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Control the trigger limit for softlockup warnings. This is useful for
debugging softlockups, by lowering the softlockup_thresh to identify
possible softlockups earlier.
This patch:
1. Adds a sysctl softlockup_thresh with valid values of 1-60s
(Higher value to disable false positives)
2. Changes the softlockup printk to print the cpu softlockup time
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix various warnings and add definition of "two"]
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_kill_allocating_task', which will automatically kill
the OOM-triggering task instead of scanning through the tasklist to find a
memory-hogging target. This is helpful for systems with an insanely large
number of tasks where scanning the tasklist significantly degrades
performance.
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* Add "hdx=nodma" option allowing user to disallow DMA for a given device.
* Obsolete "ide=nodma" option.
Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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It has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004, is valid only when used together with
"ide=nodma" kernel parameter (which makes no sense) and only for aec62xx,
cmd64x, cs5220, generic, hpt366, sl82c105, tc86c001 and triflex host drivers.
Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (40 commits)
kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPP
kbuild: enable use of AFLAGS and CFLAGS on commandline
kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS
kbuild: fix AFLAGS use in h8300 and m68knommu
kbuild: check for wrong use of CFLAGS
kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC
kbuild: fix up CFLAGS usage
kbuild: make modpost detect unterminated device id lists
kbuild: call export_report from the Makefile
kbuild: move Kai Germaschewski to CREDITS
kconfig/menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments
kconfig: tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values
include/linux/Kbuild: remove duplicate entries
kbuild: kill backward compatibility checks
kbuild: kill EXTRA_ARFLAGS
kbuild: fix documentation in makefiles.txt
kbuild: call make once for all targets when O=.. is used
kbuild: pass -g to assembler under CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
kbuild: update _shipped files for kconfig syntax cleanup
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Fix up conflicts in arch/um/sys-{x86_64,i386}/Makefile manually.
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Introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y so we soon can
deprecate use of EXTRA_CFLAGS, EXTRA_AFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
This patch does not touch any in-tree users - thats next round.
Lets get this committed first and then fix the users of the
soon to be deprecated variants next.
The rationale behind this change is to introduce support for
makefile fragments like:
ccflags-$(CONFIG_WHATEVER_DEBUG) := -DDEBUG
As a replacement for the uglier:
ifeq ($(CONFIG_WHATEVER_DEBUG),y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS := -DDEBUG
endif
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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The variable CPPFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
This patch replace use of CPPFLAGS with KBUILD_CPPFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CPPFLAGS=...
to specify additional CPP commandline options.
Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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The variable AFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.
This patch replace use of AFLAGS with KBUILD_AFLAGS all over
the tree.
Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.
This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CFLAGS=...
to specify additional gcc commandline options.
One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other
use cases has been requested too.
Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k
Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check
that nothing got rebuild.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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EXTRA_ARFLAGS have never been used so no need to carry
around on this.
A google search did not reveal any external module
using this either.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Small error had sneaked in with respect to use
of LDFLAGS_$@. LDFLAGS_$@ is not valid in normal
kbuild files so do not say so.
Fix a reference bug too.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: (264 commits)
[ALSA] version 1.0.15
[ALSA] Fix thinko in cs4231 mce down check
[ALSA] sun-cs4231: improved waiting after MCE down
[ALSA] sun-cs4231: use cs4231-regs.h
[ALSA] This simplifies and fixes waiting loops of the mce_down()
[ALSA] This patch adds support for a wavetable chip on
[ALSA] This patch removes open_mutex from the ad1848-lib as
[ALSA] fix bootup crash in snd_gus_interrupt()
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix SKU ID function for realtek codecs
[ALSA] Support ASUS P701 eeepc [0x1043 0x82a1] support
[ALSA] hda-codec - Add array terminator for dmic in STAC codec
[ALSA] hdsp - Fix zero division
[ALSA] usb-audio - Fix double comment
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix STAC922x volume knob control
[ALSA] Changed Jaroslav Kysela's e-mail from perex@suse.cz to perex@perex.cz
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix for Fujitsu Lifebook C1410
[ALSA] mpu-401: remove MPU401_INFO_UART_ONLY flag
[ALSA] mpu-401: do not require an ACK byte for the ENTER_UART command
[ALSA] via82xx - Add DXS quirk for Shuttle AK31v2
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix input_mux numbers for vaio stac92xx
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Since the last patch made the ENTER_UART command optional, the
enter_uart option and its corresponding flag have become superfluous.
The uart_enter option remains for backward compatibility but just prints
a warning when used.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Fix the output of Gateway laptops with STAC9200 codec chip.
They require the EAPD control for some pins. These pins shouldn't be
powered down.
To enable EAPD control, a new model 'gateway' was added to STAC9200.
The known PCI SSIDs are included in the quirk list.
The fix was originally suggested by Brian Hinz, in ALSA bug#2948.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Added the description about power-saving mode on AC97 and HD-audio drivers.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Add descriptions for new module options of snd-sscape driver,
wss_port and dma2.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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This patch fixes MPU-401 irq values list in documentation.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Added the description of the new sc6000 driver to ALSA-Configuration.txt.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Add documentation about how to define dB scale information for mixer
controls.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Added the missing model option strings for ALC882 codecs.
Also added the corresponding description in ALSA-Configuration.txt.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Added a new model laptop-automute for AD1986A, which has the HP jack
detection and auto-muting of the speaker. Currently, it's used for
Lenovo N100.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Added the missing description of models for Dell machines with
STAC9200 HD-audio codec chip.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Integrated MPU-401/OPL3 ports are available with chip version 39 and
later, so we do not test for the port with version 37.
Now that the test is known to work, we can again enable the MIDI port by
default.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Fixed Dell laptops support with STAC92xx codecs.
Many pin-config models are introduced. See ALSA-Configuration.txt
for details.
The patch taken from ALSA bug#3319, originally by Jorg Prante:
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3319
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Make sure that the MPU-401 MIDI and OPL-3 FM devices are used only on
those chips where they are supported, and that the correct port
addresses are used.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Use the standard firmware loader for loading ICS2115 OS firmware file.
This is the last old bad guy that is still using sys_open() and sys_read()
calls, and now all should be gone.
The patch also adds the missing description of module options related
with wavefront_synth.c.
Due to this rewrite, user will have to copy or make symlink the firmware
file appropriately to the standard firmware path such as /lib/firmware.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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1. Support Lenovo 420A (PCI SSID: 0x17aa 0x3bfc)
2. Support Haier W66 (PCI SSID: 0x1991 0x5625)
Signed-off-by: Kailang Yang <kailang@realtek.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Added the support for Macbook Pro rev3 with ALC885 codec chip.
The patch taken from ALSA bug#3242.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Added model=acer for ALC268 codec support.
The configuration is: headphone = 0x14, speaker = 0x15
needs hp-jack auto-detection. The same routine as alc262-fujitsu model
is used.
Also, added the auto-muting routine for ALC268 model=toshiba.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Added the missing text entries and descriptions for the newly added
model values for Realtek codec chips.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Add power_save_controller module option instead of define flag.
Also, added descriptions of new module options in ALSA-Configuration.txt.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Tested against a couple of different systems (with different pin
configs), but the others should also work. Also cleaned up some of the
9205 patch code.
Signed-off-by: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Update the documentation to reflect the last changes regarding the
power-saving mode and register caches.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Now the OSS emulation supports 3bytes format, too.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Remove the bogus IRQF_DISBLAED together with IRQF_SHARED from the
example code in the document.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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This patch adds support for some Acer Aspire systems.
Signed-off-by: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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This patch adds support for Dell E520 and a couple of other 965 based systems.
Signed-off-by: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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Fixed the tutorial to follow the standard kernel coding style.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: (63 commits)
Fix memory leak in dm-crypt
SPARC64: sg chaining support
SPARC: sg chaining support
PPC: sg chaining support
PS3: sg chaining support
IA64: sg chaining support
x86-64: enable sg chaining
x86-64: update pci-gart iommu to sg helpers
x86-64: update nommu to sg helpers
x86-64: update calgary iommu to sg helpers
swiotlb: sg chaining support
i386: enable sg chaining
i386 dma_map_sg: convert to using sg helpers
mmc: need to zero sglist on init
Panic in blk_rq_map_sg() from CCISS driver
remove sglist_len
remove blk_queue_max_phys_segments in libata
revert sg segment size ifdefs
Fixup u14-34f ENABLE_SG_CHAINING
qla1280: enable use_sg_chaining option
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Signed-off-by: Saeed Bishara <saeed.bishara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Add Documentation/block/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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as-iosched.txt:
o Changed IO scheduler selection text to a reference to the
switching-sched.txt file.
o Fixed typo: 'for up time...' -> 'for up to...'
o Added short description of the est_time file.
deadline-iosched.txt:
o Changed IO scheduler selection text to a reference to the
switching-sched.txt file.
o Removed references to non-existent seek-cost and stream_unit.
o Fixed typo: 'write_starved' -> 'writes_starved'
switching-sched.txt:
o Added in boot-time argument to set the default IO scheduler. (From
as-iosched.txt)
o Added in sysfs mount instructions. (From deadline-iosched.txt)
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe's old email address bounces.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Add logo.nologo kernel boot option to disable the logo in order to provide
more screen space for kernel messages; especially useful when debugging and
screen space is more critical.
newport_con driver changes are untested.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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An update to Documentation/fb/00-INDEX is long overdue. This patch adds
entries for new files in the directory and removes entries for files that no
longer exist. The files are now also sorted alphabetically.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Documentation for the uvesafb driver.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make the SPI framework and drivers stop using class_device. Update docs
accordingly ... highlighting just which sysfs paths should be
"safe"/stable.
Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Constify two char pointers and a struct in Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c.
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove the cpuset hooks that defined sched domains depending on the setting
of the 'cpu_exclusive' flag.
The cpu_exclusive flag can only be set on a child if it is set on the
parent.
This made that flag painfully unsuitable for use as a flag defining a
partitioning of a system.
It was entirely unobvious to a cpuset user what partitioning of sched
domains they would be causing when they set that one cpu_exclusive bit on
one cpuset, because it depended on what CPUs were in the remainder of that
cpusets siblings and child cpusets, after subtracting out other
cpu_exclusive cpusets.
Furthermore, there was no way on production systems to query the
result.
Using the cpu_exclusive flag for this was simply wrong from the get go.
Fortunately, it was sufficiently borked that so far as I know, almost no
successful use has been made of this. One real time group did use it to
affectively isolate CPUs from any load balancing efforts. They are willing
to adapt to alternative mechanisms for this, such as someway to manipulate
the list of isolated CPUs on a running system. They can do without this
present cpu_exclusive based mechanism while we develop an alternative.
There is a real risk, to the best of my understanding, of users
accidentally setting up a partitioned scheduler domains, inhibiting desired
load balancing across all their CPUs, due to the nonobvious (from the
cpuset perspective) side affects of the cpu_exclusive flag.
Furthermore, since there was no way on a running system to see what one was
doing with sched domains, this change will be invisible to any using code.
Unless they have real insight to the scheduler load balancing choices, they
will be unable to detect that this change has been made in the kernel's
behaviour.
Initial discussion on lkml of this patch has generated much comment. My
(probably controversial) take on that discussion is that it has reached a
rough concensus that the current cpuset cpu_exclusive mechanism for
defining sched domains is borked. There is no concensus on the
replacement. But since we can remove this mechanism, and since its
continued presence risks causing unwanted partitioning of the schedulers
load balancing, we should remove it while we can, as we proceed to work the
replacement scheduler domain mechanisms.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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