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Paul E. McKenney
a57eb940d1 rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of
preemptible RCU.  This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks
list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies
processing.  This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution
to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers.

The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.

This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven
off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can
happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience.

Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as
suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering
issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183).

As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte
savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.  Of course, for non-real-time
workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better.

	CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	   6170	    825	     28	   7023	   kernel/rcutree.o
				   ----
				   7026    Total

	CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	   2081	     81	      8	   2170	   kernel/rcutiny.o
				   ----
				   2183    Total

	CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible)

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	    719	     25	      0	    744	   kernel/rcutiny.o
				    ---
				    757    Total

Requested-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-20 08:55:00 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
4d87ffadbb rcu: Fix RCU_FANOUT help message
Commit cf244dc01b added a fourth level to the TREE_RCU hierarchy,
but the RCU_FANOUT help message still said "cube root".  This commit
fixes this to "fourth root" and also emphasizes that production
systems are well-served by the default.  (Stress-testing RCU itself
uses small RCU_FANOUT values in order to test large-system code paths
on small(er) systems.)

Located-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-19 17:18:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
687d7a960a rcu: restrict TREE_RCU to SMP builds with !PREEMPT
Because both TINY_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU have been in mainline for
several releases, it is time to restrict the use of TREE_RCU to SMP
non-preemptible systems.  This reduces testing/validation effort.  This
commit is a first step towards driving the selection of RCU implementation
directly off of the SMP and PREEMPT configuration parameters.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-19 17:18:04 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
65e0e81166 memcg: remove experimental from swap account config
It's 11 months since we changed swap_map[] to indicates SWAP_HAS_CACHE.
Since that, memcg's swap accounting has been very stable and it seems
it can be maintained.

So, I'd like to remove EXPERIMENTAL from the config.

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8c8946f509 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: (132 commits)
  fanotify: use both marks when possible
  fsnotify: pass both the vfsmount mark and inode mark
  fsnotify: walk the inode and vfsmount lists simultaneously
  fsnotify: rework ignored mark flushing
  fsnotify: remove global fsnotify groups lists
  fsnotify: remove group->mask
  fsnotify: remove the global masks
  fsnotify: cleanup should_send_event
  fanotify: use the mark in handler functions
  audit: use the mark in handler functions
  dnotify: use the mark in handler functions
  inotify: use the mark in handler functions
  fsnotify: send fsnotify_mark to groups in event handling functions
  fsnotify: Exchange list heads instead of moving elements
  fsnotify: srcu to protect read side of inode and vfsmount locks
  fsnotify: use an explicit flag to indicate fsnotify_destroy_mark has been called
  fsnotify: use _rcu functions for mark list traversal
  fsnotify: place marks on object in order of group memory address
  vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput
  fsnotify: store struct file not struct path
  ...

Fix up trivial delete/modify conflict in fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c.
2010-08-10 11:39:13 -07:00
Eric Paris
939a67fc4c Audit: split audit watch Kconfig
Audit watch should depend on CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL and should select
FSNOTIFY.  This splits the spagetti like mixing of audit_watch and
audit_filter code so they can be configured seperately.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:19 -04:00
Eric Paris
67640b602f Audit: audit watches depend on fsnotify
CONFIG_AUDIT builds audit_watches which depend on fsnotify.  Make
CONFIG_AUDIT select fsnotify.

Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:18 -04:00
Eric Paris
28a3a7eb3b audit: reimplement audit_trees using fsnotify rather than inotify
Simply switch audit_trees from using inotify to using fsnotify for it's
inode pinning and disappearing act information.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:17 -04:00
Tejun Heo
181a51f6e0 slow-work: kill it
slow-work doesn't have any user left.  Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-07-23 13:14:49 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1f73897861 Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild
* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits)
  kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
  kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
  gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts
  menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
  gconfig: remove show_debug option
  gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype()
  kconfig: fix zconfdump()
  kconfig: some small fixes
  add random binaries to .gitignore
  kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file
  kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results
  .gitignore: ignore *.lzo files
  headerdep: perlcritic warning
  scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO
  kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install
  Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope"
  kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin
  headers_install: use local file handles
  headers_check: fix perl warnings
  export_report: fix perl warnings
  ...
2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
Jens Axboe
ee9a3607fb Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35
Conflicts:
	fs/ext3/fsync.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 21:27:26 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
afc24d49c1 blk-cgroup: config options re-arrangement
This patch fixes few usability and configurability issues.

o All the cgroup based controller options are configurable from
  "Genral Setup/Control Group Support/" menu. blkio is the only exception.
  Hence make this option visible in above menu and make it configurable from
  there to bring it inline with rest of the cgroup based controllers.

o Get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED.

  This option currently does two things.

  - Enable printing of cgroup paths in blktrace
  - Enables CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP, which in turn displays additional stat
    files in cgroup.

  If we are using group scheduling, blktrace data is of not really much use
  if cgroup information is not present. To get this data, currently one has to
  also enable CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED, which in turn brings the overhead of
  all the additional debug stat files which is not desired.

  Hence, this patch moves printing of cgroup paths under
  CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED.

  This allows us to get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED completely. Now all
  the debug stat files are controlled only by CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP which
  can be enabled through config menu.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-26 19:27:56 +02:00
Li Zefan
32bd7eb5a7 sched: Remove remaining USER_SCHED code
This is left over from commit 7c9414385e ("sched: Remove USER_SCHED"")

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BA9A05F.7010407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02 20:12:00 +02:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
0dea116876 cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notifications
This patchset introduces eventfd-based API for notifications in cgroups
and implements memory notifications on top of it.

It uses statistics in memory controler to track memory usage.

Output of time(1) on building kernel on tmpfs:

Root cgroup before changes:
	make -j2  506.37 user 60.93s system 193% cpu 4:52.77 total
Non-root cgroup before changes:
	make -j2  507.14 user 62.66s system 193% cpu 4:54.74 total
Root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds):
	make -j2  507.13 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.55 total
Non-root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds):
	make -j2  507.70 user 64.20s system 193% cpu 4:55.70 total
Root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed):
	make -j2  506.97 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.90 total
Non-root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed):
	make -j2  507.55 user 64.08s system 193% cpu 4:55.63 total

This patch:

Introduce the write-only file "cgroup.event_control" in every cgroup.

To register new notification handler you need:
- create an eventfd;
- open a control file to be monitored. Callbacks register_event() and
  unregister_event() must be defined for the control file;
- write "<event_fd> <control_fd> <args>" to cgroup.event_control.
  Interpretation of args is defined by control file implementation;

eventfd will be woken up by control file implementation or when the
cgroup is removed.

To unregister notification handler just close eventfd.

If you need notification functionality for a control file you have to
implement callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() in the
struct cftype.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Kconfig fix]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f66ffdedbf Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
  sched: Fix SCHED_MC regression caused by change in sched cpu_power
  sched: Don't use possibly stale sched_class
  kthread, sched: Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
  sched: cpuacct: Use bigger percpu counter batch values for stats counters
  percpu_counter: Make __percpu_counter_add an inline function on UP
  sched: Remove member rt_se from struct rt_rq
  sched: Change usage of rt_rq->rt_se to rt_rq->tg->rt_se[cpu]
  sched: Remove unused update_shares_locked()
  sched: Use for_each_bit
  sched: Queue a deboosted task to the head of the RT prio queue
  sched: Implement head queueing for sched_rt
  sched: Extend enqueue_task to allow head queueing
  sched: Remove USER_SCHED
  sched: Fix the place where group powers are updated
  sched: Assume *balance is valid
  sched: Remove load_balance_newidle()
  sched: Unify load_balance{,_newidle}()
  sched: Add a lock break for PREEMPT=y
  sched: Remove from fwd decls
  sched: Remove rq_iterator from move_one_task
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/sched.c
2010-02-28 10:31:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6556a67435 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (172 commits)
  perf_event, amd: Fix spinlock initialization
  perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock()
  perf tools: Flush maps on COMM events
  perf_events, x86: Split PMU definitions into separate files
  perf annotate: Handle samples not at objdump output addr boundaries
  perf_events, x86: Remove superflous MSR writes
  perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in()
  perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling
  perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks
  perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytes
  perf annotate: Defer allocating sym_priv->hist array
  perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab origins
  perf top: Use a macro instead of a constant variable
  perf symbols: Check the right return variable
  perf/scripts: Tag syscall_name helper as not yet available
  perf/scripts: Add perf-trace-python Documentation
  perf/scripts: Remove unnecessary PyTuple resizes
  perf/scripts: Add syscall tracing scripts
  perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine
  perf/scripts: Remove check-perf-trace from listed scripts
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
2010-02-28 10:20:25 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d25e8dbdab Merge branch 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  oprofile/x86: fix msr access to reserved counters
  oprofile/x86: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc()
  oprofile/x86: fix perfctr nmi reservation for mulitplexing
  oprofile/x86: add comment to counter-in-use warning
  oprofile/x86: warn user if a counter is already active
  oprofile/x86: implement randomization for IBS periodic op counter
  oprofile/x86: implement lsfr pseudo-random number generator for IBS
  oprofile/x86: implement IBS cpuid feature detection
  oprofile/x86: remove node check in AMD IBS initialization
  oprofile/x86: remove OPROFILE_IBS config option
  oprofile: remove EXPERIMENTAL from the config option description
  oprofile: remove tracing build dependency
2010-02-28 10:15:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
642c4c75a7 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (44 commits)
  rcu: Fix accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Make non-RCU_PROVE_LOCKING rcu_read_lock_sched_held() understand boot
  rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Export rcu_scheduler_active
  rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account
  rcu: Make lockdep_rcu_dereference() message less alarmist
  sched, cgroups: Fix module export
  rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information
  rcu: Fix rcutorture mod_timer argument to delay one jiffy
  rcu: Fix deadlock in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU stall detection
  rcu: Convert to raw_spinlocks
  rcu: Stop overflowing signed integers
  rcu: Use canonical URL for Mathieu's dissertation
  rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation
  rcu: Documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
  security: Apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses
  idr: Apply lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() uses
  radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree
  vfs: Abstract rcu_dereference_check for files-fdtable use
  ...
2010-02-28 10:13:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
37d4008484 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (31 commits)
  crypto: aes_generic - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: fcrypt - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: ecb - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: des_generic - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: deflate - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: crypto_null - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: cipher - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: crc32 - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: compress - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: cast6 - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: cast5 - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: camellia - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: authenc - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: api - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: anubis - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: algapi - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: blowfish - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: aead - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: ablkcipher - Fix checkpatch errors
  crypto: pcrypt - call the complete function on error
  ...
2010-02-26 16:50:02 -08:00
Robert Richter
b309a294e5 oprofile: remove EXPERIMENTAL from the config option description
OProfile is already used for a long time and no longer experimental.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-02-26 15:13:54 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
8bd93a2c5d rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU
Currently, rcu_needs_cpu() simply checks whether the current CPU
has an outstanding RCU callback, which means that the last CPU
to go into dyntick-idle mode might wait a few ticks for the
relevant grace periods to complete.  However, if all the other
CPUs are in dyntick-idle mode, and if this CPU is in a quiescent
state (which it is for RCU-bh and RCU-sched any time that we are
considering going into dyntick-idle mode), then the grace period
is instantly complete.

This patch therefore repeatedly invokes the RCU grace-period
machinery in order to force any needed grace periods to complete
quickly.  It does so a limited number of times in order to
prevent starvation by an RCU callback function that might pass
itself to call_rcu().

However, if any CPU other than the current one is not in
dyntick-idle mode, fall back to simply checking (with fix to bug
noted by Lai Jiangshan).  Also, take advantage of last
grace-period forcing, the opportunity to do so noted by Steve
Rostedt.  And apply simplified #ifdef condition suggested by
Frederic Weisbecker.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-15-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 10:34:55 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6d3e0907b8 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge reason: Merge dependent fix, update to latest -rc.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-08 08:55:46 +01:00
Roland McGrath
8433646601 kconfig CROSS_COMPILE option
This adds CROSS_COMPILE as a kconfig string so you can store it in
.config.  Then you can use plain "make" in the configured kernel build
directory to do the right cross compilation without setting the
command-line or environment variable every time.

With this, you can set up different build directories for different kernel
configurations, whether native or cross-builds, and then use the simple:

	make -C /build/dir M=module-source-dir

idiom to build modules for any given target kernel, indicating which one
by nothing but the build directory chosen.

I tried a version that defaults the string with env="CROSS_COMPILE" so
that in a "make oldconfig" with CROSS_COMPILE in the environment you can
just hit return to store the way you're building it.  But the kconfig
prompt for strings doesn't give you any way to say you want an empty
string instead of the default, so I punted that.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-02-02 14:33:54 +01:00
Dhaval Giani
7c9414385e sched: Remove USER_SCHED
Remove the USER_SCHED feature. It has been scheduled to be removed in
2.6.34 as per http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125728479022976&w=2

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1263990378.24844.3.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
61405fea92 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: queue up dependent patch, update to -rc4

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 10:08:50 +01:00
Albin Tonnerre
7dd65feb6c lib: add support for LZO-compressed kernels
This patch series adds generic support for creating and extracting
LZO-compressed kernel images, as well as support for using such images on
the x86 and ARM architectures, and support for creating and using
LZO-compressed initrd and initramfs images.

Russell King said:

: Testing on a Cortex A9 model:
: - lzo decompressor is 65% of the time gzip takes to decompress a kernel
: - lzo kernel is 9% larger than a gzip kernel
:
: which I'm happy to say confirms your figures when comparing the two.
:
: However, when comparing your new gzip code to the old gzip code:
: - new is 99% of the size of the old code
: - new takes 42% of the time to decompress than the old code
:
: What this means is that for a proper comparison, the results get even better:
: - lzo is 7.5% larger than the old gzip'd kernel image
: - lzo takes 28% of the time that the old gzip code took
:
: So the expense seems definitely worth the effort.  The only reason I
: can think of ever using gzip would be if you needed the additional
: compression (eg, because you have limited flash to store the image.)
:
: I would argue that the default for ARM should therefore be LZO.

This patch:

The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at
extraction.  Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on:

Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo
gzip  1.61Mo 0.72s
lzo   1.75Mo 0.48s

So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's
much faster to extract, at least in that case.

This part contains:
 - Makefile routine to support lzo compression
 - Fixes to the existing lzo compressor so that it can be used in
   compressed kernels
 - wrapper around the existing lzo1x_decompress, as it only extracts one
   block at a time, while we need to extract a whole file here
 - config dialog for kernel compression

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-11 09:34:04 -08:00
Steffen Klassert
16295bec63 padata: Generic parallelization/serialization interface
This patch introduces an interface to process data objects
in parallel. The parallelized objects return after serialization
in the same order as they were before the parallelization.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-01-06 19:47:10 +11:00
Li Zefan
07b139c8c8 perf events: Remove CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE
Quoted from Ingo:

| This reminds me - i think we should eliminate CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE -
| it's an unnecessary Kconfig complication. If both PERF_EVENTS and
| EVENT_TRACING is enabled we should expose generic tracepoints.
|
| Nor is it limited to event 'profiling', so it has become a misnomer as
| well.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2F1557.2050705@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28 10:33:06 +01:00
Jie Zhang
ea63763959 nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flag
The NOMMU code currently clears all anonymous mmapped memory.  While this
is what we want in the default case, all memory allocation from userspace
under NOMMU has to go through this interface, including malloc() which is
allowed to return uninitialized memory.  This can easily be a significant
performance penalty.  So for constrained embedded systems were security is
irrelevant, allow people to avoid clearing memory unnecessarily.

This also alters the ELF-FDPIC binfmt such that it obtains uninitialised
memory for the brk and stack region.

Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
9e9868a737 sysfs: deprecated features are to help old tools not to confuse them
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-08 13:23:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1557d33007 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits)
  security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl.
  security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount.
  sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
  sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED
  sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions.
  sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
  sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
  sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name
  sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support
  sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support
  sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic
  ...
2009-12-08 07:38:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
607781762e Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
  rcu: Make RCU's CPU-stall detector be default
  rcu: Add expedited grace-period support for preemptible RCU
  rcu: Enable fourth level of TREE_RCU hierarchy
  rcu: Rename "quiet" functions
  rcu: Re-arrange code to reduce #ifdef pain
  rcu: Eliminate unneeded function wrapping
  rcu: Fix grace-period-stall bug on large systems with CPU hotplug
  rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives
  rcu: Further cleanups of use of lastcomp
  rcu: Simplify association of forced quiescent states with grace periods
  rcu: Accelerate callback processing on CPUs not detecting GP end
  rcu: Mark init-time-only rcu_bootup_announce() as __init
  rcu: Simplify association of quiescent states with grace periods
  rcu: Rename dynticks_completed to completed_fqs
  rcu: Enable synchronize_sched_expedited() fastpath
  rcu: Remove inline from forward-referenced functions
  rcu: Fix note_new_gpnum() uses of ->gpnum
  rcu: Fix synchronization for rcu_process_gp_end() uses of ->completed counter
  rcu: Prepare for synchronization fixes: clean up for non-NO_HZ handling of ->completed counter
  rcu: Cleanup: balance rcu_irq_enter()/rcu_irq_exit() calls
  ...
2009-12-05 09:52:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3e72b810e3 Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  mutex: Fix missing conditions to build mutex_spin_on_owner()
  mutex: Better control mutex adaptive spinning config
  locking, task_struct: Reduce size on TRACE_IRQFLAGS and 64bit
  locking: Use __[SPIN|RW]_LOCK_UNLOCKED in [spin|rw]_lock_init()
  locking: Remove unused prototype
  locking: Reduce ifdefs in kernel/spinlock.c
  locking: Make inlining decision Kconfig based
2009-12-05 09:49:59 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
e9438e3193 sysfs: fix SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 prompt
The SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 says "remove" older, deprecated features, but it
actually enables them, so correct this confusing, backwards text.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-01 16:32:20 -08:00
David Howells
f13a48bd79 SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs
Move slow_work's debugging proc file to debugfs.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Requested-and-acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
David Howells
8fba10a42d SLOW_WORK: Allow the work items to be viewed through a /proc file
Allow the executing and queued work items to be viewed through a /proc file
for debugging purposes.  The contents look something like the following:

    THR PID   ITEM ADDR        FL MARK  DESC
    === ===== ================ == ===== ==========
      0  3005 ffff880023f52348  a 952ms FSC: OBJ17d3: LOOK
      1  3006 ffff880024e33668  2 160ms FSC: OBJ17e5 OP60d3b: Write1/Store fl=2
      2  3165 ffff8800296dd180  a 424ms FSC: OBJ17e4: LOOK
      3  4089 ffff8800262c8d78  a 212ms FSC: OBJ17ea: CRTN
      4  4090 ffff88002792bed8  2 388ms FSC: OBJ17e8 OP60d36: Write1/Store fl=2
      5  4092 ffff88002a0ef308  2 388ms FSC: OBJ17e7 OP60d2e: Write1/Store fl=2
      6  4094 ffff88002abaf4b8  2 132ms FSC: OBJ17e2 OP60d4e: Write1/Store fl=2
      7  4095 ffff88002bb188e0  a 388ms FSC: OBJ17e9: CRTN
    vsq     - ffff880023d99668  1 308ms FSC: OBJ17e0 OP60f91: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff8800295d1740  1 212ms FSC: OBJ16be OP4d4b6: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880025ba3308  1 160ms FSC: OBJ179a OP58dec: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880024ec83e0  1 160ms FSC: OBJ17ae OP599f2: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880026618e00  1 160ms FSC: OBJ17e6 OP60d33: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880025a2a4b8  1 132ms FSC: OBJ16a2 OP4d583: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880023cbe6d8  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17eb: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880024d37590  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ec: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880027746cb0  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ed: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880024d37ae8  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ee: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880024d37cb0  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ef: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880025036550  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f0: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff8800250368e0  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f1: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880025036aa8  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f2: LOOK

In the 'THR' column, executing items show the thread they're occupying and
queued threads indicate which queue they're on.  'PID' shows the process ID of
a slow-work thread that's executing something.  'FL' shows the work item flags.
'MARK' indicates how long since an item was queued or began executing.  Lastly,
the 'DESC' column permits the owner of an item to give some information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:10:51 +00:00
Eric W. Biederman
bb9074ff58 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc7'
Resolve the conflict between v2.6.32-rc7 where dn_def_dev_handler
gets a small bug fix and the sysctl tree where I am removing all
sysctl strategy routines.
2009-11-17 01:01:34 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
6beb000923 locking: Make inlining decision Kconfig based
commit 892a7c67 (locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks) implements the
selection of which lock functions are inlined based on defines in
arch/.../spinlock.h: #define __always_inline__LOCK_FUNCTION

Despite of the name __always_inline__* the lock functions can be built
out of line depending on config options. Also if the arch does not set
some inline defines the generic code might set them; again depending on
config options.

This makes it unnecessary hard to figure out when and which lock
functions are inlined. Aside of that it makes it way harder and
messier for -rt to manipulate the lock functions.

Convert the inlining decision to CONFIG switches. Each lock function
is inlined depending on CONFIG_INLINE_*. The configs implement the
existing dependencies. The architecture code can select ARCH_INLINE_*
to signal that it wants the corresponding lock function inlined.
ARCH_INLINE_* is necessary as Kconfig ignores "depends on"
restrictions when a config element is selected.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091109151428.504477141@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-11-13 20:53:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
26a9ba160f Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf tools: Fix permission checks
  perf_events: Fix some typo in the perf events config description
2009-11-11 11:29:34 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
26a7034b40 sysctl: Reduce sys_sysctl to a compatibility wrapper around /proc/sys
To simply maintenance and to be able to remove all of the binary
sysctl support from various subsystems I have rewritten the binary
sysctl code as a compatibility wrapper around proc/sys.

The code is built around a hard coded table based on the table
in sysctl_check.c that lists all of our current binary sysctls
and provides enough information to convert from the sysctl
binary input into into ascii and back again.  New in this
patch is the realization that the only dynamic entries
that need to be handled have ifname as the asscii string
and ifindex as their ctl_name.

When a sys_sysctl is called the code now looks in the
translation table converting the binary name to the
path under /proc where the value is to be found.  Opens
that file, and calls into a format conversion wrapper
that calls fop->read and then fop->write as appropriate.

Since in practice the practically no one uses or tests
sys_sysctl rewritting the code to be beautiful is a little
silly.  The redeeming merit of this work is it allows us to
rip out all of the binary sysctl syscall support from
everywhere else in the tree.  Allowing us to remove
a lot of dead (after this patch) and barely maintained code.

In addition it becomes much easier to optimize the sysctl
implementation for being the backing store of /proc/sys,
without having to worry about sys_sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11 00:42:05 -08:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
dd77038d23 perf_events: Fix some typo in the perf events config description
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1256938346-8230-1-git-send-email-cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02 16:53:35 +01:00
Kumar Gala
022382a561 powerpc: Minor cleanup to init/Kconfig
We dont need to depend on PPC64 explicitly as all powerpc platforms
(32-bit and 64-bit) define PPC now.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-10-27 16:42:41 +11:00
Paul E. McKenney
9b1d82fa16 rcu: "Tiny RCU", The Bloatwatch Edition
This patch is a version of RCU designed for !SMP provided for a
small-footprint RCU implementation.  In particular, the
implementation of synchronize_rcu() is extremely lightweight and
high performance. It passes rcutorture testing in each of the
four relevant configurations (combinations of NO_HZ and PREEMPT)
on x86.  This saves about 1K bytes compared to old Classic RCU
(which is no longer in mainline), and more than three kilobytes
compared to Hierarchical RCU (updated to 2.6.30):

	CONFIG_TREE_RCU:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    filename
	    183       4       0     187     kernel/rcupdate.o
	   2783     520      36    3339     kernel/rcutree.o
				   3526 Total (vs 4565 for v7)

	CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    filename
	    263       4       0     267     kernel/rcupdate.o
	   4594     776      52    5422     kernel/rcutree.o
	   			   5689 Total (6155 for v7)

	CONFIG_TINY_RCU:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    filename
	     96       4       0     100     kernel/rcupdate.o
	    734      24       0     758     kernel/rcutiny.o
	    			    858 Total (vs 848 for v7)

The above is for x86.  Your mileage may vary on other platforms.
Further compression is possible, but is being procrastinated.

Changes from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/9/388)

o	Apply Lai Jiangshan's review comments (aside from
might_sleep() 	in synchronize_sched(), which is covered by SMP builds).

o	Fix up expedited primitives.

Changes from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/23/293).

o	Forward ported to put it into the 2.6.33 stream.

o	Added lockdep support.

o	Make lightweight rcu_barrier.

Changes from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/23/12).

o	Ported to latest pre-2.6.32 merge window kernel.

	- Renamed rcu_qsctr_inc() to rcu_sched_qs().
	- Renamed rcu_bh_qsctr_inc() to rcu_bh_qs().
	- Provided trivial rcu_cpu_notify().
	- Provided trivial exit_rcu().
	- Provided trivial rcu_needs_cpu().
	- Fixed up the rcu_*_enter/exit() functions in linux/hardirq.h.

o	Removed the dependence on EMBEDDED, with a view to making
	TINY_RCU default for !SMP at some time in the future.

o	Added (trivial) support for expedited grace periods.

Changes from v4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/2/91) include:

o	Squeeze the size down a bit further by removing the
	->completed field from struct rcu_ctrlblk.

o	This permits synchronize_rcu() to become the empty function.
	Previous concerns about rcutorture were unfounded, as
	rcutorture correctly handles a constant value from
	rcu_batches_completed() and rcu_batches_completed_bh().

Changes from v3 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/29/221) include:

o	Changed rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_completed_bh()
	rcu_enter_nohz(), rcu_exit_nohz(), rcu_nmi_enter(), and
	rcu_nmi_exit(), to be static inlines, as suggested by David
	Howells.  Doing this saves about 100 bytes from rcutiny.o.
	(The numbers between v3 and this v4 of the patch are not directly
	comparable, since they are against different versions of Linux.)

Changes from v2 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/3/333) include:

o	Fix whitespace issues.

o	Change short-circuit "||" operator to instead be "+" in order
to 	fix performance bug noted by "kraai" on LWN.

		(http://lwn.net/Articles/324348/)

Changes from v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/13/440) include:

o	This version depends on EMBEDDED as well as !SMP, as suggested
	by Ingo.

o	Updated rcu_needs_cpu() to unconditionally return zero,
	permitting the CPU to enter dynticks-idle mode at any time.
	This works because callbacks can be invoked upon entry to
	dynticks-idle mode.

o	Paul is now OK with this being included, based on a poll at
the 	Kernel Miniconf at linux.conf.au, where about ten people said
	that they cared about saving 900 bytes on single-CPU systems.

o	Applies to both mainline and tip/core/rcu.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: avi@redhat.com
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12565226351355-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26 09:40:29 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
906010b213 perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing
Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically
everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache
aliases by carefully placing pages in both kernel and user maps.

These architectures typically have to use vmalloc_user() for this.

However, on other architectures, vmalloc() is not needed and has
the downsides of being more restricted and slower than regular
allocations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1254830228.21044.272.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-06 14:21:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c37efa9325 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits)
  Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
  Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section.
  Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files.
  kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts.
  arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0
  kbuild: add static to prototypes
  kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails
  kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5
  kbuild: echo the record_mcount command
  gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews
  kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling
  checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place
  markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names
  checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper
  checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it
  ctags: usability fix
  kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
  gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma
  kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option
  kbuild: introduce ld-option
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in scripts/basic/fixdep.c
2009-09-23 15:37:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
43c1266ce4 Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Tidy up after the big rename
  perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
  perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event
  perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list

Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in
include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.
2009-09-21 09:15:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b8c7f1dc5c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: Fix whitespace inconsistencies
  rcu: Fix thinko, actually initialize full tree
  rcu: Apply results of code inspection of kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
  rcu: Add WARN_ON_ONCE() consistency checks covering state transitions
  rcu: Fix synchronize_rcu() for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: Simplify rcu_read_unlock_special() quiescent-state accounting
  rcu: Add debug checks to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU for premature grace periods
  rcu: Kconfig help needs to say that TREE_PREEMPT_RCU scales down
  rcutorture: Occasionally delay readers enough to make RCU force_quiescent_state
  rcu: Initialize multi-level RCU grace periods holding locks
  rcu: Need to update rnp->gpnum if preemptable RCU is to be reliable
2009-09-21 09:06:52 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
57c0c15b52 perf: Tidy up after the big rename
- provide compatibility Kconfig entry for existing PERF_COUNTERS .config's

 - provide courtesy copy of old perf_counter.h, for user-space projects

 - small indentation fixups

 - fix up MAINTAINERS

 - fix small x86 printout fallout

 - fix up small PowerPC comment fallout (use 'counter' as in register)

Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:34:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
99657c7857 kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
Sam suggested moving STRIP_ASM_SYMS into the Kernel hacking menu
from the General Setup menu.  It makes more sense there.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00