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Revision tags: v2.6.21-rc2, v2.6.21-rc1
# a8d91b84 12-Feb-2007 Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>

[PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: ia64

1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line.
2. Set command_line as __initdata.

[akpm@osdl.org: move some declarations to the right place]
Signed-o

[PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: ia64

1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line.
2. Set command_line as __initdata.

[akpm@osdl.org: move some declarations to the right place]
Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v2.6.20, v2.6.20-rc7, v2.6.20-rc6, v2.6.20-rc5, v2.6.20-rc4, v2.6.20-rc3, v2.6.20-rc2, v2.6.20-rc1, v2.6.19, v2.6.19-rc6, v2.6.19-rc5, v2.6.19-rc4, v2.6.19-rc3
# a0776ec8 13-Oct-2006 Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>

[IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8

It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store
how many physical stack register a cpu has. Ever since the
incarnation of ia64 up till upc

[IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8

It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store
how many physical stack register a cpu has. Ever since the
incarnation of ia64 up till upcoming Montecito processor, that
variable has "glued" to 96. Having a variable in memory means
that the kernel is burning an extra cacheline access on every
syscall and kernel exit path. Such "static" value is better
served with the instruction patching utility exists today.
Convert ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 into dynamic insn patching.

This also has a pleasant side effect of eliminating access to
per-cpu area while psr.ic=0 in the kernel exit path. (fixable
for per-cpu DTC work, but why bother?)

There are some concerns with the default value that the instruc-
tion encoded in the kernel image. It shouldn't be concerned.
The reasons are:

(1) cpu_init() is called at CPU initialization. In there, we
find out physical stack register size from PAL and patch
two instructions in kernel exit code. The code in question
can not be executed before the patching is done.

(2) current implementation stores zero in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8,
and that's what the current kernel exit path loads the value with.
With the new code, it is equivalent that we store reg size 96
in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, thus creating a better safety net.
Given (1) above can never fail, having (2) is just a bonus.

All in all, this patch allow one less memory reference in the kernel
exit path, thus reducing syscall and interrupt return latency; and
avoid polluting potential useful data in the CPU cache.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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# ae0af3e3 05-Feb-2007 Aron Griffis <aron@hp.com>

[IA64] use snprintf() on features field of /proc/cpuinfo

Some patches have turned up on xen-devel recently to convert strcpy()
to safer alternatives and so forth. While reviewing those patches
I no

[IA64] use snprintf() on features field of /proc/cpuinfo

Some patches have turned up on xen-devel recently to convert strcpy()
to safer alternatives and so forth. While reviewing those patches
I noticed that the features string building could be cleaned up.

This patch uses snprintf() instead of strcpy() and direct character
pointer manipulation. It makes the features string building safe and
gets rid of the special case for features output in show_cpuinfo()

Additionally I removed the (int) cast of ARRAY_SIZE, which seems to
serve no purpose.

Signed-off-by: Aron Griffis <aron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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# 75f6a1de 12-Dec-2006 Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

[IA64] Take defensive stance on ia64_pal_get_brand_info()

Stephane thought he saw a problem here (but was just confused
by the return value from ia64_pal_get_brand_info()). But we
should be more de

[IA64] Take defensive stance on ia64_pal_get_brand_info()

Stephane thought he saw a problem here (but was just confused
by the return value from ia64_pal_get_brand_info()). But we
should be more defensive here in case an prototype PAL for
a future processor doesn't implement this PAL call.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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# ad1c3ba7 12-Dec-2006 Horms <horms@verge.net.au>

[IA64] Kexec/Kdump: honour non-zero crashkernel offset.

There seems to be a value in both allowing the kernel to determine
the base offset of the crashkernel automatically and allowing
users's to se

[IA64] Kexec/Kdump: honour non-zero crashkernel offset.

There seems to be a value in both allowing the kernel to determine
the base offset of the crashkernel automatically and allowing
users's to sepcify it.

The old behaviour on ia64, which is still the current behaviour on
most architectures is for the user to always specify the address.
Recently ia64 was changed so that it is always automatically determined.

With this patch the kernel automatically determines the offset if
the supplied value is 0, otherwise it uses the value provided.

This should probably be backed by a documentation change.

Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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# 45a98fc6 12-Dec-2006 Horms <horms@verge.net.au>

[IA64] CONFIG_KEXEC/CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP permutations

Actually, on reflection I think that there is a good case for
keeping the options separate. I am thinking particularly of people
who want a very sm

[IA64] CONFIG_KEXEC/CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP permutations

Actually, on reflection I think that there is a good case for
keeping the options separate. I am thinking particularly of people
who want a very small crashdump kernel and thus don't want to compile
in kexec.

The patch below should fix things up so that all valid combinations of
KEXEC, CRASH_DUMP and VMCORE compile cleanly - VMCORE depends on
CRASH_DUMP which is why I said valid combinations. In a nutshell
it just untangles unrelated code and switches around a few defines.

Please note that it creats a new file, arch/ia64/kernel/crash_dump.c
This is in keeping with the i386 implementation.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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# a7956113 07-Dec-2006 Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>

[IA64] IA64 Kexec/kdump

Changes and updates.

1. Remove fake rendz path and related code according to discuss with Khalid Aziz.
2. fc.i offset fix in relocate_kernel.S.
3. iospic shutdown code eoi a

[IA64] IA64 Kexec/kdump

Changes and updates.

1. Remove fake rendz path and related code according to discuss with Khalid Aziz.
2. fc.i offset fix in relocate_kernel.S.
3. iospic shutdown code eoi and mask race fix from Fujitsu.
4. Warm boot hook in machine_kexec to SN SAL code from Jack Steiner.
5. Send slave to SAL slave loop patch from Jay Lan.
6. Kdump on non-recoverable MCA event patch from Jay Lan
7. Use CTL_UNNUMBERED in kdump_on_init sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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# fa1d19e5 25-Oct-2006 Troy Heber <troy.heber@hp.com>

[IA64] move SAL_CACHE_FLUSH check later in boot

The check to see if the firmware drops interrupts during a
SAL_CACHE_FLUSH is done to early in the boot. SAL_CACHE_FLUSH expects
to be able to make PA

[IA64] move SAL_CACHE_FLUSH check later in boot

The check to see if the firmware drops interrupts during a
SAL_CACHE_FLUSH is done to early in the boot. SAL_CACHE_FLUSH expects
to be able to make PAL calls in virtual mode, on some cell based
machines a fault occurs causing a MCA. This patch moves the check
after mmu_context_init so the TLB and VHPT are properly setup.

Signed-off-by Troy Heber <troy.heber@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v2.6.19-rc2, v2.6.19-rc1, v2.6.18, v2.6.18-rc7, v2.6.18-rc6
# bcf5111a 30-Aug-2006 Russell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>

[SERIAL] Remove wrong asm/serial.h inclusions

asm/serial.h is supposed to contain the definitions for the architecture
specific 8250 ports for the 8250 driver. It may also define BASE_BAUD,
but thi

[SERIAL] Remove wrong asm/serial.h inclusions

asm/serial.h is supposed to contain the definitions for the architecture
specific 8250 ports for the 8250 driver. It may also define BASE_BAUD,
but this is the base baud for the architecture specific ports _only_.

Therefore, nothing other than the 8250 driver should be including this
header file. In order to move towards this goal, here is a patch which
removes some of the more obvious incorrect includes of the file.

Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

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Revision tags: v2.6.18-rc5, v2.6.18-rc4, v2.6.18-rc3, v2.6.18-rc2
# 894673ee 10-Jul-2006 Jon Smirl <jonsmir@gmail.com>

[PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h

screen_info.h doesn't have anything to do with the tty layer and shouldn't be
included by tty.h. This patches removes the include and modifie

[PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h

screen_info.h doesn't have anything to do with the tty layer and shouldn't be
included by tty.h. This patches removes the include and modifies all users to
directly include screen_info.h. struct screen_info is mainly used to
communicate with the console drivers in drivers/video/console. Note that this
patch touches every arch and I have no way of testing it. If there is a
mistake the worst thing that will happen is a compile error.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix arm build]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Revision tags: v2.6.18-rc1
# 6ab3d562 30-Jun-2006 Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>


Revision tags: v2.6.17
# 5eb1d63f 06-Jun-2006 Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>

[IA64] sanity check reserved region usage

One more trivial, stand-alone patch from the Xen/ia64 review. Sanity
check usage of the reserved region numbers.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.will

[IA64] sanity check reserved region usage

One more trivial, stand-alone patch from the Xen/ia64 review. Sanity
check usage of the reserved region numbers.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v2.6.17-rc6
# 76d08bb3 05-Jun-2006 Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

[IA64] Add "model name" to /proc/cpuinfo

Linux ia64 port tried to decode the processor family number
to something human-readable, but Intel brandnames don't change
synchronously with updates to the

[IA64] Add "model name" to /proc/cpuinfo

Linux ia64 port tried to decode the processor family number
to something human-readable, but Intel brandnames don't change
synchronously with updates to the family number. Adopt a more
i386-like approach and just print the family number in decimal.
Add a new field "model name" that uses PAL_BRAND_INFO to find
the official name for the cpu, or on older systems, falls back
to using the well-known codenames (Merced, McKinley, Madison).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v2.6.17-rc5, v2.6.17-rc4, v2.6.17-rc3, v2.6.17-rc2, v2.6.17-rc1
# b2c99e3c 26-Mar-2006 Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

[PATCH] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structure

Almost all users of the table addresses from the EFI system table want
physical addresses. So rather than doing the pa->va->pa conversion

[PATCH] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structure

Almost all users of the table addresses from the EFI system table want
physical addresses. So rather than doing the pa->va->pa conversion, just keep
physical addresses in struct efi.

This fixes a DMI bug: the efi structure contained the physical SMBIOS address
on x86 but the virtual address on ia64, so dmi_scan_machine() used ioremap()
on a virtual address on ia64.

This is essentially the same as an earlier patch by Matt Tolentino:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112130292316281&w=2
except that this changes all table addresses, not just ACPI addresses.

Matt's original patch was backed out because it caused MCAs on HP sx1000
systems. That problem is resolved by the ioremap() attribute checking added
for ia64.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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# 3ed3bce8 26-Mar-2006 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>

[PATCH] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c

Enable DMI table parsing on ia64.

Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of i386
dmi_scan.c on x86_64. dmi_scan.c functions are being use

[PATCH] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c

Enable DMI table parsing on ia64.

Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of i386
dmi_scan.c on x86_64. dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or
memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found.

This patch adds equivalent changes for ia64 as to what is in the x86_64
tree. In addition, I reworked the DMI detection, such that on EFI-capable
systems, it uses the efi.smbios pointer to find the table, rather than
brute-force searching from 0xF0000. On non-EFI systems, it continues the
brute-force search.

My test system, an Intel S870BN4 'Tiger4', aka Dell PowerEdge 7250, with
latest BIOS, does not list the IPMI controller in the ACPI namespace, nor
does it have an ACPI SPMI table. Also note, currently shipping Dell x8xx
EM64T servers don't have these either, so DMI is the only method for
obtaining the address of the IPMI controller.

Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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# cdb04527 24-Mar-2006 Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

[PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanup

include/linux/platform.h contained nothing that was actually used except
the default_idle() prototype, and is therefore removed by this

[PATCH] kill include/linux/platform.h, default_idle() cleanup

include/linux/platform.h contained nothing that was actually used except
the default_idle() prototype, and is therefore removed by this patch.

This patch does the following with the platform specific default_idle()
functions on different architectures:
- remove the unused function:
- parisc
- sparc64
- make the needlessly global function static:
- arm
- h8300
- m68k
- m68knommu
- s390
- v850
- x86_64
- add a prototype in asm/system.h:
- cris
- i386
- ia64

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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# a5b00bb4 23-Mar-2006 Horms <horms@verge.net.au>

IA64: Use early_parm to handle mvec_name and nomca

I'm not sure of the worthiness of this idea, so please consider it an RFC.
Its key merits are:

* Reuse existing infrastructure
* Greatly tightens

IA64: Use early_parm to handle mvec_name and nomca

I'm not sure of the worthiness of this idea, so please consider it an RFC.
Its key merits are:

* Reuse existing infrastructure
* Greatly tightens up the parsing of nomca
* Greatly simplifies the parsing of machvec

Addition cleanup (moving setup_mvec() to machvec.c) by Ken Chen.

Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-Off-By: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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# dae28066 22-Mar-2006 Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>

[IA64] add init declaration to memory initialization functions

Add init declaration to variables/functions used for memory
initialization. I don't think they would clash with memory
hotplug. If th

[IA64] add init declaration to memory initialization functions

Add init declaration to variables/functions used for memory
initialization. I don't think they would clash with memory
hotplug. If they do, please yell.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v2.6.16
# 244fd545 12-Mar-2006 Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>

[IA64] add init declaration to cpu initialization functions

Add init declaration to cpu initialization functions.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.l

[IA64] add init declaration to cpu initialization functions

Add init declaration to cpu initialization functions.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v2.6.16-rc6, v2.6.16-rc5, v2.6.16-rc4
# a6b14fa6 14-Feb-2006 Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>

[IA64] Count disabled cpus as potential hot-pluggable CPUs

Have a facility to account for potentially hot-pluggable CPUs. ACPI doesnt
give a determinstic method to find hot-pluggable CPUs. Hence we

[IA64] Count disabled cpus as potential hot-pluggable CPUs

Have a facility to account for potentially hot-pluggable CPUs. ACPI doesnt
give a determinstic method to find hot-pluggable CPUs. Hence we use 2 methods
to assist.

- BIOS can mark potentially hot-pluggable CPUs as disabled in the MADT tables.
- User can specify the number of hot-pluggable CPUs via parameter
additional_cpus=X

The option is enabled only if ACPI_CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y which enables the
physical hotplug option. Without which user can still use logical onlining
and offlining of CPUs by enabling CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y

Adds more bits to cpu_possible_map for potentially hot-pluggable cpus.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v2.6.16-rc3
# d6e56a2a 07-Feb-2006 Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

[IA64] Fix CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME

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

[IA64] Fix CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME

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>

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Revision tags: v2.6.16-rc2, v2.6.16-rc1
# 6450578f 12-Jan-2006 Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>

[PATCH] ia64: task_pt_regs()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 198e2f18 12-Jan-2006 akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org>

[PATCH] scheduler cache-hot-autodetect

)

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch.

The first problem was that detection time scaled

[PATCH] scheduler cache-hot-autodetect

)

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch.

The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is
unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this:

- I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache
measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means
that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT
distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks
the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows
whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot
time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption
is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain
distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems,
and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems.

[ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this
assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with
the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to
the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first
see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ]

Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring
the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable
up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with
L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often
have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem:

- Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and
sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration
cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of
cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which
occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the
'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for
the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs.

This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two
CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost
will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share
any caches.

(The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source
for details.)

Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune
migration behavior.

Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection:

migration_cost=1000,2000,3000

will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values.

Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or
decrease) the autodetected values:

migration_factor=120

will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to
tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is
cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying
migration_factor=0.

I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3
P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good:

Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache):

---------------------
migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz):
---------------------
[00] [01]
[00]: - 1.7(1)
[01]: 1.7(1) -
---------------------
cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008)
---------------------

Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even
though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs.

Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache):

---------------------
migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz):
---------------------
[00] [01] [02] [03]
[00]: - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1)
[01]: 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) 0.0(0)
[02]: 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - 0.4(1)
[03]: 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) -
---------------------
cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514)
---------------------

Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT
siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory
system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs.

8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]:

---------------------
migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz):
---------------------
[00] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07]
[00]: - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[01]: 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[02]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[03]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[04]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[05]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[06]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1)
[07]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) -
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cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756)
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This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the
migration cost is 19 msecs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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# 4dc7a0bb 12-Jan-2006 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[PATCH] sched: add cacheflush() asm

Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by
the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@el

[PATCH] sched: add cacheflush() asm

Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by
the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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# 38c0b2c2 05-Jan-2006 Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

[IA64] Fix compile warnings in setup.c

arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c: In function `show_cpuinfo':
arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:576: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 12)
arch/ia64/ke

[IA64] Fix compile warnings in setup.c

arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c: In function `show_cpuinfo':
arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:576: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 12)
arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:576: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 13)

Introduced by 95235ca2c20ac0b31a8eb39e2d599bcc3e9c9a10

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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