This commit replaces disabling of preemption and decrement of a per-CPU
variable with this_cpu_dec(), which avoids preemption disabling on x86
and shortens the code on all platforms.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, __queue_work() chooses the pool to queue a work item to and
then determines cwq from the target wq and the chosen pool. This is a
bit backwards in that we can determine cwq first and simply use
cwq->pool. This way, we can skip get_std_worker_pool() in queueing
path which will be a hurdle when implementing custom worker pools.
Update __queue_work() such that it chooses the target cwq and then use
cwq->pool instead of the other way around. While at it, add missing
{} in an if statement.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.
tj: The original patch had two get_cwq() calls - the first to
determine the pool by doing get_cwq(cpu, wq)->pool and the second
to determine the matching cwq from get_cwq(pool->cpu, wq).
Updated the function such that it chooses cwq instead of pool and
removed the second call. Rewrote the description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
get_work_pool_id() currently first obtains pool using get_work_pool()
and then return pool->id. For an off-queue work item, this involves
obtaining pool ID from worker->data, performing idr_find() to find the
matching pool and then returning its pool->id which of course is the
same as the one which went into idr_find().
Just open code WORK_STRUCT_CWQ case and directly return pool ID from
work->data.
tj: The original patch dropped on-queue work item handling and renamed
the function to offq_work_pool_id(). There isn't much benefit in
doing so. Handling it only requires a single if() and we need at
least BUG_ON(), which is also a branch, even if we drop on-queue
handling. Open code WORK_STRUCT_CWQ case and keep the function in
line with get_work_pool(). Rewrote the description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
As nr_running is likely to be accessed from other CPUs during
try_to_wake_up(), it was kept outside worker_pool; however, while less
frequent, other fields in worker_pool are accessed from other CPUs
for, e.g., non-reentrancy check. Also, with recent pool related
changes, accessing nr_running matching the worker_pool isn't as simple
as it used to be.
Move nr_running inside worker_pool. Keep it aligned to cacheline and
define CPU pools using DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(). This should
give at least the same cacheline behavior.
get_pool_nr_running() is replaced with direct pool->nr_running
accesses.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Move rt scheduler definitions out of include/linux/sched.h into
new file include/linux/sched/rt.h
Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094707.7b9f825f@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add a /proc/sys/kernel scheduler knob named
sched_rr_timeslice_ms that allows global changing of the
SCHED_RR timeslice value. User visable value is in milliseconds
but is stored as jiffies. Setting to 0 (zero) resets to the
default (currently 100ms).
Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094704.13751796@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Move the sysctl-related bits from include/linux/sched.h into
a new file: include/linux/sched/sysctl.h. Then update source
files requiring access to those bits by including the new
header file.
Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094659.06dced96@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
With the recent is-work-queued-here test simplification, the nested
if() in try_to_grab_pending() can be collapsed. Collapse it.
This patch is purely cosmetic.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Currently, determining whether a work item is queued on a locked pool
involves somewhat convoluted memory barrier dancing. It goes like the
following.
* When a work item is queued on a pool, work->data is updated before
work->entry is linked to the pending list with a wmb() inbetween.
* When trying to determine whether a work item is currently queued on
a pool pointed to by work->data, it locks the pool and looks at
work->entry. If work->entry is linked, we then do rmb() and then
check whether work->data points to the current pool.
This works because, work->data can only point to a pool if it
currently is or were on the pool and,
* If it currently is on the pool, the tests would obviously succeed.
* It it left the pool, its work->entry was cleared under pool->lock,
so if we're seeing non-empty work->entry, it has to be from the work
item being linked on another pool. Because work->data is updated
before work->entry is linked with wmb() inbetween, work->data update
from another pool is guaranteed to be visible if we do rmb() after
seeing non-empty work->entry. So, we either see empty work->entry
or we see updated work->data pointin to another pool.
While this works, it's convoluted, to put it mildly. With recent
updates, it's now guaranteed that work->data points to cwq only while
the work item is queued and that updating work->data to point to cwq
or back to pool is done under pool->lock, so we can simply test
whether work->data points to cwq which is associated with the
currently locked pool instead of the convoluted memory barrier
dancing.
This patch replaces the memory barrier based "are you still here,
really?" test with much simpler "does work->data points to me?" test -
if work->data points to a cwq which is associated with the currently
locked pool, the work item is guaranteed to be queued on the pool as
work->data can start and stop pointing to such cwq only under
pool->lock and the start and stop coincide with queue and dequeue.
tj: Rewrote the comments and description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
We plan to use work->data pointing to cwq as the synchronization
invariant when determining whether a given work item is on a locked
pool or not, which requires work->data pointing to cwq only while the
work item is queued on the associated pool.
With delayed_work updated not to overload work->data for target
workqueue recording, the only case where we still have off-queue
work->data pointing to cwq is try_to_grab_pending() which doesn't
update work->data after stealing a queued work item. There's no
reason for try_to_grab_pending() to not update work->data to point to
the pool instead of cwq, like the normal execution does.
This patch adds set_work_pool_and_keep_pending() which makes
work->data point to pool instead of cwq but keeps the pending bit
unlike set_work_pool_and_clear_pending() (surprise!).
After this patch, it's guaranteed that only queued work items point to
cwqs.
This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior change.
tj: Renamed the new helper function to match
set_work_pool_and_clear_pending() and rewrote the description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To avoid executing the same work item from multiple CPUs concurrently,
a work_struct records the last pool it was on in its ->data so that,
on the next queueing, the pool can be queried to determine whether the
work item is still executing or not.
A delayed_work goes through timer before actually being queued on the
target workqueue and the timer needs to know the target workqueue and
CPU. This is currently achieved by modifying delayed_work->work.data
such that it points to the cwq which points to the target workqueue
and the last CPU the work item was on. __queue_delayed_work()
extracts the last CPU from delayed_work->work.data and then combines
it with the target workqueue to create new work.data.
The only thing this rather ugly hack achieves is encoding the target
workqueue into delayed_work->work.data without using a separate field,
which could be a trade off one can make; unfortunately, this entangles
work->data management between regular workqueue and delayed_work code
by setting cwq pointer before the work item is actually queued and
becomes a hindrance for further improvements of work->data handling.
This can be easily made sane by adding a target workqueue field to
delayed_work. While delayed_work is used widely in the kernel and
this does make it a bit larger (<5%), I think this is the right
trade-off especially given the prospect of much saner handling of
work->data which currently involves quite tricky memory barrier
dancing, and don't expect to see any measureable effect.
Add delayed_work->wq and drop the delayed_work->work.data overloading.
tj: Rewrote the description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Currently, work_busy() first tests whether the work has a pool
associated with it and if not, considers it idle. This works fine
even for delayed_work.work queued on timer, as __queue_delayed_work()
sets cwq on delayed_work.work - a queued delayed_work always has its
cwq and thus pool associated with it.
However, we're about to update delayed_work queueing and this won't
hold. Update work_busy() such that it tests WORK_STRUCT_PENDING
before the associated pool. This doesn't make any noticeable behavior
difference now.
With work_pending() test moved, the function read a lot better with
"if (!pool)" test flipped to positive. Flip it.
While at it, lose the comment about now non-existent reentrant
workqueues.
tj: Reorganized the function and rewrote the description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Now that workqueue has moved away from gcwqs, workqueue no longer has
the need to have a CPU identifier indicating "no cpu associated" - we
now use WORK_OFFQ_POOL_NONE instead - and most uses of WORK_CPU_NONE
are gone.
The only left usage is as the end marker for for_each_*wq*()
iterators, where the name WORK_CPU_NONE is confusing w/o actual
WORK_CPU_NONE usages. Similarly, WORK_CPU_LAST which equals
WORK_CPU_NONE no longer makes sense.
Replace both WORK_CPU_NONE and LAST with WORK_CPU_END. This patch
doesn't introduce any functional difference.
tj: s/WORK_CPU_LAST/WORK_CPU_END/ and rewrote the description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
All in-kernel users of class_find_device() don't really need mutable
data for match callback.
In two places (kernel/power/suspend_test.c, drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c)
this patch changes match callbacks to use const search data.
The const is propagated to rtc_class_open() and power_supply_get_by_name()
parameters.
Note that there's a dev reference leak in suspend_test.c that's not
touched in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
TCP Appropriate Byte Count was added by me, but later disabled.
There is no point in maintaining it since it is a potential source
of bugs and Linux already implements other better window protection
heuristics.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Typical cputime stats infrastructure relies on the timer tick and
its periodic polling on the CPU to account the amount of time
spent by the CPUs and the tasks per high level domains such as
userspace, kernelspace, guest, ...
Now we are preparing to implement full dynticks capability on
Linux for Real Time and HPC users who want full CPU isolation.
This feature requires a cputime accounting that doesn't depend
on the timer tick.
To implement it, this new cputime infrastructure plugs into
kernel/user/guest boundaries to take snapshots of cputime and
flush these to the stats when needed. This performs pretty
much like CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING except that context location
and cputime snaphots are synchronized between write and read
side such that the latter can safely retrieve the pending tickless
cputime of a task and add it to its latest cputime snapshot to
return the correct result to the user.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Merge tag 'full-dynticks-cputime-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into sched/core
Pull full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed and
receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready,
from Frederic Weisbecker:
"This implements the cputime accounting on full dynticks CPUs.
Typical cputime stats infrastructure relies on the timer tick and
its periodic polling on the CPU to account the amount of time
spent by the CPUs and the tasks per high level domains such as
userspace, kernelspace, guest, ...
Now we are preparing to implement full dynticks capability on
Linux for Real Time and HPC users who want full CPU isolation.
This feature requires a cputime accounting that doesn't depend
on the timer tick.
To implement it, this new cputime infrastructure plugs into
kernel/user/guest boundaries to take snapshots of cputime and
flush these to the stats when needed. This performs pretty
much like CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING except that context location
and cputime snaphots are synchronized between write and read
side such that the latter can safely retrieve the pending tickless
cputime of a task and add it to its latest cputime snapshot to
return the correct result to the user."
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In 7b270f6099 "sched: Bail out of yield_to when source and
target runqueue has one task" we changed this to store -ESRCH so
it needs to be signed.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kbuild@01.org
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130205113751.GA20521@elgon.mountain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram contains a race which could result in
timer.base switch during unlock/lock sequence.
hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram is releasing the lock protecting the timer
base for calling raise_softirq_irqsoff() due to a lock ordering issue
versus rq->lock.
If during that time another CPU calls __hrtimer_start_range_ns() on
the same hrtimer, the timer base might switch, before the current CPU
can lock base->lock again and therefor the unlock_timer_base() call
will unlock the wrong lock.
[ tglx: Added comment and massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Leonid Shatz <leonid.shatz@ravellosystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359981217-389-1-git-send-email-izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Conflicts:
kernel/irq_work.c
Add support for printk in full dynticks CPU.
* Don't stop tick with irq works pending. This
fix is generally useful and concerns archs that
can't raise self IPIs.
* Flush irq works before CPU offlining.
* Introduce "lazy" irq works that can wait for the
next tick to be executed, unless it's stopped.
* Implement klogd wake up using irq work. This
removes the ad-hoc printk_tick()/printk_needs_cpu()
hooks and make it working even in dynticks mode.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
There's no reason kgdb.h itself needs to include the 8250 serial port
header file. So push it down to the _very_ limited number of individual
drivers that need the values in that file, and fix up the places where
people really wanted serial_core.h and platform_device.h.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Three small fixlets"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/debug: Fix format string for 32-bit platforms
sched: Fix warning in kernel/sched/fair.c
sched/rt: Use root_domain of rt_rq not current processor
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Three fixlets and two small (and low risk) hw-enablement changes"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf: Fix event group context move
x86/perf: Add IvyBridge EP support
perf/x86: Fix P6 driver section warning
arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity.c: Identify source of messages
perf/x86: Enable Intel Lincroft/Penwell/Cloverview Atom support
Pull two small RCU fixlets from Ingo Molnar.
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rcu: Make rcu_nocb_poll an early_param instead of module_param
rcu: Prevent soft-lockup complaints about no-CBs CPUs
The uses of trace_clock_local() are dead code when CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=n,
but some compilers might nevertheless generate code calling this function.
This commit therefore ensures that trace_clock_local() is invoked only
when CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y.
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the previous CPU is cache affine and idle, select it.
The current implementation simply traverses the sd_llc domain,
taking the first idle CPU encountered, which walks buddy pairs
hand in hand over the package, inflicting excruciating pain.
1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:
pre 15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359371965.5783.127.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
As no one is using the return value of irq_work_queue(),
so it is better to just make it void.
Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ Fix stale comments, remove now unnecessary __irq_work_queue() intermediate function ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359925703-24304-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
mips was the last architecture not using the generic variant.
Both native and compat variants switched to generic, which is
made unconditional now.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
usual "call force_sigsegv or signal_delivered" logics. Takes
ksignal instead of separate siginfo/k_sigaction.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Again, protected by a temporary config symbol (GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGACTION);
will be gone by the end of series.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... and make it unconditional - we want the sucker on all biarch
platforms, really. All kinds of wrappers and private implementations
can go now; fortunately, they don't cause name conflicts, so we can
do that one first without any bisect hazards.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
conditional on GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGQUEUEINFO; by the end of that series
it will become the same thing as COMPAT and conditional will die out.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
conditional on GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGPENDING; by the end of that series
it will become the same thing as COMPAT and conditional will die out.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
conditional on GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGPROCMASK; by the end of that series
it will become the same thing as COMPAT and conditional will die out.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* pull compat version alongside with the native one
* make little-endian compat variant just call the native
* don't bother with separate conditional for compat (both native and
compat are going to become unconditional very soon).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Switch from __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION to opposite
(!CONFIG_ODD_RT_SIGACTION); the only two architectures that
need it are alpha and sparc. The reason for use of CONFIG_...
instead of __ARCH_... is that it's needed only kernel-side
and doing it that way avoids a mess with include order on many
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
again, strictly speaking we are in nasal daemon territory on ppc
and mips - we need to sign-extend int arguments.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Function next_prio() has been removed and pull_rt_task() is the
only user of pick_next_highest_task_rt() at the moment.
pull_rt_task is not interested in p->nr_cpus_allowed, its only
interest is the fact that cpu is allowed to execute p. If
nr_cpus_allowed == 1, cpu != task_cpu(p) and cpu is allowed then
it means that task p is in the middle of the migration
techniques; the task waits until it is moved by migration
thread. So, lets pull it earlier.
Signed-off-by: Kirill V Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/70871359644177@web16d.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When we have group with mixed events (hw/sw) we want to end up
with group leader being in hw context. So if group leader is
initialy sw event, we move all the events under hw context.
The move is done for each event by removing it from its context
and adding it back into proper one. As a part of the removal the
event is automatically disabled, which is not what we want at
this stage of creating groups.
The fix is to initialize event state after removal from sw
context.
This fix resulted from the following discussion:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.perf.user/1144
Reported-by: Andreas Hollmann <hollmann@in.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359714225-4231-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
On early boot up, when the ftrace ring buffer is initialized, the
static variable current_trace is initialized to &nop_trace.
Before this initialization, current_trace is NULL and will never
become NULL again. It is always reassigned to a ftrace tracer.
Several places check if current_trace is NULL before it uses
it, and this check is frivolous, because at the point in time
when the checks are made the only way current_trace could be
NULL is if ftrace failed its allocations at boot up, and the
paths to these locations would probably not be possible.
By initializing current_trace to &nop_trace where it is declared,
current_trace will never be NULL, and we can remove all these
checks of current_trace being NULL which never needed to be
checked in the first place.
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the timer broadcast mechanism is defined by a function
pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental mechanism for
broadcast is architecture-specific, this means that clock_event_device
drivers cannot be shared across multiple architectures.
This patch adds an (optional) architecture-specific function for timer
tick broadcast, allowing drivers which may require broadcast
functionality to be shared across multiple architectures.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358183124-28461-3-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
