- May 15, 2010
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Hugh Dickins authored
If the kernel is large or the profiling step small, /proc/profile leaks data and readprofile shows silly stats, until readprofile -r has reset the buffer: clear the prof_buffer when it is vmalloc()ed. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Sep 20, 2009
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jul 30, 2009
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Mel Gorman authored
When profile= is used, a large buffer is allocated early at boot. This can be larger than what the page allocator can provide so it prints a warning. However, the caller is able to handle the situation so this patch suppresses the warning. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jul 18, 2009
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Mel Gorman authored
When profile= is used, a large buffer is allocated early at boot. This can be larger than what the page allocator can provide so it prints a warning. However, the caller is able to handle the situation so this patch suppresses the warning. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1247656992-19846-3-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jun 17, 2009
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Mel Gorman authored
Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean "allocate from the current node". However, a number of the callers in fast paths know for a fact their node is valid. To avoid a comparison and branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid with VM_BUG_ON(). Callers that know their node is valid are then converted. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [for the SLOB NUMA bits] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jun 11, 2009
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Yinghai Lu authored
Now that we set up the slab allocator earlier, we can get rid of some alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() calls in boot code. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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- Feb 09, 2009
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Hugh Dickins authored
Impact: fix broken /proc/profile on UP machines Commit c309b917 "cpumask: convert kernel/profile.c" broke profiling. prof_cpu_mask was previously initialized to CPU_MASK_ALL, but left uninitialized in that commit. We need to copy cpu_possible_mask (cpu_online_mask is not enough). Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Jan 06, 2009
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Currently, kernel/profile.c include <asm/ptrace.h> twice. It can be removed. Signed-off-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Dec 31, 2008
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Rusty Russell authored
Impact: Reduce kernel memory usage, use new cpumask API. Avoid a static cpumask_t for prof_cpu_mask, and an on-stack cpumask_t in prof_cpu_mask_write_proc. Both become cpumask_var_t. prof_cpu_mask is only allocated when profiling is on, but the NULL checks are optimized out by gcc for the !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK case. Also removed some strange and unnecessary casts. Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- Dec 13, 2008
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Rusty Russell authored
cpumask: change cpumask_scnprintf, cpumask_parse_user, cpulist_parse, and cpulist_scnprintf to take pointers. Impact: change calling convention of existing cpumask APIs Most cpumask functions started with cpus_: these have been replaced by cpumask_ ones which take struct cpumask pointers as expected. These four functions don't have good replacement names; fortunately they're rarely used, so we just change them over. Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: mingo@redhat.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
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- Nov 30, 2008
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Nov 19, 2008
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Andrew Morton authored
Impact: cleanup No point in inlining this. Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Nov 18, 2008
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Rakib Mullick authored
Impact: fix section mismatch warning in kernel/profile.c Here, profile_nop function has been called from a non-init function create_hash_tables(void). Which generetes a section mismatch warning. Previously, create_hash_tables(void) was a init function. So, removing __init from create_hash_tables(void) requires profile_nop to be non-init. This patch makes profile_nop function inline and fixes the following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x6ebb6): Section mismatch in reference from the function create_hash_tables() to the function .init.text:profile_nop() The function create_hash_tables() references the function __init profile_nop(). This is often because create_hash_tables lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of profile_nop is wrong. Signed-off-by:
Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Oct 30, 2008
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Paul Mundt authored
profile_init() calls in to alloc_bootmem() on early initialization. While alloc_bootmem() is __init, the reference itself is safe in that it is tucked below a !slab_is_available() check. So, flag profile_init() as __ref. Signed-off-by:
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Oct 16, 2008
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Dave Hansen authored
Way too often, I have a machine that exhibits some kind of crappy behavior. The CPU looks wedged in the kernel or it is spending way too much system time and I wonder what is responsible. I try to run readprofile. But, of course, Ubuntu doesn't enable it by default. Dang! The reason we boot-time enable it is that it takes a big bufffer that we generally can only bootmem alloc. But, does it hurt to at least try and runtime-alloc it? To use: echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile Then run readprofile like normal. This should fix the compile issue with allmodconfig. I've compile-tested on a bunch more configs now including a few more architectures. Signed-off-by:
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jul 25, 2008
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Adrian Bunk authored
Build kernel/profile.o only if CONFIG_PROFILING is enabled. This makes CONFIG_PROFILING=n kernels smaller. As a bonus, some profile_tick() calls and one branch from schedule() are now eliminated with CONFIG_PROFILING=n (but I doubt these are measurable effects). This patch changes the effects of CONFIG_PROFILING=n, but I don't think having more than two choices would be the better choice. This patch also adds the name of the first parameter to the prototypes of profile_{hits,tick}() since I anyway had to add them for the dummy functions. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jun 26, 2008
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Jens Axboe authored
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that was removed. So kill it. Acked-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Reviewed-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- Apr 29, 2008
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Denis V. Lunev authored
Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data be setup before gluing PDE to main tree. Signed-off-by:
Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Apr 19, 2008
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Matthew Wilcox authored
None of these files use any of the functionality promised by asm/semaphore.h. Signed-off-by:
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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- Feb 08, 2008
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Jesper Juhl authored
Remove duplicate inclusion of linux/profile.h from kernel/profile.c Signed-off-by:
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jan 25, 2008
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Paolo Ciarrocchi authored
Before: total: 25 errors, 13 warnings, 602 lines checked After: total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 601 lines checked No code changed: kernel/profile.o: text data bss dec hex filename 3048 236 24 3308 cec profile.o.before 3048 236 24 3308 cec profile.o.after md5: 2501d64748a4d350dffb11203e2a5182 profile.o.before.asm 2501d64748a4d350dffb11203e2a5182 profile.o.after.asm Signed-off-by:
Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Oct 24, 2007
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Mel Gorman authored
profile=sleep only works if CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is set. This patch notes the limitation in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and prints a warning at boot-time if profile=sleep is used without CONFIG_SCHEDSTAT. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Oct 17, 2007
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Adrian Bunk authored
{,un}register_timer_hook() is the API that should be used. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Oct 16, 2007
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Christoph Lameter authored
Processors on memoryless nodes must be able to fall back to remote nodes in order to get a profiling buffer. This may lead to excessive NUMA traffic but I think we should allow this rather than failing. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by:
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by:
Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Aug 11, 2007
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Peter Chubb authored
gcc-4.2 is a lot more picky about its symbol handling. EXPORT_SYMBOL no longer works on symbols that are undefined or defined with static scope. For example, with CONFIG_PROFILE off, I see: kernel/profile.c:206: error: __ksymtab_profile_event_unregister causes a section type conflict kernel/profile.c:205: error: __ksymtab_profile_event_register causes a section type conflict This patch moves the EXPORTs inside the #ifdef CONFIG_PROFILE, so we only try to export symbols that are defined. Also, in kernel/kprobes.c there's an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() for jprobes_return, which if CONFIG_JPROBES is undefined is a static inline and gives the same error. And in drivers/acpi/resources/rsxface.c, there's an ACPI_EXPORT_SYMBOPL() for a static symbol. If it's static, it's not accessible from outside the compilation unit, so should bot be exported. These three changes allow building a zx1_defconfig kernel with gcc 4.2 on IA64. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export jpobe_return properly] Signed-off-by:
Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- May 21, 2007
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
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>
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- May 09, 2007
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress. This patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during suspend and resume transitions. It also changes all of the CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration (for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal" ones). [oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Feb 11, 2007
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1. create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jan 23, 2007
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Andrew Morton authored
export profile_hits() on !SMP too. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jan 12, 2007
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Ingo Molnar authored
This adds the profile=kvm boot option, which enables KVM to profile VM exits. Use: "readprofile -m ./System.map | sort -n" to see the resulting output: [...] 18246 serial_out 148.3415 18945 native_flush_tlb 378.9000 23618 serial_in 212.7748 29279 __spin_unlock_irq 622.9574 43447 native_apic_write 2068.9048 52702 enable_8259A_irq 742.2817 54250 vgacon_scroll 89.3740 67394 ide_inb 6126.7273 79514 copy_page_range 98.1654 84868 do_wp_page 86.6000 140266 pit_read 783.6089 151436 ide_outb 25239.3333 152668 native_io_delay 21809.7143 174783 mask_and_ack_8259A 783.7803 362404 native_set_pte_at 36240.4000 1688747 total 0.5009 Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by:
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Jan 06, 2007
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Ingo Molnar authored
Fix sched profiling typo, introduced by the sleep profiling patch. This bug caused profile=sched to not work. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Dec 07, 2006
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Helge Deller authored
- move some file_operations structs into the .rodata section - move static strings from policy_types[] array into the .rodata section - fix generic seq_operations usages, so that those structs may be defined as "const" as well [akpm@osdl.org: couple of fixes] Signed-off-by:
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn, prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add #ifdefs. the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine: text data bss dec hex filename 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.before 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.after [akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix] Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Implement prof=sleep profiling. TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit for the call site that initiated the sleep. Sample readprofile output on i386: 306 ps2_sendbyte 1.3973 432 call_usermodehelper_keys 1.9548 484 ps2_command 0.6453 790 __driver_attach 4.7879 1593 msleep 44.2500 3976 sync_buffer 64.1290 4076 do_lookup 12.4648 8587 sync_page 122.6714 20820 total 0.0067 (NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from deep within the wakeup path.) akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched. lock_sock(), msleep(), others.. akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise. Presumably doing disk reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex. [akpm@osdl.org: various fixes] Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Heiko Carstens authored
Signed-off-by:
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Oct 11, 2006
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Reinette Chatre authored
lib/bitmap.c:bitmap_parse() is a library function that received as input a user buffer. This seemed to have originated from the way the write_proc function of the /proc filesystem operates. This has been reworked to not use kmalloc and eliminates a lot of get_user() overhead by performing one access_ok before using __get_user(). We need to test if we are in kernel or user space (is_user) and access the buffer differently. We cannot use __get_user() to access kernel addresses in all cases, for example in architectures with separate address space for kernel and user. This function will be useful for other uses as well; for example, taking input for /sysfs instead of /proc, so it was changed to accept kernel buffers. We have this use for the Linux UWB project, as part as the upcoming bandwidth allocator code. Only a few routines used this function and they were changed too. Signed-off-by:
Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Oct 05, 2006
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David Howells authored
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the Linux kernel. The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path (ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()). Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception handling. Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing. I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers. I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile with minimal configurations. This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy. Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one: struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs); And put the old one back at the end: set_irq_regs(old_regs); Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ(). In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary: - update_process_times(user_mode(regs)); - profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs); + update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs())); + profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING); I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself, except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode(). Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers: (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in the input_dev struct. (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs pointer or not. (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type irq_handler_t. Signed-Off-By:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
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- Sep 26, 2006
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Christoph Lameter authored
Profiling really suffers with off node buffers. Fail if no memory is available on the nodes. The profiling code can deal with these failures should they occur. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Jun 30, 2006
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Jörn Engel authored
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Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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- Jun 28, 2006
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Chandra Seetharaman authored
In 2.6.17, there was a problem with cpu_notifiers and XFS. I provided a band-aid solution to solve that problem. In the process, i undid all the changes you both were making to ensure that these notifiers were available only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined). We deferred the real fix to 2.6.18. Here is a set of patches that fixes the XFS problem cleanly and makes the cpu notifiers available only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined). If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined then cpu notifiers are available at run time. This patch reverts the notifier_call changes made in 2.6.17 Signed-off-by:
Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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