The recording of the names at trace time is inefficient. This patch
implements the softirq event recording to only record the vector
and then use the __print_symbolic interface to print out the names.
[ Impact: faster recording of softirq events ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
This patch adds __print_symbolic which is similar to __print_flags but
works for an enumeration type instead. That is, there is only a one to one
mapping between the values and the symbols. When a match is made, then
it is printed, otherwise the hex value is outputed.
[ Impact: add interface for showing symbol names in events ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
This patch changes the output for gfp_flags from being a simple hex value
to the actual names.
gfp_flags=GFP_ATOMIC instead of gfp_flags=00000020
And even
gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL instead of gfp_flags=000000d0
(Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing out that the first version
had a bad order of GFP masks)
[ Impact: more human readable output from tracer ]
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
It is useful to see the state of a task that is being switched out.
This patch adds the output of the state of the previous task in
the context switch event.
[ Impact: see state of switched out task in context switch ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Developers have been asking for the ability in the ftrace event tracer
to display names of bits in a flags variable.
Instead of printing out c2, it would be easier to read FOO|BAR|GOO,
assuming that FOO is bit 1, BAR is bit 6 and GOO is bit 7.
Some examples where this would be useful are the state flags in a context
switch, kmalloc flags, and even permision flags in accessing files.
[
v2 changes include:
Frederic Weisbecker's idea of using a mask instead of bits,
thus we can output GFP_KERNEL instead of GPF_WAIT|GFP_IO|GFP_FS.
Li Zefan's idea of allowing the caller of __print_flags to add their
own delimiter (or no delimiter) where we can get for file permissions
rwx instead of r|w|x.
]
[
v3 changes:
Christoph Hellwig's idea of using an array instead of va_args.
]
[ Impact: better displaying of flags in trace output ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Always use ftrace_event_enable_disable() to enable/disable an event
so that we can factorize out the event toggling code.
[ Impact: factorize and cleanup event tracing code ]
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A14FDFE.2080402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
The kmemtrace.enable kernel parameter no longer works. To enable
kmemtrace at boot-time, you must pass "ftrace=kmemtrace" instead.
[ Impact: remove obsolete kernel parameter documentation ]
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905241112190.10296@rocky>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
When defining a dynamic size string, we add __str_loc_##item to the
trace entry, and it stores the location of the actual string in
entry->_str_data[]
'unsigned short' should be sufficient to store this information, thus
we save 2 bytes per dyn-size string in the ring buffer.
[ Impact: reduce memory occupied by dyn-size strings in ring buffer ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A14EDB6.2050507@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
I found that there is nothing to protect event_hash in
ftrace_find_event(). Rcu protects the event hashlist
but not the event itself while we use it after its extraction
through ftrace_find_event().
This lack of a proper locking in this spot opens a race
window between any event dereferencing and module removal.
Eg:
--Task A--
print_trace_line(trace) {
event = find_ftrace_event(trace)
--Task B--
trace_module_remove_events(mod) {
list_trace_events_module(ev, mod) {
unregister_ftrace_event(ev->event) {
hlist_del(ev->event->node)
list_del(....)
}
}
}
|--> module removed, the event has been dropped
--Task A--
event->print(trace); // Dereferencing freed memory
If the event retrieved belongs to a module and this module
is concurrently removed, we may end up dereferencing a data
from a freed module.
RCU could solve this, but it would add latency to the kernel and
forbid tracers output callbacks to call any sleepable code.
So this fix converts 'trace_event_mutex' to a read/write semaphore,
and adds trace_event_read_lock() to protect ftrace_find_event().
[ Impact: fix possible freed memory dereference in ftrace ]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A114806.7090302@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
register_module_notifier() returns zero in the success case.
So fix the inverted fail case check in trace events modules
handler.
[ Impact: fix spurious warning on ftrace initialization]
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
debugfs directory entries for devices are not removed on some
of the failure pathes in do_blk_trace_setup().
One way to reproduce is to start blktrace on multiple devices
with insufficient Vmalloc space: Devices will fail with
a message like this:
BLKTRACESETUP(2) /dev/sdu failed: 5/Input/output error
If so, the respective entries in debugfs
(e.g. /sys/kernel/debug/block/sdu) will remain and subsequent
attempts to start blktrace on the respective devices will not
succeed due to existing directories.
[ Impact: fix /debug/tracing file cleanup corner case ]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <stefan.raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <4A1266CC.5040801@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- fix some typos
- document the difference between '>' and '>>'
- document the 'enable' toggle
- remove section "Defining an event-enabled tracepoint", since it's
out-dated and sample/trace_events/ already serves this purpose.
v2: add "Updated by Li Zefan"
[ Impact: make documentation up-to-date ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
LKML-Reference: <4A125503.5060406@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
return zero should be correct, so fix it.
[ Impact: eliminate incorrect syslog message ]
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1242545498-7285-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI MSI: Fix MSI-X with NIU cards
PCI: Fix pci-e port driver slot_reset bad default return value
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6:
Bluetooth: Don't trigger disconnect timeout for security mode 3 pairing
Bluetooth: Don't use hci_acl_connect_cancel() for incoming connections
Bluetooth: Fix wrong module refcount when connection setup fails
Another case of me handling the fallout from Davem's unfortunate
addiction to shuffleboard.
Won't anybody think of the children? Join the anti-shuffleboard league
today!
* 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel:
drm/i915: Add new GET_PIPE_FROM_CRTC_ID ioctl.
drm/i915: Set HDMI hot plug interrupt enable for only the output in question.
drm/i915: Include 965GME pci ID in IS_I965GM(dev) to match UMS.
drm/i915: Use the GM45 VGA hotplug workaround on G45 as well.
drm/i915: ignore LVDS on intel graphics systems that lie about having it
drm/i915: sanity check IER at wait_request time
drm/i915: workaround IGD i2c bus issue in kernel side (v2)
drm/i915: Don't allow binding objects into the last page of the aperture.
drm/i915: save/restore fence registers across suspend/resume
drm/i915: x86 always has writeq. Add I915_READ64 for symmetry.
* 'upstream-linus' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
libata: Media rotation rate and form factor heuristics
libata: Report disk alignment and physical block size
sata_fsl: Fix the command description of FSL SATA controller
sata_fsl: Fix compile warnings
[libata] sata_sx4: fixup interrupt handling
[libata] sata_sx4: convert to new exception handling methods
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6:
iwlwifi: fix device id registration for 6000 series 2x2 devices
ath5k: update channel in sw state after stopping RX and TX
rtl8187: use DMA-aware buffers with usb_control_msg
mac80211: avoid NULL ptr deref when finding max_rates in PID and minstrel
airo: airo_get_encode{,ext} potential buffer overflow
Pulled directly by Linus because Davem is off playing shuffle-board at
some Alaskan cruise, and the NULL ptr deref issue hits people and should
get merged sooner rather than later.
David - make us proud on the shuffle-board tournament!
This patch provides new heuristics for parsing both the form factor and
media rotation rate ATA IDENFITY words.
The reported ATA version must be 7 or greater and the device must return
values defined as valid in the standard. Only then are the
characteristics reported to SCSI via the VPD B1 page.
This seems like a reasonable compromise to me considering that we have
been shipping several kernel releases that key off the rotation rate bit
without any version checking whatsoever. With no complaints so far.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
For disks with 4KB sectors, report the correct block size and alignment
when filling out the READ CAPACITY(16) response.
This patch is based upon code from Matthew Wilcox' 4KB ATA tree. I
fixed the bug I reported a while back caused by ATA and SCSI using
different approaches to describing the alignment.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
The bit 11 of command description is reserved bit in Freescale
SATA controller and needs to be set to '1'. This is needed to
make sure the last write from the controller to the buffer
descriptor is seen before an interrupt is raised.
Signed-off-by: Dave Liu <daveliu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
We we build with dma_addr_t as a 64-bit quantity we get:
drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c: In function 'sata_fsl_fill_sg':
drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c:340: warning: format '%x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'dma_addr_t'
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Issuing ATA_CMD_SET_FEATURES (0xef) times out because
pdc20621_interrupt ignores command completion since
ATA_TFLAG_POLLING flag is set.
This has already been fixed for sata_promise:
commit 51b94d2a5a
Author: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jun 8 13:46:55 2007 -0700
sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands
Also, this patch includes Mikael's original patches:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121135828227724&w=2http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121144512109826&w=2
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: Fix race in ext4_inode_info.i_cached_extent
ext4: Clear the unwritten buffer_head flag after the extent is initialized
ext4: Use a fake block number for delayed new buffer_head
ext4: Fix sub-block zeroing for writes into preallocated extents
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
kgdb: gdb documentation fix
kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frame
sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collision
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"
viocd: needs to depend on BLOCK
block: fix the bio_vec array index out-of-bounds test
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
powerpc: Fix PCI ROM access
powerpc/pseries: Really fix the oprofile CPU type on pseries
serial/nwpserial: Fix wrong register read address and add interrupt acknowledge.
powerpc/cell: Make ptcal more reliable
powerpc: Allow mem=x cmdline to work with 4G+
powerpc/mpic: Fix incorrect allocation of interrupt rev-map
powerpc: Fix oprofile sampling of marked events on POWER7
powerpc/iseries: Fix pci breakage due to bad dma_data initialization
powerpc: Fix mktree build error on Mac OS X host
powerpc/virtex: Fix duplicate level irq events.
powerpc/virtex: Add uImage to the default images list
powerpc/boot: add simpleImage.* to clean-files list
powerpc/8xx: Update defconfigs
powerpc/embedded6xx: Update defconfigs
powerpc/86xx: Update defconfigs
powerpc/85xx: Update defconfigs
powerpc/83xx: Update defconfigs
powerpc/fsl_soc: Remove mpc83xx_wdt_init, again
devpts_get_sb() calls memset(0) to clear mount options and calls
parse_mount_options() if user specified any mount options.
The memset(0) is bogus since the 'mode' and 'ptmxmode' options are
non-zero by default. parse_mount_options() restores options to default
anyway and can properly deal with NULL mount options.
So in devpts_get_sb() remove memset(0) and call parse_mount_options() even
for NULL mount options.
Bug reported by Eric Paris: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/7/448.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reviewed-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If two CPU's simultaneously call ext4_ext_get_blocks() at the same
time, there is nothing protecting the i_cached_extent structure from
being used and updated at the same time. This could potentially cause
the wrong location on disk to be read or written to, including
potentially causing the corruption of the block group descriptors
and/or inode table.
This bug has been in the ext4 code since almost the very beginning of
ext4's development. Fortunately once the data is stored in the page
cache cache, ext4_get_blocks() doesn't need to be called, so trying to
replicate this problem to the point where we could identify its root
cause was *extremely* difficult. Many thanks to Kevin Shanahan for
working over several months to be able to reproduce this easily so we
could finally nail down the cause of the corruption.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
gdb command "set remote debug 1" is not valid, change to correct command.
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The treatment of the SP register is different on x86_64 and i386.
This is a regression fix that lived outside the mainline kernel from
2.6.27 to now. The regression was a result of the original merge
consolidation of the i386 and x86_64 archs to x86.
The incorrectly reported SP on i386 prevented stack tracebacks from
working correctly in gdb.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Commit 79e539453b introduced a
regression where you cannot use sysrq 'g' to enter kgdb. The solution
is to move the intel fb sysrq over to V for video instead of G for
graphics. The SMP VOYAGER code to register for the sysrq-v is not
anywhere to be found in the mainline kernel, so the comments in the
code were cleaned up as well.
This patch also cleans up the sysrq definitions for kgdb to make it
generic for the kernel debugger, such that the sysrq 'g' can be used
in the future to enter a gdbstub or another kernel debugger.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit fafd688e4c.
Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing
for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs
to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not
have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily
revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API
forever.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This is a build fix, resyncing the DaVinci EVM ASoC board code
with the version in the DaVinci tree. That resync includes
support for the DM355 EVM, although that board isn't yet in
mainline.
(NOTE: also includes a bugfix to the platform_add_resources
call, recently sent by Chaithrika U S <chaithrika@ti.com> but
not yet merged into the DaVinci tree.)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
This resyncs the DaVinci I2S code with the version in the DaVinci
tree. The behavioral change uses updated clock interfaces which
recently merged to mainline. Two other changes include adding a
comment on the ASP/McBSP/McASP confusion, and dropping pdev->id in
order to support more boards than just the DM644x EVM.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
This is a buildfix for the DaVinci PCM code, resyncing it with
the version in the DaVinci tree. The notable change is using
current EDMA interfaces, which recently merged to mainline.
(The older interfaces never made it into mainline.)
NOTE: open issue, the DMA should be to/from SRAM; see chip
errata for more info. The artifacts are extremely easy to
hear on DM355 hardware (not yet supported in mainline), but
don't seem as audible on DM6446 hardwaare (which does have
mainline support).
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
A couple of issues crept in since about 2.6.27 related to accessing PCI
device ROMs on various powerpc machines.
First, historically, we don't allocate the ROM resource in the resource
tree. I'm not entirely certain of why, I susepct they often contained
garbage on x86 but it's hard to tell. This causes the current generic
code to always call pci_assign_resource() when trying to access the said
ROM from sysfs, which will try to re-assign some new address regardless
of what the ROM BAR was already set to at boot time. This can be a
problem on hypervisor platforms like pSeries where we aren't supposed
to move PCI devices around (and in fact probably can't).
Second, our code that generates the PCI tree from the OF device-tree
(instead of doing config space probing) which we mostly use on pseries
at the moment, didn't set the (new) flag IORESOURCE_SIZEALIGN on any
resource. That means that any attempt at re-assigning such a resource
with pci_assign_resource() would fail due to resource_alignment()
returning 0.
This fixes this by doing these two things:
- The code that calculates resource flags based on the OF device-node
is improved to set IORESOURCE_SIZEALIGN on any valid BAR, and while at
it also set IORESOURCE_READONLY for ROMs since we were lacking that too
- We now allocate ROM resources as part of the resource tree. However
to limit the chances of nasty conflicts due to busted firmwares, we
only do it on the second pass of our two-passes allocation scheme,
so that all valid and enabled BARs get precedence.
This brings pSeries back the ability to access PCI ROMs via sysfs (and
thus initialize various video cards from X etc...).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
My previous pach for fixing the oprofile CPU type got somewhat mismerged
(by my fault) when it collided with another related patch. This should
finally (fingers crossed) fix the whole thing.
We make sure we keep the -old- oprofile type and CPU type whenever
one of them was specified in the first pass through the function.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The receive interrupt routine checks the wrong register if the
receive fifo is empty. Further an explicit interrupt acknowledge
write is introduced. In some circumstances another interrupt was
issued.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Krill <ben@codiert.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
There have been a series of checkstops on QS21 related to
ptcal being set up incorrectly. On systems that only
have memory on a single node, ptcal fails when it gets
a pointer to memory on the remote node.
Moreover, agressive prefetching in memcpy and other
functions may accidentally touch the first cache line
of the page that we reserve for ptcal, which causes
an ECC checkstop.
We now allocate pages only from the specified node, moves the
ptcal area into the middle of the allocated page to avoid
potential prefetch problems and prints the address of the
ptcal area to facilitate diagnostics.
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Stenzel <gerhard.stenzel@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We're currently choking on mem=4g (and above) due to memory_limit
being specified as an unsigned long. Make memory_limit
phys_addr_t to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Before when we were setting up the irq host map for mpic we passed in
just isu_size for the size of the linear map. However, for a number of
mpic implementations we have no isu (thus pass in 0) and will end up
with a no linear map (size = 0). This causes us to always call
irq_find_mapping() from mpic_get_irq().
By moving the allocation of the host map to after we've determined the
number of sources we can actually benefit from having a linear map for
the non-isu users that covers all the interrupt sources.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Description
-----------
Change ppc64 oprofile kernel driver to use the SLOT bits (MMCRA[37:39]only on
older processors where those bits are defined.
Background
----------
The performance monitor unit of the 64-bit POWER processor family has the
ability to collect accurate instruction-level samples when profiling on marked
events (i.e., "PM_MRK_<event-name>"). In processors prior to POWER6, the MMCRA
register contained "slot information" that the oprofile kernel driver used to
adjust the value latched in the SIAR at the time of a PMU interrupt. But as of
POWER6, these slot bits in MMCRA are no longer necessary for oprofile to use,
since the SIAR itself holds the accurate sampled instruction address. With
POWER6, these MMCRA slot bits were zero'ed out by hardware so oprofile's use of
these slot bits was, in effect, a NOP. But with POWER7, these bits are no
longer zero'ed out; however, they serve some other purpose rather than slot
information. Thus, using these bits on POWER7 to adjust the SIAR value results
in samples being attributed to the wrong instructions. The attached patch
changes the oprofile kernel driver to ignore these slot bits on all newer
processors starting with POWER6.
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wolf <mjw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Steven Rostedt