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30368 Commits

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Frederic Weisbecker
412d0bb553 tracing/function-graph-tracer: strip ending newlines on comments
Impact: tracer output improvement

Ending newlines are appended automatically on comments by the function
graph tracer because the newline needs to be placed after the "*/"
comment characters.

So if the user puts an ending newline, we want to strip it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26 10:42:14 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
18eefedfe8 irq: simplify for_each_irq_desc() usage
Impact: cleanup

all for_each_irq_desc() usage point have !desc check.
then its check can move into for_each_irq_desc() macro.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26 09:48:18 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
26ddd8d5ca proc: remove ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ from stat.c
Impact: cleanup

irq_desc can be NULL when CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y only.
therefore, NULL checking can move into kstat_irqs_cpu() of SPARSE_IRQ version.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26 09:48:18 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
f9af0e7091 irq: for_each_irq_desc() move to irqnr.h
Impact: cleanup

before CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ age, for_each_irq_desc() sat in irqnr.h and
could be called from generic code.

CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ breaks this assumption, but SPARSE_IRQ version
for_each_irq_desc() also can move into irqnr.h easily.

Also, this patch unifies CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ and !CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
for_each_irq_desc().

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26 09:48:17 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
51bc39f4ba hrtimer: remove #include <linux/irq.h>
Impact: cleanup

<linux/irq.h> can be removed and should be, because:

  - hrtimer doesn't use any irq feature.
  - <linux/irq.h> shouldn't be include from generic code.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-26 09:48:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
32e8d18683 Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hpet', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/rtc' into timers/core 2008-12-25 18:02:25 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
860cf8894b Merge branches 'irq/sparseirq', 'irq/genirq' and 'irq/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.28' into irq/core 2008-12-25 16:27:54 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6638101c11 Merge branches 'core/debugobjects', 'core/iommu', 'core/locking', 'core/printk', 'core/rcu', 'core/resources', 'core/softirq' and 'core/stacktrace' into core/core 2008-12-25 14:06:29 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
cc37d3d206 Merge branch 'core/futexes' into core/core 2008-12-25 13:54:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b594deb0cc Merge branch 'core/debug' into core/core 2008-12-25 13:53:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0b271ef452 Merge commit 'v2.6.28' into core/core 2008-12-25 13:51:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4e202284e6 Merge branch 'sched/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.28' into sched/core 2008-12-25 13:42:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
5250d329e3 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' and 'tracing/ring-buffer'; commit 'v2.6.28' into tracing/core 2008-12-25 13:11:00 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
468a15bb4c sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
Impact: extend the wakeup tracepoint with the info whether the wakeup was real

Add the information needed to distinguish 'real' wakeups from 'false'
wakeups.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25 13:10:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9212ddb5ea stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias
Impact: build fix

Some architectures have not implemented save_stack_trace_tsk() yet:

  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_pid_stack':
  base.c:(.text+0x3f140): undefined reference to `save_stack_trace_tsk'

So warn about that if the facility is used.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25 11:44:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
12d79bafb7 rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too
Impact: build fix

Some old architectures still do not use kernel/Kconfig.preempt, so the
moving of the RCU options there broke their build:

 In file included from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sem.h:81,
                 from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sched.h:69,
                 from /home/mingo/tip/arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c:9:
 /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/rcupdate.h:62:2: error: #error "Unknown RCU implementation specified to kernel configuration"

Move these options back to init/Kconfig, which every architecture
includes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25 09:31:28 +01:00
James Morris
cbacc2c7f0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-12-25 11:40:09 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
db8862eafe Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing 2008-12-24 21:08:26 +01:00
Li Zefan
20ca9b3f4c cgroups: avoid accessing uninitialized data in failure path
If cgroup_get_rootdir() failed, free_cg_links() will be called in the
failure path, but tmp_cg_links hasn't been initialized at that time.

I introduced this bug in the 2.6.27 merge window.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-23 15:58:21 -08:00
Sharyathi Nagesh
e368d3a836 cgroups: suppress bogus warning messages
Remove spurious warning messages that are thrown onto the console during
cgroup operations.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyathi@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-23 15:58:21 -08:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
36dffab679 sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
Andrew Morton reported:

> kernel/sched.c: In function 'schedule':
> kernel/sched.c:3679: warning: 'active_balance' may be used uninitialized in this function
>
> This warning is correct - the code is buggy.

In sched.c load_balance_newidle, there's real potential use of
uninitialised variable - fix it.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 22:37:29 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
98db8df777 ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
Impact: eliminate false WARN_ON message

If an interrupt goes off after the setting of the local variable
tail_page and before incrementing the write index of that page,
the interrupt could push the commit forward to the next page.

Later a check is made to see if interrupts pushed the buffer around
the entire ring buffer by comparing the next page to the last commited
page. This can produce a false positive if the interrupt had pushed
the commit page forward as stated above.

Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.

Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 18:45:26 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
a8ccf1d6f6 ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
Impact: fix stuck trace-buffers

If an interrupt comes in during the rb_set_commit_to_write and
pushes the tail page forward just at the right time, the commit
updates will miss the adding of the interrupt data. This will
cause the commit pointer to cease from moving forward.

Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.

Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 18:45:25 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
235c7fc7c5 perfcounters: generalize the counter scheduler
Impact: clean up and refactor code

refactor the counter scheduler: separate out in/out functions and
introduce a counter-rotation function as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8fe91e61cd perfcounters: remove ->nr_inherited
Impact: remove dead code

nr_inherited was not maintained correctly (not decremented) - and also
not used - remove it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
95cdd2e785 perfcounters: enable lowlevel pmc code to schedule counters
Allow lowlevel ->enable() op to return an error if a counter can not be
added. This can be used to handle counter constraints.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
eef6cbf584 perfcounters: pull inherited counters
Change counter inheritance from a 'push' to a 'pull' model: instead of
child tasks pushing their final counts to the parent, reuse the wait4
infrastructure to pull counters as child tasks are exit-processed,
much like how cutime/cstime is collected.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
aa9c4c0f96 perfcounters: fix task clock counter
Impact: fix per task clock counter precision

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
7671581f16 perfcounters: hw ops rename
Impact: rename field names

Shorten them.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:13 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
7995888fcb perfcounters: tweak group scheduling
Impact: schedule in groups atomically

If there are multiple groups in a task, make sure they are scheduled
in and out atomically.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8fb9331391 perfcounters: remove warnings
Impact: remove debug checks

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:08 +01:00
Lachlan McIlroy
27a0464a6c [XFS] Fix merge conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

	fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-12-22 17:34:26 +11:00
Thomas Gleixner
3d44cc3e01 Null pointer deref with hrtimer_try_to_cancel()
Impact: Prevent kernel crash with posix timer clockid CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW

commit 2d42244ae7 (clocksource:
introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW) introduced a new clockid, which is only
available to read out the raw not NTP adjusted system time.

The above commit did not prevent that a posix timer can be created
with that clockid. The timer_create() syscall succeeds and initializes
the timer to a non existing hrtimer base. When the timer is deleted
either by timer_delete() or by the exit() cleanup the kernel crashes.

Prevent the creation of timers for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW by setting the
posix clock function to no_timer_create which returns an error code.

Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-20 14:13:45 -08:00
Markus Metzger
bf53de907d x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
Impact: introduce new ptrace facility

Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.

Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
traced task is forked.

Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.

Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
that when the traced task dies.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-20 09:15:46 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
b909895739 sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and comments
Impact: reduce kconfig variable scope and clean up

Bartlomiej pointed out that the config dependencies and comments are not right.

update it depend to NUMA, and fix some comments

Reported-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 22:56:02 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
26cc271db7 printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug
Impact: fix truncated recursion bug message printout

When recursion_bug is true, kernel discards original message because printk_buf
contains recursion_bug_msg with NULL terminator. The sizeof(recursion_bug_msg)
makes this, use strlen() to get correct length without NULL terminator.

Reported-by: Toshikazu Nakayama <nakayama.ts@ncos.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 22:52:47 +01:00
Jan Beulich
9bb482476c allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
Building upon parts of the module stripping patch, this patch
introduces similar stripping for vmlinux when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y.
Using CONFIG_KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED reduces the overhead of
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL from 245k/310k to 65k/80k for the (i386/x86-64)
kernels I tested with.

The patch also does away with the need to special case the kallsyms-
internal symbols by making them available even in the first linking
stage.

While it is a generated file, the patch includes the changes to
scripts/genksyms/keywords.c_shipped, as I'm unsure what the procedure
here is.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-19 22:47:10 +01:00
Pekka J Enberg
213cc06079 ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
Impact: cleanup

This patch factors out common code from multiple tracers into a
tracing_reset_online_cpus() function and converts the tracers to use it.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 16:29:34 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
baa5835df1 Hibernate: Replace unnecessary evaluation of pfn_to_page()
Replace one evaluation of pfn_to_page() in copy_data_pages() with
the value of a local variable containing the right number already.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19 04:40:35 -05:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
846705deb0 Hibernate: Take overlapping zones into account (rev. 2)
It has been requested to make hibernation work with memory
hotplugging enabled and for this purpose the hibernation code has to
be reworked to take the possible overlapping of zones into account.
Thus, rework the hibernation memory bitmaps code to prevent
duplication of PFNs from occuring and add checks to make sure that
one page frame will not be marked as saveable many times.

Additionally, use list.h lists instead of open-coded lists to
implement the memory bitmaps.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19 04:40:35 -05:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
69643279a8 Hibernate: Do not oops on resume if image data are incorrect
During resume from hibernation using the userland interface image
data are being passed from the used space process to the kernel.
These data need not be valid, but currently the kernel sometimes
oopses if it gets invalid image data, which is wrong.  Make the
kernel return error codes to the user space in such cases.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19 04:40:35 -05:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
3f4b0ef7f2 ACPI hibernate: Add a mechanism to save/restore ACPI NVS memory
According to the ACPI Specification 3.0b, Section 15.3.2,
"OSPM will call the _PTS control method some time before entering a
sleeping state, to allow the platform's AML code to update this
memory image before entering the sleeping state. After the system
awakes from an S4 state, OSPM will restore this memory area and call
the _WAK control method to enable the BIOS to reclaim its memory
image."  For this reason, implement a mechanism allowing us to save
the NVS memory during hibernation and to restore it during the
subsequent resume.

Based on a patch by Zhang Rui.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19 04:40:34 -05:00
Zhang Rui
3fe0313e6e Hibernate: Call platform_begin before swsusp_shrink_memory
Call platform_begin() before swsusp_shrink_memory() so that we can
always allocate enough memory to save the ACPI NVS region from
platform_begin().

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19 04:40:34 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
30cd324e97 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace.h
2008-12-19 09:42:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9924da434a sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
Impact: fix cpumask conversion bug

this warning:

  kernel/sched.c: In function ‘find_busiest_group’:
  kernel/sched.c:3429: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘__first_cpu’ from incompatible pointer type

shows that we forgot to convert a new patch to the new cpumask APIs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:57 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
ad273b32e4 sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
Impact: tweak task balancing to save power more agressively

Active load balancing is a process by which migration thread
is woken up on the target CPU in order to pull current
running task on another package into this newly idle
package.

This method is already in use with normal load_balance(),
this patch introduces this method to new idle cpus when
sched_mc is set to POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE_WAKEUP.

This logic provides effective consolidation of short running
daemon jobs in a almost idle system

The side effect of this patch may be ping-ponging of tasks
if the system is moderately utilised. May need to adjust the
iterations before triggering.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:54 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
7eb52dfa70 sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
Impact: tweak task wakeup to save power more agressively

Preferred wakeup cpu (from a semi idle package) has been
nominated in find_busiest_group() in the previous patch.  Use
this information in sched_mc_preferred_wakeup_cpu in function
wake_idle() to bias task wakeups if the following conditions
are satisfied:

        - The present cpu that is trying to wakeup the process is
          idle and waking the target process on this cpu will
          potentially wakeup a completely idle package
        - The previous cpu on which the target process ran is
          also idle and hence selecting the previous cpu may
          wakeup a semi idle cpu package
        - The task being woken up is allowed to run in the
          nominated cpu (cpu affinity and restrictions)

Basically if both the current cpu and the previous cpu on
which the task ran is idle, select the nominated cpu from semi
idle cpu package for running the new task that is waking up.

Cache hotness is considered since the actual biasing happens
in wake_idle() only if the application is cache cold.

This technique will effectively move short running bursty jobs in
a mostly idle system.

Wakeup biasing for power savings gets automatically disabled if
system utilisation increases due to the fact that the probability
of finding both this_cpu and prev_cpu idle decreases.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:52 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
7a09b1a27b sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
Impact: extend load-balancing code (no change in behavior yet)

When the system utilisation is low and more cpus are idle,
then the process waking up from sleep should prefer to
wakeup an idle cpu from semi-idle cpu package (multi core
package) rather than a completely idle cpu package which
would waste power.

Use the sched_mc balance logic in find_busiest_group() to
nominate a preferred wakeup cpu.

This info can be stored in appropriate sched_domain, but
updating this info in all copies of sched_domain is not
practical.  Hence this information is stored in root_domain
struct which is one copy per partitioned sched domain.
The root_domain can be accessed from each cpu's runqueue
and there is one copy per partitioned sched domain.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:50 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
d5679bd119 sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
Impact: change load-balancing direction to match that of irqbalanced

Just in case two groups have identical load, prefer to move load to lower
logical cpu number rather than the present logic of moving to higher logical
number.

find_busiest_group() tries to look for a group_leader that has spare capacity
to take more tasks and freeup an appropriate least loaded group.  Just in case
there is a tie and the load is equal, then the group with higher logical number
is favoured.  This conflicts with user space irqbalance daemon that will move
interrupts to lower logical number if the system utilisation is very low.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:48 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy
afb8a9b70b sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
Impact: extend range of /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings

Currently the sched_mc/smt_power_savings variable is a boolean,
which either enables or disables topology based power savings.
This patch extends the behaviour of the variable from boolean to
multivalued, such that based on the value, we decide how
aggressively do we want to perform powersavings balance at
appropriate sched domain based on topology.

Variable levels of power saving tunable would benefit end user to
match the required level of power savings vs performance
trade-off depending on the system configuration and workloads.

This version makes the sched_mc_power_savings global variable to
take more values (0,1,2).  Later versions can have a single
tunable called sched_power_savings instead of
sched_{mc,smt}_power_savings.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:46 +01:00