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* futex: Allow architectures to skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() testHeiko Carstens2014-03-031-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If an architecture has futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() implemented and there is no runtime check necessary, allow to skip the test within futex_init(). This allows to get rid of some code which would always give the same result, and also allows the compiler to optimize a couple of if statements away. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140302120947.GA3641@osiris Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* alpha: Enable system-call auditing support.蔡正龙2014-01-311-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Zhenglong.cai <zhenglong.cai@cs2c.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-01-251-11/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull user namespaces work from Eric Biederman: "The work to convert the kernel to use kuid_t and kgid_t has been finished since 3.12 so it is time to remove the scaffolding that allowed the work to progress incrementally. The first patch on this branch just removes the scaffolding, ensuring we will always get compile errors if people accidentally try the userspace and the kernel uid and gid types. The second patch an overlooked and unused chunk of mips code that that fails to build after the first patch. The code hasn't been in linux-next for long (as I was out of it and could not sheppared the cold properly) but the patch has been around for a long time just waiting for the day when I had finished the uid/gid conversions. Putting the code in linux-next did find the compile failure on mips so I took the time to get that fix reviewed and included. Beyond that I am not too worried about errors because all these two patches do is delete a modest amount of code" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: MIPS: VPE: Remove vpe_getuid and vpe_getgid userns: userns: Remove UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
| * userns: userns: Remove UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKSEric W. Biederman2013-11-261-11/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Removing UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS simplifies the code and always generates a compile error if the uids and kuids or gids and kgids are mixed by accident. Now that the appropriate conversions have been placed throughout the kernel there is no longer a need for a mode where we don't detect them as compile errors. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-3.14' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-01-211-2/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "The bulk of changes are cleanups and preparations for the upcoming kernfs conversion. - cgroup_event mechanism which is and will be used only by memcg is moved to memcg. - pidlist handling is updated so that it can be served by seq_file. Also, the list is not sorted if sane_behavior. cgroup documentation explicitly states that the file is not sorted but it has been for quite some time. - All cgroup file handling now happens on top of seq_file. This is to prepare for kernfs conversion. In addition, all operations are restructured so that they map 1-1 to kernfs operations. - Other cleanups and low-pri fixes" * 'for-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (40 commits) cgroup: trivial style updates cgroup: remove stray references to css_id doc: cgroups: Fix typo in doc/cgroups cgroup: fix fail path in cgroup_load_subsys() cgroup: fix missing unlock on error in cgroup_load_subsys() cgroup: remove for_each_root_subsys() cgroup: implement for_each_css() cgroup: factor out cgroup_subsys_state creation into create_css() cgroup: combine css handling loops in cgroup_create() cgroup: reorder operations in cgroup_create() cgroup: make for_each_subsys() useable under cgroup_root_mutex cgroup: css iterations and css_from_dir() are safe under cgroup_mutex cgroup: unify pidlist and other file handling cgroup: replace cftype->read_seq_string() with cftype->seq_show() cgroup: attach cgroup_open_file to all cgroup files cgroup: generalize cgroup_pidlist_open_file cgroup: unify read path so that seq_file is always used cgroup: unify cgroup_write_X64() and cgroup_write_string() cgroup: remove cftype->read(), ->read_map() and ->write() hugetlb_cgroup: convert away from cftype->read() ...
| * \ cgroup: Merge branch 'memcg_event' into for-3.14Tejun Heo2013-11-221-2/+1
| |\ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge v3.12 based patch series to move cgroup_event implementation to memcg into for-3.14. The following two commits cause a conflict in kernel/cgroup.c 2ff2a7d03bbe4 ("cgroup: kill css_id") 79bd9814e5ec9 ("cgroup, memcg: move cgroup_event implementation to memcg") Each patch removes a struct definition from kernel/cgroup.c. As the two are adjacent, they cause a context conflict. Easily resolved by removing both structs. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
| | * cgroup, memcg: move cgroup_event implementation to memcgTejun Heo2013-11-221-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cgroup_event is way over-designed and tries to build a generic flexible event mechanism into cgroup - fully customizable event specification for each user of the interface. This is utterly unnecessary and overboard especially in the light of the planned unified hierarchy as there's gonna be single agent. Simply generating events at fixed points, or if that's too restrictive, configureable cadence or single set of configureable points should be enough. Thankfully, memcg is the only user and gets to keep it. Replacing it with something simpler on sane_behavior is strongly recommended. This patch moves cgroup_event and "cgroup.event_control" implementation to mm/memcontrol.c. Clearing of events on cgroup destruction is moved from cgroup_destroy_locked() to mem_cgroup_css_offline(), which shouldn't make any noticeable difference. cgroup_css() and __file_cft() are exported to enable the move; however, this will soon be reverted once the event code is updated to be memcg specific. Note that "cgroup.event_control" will now exist only on the hierarchy with memcg attached to it. While this change is visible to userland, it is unlikely to be noticeable as the file has never been meaningful outside memcg. Aside from the above change, this is pure code relocation. v2: Per Li Zefan's comments, init/Kconfig updated accordingly and poll.h inclusion moved from cgroup.c to memcontrol.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
* | | Merge branch 'linus' into timers/coreIngo Molnar2014-01-121-0/+6
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pick up the latest fixes and refresh the branch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | | math64: Add mul_u64_u32_shr()Peter Zijlstra2013-12-111-0/+6
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce mul_u64_u32_shr() as proposed by Andy a while back; it allows using 64x64->128 muls on 64bit archs and recent GCC which defines __SIZEOF_INT128__ and __int128. (This new method will be used by the scheduler.) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hxjoeuzmrcaumR0uZwjpe2pv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* / / trivial: fix spelling in CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE help textPaul Gortmaker2013-12-021-1/+1
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-11-211-0/+13
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: "In this patchset, we finally get an SELinux update, with Paul Moore taking over as maintainer of that code. Also a significant update for the Keys subsystem, as well as maintenance updates to Smack, IMA, TPM, and Apparmor" and since I wanted to know more about the updates to key handling, here's the explanation from David Howells on that: "Okay. There are a number of separate bits. I'll go over the big bits and the odd important other bit, most of the smaller bits are just fixes and cleanups. If you want the small bits accounting for, I can do that too. (1) Keyring capacity expansion. KEYS: Consolidate the concept of an 'index key' for key access KEYS: Introduce a search context structure KEYS: Search for auth-key by name rather than target key ID Add a generic associative array implementation. KEYS: Expand the capacity of a keyring Several of the patches are providing an expansion of the capacity of a keyring. Currently, the maximum size of a keyring payload is one page. Subtract a small header and then divide up into pointers, that only gives you ~500 pointers on an x86_64 box. However, since the NFS idmapper uses a keyring to store ID mapping data, that has proven to be insufficient to the cause. Whatever data structure I use to handle the keyring payload, it can only store pointers to keys, not the keys themselves because several keyrings may point to a single key. This precludes inserting, say, and rb_node struct into the key struct for this purpose. I could make an rbtree of records such that each record has an rb_node and a key pointer, but that would use four words of space per key stored in the keyring. It would, however, be able to use much existing code. I selected instead a non-rebalancing radix-tree type approach as that could have a better space-used/key-pointer ratio. I could have used the radix tree implementation that we already have and insert keys into it by their serial numbers, but that means any sort of search must iterate over the whole radix tree. Further, its nodes are a bit on the capacious side for what I want - especially given that key serial numbers are randomly allocated, thus leaving a lot of empty space in the tree. So what I have is an associative array that internally is a radix-tree with 16 pointers per node where the index key is constructed from the key type pointer and the key description. This means that an exact lookup by type+description is very fast as this tells us how to navigate directly to the target key. I made the data structure general in lib/assoc_array.c as far as it is concerned, its index key is just a sequence of bits that leads to a pointer. It's possible that someone else will be able to make use of it also. FS-Cache might, for example. (2) Mark keys as 'trusted' and keyrings as 'trusted only'. KEYS: verify a certificate is signed by a 'trusted' key KEYS: Make the system 'trusted' keyring viewable by userspace KEYS: Add a 'trusted' flag and a 'trusted only' flag KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing These patches allow keys carrying asymmetric public keys to be marked as being 'trusted' and allow keyrings to be marked as only permitting the addition or linkage of trusted keys. Keys loaded from hardware during kernel boot or compiled into the kernel during build are marked as being trusted automatically. New keys can be loaded at runtime with add_key(). They are checked against the system keyring contents and if their signatures can be validated with keys that are already marked trusted, then they are marked trusted also and can thus be added into the master keyring. Patches from Mimi Zohar make this usable with the IMA keyrings also. (3) Remove the date checks on the key used to validate a module signature. X.509: Remove certificate date checks It's not reasonable to reject a signature just because the key that it was generated with is no longer valid datewise - especially if the kernel hasn't yet managed to set the system clock when the first module is loaded - so just remove those checks. (4) Make it simpler to deal with additional X.509 being loaded into the kernel. KEYS: Load *.x509 files into kernel keyring KEYS: Have make canonicalise the paths of the X.509 certs better to deduplicate The builder of the kernel now just places files with the extension ".x509" into the kernel source or build trees and they're concatenated by the kernel build and stuffed into the appropriate section. (5) Add support for userspace kerberos to use keyrings. KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches KEYS: Implement a big key type that can save to tmpfs Fedora went to, by default, storing kerberos tickets and tokens in tmpfs. We looked at storing it in keyrings instead as that confers certain advantages such as tickets being automatically deleted after a certain amount of time and the ability for the kernel to get at these tokens more easily. To make this work, two things were needed: (a) A way for the tickets to persist beyond the lifetime of all a user's sessions so that cron-driven processes can still use them. The problem is that a user's session keyrings are deleted when the session that spawned them logs out and the user's user keyring is deleted when the UID is deleted (typically when the last log out happens), so neither of these places is suitable. I've added a system keyring into which a 'persistent' keyring is created for each UID on request. Each time a user requests their persistent keyring, the expiry time on it is set anew. If the user doesn't ask for it for, say, three days, the keyring is automatically expired and garbage collected using the existing gc. All the kerberos tokens it held are then also gc'd. (b) A key type that can hold really big tickets (up to 1MB in size). The problem is that Active Directory can return huge tickets with lots of auxiliary data attached. We don't, however, want to eat up huge tracts of unswappable kernel space for this, so if the ticket is greater than a certain size, we create a swappable shmem file and dump the contents in there and just live with the fact we then have an inode and a dentry overhead. If the ticket is smaller than that, we slap it in a kmalloc()'d buffer" * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (121 commits) KEYS: Fix keyring content gc scanner KEYS: Fix error handling in big_key instantiation KEYS: Fix UID check in keyctl_get_persistent() KEYS: The RSA public key algorithm needs to select MPILIB ima: define '_ima' as a builtin 'trusted' keyring ima: extend the measurement list to include the file signature kernel/system_certificate.S: use real contents instead of macro GLOBAL() KEYS: fix error return code in big_key_instantiate() KEYS: Fix keyring quota misaccounting on key replacement and unlink KEYS: Fix a race between negating a key and reading the error set KEYS: Make BIG_KEYS boolean apparmor: remove the "task" arg from may_change_ptraced_domain() apparmor: remove parent task info from audit logging apparmor: remove tsk field from the apparmor_audit_struct apparmor: fix capability to not use the current task, during reporting Smack: Ptrace access check mode ima: provide hash algo info in the xattr ima: enable support for larger default filedata hash algorithms ima: define kernel parameter 'ima_template=' to change configured default ima: add Kconfig default measurement list template ...
| * | KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signingDavid Howells2013-09-251-0/+13
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing so that it can be used by code other than the module-signing code. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* | Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/auditLinus Torvalds2013-11-211-14/+0
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull audit updates from Eric Paris: "Nothing amazing. Formatting, small bug fixes, couple of fixes where we didn't get records due to some old VFS changes, and a change to how we collect execve info..." Fixed conflict in fs/exec.c as per Eric and linux-next. * git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (28 commits) audit: fix type of sessionid in audit_set_loginuid() audit: call audit_bprm() only once to add AUDIT_EXECVE information audit: move audit_aux_data_execve contents into audit_context union audit: remove unused envc member of audit_aux_data_execve audit: Kill the unused struct audit_aux_data_capset audit: do not reject all AUDIT_INODE filter types audit: suppress stock memalloc failure warnings since already managed audit: log the audit_names record type audit: add child record before the create to handle case where create fails audit: use given values in tty_audit enable api audit: use nlmsg_len() to get message payload length audit: use memset instead of trying to initialize field by field audit: fix info leak in AUDIT_GET requests audit: update AUDIT_INODE filter rule to comparator function audit: audit feature to set loginuid immutable audit: audit feature to only allow unsetting the loginuid audit: allow unsetting the loginuid (with priv) audit: remove CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE audit: loginuid functions coding style selinux: apply selinux checks on new audit message types ...
| * | audit: remove CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLEEric Paris2013-11-051-14/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After trying to use this feature in Fedora we found the hard coding policy like this into the kernel was a bad idea. Surprise surprise. We ran into these problems because it was impossible to launch a container as a logged in user and run a login daemon inside that container. This reverts back to the old behavior before this option was added. The option will be re-added in a userspace selectable manor such that userspace can choose when it is and when it is not appropriate. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* | | Revert "init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression"H. Peter Anvin2013-11-171-7/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 69f0554ec261fd686ac7fa1c598cc9eb27b83a80. This patch breaks randconfig on at least the x86-64 architecture, and most likely on others. There is work underway to support uncompressed kernels in a generic way, but it looks like it will amount to rewriting the support from scratch; see the LKML thread in the Link: for info. Therefore, revert this change and wait for the fix. Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Cc: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131113113418.167b8ffd@IRBT4585 Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-11-151-2/+2
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text mm: update 00-INDEX doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half' Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers' doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures treewide: fix "usefull" typo treewide: fix "distingush" typo mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/ kexec: Typo s/the/then/ Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi treewide: Fix common typo in "identify" __page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment Correct some typos for word frequency clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo ...
| * | | NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help textPaul Gortmaker2013-10-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | | | init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compressionChristian Ruppert2013-11-131-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some ARC users say they can boot faster with without kernel compression. This probably depends on things like the FLASH chip they use etc. Until now, kernel compression can only be disabled by removing "select HAVE_<compression>" lines from the architecture Kconfig. So add the Kconfig logic to permit disabling of kernel compression. Signed-off-by: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-11-121-1/+2
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar: "Main changes in this cycle were: - Updated full dynticks support. - Event stream support for architected (ARM) timers. - ARM clocksource driver updates. - Move arm64 to using the generic sched_clock framework & resulting cleanup in the generic sched_clock code. - Misc fixes and cleanups" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits) x86/time: Honor ACPI FADT flag indicating absence of a CMOS RTC clocksource: sun4i: remove IRQF_DISABLED clocksource: sun4i: Report the minimum tick that we can program clocksource: sun4i: Select CLKSRC_MMIO clocksource: Provide timekeeping for efm32 SoCs clocksource: em_sti: convert to clk_prepare/unprepare time: Fix signedness bug in sysfs_get_uname() and its callers timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist clocksource: arch_timer: Do not register arch_sys_counter twice timer stats: Add a 'Collection: active/inactive' line to timer usage statistics sched_clock: Remove sched_clock_func() hook arch_timer: Move to generic sched_clock framework clocksource: tcb_clksrc: Remove IRQF_DISABLED clocksource: tcb_clksrc: Improve driver robustness clocksource: tcb_clksrc: Replace clk_enable/disable with clk_prepare_enable/disable_unprepare clocksource: arm_arch_timer: Use clocksource for suspend timekeeping clocksource: dw_apb_timer_of: Mark a few more functions as __init clocksource: Put nodes passed to CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE callbacks centrally arm: zynq: Enable arm_global_timer ...
| * | | | nohz: Drop generic vtime obsolete dependency on CONFIG_64BITKevin Hilman2013-09-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The CONFIG_64BIT requirement on vtime can finally be removed since we now depend on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN which already takes care of the arch ability to handle nsecs based cputime_t safely. Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arm Linux <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
| * | | | vtime: Add HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN KconfigKevin Hilman2013-09-301-0/+1
| | |_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. In order to use that feature, arch code should be audited to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses for low and high value parts, so proper locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses. Therefore, add CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN which arches can enable after they've been audited for potential races. This option is automatically enabled on 64-bit platforms. Feature requested by Frederic Weisbecker. Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arm Linux <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* / | | parisc: add kernel audit featureHelge Deller2013-11-071-1/+1
|/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement missing functions for parisc to provide kernel audit feature. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
* | | Merge branch 'slab/next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-09-151-1/+1
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull SLAB update from Pekka Enberg: "Nothing terribly exciting here apart from Christoph's kmalloc unification patches that brings sl[aou]b implementations closer to each other" * 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: slab: Use correct GFP_DMA constant slub: remove verify_mem_not_deleted() mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmallocXXX functions to common code mm, slab_common: add 'unlikely' to size check of kmalloc_slab() mm/slub.c: beautify code for removing redundancy 'break' statement. slub: Remove unnecessary page NULL check slub: don't use cpu partial pages on UP mm/slub: beautify code for 80 column limitation and tab alignment mm/slub: remove 'per_cpu' which is useless variable
| * | | slub: don't use cpu partial pages on UPUwe Kleine-König2013-08-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cpu partial pages are used to avoid contention which does not exist in the UP case. So let SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL depend on SMP. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'kconfig' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-09-111-0/+1
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek: "This is the kconfig part of kbuild for v3.12-rc1: - post-3.11 search code fixes and micro-optimizations - CONFIG_MODULES is no longer a special case; this is needed to eventually fix the bug that using KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG breaks allmodconfig - long long is used to store hex and int values - make silentoldconfig no longer warns when a symbol changes from tristate to bool (it's a job for make oldconfig) - scripts/diffconfig updated to work with newer Pythons - scripts/config does not rely on GNU sed extensions" * 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: kconfig: do not allow more than one symbol to have 'option modules' kconfig: regenerate bison parser kconfig: do not special-case 'MODULES' symbol diffconfig: Update script to support python versions 2.5 through 3.3 diffconfig: Gracefully exit if the default config files are not present modules: do not depend on kconfig to set 'modules' option to symbol MODULES kconfig: silence warning when parsing auto.conf when a symbol has changed type scripts/config: use sed's POSIX interface kconfig: switch to "long long" for sanity kconfig: simplify symbol-search code kconfig: don't allocate n+1 elements in temporary array kconfig: minor style fixes in symbol-search code kconfig/[mn]conf: shorten title in search-box kconfig: avoid multiple calls to strlen Documentation/kconfig: more concise and straightforward search explanation
| * | | | modules: do not depend on kconfig to set 'modules' option to symbol MODULESYann E. MORIN2013-08-151-0/+1
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the MODULES symbol is special-cased in different places in the kconfig language. For example, if no symbol is defined to enable tristates, then kconfig looks up for a symbol named 'MODULES', and forces the 'modules' option onto that symbol. This causes problems as such: - since MODULES is special-cased, reading the configuration with KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG set will forcibly set MODULES to be 'valid' (ie. it has a valid value), when no such value was previously set. So MODULES defaults to 'n' unless it is present in KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG - other third-party projects may decide that 'MODULES' plays a different role for them This has been exposed by cset #cfa98f2e: kconfig: do not override symbols already set and reported by Stephen in: http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=137592137915234&w=2 As suggested by Sam, we explicitly define the MODULES symbol to be the tristate-enabler. This will allow us to drop special-casing of MODULES in the kconfig language, later. (Note: this patch is not a fix to Stephen's issue, just a first step). Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: yann.morin.1998@free.fr Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: sedat.dilek@gmail.com Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | | Merge tag 'xfs-for-linus-v3.12-rc1' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds2013-09-091-13/+0
|\ \ \ \ | |_|/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull xfs updates from Ben Myers: "For 3.12-rc1 there are a number of bugfixes in addition to work to ease usage of shared code between libxfs and the kernel, the rest of the work to enable project and group quotas to be used simultaneously, performance optimisations in the log and the CIL, directory entry file type support, fixes for log space reservations, some spelling/grammar cleanups, and the addition of user namespace support. - introduce readahead to log recovery - add directory entry file type support - fix a number of spelling errors in comments - introduce new Q_XGETQSTATV quotactl for project quotas - add USER_NS support - log space reservation rework - CIL optimisations - kernel/userspace libxfs rework" * tag 'xfs-for-linus-v3.12-rc1' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (112 commits) xfs: XFS_MOUNT_QUOTA_ALL needed by userspace xfs: dtype changed xfs_dir2_sfe_put_ino to xfs_dir3_sfe_put_ino Fix wrong flag ASSERT in xfs_attr_shortform_getvalue xfs: finish removing IOP_* macros. xfs: inode log reservations are too small xfs: check correct status variable for xfs_inobt_get_rec() call xfs: inode buffers may not be valid during recovery readahead xfs: check LSN ordering for v5 superblocks during recovery xfs: btree block LSN escaping to disk uninitialised XFS: Assertion failed: first <= last && last < BBTOB(bp->b_length), file: fs/xfs/xfs_trans_buf.c, line: 568 xfs: fix bad dquot buffer size in log recovery readahead xfs: don't account buffer cancellation during log recovery readahead xfs: check for underflow in xfs_iformat_fork() xfs: xfs_dir3_sfe_put_ino can be static xfs: introduce object readahead to log recovery xfs: Simplify xfs_ail_min() with list_first_entry_or_null() xfs: Register hotcpu notifier after initialization xfs: add xfs sb v4 support for dirent filetype field xfs: Add write support for dirent filetype field xfs: Add read-only support for dirent filetype field ...
| * | | enable building user namespace with xfsDwight Engen2013-08-151-13/+0
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
* | | Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-09-041-6/+22
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timers/nohz changes from Ingo Molnar: "It mostly contains fixes and full dynticks off-case optimizations, by Frederic Weisbecker" * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) nohz: Include local CPU in full dynticks global kick nohz: Optimize full dynticks's sched hooks with static keys nohz: Optimize full dynticks state checks with static keys nohz: Rename a few state variables vtime: Always debug check snapshot source _before_ updating it vtime: Always scale generic vtime accounting results vtime: Optimize full dynticks accounting off case with static keys vtime: Describe overriden functions in dedicated arch headers m68k: hardirq_count() only need preempt_mask.h hardirq: Split preempt count mask definitions context_tracking: Split low level state headers vtime: Fix racy cputime delta update vtime: Remove a few unneeded generic vtime state checks context_tracking: User/kernel broundary cross trace events context_tracking: Optimize context switch off case with static keys context_tracking: Optimize guest APIs off case with static key context_tracking: Optimize main APIs off case with static key context_tracking: Ground setup for static key use context_tracking: Remove full dynticks' hacky dependency on wide context tracking nohz: Only enable context tracking on full dynticks CPUs ...
| * | | context_tracking: Remove full dynticks' hacky dependency on wide context ↵Frederic Weisbecker2013-08-131-6/+22
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tracking Now that the full dynticks subsystem only enables the context tracking on full dynticks CPUs, lets remove the dependency on CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE This dependency was a hack to enable the context tracking widely for the full dynticks susbsystem until the latter becomes able to enable it in a more CPU-finegrained fashion. Now CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE only stands for testing on archs that work on support for the context tracking while full dynticks can't be used yet due to unmet dependencies. It simulates a system where all CPUs are full dynticks so that RCU user extended quiescent states and dynticks cputime accounting can be tested on the given arch. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
* | | Merge branch 'rcu/next' of ↵Ingo Molnar2013-09-031-0/+1
|\ \ \ | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: " * Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/611. * Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/619. * Full-system idle detection. This is for use by Frederic Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism. Its purpose is to allow the timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when all other CPUs are idle. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/648. * Improve rcutorture test coverage. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/675. " Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | rcu: Select IRQ_WORK from TREE_PREEMPT_RCUJames Hogan2013-08-181-0/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TREE_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU both cause kernel/rcutree.c to be built, but only TREE_RCU selects IRQ_WORK, which can result in an undefined reference to irq_work_queue for some (random) configs: kernel/built-in.o In function `rcu_start_gp_advanced': kernel/rcutree.c:1564: undefined reference to `irq_work_queue' Select IRQ_WORK from TREE_PREEMPT_RCU too to fix this. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* / memcg: get rid of swapaccount leftoversMichal Hocko2013-08-231-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The swapaccount kernel parameter without any values has been removed by commit a2c8990aed5a ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter") but it seems that we didn't get rid of all the left overs. Make sure that menuconfig help text and kernel-parameters.txt are clear about value for the paramter and remove the stalled comment which is not very much useful on its own. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Gergely Risko <gergely@risko.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-07-141-0/+11
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull slab update from Pekka Enberg: "Highlights: - Fix for boot-time problems on some architectures due to init_lock_keys() not respecting kmalloc_caches boundaries (Christoph Lameter) - CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL requested by RT folks (Joonsoo Kim) - Fix for excessive slab freelist draining (Wanpeng Li) - SLUB and SLOB cleanups and fixes (various people)" I ended up editing the branch, and this avoids two commits at the end that were immediately reverted, and I instead just applied the oneliner fix in between myself. * 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux slub: Check for page NULL before doing the node_match check mm/slab: Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names slob: Check for NULL pointer before calling ctor() slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable slab: add kmalloc() to kernel API documentation slab: fix init_lock_keys slob: use DIV_ROUND_UP where possible slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0 mm/slub: Use node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs in get_slabinfo mm/slub: Drop unnecessary nr_partials mm/slab: Fix /proc/slabinfo unwriteable for slab mm/slab: Sharing s_next and s_stop between slab and slub mm/slab: Fix drain freelist excessively slob: Rework #ifdeffery in slab.h mm, slab: moved kmem_cache_alloc_node comment to correct place
| * slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurableJoonsoo Kim2013-07-071-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CPU partial support can introduce level of indeterminism that is not wanted in certain context (like a realtime kernel). Make it configurable. This patch is based on Christoph Lameter's "slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable V2". Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
* | lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernelKyungsik Lee2013-07-091-1/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for extracting LZ4-compressed kernel images, as well as LZ4-compressed ramdisk images in the kernel boot process. Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Cc: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-07-061-0/+3
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner: "The timer changes contain: - posix timer code consolidation and fixes for odd corner cases - sched_clock implementation moved from ARM to core code to avoid duplication by other architectures - alarm timer updates - clocksource and clockevents unregistration facilities - clocksource/events support for new hardware - precise nanoseconds RTC readout (Xen feature) - generic support for Xen suspend/resume oddities - the usual lot of fixes and cleanups all over the place The parts which touch other areas (ARM/XEN) have been coordinated with the relevant maintainers. Though this results in an handful of trivial to solve merge conflicts, which we preferred over nasty cross tree merge dependencies. The patches which have been committed in the last few days are bug fixes plus the posix timer lot. The latter was in akpms queue and next for quite some time; they just got forgotten and Frederic collected them last minute." * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (59 commits) hrtimer: Remove unused variable hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer after stopped thread runtime accounting posix_timers: fix racy timer delta caching on task exit posix-timers: correctly get dying task time sample in posix_cpu_timer_schedule() selftests: add basic posix timers selftests posix_cpu_timers: consolidate expired timers check posix_cpu_timers: consolidate timer list cleanups posix_cpu_timer: consolidate expiry time type tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining x86: xen: Sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock x86: xen: Sync the wallclock when the system time is set timekeeping: Indicate that clock was set in the pvclock gtod notifier timekeeping: Pass flags instead of multiple bools to timekeeping_update() xen: Remove clock_was_set() call in the resume path hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but stopped) timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies_common() ...
| * \ Merge branch 'timers/posix-cpu-timers-for-tglx' ofThomas Gleixner2013-07-041-0/+1
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/core Frederic sayed: "Most of these patches have been hanging around for several month now, in -mmotm for a significant chunk. They already missed a few releases." Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | sched_clock: Make ARM's sched_clock generic for all architecturesStephen Boyd2013-06-121-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nothing about the sched_clock implementation in the ARM port is specific to the architecture. Generalize the code so that other architectures can use it by selecting GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> [jstultz: Merge minor collisions with other patches in my tree] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
* | | | memcg: Kconfig info updateSergey Dyasly2013-07-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now there are only 2 members in struct page_cgroup. Update config MEMCG description accordingly. Signed-off-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-07-021-19/+27
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The major changes: - Simplify RCU's grace-period and callback processing based on the new numbering for callbacks. - Removal of TINY_PREEMPT_RCU in favor of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU for single-CPU low-latency systems. - SRCU-related changes and fixes. - Miscellaneous fixes, including converting a few remaining printk() calls to pr_*(). - Documentation updates" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits) rcu: Shrink TINY_RCU by reworking CPU-stall ifdefs rcu: Shrink TINY_RCU by moving exit_rcu() rcu: Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCU tracing documentation rcu: Consolidate rcutiny_plugin.h ifdefs rcu: Remove rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() rcu: Remove the CONFIG_TINY_RCU ifdefs in rcutiny.h rcu: Remove check_cpu_stall_preempt() rcu: Simplify RCU_TINY RCU callback invocation rcu: Remove rcu_preempt_process_callbacks() rcu: Remove rcu_preempt_remove_callbacks() rcu: Remove rcu_preempt_check_callbacks() rcu: Remove show_tiny_preempt_stats() rcu: Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCU powerpc,kvm: fix imbalance srcu_read_[un]lock() rcu: Remove srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(). rcu: Apply Dave Jones's NOCB Kconfig help feedback rcu: Merge adjacent identical ifdefs rcu: Drive quiescent-state-forcing delay from HZ rcu: Remove "Experimental" flags kthread: Add kworker kthreads to OS-jitter documentation ...
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| *-. \ \ \ Merge branches 'cbnum.2013.06.10a', 'doc.2013.06.10a', 'fixes.2013.06.10a', ↵Paul E. McKenney2013-06-101-19/+27
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'srcu.2013.06.10a' and 'tiny.2013.06.10a' into HEAD cbnum.2013.06.10a: Apply simplifications stemming from the new callback numbering. doc.2013.06.10a: Documentation updates. fixes.2013.06.10a: Miscellaneous fixes. srcu.2013.06.10a: Updates to SRCU. tiny.2013.06.10a: Eliminate TINY_PREEMPT_RCU.
| | | * | | rcu: Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCUPaul E. McKenney2013-06-101-9/+1
| | |/ / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TINY_PREEMPT_RCU adds significant code and complexity, but does not offer commensurate benefits. People currently using TINY_PREEMPT_RCU can get much better memory footprint with TINY_RCU, or, if they really need preemptible RCU, they can use TREE_PREEMPT_RCU with a relatively minor degradation in memory footprint. Please note that this move has been widely publicized on LKML (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/12/545) and on LWN (http://lwn.net/Articles/541037/). This commit therefore removes TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Updated to eliminate #else in rcutiny.h as suggested by Josh ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
| | * | | rcu: Apply Dave Jones's NOCB Kconfig help feedbackPaul E. McKenney2013-06-101-9/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Kconfig help text for the RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE, RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO, and RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL Kconfig options was unclear, so this commit adds a bit more detail. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | rcu: Remove "Experimental" flagsPaul E. McKenney2013-06-101-1/+1
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After a release or two, features are no longer experimental. Therefore, this commit removes the "Experimental" tag from them. Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* | | | build some drivers only when compile-testingJiri Slaby2013-06-241-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some drivers can be built on more platforms than they run on. This is a burden for users and distributors who package a kernel. They have to manually deselect some (for them useless) drivers when updating their configs via oldconfig. And yet, sometimes it is even impossible to disable the drivers without patching the kernel. Introduce a new config option COMPILE_TEST and make all those drivers to depend on the platform they run on, or on the COMPILE_TEST option. Now, when users/distributors choose COMPILE_TEST=n they will not have the drivers in their allmodconfig setups, but developers still can compile-test them with COMPILE_TEST=y. Now the drivers where we use this new option: * PTP_1588_CLOCK_PCH: The PCH EG20T is only compatible with Intel Atom processors so it should depend on x86. * FB_GEODE: Geode is 32-bit only so only enable it for X86_32. * USB_CHIPIDEA_IMX: The OF_DEVICE dependency will be met on powerpc systems -- which do not actually support the hardware via that method. * INTEL_MID_PTI: It is specific to the Penwell type of Intel Atom device. [v2] * remove EXPERT dependency [gregkh - remove chipidea portion, as it's incorrect, and also doesn't apply to my driver-core tree] Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: linux-geode@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | | | Merge 3.10-rc6 into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman2013-06-171-0/+1
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We want these fixes here too. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| * | | rcu: Don't call wakeup() with rcu_node structure ->lock heldSteven Rostedt2013-06-101-0/+1
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Please see below for the long version of this story. On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 16:13 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > [12572.705832] ====================================================== > [12572.750317] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > [12572.796978] 3.10.0-rc3+ #39 Not tainted > [12572.833381] ------------------------------------------------------- > [12572.862233] trinity-child17/31341 is trying to acquire lock: > [12572.870390] (rcu_node_0){..-.-.}, at: [<ffffffff811054ff>] rcu_read_unlock_special+0x9f/0x4c0 > [12572.878859] > but task is already holding lock: > [12572.894894] (&ctx->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff811390ed>] perf_lock_task_context+0x7d/0x2d0 > [12572.903381] > which lock already depends on the new lock. > > [12572.927541] > the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: > [12572.943736] > -> #4 (&ctx->lock){-.-...}: > [12572.960032] [<ffffffff810b9851>] lock_acquire+0x91/0x1f0 > [12572.968337] [<ffffffff816ebc90>] _raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x80 > [12572.976633] [<ffffffff8113c987>] __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x2e7/0x5e0 > [12572.984969] [<ffffffff81088953>] perf_event_task_sched_out+0x93/0xa0 > [12572.993326] [<ffffffff816ea0bf>] __schedule+0x2cf/0x9c0 > [12573.001652] [<ffffffff816eacfe>] schedule_user+0x2e/0x70 > [12573.009998] [<ffffffff816ecd64>] retint_careful+0x12/0x2e > [12573.018321] > -> #3 (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}: > [12573.034628] [<ffffffff810b9851>] lock_acquire+0x91/0x1f0 > [12573.042930] [<ffffffff816ebc90>] _raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x80 > [12573.051248] [<ffffffff8108e6a7>] wake_up_new_task+0xb7/0x260 > [12573.059579] [<ffffffff810492f5>] do_fork+0x105/0x470 > [12573.067880] [<ffffffff81049686>] kernel_thread+0x26/0x30 > [12573.076202] [<ffffffff816cee63>] rest_init+0x23/0x140 > [12573.084508] [<ffffffff81ed8e1f>] start_kernel+0x3f1/0x3fe > [12573.092852] [<ffffffff81ed856f>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c > [12573.101233] [<ffffffff81ed863d>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xcc/0xcf > [12573.109528] > -> #2 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}: > [12573.125675] [<ffffffff810b9851>] lock_acquire+0x91/0x1f0 > [12573.133829] [<ffffffff816ebe9b>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4b/0x90 > [12573.141964] [<ffffffff8108e881>] try_to_wake_up+0x31/0x320 > [12573.150065] [<ffffffff8108ebe2>] default_wake_function+0x12/0x20 > [12573.158151] [<ffffffff8107bbf8>] autoremove_wake_function+0x18/0x40 > [12573.166195] [<ffffffff81085398>] __wake_up_common+0x58/0x90 > [12573.174215] [<ffffffff81086909>] __wake_up+0x39/0x50 > [12573.182146] [<ffffffff810fc3da>] rcu_start_gp_advanced.isra.11+0x4a/0x50 > [12573.190119] [<ffffffff810fdb09>] rcu_start_future_gp+0x1c9/0x1f0 > [12573.198023] [<ffffffff810fe2c4>] rcu_nocb_kthread+0x114/0x930 > [12573.205860] [<ffffffff8107a91d>] kthread+0xed/0x100 > [12573.213656] [<ffffffff816f4b1c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 > [12573.221379] > -> #1 (&rsp->gp_wq){..-.-.}: > [12573.236329] [<ffffffff810b9851>] lock_acquire+0x91/0x1f0 > [12573.243783] [<ffffffff816ebe9b>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4b/0x90 > [12573.251178] [<ffffffff810868f3>] __wake_up+0x23/0x50 > [12573.258505] [<ffffffff810fc3da>] rcu_start_gp_advanced.isra.11+0x4a/0x50 > [12573.265891] [<ffffffff810fdb09>] rcu_start_future_gp+0x1c9/0x1f0 > [12573.273248] [<ffffffff810fe2c4>] rcu_nocb_kthread+0x114/0x930 > [12573.280564] [<ffffffff8107a91d>] kthread+0xed/0x100 > [12573.287807] [<ffffffff816f4b1c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 Notice the above call chain. rcu_start_future_gp() is called with the rnp->lock held. Then it calls rcu_start_gp_advance, which does a wakeup. You can't do wakeups while holding the rnp->lock, as that would mean that you could not do a rcu_read_unlock() while holding the rq lock, or any lock that was taken while holding the rq lock. This is because... (See below). > [12573.295067] > -> #0 (rcu_node_0){..-.-.}: > [12573.309293] [<ffffffff810b8d36>] __lock_acquire+0x1786/0x1af0 > [12573.316568] [<ffffffff810b9851>] lock_acquire+0x91/0x1f0 > [12573.323825] [<ffffffff816ebc90>] _raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x80 > [12573.331081] [<ffffffff811054ff>] rcu_read_unlock_special+0x9f/0x4c0 > [12573.338377] [<ffffffff810760a6>] __rcu_read_unlock+0x96/0xa0 > [12573.345648] [<ffffffff811391b3>] perf_lock_task_context+0x143/0x2d0 > [12573.352942] [<ffffffff8113938e>] find_get_context+0x4e/0x1f0 > [12573.360211] [<ffffffff811403f4>] SYSC_perf_event_open+0x514/0xbd0 > [12573.367514] [<ffffffff81140e49>] SyS_perf_event_open+0x9/0x10 > [12573.374816] [<ffffffff816f4dd4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 Notice the above trace. perf took its own ctx->lock, which can be taken while holding the rq lock. While holding this lock, it did a rcu_read_unlock(). The perf_lock_task_context() basically looks like: rcu_read_lock(); raw_spin_lock(ctx->lock); rcu_read_unlock(); Now, what looks to have happened, is that we scheduled after taking that first rcu_read_lock() but before taking the spin lock. When we scheduled back in and took the ctx->lock, the following rcu_read_unlock() triggered the "special" code. The rcu_read_unlock_special() takes the rnp->lock, which gives us a possible deadlock scenario. CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 ---- ---- ---- rcu_nocb_kthread() lock(rq->lock); lock(ctx->lock); lock(rnp->lock); wake_up(); lock(rq->lock); rcu_read_unlock(); rcu_read_unlock_special(); lock(rnp->lock); lock(ctx->lock); **** DEADLOCK **** > [12573.382068] > other info that might help us debug this: > > [12573.403229] Chain exists of: > rcu_node_0 --> &rq->lock --> &ctx->lock > > [12573.424471] Possible unsafe locking scenario: > > [12573.438499] CPU0 CPU1 > [12573.445599] ---- ---- > [12573.452691] lock(&ctx->lock); > [12573.459799] lock(&rq->lock); > [12573.467010] lock(&ctx->lock); > [12573.474192] lock(rcu_node_0); > [12573.481262] > *** DEADLOCK *** > > [12573.501931] 1 lock held by trinity-child17/31341: > [12573.508990] #0: (&ctx->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff811390ed>] perf_lock_task_context+0x7d/0x2d0 > [12573.516475] > stack backtrace: > [12573.530395] CPU: 1 PID: 31341 Comm: trinity-child17 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc3+ #39 > [12573.545357] ffffffff825b4f90 ffff880219f1dbc0 ffffffff816e375b ffff880219f1dc00 > [12573.552868] ffffffff816dfa5d ffff880219f1dc50 ffff88023ce4d1f8 ffff88023ce4ca40 > [12573.560353] 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 ffff88023ce4d1f8 ffff880219f1dcc0 > [12573.567856] Call Trace: > [12573.575011] [<ffffffff816e375b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b > [12573.582284] [<ffffffff816dfa5d>] print_circular_bug+0x200/0x20f > [12573.589637] [<ffffffff810b8d36>] __lock_acquire+0x1786/0x1af0 > [12573.596982] [<ffffffff810918f5>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xb5/0x100 > [12573.604344] [<ffffffff810b9851>] lock_acquire+0x91/0x1f0 > [12573.611652] [<ffffffff811054ff>] ? rcu_read_unlock_special+0x9f/0x4c0 > [12573.619030] [<ffffffff816ebc90>] _raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x80 > [12573.626331] [<ffffffff811054ff>] ? rcu_read_unlock_special+0x9f/0x4c0 > [12573.633671] [<ffffffff811054ff>] rcu_read_unlock_special+0x9f/0x4c0 > [12573.640992] [<ffffffff811390ed>] ? perf_lock_task_context+0x7d/0x2d0 > [12573.648330] [<ffffffff810b429e>] ? put_lock_stats.isra.29+0xe/0x40 > [12573.655662] [<ffffffff813095a0>] ? delay_tsc+0x90/0xe0 > [12573.662964] [<ffffffff810760a6>] __rcu_read_unlock+0x96/0xa0 > [12573.670276] [<ffffffff811391b3>] perf_lock_task_context+0x143/0x2d0 > [12573.677622] [<ffffffff81139070>] ? __perf_event_enable+0x370/0x370 > [12573.684981] [<ffffffff8113938e>] find_get_context+0x4e/0x1f0 > [12573.692358] [<ffffffff811403f4>] SYSC_perf_event_open+0x514/0xbd0 > [12573.699753] [<ffffffff8108cd9d>] ? get_parent_ip+0xd/0x50 > [12573.707135] [<ffffffff810b71fd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xfd/0x1c0 > [12573.714599] [<ffffffff81140e49>] SyS_perf_event_open+0x9/0x10 > [12573.721996] [<ffffffff816f4dd4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 This commit delays the wakeup via irq_work(), which is what perf and ftrace use to perform wakeups in critical sections. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* / / Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUGStephen Rothwell2013-06-031-3/+0
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ever since commit 45f035ab9b8f ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"), it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG turned off. Remove all the remaining references to it. Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-05-051-6/+6
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar: "This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks', or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y. This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly. This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than that: - HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on typical distro configs even on modern systems. - Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick. - A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation, especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature helps desktop and mobile workloads as well. The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency. Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing two NOHZ kconfig modes: - CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of whether a CPU is idle or not. - CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode. - CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a CPU. The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by default. This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already. This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull request is marked RFC because: - it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is small but did not get ready in time. - it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I marked it RFC. - it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and while the components have been in testing for some time, the full combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either. - the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100% equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this feature at this point. - it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed. Without flaming us to crisp! :-) Future plans: - there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go for the 0 Hz target though. - once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do - once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running. I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long - but the final word is up to you as usual. More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt" * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits) sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch() nohz_full: Add documentation. cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle nohz: Add basic tracing nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit nohz: Implement full dynticks kick nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued. perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed ...