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Masami Hiramatsu
4554dbcb85 kprobes: Check probe address is reserved
Check whether the address of new probe is already reserved by
ftrace or alternatives (on x86) when registering new probe.
If reserved, it returns an error and not register the probe.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100202214918.4694.94179.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04 09:36:19 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
2cfa19780d ftrace/alternatives: Introducing *_text_reserved functions
Introducing *_text_reserved functions for checking the text
address range is partially reserved or not. This patch provides
checking routines for x86 smp alternatives and dynamic ftrace.
Since both functions modify fixed pieces of kernel text, they
should reserve and protect those from other dynamic text
modifier, like kprobes.

This will also be extended when introducing other subsystems
which modify fixed pieces of kernel text. Dynamic text modifiers
should avoid those.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100202214911.4694.16587.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04 09:36:19 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
615d0ebbc7 kprobes: Disable booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
Disable kprobe booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y at this time,
because it can't ensure that all kernel threads preempted on
kprobe's boosted slot run out from the slot even using
freeze_processes().

The booster on preemptive kernel will be resumed if
synchronize_tasks() or something like that is introduced.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100202214904.4694.24330.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04 09:36:18 +01:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
cd757645fb perf: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the arch
Change 'bp_len' type to __u64 to make it work across archs as
the s390 architecture watch point length can be upto 2^64.

reference:
	http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/25/212

This is an ABI change that is not backward compatible with
the previous hardware breakpoint info layout integrated in this
development cycle, a rebuilt of perf tools is necessary for
versions based on 2.6.33-rc1 - 2.6.33-rc6 to work with a
kernel based on this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100130045518.GA20776@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-02-04 01:07:12 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
b9c3032277 hrtimer, softirq: Fix hrtimer->softirq trampoline
hrtimers callbacks are always done from hardirq context, either the
jiffy tick interrupt or the hrtimer device interrupt.

[ there is currently one exception that can still call a hrtimer
  callback from softirq, but even in that case this will still
  work correctly. ]

Reported-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Yury Polyanskiy <ypolyans@princeton.edu>
Tested-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <1265120401.24455.306.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-02-03 18:17:40 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
59647b6ac3 futex: Handle futex value corruption gracefully
The WARN_ON in lookup_pi_state which complains about a mismatch
between pi_state->owner->pid and the pid which we retrieved from the
user space futex is completely bogus.

The code just emits the warning and then continues despite the fact
that it detected an inconsistent state of the futex. A conveniant way
for user space to spam the syslog.

Replace the WARN_ON by a consistency check. If the values do not match
return -EINVAL and let user space deal with the mess it created.

This also fixes the missing task_pid_vnr() when we compare the
pi_state->owner pid with the futex value.

Reported-by: Jermome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-02-03 15:13:22 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
51246bfd18 futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully
If the owner of a PI futex dies we fix up the pi_state and set
pi_state->owner to NULL. When a malicious or just sloppy programmed
user space application sets the futex value to 0 e.g. by calling
pthread_mutex_init(), then the futex can be acquired again. A new
waiter manages to enqueue itself on the pi_state w/o damage, but on
unlock the kernel dereferences pi_state->owner and oopses.

Prevent this by checking pi_state->owner in the unlock path. If
pi_state->owner is not current we know that user space manipulated the
futex value. Ignore the mess and return -EINVAL.

This catches the above case and also the case where a task hijacks the
futex by setting the tid value and then tries to unlock it.

Reported-by: Jermome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-02-03 15:13:22 +01:00
Mikael Pettersson
5ecb01cfdf futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix
This fixes a futex key reference count bug in futex_lock_pi(),
where a key's reference count is incremented twice but decremented
only once, causing the backing object to not be released.

If the futex is created in a temporary file in an ext3 file system,
this bug causes the file's inode to become an "undead" orphan,
which causes an oops from a BUG_ON() in ext3_put_super() when the
file system is unmounted. glibc's test suite is known to trigger this,
see <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14256>.

The bug is a regression from 2.6.28-git3, namely Peter Zijlstra's
38d47c1b70 "[PATCH] futex: rely on
get_user_pages() for shared futexes". That commit made get_futex_key()
also increment the reference count of the futex key, and updated its
callers to decrement the key's reference count before returning.
Unfortunately the normal exit path in futex_lock_pi() wasn't corrected:
the reference count is incremented by get_futex_key() and queue_lock(),
but the normal exit path only decrements once, via unqueue_me_pi().
The fix is to put_futex_key() after unqueue_me_pi(), since 2.6.31
this is easily done by 'goto out_put_key' rather than 'goto out'.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-02-03 15:13:22 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c80d292f13 Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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:
  kernel/cred.c: use kmem_cache_free
2010-02-02 18:12:22 -08:00
Li Zefan
4528fd0595 cgroups: fix to return errno in a failure path
In cgroup_create(), if alloc_css_id() returns failure, the errno is not
propagated to userspace, so mkdir will fail silently.

To trigger this bug, we mount blkio (or memory subsystem), and create more
then 65534 cgroups.  (The number of cgroups is limited to 65535 if a
subsystem has use_id == 1)

 # mount -t cgroup -o blkio xxx /mnt
 # for ((i = 0; i < 65534; i++)); do mkdir /mnt/$i; done
 # mkdir /mnt/65534
 (should return ENOSPC)
 #

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-02 18:11:22 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
bc173f7092 kfifo: fix kernel-doc notation
Fix kfifo kernel-doc warnings:

Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:361): No description found for parameter 'total'
Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:402): bad line:  @ @lenout: pointer to output variable with copied data
Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:412): No description found for parameter 'lenout'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-02 18:11:21 -08:00
Julia Lawall
b8a1d37c5f kernel/cred.c: use kmem_cache_free
Free memory allocated using kmem_cache_zalloc using kmem_cache_free rather
than kfree.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression x,E,c;
@@

 x = \(kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc_node\)(c,...)
 ... when != x = E
     when != &x
?-kfree(x)
+kmem_cache_free(c,x)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-02-03 10:21:57 +11:00
Lai Jiangshan
4f48f8b7fd tracing: Fix circular dead lock in stack trace
When we cat <debugfs>/tracing/stack_trace, we may cause circular lock:
sys_read()
  t_start()
     arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock);

  t_show()
     seq_printf(), vsnprintf() .... /* they are all trace-able,
       when they are traced, max_stack_lock may be required again. */

The following script can trigger this circular dead lock very easy:
#!/bin/bash

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled

mount -t debugfs xxx /mnt > /dev/null 2>&1

(
# make check_stack() zealous to require max_stack_lock
for ((; ;))
{
	echo 1 > /mnt/tracing/stack_max_size
}
) &

for ((; ;))
{
	cat /mnt/tracing/stack_trace > /dev/null
}

To fix this bug, we increase the percpu trace_active before
require the lock.

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B67D4F9.9080905@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-02-02 10:20:18 -05:00
Peter Zijlstra
4a461c85b6 sched: Remove unused update_shares_locked()
Commit f492e12ef0 ("sched: Remove
load_balance_newidle()") removed the only user of this function,
so remove it too.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1265019219.24455.128.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-02 06:58:27 +01:00
Akinobu Mita
90fdbdb484 sched: Use for_each_bit
No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264938810-4173-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-02 06:58:27 +01:00
Andrew Morton
e527300715 Generic page_is_ram: use __weak
Use __weak instead of __attribute__((weak)).

Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-01 16:58:17 -08:00
Wu Fengguang
61ef2489db resources: introduce generic page_is_ram()
It's based on walk_system_ram_range(), for archs that don't have
their own page_is_ram().

The static verions in MIPS and SCORE are also made global.

v4: prefer plain 1 instead of PAGE_IS_RAM (H. Peter Anvin)
v3: add comment (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki)
    "AFAIK, this "System RAM" information has been used for kdump to
    grab valid memory area and seems good for the kernel itself."
v2: add PAGE_IS_RAM macro (Américo Wang)

Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122081619.GA6431@localhost>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-01 16:58:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e20da89130 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: Fix check_usage_backwards() error message
2010-02-01 10:45:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
834db333ed Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of 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, hw_breakpoint, kgdb: Do not take mutex for kernel debugger
  x86, hw_breakpoints, kgdb: Fix kgdb to use hw_breakpoint API
  hw_breakpoints: Release the bp slot if arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings() fails.
  perf: Ignore perf.data.old
  perf report: Fix segmentation fault when running with '-g none'
2010-02-01 10:45:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8ea85c2817 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: Correct printk whitespace in warning from cpu down task check
  sched: Fix incorrect sanity check
  sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespaces
2010-02-01 10:44:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bdd8466783 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of 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:
  clocksource: Prevent potential kgdb dead lock
2010-02-01 10:44:06 -08:00
Jason Wessel
d6ad3e286d softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume
When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, sched_clock() gets
the time from hardware such as the TSC on x86. In this
configuration kgdb will report a softlock warning message on
resuming or detaching from a debug session.

Sequence of events in the problem case:

 1) "cpu sched clock" and "hardware time" are at 100 sec prior
    to a call to kgdb_handle_exception()

 2) Debugger waits in kgdb_handle_exception() for 80 sec and on
    exit the following is called ...  touch_softlockup_watchdog() -->
    __raw_get_cpu_var(touch_timestamp) = 0;

 3) "cpu sched clock" = 100s (it was not updated, because the
    interrupt was disabled in kgdb) but the "hardware time" = 180 sec

 4) The first timer interrupt after resuming from
    kgdb_handle_exception updates the watchdog from the "cpu sched clock"

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() -->
softlockup_tick() --> check (touch_timestamp == 0) (it is "YES"
here, we have set "touch_timestamp = 0" at kgdb) -->
__touch_softlockup_watchdog() ***(A)--> reset "touch_timestamp"
to "get_timestamp()" (Here, the "touch_timestamp" will still be
set to 100s.)  ...

    scheduler_tick() ***(B)--> sched_clock_tick() (update "cpu sched
    clock" to "hardware time" = 180s) ...  }

 5) The Second timer interrupt handler appears to have a large
    jump and trips the softlockup warning.

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() -->
softlockup_tick() --> "cpu sched clock" - "touch_timestamp" =
180s-100s > 60s --> printk "soft lockup error messages" ...  }

note: ***(A) reset "touch_timestamp" to
"get_timestamp(this_cpu)"

Why is "touch_timestamp" 100 sec, instead of 180 sec?

When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, the call trace of
get_timestamp() is:

get_timestamp(this_cpu)
 -->cpu_clock(this_cpu)
 -->sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu)
 -->__update_sched_clock(sched_clock_data, now)

The __update_sched_clock() function uses the GTOD tick value to
create a window to normalize the "now" values.  So if "now"
value is too big for sched_clock_data, it will be ignored.

The fix is to invoke sched_clock_tick() to update "cpu sched
clock" in order to recover from this state.  This is done by
introducing the function touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(). This
allows kgdb to request that the sched clock is updated when the
watchdog thread runs the first time after a resume from kgdb.

[yong.zhang0@gmail.com: Use per cpu instead of an array]
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <Dongdong.Deng@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1264631124-4837-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-01 08:22:32 +01:00
Jason Wessel
5352ae638e perf, hw_breakpoint, kgdb: Do not take mutex for kernel debugger
This patch fixes the regression in functionality where the
kernel debugger and the perf API do not nicely share hw
breakpoint reservations.

The kernel debugger cannot use any mutex_lock() calls because it
can start the kernel running from an invalid context.

A mutex free version of the reservation API needed to get
created for the kernel debugger to safely update hw breakpoint
reservations.

The possibility for a breakpoint reservation to be concurrently
processed at the time that kgdb interrupts the system is
improbable. Should this corner case occur the end user is
warned, and the kernel debugger will prohibit updating the
hardware breakpoint reservations.

Any time the kernel debugger reserves a hardware breakpoint it
will be a system wide reservation.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1264719883-7285-3-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-30 08:42:21 +01:00
Jason Wessel
cc0967490c x86, hw_breakpoints, kgdb: Fix kgdb to use hw_breakpoint API
In the 2.6.33 kernel, the hw_breakpoint API is now used for the
performance event counters.  The hw_breakpoint_handler() now
consumes the hw breakpoints that were previously set by kgdb
arch specific code.  In order for kgdb to work in conjunction
with this core API change, kgdb must use some of the low level
functions of the hw_breakpoint API to install, uninstall, and
deal with hw breakpoint reservations.

The kgdb core required a change to call kgdb_disable_hw_debug
anytime a slave cpu enters kgdb_wait() in order to keep all the
hw breakpoints in sync as well as to prevent hitting a hw
breakpoint while kgdb is active.

During the architecture specific initialization of kgdb, it will
pre-allocate 4 disabled (struct perf event **) structures.  Kgdb
will use these to manage the capabilities for the 4 hw
breakpoint registers, per cpu.  Right now the hw_breakpoint API
does not have a way to ask how many breakpoints are available,
on each CPU so it is possible that the install of a breakpoint
might fail when kgdb restores the system to the run state.  The
intent of this patch is to first get the basic functionality of
hw breakpoints working and leave it to the person debugging the
kernel to understand what hw breakpoints are in use and what
restrictions have been imposed as a result.  Breakpoint
constraints will be dealt with in a future patch.

While atomic, the x86 specific kgdb code will call
arch_uninstall_hw_breakpoint() and arch_install_hw_breakpoint()
to manage the cpu specific hw breakpoints.

The net result of these changes allow kgdb to use the same pool
of hw_breakpoints that are used by the perf event API, but
neither knows about future reservations for the available hw
breakpoint slots.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1264719883-7285-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-30 08:42:20 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ae7f6711d6 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: We want to queue up a dependent patch. Also update to
              later -rc's.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-29 10:36:22 +01:00
John Stultz
7e1b584774 ntp: Cleanup xtime references in ntp.c
ntp.c doesn't need to access timekeeping internals directly, so change
xtime references to use the get_seconds() timekeeping interface.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: richard@rsk.demon.co.uk
LKML-Reference: <1264738844-21935-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-01-29 10:15:19 +01:00
john stultz
1f5b8f8a20 ntp: Make time_esterror and time_maxerror static
Make time_esterror and time_maxerror static as no one uses them
outside of ntp.c
    
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: richard@rsk.demon.co.uk
LKML-Reference: <1264719761.3437.47.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-01-29 10:15:19 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
75c9f3284a perf_events: Fix sample_period transfer on inherit
One problem with frequency driven counters is that we cannot
predict the rate at which they trigger, therefore we have to
start them at period=1, this causes a ramp up effect. However,
if we fail to propagate the stable state on fork each new child
will have to ramp up again. This can lead to significant
artifacts in sample data.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264752266.4283.2121.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-29 09:15:26 +01:00
Xiao Guangrong
1e12a4a7a3 tracing/kprobe: Cleanup unused return value of tracing functions
The return values of the kprobe's tracing functions are meaningless,
lets remove these.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B60E9A3.2040505@cn.fujitsu.com>
[fweisbec@gmail: whitespace fixes, drop useless void returns in end
of functions]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-29 02:14:40 +01:00
Xiao Guangrong
430ad5a600 perf: Factorize trace events raw sample buffer operations
Introduce ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and ftrace_perf_buf_submit() to
gather the common code that operates on raw events sampling buffer.
This cleans up redundant code between regular trace events, syscall
events and kprobe events.

Changelog v1->v2:
- Rename function name as per Masami and Frederic's suggestion
- Add __kprobes for ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and make
  ftrace_perf_buf_submit() inline as per Masami's suggestion
- Export ftrace_perf_buf_prepare since modules will use it

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B60E92D.9000808@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-29 02:02:57 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
ea2c68a08f tracing: Simplify test for function_graph tracing start point
In the function graph tracer, a calling function is to be traced
only when it is enabled through the set_graph_function file,
or when it is nested in an enabled function.

Current code uses TSK_TRACE_FL_GRAPH to test whether it is nested
or not. Looking at the code, we can get this:
(trace->depth > 0) <==> (TSK_TRACE_FL_GRAPH is set)

trace->depth is more explicit to tell that it is nested.
So we use trace->depth directly and simplify the code.

No functionality is changed.
TSK_TRACE_FL_GRAPH is not removed yet, it is left for future usage.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B4DB0B6.7040607@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-29 01:05:12 +01:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
b23ff0e933 hw_breakpoints: Release the bp slot if arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings() fails.
On a given architecture, when hardware breakpoint registration fails
due to un-supported access type (read/write/execute), we lose the bp
slot since register_perf_hw_breakpoint() does not release the bp slot
on failure.
Hence, any subsequent hardware breakpoint registration starts failing
with 'no space left on device' error.

This patch introduces error handling in register_perf_hw_breakpoint()
function and releases bp slot on error.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100121125516.GA32521@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-28 14:15:51 +01:00
Frans Pop
9d3cfc4c1d sched: Correct printk whitespace in warning from cpu down task check
Due to an incorrect line break the output currently contains tabs.
Also remove trailing space.

The actual output that logcheck sent me looked like this:
 Task events/1 (pid = 10) is on cpu 1^I^I^I^I(state = 1, flags = 84208040)

After this patch it becomes:
 Task events/1 (pid = 10) is on cpu 1 (state = 1, flags = 84208040)

Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendilplanet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <201001251456.34996.elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-28 06:59:55 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
11854247e2 sched: Fix incorrect sanity check
We moved to migrate on wakeup, which means that sleeping tasks could
still be present on offline cpus. Amend the check to only test running
tasks.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-28 06:59:51 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
abd5071394 perf: Reimplement frequency driven sampling
There was a bug in the old period code that caused intel_pmu_enable_all()
or native_write_msr_safe() to show up quite high in the profiles.

In staring at that code it made my head hurt, so I rewrote it in a
hopefully simpler fashion. Its now fully symetric between tick and
overflow driven adjustments and uses less data to boot.

The only complication is that it basically wants to do a u128 division.
The code approximates that in a rather simple truncate until it fits
fashion, taking care to balance the terms while truncating.

This version does not generate that sampling artefact.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-27 08:39:33 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
48d5067417 lockdep: Fix check_usage_backwards() error message
Lockdep has found the real bug, but the output doesn't look right to me:

> =========================================================
> [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ]
> 2.6.33-rc5 #77
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> emacs/1609 just changed the state of lock:
>  (&(&tty->ctrl_lock)->rlock){+.....}, at: [<ffffffff8127c648>] tty_fasync+0xe8/0x190
> but this lock took another, HARDIRQ-unsafe lock in the past:
>  (&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock){-.....}

"HARDIRQ-unsafe" and "this lock took another" looks wrong, afaics.

>   ... key      at: [<ffffffff81c054a4>] __key.46539+0x0/0x8
>   ... acquired at:
>    [<ffffffff81089af6>] __lock_acquire+0x1056/0x15a0
>    [<ffffffff8108a0df>] lock_acquire+0x9f/0x120
>    [<ffffffff81423012>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x52/0x90
>    [<ffffffff8127c1be>] __proc_set_tty+0x3e/0x150
>    [<ffffffff8127e01d>] tty_open+0x51d/0x5e0

The stack-trace shows that this lock (ctrl_lock) was taken under
->siglock (which is hopefully irq-safe).

This is a clear typo in check_usage_backwards() where we tell the print a
fancy routine we're forwards.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100126181641.GA10460@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-27 08:34:02 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
0368897034 tracing/documentation: Cover new frame pointer semantics
Update the graph tracer examples to cover the new frame pointer semantics
(in terms of passing it along).  Move the HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST docs
out of the Kconfig, into the right place, and expand on the details.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264165967-18938-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-26 17:00:39 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
3c05d74827 ring-buffer: Check for end of page in iterator
If the iterator comes to an empty page for some reason, or if
the page is emptied by a consuming read. The iterator code currently
does not check if the iterator is pass the contents, and may
return a false entry.

This patch adds a check to the ring buffer iterator to test if the
current page has been completely read and sets the iterator to the
next page if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-26 16:14:08 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
492a74f421 ring-buffer: Check if ring buffer iterator has stale data
Usually reads of the ring buffer is performed by a single task.
There are two types of reads from the ring buffer.

One is a consuming read which will consume the entry that was read
and the next read will be the entry that follows.

The other is an iterator that will let the user read the contents of
the ring buffer without modifying it. When an iterator is allocated,
writes to the ring buffer are disabled to protect the iterator.

The problem exists when consuming reads happen while an iterator is
allocated. Specifically, the kind of read that swaps out an entire
page (used by splice) and replaces it with a new read. If the iterator
is on the page that is swapped out, then the next read may read
from this swapped out page and return garbage.

This patch adds a check when reading the iterator to make sure that
the iterator contents are still valid. If a consuming read has taken
place, the iterator is reset.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-26 16:09:30 -05:00
Thomas Gleixner
7b7422a566 clocksource: Prevent potential kgdb dead lock
commit 0f8e8ef7 (clocksource: Simplify clocksource watchdog resume
logic) introduced a potential kgdb dead lock. When the kernel is
stopped by kgdb inside code which holds watchdog_lock then kgdb dead
locks in clocksource_resume_watchdog().

clocksource_resume_watchdog() is called from kbdg via
clocksource_touch_watchdog() to avoid that the clock source watchdog
marks TSC unstable after the kernel has been stopped.

Solve this by replacing spin_lock with a spin_trylock and just return
in case the lock is held. Not resetting the watchdog might result in
TSC becoming marked unstable, but that's an acceptable penalty for
using kgdb.

The timekeeping is anyway easily screwed up by kgdb when the system
uses either jiffies or a clock source which wraps in short intervals
(e.g. pm_timer wraps about every 4.6s), so we really do not have to
worry about that occasional TSC marked unstable side effect.

The second caller of clocksource_resume_watchdog() is
clocksource_resume(). The trylock is safe here as well because the
system is UP at this point, interrupts are disabled and nothing else
can hold watchdog_lock().

Reported-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264480000-6997-4-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-01-26 14:53:16 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
74bf4076f2 tracing: Prevent kernel oops with corrupted buffer
If the contents of the ftrace ring buffer gets corrupted and the trace
file is read, it could create a kernel oops (usualy just killing the user
task thread). This is caused by the checking of the pid in the buffer.
If the pid is negative, it still references the cmdline cache array,
which could point to an invalid address.

The simple fix is to test for negative PIDs.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-25 15:11:53 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
f6760aa024 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of 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:
  clockevent: Don't remove broadcast device when cpu is dead
2010-01-24 10:38:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b8be634e01 Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.33
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.33:
  mtd: tests: fix read, speed and stress tests on NOR flash
  mtd: Really add ARM pismo support
  kmsg_dump: Dump on crash_kexec as well
2010-01-24 10:31:34 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
60db48cacb sched: Queue a deboosted task to the head of the RT prio queue
rtmutex_set_prio() is used to implement priority inheritance for
futexes. When a task is deboosted it gets enqueued at the tail of its
RT priority list. This is violating the POSIX scheduling semantics:

rt priority list X contains two runnable tasks A and B

task A	 runs with priority X and holds mutex M
task C	 preempts A and is blocked on mutex M 
     	 -> task A is boosted to priority of task C (Y)
task A	 unlocks the mutex M and deboosts itself
     	 -> A is dequeued from rt priority list Y
	 -> A is enqueued to the tail of rt priority list X
task C	 schedules away
task B	 runs

This is wrong as task A did not schedule away and therefor violates
the POSIX scheduling semantics.

Enqueue the task to the head of the priority list instead. 

Reported-by: Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@roche.com>
Reported-by: Carsten Emde <cbe@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Carsten Emde <cbe@osadl.org>
Tested-by: Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@roche.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100120171629.809074113@linutronix.de>
2010-01-22 18:09:59 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
37dad3fce9 sched: Implement head queueing for sched_rt
The ability of enqueueing a task to the head of a SCHED_FIFO priority
list is required to fix some violations of POSIX scheduling policy.

Implement the functionality in sched_rt.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Carsten Emde <cbe@osadl.org>
Tested-by: Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@roche.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100120171629.772169931@linutronix.de>
2010-01-22 18:09:59 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
ea87bb7853 sched: Extend enqueue_task to allow head queueing
The ability of enqueueing a task to the head of a SCHED_FIFO priority
list is required to fix some violations of POSIX scheduling policy.

Extend the related functions with a "head" argument.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Carsten Emde <cbe@osadl.org>
Tested-by: Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@roche.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100120171629.734886007@linutronix.de>
2010-01-22 18:09:59 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
fabf318e5e sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespaces
There are a number of issues:

1) TASK_WAKING vs cgroup_clone (cpusets)

copy_process():

  sched_fork()
    child->state = TASK_WAKING; /* waiting for wake_up_new_task() */
  if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy)
     ns_cgroup_clone()
       cgroup_clone()
         mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex)
         mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
         cgroup_attach_task()
	   ss->can_attach()
           ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ]
             cpuset_attach_task()
               set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
                 while (child->state == TASK_WAKING)
                   cpu_relax();
will deadlock the system.


2) cgroup_clone (cpusets) vs copy_process

So even if the above would work we still have:

copy_process():

  if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy)
     ns_cgroup_clone()
       cgroup_clone()
         mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex)
         mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
         cgroup_attach_task()
	   ss->can_attach()
           ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ]
             cpuset_attach_task()
               set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
  ...

  p->cpus_allowed = current->cpus_allowed

over-writing the modified cpus_allowed.


3) fork() vs hotplug

  if we unplug the child's cpu after the sanity check when the child
  gets attached to the task_list but before wake_up_new_task() shit
  will meet with fan.

Solve all these issues by moving fork cpu selection into
wake_up_new_task().

Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1264106190.4283.1314.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-01-21 23:25:31 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
e80b135985 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of 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: x86: Add support for the ANY bit
  perf: Change the is_software_event() definition
  perf: Honour event state for aux stream data
  perf: Fix perf_event_do_pending() fallback callsite
  perf kmem: Print usage help for unknown commands
  perf kmem: Increase "Hit" column length
  hw-breakpoints, perf: Fix broken mmiotrace due to dr6 by reference change
  perf timechart: Use tid not pid for COMM change
2010-01-21 08:50:04 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
22e190851f perf: Honour event state for aux stream data
Anton reported that perf record kept receiving events even after calling
ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE). It turns out that FORK,COMM and MMAP
events didn't respect the disabled state and kept flowing in.

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1263459187.4244.265.camel@laptop>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:40 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
fe432200ab perf: Fix perf_event_do_pending() fallback callsite
Paul questioned the context in which we should call
perf_event_do_pending(). After looking at that I found that it should be
called from IRQ context these days, however the fallback call-site is
placed in softirq context. Ammend this by placing the callback in the IRQ
timer path.

Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1263374859.4244.192.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:39 +01:00
Dhaval Giani
7c9414385e sched: Remove USER_SCHED
Remove the USER_SCHED feature. It has been scheduled to be removed in
2.6.34 as per http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125728479022976&w=2

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1263990378.24844.3.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:18 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy
871e35bc97 sched: Fix the place where group powers are updated
We want to update the sched_group_powers when balance_cpu == this_cpu.

Currently the group powers are updated only if the balance_cpu is the
first CPU in the local group. But balance_cpu = this_cpu could also be
the first idle cpu in the group. Hence fix the place where the group
powers are updated.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1264017764.5717.127.camel@jschopp-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:17 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
8f190fb3f7 sched: Assume *balance is valid
Since all load_balance() callers will have !NULL balance parameters we
can now assume so and remove a few checks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:15 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
f492e12ef0 sched: Remove load_balance_newidle()
The two functions: load_balance{,_newidle}() are very similar, with the
following differences:

 - rq->lock usage
 - sb->balance_interval updates
 - *balance check

So remove the load_balance_newidle() call with load_balance(.idle =
CPU_NEWLY_IDLE), explicitly unlock the rq->lock before calling (would be
done by double_lock_balance() anyway), and ignore the other differences
for now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:14 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
1af3ed3ddf sched: Unify load_balance{,_newidle}()
load_balance() and load_balance_newidle() look remarkably similar, one
key point they differ in is the condition on when to active balance.

So split out that logic into a separate function.

One side effect is that previously load_balance_newidle() used to fail
and return -1 under these conditions, whereas now it doesn't. I've not
yet fully figured out the whole -1 return case for either
load_balance{,_newidle}().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:13 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
baa8c1102f sched: Add a lock break for PREEMPT=y
Since load-balancing can hold rq->locks for quite a long while, allow
breaking out early when there is lock contention.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:13 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
230059de77 sched: Remove from fwd decls
Move code around to get rid of fwd declarations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:12 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
897c395f4c sched: Remove rq_iterator from move_one_task
Again, since we only iterate the fair class, remove the abstraction.

Since this is the last user of the rq_iterator, remove all that too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:11 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
ee00e66fff sched: Remove rq_iterator usage from load_balance_fair
Since we only ever iterate the fair class, do away with this abstraction.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:10 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
3d45fd804a sched: Remove the sched_class load_balance methods
Take out the sched_class methods for load-balancing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:09 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
1e3c88bdeb sched: Move load balance code into sched_fair.c
Straight fwd code movement.

Since non of the load-balance abstractions are used anymore, do away with
them and simplify the code some. In preparation move the code around.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:08 +01:00
Yong Zhang
6d558c3ac9 sched: Reassign prev and switch_count when reacquire_kernel_lock() fail
Assume A->B schedule is processing, if B have acquired BKL before and it
need reschedule this time. Then on B's context, it will go to
need_resched_nonpreemptible for reschedule. But at this time, prev and
switch_count are related to A. It's wrong and will lead to incorrect
scheduler statistics.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <2674af741001102238w7b0ddcadref00d345e2181d11@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:39:04 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
50b926e439 sched: Fix vmark regression on big machines
SD_PREFER_SIBLING is set at the CPU domain level if power saving isn't
enabled, leading to many cache misses on large machines as we traverse
looking for an idle shared cache to wake to.  Change the enabler of
select_idle_sibling() to SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES, and enable same at the
sibling domain level.

Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1262612696.15495.15.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:39:03 +01:00
Xiaotian Feng
ea9d8e3f45 clockevent: Don't remove broadcast device when cpu is dead
Marc reported that the BUG_ON in clockevents_notify() triggers on his
system. This happens because the kernel tries to remove an active
clock event device (used for broadcasting) from the device list.

The handling of devices which can be used as per cpu device and as a
global broadcast device is suboptimal.

The simplest solution for now (and for stable) is to check whether the
device is used as global broadcast device, but this needs to be
revisited.

[ tglx: restored the cpuweight check and massaged the changelog ]

Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1262834564-13033-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-01-18 14:44:50 +01:00
Milton Miller
e03bcb6862 generic-ipi: Optimize accesses by using DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for IPI data
The smp ipi data is passed around and given write access by
other cpus and should be separated from per-cpu data consumed by
this cpu.

Looking for hot lines, I saw call_function_data shared with
tick_cpu_sched.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: : Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100118020051.GR12666@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-18 09:02:59 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f426a7e029 Merge branch 'perf/scheduling' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-01-18 08:56:41 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
329c0e012b perf: Better order flexible and pinned scheduling
When a task gets scheduled in. We don't touch the cpu bound events
so the priority order becomes:

	cpu pinned, cpu flexible, task pinned, task flexible.

So schedule out cpu flexibles when a new task context gets in
and correctly order the groups to schedule in:

	task pinned, cpu flexible, task flexible.

Cpu pinned groups don't need to be touched at this time.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-17 13:11:05 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
7defb0f879 perf: Don't schedule out/in pinned events on task tick
We don't need to schedule in/out pinned events on task tick,
now that pinned and flexible groups can be scheduled separately.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-17 13:09:51 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5b0311e1f2 perf: Allow pinned and flexible groups to be scheduled separately
Tune the scheduling helpers so that we can choose to schedule either
pinned and/or flexible groups from a context.

And while at it, refactor a bit the naming of these helpers to make
these more consistent and flexible.

There is no (intended) change in scheduling behaviour in this
patch.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-17 13:08:57 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
42cce92f4d perf: Make __perf_event_sched_out static
__perf_event_sched_out doesn't need to be globally available, make
it static.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-17 13:08:01 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
231e36f4d2 tracing/kprobe: Update kprobe tracing self test for new syntax
Update kprobe tracing self test for new syntax (it supports
deleting individual probes, and drops $argN support)
and behavior change (new probes are disabled in default).

This selftest includes the following checks:

 - Adding function-entry probe and return probe with arguments.
 - Enabling these probes.
 - Deleting it individually.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100114051211.7814.29436.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-17 08:15:35 +01:00
H Hartley Sweeten
6d686f4564 sched: Don't expose local functions
kernel/sched: don't expose local functions

The get_rr_interval_* functions are all class methods of
struct sched_class. They are not exported so make them
static.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <201001132021.53253.hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-17 08:09:45 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
24a53652e3 tracing: Drop the tr check from the graph tracing path
Each time we save a function entry from the function graph
tracer, we check if the trace array is set, which is wasteful
because it is set anyway before we start the tracer. All we need
is to ensure we have good read and write orderings. When we set
the trace array, we just need to guarantee it to be visible
before starting tracing.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1263453795-7496-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-17 08:06:25 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
2a8249daf6 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:
  futexes: Remove rw parameter from get_futex_key()
2010-01-16 12:31:30 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6ccc347b69 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: Add comment for match callbacks
  tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FULL filter matching for PTR_STRING
  tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_MIDDLE_ONLY filter matching
  lib: Introduce strnstr()
  tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY filter matching
  tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FRONT_ONLY filter matching
  ftrace: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY function filter
  tracing/x86: Derive arch from bits argument in recordmcount.pl
  ring-buffer: Add rb_list_head() wrapper around new reader page next field
  ring-buffer: Wrap a list.next reference with rb_list_head()
2010-01-16 12:27:25 -08:00
David John
af2422c42c smp_call_function_any(): pass the node value to cpumask_of_node()
The change in acpi_cpufreq to use smp_call_function_any causes a warning
when it is called since the function erroneously passes the cpu id to
cpumask_of_node rather than the node that the cpu is on.  Fix this.

cpumask_of_node(3): node > nr_node_ids(1)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33-rc3-00097-g2c1f189 #223
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81028bb3>] cpumask_of_node+0x23/0x58
 [<ffffffff81061f51>] smp_call_function_any+0x65/0xfa
 [<ffffffff810160d1>] ? do_drv_read+0x0/0x2f
 [<ffffffff81015fba>] get_cur_val+0xb0/0x102
 [<ffffffff81016080>] get_cur_freq_on_cpu+0x74/0xc5
 [<ffffffff810168a7>] acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init+0x417/0x515
 [<ffffffff81562ce9>] ? __down_write+0xb/0xd
 [<ffffffff8148055e>] cpufreq_add_dev+0x278/0x922

Signed-off-by: David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:39 -08:00
Andi Kleen
5dab600e6a kfifo: document everywhere that size has to be power of two
On my first try using them I missed that the fifos need to be power of
two, resulting in a runtime bug.  Document that requirement everywhere
(and fix one grammar bug)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen
a5b9e2c106 kfifo: add kfifo_out_peek
In some upcoming code it's useful to peek into a FIFO without permanentely
removing data.  This patch implements a new kfifo_out_peek() to do this.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen
64ce1037c5 kfifo: sanitize *_user error handling
Right now for kfifo_*_user it's not easily possible to distingush between
a user copy failing and the FIFO not containing enough data.  The problem
is that both conditions are multiplexed into the same return code.

Avoid this by moving the "copy length" into a separate output parameter
and only return 0/-EFAULT in the main return value.

I didn't fully adapt the weird "record" variants, those seem
to be unused anyways and were rather messy (should they be just removed?)

I would appreciate some double checking if I did all the conversions
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen
8ecc295153 kfifo: use void * pointers for user buffers
The pointers to user buffers are currently unsigned char *, which requires
a lot of casting in the caller for any non-char typed buffers.  Use void *
instead.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d6f962b57b perf: Export software-only event group characteristic as a flag
Before scheduling an event group, we first check if a group can go
on. We first check if the group is made of software only events
first, in which case it is enough to know if the group can be
scheduled in.

For that purpose, we iterate through the whole group, which is
wasteful as we could do this check when we add/delete an event to
a group.

So we create a group_flags field in perf event that can host
characteristics from a group of events, starting with a first
PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE flag that reduces the check on the fast path.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-16 12:30:40 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e286417378 perf: Round robin flexible groups of events using list_rotate_left()
This is more proper that doing it through a list_for_each_entry()
that breaks after the first entry.

v2: Don't rotate pinned groups as its not needed to time share
them.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-16 12:30:28 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
889ff01506 perf/core: Split context's event group list into pinned and non-pinned lists
Split-up struct perf_event_context::group_list into pinned_groups
and flexible_groups (non-pinned).

This first appears to be useless as it duplicates various loops around
the group list handlings.

But it scales better in the fast-path in perf_sched_in(). We don't
anymore iterate twice through the entire list to separate pinned and
non-pinned scheduling. Instead we interate through two distinct lists.

The another desired effect is that it makes easier to define distinct
scheduling rules on both.

Changes in v2:
- Respectively rename pinned_grp_list and
  volatile_grp_list into pinned_groups and flexible_groups as per
  Ingo suggestion.
- Various cleanups

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-16 12:27:42 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
017c426138 rcu: Fix sparse warnings
Rename local variable "i" in rcu_init() to avoid conflict with
RCU_INIT_FLAVOR(), restrict the scope of RCU_TREE_NONCORE, and
make __synchronize_srcu() static.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12635142581560-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-16 10:25:22 +01:00
Li Zefan
d1303dd1d6 tracing/filters: Add comment for match callbacks
We should be clear on 2 things:

- the length parameter of a match callback includes
  tailing '\0'.

- the string to be searched might not be NULL-terminated.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8770.7000608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:14 -05:00
Li Zefan
16da27a8bc tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FULL filter matching for PTR_STRING
MATCH_FULL matching for PTR_STRING is not working correctly:

  # echo 'func == vt' > events/bkl/lock_kernel/filter
  # echo 1 > events/bkl/lock_kernel/enable
  ...
  # cat trace
   Xorg-1484  [000]  1973.392586: lock_kernel: ... func=vt_ioctl()
    gpm-1402  [001]  1974.027740: lock_kernel: ... func=vt_ioctl()

We should pass to regex.match(..., len) the length (including '\0')
of the source string instead of the length of the pattern string.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8763.5070707@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:12 -05:00
Li Zefan
b2af211f28 tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_MIDDLE_ONLY filter matching
The @str might not be NULL-terminated if it's of type
DYN_STRING or STATIC_STRING, so we should use strnstr()
instead of strstr().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8753.2000102@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:11 -05:00
Li Zefan
a3291c14ec tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY filter matching
For '*foo' pattern, we should allow any string ending with
'foo', but event filtering incorrectly disallows strings
like bar_foo_foo:

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8735.6070604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:07 -05:00
Li Zefan
285caad415 tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FRONT_ONLY filter matching
MATCH_FRONT_ONLY actually is a full matching:

  # ./perf record -R -f -a -e lock:lock_acquire \
	--filter 'name ~rcu_*' sleep 1
  # ./perf trace
  (no output)

We should pass the length of the pattern string to strncmp().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8721.5090301@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:05 -05:00
Li Zefan
751e9983ee ftrace: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY function filter
For '*foo' pattern, we should allow any string ending with
'foo', but ftrace filter incorrectly disallows strings
like bar_foo_foo:

  # echo '*io' > set_ftrace_filter
  # cat set_ftrace_filter | grep 'req_bio_endio'
  # cat available_filter_functions | grep 'req_bio_endio'
  req_bio_endio

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E870E.6060607@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:03 -05:00
Jamie Iles
8381f65d09 sched/perf: Make sure irqs are disabled for perf_event_task_sched_in()
perf_event_task_sched_in() expects interrupts to be disabled,
but on architectures with __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
defined, this isn't true. If this is defined, disable irqs
around the call in finish_task_switch().

Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1262964453-27370-1-git-send-email-jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 10:43:08 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
14640106f2 tracing/kprobe: Drop function argument access syntax
Drop function argument access syntax, because the function
arguments depend on not only architecture but also
compile-options and function API. And now, we have perf-probe
for finding register/memory assigned to each argument.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
LKML-Reference: <20100105224648.19431.52309.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 10:09:12 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
61405fea92 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: queue up dependent patch, update to -rc4

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 10:08:50 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
7485d0d375 futexes: Remove rw parameter from get_futex_key()
Currently, futexes have two problem:

A) The current futex code doesn't handle private file mappings properly.

get_futex_key() uses PageAnon() to distinguish file and
anon, which can cause the following bad scenario:

  1) thread-A call futex(private-mapping, FUTEX_WAIT), it
     sleeps on file mapping object.
  2) thread-B writes a variable and it makes it cow.
  3) thread-B calls futex(private-mapping, FUTEX_WAKE), it
     wakes up blocked thread on the anonymous page. (but it's nothing)

B) Current futex code doesn't handle zero page properly.

Read mode get_user_pages() can return zero page, but current
futex code doesn't handle it at all. Then, zero page makes
infinite loop internally.

The solution is to use write mode get_user_page() always for
page lookup. It prevents the lookup of both file page of private
mappings and zero page.

Performance concerns:

Probaly very little, because glibc always initialize variables
for futex before to call futex(). It means glibc users never see
the overhead of this patch.

Compatibility concerns:

This patch has few compatibility issues. After this patch,
FUTEX_WAIT require writable access to futex variables (read-only
mappings makes EFAULT). But practically it's not a problem,
glibc always initalizes variables for futexes explicitly - nobody
uses read-only mappings.

Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100105162633.45A2.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:17:36 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
b6407e8639 rcu: Give different levels of the rcu_node hierarchy distinct lockdep names
Previously, each level of the rcu_node hierarchy had the same
rather unimaginative name: "&rcu_node_class[i]".  This makes
lockdep diagnostics involving these lockdep classes less helpful
than would be nice. This patch fixes this by giving each level
of the rcu_node hierarchy a distinct name: "rcu_node_level_0",
"rcu_node_level_1", and so on. This version of the patch
includes improved diagnostics suggested by Josh Triplett and
Peter Zijlstra.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12626498421830-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:07 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
cba8244a0f rcu: Add debug check for too many rcu_read_unlock()
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU maintains an rcu_read_lock_nesting counter in
the task structure, which happens to be a signed int.  So this
patch adds a check for this counter being negative at the end of
__rcu_read_unlock(). This check is under CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING,
so can be thought of as being part of lockdep.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12626498423064-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:06 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
bf66f18e79 rcu: Add force_quiescent_state() testing to rcutorture
Add force_quiescent_state() testing to rcutorture, with a
separate thread that repeatedly invokes force_quiescent_state()
in bursts. This can greatly increase the probability of
encountering certain types of race conditions.

Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1262646551116-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:05 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
46a1e34eda rcu: Make force_quiescent_state() start grace period if needed
Grace periods cannot be started while force_quiescent_state() is
active.  This is OK in that the affected CPUs will try again
later, but it does induce needless grace-period delays.  This
patch causes rcu_start_gp() to record a failed attempt to start
a grace period. When force_quiescent_state() prepares to return,
it then starts the grace period if there was such a failed
attempt.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12626465501854-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:05 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
45f014c52e rcu: Remove redundant grace-period check
The rcu_process_dyntick() function checks twice for the end of
the current grace period.  However, it holds the current
rcu_node structure's ->lock field throughout, and doesn't get to
the second call to rcu_gp_in_progress() unless there is at least
one CPU corresponding to this rcu_node structure that has not
yet checked in for the current grace period, which would prevent
the current grace period from ending. So the current grace
period cannot have ended, and the second check is redundant, so
remove it.

Also, given that this function is used even with !CONFIG_NO_HZ,
its name is quite misleading.  Change from rcu_process_dyntick()
to force_qs_rnp().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1262646550562-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:04 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
ee47eb9f4d rcu: Remove leg of force_quiescent_state() switch statement
The comparisons of rsp->gpnum nad rsp->completed in
rcu_process_dyntick() and force_quiescent_state() can be
replaced by the much more clear rcu_gp_in_progress() predicate
function.  After doing this, it becomes clear that the
RCU_SAVE_COMPLETED leg of the force_quiescent_state() function's
switch statement is almost completely a no-op.  A small change
to the RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK leg renders it a complete no-op, after
which it can be removed.  Doing so also eliminates the forcenow
local variable from force_quiescent_state().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12626465501781-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:04 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
0f10dc8266 rcu: Eliminate rcu_process_dyntick() return value
Because a new grace period cannot start while we are executing
within the force_quiescent_state() function's switch statement,
if any test within that switch statement or within any function
called from that switch statement shows that the current grace
period has ended, we can safely re-do that test any time before
we leave the switch statement.  This means that we no longer
need a return value from rcu_process_dyntick(), as we can simply
invoke rcu_gp_in_progress() to check whether the old grace
period has finished -- there is no longer any need to worry
about whether or not a new grace period has been started.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12626465501857-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:03 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
eb1ba45f1e rcu: Eliminate second argument of rcu_process_dyntick()
At this point, the second argument to all calls to
rcu_process_dyntick() is a function of the same field of the
structure passed in as the first argument, namely, rsp->gpnum-1.
 So propagate rsp->gpnum-1 to all uses of the second argument
within rcu_process_dyntick() and then eliminate the second
argument.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12626465503786-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:03 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
39c0bbfc07 rcu: Eliminate local variable lastcomp from force_quiescent_state()
Because rsp->fqs_active is set to 1 across
force_quiescent_state()'s switch statement, rcu_start_gp() will
refrain from starting a new grace period during this time.
Therefore, rsp->gpnum is constant, and can be propagated to all
uses of lastcomp, eliminating this local variable.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12626465502985-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:03 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
f3a8b5c6aa rcu: Eliminate local variable signaled from force_quiescent_state()
Because the root rcu_node lock is held across entry to the
switch statement in force_quiescent_state(), it is no longer
necessary to snapshot rsp->signaled to a local variable.
Eliminate both the snapshotting and the local variable.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1262646550602-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:02 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
07079d5357 rcu: Prohibit starting new grace periods while forcing quiescent states
Reduce the number and variety of race conditions by prohibiting
the start of a new grace period while force_quiescent_state() is
active. A new fqs_active flag in the rcu_state structure is used
to trace whether or not force_quiescent_state() is active, and
this new flag is tested by rcu_start_gp().  If the CPU that
closed out the last grace period needs another grace period,
this new grace period may be delayed up to one scheduling-clock
tick, but it will eventually get started.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <126264655052-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:02 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
559569acf9 rcu: Adjust force_quiescent_state() locking, step 2
This patch releases rnp->lock after the end of
force_quiescent_state()'s switch statement.  This is a second
step towards prohibiting starting grace periods while
force_quiescent_state() is executing, which will reduce the
number and complexity of races that force_quiescent_state() is
involved in.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12626465501994-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:01 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
f96e9232e0 rcu: Adjust force_quiescent_state() locking, step 1
This causes rnp->lock to be held on entry to
force_quiescent_state()'s switch statement.  This is a first
step towards prohibiting starting grace periods while
force_quiescent_state() is executing, which will reduce the
number and complexity of races that force_quiescent_state() is
involved in.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12626465501455-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:06:01 +01:00
Andi Kleen
b45c6e76bc kernel/signal.c: fix kernel information leak with print-fatal-signals=1
When print-fatal-signals is enabled it's possible to dump any memory
reachable by the kernel to the log by simply jumping to that address from
user space.

Or crash the system if there's some hardware with read side effects.

The fatal signals handler will dump 16 bytes at the execution address,
which is fully controlled by ring 3.

In addition when something jumps to a unmapped address there will be up to
16 additional useless page faults, which might be potentially slow (and at
least is not very efficient)

Fortunately this option is off by default and only there on i386.

But fix it by checking for kernel addresses and also stopping when there's
a page fault.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: 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>
2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
Dave Anderson
bd4f490a07 cgroups: fix 2.6.32 regression causing BUG_ON() in cgroup_diput()
The LTP cgroup test suite generates a "kernel BUG at kernel/cgroup.c:790!"
here in cgroup_diput():

                 /*
                  * if we're getting rid of the cgroup, refcount should ensure
                  * that there are no pidlists left.
                  */
                 BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cgrp->pidlists));

The cgroup pidlist rework in 2.6.32 generates the BUG_ON, which is caused
when pidlist_array_load() calls cgroup_pidlist_find():

(1) if a matching cgroup_pidlist is found, it down_write's the mutex of the
     pre-existing cgroup_pidlist, and increments its use_count.
(2) if no matching cgroup_pidlist is found, then a new one is allocated, it
     down_write's its mutex, and the use_count is set to 0.
(3) the matching, or new, cgroup_pidlist gets returned back to pidlist_array_load(),
     which increments its use_count -- regardless whether new or pre-existing --
     and up_write's the mutex.

So if a matching list is ever encountered by cgroup_pidlist_find() during
the life of a cgroup directory, it results in an inflated use_count value,
preventing it from ever getting released by cgroup_release_pid_array().
Then if the directory is subsequently removed, cgroup_diput() hits the
BUG_ON() when it finds that the directory's cgroup is still populated with
a pidlist.

The patch simply removes the use_count increment when a matching pidlist
is found by cgroup_pidlist_find(), because it gets bumped by the calling
pidlist_array_load() function while still protected by the list's mutex.

Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
Masami Hiramatsu
8767ba2796 kmod: fix resource leak in call_usermodehelper_pipe()
Fix resource (write-pipe file) leak in call_usermodehelper_pipe().

When call_usermodehelper_exec() fails, write-pipe file is opened and
call_usermodehelper_pipe() just returns an error.  Since it is hard for
caller to determine whether the error occured when opening the pipe or
executing the helper, the caller cannot close the pipe by themselves.

I've found this resoruce leak when testing coredump.  You can check how
the resource leaks as below;

$ echo "|nocommand" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
$ ulimit -c unlimited
$ while [ 1 ]; do ./segv; done &> /dev/null &
$ cat /proc/meminfo (<- repeat it)

where segv.c is;
//-----
int main () {
        char *p = 0;
        *p = 1;
}
//-----

This patch closes write-pipe file if call_usermodehelper_exec() failed.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-11 09:34:04 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
0e1ff5d72a ring-buffer: Add rb_list_head() wrapper around new reader page next field
If the very unlikely case happens where the writer moves the head by one
between where the head page is read and where the new reader page
is assigned _and_ the writer then writes and wraps the entire ring buffer
so that the head page is back to what was originally read as the head page,
the page to be swapped will have a corrupted next pointer.

Simple solution is to wrap the assignment of the next pointer with a
rb_list_head().

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 20:40:44 -05:00
David Sharp
5ded3dc6a3 ring-buffer: Wrap a list.next reference with rb_list_head()
This reference at the end of rb_get_reader_page() was causing off-by-one
writes to the prev pointer of the page after the reader page when that
page is the head page, and therefore the reader page has the RB_PAGE_HEAD
flag in its list.next pointer. This eventually results in a GPF in a
subsequent call to rb_set_head_page() (usually from rb_get_reader_page())
when that prev pointer is dereferenced. The dereferenced register would
characteristically have an address that appears shifted left by one byte
(eg, ffxxxxxxxxxxxxyy instead of ffffxxxxxxxxxxxx) due to being written at
an address one byte too high.

Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1262826727-9090-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 20:38:25 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
d931369b74 tracing: Add stack dump to trace_printk if stacktrace option is set
If the ftrace stacktrace option is set, then add the stack dumps to
trace_printk.

Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 18:09:57 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
7e53bd42d1 tracing: Consolidate protection of reader access to the ring buffer
At the beginning, access to the ring buffer was fully serialized
by trace_types_lock. Patch d7350c3f45 gives more freedom to readers,
and patch b04cc6b1f6 adds code to protect trace_pipe and cpu#/trace_pipe.

But actually it is not enough, ring buffer readers are not always
read-only, they may consume data.

This patch makes accesses to trace, trace_pipe, trace_pipe_raw
cpu#/trace, cpu#/trace_pipe and cpu#/trace_pipe_raw serialized.
And removes tracing_reader_cpumask which is used to protect trace_pipe.

Details:

Ring buffer serializes readers, but it is low level protection.
The validity of the events (which returns by ring_buffer_peek() ..etc)
are not protected by ring buffer.

The content of events may become garbage if we allow another process to consume
these events concurrently:
  A) the page of the consumed events may become a normal page
     (not reader page) in ring buffer, and this page will be rewritten
     by the events producer.
  B) The page of the consumed events may become a page for splice_read,
     and this page will be returned to system.

This patch adds trace_access_lock() and trace_access_unlock() primitives.

These primitives allow multi process access to different cpu ring buffers
concurrently.

These primitives don't distinguish read-only and read-consume access.
Multi read-only access is also serialized.

And we don't use these primitives when we open files,
we only use them when we read files.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B447D52.1050602@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 12:51:34 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
0fa0edaf32 tracing: Remove show_format and related macros from TRACE_EVENT
The previous patches added the use of print_fmt string and changes
the trace_define_field() function to also create the fields and
format output for the event format files.

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
5857201	1355780	9336808	16549789	 fc879d	vmlinux
5884589	1351684	9337896	16574169	 fce6d9	vmlinux-orig

The above shows the size of the vmlinux after this patch set
compared to the vmlinux-orig which is before the patch set.

This saves us 27k on text, 1k on bss and adds just 4k of data.

The total savings of 24k in size.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D4D.40604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 12:08:46 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
5a65e95622 tracing: Use defined fields and print_fmt to print formats
The calls ftrace_format_##call() and ftrace_define_fields_##call()
are almost duplicate in functionality. With the addition of the
print_fmt in previous patches, these two functions can be merged
into one.

The trace_define_field() defines the fields and links them into
the struct ftrace_event_call. The previous patches introduced
the print_fmt field and this can now be used with the trace_define_field()
to create the event format file fields and print_fmt field.

The struct ftrace_event_call->fields are used to print the fields
The struct ftrace_event_call->print_fmt is used to print
the "print fmt: XXXXXXXXXXX" line.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D49.5000006@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 12:08:20 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
c7ef3a9004 tracing: Have syscall tracing call its own init function
In the clean up of having all events call one specific function,
the syscall event init was changed to call this helper function.

With the new print_fmt updates, the syscalls need to do special
initializations. This patch converts the syscall events to call
its own init function again.

Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 12:02:32 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
a342a0280b tracing/kprobes: Init print_fmt for kprobe events
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.

Add the print_fmt initialization to the kprobe events.
The print_fmt is still not used, but will be in the follow up
patches.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D45.3080100@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 12:01:35 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
50307a45f8 tracing/syscalls: Init print_fmt for syscall events
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.

Add the print_fmt initialization to the syscall events.
The print_fmt is still not used, but will be in the follow up
patches.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D41.609@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 11:58:32 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
509e760cd9 tracing: Add print_fmt field
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.

The print_fmt field is added to hold the string that shows
the print_fmt in the event format files. This patch only adds
the field but it is currently not used. Later patches will use
this field to enable us to remove the show_format field
and function.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D3E.2000704@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 11:41:54 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
809826a389 tracing: Have __dynamic_array() define a field
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.

This patch set requires that all fields are added to the
ftrace_event_call->fields. This patch changes __dynamic_array()
to call trace_define_field() to include fields that use __dynamic_array().

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D36.8090100@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 11:30:02 -05:00
Ben Hutchings
10b465aaf9 modules: Skip empty sections when exporting section notes
Commit 35dead4 "modules: don't export section names of empty sections
via sysfs" changed the set of sections that have attributes, but did
not change the iteration over these attributes in add_notes_attrs().
This can lead to add_notes_attrs() creating attributes with the wrong
names or with null name pointers.

Introduce a sect_empty() function and use it in both add_sect_attrs()
and add_notes_attrs().

Reported-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-06 01:11:29 -08:00
Steffen Klassert
16295bec63 padata: Generic parallelization/serialization interface
This patch introduces an interface to process data objects
in parallel. The parallelized objects return after serialization
in the same order as they were before the parallelization.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-01-06 19:47:10 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
952363c90c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Fix NULL deref in inheritance code
  perf: Pass appropriate frame pointer to dump_trace()
2009-12-31 11:56:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9d6e323c68 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of 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 kmem: Fix statistics typo
  kprobes: Fix distinct type warning
  perf: Rename perf_event_hw_event in design document
  perf tools: Add missing header files to LIB_H Makefile variable
  perf record: We should fork only if a program was specified to run
  perf diff: Fix usage array, it must end with a NULL entry
2009-12-31 11:52:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b21c070403 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: Fix sign fields in ftrace_define_fields_##call()
  tracing/syscalls: Fix typo in SYSCALL_DEFINE0
  tracing/kprobe: Show sign of fields in trace_kprobe format files
  ksym_tracer: Remove trace_stat
  ksym_tracer: Fix race when incrementing count
  ksym_tracer: Fix to allow writing newline to ksym_trace_filter
  ksym_tracer: Fix to make the tracer work
  tracing: Kconfig spelling fixes and cleanups
  tracing: Fix setting tracer specific options
  Documentation: Update ftrace-design.txt
  Documentation: Update tracepoint-analysis.txt
  Documentation: Update mmiotrace.txt
2009-12-31 11:52:01 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
0f4bd46ec2 kmsg_dump: Dump on crash_kexec as well
crash_kexec gets called before kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) if
panic_on_oops is set, so the kernel log buffer is not stored
for this case.

This patch adds a KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC dump type which gets called
when crash_kexec() is invoked. To avoid getting double dumps,
the old KMSG_DUMP_PANIC is moved below crash_kexec(). The
mtdoops driver is modified to handle KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC in the
same way as a panic.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-12-31 19:45:04 +00:00
Peter Zijlstra
05cbaa2853 perf: Fix NULL deref in inheritance code
Liming found a NULL deref when a task has a perf context but no
counters  when it forks.

This can occur in two cases, a race during construction where
the fork hits after installing the context but before the first
counter gets inserted, or more reproducably, a fork after the
last counter is closed (which leaves the context around).

Reported-by: Wang Liming <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
CC: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262185684.7135.222.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-31 13:11:31 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
fb7ae981cb tracing: Fix sign fields in ftrace_define_fields_##call()
Add is_signed_type() call to trace_define_field() in ftrace macros.

The code previously just passed in 0 (false), disregarding whether
or not the field was actually a signed type.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D3A.6020007@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-12-30 10:27:06 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
79b4082108 tracing/kprobe: Show sign of fields in trace_kprobe format files
The format files of trace_kprobe do not show the sign of the fields.
The other format files show the field signed type of the fields and
this patch makes the trace_kprobe formats consistent with the others.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D27.5040009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-12-30 10:27:03 -05:00
Li Zefan
53ab668064 ksym_tracer: Remove trace_stat
trace_stat is problematic. Don't use it, use seqfile instead.

This fixes a race that reading the stat file is not protected by
any lock, which can lead to use after free.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B3AF203.40200@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-30 07:50:50 +01:00
Li Zefan
e6d9491bf8 ksym_tracer: Fix race when incrementing count
We are under rcu read section but not holding the write lock, so
count++ is not atomic. Use atomic64_t instead.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B3AF1EC.9010608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-30 07:50:49 +01:00
Li Zefan
3d13ec2efd ksym_tracer: Fix to allow writing newline to ksym_trace_filter
It used to work, but now doesn't:

 # echo > ksym_filter
 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

It's caused by d954fbf0ff
("tracing: Fix wrong usage of strstrip in trace_ksyms").

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B3AF1D7.5040400@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-30 07:50:49 +01:00
Li Zefan
88f7a890d7 ksym_tracer: Fix to make the tracer work
ksym tracer doesn't work:

 # echo tasklist_lock:rw- > ksym_trace_filter
 -bash: echo: write error: No such device

It's because we pass to perf_event_create_kernel_counter()
a cpu number which is not present.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B3AF19E.1010201@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-30 07:50:47 +01:00
Simon Kagstrom
d894837f23 sched: might_sleep(): Make file parameter const char *
Fixes a warning when building with g++:

 warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'

And the file parameter use is constant, so mark it as such.

Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <20091223110818.442d848e@marrow.netinsight.se>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28 10:50:13 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
40892367bc tracing: Kconfig spelling fixes and cleanups
Fix filename reference (ftrace-implementation.txt ->
ftrace-design.txt).

Fix spelling, punctuation, grammar.

Fix help text indentation and line lengths to reduce need for
horizontal scrolling or larger window sizes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091221120117.3fb49cdc.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28 10:37:54 +01:00
Li Zefan
07b139c8c8 perf events: Remove CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE
Quoted from Ingo:

| This reminds me - i think we should eliminate CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE -
| it's an unnecessary Kconfig complication. If both PERF_EVENTS and
| EVENT_TRACING is enabled we should expose generic tracepoints.
|
| Nor is it limited to event 'profiling', so it has become a misnomer as
| well.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2F1557.2050705@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28 10:33:06 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
c2ef6661ce kprobes: Fix distinct type warning
Every time I see this:

 kernel/kprobes.c: In function 'register_kretprobe':
 kernel/kprobes.c:1038: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

I'm wondering if something changed in common code and we need to
do something for s390. Apparently that's not the case.
Let's get rid of this annoying warning.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091221120224.GA4471@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28 10:25:31 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
49f474331e perf events: Remove arg from perf sched hooks
Since we only ever schedule the local cpu, there is no need to pass the
cpu number to the perf sched hooks.

This micro-optimizes things a bit.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28 09:21:33 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
0b5e2588d8 Merge branch 'sysctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6
* 'sysctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6:
  SYSCTL: Add a mutex to the page_alloc zone order sysctl
  SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only once
2009-12-24 13:01:29 -08:00
Andi Kleen
4440095c82 SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only once
When printing legacy sysctls print the warning message
for each of them only once.  This way there is a guarantee
the syslog won't be flooded for any sane program.

The original attempt at this made the tables non const and stored
the flag inline.

Linus suggested using a separate hash table for this, this is based on a
code snippet from him.

The hash implies this is not exact and can sometimes not print a
new sysctl due to a hash collision, but in practice this should not
be a problem

I used a FNV32 hash over the binary string with a 32byte bitmap. This
gives relatively little collisions when all the predefined binary sysctls
are hashed:

size 256
bucket
length      number
0:          [25]
1:          [67]
2:          [88]
3:          [47]
4:          [22]
5:          [6]
6:          [1]

The worst case is a single collision of 6 hash values.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-23 21:00:20 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
6432ed648a 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: Revert 738d2be, simplify set_task_cpu()
2009-12-23 09:12:57 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
0c69774e6c sched: Revert 738d2be, simplify set_task_cpu()
Effectively reverts 738d2be430.

As demonstrated by Eric, we really need to call __set_task_cpu()
early in the fork() path to properly initialize the various task
state -- specifically the cgroup state through set_task_rq().

[ we could probably fix this by explicitly calling
  __set_task_cpu() from   sched_fork(), but lets try that for the
  next cycle and simply revert to the old behaviour for now. ]

Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: efault@gmx.de
LKML-Reference: <1261492999.4937.36.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-23 10:04:10 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
fe35d4a028 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  jfs: Fix 32bit build warning
  Remove obsolete comment in fs.h
  Sanitize f_flags helpers
  Fix f_flags/f_mode in case of lookup_instantiate_filp() from open(pathname, 3)
  anonfd: Allow making anon files read-only
  fs/compat_ioctl.c: fix build error when !BLOCK
  pohmelfs needs I_LOCK
  alloc_file(): simplify handling of mnt_clone_write() errors
2009-12-22 14:20:48 -08:00
Stefani Seibold
86d4880313 kfifo: add record handling functions
Add kfifo_in_rec() - puts some record data into the FIFO
 Add kfifo_out_rec() - gets some record data from the FIFO
 Add kfifo_from_user_rec() - puts some data from user space into the FIFO
 Add kfifo_to_user_rec() - gets data from the FIFO and write it to user space
 Add kfifo_peek_rec() - gets the size of the next FIFO record field
 Add kfifo_skip_rec() - skip the next fifo out record
 Add kfifo_avail_rec() - determinate the number of bytes available in a record FIFO

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-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>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold
a121f24acc kfifo: add kfifo_skip, kfifo_from_user and kfifo_to_user
Add kfifo_reset_out() for save lockless discard the fifo output
 Add kfifo_skip() to skip a number of output bytes
 Add kfifo_from_user() to copy user space data into the fifo
 Add kfifo_to_user() to copy fifo data to user space

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold
7acd72eb85 kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out...
rename kfifo_put...  into kfifo_in...  to prevent miss use of old non in
kernel-tree drivers

ditto for kfifo_get...  -> kfifo_out...

Improve the prototypes of kfifo_in and kfifo_out to make the kerneldoc
annotations more readable.

Add mini "howto porting to the new API" in kfifo.h

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold
e64c026dd0 kfifo: cleanup namespace
change name of __kfifo_* functions to kfifo_*, because the prefix __kfifo
should be reserved for internal functions only.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold
c1e13f2567 kfifo: move out spinlock
Move the pointer to the spinlock out of struct kfifo.  Most users in
tree do not actually use a spinlock, so the few exceptions now have to
call kfifo_{get,put}_locked, which takes an extra argument to a
spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold
4546548789 kfifo: move struct kfifo in place
This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation.

The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to
many constrains.  Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it.
FIFO's are like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles
the most use case would save a lot of development time and memory
resources.

I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use:

 - The API is to simple, important functions are missing
 - A fifo can be only allocated dynamically
 - There is a requirement of a spinlock whether you need it or not
 - There is no support for data records inside a fifo

So I decided to extend the kfifo in a more generic way without blowing up
the API to much.  The new API has the following benefits:

 - Generic usage: For kernel internal use and/or device driver.
 - Provide an API for the most use case.
 - Slim API: The whole API provides 25 functions.
 - Linux style habit.
 - DECLARE_KFIFO, DEFINE_KFIFO and INIT_KFIFO Macros
 - Direct copy_to_user from the fifo and copy_from_user into the fifo.
 - The kfifo itself is an in place member of the using data structure, this save an
   indirection access and does not waste the kernel allocator.
 - Lockless access: if only one reader and one writer is active on the fifo,
   which is the common use case, no additional locking is necessary.
 - Remove spinlock - give the user the freedom of choice what kind of locking to use if
   one is required.
 - Ability to handle records. Three type of records are supported:
   - Variable length records between 0-255 bytes, with a record size
     field of 1 bytes.
   - Variable length records between 0-65535 bytes, with a record size
     field of 2 bytes.
   - Fixed size records, which no record size field.
 - Preserve memory resource.
 - Performance!
 - Easy to use!

This patch:

Since most users want to have the kfifo as part of another object,
reorganize the code to allow including struct kfifo in another data
structure.  This requires changing the kfifo_alloc and kfifo_init
prototypes so that we pass an existing kfifo pointer into them.  This
patch changes the implementation and all existing users.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:55 -08:00