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2012-01-06Merge branch 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timer: Use debugobjects to catch deletion of uninitialized timers timer: Setup uninitialized timer with a stub callback debugobjects: Extend to assert that an object is initialized debugobjects: Be smarter about static objects
2011-12-09sys_getppid: add missing rcu_dereferenceMandeep Singh Baines
In order to safely dereference current->real_parent inside an rcu_read_lock, we need an rcu_dereference. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-23timer: Use debugobjects to catch deletion of uninitialized timersChristine Chan
del_timer_sync() calls debug_object_assert_init() to assert that a timer has been initialized before calling lock_timer_base(). lock_timer_base() would spin forever on a NULL(uninit-ed) base. The check is added to del_timer() to prevent silent failure, even though it would not get stuck in an infinite loop. [ sboyd@codeaurora.org: Remove WARN, intialize timer function] Signed-off-by: Christine Chan <cschan@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320724108-20788-4-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-11-23timer: Setup uninitialized timer with a stub callbackStephen Boyd
Remove the WARN_ON() in timer_fixup_activate() as we now get the debugobjects printout in the debugobjects activate check. We also assign a dummy timer callback so that if the timer is actually set to fire we don't oops. [ tglx@linutronix.de: Split out the debugobjects vs. the timer change ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Christine Chan <cschan@codeaurora.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320724108-20788-2-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-10-31kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.hPaul Gortmaker
The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them onto the isolated export header for faster compile times. Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of: -#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/export.h> This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-06-03timers: Consider slack value in mod_timer()Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
There is an optimization which does not update the timer if the timer was pending and the expiration time was unchanged. Since commit 3bbb9ec9 ("timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers") this optimization is no longer applied for timers where the expiration time got extended due to the slack value. So we need to check again after the expiration time might have been updated. [ tglx: Made it a single check by applying slack first and sorting out the slack = 0 value (all timeouts < 256 jiffies) early ] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110521105828.GA29442@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-15Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits) posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer() hrtimer: Update hrtimer->state documentation hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update() posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks posix-timers: Cleanup namespace posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86 posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning. time: Splitout compat timex accessors ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset posix-timer: Update comment ... Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S (name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in: kernel/time.c
2011-03-15Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rtmutex: tester: Remove the remaining BKL leftovers lockdep/timers: Explain in detail the locking problems del_timer_sync() may cause rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock rwsem: Remove redundant asmregparm annotation rwsem: Move duplicate function prototypes to linux/rwsem.h rwsem: Unify the duplicate rwsem_is_locked() inlines rwsem: Move duplicate init macros and functions to linux/rwsem.h rwsem: Move duplicate struct rwsem declaration to linux/rwsem.h x86: Cleanup rwsem_count_t typedef rwsem: Cleanup includes locking: Remove deprecated lock initializers cred: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization kthread: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization xtensa: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization um: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization sparc: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization mips: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization cris: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization alpha: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization rtmutex-tester: Remove BKL tests
2011-03-08debugobjects: Add hint for better object identificationStanislaw Gruszka
In complex subsystems like mac80211 structures can contain several timers and work structs, so identifying a specific instance from the call trace and object type output of debugobjects can be hard. Allow the subsystems which support debugobjects to provide a hint function. This function returns a pointer to a kernel address (preferrably the objects callback function) which is printed along with the debugobjects type. Add hint methods for timer_list, work_struct and hrtimer. [ tglx: Massaged changelog, made it compile ] Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-16lockdep/timers: Explain in detail the locking problems del_timer_sync() may ↵Steven Rostedt
cause Twice I had to explain the output about why lockdep gives an error with locks in IRQ context and with del_timer_sync(). Might as well write it up and place it in the comments above the code in del_timer_sync(). Perhaps the next time this lockdep dump triggers people will understand the issues. It is a ticky issue and very subtle, explaining it in detail in the code may help others understand the issue when they stumble upon the bug again. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1297186794.23343.19.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-08Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation"Peter Zijlstra
Both attempts at trying to allow softirq usage for del_timer_sync() failed (produced bogus warnings), so revert the commit for this release: f266a5110d45: lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation and try again later. Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1297174680.13327.107.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-04lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotationPeter Zijlstra
Calling local_bh_enable() will want to actually start processing softirqs, which isn't a good idea since this can get called with IRQs disabled. Cure this by using _local_bh_enable() which doesn't start processing softirqs, and use raw_local_irq_save() to avoid any softirqs from happening without letting lockdep think IRQs are in fact disabled. Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20110203141548.039540914@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-01-31time: Move do_timer() to kernel/time/timekeeping.cTorben Hohn
do_timer() is primary timekeeping related. calc_global_load() is called from do_timer() as well, but that's more for historical reasons. [ tglx: Fixed up the calc_global_load() reject andmassaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com Cc: hch@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <20110127145855.23248.56933.stgit@localhost> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-01-06Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: MAINTAINERS: Update timer related entries timers: Use this_cpu_read timerqueue: Make timerqueue_getnext() static inline hrtimer: fix timerqueue conversion flub hrtimers: Convert hrtimers to use timerlist infrastructure timers: Fixup allmodconfig build issue timers: Rename timerlist infrastructure to timerqueue timers: Introduce timerlist infrastructure. hrtimer: Remove stale comment on curr_timer timer: Warn when del_timer_sync() is called in hardirq context timer: Del_timer_sync() can be used in softirq context timer: Make try_to_del_timer_sync() the same on SMP and UP posix-timers: Annotate lock_timer() timer: Permit statically-declared work with deferrable timers time: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro in timecompare.c timer: Initialize the field slack of timer_list timer_list: Remove alignment padding on 64 bit when CONFIG_TIMER_STATS time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources Fix up trivial conflict in MAINTAINERS
2010-12-12timers: Use this_cpu_readChristoph Lameter
Eric asked for this. [tglx: Because it generates faster code according to Erics ] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1011301404490.4039@router.home> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-12-08nohz: Fix get_next_timer_interrupt() vs cpu hotplugHeiko Carstens
This fixes a bug as seen on 2.6.32 based kernels where timers got enqueued on offline cpus. If a cpu goes offline it might still have pending timers. These will be migrated during CPU_DEAD handling after the cpu is offline. However while the cpu is going offline it will schedule the idle task which will then call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(). That function in turn will call get_next_timer_intterupt() to figure out if the tick of the cpu can be stopped or not. If it turns out that the next tick is just one jiffy off (delta_jiffies == 1) tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() incorrectly assumes that the tick should not stop and takes an early exit and thus it won't update the load balancer cpu. Just afterwards the cpu will be killed and the load balancer cpu could be the offline cpu. On 2.6.32 based kernel get_nohz_load_balancer() gets called to decide on which cpu a timer should be enqueued (see __mod_timer()). Which leads to the possibility that timers get enqueued on an offline cpu. These will never expire and can cause a system hang. This has been observed 2.6.32 kernels. On current kernels __mod_timer() uses get_nohz_timer_target() which doesn't have that problem. However there might be other problems because of the too early exit tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() in case a cpu goes offline. The easiest and probably safest fix seems to be to let get_next_timer_interrupt() just lie and let it say there isn't any pending timer if the current cpu is offline. I also thought of moving migrate_[hr]timers() from CPU_DEAD to CPU_DYING, but seeing that there already have been fixes at least in the hrtimer code in this area I'm afraid that this could add new subtle bugs. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101201091109.GA8984@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-08sched: Cure more NO_HZ load average woesPeter Zijlstra
There's a long-running regression that proved difficult to fix and which is hitting certain people and is rather annoying in its effects. Damien reported that after 74f5187ac8 (sched: Cure load average vs NO_HZ woes) his load average is unnaturally high, he also noted that even with that patch reverted the load avgerage numbers are not correct. The problem is that the previous patch only solved half the NO_HZ problem, it addressed the part of going into NO_HZ mode, not of comming out of NO_HZ mode. This patch implements that missing half. When comming out of NO_HZ mode there are two important things to take care of: - Folding the pending idle delta into the global active count. - Correctly aging the averages for the idle-duration. So with this patch the NO_HZ interaction should be complete and behaviour between CONFIG_NO_HZ=[yn] should be equivalent. Furthermore, this patch slightly changes the load average computation by adding a rounding term to the fixed point multiplication. Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> Reported-by: Tim McGrath <tmhikaru@gmail.com> Tested-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> Tested-by: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com> Tested-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> LKML-Reference: <1291129145.32004.874.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-22timer: Warn when del_timer_sync() is called in hardirq contextYong Zhang
Add explict warning when del_timer_sync() is called in hardirq context. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-10-22timer: Del_timer_sync() can be used in softirq contextYong Zhang
Actually we have used del_timer_sync() in softirq context for a long time, e.g. in __dst_free()::cancel_delayed_work(). So change the comments of it to warn on hardirq context only, and make lockdep know about this change. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-10-22timer: Make try_to_del_timer_sync() the same on SMP and UPYong Zhang
On UP try_to_del_timer_sync() is mapped to del_timer() which does not take the running timer callback into account, so it has different semantics. Remove the SMP dependency of try_to_del_timer_sync() by using base->running_timer in the UP case as well. [ tglx: Removed set_running_timer() inline and tweaked the changelog ] Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-10-21timer: Permit statically-declared work with deferrable timersPhil Carmody
Currently, you have to just define a delayed_work uninitialised, and then initialise it before first use. That's a tad clumsy. At risk of playing mind-games with the compiler, fooling it into doing pointer arithmetic with compile-time-constants, this lets clients properly initialise delayed work with deferrable timers statically. This patch was inspired by the issues which lead Artem Bityutskiy to commit 8eab945c5616fc984 ("sunrpc: make the cache cleaner workqueue deferrable"). Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-10-18irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacksPeter Zijlstra
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers. Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also benefit. The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately. Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in processing the work. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [ various fixes ] Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-10kernel/timer.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warningRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warning, add @timer description: Warning(kernel/timer.c:335): No description found for parameter 'timer' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-06Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt timer: Added usleep_range timer Revert "timer: Added usleep[_range] timer" clockevents: Remove the per cpu tick skew posix_timer: Move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create() timer: Added usleep[_range] timer timers: Document meaning of deferrable timer
2010-08-06Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits) sched: Use correct macro to display sched_child_runs_first in /proc/sched_debug sched: No need for bootmem special cases sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now sched: Reduce update_group_power() calls sched: Update rq->clock for nohz balanced cpus sched: Fix spelling of sibling sched, cpuset: Drop __cpuexit from cpu hotplug callbacks sched: Fix the racy usage of thread_group_cputimer() in fastpath_timer_check() sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand() sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" check sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacks sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check sched: __sched_setscheduler: Read the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value lockless sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happy sched: Fix fix_small_capacity powerpc: Exclude arch_sd_sibiling_asym_packing() on UP powerpc: Enable asymmetric SMT scheduling on POWER7 sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain sched: Fix capacity calculations for SMT4 sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model ...
2010-08-06Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits) tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex perf: expose event__process function perf events: Fix mmap offset determination perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events perf: New migration tool overview tracing: Drop cpparg() macro perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call ... Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-05Merge branch 'perf/nmi' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/Makefile Merge reason: Add the now complete topic, fix the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-04timer: Added usleep_range timerPatrick Pannuto
usleep_range is a finer precision implementations of msleep and is designed to be a drop-in replacement for udelay where a precise sleep / busy-wait is unnecessary. Since an easy interface to hrtimers could lead to an undesired proliferation of interrupts, we provide only a "range" API, forcing the caller to think about an acceptable tolerance on both ends and hopefully avoiding introducing another interrupt. INTRO As discussed here ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/3/250 ), msleep(1) is not precise enough for many drivers (yes, sleep precision is an unfair notion, but consistently sleeping for ~an order of magnitude greater than requested is worth fixing). This patch adds a usleep API so that udelay does not have to be used. Obviously not every udelay can be replaced (those in atomic contexts or being used for simple bitbanging come to mind), but there are many, many examples of mydriver_write(...) /* Wait for hardware to latch */ udelay(100) in various drivers where a busy-wait loop is neither beneficial nor necessary, but msleep simply does not provide enough precision and people are using a busy-wait loop instead. CONCERNS FROM THE RFC Why is udelay a problem / necessary? Most callers of udelay are in device/ driver initialization code, which is serial... As I see it, there is only benefit to sleeping over a delay; the notion of "refactoring" areas that use udelay was presented, but I see usleep as the refactoring. Consider i2c, if the bus is busy, you need to wait a bit (say 100us) before trying again, your current options are: * udelay(100) * msleep(1) <-- As noted above, actually as high as ~20ms on some platforms, so not really an option * Manually set up an hrtimer to try again in 100us (which is what usleep does anyway...) People choose the udelay route because it is EASY; we need to provide a better easy route. Device / driver / boot code is *currently* serial, but every few months someone makes noise about parallelizing boot, and IMHO, a little forward-thinking now is one less thing to worry about if/when that ever happens udelay's could be preempted Sure, but if udelay plans on looping 1000 times, and it gets preempted on loop 200, whenever it's scheduled again, it is going to do the next 800 loops. Is the interruptible case needed? Probably not, but I see usleep as a very logical parallel to msleep, so it made sense to include the "full" API. Processors are getting faster (albeit not as quickly as they are becoming more parallel), so if someone wanted to be interruptible for a few usecs, why not let them? If this is a contentious point, I'm happy to remove it. OTHER THOUGHTS I believe there is also value in exposing the usleep_range option; it gives the scheduler a lot more flexibility and allows the programmer to express his intent much more clearly; it's something I would hope future driver writers will take advantage of. To get the results in the NUMBERS section below, I literally s/udelay/usleep the kernel tree; I had to go in and undo the changes to the USB drivers, but everything else booted successfully; I find that extremely telling in and of itself -- many people are using a delay API where a sleep will suit them just fine. SOME ATTEMPTS AT NUMBERS It turns out that calculating quantifiable benefit on this is challenging, so instead I will simply present the current state of things, and I hope this to be sufficient: How many udelay calls are there in 2.6.35-rc5? udealy(ARG) >= | COUNT 1000 | 319 500 | 414 100 | 1146 20 | 1832 I am working on Android, so that is my focus for this. The following table is a modified usleep that simply printk's the amount of time requested to sleep; these tests were run on a kernel with udelay >= 20 --> usleep "boot" is power-on to lock screen "power collapse" is when the power button is pushed and the device suspends "resume" is when the power button is pushed and the lock screen is displayed (no touchscreen events or anything, just turning on the display) "use device" is from the unlock swipe to clicking around a bit; there is no sd card in this phone, so fail loading music, video, camera ACTION | TOTAL NUMBER OF USLEEP CALLS | NET TIME (us) boot | 22 | 1250 power-collapse | 9 | 1200 resume | 5 | 500 use device | 59 | 7700 The most interesting category to me is the "use device" field; 7700us of busy-wait time that could be put towards better responsiveness, or at the least less power usage. Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org> Cc: apw@canonical.com Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-08-04Revert "timer: Added usleep[_range] timer"Thomas Gleixner
This reverts commit 22b8f15c2f7130bb0386f548428df2ffd4e81903 to merge an advanced version. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-08-03timer: add on-stack deferrable timer interfacesJesse Barnes
In some cases (for instance with kernel threads) it may be desireable to use on-stack deferrable timers to get their power saving benefits. Add interfaces to support this for the IPS driver. Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-07-23timer: Added usleep[_range] timerPatrick Pannuto
usleep[_range] are finer precision implementations of msleep and are designed to be drop-in replacements for udelay where a precise sleep / busy-wait is unnecessary. They also allow an easy interface to specify slack when a precise (ish) wakeup is unnecessary to help minimize wakeups Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org> Cc: akinobu.mita@gmail.com Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <4C44CDD2.1070708@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-23timers: Document meaning of deferrable timerJ. Bruce Fields
Steal some text from 6e453a67510 "Add support for deferrable timers". A reader shouldn't have to dig through the git logs for the basic description of a deferrable timer. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-06-09sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push modelVenkatesh Pallipadi
In the new push model, all idle CPUs indeed go into nohz mode. There is still the concept of idle load balancer (performing the load balancing on behalf of all the idle cpu's in the system). Busy CPU kicks the nohz balancer when any of the nohz CPUs need idle load balancing. The kickee CPU does the idle load balancing on behalf of all idle CPUs instead of the normal idle balance. This addresses the below two problems with the current nohz ilb logic: * the idle load balancer continued to have periodic ticks during idle and wokeup frequently, even though it did not have any rebalancing to do on behalf of any of the idle CPUs. * On x86 and CPUs that have APIC timer stoppage on idle CPUs, this periodic wakeup can result in a periodic additional interrupt on a CPU doing the timer broadcast. Also currently we are migrating the unpinned timers from an idle to the cpu doing idle load balancing (when all the cpus in the system are idle, there is no idle load balancing cpu and timers get added to the same idle cpu where the request was made. So the existing optimization works only on semi idle system). And In semi idle system, we no longer have periodic ticks on the idle load balancer CPU. Using that cpu will add more delays to the timers than intended (as that cpu's timer base may not be uptodate wrt jiffies etc). This was causing mysterious slowdowns during boot etc. For now, in the semi idle case, use the nearest busy cpu for migrating timers from an idle cpu. This is good for power-savings anyway. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1274486981.2840.46.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-04kernel/: fix BUG_ON checks for cpu notifier callbacks direct callAkinobu Mita
The commit 80b5184cc537718122e036afe7e62d202b70d077 ("kernel/: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value") changed the return value of cpu notifier callbacks. Those callbacks don't return NOTIFY_BAD on failures anymore. But there are a few callbacks which are called directly at init time and checking the return value. I forgot to change BUG_ON checking by the direct callers in the commit. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-28Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: posix_timer: Fix error path in timer_create hrtimer: Avoid double seqlock timers: Move local variable into else section timers: Fix slack calculation really
2010-05-27kernel/: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno valueAkinobu Mita
By the previous modification, the cpu notifier can return encapsulate errno value. This converts the cpu notifiers for kernel/*.c Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26timers: Move local variable into else sectionThomas Gleixner
Fix nit-picking coding style detail. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-05-25timers: Fix slack calculation reallyThomas Gleixner
commit f00e047ef (timers: Fix slack calculation for expired timers) fixed the issue of slack on expired timers only partially. Linus noticed that jiffies is volatile so it is reloaded twice, which generates bad code. But its worse. This can defeat the time_after() check if jiffies are incremented between time_after() and the slack calculation. Fix it by reading jiffies into a local variable, which prevents the compiler from loading it twice. While at it make the > -1 check into >= 0 which is easier to read. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-24timers: Fix slack calculation for expired timersJeff Chua
commit 3bbb9ec946 (timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers) does not take the case into account when the timer is already expired. This broke wireless drivers. The solution is not to apply slack to already expired timers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2010-05-12lockup_detector: Touch_softlockup cleanups and softlockup_tick removalDon Zickus
Just some code cleanup to make touch_softlockup clearer and remove the softlockup_tick function as it is no longer needed. Also remove the /proc softlockup_thres call as it has been changed to watchdog_thres. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-10Merge branch 'linus' into timers/coreThomas Gleixner
Reason: Further posix_cpu_timer patches depend on mainline changes Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-06timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timersArjan van de Ven
While HR timers have had the concept of timer slack for quite some time now, the legacy timers lacked this concept, and had to make do with round_jiffies() and friends. Timer slack is important for power management; grouping timers reduces the number of wakeups which in turn reduces power consumption. This patch introduces timer slack to the legacy timers using the following pieces: * A slack field in the timer struct * An api (set_timer_slack) that callers can use to set explicit timer slack * A default slack of 0.4% of the requested delay for callers that do not set any explicit slack * Rounding code that is part of mod_timer() that tries to group timers around jiffies values every 'power of two' (so quick timers will group around every 2, but longer timers will group around every 4, 8, 16, 32 etc) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-12timer: Try to survive timer callback preempt_count leakThomas Gleixner
If a timer callback leaks preempt_count we currently assert a BUG(). That makes it unnecessarily hard to retrieve information about the problem especially on laptops and headless stations. There is a decent chance to survive the preempt_count leak by restoring the preempt_count to the value before the callback. That allows in many cases to get valuable information about the root cause of the problem. We carried that fixup in preempt-rt for years and were able to decode such wreckage quite a few times. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linux Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
2010-03-12timer: Split out timer function callThomas Gleixner
The ident level is starting to be annoying. More white space than actual code. Split out the timer function call into its own function. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-03-12timer: Print function name for timer callbacks modifying preemption countUwe Kleine-König
A function scheduled with a timer must not exit with a different preempt count than it was entered. To make helping users running into the corresponding BUG() easier also print the name of the bad function not only its address. [ tglx: Sanitized printk ] Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-03-12timer stats: Fix del_timer_sync() and try_to_del_timer_sync()Andrew Morton
These functions forgot to run timer_stats_timer_clear_start_info(). It's unobvious what effect this has and whether it matters much - we won't be printing it out anyway if the timer's detached. Untested, just an Ingo trollpatch. [ Nevertheless correct - tglx ] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-01-21perf: Fix perf_event_do_pending() fallback callsitePeter Zijlstra
Paul questioned the context in which we should call perf_event_do_pending(). After looking at that I found that it should be called from IRQ context these days, however the fallback call-site is placed in softirq context. Ammend this by placing the callback in the IRQ timer path. Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1263374859.4244.192.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-17timers: Remove duplicate setting of new_base in __mod_timer()Simon Horman
new_base is set using per_cpu(tvec_bases, cpu) after selecting the desired value of cpu immediately below so this line is a unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> LKML-Reference: <20091217001542.GD25317@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-09-23Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * '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