user/sven/linux.git/arch/mips/kernel/process.c, branch v3.3.4

nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()

2011-12-11T18:31:57Z

Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would needlessly process any RCU job. Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop

2011-12-11T18:31:36Z

It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after the tick is stopped. To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs: tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(). If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(). Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly: - rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep. - rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken up. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Frysinger Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: David Miller Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Russell King Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logic

2011-12-11T18:31:35Z

The tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() function, which tries to delay the next timer tick as long as possible, can be called from two places: - From the idle loop to start the dytick idle mode - From interrupt exit if we have interrupted the dyntick idle mode, so that we reprogram the next tick event in case the irq changed some internal state that requires this action. There are only few minor differences between both that are handled by that function, driven by the ts->inidle cpu variable and the inidle parameter. The whole guarantees that we only update the dyntick mode on irq exit if we actually interrupted the dyntick idle mode, and that we enter in RCU extended quiescent state from idle loop entry only. Split this function into: - tick_nohz_idle_enter(), which sets ts->inidle to 1, enters dynticks idle mode unconditionally if it can, and enters into RCU extended quiescent state. - tick_nohz_irq_exit() which only updates the dynticks idle mode when ts->inidle is set (ie: if tick_nohz_idle_enter() has been called). To maintain symmetry, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick() has been renamed into tick_nohz_idle_exit(). This simplifies the code and micro-optimize the irq exit path (no need for local_irq_save there). This also prepares for the split between dynticks and rcu extended quiescent state logics. We'll need this split to further fix illegal uses of RCU in extended quiescent states in the idle loop. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Frysinger Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: David Miller Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Russell King Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

mips: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE

2011-10-31T23:30:57Z

Or else we get lots of variations on this: arch/mips/pci/pci.c:330: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL' scattered throughout the build. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

mips: remove needless include of module.h from core kernel files.

2011-10-31T23:30:57Z

None of these files are using modular infrastructure, and build tests reveal that none of these files are really relying on any implicit inclusions via. module.h either. So delete them. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus

2011-07-26T21:17:28Z

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (31 commits) MIPS: Close races in TLB modify handlers. MIPS: Add uasm UASM_i_SRL_SAFE macro. MIPS: RB532: Use hex_to_bin() MIPS: Enable cpu_has_clo_clz for MIPS Technologies' platforms MIPS: PowerTV: Provide cpu-feature-overrides.h MIPS: Remove pointless return statement from empty void functions. MIPS: Limit fixrange_init() to the FIXMAP region MIPS: Install handlers for software IRQs MIPS: Move FIXADDR_TOP into spaces.h MIPS: Add SYNC after cacheflush MIPS: pfn_valid() is broken on low memory HIGHMEM systems MIPS: HIGHMEM DMA on noncoherent MIPS32 processors MIPS: topdown mmap support MIPS: Remove redundant addr_limit assignment on exec. MIPS: AR7: Replace __attribute__((__packed__)) with __packed MIPS: AR7: Remove 'space before tabs' in platform.c MIPS: Lantiq: Add missing clk_enable and clk_disable functions. MIPS: AR7: Fix trailing semicolon bug in clock.c MAINTAINERS: Update MIPS entry. MIPS: BCM63xx: Remove duplicate PERF_IRQSTAT_REG definition ...

MIPS: Remove redundant addr_limit assignment on exec.

2011-07-25T16:23:29Z

The address limit is already set in flush_old_exec() via set_fs(USER_DS) so this assignment is redundant. [ralf@linux-mips.org: also see dac853ae89043f1b7752875300faf614de43c74b for further explanation.] Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2466/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Add new unwind_stack variant

2011-06-15T12:35:33Z

The unwind_stack_by_address variant supports unwinding based on any kernel code address. This symbol is also exported so it can be called from modules. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kalmar Signed-off-by: Gergely Kis Signed-off-by: Robert Richter

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23Z

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

MIPS: Don't stomp on caller's ->regs[2] in copy_thread()

2010-12-16T18:10:52Z

We never needed that (->regs[2] is overwritten on return from syscall paths with return value of syscall, so storing it there early made no sense) and with new restart logics since d27240bf7e61d2656de18e158ec910a902030847 it has become really bad - we lose the original syscall number before the place where we decide that we might need a syscall restart. Note that for child we do need the assignment to regs[2] - it won't go through the normal return from syscall path. [Ralf: Issue found and reported by Lluís; initial investigations by me; bug finally found and patch by Al; testing by me and Lluís.] Signed-off-by: Al Viro Tested-by: Lluís Batlle i Rossell Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle