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There is no point in us having different code paths for nmi and !nmi
here, so remove the !nmi one.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patches ensures that we do not end up calling
perf_cgroup_from_task() when there is no cgroup event.
This avoids potential RCU and locking issues.
The change in perf_cgroup_set_timestamp() ensures we
check against ctx->nr_cgroups. It also avoids calling
perf_clock() tiwce in a row. It also ensures we do need
to grab ctx->lock before calling the function.
We drop update_cgrp_time() from task_clock_event_read()
because it is not needed. This also avoids having to
deal with perf_cgroup_from_task().
Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for his help on this.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4d5e76b8.815bdf0a.7ac3.774f@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This reverts commit 5e38ca8f3ea423442eaafe1b7e206084aa38120a.
Breaks the build of several !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
architectures.
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Message-ID: <20110217171823.GB17058@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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There is no need to re-initialize the hrtimer every time we start it,
so don't do that (shaves a few cycles). Also, since we know hrtimers
run at a fixed rate (nanoseconds) we can pre-compute the desired
frequency at which they tick. This avoids us having to go through the
whole adaptive frequency feedback logic (shaves another few cycles).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1297448589.5226.47.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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By pre-computing the maximum number of samples per tick we can avoid a
multiplication and a conditional since MAX_INTERRUPTS >
max_samples_per_tick.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This kernel patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on
container groups (cgroups). This is for use in per-cpu mode only.
The cgroup to monitor is passed as a file descriptor in the pid
argument to the syscall. The file descriptor must be opened to
the cgroup name in the cgroup filesystem. For instance, if the
cgroup name is foo and cgroupfs is mounted in /cgroup, then the
file descriptor is opened to /cgroup/foo. Cgroup mode is
activated by passing PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP in the flags argument
to the syscall.
For instance to measure in cgroup foo on CPU1 assuming
cgroupfs is mounted under /cgroup:
struct perf_event_attr attr;
int cgroup_fd, fd;
cgroup_fd = open("/cgroup/foo", O_RDONLY);
fd = perf_event_open(&attr, cgroup_fd, 1, -1, PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP);
close(cgroup_fd);
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ added perf_cgroup_{exit,attach} ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4d590250.114ddf0a.689e.4482@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Make the ::exit method act like ::attach, it is after all very nearly
the same thing.
The bug had no effect on correctness - fixing it is an optimization for
the scheduler. Also, later perf-cgroups patches rely on it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1297160655.13327.92.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: we need to queue up dependent patch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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It was possible to call pmu::start() on an already running event. In
particular this lead so some wreckage as the hrtimer events would
re-initialize active timers.
This was due to throttled events being activated again by scheduling.
Scheduling in a context would add and force start events, resulting in
running events with a possible throttle status. The next tick to hit
that task will then try to unthrottle the event and call ->start() on
an already running event.
Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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:
Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation"
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timer debug: Hide kernel addresses via %pK in /proc/timer_list
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix text_poke_smp_batch() deadlock
perf tools: Fix thread_map event synthesizing in top and record
watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messages
ARM: oprofile: Fix backtraces in timer mode
oprofile: Fix usage of CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS for oprofile_perf_init and friends
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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Add NULL check for avoiding NULL pointer deref.
This bug has been introduced by:
1ff511e35ed8: tracing/kprobes: Add bitfield type
which causes a null pointer dereference bug when kprobe-tracer
parses an argument without type.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110214054807.8919.69740.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
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In the continuing effort to avoid kernel addresses leaking to
unprivileged users, this patch switches to %pK for
/proc/timer_list reporting.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110212032125.GA23571@outflux.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
pci: use security_capable() when checking capablities during config space read
security: add cred argument to security_capable()
tpm_tis: Use timeouts returned from TPM
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The wake_up_process() call in ptrace_detach() is spurious and not
interlocked with the tracee state. IOW, the tracee could be running or
sleeping in any place in the kernel by the time wake_up_process() is
called. This can lead to the tracee waking up unexpectedly which can be
dangerous.
The wake_up is spurious and should be removed but for now reduce its
toxicity by only waking up if the tracee is in TRACED or STOPPED state.
This bug can possibly be used as an attack vector. I don't think it
will take too much effort to come up with an attack which triggers oops
somewhere. Most sleeps are wrapped in condition test loops and should
be safe but we have quite a number of places where sleep and wakeup
conditions are expected to be interlocked. Although the window of
opportunity is tiny, ptrace can be used by non-privileged users and with
some loading the window can definitely be extended and exploited.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When the fuction graph tracer starts, it needs to make a special
stack for each task to save the real return values of the tasks.
All running tasks have this stack created, as well as any new
tasks.
On CPU hot plug, the new idle task will allocate a stack as well
when init_idle() is called. The problem is that cpu hotplug does
not create a new idle_task. Instead it uses the idle task that
existed when the cpu went down.
ftrace_graph_init_task() will add a new ret_stack to the task
that is given to it. Because a clone will make the task
have a stack of its parent it does not check if the task's
ret_stack is already NULL or not. When the CPU hotplug code
starts a CPU up again, it will allocate a new stack even
though one already existed for it.
The solution is to treat the idle_task specially. In fact, the
function_graph code already does, just not at init_idle().
Instead of using the ftrace_graph_init_task() for the idle task,
which that function expects the task to be a clone, have a
separate ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(). Also, we will create a
per_cpu ret_stack that is used by the idle task. When we call
ftrace_graph_init_idle_task() it will check if the idle task's
ret_stack is NULL, if it is, then it will assign it the per_cpu
ret_stack.
Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Fixups due to rename of event_t routines from event__ to perf_event__
done in perf/core.
Conflicts:
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
tools/perf/builtin-top.c
tools/perf/util/event.c
tools/perf/util/event.h
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Expand security_capable() to include cred, so that it can be usable in a
wider range of call sites.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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In commit ce6ada35bdf7 ("security: Define CAP_SYSLOG") Serge Hallyn
introduced CAP_SYSLOG, but broke backwards compatibility by no longer
accepting CAP_SYS_ADMIN as an override (it would cause a warning and
then reject the operation).
Re-instate CAP_SYS_ADMIN - but keeping the warning - as an acceptable
capability until any legacy applications have been updated. There are
apparently applications out there that drop all capabilities except for
CAP_SYS_ADMIN in order to access the syslog.
(This is a re-implementation of a patch by Serge, cleaning the logic up
and making the code more readable)
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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During boot if the hardlockup detector fails to initialize, it
complains very loudly. Some failures should be expected under
certain situations, ie no lapics, or resource in-use. Tone
those error messages down a bit. Keep the rest at a high level.
Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1297278153-21111-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
cdrom: support devices that have check_events but not media_changed
cfq-iosched: Don't wait if queue already has requests.
blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group
cfq: rename a function to give it more appropriate name
cciss: make cciss_revalidate not loop through CISS_MAX_LUNS volumes unnecessarily.
drivers/block/aoe/Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y
loop: queue_lock NULL pointer derefence in blk_throtl_exit
drivers/block/Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y
blktrace: Don't output messages if NOTIFY isn't set.
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tracing_enabled should not be used, it is heavy weight and does not
do much in helping lower the overhead.
tracing_on should be used instead. Warn users to use tracing_on
when tracing_enabled is used as it will soon be removed from the
tracing directory.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The trace events sched_switch and sched_wakeup do the same thing
as the stand alone sched_switch tracer does. It is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The warning "Delta way too big" warning might appear on a system with
unstable shed clock right after the system is resumed and tracing
was enabled during the suspend.
Since it's not realy bug, and the unstable sched clock is working
fast and reliable otherwise, Steven suggested to keep using the
sched clock in any case and just to make note in the warning itself.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296649698-6003-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Both attempts at trying to allow softirq usage for
del_timer_sync() failed (produced bogus warnings),
so revert the commit for this release:
f266a5110d45: lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation
and try again later.
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1297174680.13327.107.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Many system calls are unimplemented and mapped to sys_ni_syscall, but at
boot ftrace would still search through every syscall metadata entry for
a match which wouldn't be there.
This patch adds causes the search to terminate early if the system call
is not mapped.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-7-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Some architectures have unusual symbol names and the generic code to
match the symbol name with the function name for the syscall metadata
will fail. For example, symbols on PPC64 start with a period and the
generic code will fail to match them.
This patch moves the match logic out into a separate function which an
arch can override by defining ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_MATCH_SYM_NAME in
asm/ftrace.h and implementing arch_syscall_match_sym_name.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-5-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Some architectures use non-trivial system call tables and will not work
with the generic arch_syscall_addr code. For example, PowerPC64 uses a
table of twin long longs.
This patch makes the generic arch_syscall_addr weak to allow
architectures with non-trivial system call tables to override it.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-4-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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With the ftrace events now checking if the syscall_nr is valid upon
initialisation it should no longer be possible to register or unregister
a syscall event without a valid syscall_nr since they should not be
created. This adds a WARN_ON_ONCE in the register and unregister
functions to locate potential regressions in the future.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-3-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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FTRACE_SYSCALLS would create events for each and every system call, even
if it had failed to map the system call's name with it's number. This
resulted in a number of events being created that would not behave as
expected.
This could happen, for example, on architectures who's symbol names are
unusual and will not match the system call name. It could also happen
with system calls which were mapped to sys_ni_syscall.
This patch changes the default system call number in the metadata to -1.
If the system call name from the metadata is not successfully mapped to
a system call number during boot, than the event initialisation routine
will now return an error, preventing the event from being created.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-2-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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In prepare_kernel_cred() since 2.6.29, put_cred(new) is called without
assigning new->usage when security_prepare_creds() returned an error. As a
result, memory for new and refcount for new->{user,group_info,tgcred} are
leaked because put_cred(new) won't call __put_cred() unless old->usage == 1.
Fix these leaks by assigning new->usage (and new->subscribers which was added
in 2.6.32) before calling security_prepare_creds().
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In cred_alloc_blank() since 2.6.32, abort_creds(new) is called with
new->security == NULL and new->magic == 0 when security_cred_alloc_blank()
returns an error. As a result, BUG() will be triggered if SELinux is enabled
or CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y.
If CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y, BUG() is called from __invalid_creds() because
cred->magic == 0. Failing that, BUG() is called from selinux_cred_free()
because selinux_cred_free() is not expecting cred->security == NULL. This does
not affect smack_cred_free(), tomoyo_cred_free() or apparmor_cred_free().
Fix these bugs by
(1) Set new->magic before calling security_cred_alloc_blank().
(2) Handle null cred->security in creds_are_invalid() and selinux_cred_free().
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add bitfield type for tracing arguments on kprobe-tracer. The syntax of
a bitfield type is:
b<bit-size>@<bit-offset>/<container-size>
e.g.
Accessing 2 bits-width field with 4 bits-offset in 32 bits-width data at
4 bytes offseted from the address pointed by AX register:
+4(%ax):b2@4/32
Since the width of container data depends on the arch, so I just added
the container-size at the end.
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110204125205.9507.11363.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Expand command line buffer of kprobe-tracer to 4096 bytes.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110204125159.9507.20895.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Since strict_strtol() accepts minus digits started with '-', it doesn't
need to invert after converting.
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110204125153.9507.49335.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge reason: Pick up perf fixes that are now upstream
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation
RTC: Prevents a division by zero in kernel code.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent
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Calling local_bh_enable() will want to actually start processing
softirqs, which isn't a good idea since this can get called with IRQs
disabled.
Cure this by using _local_bh_enable() which doesn't start processing
softirqs, and use raw_local_irq_save() to avoid any softirqs from
happening without letting lockdep think IRQs are in fact disabled.
Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110203141548.039540914@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
genirq: Prevent irq storm on migration
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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: Fix update_curr_rt()
sched, docs: Update schedstats documentation to version 15
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Fix reading in perf_event_read()
watchdog: Don't change watchdog state on read of sysctl
watchdog: Fix sysctl consistency
watchdog: Fix broken nowatchdog logic
perf: Fix Pentium4 raw event validation
perf: Fix alloc_callchain_buffers()
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Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.
The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.
A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).
Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).
By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.
The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.
History:
commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.
One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.
The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.
(this patch applies on top of -tip)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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cpu_stopper_thread()
migration_cpu_stop()
__migrate_task()
deactivate_task()
dequeue_task()
dequeue_task_rq()
update_curr_rt()
Will call update_curr_rt() on rq->curr, which at that time is
rq->stop. The problem is that rq->stop.prio matches an RT prio and
thus falsely assumes its a rt_sched_class task.
Reported-Debuged-Tested-Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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It is quite possible for the event to have been disabled between
perf_event_read() sending the IPI and the CPU servicing the IPI and
calling __perf_event_read(), hence revalidate the state.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Oleg reported that on architectures with
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW the IPI from
task_oncpu_function_call() can land before perf_event_task_sched_in()
and cause interesting situations for eg. perf_install_in_context().
This patch reworks the task_oncpu_function_call() interface to give a
more usable primitive as well as rework all its users to hopefully be
more obvious as well as remove the races.
While looking at the code I also found a number of races against
perf_event_task_sched_out() which can flip contexts between tasks so
plug those too.
Reported-and-reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.
The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.
A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).
Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).
By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.
The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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