talos-op-linux/arch/mips/kernel/process.c, branch v2.6.36-rc5

MIPS: Trace: Don't trace irqsoff for the idle process

2010-04-12T16:26:10+00:00

Like x86 did in arch/x86/kernel/{process_32.c,process_64.c}, also don't trace irqsoff for idle. If there's no useful work to be done, we don't care about the irqsoff duration. If we trace the idle process, the max duration of irqsoff will be the idle time and make the irqsoff tracer useless. Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1044/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

MIPS: Avoid clobbering struct pt_regs in kthreads

2009-08-03T16:52:41+00:00

The resume() implementation octeon_switch.S examines the saved cp0_status register. We were clobbering the entire pt_regs structure in kernel threads leading to random crashes. When switching away from a kernel thread, the saved cp0_status is examined and if bit 30 is set it is cleared and the CP2 state saved into the pt_regs structure. Since the kernel thread stack overlaid the pt_regs structure this resulted in a corrupt stack. When the kthread with the corrupt stack was resumed, it could crash if it used any of the data in the stack that was clobbered. We fix it by moving the kernel thread stack down so it doesn't overlay pt_regs. Signed-off-by: David Daney Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Add arch generic CPU hotplug

2009-06-24T17:34:40+00:00

Each platform has to add support for CPU hotplugging itself by providing suitable definitions for the cpu_disable and cpu_die of the smp_ops methods and setting SYS_SUPPORTS_HOTPLUG_CPU. A platform should only set SYS_SUPPORTS_HOTPLUG_CPU once all it's smp_ops definitions have the necessary changes. This patch contains the changes to the dummy smp_ops definition for uni-processor systems. Parts of the code contributed by Cavium Inc. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Simplify copy_thread()

2009-04-03T02:04:51+00:00

First argument unused since 2.3.11. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

2008-10-13T16:13:56+00:00

Conflicts: include/asm-x86/statfs.h

[MIPS] SMTC: Fix holes in SMTC and FPU affinity support.

2008-10-03T16:58:58+00:00

Signed-off-by: Kevin D. Kissell Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

[MIPS] SMTC: Clear TIF_FPUBOUND on clone / fork.

2008-09-21T12:52:57+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Remove asm/a.out.h files for all architectures without a.out support.

2008-09-06T18:30:24+00:00

This patch also includes the required removal of (unused) inclusion of 's in the arch/ code for these architectures. [dwmw2: updated for 2.6.27-rc] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

Merge branch 'linus' into timers/nohz

2008-07-18T17:53:16+00:00