linux.git/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h, branch v5.1 Linux kernel source tree MIPS: Remove struct task_struct fpu state when CONFIG_MIPS_FP_SUPPORT=n 2018-11-09T18:23:19+00:00 Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com 2018-11-07T23:14:10+00:00 2725f3778fddb70526318824de63476aff816ab8 When CONFIG_MIPS_FP_SUPPORT=n we don't support floating point & so don't need to preserve floating point context for tasks. Remove that context from struct task_struct. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/21013/ Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org 
When CONFIG_MIPS_FP_SUPPORT=n we don't support floating point & so don't
need to preserve floating point context for tasks. Remove that context
from struct task_struct.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/21013/
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
treewide: remove current_text_addr 2018-10-31T15:54:12+00:00 Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com 2018-10-30T22:04:47+00:00 de0d22e50cd3d57277f073ccf65d57aa519d6888 Prefer _THIS_IP_ defined in linux/kernel.h. Most definitions of current_text_addr were the same as _THIS_IP_, but a few archs had inline assembly instead. This patch removes the final call site of current_text_addr, making all of the definitions dead code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/csky/include/asm/processor.h] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180911182413.180715-1-ndesaulniers@google.com Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Prefer _THIS_IP_ defined in linux/kernel.h.

Most definitions of current_text_addr were the same as _THIS_IP_, but
a few archs had inline assembly instead.

This patch removes the final call site of current_text_addr, making all
of the definitions dead code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/csky/include/asm/processor.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180911182413.180715-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MIPS: VDSO: Reduce VDSO_RANDOMIZE_SIZE to 64MB for 64bit 2018-10-16T16:47:18+00:00 Huacai Chen chenhc@lemote.com 2018-10-16T01:20:42+00:00 c61c7def1fa0a722610d89790e0255b74f3c07dd Commit ea7e0480a4b6 ("MIPS: VDSO: Always map near top of user memory") set VDSO_RANDOMIZE_SIZE to 256MB for 64bit kernel. But take a look at arch/mips/mm/mmap.c we can see that MIN_GAP is 128MB, which means the mmap_base may be at (user_address_top - 128MB). This make the stack be surrounded by mmaped areas, then stack expanding fails and causes a segmentation fault. Therefore, VDSO_RANDOMIZE_SIZE should be less than MIN_GAP and this patch reduce it to 64MB. Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Fixes: ea7e0480a4b6 ("MIPS: VDSO: Always map near top of user memory") Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20910/ Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Fuxin Zhang <zhangfx@lemote.com> Cc: Zhangjin Wu <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com> 
Commit ea7e0480a4b6 ("MIPS: VDSO: Always map near top of user memory")
set VDSO_RANDOMIZE_SIZE to 256MB for 64bit kernel. But take a look at
arch/mips/mm/mmap.c we can see that MIN_GAP is 128MB, which means the
mmap_base may be at (user_address_top - 128MB). This make the stack be
surrounded by mmaped areas, then stack expanding fails and causes a
segmentation fault. Therefore, VDSO_RANDOMIZE_SIZE should be less than
MIN_GAP and this patch reduce it to 64MB.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Fixes: ea7e0480a4b6 ("MIPS: VDSO: Always map near top of user memory")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20910/
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Fuxin Zhang <zhangfx@lemote.com>
Cc: Zhangjin Wu <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com>
MIPS: VDSO: Always map near top of user memory 2018-09-28T19:09:00+00:00 Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com 2018-09-25T22:51:26+00:00 ea7e0480a4b695d0aa6b3fa99bd658a003122113 When using the legacy mmap layout, for example triggered using ulimit -s unlimited, get_unmapped_area() fills memory from bottom to top starting from a fairly low address near TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE. This placement is suboptimal if the user application wishes to allocate large amounts of heap memory using the brk syscall. With the VDSO being located low in the user's virtual address space, the amount of space available for access using brk is limited much more than it was prior to the introduction of the VDSO. For example: # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps 00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436 /usr/bin/coreutils 004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436 /usr/bin/coreutils 004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 00cc3000-00ce4000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 2ab96000-2ab98000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0 [vvar] 2ab98000-2ab99000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] 2ab99000-2ab9d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 ... Resolve this by adjusting STACK_TOP to reserve space for the VDSO & providing an address hint to get_unmapped_area() causing it to use this space even when using the legacy mmap layout. We reserve enough space for the VDSO, plus 1MB or 256MB for 32 bit & 64 bit systems respectively within which we randomize the VDSO base address. Previously this randomization was taken care of by the mmap base address randomization performed by arch_mmap_rnd(). The 1MB & 256MB sizes are somewhat arbitrary but chosen such that we have some randomization without taking up too much of the user's virtual address space, which is often in short supply for 32 bit systems. With this the VDSO is always mapped at a high address, leaving lots of space for statically linked programs to make use of brk: # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps 00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436 /usr/bin/coreutils 004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436 /usr/bin/coreutils 004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 00c28000-00c49000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] ... 7f67c000-7f69d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7f7fc000-7f7fd000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 7fcf1000-7fcf3000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0 [vvar] 7fcf3000-7fcf4000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Reported-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com> Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO") Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+ 
When using the legacy mmap layout, for example triggered using ulimit -s
unlimited, get_unmapped_area() fills memory from bottom to top starting
from a fairly low address near TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE.

This placement is suboptimal if the user application wishes to allocate
large amounts of heap memory using the brk syscall. With the VDSO being
located low in the user's virtual address space, the amount of space
available for access using brk is limited much more than it was prior to
the introduction of the VDSO.

For example:

  # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps
  00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  00cc3000-00ce4000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  2ab96000-2ab98000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0          [vvar]
  2ab98000-2ab99000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
  2ab99000-2ab9d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  ...

Resolve this by adjusting STACK_TOP to reserve space for the VDSO &
providing an address hint to get_unmapped_area() causing it to use this
space even when using the legacy mmap layout.

We reserve enough space for the VDSO, plus 1MB or 256MB for 32 bit & 64
bit systems respectively within which we randomize the VDSO base
address. Previously this randomization was taken care of by the mmap
base address randomization performed by arch_mmap_rnd(). The 1MB & 256MB
sizes are somewhat arbitrary but chosen such that we have some
randomization without taking up too much of the user's virtual address
space, which is often in short supply for 32 bit systems.

With this the VDSO is always mapped at a high address, leaving lots of
space for statically linked programs to make use of brk:

  # ulimit -s unlimited; cat /proc/self/maps
  00400000-004ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fc000-004fd000 rwxp 000ec000 08:00 71436      /usr/bin/coreutils
  004fd000-0050f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  00c28000-00c49000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  ...
  7f67c000-7f69d000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
  7f7fc000-7f7fd000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
  7fcf1000-7fcf3000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0          [vvar]
  7fcf3000-7fcf4000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Reported-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
MIPS: Change definition of cpu_relax() for Loongson-3 2018-07-23T17:16:17+00:00 Huacai Chen chenhc@lemote.com 2018-07-13T07:37:57+00:00 a30718868915fbb991a9ae9e45594b059f28e9ae Linux expects that if a CPU modifies a memory location, then that modification will eventually become visible to other CPUs in the system. Loongson 3 CPUs include a Store Fill Buffer (SFB) which sits between a core & its L1 data cache, queueing memory accesses & allowing for faster forwarding of data from pending stores to younger loads from the core. Unfortunately the SFB prioritizes loads such that a continuous stream of loads may cause a pending write to be buffered indefinitely. This is problematic if we end up with 2 CPUs which each perform a store that the other polls for - one or both CPUs may end up with their stores buffered in the SFB, never reaching cache due to the continuous reads from the poll loop. Such a deadlock condition has been observed whilst running qspinlock code. This patch changes the definition of cpu_relax() to smp_mb() for Loongson-3, forcing a flush of the SFB on SMP systems which will cause any pending writes to make it as far as the L1 caches where they will become visible to other CPUs. If the kernel is not compiled for SMP support, this will expand to a barrier() as before. This workaround matches that currently implemented for ARM when CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_754327=y, which was introduced by commit 534be1d5a2da ("ARM: 6194/1: change definition of cpu_relax() for ARM11MPCore"). Although the workaround is only required when the Loongson 3 SFB functionality is enabled, and we only began explicitly enabling that functionality in v4.7 with commit 1e820da3c9af ("MIPS: Loongson-3: Introduce CONFIG_LOONGSON3_ENHANCEMENT"), existing or future firmware may enable the SFB which means we may need the workaround backported to earlier kernels too. [paul.burton@mips.com: - Reword commit message & comment. - Limit stable backport to v3.15+ where we support Loongson 3 CPUs.] Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> References: 534be1d5a2da ("ARM: 6194/1: change definition of cpu_relax() for ARM11MPCore") References: 1e820da3c9af ("MIPS: Loongson-3: Introduce CONFIG_LOONGSON3_ENHANCEMENT") Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19830/ Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Fuxin Zhang <zhangfx@lemote.com> Cc: Zhangjin Wu <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+ 
Linux expects that if a CPU modifies a memory location, then that
modification will eventually become visible to other CPUs in the system.

Loongson 3 CPUs include a Store Fill Buffer (SFB) which sits between a
core & its L1 data cache, queueing memory accesses & allowing for faster
forwarding of data from pending stores to younger loads from the core.
Unfortunately the SFB prioritizes loads such that a continuous stream of
loads may cause a pending write to be buffered indefinitely. This is
problematic if we end up with 2 CPUs which each perform a store that the
other polls for - one or both CPUs may end up with their stores buffered
in the SFB, never reaching cache due to the continuous reads from the
poll loop. Such a deadlock condition has been observed whilst running
qspinlock code.

This patch changes the definition of cpu_relax() to smp_mb() for
Loongson-3, forcing a flush of the SFB on SMP systems which will cause
any pending writes to make it as far as the L1 caches where they will
become visible to other CPUs. If the kernel is not compiled for SMP
support, this will expand to a barrier() as before.

This workaround matches that currently implemented for ARM when
CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_754327=y, which was introduced by commit 534be1d5a2da
("ARM: 6194/1: change definition of cpu_relax() for ARM11MPCore").

Although the workaround is only required when the Loongson 3 SFB
functionality is enabled, and we only began explicitly enabling that
functionality in v4.7 with commit 1e820da3c9af ("MIPS: Loongson-3:
Introduce CONFIG_LOONGSON3_ENHANCEMENT"), existing or future firmware
may enable the SFB which means we may need the workaround backported to
earlier kernels too.

[paul.burton@mips.com:
  - Reword commit message & comment.
  - Limit stable backport to v3.15+ where we support Loongson 3 CPUs.]

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
References: 534be1d5a2da ("ARM: 6194/1: change definition of cpu_relax() for ARM11MPCore")
References: 1e820da3c9af ("MIPS: Loongson-3: Introduce CONFIG_LOONGSON3_ENHANCEMENT")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19830/
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Fuxin Zhang <zhangfx@lemote.com>
Cc: Zhangjin Wu <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
MIPS: Correct the 64-bit DSP accumulator register size 2018-07-19T20:47:21+00:00 Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com 2018-05-15T22:33:26+00:00 f5958b4cf4fc38ed4583ab83fb7c4cd1ab05f47b Use the `unsigned long' rather than `__u32' type for DSP accumulator registers, like with the regular MIPS multiply/divide accumulator and general-purpose registers, as all are 64-bit in 64-bit implementations and using a 32-bit data type leads to contents truncation on context saving. Update `arch_ptrace' and `compat_arch_ptrace' accordingly, removing casts that are similarly not used with multiply/divide accumulator or general-purpose register accesses. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Fixes: e50c0a8fa60d ("Support the MIPS32 / MIPS64 DSP ASE.") Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19329/ Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.15+ 
Use the `unsigned long' rather than `__u32' type for DSP accumulator
registers, like with the regular MIPS multiply/divide accumulator and
general-purpose registers, as all are 64-bit in 64-bit implementations
and using a 32-bit data type leads to contents truncation on context
saving.

Update `arch_ptrace' and `compat_arch_ptrace' accordingly, removing
casts that are similarly not used with multiply/divide accumulator or
general-purpose register accesses.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Fixes: e50c0a8fa60d ("Support the MIPS32 / MIPS64 DSP ASE.")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19329/
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.15+
MIPS: make thread_saved_pc static 2017-10-09T12:53:56+00:00 Tobias Klauser tklauser@distanz.ch 2017-09-18T11:38:40+00:00 508c5757a72873d007e932faff5fa0014b25812d The only user of thread_saved_pc() in non-arch-specific code was removed in commit 8243d5597793 ("sched/core: Remove pointless printout in sched_show_task()"), so it no longer needs to be globally defined for MIPS and can be made static. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17303/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> 
The only user of thread_saved_pc() in non-arch-specific code was removed
in commit 8243d5597793 ("sched/core: Remove pointless printout in
sched_show_task()"), so it no longer needs to be globally defined for
MIPS and can be made static.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17303/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition 2016-11-17T07:17:36+00:00 Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@de.ibm.com 2016-11-16T12:23:05+00:00 6d0d287891a022ebba572327cbd70b5de69a63a2 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 <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org> 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 <mingo@kernel.org> 
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 <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>
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 <mingo@kernel.org>
locking/core, arch: Remove cpu_relax_lowlatency() 2016-11-16T09:15:11+00:00 Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@de.ibm.com 2016-10-25T09:03:15+00:00 5bd0b85ba8bb9de6f61f33f3752fc85f4c87fc22 As there are no users left, we can remove cpu_relax_lowlatency() implementations from every architecture. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-6-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 
As there are no users left, we can remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()
implementations from every architecture.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-6-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
locking/core: Introduce cpu_relax_yield() 2016-11-16T09:15:09+00:00 Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@de.ibm.com 2016-10-25T09:03:11+00:00 79ab11cdb90d8536817ab7357ecb6b1ff76be26c 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 <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 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 <mingo@kernel.org> 
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 <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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 <mingo@kernel.org>