)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "7babe8db99d305340cf4828ce1f5a1481d5622ef", "tree": "fdac7a084646bb6d125ebc62b0b75806e45d1025", "parents": [ "c2147a5092cfe13dbf3210e54e8a622015edeecc" ], "author": { "name": "Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu", "email": "eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro", "time": "Fri Jul 25 19:45:11 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sat Jul 26 12:00:04 2008 -0700" }, "message": "Full conversion to early_initcall() interface, remove old interface\n\nA previous patch added the early_initcall(), to allow a cleaner hooking of\npre-SMP initcalls. Now we remove the older interface, converting all\nexisting users to the new one.\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]\n[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix]\n[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix]\nSigned-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu \u003ceduard.munteanu@linux360.ro\u003e\nCc: Tom Zanussi \u003ctzanussi@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro \u003ckosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9b610fda0df5d0f0b0c64242e37441ad1b384aac", "tree": "0ea14b15f2e6546f37fe18d8ac3dc83077ec0e55", "parents": [ "b8f8c3cf0a4ac0632ec3f0e15e9dc0c29de917af", "5b664cb235e97afbf34db9c4d77f08ebd725335e" ], "author": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Fri Jul 18 19:53:16 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Fri Jul 18 19:53:16 2008 +0200" }, "message": "Merge branch \u0027linus\u0027 into timers/nohz\n" }, { "commit": "b8f8c3cf0a4ac0632ec3f0e15e9dc0c29de917af", "tree": "183825db00f4e9252603a51a1be6f8874a963dbc", "parents": [ "857f3fd7a496ddf4329345af65a4a2b16dd25fe8" ], "author": { "name": "Thomas Gleixner", "email": "tglx@linutronix.de", "time": "Fri Jul 18 17:27:28 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Thomas Gleixner", "email": "tglx@linutronix.de", "time": "Fri Jul 18 18:10:28 2008 +0200" }, "message": "nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop\n\nJack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing\nproblem in the NOHZ code:\n\n\tscheduler switch to idle task\n\tenable interrupts\n\nWindow starts here\n\n\t----\u003e interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)\n\t \tirq_exit() stops the tick\n\n\t----\u003e interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)\n\n\treturn from schedule()\n\t\n\tcpu_idle(): preempt_disable();\n\nWindow ends here\n\nThe interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The\nfirst interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to\nrerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick\ndisabled.\n\nThe fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set\nNEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly\nhard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.\n\nSolution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure\nthat we can not run into such a situation ever again.\n\ncpu_idle()\n{\n\tpreempt_disable();\n\n\twhile(1) {\n\t\t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); \u003c- tell NOHZ code that we\n\t\t \t\t\t are in the idle loop\n\n\t\t while (!need_resched())\n\t\t halt();\n\n\t\t tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); \u003c- disables NOHZ mode\n\t\t preempt_enable_no_resched();\n\t\t schedule();\n\t\t preempt_disable();\n\t}\n}\n\nIn hindsight we should have done this forever, but ... \n\n/me grabs a large brown paperbag.\n\nDebugged-by: Jack Ren \u003cjack.ren@marvell.com\u003e, \nDebugged-by: eric miao \u003ceric.y.miao@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \u003ctglx@linutronix.de\u003e\n\n" }, { "commit": "1a781a777b2f6ac46523fe92396215762ced624d", "tree": "4f34bb4aade85c0eb364b53d664ec7f6ab959006", "parents": [ "b9d2252c1e44fa83a4e65fdc9eb93db6297c55af", "42a2f217a5e324ed5f2373ab1b7a0a15187c4d6c" ], "author": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Tue Jul 15 21:55:59 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Tue Jul 15 21:55:59 2008 +0200" }, "message": "Merge branch \u0027generic-ipi\u0027 into generic-ipi-for-linus\n\nConflicts:\n\n\tarch/powerpc/Kconfig\n\tarch/s390/kernel/time.c\n\tarch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c\n\tarch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c\n\tarch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c\n\tarch/x86/kernel/ldt.c\n\tarch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c\n\tarch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c\n\tarch/x86/xen/smp.c\n\tinclude/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h\n\tinclude/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h\n\tinclude/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h\n\tinclude/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h\n\tinclude/asm-x86/smp.h\n\tkernel/Makefile\n\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "666484f0250db2e016948d63b3ef33e202e3b8d0", "tree": "734f48c10aa364965e4f4642ee3de51669e62be2", "parents": [ "d18bb9a548e550f3ced57618e75085fb3f173133", "ace7f1b79670aa0c1d9f4b0442be82e565827333" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Jul 14 15:28:42 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Jul 14 15:28:42 2008 -0700" }, "message": "Merge branch \u0027core/softirq\u0027 of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip\n\n* \u0027core/softirq\u0027 of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:\n softirq: remove irqs_disabled warning from local_bh_enable\n softirq: remove initialization of static per-cpu variable\n Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL\n" }, { "commit": "15c8b6c1aaaf1c4edd67e2f02e4d8e1bd1a51c0d", "tree": "3658f893c2f89ea0be4c6cc08aa11fa54476d0f4", "parents": [ "8691e5a8f691cc2a4fda0651e8d307aaba0e7d68" ], "author": { "name": "Jens Axboe", "email": "jens.axboe@oracle.com", "time": "Fri May 09 09:39:44 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Jens Axboe", "email": "jens.axboe@oracle.com", "time": "Thu Jun 26 11:24:38 2008 +0200" }, "message": "on_each_cpu(): kill unused \u0027retry\u0027 parameter\n\nIt\u0027s not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that\nwas removed. So kill it.\n\nAcked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com\u003e\nReviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney \u003cpaulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe \u003cjens.axboe@oracle.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8691e5a8f691cc2a4fda0651e8d307aaba0e7d68", "tree": "6cb6767064d2d43441212566da2d83dcc9a0cd8e", "parents": [ "490f5de52a87063fcb40e3b22f61b0779603ff6d" ], "author": { "name": "Jens Axboe", "email": "jens.axboe@oracle.com", "time": "Fri Jun 06 11:18:06 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Jens Axboe", "email": "jens.axboe@oracle.com", "time": "Thu Jun 26 11:24:35 2008 +0200" }, "message": "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument\n\nIt\u0027s never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry\ninterchangably. So get rid of it.\n\nAcked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe \u003cjens.axboe@oracle.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "961ccddd59d627b89bd3dc284b6517833bbdf25d", "tree": "4d755085845b8beeaa0bbc3d3ee66e1ccc4156a8", "parents": [ "481c5346d0981940ee63037eb53e4e37b0735c10" ], "author": { "name": "Rusty Russell", "email": "rusty@rustcorp.com.au", "time": "Mon Jun 23 13:55:38 2008 +1000" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Mon Jun 23 22:57:56 2008 +0200" }, "message": "sched: add new API sched_setscheduler_nocheck: add a flag to control access checks\n\nHidehiro Kawai noticed that sched_setscheduler() can fail in\nstop_machine: it calls sched_setscheduler() from insmod, which can\nhave CAP_SYS_MODULE without CAP_SYS_NICE.\n\nTwo cases could have failed, so are changed to sched_setscheduler_nocheck:\n kernel/softirq.c:cpu_callback()\n\t- CPU hotplug callback\n kernel/stop_machine.c:__stop_machine_run()\n\t- Called from various places, including modprobe()\n\nSigned-off-by: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\nCc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@goop.org\u003e\nCc: Hidehiro Kawai \u003chidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com\u003e\nCc: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nCc: linux-mm@kvack.org\nCc: sugita \u003cyumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com\u003e\nCc: Satoshi OSHIMA \u003csatoshi.oshima.fk@hitachi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0f476b6d91a1395bda6464e653ce66ea9bea7167", "tree": "28a7f73ebc553dec0ee136395c99f641b0cbf6cc", "parents": [ "4620b49f76096fa5183eecad7d689faa898a4c82" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Wed Jun 18 09:29:37 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Fri Jun 20 15:45:29 2008 +0200" }, "message": "softirq: remove irqs_disabled warning from local_bh_enable\n\nThere\u0027s no need to use local_irq_save() over local_irq_disable() in the\nlocal_bh_enable code since it is a bug to call it with irqs disabled and\ndo_softirq will enable irqs if there is any pending work.\n\nConsolidate the code from local_bh_enable and ..._ip to avoid having a\ndisconnect between them in the warnings they trigger that is currently\nthere.\n\nAlso always trigger the warning on in_irq(), not just in the\ntrace-irqflags case.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nCc: Michael Buesch \u003cmb@bu3sch.de\u003e\nCc: David Ellingsworth \u003cdavid@identd.dyndns.org\u003e\nCc: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4620b49f76096fa5183eecad7d689faa898a4c82", "tree": "872e0744a24a2c1c85920a425894bbb2dc1620a6", "parents": [ "9583f3d9c00974911daf227cbaa12d6c1caaabad" ], "author": { "name": "Vegard Nossum", "email": "vegard.nossum@gmail.com", "time": "Thu Jun 12 23:21:53 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Wed Jun 18 14:30:43 2008 +0200" }, "message": "softirq: remove initialization of static per-cpu variable\n\nSigned-off-by: Vegard Nossum \u003cvegard.nossum@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "962cf36c5bf6d2840b8d66ee9a606fae2f540bbd", "tree": "263ead6b5224453e8c2a92f1ad9cd2091e003b68", "parents": [ "75d3bce2fc0a80f435fe12f2c9ed2632c8ac29e4" ], "author": { "name": "Carlos R. Mafra", "email": "crmafra2@gmail.com", "time": "Thu May 15 11:15:37 2008 -0300" }, "committer": { "name": "Thomas Gleixner", "email": "tglx@linutronix.de", "time": "Sun May 25 07:43:15 2008 +0200" }, "message": "Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL\n\nAs git-grep shows, open_softirq() is always called with the last argument\nbeing NULL\n\nblock/blk-core.c: open_softirq(BLOCK_SOFTIRQ, blk_done_softirq, NULL);\nkernel/hrtimer.c: open_softirq(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_hrtimer_softirq, NULL);\nkernel/rcuclassic.c: open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks, NULL);\nkernel/rcupreempt.c: open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks, NULL);\nkernel/sched.c: open_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ, run_rebalance_domains, NULL);\nkernel/softirq.c: open_softirq(TASKLET_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_action, NULL);\nkernel/softirq.c: open_softirq(HI_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_hi_action, NULL);\nkernel/timer.c: open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq, NULL);\nnet/core/dev.c: open_softirq(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, net_tx_action, NULL);\nnet/core/dev.c: open_softirq(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ, net_rx_action, NULL);\n\nThis observation has already been made by Matthew Wilcox in June 2002\n(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-25/0687.html)\n\n\"I notice that none of the current softirq routines use the data element\npassed to them.\"\n\nand the situation hasn\u0027t changed since them. So it appears we can safely\nremove that extra argument to save 128 (54) bytes of kernel data (text).\n\nSigned-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra \u003ccrmafra@ift.unesp.br\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \u003ctglx@linutronix.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e5e417232e7c9ecc58a77902d2e8dd46792cd092", "tree": "d42798a6dafa81ff63784b2017ce647bd41a4f57", "parents": [ "6bffd7b57d747d74ec2962d7c822f4b86e9f64d4" ], "author": { "name": "Christian Borntraeger", "email": "borntraeger@de.ibm.com", "time": "Thu May 01 04:34:23 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu May 01 08:03:58 2008 -0700" }, "message": "Fix cpu hotplug problem in softirq code\n\ncurrently cpu hotplug (unplug) seems broken on s390 and likely others. On cpu\nunplug the system starts to behave very strange and hangs.\n\nI bisected the problem to the following commit:\n\ncommit 48f20a9a9488c432fc86df1ff4b7f4fa895d1183\nAuthor: Olof Johansson \u003colof@lixom.net\u003e\nDate: Tue Mar 4 15:23:25 2008 -0800\n\ttasklets: execute tasklets in the same order they were queued\n\nReverting this patch seems to fix the problem. I looked into takeover_tasklet\nand it seems that there is a way to corrupt the tail pointer of the current\ncpu. If the tasklet list of the frozen cpu is empty, the tail pointer of the\ncurrent cpu points to the address of the head pointer of the stopped cpu and\nnot to the next pointer of a tasklet_struct.\n\nThis patch avoids the list splice of the list is empty and cpu hotplug seems\nto work as the tail pointer is not corrupted. Olof, can you look into that\npatch and ACK/NACK it so Andrew can push this to Linus, if appropriate?\nPlease note that some lines are longer than 80 chars, but line-wrapping looked\nworse that this version.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christian Borntraeger \u003cborntraeger@de.ibm.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Olof Johansson \u003colof@lixom.net\u003e\nAcked-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "48f20a9a9488c432fc86df1ff4b7f4fa895d1183", "tree": "987a41075c8a6640968b6b2054306644e10e4933", "parents": [ "ac086bc22997a2be24fc40fc8d46522fe7e03d11" ], "author": { "name": "Olof Johansson", "email": "olof@lixom.net", "time": "Tue Mar 04 15:23:25 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Sat Apr 19 19:44:58 2008 +0200" }, "message": "tasklets: execute tasklets in the same order they were queued\n\nI noticed this when looking at an openswan issue. Openswan (ab?)uses the\ntasklet API to defer processing of packets in some situations, with one\npacket per tasklet_action(). I started noticing sequences of\nbackwards-ordered sequence numbers coming over the wire, since new tasklets\nare always queued at the head of the list but processed sequentially.\n\nConvert it to instead append new entries to the tail of the list. As an\nextra bonus, the splicing code in takeover_tasklets() no longer has to\niterate over the list.\n\nSigned-off-by: Olof Johansson \u003colof@lixom.net\u003e\nCc: \"David S. Miller\" \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2232c2d8e0a6a31061dec311f3d1cf7624bc14f1", "tree": "1d90ec0b8bd4e3c154e386f005ef596ee25fa53f", "parents": [ "c0f4133b8f70769bc8dda977feb9a29109d6ccca" ], "author": { "name": "Steven Rostedt", "email": "rostedt@goodmis.org", "time": "Fri Feb 29 18:46:50 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Fri Feb 29 18:46:50 2008 +0100" }, "message": "rcu: add support for dynamic ticks and preempt rcu\n\nThe PREEMPT-RCU can get stuck if a CPU goes idle and NO_HZ is set. The\nidle CPU will not progress the RCU through its grace period and a\nsynchronize_rcu my get stuck. Without this patch I have a box that will\nnot boot when PREEMPT_RCU and NO_HZ are set. That same box boots fine\nwith this patch.\n\nThis patch comes from the -rt kernel where it has been tested for\nseveral months.\n\nSigned-off-by: Steven Rostedt \u003csrostedt@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Paul E. McKenney \u003cpaulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "7ad5b3a505e68cfdc342933d6e0fc0eaa5e0a4f7", "tree": "6715ffd8df509d3d53dea581bb97418a21bc7cbc", "parents": [ "fc9b52cd8f5f459b88adcf67c47668425ae31a78" ], "author": { "name": "Harvey Harrison", "email": "harvey.harrison@gmail.com", "time": "Fri Feb 08 04:19:53 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Fri Feb 08 09:22:31 2008 -0800" }, "message": "kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/*\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]\nSigned-off-by: Harvey Harrison \u003charvey.harrison@gmail.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6378ddb592158db4b42197f1bc8666228800e379", "tree": "f9b1e671dfd12fb221f6140dd231ccb14cd9f27e", "parents": [ "bbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405" ], "author": { "name": "Venki Pallipadi", "email": "venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com", "time": "Wed Jan 30 13:30:04 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Wed Jan 30 13:30:04 2008 +0100" }, "message": "time: track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime\n\nCurrent idle time in kstat is based on jiffies and is coarse grained.\ntick_sched.idle_sleeptime is making some attempt to keep track of idle time\nin a fine grained manner. But, it is not handling the time spent in\ninterrupts fully.\n\nMake tick_sched.idle_sleeptime accurate with respect to time spent on\nhandling interrupts and also add tick_sched.idle_lastupdate, which keeps\ntrack of last time when idle_sleeptime was updated.\n\nThis statistics will be crucial for cpufreq-ondemand governor, which can\nshed some conservative gaurd band that is uses today while setting the\nfrequency. The ondemand changes that uses the exact idle time is coming\nsoon.\n\nSigned-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi \u003cvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \u003ctglx@linutronix.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b10db7f0d2b589a7f88dc3026e150756cb437a28", "tree": "92942041770257c78f7271b79d9860eec10bd77c", "parents": [ "4c9dc6412247abf4972080c51cd16a58c4009c19" ], "author": { "name": "Pavel Machek", "email": "pavel@ucw.cz", "time": "Wed Jan 30 13:30:00 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Wed Jan 30 13:30:00 2008 +0100" }, "message": "time: more timer related cleanups\n\nI was confused by FSEC \u003d 10^15 NSEC statement, plus small whitespace\nfixes. When there\u0027s copyright, there should be GPL.\n\nSigned-off-by: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@suse.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \u003ctglx@linutronix.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "464771fe4743afd00ebff65aee0983fa1aa1da4f", "tree": "abfa2c42df192c55d0aad81bf9140c1009a6a3dc", "parents": [ "a050c33f4a4d5babaf94a8ba6ae7a200135240b3" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@kernel.org", "time": "Wed Sep 12 15:14:45 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@sunset.davemloft.net", "time": "Wed Oct 10 16:49:18 2007 -0700" }, "message": "[KERNEL]: Unexport raise_softirq_irqoff\n\nraise_softirq_irqoff no longer has any modular user.\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c45248c70125cc374fdf264659643276c72801bf", "tree": "fdc05bcf5c5b766a95d531fef0687688d60bfe3c", "parents": [ "b163911f8abf89bafb9cc0ec02a9c43af450ea81" ], "author": { "name": "Robert Olsson", "email": "robert.olsson@its.uu.se", "time": "Mon Sep 17 11:47:12 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@sunset.davemloft.net", "time": "Wed Oct 10 16:48:36 2007 -0700" }, "message": "[SOFTIRQ]: Remove do_softirq() symbol export.\n\nAs noted by Christoph Hellwig, pktgen was the only user so\nit can now be removed.\n\n[ Add missing cases caught by Adrian Bunk. -DaveM ]\n\nSigned-off-by: Robert Olsson \u003crobert.olsson@its.uu.se\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69", "tree": "b0334921341f8f1734bdd3243de76d676329d21c", "parents": [ "787d2214c19bcc9b6ac48af0ce098277a801eded" ], "author": { "name": "Rafael J. Wysocki", "email": "rjw@sisk.pl", "time": "Tue Jul 17 04:03:35 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Jul 17 10:23:02 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default\n\nCurrently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel\nthreads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This\napproach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either\nset PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn\u0027t\ncare for the freezing of tasks at all.\n\nIt seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to\nbe frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any\nfreezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is\ndone in this patch.\n\nThe patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to\nhave PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()\nfunction that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to\nunset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel\nthreads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn\u0027t cause any (intentional)\nchange of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to\ndescribe the freezing of tasks more accurately.\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]\nSigned-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki \u003crjw@sisk.pl\u003e\nAcked-by: Nigel Cunningham \u003cnigel@nigel.suspend2.net\u003e\nCc: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@ucw.cz\u003e\nCc: Oleg Nesterov \u003coleg@tv-sign.ru\u003e\nCc: Gautham R Shenoy \u003cego@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1c6b4aa94576eee6dec3b8011f60d7f666db90b0", "tree": "68d94f262f47d555e90c764b49bb0925e5e43fca", "parents": [ "85653af7d488702165eba72c6c1dd0250fae4e70" ], "author": { "name": "Satoru Takeuchi", "email": "takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com", "time": "Sun Jul 15 23:39:48 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 09:05:41 2007 -0700" }, "message": "cpu hotplug: fix ksoftirqd termination on cpu hotplug with naughty realtime process\n\nFix ksoftirqd termination on cpu hotplug with naughty real time process.\n\nAssuming the following case:\n\n - Try to hot remove CPU2 from CPU1.\n - There is a real time process on CPU2, and that process doesn\u0027t sleep at all.\n - That rt process and ksoftirqd/2 is migrated to the CPU0\n\nThen ksoftirqd/2 can\u0027t stop becasue that rt process runs everlastingly on\nCPU0, and CPU1 waiting the ksoftirqd/2\u0027s termination hangs up. To fix this\nproblem, set the priority of ksoftirqd/2 to max one before kthread_stop().\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]\nSigned-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi \u003ctakeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com\u003e\nCc: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\nCc: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nCc: Oleg Nesterov \u003coleg@tv-sign.ru\u003e\nCc: Ashok Raj \u003cashok.raj@intel.com\u003e\nCc: Gautham R Shenoy \u003cego@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "23bdd703a585a869f2eb32fb9f66749d0476d71e", "tree": "fee338306d86c62de986d64647342dc0d1115e87", "parents": [ "ff80a77f20f811c0cc5b251d0f657cbc6f788385" ], "author": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Mon Jul 09 18:52:00 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Mon Jul 09 18:52:00 2007 +0200" }, "message": "sched: do not set softirqs to nice +19\n\ndo not set softirqs to nice +19. _If_ for whatever reason\nwe missed to process some high-prio softirq and woke up\nksoftirqd, we should give it a fair chance to actually\nget some work done, even if the system is under load.\n\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8bb7844286fb8c9fce6f65d8288aeb09d03a5e0d", "tree": "f4e305edaedbde05774bb1e4acd89a9475661d2e", "parents": [ "f37bc2712b54ec641e0c0c8634f1a4b61d9956c0" ], "author": { "name": "Rafael J. Wysocki", "email": "rjw@sisk.pl", "time": "Wed May 09 02:35:10 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Wed May 09 12:30:56 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug\n\nSince nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been\nfrozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need\nspecial CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware\nsubsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events\nrelated to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress. This\npatch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during\nsuspend and resume transitions. It also changes all of the\nCPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration\n(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding \"normal\"\nones).\n\n[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]\nSigned-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki \u003crjw@sisk.pl\u003e\nCc: Gautham R Shenoy \u003cego@in.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@ucw.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Oleg Nesterov \u003coleg@tv-sign.ru\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "79bf2bb335b85db25d27421c798595a2fa2a0e82", "tree": "550ec2654ae1dd65b871de7fe9c890108c6e86d8", "parents": [ "f8381cba04ba8173fd5a2b8e5cd8b3290ee13a98" ], "author": { "name": "Thomas Gleixner", "email": "tglx@linutronix.de", "time": "Fri Feb 16 01:28:03 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Fri Feb 16 08:13:59 2007 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] tick-management: dyntick / highres functionality\n\nWith Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\n\nAdd functions to provide dynamic ticks and high resolution timers. The code\nwhich keeps track of jiffies and handles the long idle periods is shared\nbetween tick based and high resolution timer based dynticks. The dyntick\nfunctionality can be disabled on the kernel commandline. Provide also the\ninfrastructure to support high resolution timers.\n\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \u003ctglx@linutronix.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nCc: john stultz \u003cjohnstul@us.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Roman Zippel \u003czippel@linux-m68k.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "dde4b2b5f4ed275250488dabdaf282d9c6e7e2b8", "tree": "c14b594c39cb5f64216c24440b4a54ef2db3baea", "parents": [ "07190a08eef3666a8687070226c8d403c1d548b7" ], "author": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Fri Feb 16 01:27:45 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Fri Feb 16 08:13:58 2007 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] uninline irq_enter()\n\nUninline irq_enter(). [dynticks adds more stuff to it]\n\nNo functional changes.\n\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner \u003ctglx@linutronix.de\u003e\nCc: john stultz \u003cjohnstul@us.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Roman Zippel \u003czippel@linux-m68k.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3908fd2ed920af818aa596672da68ba26173ff27", "tree": "e16355f141bfdf15f7b1c17d7fd73bfddf9fa1d2", "parents": [ "c949d4eb40ce021b1abc3b63af23aa535662cb17" ], "author": { "name": "Zachary Amsden", "email": "zach@vmware.com", "time": "Wed Dec 06 20:39:39 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Dec 07 08:39:43 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] softirq: remove BUG_ONs which can incorrectly trigger\n\nIt is possible to have tasklets get scheduled before softirqd has had a chance\nto spawn on all CPUs. This is totally harmless; after success during action\nCPU_UP_PREPARE, action CPU_ONLINE will be called, which immediately wakes\nsoftirqd on the appropriate CPU to process the already pending tasklets. So\nthere is no danger of having a missed wakeup for any tasklets that were\nalready pending.\n\nIn particular, i386 is affected by this during startup, and is visible when\nusing a very large initrd; during the time it takes for the initrd to be\ndecompressed, a timer IRQ can come in and schedule RCU callbacks. It is also\npossible that resending of a hardware IRQ via a softirq triggers the same bug.\n\nBecause of different timing conditions, this shows up in all emulators and\nvirtual machines tested, including Xen, VMware, Virtual PC, and Qemu. It is\nalso possible to trigger on native hardware with a large enough initrd,\nalthough I don\u0027t have a reliable case demonstrating that.\n\nSigned-off-by: Zachary Amsden \u003czach@vmware.com\u003e\nCc: \u003ccaglar@pardus.org.tr\u003e\nCc: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nCc: \u003cstable@kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "07dccf3344010f9b9df7fe725da7e73bca2992df", "tree": "696730ef4e1bf85a24eac84713921746f74c7c10", "parents": [ "6c2d8b5dcad468cb0bdec3368b53383bde51e487" ], "author": { "name": "Akinobu Mita", "email": "mita@miraclelinux.com", "time": "Fri Sep 29 02:00:22 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Sep 29 09:18:14 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] check return value of cpu_callback\n\nSpawing ksoftirqd, migration, or watchdog, and calling init_timers_cpu()\nmay fail with small memory. If it happens in initcalls, kernel NULL\npointer dereference happens later. This patch makes crash happen\nimmediately in such cases. It seems a bit better than getting kernel NULL\npointer dereference later.\n\nCc: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Akinobu Mita \u003cmita@miraclelinux.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3c829c367a1a52550378584a657768217971e587", "tree": "78dfcbe28e6a0db56992ce5ad5891398a9743bf4", "parents": [ "953a7f20667a8b6217ea2ac49c0877e957a0130a" ], "author": { "name": "Tim Chen", "email": "tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com", "time": "Sun Jul 30 03:04:02 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Jul 31 13:28:42 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Reducing local_bh_enable/disable overhead in irqtrace\n\nThe recent changes from irqtrace feature has added overheads to\nlocal_bh_disable and local_bh_enable that reduces UDP performance across\nx86_64 and IA64, even though IA64 does not support the irqtrace feature.\nPatch in question is\n\n[PATCH]lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, core\nhttp://www.kernel.org/git/?p\u003dlinux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a\u003dc\nommit;h\u003dde30a2b355ea85350ca2f58f3b9bf4e5bc007986\n\nPrior to this patch, local_bh_disable was a short macro. Now it is a\nfunction which calls __local_bh_disable with added irq flags save and\nrestore. The irq flags save and restore were also added to\nlocal_bh_enable, probably for injecting the trace irqs code.\n\nThis overhead is on the generic code path across all architectures. On a\nIA_64 test machine (Itanium-2 1.6 GHz) running a benchmark like netperf\u0027s\nUDP streaming test, the added overhead results in a drop of 3% in\nthroughput, as udp_sendmsg calls the local_bh_enable/disable several times.\n\nOther workloads that have heavy usages of local_bh_enable/disable could\nalso be affected. The patch ideally should not have affected IA-64\nperformance as it does not have IRQ tracing support. A significant portion\nof the overhead is in the added irq flags save and restore, which I think\nis not needed if IRQ tracing is unused. A suggested patch is attached\nbelow that recovers the lost performance. However, the \"ifdef\"s in the\npatch are a bit ugly.\n\nSigned-off-by: Tim Chen \u003ctim.c.chen@intel.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8c78f3075dab4be279e283f901f00e33ce44890a", "tree": "034d667a713b24d39608b09bd2aafb7983fb6ba5", "parents": [ "cea6a4ba8acfba6f59cc9ed71e0d05cb770b9d9c" ], "author": { "name": "Chandra Seetharaman", "email": "sekharan@us.ibm.com", "time": "Sun Jul 30 03:03:35 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Jul 31 13:28:39 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] cpu hotplug: replace __devinit* with __cpuinit* for cpu notifications\n\nFew of the callback functions and notifier blocks that are associated with cpu\nnotifications incorrectly have __devinit and __devinitdata. They should be\n__cpuinit and __cpuinitdata instead.\n\nIt makes no functional difference but wastes text area when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is\nenabled and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not.\n\nThis patch fixes all those instances.\n\nSigned-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman \u003csekharan@us.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Ashok Raj \u003cashok.raj@intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6bc02d8412b422388f86b09ae40d762c0bc05290", "tree": "7cc50e1c98febff068f31b138b2cae53a9966c9b", "parents": [ "cccedb1a4af9e96781f206acad638c05364e73ca" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Fri Jul 14 00:24:15 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jul 14 21:53:53 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] unexport open_softirq\n\nChristoph Hellwig:\nopen_softirq just enables a softirq. The softirq array is statically\nallocated so to add a new one you would have to patch the kernel. So\nthere\u0027s no point to keep this export at all as any user would have to\npatch the enum in include/linux/interrupt.h anyway.\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\nAcked-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "80d6679a62fe45f440d042099d997a42e4e8c59d", "tree": "64029c46a0607879567bbb2eb38fc22fa500ca2a", "parents": [ "69c3a5b8fd8cfa67be22f6d7ae5c681c6777d817" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Mon Jul 10 04:44:24 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Jul 10 13:24:18 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] kernel/softirq.c: EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL\n\nThis patch marks an unused export as EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL.\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "829035fd709119d9def124a6d40b94d317573e6f", "tree": "09dfdf1a8cf02ccd88716b9b4701cb17b03fa06f", "parents": [ "8688cfcebf09b84385b5e2c461ae08fcde8a5d18" ], "author": { "name": "Paul Mackerras", "email": "paulus@samba.org", "time": "Mon Jul 03 00:25:40 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Jul 03 15:27:10 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, move account_system_vtime() calls into kernel/softirq.c\n\nAt the moment, powerpc and s390 have their own versions of do_softirq which\ninclude local_bh_disable() and __local_bh_enable() calls. They end up\ncalling __do_softirq (in kernel/softirq.c) which also does\nlocal_bh_disable/enable.\n\nApparently the two levels of disable/enable trigger a warning from some\nvalidation code that Ingo is working on, and he would like to see the outer\nlevel removed. But to do that, we have to move the account_system_vtime\ncalls that are currently in the arch do_softirq() implementations for\npowerpc and s390 into the generic __do_softirq() (this is a no-op for other\narchs because account_system_vtime is defined to be an empty inline\nfunction on all other archs). This patch does that.\n\nSigned-off-by: Paul Mackerras \u003cpaulus@samba.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "de30a2b355ea85350ca2f58f3b9bf4e5bc007986", "tree": "0bef670aff65614b3c78ca13b20307355b8221d5", "parents": [ "5bdc9b447c0076f494a56fdcd93ee8c5e78a2afd" ], "author": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Mon Jul 03 00:24:42 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Jul 03 15:27:03 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, core\n\nAccurate hard-IRQ-flags and softirq-flags state tracing.\n\nThis allows us to attach extra functionality to IRQ flags on/off\nevents (such as trace-on/off).\n\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjan@linux.intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "054cc8a2d808822dadf488a61729e3e550f114c4", "tree": "da7e5ecce06d1898263da9b47714b0b0fa972397", "parents": [ "9c7b216d23e820e0e148d5be01bbb5bd2d8378fe" ], "author": { "name": "Chandra Seetharaman", "email": "sekharan@us.ibm.com", "time": "Tue Jun 27 02:54:07 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jun 27 17:32:41 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17\n\nThis patch reverts notifier_block changes made in 2.6.17\n\nSigned-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman \u003csekharan@us.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Ashok Raj \u003cashok.raj@intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9c7b216d23e820e0e148d5be01bbb5bd2d8378fe", "tree": "53e6c1e4870db49b4999b4053862d3f63375773f", "parents": [ "6ac12dfe9c2027cd3c5ed603f11d1bb4f04906fe" ], "author": { "name": "Chandra Seetharaman", "email": "sekharan@us.ibm.com", "time": "Tue Jun 27 02:54:07 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jun 27 17:32:40 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert init patch submitted for 2.6.17\n\nIn 2.6.17, there was a problem with cpu_notifiers and XFS. I provided a\nband-aid solution to solve that problem. In the process, i undid all the\nchanges you both were making to ensure that these notifiers were available\nonly at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).\n\nWe deferred the real fix to 2.6.18. Here is a set of patches that fixes the\nXFS problem cleanly and makes the cpu notifiers available only at init time\n(unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).\n\nIf CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined then cpu notifiers are available at run\ntime.\n\nThis patch reverts the notifier_call changes made in 2.6.17\n\nSigned-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman \u003csekharan@us.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Ashok Raj \u003cashok.raj@intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fc75cdfa5b43ac4d3232b490800cd35063adafd3", "tree": "0529ffd9633667457d5340a09b3cb352d09436d2", "parents": [ "04a3446c90137a473837288b04b517b19dc67a0d" ], "author": { "name": "Heiko Carstens", "email": "heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com", "time": "Sun Jun 25 05:49:10 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jun 25 10:01:22 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] cpu hotplug: fix CPU_UP_CANCEL handling\n\nIf a cpu hotplug callback fails on CPU_UP_PREPARE, all callbacks will be\ncalled with CPU_UP_CANCELED. A few of these callbacks assume that on\nCPU_UP_PREPARE a pointer to task has been stored in a percpu array. This\nassumption is not true if CPU_UP_PREPARE fails and the following calls to\nkthread_bind() in CPU_UP_CANCELED will cause an addressing exception\nbecause of passing a NULL pointer.\n\nSigned-off-by: Heiko Carstens \u003cheiko.carstens@de.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Ashok Raj \u003cashok.raj@intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "83d722f7e198b034699b1500d98729beff930efd", "tree": "7d790a2fd62165373ec7bacde704837288e0bec3", "parents": [ "649bbaa484bcdce94f40a1b97a6a2ded0549e8a2" ], "author": { "name": "Chandra Seetharaman", "email": "sekharan@us.ibm.com", "time": "Mon Apr 24 19:35:21 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Apr 26 08:30:03 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions\n\nFew of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __init in the definition\nof notifier_call. It is incorrect as the function definition should be\navailable after the initializations (they do not unregister them during\ninitializations).\n\nThis patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_call __init\nsection.\n\nSigned-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman \u003csekharan@us.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "649bbaa484bcdce94f40a1b97a6a2ded0549e8a2", "tree": "f24f05bf95ae9c4164266da87f36fed61c5c2206", "parents": [ "e7edf9cdeddc0cff125e8e658216efb2ff2b2219" ], "author": { "name": "Chandra Seetharaman", "email": "sekharan@us.ibm.com", "time": "Mon Apr 24 19:35:15 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Apr 26 08:27:50 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Remove __devinitdata from notifier block definitions\n\nFew of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __devinitdata in the\ndefinition of notifier_block data structure. It is incorrect as the\ndata structure should be available after the initializations (they do\nnot unregister them during initializations).\n\nThis was leading to an oops when notifier_chain_register() call is\ninvoked for those callback chains after initialization.\n\nThis patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_block data\nstructure in the init data section.\n\nSigned-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman \u003csekharan@us.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "78eef01b0fae087c5fadbd85dd4fe2918c3a015f", "tree": "78057039596aa733ff904a36260cca3a51af6981", "parents": [ "ac2b898ca6fb06196a26869c23b66afe7944e52e" ], "author": { "name": "Andrew Morton", "email": "akpm@osdl.org", "time": "Wed Mar 22 00:08:16 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Mar 22 07:53:59 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] on_each_cpu(): disable local interrupts\n\nWhen on_each_cpu() runs the callback on other CPUs, it runs with local\ninterrupts disabled. So we should run the function with local interrupts\ndisabled on this CPU, too.\n\nAnd do the same for UP, so the callback is run in the same environment on both\nUP and SMP. (strictly it should do preempt_disable() too, but I think\nlocal_irq_disable is sufficiently equivalent).\n\nAlso uninlines on_each_cpu(). softirq.c was the most appropriate file I could\nfind, but it doesn\u0027t seem to justify creating a new file.\n\nOh, and fix up that comment over (under?) x86\u0027s smp_call_function(). It\ndrives me nuts.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a4c4af7c8dc1eccdfb8c57e1684f08179b4407e6", "tree": "210773f292da3ba85818402f1945ee7b14ba8c71", "parents": [ "cc658cfe3c66a6124b5a8db90cdcdd440201b1dc" ], "author": { "name": "Heiko Carstens", "email": "heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com", "time": "Mon Nov 07 00:58:38 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Nov 07 07:53:29 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code\n\nReplace smp_processor_id() with any_online_cpu(cpu_online_map) in order to\navoid lots of \"BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001]\ncode:...\" messages in case taking a cpu online fails.\n\nAll the traces start at the last notifier_call_chain(...) in kernel/cpu.c.\nSince we hold the cpu_control semaphore it shouldn\u0027t be any problem to access\ncpu_online_map.\n\nThe reason why cpu_up failed is simply that the cpu that was supposed to be\ntaken online wasn\u0027t even there. That is because on s390 we never know when a\nnew cpu comes and therefore cpu_possible_map consists of only ones and doesn\u0027t\nreflect reality.\n\nSigned-off-by: Heiko Carstens \u003cheiko.carstens@de.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3f74478b5fd7263e9311cdb320923d599c73a792", "tree": "d61962b55cc7bae06cf872f35d8ab3ae753c70c1", "parents": [ "459192c92cde49d1a2f721c90adf45d774c2dcf5" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Mon Sep 12 18:49:24 2005 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Sep 12 10:49:58 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86-64: Some cleanup and optimization to the processor data area.\n\n- Remove unused irqrsp field\n- Remove pda-\u003eme\n- Optimize set_softirq_pending slightly\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c70f5d6610c601ea2ae4ae4e49f66c80801e895f", "tree": "288ab7efcb1285474e7f7277002cba8de236bbf1", "parents": [ "6d1d07e41a1de478a0da3cc14b4a8054ef09931c" ], "author": { "name": "Andrew Morton", "email": "akpm@osdl.org", "time": "Sat Jul 30 10:22:49 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Jul 30 10:49:59 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] revert bogus softirq changes\n\nThis snuck in with an x86_64 change. Thanks to Richard Purdie\n\u003crpurdie@rpsys.net\u003e for spotting it.\n\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@muc.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ed6b676ca8b50e0b538e61c283d52fd04f007abf", "tree": "753ea613ce334c41f835f6aac21074b137d24713", "parents": [ "3829ee6b1be03d5aa3005fe7d19f30088b539836" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Thu Jul 28 21:15:49 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Jul 28 21:46:02 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Switch to the interrupt stack when running a softirq in local_bh_enable()\n\nThis avoids some potential stack overflows with very deep softirq callchains.\ni386 does this too.\n\nTOADD CFI annotation\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }