<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c, branch v3.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: various straight conversions from module.h --&gt; export.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-22T22:24:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4b16f8e2d6d64249f0ed3ca7fe2a319d0dde2719'/>
<id>4b16f8e2d6d64249f0ed3ca7fe2a319d0dde2719</id>
<content type='text'>
All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<pre>
All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>irq_work, ppc: Fix up arch hooks</title>
<updated>2011-07-01T09:02:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-27T15:22:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4f8b50bbbe63ae4ec6bea28a90a9a603c745ea71'/>
<id>4f8b50bbbe63ae4ec6bea28a90a9a603c745ea71</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit e360adbe29 ("irq_work: Add generic hardirq context
callbacks") fouled up the ppc bit, not properly naming the
arch specific function that raises the 'self-IPI'.

Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Eric B Munson &lt;emunson@mgebm.net&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 37+
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eg0aqien8p1aqvzu9dft6dtv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Commit e360adbe29 ("irq_work: Add generic hardirq context
callbacks") fouled up the ppc bit, not properly naming the
arch specific function that raises the 'self-IPI'.

Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Eric B Munson &lt;emunson@mgebm.net&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 37+
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eg0aqien8p1aqvzu9dft6dtv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix oops if scan_dispatch_log is called too early</title>
<updated>2011-04-18T03:08:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-07T21:44:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=84ffae55af79d7b8834fd0c08d0d1ebf2c77f91e'/>
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<content type='text'>
We currently enable interrupts before the dispatch log for the boot
cpu is setup. If a timer interrupt comes in early enough we oops in
scan_dispatch_log:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000010

...

.scan_dispatch_log+0xb0/0x170
.account_system_vtime+0xa0/0x220
.irq_enter+0x88/0xc0
.do_IRQ+0x48/0x230

The patch below adds a check to scan_dispatch_log to ensure the
dispatch log has been allocated.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We currently enable interrupts before the dispatch log for the boot
cpu is setup. If a timer interrupt comes in early enough we oops in
scan_dispatch_log:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000010

...

.scan_dispatch_log+0xb0/0x170
.account_system_vtime+0xa0/0x220
.irq_enter+0x88/0xc0
.do_IRQ+0x48/0x230

The patch below adds a check to scan_dispatch_log to ensure the
dispatch log has been allocated.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Make decrementer interrupt robust against offlined CPUs</title>
<updated>2011-04-01T04:37:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-29T03:51:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=963e5d3b76d657f1ebcf3561446d2ba1872bbfa2'/>
<id>963e5d3b76d657f1ebcf3561446d2ba1872bbfa2</id>
<content type='text'>
With some implementations, it is possible that a timer interrupt
occurs every few seconds on an offline CPU. In this case, just
re-arm the decrementer and return immediately

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
With some implementations, it is possible that a timer interrupt
occurs every few seconds on an offline CPU. In this case, just
re-arm the decrementer and return immediately

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix accounting of softirq time when idle</title>
<updated>2011-03-29T23:44:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-20T15:28:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ad5d1c888e556bc00c4e86f452cad4a3a87d22c1'/>
<id>ad5d1c888e556bc00c4e86f452cad4a3a87d22c1</id>
<content type='text'>
commit cf9efce0ce31 (powerpc: Account time using timebase rather
than PURR) used in_irq() to detect if the time was spent in
interrupt processing. This only catches hardirq context so if we
are in softirq context and in the idle loop we end up accounting it
as idle time. If we instead use in_interrupt() we catch both softirq
and hardirq time.

The issue was found when running a network intensive workload. top
showed the following:

0.0%us,  1.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 85.7%id,  0.0%wa,  9.9%hi,  3.3%si,  0.0%st

85.7% idle. But this was wildly different to the perf events data.
To confirm the suspicion I ran something to keep the core busy:

# yes &gt; /dev/null &amp;

8.2%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa, 10.3%hi, 81.4%si,  0.0%st

We only got 8.2% of the CPU for the userspace task and softirq has
shot up to 81.4%.

With the patch below top shows the correct stats:

0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  5.3%id,  0.0%wa, 13.3%hi, 81.3%si,  0.0%st

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
commit cf9efce0ce31 (powerpc: Account time using timebase rather
than PURR) used in_irq() to detect if the time was spent in
interrupt processing. This only catches hardirq context so if we
are in softirq context and in the idle loop we end up accounting it
as idle time. If we instead use in_interrupt() we catch both softirq
and hardirq time.

The issue was found when running a network intensive workload. top
showed the following:

0.0%us,  1.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 85.7%id,  0.0%wa,  9.9%hi,  3.3%si,  0.0%st

85.7% idle. But this was wildly different to the perf events data.
To confirm the suspicion I ran something to keep the core busy:

# yes &gt; /dev/null &amp;

8.2%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa, 10.3%hi, 81.4%si,  0.0%st

We only got 8.2% of the CPU for the userspace task and softirq has
shot up to 81.4%.

With the patch below top shows the correct stats:

0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  5.3%id,  0.0%wa, 13.3%hi, 81.3%si,  0.0%st

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/cell: Use system_wq in cpufreq_spudemand</title>
<updated>2011-01-21T03:08:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-03T03:49:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b18ae08deac23187e4a22a8c94a1a473be8e8c93'/>
<id>b18ae08deac23187e4a22a8c94a1a473be8e8c93</id>
<content type='text'>
With cmwq, there's no reason to use a separate workqueue in
cpufreq_spudemand.  Use system_wq instead.  The work items are already
sync canceled on stop, so it's already guaranteed that no work is
running when spu_gov_exit() is entered.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
With cmwq, there's no reason to use a separate workqueue in
cpufreq_spudemand.  Use system_wq instead.  The work items are already
sync canceled on stop, so it's already guaranteed that no work is
running when spu_gov_exit() is entered.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/time: printk time stamp init not correct</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T04:35:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Schocher</name>
<email>hs@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-22T21:30:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=364a1246522f99cbe58040e99af007ada31034ed'/>
<id>364a1246522f99cbe58040e99af007ada31034ed</id>
<content type='text'>
problem:

I see sometimes on my mpc5200 based board such printk timing
information:

[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:512 nr_irqs:512 16
[    0.000000] MPC52xx PIC is up and running!
[    0.000000] clocksource: timebase mult[79364d9] shift[22] registered
[    0.000000] console [ttyPSC0] enabled
[  130.300633] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[  130.305647] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[  130.315818] NET: Registered protocol family 16

reason:
if the tbu not starts from 0 when linux boots, boot_tb
maybe could not store the real 64 bit tbu value, because
boot_tp is only a 32 bit unsigned long.

solution:
change boot_tb to u64

[BenH: Made it u64 instead of unsigned long long]

Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher &lt;hs@denx.de&gt;
cc: Wolfgang Denk &lt;wd@denx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<pre>
problem:

I see sometimes on my mpc5200 based board such printk timing
information:

[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:512 nr_irqs:512 16
[    0.000000] MPC52xx PIC is up and running!
[    0.000000] clocksource: timebase mult[79364d9] shift[22] registered
[    0.000000] console [ttyPSC0] enabled
[  130.300633] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[  130.305647] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[  130.315818] NET: Registered protocol family 16

reason:
if the tbu not starts from 0 when linux boots, boot_tb
maybe could not store the real 64 bit tbu value, because
boot_tp is only a 32 bit unsigned long.

solution:
change boot_tb to u64

[BenH: Made it u64 instead of unsigned long long]

Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher &lt;hs@denx.de&gt;
cc: Wolfgang Denk &lt;wd@denx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2010-10-22T04:19:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-22T04:19:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d4429f608abde89e8bc1e24b43cd503feb95c496'/>
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<content type='text'>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (71 commits)
  powerpc/44x: Update ppc44x_defconfig
  powerpc/watchdog: Make default timeout for Book-E watchdog a Kconfig option
  fsl_rio: Add comments for sRIO registers.
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add e55xx (64-bit) smp defconfig
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add p5020 DS board support
  powerpc/fsl-booke64: Use TLB CAMs to cover linear mapping on FSL 64-bit chips
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add support for FSL Arch v1.0 MMU in setup_page_sizes
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add support for FSL 64-bit e5500 core
  powerpc/85xx: add cache-sram support
  powerpc/85xx: add ngPIXIS FPGA device tree node to the P1022DS board
  powerpc: Fix compile error with paca code on ppc64e
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add p3041 DS board support
  oprofile/fsl emb: Don't set MSR[PMM] until after clearing the interrupt.
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add PCI device ids for P2040/P3041/P5010/P5020 QoirQ chips
  powerpc/mpc8xxx_gpio: Add support for 'qoriq-gpio' controllers
  powerpc/fsl_booke: Add support to boot from core other than 0
  powerpc/p1022: Add probing for individual DMA channels
  powerpc/fsl_soc: Search all global-utilities nodes for rstccr
  powerpc: Fix invalid page flags in create TLB CAM path for PTE_64BIT
  powerpc/mpc83xx: Support for MPC8308 P1M board
  ...

Fix up conflict with the generic irq_work changes in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (71 commits)
  powerpc/44x: Update ppc44x_defconfig
  powerpc/watchdog: Make default timeout for Book-E watchdog a Kconfig option
  fsl_rio: Add comments for sRIO registers.
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add e55xx (64-bit) smp defconfig
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add p5020 DS board support
  powerpc/fsl-booke64: Use TLB CAMs to cover linear mapping on FSL 64-bit chips
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add support for FSL Arch v1.0 MMU in setup_page_sizes
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add support for FSL 64-bit e5500 core
  powerpc/85xx: add cache-sram support
  powerpc/85xx: add ngPIXIS FPGA device tree node to the P1022DS board
  powerpc: Fix compile error with paca code on ppc64e
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add p3041 DS board support
  oprofile/fsl emb: Don't set MSR[PMM] until after clearing the interrupt.
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Add PCI device ids for P2040/P3041/P5010/P5020 QoirQ chips
  powerpc/mpc8xxx_gpio: Add support for 'qoriq-gpio' controllers
  powerpc/fsl_booke: Add support to boot from core other than 0
  powerpc/p1022: Add probing for individual DMA channels
  powerpc/fsl_soc: Search all global-utilities nodes for rstccr
  powerpc: Fix invalid page flags in create TLB CAM path for PTE_64BIT
  powerpc/mpc83xx: Support for MPC8308 P1M board
  ...

Fix up conflict with the generic irq_work changes in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks</title>
<updated>2010-10-18T17:58:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-14T06:01:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e360adbe29241a0194e10e20595360dd7b98a2b3'/>
<id>e360adbe29241a0194e10e20595360dd7b98a2b3</id>
<content type='text'>
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.

Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.

The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.

Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.

Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.

The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.

Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: export ppc_proc_freq and ppc_tb_freq as GPL symbols</title>
<updated>2010-10-14T05:52:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Timur Tabi</name>
<email>timur@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-20T16:23:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=55ec2fca3e99f83b5c674e9aba713d848392f6cc'/>
<id>55ec2fca3e99f83b5c674e9aba713d848392f6cc</id>
<content type='text'>
Export the global variable 'ppc_tb_freq', so that modules (like the Book-E
watchdog driver) can use it.  To maintain consistency, ppc_proc_freq is
changed to a GPL-only export.  This is okay, because any module that needs
this symbol should be an actual Linux driver, which must be GPL-licensed.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi &lt;timur@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Export the global variable 'ppc_tb_freq', so that modules (like the Book-E
watchdog driver) can use it.  To maintain consistency, ppc_proc_freq is
changed to a GPL-only export.  This is okay, because any module that needs
this symbol should be an actual Linux driver, which must be GPL-licensed.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi &lt;timur@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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