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<title>Merge branch 'cputime' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-01-03T19:56:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2009-01-03T19:56:24+00:00</published>
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* 'cputime' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [PATCH] fast vdso implementation for CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
  [PATCH] improve idle cputime accounting
  [PATCH] improve precision of idle time detection.
  [PATCH] improve precision of process accounting.
  [PATCH] idle cputime accounting
  [PATCH] fix scaled &amp; unscaled cputime accounting
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* 'cputime' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [PATCH] fast vdso implementation for CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
  [PATCH] improve idle cputime accounting
  [PATCH] improve precision of idle time detection.
  [PATCH] improve precision of process accounting.
  [PATCH] idle cputime accounting
  [PATCH] fix scaled &amp; unscaled cputime accounting
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2009-01-02T19:44:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-02T19:44:09+00:00</published>
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* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
  x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
  x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
  sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
  x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
  x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
  sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
  sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
  sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc&gt;0
  sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
  sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
  sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
  sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
  sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
  sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
  x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
  x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
  x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
  x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
  x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
  x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
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* 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (66 commits)
  x86: export vector_used_by_percpu_irq
  x86: use logical apicid in x2apic_cluster's x2apic_cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
  sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
  x86: fix lguest used_vectors breakage, -v2
  x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
  sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
  sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h
  sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc&gt;0
  sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
  sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
  sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
  sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
  sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
  sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions
  x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowed
  x86: fix cpu_mask_to_apicid_and to include cpu_online_mask
  x86: update io_apic.c to the new cpumask code
  x86: Introduce topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()
  x86: xen: use smp_call_function_many()
  x86: use work_on_cpu in x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in kernel/time/tick-sched.c manually
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] idle cputime accounting</title>
<updated>2008-12-31T14:11:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-31T14:11:38+00:00</published>
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The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is
currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures
that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the
time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first
is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time.
The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not
the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle
process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true
idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time
instead of just testing for the idle process.
To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture
primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context
points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu.

In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process.
This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should
be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as
every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle
time.

This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to
distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with
support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is
currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures
that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the
time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first
is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time.
The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not
the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle
process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true
idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time
instead of just testing for the idle process.
To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture
primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context
points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu.

In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process.
This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should
be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as
every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle
time.

This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to
distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with
support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] fix scaled &amp; unscaled cputime accounting</title>
<updated>2008-12-31T14:11:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-31T14:11:37+00:00</published>
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The utimescaled / stimescaled fields in the task structure and the
global cpustat should be set on all architectures. On s390 the calls
to account_user_time_scaled and account_system_time_scaled never have
been added. In addition system time that is accounted as guest time
to the user time of a process is accounted to the scaled system time
instead of the scaled user time.
To fix the bugs and to prevent future forgetfulness this patch merges
account_system_time_scaled into account_system_time and
account_user_time_scaled into account_user_time.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The utimescaled / stimescaled fields in the task structure and the
global cpustat should be set on all architectures. On s390 the calls
to account_user_time_scaled and account_system_time_scaled never have
been added. In addition system time that is accounted as guest time
to the user time of a process is accounted to the scaled system time
instead of the scaled user time.
To fix the bugs and to prevent future forgetfulness this patch merges
account_system_time_scaled into account_system_time and
account_user_time_scaled into account_user_time.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpumask: convert struct clock_event_device to cpumask pointers.</title>
<updated>2008-12-13T10:50:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-13T10:50:26+00:00</published>
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Impact: change calling convention of existing clock_event APIs

struct clock_event_timer's cpumask field gets changed to take pointer,
as does the -&gt;broadcast function.

Another single-patch change.  For safety, we BUG_ON() in
clockevents_register_device() if it's not set.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: change calling convention of existing clock_event APIs

struct clock_event_timer's cpumask field gets changed to take pointer,
as does the -&gt;broadcast function.

Another single-patch change.  For safety, we BUG_ON() in
clockevents_register_device() if it's not set.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Eliminate unused do_gtod variable</title>
<updated>2008-11-05T22:49:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-28T00:18:11+00:00</published>
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Since we started using the generic timekeeping code, we haven't had a
powerpc-specific version of do_gettimeofday, and hence there is now
nothing that reads the do_gtod variable in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c.
This therefore removes it and the code that sets it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Since we started using the generic timekeeping code, we haven't had a
powerpc-specific version of do_gettimeofday, and hence there is now
nothing that reads the do_gtod variable in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c.
This therefore removes it and the code that sets it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Improve resolution of VDSO clock_gettime</title>
<updated>2008-11-05T22:49:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-27T23:56:03+00:00</published>
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Currently the clock_gettime implementation in the VDSO produces a
result with microsecond resolution for the cases that are handled
without a system call, i.e. CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC.  The
nanoseconds field of the result is obtained by computing a
microseconds value and multiplying by 1000.

This changes the code in the VDSO to do the computation for
clock_gettime with nanosecond resolution.  That means that the
resolution of the result will ultimately depend on the timebase
frequency.

Because the timestamp in the VDSO datapage (stamp_xsec, the real time
corresponding to the timebase count in tb_orig_stamp) is in units of
2^-20 seconds, it doesn't have sufficient resolution for computing a
result with nanosecond resolution.  Therefore this adds a copy of
xtime to the VDSO datapage and updates it in update_gtod() along with
the other time-related fields.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Currently the clock_gettime implementation in the VDSO produces a
result with microsecond resolution for the cases that are handled
without a system call, i.e. CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC.  The
nanoseconds field of the result is obtained by computing a
microseconds value and multiplying by 1000.

This changes the code in the VDSO to do the computation for
clock_gettime with nanosecond resolution.  That means that the
resolution of the result will ultimately depend on the timebase
frequency.

Because the timestamp in the VDSO datapage (stamp_xsec, the real time
corresponding to the timebase count in tb_orig_stamp) is in units of
2^-20 seconds, it doesn't have sufficient resolution for computing a
result with nanosecond resolution.  Therefore this adds a copy of
xtime to the VDSO datapage and updates it in update_gtod() along with
the other time-related fields.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge commit 'origin/master'</title>
<updated>2008-07-16T01:07:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-16T01:07:59+00:00</published>
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Manual merge of:

	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c
	arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c
	arch/ppc/kernel/smp.c</content>
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Manual merge of:

	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c
	arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c
	arch/ppc/kernel/smp.c</pre>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/booke: don't reinitialize time base</title>
<updated>2008-07-14T12:55:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-27T13:03:13+00:00</published>
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For some reason long ago I decided that we should zero out the time base
when we calibrate the decrementer.  The problem is that this can be
harmful in SMP systems where the firmware has already synchronized the
time bases on the various cores.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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For some reason long ago I decided that we should zero out the time base
when we calibrate the decrementer.  The problem is that this can be
harmful in SMP systems where the firmware has already synchronized the
time bases on the various cores.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter</title>
<updated>2008-06-26T09:24:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-09T07:39:44+00:00</published>
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It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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