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  1. Apr 21, 2012
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      VM: add "vm_mmap()" helper function · 6be5ceb0
      Linus Torvalds authored
      
      
      This continues the theme started with vm_brk() and vm_munmap():
      vm_mmap() does the same thing as do_mmap(), but additionally does the
      required VM locking.
      
      This uninlines (and rewrites it to be clearer) do_mmap(), which sadly
      duplicates it in mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c.  But that way we don't have
      to export our internal do_mmap_pgoff() function.
      
      Some day we hopefully don't have to export do_mmap() either, if all
      modular users can become the simpler vm_mmap() instead.  We're actually
      very close to that already, with the notable exception of the (broken)
      use in i810, and a couple of stragglers in binfmt_elf.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6be5ceb0
  2. Apr 11, 2012
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  5. Mar 29, 2012
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map. · 5f054e31
      Rusty Russell authored
      
      
      This has been obsolescent for a while, fix documentation and
      misc comments.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      5f054e31
    • Rusty Russell's avatar
      remove references to cpu_*_map in arch/ · 0b5f9c00
      Rusty Russell authored
      
      
      This has been obsolescent for a while; time for the final push.
      
      In adjacent context, replaced old cpus_* with cpumask_*.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> (arch/sparc)
      Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> (arch/tile)
      Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
      Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
      Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
      0b5f9c00
    • Gilad Ben-Yossef's avatar
      smp: introduce a generic on_each_cpu_mask() function · 3fc498f1
      Gilad Ben-Yossef authored
      
      
      We have lots of infrastructure in place to partition multi-core systems
      such that we have a group of CPUs that are dedicated to specific task:
      cgroups, scheduler and interrupt affinity, and cpuisol= boot parameter.
      Still, kernel code will at times interrupt all CPUs in the system via IPIs
      for various needs.  These IPIs are useful and cannot be avoided
      altogether, but in certain cases it is possible to interrupt only specific
      CPUs that have useful work to do and not the entire system.
      
      This patch set, inspired by discussions with Peter Zijlstra and Frederic
      Weisbecker when testing the nohz task patch set, is a first stab at trying
      to explore doing this by locating the places where such global IPI calls
      are being made and turning the global IPI into an IPI for a specific group
      of CPUs.  The purpose of the patch set is to get feedback if this is the
      right way to go for dealing with this issue and indeed, if the issue is
      even worth dealing with at all.  Based on the feedback from this patch set
      I plan to offer further patches that address similar issue in other code
      paths.
      
      This patch creates an on_each_cpu_mask() and on_each_cpu_cond()
      infrastructure API (the former derived from existing arch specific
      versions in Tile and Arm) and uses them to turn several global IPI
      invocation to per CPU group invocations.
      
      Core kernel:
      
      on_each_cpu_mask() calls a function on processors specified by cpumask,
      which may or may not include the local processor.
      
      You must not call this function with disabled interrupts or from a
      hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler.
      
      arch/arm:
      
      Note that the generic version is a little different then the Arm one:
      
      1. It has the mask as first parameter
      2. It calls the function on the calling CPU with interrupts disabled,
         but this should be OK since the function is called on the other CPUs
         with interrupts disabled anyway.
      
      arch/tile:
      
      The API is the same as the tile private one, but the generic version
      also calls the function on the with interrupts disabled in UP case
      
      This is OK since the function is called on the other CPUs
      with interrupts disabled.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.org>
      Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
      Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3fc498f1
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