[ANNOUNCE] 3.10.37-rt38

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Apr 30 2014 - 12:33:46 EST



Dear RT Folks,

I'm pleased to announce the 3.10.37-rt38 stable release.


You can get this release via the git tree at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git

branch: v3.10-rt
Head SHA1: e76c85361a356b46260fe121cd8ddc57512bdfda


Or to build 3.10.37-rt38 directly, the following patches should be applied:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.tar.xz

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.10.37.xz

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.10/patch-3.10.37-rt38.patch.xz



You can also build from 3.10.37-rt37 by applying the incremental patch:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.10/incr/patch-3.10.37-rt37-rt38.patch.xz



Enjoy,

-- Steve


Changes from v3.10.37-rt37:

---

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (3):
net: gianfar: do not disable interrupts
net: gianfar: do not try to cleanup TX packets if they are not done
rcu: make RCU_BOOST default on RT

Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) (1):
Linux 3.10.37-rt38

----
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 28 ++++++++++++++----------
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c | 8 +++----
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_sysfs.c | 24 ++++++++++----------
init/Kconfig | 2 +-
localversion-rt | 2 +-
5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
---------------------------
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index 0343a14..b87a8c9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ static int gfar_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget);
static void gfar_netpoll(struct net_device *dev);
#endif
int gfar_clean_rx_ring(struct gfar_priv_rx_q *rx_queue, int rx_work_limit);
-static void gfar_clean_tx_ring(struct gfar_priv_tx_q *tx_queue);
static void gfar_process_frame(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
int amount_pull, struct napi_struct *napi);
void gfar_halt(struct net_device *dev);
@@ -1274,7 +1273,7 @@ static int gfar_suspend(struct device *dev)

if (netif_running(ndev)) {

- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_tx_qs(priv);
lock_rx_qs(priv);

@@ -1292,7 +1291,7 @@ static int gfar_suspend(struct device *dev)

unlock_rx_qs(priv);
unlock_tx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);

disable_napi(priv);

@@ -1334,7 +1333,7 @@ static int gfar_resume(struct device *dev)
/* Disable Magic Packet mode, in case something
* else woke us up.
*/
- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_tx_qs(priv);
lock_rx_qs(priv);

@@ -1346,7 +1345,7 @@ static int gfar_resume(struct device *dev)

unlock_rx_qs(priv);
unlock_tx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);

netif_device_attach(ndev);

@@ -2346,7 +2345,7 @@ void gfar_vlan_mode(struct net_device *dev, netdev_features_t features)
u32 tempval;

regs = priv->gfargrp[0].regs;
- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_rx_qs(priv);

if (features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX) {
@@ -2379,7 +2378,7 @@ void gfar_vlan_mode(struct net_device *dev, netdev_features_t features)
gfar_change_mtu(dev, dev->mtu);

unlock_rx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);
}

static int gfar_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
@@ -2475,7 +2474,7 @@ static void gfar_align_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
}

/* Interrupt Handler for Transmit complete */
-static void gfar_clean_tx_ring(struct gfar_priv_tx_q *tx_queue)
+static int gfar_clean_tx_ring(struct gfar_priv_tx_q *tx_queue)
{
struct net_device *dev = tx_queue->dev;
struct netdev_queue *txq;
@@ -2575,6 +2574,7 @@ static void gfar_clean_tx_ring(struct gfar_priv_tx_q *tx_queue)
tx_queue->dirty_tx = bdp;

netdev_tx_completed_queue(txq, howmany, bytes_sent);
+ return howmany;
}

static void gfar_schedule_cleanup(struct gfar_priv_grp *gfargrp)
@@ -2856,10 +2856,14 @@ static int gfar_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
tx_queue = priv->tx_queue[i];
/* run Tx cleanup to completion */
if (tx_queue->tx_skbuff[tx_queue->skb_dirtytx]) {
- gfar_clean_tx_ring(tx_queue);
- has_tx_work = 1;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = gfar_clean_tx_ring(tx_queue);
+ if (ret)
+ has_tx_work++;
}
}
+ work_done += has_tx_work;

for_each_set_bit(i, &gfargrp->rx_bit_map, priv->num_rx_queues) {
/* skip queue if not active */
@@ -3258,14 +3262,14 @@ static irqreturn_t gfar_error(int irq, void *grp_id)
dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
atomic64_inc(&priv->extra_stats.tx_underrun);

- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_tx_qs(priv);

/* Reactivate the Tx Queues */
gfar_write(&regs->tstat, gfargrp->tstat);

unlock_tx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);
}
netif_dbg(priv, tx_err, dev, "Transmit Error\n");
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c
index 21cd881..c965c0a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ static int gfar_sringparam(struct net_device *dev,
/* Halt TX and RX, and process the frames which
* have already been received
*/
- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_tx_qs(priv);
lock_rx_qs(priv);

@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ static int gfar_sringparam(struct net_device *dev,

unlock_rx_qs(priv);
unlock_tx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);

for (i = 0; i < priv->num_rx_queues; i++)
gfar_clean_rx_ring(priv->rx_queue[i],
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ int gfar_set_features(struct net_device *dev, netdev_features_t features)
/* Halt TX and RX, and process the frames which
* have already been received
*/
- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_tx_qs(priv);
lock_rx_qs(priv);

@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ int gfar_set_features(struct net_device *dev, netdev_features_t features)

unlock_tx_qs(priv);
unlock_rx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);

for (i = 0; i < priv->num_rx_queues; i++)
gfar_clean_rx_ring(priv->rx_queue[i],
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_sysfs.c
index acb55af..f0160e67 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_sysfs.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_bd_stash(struct device *dev,
return count;


- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_rx_qs(priv);

/* Set the new stashing value */
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_bd_stash(struct device *dev,
gfar_write(&regs->attr, temp);

unlock_rx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);

return count;
}
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_rx_stash_size(struct device *dev,
if (!(priv->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_BUF_STASHING))
return count;

- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_rx_qs(priv);

if (length > priv->rx_buffer_size)
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_rx_stash_size(struct device *dev,

out:
unlock_rx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);

return count;
}
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_rx_stash_index(struct device *dev,
if (!(priv->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_BUF_STASHING))
return count;

- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_rx_qs(priv);

if (index > priv->rx_stash_size)
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_rx_stash_index(struct device *dev,

out:
unlock_rx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);

return count;
}
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_fifo_threshold(struct device *dev,
if (length > GFAR_MAX_FIFO_THRESHOLD)
return count;

- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_tx_qs(priv);

priv->fifo_threshold = length;
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_fifo_threshold(struct device *dev,
gfar_write(&regs->fifo_tx_thr, temp);

unlock_tx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);

return count;
}
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_fifo_starve(struct device *dev,
if (num > GFAR_MAX_FIFO_STARVE)
return count;

- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_tx_qs(priv);

priv->fifo_starve = num;
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_fifo_starve(struct device *dev,
gfar_write(&regs->fifo_tx_starve, temp);

unlock_tx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);

return count;
}
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_fifo_starve_off(struct device *dev,
if (num > GFAR_MAX_FIFO_STARVE_OFF)
return count;

- local_irq_save(flags);
+ local_irq_save_nort(flags);
lock_tx_qs(priv);

priv->fifo_starve_off = num;
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static ssize_t gfar_set_fifo_starve_off(struct device *dev,
gfar_write(&regs->fifo_tx_starve_shutoff, temp);

unlock_tx_qs(priv);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore_nort(flags);

return count;
}
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 6c3a4fd..bd3612d 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ config TREE_RCU_TRACE
config RCU_BOOST
bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU
- default n
+ default y if PREEMPT_RT_FULL
help
This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
diff --git a/localversion-rt b/localversion-rt
index a3b2408..49bae8d 100644
--- a/localversion-rt
+++ b/localversion-rt
@@ -1 +1 @@
--rt37
+-rt38
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