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Eric Dumazet 67bbd7a8d6 x86/cpuid: Allow cpuid_read() to schedule
High latencies can be observed caused by a daemon periodically reading
CPUID on all cpus. On KASAN enabled kernels ~10ms latencies can be
observed. Even without KASAN, sending an IPI to a CPU, which is in a deep
sleep state or in a long hard IRQ disabled section, waiting for the answer
can consume hundreds of microseconds.

cpuid_read() is invoked in preemptible context, so it can be converted to
sleep instead of busy wait.

Switching to smp_call_function_single_async() and a completion allows to
reschedule and reduces CPU usage and latencies.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180323215818.127774-2-edumazet@google.com
2018-03-27 12:01:48 +02:00
arch x86/cpuid: Allow cpuid_read() to schedule 2018-03-27 12:01:48 +02:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation More atomic cleanup from willy. Fix a python script to work with version 3. 2018-03-05 20:31:14 -08:00
drivers virtio: bugfix 2018-03-07 17:49:33 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
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init jump_label: Explicitly disable jump labels in __init code 2018-02-21 16:54:05 +01:00
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samples - do not build samples when cross compiling (Michal Hocko) 2018-02-27 10:39:29 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.16 2018-03-03 10:37:01 -08:00
security integrity/security: fix digsig.c build error with header file 2018-02-22 20:09:08 -08:00
sound ALSA: x86: Fix potential crash at error path 2018-02-28 08:46:00 +01:00
tools linux-kselftest-4.16-rc5 2018-03-05 11:57:06 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: mmu: Fix overlap between public and private memslots 2018-02-24 01:43:36 +01:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.