the SMP load-balancer uses the boot-time migration-cost estimation
code to attempt to improve the quality of balancing. The reason for
this code is that the discrete priority queues do not preserve
the order of scheduling accurately, so the load-balancer skips
tasks that were running on a CPU 'recently'.
this code is fundamental fragile: the boot-time migration cost detector
doesnt really work on systems that had large L3 caches, it caused boot
delays on large systems and the whole cache-hot concept made the
balancing code pretty undeterministic as well.
(and hey, i wrote most of it, so i can say it out loud that it sucks ;-)
under CFS the same purpose of cache affinity can be achieved without
any special cache-hot special-case: tasks are sorted in the 'timeline'
tree and the SMP balancer picks tasks from the left side of the
tree, thus the most cache-cold task is balanced automatically.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The idle loop goes to sleep using the WAIT instruction if !need_resched().
This has is suffering from from a race condition that if if just after
need_resched has returned 0 an interrupt might set TIF_NEED_RESCHED but
we've just completed the test so go to sleep anyway. This would be
trivial to fix by just disabling interrupts during that sequence as in:
local_irq_disable();
if (!need_resched())
__asm__("wait");
local_irq_enable();
but the processor architecture leaves it undefined if a processor calling
WAIT with interrupts disabled will ever restart its pipeline and indeed
some processors have made use of the freedom provided by the architecture
definition. This has been resolved and the Config7.WII bit indicates that
the use of WAIT is safe on 24K, 24KE and 34K cores. It also is safe on
74K starting revision 2.1.0 so enable the use of WAIT with interrupts
disabled for 74K based on a c0_prid of at least that.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Reported by Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>.
If only modules were users of these functions they did not get linked into
the kernel proper, so later module loads would fail as well.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
C0_status doesn't need to be initialized at this point anyway; the register
will be initialized later.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Neither rtc_mips_get_time nor rtc_mips_set_time are being initialized by
the EMMA2RH setup code, so genrtc at best was a RTC dummy avoiding a few
error messages but not providing actual functionality.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
We used to avoid the WAIT entirely on the 20K but really only need to do
this on early revs of the 20K. Without this a 20K was a bit of a
power hog. Well, in the lower power power hog category ;-)
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
For some platforms it's definitions may conflict. So that's the one-liner.
The rest is 10 square kilometers of collateral damage fixup this include
used to paper over.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Support for performance counter overflow interrupt that is on a separate
interrupt from the timer.
Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
And an attempt to tidy up the core/controller differences.
Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Some non-DSP enabled cores 24K / 34K can generate a DSP exception where they
are actually expected to produce a reserved instruction exception.
Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This did corrupt register s0 which the caller of self_ipi expects to
be unchanged. This is a kernel bug which will only be triggered with
the compilers which compile __smtc_ipi_replay to use s0 across the
invocation of self_ipi. Gcc 4.1.2 does this, for example.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This fixes the warning:
arch/mips/kernel/traps.c:931: warning: 'do_default_vi' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* O32 fadvise64() pass long long arguments by register pairs. Add
sys32 version for 64 bit kernel.
* N32 readahead() can pass a long long argument by one register. No
need to use sys32_readahead.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
... by setting DRAM config to 2MB (SNI always used that size). This also
fixes video dram size detection in cirrusfb.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Get rid of the cross-arch KGDB specific code which shouldn't have been
there in the first place...
Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Aside of being handy for debugging this has never been a particularly
good idea but is now getting in the way of dyntick / tickless kernels
and general cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Fix various bits of obviously-busted code which we're not happening to
compile, due to ifdefs.
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The meth ethernet driver for the SGI IP32 aka O2 is so far still an old
style driver which does not use the device driver model. This is now
causing issues with some udev based gadgetry in debian-stable. Fixed by
converting the meth driver to a platform device.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
--
Fixes since previous patch:
o Fixed typo in meth_exit_module()
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.
This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
getting them indirectly
Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).
Cross-compile tested on
all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
alpha alpha-up
arm
i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
ia64 ia64-up
m68k
mips
parisc parisc-up
powerpc powerpc-up
s390 s390-up
sparc sparc-up
sparc64 sparc64-up
um-x86_64
x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig
as well as my two usual configs.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch has reworked cobalt_board_id.
The cobalt_board_id is read from PCI config register.
It should be in PCI routine.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Ingo Molnar