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* [IA64] ia64: simplify and fix udelay()hawkes@sgi.com2006-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original ia64 udelay() was simple, but flawed for platforms without synchronized ITCs: a preemption and migration to another CPU during the while-loop likely resulted in too-early termination or very, very lengthy looping. The first fix (now in 2.6.15) broke the delay loop into smaller, non-preemptible chunks, reenabling preemption between the chunks. This fix is flawed in that the total udelay is computed to be the sum of just the non-premptible while-loop pieces, i.e., not counting the time spent in the interim preemptible periods. If an interrupt or a migration occurs during one of these interim periods, then that time is invisible and only serves to lengthen the effective udelay(). This new fix backs out the current flawed fix and returns to a simple udelay(), fully preemptible and interruptible. It implements two simple alternative udelay() routines: one a default generic version that uses ia64_get_itc(), and the other an sn-specific version that uses that platform's RTC. Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* [IA64] Fix CONFIG_PRINTK_TIMETony Luck2006-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | There were two problems with enabling the PRINTK_TIME config option: 1) The first calls to printk() occur before per-cpu data virtual address is pinned into the TLB, so sched_clock() can fault. 2) sched_clock() is based on ar.itc, which may not be synchronized across cpus. Ken Chen started this patch, Tony Luck tinkered with it, and Jes Sorensen perfected it. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* [IA64] disable preemption in udelay()John Hawkes2005-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The udelay() inline for ia64 uses the ITC. If CONFIG_PREEMPT is enabled and the platform has unsynchronized ITCs and the calling task migrates to another CPU while doing the udelay loop, then the effective delay may be too short or very, very long. This patch disables preemption around 100 usec chunks of the overall desired udelay time. This minimizes preemption-holdoffs. udelay() is now too big to be inline, move it out of line and export it. Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* [PATCH] jiffies_64 cleanupThomas Gleixner2005-10-30
| | | | | | | | | Define jiffies_64 in kernel/timer.c rather than having 24 duplicated defines in each architecture. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!