linux-stable.git/arch/s390/kernel/process.c, branch linux-3.6.y

s390/vtimer: rework virtual timer interface

2012-07-20T09:15:08+00:00

The current virtual timer interface is inherently per-cpu and hard to
use. The sole user of the interface is appldata which uses it to execute
a function after a specific amount of cputime has been used over all cpus.

Rework the virtual timer interface to hook into the cputime accounting.
This makes the interface independent from the CPU timer interrupts, and
makes the virtual timers global as opposed to per-cpu.
Overall the code is greatly simplified. The downside is that the accuracy
is not as good as the original implementation, but it is still good enough
for appldata.

Reviewed-by: Jan Glauber 
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/comments: unify copyright messages and remove file names

2012-07-20T09:15:04+00:00

Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most
cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless.

Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly
different statements and wanted to change them one after another
whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead
people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template
for new files.
So unify all of them in one go.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390

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

Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2012-03-23T01:15:32+00:00

Pull s390 patches from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "The biggest patch is the rework of the smp code, something I wanted to
  do for some time.  There are some patches for our various dump methods
  and one new thing: z/VM LGR detection.  LGR stands for linux-guest-
  relocation and is the guest migration feature of z/VM.  For debugging
  purposes we keep a log of the systems where a specific guest has lived."

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/s390/kernel/smp.c due to the scheduler
cleanup having removed some code next to removed s390 code.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  [S390] kernel: Pass correct stack for smp_call_ipl_cpu()
  [S390] Ensure that vmcore_info pointer is never accessed directly
  [S390] dasd: prevent validate server for offline devices
  [S390] Remove monolithic build option for zcrypt driver.
  [S390] stack dump: fix indentation in output
  [S390] kernel: Add OS info memory interface
  [S390] Use block_sigmask()
  [S390] kernel: Add z/VM LGR detection
  [S390] irq: external interrupt code passing
  [S390] irq: set __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED
  [S390] zfcpdump: Implement async sdias event processing
  [S390] Use copy_to_absolute_zero() instead of "stura/sturg"
  [S390] rework idle code
  [S390] rework smp code
  [S390] rename lowcore field
  [S390] Fix gcc 4.6.0 compile warning

[S390] rework idle code

2012-03-11T15:59:28+00:00

Whenever the cpu loads an enabled wait PSW it will appear as idle to the
underlying host system. The code in default_idle calls vtime_stop_cpu
which does the necessary voodoo to get the cpu time accounting right.
The udelay code just loads an enabled wait PSW. To correct this rework
the vtime_stop_cpu/vtime_start_cpu logic and move the difficult parts
to entry[64].S, vtime_stop_cpu can now be called from anywhere and
vtime_start_cpu is gone. The correction of the cpu time during wakeup
from an enabled wait PSW is done with a critical section in entry[64].S.
As vtime_start_cpu is gone, s390_idle_check can be removed as well.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()

2012-03-01T09:28:03+00:00

Coccinelle based conversion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

compat: fix compile breakage on s390

2012-02-27T15:54:27+00:00

The new is_compat_task() define for the !COMPAT case in
include/linux/compat.h conflicts with a similar define in
arch/s390/include/asm/compat.h.

This is the minimal patch which fixes the build issues.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[S390] idle: avoid RCU usage in extended quiescent state

2012-02-17T09:29:32+00:00

Avoid calling wake_up() from our NMI "bottom halve" from RCU extended
quiescent state in idle. wake_up() has RCU read-side critical sections
but this will be completely ignored by RCU if the cpu is in extended
quiescent state.
Which means that whatever object is being accessed from within the
read-side critical section can be freed concurrently from a different
cpu.
So make sure we leave extended quiescent state before calling wake_up().

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()

2011-12-11T18:31:57+00:00

Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of
tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single
irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would
needlessly process any RCU job.

Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits
have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple
idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop

2011-12-11T18:31:36+00:00

It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless
mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always
true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after
the tick is stopped.

To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs:
tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu().

If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between
tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch
must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't
need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit().

Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and
tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly:

- rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put
to sleep.
- rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken
up.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney