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Steven Rostedt 6450c1d321 ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace
The assigning of the pc counter is in the wrong spot in the
check_critical_timing function. The pc variable is used in the
out jump.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:16 +02:00
Steven Rostedt aa1e0e3bcf ring_buffer: map to cpu not page
My original patch had a compile bug when NUMA was configured. I
referenced cpu when it should have been cpu_buffer->cpu.

Ingo quickly fixed this bug by replacing cpu with 'i' because that
was the loop counter. Unfortunately, the 'i' was the counter of
pages, not CPUs. This caused a crash when the number of pages allocated
for the buffers exceeded the number of pages, which would usually
be the case.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:15 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5601020feb tracing/fastboot: get the initcall name before it disappears
After some initcall traces, some initcall names may be inconsistent.
That's because these functions will disappear from the .init section
and also their name from the symbols table.

So we have to copy the name of the function in a buffer large enough
during the trace appending. It is not costly for the ring_buffer because
the number of initcall entries is commonly not really large.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:12 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker cb5ab74204 tracing/fastboot: change the printing of boot tracer according to bootgraph.pl
Change the boot tracer printing to make it parsable for
the scripts/bootgraph.pl script.

We have now to output two lines for each initcall, according to the
printk in do_one_initcall() in init/main.c
We need now the call's time and the return's time.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 77ae11f63b ring-buffer: fix build error
fix:

 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function ‘rb_allocate_pages’:
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:235: error: ‘cpu’ undeclared (first use in this function)
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:235: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:235: error: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:10 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 38697053fa ftrace: preempt disable over interrupt disable
With the new ring buffer infrastructure in ftrace, I'm trying to make
ftrace a little more light weight.

This patch converts a lot of the local_irq_save/restore into
preempt_disable/enable.  The original preempt count in a lot of cases
has to be sent in as a parameter so that it can be recorded correctly.
Some places were recording it incorrectly before anyway.

This is also laying the ground work to make ftrace a little bit
more reentrant, and remove all locking. The function tracers must
still protect from reentrancy.

Note: All the function tracers must be careful when using preempt_disable.
  It must do the following:

  resched = need_resched();
  preempt_disable_notrace();
  [...]
  if (resched)
	preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
  else
	preempt_enable_notrace();

The reason is that if this function traces schedule() itself, the
preempt_enable_notrace() will cause a schedule, which will lead
us into a recursive failure.

If we needed to reschedule before calling preempt_disable, we
should have already scheduled. Since we did not, this is most
likely that we should not and are probably inside a schedule
function.

If resched was not set, we still need to catch the need resched
flag being set when preemption was off and the if case at the
end will catch that for us.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:09 +02:00
Steven Rostedt e4c2ce82ca ring_buffer: allocate buffer page pointer
The current method of overlaying the page frame as the buffer page pointer
can be very dangerous and limits our ability to do other things with
a page from the buffer, like send it off to disk.

This patch allocates the buffer_page instead of overlaying the page's
page frame. The use of the buffer_page has hardly changed due to this.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:08 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 7104f300c5 ftrace: type cast filter+verifier
The mmiotrace map had a bug that would typecast the entry from
the trace to the wrong type. That is a known danger of C typecasts,
there's absolutely zero checking done on them.

Help that problem a bit by using a GCC extension to implement a
type filter that restricts the types that a trace record can be
cast into, and by adding a dynamic check (in debug mode) to verify
the type of the entry.

This patch adds a macro to assign all entries of ftrace using the type
of the variable and checking the entry id. The typecasts are now done
in the macro for only those types that it knows about, which should
be all the types that are allowed to be read from the tracer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 797d3712a9 tracing/ftrace: adapt mmiotrace to the new type of print_line, fix
Correct the value's type of trace_empty function

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:06 +02:00
Steven Rostedt d769041f86 ring_buffer: implement new locking
The old "lock always" scheme had issues with lockdep, and was not very
efficient anyways.

This patch does a new design to be partially lockless on writes.
Writes will add new entries to the per cpu pages by simply disabling
interrupts. When a write needs to go to another page than it will
grab the lock.

A new "read page" has been added so that the reader can pull out a page
from the ring buffer to read without worrying about the writer writing over
it. This allows us to not take the lock for all reads. The lock is
now only taken when a read needs to go to a new page.

This is far from lockless, and interrupts still need to be disabled,
but it is a step towards a more lockless solution, and it also
solves a lot of the issues that were noticed by the first conversion
of ftrace to the ring buffers.

Note: the ring_buffer_{un}lock API has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:05 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 70255b5e3f ring_buffer: remove raw from local_irq_save
The raw_local_irq_save causes issues with lockdep. We don't need it
so replace them with local_irq_save.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:04 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 9e9efffb78 tracing/ftrace: adapt the boot tracer to the new print_line type
This patch adapts the boot tracer to the new type of the
print_line callback.

It still relays entries it doesn't support to default output
functions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:03 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 07f4e4f790 tracing/ftrace: adapt mmiotrace to the new type of print_line
Adapt mmiotrace to the new print_line type.
By default, it ignores (and consumes) types it doesn't support.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:02 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen 9ff4b9744c tracing/ftrace: fix pipe breaking
This patch fixes a bug which break the pipe when the seq is empty.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:01 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 2c4f035f6c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the print_line callback
We need a kind of disambiguation when a print_line callback
returns 0.

_There is not enough space to print all the entry.
 Please flush the seq and retry.
_I can't handle this type of entry

This patch changes the type of this callback for better information.

Also some changes have been made in this V2.

_ Only relay to default functions after the print_line callback fails.
_ This patch doesn't fix the issue with the broken pipe (see patch 2/4 for that)

Some things are still in discussion:

_ Find better names for the enum print_line_t values
_ Change the type of print_trace_line into boolean.

Patches to change that can be sent later.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:00 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 777e208d40 ftrace: take advantage of variable length entries
Now that the underlining ring buffer for ftrace now hold variable length
entries, we can take advantage of this by only storing the size of the
actual event into the buffer. This happens to increase the number of
entries in the buffer dramatically.

We can also get rid of the "trace_cont" operation, but I'm keeping that
until we have no more users. Some of the ftrace tracers can now change
their code to adapt to this new feature.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:59 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 3928a8a2d9 ftrace: make work with new ring buffer
This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00
Steven Rostedt ed56829cb3 ring_buffer: reset buffer page when freeing
Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out that the freeing of the page frame needs
to be reset otherwise we might trigger BUG_ON in the page free code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:56 +02:00
Steven Rostedt a7b1374333 ring_buffer: add paranoid check for buffer page
If for some strange reason the buffer_page gets bigger, or the page struct
gets smaller, I want to know this ASAP.  The best way is to not let the
kernel compile.

This patch adds code to test the size of the struct buffer_page against the
page struct and will cause compile issues if the buffer_page ever gets bigger
than the page struct.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:55 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 7a8e76a382 tracing: unified trace buffer
This is a unified tracing buffer that implements a ring buffer that
hopefully everyone will eventually be able to use.

The events recorded into the buffer have the following structure:

  struct ring_buffer_event {
	u32 type:2, len:3, time_delta:27;
	u32 array[];
  };

The minimum size of an event is 8 bytes. All events are 4 byte
aligned inside the buffer.

There are 4 types (all internal use for the ring buffer, only
the data type is exported to the interface users).

 RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING: this type is used to note extra space at the end
	of a buffer page.

 RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTENT: This type is used when the time between events
	is greater than the 27 bit delta can hold. We add another
	32 bits, and record that in its own event (8 byte size).

 RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP: (Not implemented yet). This will hold data to
	help keep the buffer timestamps in sync.

RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA: The event actually holds user data.

The "len" field is only three bits. Since the data must be
4 byte aligned, this field is shifted left by 2, giving a
max length of 28 bytes. If the data load is greater than 28
bytes, the first array field holds the full length of the
data load and the len field is set to zero.

Example, data size of 7 bytes:

	type = RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA
	len = 2
	time_delta: <time-stamp> - <prev_event-time-stamp>
	array[0..1]: <7 bytes of data> <1 byte empty>

This event is saved in 12 bytes of the buffer.

An event with 82 bytes of data:

	type = RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA
	len = 0
	time_delta: <time-stamp> - <prev_event-time-stamp>
	array[0]: 84 (Note the alignment)
	array[1..14]: <82 bytes of data> <2 bytes empty>

The above event is saved in 92 bytes (if my math is correct).
82 bytes of data, 2 bytes empty, 4 byte header, 4 byte length.

Do not reference the above event struct directly. Use the following
functions to gain access to the event table, since the
ring_buffer_event structure may change in the future.

ring_buffer_event_length(event): get the length of the event.
	This is the size of the memory used to record this
	event, and not the size of the data pay load.

ring_buffer_time_delta(event): get the time delta of the event
	This returns the delta time stamp since the last event.
	Note: Even though this is in the header, there should
		be no reason to access this directly, accept
		for debugging.

ring_buffer_event_data(event): get the data from the event
	This is the function to use to get the actual data
	from the event. Note, it is only a pointer to the
	data inside the buffer. This data must be copied to
	another location otherwise you risk it being written
	over in the buffer.

ring_buffer_lock: A way to lock the entire buffer.
ring_buffer_unlock: unlock the buffer.

ring_buffer_alloc: create a new ring buffer. Can choose between
	overwrite or consumer/producer mode. Overwrite will
	overwrite old data, where as consumer producer will
	throw away new data if the consumer catches up with the
	producer.  The consumer/producer is the default.

ring_buffer_free: free the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_resize: resize the buffer. Changes the size of each cpu
	buffer. Note, it is up to the caller to provide that
	the buffer is not being used while this is happening.
	This requirement may go away but do not count on it.

ring_buffer_lock_reserve: locks the ring buffer and allocates an
	entry on the buffer to write to.
ring_buffer_unlock_commit: unlocks the ring buffer and commits it to
	the buffer.

ring_buffer_write: writes some data into the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_peek: Look at a next item in the cpu buffer.
ring_buffer_consume: get the next item in the cpu buffer and
	consume it. That is, this function increments the head
	pointer.

ring_buffer_read_start: Start an iterator of a cpu buffer.
	For now, this disables the cpu buffer, until you issue
	a finish. This is just because we do not want the iterator
	to be overwritten. This restriction may change in the future.
	But note, this is used for static reading of a buffer which
	is usually done "after" a trace. Live readings would want
	to use the ring_buffer_consume above, which will not
	disable the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_read_finish: Finishes the read iterator and reenables
	the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_iter_peek: Look at the next item in the cpu iterator.
ring_buffer_read: Read the iterator and increment it.
ring_buffer_iter_reset: Reset the iterator to point to the beginning
	of the cpu buffer.
ring_buffer_iter_empty: Returns true if the iterator is at the end
	of the cpu buffer.

ring_buffer_size: returns the size in bytes of each cpu buffer.
	Note, the real size is this times the number of CPUs.

ring_buffer_reset_cpu: Sets the cpu buffer to empty
ring_buffer_reset: sets all cpu buffers to empty

ring_buffer_swap_cpu: swaps a cpu buffer from one buffer with a
	cpu buffer of another buffer. This is handy when you
	want to take a snap shot of a running trace on just one
	cpu. Having a backup buffer, to swap with facilitates this.
	Ftrace max latencies use this.

ring_buffer_empty: Returns true if the ring buffer is empty.
ring_buffer_empty_cpu: Returns true if the cpu buffer is empty.

ring_buffer_record_disable: disable all cpu buffers (read only)
ring_buffer_record_disable_cpu: disable a single cpu buffer (read only)
ring_buffer_record_enable: enable all cpu buffers.
ring_buffer_record_enabl_cpu: enable a single cpu buffer.

ring_buffer_entries: The number of entries in a ring buffer.
ring_buffer_overruns: The number of entries removed due to writing wrap.

ring_buffer_time_stamp: Get the time stamp used by the ring buffer
ring_buffer_normalize_time_stamp: normalize the ring buffer time stamp
	into nanosecs.

I still need to implement the GTOD feature. But we need support from
the cpu frequency infrastructure.  But this can be done at a later
time without affecting the ring buffer interface.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:54 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 5aa60c6073 ftrace: give time for wakeup test to run
It is possible that the testing thread in the ftrace wakeup test does not
run before we stop the trace. This will cause the trace to fail since nothing
will be in the buffers.

This patch adds a small wait in the wakeup test to allow for the woken task
to run and be traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:53 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker 7c572ac0cf tracing/ftrace: don't consume unhandled entries by boot tracer
When the boot tracer can't handle an entry output, it returns 1.
It should return 0 to relay on other output functions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:52 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker 3ce2b9200d ftrace/fastboot: disable tracers self-tests when boot tracer is selected
The tracing engine resets the ring buffer and the tracers touch it
too during self-tests. These self-tests happen during tracers registering
and work against boot tracing which is logging initcalls.

We have to disable tracing self-tests if the boot-tracer is selected.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:51 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker 1f5c2abbde tracing/ftrace: give an entry on the config for boot tracer
Bring the entry to choose the boot tracer on the kernel config.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:49 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker b5ad384e79 tracing/ftrace: make tracing suitable to run the boot tracer
The tracing engine have now to be init in early_initcall to set the
boot tracer. Only the debugfs settings will be initialized at
fs_initcall time.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:48 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker d13744cd6e tracing/ftrace: add the boot tracer
Add the boot/initcall tracer.

It's primary purpose is to be able to trace the initcalls.

It is intended to be used with scripts/bootgraph.pl after some small
improvements.

Note that it is not active after its init. To avoid tracing (and so
crashing) before the whole tracing engine init, you have to explicitly
call start_boot_trace() after do_pre_smp_initcalls() to enable it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:47 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan 1b7ae37c03 markers: bit-field is not thread-safe nor smp-safe
bit-field is not thread-safe nor smp-safe.

struct marker_entry.rcu_pending is not protected by any lock
in rcu-callback free_old_closure().
so we must turn it into a safe type.

detail:

I suppose rcu_pending and ptype are store in struct marker_entry.tmp1

free_old_closure() side:           change ptype side:

                                |  load struct marker_entry.tmp1
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
                                |  change ptype bit in tmp1
load struct marker_entry.tmp1   |
change rcu_pending bit in tmp1  |
store tmp1                      |
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
                                |  store tmp1

now this result equals that free_old_closure() do not change rcu_pending
bit, bug! This bug will cause redundant rcu_barrier_sched() called.
not too harmful.

----- corresponding:

free_old_closure() side:           change ptype side:

load struct marker_entry.tmp1   |
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
                                |  load struct marker_entry.tmp1
change rcu_pending bit in tmp1  |
                                |  change ptype bit in tmp1
                                |  store tmp1
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
store tmp1                      |

now this result equals that change ptype side do not change ptype
bit, bug! this bug cause marker_probe_cb() access to invalid memory.
oops!

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_field

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:45 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan 48043bcdf8 markers: fix unchecked format
when the second, third... probe is registered, its format is
not checked, this patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:42 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers ed86a59071 markers: re-enable fast batch registration
Lai Jiangshan discovered a reentrancy issue with markers and fixed it by
adding synchronize_sched() calls at each registration/unregistraiton.

It works, but it removes the ability to do batch
registration/unregistration and can cause registration of ~100 markers
to take about 30 seconds on a loaded machine (synchronize_sched() is
much slower on such workloads).

This patch implements a version of the fix which won't slow down marker batch
registration/unregistration. It also go back to the original non-synchronized
reg/unreg.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:38 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers e2d3b75dbc markers: fix unregister bug and reenter bug, cleanup
Use the new rcu_read_lock_sched/unlock_sched() in marker code around the call
site instead of preempt_disable/enable(). It helps reviewing the code more
easily.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:28 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 9a1e9693f5 tracepoints: fix reentrancy
The tracepoints had the same problem markers did have wrt reentrancy. Apply a
similar fix using a rcu_barrier after each tracepoint mutex lock.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:23 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers ca2db6cf30 tracepoints: use rcu sched
Make tracepoints use rcu sched. (cleanup)

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:21 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan d74185ed27 markers: fix unregister bug and reenter bug
unregister bug:

codes using makers are typically calling marker_probe_unregister()
and then destroying the data that marker_probe_func needs(or
unloading this module). This is bug when the corresponding
marker_probe_func is still running(on other cpus),
it is using the destroying/ed data.

we should call synchronize_sched() after marker_update_probes().

reenter bug:

marker_probe_register(), marker_probe_unregister() and
marker_probe_unregister_private_data() are not reentrant safe
functions. these 3 functions release markers_mutex and then
require it again and do "entry->oldptr = old; ...", but entry->oldptr
maybe is using now for these 3 functions may reenter when markers_mutex
is released.

we use synchronize_sched() instead of call_rcu_sched() to fix
this bug. actually we can do:
"
if (entry->rcu_pending)
		rcu_barrier_sched();
"
after require markers_mutex again. but synchronize_sched()
is better and simpler. For these 3 functions are not critical path.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 05736a427f ftrace: warn on failure to disable mcount callers
With the recent updates to ftrace, there should not be any failures when
modifying the code. If there is, then we need to warn about it.

This patch has a cleaned up version of the code that I used to discover
that the weak symbols were causing failures.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:11 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker 43a15386c4 tracing/ftrace: replace none tracer by nop tracer
Replace "none" tracer by the recently created "nop" tracer.
Both are pretty similar except that nop accepts TRACE_PRINT
or TRACE_SPECIAL entries.

And as a consequence, changing the size of the ring buffer now
requires that tracing has already been disabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:09 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker 2a3a4f669d tracing/ftrace: tracing engine depends on Nop Tracer
Now that the nop tracer is used as the default tracer by
replacing the "none" tracer, tracing engine depends on it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:06 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker 35cb5ed012 tracing/ftrace: make nop tracer reset previous entries
If nop tracer is selected, some old entries from the previous tracer
could still be enqueued. Tracing have to be reset.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:04 +02:00
Steven Noonan 8925b394ec trace: remove pointless ifdefs
The functions are already 'extern' anyway, so there's no problem
with linkage. Removing these ifdefs also helps find any potential
compiler errors.

Suggested by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:01 +02:00
Steven Noonan 71c67d58b5 ftrace: mcount_addr defined but not used
When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE isn't used, neither is mcount_addr. This
patch eliminates that warning.

Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:58 +02:00
Steven Noonan fb1b6d8b51 ftrace: add nop tracer
A no-op tracer which can serve two purposes:

 1. A template for development of a new tracer.
 2. A convenient way to see ftrace_printk() calls without
    an irrelevant trace making the output messy.

[ mingo@elte.hu: resolved conflicts ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:43 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen 5bf9a1ee35 ftrace: inject markers via trace_marker file
Allow a user to inject a marker (TRACE_PRINT entry) into the trace ring
buffer. The related file operations are derived from code by Frédéric
Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:20 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen fc5e27ae4b mmiotrace: handle TRACE_PRINT entries
Also make trace_seq_print_cont() non-static, and add a newline if the
seq buffer can't hold all data.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:14 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen 9e57fb35d7 x86 mmiotrace: implement mmiotrace_printk()
Offer mmiotrace users a function to inject markers from inside the kernel.
This depends on the trace_vprintk() patch.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:11 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen 801fe40001 ftrace: add trace_vprintk()
trace_vprintk() for easier implementation of tracer specific *_printk
functions. Add check check for no_tracer, and implement
__ftrace_printk() as a wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:07 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen 45dcd8b8a8 ftrace: move mmiotrace functions out of trace.c
Moves the mmiotrace specific functions from trace.c to
trace_mmiotrace.c. Functions trace_wake_up(), tracing_get_trace_entry(),
and tracing_generic_entry_update() are therefore made available outside
trace.c.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:04 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 644f991d4b ftrace: fix unlocking of hash
This must be brown paper bag week for Steven Rostedt!

While working on ftrace for PPC, I discovered that the hash locking done
when CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD is not set, is totally incorrect.

With a cut and paste error, I had the hash lock macro to lock for both
hash_lock _and_ hash_unlock!

This bug did not affect x86 since this bug was introduced when
CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD was added to x86.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d3ee6d9928 ftrace: make it depend on DEBUG_KERNEL
make most of the tracers depend on DEBUG_KERNEL - that's their intended
purpose. (most distributions have DEBUG_KERNEL enabled anyway so this is
not a practical limitation - but it simplifies the tracing menu in the
normal case)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:51 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 80b5e94005 ftrace: sched_switch: show the wakee's cpu
While profiling the smp behaviour of the scheduler it was needed to know to
which cpu a task got woken.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:48 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f09ce573f5 ftrace: make ftrace_printk usable with the other tracers
Currently ftrace_printk only works with the ftrace tracer, switch it to an
iter_ctrl setting so we can make us of them with other tracers too.

[rostedt@redhat.com: tweak to the disable condition]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:45 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 5a90f577e5 ftrace: print continue index fix
An item in the trace buffer that is bigger than one entry may be split
up using the TRACE_CONT entry. This makes it a virtual single entry.
The current code increments the iterator index even while traversing
TRACE_CONT entries, making it look like the iterator is further than
it actually is.

This patch adds code to not increment the iterator index while skipping
over TRACE_CONT entries.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:42 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 652567aa20 ftrace: binary and not logical for continue test
Peter Zijlstra provided me with a nice brown paper bag while letting me know
that I was doing a logical AND and not a binary one, making a condition
true more often than it should be.

Luckily, a false true is handled by the calling function and no harm is
done. But this needs to be fixed regardless.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:39 +02:00
Michael Ellerman a6168353d1 ftrace: make output nicely spaced for up to 999 cpus
Currently some of the ftrace output goes skewiff if you have more
than 9 cpus, and some if you have more than 99.

Twiddle with the headers and format strings to make up to 999 cpus
display without causing spacing problems.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 2ff01c6a17 stack tracer: depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:31 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 1b6cced6ec ftrace: stack trace add indexes
This patch adds indexes into the stack that the functions in the
stack dump were found at. As an added bonus, I also added a diff
to show which function is the most notorious consumer of the stack.

The output now looks like this:

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
        Depth   Size      Location    (48 entries)
        -----   ----      --------
  0)     2476     212   blk_recount_segments+0x39/0x59
  1)     2264      12   bio_phys_segments+0x16/0x1d
  2)     2252      20   blk_rq_bio_prep+0x23/0xaf
  3)     2232      12   init_request_from_bio+0x74/0x77
  4)     2220      56   __make_request+0x294/0x331
  5)     2164     136   generic_make_request+0x34f/0x37d
  6)     2028      56   submit_bio+0xe7/0xef
  7)     1972      28   submit_bh+0xd1/0xf0
  8)     1944     112   block_read_full_page+0x299/0x2a9
  9)     1832       8   blkdev_readpage+0x14/0x16
 10)     1824      28   read_cache_page_async+0x7e/0x109
 11)     1796      16   read_cache_page+0x11/0x49
 12)     1780      32   read_dev_sector+0x3c/0x72
 13)     1748      48   read_lba+0x4d/0xaa
 14)     1700     168   efi_partition+0x85/0x61b
 15)     1532      72   rescan_partitions+0x10e/0x266
 16)     1460      40   do_open+0x1c7/0x24e
 17)     1420     292   __blkdev_get+0x79/0x84
 18)     1128      12   blkdev_get+0x12/0x14
 19)     1116      20   register_disk+0xd1/0x11e
 20)     1096      28   add_disk+0x34/0x90
 21)     1068      52   sd_probe+0x2b1/0x366
 22)     1016      20   driver_probe_device+0xa5/0x120
 23)      996       8   __device_attach+0xd/0xf
 24)      988      32   bus_for_each_drv+0x3e/0x68
 25)      956      24   device_attach+0x56/0x6c
 26)      932      16   bus_attach_device+0x26/0x4d
 27)      916      64   device_add+0x380/0x4b4
 28)      852      28   scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0xa1/0x1c9
 29)      824     160   scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x919/0xa2a
 30)      664      36   __scsi_add_device+0x88/0xae
 31)      628      44   ata_scsi_scan_host+0x9e/0x21c
 32)      584      28   ata_host_register+0x1cb/0x1db
 33)      556      24   ata_host_activate+0x98/0xb5
 34)      532     192   ahci_init_one+0x9bd/0x9e9
 35)      340      20   pci_device_probe+0x3e/0x5e
 36)      320      20   driver_probe_device+0xa5/0x120
 37)      300      20   __driver_attach+0x3f/0x5e
 38)      280      36   bus_for_each_dev+0x40/0x62
 39)      244      12   driver_attach+0x19/0x1b
 40)      232      28   bus_add_driver+0x9c/0x1af
 41)      204      28   driver_register+0x76/0xd2
 42)      176      20   __pci_register_driver+0x44/0x71
 43)      156       8   ahci_init+0x14/0x16
 44)      148     100   _stext+0x42/0x122
 45)       48      20   kernel_init+0x175/0x1dc
 46)       28      28   kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

The first column is simply an index starting from the inner most function
and counting down to the outer most.

The next column is the location that the function was found on the stack.

The next column is the size of the stack for that function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:28 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 3b47bfc1fc ftrace: remove direct reference to mcount in trace code
The mcount record method of ftrace scans objdump for references to mcount.
Using mcount as the reference to test if the calls to mcount being replaced
are indeed calls to mcount, this use of mcount was also caught as a
location to change. Using a variable that points to the mcount address
moves this reference into the data section that is not scanned, and
we do not use a false location to try and modify.

The warn on code was what was used to detect this bug.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt e5a81b629e ftrace: add stack tracer
This is another tracer using the ftrace infrastructure, that examines
at each function call the size of the stack. If the stack use is greater
than the previous max it is recorded.

You can always see (and set) the max stack size seen. By setting it
to zero will start the recording again. The backtrace is also available.

For example:

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_max_size
1856

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
[<c027764d>] stack_trace_call+0x8f/0x101
[<c021b966>] ftrace_call+0x5/0x8
[<c02553cc>] clocksource_get_next+0x12/0x48
[<c02542a5>] update_wall_time+0x538/0x6d1
[<c0245913>] do_timer+0x23/0xb0
[<c0257657>] tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xd9/0xf1
[<c02576b9>] tick_sched_timer+0x4a/0xad
[<c0250fe6>] __run_hrtimer+0x3e/0x75
[<c02518ed>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xf1/0x154
[<c022c870>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x71/0x84
[<c021b7e9>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x2d/0x34
[<c0238597>] finish_task_switch+0x29/0xa0
[<c05abd13>] schedule+0x765/0x7be
[<c05abfca>] schedule_timeout+0x1b/0x90
[<c05ab4d4>] wait_for_common+0xab/0x101
[<c05ab5ac>] wait_for_completion+0x12/0x14
[<c033cfc3>] blk_execute_rq+0x84/0x99
[<c0402470>] scsi_execute+0xc2/0x105
[<c040250a>] scsi_execute_req+0x57/0x7f
[<c043afe0>] sr_test_unit_ready+0x3e/0x97
[<c043bbd6>] sr_media_change+0x43/0x205
[<c046b59f>] media_changed+0x48/0x77
[<c046b5ff>] cdrom_media_changed+0x31/0x37
[<c043b091>] sr_block_media_changed+0x16/0x18
[<c02b9e69>] check_disk_change+0x1b/0x63
[<c046f4c3>] cdrom_open+0x7a1/0x806
[<c043b148>] sr_block_open+0x78/0x8d
[<c02ba4c0>] do_open+0x90/0x257
[<c02ba869>] blkdev_open+0x2d/0x56
[<c0296a1f>] __dentry_open+0x14d/0x23c
[<c0296b32>] nameidata_to_filp+0x24/0x38
[<c02a1c68>] do_filp_open+0x347/0x626
[<c02967ef>] do_sys_open+0x47/0xbc
[<c02968b0>] sys_open+0x23/0x2b
[<c021aadd>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26

I've tested this on both x86_64 and i386.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ac8825ec6d ftrace: clean up macro usage
enclose the argument in parenthesis. (especially since we cast it,
which is a high prio operation)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:09 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell 2d7da80f71 ftrace: fix build failure
After disabling FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD via a patch, a dormant build
failure surfaced:

 kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_record_ip':
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:416: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '_spin_lock_irqsave'
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:433: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '_spin_lock_irqsave'

Introduced by commit 6dad8e07f4c10b17b038e84d29f3ca41c2e55cd0 ("ftrace:
add necessary locking for ftrace records").

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:06 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 99ecdc43bc ftrace: add necessary locking for ftrace records
The new design of pre-recorded mcounts and updating the code outside of
kstop_machine has changed the way the records themselves are protected.

This patch uses the ftrace_lock to protect the records. Note, the lock
still does not need to be taken within calls that are only called via
kstop_machine, since the that code can not run while the spin lock is held.

Also removed the hash_lock needed for the daemon when MCOUNT_RECORD is
configured. Also did a slight cleanup of an unused variable.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:47 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 00fd61aee1 ftrace: do not init module on ftrace disabled
If one of the self tests of ftrace has disabled the function tracer,
do not run the code to convert the mcount calls in modules.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:43 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker 98a983aad2 ftrace: fix some mistakes in error messages
This patch fixes some mistakes on the tracer in warning messages when
debugfs fails to create tracing files.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:40 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 3f5a54e371 ftrace: dump out ftrace buffers to console on panic
At OLS I had a lot of interest to be able to have the ftrace buffers
dumped on panic.  Usually one would expect to uses kexec and examine
the buffers after a new kernel is loaded. But sometimes the resources
do not permit kdump and kexec, so having an option to still see the
sequence of events up to the crash is very advantageous.

This patch adds the option to have the ftrace buffers dumped to the
console in the latency_trace format on a panic. When the option is set,
the default entries per CPU buffer are lowered to 16384, since the writing
to the serial (if that is the console) may take an awful long time
otherwise.

[
 Changes since -v1:
  Got alpine to send correctly (as well as spell check working).
  Removed config option.
  Moved the static variables into ftrace_dump itself.
  Gave printk a log level.
]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:26 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 2f2c99dba2 ftrace: ftrace_printk doc moved
Based on Randy Dunlap's suggestion, the ftrace_printk kernel-doc belongs
with the ftrace_printk macro that should be used. Not with the
__ftrace_printk internal function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt dd0e545f06 ftrace: printk formatting infrastructure
This patch adds a feature that can help kernel developers debug their
code using ftrace.

  int ftrace_printk(const char *fmt, ...);

This records into the ftrace buffer using printf formatting. The entry
size in the buffers are still a fixed length. A new type has been added
that allows for more entries to be used for a single recording.

The start of the print is still the same as the other entries.

It returns the number of characters written to the ftrace buffer.

For example:

Having a module with the following code:

static int __init ftrace_print_test(void)
{
        ftrace_printk("jiffies are %ld\n", jiffies);
        return 0;
}

Gives me:

  insmod-5441  3...1 7569us : ftrace_print_test: jiffies are 4296626666

for the latency_trace file and:

          insmod-5441  [03]  1959.370498: ftrace_print_test jiffies are 4296626666

for the trace file.

Note: Only the infrastructure should go into the kernel. It is to help
facilitate debugging for other kernel developers. Calls to ftrace_printk
is not intended to be left in the kernel, and should be frowned upon just
like scattering printks around in the code.

But having this easily at your fingertips helps the debugging go faster
and bugs be solved quicker.

Maybe later on, we can hook this with markers and have their printf format
be sucked into ftrace output.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 2e2ca155cd ftrace: new continue entry - separate out from trace_entry
Some tracers will need to work with more than one entry. In order to do this
the trace_entry structure was split into two fields. One for the start of
all entries, and one to continue an existing entry.

The trace_entry structure now has a "field" entry that consists of the previous
content of the trace_entry, and a "cont" entry that is just a string buffer
the size of the "field" entry.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting this idea.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:15 +02:00
Steven Rostedt fed1939c64 ftrace: remove old pointers to mcount
When a mcount pointer is recorded into a table, it is used to add or
remove calls to mcount (replacing them with nops). If the code is removed
via removing a module, the pointers still exist.  At modifying the code
a check is always made to make sure the code being replaced is the code
expected. In-other-words, the code being replaced is compared to what
it is expected to be before being replaced.

There is a very small chance that the code being replaced just happens
to look like code that calls mcount (very small since the call to mcount
is relative). To remove this chance, this patch adds ftrace_release to
allow module unloading to remove the pointers to mcount within the module.

Another change for init calls is made to not trace calls marked with
__init. The tracing can not be started until after init is done anyway.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:12 +02:00
Steven Rostedt a9fdda33cd ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions
Seems that freed records can appear in the available_filter_functions list.
This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:05 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 90d595fe5c ftrace: enable mcount recording for modules
This patch enables the loading of the __mcount_section of modules and
changing all the callers of mcount into nops.

The modification is done before the init_module function is called, so
again, we do not need to use kstop_machine to make these changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:47 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 68bf21aa15 ftrace: mcount call site on boot nops core
This is the infrastructure to the converting the mcount call sites
recorded by the __mcount_loc section into nops on boot. It also allows
for using these sites to enable tracing as normal. When the __mcount_loc
section is used, the "ftraced" kernel thread is disabled.

This uses the current infrastructure to record the mcount call sites
as well as convert them to nops. The mcount function is kept as a stub
on boot up and not converted to the ftrace_record_ip function. We use the
ftrace_record_ip to only record from the table.

This patch does not handle modules. That comes with a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:44 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 8da3821ba5 ftrace: create __mcount_loc section
This patch creates a section in the kernel called "__mcount_loc".
This will hold a list of pointers to the mcount relocation for
each call site of mcount.

For example:

objdump -dr init/main.o
[...]
Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <do_one_initcall>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
[...]
000000000000017b <init_post>:
 17b:   55                      push   %rbp
 17c:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
 17f:   53                      push   %rbx
 180:   48 83 ec 08             sub    $0x8,%rsp
 184:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  189 <init_post+0xe>
                        185: R_X86_64_PC32      mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc
[...]

We will add a section to point to each function call.

   .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
[...]
   .quad .text + 0x185
[...]

The offset to of the mcount call site in init_post is an offset from
the start of the section, and not the start of the function init_post.
The mcount relocation is at the call site 0x185 from the start of the
.text section.

  .text + 0x185  == init_post + 0xa

We need a way to add this __mcount_loc section in a way that we do not
lose the relocations after final link.  The .text section here will
be attached to all other .text sections after final link and the
offsets will be meaningless.  We need to keep track of where these
.text sections are.

To do this, we use the start of the first function in the section.
do_one_initcall.  We can make a tmp.s file with this function as a reference
to the start of the .text section.

   .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
[...]
   .quad do_one_initcall + 0x185
[...]

Then we can compile the tmp.s into a tmp.o

  gcc -c tmp.s -o tmp.o

And link it into back into main.o.

  ld -r main.o tmp.o -o tmp_main.o
  mv tmp_main.o main.o

But we have a problem.  What happens if the first function in a section
is not exported, and is a static function. The linker will not let
the tmp.o use it.  This case exists in main.o as well.

Disassembly of section .init.text:

0000000000000000 <set_reset_devices>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
   1:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
   4:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  9 <set_reset_devices+0x9>
                        5: R_X86_64_PC32        mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc

The first function in .init.text is a static function.

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices

The lowercase 't' means that set_reset_devices is local and is not exported.
If we simply try to link the tmp.o with the set_reset_devices we end
up with two symbols: one local and one global.

 .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
 .quad set_reset_devices + 0x10

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices
                 U set_reset_devices

We still have an undefined reference to set_reset_devices, and if we try
to compile the kernel, we will end up with an undefined reference to
set_reset_devices, or even worst, it could be exported someplace else,
and then we will have a reference to the wrong location.

To handle this case, we make an intermediate step using objcopy.
We convert set_reset_devices into a global exported symbol before linking
it with tmp.o and set it back afterwards.

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices

Now we have a section in main.o called __mcount_loc that we can place
somewhere in the kernel using vmlinux.ld.S and access it to convert
all these locations that call mcount into nops before starting SMP
and thus, eliminating the need to do this with kstop_machine.

Note, A well documented perl script (scripts/recordmcount.pl) is used
to do all this in one location.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 36dcd67ae9 ftrace: ignore functions that cannot be kprobe-ed
kprobes already has an extensive list of annotations for functions
that should not be instrumented. Add notrace annotations to these
functions as well.

This is particularly useful for functions called by the NMI path.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:22 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 9795302acf tracepoints: use TABLE_SIZE macro
Steven Rostedt suggested:

| Wouldn't it look nicer to have: (TRACEPOINT_TABLE_SIZE - 1) ?

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5f87f11218 tracing: clean up tracepoints kconfig structure
do not expose users to CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS - tracers can select it
just fine.

update ftrace to select CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:33:32 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers b07c3f193a ftrace: port to tracepoints
Porting the trace_mark() used by ftrace to tracepoints. (cleanup)

Changelog :
- Change error messages : marker -> tracepoint

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:32:26 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 0a16b60758 tracing, sched: LTTng instrumentation - scheduler
Instrument the scheduler activity (sched_switch, migration, wakeups,
wait for a task, signal delivery) and process/thread
creation/destruction (fork, exit, kthread stop). Actually, kthread
creation is not instrumented in this patch because it is architecture
dependent. It allows to connect tracers such as ftrace which detects
scheduling latencies, good/bad scheduler decisions. Tools like LTTng can
export this scheduler information along with instrumentation of the rest
of the kernel activity to perform post-mortem analysis on the scheduler
activity.

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added. See the "Tracepoints" patch header for
performance result detail.

Changelog :

- Change instrumentation location and parameter to match ftrace
  instrumentation, previously done with kernel markers.

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:30:52 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 97e1c18e8d tracing: Kernel Tracepoints
Implementation of kernel tracepoints. Inspired from the Linux Kernel
Markers. Allows complete typing verification by declaring both tracing
statement inline functions and probe registration/unregistration static
inline functions within the same macro "DEFINE_TRACE". No format string
is required. See the tracepoint Documentation and Samples patches for
usage examples.

Taken from the documentation patch :

"A tracepoint placed in code provides a hook to call a function (probe)
that you can provide at runtime. A tracepoint can be "on" (a probe is
connected to it) or "off" (no probe is attached). When a tracepoint is
"off" it has no effect, except for adding a tiny time penalty (checking
a condition for a branch) and space penalty (adding a few bytes for the
function call at the end of the instrumented function and adds a data
structure in a separate section).  When a tracepoint is "on", the
function you provide is called each time the tracepoint is executed, in
the execution context of the caller. When the function provided ends its
execution, it returns to the caller (continuing from the tracepoint
site).

You can put tracepoints at important locations in the code. They are
lightweight hooks that can pass an arbitrary number of parameters, which
prototypes are described in a tracepoint declaration placed in a header
file."

Addition and removal of tracepoints is synchronized by RCU using the
scheduler (and preempt_disable) as guarantees to find a quiescent state
(this is really RCU "classic"). The update side uses rcu_barrier_sched()
with call_rcu_sched() and the read/execute side uses
"preempt_disable()/preempt_enable()".

We make sure the previous array containing probes, which has been
scheduled for deletion by the rcu callback, is indeed freed before we
proceed to the next update. It therefore limits the rate of modification
of a single tracepoint to one update per RCU period. The objective here
is to permit fast batch add/removal of probes on _different_
tracepoints.

Changelog :
- Use #name ":" #proto as string to identify the tracepoint in the
  tracepoint table. This will make sure not type mismatch happens due to
  connexion of a probe with the wrong type to a tracepoint declared with
  the same name in a different header.
- Add tracepoint_entry_free_old.
- Change __TO_TRACE to get rid of the 'i' iterator.

Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> :
Tested on x86-64.

Performance impact of a tracepoint : same as markers, except that it
adds about 70 bytes of instructions in an unlikely branch of each
instrumented function (the for loop, the stack setup and the function
call). It currently adds a memory read, a test and a conditional branch
at the instrumentation site (in the hot path). Immediate values will
eventually change this into a load immediate, test and branch, which
removes the memory read which will make the i-cache impact smaller
(changing the memory read for a load immediate removes 3-4 bytes per
site on x86_32 (depending on mov prefixes), or 7-8 bytes on x86_64, it
also saves the d-cache hit).

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added.

Quoting Hideo Aoki about Markers :

I evaluated overhead of kernel marker using linux-2.6-sched-fixes git
tree, which includes several markers for LTTng, using an ia64 server.

While the immediate trace mark feature isn't implemented on ia64, there
is no major performance regression. So, I think that we don't have any
issues to propose merging marker point patches into Linus's tree from
the viewpoint of performance impact.

I prepared two kernels to evaluate. The first one was compiled without
CONFIG_MARKERS. The second one was enabled CONFIG_MARKERS.

I downloaded the original hackbench from the following URL:
http://devresources.linux-foundation.org/craiger/hackbench/src/hackbench.c

I ran hackbench 5 times in each condition and calculated the average and
difference between the kernels.

    The parameter of hackbench: every 50 from 50 to 800
    The number of CPUs of the server: 2, 4, and 8

Below is the results. As you can see, major performance regression
wasn't found in any case. Even if number of processes increases,
differences between marker-enabled kernel and marker- disabled kernel
doesn't increase. Moreover, if number of CPUs increases, the differences
doesn't increase either.

Curiously, marker-enabled kernel is better than marker-disabled kernel
in more than half cases, although I guess it comes from the difference
of memory access pattern.

* 2 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      4.811   |       4.872  |  +0.061  |  +1.27  |
      100 |      9.854   |      10.309  |  +0.454  |  +4.61  |
      150 |     15.602   |      15.040  |  -0.562  |  -3.6   |
      200 |     20.489   |      20.380  |  -0.109  |  -0.53  |
      250 |     25.798   |      25.652  |  -0.146  |  -0.56  |
      300 |     31.260   |      30.797  |  -0.463  |  -1.48  |
      350 |     36.121   |      35.770  |  -0.351  |  -0.97  |
      400 |     42.288   |      42.102  |  -0.186  |  -0.44  |
      450 |     47.778   |      47.253  |  -0.526  |  -1.1   |
      500 |     51.953   |      52.278  |  +0.325  |  +0.63  |
      550 |     58.401   |      57.700  |  -0.701  |  -1.2   |
      600 |     63.334   |      63.222  |  -0.112  |  -0.18  |
      650 |     68.816   |      68.511  |  -0.306  |  -0.44  |
      700 |     74.667   |      74.088  |  -0.579  |  -0.78  |
      750 |     78.612   |      79.582  |  +0.970  |  +1.23  |
      800 |     85.431   |      85.263  |  -0.168  |  -0.2   |
--------------------------------------------------------------

* 4 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      2.586   |       2.584  |  -0.003  |  -0.1   |
      100 |      5.254   |       5.283  |  +0.030  |  +0.56  |
      150 |      8.012   |       8.074  |  +0.061  |  +0.76  |
      200 |     11.172   |      11.000  |  -0.172  |  -1.54  |
      250 |     13.917   |      14.036  |  +0.119  |  +0.86  |
      300 |     16.905   |      16.543  |  -0.362  |  -2.14  |
      350 |     19.901   |      20.036  |  +0.135  |  +0.68  |
      400 |     22.908   |      23.094  |  +0.186  |  +0.81  |
      450 |     26.273   |      26.101  |  -0.172  |  -0.66  |
      500 |     29.554   |      29.092  |  -0.461  |  -1.56  |
      550 |     32.377   |      32.274  |  -0.103  |  -0.32  |
      600 |     35.855   |      35.322  |  -0.533  |  -1.49  |
      650 |     39.192   |      38.388  |  -0.804  |  -2.05  |
      700 |     41.744   |      41.719  |  -0.025  |  -0.06  |
      750 |     45.016   |      44.496  |  -0.520  |  -1.16  |
      800 |     48.212   |      47.603  |  -0.609  |  -1.26  |
--------------------------------------------------------------

* 8 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      2.094   |       2.072  |  -0.022  |  -1.07  |
      100 |      4.162   |       4.273  |  +0.111  |  +2.66  |
      150 |      6.485   |       6.540  |  +0.055  |  +0.84  |
      200 |      8.556   |       8.478  |  -0.078  |  -0.91  |
      250 |     10.458   |      10.258  |  -0.200  |  -1.91  |
      300 |     12.425   |      12.750  |  +0.325  |  +2.62  |
      350 |     14.807   |      14.839  |  +0.032  |  +0.22  |
      400 |     16.801   |      16.959  |  +0.158  |  +0.94  |
      450 |     19.478   |      19.009  |  -0.470  |  -2.41  |
      500 |     21.296   |      21.504  |  +0.208  |  +0.98  |
      550 |     23.842   |      23.979  |  +0.137  |  +0.57  |
      600 |     26.309   |      26.111  |  -0.198  |  -0.75  |
      650 |     28.705   |      28.446  |  -0.259  |  -0.9   |
      700 |     31.233   |      31.394  |  +0.161  |  +0.52  |
      750 |     34.064   |      33.720  |  -0.344  |  -1.01  |
      800 |     36.320   |      36.114  |  -0.206  |  -0.57  |
--------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:28:28 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 20272c8994 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
  proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
  proc: remove now unneeded ADDBUF macro
  [PATCH] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality
  [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
  proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig
  proc: make grab_header() static
  proc: remove unused get_dma_list()
  proc: remove dummy vmcore_open()
  proc: proc_sys_root tweak
  proc: fix return value of proc_reg_open() in "too late" case

Fixed up trivial conflict in removed file arch/sparc/include/asm/dma_32.h
2008-10-13 10:04:04 -07:00
Alan Cox dbda4c0b97 tty: Fix abusers of current->sighand->tty
Various people outside the tty layer still stick their noses in behind the
scenes. We need to make sure they also obey the locking and referencing rules.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:42 -07:00
Alan Cox 95f9bfc6b7 tty: Move tty_write_message out of kernel/printk
This is pure tty code so put it in the tty layer where it can be with the
locking relevant material it uses

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:41 -07:00
Alan Cox 9c9f4ded90 tty: Add a kref count
Introduce a kref to the tty structure and use it to protect the tty->signal
tty references. For now we don't introduce it for anything else.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:40 -07:00
David S. Miller 56c5d900db Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	sound/core/memalloc.c
2008-10-11 12:39:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ead9d23d80 Merge phase #4 (X2APIC, APIC unification, CPU identification unification) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (186 commits)
  x86, debug: print more information about unknown CPUs
  x86 setup: handle more than 8 CPU flag words
  x86: cpuid, fix typo
  x86: move transmeta cap read to early_init_transmeta()
  x86: identify_cpu_without_cpuid v2
  x86: extended "flags" to show virtualization HW feature in /proc/cpuinfo
  x86: move VMX MSRs to msr-index.h
  x86: centaur_64.c remove duplicated setting of CONSTANT_TSC
  x86: intel.c put workaround for old cpus together
  x86: let intel 64-bit use intel.c
  x86: make intel_64.c the same as intel.c
  x86: make intel.c have 64-bit support code
  x86: little clean up of intel.c/intel_64.c
  x86: make 64 bit to use amd.c
  x86: make amd_64 have 32 bit code
  x86: make amd.c have 64bit support code
  x86: merge header in amd_64.c
  x86: add srat_detect_node for amd64
  x86: remove duplicated force_mwait
  x86: cpu make amd.c more like amd_64.c v2
  ...
2008-10-11 11:51:16 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 0afe2db213 Merge branch 'x86/unify-cpu-detect' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
2008-10-11 20:23:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d84705969f Merge branch 'x86/apic' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
	drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-11 20:17:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds bf6f51e3a4 Merge phase #3 (IOMMU) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (74 commits)
  AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index, fix
  AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index
  x86: add PCI IDs for AMD Barcelona PCI devices
  x86/iommu: use __GFP_ZERO instead of memset for GART
  x86/iommu: convert GART need_flush to bool
  x86/iommu: make GART driver checkpatch clean
  x86 gart: remove unnecessary initialization
  x86: restore old GART alloc_coherent behavior
  revert "x86: make GART to respect device's dma_mask about virtual mappings"
  x86: export pci-nommu's alloc_coherent
  iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option
  x86: remove set_bit_string()
  iommu: export iommu_area_reserve helper function
  AMD IOMMU: use coherent_dma_mask in alloc_coherent
  add AMD IOMMU tree to MAINTAINERS file
  AMD IOMMU: use cmd_buf_size when freeing the command buffer
  AMD IOMMU: calculate IVHD size with a function
  AMD IOMMU: remove unnecessary cast to u64 in the init code
  AMD IOMMU: free domain bitmap with its allocation order
  AMD IOMMU: simplify dma_mask_to_pages
  ...
2008-10-11 11:03:12 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 5b16a2212f Merge branch 'sched/clock' into sched/urgent 2008-10-11 18:50:45 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 098ef215b1 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
  [CPUFREQ] Don't export governors for default governor
  [CPUFREQ][6/6] cpufreq: Add idle microaccounting in ondemand governor
  [CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand governor
  [CPUFREQ][4/6] cpufreq_ondemand: Parameterize down differential
  [CPUFREQ][3/6] cpufreq: get_cpu_idle_time() changes in ondemand for idle-microaccounting
  [CPUFREQ][2/6] cpufreq: Change load calculation in ondemand for software coordination
  [CPUFREQ][1/6] cpufreq: Add cpu number parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg()
  [CPUFREQ] use deferrable delayed work init in conservative governor
  [CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: Adjust error handling code involving cpufreq_cpu_put
  [CPUFREQ] add error handling for cpufreq_register_governor() error
  [CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: add error handling for cpufreq_register_driver() error
  [CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k6.c
  [CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c
2008-10-11 08:49:34 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 061b1bd394 Staging: add TAINT_CRAP for all drivers/staging code
We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/
directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about
issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good
as they are normally used to.

Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a
TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell
enterprise kernel release.

This is the kernel portion of this feature, the ability for the flag to
be set needs to be done in the build process and will happen in a
follow-up patch.

Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-10 15:31:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b922df7383 Merge branch 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits)
  rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
  rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
  rcu: add rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched()
  rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
  doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt
  rcuclassic: fix compiler warning
  rcu: use irq-safe locks
  rcuclassic: fix compilation NG
  rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout
  rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.c
  rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem
  rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
  rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro
  rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu()
  rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.h
  rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
  rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU
  rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups
  rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods
  rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2)
  ...
2008-10-10 13:10:51 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 725c25819e Merge branches 'core/iommu', 'x86/amd-iommu' and 'x86/iommu' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-10 19:47:12 +02:00
Dave Kleikamp 5b7dba4ff8 sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards
When sched_clock_cpu() couples the clocks between two cpus, it may
increment scd->clock beyond the GTOD tick window that __update_sched_clock()
uses to clamp the clock.  A later call to __update_sched_clock() may move
the clock back to scd->tick_gtod + TICK_NSEC, violating the clock's
monotonic property.

This patch ensures that scd->clock will not be set backward.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-10 11:17:04 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan 3bbfe05967 proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
After commit 831830b5a2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
2008-10-10 04:24:51 +04:00
Lai Jiangshan a6bebbc87a [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
lock_task_sighand() make sure task->sighand is being protected,
so we do not need rcu_read_lock().
[ exec() will get task->sighand->siglock before change task->sighand! ]

But code using rcu_read_lock() _just_ to protect lock_task_sighand()
only appear in procfs. (and some code in procfs use lock_task_sighand()
without such redundant protection.)

Other subsystem may put lock_task_sighand() into rcu_read_lock()
critical region, but these rcu_read_lock() are used for protecting
"for_each_process()", "find_task_by_vpid()" etc. , not for protecting
lock_task_sighand().

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
[ok from Oleg]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-10 04:18:57 +04:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 8083e4ad97 [CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand governor
export get_cpu_idle_time_us() for it to be used in ondemand governor.
Last update time can be current time when the CPU is currently non-idle,
accounting for the busy time since last idle.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:44 -04:00
Ingo Molnar a5d8c3483a sched debug: add name to sched_domain sysctl entries
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/name, to make
it easier to see which specific scheduler domain remained at
that entry.

Since we process the scheduler domain tree and
simplify it, it's not always immediately clear during debugging
which domain came from where.

depends on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-09 17:13:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar cdbb92b31d Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu 2008-10-09 00:17:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 2fb7635c4c sched: sync wakeups vs avg_overlap
While looking at the code I wondered why we always do:

  sync && avg_overlap < migration_cost

Which is a bit odd, since the overlap test was meant to detect sync wakeups
so using it to specialize sync wakeups doesn't make much sense.

Hence change the code to do:

  sync || avg_overlap < migration_cost

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-08 12:20:26 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 990d0f2ced Merge branches 'sched/devel', 'sched/cpu-hotplug', 'sched/cpusets' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-10-08 11:31:02 +02:00
Jason Wessel cc1e0f4f7a kgdb: call touch_softlockup_watchdog on resume
The softlockup watchdog needs to be touched when resuming the from the
kgdb stopped state to avoid the printk that a CPU is stuck if the
debugger was active for longer than the softlockup threshold.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-10-06 13:50:59 -05:00
Li Zefan 34b3ede235 sched: remove redundant code in cpu_cgroup_create()
css will be initialized by cgroup core.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-06 08:13:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 2c10c22af0 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-10-06 08:13:18 +02:00
Dario Faggioli f6121f4f87 sched_rt.c: resch needed in rt_rq_enqueue() for the root rt_rq
While working on the new version of the code for SCHED_SPORADIC I
noticed something strange in the present throttling mechanism. More
specifically in the throttling timer handler in sched_rt.c
(do_sched_rt_period_timer()) and in rt_rq_enqueue().

The problem is that, when unthrottling a runqueue, rt_rq_enqueue() only
asks for rescheduling if the runqueue has a sched_entity associated to
it (i.e., rt_rq->rt_se != NULL).
Now, if the runqueue is the root rq (which has a rt_se = NULL)
rescheduling does not take place, and it is delayed to some undefined
instant in the future.

This imply some random bandwidth usage by the RT tasks under throttling.
For instance, setting rt_runtime_us/rt_period_us = 950ms/1000ms an RT
task will get less than 95%. In our tests we got something varying
between 70% to 95%.
Using smaller time values, e.g., 95ms/100ms, things are even worse, and
I can see values also going down to 20-25%!!

The tests we performed are simply running 'yes' as a SCHED_FIFO task,
and checking the CPU usage with top, but we can investigate thoroughly
if you think it is needed.

Things go much better, for us, with the attached patch... Don't know if
it is the best approach, but it solved the issue for us.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-04 14:31:54 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 07454bfff1 clockevents: check broadcast tick device not the clock events device
Impact: jiffies increment too fast.

Hugh Dickins noted that with NOHZ=n and HIGHRES=n jiffies get
incremented too fast. The reason is a wrong check in the broadcast
enter/exit code, which keeps the local apic timer in periodic mode
when the switch happens.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-04 10:51:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker d294eb83d8 cpusets: scan_for_empty_cpusets(), cpuset doesn't seem to be so const
This fixes a warning on latest -tip:

 kernel/cpuset.c: Dans la fonction «scan_for_empty_cpusets» :
 kernel/cpuset.c:1932: attention : passing argument 1 of «list_add_tail» discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Actually the struct cpuset *root passed in parameter to scan_for_empty_cpusets
is not supposed to be const since an entry is added on the tail of its list.
Just correct the qualifier.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 13:39:50 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 77af7e3403 softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning
Last -tip gives this warning:

kernel/softirq.c: Dans la fonction «__do_softirq» :
kernel/softirq.c:216: attention : format «%ld» expects type «long int», but argument 2 has type «int»

This patch corrects the format type, and a small mistake in the "softirq" word.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 11:41:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 2ec2b482b1 rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
fix the !CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR path:

 kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_pending':
 kernel/rcuclassic.c:609: error: too few arguments to function 'check_cpu_stall'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 10:41:00 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 2133b5d7ff rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU.  This capability
is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which
defaults disabled.

This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not
something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about.

This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs
with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds.  This is essentially a port of
this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch
that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4).

The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config
variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to
avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature
is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 10:36:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar b5259d9442 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcu 2008-10-03 10:34:36 +02:00
Dan Carpenter aa94fbd5cc fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()
Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-02 15:53:13 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 8e85b4b553 softirqs, debug: preemption check
if a preempt count leaks out of a softirq handler it can be very hard
to figure it out. Add a debug check for this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-02 10:58:04 +02:00
David Brownell 0c5d1eb77a genirq: record trigger type
Genirq hasn't previously recorded the trigger type used by any given IRQ,
although some irq_chip support has done so.  That data can be useful when
troubleshooting.  This patch records it in the relevant irq_desc.status
bits, and improves consistency between the two driver-visible calls
affected:

 - Make set_irq_type() usage match request_irq() usage:
    * IRQ_TYPE_NONE should be a NOP; succeed, so irq_chip methods
      won't have to handle that case any more (many do it wrong).
    * IRQ_TYPE_PROBE is ignored; any buggy out-of-tree callers
      might need to switch over to the real IRQ probing code.
    * emit the same diagnostics (from shared utility code)

 - Their kerneldoc now reflects usage:
    * request_irq() flags include IRQF_TRIGGER_* to specify
      active edge(s)/level ... docs previously omitted that
    * set_irq_type() is declared in <linux/irq.h> so callers
      should use the (bit-equivalent) IRQ_TYPE_* symbols there

Also: adds a warning about shared IRQs that don't end up using the
requested trigger mode; and fix an unrelated "sparse" warning.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-02 10:24:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d6d5aeb661 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into genirq 2008-10-02 10:21:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds cf4b0b2c95 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:
  hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers
  hrtimer: mark migration state
  hrtimer: fix migration of CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ hrtimers
  hrtimer: migrate pending list on cpu offline

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-09-30 08:39:28 -07:00
Amit K. Arora 64b9e0294d sched: minor optimizations in wake_affine and select_task_rq_fair
This patch does following:
o Removes unused variable and argument "rq".
o Optimizes one of the "if" conditions in wake_affine() - i.e.  if
  "balanced" is true, we need not do rest of the calculations in the
  condition.
o If this cpu is same as the previous cpu (on which woken up task
  was running when it went to sleep), no need to call wake_affine at all.

Signed-off-by: Amit K Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-30 15:25:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1508487e7f timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix
fix bogus rq dereference: v3 removed the locking but also removed the rq
initialization.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-30 08:28:17 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni bfcd17a6c5 Configure out file locking features
This patch adds the CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING option which allows to remove
support for advisory locks. With this patch enabled, the flock()
system call, the F_GETLK, F_SETLK and F_SETLKW operations of fcntl()
and NFS support are disabled. These features are not necessarly needed
on embedded systems. It allows to save ~11 Kb of kernel code and data:

   text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
1125436        118764  212992 1457192  163c28 vmlinux.old
1114299        118564  212992 1445855  160fdf vmlinux
 -11137    -200       0  -11337   -2C49 +/-

This patch has originally been written by Matt Mackall
<mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: matthew@wil.cx
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpm@selenic.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-09-29 17:56:57 -04:00
Balbir Singh 31a78f23ba mm owner: fix race between swapoff and exit
There's a race between mm->owner assignment and swapoff, more easily
seen when task slab poisoning is turned on.  The condition occurs when
try_to_unuse() runs in parallel with an exiting task.  A similar race
can occur with callers of get_task_mm(), such as /proc/<pid>/<mmstats>
or ptrace or page migration.

CPU0                                    CPU1
                                        try_to_unuse
                                        looks at mm = task0->mm
                                        increments mm->mm_users
task 0 exits
mm->owner needs to be updated, but no
new owner is found (mm_users > 1, but
no other task has task->mm = task0->mm)
mm_update_next_owner() leaves
                                        mmput(mm) decrements mm->mm_users
task0 freed
                                        dereferencing mm->owner fails

The fix is to notify the subsystem via mm_owner_changed callback(),
if no new owner is found, by specifying the new task as NULL.

Jiri Slaby:
mm->owner was set to NULL prior to calling cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(), but
must be set after that, so as not to pass NULL as old owner causing oops.

Daisuke Nishimura:
mm_update_next_owner() may set mm->owner to NULL, but mem_cgroup_from_task()
and its callers need to take account of this situation to avoid oops.

Hugh Dickins:
Lockdep warning and hang below exec_mmap() when testing these patches.
exit_mm() up_reads mmap_sem before calling mm_update_next_owner(),
so exec_mmap() now needs to do the same.  And with that repositioning,
there's now no point in mm_need_new_owner() allowing for NULL mm.

Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-29 08:41:47 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner ccc7dadf73 hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers
Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU

The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to
prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is
active at migration time.

Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable
mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which
is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner b00c1a99e7 hrtimer: mark migration state
Impact: during migration active hrtimers can be seen as inactive

The migration code removes the hrtimers from the queues of the dead
CPU and sets the state temporary to INACTIVE. The enqueue code sets it
to ACTIVE/PENDING again.

Prevent that the wrong state can be seen by using a separate migration
state bit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 41e1022eae hrtimer: fix migration of CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ hrtimers
Impact: Stale timers after a CPU went offline.

commit 37bb6cb409
       hrtimer: unlock hrtimer_wakeup

changed the hrtimer sleeper callback mode to CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ due
to locking problems. A result of this change is that when enqueue is
called for an already expired hrtimer the callback function is not
longer called directly from the enqueue code. The normal callers have
been fixed in the code, but the migration code which moves hrtimers
from a dead CPU to a live CPU was not made aware of this.

This can be fixed by checking the timer state after the call to
enqueue in the migration code.


Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 7659e34967 hrtimer: migrate pending list on cpu offline
Impact: hrtimers which are on the pending list are not migrated at cpu
	offline and can be stale forever

Add the pending list migration when CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is enabled

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:13 +02:00
Frank Mayhar 7086efe1c1 timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v3
- fix UP lockup
- another set of UP/SMP cleanups and simplifications

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-27 20:04:45 +02:00
Jason Wessel d7161a6534 kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored
if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a
system call.

First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure
it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb,
any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the
exception.

On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was
inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb
core.  The arch specific stub should always set the
kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping.  This
allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace
happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26 10:36:41 -05:00
Atsuo Igarashi 18d6522b86 kgdb: could not write to the last of valid memory with kgdb
On the ARM architecture, kgdb will crash the kernel if the last byte
of valid memory is written due to a flush_icache_range flushing
beyond the memory boundary.

Signed-off-by: Atsuo Igarashi <atsuo_igarashi@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26 10:36:41 -05:00
Ingo Molnar 13eb83754b IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix
fix this build error:

 kernel/resource.c: In function 'iomem_map_sanity_check':
 kernel/resource.c:842: error: implicit declaration of function 'r_next'
 kernel/resource.c:842: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

r_next() was only available if CONFIG_PROCFS was enabled.

and fix this build warning:

 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'resource_size_t'
 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'resource_size_t'
 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'resource_size_t'

resource_t can be 32 bits.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-26 10:10:12 +02:00
Suresh Siddha 379daf6290 IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes
Go through the iomem resource tree to check if any of the ioremap()
requests span more than any slot in the iomem resource tree and do
a WARN_ON() if we hit this check.

This will raise a red-flag, if some driver is mapping more than what
is needed. And hopefully identify possible corruptions much earlier.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-26 09:42:20 +02:00
Bharata B Rao b87f17242d sched: maintain only task entities in cfs_rq->tasks list
cfs_rq->tasks list is used by the load balancer to iterate
over all the tasks. Currently it holds all the entities
(both task and group entities) because of which there is
a need to check for group entities explicitly during load
balancing. This patch changes the cfs_rq->tasks list to
hold only task entities.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-25 11:24:11 +02:00
Roman Zippel d40e944c25 ntp: improve adjtimex frequency rounding
Change PPM_SCALE_INV_SHIFT so that it doesn't throw away any input bits
(19 is the amount of the factor 2 in PPM_SCALE), the output frequency
can then be calculated back to its input value, as the inverse divide
produce a slightly larger value, which is then correctly rounded by the
final shift.

Reported-by: Martin Ziegler <ziegler@uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 17:33:13 +02:00
Roman Zippel 5cd1c9c5cf timekeeping: fix rounding problem during clock update
Due to a rounding problem during a clock update it's possible for readers
to observe the clock jumping back by 1nsec.  The following simplified
example demonstrates the problem:

cycle	xtime
0	0
1000	999999.6
2000	1999999.2
3000	2999998.8
...

1500 =	1499999.4
=	0.0 + 1499999.4
=	999999.6 + 499999.8

When reading the clock only the full nanosecond part is used, while
timekeeping internally keeps nanosecond fractions.  If the clock is now
updated at cycle 1500 here, a nanosecond is missing due to the truncation.

The simple fix is to round up the xtime value during the update, this also
changes the distance to the reference time, but the adjustment will
automatically take care that it stays under control.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 17:33:13 +02:00
Maciej W. Rozycki eb3f938fd6 ntp: let update_persistent_clock() sleep
This is a change that makes the 11-minute RTC update be run in the process
context.  This is so that update_persistent_clock() can sleep, which may
be required for certain types of RTC hardware -- most notably I2C devices.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 17:33:12 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 31d9284569 posix-timers: lock_timer: make it readable
Cleanup.  Imho makes the code much more understandable.  At least this
patch lessens both the source and compiled code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 5a51b713cc posix-timers: lock_timer: kill the bogus ->it_id check
lock_timer() checks that the timer found by idr_find(timer_id) has ->it_id
== timer_id.  This buys nothing.  This check can fail only if
sys_timer_create() unlocked idr_lock after idr_get_new(), but didn't set
->it_id = new_timer_id yet.  But in that case ->it_process == NULL so
lock_timer() can't succeed anyway.

Also remove a couple of unneeded typecasts.

Note that with or without this patch we have a small problem. 
sys_timer_create() doesn't ensure that the result of setting (say)
->it_sigev_notify must be visible if lock_timer() succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 5a9fa73072 posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value
With the recent changes ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value are only
used in sys_timer_create(), kill them.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov ef864c9588 posix-timers: sys_timer_create: cleanup the error handling
Cleanup.

- sys_timer_create() is big and complicated. The code above the "out:"
  label relies on the fact that "error" must be == 0. This is not very
  robust, make the code more explicit. Remove the unneeded initialization
  of error.

- If idr_get_new() succeeds (as it normally should), we check the returned
  value twice. Move the "-EAGAIN" check under "if (error)".

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 717835d94d posix-timers: move the initialization of timer->sigq from send to create path
posix_timer_event() always populates timer->sigq with the same numbers,
move this code into sys_timer_create().

Note that with this patch we can kill it_sigev_signo and it_sigev_value.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 36b2f04600 posix-timers: sys_timer_create: simplify and s/tasklist/rcu/
- Change the code to do rcu_read_lock() instead of taking tasklist_lock,
  it is safe to get_task_struct(p) if p was found under RCU.

  However, now we must not use process's sighand/signal, they may be NULL.
  We can use current->sighand/signal instead, this "process" must belong
  to the current's thread-group.

- Factor out the common code for 2 "if (timer_event_spec)" branches, the
  !timer_event_spec case can use current too.

- use spin_lock_irq() instead of _irqsave(), kill "flags".

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 2cd499e38e posix-timers: sys_timer_create: remove the buggy PF_EXITING check
sys_timer_create() return -EINVAL if the target thread has PF_EXITING.

This doesn't really make sense, the sub-thread can die right after unlock.
And in fact, this is just wrong.  Without SIGEV_THREAD_ID good_sigevent()
returns ->group_leader, and it is very possible that the leader is already
dead.  This is OK, we shouldn't return the error in this case.

Remove this check and the comment.  Note that the "process" was found
under tasklist_lock, it must have ->sighand != NULL.

Also, remove a couple of unneeded initializations.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 918fc03728 posix-timers: always do get_task_struct(timer->it_process)
Change the code to get/put timer->it_process regardless of
SIGEV_THREAD_ID.  This streamlines the create/destroy paths and allows us
to simplify the usage of exit_itimers() in de_thread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 4aa7361179 posix-timers: don't switch to ->group_leader if ->it_process dies
posix_timer_event() drops SIGEV_THREAD_ID and switches to ->group_leader
if send_sigqueue() fails.

This is not very useful and doesn't work reliably.  send_sigqueue() can
only fail if ->it_process is dead.  But it can die before it dequeues the
SI_TIMER signal, in that case the timer stops anyway.

Remove this code.  I guess it was needed a long ago to ensure that the
timer is not destroyed when when its creator thread dies.

Q: perhaps it makes sense to change sys_timer_settime() to return an error
if ->it_process is dead?

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 8553f321e0 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:
  timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
  x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC
  x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machines
  clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online
  clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device
  clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs
  x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online
  clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
2008-09-23 14:57:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds be3be89058 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warning
2008-09-23 14:57:22 -07:00
Jonathan Steel f9092f358b kexec: fix segmentation fault in kimage_add_entry
A segmentation fault can occur in kimage_add_entry in kexec.c when loading
a kernel image into memory.  The fault occurs because a page is requested
by calling kimage_alloc_page with gfp_mask GFP_KERNEL and the function may
actually return a page with gfp_mask GFP_HIGHUSER.  The high mem page is
returned because it was swapped with the kernel page due to the kernel
page being a page that will shortly be copied to.

This patch ensures that kimage_alloc_page returns a page that was created
with the correct gfp flags.

I have verified the change and fixed the whitespace damage of the original
patch.  Jonathan did a great job of tracking this down after he hit the
problem.  -- Eric

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23 08:09:14 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 57fdc26d4a sched: fixup buddy selection
We should set the buddy even though we might already have the
TIF_RESCHED flag set.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:17 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 4653f803e6 sched: more sanity checks on the bandwidth settings
While playing around with it, I noticed we missed some sanity checks.
Also add some comments while we're there.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 78333cdd0e sched: add some comments to the bandwidth code
Hopefully clarify some of this code a little.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 940959e939 sched: fixlet for group load balance
We should not only correct the increment for the initial group, but should
be consistent and do so for all the groups we encounter.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 63e5c39859 Merge branches 'sched/urgent' and 'sched/rt' into sched/devel 2008-09-23 16:23:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6956985009 sched: rework wakeup preemption
Rework the wakeup preemption to work on real runtime instead of
the virtual runtime. This greatly simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 14:54:23 +02:00
Frank Mayhar bb34d92f64 timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v2
This is the second resubmission of the posix timer rework patch, posted
a few days ago.

This includes the changes from the previous resubmittion, which addressed
Oleg Nesterov's comments, removing the RCU stuff from the patch and
un-inlining the thread_group_cputime() function for SMP.

In addition, per Ingo Molnar it simplifies the UP code, consolidating much
of it with the SMP version and depending on lower-level SMP/UP handling to
take care of the differences.

It also cleans up some UP compile errors, moves the scheduler stats-related
macros into kernel/sched_stats.h, cleans up a merge error in
kernel/fork.c and has a few other minor fixes and cleanups as suggested
by Oleg and Ingo. Thanks for the review, guys.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 13:38:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f8e256c687 timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
kernel/time/tick-common.c: In function ‘tick_setup_periodic’:
 kernel/time/tick-common.c:113: error: implicit declaration of function ‘tick_broadcast_oneshot_active’

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 12:57:00 +02:00