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[PATCH] net: dsa/slave: Fix compilation warnings

by Viresh Kumar

Currently when none of CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_DSA, CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_EDSA and CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_TRAILER is defined, we get following compilation warnings: net/dsa/slave.c:51:12: warning: 'dsa_slave_init' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] net/dsa/slave.c:60:12: warning: 'dsa_slave_open' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] net/dsa/slave.c:98:12: warning: 'dsa_slave_close' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] net/dsa/slave.c:116:13: warning: 'dsa_slave_change_rx_flags' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] net/dsa/slave.c:127:13: warning: 'dsa_slave_set_rx_mode' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] net/dsa/slave.c:136:12: warning: 'dsa_slave_set_mac_address' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] net/dsa/slave.c:164:12: warning: 'dsa_slave_ioctl' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] Fix them by enclosing these routines under #ifdef,endif. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar(a)linaro.org> --- net/dsa/slave.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/dsa/slave.c b/net/dsa/slave.c index e32083d..5606fae 100644 --- a/net/dsa/slave.c +++ b/net/dsa/slave.c @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ void dsa_slave_mii_bus_init(struct dsa_switch *ds) /* slave device handling ****************************************************/ +#if defined(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_DSA) || defined(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_EDSA) || \ + defined(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_TRAILER) static int dsa_slave_init(struct net_device *dev) { struct dsa_slave_priv *p = netdev_priv(dev); @@ -170,6 +172,8 @@ static int dsa_slave_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd) return -EOPNOTSUPP; } +#endif /* defined(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_DSA) || defined(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_EDSA || + defined(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_TRAILER) */ /* ethtool operations *******************************************************/ -- 1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e

13 years, 10 months

New Gator version

by Jon Medhurst (Tixy)

Hi Andrey Two weeks ago ARM released a new version of Developer Studio 5 (v5.12) which as usual included a new version of the Streamline plugin and the corresponding new versions of the Gator daemon and module which run on the target device. I have updated my tracking branch which is pulled into linux-linaro-core-tracking so Linaro's Linux 3.7 kernels will get this new Gator version. However, I suspect that some builds will be staying with Linux 3.6 for a while so I have a separate topic branch suitable for pulling into this. I'm not completely sure how such branches will be managed but, if it is possible, can the Gator version in 3.6 be replaced by the new one from the branch '3.6-armlt-gator-5.12' in ARM LT tree (git://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/arm/kernel) ? Thanks -- Tixy

13 years, 10 months

Linaro Release 12.10 Postmortem Summary

by David Zinman

Postmortem and lessons learned for Linaro's release 2012.10 https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1210/Release/Review Highlights and Key Successes ============================ http://www.linaro.org/downloads/1210 Linaro is now making early ARMv8 images available to interested developers. For a primer on the ARMv8 architecture, the AArch64 execution state and the A64 instruction set, please visit the ARM portal. While there is currently no ARMv8 hardware available, ARM and Linaro have developed support for AArch64/A64 against virtual platforms and started sending the resulting patches to various open source projects. For more information on these ARMv8 images please take a look at the Linaro Engineer pages on the Linaro website. Work on big.LITTLE continues as the Linaro Kernel Working Group highlights its completion of TC2 support; noting that TC2 now boots with the latest IKS tree. Five new test cases have been added to handle simultaneous thread switching, important bugs such as Switcher Thumb-2 bug and Switcher deadlock issue when working on the memblock_steal(), vlock remaining locked under certain conditions were fixed along with and updated focus to run benchmarks with the latest IKS on TC2 to find optimization opportunities. Postmortem and Lessons Learned ============================== As a better way for the integration groups to prioritize their planning for each cycle, the platform group has begun to implement a short planning sign-off session for each team. After the team plans the milestone, plans will be reviewed and signed off. The general question that is to be answered is that "for this cycle is the roadmap story complete?" The format incorporates * Roadmap Card Review * General Planning * blueprints * bugs * maintenance * Resources * vacations * vacancies * action items One item that continues to irritate is the TC2 board that is stuck in customs in India. A major effort was expended to try and free it, but it is still in stasis. Blueprints ========= The number of high or essential priority blueprints that missed the cycle: Android 4 out of 13 Developer Platform 3 out of 7 Infrastructure 3 out of 6 Lava 3 out of 7 QA 2 out of 5 Total 15 out of 38 39% of high or essential priority blueprints scheduled for this cycle were not delivered. Total blueprints: 27 out of 54 missed the cycle. High priority missed blueprints recap: 12.05: 19 out of 48, 39% 12.06: 13 out of 31, 42% 12.07: 14 out of 31, 45% 12.08: 6 out of 26, 23% 12.09: 9 out of 28, 32% 12.010: 15 out of 38, 39% * Not included is data from working groups and landing teams Source: https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjEaTwrvj1bidHBfe… -- David Zinman, Project Manager Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs

13 years, 10 months

ANN: people.linaro.org going down for 30 min, today at 17:00UTC

by Fathi Boudra

Hi All, There's a scheduled downtime for 30 min, today at 17:00UTC. We plan to increase the disk space available on people.linaro.org. Thanks. Cheers, -- Fathi Boudra Linaro Release Manager | LAVA Project Manager Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs

13 years, 10 months

[GIT PULL]: big LITTLE MP v11

by Viresh Kumar

Hi Andrey, Please PULL b.L MP V11 branch from my tree. Pull request is generated against v3.7-rc3: Updates: ------- - Based on v3.7-rc3 - Stats: - Total Patches: 70 - New Patches: 22 - per-task-load-average-v3-merged: 1 by Peter Z. - per-entity-load-tracking-with-core-sched-v1: 15 by Preeti - sched-pack-small-tasks-v1:6 by Vincent - Dropped patches/branches (as they are already merged in 3.7): 24 - arm-asymmetric-support-v3-v3.6-rc1: 1 - per-cpu-thread-hotplug-v3-fixed: 8 - rcu-hotplug-v1: 4 - scheduler-misc-v1: 1 - arm-multi_pmu_v2: 10 (out of 24 merged) - Updated Patches: 16 - per-task-load-average-v3-merged updated with patches applied to sched/core tip ------------------------8<------------------------------------------------ The following changes since commit 8f0d8163b50e01f398b14bcd4dc039ac5ab18d64: Linux 3.7-rc3 (2012-10-28 12:24:48 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.linaro.org/arm/big.LITTLE/mp.git big-LITTLE-MP-v11 for you to fetch changes up to 0c44ec0c38e97e404d0f9921f5cbeb7deb1dfc8b: Merge branches 'arm-multi_pmu_v2', 'hw-bkp-v7.1-debug-v1', 'task-placement-v2', 'per-entity-load-tracking-with-core-sched-v1', 'config-fragments' and 'sched-pack-small-tasks-v1' into big-LITTLE-MP-v11 (2012-11-05 15:11:02 +0530) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ben Segall (1): sched: Maintain per-rq runnable averages Dietmar Eggemann (1): ARM: hw_breakpoint: v7.1 self-hosted debug powerdown support Jon Medhurst (6): configs: Initial core configs configs: Make CONFIG_MODULES part of linaro-base configs: Replace CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS with CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS configs: android: Enable FB_EARLYSUSPEND configs: android: Enable CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT to get aidb working ARM: sched: Avoid empty 'slow' HMP domain Lorenzo Pieralisi (1): ARM: kernel: provide cluster to logical cpu mask mapping API Marc Zyngier (1): ARM: perf: add guest vs host discrimination Mark Rutland (1): ARM: perf: register cpu_notifier at driver init Morten Rasmussen (13): linaro/configs: Enable HMP priority filter by default sched: entity load-tracking load_avg_ratio sched: Task placement for heterogeneous systems based on task load-tracking sched: Forced task migration on heterogeneous systems sched: Introduce priority-based task migration filter ARM: Add HMP scheduling support for ARM architecture ARM: sched: Use device-tree to provide fast/slow CPU list for HMP ARM: sched: Setup SCHED_HMP domains sched: Add ftrace events for entity load-tracking sched: Add HMP task migration ftrace event sched: SCHED_HMP multi-domain task migration control sched: Enable HMP priority filter by default sched: Only down migrate low priority tasks if allowed by affinity mask Paul Turner (15): sched: Track the runnable average on a per-task entity basis sched: Aggregate load contributed by task entities on parenting cfs_rq sched: Maintain the load contribution of blocked entities sched: Add an rq migration call-back to sched_class sched: Account for blocked load waking back up sched: Aggregate total task_group load sched: Compute load contribution by a group entity sched: Normalize tg load contributions against runnable time sched: Maintain runnable averages across throttled periods sched: Replace update_shares weight distribution with per-entity computation sched: Refactor update_shares_cpu() -> update_blocked_avgs() sched: Update_cfs_shares at period edge sched: Make __update_entity_runnable_avg() fast sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking sched: implement usage tracking Peter Zijlstra (1): sched: Describe CFS load-balancer Preeti U Murthy (14): sched:Prevent movement of short running tasks during load balancing sched:Pick the apt busy sched group during load balancing sched:Decide whether there be transfer of loads based on the PJT's metric sched:Decide group_imb using PJT's metric sched:Calculate imbalance using PJT's metric sched: Changing find_busiest_queue to use PJT's metric sched: Change move_tasks to use PJT's metric sched: Some miscallaneous changes in load_balance sched: Modify check_asym_packing to use PJT's metric sched: Modify fix_small_imbalance to use PJT's metric sched: Modify find_idlest_group to use PJT's metric sched: Modify find_idlest_cpu to use PJT's metric sched: Modifying wake_affine to use PJT's metric sched: Explicit division calls on 64-bit integers Ricardo Salveti de Araujo (7): configs: moving previous ubuntu.conf as ubuntu-minimal and creating a full ubuntu one configs: ubuntu: be compatible with the enforce script configs: ubuntu: disabling CODA_FS, seems to be broken atm configs: ubuntu: disabling CGROUPS as default configs: ubuntu: updating configs for 3.5 configs: ubuntu: disabling CONFIG_MTD_NAND_NANDSIM=m, breaking build config: ubuntu: ATH6KL should be platform dependent Sudeep KarkadaNagesha (9): ARM: perf: allocate CPU PMU dynamically at probe time ARM: perf: consistently use struct perf_event in arm_pmu functions ARM: perf: check ARMv7 counter validity on a per-pmu basis ARM: perf: replace global CPU PMU pointer with per-cpu pointers ARM: perf: register CPU PMUs with idr types ARM: perf: set cpu affinity to support multiple PMUs ARM: perf: set cpu affinity for the irqs correctly ARM: perf: remove spaces in CPU PMU names ARM: perf: save/restore pmu registers in pm notifier Tushar Behera (1): linaro/configs: ubuntu: Disable support for generic OHCI platform driver Vincent Guittot (5): sched: add a new SD SHARE_POWERLINE flag for sched_domain sched: pack small tasks sched: secure access to other CPU statistics sched: pack the idle load balance ARM: sched: clear SD_SHARE_POWERLINE Viresh Kumar (6): configs: Add config fragments for big LITTLE MP linaro/configs: Update big LITTLE MP fragment for task placement work config-frag/big-LITTLE: Use device-tree to provide fast/slow CPU list for HMP Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking" Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking" Merge branches 'arm-multi_pmu_v2', 'hw-bkp-v7.1-debug-v1', 'task-placement-v2', 'per-entity-load-tracking-with-core-sched-v1', 'config-fragments' and 'sched-pack-small-tasks-v1' into big-LITTLE-MP-v11 Will Deacon (2): ARM: perf: return NOTIFY_DONE from cpu notifier when no available PMU ARM: perf: consistently use arm_pmu->name for PMU name Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt | 3 + arch/arm/Kconfig | 47 + arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h | 5 + arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h | 40 +- arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h | 34 + arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 57 + arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 103 +- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c | 169 +- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v6.c | 130 +- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c | 295 ++-- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_xscale.c | 161 +- arch/arm/kernel/topology.c | 125 ++ arch/ia64/include/asm/topology.h | 1 + arch/tile/include/asm/topology.h | 1 + include/linux/sched.h | 29 + include/linux/topology.h | 3 + include/trace/events/sched.h | 153 ++ kernel/sched/core.c | 16 + kernel/sched/debug.c | 39 +- kernel/sched/fair.c | 1785 ++++++++++++++++++--- kernel/sched/sched.h | 65 +- linaro/configs/android.conf | 33 + linaro/configs/big-LITTLE-MP.conf | 11 + linaro/configs/linaro-base.conf | 84 + linaro/configs/ubuntu-minimal.conf | 24 + linaro/configs/ubuntu.conf | 2132 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 26 files changed, 4910 insertions(+), 635 deletions(-) create mode 100644 linaro/configs/android.conf create mode 100644 linaro/configs/big-LITTLE-MP.conf create mode 100644 linaro/configs/linaro-base.conf create mode 100644 linaro/configs/ubuntu-minimal.conf create mode 100644 linaro/configs/ubuntu.conf

13 years, 10 months

[PATCH v3 00/23] Introduce Xen support on ARM

by Stefano Stabellini

Hi all, this patch series implements Xen support for ARMv7 with virtualization extensions. It allows a Linux guest to boot as dom0 and as domU on Xen on ARM. PV console, disk and network frontends and backends are all working correctly. It has been tested on a Versatile Express Cortex A15 emulator, using the latest Xen ARM developement branch (git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/xen-unstable.git arm-for-4.3) plus the "ARM hypercall ABI: 64 bit ready" patch series (http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=134426267205408), and a simple ad-hoc tool to build guest domains (marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=134089788016546). The patch marked with [HACK] shouldn't be applied and is part of the series only because it is needed to create domUs. I am also attaching to this email the dts'es that I am currently using for dom0 and domU: vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dts (that includes vexpress-v2m-rs1-rtsm.dtsi) is the dts used for dom0 and it is passed to Linux by Xen, while vexpress-virt.dts is the dts used for other domUs and it is appended in binary form to the guest kernel image. I am not sure where they are supposed to live yet, so I am just attaching them here so that people can actually try out this series if they want to. Comments are very welcome! Changes in v3: - move patches that have been picked up by Konrad at the end of the series; - improve comments; - add a doc to describe the Xen Device Tree format; - do not use xen_ulong_t for multicalls and apic_physbase; - add a patch at the end of the series to use the new __HVC macro; - add missing pvclock-abi.h include to ia64 header files; - do not use an anonymous union in struct xen_add_to_physmap. Changes in v2: - fix up many comments and commit messages; - remove the early_printk patches: rely on the emulated serial for now; - remove the xen_guest_init patch: without any PV early_printk, we don't need any early call to xen_guest_init, we can rely on core_initcall alone; - define an HYPERCALL macro for 5 arguments hypercall wrappers, even if at the moment is unused; - use ldm instead of pop in the hypercall wrappers; - return -ENOSYS rather than -1 from the unimplemented grant_table functions; - remove the pvclock ifdef in the Xen headers; - remove include linux/types.h from xen/interface/xen.h; - replace pr_info with pr_debug in xen_guest_init; - add a new patch to introduce xen_ulong_t and use it top replace all the occurences of unsigned long in the public Xen interface; - explicitely size all the pointers to 64 bit on ARM, so that the hypercall ABI is "64 bit ready"; - clean up xenbus_init; - make pci.o depend on CONFIG_PCI and acpi.o depend on CONFIG_ACPI; - mark Xen guest support on ARM as EXPERIMENTAL; - introduce GRANT_TABLE_PHYSADDR; - remove unneeded initialization of boot_max_nr_grant_frames; - add a new patch to clear IRQ_NOAUTOEN and IRQ_NOREQUEST in events.c; - return -EINVAL from xen_remap_domain_mfn_range if auto_translated_physmap; - retain binary compatibility in xen_add_to_physmap: use a union to introduce foreign_domid. Ian Campbell (1): [HACK] xen/arm: implement xen_remap_domain_mfn_range Stefano Stabellini (24): arm: initial Xen support xen/arm: hypercalls xen/arm: page.h definitions xen/arm: sync_bitops xen/arm: empty implementation of grant_table arch specific functions docs: Xen ARM DT bindings xen/arm: Xen detection and shared_info page mapping xen/arm: Introduce xen_pfn_t for pfn and mfn types xen/arm: Introduce xen_ulong_t for unsigned long xen/arm: compile and run xenbus xen: do not compile manage, balloon, pci, acpi and cpu_hotplug on ARM xen/arm: introduce CONFIG_XEN on ARM xen/arm: get privilege status xen/arm: initialize grant_table on ARM xen/arm: receive Xen events on ARM xen: clear IRQ_NOAUTOEN and IRQ_NOREQUEST xen/arm: implement alloc/free_xenballooned_pages with alloc_pages/kfree xen: allow privcmd for HVM guests xen/arm: compile blkfront and blkback xen/arm: compile netback arm/v2m: initialize arch_timers even if v2m_timer is not present xen/arm: use the __HVC macro xen: missing includes xen: update xen_add_to_physmap interface Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt | 22 +++ arch/arm/Kconfig | 10 + arch/arm/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 6 + arch/arm/include/asm/sync_bitops.h | 27 +++ arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h | 18 ++ arch/arm/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h | 69 +++++++ arch/arm/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h | 19 ++ arch/arm/include/asm/xen/interface.h | 73 ++++++++ arch/arm/include/asm/xen/page.h | 82 ++++++++ arch/arm/mach-vexpress/v2m.c | 11 +- arch/arm/xen/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c | 245 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm/xen/grant-table.c | 53 ++++++ arch/arm/xen/hypercall.S | 102 ++++++++++ arch/ia64/include/asm/xen/interface.h | 8 +- arch/x86/include/asm/xen/interface.h | 8 + arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 1 + arch/x86/xen/irq.c | 1 + arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 3 + arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h | 1 - drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 1 + drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 1 + drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 1 + drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 2 + drivers/xen/Makefile | 11 +- drivers/xen/events.c | 18 ++- drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 1 + drivers/xen/privcmd.c | 20 +- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c | 2 +- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c | 62 +++++-- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_frontend.c | 1 + drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c | 1 + drivers/xen/xenfs/super.c | 7 + include/xen/events.h | 2 + include/xen/interface/features.h | 3 + include/xen/interface/grant_table.h | 4 +- include/xen/interface/io/protocols.h | 3 + include/xen/interface/memory.h | 32 ++- include/xen/interface/physdev.h | 2 +- include/xen/interface/platform.h | 4 +- include/xen/interface/version.h | 2 +- include/xen/interface/xen.h | 7 +- include/xen/privcmd.h | 3 +- include/xen/xen.h | 2 +- 45 files changed, 885 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-) A branch based on 3.5-rc7 is available here (the __HVC patch is missing from this branch because it depends on "ARM: opcodes: Facilitate custom opcode injection" http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=134442896128124): git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git 3.5-rc7-arm-3 Cheers, Stefano

13 years, 10 months

Installable ARMv8 cross-toolchain

by Wookey

After a fair amount of dicking about I have managed to build a cross-toolchain for arm64/aarch64 which installs on Ubuntu Quantal. It even builds packages, although it has at least one notable limitation, and I have no idea if it produces working code yet :-) The main limitation is that the default library search paths have come out as the old dpkg-cross ones, not the new multiarch ones. If someone can tell me where to fix that it would be very helpful and I'll try and put an updated one in the repo. In the meantime you can work round it effectively using /etc/dpkg/buildflags. (see wiki page below for details) The cross-toolchain only supports C, C++ and fortran with no extras like libssp, libmudflap etc, because there is no architecture support for them yet. I started a port page to keep track of things here: http://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port And if you want to set up a quantal chroot and see if you can build things, details are here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/CrossCompile/arm64bootstrap The bottom line is that you can debootstrap (or sbuild-createchroot) a quantal chroot, add the bootstrap repo and do 'apt-get install crossbuild-essential-arm64' and get a working cross-build environment. The repo is here: http://people.debian.org/~wookey/bootstrap.html That should be useable for both dpkg-cross style bulding or multiarch-style bulding. The repo also contains updated dpkg-cross, multiarch python, multiarch perl, updated dpkg with buildprofile/staging support, sbuild (although in fact I think stock sbuild should work OK), and dose-builddebcheck which can tell you what things are currently cross-buildable from available binaries and sources. Most of that is pretty new and not very well tested but 'it works for me'. More arm64 packages will be along soon (dose3 currently indicates 40 more buildabale packages), but there is plenty still to fix for a full debootstrap-able arm64 package set. Anyone keen to help with bootstrapping the port is very welcome. There will be a session about it at UDS next week, and a more general one on distro bootrapping at the Armv8 minisummit a the co-located linaro connect. And I'll be giving a talk about this stuff at Linxconf-Europe in Barcelona the week after. I think that's all for now. Enjoy, and tell me what breaks :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/

13 years, 10 months

Lenovo battery at registration desk

by Michael Hope

I found a lonely looking Lenovo laptop battery in BV1. I've left it at the registration desk. -- Michael

13 years, 10 months

Re: Linaro Website Contact

by Loïc Minier

Hey (Cc:ing linaro-dev@ where we usually discuss technical stuff) On Wed, Oct 31, 2012, sundar.subramaniyan(a)gmail.com wrote: > This is great. Just tried the pre-compiled image and works like a charm. > It took a little longer than two minutes though on my i3/4Gig machine. > Haven't yet tried compiling anything yet but how do i get started with > porting some libraries to armv8? Just compile with the toolchain and run? Great! This page gives some ideas on how to rebuild the filesystem and how to fix some common issues: https://wiki.linaro.org/HowTo/ARMv8/OpenEmbedded Perhaps you want to try to build this or that software you care about, or just try "bitbake world" to build as many things as possible and see what breaks :-) Cheers, -- Loïc Minier

13 years, 10 months

[PATCH V2 0/3] Create sched_select_cpu() and use it in workqueues

by Viresh Kumar

Hi All, This is V2 of my sched_select_cpu() work. In order to save power, it would be useful to schedule work onto non-IDLE cpus instead of waking up an IDLE one. To achieve this, we need scheduler to guide kernel frameworks (like: timers & workqueues) on which is the most preferred CPU that must be used for these tasks. This patchset is about implementing this concept. - The first patch adds sched_select_cpu() routine which returns the preferred cpu which is non-idle. - Second patch removes idle_cpu() calls from timer & hrtimer. - Third patch is about adapting this change in workqueue framework. Earlier discussions over v1 can be found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org/msg13342.html Earlier discussions over this concept were done at last LPC: http://summit.linuxplumbersconf.org/lpc-2012/meeting/90/lpc2012-sched-timer… Module created for testing this behavior is present here: http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/vireshk/module.git;a=summary Following are the steps followed in test module: 1. Run single work on each cpu 2. This work will start a timer after x (tested with 10) jiffies of delay 3. Timer routine queues a work... (This may be called from idle or non-idle cpu) and starts the same timer again STEP 3 is done for n number of times (i.e. queuing n works, one after other) 4. All works will call a single routine, which will count following per cpu: - Total works processed by a CPU - Total works processed by a CPU, which are queued from it - Total works processed by a CPU, which aren't queued from it Setup: ----- - ARM Vexpress TC2 - big.LITTLE CPU - Core 0-1: A15, 2-4: A7 - rootfs: linaro-ubuntu-nano Results: ------- Without Workqueue Modification, i.e. PATCH 3/3: [ 2493.022335] Workqueue Analyser: works processsed by CPU0, Total: 1000, Own: 0, migrated: 0 [ 2493.047789] Workqueue Analyser: works processsed by CPU1, Total: 1000, Own: 0, migrated: 0 [ 2493.072918] Workqueue Analyser: works processsed by CPU2, Total: 1000, Own: 0, migrated: 0 [ 2493.098576] Workqueue Analyser: works processsed by CPU3, Total: 1000, Own: 0, migrated: 0 [ 2493.123702] Workqueue Analyser: works processsed by CPU4, Total: 1000, Own: 0, migrated: 0 With Workqueue Modification, i.e. PATCH 3/3: [ 2493.022335] Workqueue Analyser: works processsed by CPU0, Total: 1002, Own: 999, migrated: 3 [ 2493.047789] Workqueue Analyser: works processsed by CPU1, Total: 998, Own: 997, migrated: 1 [ 2493.072918] Workqueue Analyser: works processsed by CPU2, Total: 1013, Own: 996, migrated: 17 [ 2493.098576] Workqueue Analyser: works processsed by CPU3, Total: 998, Own: 993, migrated: 5 [ 2493.123702] Workqueue Analyser: works processsed by CPU4, Total: 989, Own: 987, migrated: 2 V1->V2 ----- - New SD_* macros removed now and earlier ones used - sched_select_cpu() rewritten and it includes the check on current cpu's idleness. - cpu_idle() calls from timer and hrtimer removed now. - Patch 2/3 from V1, removed as it doesn't apply to latest workqueue branch from tejun. - CONFIG_MIGRATE_WQ removed and so is wq_select_cpu() - sched_select_cpu() called only from __queue_work() - got tejun/for-3.7 branch in my tree, before making workqueue changes. Viresh Kumar (3): sched: Create sched_select_cpu() to give preferred CPU for power saving timer: hrtimer: Don't check idle_cpu() before calling get_nohz_timer_target() workqueue: Schedule work on non-idle cpu instead of current one include/linux/sched.h | 16 ++++++++++-- kernel/hrtimer.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- kernel/timer.c | 9 ++++--- kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +- 5 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) -- 1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e

13 years, 10 months

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