- 01 Dec, 2015 11 commits
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Anton Blanchard authored
Move the MSR modification into c. Removing it from the assembly function will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes by batching them up. Check the FP and VMX bits before calling the relevant giveup_*() function. This makes giveup_vsx() and flush_vsx_to_thread() perform more like their sister functions, and allows us to use flush_vsx_to_thread() in the signal code. Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check in. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Anton Blanchard authored
Move the MSR modification into new c functions. Removing it from the low level functions will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes by batching them up. Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check into these new functions. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Anton Blanchard authored
We used to allow giveup_*() to be called with a NULL task struct pointer. Now those cases are handled in the caller we can remove the checks. We can also remove giveup_altivec_notask() which is also unused. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Anton Blanchard authored
mtmsrd_isync() will do an mtmsrd followed by an isync on older processors. On newer processors we avoid the isync via a feature fixup. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Anton Blanchard authored
Instead of having multiple giveup_*_maybe_transactional() functions, separate out the TM check into a new function called check_if_tm_restore_required(). This will make it easier to optimise the giveup_*() functions in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Anton Blanchard authored
The UP only lazy floating point and vector optimisations were written back when SMP was not common, and neither glibc nor gcc used vector instructions. Now SMP is very common, glibc aggressively uses vector instructions and gcc autovectorises. We want to add new optimisations that apply to both UP and SMP, but in preparation for that remove these UP only optimisations. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Anton Blanchard authored
No need to execute mflr twice. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Anton Blanchard authored
Move all our context switch SPR save and restore code into two helpers. We do a few optimisations: - Group all mfsprs and all mtsprs. In many cases an mtspr sets a scoreboarding bit that an mfspr waits on, so the current practise of mfspr A; mtspr A; mfpsr B; mtspr B is the worst scheduling we can do. - SPR writes are slow, so check that the value is changing before writing it. A context switch microbenchmark using yield(): http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c ./context_switch2 --test=yield 0 0 shows an improvement of almost 10% on POWER8. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Anton Blanchard authored
Similar to the non TM load_up_*() functions, don't disable the MSR bits on the way out. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Anton Blanchard authored
Writing the MSR is slow, so we want to avoid it whenever possible. A subsequent patch will add a debug option that strictly manages the FP/VMX/VSX unavailable bits. For now just remove it, matching what we do in other areas of the kernel (eg enable_kernel_altivec()). A context switch microbenchmark using yield(): http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch2.c ./context_switch2 --test=yield --fp 0 0 shows an improvement of almost 3% on POWER8. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Currently, if HV KVM is configured but PR KVM isn't, we don't include a test to see whether we were interrupted in KVM guest context for the set of interrupts which get delivered directly to the guest by hardware if they occur in the guest. This includes things like program interrupts. However, the recent bug where userspace could set the MSR for a VCPU to have an illegal value in the TS field, and thus cause a TM Bad Thing type of program interrupt on the hrfid that enters the guest, showed that we can never be completely sure that these interrupts can never occur in the guest entry/exit code. If one of these interrupts does happen and we have HV KVM configured but not PR KVM, then we end up trying to run the handler in the host with the MMU set to the guest MMU context, which generally ends badly. Thus, for robustness it is better to have the test in every interrupt vector, so that if some way is found to trigger some interrupt in the guest entry/exit path, we can handle it without immediately crashing the host. This means that the distinction between KVMTEST and KVMTEST_PR goes away. Thus we delete KVMTEST_PR and associated macros and use KVMTEST everywhere that we previously used either KVMTEST_PR or KVMTEST. It also means that SOFTEN_TEST_HV_201 becomes the same as SOFTEN_TEST_PR, so we deleted SOFTEN_TEST_HV_201 and use SOFTEN_TEST_PR instead. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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- 26 Nov, 2015 8 commits
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Luis de Bethencourt authored
This platform driver has a OF device ID table but the OF module alias information is not created so module autoloading won't work. Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Luis de Bethencourt authored
This platform driver has a OF device ID table but the OF module alias information is not created so module autoloading won't work. Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Rashmica Gupta authored
It is common practice with powerpc to use 'rN' to refer to register 'N'. However when using the pt_regs_offset table we have to use 'gprN'. So add aliases such that both 'rN' and 'gprN' can be used. For example, we can currently do: $ su - $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing $ echo "p:probe/sys_fchownat sys_fchownat %gpr3:s32 +0(%gpr4):string %gpr5:s32 %gpr6:s32 %gpr7:s32" > kprobe_events $ echo 1 > events/probe/sys_fchownat/enable $ touch /tmp/foo $ chown root /tmp/foo $ echo 0 > events/enable $ cat trace chown-2925 [014] d... 76.160657: sys_fchownat: (SyS_fchownat+0x8/0x1a0) arg1=-100 arg2="/tmp/foo" arg3=0 arg4=-1 arg5=0 Instead we'd like to be able to use: $ echo "p:probe/sys_fchownat sys_fchownat %r3:s32 +0(%r4):string %r5:s32 %r6:s32 %r7:s32" > kprobe_events Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Rashmica Gupta authored
Most architectures use NR_syscalls as the #define for the number of syscalls. We use __NR_syscalls, and then define NR_syscalls as __NR_syscalls. __NR_syscalls is not used outside arch code, whereas NR_syscalls is. So as NR_syscalls must be defined and __NR_syscalls does not, replace __NR_syscalls with NR_syscalls. Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Rashmica Gupta authored
This function has been unused since commit 14cf11af ("powerpc: Merge enough to start building in arch/powerpc."), so remove it. Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Laurent Vivier authored
if the language is not english objdump output is not parsed correctly and format is "". Later, "ld -m $format" fails. This patch adds "LANG=C" to force english output for objdump. Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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John Ogness authored
Since gpio1 is not a timer, it also should not use IRQF_TIMER. Similar to commit ba461f09 ("powerpc: Use IRQF_NO_SUSPEND not IRQF_TIMER for non-timer interrupts"). Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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John Ogness authored
The xmon and cascade irq handlers must not run as threads. pmac_pic_lock is already a raw_spinlock, but the irq flag IRQF_NO_THREAD needs to be set as well. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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- 24 Nov, 2015 3 commits
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Krzysztof Kozlowski authored
platform_driver does not need to set an owner because platform_driver_register() will set it. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Andrew Donnellan authored
When writing a value to config space, cxl_pcie_write_config() calls cxl_pcie_config_info() to obtain a mask and shift value, shifts the new value accordingly, then uses the mask to combine the shifted value with the existing value at the address as part of a read-modify-write pattern. Currently, we use a logical OR operator rather than a bitwise OR operator, which means any use of this function results in an incorrect value being written. Replace the logical OR operator with a bitwise OR operator so the value is written correctly. Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6f7f0b3d ("cxl: Add AFU virtual PHB and kernel API") Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Vaibhav Jain authored
An idr warning is reported when a context is release after the capi card is unbound from the cxl driver via sysfs. Below are the steps to reproduce: 1. Create multiple afu contexts in an user-space application using libcxl. 2. Unbind capi card from cxl using command of form echo <capi-card-pci-addr> > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/cxl-pci/unbind 3. Exit/kill the application owning afu contexts. After above steps a warning message is usually seen in the kernel logs of the form "idr_remove called for id=<context-id> which is not allocated." This is caused by the function cxl_release_afu which destroys the contexts_idr table. So when a context is release no entry for context pe is found in the contexts_idr table and idr code prints this warning. This patch fixes this issue by increasing & decreasing the ref-count on the afu device when a context is initialized or when its freed respectively. This prevents the afu from being released until all the afu contexts have been released. The patch introduces two new functions namely cxl_afu_get/put that manage the ref-count on the afu device. Also the patch removes code inside cxl_dev_context_init that increases ref on the afu device as its guaranteed to be alive during this function. Reported-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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- 23 Nov, 2015 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- 22 Nov, 2015 17 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge slub bulk allocator updates from Andrew Morton: "This missed the merge window because I was waiting for some repairs to come in. Nothing actually uses the bulk allocator yet and the changes to other code paths are pretty small. And the net guys are waiting for this so they can start merging the client code" More comments from Jesper Dangaard Brouer: "The kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() call, in mm/slub.c, were included in previous kernel. The present version contains a bug. Vladimir Davydov noticed it contained a bug, when kernel is compiled with CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM (see commit 03ec0ed5: "slub: fix kmem cgroup bug in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk"). Plus the mem cgroup counterpart in kmem_cache_free_bulk() were missing (see commit 03374518 "slub: add missing kmem cgroup support to kmem_cache_free_bulk"). I don't consider the fix stable-material because there are no in-tree users of the API. But with known bugs (for memcg) I cannot start using the API in the net-tree" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API slub: add missing kmem cgroup support to kmem_cache_free_bulk slub: fix kmem cgroup bug in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk slub: optimize bulk slowpath free by detached freelist slub: support for bulk free with SLUB freelists
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/ttyLinus Torvalds authored
Pull tty/serial fixes from Greg KH: "Here are a few small tty/serial driver fixes for 4.4-rc2 that resolve some reported problems. All have been in linux-next, full details are in the shortlog below" * tag 'tty-4.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: serial: export fsl8250_handle_irq serial: 8250_mid: Add missing dependency tty: audit: Fix audit source serial: etraxfs-uart: Fix crash serial: fsl_lpuart: Fix earlycon support bcm63xx_uart: Use the device name when registering an interrupt tty: Fix direct use of tty buffer work tty: Fix tty_send_xchar() lock order inversion
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/stagingLinus Torvalds authored
Pull staging/IIO fixes from Greg KH: "Here are some staging and iio driver fixes for 4.4-rc2. All of these are in response to issues that have been reported and have been in linux-next for a while" * tag 'staging-4.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: Revert "Staging: wilc1000: coreconfigurator: Drop unneeded wrapper functions" iio: adc: xilinx: Fix VREFN scale iio: si7020: Swap data byte order iio: adc: vf610_adc: Fix division by zero error iio:ad7793: Fix ad7785 product ID iio: ad5064: Fix ad5629/ad5669 shift iio:ad5064: Make sure ad5064_i2c_write() returns 0 on success iio: lpc32xx_adc: fix warnings caused by enabling unprepared clock staging: iio: select IRQ_WORK for IIO_DUMMY_EVGEN vf610_adc: Fix internal temperature calculation
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usbLinus Torvalds authored
Pull USB fixes from Greg KH: "Here are a number of USB fixes and new device ids for 4.4-rc2. All have been in linux-next and the details are in the shortlog" * tag 'usb-4.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (28 commits) usblp: do not set TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE before lock USB: MAINTAINERS: cxacru usb: kconfig: fix warning of select USB_OTG USB: option: add XS Stick W100-2 from 4G Systems xhci: Fix a race in usb2 LPM resume, blocking U3 for usb2 devices usb: xhci: fix checking ep busy for CFC xhci: Workaround to get Intel xHCI reset working more reliably usb: chipidea: imx: fix a possible NULL dereference usb: chipidea: usbmisc_imx: fix a possible NULL dereference usb: chipidea: otg: gadget module load and unload support usb: chipidea: debug: disable usb irq while role switch ARM: dts: imx27.dtsi: change the clock information for usb usb: chipidea: imx: refine clock operations to adapt for all platforms usb: gadget: atmel_usba_udc: Expose correct device speed usb: musb: enable usb_dma parameter usb: phy: phy-mxs-usb: fix a possible NULL dereference usb: dwc3: gadget: let us set lower max_speed usb: musb: fix tx fifo flush handling usb: gadget: f_loopback: fix the warning during the enumeration usb: dwc2: host: Fix remote wakeup when not in DWC2_L2 ...
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git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
Pull MIPS fixes from Ralf Baechle: - Fix a flood of annoying build warnings - A number of fixes for Atheros 79xx platforms * 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: MIPS: ath79: Add a machine entry for booting OF machines MIPS: ath79: Fix the size of the MISC INTC registers in ar9132.dtsi MIPS: ath79: Fix the DDR control initialization on ar71xx and ar934x MIPS: Fix flood of warnings about comparsion being always true.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull parisc update from Helge Deller: "This patchset adds Huge Page and HUGETLBFS support for parisc" Honestly, the hugepage support should have gone through in the merge window, and is not really an rc-time fix. But it only touches arch/parisc, and I cannot find it in myself to care. If one of the three parisc users notices a breakage, I will point at Helge and make rude farting noises. * 'parisc-4.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: parisc: Map kernel text and data on huge pages parisc: Add Huge Page and HUGETLBFS support parisc: Use long branch to do_syscall_trace_exit parisc: Increase initial kernel mapping to 32MB on 64bit kernel parisc: Initialize the fault vector earlier in the boot process. parisc: Add defines for Huge page support parisc: Drop unused MADV_xxxK_PAGES flags from asm/mman.h parisc: Drop definition of start_thread_som for HP-UX SOM binaries parisc: Fix wrong comment regarding first pmd entry flags
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull perf tool fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A couple of fixes for perf tools: - Build system updates - Plug a memory leak in an error path of perf probe - Tear down probes correctly when adding fails - Fixes to the perf symbol handling - Fix ordering of event processing in buildid-list - Fix per DSO filtering in the histogram browser" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf probe: Clear probe_trace_event when add_probe_trace_event() fails perf probe: Fix memory leaking on failure by clearing all probe_trace_events perf inject: Also re-pipe lost_samples event perf buildid-list: Requires ordered events perf symbols: Fix dso lookup by long name and missing buildids perf symbols: Allow forcing reading of non-root owned files by root perf hists browser: The dso can be obtained from popup_action->ms.map->dso perf hists browser: Fix 'd' hotkey action to filter by DSO perf symbols: Rebuild rbtree when adjusting symbols for kcore tools: Add a "make all" rule tools: Actually install tmon in the install rule
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "This update contains: - MPX updates for handling 32bit processes - A fix for a long standing bug in 32bit signal frame handling related to FPU/XSAVE state - Handle get_xsave_addr() correctly in KVM - Fix SMAP check under paravirtualization - Add a comment to the static function trace entry to avoid further confusion about the difference to dynamic tracing" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in PVOPS environments x86/ftrace: Add comment on static function tracing x86/fpu: Fix get_xsave_addr() behavior under virtualization x86/fpu: Fix 32-bit signal frame handling x86/mpx: Fix 32-bit address space calculation x86/mpx: Do proper get_user() when running 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer authored
Adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API before we have any real users. Adjust API to return type 'int' instead of previously type 'bool'. This is done to allow future extension of the bulk alloc API. A future extension could be to allow SLUB to stop at a page boundary, when specified by a flag, and then return the number of objects. The advantage of this approach, would make it easier to make bulk alloc run without local IRQs disabled. With an approach of cmpxchg "stealing" the entire c->freelist or page->freelist. To avoid overshooting we would stop processing at a slab-page boundary. Else we always end up returning some objects at the cost of another cmpxchg. To keep compatible with future users of this API linking against an older kernel when using the new flag, we need to return the number of allocated objects with this API change. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer authored
Initial implementation missed support for kmem cgroup support in kmem_cache_free_bulk() call, add this. If CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM is not enabled, the compiler should be smart enough to not add any asm code. Incoming bulk free objects can belong to different kmem cgroups, and object free call can happen at a later point outside memcg context. Thus, we need to keep the orig kmem_cache, to correctly verify if a memcg object match against its "root_cache" (s->memcg_params.root_cache). Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer authored
The call slab_pre_alloc_hook() interacts with kmemgc and is not allowed to be called several times inside the bulk alloc for loop, due to the call to memcg_kmem_get_cache(). This would result in hitting the VM_BUG_ON in __memcg_kmem_get_cache. As suggested by Vladimir Davydov, change slab_post_alloc_hook() to be able to handle an array of objects. A subtle detail is, loop iterator "i" in slab_post_alloc_hook() must have same type (size_t) as size argument. This helps the compiler to easier realize that it can remove the loop, when all debug statements inside loop evaluates to nothing. Note, this is only an issue because the kernel is compiled with GCC option: -fno-strict-overflow In slab_alloc_node() the compiler inlines and optimizes the invocation of slab_post_alloc_hook(s, flags, 1, &object) by removing the loop and access object directly. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Reported-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer authored
This change focus on improving the speed of object freeing in the "slowpath" of kmem_cache_free_bulk. The calls slab_free (fastpath) and __slab_free (slowpath) have been extended with support for bulk free, which amortize the overhead of the (locked) cmpxchg_double. To use the new bulking feature, we build what I call a detached freelist. The detached freelist takes advantage of three properties: 1) the free function call owns the object that is about to be freed, thus writing into this memory is synchronization-free. 2) many freelist's can co-exist side-by-side in the same slab-page each with a separate head pointer. 3) it is the visibility of the head pointer that needs synchronization. Given these properties, the brilliant part is that the detached freelist can be constructed without any need for synchronization. The freelist is constructed directly in the page objects, without any synchronization needed. The detached freelist is allocated on the stack of the function call kmem_cache_free_bulk. Thus, the freelist head pointer is not visible to other CPUs. All objects in a SLUB freelist must belong to the same slab-page. Thus, constructing the detached freelist is about matching objects that belong to the same slab-page. The bulk free array is scanned is a progressive manor with a limited look-ahead facility. Kmem debug support is handled in call of slab_free(). Notice kmem_cache_free_bulk no longer need to disable IRQs. This only slowed down single free bulk with approx 3 cycles. Performance data: Benchmarked[1] obj size 256 bytes on CPU i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz SLUB fastpath single object quick reuse: 47 cycles(tsc) 11.931 ns To get stable and comparable numbers, the kernel have been booted with "slab_merge" (this also improve performance for larger bulk sizes). Performance data, compared against fallback bulking: bulk - fallback bulk - improvement with this patch 1 - 62 cycles(tsc) 15.662 ns - 49 cycles(tsc) 12.407 ns- improved 21.0% 2 - 55 cycles(tsc) 13.935 ns - 30 cycles(tsc) 7.506 ns - improved 45.5% 3 - 53 cycles(tsc) 13.341 ns - 23 cycles(tsc) 5.865 ns - improved 56.6% 4 - 52 cycles(tsc) 13.081 ns - 20 cycles(tsc) 5.048 ns - improved 61.5% 8 - 50 cycles(tsc) 12.627 ns - 18 cycles(tsc) 4.659 ns - improved 64.0% 16 - 49 cycles(tsc) 12.412 ns - 17 cycles(tsc) 4.495 ns - improved 65.3% 30 - 49 cycles(tsc) 12.484 ns - 18 cycles(tsc) 4.533 ns - improved 63.3% 32 - 50 cycles(tsc) 12.627 ns - 18 cycles(tsc) 4.707 ns - improved 64.0% 34 - 96 cycles(tsc) 24.243 ns - 23 cycles(tsc) 5.976 ns - improved 76.0% 48 - 83 cycles(tsc) 20.818 ns - 21 cycles(tsc) 5.329 ns - improved 74.7% 64 - 74 cycles(tsc) 18.700 ns - 20 cycles(tsc) 5.127 ns - improved 73.0% 128 - 90 cycles(tsc) 22.734 ns - 27 cycles(tsc) 6.833 ns - improved 70.0% 158 - 99 cycles(tsc) 24.776 ns - 30 cycles(tsc) 7.583 ns - improved 69.7% 250 - 104 cycles(tsc) 26.089 ns - 37 cycles(tsc) 9.280 ns - improved 64.4% Performance data, compared current in-kernel bulking: bulk - curr in-kernel - improvement with this patch 1 - 46 cycles(tsc) - 49 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:-3) -6.5% 2 - 27 cycles(tsc) - 30 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:-3) -11.1% 3 - 21 cycles(tsc) - 23 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:-2) -9.5% 4 - 18 cycles(tsc) - 20 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:-2) -11.1% 8 - 17 cycles(tsc) - 18 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:-1) -5.9% 16 - 18 cycles(tsc) - 17 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles: 1) 5.6% 30 - 18 cycles(tsc) - 18 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles: 0) 0.0% 32 - 18 cycles(tsc) - 18 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles: 0) 0.0% 34 - 78 cycles(tsc) - 23 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:55) 70.5% 48 - 60 cycles(tsc) - 21 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:39) 65.0% 64 - 49 cycles(tsc) - 20 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:29) 59.2% 128 - 69 cycles(tsc) - 27 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:42) 60.9% 158 - 79 cycles(tsc) - 30 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:49) 62.0% 250 - 86 cycles(tsc) - 37 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:49) 57.0% Performance with normal SLUB merging is significantly slower for larger bulking. This is believed to (primarily) be an effect of not having to share the per-CPU data-structures, as tuning per-CPU size can achieve similar performance. bulk - slab_nomerge - normal SLUB merge 1 - 49 cycles(tsc) - 49 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0 2 - 30 cycles(tsc) - 30 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0 3 - 23 cycles(tsc) - 23 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0 4 - 20 cycles(tsc) - 20 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0 8 - 18 cycles(tsc) - 18 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0 16 - 17 cycles(tsc) - 17 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0 30 - 18 cycles(tsc) - 23 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:5 32 - 18 cycles(tsc) - 22 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:4 34 - 23 cycles(tsc) - 22 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:-1 48 - 21 cycles(tsc) - 22 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:1 64 - 20 cycles(tsc) - 48 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:28 128 - 27 cycles(tsc) - 57 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:30 158 - 30 cycles(tsc) - 59 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:29 250 - 37 cycles(tsc) - 56 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:19 Joint work with Alexander Duyck. [1] https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/kernel/mm/slab_bulk_test01.c [akpm@linux-foundation.org: BUG_ON -> WARN_ON;return] Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer authored
Make it possible to free a freelist with several objects by adjusting API of slab_free() and __slab_free() to have head, tail and an objects counter (cnt). Tail being NULL indicate single object free of head object. This allow compiler inline constant propagation in slab_free() and slab_free_freelist_hook() to avoid adding any overhead in case of single object free. This allows a freelist with several objects (all within the same slab-page) to be free'ed using a single locked cmpxchg_double in __slab_free() and with an unlocked cmpxchg_double in slab_free(). Object debugging on the free path is also extended to handle these freelists. When CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled it will also detect if objects don't belong to the same slab-page. These changes are needed for the next patch to bulk free the detached freelists it introduces and constructs. Micro benchmarking showed no performance reduction due to this change, when debugging is turned off (compiled with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG). Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Helge Deller authored
Adjust the linker script and map_pages() to map kernel text and data on physical 1MB huge/large pages. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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Helge Deller authored
This patch adds huge page support to allow userspace to allocate huge pages and to use hugetlbfs filesystem on 32- and 64-bit Linux kernels. A later patch will add kernel support to map kernel text and data on huge pages. The only requirement is, that the kernel needs to be compiled for a PA8X00 CPU (PA2.0 architecture). Older PA1.X CPUs do not support variable page sizes. 64bit Kernels are compiled for PA2.0 by default. Technically on parisc multiple physical huge pages may be needed to emulate standard 2MB huge pages. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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Helge Deller authored
Use the 22bit instead of the 17bit branch instruction on a 64bit kernel to reach the do_syscall_trace_exit function from the gateway page. A huge page enabled kernel may need the additional branch distance bits. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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Helge Deller authored
For the 64bit kernel the initially 16 MB kernel memory might become too small if you build a kernel with many modules built-in and with kernel text and data areas mapped on huge pages. This patch increases the initial mapping to 32MB for 64bit kernels and keeps 16MB for 32bit kernels. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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