user/sven/linux.git/kernel/timer.c, branch v2.6.32.3

Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-09-23T16:46:15Z

* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers cputime: Optimize jiffies_to_cputime(1) itimers: Simplify arm_timer() code a bit itimers: Fix periodic tics precision itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF Trivial header file include conflicts in kernel/fork.c

perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

2009-09-21T12:28:04Z

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Paul Mackerras Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Howells Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-09-18T16:15:24Z

* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (34 commits) time: Prevent 32 bit overflow with set_normalized_timespec() clocksource: Delay clocksource down rating to late boot clocksource: clocksource_select must be called with mutex locked clocksource: Resolve cpu hotplug dead lock with TSC unstable, fix crash timers: Drop a function prototype clocksource: Resolve cpu hotplug dead lock with TSC unstable timer.c: Fix S/390 comments timekeeping: Fix invalid getboottime() value timekeeping: Fix up read_persistent_clock() breakage on sh timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock(), build fix time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE x86: Do not unregister PIT clocksource on PIT oneshot setup/shutdown clocksource: Avoid clocksource watchdog circular locking dependency clocksource: Protect the watchdog rating changes with clocksource_mutex clocksource: Call clocksource_change_rating() outside of watchdog_lock timekeeping: Introduce read_boot_clock timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock() timekeeping: Update clocksource with stop_machine timekeeping: Add timekeeper read_clock helper functions timekeeping: Move NTP adjusted clock multiplier to struct timekeeper ... Fix trivial conflict due to MIPS lemote -> loongson renaming.

timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers

2009-08-29T12:10:06Z

Add tracepoints which cover the timer life cycle. The tracepoints are integrated with the already existing debug_object debug points as far as possible. Based on patches from Mathieu: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123791201816247&w=2 and Anton: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124331396919301&w=2 [ tglx: Fixed timeout value in timer_start tracepoint, massaged comments and made the printk's more readable ] Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Zhaolei LKML-Reference: <4A7F8A9B.3040201@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer.c: Fix S/390 comments

2009-08-26T06:07:31Z

Fix typos and add omitted words. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: akpm Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens LKML-Reference: <20090825143541.43fc2ed8.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() API

2009-08-23T08:32:39Z

All calls from outside RCU are of the form: if (rcu_pending(cpu)) rcu_check_callbacks(cpu, user); This is silly, instead we put a call to rcu_pending() in rcu_check_callbacks(), and then make the outside calls be to rcu_check_callbacks(). This cuts down on the code a bit and also gives the compiler a better chance of optimizing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <125097461311-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core

2009-08-14T13:59:30Z

Reason: Martin's timekeeping cleanup series depends on both timers/core and mainline changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timers: Cache __next_timer_interrupt result

2009-08-04T18:28:25Z

Each time a cpu goes to sleep on a NOHZ=y system the timer wheel is searched for the next timer interrupt. It can take quite a few cycles to find the next pending timer. This patch adds a field to tvec_base that caches the result of __next_timer_interrupt. The hit ratio is around 80% on my thinkpad under normal use, on a server I've seen hit ratios from 5% to 95% dependent on the workload. -v2: jiffies wrap fixes Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: john stultz Cc: Venki Pallipadi LKML-Reference: <20090721202505.7d56a079@skybase> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

timer: Avoid reading uninitialized data

2009-07-18T21:11:43Z

timer->expires may be uninitialized, so check timer_pending() before touching timer->expires to pacify kmemcheck. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin LKML-Reference: <20090718204602.5191.360.stgit@mj.roinet.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid function calls

2009-06-24T09:15:09Z

When the kernel is configured with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS but timer stats are runtime disabled we still get calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info which initializes some fields in the corresponding struct timer_list. So add some quick checks in the the timer stats setup functions to avoid function calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info when timer stats are disabled. In an artificial workload that does nothing but playing ping pong with a single tcp packet via loopback this decreases cpu consumption by 1 - 1.5%. This is part of a modified function trace output on SLES11: perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732388 [+ 125]: sk_reset_timer <-tcp_v4_rcv perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732513 [+ 125]: mod_timer <-sk_reset_timer perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732638 [+ 125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-mod_timer perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732763 [+ 125]: __mod_timer <-mod_timer perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732888 [+ 125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-__mod_timer perl-2497 [00] 28630647177733013 [+ 93]: lock_timer_base <-__mod_timer Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Mustafa Mesanovic Cc: Arjan van de Ven LKML-Reference: <20090623153811.GA4641@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar