- Support "hybrid" iommu/direct DMA ops for coherent_mask < dma_mask from Benjamin Herrenschmidt
- EEH fixes for SRIOV from Gavin
- Introduce rtas_get_sensor_fast() for IRQ handlers from Thomas Huth
- Use hardware RNG for arch_get_random_seed_* not arch_get_random_* from Paul Mackerras
- Seccomp filter support from Michael Ellerman
- opal_cec_reboot2() handling for HMIs & machine checks from Mahesh Salgaonkar
- Add powerpc timebase as a trace clock source from Naveen N. Rao
- Misc cleanups in the xmon, signal & SLB code from Anshuman Khandual
- Add an inline function to update POWER8 HID0 from Gautham R. Shenoy
- Fix pte_pagesize_index() crash on 4K w/64K hash from Michael Ellerman
- Drop support for 64K local store on 4K kernels from Michael Ellerman
- move dma_get_required_mask() from pnv_phb to pci_controller_ops from Andrew Donnellan
- Initialize distance lookup table from drconf path from Nikunj A Dadhania
- Enable RTC class support from Vaibhav Jain
- Disable automatically blocked PCI config from Gavin Shan
- Add LEDs driver for PowerNV platform from Vasant Hegde
- Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver from Laurent Dufour
- Kexec endian fixes from Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
- Fix corrupted pdn list from Gavin Shan
- Fix fenced PHB caused by eeh_slot_error_detail() from Gavin Shan
- Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 32-bit memcpy/memset
optimizations, checksum optimizations, 85xx config fragments and updates,
device tree updates, e6500 fixes for non-SMP, and misc cleanup and minor
fixes.
- A ton of cxl updates & fixes:
- Add explicit precision specifiers from Rasmus Villemoes
- use more common format specifier from Rasmus Villemoes
- Destroy cxl_adapter_idr on module_exit from Johannes Thumshirn
- Destroy afu->contexts_idr on release of an afu from Johannes Thumshirn
- Compile with -Werror from Daniel Axtens
- EEH support from Daniel Axtens
- Plug irq_bitmap getting leaked in cxl_context from Vaibhav Jain
- Add alternate MMIO error handling from Ian Munsie
- Allow release of contexts which have been OPENED but not STARTED from Andrew Donnellan
- Remove use of macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE from Vaishali Thakkar
- Release irqs if memory allocation fails from Vaibhav Jain
- Remove racy attempt to force EEH invocation in reset from Daniel Axtens
- Fix + cleanup error paths in cxl_dev_context_init from Ian Munsie
- Fix force unmapping mmaps of contexts allocated through the kernel api from Ian Munsie
- Set up and enable PSL Timebase from Philippe Bergheaud
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- support "hybrid" iommu/direct DMA ops for coherent_mask < dma_mask
from Benjamin Herrenschmidt
- EEH fixes for SRIOV from Gavin
- introduce rtas_get_sensor_fast() for IRQ handlers from Thomas Huth
- use hardware RNG for arch_get_random_seed_* not arch_get_random_*
from Paul Mackerras
- seccomp filter support from Michael Ellerman
- opal_cec_reboot2() handling for HMIs & machine checks from Mahesh
Salgaonkar
- add powerpc timebase as a trace clock source from Naveen N. Rao
- misc cleanups in the xmon, signal & SLB code from Anshuman Khandual
- add an inline function to update POWER8 HID0 from Gautham R. Shenoy
- fix pte_pagesize_index() crash on 4K w/64K hash from Michael Ellerman
- drop support for 64K local store on 4K kernels from Michael Ellerman
- move dma_get_required_mask() from pnv_phb to pci_controller_ops from
Andrew Donnellan
- initialize distance lookup table from drconf path from Nikunj A
Dadhania
- enable RTC class support from Vaibhav Jain
- disable automatically blocked PCI config from Gavin Shan
- add LEDs driver for PowerNV platform from Vasant Hegde
- fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver from Laurent Dufour
- kexec endian fixes from Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
- fix corrupted pdn list from Gavin Shan
- fix fenced PHB caused by eeh_slot_error_detail() from Gavin Shan
- Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 32-bit memcpy/memset
optimizations, checksum optimizations, 85xx config fragments and
updates, device tree updates, e6500 fixes for non-SMP, and misc
cleanup and minor fixes.
- a ton of cxl updates & fixes:
- add explicit precision specifiers from Rasmus Villemoes
- use more common format specifier from Rasmus Villemoes
- destroy cxl_adapter_idr on module_exit from Johannes Thumshirn
- destroy afu->contexts_idr on release of an afu from Johannes
Thumshirn
- compile with -Werror from Daniel Axtens
- EEH support from Daniel Axtens
- plug irq_bitmap getting leaked in cxl_context from Vaibhav Jain
- add alternate MMIO error handling from Ian Munsie
- allow release of contexts which have been OPENED but not STARTED
from Andrew Donnellan
- remove use of macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE from Vaishali Thakkar
- release irqs if memory allocation fails from Vaibhav Jain
- remove racy attempt to force EEH invocation in reset from Daniel
Axtens
- fix + cleanup error paths in cxl_dev_context_init from Ian Munsie
- fix force unmapping mmaps of contexts allocated through the kernel
api from Ian Munsie
- set up and enable PSL Timebase from Philippe Bergheaud
* tag 'powerpc-4.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (140 commits)
cxl: Set up and enable PSL Timebase
cxl: Fix force unmapping mmaps of contexts allocated through the kernel api
cxl: Fix + cleanup error paths in cxl_dev_context_init
powerpc/eeh: Fix fenced PHB caused by eeh_slot_error_detail()
powerpc/pseries: Cleanup on pci_dn_reconfig_notifier()
powerpc/pseries: Fix corrupted pdn list
powerpc/powernv: Enable LEDS support
powerpc/iommu: Set default DMA offset in dma_dev_setup
cxl: Remove racy attempt to force EEH invocation in reset
cxl: Release irqs if memory allocation fails
cxl: Remove use of macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE
powerpc/powernv: Fix mis-merge of OPAL support for LEDS driver
powerpc/powernv: Reset HILE before kexec_sequence()
powerpc/kexec: Reset secondary cpu endianness before kexec
powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver
leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform
powerpc/powernv: Create LED platform device
powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL interfaces for accessing and modifying system LED states
powerpc/powernv: Fix the log message when disabling VF
cxl: Allow release of contexts which have been OPENED but not STARTED
...
Add a new powerpc-specific trace clock using the timebase register,
similar to x86-tsc. This gives us
- a fast, monotonic, hardware clock source for trace entries, and
- a clock that can be used to correlate events across cpus as well as across
hypervisor and guests.
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
4a88d44ab1 ("tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file
from documentation") changed a sentence to refer to only one file
instead of two, but the sentence still uses "they". Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.20-rc1.
Lots of little things in here, all described in the changelog. Nothing
major or unusual, except maybe the binder selinux stuff, which was all
acked by the proper selinux people and they thought it best to come
through this tree.
All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char / misc patches from Greg KH:
"Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.20-rc1.
Lots of little things in here, all described in the changelog.
Nothing major or unusual, except maybe the binder selinux stuff, which
was all acked by the proper selinux people and they thought it best to
come through this tree.
All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while"
* tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (90 commits)
coresight: fix function etm_writel_cp14() parameter order
coresight-etm: remove check for unknown Kconfig macro
coresight: fixing CPU hwid lookup in device tree
coresight: remove the unnecessary function coresight_is_bit_set()
coresight: fix the debug AMBA bus name
coresight: remove the extra spaces
coresight: fix the link between orphan connection and newly added device
coresight: remove the unnecessary replicator property
coresight: fix the replicator subtype value
pdfdocs: Fix 'make pdfdocs' failure for 'uio-howto.tmpl'
mcb: Fix error path of mcb_pci_probe
virtio/console: verify device has config space
ti-st: clean up data types (fix harmless memory corruption)
mei: me: release hw from reset only during the reset flow
mei: mask interrupt set bit on clean reset bit
extcon: max77693: Constify struct regmap_config
extcon: adc-jack: Release IIO channel on driver remove
extcon: Remove duplicated include from extcon-class.c
Drivers: hv: vmbus: hv_process_timer_expiration() can be static
Drivers: hv: vmbus: serialize Offer and Rescind offer
...
The command `echo > set_ftrace_pid` should be used to clean the filter quietly.
because the command `echo -1 > set_ftrace_pid` will output the following:
"bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument".
so update the file Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt.
Signed-off-by: Wang Long <long.wanglong@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The right debug AMBA bus name should be APB(Advanced Peripheral Bus),
so just fix it.
Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.19-rc1
Lots of little things all over the place in different drivers, and a new
subsystem, "coresight" has been added. Full details are in the
shortlog.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.19-rc1
Lots of little things all over the place in different drivers, and a
new subsystem, "coresight" has been added. Full details are in the
shortlog"
* tag 'char-misc-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (73 commits)
parport: parport_pc, do not remove parent devices early
spmi: Remove shutdown/suspend/resume kernel-doc
carma-fpga-program: drop videobuf dependency
carma-fpga: drop videobuf dependency
carma-fpga-program.c: fix compile errors
i8k: Fix temperature bug handling in i8k_get_temp()
cxl: Name interrupts in /proc/interrupt
CXL: Return error to PSL if IRQ demultiplexing fails & print clearer warning
coresight-replicator: remove .owner field for driver
coresight: fixed comments in coresight.h
coresight: fix typo in comment in coresight-priv.h
coresight: bindings for coresight drivers
coresight: Adding ABI documentation
w1: support auto-load of w1_bq27000 module.
w1: avoid potential u16 overflow
cn: verify msg->len before making callback
mei: export fw status registers through sysfs
mei: read and print all six FW status registers
mei: txe: add cherrytrail device id
mei: kill cached host and me csr values
...
Currently, function graph tracer prints "!" or "+" just before
function execution time to signal a function overhead, depending
on the time. And some tracers tracing latency also print "!" or
"+" just after time to signal overhead, depending on the interval
between events. Even it is usually enough to do that, we sometimes
need to signal for bigger execution time than 100 micro seconds.
For example, I used function graph tracer to detect if there is
any case that exit_mm() takes too much time. I did following steps
in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing. It was easier to detect very large
excution time with patched kernel than with original kernel.
$ echo exit_mm > set_graph_function
$ echo function_graph > current_tracer
$ echo > trace
$ cat trace_pipe > $LOGFILE
... (do something and terminate logging)
$ grep "\\$" $LOGFILE
3) $ 22082032 us | } /* kernel_map_pages */
3) $ 22082040 us | } /* free_pages_prepare */
3) $ 22082113 us | } /* free_hot_cold_page */
3) $ 22083455 us | } /* free_hot_cold_page_list */
3) $ 22083895 us | } /* release_pages */
3) $ 22177873 us | } /* free_pages_and_swap_cache */
3) $ 22178929 us | } /* unmap_single_vma */
3) $ 22198885 us | } /* unmap_vmas */
3) $ 22206949 us | } /* exit_mmap */
3) $ 22207659 us | } /* mmput */
3) $ 22207793 us | } /* exit_mm */
And then, it was easy to find out that a schedule-out occured by
sub_preempt_count() within kernel_map_pages().
To detect very large function exection time caused by either problematic
function implementation or scheduling issues, this patch can be useful.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1416789259-24038-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Introduce FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY to avoid conflict among
ftrace users who may modify regs->ip to change the execution
path. If two or more users modify the regs->ip on the same
function entry, one of them will be broken. So they must add
IPMODIFY flag and make sure that ftrace_set_filter_ip() succeeds.
Note that ftrace doesn't allow ftrace_ops which has IPMODIFY
flag to have notrace hash, and the ftrace_ops must have a
filter hash (so that the ftrace_ops can hook only specific
entries), because it strongly depends on the address and
must be allowed for only few selected functions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141121102516.11844.27829.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ fixed up some of the comments ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Documentation containing an explanation on what the framework
provides and the drivers working with it. A minimal example
on how to use the functionality is also provided.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Until now, the reporting from trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl is not very
useful because we cannot directly use this script for checking the
file/anon ratio of scanning. This patch aims to report respectively the
number of file/anon pages which were scanned/reclaimed by kswapd or
direct-reclaim. Sample output is usually something like the following.
Summary
Direct reclaims: 8823
Direct reclaim pages scanned: 2438797
Direct reclaim file pages scanned: 1315200
Direct reclaim anon pages scanned: 1123597
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed: 446139
Direct reclaim file pages reclaimed: 378668
Direct reclaim anon pages reclaimed: 67471
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O: 0
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O: 0
Direct reclaim write file async I/O: 0
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O: 4240
Wake kswapd requests: 122310
Time stalled direct reclaim: 13.78 seconds
Kswapd wakeups: 25817
Kswapd pages scanned: 170779115
Kswapd file pages scanned: 162725123
Kswapd anon pages scanned: 8053992
Kswapd pages reclaimed: 129065738
Kswapd file pages reclaimed: 128500930
Kswapd anon pages reclaimed: 564808
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O: 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O: 0
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O: 36
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O: 730730
Time kswapd awake: 1015.50 seconds
Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Move the nohz kick code out of the scheduler tick to a dedicated IPI,
from Frederic Weisbecker.
This necessiated quite some background infrastructure rework,
including:
* Clean up some irq-work internals
* Implement remote irq-work
* Implement nohz kick on top of remote irq-work
* Move full dynticks timer enqueue notification to new kick
* Move multi-task notification to new kick
* Remove unecessary barriers on multi-task notification
- Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions and allow
wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout. (Neil Brown)
- Another round of sched/numa improvements, cleanups and fixes. (Rik
van Riel)
- Implement fast idling of CPUs when the system is partially loaded,
for better scalability. (Tim Chen)
- Restructure and fix the CPU hotplug handling code that may leave
cfs_rq and rt_rq's throttled when tasks are migrated away from a dead
cpu. (Kirill Tkhai)
- Robustify the sched topology setup code. (Peterz Zijlstra)
- Improve sched_feat() handling wrt. static_keys (Jason Baron)
- Misc fixes.
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
sched/fair: Fix 'make xmldocs' warning caused by missing description
sched: Use macro for magic number of -1 for setparam
sched: Robustify topology setup
sched: Fix sched_setparam() policy == -1 logic
sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout
sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions
sched/numa: Revert "Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads"
sched: Fix static_key race with sched_feat()
sched: Remove extra static_key*() function indirection
sched/rt: Fix replenish_dl_entity() comments to match the current upstream code
sched: Transform resched_task() into resched_curr()
sched/deadline: Kill task_struct->pi_top_task
sched: Rework check_for_tasks()
sched/rt: Enqueue just unthrottled rt_rq back on the stack in __disable_runtime()
sched/fair: Disable runtime_enabled on dying rq
sched/numa: Change scan period code to match intent
sched/numa: Rework best node setting in task_numa_migrate()
sched/numa: Examine a task move when examining a task swap
sched/numa: Simplify task_numa_compare()
sched/numa: Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads
...
to the ftrace function callback infrastructure. It's introducing a
way to allow different functions to call directly different trampolines
instead of all calling the same "mcount" one.
The only user of this for now is the function graph tracer, which always
had a different trampoline, but the function tracer trampoline was called
and did basically nothing, and then the function graph tracer trampoline
was called. The difference now, is that the function graph tracer
trampoline can be called directly if a function is only being traced by
the function graph trampoline. If function tracing is also happening on
the same function, the old way is still done.
The accounting for this takes up more memory when function graph tracing
is activated, as it needs to keep track of which functions it uses.
I have a new way that wont take as much memory, but it's not ready yet
for this merge window, and will have to wait for the next one.
Another big change was the removal of the ftrace_start/stop() calls that
were used by the suspend/resume code that stopped function tracing when
entering into suspend and resume paths. The stop of ftrace was done
because there was some function that would crash the system if one called
smp_processor_id()! The stop/start was a big hammer to solve the issue
at the time, which was when ftrace was first introduced into Linux.
Now ftrace has better infrastructure to debug such issues, and I found
the problem function and labeled it with "notrace" and function tracing
can now safely be activated all the way down into the guts of suspend
and resume.
Other changes include clean ups of uprobe code.
Clean up of the trace_seq() code.
And other various small fixes and clean ups to ftrace and tracing.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This pull request has a lot of work done. The main thing is the
changes to the ftrace function callback infrastructure. It's
introducing a way to allow different functions to call directly
different trampolines instead of all calling the same "mcount" one.
The only user of this for now is the function graph tracer, which
always had a different trampoline, but the function tracer trampoline
was called and did basically nothing, and then the function graph
tracer trampoline was called. The difference now, is that the
function graph tracer trampoline can be called directly if a function
is only being traced by the function graph trampoline. If function
tracing is also happening on the same function, the old way is still
done.
The accounting for this takes up more memory when function graph
tracing is activated, as it needs to keep track of which functions it
uses. I have a new way that wont take as much memory, but it's not
ready yet for this merge window, and will have to wait for the next
one.
Another big change was the removal of the ftrace_start/stop() calls
that were used by the suspend/resume code that stopped function
tracing when entering into suspend and resume paths. The stop of
ftrace was done because there was some function that would crash the
system if one called smp_processor_id()! The stop/start was a big
hammer to solve the issue at the time, which was when ftrace was first
introduced into Linux. Now ftrace has better infrastructure to debug
such issues, and I found the problem function and labeled it with
"notrace" and function tracing can now safely be activated all the way
down into the guts of suspend and resume
Other changes include clean ups of uprobe code, clean up of the
trace_seq() code, and other various small fixes and clean ups to
ftrace and tracing"
* tag 'trace-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (57 commits)
ftrace: Add warning if tramp hash does not match nr_trampolines
ftrace: Fix trampoline hash update check on rec->flags
ring-buffer: Use rb_page_size() instead of open coded head_page size
ftrace: Rename ftrace_ops field from trampolines to nr_trampolines
tracing: Convert local function_graph functions to static
ftrace: Do not copy old hash when resetting
tracing: let user specify tracing_thresh after selecting function_graph
ring-buffer: Always run per-cpu ring buffer resize with schedule_work_on()
tracing: Remove function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
s390/ftrace: remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
arm64, ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
Blackfin: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
metag: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
microblaze: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
MIPS: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
parisc: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
sh: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
sparc64,ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
tile: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
ftrace: x86: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
...
function_trace_stop is no longer used to disable function tracing.
This means that archs are no longer limited if it does not support
checking this variable in the mcount trampoline.
No need to use the list_func for archs that do not support this
obsolete method.
Acked-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We always use resched_task() with rq->curr argument.
It's not possible to reschedule any task but rq's current.
The patch introduces resched_curr(struct rq *) to
replace all of the repeating patterns. The main aim
is cleanup, but there is a little size profit too:
(before)
$ size kernel/sched/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
155274 16445 7042 178761 2ba49 kernel/sched/built-in.o
$ size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
7411490 1178376 991232 9581098 92322a vmlinux
(after)
$ size kernel/sched/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
155130 16445 7042 178617 2b9b9 kernel/sched/built-in.o
$ size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
7411362 1178376 991232 9580970 9231aa vmlinux
I was choosing between resched_curr() and resched_rq(),
and the first name looks better for me.
A little lie in Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt. I have not
actually collected the tracing again. With a hope the patch
won't make execution times much worse :)
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140628200219.1778.18735.stgit@localhost
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When using trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl for checking the file/anon rate
of scanning, we can find that it can not be performed. At the same
time, the following message will be reported:
WARNING: Format not as expected for event vmscan/mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
'file' != 'contig_taken' Fewer fields than expected in format at
./trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl line 171, <FORMAT> line 76.
In trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl, (contig_taken, contig_dirty, and
contig_failed) are be associated respectively to (nr_lumpy_taken,
nr_lumpy_dirty, and nr_lumpy_failed) for lumpy reclaim. Via commit
c53919adc0 ("mm: vmscan: remove lumpy reclaim"), lumpy reclaim had
already been removed by Mel, but the update for
trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl was missed.
Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
to help out the rest of the kernel to ease their use of trace events.
The big change for this release is the allowing of other tracers,
such as the latency tracers, to be used in the trace instances and allow
for function or function graph tracing to be in the top level
simultaneously.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Lots of tweaks, small fixes, optimizations, and some helper functions
to help out the rest of the kernel to ease their use of trace events.
The big change for this release is the allowing of other tracers, such
as the latency tracers, to be used in the trace instances and allow
for function or function graph tracing to be in the top level
simultaneously"
* tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
tracing: Fix memory leak on instance deletion
tracing: Fix leak of ring buffer data when new instances creation fails
tracing/kprobes: Avoid self tests if tracing is disabled on boot up
tracing: Return error if ftrace_trace_arrays list is empty
tracing: Only calculate stats of tracepoint benchmarks for 2^32 times
tracing: Convert stddev into u64 in tracepoint benchmark
tracing: Introduce saved_cmdlines_size file
tracing: Add __get_dynamic_array_len() macro for trace events
tracing: Remove unused variable in trace_benchmark
tracing: Eliminate double free on failure of allocation on boot up
ftrace/x86: Call text_ip_addr() instead of the duplicated code
tracing: Print max callstack on stacktrace bug
tracing: Move locking of trace_cmdline_lock into start/stop seq calls
tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking
tracing: Have saved_cmdlines use the seq_read infrastructure
tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint
tracing: Print nasty banner when trace_printk() is in use
tracing: Add funcgraph_tail option to print function name after closing braces
tracing: Eliminate duplicate TRACE_GRAPH_PRINT_xx defines
tracing: Add __bitmask() macro to trace events to cpumasks and other bitmasks
...
Pull trivial tree changes from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual pile of patches from trivial tree that make the world go round"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits)
staging: go7007: remove reference to CONFIG_KMOD
aic7xxx: Remove obsolete preprocessor define
of: dma: doc fixes
doc: fix incorrect formula to calculate CommitLimit value
doc: Note need of bc in the kernel build from 3.10 onwards
mm: Fix printk typo in dmapool.c
modpost: Fix comment typo "Modules.symvers"
Kconfig.debug: Grammar s/addition/additional/
wimax: Spelling s/than/that/, wording s/destinatary/recipient/
aic7xxx: Spelling s/termnation/termination/
arm64: mm: Remove superfluous "the" in comment
of: Spelling s/anonymouns/anonymous/
dma: imx-sdma: Spelling s/determnine/determine/
ath10k: Improve grammar in comments
ath6kl: Spelling s/determnine/determine/
of: Improve grammar for of_alias_get_id() documentation
drm/exynos: Spelling s/contro/control/
radio-bcm2048.c: fix wrong overflow check
doc: printk-formats: do not mention casts for u64/s64
doc: spelling error changes
...
In the function-graph tracer, add a funcgraph_tail option
to print the function name on all } lines, not just
functions whose first line is no longer in the trace
buffer.
If a function calls other traced functions, its total
time appears on its } line. This change allows grep
to be used to determine the function for which the
line corresponds.
Update Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt to describe
this new option.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140520221041.8359.6782.stgit@beardog.cce.hp.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are some code paths in the kernel that need to do some preparations
before it calls a tracepoint. As that code is worthless overhead when
the tracepoint is not enabled, it would be prudent to have that code
only run when the tracepoint is active. To accomplish this, all tracepoints
now get a static inline function called "trace_<tracepoint-name>_enabled()"
which returns true when the tracepoint is enabled and false otherwise.
As an added bonus, that function uses the static_key of the tracepoint
such that no branch is needed.
if (trace_mytracepoint_enabled()) {
arg = process_tp_arg();
trace_mytracepoint(arg);
}
Will keep the "process_tp_arg()" (which may be expensive to run) from
being executed when the tracepoint isn't enabled.
It's best to encapsulate the tracepoint itself in the if statement
just to keep races. For example, if you had:
if (trace_mytracepoint_enabled())
arg = process_tp_arg();
trace_mytracepoint(arg);
There's a chance that the tracepoint could be enabled just after the
if statement, and arg will be undefined when calling the tracepoint.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140506094407.507b6435@gandalf.local.home
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
But there were a few features that were added.
Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers.
Uprobes have support under ftrace and perf.
The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions
in one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top level
buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different function tracing
going on in the sub buffers.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation.
But there were a few features that were added:
Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers and have
support under ftrace and perf.
The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions in
one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top
level buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different
function tracing going on in the sub buffers"
* tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
tracing: Add BUG_ON when stack end location is over written
tracepoint: Remove unused API functions
Revert "tracing: Move event storage for array from macro to standalone function"
ftrace: Constify ftrace_text_reserved
tracepoints: API doc update to tracepoint_probe_register() return value
tracepoints: API doc update to data argument
ftrace: Fix compilation warning about control_ops_free
ftrace/x86: BUG when ftrace recovery fails
ftrace: Warn on error when modifying ftrace function
ftrace: Remove freelist from struct dyn_ftrace
ftrace: Do not pass data to ftrace_dyn_arch_init
ftrace: Pass retval through return in ftrace_dyn_arch_init()
ftrace: Inline the code from ftrace_dyn_table_alloc()
ftrace: Cleanup of global variables ftrace_new_pgs and ftrace_update_cnt
tracing: Evaluate len expression only once in __dynamic_array macro
tracing: Correctly expand len expressions from __dynamic_array macro
tracing/module: Replace include of tracepoint.h with jump_label.h in module.h
tracing: Fix event header migrate.h to include tracepoint.h
tracing: Fix event header writeback.h to include tracepoint.h
tracing: Warn if a tracepoint is not set via debugfs
...
Fix double words "the the" in various files
within Documentations.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
As the data parameter is not really used by any ftrace_dyn_arch_init,
remove that from ftrace_dyn_arch_init. This also removes the addr
local variable from ftrace_init which is now unused.
Note the documentation was imprecise as it did not suggest to set
(*data) to 0.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-4-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
No architecture uses the "data" parameter in ftrace_dyn_arch_init() in any
way, it just sets the value to 0. And this is used as a return value
in the caller -- ftrace_init, which just checks the retval against
zero.
Note there is also "return 0" in every ftrace_dyn_arch_init. So it is
enough to check the retval and remove all the indirect sets of data on
all archs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-3-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Rename symbols, variables, functions and structure fields related do
the resume latency device PM QoS type so that it is clear where they
belong (in particular, to avoid confusion with the latency tolerance
device PM QoS type introduced by a subsequent changeset).
Update the PM QoS documentation to better reflect its current state.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
When irq, preempt and lockdep fields are printed (field 3 in the example
below) in the trace output, the script fails.
An example entry:
kswapd0-610 [000] ...1 158.112152: mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake: nid=0 order=0
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinayakm.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Enable to fetch data from a file offset. Currently it only supports
fetching from same binary uprobe set. It'll translate the file offset
to a proper virtual address in the process.
The syntax is "@+OFFSET" as it does similar to normal memory fetching
(@ADDR) which does no address translation.
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Enable to fetch other types of argument for the uprobes. IOW, we can
access stack, memory, deref, bitfield and retval from uprobes now.
The format for the argument types are same as kprobes (but @SYMBOL
type is not supported for uprobes), i.e:
@ADDR : Fetch memory at ADDR
$stackN : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0)
$stack : Fetch stack address
$retval : Fetch return value
+|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address
Note that the retval only can be used with uretprobes.
Original-patch-by: Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@lge.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The uprobe syntax requires an offset after a file path not a symbol.
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Existing tracepoint documentation doesn't mention the popular
TRACE_EVENT macro. Since an excellent series of articles on proper
usage already exists, respective links are added to the existing
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since the introduction of PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED in:
f27dde8dee ("sched: Add NEED_RESCHED to the preempt_count")
we need to be able to look at both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and
PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED to understand the full preemption behaviour.
Add it to the trace output.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131004152826.GP3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The sample missed the moving of the header files into the events subdirectory.
I've also extended it based on the existing headers, and mentioned the tiny
but important role of CREATE_TRACE_POINTS.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The usage of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because
strict_strtoul() is obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be
used.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have been
marked for stable.
As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN about.
These include:
New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the function.
Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called "traceoff_on_warning"
which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any WARN_ON() is triggered.
This is useful if you want to debug what caused a warning and do not
want to risk losing your trace data by the ring buffer overwriting the
data before you can disable it. There's also a kernel command line
option that will make this enabled at boot up called the same thing.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt:
"The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes
that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have
been marked for stable.
As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN
about. These include:
New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the
function.
Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called
"traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any
WARN_ON() is triggered. This is useful if you want to debug what
caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the
ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it. There's
also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot
up called the same thing"
* tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits)
tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static
tracing: Remove ftrace() function
tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition
tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static
tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing
uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path
tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files
tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better
tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer
ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set
tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe->files into list_head
tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment
tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock
...
- Hotplug changes allowing device hot-removal operations to fail
gracefully (instead of crashing the kernel) if they cannot be
carried out completely. From Rafael J Wysocki and Toshi Kani.
- Freezer update from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines targeted
at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight operation.
- cpufreq resume fix from Srivatsa S Bhat for a regression introduced
during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs attributes to
return wrong values to user space after resume.
- New freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the acpi-cpufreq driver to
provide information previously available via related_cpus from
Lan Tianyu.
- cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Jacob Shin,
Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia, Arnd Bergmann, and
Tang Yuantian.
- Fix for an ACPICA regression causing suspend/resume issues to
appear on some systems introduced during the 3.4 development cycle
from Lv Zheng.
- ACPICA fixes and cleanups from Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng,
Chao Guan, and Zhang Rui.
- New cupidle driver for Xilinx Zynq processors from Michal Simek.
- cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano.
- Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.
- ACPI device power management fixes and cleanups from Fengguang Wu
and Rafael J Wysocki.
- ACPI documentation updates from Lv Zheng, Aaron Lu and Hanjun Guo.
- Fix for the IA-64 issue that was the reason for reverting commit
9f29ab1 and updates of the ACPI scan code from Rafael J Wysocki.
- Mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers from Lan Tianyu
(to allow some EC-related breakage to be fixed on some systems).
- Spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() from
Mika Westerberg.
- Modification of do_acpi_find_child() to execute _STA in order to
to avoid situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object
is returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value.
From Jeff Wu.
- Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support for the ACPI
Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) driver and modificaions of that
driver to work around a couple of known BIOS issues from
Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.
- EC driver fix from Vasiliy Kulikov to make it use get_user() and
put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.
- Assorted ACPI code cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and
Toshi Kani.
- Modification of the "runtime idle" helper routine to take the return
values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows some code bloat
reduction to be done, from Rafael J Wysocki and Alan Stern.
- New trace points for PM QoS from Sahara <keun-o.park@windriver.com>.
- PM QoS documentation update from Lan Tianyu.
- Assorted core PM code cleanups and changes from Bernie Thompson,
Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.
- New devfreq driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.
- Minor devfreq cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from
MyungJoo Ham, Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and
Wei Yongjun.
- OMAP Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control
driver updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon.
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"This time the total number of ACPI commits is slightly greater than
the number of cpufreq commits, but Viresh Kumar (who works on cpufreq)
remains the most active patch submitter.
To me, the most significant change is the addition of offline/online
device operations to the driver core (with the Greg's blessing) and
the related modifications of the ACPI core hotplug code. Next are the
freezer updates from Colin Cross that should make the freezing of
tasks a bit less heavy weight.
We also have a couple of regression fixes, a number of fixes for
issues that have not been identified as regressions, two new drivers
and a bunch of cleanups all over.
Highlights:
- Hotplug changes to support graceful hot-removal failures.
It sometimes is necessary to fail device hot-removal operations
gracefully if they cannot be carried out completely. For example,
if memory from a memory module being hot-removed has been allocated
for the kernel's own use and cannot be moved elsewhere, it's
desirable to fail the hot-removal operation in a graceful way
rather than to crash the kernel, but currenty a success or a kernel
crash are the only possible outcomes of an attempted memory
hot-removal. Needless to say, that is not a very attractive
alternative and it had to be addressed.
However, in order to make it work for memory, I first had to make
it work for CPUs and for this purpose I needed to modify the ACPI
processor driver. It's been split into two parts, a resident one
handling the low-level initialization/cleanup and a modular one
playing the actual driver's role (but it binds to the CPU system
device objects rather than to the ACPI device objects representing
processors). That's been sort of like a live brain surgery on a
patient who's riding a bike.
So this is a little scary, but since we found and fixed a couple of
regressions it caused to happen during the early linux-next testing
(a month ago), nobody has complained.
As a bonus we remove some duplicated ACPI hotplug code, because the
ACPI-based CPU hotplug is now going to use the common ACPI hotplug
code.
- Lighter weight freezing of tasks.
These changes from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines are
targeted at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight
operation. They reduce the number of tasks woken up every time
during the freezing, by using the observation that the freezer
simply doesn't need to wake up some of them and wait for them all
to call refrigerator(). The time needed for the freezer to decide
to report a failure is reduced too.
Also reintroduced is the check causing a lockdep warining to
trigger when try_to_freeze() is called with locks held (which is
generally unsafe and shouldn't happen).
- cpufreq updates
First off, a commit from Srivatsa S Bhat fixes a resume regression
introduced during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs
attributes to return wrong values to user space after resume. The
fix is kind of fresh, but also it's pretty obvious once Srivatsa
has identified the root cause.
Second, we have a new freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the
acpi-cpufreq driver to provide information previously available via
related_cpus. From Lan Tianyu.
Finally, we fix a number of issues, mostly related to the
CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and cpufreq Kconfig options and clean
up some code. The majority of changes from Viresh Kumar with bits
from Jacob Shin, Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia,
Arnd Bergmann, and Tang Yuantian.
- ACPICA update
A usual bunch of updates from the ACPICA upstream.
During the 3.4 cycle we introduced support for ACPI 5 extended
sleep registers, but they are only supposed to be used if the
HW-reduced mode bit is set in the FADT flags and the code attempted
to use them without checking that bit. That caused suspend/resume
regressions to happen on some systems. Fix from Lv Zheng causes
those registers to be used only if the HW-reduced mode bit is set.
Apart from this some other ACPICA bugs are fixed and code cleanups
are made by Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng, Chao Guan, and
Zhang Rui.
- cpuidle updates
New driver for Xilinx Zynq processors is added by Michal Simek.
Multidriver support simplification, addition of some missing
kerneldoc comments and Kconfig-related fixes come from Daniel
Lezcano.
- ACPI power management updates
Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, sparse warning fix from Fengguang Wu and
cleanups and fixes of the ACPI device power state selection
routine.
- ACPI documentation updates
Some previously missing pieces of ACPI documentation are added by
Lv Zheng and Aaron Lu (hopefully, that will help people to
uderstand how the ACPI subsystem works) and one outdated doc is
updated by Hanjun Guo.
- Assorted ACPI updates
We finally nailed down the IA-64 issue that was the reason for
reverting commit 9f29ab11dd ("ACPI / scan: do not match drivers
against objects having scan handlers"), so we can fix it and move
the ACPI scan handler check added to the ACPI video driver back to
the core.
A mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers is
introduced by Lan Tianyu to allow some EC-related breakage to be
fixed on some systems.
A spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() is added by
Mika Westerberg.
The evaluation of _STA is added to do_acpi_find_child() to avoid
situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object is
returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value. From
Jeff Wu.
Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support is added to
the ACPI driver for Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) and that
driver is modified to work around a couple of known BIOS issues.
Changes from Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.
The EC driver is fixed by Vasiliy Kulikov to use get_user() and
put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.
Code cleanups are made by Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and Toshi
Kani.
- Assorted power management updates
The "runtime idle" helper routine is changed to take the return
values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows us to reduce the
overall code bloat a bit (by dropping some code that's not
necessary any more after that modification).
The runtime PM documentation is updated by Alan Stern (to reflect
the "runtime idle" behavior change).
New trace points for PM QoS are added by Sahara
(<keun-o.park@windriver.com>).
PM QoS documentation is updated by Lan Tianyu.
Code cleanups are made and minor issues are addressed by Bernie
Thompson, Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.
- devfreq updates
New driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.
Minor cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from MyungJoo Ham,
Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and Wei Yongjun.
- OMAP power management updates
Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control driver
updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon."
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits)
cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume
ACPI / PM: Fix possible NULL pointer deref in acpi_pm_device_sleep_state()
PM / Sleep: Warn about system time after resume with pm_trace
cpufreq: don't leave stale policy pointer in cdbs->cur_policy
acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus
cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized
ACPI: implement acpi_os_get_timer() according the spec
ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to skip DSDT scan
ACPI: Add CMOS RTC Operation Region handler support
ACPI / processor: Drop unused variable from processor_perflib.c
cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
...
Add PM QOS events section and description to events-power.txt.
Signed-off-by: Sahara <keun-o.park@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This patch has been invaluable in my adventures finding
issues in the perf NMI handler. I'm as big a fan of
printk() as anybody is, but using printk() in NMIs is
deadly when they're happening frequently.
Even hacking in trace_printk() ended up eating enough
CPU to throw off some of the measurements I was making.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
b0f1a59a "tracing/filters: Use a different op for glob match" added
glob matching to tracepoint filter strings. It uses the ftrace function
tracing glob matching facility that allows for the wild card character (*)
to be used at the start and/or end of the matching string.
But the documentation still states that the filtering only allows for
exact string matches.
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are some cases when filtering on a set flag of a field of a tracepoint
is useful. But currently the only filtering commands for numbered fields
is ==, !=, <, <=, >, >=. This does not help when you just want to trace if
a specific flag is set. For example:
> # sudo trace-cmd record -e brcmfmac:brcmf_dbg -f 'level & 0x40000'
> disable all
> enable brcmfmac:brcmf_dbg
> path = /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/brcmfmac/brcmf_dbg/enable
> (level & 0x40000)
> ^
> parse_error: Invalid operator
>
When trying to trace brcmf_dbg when level has its 1 << 18 bit set, the
filter fails to perform.
By allowing a binary '&' operation, this gives the user the ability to
test a bit.
Note, a binary '|' is not added, as it doesn't make sense as fields must
be compared to constants (for now), and ORing a constant will always return
true.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371057385.9844.261.camel@gandalf.local.home
Suggested-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Tested-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "cpudump" command to have the current CPU ftrace buffer dumped
to console if a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a
tripple fault, where you have an idea of a function that is called
just before the tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its
content out to the console before it continues.
This differs from the "dump" command as it only dumps the content of
the ring buffer for the currently executing CPU, and does not show
the contents of the other CPUs.
Format is:
<function>:cpudump
echo 'bad_address:cpudump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
To remove this:
echo '!bad_address:cpudump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "dump" command to have the ftrace buffer dumped to console if
a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a tripple fault,
where you have an idea of a function that is called just before the
tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its content out
to the console before it continues.
Format is:
<function>:dump
echo 'bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
To remove this:
echo '!bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Requested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Features:
- Add "uretprobes" - an optimization to uprobes, like kretprobes are
an optimization to kprobes. "perf probe -x file sym%return" now
works like kretprobes. By Oleg Nesterov.
- Introduce per core aggregation in 'perf stat', from Stephane
Eranian.
- Add memory profiling via PEBS, from Stephane Eranian.
- Event group view for 'annotate' in --stdio, --tui and --gtk, from
Namhyung Kim.
- Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters, by Jacob Shin.
- Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support, by Zheng Yan
- IBM zEnterprise EC12 oprofile support patchlet from Robert Richter.
- Add perf test entries for checking breakpoint overflow signal
handler issues, from Jiri Olsa.
- Add perf test entry for for checking number of EXIT events, from
Namhyung Kim.
- Add perf test entries for checking --cpu in record and stat, from
Jiri Olsa.
- Introduce perf stat --repeat forever, from Frederik Deweerdt.
- Add --no-demangle to report/top, from Namhyung Kim.
- PowerPC fixes plus a couple of cleanups/optimizations in uprobes
and trace_uprobes, by Oleg Nesterov.
Various fixes and refactorings:
- Fix dependency of the python binding wrt libtraceevent, from
Naohiro Aota.
- Simplify some perf_evlist methods and to allow 'stat' to share code
with 'record' and 'trace', by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
- Remove dead code in related to libtraceevent integration, from
Namhyung Kim.
- Revert "perf sched: Handle PERF_RECORD_EXIT events" to get 'perf
sched lat' back working, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
- We don't use Newt anymore, just plain libslang, by Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo.
- Kill a bunch of die() calls, from Namhyung Kim.
- Fix build on non-glibc systems due to libio.h absence, from Cody P
Schafer.
- Remove some perf_session and tracing dead code, from David Ahern.
- Honor parallel jobs, fix from Borislav Petkov
- Introduce tools/lib/lk library, initially just removing duplication
among tools/perf and tools/vm. from Borislav Petkov
... and many more I missed to list, see the shortlog and git log for
more details."
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (136 commits)
perf/x86/intel/P4: Robistify P4 PMU types
perf/x86/amd: Fix AMD NB and L2I "uncore" support
perf/x86/amd: Remove old-style NB counter support from perf_event_amd.c
perf/x86: Check all MSRs before passing hw check
perf/x86/amd: Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters
perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support
perf/x86/intel: Fix SNB-EP CBO and PCU uncore PMU filter management
perf/x86: Avoid kfree() in CPU_{STARTING,DYING}
uprobes/perf: Avoid perf_trace_buf_prepare/submit if ->perf_events is empty
uprobes/tracing: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
uprobes/tracing: Change create_trace_uprobe() to support uretprobes
uprobes/tracing: Make seq_printf() code uretprobe-friendly
uprobes/tracing: Make register_uprobe_event() paths uretprobe-friendly
uprobes/tracing: Make uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() uretprobe-friendly
uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_ret_probe() and uretprobe_dispatcher()
uprobes/tracing: Introduce uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() helpers
uprobes/tracing: Generalize struct uprobe_trace_entry_head
uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless local_save_flags/preempt_count calls
uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless seq_print_ip_sym() call
uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless task_pt_regs() calls
...
Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
changes with this pull request.
1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility
This feature has been requested by many people over the last few years.
I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves. I finally
had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now create multiple
instances of the ftrace buffer and have different events go to different
buffers. This way, a low frequency event will not be lost in the noise
of a high frequency event.
Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
(ie. function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
be written to the main buffer.
2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.
The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a
function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a
stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
an event to be traced when a function is hit.
3) A perf clock has been added.
A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause
ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will make
it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
changes with this pull request.
1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility
This feature has been requested by many people over the last few
years. I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves.
I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now
create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different
events go to different buffers. This way, a low frequency event will
not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event.
Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
(ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
be written to the main buffer.
2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.
The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a
function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a
stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
an event to be traced when a function is hit.
3) A perf clock has been added.
A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause
ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will
make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis."
* tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits)
tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added
tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type()
tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT
ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits
tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()
tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move()
tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero
tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages
kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy
tracing: Update debugfs README file
tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()
tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem
tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name()
tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static
tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c
tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant
tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation
ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest
tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date
tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock
...
Conflicts:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c
kernel/trace/trace.c
Linus Torvalds