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2010-11-11ALSA: sound/mixart: avoid redefining {readl,write}_{le,be} accessorsFlorian Fainelli
If the platform already provides a definition for these accessors do not redefine them. The warning was caught on MIPS. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2010-11-11ALSA: HDA: Enable digital mic on IDT 92HD87BDavid Henningsson
BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/673075 According to the datasheet of 92HD87B, there is a digital mic at nid 0x11, so enable it in order to be able to use the mic. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2010-11-11sound/oss: Remove unnecessary casts of void ptrJesper Juhl
The [vk][cmz]alloc(_node) family of functions return void pointers which it's completely unnecessary/pointless to cast to other pointer types since that happens implicitly. This patch removes such casts from sound/oss/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2010-11-10uio: Change mail address of Hans J. KochHans J. Koch
My old mail address doesn't exist anymore. This changes all occurrences to my new address. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@hansjkoch.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-10driver core: prune docs about device_interfaceBrandon Philips
drivers/base/intf.c was removed before the beginning of (git) time but its Documentation stuck around. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-11sound/oss/dev_table.c: Use vzallocJoe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2010-11-11PM / OPP: Hide OPP configuration when SoCs do not provide an implementationMark Brown
Since the OPP API is only useful with an appropraite SoC-specific implementation there is no point in offering the ability to enable the API on general systems. Provide an ARCH_HAS OPP Kconfig symbol which masks out the option unless selected by an implementation. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-11-11PM: Allow devices to be removed during late suspend and early resumeRafael J. Wysocki
Holding dpm_list_mtx across late suspend and early resume of devices is problematic for the PCMCIA subsystem and doesn't allow device objects to be removed by late suspend and early resume driver callbacks. This appears to be overly restrictive, as drivers are generally allowed to remove device objects in other phases of suspend and resume. Therefore rework dpm_{suspend|resume}_noirq() so that they don't have to hold dpm_list_mtx all the time. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge: replace iommu custom for opensource ↵Felipe Contreras
implementation" This reverts commit d95ec7e2fd5cebf2f1caf3f572fa5e0a820ac5b1. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge - move shared memory iommu maps to tiomap3430.c"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit 0c10e91b6cc9d1c6a23e9eed3e0653f30b6eb3d3. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge - rename bridge_brd_mem_map/unmap to a proper name"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit 4dd1944ab7242d76534c97d5fef0ce541a2f1040. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge - remove custom mmu code from tiomap3430.c"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit e7396e77d9e4230bf725b5807732cbca191d111f. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge - fix mmufault support"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit f265846db1e755c11498f6f7c011127dfcc5634a. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge - remove hw directory"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit 053fdb85f56e84bff64a65601be7f72608f016da. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge - move all iommu related code to a new file"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit f94378f9f9a897fc08e9d12733401ae52466e408. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge: remove dw_dmmu_base from cfg_hostres struct"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit b5a44939231d6e3b0354624289507bfa1432a7b1. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge - remove reserved memory clean up"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit db348ca36e5881cd1d2e5caa6eee7d0237d07a3d. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge - deprecate reserve/unreserve_memory funtions"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit b1ced160af36043ee80d354318794753b6b7c008. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge - remove dmm custom module"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit 2ab573487a98c06fdfb34308f641f09369d61fa2. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Revert "staging: tidspbridge - update Kconfig to select IOMMU module"Felipe Contreras
This reverts commit ace5a3ce40bb90f14953c5e3f73e9cf1176b1a28. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10staging: tidspbridge: hardcode SCM macros while fix is upstreamedFelipe Contreras
On 2.6.37-rc1, omap platform internals for SCM have changed, so the build is broken again. drivers/staging/tidspbridge/core/tiomap3430.c:26: fatal error: plat/control.h: No such file or directory This is a totally ugly layer violation, but needed until omap_ctrl_set_dsp_boot*() are provided. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10Staging: keucr driver: fix uninitialized variable & proper memset lengthKonstantin Katuev
There was commented out transfer_flags initialization. And i think memset should fill entire structure, not only length of pointer to it. This makes the driver work properly now on my hardware. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Katuev <kkatuev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-10omap: dsp: remove shm from normal memoryFelipe Contreras
Also, don't be picky about the location, which incidentally fixes the build since MEMBLOCK_REAL_LIMIT is gone on 2.6.37. arch/arm/plat-omap/devices.c: In function 'omap_dsp_reserve_sdram_memblock': arch/arm/plat-omap/devices.c:287: error: 'MEMBLOCK_REAL_LIMIT' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
2010-11-10sched: Fix runnable condition for stoptaskPeter Zijlstra
Heiko reported that the TASK_RUNNING check is not sufficient for CONFIG_PREEMPT=y since we can get preempted with !TASK_RUNNING. He suggested adding a ->se.on_rq test to the existing TASK_RUNNING one, however TASK_RUNNING will always have ->se.on_rq, so we might as well reduce that to a single test. [ stop tasks should never get preempted, but its good to handle this case correctly should this ever happen ] Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10sched: Use group weight, idle cpu metrics to fix imbalances during idleSuresh Siddha
Currently we consider a sched domain to be well balanced when the imbalance is less than the domain's imablance_pct. As the number of cores and threads are increasing, current values of imbalance_pct (for example 25% for a NUMA domain) are not enough to detect imbalances like: a) On a WSM-EP system (two sockets, each having 6 cores and 12 logical threads), 24 cpu-hogging tasks get scheduled as 13 on one socket and 11 on another socket. Leading to an idle HT cpu. b) On a hypothetial 2 socket NHM-EX system (each socket having 8 cores and 16 logical threads), 16 cpu-hogging tasks can get scheduled as 9 on one socket and 7 on another socket. Leaving one core in a socket idle whereas in another socket we have a core having both its HT siblings busy. While this issue can be fixed by decreasing the domain's imbalance_pct (by making it a function of number of logical cpus in the domain), it can potentially cause more task migrations across sched groups in an overloaded case. Fix this by using imbalance_pct only during newly_idle and busy load balancing. And during idle load balancing, check if there is an imbalance in number of idle cpu's across the busiest and this sched_group or if the busiest group has more tasks than its weight that the idle cpu in this_group can pull. Reported-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1284760952.2676.11.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10perf, amd: Use kmalloc_node(,__GFP_ZERO) for northbridge structure allocationPeter Zijlstra
Jasper suggested we use the zeroing capability of the allocators instead of calling memset ourselves. Add node affinity while we're at it. Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10perf_events: Fix time tracking in samplesStephane Eranian
This patch corrects time tracking in samples. Without this patch both time_enabled and time_running are bogus when user asks for PERF_SAMPLE_READ. One uses PERF_SAMPLE_READ to sample the values of other counters in each sample. Because of multiplexing, it is necessary to know both time_enabled, time_running to be able to scale counts correctly. In this second version of the patch, we maintain a shadow copy of ctx->time which allows us to compute ctx->time without calling update_context_time() from NMI context. We avoid the issue that update_context_time() must always be called with ctx->lock held. We do not keep shadow copies of the other event timings because if the lead event is overflowing then it is active and thus it's been scheduled in via event_sched_in() in which case neither tstamp_stopped, tstamp_running can be modified. This timing logic only applies to samples when PERF_SAMPLE_READ is used. Note that this patch does not address timing issues related to sampling inheritance between tasks. This will be addressed in a future patch. With this patch, the libpfm4 example task_smpl now reports correct counts (shown on 2.4GHz Core 2): $ task_smpl -p 2400000000 -e unhalted_core_cycles:u,instructions_retired:u,baclears noploop 5 noploop for 5 seconds IIP:0x000000004006d6 PID:5596 TID:5596 TIME:466,210,211,430 STREAM_ID:33 PERIOD:2,400,000,000 ENA=1,010,157,814 RUN=1,010,157,814 NR=3 2,400,000,254 unhalted_core_cycles:u (33) 2,399,273,744 instructions_retired:u (34) 53,340 baclears (35) Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4cc6e14b.1e07e30a.256e.5190@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10xfs: remove incorrect assert in xfs_vm_writepageChristoph Hellwig
In commit 20cb52ebd1b5ca6fa8a5d9b6b1392292f5ca8a45, titled "xfs: simplify xfs_vm_writepage" I added an assert that any !mapped and uptodate buffers are not dirty. That asserts turns out to trigger a lot when running fsx on filesystems with small block sizes. The reason for that is that the assert is simply incorrect. !mapped and uptodate just mean this buffer covers a hole, and whenever we do a set_page_dirty we mark all blocks in the page dirty, no matter if they have data or not. So remove the assert, and update the comment above the condition to match reality. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-11APPARMOR: Fix memory leak of apparmor_init()wzt.wzt@gmail.com
set_init_cxt() allocted sizeof(struct aa_task_cxt) bytes for cxt, if register_security() failed, it will cause memory leak. Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@alibaba-inc.com> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-11-11APPARMOR: Fix memory leak of alloc_namespace()wzt.wzt@gmail.com
policy->name is a substring of policy->hname, if prefix is not NULL, it will allocted strlen(prefix) + strlen(name) + 3 bytes to policy->hname in policy_init(). use kzfree(ns->base.name) will casue memory leak if alloc_namespace() failed. Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@alibaba-inc.com> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-11-10net: avoid limits overflowEric Dumazet
Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB machine and found some limits were reached : sysctl_tcp_mem[2], sysctl_udp_mem[2] We can switch infrastructure to use long "instead" of "int", now atomic_long_t primitives are available for free. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-10net: packet: fix information leak to userlandVasiliy Kulikov
packet_getname_spkt() doesn't initialize all members of sa_data field of sockaddr struct if strlen(dev->name) < 13. This structure is then copied to userland. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. We have to fully fill sa_data with strncpy() instead of strlcpy(). The same with packet_getname(): it doesn't initialize sll_pkttype field of sockaddr_ll. Set it to zero. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-10locks: remove dead lease error-handling codeJ. Bruce Fields
A minor oversight from f7347ce4ee7c65415f84be915c018473e7076f31, "fasync: re-organize fasync entry insertion to allow it under a spinlock": this cleanup-on-error was only needed to handle -ENOMEM. Now that we're preallocating it's unneeded. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2010-11-10locks: fix leak on merging leasesJ. Bruce Fields
We must also free the passed-in lease in the case it wasn't used because an existing lease was upgrade/downgraded or already existed. Note the nfsd caller doesn't care because it's fl_change callback returns an error in those cases. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2010-11-10filter: make sure filters dont read uninitialized memoryDavid S. Miller
There is a possibility malicious users can get limited information about uninitialized stack mem array. Even if sk_run_filter() result is bound to packet length (0 .. 65535), we could imagine this can be used by hostile user. Initializing mem[] array, like Dan Rosenberg suggested in his patch is expensive since most filters dont even use this array. Its hard to make the filter validation in sk_chk_filter(), because of the jumps. This might be done later. In this patch, I use a bitmap (a single long var) so that only filters using mem[] loads/stores pay the price of added security checks. For other filters, additional cost is a single instruction. [ Since we access fentry->k a lot now, cache it in a local variable and mark filter entry pointer as const. -DaveM ] Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-10net: ax25: fix information leak to userlandVasiliy Kulikov
Sometimes ax25_getname() doesn't initialize all members of fsa_digipeater field of fsa struct, also the struct has padding bytes between sax25_call and sax25_ndigis fields. This structure is then copied to userland. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-10xfs: use hlist_add_fakeChristoph Hellwig
XFS does not need it's inodes to actuall be hashed in the VFS inode cache, but we require the inode to be marked hashed for the writeback code to work. Insted of using insert_inode_hash, which requires a second inode_lock roundtrip after the partial merge of the inode scalability patches in 2.6.37-rc simply use the new hlist_add_fake helper to mark it hashed without requiring a lock or touching a global cache line. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-10xfs: fix a few compiler warnings with CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=nChristoph Hellwig
Andi Kleen reported that gcc-4.5 gives lots of warnings for him inside the XFS code. It turned out most of them are due to the quota stubs beeing macros, and gcc now complaining about macros evaluating to 0 that are not assigned to variables. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-10xfs: tell lockdep about parent iolock usage in filestreamsChristoph Hellwig
The filestreams code may take the iolock on the parent inode while holding it on a child. This is the only place in XFS where we take both the child and parent iolock, so just telling lockdep about it is enough. The lock flag required for that was already added as part of the ilock lockdep annotations and unused so far. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-10xfs: move delayed write buffer traceDave Chinner
The delayed write buffer split trace currently issues a trace for every buffer it scans. These buffers are not necessarily queued for delayed write. Indeed, when buffers are pinned, there can be thousands of traces of buffers that aren't actually queued for delayed write and the ones that are are lost in the noise. Move the trace point to record only buffers that are split out for IO to be issued on. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-10xfs: fix per-ag reference counting in inode reclaim tree walkingDave Chinner
The walk fails to decrement the per-ag reference count when the non-blocking walk fails to obtain the per-ag reclaim lock, leading to an assert failure on debug kernels when unmounting a filesystem. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-10xfs: xfs_ioctl: fix information leak to userlandKulikov Vasiliy
al_hreq is copied from userland. If al_hreq.buflen is not properly aligned then xfs_attr_list will ignore the last bytes of kbuf. These bytes are unitialized. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-10xfs: remove experimental tag from the delaylog optionChristoph Hellwig
We promised to do this for 2.6.37, and the code looks stable enough to keep that promise. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-10ASoC: Ensure sane WM835x AIF configuration by defaultMark Brown
Ensure that whatever ran before us leaves the WM835x with a sane default audio interface configuration as we do not override the companding, loopback or tristate settings and do not reset the chip at startup (as it is a PMIC). Reported-by: Keiji Mitsuhisa <Keiji.Mitsuhisa@wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
2010-11-10ASoC: Remove broken WM8350 direction constantsMark Brown
The WM8350 driver was using some custom constants to interpret the direction of the MCLK signal which had the opposite values to those used as standard by the ASoC core, causing confusion in machine drivers such as the 1133-EV1 board. Reported-by: Tommy Zhu <Tommy.Zhu@wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
2010-11-10cifs: fix potential use-after-free in cifs_oplock_break_putJeff Layton
cfile may very well be freed after the cifsFileInfo_put. Make sure we have a valid pointer to the superblock for cifs_sb_deactive. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2010-11-10ARM: 6472/1: vexpress ct-ca9x4: only set twd_base if local timers are being usedWill Deacon
In commit bde28b84, I made the assumption that CONFIG_SMP is always set for the quad-core ct-ca9x4 platform. As it turns out, people who aren't using the SMP goodness are confronted with a build failure. This patch fixes this issue by ensure that twd_base is only set if local timers are being used (and therefore SMP support is configured). Reported-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-11-10perf trace: update usageTom Zanussi
Update usage to reflect the different perf trace variants. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2010-11-10perf trace: update Documentation with new perf trace variantsTom Zanussi
Add documentation describing new 'perf trace' command changes e.g. <command> handling and live-mode/top variants. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2010-11-10perf trace: live-mode command-line cleanupTom Zanussi
This patch attempts to make the perf trace command-line for live-mode commands more user-friendly and consistent with other perf commands. The main change it makes is to allow <commands> to be run as part of perf trace live-mode commands, as other perf commands do, instead of the system-wide traces they're currently hard-coded to by the shell scripts. With this patch, the following live-mode trace now works as expected: $ perf trace rw-by-pid ls -al The previous system-wide behavior for this command would still be available by explicitly specifying -a: $ perf trace rw-by-pid -a ls -al and if no <command> is specified, the output is also system-wide: $ perf trace rw-by-pid Because live-mode requires both record and report steps to be invoked, it isn't always possible to know which args to send to the report and which to send to the record steps - mainly this is the case for report scripts with optional args - in those cases it would be necessary to use separate 'perf trace record' and 'perf trace report' steps. For example: $ perf trace syscall-counts ls Here we can't decide whether ls should be passed as a param to the syscall-counts script or whether we should invoke ls as a <command>. In these cases, we just say that we'll ignore optional script params and always interpret the extra arguments as a <command>. If the user instead wants the other interpretation, that can be accomplished by using separate record and report commands explicitly: $ perf trace record syscall-counts $ perf trace report syscall-counts ls So the rules that this patch implements, which seem to make the most intuitive sense for live-mode commands: - for commands with optional args and commands with no args, no args are sent to the report script, all are sent to the record step - for 'top' commands i.e. that end with 'top', <commands> can't be used - all extra args are send to the report script as params - for commands with required args, the n required args are taken to be the first n args after the script name and sent to the report script, and the rest are sent to the record step Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>