linux.git/arch/frv/include/asm/processor.h, branch v4.11

locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition

2016-11-17T07:17:36+00:00

No need to duplicate the same define everywhere. Since
the only user is stop-machine and the only provider is
s390, we can use a default implementation of cpu_relax_yield()
in sched.h.

Suggested-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Noam Camus 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479298985-191589-1-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/core, arch: Remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()

2016-11-16T09:15:11+00:00

As there are no users left, we can remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()
implementations from every architecture.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Noam Camus 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-6-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/core: Introduce cpu_relax_yield()

2016-11-16T09:15:09+00:00

For spinning loops people do often use barrier() or cpu_relax().
For most architectures cpu_relax and barrier are the same, but on
some architectures cpu_relax can add some latency.
For example on power,sparc64 and arc, cpu_relax can shift the CPU
towards other hardware threads in an SMT environment.
On s390 cpu_relax does even more, it uses an hypercall to the
hypervisor to give up the timeslice.
In contrast to the SMT yielding this can result in larger latencies.
In some places this latency is unwanted, so another variant
"cpu_relax_lowlatency" was introduced. Before this is used in more
and more places, lets revert the logic and provide a cpu_relax_yield
that can be called in places where yielding is more important than
latency. By default this is the same as cpu_relax on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Noam Camus 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-2-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

exit_thread: remove empty bodies

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Define HAVE_EXIT_THREAD for archs which want to do something in
exit_thread. For others, let's define exit_thread as an empty inline.

This is a cleanup before we change the prototype of exit_thread to
accept a task parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: James Hogan 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Koichi Yasutake 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Steven Miao 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

frv: remove unused cpuinfo_frv and friends to fix future build error

2014-10-10T02:26:03+00:00

Frv has a macro named cpu_data, interfering with variables and struct
members with the same name:

include/linux/pm_domain.h:75:24: error: expected identifier or '('
before '&' token
  struct gpd_cpu_data *cpu_data;

As struct cpuinfo_frv, boot_cpu_data, cpu_data, and current_cpu_data are
not used, removed them to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Cc: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

frv: Define cpu_relax_lowlatency()

2014-08-19T14:40:08+00:00

3a6bfbc91df0 "(arch,locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()") broke
building the frv arch.  Fixes errors such as:

  kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h:87:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpu_relax_lowlatency'

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Compile-tested-by: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

frv: switch to generic kernel_thread()

2012-10-01T04:53:11+00:00

frv: switch to generic kernel_execve

2012-10-01T04:53:11+00:00

Acked-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux

2012-05-24T00:12:06+00:00

Pull the MCA deletion branch from Paul Gortmaker:
 "It was good that we could support MCA machines back in the day, but
  realistically, nobody is using them anymore.  They were mostly limited
  to 386-sx 16MHz CPU and some 486 class machines and never more than
  64MB of RAM.  Even the enthusiast hobbyist community seems to have
  dried up close to ten years ago, based on what you can find searching
  various websites dedicated to the relatively short lived hardware.

  So lets remove the support relating to CONFIG_MCA.  There is no point
  carrying this forward, wasting cycles doing routine maintenance on it;
  wasting allyesconfig build time on validating it, wasting I/O on git
  grep'ping over it, and so on."

Let's see if anybody screams.  It generally has compiled, and James
Bottomley pointed out that there was a MCA extension from NCR that
allowed for up to 4GB of memory and PPro-class machines.  So in *theory*
there may be users out there.

But even James (technically listed as a maintainer) doesn't actually
have a system, and while Alan Cox claims to have a machine in his cellar
that he offered to anybody who wants to take it off his hands, he didn't
argue for keeping MCA support either.

So we could bring it back.  But somebody had better speak up and talk
about how they have actually been using said MCA hardware with modern
kernels for us to do that.  And David already took the patch to delete
all the networking driver code (commit a5e371f61ad3: "drivers/net:
delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA").

* 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.
  scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code
  serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support.
  arm: remove ability to select CONFIG_MCA

Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-05-23T17:59:07+00:00

Pull fpu state cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree streamlines further aspects of FPU handling by eliminating
  the prepare_to_copy() complication and moving that logic to
  arch_dup_task_struct().

  It also fixes the FPU dumps in threaded core dumps, removes and old
  (and now invalid) assumption plus micro-optimizes the exit path by
  avoiding an FPU save for dead tasks."

Fixed up trivial add-add conflict in arch/sh/kernel/process.c that came
in because we now do the FPU handling in arch_dup_task_struct() rather
than the legacy (and now gone) prepare_to_copy().

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit
  x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state()
  coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump
  fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()