linux/kernel/Makefile, branch v2.6.30

Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup

2009-04-07T09:15:40Z

Conflicts: kernel/sysctl.c

Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items

2009-04-03T15:42:35Z

Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items, such as invoking mkdir() or rmdir() - things that may take a long time and may sleep, holding mutexes/semaphores and hogging a thread, and are thus unsuitable for workqueues. The number of threads is always at least a settable minimum, but more are started when there's more work to do, up to a limit. Because of the nature of the load, it's not suitable for a 1-thread-per-CPU type pool. A system with one CPU may well want several threads. This is used by FS-Cache to do slow caching operations in the background, such as looking up, creating or deleting cache objects. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Acked-by: Steve Dickson Acked-by: Trond Myklebust Acked-by: Al Viro Tested-by: Daire Byrne

pm: fix build for CONFIG_PM unset

2009-02-18T23:37:54Z

Compilation of kprobes.c with CONFIG_PM unset is broken due to some broken config dependncies. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Len Brown Acked-by: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup

2009-02-12T12:08:57Z

softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection

2009-01-16T13:06:04Z

Decoupling allows: * hung tasks check to happen at very low priority * hung tasks check and softlockup to be enabled/disabled independently at compile and/or run-time * individual panic settings to be enabled disabled independently at compile and/or run-time * softlockup threshold to be reduced without increasing hung tasks poll frequency (hung task check is expensive relative to softlock watchdog) * hung task check to be zero over-head when disabled at run-time Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kernel/up.c: omit it if SMP=y, USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS=n

2009-01-14T17:42:11Z

Fix the sparc build - we were including `up.o' on SMP builds, when CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS=n. Tested-by: Robert Reif Fixed-by: Robert Reif Cc: David Miller Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

smp_call_function_single(): be slightly less stupid

2009-01-11T02:41:58Z

If you do smp_call_function_single(expression-with-side-effects, ...) then expression-with-side-effects never gets evaluated on UP builds. As always, implementing it in C is the correct thing to do. While we're there, uninline it for size and possible header dependency reasons. And create a new kernel/up.c, as a place in which to put uniprocessor-specific code and storage. It should mirror kernel/smp.c. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot

2009-01-07T16:45:46Z

Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that various hardware delays are done sequentially. In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays in practice. In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this patch does NOT do full parallel initialization. Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects (instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven

Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2008-12-31T00:10:19Z

* 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits) stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit x86: add swiotlb allocation functions swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot resources: skip sanity check of busy resources swiotlb: move some definitions to header swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/mm/init_32.c include/linux/hardirq.h as per Ingo's suggestions.

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2008-12-28T20:27:58Z

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits) sched: fix warning in fs/proc/base.c schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime stats sched: use RCU variant of list traversal in for_each_leaf_rt_rq() sched, cpuacct: export percpu cpuacct cgroup stats sched, cpuacct: refactoring cpuusage_read / cpuusage_write sched: optimize update_curr() sched: fix wakeup preemption clock sched: add missing arch_update_cpu_topology() call sched: let arch_update_cpu_topology indicate if topology changed sched: idle_balance() does not call load_balance_newidle() sched: fix sd_parent_degenerate on non-numa smp machine sched: add uid information to sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED sched: move double_unlock_balance() higher sched: update comment for move_task_off_dead_cpu sched: fix inconsistency when redistribute per-cpu tg->cfs_rq shares sched/rt: removed unneeded defintion sched: add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller sched: include group statistics in /proc/sched_debug sched: rename SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER => SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER sched: clean up SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC ...