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    • Vaidyanathan Srinivasan's avatar
      powerpc: Default arch idle could cede processor on pseries · 363edbe2
      Vaidyanathan Srinivasan authored
      
      
      When adding cpuidle support to pSeries, we introduced two
      regressions:
      
        - The new cpuidle backend driver only works under hypervisors
          supporting the "SLPLAR" option, which isn't the case of the
          old POWER4 hypervisor and the HV "light" used on js2x blades
      
        - The cpuidle driver registers fairly late, meaning that for
          a significant portion of the boot process, we end up having
          all threads spinning. This slows down the boot process and
          increases the overall resource usage if the hypervisor has
          shared processors.
      
      This fixes both by implementing a "default" idle that will cede
      to the hypervisor when possible, in a very simple way without
      all the bells and whisles of cpuidle.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarDeepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      363edbe2
    • Vladimir Murzin's avatar
      powerpc: Fix section mismatch warning for prom_rtas_call · 620e5050
      Vladimir Murzin authored
      
      
      While cross-building for PPC64 I've got
      
      WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x1ba): Section mismatch in
      reference from the function .prom_rtas_call() to the variable
      .init.data:dt_string_start The function .prom_rtas_call() references
      the variable __initdata dt_string_start.  This is often because
      .prom_rtas_call lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of
      dt_string_start is wrong.
      
      WARNING: vmlinux.o(.meminit.text+0xeb0): Section mismatch in reference
      from the function .free_area_init_core.isra.47() to the function
      .init.text:.set_pageblock_order() The function __meminit
      .free_area_init_core.isra.47() references a function __init
      .set_pageblock_order().  If .set_pageblock_order is only used by
      .free_area_init_core.isra.47 then annotate .set_pageblock_order with a
      matching annotation.
      
      Fix it by proper annotation of prom_rtas_call.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Murzin <murzin.v@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      620e5050
    • Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar
      powerpc: Fix possible deadlock on page fault · 69e044dd
      Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
      
      
       stack_grow_into/14082 is trying to acquire lock:
        (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c000000000206d28>] .might_fault+0x78/0xe0
      
       but task is already holding lock:
        (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c0000000007ffd8c>] .do_page_fault+0x24c/0x910
      
       other info that might help us debug this:
        Possible unsafe locking scenario:
      
              CPU0
              ----
         lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
         lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
      
        *** DEADLOCK ***
      
        May be due to missing lock nesting notation
      
       1 lock held by stack_grow_into/14082:
        #0:  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c0000000007ffd8c>] .do_page_fault+0x24c/0x910
      
       stack backtrace:
       CPU: 21 PID: 14082 Comm: stack_grow_into Not tainted 3.10.0-10.el7.ppc64.debug #1
       Call Trace:
       [c0000003d396b850] [c000000000016e7c] .show_stack+0x7c/0x1f0 (unreliable)
       [c0000003d396b920] [c000000000813fc8] .dump_stack+0x28/0x3c
       [c0000003d396b990] [c000000000124b90] .__lock_acquire+0x1640/0x1800
       [c0000003d396bab0] [c00000000012570c] .lock_acquire+0xac/0x250
       [c0000003d396bb80] [c000000000206d54] .might_fault+0xa4/0xe0
       [c0000003d396bbf0] [c0000000007ffe2c] .do_page_fault+0x2ec/0x910
       [c0000003d396be30] [c0000000000092e8] handle_page_fault+0x10/0x30
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      69e044dd
    • Guenter Roeck's avatar
      powerpc: Export cpu_to_chip_id() to fix build error · 256588fd
      Guenter Roeck authored
      
      
      powerpc allmodconfig build fails with:
      
      ERROR: ".cpu_to_chip_id" [drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.ko] undefined!
      
      The problem was introduced with commit 15863ff3 (powerpc: Make chip-id
      information available to userspace).
      
      Export the missing symbol.
      
      Cc: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      256588fd
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API · 70534a73
      Dave Chinner authored
      
      
      Convert the remaining couple of random shrinkers in the tree to the new
      API.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGlauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
      Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
      Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
      Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
      Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
      Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
      Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
      Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
      Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      70534a73