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I am getting the following warning when I build kernel 4.9-git on my
PowerBook G4 with a 32-bit PPC processor:
AS arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S:299:7: warning: "CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE" is not defined [-Wundef]
This problem is evident after commit 989cea5c14be ("kbuild: prevent
lib-ksyms.o rebuilds"); however, this change in kbuild only exposes an
error that has been in the code since 2005 when this source file was
created. That was with commit 9994a33865f4 ("powerpc: Introduce
entry_{32,64}.S, misc_{32,64}.S, systbl.S").
The offending line does not make a lot of sense. This error does not
seem to cause any errors in the executable, thus I am not recommending
that it be applied to any stable versions.
Thanks to Nicholas Piggin for suggesting this solution.
Fixes: 9994a33865f4 ("powerpc: Introduce entry_{32,64}.S, misc_{32,64}.S, systbl.S")
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The timer type simplifications caused a new gcc warning:
drivers/base/power/domain.c: In function ‘genpd_runtime_suspend’:
drivers/base/power/domain.c:562:14: warning: ‘time_start’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
elapsed_ns = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(ktime_get(), time_start));
despite the actual use of "time_start" not having changed in any way.
It appears that simply changing the type of ktime_t from a union to a
plain scalar type made gcc check the use.
The variable wasn't actually used uninitialized, but gcc apparently
failed to notice that the conditional around the use was exactly the
same as the conditional around the initialization of that variable.
Add an unnecessary initialization just to shut up the compiler.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull timer type cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"This series does a tree wide cleanup of types related to
timers/timekeeping.
- Get rid of cycles_t and use a plain u64. The type is not really
helpful and caused more confusion than clarity
- Get rid of the ktime union. The union has become useless as we use
the scalar nanoseconds storage unconditionally now. The 32bit
timespec alike storage got removed due to the Y2038 limitations
some time ago.
That leaves the odd union access around for no reason. Clean it up.
Both changes have been done with coccinelle and a small amount of
manual mopping up"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
ktime: Get rid of ktime_equal()
ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage
ktime: Get rid of the union
clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t
Pull SMP hotplug notifier removal from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the final cleanup of the hotplug notifier infrastructure. The
series has been reintgrated in the last two days because there came a
new driver using the old infrastructure via the SCSI tree.
Summary:
- convert the last leftover drivers utilizing notifiers
- fixup for a completely broken hotplug user
- prevent setup of already used states
- removal of the notifiers
- treewide cleanup of hotplug state names
- consolidation of state space
There is a sphinx based documentation pending, but that needs review
from the documentation folks"
* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/armada-xp: Consolidate hotplug state space
irqchip/gic: Consolidate hotplug state space
coresight/etm3/4x: Consolidate hotplug state space
cpu/hotplug: Cleanup state names
cpu/hotplug: Remove obsolete cpu hotplug register/unregister functions
staging/lustre/libcfs: Convert to hotplug state machine
scsi/bnx2i: Convert to hotplug state machine
scsi/bnx2fc: Convert to hotplug state machine
cpu/hotplug: Prevent overwriting of callbacks
x86/msr: Remove bogus cleanup from the error path
bus: arm-ccn: Prevent hotplug callback leak
perf/x86/intel/cstate: Prevent hotplug callback leak
ARM/imx/mmcd: Fix broken cpu hotplug handling
scsi: qedi: Convert to hotplug state machine
No point in going through loops and hoops instead of just comparing the
values.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Pull turbostat updates from Len Brown.
* 'turbostat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
tools/power turbostat: remove obsolete -M, -m, -C, -c options
tools/power turbostat: Make extensible via the --add parameter
tools/power turbostat: Denverton uses a 25 MHz crystal, not 19.2 MHz
tools/power turbostat: line up headers when -M is used
tools/power turbostat: fix SKX PKG_CSTATE_LIMIT decoding
tools/power turbostat: Support Knights Mill (KNM)
tools/power turbostat: Display HWP OOB status
tools/power turbostat: fix Denverton BCLK
tools/power turbostat: use intel-family.h model strings
tools/power/turbostat: Add Denverton RAPL support
tools/power/turbostat: Add Denverton support
tools/power/turbostat: split core MSR support into status + limit
tools/power turbostat: fix error case overflow read of slm_freq_table[]
tools/power turbostat: Allocate correct amount of fd and irq entries
tools/power turbostat: switch to tab delimited output
tools/power turbostat: Gracefully handle ACPI S3
tools/power turbostat: tidy up output on Joule counter overflow
The mpic is either the main interrupt controller or is cascaded behind a
GIC. The mpic is single instance and the modes are mutually exclusive, so
there is no reason to have seperate cpu hotplug states.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161221192112.333161745@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
ktime_set(S,N) was required for the timespec storage type and is still
useful for situations where a Seconds and Nanoseconds part of a time value
needs to be converted. For anything where the Seconds argument is 0, this
is pointless and can be replaced with a simple assignment.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Add a new page flag, PageWaiters, to indicate the page waitqueue has
tasks waiting. This can be tested rather than testing waitqueue_active
which requires another cacheline load.
This bit is always set when the page has tasks on page_waitqueue(page),
and is set and cleared under the waitqueue lock. It may be set when
there are no tasks on the waitqueue, which will cause a harmless extra
wakeup check that will clears the bit.
The generic bit-waitqueue infrastructure is no longer used for pages.
Instead, waitqueues are used directly with a custom key type. The
generic code was not flexible enough to have PageWaiters manipulation
under the waitqueue lock (which simplifies concurrency).
This improves the performance of page lock intensive microbenchmarks by
2-3%.
Putting two bits in the same word opens the opportunity to remove the
memory barrier between clearing the lock bit and testing the waiters
bit, after some work on the arch primitives (e.g., ensuring memory
operand widths match and cover both bits).
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The new --add option has replaced the -M, -m, -C, -c options
Eg.
-M 0x10 is now --add msr0x10,raw
-m 0x10 is now --add msr0x10,raw,u32
-C 0x10 is now --add msr0x10,delta
-c 0x10 is now --add msr0x10,delta,u32
The --add option can be repeated to add any number of counters,
while the previous options were limited to adding one of each type.
In addition, the --add option can accept a column label,
and can also display a counter as a percentage of elapsed cycles.
Eg. --add msr0x3fe,core,percent,MY_CC3
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Even if both drivers are compiled in only one instance can run on a given
system depending on the available GIC version.
So having seperate hotplug states for them is pointless.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161221192112.252416267@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in
scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec
variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant
and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but
become completely pointless.
Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.
The conversion was done with coccinelle and some manual mopping up.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
A page is not added to the swap cache without being swap backed,
so PageSwapBacked mappings can use PG_owner_priv_1 for PageSwapCache.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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