linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c, branch linux-3.7.y

powerpc/smp: Do not disable IPI interrupts during suspend

2012-09-19T13:38:16+00:00

During suspend, all interrupts including IPI will be disabled. In this case,
the suspend process will hang in SMP. To prevent this, pass the flag
IRQF_NO_SUSPEND when requesting IPI irq.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Chenhui 
Signed-off-by: Li Yang 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala

powerpc/smp: add generic_set_cpu_up() to set cpu_state as CPU_UP_PREPARE

2012-09-12T19:57:08+00:00

In the case of cpu hotplug, the cpu_state should be set to CPU_UP_PREPARE
when kicking cpu.  Otherwise, the cpu_state is always CPU_DEAD after
calling generic_set_cpu_dead(), which makes the delay in generic_cpu_die()
not happen.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Chenhui 
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala

powerpc: Make sure IPI handlers see data written by IPI senders

2012-09-05T06:05:22+00:00

We have been observing hangs, both of KVM guest vcpu tasks and more
generally, where a process that is woken doesn't properly wake up and
continue to run, but instead sticks in TASK_WAKING state.  This
happens because the update of rq->wake_list in ttwu_queue_remote()
is not ordered with the update of ipi_message in
smp_muxed_ipi_message_pass(), and the reading of rq->wake_list in
scheduler_ipi() is not ordered with the reading of ipi_message in
smp_ipi_demux().  Thus it is possible for the IPI receiver not to see
the updated rq->wake_list and therefore conclude that there is nothing
for it to do.

In order to make sure that anything done before smp_send_reschedule()
is ordered before anything done in the resulting call to scheduler_ipi(),
this adds barriers in smp_muxed_message_pass() and smp_ipi_demux().
The barrier in smp_muxed_message_pass() is a full barrier to ensure that
there is a full ordering between the smp_send_reschedule() caller and
scheduler_ipi().  In smp_ipi_demux(), we use xchg() rather than
xchg_local() because xchg() includes release and acquire barriers.
Using xchg() rather than xchg_local() makes sense given that
ipi_message is not just accessed locally.

This moves the barrier between setting the message and calling the
cause_ipi() function into the individual cause_ipi implementations.
Most of them -- those that used outb, out_8 or similar -- already had
a full barrier because out_8 etc. include a sync before the MMIO
store.  This adds an explicit barrier in the two remaining cases.

These changes made no measurable difference to the speed of IPIs as
measured using a simple ping-pong latency test across two CPUs on
different cores of a POWER7 machine.

The analysis of the reason why processes were not waking up properly
is due to Milton Miller.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.0+
Reported-by: Milton Miller 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Add VDSO version of getcpu

2012-07-11T04:18:40+00:00

We have a request for a fast method of getting CPU and NUMA node IDs
from userspace. This patch implements a getcpu VDSO function,
similar to x86.

Ben suggested we use SPRG3 which is userspace readable. SPRG3 can be
modified by a KVM guest, so we save the SPRG3 value in the paca and
restore it when transitioning from the guest to the host.

I have a glibc patch that implements sched_getcpu on top of this.
Testing on a POWER7:

baseline: 538 cycles
vdso:      30 cycles

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/smp: remove call to ipi_call_lock()/ipi_call_unlock()

2012-07-03T04:14:42+00:00

1) call_function.lock used in smp_call_function_many() is just to protect
   call_function.queue and &data->refs, cpu_online_mask is outside of the
   lock. And it's not necessary to protect cpu_online_mask,
   because data->cpumask is pre-calculate and even if a cpu is brougt up
   when calling arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(), it's harmless because
   validation test in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() will take care
   of it.

2) For cpu down issue, stop_machine() will guarantee that no concurrent
   smp_call_fuction() is processing.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Use generic idle thread allocation

2012-04-26T10:06:10+00:00

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.311212868@linutronix.de

smp: Add task_struct argument to __cpu_up()

2012-04-26T10:06:09+00:00

Preparatory patch to make the idle thread allocation for secondary
cpus generic.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124556.964170564@linutronix.de

Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC

2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00

Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org

Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2012-01-07T20:03:30+00:00

* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (73 commits)
  arm: fix up some samsung merge sysdev conversion problems
  firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file
  Drivers:hv: Fix a bug in vmbus_driver_unregister()
  driver core: remove __must_check from device_create_file
  debugfs: add missing #ifdef HAS_IOMEM
  arm: time.h: remove device.h #include
  driver-core: remove sysdev.h usage.
  clockevents: remove sysdev.h
  arm: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  arm: leds: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  kobject: remove kset_find_obj_hinted()
  m86k: gpio - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  mips: txx9_sram - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  mips: 7segled - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  sh: dma - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  sh: intc - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  power: suspend - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  power: qe_ic - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  power: cmm - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  s390: time - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  ...

Fix up conflicts with 'struct sysdev' removal from various platform
drivers that got changed:
 - arch/arm/mach-exynos/cpu.c
 - arch/arm/mach-exynos/irq-eint.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/common.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/cpu.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s5p64x0/cpu.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/common.c
 - arch/arm/plat-samsung/include/plat/cpu.h
 - arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
and fix up cpu_is_hotpluggable() as per Greg in include/linux/cpu.h

Merge branch 'driver-core-next' into Linux 3.2

2012-01-06T19:42:52+00:00

This resolves the conflict in the arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/s3c6400.c file,
and it fixes the build error in the arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
file, that the merge did not catch.

The microcode_core.c patch was provided by Stephen Rothwell
 who was invaluable in the merge issues involved
with the large sysdev removal process in the driver-core tree.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman