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  1. Nov 10, 2005
    • David Gibson's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Merge signal.h · c5ff7001
      David Gibson authored 
      

Having already merged the ppc and ppc64 versions of signal.c, this
patch finishes the job by merging signal.h.  The two versions were
almost identical already.  Notable changes:
	- We use BITS_PER_LONG to correctly size sigset_t
	- Remove some uneeded #includes and struct forward
declarations.  This does mean adding an include to signal_32.c which
relied on the indirect inclusion of sigcontext.h
	- As the ppc64 version, the merged signal.h has prototypes for
do_signal() and do_signal32().  Thus remove extra prototypes from
ppc_ksyms.c which had them directly.

Built and booted on POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=ppc64 and ARCH=powerpc).  Built
for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc).

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      c5ff7001
  3. Nov 09, 2005
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      [PATCH] sched: resched and cpu_idle rework · 64c7c8f8
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      

Make some changes to the NEED_RESCHED and POLLING_NRFLAG to reduce
confusion, and make their semantics rigid.  Improves efficiency of
resched_task and some cpu_idle routines.

* In resched_task:
- TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the task's runqueue lock held,
  and as we hold it during resched_task, then there is no need for an
  atomic test and set there. The only other time this should be set is
  when the task's quantum expires, in the timer interrupt - this is
  protected against because the rq lock is irq-safe.

- If TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, then we don't need to do anything. It
  won't get unset until the task get's schedule()d off.

- If we are running on the same CPU as the task we resched, then set
  TIF_NEED_RESCHED and no further action is required.

- If we are running on another CPU, and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is *not* set
  after TIF_NEED_RESCHED has been set, then we need to send an IPI.

Using these rules, we are able to remove the test and set operation in
resched_task, and make clear the previously vague semantics of
POLLING_NRFLAG.

* In idle routines:
- Enter cpu_idle with preempt disabled. When the need_resched() condition
  becomes true, explicitly call schedule(). This makes things a bit clearer
  (IMO), but haven't updated all architectures yet.

- Many do a test and clear of TIF_NEED_RESCHED for some reason. According
  to the resched_task rules, this isn't needed (and actually breaks the
  assumption that TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the runqueue lock
  held). So remove that. Generally one less locked memory op when switching
  to the idle thread.

- Many idle routines clear TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG, and only set it in the inner
  most polling idle loops. The above resched_task semantics allow it to be
  set until before the last time need_resched() is checked before going into
  a halt requiring interrupt wakeup.

  Many idle routines simply never enter such a halt, and so POLLING_NRFLAG
  can be always left set, completely eliminating resched IPIs when rescheduling
  the idle task.

  POLLING_NRFLAG width can be increased, to reduce the chance of resched IPIs.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      64c7c8f8
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      [PATCH] sched: disable preempt in idle tasks · 5bfb5d69
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      

Run idle threads with preempt disabled.

Also corrected a bugs in arm26's cpu_idle (make it actually call schedule()).
How did it ever work before?

Might fix the CPU hotplugging hang which Nigel Cunningham noted.

We think the bug hits if the idle thread is preempted after checking
need_resched() and before going to sleep, then the CPU offlined.

After calling stop_machine_run, the CPU eventually returns from preemption and
into the idle thread and goes to sleep.  The CPU will continue executing
previous idle and have no chance to call play_dead.

By disabling preemption until we are ready to explicitly schedule, this bug is
fixed and the idle threads generally become more robust.

From: alexs <ashepard@u.washington.edu>

  PPC build fix

From: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>

  MIPS build fix

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5bfb5d69
    • Matt Porter's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc32: fix perf_irq extern on e500 · a31751e0
      Matt Porter authored 
      

Fixes e500 build and cleans up traps.c by moving perf_irq extern to
pmc.h.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      a31751e0
    • Olaf Hering's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc64: add MODALIAS= for vio bus · 143dcec2
      Olaf Hering authored 
      

A non-broken udev would autoload also the drivers for devices on the
pseries vio bus, like ibmveth, ibmvscsic and hvsc.  This is similar to pci,
usb and ieee1394:

 /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias
alias vio:TvscsiSIBM,v-scsi* ibmvscsic
alias vio:TnetworkSIBM,l-lan* ibmveth
alias vio:Tserial-serverShvterm2* hvcs

/events/debug.00004.pci.add.1394:MODALIAS='pci:v00001014d00000188sv00000000sd00000000bc06sc04i0f'
/events/debug.00005.pci.add.1509:MODALIAS='pci:v00008086d00001229sv00001014sd000001FFbc02sc00i00'
/events/debug.00026.vio.add.1519:MODALIAS='vio:TserialShvterm1'
/events/debug.00027.vio.add.1446:MODALIAS='vio:TvscsiSIBM,v-scsi'
/events/debug.00028.vio.add.1451:MODALIAS='vio:TnetworkSIBM,l-lan'

 modprobe -v vio:TnetworkSIBM,l-lan
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.14-20051030_vio-ppc64/kernel/drivers/net/ibmveth.ko

Signed-off-by: default avatarOlaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      143dcec2
  5. Nov 08, 2005
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  11. Nov 03, 2005
    • Michael Ellerman's avatar
      powerpc: Cleanup vpa code · 40765d2b
      Michael Ellerman authored 
      

register_vpa() doesn't actually do a VPA register call it just uses the flags
you pass it, so rename it to vpa_call() to be clearer.

We can then define register_vpa() and unregister_vpa() which are both simple
wrappers around vpa_call(). (we'll need unregister_vpa() for kexec soon)

We can then cleanup vpa_init(), and because vpa_init() is only called from
platforms/pseries we remove the definition in asm-ppc64/smp.h.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      40765d2b