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2007-08-17[IA64] Enable early console for Ski simulatorPeter Chubb
When using Ski to debug early startup, it's a bit of a pain not to have printk. This patch enables the simulated console very early. It may be worth conditionalising on the command line... but this is enough for now. Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-07-30[IA64] Remove a few duplicate includesJesper Juhl
This patch removes a few duplicate includes from arch/ia64/ Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-07-25[IA64] Ensure that machvec is set up takes place before serial consoleHorms
Parse the machvec command line option outside of the early_param() so that ia64_mv is set before any console intialisation that may result from early_param parsing. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-07-19[PATCH] sched: sched_cacheflush is now unusedRalf Baechle
Since Ingo's recent scheduler rewrite which was merged as commit 0437e109e1841607f2988891eaa36c531c6aa6ac sched_cacheflush is unused. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-16serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250Yinghai Lu
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=> register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0. that is too late. Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature. and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically. new command line will be: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 or earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 it will print in very early stage: Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8') console [uart0] enabled later for console it will print: console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0] Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-09sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing codeIngo Molnar
the SMP load-balancer uses the boot-time migration-cost estimation code to attempt to improve the quality of balancing. The reason for this code is that the discrete priority queues do not preserve the order of scheduling accurately, so the load-balancer skips tasks that were running on a CPU 'recently'. this code is fundamental fragile: the boot-time migration cost detector doesnt really work on systems that had large L3 caches, it caused boot delays on large systems and the whole cache-hot concept made the balancing code pretty undeterministic as well. (and hey, i wrote most of it, so i can say it out loud that it sucks ;-) under CFS the same purpose of cache affinity can be achieved without any special cache-hot special-case: tasks are sorted in the 'timeline' tree and the SMP balancer picks tasks from the left side of the tree, thus the most cache-cold task is balanced automatically. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-05-11[IA64] spelling fixes: arch/ia64/Simon Arlott
Spelling and apostrophe fixes in arch/ia64/. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-05-07[IA64] Fix some section mismatch errorsTony Luck
Section mismatch: reference to ... .init.text:prefill_possible_map from .text between 'setup_per_cpu_areas' and 'cpu_init' .init.text:iosapic_override_isa_irq from .text between 'iosapic_init' and 'iosapic_remove' Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-04-30Pull percpu-dtc into release branchTony Luck
2007-04-06[IA64] Fix CPU freq displayed in /proc/cpuinfoVenki Pallipadi
My patch: git commit=95235ca2c20ac0b31a8eb39e2d599bcc3e9c9a10 introduced a bug in IA64 cpuinfo output. Patch changed the proc_freq from 1HZ resolution to 1KHz resolution, but left format string unchanged at " %lu.%06lu". Below is the fix. Thanks to Bjorn for catching this. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-03-20[IA64] Fix get_model_name() for mixed cpu type systemsJack Steiner
If a system consists of mixed processor types, kmalloc() can be called before the per-cpu data page is initialized. If the slab contains sufficient memory, then kmalloc() works ok. However, if the slabs are empty, slab calls the memory allocator. This requires per-cpu data (NODE_DATA()) & the cpu dies. Also noted by Russ Anderson who had a very similar patch. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-03-07[IA64] remove duplicate declaration of efi_initialize_iomem_resourcesHorms
efi_initialize_iomem_resources() is declared in both include/linux/efi.h and arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c. This patch removes the latter. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-03-06[IA64] kexec: Use EFI_LOADER_DATA for ELF core headerMagnus Damm
The address where the ELF core header is stored is passed to the secondary kernel as a kernel command line option. The memory area for this header is also marked as a separate EFI memory descriptor on ia64. The separate EFI memory descriptor is at the moment of the type EFI_UNUSABLE_MEMORY. With such a type the secondary kernel skips over the entire memory granule (config option, 16M or 64M) when detecting memory. If we are lucky we will just lose some memory, but if we happen to have data in the same granule (such as an initramfs image), then this data will never get mapped and the kernel bombs out when trying to access it. So this is an attempt to fix this by changing the EFI memory descriptor type into EFI_LOADER_DATA. This type is the same type used for the kernel data and for initramfs. In the secondary kernel we then handle the ELF core header data the same way as we handle the initramfs image. This patch contains the kernel changes to make this happen. Pretty straightforward, we reserve the area in reserve_memory(). The address for the area comes from the kernel command line and the size comes from the specialized EFI parsing function vmcore_find_descriptor_size(). The kexec-tools-testing code for this can be found here: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-February/005983.html Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-02-12[PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: ia64Alon Bar-Lev
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. [akpm@osdl.org: move some declarations to the right place] Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-06[IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8Chen, Kenneth W
It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store how many physical stack register a cpu has. Ever since the incarnation of ia64 up till upcoming Montecito processor, that variable has "glued" to 96. Having a variable in memory means that the kernel is burning an extra cacheline access on every syscall and kernel exit path. Such "static" value is better served with the instruction patching utility exists today. Convert ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 into dynamic insn patching. This also has a pleasant side effect of eliminating access to per-cpu area while psr.ic=0 in the kernel exit path. (fixable for per-cpu DTC work, but why bother?) There are some concerns with the default value that the instruc- tion encoded in the kernel image. It shouldn't be concerned. The reasons are: (1) cpu_init() is called at CPU initialization. In there, we find out physical stack register size from PAL and patch two instructions in kernel exit code. The code in question can not be executed before the patching is done. (2) current implementation stores zero in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, and that's what the current kernel exit path loads the value with. With the new code, it is equivalent that we store reg size 96 in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, thus creating a better safety net. Given (1) above can never fail, having (2) is just a bonus. All in all, this patch allow one less memory reference in the kernel exit path, thus reducing syscall and interrupt return latency; and avoid polluting potential useful data in the CPU cache. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-02-05[IA64] use snprintf() on features field of /proc/cpuinfoAron Griffis
Some patches have turned up on xen-devel recently to convert strcpy() to safer alternatives and so forth. While reviewing those patches I noticed that the features string building could be cleaned up. This patch uses snprintf() instead of strcpy() and direct character pointer manipulation. It makes the features string building safe and gets rid of the special case for features output in show_cpuinfo() Additionally I removed the (int) cast of ARRAY_SIZE, which seems to serve no purpose. Signed-off-by: Aron Griffis <aron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-12-12[IA64] Take defensive stance on ia64_pal_get_brand_info()Tony Luck
Stephane thought he saw a problem here (but was just confused by the return value from ia64_pal_get_brand_info()). But we should be more defensive here in case an prototype PAL for a future processor doesn't implement this PAL call. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-12-12[IA64] Kexec/Kdump: honour non-zero crashkernel offset.Horms
There seems to be a value in both allowing the kernel to determine the base offset of the crashkernel automatically and allowing users's to sepcify it. The old behaviour on ia64, which is still the current behaviour on most architectures is for the user to always specify the address. Recently ia64 was changed so that it is always automatically determined. With this patch the kernel automatically determines the offset if the supplied value is 0, otherwise it uses the value provided. This should probably be backed by a documentation change. Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-12-12[IA64] CONFIG_KEXEC/CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP permutationsHorms
Actually, on reflection I think that there is a good case for keeping the options separate. I am thinking particularly of people who want a very small crashdump kernel and thus don't want to compile in kexec. The patch below should fix things up so that all valid combinations of KEXEC, CRASH_DUMP and VMCORE compile cleanly - VMCORE depends on CRASH_DUMP which is why I said valid combinations. In a nutshell it just untangles unrelated code and switches around a few defines. Please note that it creats a new file, arch/ia64/kernel/crash_dump.c This is in keeping with the i386 implementation. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-12-07[IA64] IA64 Kexec/kdumpZou Nan hai
Changes and updates. 1. Remove fake rendz path and related code according to discuss with Khalid Aziz. 2. fc.i offset fix in relocate_kernel.S. 3. iospic shutdown code eoi and mask race fix from Fujitsu. 4. Warm boot hook in machine_kexec to SN SAL code from Jack Steiner. 5. Send slave to SAL slave loop patch from Jay Lan. 6. Kdump on non-recoverable MCA event patch from Jay Lan 7. Use CTL_UNNUMBERED in kdump_on_init sysctl. Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-10-31[IA64] move SAL_CACHE_FLUSH check later in bootTroy Heber
The check to see if the firmware drops interrupts during a SAL_CACHE_FLUSH is done to early in the boot. SAL_CACHE_FLUSH expects to be able to make PAL calls in virtual mode, on some cell based machines a fault occurs causing a MCA. This patch moves the check after mmu_context_init so the TLB and VHPT are properly setup. Signed-off-by Troy Heber <troy.heber@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-10-01[SERIAL] Remove wrong asm/serial.h inclusionsRussell King
asm/serial.h is supposed to contain the definitions for the architecture specific 8250 ports for the 8250 driver. It may also define BASE_BAUD, but this is the base baud for the architecture specific ports _only_. Therefore, nothing other than the 8250 driver should be including this header file. In order to move towards this goal, here is a patch which removes some of the more obvious incorrect includes of the file. Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-26Pull model-name into release branchTony Luck
2006-07-10[PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.hJon Smirl
screen_info.h doesn't have anything to do with the tty layer and shouldn't be included by tty.h. This patches removes the include and modifies all users to directly include screen_info.h. struct screen_info is mainly used to communicate with the console drivers in drivers/video/console. Note that this patch touches every arch and I have no way of testing it. If there is a mistake the worst thing that will happen is a compile error. [akpm@osdl.org: fix arm build] [akpm@osdl.org: fix alpha build] Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmir@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-21[IA64] sanity check reserved region usageAlex Williamson
One more trivial, stand-alone patch from the Xen/ia64 review. Sanity check usage of the reserved region numbers. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-06-05[IA64] Add "model name" to /proc/cpuinfoTony Luck
Linux ia64 port tried to decode the processor family number to something human-readable, but Intel brandnames don't change synchronously with updates to the family number. Adopt a more i386-like approach and just print the family number in decimal. Add a new field "model name" that uses PAL_BRAND_INFO to find the official name for the cpu, or on older systems, falls back to using the well-known codenames (Merced, McKinley, Madison). Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-26[PATCH] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structureBjorn Helgaas
Almost all users of the table addresses from the EFI system table want physical addresses. So rather than doing the pa->va->pa conversion, just keep physical addresses in struct efi. This fixes a DMI bug: the efi structure contained the physical SMBIOS address on x86 but the virtual address on ia64, so dmi_scan_machine() used ioremap() on a virtual address on ia64. This is essentially the same as an earlier patch by Matt Tolentino: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112130292316281&w=2 except that this changes all table addresses, not just ACPI addresses. Matt's original patch was backed out because it caused MCAs on HP sx1000 systems. That problem is resolved by the ioremap() attribute checking added for ia64. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26[PATCH] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.cMatt Domsch
Enable DMI table parsing on ia64. Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of i386 dmi_scan.c on x86_64. dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found. This patch adds equivalent changes for ia64 as to what is in the x86_64 tree. In addition, I reworked the DMI detection, such that on EFI-capable systems, it uses the efi.smbios pointer to find the table, rather than brute-force searching from 0xF0000. On non-EFI systems, it continues the brute-force search. My test system, an Intel S870BN4 'Tiger4', aka Dell PowerEdge 7250, with latest BIOS, does not list the IPMI controller in the ACPI namespace, nor does it have an ACPI SPMI table. Also note, currently shipping Dell x8xx EM64T servers don't have these either, so DMI is the only method for obtaining the address of the IPMI controller. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] New IA64 core/thread detection patch [IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms [IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms [IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms [IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms [IA64] Tollhouse HP: IA64 arch changes [IA64] cleanup dig_irq_init [IA64] MCA recovery: kernel context recovery table IA64: Use early_parm to handle mvec_name and nomca [IA64] move patchlist and machvec into init section [IA64] add init declaration - nolwsys [IA64] add init declaration - gate page functions [IA64] add init declaration to memory initialization functions [IA64] add init declaration to cpu initialization functions [IA64] add __init declaration to mca functions [IA64] Ignore disabled Local SAPIC Affinity Structure in SRAT [IA64] sn_check_intr: use ia64_get_irr() [IA64] fix ia64 is_hugepage_only_range
2006-03-24[PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanupAdrian Bunk
include/linux/platform.h contained nothing that was actually used except the default_idle() prototype, and is therefore removed by this patch. This patch does the following with the platform specific default_idle() functions on different architectures: - remove the unused function: - parisc - sparc64 - make the needlessly global function static: - arm - h8300 - m68k - m68knommu - s390 - v850 - x86_64 - add a prototype in asm/system.h: - cris - i386 - ia64 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23IA64: Use early_parm to handle mvec_name and nomcaHorms
I'm not sure of the worthiness of this idea, so please consider it an RFC. Its key merits are: * Reuse existing infrastructure * Greatly tightens up the parsing of nomca * Greatly simplifies the parsing of machvec Addition cleanup (moving setup_mvec() to machvec.c) by Ken Chen. Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-Off-By: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-22[IA64] add init declaration to memory initialization functionsChen, Kenneth W
Add init declaration to variables/functions used for memory initialization. I don't think they would clash with memory hotplug. If they do, please yell. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-22[IA64] add init declaration to cpu initialization functionsChen, Kenneth W
Add init declaration to cpu initialization functions. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-14[IA64] Count disabled cpus as potential hot-pluggable CPUsAshok Raj
Have a facility to account for potentially hot-pluggable CPUs. ACPI doesnt give a determinstic method to find hot-pluggable CPUs. Hence we use 2 methods to assist. - BIOS can mark potentially hot-pluggable CPUs as disabled in the MADT tables. - User can specify the number of hot-pluggable CPUs via parameter additional_cpus=X The option is enabled only if ACPI_CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y which enables the physical hotplug option. Without which user can still use logical onlining and offlining of CPUs by enabling CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y Adds more bits to cpu_possible_map for potentially hot-pluggable cpus. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-07[IA64] Fix CONFIG_PRINTK_TIMETony Luck
There were two problems with enabling the PRINTK_TIME config option: 1) The first calls to printk() occur before per-cpu data virtual address is pinned into the TLB, so sched_clock() can fault. 2) sched_clock() is based on ar.itc, which may not be synchronized across cpus. Ken Chen started this patch, Tony Luck tinkered with it, and Jes Sorensen perfected it. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-12[PATCH] ia64: task_pt_regs()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12[PATCH] scheduler cache-hot-autodetectakpm@osdl.org
) From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch. The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this: - I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems, and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems. [ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ] Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem: - Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the 'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs. This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share any caches. (The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source for details.) Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune migration behavior. Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection: migration_cost=1000,2000,3000 will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values. Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or decrease) the autodetected values: migration_factor=120 will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying migration_factor=0. I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3 P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good: Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache): --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [00]: - 1.7(1) [01]: 1.7(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008) --------------------- Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs. Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache): --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [02] [03] [00]: - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) [01]: 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) [02]: 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) [03]: 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514) --------------------- Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs. 8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]: --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [00]: - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [01]: 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [02]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [03]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [04]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [05]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [06]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) [07]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756) --------------------- This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the migration cost is 19 msecs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12[PATCH] sched: add cacheflush() asmIngo Molnar
Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-05[IA64] Fix compile warnings in setup.cTony Luck
arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c: In function `show_cpuinfo': arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:576: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 12) arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:576: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 13) Introduced by 95235ca2c20ac0b31a8eb39e2d599bcc3e9c9a10 Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-12-06[CPUFREQ] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfoVenkatesh Pallipadi
What is the value shown in "cpu MHz" of /proc/cpuinfo when CPUs are capable of changing frequency? Today the answer is: It depends. On i386: SMP kernel - It is always the boot frequency UP kernel - Scales with the frequency change and shows that was last set. On x86_64: There is one single variable cpu_khz that gets written by all the CPUs. So, the frequency set by last CPU will be seen on /proc/cpuinfo of all the CPUs in the system. What you see also depends on whether you have constant_tsc capable CPU or not. On ia64: It is always boot time frequency of a particular CPU that gets displayed. The patch below changes this to: Show the last known frequency of the particular CPU, when cpufreq is present. If cpu doesnot support changing of frequency through cpufreq, then boot frequency will be shown. The patch affects i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi<venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-11-10Pull context-bitmap into release branchTony Luck
2005-11-07[PATCH] ia64: re-implement dma_get_cache_alignment to avoid EXPORT_SYMBOLJohn W. Linville
The current ia64 implementation of dma_get_cache_alignment does not work for modules because it relies on a symbol which is not exported. Direct access to a global is a little ugly anyway, so this patch re-implements dma_get_cache_alignment in a manner similar to what is currently used for x86_64. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31[IA64] Use bitmaps for efficient context allocation/freePeter Keilty
Corrects the very inefficent method of finding free context_ids in get_mmu_context(). Instead of walking the task_list of all processes, 2 bitmaps are used to efficently store and lookup state, inuse and needs flushing. The entire rid address space is now used before calling wrap_mmu_context and global tlb flushing. Special thanks to Ken and Rohit for their review and modifications in using a bit flushmap. Signed-off-by: Peter Keilty <peter.keilty@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-28Pull proc-cpuinfo-siblings into release branchTony Luck
2005-10-28Pull new-efi-memmap into release branchTony Luck
2005-10-25[IA64] fix siblings field value in /proc/cpuinfoSiddha, Suresh B
Fix the "siblings" field value in /proc/cpuinfo so that it now shows the number of siblings as seen by OS, instead of what is available from hardware perspective. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-28[IA64] end of kernel 'data' is at _end, not _edataTony Luck
/proc/iomem describes a block of memory as "Kernel data", but the end address is derived from "_edata". The kernel actually has many other sections beyond _edata. Get the real end address from _end. Acked-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-19[IA64] ia64: add ar.k0 usage noteBjorn Helgaas
Update comment about how ar.k0 is used. Make the initialization the same as in start_secondary() (no functional change, just make it look more similar). Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-19[IA64] include EFI memory information in /proc/iomemKhalid Aziz
User mode kexec tools expect to find information about physical memory in /proc/iomem (as they do on x86) to validate the addresses that the new kernel will use. Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>