On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:31:33PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> From: Vincent Guittot
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:19:32 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: fix the update of blocked load when newly idle
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Not understanding, why would a user ever need it? The platform knows if
> > its has funny boot image size limits, no?
>
> The boot loader does not come with the kernel, so the platform cannot
> know for sure.
Why would anybo
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 02:26:47PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:52:04PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> Not because of platforms with not limited memory, but because of platfo
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:29:07PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > BTW, is there any particular reason these huge arrays are in BSS, and not
> > allocated dynamically? That would solve my problems as well...
>
> Is there a memory allocator available before _any_ locks are used,
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:52:04PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Nah, users don't need more senseless options. This is really only useful
> > for dinky platforms or platforms with limited static image size (like
> > sparc64).
> >
> > If you make this user selectable, someone will do, and the
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:14:48PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> CC linux-renesas-soc
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Babu Moger wrote:
> > These patches limit the static allocations for lockdep data structures
> > used for debugging locking correctness. For sparc, all the kernel's code
