linux/arch/x86
Ingo Molnar 1524b74540 Merge branch 'nohz/guest' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz
Pull full dynticks support for virt guests from Frederic Weisbecker:

 "Some measurements showed that disabling the tick on the host while the
  guest is running can be interesting on some workloads. Indeed the
  host tick is irrelevant while a vcpu runs, it consumes CPU time and cache
  footprint for no good reasons.

  Full dynticks already works in every context, but RCU prevents it to
  be effective outside userspace, because the CPU needs to take part of
  RCU grace period completion as long as RCU may be used on it, which is
  the case in kernel context.

  However guest is similar to userspace and idle in that we know RCU is
  unused on such context. Therefore a CPU in guest/userspace/idle context
  can let other CPUs report its own RCU quiescent state on its behalf
  and shut down the tick safely, provided it isn't needed for other
  reasons than RCU. This is called RCU extended quiescent state.

  This was already implemented for idle and userspace. This patchset now
  brings it for guest contexts through the following steps:

  - Generalize the context tracking APIs to also track guest state
  - Rename/sanitize a few CPP symbols accordingly
  - Report guest entry/exit to RCU and define this context area as an RCU
    extended quiescent state."

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-16 15:49:30 +01:00
..
boot Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-21 10:41:29 -08:00
configs x86/kconfig/defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE=y 2014-12-08 12:04:17 +01:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-02-14 09:47:01 -08:00
ia32 all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
include Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-21 11:12:07 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'nohz/guest' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz 2015-03-16 15:49:30 +01:00
kvm Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-16 14:58:12 -08:00
lguest lguest: update help text. 2015-02-19 14:44:32 +10:30
lib x86_64: kasan: add interceptors for memset/memmove/memcpy functions 2015-02-13 21:21:41 -08:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-21 10:41:29 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-12-10 15:48:20 -05:00
oprofile percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t 2014-08-28 08:58:57 -04:00
pci ACPI and power management updates for v3.20-rc1 2015-02-10 15:09:41 -08:00
platform Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent, to merge dependent patch 2015-02-28 08:03:10 +01:00
power x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4 2015-02-04 12:10:42 +01:00
purgatory Merge branches 'x86-build-for-linus', 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' and 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-10 12:35:46 -08:00
realmode Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-16 14:58:12 -08:00
syscalls x86: hook up execveat system call 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
tools x86, build: replace Perl script with Shell script 2015-01-26 13:37:18 -08:00
um all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
vdso x86_64: add KASan support 2015-02-13 21:21:41 -08:00
video
xen x86/xen: Initialize cr4 shadow for 64-bit PV(H) guests 2015-02-23 16:30:26 +00:00
.gitignore x86/build: Add arch/x86/purgatory/ make generated files to gitignore 2014-10-09 09:29:46 +02:00
Kbuild kexec: create a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE for new syscall 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-21 11:12:07 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug x86/intel/quark: Add Isolated Memory Regions for Quark X1000 2015-02-18 23:22:47 +01:00
Makefile x86/raid6: correctly check for assembler capabilities 2015-02-04 08:35:51 +11:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um kbuild: do not add $(call ...) to invoke cc-version or cc-fullversion 2015-01-09 17:25:44 +01:00