* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: fix rcutorture bug
rcu: eliminate synchronize_rcu_xxx macro
rcu: make treercu safe for suspend and resume
rcu: fix rcutree grace-period-latency bug on small systems
futex: catch certain assymetric (get|put)_futex_key calls
futex: make futex_(get|put)_key() calls symmetric
locking, percpu counters: introduce separate lock classes
swiotlb: clean up EXPORT_SYMBOL usage
swiotlb: remove unnecessary declaration
swiotlb: replace architecture-specific swiotlb.h with linux/swiotlb.h
swiotlb: add support for systems with highmem
swiotlb: store phys address in io_tlb_orig_addr array
swiotlb: add hwdev to swiotlb_phys_to_bus() / swiotlb_sg_to_bus()
For NR_CPUS >= 16 values, FBC_BATCH is 2*NR_CPUS
Considering more and more distros are using high NR_CPUS values, it makes
sense to use a more sensible value for FBC_BATCH, and get rid of NR_CPUS.
A sensible value is 2*num_online_cpus(), with a minimum value of 32 (This
minimum value helps branch prediction in __percpu_counter_add())
We already have a hotcpu notifier, so we can adjust FBC_BATCH dynamically.
We rename FBC_BATCH to percpu_counter_batch since its not a constant
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It decodes "\n" as 0, which is bad, because stray echo into backlight
will turn your backlight off, etc...
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
radix_tree_preloads is unused outside of this file, make it static.
Noticed by sparse:
lib/radix-tree.c:84:1: warning: symbol 'per_cpu__radix_tree_preloads' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
pos is always set before being used, no need to declare a
second one inside the if() block.
lib/prio_heap.c:34:7: warning: symbol 'pos' shadows an earlier one
lib/prio_heap.c:30:6: originally declared here
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This used to work unpatched with older kernels, during the development
phase of mtdoops. Before commit e3e8a75d2a
a space was printed with console_loglevel set to 15, which probably
flushed the oops message as a side effect.
This is another patch from the Nokia N810 kernel.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Rosendahl <viktor.rosendahl@nokia.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We need to return the result of uevent sending by netlink
to caller, when uevent_helper is disabled and CONFIG_NET
is defined.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kobject_uevent_env() uses envp_ext[] as verbatim format string which
can cause problems ranging from unexpectedly mangled string to oops if
a string in envp_ext[] contains substring which can be interpreted as
format. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Removing the completion from klist_node reduces its size from 64 bytes
to 28 on x86-64. To maintain the semantics of klist_remove(), we add
a single list of klist nodes which are pending deletion and scan them.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There's no point in including the linux/swiotlb.h header twice in
lib/swiotlb.c - this patch gets rid of the unneeded include.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (77 commits)
x86: setup_per_cpu_areas() cleanup
cpumask: fix compile error when CONFIG_NR_CPUS is not defined
cpumask: use alloc_cpumask_var_node where appropriate
cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t
x86: use cpumask_var_t in acpi/boot.c
x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids
sched: put back some stack hog changes that were undone in kernel/sched.c
x86: enable cpus display of kernel_max and offlined cpus
ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
xtensa: define __fls
mn10300: define __fls
m32r: define __fls
h8300: define __fls
frv: define __fls
cris: define __fls
cpumask: CONFIG_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
cpumask: zero extra bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node
cpumask: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu in kernel/time/
cpumask: convert mm/
...
Before, when we only ever printed out the pointer value itself, a NULL
pointer would never cause issues and might as well be printed out as
just its numeric value.
However, with the extended %p formats, especially %pR, we might validly
want to print out resources for debugging. And sometimes they don't
even exist, and the resource pointer is just NULL. Print it out as
such, rather than oopsing.
This is a more generic version of a patch done by Trent Piepho (catching
all %p cases rather than just %pR, and using "(null)" instead of
"[NULL]" to match glibc).
Requested-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Acked-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: cleanup, reduce kernel size a bit
The current kernel build warns:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x11458): Section mismatch in reference from the function swiotlb_alloc_boot() to the function .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low()
The function swiotlb_alloc_boot() references
the function __init __alloc_bootmem_low().
This is often because swiotlb_alloc_boot lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of __alloc_bootmem_low is wrong.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1011f2): Section mismatch in reference from the function swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size() to the function .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low()
The function swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size() references
the function __init __alloc_bootmem_low().
This is often because swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of __alloc_bootmem_low is wrong.
and indeed the functions calling __alloc_bootmem_low() can be marked
__init as well.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
Impact: new debug CONFIG options
This helps find unconverted code. It currently breaks compile horribly,
but we never wanted a flag day so that's expected.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: extra safety checks during transition
When CONFIG_CPUMASKS_OFFSTACK is set, the new cpumask_ operators only
use bits up to nr_cpu_ids, not NR_CPUS. Using the old cpus_ operators
on these masks can mean accessing undefined bits.
After some discussion, Mike and I decided to err on the side of caution;
we zero the "undefined" bits in alloc_cpumask_var_node() until all the
old cpumask functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: avoid leaking caches or refcounts on sysfs error
slab: Fix comment on #endif
slab: remove GFP_THISNODE clearing from alloc_slabmgmt()
slub: Add might_sleep_if() to slab_alloc()
SLUB: failslab support
slub: Fix incorrect use of loose
slab: Update the kmem_cache_create documentation regarding the name parameter
slub: make early_kmem_cache_node_alloc void
slab: unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0
slub - fix get_object_page comment
SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.
SLUB: cleanup - define macros instead of hardcoded numbers
* 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits)
stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias
rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too
printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug
futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling
"Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics
x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping
x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion
x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit
x86: add swiotlb allocation functions
swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing
swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages
swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device
swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping
swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions
swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit
rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot
resources: skip sanity check of busy resources
swiotlb: move some definitions to header
swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
include/linux/hardirq.h
as per Ingo's suggestions.
Impact: fix lockdep false positives
Classify percpu_counter instances similar to regular lock objects --
that is, per instantiation site.
The networking code has increased its use of percpu_counters, which
leads to false positives if they are treated as a single class.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently fault-injection capability for SLAB allocator is only
available to SLAB. This patch makes it available to SLUB, too.
[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: unify slab and slub implementations]
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits)
net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular.
igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes.
gro: Fix potential use after free
sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits
sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it
sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics
sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests
sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests
sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test
sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes
sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues
802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header
802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer
802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer
802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system
802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool
802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool
802.3ad: make ntt bool
ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools.
...
Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due
to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of
doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (246 commits)
x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
x86: PAT: fix address types in track_pfn_vma_new()
x86: prioritize the FPU traps for the error code
x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes
x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-generic
x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_phys
x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return value
x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interface
x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary declaration
x86: common.c boot_cpu_stack and boot_exception_stacks should be static
x86: fix intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
x86: ia32.h: remove unused struct sigfram32 and rt_sigframe32
x86: asm-offset_64: use rt_sigframe_ia32
x86: sigframe.h: include headers for dependency
x86: traps.c declare functions before they get used
x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3
x86: PAT: add pgprot_writecombine() interface for drivers - v3
x86: PAT: change pgprot_noncached to uc_minus instead of strong uc - v3
x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (105 commits)
SELinux: don't check permissions for kernel mounts
security: pass mount flags to security_sb_kern_mount()
SELinux: correctly detect proc filesystems of the form "proc/foo"
Audit: Log TIOCSTI
user namespaces: document CFS behavior
user namespaces: require cap_set{ug}id for CLONE_NEWUSER
user namespaces: let user_ns be cloned with fairsched
CRED: fix sparse warnings
User namespaces: use the current_user_ns() macro
User namespaces: set of cleanups (v2)
nfsctl: add headers for credentials
coda: fix creds reference
capabilities: define get_vfs_caps_from_disk when file caps are not enabled
CRED: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions
CRED: Add a kernel_service object class to SELinux
CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task
CRED: Documentation
CRED: Use creds in file structs
CRED: Prettify commoncap.c
CRED: Make execve() take advantage of copy-on-write credentials
...
Impact: cleanup
swiotlb uses EXPORT_SYMBOL in an inconsistent way. Some functions use
EXPORT_SYMBOL at the end of functions. Some use it at the end of
swiotlb.c.
This cleans up swiotlb to use EXPORT_SYMBOL in a consistent way (at
the end of functions).
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: extend code for highmem - existing users unaffected
On highmem systems, the original dma buffer might not
have a virtual mapping - we need to kmap it in to perform
the bounce. Extract the code that does the actual
copy into a function that does the kmap if highmem
is enabled, and default to the normal swiotlb memcpy
if not.
[ ported by Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> ]
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: refactor code, cleanup
When we enable swiotlb for platforms that support HIGHMEM, we
can no longer store the virtual address of the original dma
buffer, because that buffer might not have a permament mapping.
Change the swiotlb code to instead store the physical address of
the original buffer.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: extend functions with a (yet unused) parameter, update callsites
Some architectures need it - in preparation for highmem swiotlb.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Selecting CRYPTO_CRC32C is not enough as CRYPTO which CRYPTO_CRC32C
depends on may be disabled. This patch adds the select on CRYPTO.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This patch swaps the role of libcrc32c and crc32c. Previously
the implementation was in libcrc32c and crc32c was a wrapper.
Now the code is in crc32c and libcrc32c just calls the crypto
layer.
The reason for the change is to tap into the algorithm selection
capability of the crypto API so that optimised implementations
such as the one utilising Intel's CRC32C instruction can be
used where available.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Impact: New kerneldoc comments
Additional documentation added to all the alloc_cpumask and free_cpumask
functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor additions)
Impact: New API
This will be needed in x86 code to allocate the domain and old_domain
cpumasks on the same node as where the containing irq_cfg struct is
allocated.
(Also fixes double-dump_stack on rare CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS case)
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (re-impl alloc_cpumask_var)
This patch fixes a long-standing performance bug in classic RCU that
results in massive internal-to-RCU lock contention on systems with
more than a few hundred CPUs. Although this patch creates a separate
flavor of RCU for ease of review and patch maintenance, it is intended
to replace classic RCU.
This patch still handles stress better than does mainline, so I am still
calling it ready for inclusion. This patch is against the -tip tree.
Nevertheless, experience on an actual 1000+ CPU machine would still be
most welcome.
Most of the changes noted below were found while creating an rcutiny
(which should permit ejecting the current rcuclassic) and while doing
detailed line-by-line documentation.
Updates from v9 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/2/334):
o Fixes from remainder of line-by-line code walkthrough,
including comment spelling, initialization, undesirable
narrowing due to type conversion, removing redundant memory
barriers, removing redundant local-variable initialization,
and removing redundant local variables.
I do not believe that any of these fixes address the CPU-hotplug
issues that Andi Kleen was seeing, but please do give it a whirl
in case the machine is smarter than I am.
A writeup from the walkthrough may be found at the following
URL, in case you are suffering from terminal insomnia or
masochism:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/tmp/rcutree-walkthrough.2008.12.16a.pdf
o Made rcutree tracing use seq_file, as suggested some time
ago by Lai Jiangshan.
o Added a .csv variant of the rcudata debugfs trace file, to allow
people having thousands of CPUs to drop the data into
a spreadsheet. Tested with oocalc and gnumeric. Updated
documentation to suit.
Updates from v8 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/139):
o Fix a theoretical race between grace-period initialization and
force_quiescent_state() that could occur if more than three
jiffies were required to carry out the grace-period
initialization. Which it might, if you had enough CPUs.
o Apply Ingo's printk-standardization patch.
o Substitute local variables for repeated accesses to global
variables.
o Fix comment misspellings and redundant (but harmless) increments
of ->n_rcu_pending (this latter after having explicitly added it).
o Apply checkpatch fixes.
Updates from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/291):
o Fixed a number of problems noted by Gautham Shenoy, including
the cpu-stall-detection bug that he was having difficulty
convincing me was real. ;-)
o Changed cpu-stall detection to wait for ten seconds rather than
three in order to reduce false positive, as suggested by Ingo
Molnar.
o Produced a design document (http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/).
The act of writing this document uncovered a number of both
theoretical and "here and now" bugs as noted below.
o Fix dynticks_nesting accounting confusion, simplify WARN_ON()
condition, fix kerneldoc comments, and add memory barriers
in dynticks interface functions.
o Add more data to tracing.
o Remove unused "rcu_barrier" field from rcu_data structure.
o Count calls to rcu_pending() from scheduling-clock interrupt
to use as a surrogate timebase should jiffies stop counting.
o Fix a theoretical race between force_quiescent_state() and
grace-period initialization. Yes, initialization does have to
go on for some jiffies for this race to occur, but given enough
CPUs...
Updates from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/448):
o Fix a number of checkpatch.pl complaints.
o Apply review comments from Ingo Molnar and Lai Jiangshan
on the stall-detection code.
o Fix several bugs in !CONFIG_SMP builds.
o Fix a misspelled config-parameter name so that RCU now announces
at boot time if stall detection is configured.
o Run tests on numerous combinations of configurations parameters,
which after the fixes above, now build and run correctly.
Updates from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/15/92, bad subject line):
o Fix a compiler error in the !CONFIG_FANOUT_EXACT case (blew a
changeset some time ago, and finally got around to retesting
this option).
o Fix some tracing bugs in rcupreempt that caused incorrect
totals to be printed.
o I now test with a more brutal random-selection online/offline
script (attached). Probably more brutal than it needs to be
on the people reading it as well, but so it goes.
o A number of optimizations and usability improvements:
o Make rcu_pending() ignore the grace-period timeout when
there is no grace period in progress.
o Make force_quiescent_state() avoid going for a global
lock in the case where there is no grace period in
progress.
o Rearrange struct fields to improve struct layout.
o Make call_rcu() initiate a grace period if RCU was
idle, rather than waiting for the next scheduling
clock interrupt.
o Invoke rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() only when
idle, as suggested by Andi Kleen. I still don't
completely trust this change, and might back it out.
o Make CONFIG_RCU_TRACE be the single config variable
manipulated for all forms of RCU, instead of the prior
confusion.
o Document tracing files and formats for both rcupreempt
and rcutree.
Updates from v4 for those missing v5 given its bad subject line:
o Separated dynticks interface so that NMIs and irqs call separate
functions, greatly simplifying it. In particular, this code
no longer requires a proof of correctness. ;-)
o Separated dynticks state out into its own per-CPU structure,
avoiding the duplicated accounting.
o The case where a dynticks-idle CPU runs an irq handler that
invokes call_rcu() is now correctly handled, forcing that CPU
out of dynticks-idle mode.
o Review comments have been applied (thank you all!!!).
For but one example, fixed the dynticks-ordering issue that
Manfred pointed out, saving me much debugging. ;-)
o Adjusted rcuclassic and rcupreempt to handle dynticks changes.
Attached is an updated patch to Classic RCU that applies a hierarchy,
greatly reducing the contention on the top-level lock for large machines.
This passes 10-hour concurrent rcutorture and online-offline testing on
128-CPU ppc64 without dynticks enabled, and exposes some timekeeping
bugs in presence of dynticks (exciting working on a system where
"sleep 1" hangs until interrupted...), which were fixed in the
2.6.27 kernel. It is getting more reliable than mainline by some
measures, so the next version will be against -tip for inclusion.
See also Manfred Spraul's recent patches (or his earlier work from
2004 at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546384711797&w=2).
We will converge onto a common patch in the fullness of time, but are
currently exploring different regions of the design space. That said,
I have already gratefully stolen quite a few of Manfred's ideas.
This patch provides CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, which controls the bushiness
of the RCU hierarchy. Defaults to 32 on 32-bit machines and 64 on
64-bit machines. If CONFIG_NR_CPUS is less than CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT,
there is no hierarchy. By default, the RCU initialization code will
adjust CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT to balance the hierarchy, so strongly NUMA
architectures may choose to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to disable
this balancing, allowing the hierarchy to be exactly aligned to the
underlying hardware. Up to two levels of hierarchy are permitted
(in addition to the root node), allowing up to 16,384 CPUs on 32-bit
systems and up to 262,144 CPUs on 64-bit systems. I just know that I
am going to regret saying this, but this seems more than sufficient
for the foreseeable future. (Some architectures might wish to set
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4, which would limit such architectures to 64 CPUs.
If this becomes a real problem, additional levels can be added, but I
doubt that it will make a significant difference on real hardware.)
In the common case, a given CPU will manipulate its private rcu_data
structure and the rcu_node structure that it shares with its immediate
neighbors. This can reduce both lock and memory contention by multiple
orders of magnitude, which should eliminate the need for the strange
manipulations that are reported to be required when running Linux on
very large systems.
Some shortcomings:
o More bugs will probably surface as a result of an ongoing
line-by-line code inspection.
Patches will be provided as required.
o There are probably hangs, rcutorture failures, &c. Seems
quite stable on a 128-CPU machine, but that is kind of small
compared to 4096 CPUs. However, seems to do better than
mainline.
Patches will be provided as required.
o The memory footprint of this version is several KB larger
than rcuclassic.
A separate UP-only rcutiny patch will be provided, which will
reduce the memory footprint significantly, even compared
to the old rcuclassic. One such patch passes light testing,
and has a memory footprint smaller even than rcuclassic.
Initial reaction from various embedded guys was "it is not
worth it", so am putting it aside.
Credits:
o Manfred Spraul for ideas, review comments, and bugs spotted,
as well as some good friendly competition. ;-)
o Josh Triplett, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Mathieu Desnoyers,
Lai Jiangshan, Andi Kleen, Andy Whitcroft, and Andrew Morton
for reviews and comments.
o Thomas Gleixner for much-needed help with some timer issues
(see patches below).
o Jon M. Tollefson, Tim Pepper, Andrew Theurer, Jose R. Santos,
Andy Whitcroft, Darrick Wong, Nishanth Aravamudan, Anton
Blanchard, Dave Kleikamp, and Nathan Lynch for keeping machines
alive despite my heavy abuse^Wtesting.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
