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<title>tile: remove cpu_idle_on_new_stack</title>
<updated>2012-06-06T15:29:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-06T15:21:44+00:00</published>
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This routine isn't used unless CONFIG_HOMECACHE is enabled, which
isn't even available as a public configuration option yet.
Since it no longer links correctly in 3.4, just remove it for now.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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This routine isn't used unless CONFIG_HOMECACHE is enabled, which
isn't even available as a public configuration option yet.
Since it no longer links correctly in 3.4, just remove it for now.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>set_restore_sigmask() is never called without SIGPENDING (and never should be)</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T16:58:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-27T17:42:45+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>new helpers: {clear,test,test_and_clear}_restore_sigmask()</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T16:58:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-27T02:29:20+00:00</published>
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helpers parallel to set_restore_sigmask(), used in the next commits

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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helpers parallel to set_restore_sigmask(), used in the next commits

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-05-22T02:43:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-22T02:43:57+00:00</published>
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Pull smp hotplug cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This series is merily a cleanup of code copied around in arch/* and
  not changing any of the real cpu hotplug horrors yet.  I wish I'd had
  something more substantial for 3.5, but I underestimated the lurking
  horror..."

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{arm,sparc,x86}/Kconfig and
arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits)
  um: Remove leftover declaration of alloc_task_struct_node()
  task_allocator: Use config switches instead of magic defines
  sparc: Use common threadinfo allocator
  score: Use common threadinfo allocator
  sh-use-common-threadinfo-allocator
  mn10300: Use common threadinfo allocator
  powerpc: Use common threadinfo allocator
  mips: Use common threadinfo allocator
  hexagon: Use common threadinfo allocator
  m32r: Use common threadinfo allocator
  frv: Use common threadinfo allocator
  cris: Use common threadinfo allocator
  x86: Use common threadinfo allocator
  c6x: Use common threadinfo allocator
  fork: Provide kmemcache based thread_info allocator
  tile: Use common threadinfo allocator
  fork: Provide weak arch_release_[task_struct|thread_info] functions
  fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header
  fork: Remove the weak insanity
  sh: Remove cpu_idle_wait()
  ...
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Pull smp hotplug cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This series is merily a cleanup of code copied around in arch/* and
  not changing any of the real cpu hotplug horrors yet.  I wish I'd had
  something more substantial for 3.5, but I underestimated the lurking
  horror..."

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{arm,sparc,x86}/Kconfig and
arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits)
  um: Remove leftover declaration of alloc_task_struct_node()
  task_allocator: Use config switches instead of magic defines
  sparc: Use common threadinfo allocator
  score: Use common threadinfo allocator
  sh-use-common-threadinfo-allocator
  mn10300: Use common threadinfo allocator
  powerpc: Use common threadinfo allocator
  mips: Use common threadinfo allocator
  hexagon: Use common threadinfo allocator
  m32r: Use common threadinfo allocator
  frv: Use common threadinfo allocator
  cris: Use common threadinfo allocator
  x86: Use common threadinfo allocator
  c6x: Use common threadinfo allocator
  fork: Provide kmemcache based thread_info allocator
  tile: Use common threadinfo allocator
  fork: Provide weak arch_release_[task_struct|thread_info] functions
  fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header
  fork: Remove the weak insanity
  sh: Remove cpu_idle_wait()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: fix up some issues in calling do_work_pending()</title>
<updated>2012-05-16T20:01:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-28T22:51:43+00:00</published>
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First, we were at risk of handling thread-info flags, in particular
do_signal(), when returning from kernel space.  This could happen
after a failed kernel_execve(), or when forking a kernel thread.
The fix is to test in do_work_pending() for user_mode() and return
immediately if so; we already had this test for one of the flags,
so I just hoisted it to the top of the function.

Second, if a ptraced process updated the callee-saved registers
in the ptregs struct and then processed another thread-info flag, we
would overwrite the modifications with the original callee-saved
registers.  To fix this, we add a register to note if we've already
saved the registers once, and skip doing it on additional passes
through the loop.  To avoid a performance hit from the couple of
extra instructions involved, I modified the GET_THREAD_INFO() macro
to be guaranteed to be one instruction, then bundled it with adjacent
instructions, yielding an overall net savings.

Reported-By: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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First, we were at risk of handling thread-info flags, in particular
do_signal(), when returning from kernel space.  This could happen
after a failed kernel_execve(), or when forking a kernel thread.
The fix is to test in do_work_pending() for user_mode() and return
immediately if so; we already had this test for one of the flags,
so I just hoisted it to the top of the function.

Second, if a ptraced process updated the callee-saved registers
in the ptregs struct and then processed another thread-info flag, we
would overwrite the modifications with the original callee-saved
registers.  To fix this, we add a register to note if we've already
saved the registers once, and skip doing it on additional passes
through the loop.  To avoid a performance hit from the couple of
extra instructions involved, I modified the GET_THREAD_INFO() macro
to be guaranteed to be one instruction, then bundled it with adjacent
instructions, yielding an overall net savings.

Reported-By: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tile: Use common threadinfo allocator</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T11:55:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-05T15:05:47+00:00</published>
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Use the core allocator and deal with the extra cleanup in
arch_release_thread_info().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150142.311126440@linutronix.de
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Use the core allocator and deal with the extra cleanup in
arch_release_thread_info().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150142.311126440@linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: support TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME</title>
<updated>2011-05-02T22:53:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-02T18:50:06+00:00</published>
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This support is required for CONFIG_KEYS, NFSv4 kernel DNS, etc.
The change is slightly more complex than the minimal thing, since
I took advantage of having to go into the assembly code to just
move a bunch of stuff into C code: specifically, the schedule(),
do_async_page_fault(), do_signal(), and single_step_once() support,
in addition to the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME support.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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This support is required for CONFIG_KEYS, NFSv4 kernel DNS, etc.
The change is slightly more complex than the minimal thing, since
I took advantage of having to go into the assembly code to just
move a bunch of stuff into C code: specifically, the schedule(),
do_async_page_fault(), do_signal(), and single_step_once() support,
in addition to the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME support.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: NUMA aware alloc_thread_info_node()</title>
<updated>2011-03-23T00:44:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-22T23:30:42+00:00</published>
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Add a node parameter to alloc_thread_info(), and change its name to
alloc_thread_info_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add a node parameter to alloc_thread_info(), and change its name to
alloc_thread_info_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: support 4KB page size as well as 64KB</title>
<updated>2011-03-10T18:17:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-28T21:37:34+00:00</published>
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The Tilera architecture traditionally supports 64KB page sizes
to improve TLB utilization and improve performance when the
hardware is being used primarily to run a single application.

For more generic server scenarios, it can be beneficial to run
with 4KB page sizes, so this commit allows that to be specified
(by modifying the arch/tile/include/hv/pagesize.h header).

As part of this change, we also re-worked the PTE management
slightly so that PTE writes all go through a __set_pte() function
where we can do some additional validation.  The set_pte_order()
function was eliminated since the "order" argument wasn't being used.

One bug uncovered was in the PCI DMA code, which wasn't properly
flushing the specified range.  This was benign with 64KB pages,
but with 4KB pages we were getting some larger flushes wrong.

The per-cpu memory reservation code also needed updating to
conform with the newer percpu stuff; before it always chose 64KB,
and that was always correct, but with 4KB granularity we now have
to pay closer attention and reserve the amount of memory that will
be requested when the percpu code starts allocating.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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The Tilera architecture traditionally supports 64KB page sizes
to improve TLB utilization and improve performance when the
hardware is being used primarily to run a single application.

For more generic server scenarios, it can be beneficial to run
with 4KB page sizes, so this commit allows that to be specified
(by modifying the arch/tile/include/hv/pagesize.h header).

As part of this change, we also re-worked the PTE management
slightly so that PTE writes all go through a __set_pte() function
where we can do some additional validation.  The set_pte_order()
function was eliminated since the "order" argument wasn't being used.

One bug uncovered was in the PCI DMA code, which wasn't properly
flushing the specified range.  This was benign with 64KB pages,
but with 4KB pages we were getting some larger flushes wrong.

The per-cpu memory reservation code also needed updating to
conform with the newer percpu stuff; before it always chose 64KB,
and that was always correct, but with 4KB granularity we now have
to pay closer attention and reserve the amount of memory that will
be requested when the percpu code starts allocating.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch/tile: catch up on various minor cleanups.</title>
<updated>2010-07-06T17:42:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-02T18:19:35+00:00</published>
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None of these changes fix any actual bugs, but are just various cleanups
that fell out along the way.  In particular, some unused #defines and
includes are removed, PREFETCH_STRIDE is added (the default is right for
our shipping chips, but wrong for our next generation), our tile-specific
prefetching code is removed so the (identical) generic prefetching code
can be used instead, a comment is fixed to be proper GPL and not just a
"paste GPL here" token, a "//" comment is converted to "/* */", etc.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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None of these changes fix any actual bugs, but are just various cleanups
that fell out along the way.  In particular, some unused #defines and
includes are removed, PREFETCH_STRIDE is added (the default is right for
our shipping chips, but wrong for our next generation), our tile-specific
prefetching code is removed so the (identical) generic prefetching code
can be used instead, a comment is fixed to be proper GPL and not just a
"paste GPL here" token, a "//" comment is converted to "/* */", etc.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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