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<title>percpu: print out alloc information with KERN_DEBUG instead of KERN_INFO</title>
<updated>2010-12-22T13:19:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2010-12-22T13:19:14+00:00</published>
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Now that percpu allocator is mostly stable, there is no reason to
print alloc information with KERN_INFO and clutter the boot messages.
Switch it to KERN_DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
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Now that percpu allocator is mostly stable, there is no reason to
print alloc information with KERN_INFO and clutter the boot messages.
Switch it to KERN_DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2010-10-24T20:41:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-24T20:41:39+00:00</published>
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* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  Update broken web addresses in arch directory.
  Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
  Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget
  Revert "Fix typo: configuation =&gt; configuration" partially
  ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation
  ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c
  drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments
  arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments
  Fix typo configue =&gt; configure in comments
  Fix typo: configuation =&gt; configuration
  Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] =&gt; interest[ing|ed]
  Fix various typos of valid in comments
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
	drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
	drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
	net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
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* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  Update broken web addresses in arch directory.
  Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
  Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget
  Revert "Fix typo: configuation =&gt; configuration" partially
  ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation
  ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c
  drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments
  arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments
  Fix typo configue =&gt; configure in comments
  Fix typo: configuation =&gt; configuration
  Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] =&gt; interest[ing|ed]
  Fix various typos of valid in comments
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
	drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
	drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
	net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu</title>
<updated>2010-10-23T00:31:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-23T00:31:36+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: update comments to reflect that percpu allocations are always zero-filled
  percpu: Optimize __get_cpu_var()
  x86, percpu: Optimize this_cpu_ptr
  percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator
  percpu: fix build breakage on s390 and cleanup build configuration tests
  percpu: use percpu allocator on UP too
  percpu: reduce PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE to 32k
  vmalloc: pcpu_get/free_vm_areas() aren't needed on UP

Fixed up trivial conflicts in include/linux/percpu.h
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: update comments to reflect that percpu allocations are always zero-filled
  percpu: Optimize __get_cpu_var()
  x86, percpu: Optimize this_cpu_ptr
  percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator
  percpu: fix build breakage on s390 and cleanup build configuration tests
  percpu: use percpu allocator on UP too
  percpu: reduce PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE to 32k
  vmalloc: pcpu_get/free_vm_areas() aren't needed on UP

Fixed up trivial conflicts in include/linux/percpu.h
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<entry>
<title>percpu: fix pcpu_last_unit_cpu</title>
<updated>2010-09-21T06:12:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-21T05:57:19+00:00</published>
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pcpu_first/last_unit_cpu are used to track which cpu has the first and
last units assigned.  This in turn is used to determine the span of a
chunk for man/unmap cache flushes and whether an address belongs to
the first chunk or not in per_cpu_ptr_to_phys().

When the number of possible CPUs isn't power of two, a chunk may
contain unassigned units towards the end of a chunk.  The logic to
determine pcpu_last_unit_cpu was incorrect when there was an unused
unit at the end of a chunk.  It failed to ignore the unused unit and
assigned the unused marker NR_CPUS to pcpu_last_unit_cpu.

This was discovered through kdump failure which was caused by
malfunctioning per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() on a kvm setup with 50 possible
CPUs by CAI Qian.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: CAI Qian &lt;caiqian@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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pcpu_first/last_unit_cpu are used to track which cpu has the first and
last units assigned.  This in turn is used to determine the span of a
chunk for man/unmap cache flushes and whether an address belongs to
the first chunk or not in per_cpu_ptr_to_phys().

When the number of possible CPUs isn't power of two, a chunk may
contain unassigned units towards the end of a chunk.  The logic to
determine pcpu_last_unit_cpu was incorrect when there was an unused
unit at the end of a chunk.  It failed to ignore the unused unit and
assigned the unused marker NR_CPUS to pcpu_last_unit_cpu.

This was discovered through kdump failure which was caused by
malfunctioning per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() on a kvm setup with 50 possible
CPUs by CAI Qian.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: CAI Qian &lt;caiqian@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>percpu: update comments to reflect that percpu allocations are always zero-filled</title>
<updated>2010-09-10T09:01:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-10T09:01:56+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
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<title>percpu: fix build breakage on s390 and cleanup build configuration tests</title>
<updated>2010-09-09T16:00:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-09T16:00:15+00:00</published>
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Commit bbddff05 (percpu: use percpu allocator on UP too) incorrectly
excluded pcpu_build_alloc_info() on SMP configurations which use
generic setup_per_cpu_area() like s390.  The config ifdefs are
becoming confusing.  Fix and clean it up by,

* Move pcpu_build_alloc_info() right on top of its two users -
  pcpu_{embed|page}_first_chunk() which are already in CONFIG_SMP
  block.

* Define BUILD_{EMBED|PAGE}_FIRST_CHUNK which indicate whether each
  first chunk function needs to be included and use them to control
  inclusion of the three functions to reduce confusion.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@in.ibm.com&gt;
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Commit bbddff05 (percpu: use percpu allocator on UP too) incorrectly
excluded pcpu_build_alloc_info() on SMP configurations which use
generic setup_per_cpu_area() like s390.  The config ifdefs are
becoming confusing.  Fix and clean it up by,

* Move pcpu_build_alloc_info() right on top of its two users -
  pcpu_{embed|page}_first_chunk() which are already in CONFIG_SMP
  block.

* Define BUILD_{EMBED|PAGE}_FIRST_CHUNK which indicate whether each
  first chunk function needs to be included and use them to control
  inclusion of the three functions to reduce confusion.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@in.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>percpu: use percpu allocator on UP too</title>
<updated>2010-09-08T09:11:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-03T16:22:48+00:00</published>
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On UP, percpu allocations were redirected to kmalloc.  This has the
following problems.

* For certain amount of allocations (determined by
  PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SLOTS and PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE), percpu
  allocator can be used before the usual kernel memory allocator is
  brought online.  On SMP, this is used to initialize the kernel
  memory allocator.

* percpu allocator honors alignment upto PAGE_SIZE but kmalloc()
  doesn't.  For example, workqueue makes use of larger alignments for
  cpu_workqueues.

Currently, users of percpu allocators need to handle UP differently,
which is somewhat fragile and ugly.  Other than small amount of
memory, there isn't much to lose by enabling percpu allocator on UP.
It can simply use kernel memory based chunk allocation which was added
for SMP archs w/o MMUs.

This patch removes mm/percpu_up.c, builds mm/percpu.c on UP too and
makes UP build use percpu-km.  As percpu addresses and kernel
addresses are always identity mapped and static percpu variables don't
need any special treatment, nothing is arch dependent and mm/percpu.c
implements generic setup_per_cpu_areas() for UP.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
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On UP, percpu allocations were redirected to kmalloc.  This has the
following problems.

* For certain amount of allocations (determined by
  PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SLOTS and PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE), percpu
  allocator can be used before the usual kernel memory allocator is
  brought online.  On SMP, this is used to initialize the kernel
  memory allocator.

* percpu allocator honors alignment upto PAGE_SIZE but kmalloc()
  doesn't.  For example, workqueue makes use of larger alignments for
  cpu_workqueues.

Currently, users of percpu allocators need to handle UP differently,
which is somewhat fragile and ugly.  Other than small amount of
memory, there isn't much to lose by enabling percpu allocator on UP.
It can simply use kernel memory based chunk allocation which was added
for SMP archs w/o MMUs.

This patch removes mm/percpu_up.c, builds mm/percpu.c on UP too and
makes UP build use percpu-km.  As percpu addresses and kernel
addresses are always identity mapped and static percpu variables don't
need any special treatment, nothing is arch dependent and mm/percpu.c
implements generic setup_per_cpu_areas() for UP.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
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<entry>
<title>percpu: fix a mismatch between code and comment</title>
<updated>2010-08-27T09:36:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-11T02:19:19+00:00</published>
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When pcpu_build_alloc_info() searches best_upa value, it ignores current value
if the number of waste units exceeds 1/3 of the number of total cpus. But the
comment on the code says that it will ignore if wastage is over 25%.
Modify the comment.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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When pcpu_build_alloc_info() searches best_upa value, it ignores current value
if the number of waste units exceeds 1/3 of the number of total cpus. But the
comment on the code says that it will ignore if wastage is over 25%.
Modify the comment.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>percpu: fix a memory leak in pcpu_extend_area_map()</title>
<updated>2010-08-27T09:36:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Shijie</name>
<email>shijie8@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-08T12:39:07+00:00</published>
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The original code did not free the old map.  This patch fixes it.

tj: use @old as memcpy source instead of @chunk-&gt;map, and indentation
    and description update

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie &lt;shijie8@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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The original code did not free the old map.  This patch fixes it.

tj: use @old as memcpy source instead of @chunk-&gt;map, and indentation
    and description update

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie &lt;shijie8@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>fix a typo on comments in mm/percpu.c</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T07:30:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-11T02:24:10+00:00</published>
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'eqaul' should be 'equal'.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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'eqaul' should be 'equal'.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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