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Glauber Costa
9ddabbe72e KVM: KVM Steal time guest/host interface
To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest information
about how much time was spent running other processes outside the VM.
This is per-vcpu, and using the kvmclock structure for that is an abuse
we decided not to make.

In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that
holds the memory area address containing information about steal time

This patch contains the headers for it. I am keeping it separate to facilitate
backports to people who wants to backport the kernel part but not the
hypervisor, or the other way around.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-07-12 13:17:03 +03:00
Paul Mackerras
aa04b4cc5b KVM: PPC: Allocate RMAs (Real Mode Areas) at boot for use by guests
This adds infrastructure which will be needed to allow book3s_hv KVM to
run on older POWER processors, including PPC970, which don't support
the Virtual Real Mode Area (VRMA) facility, but only the Real Mode
Offset (RMO) facility.  These processors require a physically
contiguous, aligned area of memory for each guest.  When the guest does
an access in real mode (MMU off), the address is compared against a
limit value, and if it is lower, the address is ORed with an offset
value (from the Real Mode Offset Register (RMOR)) and the result becomes
the real address for the access.  The size of the RMA has to be one of
a set of supported values, which usually includes 64MB, 128MB, 256MB
and some larger powers of 2.

Since we are unlikely to be able to allocate 64MB or more of physically
contiguous memory after the kernel has been running for a while, we
allocate a pool of RMAs at boot time using the bootmem allocator.  The
size and number of the RMAs can be set using the kvm_rma_size=xx and
kvm_rma_count=xx kernel command line options.

KVM exports a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA, to signal the availability
of the pool of preallocated RMAs.  The capability value is 1 if the
processor can use an RMA but doesn't require one (because it supports
the VRMA facility), or 2 if the processor requires an RMA for each guest.

This adds a new ioctl, KVM_ALLOCATE_RMA, which allocates an RMA from the
pool and returns a file descriptor which can be used to map the RMA.  It
also returns the size of the RMA in the argument structure.

Having an RMA means we will get multiple KMV_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
ioctl calls from userspace.  To cope with this, we now preallocate the
kvm->arch.ram_pginfo array when the VM is created with a size sufficient
for up to 64GB of guest memory.  Subsequently we will get rid of this
array and use memory associated with each memslot instead.

This moves most of the code that translates the user addresses into
host pfns (page frame numbers) out of kvmppc_prepare_vrma up one level
to kvmppc_core_prepare_memory_region.  Also, instead of having to look
up the VMA for each page in order to check the page size, we now check
that the pages we get are compound pages of 16MB.  However, if we are
adding memory that is mapped to an RMA, we don't bother with calling
get_user_pages_fast and instead just offset from the base pfn for the
RMA.

Typically the RMA gets added after vcpus are created, which makes it
inconvenient to have the LPCR (logical partition control register) value
in the vcpu->arch struct, since the LPCR controls whether the processor
uses RMA or VRMA for the guest.  This moves the LPCR value into the
kvm->arch struct and arranges for the MER (mediated external request)
bit, which is the only bit that varies between vcpus, to be set in
assembly code when going into the guest if there is a pending external
interrupt request.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12 13:16:57 +03:00
Paul Mackerras
371fefd6f2 KVM: PPC: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modes
This lifts the restriction that book3s_hv guests can only run one
hardware thread per core, and allows them to use up to 4 threads
per core on POWER7.  The host still has to run single-threaded.

This capability is advertised to qemu through a new KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT
capability.  The return value of the ioctl querying this capability
is the number of vcpus per virtual CPU core (vcore), currently 4.

To use this, the host kernel should be booted with all threads
active, and then all the secondary threads should be offlined.
This will put the secondary threads into nap mode.  KVM will then
wake them from nap mode and use them for running guest code (while
they are still offline).  To wake the secondary threads, we send
them an IPI using a new xics_wake_cpu() function, implemented in
arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/icp-native.c.  In other words, at this stage
we assume that the platform has a XICS interrupt controller and
we are using icp-native.c to drive it.  Since the woken thread will
need to acknowledge and clear the IPI, we also export the base
physical address of the XICS registers using kvmppc_set_xics_phys()
for use in the low-level KVM book3s code.

When a vcpu is created, it is assigned to a virtual CPU core.
The vcore number is obtained by dividing the vcpu number by the
number of threads per core in the host.  This number is exported
to userspace via the KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability.  If qemu wishes
to run the guest in single-threaded mode, it should make all vcpu
numbers be multiples of the number of threads per core.

We distinguish three states of a vcpu: runnable (i.e., ready to execute
the guest), blocked (that is, idle), and busy in host.  We currently
implement a policy that the vcore can run only when all its threads
are runnable or blocked.  This way, if a vcpu needs to execute elsewhere
in the kernel or in qemu, it can do so without being starved of CPU
by the other vcpus.

When a vcore starts to run, it executes in the context of one of the
vcpu threads.  The other vcpu threads all go to sleep and stay asleep
until something happens requiring the vcpu thread to return to qemu,
or to wake up to run the vcore (this can happen when another vcpu
thread goes from busy in host state to blocked).

It can happen that a vcpu goes from blocked to runnable state (e.g.
because of an interrupt), and the vcore it belongs to is already
running.  In that case it can start to run immediately as long as
the none of the vcpus in the vcore have started to exit the guest.
We send the next free thread in the vcore an IPI to get it to start
to execute the guest.  It synchronizes with the other threads via
the vcore->entry_exit_count field to make sure that it doesn't go
into the guest if the other vcpus are exiting by the time that it
is ready to actually enter the guest.

Note that there is no fixed relationship between the hardware thread
number and the vcpu number.  Hardware threads are assigned to vcpus
as they become runnable, so we will always use the lower-numbered
hardware threads in preference to higher-numbered threads if not all
the vcpus in the vcore are runnable, regardless of which vcpus are
runnable.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12 13:16:57 +03:00
David Gibson
54738c0971 KVM: PPC: Accelerate H_PUT_TCE by implementing it in real mode
This improves I/O performance for guests using the PAPR
paravirtualization interface by making the H_PUT_TCE hcall faster, by
implementing it in real mode.  H_PUT_TCE is used for updating virtual
IOMMU tables, and is used both for virtual I/O and for real I/O in the
PAPR interface.

Since this moves the IOMMU tables into the kernel, we define a new
KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE ioctl to allow qemu to create the tables.  The
ioctl returns a file descriptor which can be used to mmap the newly
created table.  The qemu driver models use them in the same way as
userspace managed tables, but they can be updated directly by the
guest with a real-mode H_PUT_TCE implementation, reducing the number
of host/guest context switches during guest IO.

There are certain circumstances where it is useful for userland qemu
to write to the TCE table even if the kernel H_PUT_TCE path is used
most of the time.  Specifically, allowing this will avoid awkwardness
when we need to reset the table.  More importantly, we will in the
future need to write the table in order to restore its state after a
checkpoint resume or migration.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12 13:16:56 +03:00
Paul Mackerras
de56a948b9 KVM: PPC: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor mode
This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors,
specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode.  Using hypervisor mode means
that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode.  That means
that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged
registers itself without trapping to the host.  This gives excellent
performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor
architecture other than the one that the hardware implements.

This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the
PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the
interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses.  That means that existing
Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run
under KVM without modification.  In order to communicate the PAPR
hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code
to include/linux/kvm.h.

Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support
(i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be
made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only
do one or the other.

This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present.
Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious
restriction.

With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight
to the guest.  We will never get data or instruction storage or segment
interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program
interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from
the guest.  Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the
exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry
to those exception handlers.

We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage,
hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist
interrupts, so we have to handle those.

In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just
a limited amount.  Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch
and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space.
We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use
anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it.
We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a
kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers,
so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct.

The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have
to be in the same partition.  MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition
(partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and
exit from the guest.  At present we require the host and guest to run
in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction.

This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes
it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA).  We
require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in
order to simplify the low-level memory management.  This also means that
we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now,
since huge pages can't be paged or swapped.

This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12 13:16:54 +03:00
Scott Wood
a4cd8b23ac KVM: PPC: e500: enable magic page
This is a shared page used for paravirtualization.  It is always present
in the guest kernel's effective address space at the address indicated
by the hypercall that enables it.

The physical address specified by the hypercall is not used, as
e500 does not have real mode.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12 13:16:37 +03:00
Avi Kivity
411c588dfb KVM: MMU: Adjust shadow paging to work when SMEP=1 and CR0.WP=0
When CR0.WP=0, we sometimes map user pages as kernel pages (to allow
the kernel to write to them).  Unfortunately this also allows the kernel
to fetch from these pages, even if CR4.SMEP is set.

Adjust for this by also setting NX on the spte in these circumstances.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-07-12 13:16:26 +03:00
Jan Kiszka
58f0964ee4 KVM: Fix KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_ENTRY documentation
The documented behavior did not match the implemented one (which also
never changed).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-07-12 13:16:19 +03:00
Jan Kiszka
91e3d71db2 KVM: Clarify KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE documentation
Neither host_irq nor the guest_msi struct are used anymore today.
Tag the former, drop the latter to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-07-12 13:16:16 +03:00
Jan Kiszka
7f4382e8fd KVM: Fixup documentation section numbering
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-07-12 13:16:10 +03:00
Sasha Levin
55399a02e9 KVM: Document KVM_IOEVENTFD
Document KVM_IOEVENTFD that can be used to receive
notifications of PIO/MMIO events without triggering
an exit.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-07-12 13:15:56 +03:00
Nadav Har'El
823e396558 KVM: nVMX: Documentation
This patch includes a brief introduction to the nested vmx feature in the
Documentation/kvm directory. The document also includes a copy of the
vmcs12 structure, as requested by Avi Kivity.

[marcelo: move to Documentation/virtual/kvm]

Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-07-12 13:15:22 +03:00
Avi Kivity
e76779339b KVM: Document KVM_GET_LAPIC, KVM_SET_LAPIC ioctl
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-07-12 11:44:55 +03:00
Andrea Righi
9b61fc4cf3 Documentation: fix cgroup blkio throttle filenames
All the blkio.throttle.* file names are incorrectly reported without
".throttle" in the documentation. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-06 13:17:51 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
316b379988 Documentation: update CodingStyle memory allocators
The list of available general purpose memory allocators in
Documentation/CodingStyle chapter 14 is incomplete. This patch adds
the missing vzalloc() to the list.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-06 13:17:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ba466c74d9 Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
  PM / Runtime: Update documentation regarding driver removal
  PM: Documentation: fix typo: pm_runtime_idle_sync() doesn't exist.
2011-07-03 13:33:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b775c38925 Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
  hwmon: (k10temp) Update documentation for Fam12h
  hwmon-vid: Fix typo in VIA CPU name
  hwmon: (f71882fg) Add support for the F71869A
  hwmon: Use <> rather than () around my e-mail address
  hwmon: (emc6w201) Properly handle all errors
2011-07-03 11:12:06 -07:00
Clemens Ladisch
af75d5b771 hwmon: (k10temp) Update documentation for Fam12h
Add some CPU series IDs and links to the Fam12h datasheets.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2011-07-03 13:32:54 +02:00
Hans de Goede
5da556e33f hwmon: (f71882fg) Add support for the F71869A
The F71869A is almost the same as the F71869F/E, except that it has
the normal number of temp and pwm zones for a F71882FG derived chip,
rather then the limited number of the F71869F/E.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Max Baldwin <archerseven@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2011-07-03 13:32:53 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
f5da24dbed PM / Runtime: Update documentation regarding driver removal
Commit e1866b33b1 (PM / Runtime: Rework
runtime PM handling during driver removal) forgot to update the
documentation in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt to match the new
code in drivers/base/dd.c.  Update that documentation to match the
code it describes.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
2011-07-02 14:27:11 +02:00
Kevin Hilman
5efb54cc3f PM: Documentation: fix typo: pm_runtime_idle_sync() doesn't exist.
Replace reference to pm_runtime_idle_sync() in the driver core with
pm_runtime_put_sync() which is used in the code.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-07-02 14:27:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
2e34b429a4 Merge branch 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
  MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer of USB/IP
  usb: r8a66597-hcd: fix cannot detect low/full speed device
  USB: ehci-ath79: fix a NULL pointer dereference
  USB: Add new FT232H chip to drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
  usb/isp1760: Fix bug preventing the unlinking of control urbs
  USB: Fix up URB error codes to reflect implementation.
  xhci: Always set urb->status to zero for isoc endpoints.
  xhci: Add reset on resume quirk for asrock p67 host
  xHCI 1.0: Incompatible Device Error
  USB: don't let errors prevent system sleep
  USB: don't let the hub driver prevent system sleep
  USB: change maintainership of ohci-hcd and ehci-hcd
  xHCI 1.0: Force Stopped Event(FSE)
  xhci: Don't warn about zeroed bMaxBurst descriptor field.
  USB: Free bandwidth when usb_disable_device is called.
  xhci: Reject double add of active endpoints.
  USB: TI 3410/5052 USB Serial Driver: Fix mem leak when firmware is too big.
  usb: musb: gadget: clear TXPKTRDY flag when set FLUSHFIFO
  usb: musb: host: compare status for negative error values
2011-06-28 11:15:17 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
ca9c6890b5 PM / Domains: Update documentation
Commit 4d27e9dcff (PM: Make power
domain callbacks take precedence over subsystem ones) forgot to
update the device power management documentation to take changes
made by it into account.  Correct that mistake.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-06-21 23:25:32 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
78420884e6 PM: Update documentation regarding sysdevs
The part of Documentation/power/devices.txt regarding sysdevs is not
valid any more after commit 2e711c04db
(PM: Remove sysdev suspend, resume and shutdown operations), so
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-06-21 23:19:15 +02:00
Kevin Hilman
129b656a0d PM / Runtime: Update doc: usage count no longer incremented across system PM
Commit e866500247 (PM: Allow
pm_runtime_suspend() to succeed during system suspend) removed usage
count increment across system PM.

Update doc to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-06-21 23:17:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
357ed6b1a1 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file
  rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y
  rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
  rcu: Simplify curing of load woes
2011-06-19 08:56:56 -07:00
Sarah Sharp
a9e758634f USB: Fix up URB error codes to reflect implementation.
Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt mentions that urb->status can be set to
-EXDEV, if the isochronous transfer was not fully completed.  However, in
practice, EHCI, UHCI, and OHCI all only set -EXDEV in the individual frame
status, never in the URB status.  Those host controller actually always
pass in a zero status to usb_hcd_giveback_urb, and rely on the core to set
the appropriate status value.

The xHCI driver ran into issues with the uvcvideo driver when it tried to
set -EXDEV in urb->status, because the driver refused to submit URBs, and
the userspace camera application's video froze.

Clean up the documentation to reflect the actual implementation.

Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
2011-06-17 11:28:21 -07:00
Jörg Sommer
67de0162fb Documentation: fix cgroup typos and formatting
Fix format and spelling.

Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Jörg Sommer
f6e07d3807 Documentation: update cgroupfs mount point
According to commit 676db4af04 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to
mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem
is /sys/fs/cgroup.  Hence, this should be used in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Maxin B. John
06a2c45d6b Documentation: update kmemleak supported archs
Instead of listing the architectures that are supported by
kmemleak in Documentation/kmemleak.txt, just refer people to
the list of supported architecutures in lib/Kconfig.debug so
that Documentation/kmemleak.txt does not need more updates
for this.

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Andrew Murray
04c55715cb Documentation: update printk-formats.txt
This patch updates the incomplete documentation concerning the printk
extended format specifiers.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@mpc-data.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
akpm@linux-foundation.org
31b5f8eeec Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt: remove ns_cgroup from feature-removal-schedule.txt
Commit a77aea9201 ("cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup") removed the
ns_cgroup but it forgot to remove the related doc in
feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Serge E.  Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Ying Han
50c35e5ba2 memcg: add documentation for the memory.numastat API
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rework text, fit it into 80-cols]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:03:59 -07:00
Michael Hennerich
a59ec1e7ff backlight: new driver for the ADP8870 backlight devices
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:03:59 -07:00
Shaohua Li
09223371de rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.

The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread.  A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.

Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler.  Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling.  (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime.  And "the meantime" might well be forever.)

This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work.  RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case.  This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-06-14 15:25:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
81eb3dd843 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid5: remove unusual use of bio_iovec_idx()
  md/raid5: fix FUA request handling in ops_run_io()
  md/raid5: fix raid5_set_bi_hw_segments
  md:Documentation/md.txt - fix typo
  md/bitmap: remove unused fields from struct bitmap
  md/bitmap: use proper accessor macro
  md: check ->hot_remove_disk when removing disk
  md: Using poll  /proc/mdstat can monitor the events of adding a spare disks
  MD: use is_power_of_2 macro
  MD: raid5 do not set fullsync
  MD: support initial bitmap creation in-kernel
  MD: add sync_super to mddev_t struct
  MD: raid1 changes to allow use by device mapper
  MD: move thread wakeups into resume
  MD: possible typo
  MD: no sync IO while suspended
  MD: no integrity register if no gendisk
2011-06-14 11:21:21 -07:00
NeilBrown
f699bf2328 md:Documentation/md.txt - fix typo
Reported-by: CoolCold <coolthecold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-09 11:43:04 +10:00
Alan Stern
21c13a4f7b usb-storage: redo incorrect reads
Some USB mass-storage devices have bugs that cause them not to handle
the first READ(10) command they receive correctly.  The Corsair
Padlock v2 returns completely bogus data for its first read (possibly
it returns the data in encrypted form even though the device is
supposed to be unlocked).  The Feiya SD/SDHC card reader fails to
complete the first READ(10) command after it is plugged in or after a
new card is inserted, returning a status code that indicates it thinks
the command was invalid, which prevents the kernel from retrying the
read.

Since the first read of a new device or a new medium is for the
partition sector, the kernel is unable to retrieve the device's
partition table.  Users have to manually issue an "hdparm -z" or
"blockdev --rereadpt" command before they can access the device.

This patch (as1470) works around the problem.  It adds a new quirk
flag, US_FL_INVALID_READ10, indicating that the first READ(10) should
always be retried immediately, as should any failing READ(10) commands
(provided the preceding READ(10) command succeeded, to avoid getting
stuck in a loop).  The patch also adds appropriate unusual_devs
entries containing the new flag.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Sven Geggus <sven-usbst@geggus.net>
Tested-by: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+linux@gmail.com>
CC: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
CC: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-07 09:05:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f0f52a9463 Merge git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6:
  intel-iommu: Fix off-by-one in RMRR setup
  intel-iommu: Add domain check in domain_remove_one_dev_info
  intel-iommu: Remove Host Bridge devices from identity mapping
  intel-iommu: Use coherent DMA mask when requested
  intel-iommu: Dont cache iova above 32bit
  intel-iommu: Speed up processing of the identity_mapping function
  intel-iommu: Check for identity mapping candidate using system dma mask
  intel-iommu: Only unlink device domains from iommu
  intel-iommu: Enable super page (2MiB, 1GiB, etc.) support
  intel-iommu: Flush unmaps at domain_exit
  intel-iommu: Remove obsolete comment from detect_intel_iommu
  intel-iommu: fix VT-d PMR disable for TXT on S3 resume
2011-06-02 05:48:50 +09:00
Youquan Song
6dd9a7c737 intel-iommu: Enable super page (2MiB, 1GiB, etc.) support
There are no externally-visible changes with this. In the loop in the
internal __domain_mapping() function, we simply detect if we are mapping:
  - size >= 2MiB, and
  - virtual address aligned to 2MiB, and
  - physical address aligned to 2MiB, and
  - on hardware that supports superpages.

(and likewise for larger superpages).

We automatically use a superpage for such mappings. We never have to
worry about *breaking* superpages, since we trust that we will always
*unmap* the same range that was mapped. So all we need to do is ensure
that dma_pte_clear_range() will also cope with superpages.

Adjust pfn_to_dma_pte() to take a superpage 'level' as an argument, so
it can return a PTE at the appropriate level rather than always
extending the page tables all the way down to level 1. Again, this is
simplified by the fact that we should never encounter existing small
pages when we're creating a mapping; any old mapping that used the same
virtual range will have been entirely removed and its obsolete page
tables freed.

Provide an 'intel_iommu=sp_off' argument on the command line as a
chicken bit. Not that it should ever be required.

==

The original commit seen in the iommu-2.6.git was Youquan's
implementation (and completion) of my own half-baked code which I'd
typed into an email. Followed by half a dozen subsequent 'fixes'.

I've taken the unusual step of rewriting history and collapsing the
original commits in order to keep the main history simpler, and make
life easier for the people who are going to have to backport this to
older kernels. And also so I can give it a more coherent commit comment
which (hopefully) gives a better explanation of what's going on.

The original sequence of commits leading to identical code was:

Youquan Song (3):
      intel-iommu: super page support
      intel-iommu: Fix superpage alignment calculation error
      intel-iommu: Fix superpage level calculation error in dma_pfn_level_pte()

David Woodhouse (4):
      intel-iommu: Precalculate superpage support for dmar_domain
      intel-iommu: Fix hardware_largepage_caps()
      intel-iommu: Fix inappropriate use of superpages in __domain_mapping()
      intel-iommu: Fix phys_pfn in __domain_mapping for sglist pages

Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-06-01 12:26:35 +01:00
Rusty Russell
990c91f0af lguest: remove support for VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY.
No virtio device does this any more, so no need to clutter lguest with it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-05-30 11:14:12 +09:30
Rusty Russell
bc805a03c2 lguest: fix up compilation after move
ed16648eb5 "Move kvm, uml, and lguest
subdirectories" broke the lguest example launcher.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-05-30 11:14:12 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
2ba781ced9 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86: (43 commits)
  acer-wmi: support integer return type from WMI methods
  msi-laptop: fix section mismatch in reference from the function load_scm_model_init
  acer-wmi: support to set communication device state by new wmid method
  acer-wmi: allow 64-bits return buffer from WMI methods
  acer-wmi: check the existence of internal 3G device when set capability
  platform/x86:delete two unused variables
  support wlan hotkey on Acer Travelmate 5735Z
  platform-x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix memory leak
  platform/x86: Fix Makefile for intel_mid_powerbtn
  platform/x86: Simplify intel_mid_powerbtn
  acer-wmi: Delete out-of-date documentation
  acerhdf: Clean up includes
  acerhdf: Drop pointless dependency on THERMAL_HWMON
  acer-wmi: Update MAINTAINERS
  wmi: Orphan ACPI-WMI driver
  tc1100-wmi: Orphan driver
  acer-wmi: does not allow negative number set to initial device state
  platform/oaktrail: ACPI EC Extra driver for Oaktrail
  thinkpad_acpi: Convert printks to pr_<level>
  thinkpad_acpi: Correct !CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_VIDEO warning
  ...
2011-05-29 11:44:33 -07:00
Matthew Garrett
437cb0dbd1 Merge branch 'x86-platform-next' into x86-platform 2011-05-29 14:27:13 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
daa94222b6 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  ACPI EC: remove redundant code
  ACPI: Add D3 cold state
  ACPI: processor: fix processor_physically_present in UP kernel
  ACPI: Split out custom_method functionality into an own driver
  ACPI: Cleanup custom_method debug stuff
  ACPI EC: enable MSI workaround for Quanta laptops
  ACPICA: Update to version 20110413
  ACPICA: Execute an orphan _REG method under the EC device
  ACPICA: Move ACPI_NUM_PREDEFINED_REGIONS to a more appropriate place
  ACPICA: Update internal address SpaceID for DataTable regions
  ACPICA: Add more methods eligible for NULL package element removal
  ACPICA: Split all internal Global Lock functions to new file - evglock
  ACPI: EC: add another DMI check for ASUS hardware
  ACPI EC: remove dead code
  ACPICA: Fix code divergence of global lock handling
  ACPICA: Use acpi_os_create_lock interface
  ACPI: osl, add acpi_os_create_lock interface
  ACPI:Fix goto flows in thermal-sys
2011-05-29 11:19:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f310642123 Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
  x86 idle: deprecate "no-hlt" cmdline param
  x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
  x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()
  x86 idle: EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle, pm_idle) only when APM demands it
  x86 idle: clarify AMD erratum 400 workaround
  idle governor: Avoid lock acquisition to read pm_qos before entering idle
  cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds
2011-05-29 11:18:09 -07:00
Len Brown
5d4c47e019 x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
mwait_idle() is a C1-only idle loop intended to be more efficient
than HLT on SMP hardware that supports it.

But mwait_idle() has been replaced by the more general
mwait_idle_with_hints(), which handles both C1 and deeper C-states.
ACPI uses only mwait_idle_with_hints(), and never uses mwait_idle().

Deprecate mwait_idle() and the "idle=mwait" cmdline param
to simplify the x86 idle code.

After this change, kernels configured with
(!CONFIG_ACPI=n && !CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=n) when run on hardware
that support MWAIT will simply use HLT.  If MWAIT is desired
on those systems, cpuidle and the cpuidle drivers above
can be used.

cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 03:39:17 -04:00
Len Brown
cdaab4a0d3 x86 idle: deprecate "no-hlt" cmdline param
We'd rather that modern machines not check if HLT works on
every entry into idle, for the benefit of machines that had
marginal electricals 15-years ago.  If those machines are still running
the upstream kernel, they can use "idle=poll".  The only difference
will be that they'll now invoke HLT in machine_hlt().

cc: x86@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 03:39:16 -04:00
Len Brown
99c6322143 x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
We don't want to export the pm_idle function pointer to modules.
Currently CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE w/ CONFIG_APM_MODULE forces us to.

CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is of dubious value, it runs only on 32-bit
uniprocessor laptops that are over 10 years old.  It calls into
the BIOS during idle, and is known to cause a number of machines
to fail.

Removing CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE and will allow us to stop exporting
pm_idle.  Any systems that were calling into the APM BIOS
at run-time will simply use HLT instead.

cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 03:39:15 -04:00
Len Brown
3b70b2e5fc x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()
Plan to remove floppy_disable_hlt in 2012, an ancient
workaround with comments that it should be removed.

This allows us to remove clutter and a run-time branch
from the idle code.

WARN_ONCE() on invocation until it is removed.

cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 03:39:15 -04:00