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  1. 03 Oct, 2009 4 commits
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations for NFS statistics · fce22848
      Christoph Lameter authored 
      Simplify NFS statistics and allow the use of optimized
arch instructions.
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
CC: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      fce22848
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations for SNMP statistics · 4eb41d10
      Christoph Lameter authored 
      SNMP statistic macros can be signficantly simplified.
This will also reduce code size if the arch supports these operations
in hardware.
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      4eb41d10
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      this_cpu: Implement X86 optimized this_cpu operations · 30ed1a79
      Christoph Lameter authored 
      Basically the existing percpu ops can be used for this_cpu variants that allow
operations also on dynamically allocated percpu data. However, we do not pass a
reference to a percpu variable in. Instead a dynamically or statically
allocated percpu variable is provided.

Preempt, the non preempt and the irqsafe operations generate the same code.
It will always be possible to have the requires per cpu atomicness in a single
RMW instruction with segment override on x86.

64 bit this_cpu operations are not supported on 32 bit.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      30ed1a79
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      this_cpu: Introduce this_cpu_ptr() and generic this_cpu_* operations · 7340a0b1
      Christoph Lameter authored 
      This patch introduces two things: First this_cpu_ptr and then per cpu
atomic operations.

this_cpu_ptr
------------

A common operation when dealing with cpu data is to get the instance of the
cpu data associated with the currently executing processor. This can be
optimized by

this_cpu_ptr(xx) = per_cpu_ptr(xx, smp_processor_id).

The problem with per_cpu_ptr(x, smp_processor_id) is that it requires
an array lookup to find the offset for the cpu. Processors typically
have the offset for the current cpu area in some kind of (arch dependent)
efficiently accessible register or memory location.

We can use that instead of doing the array lookup to speed up the
determination of the address of the percpu variable. This is particularly
significant because these lookups occur in performance critical paths
of the core kernel. this_cpu_ptr() can avoid memory accesses and

this_cpu_ptr comes in two flavors. The preemption context matters since we
are referring the the currently executing processor. In many cases we must
insure that the processor does not change while a code segment is executed.

__this_cpu_ptr 	-> Do not check for preemption context
this_cpu_ptr	-> Check preemption context

The parameter to these operations is a per cpu pointer. This can be the
address of a statically defined per cpu variable (&per_cpu_var(xxx)) or
the address of a per cpu variable allocated with the per cpu allocator.

per cpu atomic operations: this_cpu_*(var, val)
-----------------------------------------------
this_cpu_* operations (like this_cpu_add(struct->y, value) operate on
abitrary scalars that are members of structures allocated with the new
per cpu allocator. They can also operate on static per_cpu variables
if they are passed to per_cpu_var() (See patch to use this_cpu_*
operations for vm statistics).

These operations are guaranteed to be atomic vs preemption when modifying
the scalar. The calculation of the per cpu offset is also guaranteed to
be atomic at the same time. This means that a this_cpu_* operation can be
safely used to modify a per cpu variable in a context where interrupts are
enabled and preemption is allowed. Many architectures can perform such
a per cpu atomic operation with a single instruction.

Note that the atomicity here is different from regular atomic operations.
Atomicity is only guaranteed for data accessed from the currently executing
processor. Modifications from other processors are still possible. There
must be other guarantees that the per cpu data is not modified from another
processor when using these instruction. The per cpu atomicity is created
by the fact that the processor either executes and instruction or not.
Embedded in the instruction is the relocation of the per cpu address to
the are reserved for the current processor and the RMW action. Therefore
interrupts or preemption cannot occur in the mids of this processing.

Generic fallback functions are used if an arch does not define optimized
this_cpu operations. The functions come also come in the two flavors used
for this_cpu_ptr().

The firstparameter is a scalar that is a member of a structure allocated
through allocpercpu or a per cpu variable (use per_cpu_var(xxx)). The
operations are similar to what percpu_add() and friends do.

this_cpu_read(scalar)
this_cpu_write(scalar, value)
this_cpu_add(scale, value)
this_cpu_sub(scalar, value)
this_cpu_inc(scalar)
this_cpu_dec(scalar)
this_cpu_and(scalar, value)
this_cpu_or(scalar, value)
this_cpu_xor(scalar, value)

Arch code can override the generic functions and provide optimized atomic
per cpu operations. These atomic operations must provide both the relocation
(x86 does it through a segment override) and the operation on the data in a
single instruction. Otherwise preempt needs to be disabled and there is no
gain from providing arch implementations.

A third variant is provided prefixed by irqsafe_. These variants are safe
against hardware interrupts on the *same* processor (all per cpu atomic
primitives are *always* *only* providing safety for code running on the
*same* processor!). The increment needs to be implemented by the hardware
in such a way that it is a single RMW instruction that is either processed
before or after an interrupt.

cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      7340a0b1
  3. 02 Oct, 2009 6 commits
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      percpu: kill legacy percpu allocator · 23fb064b
      Tejun Heo authored 
      With ia64 converted, there's no arch left which still uses legacy
percpu allocator.  Kill it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Delightedly-acked-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      23fb064b
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      ia64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator · 52594762
      Tejun Heo authored 
      Unlike other archs, ia64 reserves space for percpu areas during early
memory initialization.  These areas occupy a contiguous region indexed
by cpu number on contiguous memory model or are grouped by node on
discontiguous memory model.

As allocation and initialization are done by the arch code, all that
setup_per_cpu_areas() needs to do is communicating the determined
layout to the percpu allocator.  This patch implements
setup_per_cpu_areas() for both contig and discontig memory models and
drops HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA.

Please note that for contig model, the allocation itself is modified
only to allocate for possible cpus instead of NR_CPUS.  As dynamic
percpu allocator can handle non-direct mapping, there's no reason to
allocate memory for cpus which aren't possible.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
      52594762
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      ia64: allocate percpu area for cpu0 like percpu areas for other cpus · 36886478
      Tejun Heo authored 
      cpu0 used special percpu area reserved by the linker, __cpu0_per_cpu,
which is set up early in boot by head.S.  However, this doesn't
guarantee that the area will be on the same node as cpu0 and the
percpu area for cpu0 ends up very far away from percpu areas for other
cpus which cause problems for congruent percpu allocator.

This patch makes percpu area initialization allocate percpu area for
cpu0 like any other cpus and copy it from __cpu0_per_cpu which now
resides in the __init area.  This means that for cpu0, percpu area is
first setup at __cpu0_per_cpu early by head.S and then moved to an
area in the linear mapping during memory initialization and it's not
allowed to take a pointer to percpu variables between head.S and
memory initialization.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
      36886478
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      ia64: initialize cpu maps early · 12cda817
      Tejun Heo authored 
      All information necessary to initialize cpu possible and present maps
are available once early_acpi_boot_init() is complete.  Reorganize
setup_arch() and acpi init functions such that,

* CPU information is printed after LAPIC entries are parsed in
  early_acpi_boot_init().

* smp_build_cpu_map() is called by setup_arch() instead of acpi
  functions.

* smp_build_cpu_map() is called once all CPU related information is
  available before memory is initialized.

This is primarily to allow find_memory() to use cpu maps but is also a
general cleanup.  Please note that with this change, the somewhat
ad-hoc early_cpu_possible_map defined and used for NUMA configurations
is probably unnecessary.  Something to clean up another day.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
      12cda817
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      ia64: don't alias VMALLOC_END to vmalloc_end · 126b3fcd
      Tejun Heo authored 
      If CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP is enabled, ia64 defines macro VMALLOC_END
as unsigned long variable vmalloc_end which is adjusted to prepare
room for vmemmap.  This becomes probnlematic if a local variables
vmalloc_end is defined in some function (not very unlikely) and
VMALLOC_END is used in the function - the function thinks its
referencing the global VMALLOC_END value but would be referencing its
own local vmalloc_end variable.

There's no reason VMALLOC_END should be a macro.  Just define it as an
unsigned long variable if CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP is set to avoid nasty
surprises.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      126b3fcd
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable · 0efe5e32
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: fix data space leak fix
  Btrfs: remove duplicates of filemap_ helpers
  Btrfs: take i_mutex before generic_write_checks
  Btrfs: fix arguments to btrfs_wait_on_page_writeback_range
  Btrfs: fix deadlock with free space handling and user transactions
  Btrfs: fix error cases for ioctl transactions
  Btrfs: Use CONFIG_BTRFS_POSIX_ACL to enable ACL code
  Btrfs: introduce missing kfree
  Btrfs: Fix setting umask when POSIX ACLs are not enabled
  Btrfs: proper -ENOSPC handling
      0efe5e32
  5. 01 Oct, 2009 30 commits