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Pallipadi, Venkatesh
6ec3cfeca0 x86, irq: Remove IRQ_DISABLED check in process context IRQ move
As discussed in the thread here:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123964468521142&w=2

Eric W. Biederman observed:

> It looks like some additional bugs have slipped in since last I looked.
>
> set_irq_affinity does this:
> ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ
>        if (desc->status & IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT || desc->status & IRQ_DISABLED) {
>                cpumask_copy(desc->affinity, cpumask);
>                desc->chip->set_affinity(irq, cpumask);
>        } else {
>                desc->status |= IRQ_MOVE_PENDING;
>                cpumask_copy(desc->pending_mask, cpumask);
>        }
> #else
>
> That IRQ_DISABLED case is a software state and as such it has nothing to
> do with how safe it is to move an irq in process context.

[...]

>
> The only reason we migrate MSIs in interrupt context today is that there
> wasn't infrastructure for support migration both in interrupt context
> and outside of it.

Yes. The idea here was to force the MSI migration to happen in process
context. One of the patches in the series did

        disable_irq(dev->irq);
        irq_set_affinity(dev->irq, cpumask_of(dev->cpu));
        enable_irq(dev->irq);

with the above patch adding irq/manage code check for interrupt disabled
and moving the interrupt in process context.

IIRC, there was no IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT when we were developing this HPET
code and we ended up having this ugly hack. IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT was there
when we eventually submitted the patch upstream. But, looks like I did a
blind rebasing instead of using IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT in hpet MSI code.

Below patch fixes this. i.e., revert commit 932775a4ab
and add PCNTXT to HPET MSI setup. Also removes copying of desc->affinity
in generic code as set_affinity routines are doing it internally.

Reported-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Li Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "lcm@us.ibm.com" <lcm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090413222058.GB8211@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 15:21:13 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
ef631b0ca0 rcu: Make hierarchical RCU less IPI-happy
This patch fixes a hierarchical-RCU performance bug located by Anton
Blanchard.  The problem stems from a misguided attempt to provide a
work-around for jiffies-counter failure.  This work-around uses a per-CPU
n_rcu_pending counter, which is incremented on each call to rcu_pending(),
which in turn is called from each scheduling-clock interrupt.  Each CPU
then treats this counter as a surrogate for the jiffies counter, so
that if the jiffies counter fails to advance, the per-CPU n_rcu_pending
counter will cause RCU to invoke force_quiescent_state(), which in turn
will (among other things) send resched IPIs to CPUs that have thus far
failed to pass through an RCU quiescent state.

Unfortunately, each CPU resets only its own counter after sending a
batch of IPIs.  This means that the other CPUs will also (needlessly)
send -another- round of IPIs, for a full N-squared set of IPIs in the
worst case every three scheduler-clock ticks until the grace period
finally ends.  It is not reasonable for a given CPU to reset each and
every n_rcu_pending for all the other CPUs, so this patch instead simply
disables the jiffies-counter "training wheels", thus eliminating the
excessive IPIs.

Note that the jiffies-counter IPIs do not have this problem due to
the fact that the jiffies counter is global, so that the CPU sending
the IPIs can easily reset things, thus preventing the other CPUs from
sending redundant IPIs.

Note also that the n_rcu_pending counter remains, as it will continue to
be used for tracing.  It may also see use to update the jiffies counter,
should an appropriate kick-the-jiffies-counter API appear.

Located-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com
Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: schamp@sgi.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: ego@in.ibm.com
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <12396834793575-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 11:31:50 +02:00
Zhaolei
557055bebe tracing: Fix branch tracer header
Before patch:

  # tracer: branch
  #
  #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
  #              | |       |          |         |
             <...>-2981  [000] 24008.872738: [  ok  ] trace_irq_handler_exit:irq_event_types.h:41
             <...>-2981  [000] 24008.872742: [  ok  ] note_interrupt:spurious.c:229
  ...

After patch:

  # tracer: branch
  #
  #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  CORRECT  FUNC:FILE:LINE
  #              | |       |          |         |       |
             <...>-2985  [000] 26329.142970: [  ok  ] slab_free:slub.c:1776
             <...>-2985  [000] 26329.142972: [  ok  ] trace_kmem_cache_free:kmem_event_types.h:191
  ...

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49E2F19A.3040006@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 02:30:36 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
132380a06b tracing, sched: mark get_parent_ip() notrace
Impact: remove overly redundant tracing entries

When tracer is "function" or "function_graph", way too much
"get_parent_ip" entries are recorded in ring_buffer.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D458B1.5000703@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 02:11:05 +02:00
Andi Kleen
3d26dcf767 kernel/sys.c: clean up sys_shutdown exit path
Impact: cleanup, fix

Clean up sys_shutdown() exit path.  Factor out common code.  Return
correct error code instead of always 0 on failure.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:32 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
f1671f6d78 ptrace: fix exit_ptrace() vs ptrace_traceme() race
Pointed out by Roland.  The bug was recently introduced by me in
"forget_original_parent: split out the un-ptrace part", commit
39c626ae47.

Since that patch we have a window after exit_ptrace() drops tasklist and
before forget_original_parent() takes it again.  In this window the child
can do ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) and nobody can untrace this child after
that.

Change ptrace_traceme() to not attach to the exiting ->real_parent.  We
don't report the error in this case, we pretend we attach right before
->real_parent calls exit_ptrace() which should untrace us anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:31 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
4be6f6bb66 mm: move the scan_unevictable_pages sysctl to the vm table
vm knobs should go in the vm table.  Probably too late for
randomize_va_space though.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:28 -07:00
Zhaolei
a3d03ecaf9 tracing: Fix power tracer header
Before patch:
  # tracer: power
  #
  #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
  #              | |       |          |         |
  [  676.875865889] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.005911463
  [  676.882938805] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.104796532
  ...

After patch:
  # tracer: power
  #
  #   TIMESTAMP      STATE  EVENT
  #       |            |      |
  [  676.875865889] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.005911463
  [  676.882938805] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.104796532
  ...

v2: Use seq_puts instead of seq_printf

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49E2E889.5000903@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-13 23:39:57 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
c751085943 PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resume
There is a race between resume from hibernation and the asynchronous
scanning of SCSI devices and to prevent it from happening we need to
call scsi_complete_async_scans() during resume from hibernation.

In addition, if the resume from hibernation is userland-driven, it's
better to wait for all device probes in the kernel to complete before
attempting to open the resume device.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 11:37:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8255309b88 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter file
  tracing/filters: allow user input integer to be oct or hex
  tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereference
  tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filter
  ftrace: Output REC->var instead of __entry->var for trace format
  Make __stringify support variable argument macros too
  tracing: fix document references
  tracing: fix splice return too large
  tracing: update file->f_pos when splice(2) it
  tracing: allocate page when needed
  tracing: disable seeking for trace_pipe_raw
2009-04-13 11:31:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bf20753c0c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints
  lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
2009-04-13 11:30:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d811f236d9 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  percpu: unbreak alpha percpu
  mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
2009-04-13 08:22:43 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
574bbe7820 lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints
Impact: broaden lockdep checks

Lockdep is disabled after any kernel taints. This might be convenient
to ignore bad locking issues which sources come from outside the kernel
tree. Nevertheless, it might be a frustrating experience for the
staging developers or those who experience a warning but are focused
on another things that require lockdep.

The v2 of this patch simply don't disable anymore lockdep in case
of TAINT_CRAP and TAINT_WARN events.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: LTP <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 16:10:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
9eeba6138c lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
Impact: provide useful missing info for developers

Kernel taint can occur in several situations such as warnings,
load of prorietary or staging modules, bad page, etc...

But when such taint happens, a developer might still be working on
the kernel, expecting that lockdep is still enabled. But a taint
disables lockdep without ever warning about it.
Such a kernel behaviour doesn't really help for kernel development.

This patch adds this missing warning.

Since the taint is done most of the time after the main message that
explain the real source issue, it seems safe to warn about it inside
add_taint() so that it appears at last, without hurting the main
information.

v2: Use a generic helper to disable lockdep instead of an
    open coded xchg().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 16:10:51 +02:00
Li Zefan
44e9c8b7ad tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter file
- propagate return value of filter_add_pred() to the user

- return -ENOSPC but not -ENOMEM or -EINVAL when the filter array
  is full

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E04CF0.3010105@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 11:59:29 +02:00
Li Zefan
a3e0ab0507 tracing/filters: allow user input integer to be oct or hex
Before patch:

 # echo 'parent_pid == 0x10' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter
 # cat sched/sched_process_fork/filter
 parent_pid == 0

After patch:

 # cat sched/sched_process_fork/filter
 parent_pid == 16

Also check the input more strictly.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E04C53.4010600@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 11:59:28 +02:00
Li Zefan
bcabd91c27 tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereference
Try this, and you'll see NULL pointer dereference bug:

  # echo -n 'parent_comm ==' > sched/sched_process_fork/filter

Because we passed NULL ptr to simple_strtoull().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E04C43.1050504@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 11:59:28 +02:00
Li Zefan
8433a40eb7 tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filter
Make sure messages from user space are NIL-terminated strings,
otherwise we could dump random memory while reading filter file.

Try this:
 # echo 'parent_comm ==' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter
 # cat events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter
 parent_comm == �

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E04C32.6060508@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 11:59:27 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d6de2c80e9 async: Fix module loading async-work regression
Several drivers use asynchronous work to do device discovery, and we
synchronize with them in the compiled-in case before we actually try to
mount root filesystems etc.

However, when compiled as modules, that synchronization is missing - the
module loading completes, but the driver hasn't actually finished
probing for devices, and that means that any user mode that expects to
use the devices after the 'insmod' is now potentially broken.

We already saw one case of a similar issue in the ACPI battery code,
where the kernel itself expected the module to be all done, and unmapped
the init memory - but the async device discovery was still running.
That got hacked around by just removing the "__init" (see commit
5d38258ec0 "ACPI battery: fix async boot
oops"), but the real fix is to just make the module loading wait for all
async work to be completed.

It will slow down module loading, but since common devices should be
built in anyway, and since the bug is really annoying and hard to handle
from user space (and caused several S3 resume regressions), the simple
fix to wait is the right one.

This fixes at least

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063

but probably a few other bugzilla entries too (12936, for example), and
is confirmed to fix Rafael's storage driver breakage after resume bug
report (no bugzilla entry).

We should also be able to now revert that ACPI battery fix.

Reported-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@suse.com>
Tested-by: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-11 12:44:49 -07:00
Zhaolei
0462b5664b ftrace: Output REC->var instead of __entry->var for trace format
print fmt: "irq=%d return=%s", __entry->irq, __entry->ret ? \"handled\" : \"unhandled\"

"__entry" should be convert to "REC" by __stringify() macro.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49DC679D.2090901@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10 15:48:53 +02:00
Li Zefan
4d1f4372db tracing: fix document references
When moving documents to Documentation/trace/, I forgot to
grep Kconfig to find out those references.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro
LKML-Reference: <49DE97EF.7080208@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10 13:08:50 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
93cfb3c9fd tracing: fix splice return too large
I got these from strace:

 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 16384
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192

I wanted to splice_read 4096 bytes, but it returns 8192 or larger.

It is because the return value of tracing_buffers_splice_read()
does not include "zero out any left over data" bytes.

But tracing_buffers_read() includes these bytes, we make them
consistent.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46674.9030804@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10 12:44:46 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
c7625a555f tracing: update file->f_pos when splice(2) it
Impact: Cleanup

These two lines:

	if (unlikely(*ppos))
		return -ESPIPE;

in tracing_buffers_splice_read() are not needed, VFS layer
has disabled seek(2).

We remove these two lines, and then we can update file->f_pos.

And tracing_buffers_read() updates file->f_pos, this fix
make tracing_buffers_splice_read() updates file->f_pos too.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46670.4010503@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10 12:44:44 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
ddd538f3e6 tracing: allocate page when needed
Impact: Cleanup

Sometimes, we open trace_pipe_raw, but we don't read(2) it,
we just splice(2) it, thus, the page is not used.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D4666B.4010608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10 12:44:43 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
d1e7e02f30 tracing: disable seeking for trace_pipe_raw
Impact: disable pread()

We set tracing_buffers_fops.llseek to no_llseek,
but we can still perform pread() to read this file.

That is not expected.

This fix uses nonseekable_open() to disable it.

tracing_buffers_fops.llseek is still set to no_llseek,
it mark this file is a "non-seekable device" and is used by
sys_splice(). See also do_splice() or manual of splice(2):

ERRORS
       EINVAL Target file system doesn't support  splicing;
              neither  of the descriptors refers to a pipe;
              or offset given for non-seekable device.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46668.8030806@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10 12:44:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c2ea122cd7 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: consolidate documents
  blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree()
  tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header
  tracing: append a comma to INIT_FTRACE_GRAPH
2009-04-09 10:37:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
17b2e9bf27 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: do not count frozen tasks toward load
  sched: refresh MAINTAINERS entry
  sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power in sched_domain_debug
  cpuacct: add per-cgroup utime/stime statistics
  posixtimers, sched: Fix posix clock monotonicity
  sched_rt: don't allocate cpumask in fastpath
  cpuacct: make cpuacct hierarchy walk in cpuacct_charge() safe when rcupreempt is used -v2
2009-04-09 10:37:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
422a253483 Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'irq-fixes-for-linus' and 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  printk: fix wrong format string iter for printk
  futex: comment requeue key reference semantics

* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  irq: fix cpumask memory leak on offstack cpumask kernels

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && setitimer(CPUCLOCK_PROF)
  posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()
  timers: add missing kernel-doc
2009-04-09 10:35:30 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
36cd3c9f92 mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
Impact: performance regression fix for s390

The adaptive spinning mutexes will not always do what one would expect on
virtualized architectures like s390. Especially the cpu_relax() loop in
mutex_spin_on_owner might hurt if the mutex holding cpu has been scheduled
away by the hypervisor.

We would end up in a cpu_relax() loop when there is no chance that the
state of the mutex changes until the target cpu has been scheduled again by
the hypervisor.

For that reason we should change the default behaviour to no-spin on s390.

We do have an instruction which allows to yield the current cpu in favour of
a different target cpu. Also we have an instruction which allows us to figure
out if the target cpu is physically backed.

However we need to do some performance tests until we can come up with
a solution that will do the right thing on s390.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409184834.7a0df7b2@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 19:28:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
d3d21c412d perf_counter: log full path names
Impact: fix perf-report output for /home mounted binaries, etc.

dentry_path() only provide path-names up to the mount root, which is
unsuited for out purpose, use d_path() instead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409085524.601794134@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 11:50:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
1ccd154978 perf_counter: sysctl for system wide perf counters
Impact: add sysctl for paranoid/relaxed perfcounters policy

Allow the use of system wide perf counters to everybody, but provide
a sysctl to disable it for the paranoid security minded.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409085524.514046352@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 11:50:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
9ee318a782 perf_counter: optimize mmap/comm tracking
Impact: performance optimization

The mmap/comm tracking code does quite a lot of work before it discovers
there's no interest in it, avoid that by keeping a counter.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409085524.427173196@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 11:50:43 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
888fcee066 perf_counter: fix off task->comm by one
strlen() does not include the \0.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 09:48:22 +02:00
Li Zefan
9eb85125ce blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree()
Impact: fix kfree crash with non-standard act_mask string

If passing a string with leading white spaces to strstrip(),
the returned ptr != the original ptr.

This bug was introduced by me.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DD694C.8020902@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 05:52:40 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
47788c58e6 tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header
Impact: fix build warnings and possibe compat misbehavior on IA64

Building a kernel on ia64 might trigger these ugly build warnings:

CC      arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.o
In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:55:
arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:290:1: warning: "elf_check_arch" redefined
In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from include/linux/ftrace.h:8,
                 from include/linux/syscalls.h:68,
                 from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:18:
arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
[...]

sys_ia32.c includes linux/syscalls.h which in turn includes linux/ftrace.h
to import the syscalls tracing prototypes.

But including ftrace.h can pull too much things for a low level file,
especially on ia64 where the ia32 private headers conflict with higher
level headers.

Now we isolate the syscall tracing headers in their own lightweight file.

Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408184058.GB6017@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 05:43:32 +02:00
Andrew Morton
6b44003e5c work_on_cpu(): rewrite it to create a kernel thread on demand
Impact: circular locking bugfix

The various implemetnations and proposed implemetnations of work_on_cpu()
are vulnerable to various deadlocks because they all used queues of some
form.

Unrelated pieces of kernel code thus gained dependencies wherein if one
work_on_cpu() caller holds a lock which some other work_on_cpu() callback
also takes, the kernel could rarely deadlock.

Fix this by creating a short-lived kernel thread for each work_on_cpu()
invokation.

This is not terribly fast, but the only current caller of work_on_cpu() is
pci_call_probe().

It would be nice to find some other way of doing the node-local
allocations in the PCI probe code so that we can zap work_on_cpu()
altogether.  The code there is rather nasty.  I can't think of anything
simple at this time...

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-09 09:50:37 +09:30
Oleg Nesterov
1c99315bb3 kthread: move sched-realeted initialization from kthreadd context
kthreadd is the single thread which implements ths "create" request, move
sched_setscheduler/etc from create_kthread() to kthread_create() to
improve the scalability.

We should be careful with sched_setscheduler(), use _nochek helper.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-09 09:50:37 +09:30
Vitaliy Gusev
3217ab97f1 kthread: Don't looking for a task in create_kthread() #2
Remove the unnecessary find_task_by_pid_ns(). kthread() can just
use "current" to get the same result.

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-09 09:50:36 +09:30
Roland McGrath
3a70970353 ptrace: some checkpatch fixes
This fixes all the checkpatch --file complaints about kernel/ptrace.c
and also removes an unused #include.  I've verified that there are no
changes to the compiled code on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
[ Removed the parts that just split a line  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-08 10:21:44 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
78f13e9525 perf_counter: allow for data addresses to be recorded
Paul suggested we allow for data addresses to be recorded along with
the traditional IPs as power can provide these.

For now, only the software pagefault events provide data addresses,
but in the future power might as well for some events.

x86 doesn't seem capable of providing this atm.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.394816925@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 19:05:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4d855457d8 perf_counter: move PERF_RECORD_TIME
Move PERF_RECORD_TIME so that all the fixed length items come before
the variable length ones.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.307926436@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 19:05:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8d1b2d9361 perf_counter: track task-comm data
Similar to the mmap data stream, add one that tracks the task COMM field,
so that the userspace reporting knows what to call a task.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.127422406@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 19:05:47 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6b6e5486b3 perf_counter: use misc field to widen type
Push the PERF_EVENT_COUNTER_OVERFLOW bit into the misc field so that
we can have the full 32bit for PERF_RECORD_ bits.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.891867663@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 18:53:28 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6fab01927e perf_counter: provide misc bits in the event header
Limit the size of each record to 64k (or should we count in multiples
of u64 and have a 512K limit?), this gives 16 bits or spare room in the
header, which we can use for misc bits, so as to not have to grow the
record with u64 every time we have a few bits to report.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.769271806@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 18:53:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
e30e08f65c perf_counter: fix NMI race in task clock
We should not be updating ctx->time from NMI context, work around that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.681326666@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 18:53:27 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
8f2e586567 posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && setitimer(CPUCLOCK_PROF)
update_rlimit_cpu() tries to optimize out set_process_cpu_timer() in case
when we already have CPUCLOCK_PROF timer which should expire first. But it
uses cputime_lt() instead of cputime_gt().

Test case:

	int main(void)
	{
		struct itimerval it = {
			.it_value = { .tv_sec = 1000 },
		};

		assert(!setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &it, NULL));

		struct rlimit rl = {
			.rlim_cur = 1,
			.rlim_max = 1,
		};

		assert(!setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, &rl));

		for (;;)
			;

		return 0;
	}

Without this patch, the task is not killed as RLIMIT_CPU demands.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <20090327000610.GA10108@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 17:51:39 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
6279a751fe posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12911

copy_signal() copies signal->rlim, but RLIMIT_CPU is "lost". Because
posix_cpu_timers_init_group() sets cputime_expires.prof_exp = 0 and thus
fastpath_timer_check() returns false unless we have other expired cpu timers.

Change copy_signal() to set cputime_expires.prof_exp if we have RLIMIT_CPU.
Also, set cputimer.running = 1 in that case. This is not strictly necessary,
but imho makes sense.

Reported-by: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <20090327000607.GA10104@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 17:51:38 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5af8c4e0fa Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into sched/urgent
Merge reason: update to latest upstream to queue up fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 17:26:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ff96e612cb Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into core/urgent
Merge reason: need latest upstream to queue up dependent fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 17:02:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5ea472a77f Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h
	include/linux/init_task.h

Merge reason: the conflicts are non-trivial: PowerPC placement
              of sys_perf_counter_open has to be mixed with the
	      new preadv/pwrite syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 10:35:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1551260d1f Merge branch 'core/softlockup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/softlockup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  softlockup: make DETECT_HUNG_TASK default depend on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP
  softlockup: move 'one' to the softlockup section in sysctl.c
  softlockup: ensure the task has been switched out once
  softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task
  softlockup: convert read_lock in hung_task to rcu_read_lock
  softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task
  softlockup: remove unused definition for spawn_softlockup_task
  softlockup: fix potential race in hung_task when resetting timeout
  softlockup: fix to allow compiling with !DETECT_HUNG_TASK
  softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection
2009-04-07 14:11:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c93f216b5b Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y
  branch tracer: Fix for enabling branch profiling makes sparse unusable
  ftrace: Correct a text align for event format output
  Update /debug/tracing/README
  tracing/ftrace: alloc the started cpumask for the trace file
  tracing, x86: remove duplicated #include
  ftrace: Add check of sched_stopped for probe_sched_wakeup
  function-graph: add proper initialization for init task
  tracing/ftrace: fix missing include string.h
  tracing: fix incorrect return type of ns2usecs()
  tracing: remove CALLER_ADDR2 from wakeup tracer
  blktrace: fix pdu_len when tracing packet command requests
  blktrace: small cleanup in blk_msg_write()
  blktrace: NUL-terminate user space messages
  tracing: move scripts/trace/power.pl to scripts/tracing/power.pl
2009-04-07 14:10:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c61b79b6ef Merge branch 'irq/threaded' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq/threaded' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: fix devres.o build for GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n
  genirq: provide old request_irq() for CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ=n
  genirq: threaded irq handlers review fixups
  genirq: add support for threaded interrupts to devres
  genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support
2009-04-07 14:07:52 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
de5bd88d5a kprobes: support per-kprobe disabling
Add disable_kprobe() and enable_kprobe() to disable/enable kprobes
temporarily.

disable_kprobe() asynchronously disables probe handlers of specified
kprobe.  So, after calling it, some handlers can be called at a while.
enable_kprobe() enables specified kprobe.

aggr_pre_handler and aggr_post_handler check disabled probes.  On the
other hand aggr_break_handler and aggr_fault_handler don't check it
because these handlers will be called while executing pre or post handlers
and usually those help error handling.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:08 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
e579abeb58 kprobes: rename kprobe_enabled to kprobes_all_disarmed
Rename kprobe_enabled to kprobes_all_disarmed and invert logic due to
avoiding naming confusion from per-probe disabling.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:08 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
99081ab553 kprobes: move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL just after function definitions
Clean up positions of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL in kernel/kprobes.c according to
checkpatch.pl.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:08 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
b918e5e60d kprobes: cleanup aggr_kprobe related code
Currently, kprobes can disable all probes at once, but can't disable it
individually (not unregister, just disable an kprobe, because
unregistering needs to wait for scheduler synchronization).  These patches
introduce APIs for on-the-fly per-probe disabling and re-enabling by
dis-arming/re-arming its breakpoint instruction.

This patch:

Change old_p to ap in add_new_kprobe() for readability, copy flags member
in add_aggr_kprobe(), and simplify the code flow of
register_aggr_kprobe().

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:07 -07:00
Peter W Morreale
fafd688e4c mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads
Add /proc entries to give the admin the ability to control the minimum and
maximum number of pdflush threads.  This allows finer control of pdflush
on both large and small machines.

The rationale is simply one size does not fit all.  Admins on large and/or
small systems may want to tune the min/max pdflush thread count to best
suit their needs.  Right now the min/max is hardcoded to 2/8.  While
probably a fair estimate for smaller machines, large machines with large
numbers of CPUs and large numbers of filesystems/block devices may benefit
from larger numbers of threads working on different block devices.

Even if the background flushing algorithm is radically changed, it is
still likely that multiple threads will be involved and admins would still
desire finer control on the min/max other than to have to recompile the
kernel.

The patch adds '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_min' and
'/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max' with r/w permissions.

The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_min is 1 and the maximum value is
the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_max.  This minimum is required
since additional thread creation is performed in a pdflush thread itself.

The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_max is the current value of
nr_pdflush_threads_min and the maximum value can be 1000.

Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt is also updated.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, fix whitespace, use __read_mostly]
Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:03 -07:00
Zhaolei
1bbe2a83ab ftrace: Correct a text align for event format output
If we cat debugfs/tracing/events/ftrace/bprint/format, we'll see:
name: bprint
ID: 6
format:
	field:unsigned char common_type;	offset:0;	size:1;
	field:unsigned char common_flags;	offset:1;	size:1;
	field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;	offset:2;	size:1;
	field:int common_pid;	offset:4;	size:4;
	field:int common_tgid;	offset:8;	size:4;

	field:unsigned long ip;	offset:12;	size:4;
	field:char * fmt;	offset:16;	size:4;
	field: char buf;	offset:20;	size:0;

print fmt: "%08lx (%d) fmt:%p %s"

There is an inconsistent blank before char buf.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D5E3EE.70201@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 14:02:42 +02:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
bc2b6871c1 Update /debug/tracing/README
Some of the tracers have been renamed, which was not updated in the in-kernel
run-time README file. Update it.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <200903231158.32151.knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 14:02:36 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b0dfa978c7 tracing/ftrace: alloc the started cpumask for the trace file
Impact: fix a crash while cat trace file

Currently we are using a cpumask to remind each cpu where a
trace occured. It lets us notice the user that a cpu just had
its first trace.

But on latest -tip we have the following crash once we cat the trace
file:

IP: [<c0270c4a>] print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier
Pid: 3897, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.29-tip-02825-g0f22972-dirty #81)
EIP: 0060:[<c0270c4a>] EFLAGS: 00010297 CPU: 0
EIP is at print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c12d9e98 EDX: ccdb7010
ESI: d31f4000 EDI: 00322401 EBP: d31f3f10 ESP: d31f3efc
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Process cat (pid: 3897, ti=d31f2000 task=d3b3cf20 task.ti=d31f2000)
Stack:
d31f4080 ccdb7010 d31f4000 d691fe70 ccdb7010 d31f3f24 c0270e5c d31f4000
d691fe70 d31f4000 d31f3f34 c02718e8 c12d9e98 d691fe70 d31f3f70 c02bfc33
00001000 09130000 d3b46e00 d691fe98 00000000 00000079 00000001 00000000
Call Trace:
[<c0270e5c>] ? print_trace_line+0x170/0x17c
[<c02718e8>] ? s_show+0xa7/0xbd
[<c02bfc33>] ? seq_read+0x24a/0x327
[<c02bf9e9>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x327
[<c02ab18b>] ? vfs_read+0x86/0xe1
[<c02ab289>] ? sys_read+0x40/0x65
[<c0202d8f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3c
Code: 00 00 00 89 45 ec f7 c7 00 20 00 00 89 55 f0 74 4e f6 86 98 10 00 00 02 74 45 8b 86 8c 10 00 00 8b 9e a8 10 00 00 e8 52 f3 ff ff <0f> a3 03 19 c0 85 c0 75 2b 8b 86 8c 10 00 00 8b 9e a8 10 00 00
EIP: [<c0270c4a>] print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7 SS:ESP 0068:d31f3efc
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace aa9cf38e5ebed9dd ]---

This is because we alloc the iter->started cpumask on tracing_pipe_open but
not on tracing_open.

It hadn't been noticed until now because we need to have ring buffer overruns
to activate the starting of cpu buffer detection.

Also, we need a check to not print the messagge for the first trace on the file.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1238619188-6109-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 14:02:03 +02:00
Zhaolei
8bcae09b93 ftrace: Add check of sched_stopped for probe_sched_wakeup
The wakeup tracing in sched_switch does not stop when a user
disables tracing. This is because the probe_sched_wakeup() is missing
the check to prevent the wakeup from being traced.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D1C543.3010307@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 14:01:11 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5f0c6c03c5 tracing/ftrace: fix missing include string.h
Building a kernel with tracing can raise the following warning on
tip/master:

kernel/trace/trace.c:1249: error: implicit declaration of function 'vbin_printf'

We are missing an include to string.h

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1238160130-7437-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 14:00:18 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
cf8e347465 tracing: fix incorrect return type of ns2usecs()
Impact: fix time output bug in 32bits system

ns2usecs() returns 'long', it's incorrect.

(In i386)
...
          <idle>-0     [000]   521.442100: _spin_lock <-tick_do_update_jiffies64
          <idle>-0     [000]   521.442101: do_timer <-tick_do_update_jiffies64
          <idle>-0     [000]   521.442102: update_wall_time <-do_timer
          <idle>-0     [000]   521.442102: update_xtime_cache <-update_wall_time
....
(It always print the time less than 2200 seconds besides ...)
Because 'long' is 32bits in i386. ( (1<<31) useconds is about 2200 seconds)

...
          <idle>-0     [001] 4154502640.134759: rcu_bh_qsctr_inc <-__do_softirq
          <idle>-0     [001] 4154502640.134760: _local_bh_enable <-__do_softirq
          <idle>-0     [001] 4154502640.134761: idle_cpu <-irq_exit
...
(very large value)
Because 'long' is a signed type and it is 32bits in i386.

Changes in v2:
return 'unsigned long long' instead of 'cycle_t'

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D05D10.4030009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:59:23 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
301fd748e2 tracing: remove CALLER_ADDR2 from wakeup tracer
Maneesh Soni was getting a crash when running the wakeup tracer.
We debugged it down to the recording of the function with the
CALLER_ADDR2 macro.  This is used to get the location of the caller
to schedule.

But the problem comes when schedule is called by assmebly. In the case
that Maneesh had, retint_careful would call schedule. But retint_careful
does not set up a proper frame pointer. CALLER_ADDR2 is defined as
__builtin_return_address(2). This produces the following assembly in
the wakeup tracer code.

   mov    0x0(%rbp),%rcx  <--- get the frame pointer of the caller
   mov    %r14d,%r8d
   mov    0xf2de8e(%rip),%rdi

   mov    0x8(%rcx),%rsi  <-- this is __builtin_return_address(1)
   mov    0x28(%rdi,%rax,8),%rbx

   mov    (%rcx),%rax  <-- get the frame pointer of the caller's caller
   mov    %r12,%rcx
   mov    0x8(%rax),%rdx <-- this is __builtin_return_address(2)

At the reading of 0x8(%rax) Maneesh's machine would take a fault.
The reason is that retint_careful did not set up the return address
and the content of %rax here was zero.

To verify this, I sent Maneesh a patch to create a frame pointer
in retint_careful. He ran the test again but this time he would take
the same type of fault from sysret_careful. The retint_careful was no
longer an issue, but there are other callers that still have issues.

Instead of adding frame pointers for all callers to schedule (in possibly
all archs), it is much safer to simply not use CALLER_ADDR2. This
loses out on knowing what called schedule, but the function tracer
will help there if needed.

Reported-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:58:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a053958f07 Merge branch 'tracing/blktrace-fixes' into tracing/urgent
Merge reason: this used to be a tracing/blktrace-v2 devel topic still
              cooking during the merge window - has propagated to fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:40:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6c009ecef8 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: need the upstream facility added by:

  7f1e2ca: hrtimer: fix rq->lock inversion (again)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 12:05:25 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5e34437840 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup
Conflicts:
	kernel/sysctl.c
2009-04-07 11:15:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
bce379bf35 perf_counter: minimize context time updates
Push the update_context_time() calls up the stack so that we get less
invokations and thereby a less noisy output:

before:

 # ./perfstat -e 1:0 -e 1:1 -e 1:1 -e 1:1 -l ls > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

      10.163691  cpu clock ticks      (msecs)  (scaled from 98.94%)
      10.215360  task clock ticks     (msecs)  (scaled from 98.18%)
      10.185549  task clock ticks     (msecs)  (scaled from 98.53%)
      10.183581  task clock ticks     (msecs)  (scaled from 98.71%)

 Wall-clock time elapsed:    11.912858 msecs

after:

 # ./perfstat -e 1:0 -e 1:1 -e 1:1 -e 1:1 -l ls > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

       9.316630  cpu clock ticks      (msecs)
       9.280789  task clock ticks     (msecs)
       9.280789  task clock ticks     (msecs)
       9.280789  task clock ticks     (msecs)

 Wall-clock time elapsed:     9.574872 msecs

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.618876874@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:49:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
849691a6cd perf_counter: remove rq->lock usage
Now that all the task runtime clock users are gone, remove the ugly
rq->lock usage from perf counters, which solves the nasty deadlock
seen when a software task clock counter was read from an NMI overflow
context.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.531137582@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:49:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a39d6f2556 perf_counter: rework the task clock software counter
Rework the task clock software counter to use the context time instead
of the task runtime clock, this removes the last such user.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.445450972@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:49:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4af4998b8a perf_counter: rework context time
Since perf_counter_context is switched along with tasks, we can
maintain the context time without using the task runtime clock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.353552838@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:49:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4c9e25428f perf_counter: change event definition
Currently the definition of an event is slightly ambiguous. We have
wakeup events, for poll() and SIGIO, which are either generated
when a record crosses a page boundary (hw_events.wakeup_events == 0),
or every wakeup_events new records.

Now a record can be either a counter overflow record, or a number of
different things, like the mmap PROT_EXEC region notifications.

Then there is the PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH event limit, which only
considers counter overflows.

This patch changes then wakeup_events and SIGIO notification to only
consider overflow events. Furthermore it changes the SIGIO notification
to report SIGHUP when the event limit is reached and the counter will
be disabled.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.266679874@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:48:59 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
79f1464156 perf_counter: counter overflow limit
Provide means to auto-disable the counter after 'n' overflow events.

Create the counter with hw_event.disabled = 1, and then issue an
ioctl(fd, PREF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH, n); to set the limit and enable
the counter.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.083139737@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:48:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
339f7c90b8 perf_counter: PERF_RECORD_TIME
By popular request, provide means to log a timestamp along with the
counter overflow event.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.024173282@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:48:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ebb3c4c4cb perf_counter: fix the mlock accounting
Reading through the code I saw I forgot the finish the mlock accounting.
Do so now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.899767331@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:48:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f6c7d5fe58 perf_counter: theres more to overflow than writing events
Prepare for more generic overflow handling. The new perf_counter_overflow()
method will handle the generic bits of the counter overflow, and can return
a !0 return value, in which case the counter should be (soft) disabled, so
that it won't count until it's properly disabled.

XXX: do powerpc and swcounter

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.812109629@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:48:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
671dec5daf perf_counter: generalize pending infrastructure
Prepare the pending infrastructure to do more than wakeups.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.634732847@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:48:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
3c446b3d3b perf_counter: SIGIO support
Provide support for fcntl() I/O availability signals.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.579788800@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:48:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
9c03d88e32 perf_counter: add more context information
Change the callchain context entries to u16, so as to gain some space.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.457320003@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:48:54 +02:00
Rusty Russell
2e45e77787 Revert "module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section."
This reverts commit 9cb610d8e3.

This was an impressively stupid patch.  Firstly, we reset the SHF_ALLOC
flag lower down in the same function, so the patch was useless.  Even
better, find_sec() ignores sections with SHF_ALLOC not set, so
it breaks CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y with CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_LOAD=n, which
refuses to load the module since it can't find the __versions section.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-07 17:12:43 +09:30
Oleg Nesterov
432870dab8 exit_notify: kill the wrong capable(CAP_KILL) check
The CAP_KILL check in exit_notify() looks just wrong, kill it.

Whatever logic we have to reset ->exit_signal, the malicious user
can bypass it if it execs the setuid application before exiting.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 14:57:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cd5f9a4c31 kernel/sysctl.c: avoid annoying warnings
Some of the limit constants are used only depending on some complex
configuration dependencies, yet it's not worth making the simple
variables depend on those configuration details.  Just mark them as
perhaps not being unused, and avoid the warning.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 13:38:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
609862be07 Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: add stack dumps to asserts
  hrtimer: fix rq->lock inversion (again)
2009-04-06 13:37:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
12fe32e4f9 Merge branch 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects
  kmemtrace: small cleanups
  kmemtrace: restore original tracing data binary format, improve ABI
  kmemtrace: kmemtrace_alloc() must fill type_id
  kmemtrace: use tracepoints
  kmemtrace, rcu: don't include unnecessary headers, allow kmemtrace w/ tracepoints
  kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcupreempt.c data structure dependencies
  kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcu_tree_trace.c data structure dependencies
  kmemtrace, rcu: fix linux/rcutree.h and linux/rcuclassic.h dependencies
  kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c
  kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_unlzma.c
  kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_bunzip2.c
  kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_inflate.c
  kmemtrace, squashfs: fix slab.h dependency problem in squasfs
  kmemtrace, befs: fix slab.h dependency problem
  kmemtrace, security: fix linux/key.h header file dependencies
  kmemtrace, fs: fix linux/fdtable.h header file dependencies
  kmemtrace, fs: uninline simple_transaction_set()
  kmemtrace, fs, security: move alloc_secdata() and free_secdata() to linux/security.h
2009-04-06 13:30:00 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
92f22a3865 perf_counter: update mmap() counter read
Paul noted that we don't need SMP barriers for the mmap() counter read
because its always on the same cpu (otherwise you can't access the hw
counter anyway).

So remove the SMP barriers and replace them with regular compiler
barriers.

Further, update the comment to include a race free method of reading
said hardware counter. The primary change is putting the pmc_read
inside the seq-loop, otherwise we can still race and read rubbish.

Noticed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090402091319.577951445@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:47 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
5872bdb88a perf_counter: add more context information
Put in counts to tell which ips belong to what context.

  -----
   | |  hv
   | --
nr | |  kernel
   | --
   | |  user
  -----

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090402091319.493101305@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:46 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c457810ab4 perf_counter: per event wakeups
By request, provide a way to request a wakeup every 'n' events instead
of every page of output.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090402091319.323309784@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:45 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8a057d8491 perf_counter: move the event overflow output bits to record_type
Per suggestion from Paul, move the event overflow bits to record_type
and sanitize the enums a bit.

Breaks the ABI -- again ;-)

Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090402091319.151921176@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:45 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
394ee07623 perf_counter: provide generic callchain bits
Provide the generic callchain support bits. If hw_event->callchain is
set the arch specific perf_callchain() function is called upon to
provide a perf_callchain_entry structure filled with the current
callchain.

If it does so, it is added to the overflow output event.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171024.254266860@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:43 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
5ed00415e3 perf_counter: re-arrange the perf_event_type
Breaks ABI yet again :-)

Change the event type so that [0, 2^31-1] are regular event types, but
[2^31, 2^32-1] forms a bitmask for overflow events.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171024.047961770@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:42 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
78d613eb12 perf_counter: small cleanup of the output routines
Move the nmi argument to the _begin() function, so that _end() only needs the
handle. This allows the _begin() function to generate a wakeup on event loss.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.959404268@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:41 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
d5d2bc0dd0 perf_counter: make it possible for hw_perf_counter_init to return error codes
Impact: better error reporting

At present, if hw_perf_counter_init encounters an error, all it can do
is return NULL, which causes sys_perf_counter_open to return an EINVAL
error to userspace.  This isn't very informative for userspace; it means
that userspace can't tell the difference between "sorry, oprofile is
already using the PMU" and "we don't support this CPU" and "this CPU
doesn't support the requested generic hardware event".

This commit uses the PTR_ERR/ERR_PTR/IS_ERR set of macros to let
hw_perf_counter_init return an error code on error rather than just NULL
if it wishes.  If it does so, that error code will be returned from
sys_perf_counter_open to userspace.  If it returns NULL, an EINVAL
error will be returned to userspace, as before.

This also adapts the powerpc hw_perf_counter_init to make use of this
to return ENXIO, EINVAL, EBUSY, or EOPNOTSUPP as appropriate.  It would
be good to add extra error numbers in future to allow userspace to
distinguish the various errors that are currently reported as EINVAL,
i.e. irq_period < 0, too many events in a group, conflict between
exclude_* settings in a group, and PMU resource conflict in a group.

[ v2: fix a bug pointed out by Corey Ashford where error returns from
      hw_perf_counter_init were not handled correctly in the case of
      raw hardware events.]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.682428180@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
0a4a93919b perf_counter: executable mmap() information
Currently the profiling information returns userspace IPs but no way
to correlate them to userspace code. Userspace could look into
/proc/$pid/maps but that might not be current or even present anymore
at the time of analyzing the IPs.

Therefore provide means to track the mmap information and provide it
in the output stream.

XXX: only covers mmap()/munmap(), mremap() and mprotect() are missing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.417259499@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
38ff667b32 perf_counter: fix update_userpage()
It just occured to me it is possible to have multiple contending
updates of the userpage (mmap information vs overflow vs counter).
This would break the seqlock logic.

It appear the arch code uses this from NMI context, so we cannot
possibly serialize its use, therefore separate the data_head update
from it and let it return to its original use.

The arch code needs to make sure there are no contending callers by
disabling the counter before using it -- powerpc appears to do this
nicely.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.241410660@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
925d519ab8 perf_counter: unify and fix delayed counter wakeup
While going over the wakeup code I noticed delayed wakeups only work
for hardware counters but basically all software counters rely on
them.

This patch unifies and generalizes the delayed wakeup to fix this
issue.

Since we're dealing with NMI context bits here, use a cmpxchg() based
single link list implementation to track counters that have pending
wakeups.

[ This should really be generic code for delayed wakeups, but since we
  cannot use cmpxchg()/xchg() in generic code, I've let it live in the
  perf_counter code. -- Eric Dumazet could use it to aggregate the
  network wakeups. ]

Furthermore, the x86 method of using TIF flags was flawed in that its
quite possible to end up setting the bit on the idle task, loosing the
wakeup.

The powerpc method uses per-cpu storage and does appear to be
sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.153932974@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:36 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
53cfbf5937 perf_counter: record time running and time enabled for each counter
Impact: new functionality

Currently, if there are more counters enabled than can fit on the CPU,
the kernel will multiplex the counters on to the hardware using
round-robin scheduling.  That isn't too bad for sampling counters, but
for counting counters it means that the value read from a counter
represents some unknown fraction of the true count of events that
occurred while the counter was enabled.

This remedies the situation by keeping track of how long each counter
is enabled for, and how long it is actually on the cpu and counting
events.  These times are recorded in nanoseconds using the task clock
for per-task counters and the cpu clock for per-cpu counters.

These values can be supplied to userspace on a read from the counter.
Userspace requests that they be supplied after the counter value by
setting the PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED and/or
PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING bits in the hw_event.read_format field
when creating the counter.  (There is no way to change the read format
after the counter is created, though it would be possible to add some
way to do that.)

Using this information it is possible for userspace to scale the count
it reads from the counter to get an estimate of the true count:

true_count_estimate = count * total_time_enabled / total_time_running

This also lets userspace detect the situation where the counter never
got to go on the cpu: total_time_running == 0.

This functionality has been requested by the PAPI developers, and will
be generally needed for interpreting the count values from counting
counters correctly.

In the implementation, this keeps 5 time values (in nanoseconds) for
each counter: total_time_enabled and total_time_running are used when
the counter is in state OFF or ERROR and for reporting back to
userspace.  When the counter is in state INACTIVE or ACTIVE, it is the
tstamp_enabled, tstamp_running and tstamp_stopped values that are
relevant, and total_time_enabled and total_time_running are determined
from them.  (tstamp_stopped is only used in INACTIVE state.)  The
reason for doing it like this is that it means that only counters
being enabled or disabled at sched-in and sched-out time need to be
updated.  There are no new loops that iterate over all counters to
update total_time_enabled or total_time_running.

This also keeps separate child_total_time_running and
child_total_time_enabled fields that get added in when reporting the
totals to userspace.  They are separate fields so that they can be
atomic.  We don't want to use atomics for total_time_running,
total_time_enabled etc., because then we would have to use atomic
sequences to update them, which are slower than regular arithmetic and
memory accesses.

It is possible to measure total_time_running by adding a task_clock
counter to each group of counters, and total_time_enabled can be
measured approximately with a top-level task_clock counter (though
inaccuracies will creep in if you need to disable and enable groups
since it is not possible in general to disable/enable the top-level
task_clock counter simultaneously with another group).  However, that
adds extra overhead - I measured around 15% increase in the context
switch latency reported by lat_ctx (from lmbench) when a task_clock
counter was added to each of 2 groups, and around 25% increase when a
task_clock counter was added to each of 4 groups.  (In both cases a
top-level task-clock counter was also added.)

In contrast, the code added in this commit gives better information
with no overhead that I could measure (in fact in some cases I
measured lower times with this code, but the differences were all less
than one standard deviation).

[ v2: address review comments by Andrew Morton. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <18890.6578.728637.139402@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7730d86558 perf_counter: allow and require one-page mmap on counting counters
A brainfart stopped single page mmap()s working. The rest of the code
should be perfectly fine with not having any data pages.

Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <1237981712.7972.812.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:35 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ea5d20cf99 perf_counter: optionally provide the pid/tid of the sampled task
Allow cpu wide counters to profile userspace by providing what process
the sample belongs to.

This raises the first issue with the output type, lots of these
options: group, tid, callchain, etc.. are non-exclusive and could be
combined, suggesting a bitfield.

However, things like the mmap() data stream doesn't fit in that.

How to split the type field...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090325113317.013775235@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:34 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
63e35b25d6 perf_counter: sanity check on the output API
Ensure we never write more than we said we would.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090325113316.921433024@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:33 +02:00