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  1. May 17, 2012
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs · 8e7fbcbc
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      
      
      It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power
      aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending
      patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ...
      so remove it to make space free for something better.
      
      There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first
      and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology
      levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a
      state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to
      master and almost nobody does.
      
      Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it
      means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either
      under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if
      there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of
      it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads.
      
      So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea
      even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs
      on every node of the topology.
      
      There is a proposal to replace the user interface with a single
      3 state knob:
      
       sched_balance_policy := { performance, power, auto }
      
      where 'auto' would be the preferred default which looks at things
      like Battery/AC mode and possible cpufreq state or whatever the hw
      exposes to show us power use expectations - but there's been no
      progress on it in the past many months.
      
      Aside from that, the actual implementation of the various knobs
      is known to be broken. There have been sporadic attempts at
      fixing things but these always stop short of reaching a mergable
      state.
      
      Therefore this wholesale removal with the hopes of spurring
      people who care to come forward once again and work on a
      coherent replacement.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
      Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326104915.2442.53.camel@twins
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      8e7fbcbc
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core · fac536f7
      Ingo Molnar authored
      
      
      Merge reason: bring together all the pending scheduler bits,
                    for the sched/numa changes.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      fac536f7
  2. May 14, 2012
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  5. May 06, 2012
    • Chris Mason's avatar
      Btrfs: avoid sleeping in verify_parent_transid while atomic · b9fab919
      Chris Mason authored
      
      
      verify_parent_transid needs to lock the extent range to make
      sure no IO is underway, and so it can safely clear the
      uptodate bits if our checks fail.
      
      But, a few callers are using it with spinlocks held.  Most
      of the time, the generation numbers are going to match, and
      we don't want to switch to a blocking lock just for the error
      case.  This adds an atomic flag to verify_parent_transid,
      and changes it to return EAGAIN if it needs to block to
      properly verifiy things.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
      b9fab919
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha · 03cb00b3
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull alpha fixes from Matt Turner:
       "My alpha tree is back up (after taking quite some time to get my GPG
        key signed).  It contains just some simple fixes."
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha:
        alpha: silence 'const' warning in sys_marvel.c
        alpha: include module.h to fix modpost on Tsunami
        alpha: properly define get/set_rtc_time on Marvel/SMP
        alpha: VGA_HOSE depends on VGA_CONSOLE
      03cb00b3
    • Jiri Slaby's avatar
      TTY: pdc_cons, fix regression in close · 49a5f3cf
      Jiri Slaby authored
      The test in pdc_console_tty_close '!tty->count' was always wrong
      because tty->count is decremented after tty->ops->close is called and
      thus can never be zero. Hence the 'then' branch was never executed and
      the timer never deleted.
      
      This did not matter until commit 5dd5bc40
      
       ("TTY: pdc_cons, use
      tty_port").  There we needed to set TTY in tty_port to NULL, but this
      never happened due to the bug above.
      
      So change the test to really trigger at the last close by changing the
      condition to 'tty->count == 1'.
      
      Well, the driver should not touch tty->count at all.  It should use
      tty_port->count and count open count there itself.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      49a5f3cf
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'sound-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound · 1c2f9548
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull sound sound fixes from Takashi Iwai:
       "As good as nothing exciting here; just a few trivial fixes for various
        ASoC stuff."
      
      * tag 'sound-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound:
        ASoC: omap-pcm: Free dma buffers in case of error.
        ASoC: s3c2412-i2s: Fix dai registration
        ASoC: wm8350: Don't use locally allocated codec struct
        ASoC: tlv312aic23: unbreak resume
        ASoC: bf5xx-ssm2602: Set DAI format
        ASoC: core: check of_property_count_strings failure
        ASoC: dt: sgtl5000.txt: Add description for 'reg' field
        ASoC: wm_hubs: Make sure we don't disable differential line outputs
      1c2f9548
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux · 59068e36
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull an ACPI patch from Len Brown:
       "It fixes a D3 issue new in 3.4-rc1."
      
      By Lin Ming via Len Brown:
      * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
        ACPI: Fix D3hot v D3cold confusion
      59068e36
    • Sasha Levin's avatar
      init: don't try mounting device as nfs root unless type fully matches · 377485f6
      Sasha Levin authored
      
      
      Currently, we'll try mounting any device who's major device number is
      UNNAMED_MAJOR as NFS root.  This would happen for non-NFS devices as
      well (such as 9p devices) but it wouldn't cause any issues since
      mounting the device as NFS would fail quickly and the code proceeded to
      doing the proper mount:
      
             [  101.522716] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
             [  101.534499] VFS: Mounted root (9p filesystem) on device 0:18.
      
      Commit 6829a048102a ("NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT") introduced retries
      when mounting NFS root, which means that now we don't immediately fail
      and instead it takes an additional 90+ seconds until we stop retrying,
      which has revealed the issue this patch fixes.
      
      This meant that it would take an additional 90 seconds to boot when
      we're not using a device type which gets detected in order before NFS.
      
      This patch modifies the NFS type check to require device type to be
      'Root_NFS' instead of requiring the device to have an UNNAMED_MAJOR
      major.  This makes boot process cleaner since we now won't go through
      the NFS mounting code at all when the device isn't an NFS root
      ("/dev/nfs").
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      377485f6
  6. May 05, 2012