time: RCU permitted to stop idle entry via softirq

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>

The can_stop_idle_tick() function complains if a softirq vector is
raised too late in the idle-entry process, presumably in order to
prevent dangling softirq invocations from being delayed across the
full idle period, which might be indefinitely long -- and if softirq
was asserted any later than the call to this function, such a delay
might well happen.

However, RCU needs to be able to use softirq to stop idle entry in
order to be able to drain RCU callbacks from the current CPU, which in
turn enables faster entry into dyntick-idle mode, which in turn reduces
power consumption. Because RCU takes this action at a well-defined
point in the idle-entry path, it is safe for RCU to take this approach.

This commit therefore silences the error message that is sometimes
produced when the going-idle CPU suddenly finds that it has an RCU_SOFTIRQ
to process. The error message will continue to be issued for other
softirq vectors.

Change-Id: If3ef8d77377f55d0f4c6d68d4ca4f296dd35ddae
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
ARM: compressed/head.S: work around new binutils warning

In August 2012, Matthew Gretton-Dann checked a change
into binutils labelled "Error on obsolete & warn on
deprecated registers", apparently as part of ARMv8
support. Apparently, this was supposed to emit
the message "Warning: This coprocessor register access
is deprecated in ARMv8" when using certain mcr/mrc
instructions and building for ARMv8. Unfortunately,
the message that is actually emitted appears to be
'(null)', which is less helpful in comparison.

Even more unfortunately, this is biting us on
every single kernel build with a new gas, because
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S and some other files
in that directory are built with -march=all since
kernel commit 80cec14a8 "[ARM] Add -march=all to
assembly file build in arch/arm/boot/compressed"
back in v2.6.28.

This patch reverts Russell's nice solution and
replaces it with a more complex one that sprinkles
.arch statements inside of the head.S file in
functions that are executed in different architecture
levels, which seems to solve the original problem
just as well, and gets rid of the new one, too.

Without this patch, building anything results in:

arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S: Assembler messages:
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:565: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:676: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:698: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:722: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:726: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:957: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:996: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:997: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1027: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1035: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1046: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1060: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1092: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1094: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1095: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1102: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1134: Warning: (null)

Change-Id: If8a72743d8fb86663c546cac11aa5d14ee6fb76b
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Matthew Gretton-Dann <matthew.gretton-dann@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul Beeler <sparksco@gmail.com>
kernel: timeconst: Eliminate Perl warning

commit 63a3f603413ffe82ad775f2d62a5afff87fd94a0 upstream.

defined(@array) is deprecated in Perl and gives off a warning.
Restructure the code to remove that warning.

[ hpa: it would be interesting to revert to the timeconst.bc script.
  It appears that the failures reported by akpm during testing of
  that script was due to a known broken version of make, not a problem
  with bc.  The Makefile rules could probably be restructured to avoid
  the make bug, or it is probably old enough that it doesn't matter. ]

Change-Id: I64ef61e3cd8c0064a86da245f98ae6f5cea867b4
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>