Revision 1c1e093cbf6d3a7576ba0bd10363362a1c5c74ee authored by Stefan Weinhuber on 12 May 2010, 07:32:11 UTC, committed by Martin Schwidefsky on 12 May 2010, 07:32:26 UTC
The various dasd_sleep_on functions use a global wait queue when waiting for a cqr. The wait condition checks the status and devlist fields of the cqr to determine if it is safe to continue. This evaluation may return true, although the tasklet has not finished processing of the cqr and the callback function has not been called yet. When the callback is finally called, the data in the cqr may already be invalid. The sleep_on wait condition needs a safe way to determine if the tasklet has finished processing. Use the callback_data field of the cqr to store a token, which is set by the callback function itself. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Kconfig.preempt
choice
prompt "Preemption Model"
default PREEMPT_NONE
config PREEMPT_NONE
bool "No Forced Preemption (Server)"
help
This is the traditional Linux preemption model, geared towards
throughput. It will still provide good latencies most of the
time, but there are no guarantees and occasional longer delays
are possible.
Select this option if you are building a kernel for a server or
scientific/computation system, or if you want to maximize the
raw processing power of the kernel, irrespective of scheduling
latencies.
config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)"
help
This option reduces the latency of the kernel by adding more
"explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum
latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions,
at the cost of slightly lower throughput.
This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a
low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it
is in kernel mode executing a system call. This allows
applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the system is
under load.
Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop system.
config PREEMPT
bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)"
help
This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making
all kernel code (that is not executing in a critical section)
preemptible. This allows reaction to interactive events by
permitting a low priority process to be preempted involuntarily
even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would
otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point.
This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the
system is under load, at the cost of slightly lower throughput
and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code.
Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or
embedded system with latency requirements in the milliseconds
range.
endchoice
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