh64/kernel/traps.c and remove ABI breakageEric W. Biederman
While doing the C99 conversion I notices that the top level sh64 directory was using the binary number for CTL_KERN. That is a no-no so I removed the support for the sysctl binary interface only leaving sysctl /proc support. At least the sysctl tables were placed at the end of the list so user space did not see this mistake. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables entries in arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_htab.cEric W. Biederman
And make the mode of the kernel directory 0555 no one is allowed to write to sysctl directories. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables in arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.cEric W. Biederman
This was partially done already and there was no ABI breakage what a relief. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: s390: remove unnecessary use of insert_at_headEric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: s390: move sysctl definitions to sysctl.hEric W. Biederman
We need to have the the definition of all top level sysctl directories registers in sysctl.h so we don't conflict by accident and cause abi problems. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert arch/mips/lasat/sysctl.c and remove ABI breakageEric W. Biederman
While C99 converting the ctl_table initializers I realized that the binary sysctl numbers were in conflict with the binary values under CTL_KERN. Including CTL_KERN KERN_VERSION as used by glibc. So I just removed the sysctl binary interface for these values, as it was unsupportable. Luckily these sysctl were inserted at the end of the sysctl list so this bug was not visible to userspace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert the ctl_tables in arch/mips/au1000/common/power.cEric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: mips/au1000: remove sys_sysctl supportEric W. Biederman
The assignment of binary numbers for sys_sysctl use was in shambles and despite requiring methods. Nothing was implemented on the sys_sysctl side. So this patch gives a mercy killing to the sys_sysctl support for powermanagment on mips/au1000. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon and remove ABI breakageEric W. Biederman
This convters the sysctl ctl_tables to use C99 initializers. While I was looking at it I discovered it was using a portion of the sysctl binary addresses space under CTL_KERN KERN_OSTYPE which was completely inappropriate. So I completely removed all of the sysctl binary names, to remove and avoid the ABI conflict. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 Convert arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.cEric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 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>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: sn: remove sysctl ABI BREAKAGEEric W. Biederman
By not using the enumeration in sysctl.h (or even understanding it) the SN platform placed their arch specific xpc directory on top of CTL_KERN and only because they didn't have 4 entries in their xpc directory got lucky and didn't break glibc. This is totally irresponsible. So this patch entirely removes sys_sysctl support from their sysctl code. Hopefully they don't have ascii name conflicts as well. And now that they have no ABI numbers add them to the end instead of the sysctl list instead of the head so nothing else will be overridden. Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert arch/frv/kernel/sysctl.cEric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert arch/frv/kernel/pm.cEric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: frv: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flagEric W. Biederman
Since the binary sysctl numbers are unique putting the registered sysctls at the head of the sysctl list where they can override existing sysctls serves no useful purpose. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: move CTL_FRV into sysctl.h where it belongsEric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: frv: pm remove unnecessary insert_at_head flagEric W. Biederman
With unique binary numbers setting insert_at_head to insert yourself at the head of sysctl list and thus override existing sysctl entries serves no point. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: move CTL_PM into sysctl.h where it belongsEric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] Scheduled removal of SA_xxx interrupt flags fixupsThomas Gleixner
The obsolete SA_xxx interrupt flags have been used despite the scheduled removal. Fixup the remaining users. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-13Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (61 commits) [POWERPC] Use udbg_early_init() on ppc32 [POWERPC] Open Firmware serial port driver [POWERPC] Move MPIC smp routines into mpic.c [POWERPC] Cleanup pseries kexec code [POWERPC] Cleanup pseries smp initialisation code [POWERPC] Consolidate pseries platform header files into pseries.h [POWERPC] 85xx: Drop use of SYNC macro in head_fsl_booke.S [POWERPC] cell: pm_rtas_activat_signals routine cleanup [POWERPC] cell: PPU Oprofile cleanup patch [POWERPC] spufs: avoid accessing kernel memory through mmapped /mem node [POWERPC] spu sched: static timeslicing for SCHED_RR contexts [POWERPC] spu sched: use DECLARE_BITMAP [POWERPC] spu sched: forced preemption at execution [POWERPC] spu sched: update some comments [POWERPC] spu sched: simplity spu_remove_from_active_list [POWERPC] spufs: optimize spu_run [POWERPC] spufs: runqueue simplification [POWERPC] spufs: move prio to spu_context [POWERPC] spufs: state_mutex cleanup [POWERPC] spufs: simplify state_mutex ...
2007-02-14[POWERPC] Use udbg_early_init() on ppc32David Gibson
udbg_early_init() is a function used on 64 bit systems, which initializes whichever early udbg backend is configured. This function is not called on 32-bit, however if btext early debug is enabled it does have an explicit, inline, #ifdef-ed assignment performing analagous initialization. This patch makes things more uniform by folding the btext initialization as an option into udbg_early_init() and calling that from the 32-bit setup path. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-14[POWERPC] Open Firmware serial port driverArnd Bergmann
This can be used for serial ports that are connected to an OF platform bus but are not autodetected by the lecacy serial support. It will automatically take over devices that come from the legacy serial detection, which usually is only one device. In some cases, rtas may be set up to use the serial port in the firmware, which allows easier debugging before probing the serial ports. In this case, the "used-by-rtas" property must be set by the firmware. This patch also adds code to the legacy serial driver to check for this. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-14[POWERPC] Move MPIC smp routines into mpic.cMichael Ellerman
Move a couple of MPIC smp routines into mpic.c, they're inside an SMP block in mpic.c - so they're still only built for SMP. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-14[POWERPC] Cleanup pseries kexec codeMichael Ellerman
Move all the pseries kexec code into one file, platforms/pseries/kexec.c Provide helpers for setting up ppc_md.kexec_cpu_down, so that we don't have to have #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC in setup.c Move the initialisation of the ppc_md kexec callbacks into an init routine. This is well and truly early enough to cause no change in behaviour, we can't kexec until userspace has given us a kernel to kexec into. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-14[POWERPC] Cleanup pseries smp initialisation codeMichael Ellerman
Move some extern declarations from setup.c into the new pseries.h. While we're at it, provide dummy implementations for !SMP, to avoid cluttering the C file with more #ifdefs. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-14[POWERPC] Consolidate pseries platform header files into pseries.hMichael Ellerman
Following the example of platforms/pasemi, consolidate a couple of tiny header files in platforms/pseries into pseries.h. This gives us a convenient place to put things that need to be available to the platform code, but not public. And hopefully will help people resist the temptation of sticking externs in C files. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-14Merge branch 'cell-merge' of ↵Paul Mackerras
git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/cell-2.6
2007-02-13Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: [MIPS] Fix sigset_t endianess swapping issues in 32-bit compat code. [MIPS] Fix uniprocessor Sibyte builds. [MIPS] Make entry.S a little more readable. [MIPS] Remove stray instruction from __get_user_asm_ll32. [MIPS] 32-bit: Fix warning about cast for fetching pointer from userspace. [MIPS] DECstation: Fix irq handling [MIPS] signals: make common _BLOCKABLE macro [MIPS] signal: Move sigframe definition for native O32/N64 into signal.c [MIPS] signal: Move {restore,setup}_sigcontext prototypes to their user [MIPS] signal: Fix warnings in o32 compat code. [MIPS] IP27: Enable N32 support in defconfig. Revert "[MIPS] Fix warning in get_user when fetching pointer object from userspace." [MIPS] Don't claim we support dma_declare_coherent_memory - we don't. [MIPS] Unify dma-{coherent,noncoherent.ip27,ip32} [MIPS] Improve branch prediction in ll/sc atomic operations.
2007-02-13[MIPS] Fix sigset_t endianess swapping issues in 32-bit compat code.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-13[MIPS] Fix uniprocessor Sibyte builds.Andrew Sharp
Signed-off-by: Andrew Sharp <tigerand@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-13[MIPS] Make entry.S a little more readable.Franck Bui-Huu
When CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set, it also moves one branch instruction from ret_from_irq() to ret_from_exception(). Therefore we favour the return from irq case which should be more common than the other one. Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Acked-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-13[MIPS] DECstation: Fix irq handlingAtsushi Nemoto
When I post a patch (commit f431baa55abf8adeed0c718b51deacbc151f58f1), I just tried to not change behavior of existing codes, but it seems dec/int-handler.S had been broken since its previous commit 937a801576f954bd030d7c4a5a94571710d87c0b. The caller of plat_irq_dispatch do setup/restore TI_REGS($28), so dec's plat_irq_dispatch should not do it, and there is no need to adjust RA. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-13[MIPS] signals: make common _BLOCKABLE macroFranck Bui-Huu
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-13[MIPS] signal: Move sigframe definition for native O32/N64 into signal.cRalf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-13[MIPS] signal: Move {restore,setup}_sigcontext prototypes to their userRalf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-13[MIPS] signal: Fix warnings in o32 compat code.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-13[MIPS] IP27: Enable N32 support in defconfig.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-13[MIPS] Unify dma-{coherent,noncoherent.ip27,ip32}Ralf Baechle
Platforms will now have to supply a function dma_device_is_coherent which returns if a particular device participates in the coherence domain. For most platforms this function will always return 0 or 1. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-13Merge branch '85xx' into for_paulusKumar Gala
2007-02-13[POWERPC] 85xx: Drop use of SYNC macro in head_fsl_booke.SBecky Bruce
Eliminate needless invocation of the SYNC macro (which always evaluates to nothing on BookE) from head_fsl_booke.S (for both arch/ppc & arch/powerpc). Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-02-13[POWERPC] cell: pm_rtas_activat_signals routine cleanupMaynard Johnson
The code was setting up the debug bus for group 21 when profiling on the event PPU CYCLES. The debug bus is not actually used by the hardware performance counters when counting PPU CYCLES. Setting up the debug bus for PPU CYCLES causes signal routing conflicts on the debug bus when profiling PPU cycles and another PPU event. This patch fixes the code to only setup the debug bus to route the performance signals for the non PPU CYCLE events. Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-13[POWERPC] cell: PPU Oprofile cleanup patchCarl Love
This is a clean up patch that includes the following changes: -Some comments were added to clarify the code based on feedback from the community. -The write_pm_cntrl() and set_count_mode() were passed a structure element from a global variable. The argument was removed so the functions now just operate on the global directly. -The set_pm_event() function call in the cell_virtual_cntr() routine was moved to a for-loop before the for_each_cpu loop Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-13[POWERPC] spufs: avoid accessing kernel memory through mmapped /mem nodeMasato Noguchi
I found an exploit in current kernel. Currently, there is no range check about mmapping "/mem" node in spufs. Thus, an application can access privilege memory region. In case this kernel already worked on a public server, I send this information only here. If there are such servers in somewhere, please replace it, ASAP. Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-13[POWERPC] spu sched: static timeslicing for SCHED_RR contextsChristoph Hellwig
For SCHED_RR tasks we can do some really trivial timeslicing. Basically we fire up a time for every scheduler tick that searches for a higher or same priority thread that is on the runqueue and if there is one context switches to it. Because we can't lock spus from timer context we actually run this from a delayed runqueue instead of a timer. A nice optimization would be to skip the actual priority bitmap search when there are less contexts than physical spus available. To implement this I need a so far unpublished patch from Andre, and it will be added after we have that patch in. Note that right now we only do the time slicing for SCHED_RR tasks. The code would work for SCHED_OTHER tasks aswell, but their prio value is defered from the one the PPU thread has at time of spu_run, and using this for spu scheduling decisions would make the code very unfair. SCHED_OTHER support will be enabled once we the spu scheduler knows how to calculcate cpu_context.prio (very soon) Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-13[POWERPC] spu sched: use DECLARE_BITMAPChristoph Hellwig
use DECLARE_BITMAP in the spu scheduler instead of reimplementing it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-13[POWERPC] spu sched: forced preemption at executionChristoph Hellwig
If we start a spu context with realtime priority we want it to run immediately and not wait until some other lower priority thread has finished. Try to find a suitable victim and use it's spu in this case. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>