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2007-05-07Safer nr_node_ids and nr_node_ids determination and initial valuesChristoph Lameter
The nr_cpu_ids value is currently only calculated in smp_init. However, it may be needed before (SLUB needs it on kmem_cache_init!) and other kernel components may also want to allocate dynamically sized per cpu array before smp_init. So move the determination of possible cpus into sched_init() where we already loop over all possible cpus early in boot. Also initialize both nr_node_ids and nr_cpu_ids with the highest value they could take. If we have accidental users before these values are determined then the current valud of 0 may cause too small per cpu and per node arrays to be allocated. If it is set to the maximum possible then we only waste some memory for early boot users. 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>
2007-04-27make SysRq-T show all tasks againIngo Molnar
show_state() (SysRq-T) developed the buggy habbit of not showing TASK_RUNNING tasks. This was due to the mistaken belief that state_filter == -1 would be a pass-through filter - while in reality it did not let TASK_RUNNING == 0 p->state values through. Fix this by restoring the original '!state_filter means all tasks' special-case i had in the original version. Test-built and test-booted on i686, SysRq-T now works as intended. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-07sched.c: Remove unused variable 'relative'Linus Torvalds
Getting rid of the p->children printout in show_task() left behind an unused variable. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-07[PATCH] sched: get rid of p->children use in show_task()Ingo Molnar
the p->parent PID printout gives us all the information about the task tree that we need - the eldest_child()/older_sibling()/ younger_sibling() printouts are mostly historic and i do not remember ever having used those fields. (IMO in fact they confuse the SysRq-T output.) So remove them. This code has sentimental value though, those fields and printouts are one of the oldest ones still surviving from Linux v0.95's kernel/sched.c: if (p->p_ysptr || p->p_osptr) printk(" Younger sib=%d, older sib=%d\n\r", p->p_ysptr ? p->p_ysptr->pid : -1, p->p_osptr ? p->p_osptr->pid : -1); else printk("\n\r"); written 15 years ago, in early 1992. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus 'snif' Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05[PATCH] sched: remove SMT niceCon Kolivas
Remove the SMT-nice feature which idles sibling cpus on SMT cpus to facilitiate nice working properly where cpu power is shared. The idling of cpus in the presence of runnable tasks is considered too fragile, easy to break with outside code, and the complexity of managing this system if an architecture comes along with many logical cores sharing cpu power will be unworkable. Remove the associated per_cpu_gain variable in sched_domains used only by this code. Also: The reason is that with dynticks enabled, this code breaks without yet further tweaks so dynticks brought on the rapid demise of this code. So either we tweak this code or kill it off entirely. It was Ingo's preference to kill it off. Either way this needs to happen for 2.6.21 since dynticks has gone in. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01[PATCH] sched: fix SMT scheduler bugIngo Molnar
The SMT scheduler incorrectly skips kernel threads even if they are runnable (but they are preempted by a higher-prio user-space task which got SMT-delayed by an even higher-priority task running on a sibling CPU). Fix this for now by only doing the SMT-nice optimization if the to-be-delayed task is the only runnable task. (This should cover most of the real-life cases anyway.) This bug has been in the SMT scheduler since 2.6.17 or so, but has only been noticed now by the active check in the dynticks code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01[PATCH] Fix posix-cpu-timer breakage caused by stale p->last_ran valueThomas Gleixner
Problem description at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8048 Commit b18ec80396834497933d77b81ec0918519f4e2a7 [PATCH] sched: improve migration accuracy optimized the scheduler time calculations, but broke posix-cpu-timers. The problem is that the p->last_ran value is not updated after a context switch. So a subsequent call to current_sched_time() calculates with a stale p->last_ran value, i.e. accounts the full time, which the task was scheduled away. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-13[PATCH] i386: paravirt CPU hypercall batching modeZachary Amsden
The VMI ROM has a mode where hypercalls can be queued and batched. This turns out to be a significant win during context switch, but must be done at a specific point before side effects to CPU state are visible to subsequent instructions. This is similar to the MMU batching hooks already provided. The same hooks could be used by the Xen backend to implement a context switch multicall. To explain a bit more about lazy modes in the paravirt patches, basically, the idea is that only one of lazy CPU or MMU mode can be active at any given time. Lazy MMU mode is similar to this lazy CPU mode, and allows for batching of multiple PTE updates (say, inside a remap loop), but to avoid keeping some kind of state machine about when to flush cpu or mmu updates, we just allow one or the other to be active. Although there is no real reason a more comprehensive scheme could not be implemented, there is also no demonstrated need for this extra complexity. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] sched: avoid div in rebalance_tickNick Piggin
Avoid expensive integer divide 3 times per CPU per tick. A userspace test of this loop went from 26ns, down to 19ns on a G5; and from 123ns down to 28ns on a P3. (Also avoid a variable bit shift, as suggested by Alan. The effect of this wasn't noticable on the CPUs I tested with). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.Robert P. J. Day
A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in source files, including: * make multi-line initial descriptions single line * denote some function names, constants and structs as such * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places * reword some text for clarity Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] Consolidate default sched_clock()Alexey Dobriyan
Use attribute(weak). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-11[PATCH] sched: tasks cannot run on cpus onlined after bootNathan Lynch
Commit 5c1e176781f43bc902a51e5832f789756bff911b ("sched: force /sbin/init off isolated cpus") sets init's cpus_allowed to a subset of cpu_online_map at boot time, which means that tasks won't be scheduled on cpus that are added to the system later. Make init's cpus_allowed a subset of cpu_possible_map instead. This should still preserve the behavior that Nick's change intended. Thanks to Giuliano Pochini for reporting this and testing the fix: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-December/029397.html Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-30[PATCH] sched: fix cond_resched_softirq() offsetIngo Molnar
Remove the __resched_legal() check: it is conceptually broken. The biggest problem it had is that it can mask buggy cond_resched() calls. A cond_resched() call is only legal if we are not in an atomic context, with two narrow exceptions: - if the system is booting - a reacquire_kernel_lock() down() done while PREEMPT_ACTIVE is set But __resched_legal() hid this and just silently returned whenever these primitives were called from invalid contexts. (Same goes for cond_resched_locked() and cond_resched_softirq()). Furthermore, the __legal_resched(0) call was buggy in that it caused unnecessarily long softirq latencies via cond_resched_softirq(). (which is only called from softirq-off sections, hence the code did nothing.) The fix is to resurrect the efficiency of the might_sleep checks and to only allow the narrow exceptions. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22[PATCH] sched: remove __cpuinitdata anotation to cpu_isolated_mapTim Chen
The structure cpu_isolated_map is used not only during initialization. Multi-core scheduler configuration changes and exclusive cpusets use this during run time. During setting of sched_mc_power_savings policy, this structure is accessed to update sched_domains. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22[PATCH] Conditionally check expected_preempt_count in __resched_legal()Mark Fasheh
Commit 2d7d253548cffdce80f4e03664686e9ccb1b0ed7 ("fix cond_resched() fix") introduced an 'expected_preempt_count' parameter to __resched_legal() to fix a bug where it was returning a false negative when called from cond_resched_lock() and preemption was enabled. Unfortunately this broke things for when preemption is disabled. preempt_count() will always return zero, thus failing the check against any value of expected_preempt_count not equal to zero. cond_resched_lock() for example, passes an expected_preempt_count value of 1. So fix the fix for the cond_resched() fix by skipping the check of preempt_count() against expected_preempt_count when preemption is disabled. Credit should go to Sunil Mushran for spotting the bug during testing. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-21[PATCH] sched: improve efficiency of sched_fork()Peter Williams
Problem: sched_fork() has always called scheduler_tick() in some (unlikely) circumstances in order to update the current task in light of those circumstances. It has always been the case that the work done by scheduler_tick() was more than was required to handle the problem in hand but no harm was done except for the waste of a few CPU cycles. However, the splitting of scheduler_tick() into two procedures in 2.6.20-rc1 enables the wasted cycles to be saved as the new procedure task_running_tick() does all the work that is required to rectify the problem being handled. Solution: Replace the call to scheduler_tick() in sched_fork() with a call to task_running_tick(). Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13[PATCH] lockdep: print irq-trace info on assertsIngo Molnar
When we print an assert due to scheduling-in-atomic bugs, and if lockdep is enabled, then the IRQ tracing information of lockdep can be printed to pinpoint the code location that disabled interrupts. This saved me quite a bit of debugging time in cases where the backtrace did not identify the irq-disabling site well enough. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] kernel/sched.c: whitespace cleanupsMiguel Ojeda Sandonis
[akpm@osdl.org: additional cleanups] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: optimize activate_task for RT taskChen, Kenneth W
RT task does not participate in interactiveness priority and thus shouldn't be bothered with timestamp and p->sleep_type manipulation when task is being put on run queue. Bypass all of the them with a single if (rt_task) test. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: remove lb_stopbalance counterChen, Kenneth W
Remove scheduler stats lb_stopbalance counter. This counter can be calculated by: lb_balanced - lb_nobusyg - lb_nobusyq. There is no need to create gazillion counters while we can derive the value. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: decrease number of load balancesSiddha, Suresh B
Currently at a particular domain, each cpu in the sched group will do a load balance at the frequency of balance_interval. More the cores and threads, more the cpus will be in each sched group at SMP and NUMA domain. And we endup spending quite a bit of time doing load balancing in those domains. Fix this by making only one cpu(first idle cpu or first cpu in the group if all the cpus are busy) in the sched group do the load balance at that particular sched domain and this load will slowly percolate down to the other cpus with in that group(when they do load balancing at lower domains). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: improve migration accuracyMike Galbraith
Co-opt rq->timestamp_last_tick to maintain a cache_hot_time evaluation reference timestamp at both tick and sched times to prevent said reference, formerly rq->timestamp_last_tick, from being behind task->last_ran at evaluation time, and to move said reference closer to current time on the remote processor, intent being to improve cache hot evaluation and timestamp adjustment accuracy for task migration. Fix minor sched_time double accounting error which occurs when a task passing through schedule() does not schedule off, and takes the next timer tick. [kenneth.w.chen@intel.com: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: add option to serialize load balancingChristoph Lameter
Large sched domains can be very expensive to scan. Add an option SD_SERIALIZE to the sched domain flags. If that flag is set then we make sure that no other such domain is being balanced. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: call tasklet less frequentlyChristoph Lameter
Trigger softirq less frequently We trigger the softirq before this patch using offset of sd->interval. However, if the queue is busy then it is sufficient to schedule the softirq with sd->interval * busy_factor. So we modify the calculation of the next time to balance by taking the interval added to last_balance again. This is only the right value if the idle/busy situation continues as is. There are two potential trouble spots: - If the queue was idle and now gets busy then we call rebalance early. However, that is not a problem because we will then use the longer interval for the next period. - If the queue was busy and becomes idle then we potentially wait too long before rebalancing. However, when the task goes idle then idle_balance is called. We add another calculation of the next balance time based on sd->interval in idle_balance so that we will rebalance soon. V2->V3: - Calculate rebalance time based on current jiffies and not based on the jiffies at the last time we load balanced. We no longer rely on staggering and therefore we can affort to do this now. V3->V4: - Use functions to do jiffy comparisons. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: use softirq for load balancingChristoph Lameter
Call rebalance_tick (renamed to run_rebalance_domains) from a newly introduced softirq. We calculate the earliest time for each layer of sched domains to be rescanned (this is the rescan time for idle) and use the earliest of those to schedule the softirq via a new field "next_balance" added to struct rq. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: move idle status calculation into rebalance_tick()Christoph Lameter
Perform the idle state determination in rebalance_tick. If we separate balancing from sched_tick then we also need to determine the idle state in rebalance_tick. V2->V3 Remove useless idlle != 0 check. Checking nr_running seems to be sufficient. Thanks Suresh. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: extract load calculation from rebalance_tickChristoph Lameter
A load calculation is always done in rebalance_tick() in addition to the real load balancing activities that only take place when certain jiffie counts have been reached. Move that processing into a separate function and call it directly from scheduler_tick(). Also extract the time slice handling from scheduler_tick and put it into a separate function. Then we can clean up scheduler_tick significantly. It will no longer have any gotos. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: disable interrupts for locking in load_balance()Christoph Lameter
Interrupts must be disabled for request queue locks if we want to run load_balance() with interrupts enabled. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: remove staggering of load balancingChristoph Lameter
Timer interrupts already are staggered. We do not need an additional layer of time staggering for short load balancing actions that take a reasonably small portion of the time slice. For load balancing on large sched_domains we will add a serialization later that avoids concurrent load balance operations and thus has the same effect as load staggering. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched: avoid taking rq lock in wake_priority_sleeperChristoph Lameter
Avoid taking the request queue lock in wake_priority_sleeper if there are no running processes. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] move_task_off_dead_cpu() should be called with disabled intsKirill Korotaev
move_task_off_dead_cpu() requires interrupts to be disabled, while migrate_dead() calls it with enabled interrupts. Added appropriate comments to functions and added BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled()) into double_rq_lock() and double_lock_balance() which are the origin sources of such bugs. Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] ched domain: move sched group allocations to percpu areaSiddha, Suresh B
Move the sched group allocations to percpu area. This will minimize cross node memory references and also cleans up the sched groups allocation for allnodes sched domain. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sched.c: correct comment for this_rq_lock()Robert P. J. Day
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constificationHelge Deller
- move some file_operations structs into the .rodata section - move static strings from policy_types[] array into the .rodata section - fix generic seq_operations usages, so that those structs may be defined as "const" as well [akpm@osdl.org: couple of fixes] Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] sched: correct output of show_state()Chris Caputo
At present show_state prints a header the does not match the output of show_task, as follows: - sibling task PC pid father child younger older init S 00000000 0 1 0 2 (NOTLB) - This patch corrects the output of show_state so that the header is aligned with the data, ala: - free sibling task PC stack pid father child younger older init S 00000000 0 1 0 2 (NOTLB) - Signed-off-by: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() useIngo Molnar
There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn, prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add #ifdefs. the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine: text data bss dec hex filename 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.before 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.after [akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] sleep profilingIngo Molnar
Implement prof=sleep profiling. TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit for the call site that initiated the sleep. Sample readprofile output on i386: 306 ps2_sendbyte 1.3973 432 call_usermodehelper_keys 1.9548 484 ps2_command 0.6453 790 __driver_attach 4.7879 1593 msleep 44.2500 3976 sync_buffer 64.1290 4076 do_lookup 12.4648 8587 sync_page 122.6714 20820 total 0.0067 (NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from deep within the wakeup path.) akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched. lock_sock(), msleep(), others.. akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise. Presumably doing disk reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex. [akpm@osdl.org: various fixes] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] lockdep: print current locks on in_atomic warningsPeter Zijlstra
Add debug_show_held_locks(current) to __might_sleep() and schedule(); this makes finding the offending lock leak easier. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] SysRq-X: show blocked tasksIngo Molnar
Add SysRq-X support: show blocked (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) tasks only. Useful for debugging IO stalls. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.hNigel Cunningham
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require recompiling just about everything. [akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver] Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20[PATCH] readjust comments of task_timeslice for kernel docBorislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkov@math.uni-muenster.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] sched: likely profilingNick Piggin
This likely profiling is pretty fun. I found a few possible problems in sched.c. This patch may be not measurable, but when I did measure long ago, nooping (un)likely cost a couple of % on scheduler heavy benchmarks, so it all adds up. Tweak some branch hints: - the 2nd 64 bits in the bitmask is likely to be populated, because it contains the first 28 bits (nearly 3/4) of the normal priorities. (ratio of 669669:691 ~= 1000:1). - it isn't unlikely that context switching switches to another process. it might be very rapidly switching to and from the idle process (ratio of 475815:419004 and 471330:423544). Let the branch predictor decide. - preempt_enable seems to be very often called in a nested preempt_disable or with interrupts disabled (ratio of 3567760:87965 ~= 40:1) Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] scheduler: NUMA aware placement of sched_group_allnodesChristoph Lameter
When the per cpu sched domains are build then they also need to be placed on the node where the cpu resides otherwise we will have frequent off node accesses which will slow down the system. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] sched: fixing wrong comment for find_idlest_cpu()Satoru Takeuchi
Fixing wrong comment for find_idlest_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] sched: cleanup sched_group cpu_power setupSiddha, Suresh B
Up to now sched group's cpu_power for each sched domain is initialized independently. This made the setup code ugly as the new sched domains are getting added. Make the sched group cpu_power setup code generic, by using domain child field and new domain flag in sched_domain. For most of the sched domains(except NUMA), sched group's cpu_power is now computed generically using the domain properties of itself and of the child domain. sched groups in NUMA domains are setup little differently and hence they don't use this generic mechanism. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] sched: introduce child field in sched_domainSiddha, Suresh B
Introduce the child field in sched_domain struct and use it in sched_balance_self(). We will also use this field in cleaning up the sched group cpu_power setup(done in a different patch) code. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] sched: don't print migration cost when only 1 CPUDave Jones
If only a single CPU is present, printing this doesn't make much sense. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] sched: remove unnecessary sched group allocationsSiddha, Suresh B
Remove dynamic sched group allocations for MC and SMP domains. These allocations can easily fail on big systems(1024 or so CPUs) and we can live with out these dynamic allocations. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] sched: force /sbin/init off isolated cpusNick Piggin
Force /sbin/init off isolated cpus (unless every CPU is specified as an isolcpu). Users seem to think that the isolated CPUs shouldn't have much running on them to begin with. That's fair enough: intuitive, I guess. It also means that the cpu affinity masks of tasks will not include isolcpus by default, which is also more intuitive, perhaps. /sbin/init is spawned from the boot CPU's idle thread, and /sbin/init starts the rest of userspace. So if the boot CPU is specified to be an isolcpu, then prior to this patch, all of userspace will be run there. (throw in a couple of plausible devinit -> cpuinit conversions I spotted while we're here). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02[PATCH] cpumask: export cpu_online_map and cpu_possible_map consistentlyGreg Banks
cpumask: ensure that the cpu_online_map and cpu_possible_map bitmasks, and hence all the macros in <linux/cpumask.h> that require them, are available to modules for all supported combinations of architecture and CONFIG_SMP. Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>