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Rafael J. Wysocki bf992fa2bc Merge branch 'master' into for-linus 2009-09-10 00:02:02 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 61cbe54d94 sched: Keep kthreads at default priority
Removes kthread/workqueue priority boost, they increase worst-case
desktop latencies.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:06 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 172e082a91 sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
Reduce the latency target from 20 msecs to 5 msecs.

Why? Larger latencies increase spread, which is good for scaling,
but bad for worst case latency.

We still have the ilog(nr_cpus) rule to scale up on bigger
server boxes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:06 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 2bba22c50b sched: Turn off child_runs_first
Set child_runs_first default to off.

It hurts 'optimal' make -j<NR_CPUS> workloads as make jobs
get preempted by child tasks, reducing parallelism.

Note, this patch might make existing races in user
applications more prominent than before - so breakages
might be bisected to this commit.

Child-runs-first is broken on SMP to begin with, and we
already had it off briefly in v2.6.23 so most of the
offenders ought to be fixed. Would be nice not to revert
this commit but fix those apps finally ...

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
[ made the sysctl independent of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, in case
  people want to work around broken apps. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:05 +02:00
Mike Galbraith b5d9d734a5 sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
A fork/exec load is usually "pass the baton", so the child
should never be placed behind the parent.  With START_DEBIT we
make room for the new task, but with child_runs_first, that
room comes out of the _parent's_ hide. There's nothing to say
that the parent wasn't ahead of min_vruntime at fork() time,
which means that the "baton carrier", who is essentially the
parent in drag, can gain time and increase scheduling latencies
for waiters.

With NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS + START_DEBIT + child_runs_first
enabled, we essentially pass the sleeper fairness off to the
child, which is fine, but if we don't base placement on the
parent's updated vruntime, we can end up compounding latency
woes if the child itself then does fork/exec.  The debit
incurred at fork doesn't hurt the parent who is then going to
sleep and maybe exit, but the child who acquires the error
harms all comers.

This improves latencies of make -j<n> kernel build workloads.

Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-08 13:15:34 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 71a29aa7b6 sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()
wake_affine() would always fail under low-load situations where
both prev and this were idle, because adding a single task will
always be a significant imbalance, even if there's nothing
around that could balance it.

Deal with this by allowing imbalance when there's nothing you
can do about it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07 20:39:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra cdd2ab3de4 sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()
select_task_rq_fair() incorrectly skips the wake_affine()
logic, remove this.

When prev_cpu == this_cpu, the code jumps straight to the
wake_idle() logic, this doesn't give the wake_affine() logic
the chance to pin the task to this cpu.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07 20:39:05 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput b6d9c25631 Security/SELinux: includecheck fix kernel/sysctl.c
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:

  kernel/sysctl.c: linux/security.h is included more than once.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-07 11:41:03 +10:00
Ingo Molnar d28daf923a Merge branch 'tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core 2009-09-06 06:27:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ed011b22ce Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc9' into tracing/core
Merge reason: move from -rc5 to -rc9.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-06 06:11:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 93697a3cab Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf_counter/powerpc: Fix cache event codes for POWER7
  perf_counter: Fix /0 bug in swcounters
  perf_counters: Increase paranoia level
2009-09-05 13:48:37 -07:00
Steven Rostedt 85bac32c4a ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
Since the ability to swap the cpu buffers adds a small overhead to
the recording of a trace, we only want to add it when needed.

Only the irqsoff and preemptoff tracers use this feature, and both are
not recommended for production kernels. This patch disables its use
when neither irqsoff nor preemptoff is configured.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 19:42:22 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 62f0b3eb5c ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing
Because the irqsoff tracer can swap an internal CPU buffer, it is possible
that a swap happens between the start of the write and before the committing
bit is set (the committing bit will disable swapping).

This patch adds a check for this and will fail the write if it detects it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 19:38:42 -04:00
Steven Rostedt e8165dbb03 tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
The irqsoff tracer will fail to swap the cpu buffer with the max
buffer if it preempts a commit. Instead of ignoring this, this patch
makes the tracer report it if the last max latency failed due to preempting
a current commit.

The output of the latency tracer will look like this:

 # tracer: irqsoff
 #
 # irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.31-rc5
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # latency: 112 us, #1/1, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
 #    -----------------
 #    | task: -4281 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
 #    -----------------
 #  => started at: save_args
 #  => ended at:   __do_softirq
 #
 #
 #                  _------=> CPU#
 #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
 #                | / _----=> need-resched
 #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                |||| /
 #                |||||     delay
 #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
 #     \   /      |||||   \   |   /
    bash-4281    1d.s6  265us : update_max_tr_single: Failed to swap buffers due to commit in progress

Note the latency time and the functions that disabled the irqs or preemption
will still be listed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 19:22:41 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 659372d3e4 tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
This patch adds a trace_array_printk to allow a tracer to use the
trace_printk on its own trace array.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 19:13:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt e77405ad80 tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
The latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup) can swap trace buffers
on the fly. If an event is happening and has reserved data on one of
the buffers, and the latency tracer swaps the global buffer with the
max buffer, the result is that the event may commit the data to the
wrong buffer.

This patch changes the API to the trace recording to be recieve the
buffer that was used to reserve a commit. Then this buffer can be passed
in to the commit.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:59:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt f633903af2 tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
Reseting the trace buffer without first disabling the buffer and
waiting for any writers to complete, can corrupt the ring buffer.

This patch makes the external version of tracing_reset safe from
corruption by disabling the ring buffer and calling synchronize_sched.

This version can no longer be called from interrupt context. But all those
callers have been removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:46:51 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 2f26ebd549 tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
Currently the latency tracers reset the ring buffer. Unfortunately
if a commit is in process (due to a trace event), this can corrupt
the ring buffer. When this happens, the ring buffer will detect
the corruption and then permanently disable the ring buffer.

The bug does not crash the system, but it does prevent further tracing
after the bug is hit.

Instead of reseting the trace buffers, the timestamp of the start of
the trace is used instead. The buffers will still contain the previous
data, but the output will not count any data that is before the
timestamp of the trace.

Note, this only affects the static trace output (trace) and not the
runtime trace output (trace_pipe). The runtime trace output does not
make sense for the latency tracers anyway.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:44:22 -04:00
Li Zefan c58b43218c tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak
The predicates of an event and their filter structure are allocated
when we create an event filter for the first time.

These objects must be created once but each time we come with a new
filter, we overwrite such pre-existing allocation, if any.

Thus, this patch checks if the filter has already been allocated
before going ahead.

Spotted-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A9CB1BA.3060402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-04 23:22:33 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 76f0d07376 tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
The function tracing_reset is deprecated for outside use of trace.c.

The new function to reset the the buffers is tracing_reset_online_cpus.

The reason for this is that resetting the buffers while the event
trace points are active can corrupt the buffers, because they may
be writing at the time of reset. The tracing_reset_online_cpus disables
writes and waits for current writers to finish.

This patch replaces all users of tracing_reset except for the latency
tracers. Those changes require more work and will be removed in the
following patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 12:12:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 621968cdb2 tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
Resetting the ring buffers while traces are happening can corrupt
the ring buffer and disable it (no kernel crash to worry about).

The safest thing to do is disable the ring buffers, call synchronize_sched()
to wait for all current writers to finish and then reset the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 12:02:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt b8de7bd168 tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
When reading the tracer from the trace file, updating the max latency
may corrupt the output. This patch disables the tracing of the max
latency while reading the trace file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:52:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 8248ac052d tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
During development of the tracer, we would copy information from
the live tracer to the max tracer with one memcpy. Since then we
added a generic ring buffer and we handle the copies differently now.
Unfortunately, we never copied the critical section information, and
we lost the output:

 #  => started at: kmem_cache_alloc
 #  => ended at:   kmem_cache_alloc

This patch adds back the critical start and end copying as well as
removes the unused "trace_idx" and "overrun" fields of the
trace_array_cpu structure.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:48:12 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 077c5407cd ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem
Currently the way RB_WARN_ON works, is to disable either the current
CPU buffer or all CPU buffers, depending on whether a ring_buffer or
ring_buffer_per_cpu struct was passed into the macro.

Most users of the RB_WARN_ON pass in the CPU buffer, so only the one
CPU buffer gets disabled but the rest are still active. This may
confuse users even though a warning is sent to the console.

This patch changes the macro to disable the entire buffer even if
the CPU buffer is passed in.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:46:25 -04:00
Steven Rostedt a1863c212b ring-buffer: do not count discarded events
The latency tracers report the number of items in the trace buffer.
This uses the ring buffer data to calculate this. Because discarded
events are also counted, the numbers do not match the number of items
that are printed. The ring buffer also adds a "padding" item to the
end of each buffer page which also gets counted as a discarded item.

This patch decrements the counter to the page entries on a discard.
This allows us to ignore discarded entries while reading the buffer.

Decrementing the counter is still safe since it can only happen while
the committing flag is still set.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:43:36 -04:00
Steven Rostedt dc892f7339 ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard
The function ring_buffer_event_discard can be used on any item in the
ring buffer, even after the item was committed. This function provides
no safety nets and is very race prone.

An item may be safely removed from the ring buffer before it is committed
with the ring_buffer_discard_commit.

Since there are currently no users of this function, and because this
function is racey and error prone, this patch removes it altogether.

Note, removing this function also allows the counters to ignore
all discarded events (patches will follow).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:36:19 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 7e9391cfed ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages
When the ring buffer uses an iterator (static read mode, not on the
fly reading), when it crosses a page boundery, it will skip the first
entry on the next page. The reason is that the last entry of a page
is usually padding if the page is not full. The padding will not be
returned to the user.

The problem arises on ring_buffer_read because it also increments the
iterator. Because both the read and peek use the same rb_iter_peek,
the rb_iter_peak will return the padding but also increment to the next
item. This is because the ring_buffer_peek will not incerment it
itself.

The ring_buffer_read will increment it again and then call rb_iter_peek
again to get the next item. But that will be the second item, not the
first one on the page.

The reason this never showed up before, is because the ftrace utility
always calls ring_buffer_peek first and only uses ring_buffer_read
to increment to the next item. The ring_buffer_peek will always keep
the pointer to a valid item and not padding. This just hid the bug.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:28:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 1b959e18c4 ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax
The loops in the ring buffer that use cpu_relax are not dependent on
other CPUs. They simply came across some padding in the ring buffer and
are skipping over them. It is a normal loop and does not require a
cpu_relax.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:25:27 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 98277991a9 ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit
If a commit is taking place on a CPU ring buffer, do not allow it to
be swapped. Return -EBUSY when this is detected instead.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:22:47 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 41b6a95d69 ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit
The callers of reset must ensure that no commit can be taking place
at the time of the reset. If it does then we may corrupt the ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:15:08 -04:00
Ingo Molnar d7ea17a769 sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash
This crash:

[ 1774.088275] divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 1774.100355] CPU 13
[ 1774.102498] Modules linked in:
[ 1774.105631] Pid: 30881, comm: hackbench Not tainted 2.6.31-rc8-tip-01308-g484d664-dirty #1629 X8DTN
[ 1774.114807] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81041c38>]  [<ffffffff81041c38>]
sched_balance_self+0x19b/0x2d4

Triggers because update_group_power() modifies the sd tree and does
temporary calculations there - not considering that other CPUs
could observe intermediate values, such as the zero initial value.

Calculate it in a temporary variable instead. (we need no memory
barrier as these are all statistical values anyway)

Acked-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: <20090904092742.GA11014@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 11:52:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 18a3885fc1 sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power
Its a source of fail, also, now that cpu_power is dynamical,
its a waste of time.

before:
<idle>-0   [000]   132.877936: find_busiest_group: avg_load: 0 group_load: 8241 power: 1

after:
bash-1689  [001]   137.862151: find_busiest_group: avg_load: 10636288 group_load: 10387 power: 1

[ v2: build fix from From: Andreas Herrmann ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.425896304@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:56 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy d899a789c2 sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats()
sgs.group_capacity can now be 0, if for some reason
group->__cpu_power happens to be less than SCHED_LOAD_SCALE/2.

In that case, we need the following fix to make it work for
update_sd_power_savings_stats(). That's because both
sum_nr_running and group_capacity are unsigned longs.

Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra bdb94aa5db sched: Try to deal with low capacity
When the capacity drops low, we want to migrate load away.
Allow the load-balancer to remove all tasks when we hit rock
bottom.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.342231003@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e9e9250bc7 sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks
Keep an average on the amount of time spend on RT tasks and use
that fraction to scale down the cpu_power for regular tasks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.287778431@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ab29230e67 sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power
Recompute the cpu_power for each cpu during load-balance.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.162033479@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a52bfd7358 sched: Add smt_gain
The idea is that multi-threading a core yields more work
capacity than a single thread, provide a way to express a
static gain for threads.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.073345955@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra cc9fba7d76 sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance
In order to prepare for a more dynamic cpu_power, update the
group sum while walking the sched domains during load-balance.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083825.985050292@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:53 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b5d978e0c7 sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING
Do the placement thing using SD flags.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083825.897028974@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:53 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f93e65c186 sched: Restore __cpu_power to a straight sum of power
cpu_power is supposed to be a representation of the process
capacity of the cpu, not a value to randomly tweak in order to
affect placement.

Remove the placement hacks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083825.810860576@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 9aa55fbd01 Merge branches 'sched/domains' and 'sched/clock' into sched/core
Merge reason: both topics are ready now, and we want to merge dependent
              changes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:08:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 29e2035bdd Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu
Merge reason: Avoid fuzz in init/main.c and update from rc6 to rc8.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 09:29:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar dc86cabe4b perf_counter: Fix output-sharing error path
We forget to release the fd in the PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT
error path.

Reorganize the error flow here to be a clean fall-through
logic.

Cc: 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>
2009-09-03 18:46:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0fbdea19e9 perf_counter: Introduce new (non-)paranoia level to allow raw tracepoint access
I want to sample inherited tracepoint workloads as a normal
user and the CAP_SYS_ADMIN check prevents me from doing that
right now.

Cc: 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>
2009-09-02 21:53:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f76bd108e5 Merge branch 'perfcounters/urgent' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: We are going to modify a place modified by
              perfcounters/urgent.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02 21:42:59 +02:00
David Howells ee18d64c1f KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]
Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring onto its parent.  This
replaces the parent's session keyring.  Because the COW credential code does
not permit one process to change another process's credentials directly, the
change is deferred until userspace next starts executing again.  Normally this
will be after a wait*() syscall.

To support this, three new security hooks have been provided:
cred_alloc_blank() to allocate unset security creds, cred_transfer() to fill in
the blank security creds and key_session_to_parent() - which asks the LSM if
the process may replace its parent's session keyring.

The replacement may only happen if the process has the same ownership details
as its parent, and the process has LINK permission on the session keyring, and
the session keyring is owned by the process, and the LSM permits it.

Note that this requires alteration to each architecture's notify_resume path.
This has been done for all arches barring blackfin, m68k* and xtensa, all of
which need assembly alteration to support TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME.  This allows the
replacement to be performed at the point the parent process resumes userspace
execution.

This allows the userspace AFS pioctl emulation to fully emulate newpag() and
the VIOCSETTOK and VIOCSETTOK2 pioctls, all of which require the ability to
alter the parent process's PAG membership.  However, since kAFS doesn't use
PAGs per se, but rather dumps the keys into the session keyring, the session
keyring of the parent must be replaced if, for example, VIOCSETTOK is passed
the newpag flag.

This can be tested with the following program:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <keyutils.h>

	#define KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT	18

	#define OSERROR(X, S) do { if ((long)(X) == -1) { perror(S); exit(1); } } while(0)

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		key_serial_t keyring, key;
		long ret;

		keyring = keyctl_join_session_keyring(argv[1]);
		OSERROR(keyring, "keyctl_join_session_keyring");

		key = add_key("user", "a", "b", 1, keyring);
		OSERROR(key, "add_key");

		ret = keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT);
		OSERROR(ret, "KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT");

		return 0;
	}

Compiled and linked with -lkeyutils, you should see something like:

	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: _ses
	355907932 --alswrv   4043    -1   \_ keyring: _uid.4043
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: _ses
	1055658746 --alswrv   4043  4043   \_ user: a
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag hello
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: hello
	340417692 --alswrv   4043  4043   \_ user: a

Where the test program creates a new session keyring, sticks a user key named
'a' into it and then installs it on its parent.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
David Howells e0e817392b CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]
Add a config option (CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS) to turn on some debug checking
for credential management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of
pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to see that
this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred struct (which includes
all references, not just those from task_structs).

Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, the code also checks that the security
pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.

This attempts to catch the bug whereby inode_has_perm() faults in an nfsd
kernel thread on seeing cred->security be a NULL pointer (it appears that the
credential struct has been previously released):

	http://www.kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=252883

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-02 21:29:01 +10:00
Peter Zijlstra 768d0c2722 sched: Add wait, sleep and iowait accounting tracepoints
Add 3 schedstat tracepoints to help account for wait-time,
sleep-time and iowait-time.

They can also be used as a perf-counter source to profile tasks
on these clocks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ build fix for the !CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS case ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02 09:12:18 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 8f0dfc34e9 sched: Provide iowait counters
For counting how long an application has been waiting for
(disk) IO, there currently is only the HZ sample driven
information available, while for all other counters in this
class, a high resolution version is available via
CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS.

In order to make an improved bootchart tool possible, we also
need a higher resolution version of the iowait time.

This patch below adds this scheduler statistic to the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4A64B813.1080506@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02 08:44:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f14eff1cc2 Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into sched/core
Merge reason: bump from rc5 to rc8, but also pick up TP_perf_assign()
              API, a patch will be queued that depends on it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02 08:20:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 936e894a97 Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into x86/txt
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
	security/Kconfig

Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, bump up from rc3 to rc8.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02 08:17:56 +02:00
Shane Wang 69575d3886 x86, intel_txt: clean up the impact on generic code, unbreak non-x86
Move tboot.h from asm to linux to fix the build errors of intel_txt
patch on non-X86 platforms. Remove the tboot code from generic code
init/main.c and kernel/cpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Shane Wang <shane.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-09-01 18:25:07 -07:00
Heiko Carstens 892a7c67c1 locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks
This allows an architecture to specify per lock variant if the
locking code should be kept out-of-line or inlined.

If an architecure wants out-of-line locking code no change is
needed. To force inlining of e.g. spin_lock() the line:

  #define __always_inline__spin_lock

needs to be added to arch/<...>/include/asm/spinlock.h

If CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK or CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK are
defined the per architecture defines are (partly) ignored and
still out-of-line spinlock code will be generated.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Horst Hartmann <horsth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090831124418.375299024@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-31 18:08:50 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 69d0ee7377 locking: Move spinlock function bodies to header file
Move spinlock function bodies to header file by creating a
static inline version of each variant. Use the inline version
on the out-of-line code.

This shouldn't make any difference besides that the spinlock
code can now be used to generate inlined spinlock code.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Horst Hartmann <horsth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090831124417.859022429@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-31 18:08:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar bbe69aa57a Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into core/locking
Merge reason: we were on -rc4, move to -rc8 before applying
              a new batch of locking infrastructure changes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-31 18:05:25 +02:00
Li Zefan 8e254c1d18 tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation
init_preds() allocates about 5392 bytes of memory (on x86_32) for
a TRACE_EVENT. With my config, at system boot total memory occupied
is:

	5392 * (642 + 15) == 3459KB

642 == cat available_events | wc -l
15 == number of dirs in events/ftrace

That's quite a lot, so we'd better defer memory allocation util
it's needed, that's when filter is used.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A9B8EA5.6020700@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-31 10:58:08 +02:00
Yinghai Lu 372e24b0cb irq: Make sure irq_desc for legacy irq get correct node setting
when there is no ram on node 0.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A95C32D.5040605@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-29 15:53:00 +02:00
Anirban Sinha 84e9dabf6e sched: Rename init_cfs_rq => init_tg_cfs_rq
... so that it does not share a common name with a function
within the same scope.

Signed-off-by: Anirban Sinha <asinha@zeugmasystems.com>
LKML-Reference: <DDFD17CC94A9BD49A82147DDF7D545C501EA98A6@exchange.ZeugmaSystems.local>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-29 15:51:16 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 868489660d rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments
Changes suggested by review comments from Josh Triplett and
Mathieu Desnoyers.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <20090827220012.GA30525@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-29 15:34:40 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney dd5d19bafd rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees
When offlining CPUs from a multi-level tree, there is the
possibility of offlining the last CPU from a given node when
there are preempted RCU read-side critical sections that
started life on one of the CPUs on that node.

In this case, the corresponding tasks will be enqueued via the
task_struct's rcu_node_entry list_head onto one of the
rcu_node's blocked_tasks[] lists.  These tasks need to be moved
somewhere else so that they will prevent the current grace
period from ending. That somewhere is the root rcu_node.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <20090827215816.GA30472@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-29 15:34:39 +02:00
Ming Lei a417887637 lockdep: Remove recursion stattistics
Since lockdep has introduced BFS to avoid recursion, statistics
for recursion does not make any sense now. So remove them.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LKML-Reference: <1251542879-5211-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-29 13:22:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra eced1dfcfc perf_counter: Fix /0 bug in swcounters
We have a race in the swcounter stuff where we can start
counting a counter that has never been enabled, this leads to a
/0 situation.

The below avoids the /0 but doesn't close the race, this would
need a new counter state.

The race is due to perf_swcounter_is_counting() which cannot
discern between disabled due to scheduled out, and disabled for
any other reason.

Such a crash has been seen by Ingo:

[  967.092372] divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  967.096499] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu15/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map
[  967.104846] CPU 5
[  967.106965] Modules linked in:
[  967.110169] Pid: 3351, comm: hackbench Not tainted 2.6.31-rc8-tip-01158-gd940a54-dirty #1568 X8DTN
[  967.119456] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810c0aba>]  [<ffffffff810c0aba>] perf_swcounter_ctx_event+0x127/0x1af
[  967.129137] RSP: 0018:ffff8801a95abd70  EFLAGS: 00010046
[  967.134699] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff8801bd645c00 RCX: 0000000000000002
[  967.142162] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8801bd645d40
[  967.149584] RBP: ffff8801a95abdb0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8801a95abe00
[  967.157042] R10: 0000000000000037 R11: ffff8801aa1245f8 R12: ffff8801a95abe00
[  967.164481] R13: ffff8801a95abe00 R14: ffff8801aa1c0e78 R15: 0000000000000001
[  967.171953] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffc90000a00000(0063) knlGS:00000000f7f486c0
[  967.180406] CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b
[  967.186374] CR2: 000000004822c0ac CR3: 00000001b19a2000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[  967.193770] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  967.201224] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  967.208692] Process hackbench (pid: 3351, threadinfo ffff8801a95aa000, task ffff8801a96b0000)
[  967.217607] Stack:
[  967.219711]  0000000000000000 0000000000000037 0000000200000001 ffffc90000a1107c
[  967.227296] <0> ffff8801a95abe00 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000000000037
[  967.235333] <0> ffff8801a95abdf0 ffffffff810c0c20 0000000200a14f30 ffff8801a95abe40
[  967.243532] Call Trace:
[  967.246103]  [<ffffffff810c0c20>] do_perf_swcounter_event+0xde/0xec
[  967.252635]  [<ffffffff810c0ca7>] perf_tpcounter_event+0x79/0x7b
[  967.258957]  [<ffffffff81037f73>] ftrace_profile_sched_switch+0xc0/0xcb
[  967.265791]  [<ffffffff8155f22d>] schedule+0x429/0x4c4
[  967.271156]  [<ffffffff8100c01e>] int_careful+0xd/0x14

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1251472247.17617.74.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-29 13:20:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 73222acf96 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/core 2009-08-29 13:06:05 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger 2bc481cf43 pktgen: spin using hrtimer
This changes how the pktgen thread spins/waits between
packets if delay is configured. It uses a high res timer to
wait for time to arrive.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-28 23:41:29 -07:00
Ingo Molnar ea6bff3685 modules: Fix build error in the !CONFIG_KALLSYMS case
> James Bottomley (1):
>       module: workaround duplicate section names

-tip testing found that this patch breaks the build on x86 if
CONFIG_KALLSYMS is disabled:

 kernel/module.c: In function ‘load_module’:
 kernel/module.c:2367: error: ‘struct module’ has no member named ‘sect_attrs’
 distcc[8269] ERROR: compile kernel/module.c on ph/32 failed
 make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
 make: *** [kernel] Error 2
 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Commit 1b364bf misses the fact that section attributes are only
built and dealt with if kallsyms is enabled. The patch below fixes
this.

( note, technically speaking this should depend on CONFIG_SYSFS as
  well but this patch is correct too and keeps the #ifdef less
  intrusive - in the KALLSYMS && !SYSFS case the code is a NOP. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ Replaced patch with a slightly cleaner variation by James Bottomley ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-28 19:35:00 -10:00
Ingo Molnar 6bb56347f5 perf_counters: Increase paranoia level
Per-cpu counters are an ASLR information leak as they show
the execution other tasks do. Increase the paranoia level
to 1, which disallows per-cpu counters. (they still allow
counting/profiling of own tasks - and admin can profile
everything.)

Acked-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>
2009-08-28 13:44:53 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 34d76c4155 sched: Fix division by zero - really
When re-computing the shares for each task group's cpu
representation we need the ratio of weight on each cpu vs the
total weight of the sched domain.

Since load-balancing is loosely (read not) synchronized, the
weight of individual cpus can change between doing the sum and
calculating the ratio.

The previous patch dealt with only one of the race scenarios,
this patch side steps them all by saving a snapshot of all the
individual cpu weights, thereby always working on a consistent
set.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: jes@sgi.com
Cc: jens.axboe@oracle.com
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1251371336.18584.77.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-28 08:26:49 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 5d4a9dba2d tracing: only show tracing_max_latency when latency tracer configured
The tracing_max_latency file should only be present when one of the
latency tracers ({preempt|irqs}off, wakeup*) are enabled.

This patch also removes tracing_thresh when latency tracers are not
enabled, as well as compiles out code that is only used for latency
tracers.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-27 16:58:05 -04:00
Steven Rostedt c0729be99c tracing: remove legacy select of MARKERS by context switch tracing
The context switch tracer was made before tracepoints were mature, and
the original version used markers. This is no longer true and this
patch removes the select.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-27 16:58:03 -04:00
James Bottomley 1b364bf438 module: workaround duplicate section names
The root cause is a duplicate section name (.text); is this legal?
[ Amerigo Wang: "AFAIK, yes." ]

However, there's a problem with commit
6d76013381 in that if you fail to allocate
a mod->sect_attrs (in this case it's null because of the duplication),
it still gets used without checking in add_notes_attrs()

This should fix it

[ This patch leaves other problems, particularly the sections directory,
  but recent parisc toolchains seem to produce these modules and this
  prevents a crash and is a minimal change -- RR ]

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-27 12:33:19 -07:00
Rusty Russell 7d1d16e416 module: fix BUG_ON() for powerpc (and other function descriptor archs)
The rarely-used symbol_put_addr() needs to use dereference_function_descriptor
on powerpc.

Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-27 12:33:19 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 4dbc9ca219 genirq: Do not mask oneshot edge type interrupts
Masking oneshot edge type interrupts is wrong as we might lose an
interrupt which is issued when the threaded handler is handling the
device. We can keep the irq unmasked safely as with edge type
interrupts there is no danger of interrupt floods. If the threaded
handler has not yet finished then IRQTF_RUNTHREAD is set which will
keep the handler thread active.

Debugged and verified in preempt-rt.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-27 09:38:49 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt f480fe3916 Merge commit 'origin/master' into next 2009-08-27 13:12:40 +10:00
Oleg Nesterov 4ab6c08336 clone(): fix race between copy_process() and de_thread()
Spotted by Hiroshi Shimamoto who also provided the test-case below.

copy_process() uses signal->count as a reference counter, but it is not.
This test case

	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <errno.h>
	#include <pthread.h>

	void *null_thread(void *p)
	{
		for (;;)
			sleep(1);

		return NULL;
	}

	void *exec_thread(void *p)
	{
		execl("/bin/true", "/bin/true", NULL);

		return null_thread(p);
	}

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		for (;;) {
			pid_t pid;
			int ret, status;

			pid = fork();
			if (pid < 0)
				break;

			if (!pid) {
				pthread_t tid;

				pthread_create(&tid, NULL, exec_thread, NULL);
				for (;;)
					pthread_create(&tid, NULL, null_thread, NULL);
			}

			do {
				ret = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
			} while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
		}

		return 0;
	}

quickly creates an unkillable task.

If copy_process(CLONE_THREAD) races with de_thread()
copy_signal()->atomic(signal->count) breaks the signal->notify_count
logic, and the execing thread can hang forever in kernel space.

Change copy_process() to increment count/live only when we know for sure
we can't fail.  In this case the forked thread will take care of its
reference to signal correctly.

If copy_process() fails, check CLONE_THREAD flag.  If it it set - do
nothing, the counters were not changed and current belongs to the same
thread group.  If it is not set, ->signal must be released in any case
(and ->count must be == 1), the forked child is the only thread in the
thread group.

We need more cleanups here, in particular signal->count should not be used
by de_thread/__exit_signal at all.  This patch only fixes the bug.

Reported-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-26 20:06:52 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin b855192c08 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat
Reason: Change to is_new_memtype_allowed() in x86/urgent

Resolved semantic conflicts in:

	 arch/x86/mm/pat.c
	 arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-08-26 17:24:28 -07:00
David S. Miller 31ffe249e5 net: Temporarily backout SKB sources tracer.
Steven Rostedt has suggested that Neil work with the tracing
folks, trying to use TRACE_EVENT as the mechanism for
implementation.  And if that doesn't workout we can investigate
other solutions such as that one which was tried here.

This reverts the following 2 commits:

5a165657be
("net: skb ftracer - Add config option to enable new ftracer (v3)")

9ec04da748
("net: skb ftracer - Add actual ftrace code to kernel (v3)")

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-26 16:32:37 -07:00
Jason Baron 57421dbbdc tracing: Convert event tracing code to use NR_syscalls
Convert the syscalls event tracing code to use NR_syscalls, instead of
FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX. NR_syscalls is standard accross most arches, and
reduces code confusion/complexity.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anwin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <9b4f1a84ecae57cc6599412772efa36f0d2b815b.1251146513.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 21:30:02 +02:00
Hendrik Brueckner cc3b13c11c tracing: Don't trace kernel thread syscalls
Kernel threads don't call syscalls using the sysenter/sysexit
path. Instead they directly call the sys_* or do_* functions
that implement the syscalls inside the kernel.

The current syscall tracepoints only bind the sysenter/sysexit
path, then it has no effect to trace the kernel thread calls
to syscalls in that path.
Setting the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT flag is then useless for these.

Actually there is only one case when a kernel thread can reach the
usual syscall exit tracing path: when we create a kernel thread, the
child comes to ret_from_fork and is the fork() return is then traced.
But this information alone is useless, then we don't want to set the
TIF flags for these threads.

Kernel threads have task_struct->mm set to NULL.
(Thanks to Heiko for that hint ;-)
The idea is then to check the mm field in syscall_regfunc() and
set the flag accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090825160237.GG4639@cetus.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 21:29:52 +02:00
Hendrik Brueckner cd0980fc8a tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscalls
Most arch syscall_get_nr() implementations returns -1 if the syscall
number is not valid.  Accessing the bit field without a check might
result in a kernel oops (at least I saw it on s390 for ftrace selftest).

Before this change, this problem did not occur, because the invalid
syscall number (-1) caused syscall_nr_to_meta() to return NULL.

There are at least two scenarios where syscall_get_nr() can return -1:

1. For example, ptrace stores an invalid syscall number, and thus,
   tracing code resets it.
   (see do_syscall_trace_enter in arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c)

2. The syscall_regfunc() (kernel/tracepoint.c) sets the
   TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE (now: TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT) flag for all threads
   which include kernel threads.
   However, the ftrace selftest triggers a kernel oops when testing
   syscall trace points:
      - The kernel thread is started as ususal (do_fork()),
      - tracing code sets TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE,
      - the ret_from_fork() function is triggered and starts
	ftrace_syscall_exit() with an invalid syscall number.

To avoid these scenarios, I suggest to check the syscall_nr.

For instance, the ftrace selftest fails for s390 (with config option
CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS set) and produces the following kernel oops.

Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 2000000000

Oops: 0038 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc6-next-20090819-dirty #18
Process kthreadd (pid: 818, task: 000000003ea207e8, ksp: 000000003e813eb8)
Krnl PSW : 0704100180000000 00000000000ea54c (ftrace_syscall_exit+0x58/0xdc)
           R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 00000000000e0000 ffffffffffffffff 20000000008c2650
           0000000000000007 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
           0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 000000003e813d78
           000000003e813f58 0000000000505ba8 000000003e813e18 000000003e813d78
Krnl Code: 00000000000ea540: e330d0000008       ag      %r3,0(%r13)
           00000000000ea546: a7480007           lhi     %r4,7
           00000000000ea54a: 1442               nr      %r4,%r2
          >00000000000ea54c: e31030000090       llgc    %r1,0(%r3)
           00000000000ea552: 5410d008           n       %r1,8(%r13)
           00000000000ea556: 8a104000           sra     %r1,0(%r4)
           00000000000ea55a: 5410d00c           n       %r1,12(%r13)
           00000000000ea55e: 1211               ltr     %r1,%r1
Call Trace:
([<0000000000000000>] 0x0)
 [<000000000001fa22>] do_syscall_trace_exit+0x132/0x18c
 [<000000000002d0c4>] sysc_return+0x0/0x8
 [<000000000001c738>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
 [<00000000000ea51e>] ftrace_syscall_exit+0x2a/0xdc

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090825125027.GE4639@cetus.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 21:29:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 35dce1a99d Merge branch 'tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/tracepoint.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-26 08:29:02 +02:00
Zhaolei 5079f3261f ftrace: Move setting of clock-source out of options
There are many clock sources for the tracing system but we can only
enable/disable one at a time with the trace/options file.
We can move the setting of clock-source out of options and add a separate
file for it:
 # cat trace_clock
 [local] global
 # echo global > trace_clock
 # cat trace_clock
 local [global]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A939D08.6050604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:08 -04:00
Li Zefan 87a342f5db tracing/filters: Support filtering for char * strings
Usually, char * entries are dangerous in traces because the string
can be released whereas a pointer to it can still wait to be read from
the ring buffer.

But sometimes we can assume it's safe, like in case of RO data
(eg: __file__ or __line__, used in bkl trace event). If these RO data
are in a module and so is the call to the trace event, then it's safe,
because the ring buffer will be flushed once this module get unloaded.

To allow char * to be treated as a string:

	TRACE_EVENT(...,

		TP_STRUCT__entry(
			__field_ext(const char *, name, FILTER_PTR_STRING)
			...
		)

		...
	);

The filtering will not dereference "char *" unless the developer
explicitly sets FILTER_PTR_STR in __field_ext.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A7B9287.90205@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:07 -04:00
Li Zefan 43b51ead3f tracing/filters: Add __field_ext() to TRACE_EVENT
Add __field_ext(), so a field can be assigned to a specific
filter_type, which matches a corresponding filter function.

For example, a later patch will allow this:
	__field_ext(const char *, str, FILTER_PTR_STR);

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A7B9272.6050709@cn.fujitsu.com>

[
  Fixed a -1 to FILTER_OTHER
  Forward ported to latest kernel.
]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:06 -04:00
Li Zefan aa38e9fc3e tracing/filters: Add filter_type to struct ftrace_event_field
The type of a field is stored as a string in @type, and here
we add @filter_type which is an enum value.

This prepares for later patches, so we can specifically assign
different @filter_type for the same @type.

For example normally a "char *" field is treated as a ptr,
but we may want it to be treated as a string when doing filting.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A7B925E.9030605@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:06 -04:00
Josh Stone 1c569f0264 tracing: Create generic syscall TRACE_EVENTs
This converts the syscall_enter/exit tracepoints into TRACE_EVENTs, so
you can have generic ftrace events that capture all system calls with
arguments and return values.  These generic events are also renamed to
sys_enter/exit, so they're more closely aligned to the specific
sys_enter_foo events.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251150194-1713-5-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 00:41:48 +02:00
Josh Stone 9741987586 tracing: Move tracepoint callbacks from declaration to definition
It's not strictly correct for the tracepoint reg/unreg callbacks to
occur when a client is hooking up, because the actual tracepoint may not
be present yet.  This happens to be fine for syscall, since that's in
the core kernel, but it would cause problems for tracepoints defined in
a module that hasn't been loaded yet.  It also means the reg/unreg has
to be EXPORTed for any modules to use the tracepoint (as in SystemTap).

This patch removes DECLARE_TRACE_WITH_CALLBACK, and instead introduces
DEFINE_TRACE_FN which stores the callbacks in struct tracepoint.  The
callbacks are used now when the active state of the tracepoint changes
in set_tracepoint & disable_tracepoint.

This also introduces TRACE_EVENT_FN, so ftrace events can also provide
registration callbacks if needed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251150194-1713-4-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 00:36:41 +02:00
Josh Stone 3d27d8cb34 tracing: Make syscall tracepoints conditional
The syscall enter/exit tracepoints are only supported on archs that
HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS, so the declarations should be #ifdef'ed.
Also, the definition of syscall_regfunc and syscall_unregfunc should
depend on this same config, rather than the ftrace-specific one.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251150194-1713-3-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 00:24:19 +02:00
Josh Stone 6670000119 tracing: Rename FTRACE_SYSCALLS for tracepoints
s/HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS/HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS/g
s/TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE/TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT/g

The syscall enter/exit tracing is no longer specific to just ftrace, so
they now have names that reflect their tie to tracepoints instead.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251150194-1713-2-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 00:17:35 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 9c93768866 Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf_counter: Fix typo in read() output generation
  perf tools: Check perf.data owner
2009-08-25 11:24:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 44afa9a4b8 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: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock
  timers: Drop write permission on /proc/timer_list
2009-08-25 11:24:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7d63e6359a 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 too large stack usage in do_one_initcall()
  tracing: handle broken names in ftrace filter
  ftrace: Unify effect of writing to trace_options and option/*
2009-08-25 11:23:43 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c935a331c8 rcu: Add #ifdef to suppress __rcu_offline_cpu() warning in !HOTPLUG_CPU builds
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090825154025.GD6616@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-25 20:20:03 +02:00
Anirban Sinha d88cb58232 tracing: Eliminate code duplication in kernel/tracepoint.c
Signed-off-by: Anirban Sinha <asinha@zeugmasystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
LKML-Reference: <DDFD17CC94A9BD49A82147DDF7D545C501EA9047@exchange.ZeugmaSystems.local>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-25 16:15:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar daedc71836 Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc7' into irq/core
Merge reason: move from an -rc2 base to -rc7.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-25 10:04:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a4be7c2778 perf_counter: Allow sharing of output channels
Provide the ability to configure a counter to send its output
to another (already existing) counter's output stream.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090819092023.980284148@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-25 09:36:13 +02:00
Paul Mackerras fa289beca9 perf_counter: Start counting time enabled when group leader gets enabled
Currently, if a group is created where the group leader is
initially disabled but a non-leader member is initially
enabled, and then the leader is subsequently enabled some time
later, the time_enabled for the non-leader member will reflect
the whole time since it was created, not just the time since
the leader was enabled.

This is incorrect, because all of the members are effectively
disabled while the leader is disabled, since none of the
members can go on the PMU if the leader can't.

Thus we have to update the ->tstamp_enabled for all the enabled
group members when a group leader is enabled, so that the
time_enabled computation only counts the time since the leader
was enabled.

Similarly, when disabling a group leader we have to update the
time_enabled and time_running for all of the group members.

Also, in update_counter_times, we have to treat a counter whose
group leader is disabled as being disabled.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <19091.29664.342227.445006@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-25 09:34:38 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 33f76148ce rcu: Add CPU-offline processing for single-node configurations
Add preemptable-RCU plugin to handle the CPU-offline
processing.

An additional plugin is forthcoming to handle multinode RCU
trees, but this current plugin works for configurations up to
32 CPUs (64 CPUs for 64-bit kernels).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <12511321213336-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-24 20:37:04 +02:00
Michal Schmidt d8e180dcd5 bsdacct: switch credentials for writing to the accounting file
When process accounting is enabled, every exiting process writes a log to
the account file.  In addition, every once in a while one of the exiting
processes checks whether there's enough free space for the log.

SELinux policy may or may not allow the exiting process to stat the fs.
So unsuspecting processes start generating AVC denials just because
someone enabled process accounting.

For these filesystem operations, the exiting process's credentials should
be temporarily switched to that of the process which enabled accounting,
because it's really that process which wanted to have the accounting
information logged.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-24 11:33:40 +10:00
Paul E. McKenney 6b3ef48adf rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no
further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.  Remove it, along with
whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <125097461396-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney f41d911f8c rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions
for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef,
empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics).
These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c
for this purpose.

This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose
read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU
under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense
is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence
of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic
hierarchical RCU.  Perhaps more important, this new algorithm
has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines
of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable
RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new
algorithm.

The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task
nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple
lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block
within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons
learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations
over the past 18 months.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00