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2020-09-09Documentation: core-api/cpu_hotplug: fix a typoBarry Song
fourV CPUs should be four CPUs. Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200904101902.29560-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-07Merge tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks & rwlocks. - Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on Power9 or later. - Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice. - A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other architectures. - Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems. - Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs. - A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path. - Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as usual. Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov, Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing. * tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits) selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0 powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0) cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]() powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt() powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt() powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10 ...
2020-07-23Documentation: fix typo for core-api/cpu_hotplug documentationYaohui Wang
fix typo for core-api/cpu_hotplug documentation Signed-off-by: Yaohui Wang <dillionmango@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200722073818.20605-1-dillionmango@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-16powerpc/pseries: remove cede offline state for CPUsNathan Lynch
This effectively reverts commit 3aa565f53c39 ("powerpc/pseries: Add hooks to put the CPU into an appropriate offline state"), which added an offline mode for CPUs which uses the H_CEDE hcall instead of the architected stop-self RTAS function in order to facilitate "folding" of dedicated mode processors on PowerVM platforms to achieve energy savings. This has been the default offline mode since its introduction. There's nothing about stop-self that would prevent the hypervisor from achieving the energy savings available via H_CEDE, so the original premise of this change appears to be flawed. I also have encountered the claim that the transition to and from ceded state is much faster than stop-self/start-cpu. Certainly we would not want to use stop-self as an *idle* mode. That is what H_CEDE is for. However, this difference is insignificant in the context of Linux CPU hotplug, where the latency of an offline or online operation on current systems is on the order of 100ms, mainly attributable to all the various subsystems' cpuhp callbacks. The cede offline mode also prevents accurate accounting, as discussed before: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/1571740391-3251-1-git-send-email-ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com/ Unconditionally use stop-self to offline processor threads. This is the architected method for offlining CPUs on PAPR systems. The "cede_offline" boot parameter is rendered obsolete. Removing this code enables the removal of the partition suspend code which temporarily onlines all present CPUs. Fixes: 3aa565f53c39 ("powerpc/pseries: Add hooks to put the CPU into an appropriate offline state") Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200612051238.1007764-2-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
2017-01-13Documentation: Update CPU hotplug and move it to core-apiSebastian Andrzej Siewior
The current CPU hotplug is outdated. During the update to what we currently have I rewrote it partly and moved to sphinx format. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>