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<title>Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz</title>
<updated>2013-05-02T15:54:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-02T15:37:49+00:00</published>
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The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.

Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.

Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h
	kernel/rcutree.h
	kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.

Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.

Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h
	kernel/rcutree.h
	kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON</title>
<updated>2013-04-03T11:56:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-10T21:21:01+00:00</published>
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We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Cc: Hakan Akkan &lt;hakanakkan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Cc: Hakan Akkan &lt;hakanakkan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2013.03.12a', 'fixes.2013.03.13a' and 'idlenocb.2013.03.26b' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2013-03-26T15:07:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-26T15:07:38+00:00</published>
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doc.2013.03.12a: Documentation changes.

fixes.2013.03.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.

idlenocb.2013.03.26b: Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make
	RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks, add
	callback acceleration based on numbered callbacks.
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doc.2013.03.12a: Documentation changes.

fixes.2013.03.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.

idlenocb.2013.03.26b: Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make
	RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks, add
	callback acceleration based on numbered callbacks.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Add softirq-stall indications to stall-warning messages</title>
<updated>2013-03-13T21:43:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-06T21:37:09+00:00</published>
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If RCU's softirq handler is prevented from executing, an RCU CPU stall
warning can result.  Ways to prevent RCU's softirq handler from executing
include: (1) CPU spinning with interrupts disabled, (2) infinite loop
in some softirq handler, and (3) in -rt kernels, an infinite loop in a
set of real-time threads running at priorities higher than that of RCU's
softirq handler.

Because this situation can be difficult to track down, this commit causes
the count of RCU softirq handler invocations to be printed with RCU
CPU stall warnings.  This information does require some interpretation,
as now documented in Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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If RCU's softirq handler is prevented from executing, an RCU CPU stall
warning can result.  Ways to prevent RCU's softirq handler from executing
include: (1) CPU spinning with interrupts disabled, (2) infinite loop
in some softirq handler, and (3) in -rt kernels, an infinite loop in a
set of real-time threads running at priorities higher than that of RCU's
softirq handler.

Because this situation can be difficult to track down, this commit causes
the count of RCU softirq handler invocations to be printed with RCU
CPU stall warnings.  This information does require some interpretation,
as now documented in Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Documentation update</title>
<updated>2013-03-12T21:09:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-05T01:55:49+00:00</published>
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This commit applies a few updates based on a quick review of the RCU
documentations.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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This commit applies a few updates based on a quick review of the RCU
documentations.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Make bugginess of code sample more evident</title>
<updated>2013-03-12T21:09:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-12T15:56:27+00:00</published>
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One of the code samples in whatisRCU.txt shows a bug, but someone scanning
the document quickly might mistake it for a valid use of RCU.  Add some
screaming comments to help keep speed-readers on track.

Reported-by: Nathan Zimmer &lt;nzimmer@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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One of the code samples in whatisRCU.txt shows a bug, but someone scanning
the document quickly might mistake it for a valid use of RCU.  Add some
screaming comments to help keep speed-readers on track.

Reported-by: Nathan Zimmer &lt;nzimmer@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'urgent.2012.10.27a', 'doc.2012.11.16a', 'fixes.2012.11.13a', 'srcu.2012.10.27a', 'stall.2012.11.13a', 'tracing.2012.11.08a' and 'idle.2012.10.24a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T17:59:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-16T17:59:58+00:00</published>
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urgent.2012.10.27a: Fix for RCU user-mode transition (already in -tip).

doc.2012.11.08a: Documentation updates, most notably codifying the
	memory-barrier guarantees inherent to grace periods.

fixes.2012.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.

srcu.2012.10.27a: Allow statically allocated and initialized srcu_struct
	structures (courtesy of Lai Jiangshan).

stall.2012.11.13a: Add more diagnostic information to RCU CPU stall
	warnings, also decrease from 60 seconds to 21 seconds.

hotplug.2012.11.08a: Minor updates to CPU hotplug handling.

tracing.2012.11.08a: Improved debugfs tracing, courtesy of Michael Wang.

idle.2012.10.24a: Updates to RCU idle/adaptive-idle handling, including
	a boot parameter that maps normal grace periods to expedited.

Resolved conflict in kernel/rcutree.c due to side-by-side change.
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urgent.2012.10.27a: Fix for RCU user-mode transition (already in -tip).

doc.2012.11.08a: Documentation updates, most notably codifying the
	memory-barrier guarantees inherent to grace periods.

fixes.2012.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.

srcu.2012.10.27a: Allow statically allocated and initialized srcu_struct
	structures (courtesy of Lai Jiangshan).

stall.2012.11.13a: Add more diagnostic information to RCU CPU stall
	warnings, also decrease from 60 seconds to 21 seconds.

hotplug.2012.11.08a: Minor updates to CPU hotplug handling.

tracing.2012.11.08a: Improved debugfs tracing, courtesy of Michael Wang.

idle.2012.10.24a: Updates to RCU idle/adaptive-idle handling, including
	a boot parameter that maps normal grace periods to expedited.

Resolved conflict in kernel/rcutree.c due to side-by-side change.
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Add documentation for the new rcuexp debugfs trace file</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T17:55:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-31T20:22:08+00:00</published>
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This commit adds the documentation of the rcuexp debugfs trace file
that records statistics for expedited grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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This commit adds the documentation of the rcuexp debugfs trace file
that records statistics for expedited grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Update documentation for TREE_RCU debugfs tracing</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T17:54:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-31T20:00:15+00:00</published>
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This commit updates the tracing documentation to reflect the new
format that has per-RCU-flavor directories.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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This commit updates the tracing documentation to reflect the new
format that has per-RCU-flavor directories.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Remove list_for_each_continue_rcu()</title>
<updated>2012-11-13T22:08:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-20T19:33:37+00:00</published>
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The list_for_each_continue_rcu() macro is no longer used, so this commit
removes it.  The list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() macro should be
used instead.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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The list_for_each_continue_rcu() macro is no longer used, so this commit
removes it.  The list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() macro should be
used instead.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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