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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
Cleanups and fixes for perf/core:
. Short term fix for 'diff' tool breakage related to perf.data files
with multiple events. From Jiri Olsa
. Cleanup for event id tracepoint reading routine, from Borislav Petkov
. 32-bit compilation fixes from Jiri Olsa
. Event parsing modifier assignment fixes from Jiri Olsa
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
ntp: Fix integer overflow when setting time
math: Introduce div64_long
cs5535-clockevt: Allow the MFGPT IRQ to be shared
cs5535-clockevt: Don't ignore MFGPT on SMP-capable kernels
x86/time: Eliminate unused irq0_irqs counter
clocksource: scx200_hrt: Fix the build
x86/tsc: Reduce the TSC sync check time for core-siblings
timer: Fix bad idle check on irq entry
nohz: Remove ts->Einidle checks before restarting the tick
nohz: Remove update_ts_time_stat from tick_nohz_start_idle
clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not needed
clocksource: Load the ACPI PM clocksource asynchronously
clocksource: scx200_hrt: Convert scx200 to use clocksource_register_hz
clocksource: Get rid of clocksource_calc_mult_shift()
clocksource: dbx500: convert to clocksource_register_hz()
clocksource: scx200_hrt: use pr_<level> instead of printk
time: Move common updates to a function
time: Reorder so the hot data is together
time: Remove most of xtime_lock usage in timekeeping.c
ntp: Add ntp_lock to replace xtime_locking
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK
sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset
sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again!
sched: Update yield() docs
printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments
sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer
sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness
sched: Fix load-balance wreckage
sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice()
sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing
sched: Rename load-balancing fields
sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct
sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked
sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting
sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API
sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites
sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled()
sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting
sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:
- New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
the tooling side, on CPUs that support it. (modern x86 Intel CPUs
with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)
This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
regular, function histogram centric profiles.
The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
looks like this in perf report:
$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy
$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
52.34% [.] main [.] f1
24.04% [.] f1 [.] f3
23.60% [.] f1 [.] f2
0.01% [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn [k] _IO_file_overflow
0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] strchrnul
0.01% [k] __printf [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
0.01% [k] main [k] __printf
This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e. the most likely taken
branches in the system. "branches" can also include function calls
and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
calls, traps, interrupts, etc.
This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
support in perf report.
- Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
improvements.
- Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:
perf top -p 21483,21485
perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
perf record -p 21483,21485
- Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
report, etc. For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.
- Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
generic facility:
struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;
...
if (static_key_false(&key))
do unlikely code
else
do likely code
...
static_key_slow_inc();
...
static_key_slow_inc();
...
The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
little impact to the likely code path as possible. the
static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.
This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
usage and fast/slow cost patterns.
- SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.
- Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
better, etc.
- Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
and a corner case bugfix.
- Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).
- Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.
- 'perf bench' improvements
- ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
these features possible. And, as usual this list is incomplete as
there were also lots of other improvements
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
perf: Add ABI reference sizes
perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq/core changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Remove paranoid warnons and bogus fixups
genirq: Flush the irq thread on synchronization
genirq: Get rid of unnecessary IRQTF_DIED flag
genirq: No need to check IRQTF_DIED before stopping a thread handler
genirq: Get rid of unnecessary irqaction field in task_struct
genirq: Fix incorrect check for forced IRQ thread handler
softirq: Reduce invoke_softirq() code duplication
genirq: Fix long-term regression in genirq irq_set_irq_type() handling
x86-32/irq: Don't switch to irq stack for a user-mode irq
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* branch 'dcache-word-accesses':
vfs: use 'unsigned long' accesses for dcache name comparison and hashing
This does the name hashing and lookup using word-sized accesses when
that is efficient, namely on x86 (although any little-endian machine
with good unaligned accesses would do).
It does very much depend on little-endian logic, but it's a very hot
couple of functions under some real loads, and this patch improves the
performance of __d_lookup_rcu() and link_path_walk() by up to about 30%.
Giving a 10% improvement on some very pathname-heavy benchmarks.
Because we do make unaligned accesses past the filename, the
optimization is disabled when CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is active, and we
effectively depend on the fact that on x86 we don't really ever have the
last page of usable RAM followed immediately by any IO memory (due to
ACPI tables, BIOS buffer areas etc).
Some of the bit operations we do are a bit "subtle". It's commented,
but you do need to really think about the code. Or just consider it
black magic.
Thanks to people on G+ for some of the optimized bit tricks.
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Adding sysfs group 'format' attribute for pmu device that
contains a syntax description on how to construct raw events.
The event configuration is described in following
struct pefr_event_attr attributes:
config
config1
config2
Each sysfs attribute within the format attribute group,
describes mapping of name and bitfield definition within
one of above attributes.
eg:
"/sys/...<dev>/format/event" contains "config:0-7"
"/sys/...<dev>/format/umask" contains "config:8-15"
"/sys/...<dev>/format/usr" contains "config:16"
the attribute value syntax is:
line: config ':' bits
config: 'config' | 'config1' | 'config2"
bits: bits ',' bit_term | bit_term
bit_term: VALUE '-' VALUE | VALUE
Adding format attribute definitions for x86 cpu pmus.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vhdk5y2hyype9j63prymty36@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Reason: Get upstream fixes integrated before further modifications.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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When a machine boots up, the TSC generally gets reset. However,
when kexec is used to boot into a kernel, the TSC value would be
carried over from the previous kernel. The computation of
cycns_offset in set_cyc2ns_scale is prone to an overflow, if the
machine has been up more than 208 days prior to the kexec. The
overflow happens when we multiply *scale, even though there is
enough room to store the final answer.
We fix this issue by decomposing tsc_now into the quotient and
remainder of division by CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR and then performing
the multiplication separately on the two components.
Refactor code to share the calculation with the previous
fix in __cycles_2_ns().
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120310004027.19291.88460.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: merge back final fixes, prepare for the merge window.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: The 'perf record -b' hardware branch sampling feature is ready for upstream.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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I got somewhat tired of having to decode hex numbers..
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0vsy1sgywc4uar3mu1szm0rg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Verified using the below proglet.. before:
[root@westmere ~]# perf stat -e node-stores -e node-store-misses ./numa 0
remote write
Performance counter stats for './numa 0':
2,101,554 node-stores
2,096,931 node-store-misses
5.021546079 seconds time elapsed
[root@westmere ~]# perf stat -e node-stores -e node-store-misses ./numa 1
local write
Performance counter stats for './numa 1':
501,137 node-stores
199 node-store-misses
5.124451068 seconds time elapsed
After:
[root@westmere ~]# perf stat -e node-stores -e node-store-misses ./numa 0
remote write
Performance counter stats for './numa 0':
2,107,516 node-stores
2,097,187 node-store-misses
5.012755149 seconds time elapsed
[root@westmere ~]# perf stat -e node-stores -e node-store-misses ./numa 1
local write
Performance counter stats for './numa 1':
2,063,355 node-stores
165 node-store-misses
5.082091494 seconds time elapsed
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sched.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <numaif.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define SIZE (32*1024*1024)
volatile int done;
void sig_done(int sig)
{
done = 1;
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
cpu_set_t *mask, *mask2;
size_t size;
int i, err, t;
int nrcpus = 1024;
char *mem;
unsigned long nodemask = 0x01; /* node 0 */
DIR *node;
struct dirent *de;
int read = 0;
int local = 0;
if (argc < 2) {
printf("usage: %s [0-3]\n", argv[0]);
printf(" bit0 - local/remote\n");
printf(" bit1 - read/write\n");
exit(0);
}
switch (atoi(argv[1])) {
case 0:
printf("remote write\n");
break;
case 1:
printf("local write\n");
local = 1;
break;
case 2:
printf("remote read\n");
read = 1;
break;
case 3:
printf("local read\n");
local = 1;
read = 1;
break;
}
mask = CPU_ALLOC(nrcpus);
size = CPU_ALLOC_SIZE(nrcpus);
CPU_ZERO_S(size, mask);
node = opendir("/sys/devices/system/node/node0/");
if (!node)
perror("opendir");
while ((de = readdir(node))) {
int cpu;
if (sscanf(de->d_name, "cpu%d", &cpu) == 1)
CPU_SET_S(cpu, size, mask);
}
closedir(node);
mask2 = CPU_ALLOC(nrcpus);
CPU_ZERO_S(size, mask2);
for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
CPU_SET_S(i, size, mask2);
CPU_XOR_S(size, mask2, mask2, mask); // invert
if (!local)
mask = mask2;
err = sched_setaffinity(0, size, mask);
if (err)
perror("sched_setaffinity");
mem = mmap(0, SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
err = mbind(mem, SIZE, MPOL_BIND, &nodemask, 8*sizeof(nodemask), MPOL_MF_MOVE);
if (err)
perror("mbind");
signal(SIGALRM, sig_done);
alarm(5);
if (!read) {
while (!done) {
for (i = 0; i < SIZE; i++)
mem[i] = 0x01;
}
} else {
while (!done) {
for (i = 0; i < SIZE; i++)
t += *(volatile char *)(mem + i);
}
}
return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tq73sxus35xmqpojf7ootxgs@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Stepan found:
CPU0 CPUn
_cpu_up()
__cpu_up()
boostrap()
notify_cpu_starting()
set_cpu_online()
while (!cpu_active())
cpu_relax()
<PREEMPT-out>
smp_call_function(.wait=1)
/* we find cpu_online() is true */
arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
/* wait-forever-more */
<PREEMPT-in>
local_irq_enable()
cpu_notify(CPU_ONLINE)
sched_cpu_active()
set_cpu_active()
Now the purpose of cpu_active is mostly with bringing down a cpu, where
we mark it !active to avoid the load-balancer from moving tasks to it
while we tear down the cpu. This is required because we only update the
sched_domain tree after we brought the cpu-down. And this is needed so
that some tasks can still run while we bring it down, we just don't want
new tasks to appear.
On cpu-up however the sched_domain tree doesn't yet include the new cpu,
so its invisible to the load-balancer, regardless of the active state.
So instead of setting the active state after we boot the new cpu (and
consequently having to wait for it before enabling interrupts) set the
cpu active before we set it online and avoid the whole mess.
Reported-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323965362.18942.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Commit f0fbf0abc093 ("x86: integrate delay functions") converted
delay_tsc() into a random delay generator for 64 bit. The reason is
that it merged the mostly identical versions of delay_32.c and
delay_64.c. Though the subtle difference of the result was:
static void delay_tsc(unsigned long loops)
{
- unsigned bclock, now;
+ unsigned long bclock, now;
Now the function uses rdtscl() which returns the lower 32bit of the
TSC. On 32bit that's not problematic as unsigned long is 32bit. On 64
bit this fails when the lower 32bit are close to wrap around when
bclock is read, because the following check
if ((now - bclock) >= loops)
break;
evaluated to true on 64bit for e.g. bclock = 0xffffffff and now = 0
because the unsigned long (now - bclock) of these values results in
0xffffffff00000001 which is definitely larger than the loops
value. That explains Tvortkos observation:
"Because I am seeing udelay(500) (_occasionally_) being short, and
that by delaying for some duration between 0us (yep) and 491us."
Make those variables explicitely u32 again, so this works for both 32
and 64 bit.
Reported-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 2.6.27
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ok, this is hacky, and only works on little-endian machines with goo
unaligned handling. And even then only with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
disabled, since it can access up to 7 bytes after the pathname.
But it runs like a bat out of hell.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It turns out that test-compiling this file on x86-64 doesn't really
help, because much of it is x86-32-specific. And so I hadn't noticed
the slightly over-eager removal of the 'r' from 'addr' variable despite
thinking I had tested it.
Signed-off-by: Linus "oopsie" Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Several users of "find_vma_prev()" were not in fact interested in the
previous vma if there was no primary vma to be found either. And in
those cases, we're much better off just using the regular "find_vma()",
and then "prev" can be looked up by just checking vma->vm_prev.
The find_vma_prev() semantics are fairly subtle (see Mikulas' recent
commit 83cd904d271b: "mm: fix find_vma_prev"), and the whole "return
prev by reference" means that it generates worse code too.
Thus this "let's avoid using this inconvenient and clearly too subtle
interface when we don't really have to" patch.
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Split out optprobe related code to arch/x86/kernel/kprobes-opt.c
for maintenanceability.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org
Cc: anderson@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120305133222.5982.54794.stgit@localhost.localdomain
[ Tidied up the code a tiny bit ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Fix a bug in kprobes which can modify kernel code
permanently at run-time. In the result, kernel can
crash when it executes the modified code.
This bug can happen when we put two probes enough near
and the first probe is optimized. When the second probe
is set up, it copies a byte which is already modified
by the first probe, and executes it when the probe is hit.
Even worse, the first probe and the second probe are removed
respectively, the second probe writes back the copied
(modified) instruction.
To fix this bug, kprobes always recovers the original
code and copies the first byte from recovered instruction.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org
Cc: anderson@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120305133215.5982.31991.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Current probed-instruction recovery expects that only breakpoint
instruction modifies instruction. However, since kprobes jump
optimization can replace original instructions with a jump,
that expectation is not enough. And it may cause instruction
decoding failure on the function where an optimized probe
already exists.
This bug can reproduce easily as below:
1) find a target function address (any kprobe-able function is OK)
$ grep __secure_computing /proc/kallsyms
ffffffff810c19d0 T __secure_computing
2) decode the function
$ objdump -d vmlinux --start-address=0xffffffff810c19d0 --stop-address=0xffffffff810c19eb
vmlinux: file format elf64-x86-64
Disassembly of section .text:
ffffffff810c19d0 <__secure_computing>:
ffffffff810c19d0: 55 push %rbp
ffffffff810c19d1: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
ffffffff810c19d4: e8 67 8f 72 00 callq
ffffffff817ea940 <mcount>
ffffffff810c19d9: 65 48 8b 04 25 40 b8 mov %gs:0xb840,%rax
ffffffff810c19e0: 00 00
ffffffff810c19e2: 83 b8 88 05 00 00 01 cmpl $0x1,0x588(%rax)
ffffffff810c19e9: 74 05 je ffffffff810c19f0 <__secure_computing+0x20>
3) put a kprobe-event at an optimize-able place, where no
call/jump places within the 5 bytes.
$ su -
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo p __secure_computing+0x9 > kprobe_events
4) enable it and check it is optimized.
# echo 1 > events/kprobes/p___secure_computing_9/enable
# cat ../kprobes/list
ffffffff810c19d9 k __secure_computing+0x9 [OPTIMIZED]
5) put another kprobe on an instruction after previous probe in
the same function.
# echo p __secure_computing+0x12 >> kprobe_events
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
# dmesg | tail -n 1
[ 1666.500016] Probing address(0xffffffff810c19e2) is not an instruction boundary.
6) however, if the kprobes optimization is disabled, it works.
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/debug/kprobes-optimization
# cat ../kprobes/list
ffffffff810c19d9 k __secure_computing+0x9
# echo p __secure_computing+0x12 >> kprobe_events
(no error)
This is because kprobes doesn't recover the instruction
which is overwritten with a relative jump by another kprobe
when finding instruction boundary.
It only recovers the breakpoint instruction.
This patch fixes kprobes to recover such instructions.
With this fix:
# echo p __secure_computing+0x9 > kprobe_events
# echo 1 > events/kprobes/p___secure_computing_9/enable
# cat ../kprobes/list
ffffffff810c1aa9 k __secure_computing+0x9 [OPTIMIZED]
# echo p __secure_computing+0x12 >> kprobe_events
# cat ../kprobes/list
ffffffff810c1aa9 k __secure_computing+0x9 [OPTIMIZED]
ffffffff810c1ab2 k __secure_computing+0x12 [DISABLED]
Changes in v4:
- Fix a bug to ensure optimized probe is really optimized
by jump.
- Remove kprobe_optready() dependency.
- Cleanup code for preparing optprobe separation.
Changes in v3:
- Fix a build error when CONFIG_OPTPROBE=n. (Thanks, Ingo!)
To fix the error, split optprobe instruction recovering
path from kprobes path.
- Cleanup comments/styles.
Changes in v2:
- Fix a bug to recover original instruction address in
RIP-relative instruction fixup.
- Moved on tip/master.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org
Cc: anderson@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120305133209.5982.36568.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci
Pull PCI fixes from Jesse Barnes:
"A couple of fixes for booting specific machines, and one for a minor
memory leak on pre-_CRS platforms."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci:
x86/PCI: do not tie MSI MS-7253 use_crs quirk to BIOS version
x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info on MSI MS-7253
PCI: fix memleak when ACPI _CRS is not used.
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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With branch stack sampling, it is possible to filter by priv levels.
In system-wide mode, that means it is possible to capture only user
level branches. The builtin SW LBR filter needs to disassemble code
based on LBR captured addresses. For that, it needs to know the task
the addresses are associated with. Because of context switches, the
content of the branch stack buffer may contain addresses from
different tasks.
We need a callback on context switch to either flush the branch stack
or save it. This patch adds a new callback in struct pmu which is called
during context switches. The callback is called only when necessary.
That is when a system-wide context has, at least, one event which
uses PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK. The callback is never called for
per-thread context.
In this version, the Intel x86 code simply flushes (resets) the LBR
on context switches (fills it with zeroes). Those zeroed branches are
then filtered out by the SW filter.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-11-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* is disabled for:
- SW events (sw counters, tracepoints)
- HW breakpoints
- ALL but Intel x86 architecture
- AMD64 processors
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-10-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds an internal sofware filter to complement
the (optional) LBR hardware filter.
The software filter is necessary:
- as a substitute when there is no HW LBR filter (e.g., Atom, Core)
- to complement HW LBR filter in case of errata (e.g., Nehalem/Westmere)
- to provide finer grain filtering (e.g., all processors)
Sometimes the LBR HW filter cannot distinguish between two types
of branches. For instance, to capture syscall as CALLS, it is necessary
to enable the LBR_FAR filter which will also capture JMP instructions.
Thus, a second pass is necessary to filter those out, this is what the
SW filter can do.
The SW filter is built on top of the internal x86 disassembler. It
is a best effort filter especially for user level code. It is subject
to the availability of the text page of the program.
The SW filter is enabled on all Intel processors. It is bypassed
when the user is capturing all branches at all priv levels.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-9-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch implements PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH support for Intel
x86processors. It connects PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH to the actual LBR.
The patch adds the hooks in the PMU irq handler to save the LBR
on counter overflow for both regular and PEBS modes.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-8-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The patch adds a restriction for Intel Atom LBR support. Only
steppings 10 (PineView) and more recent are supported. Older models
do not have a functional LBR. Their LBR does not freeze on PMU
interrupt which makes LBR unusable in the context of perf_events.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-7-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds the mappings from the generic PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_*
filters to the actual Intel x86LBR filters, whenever they exist.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-6-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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If precise sampling is enabled on Intel x86 then perf_event uses PEBS.
To correct for the off-by-one error of PEBS, perf_event uses LBR when
precise_sample > 1.
On Intel x86 PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK is implemented using LBR,
therefore both features must be coordinated as they may not
configure LBR the same way.
For PEBS, LBR needs to capture all branches at the priv level of
the associated event.
This patch checks that the branch type and priv level of BRANCH_STACK
is compatible with that of the PEBS LBR requirement, thereby allowing:
$ perf record -b any,u -e instructions:upp ....
But:
$ perf record -b any_call,u -e instructions:upp
Is not possible.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The Intel LBR on some recent processor is capable
of filtering branches by type. The filter is configurable
via the LBR_SELECT MSR register.
There are limitation on how this register can be used.
On Nehalem/Westmere, the LBR_SELECT is shared by the two HT threads
when HT is on. It is private to each core when HT is off.
On SandyBridge, the LBR_SELECT register is private to each thread
when HT is on. It is private to each core when HT is off.
The kernel must manage the sharing of LBR_SELECT. It allows
multiple users on the same logical CPU to use LBR_SELECT as
long as they program it with the same value. Across sibling
CPUs (HT threads), the same restriction applies on NHM/WSM.
This patch implements this sharing logic by leveraging the
mechanism put in place for managing the offcore_response
shared MSR.
We modify __intel_shared_reg_get_constraints() to cause
x86_get_event_constraint() to be called because LBR may
be associated with events that may be counter constrained.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds the LBR definitions for NHM/WSM/SNB and Core.
It also adds the definitions for the architected LBR MSR:
LBR_SELECT, LBRT_TOS.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds the ability to sample taken branches to the
perf_event interface.
The ability to capture taken branches is very useful for all
sorts of analysis. For instance, basic block profiling, call
counts, statistical call graph.
This new capability requires hardware assist and as such may
not be available on all HW platforms. On Intel x86 it is
implemented on top of the Last Branch Record (LBR) facility.
To enable taken branches sampling, the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
bit must be set in attr->sample_type.
Sampled taken branches may be filtered by type and/or priv
levels.
The patch adds a new field, called branch_sample_type, to the
perf_event_attr structure. It contains a bitmask of filters
to apply to the sampled taken branches.
Filters may be implemented in HW. If the HW filter does not exist
or is not good enough, some arch may also implement a SW filter.
The following generic filters are currently defined:
- PERF_SAMPLE_USER
only branches whose targets are at the user level
- PERF_SAMPLE_KERNEL
only branches whose targets are at the kernel level
- PERF_SAMPLE_HV
only branches whose targets are at the hypervisor level
- PERF_SAMPLE_ANY
any type of branches (subject to priv levels filters)
- PERF_SAMPLE_ANY_CALL
any call branches (may incl. syscall on some arch)
- PERF_SAMPLE_ANY_RET
any return branches (may incl. syscall returns on some arch)
- PERF_SAMPLE_IND_CALL
indirect call branches
Obviously filter may be combined. The priv level bits are optional.
If not provided, the priv level of the associated event are used. It
is possible to collect branches at a priv level different from the
associated event. Use of kernel, hv priv levels is subject to permissions
and availability (hv).
The number of taken branch records present in each sample may vary based
on HW, the type of sampled branches, the executed code. Therefore
each sample contains the number of taken branches it contains.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
tools/perf/builtin-top.c
tools/perf/perf.h
tools/perf/util/top.h
Merge reason: resolve these cherry-picking conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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It turned out that a performance counter on AMD does not
count at all when the GO or HO bit is set in the control
register and SVM is disabled in EFER.
This patch works around this issue by masking out the HO bit
in the performance counter control register when SVM is not
enabled.
The GO bit is not touched because it is only set when the
user wants to count in guest-mode only. So when SVM is
disabled the counter should not run at all and the
not-counting is the intended behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330523852-19566-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Carlos was getting
WARNING: at drivers/pci/pci.c:118 pci_ioremap_bar+0x24/0x52()
when probing his sound card, and sound did not work. After adding
pci=use_crs to the kernel command line, no more trouble.
Ok, we can add a quirk. dmidecode output reveals that this is an MSI
MS-7253, for which we already have a quirk, but the short-sighted
author tied the quirk to a single BIOS version, making it not kick in
on Carlos's machine with BIOS V1.2. If a later BIOS update makes it
no longer necessary to look at the _CRS info it will still be
harmless, so let's stop trying to guess which versions have and don't
have accurate _CRS tables.
Addresses https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=5533
Also see <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42619>.
Reported-by: Carlos Luna <caralu74@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Coccinelle based conversion.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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In the spirit of commit 29cf7a30f8a0 ("x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS
info on ASUS M2V-MX SE"), this DMI quirk turns on "pci_use_crs" by
default on a board that needs it.
This fixes boot failures and oopses introduced in 3e3da00c01d0
("x86/pci: AMD one chain system to use pci read out res"). The quirk
is quite targetted (to a specific board and BIOS version) for two
reasons:
(1) to emphasize that this method of tackling the problem one quirk
at a time is a little insane
(2) to give BIOS vendors an opportunity to use simpler tables and
allow us to return to generic behavior (whatever that happens to
be) with a later BIOS update
In other words, I am not at all happy with having quirks like this.
But it is even worse for the kernel not to work out of the box on
these machines, so...
Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42619
Reported-by: Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mce/AMD: Fix UP build error
x86: Specify a size for the cmp in the NMI handler
x86/nmi: Test saved %cs in NMI to determine nested NMI case
x86/amd: Fix L1i and L2 cache sharing information for AMD family 15h processors
x86/microcode: Remove noisy AMD microcode warning
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As of v2.6.38 this counter is being maintained without ever being
read.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F4787930200007800074A10@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
Two fixes to fix a memory corruption bug when WC pages never get
converted back to WB but end up being recycled in the general memory
pool as WC.
There is a better way of fixing this, but there is not enough time to do
the full benchmarking to pick one of the right options - so picking the
one that favors stability for right now.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* tag 'stable/for-linus-fixes-3.3-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/pat: Disable PAT support for now.
xen/setup: Remove redundant filtering of PTE masks.
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static_key_slow_[inc|dec]()
So here's a boot tested patch on top of Jason's series that does
all the cleanups I talked about and turns jump labels into a
more intuitive to use facility. It should also address the
various misconceptions and confusions that surround jump labels.
Typical usage scenarios:
#include <linux/static_key.h>
struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE;
if (static_key_false(&key))
do unlikely code
else
do likely code
Or:
if (static_key_true(&key))
do likely code
else
do unlikely code
The static key is modified via:
static_key_slow_inc(&key);
...
static_key_slow_dec(&key);
The 'slow' prefix makes it abundantly clear that this is an
expensive operation.
I've updated all in-kernel code to use this everywhere. Note
that I (intentionally) have not pushed through the rename
blindly through to the lowest levels: the actual jump-label
patching arch facility should be named like that, so we want to
decouple jump labels from the static-key facility a bit.
On non-jump-label enabled architectures static keys default to
likely()/unlikely() branches.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120222085809.GA26397@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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warning:
unreferenced object 0xffff8801f6914200 (size 512):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294893643 (age 2664.644s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 c0 fe 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ................
60 58 2f f6 03 88 ff ff 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 `X/.............
backtrace:
[<ffffffff81c2408c>] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x43
[<ffffffff8113764f>] __kmalloc+0x121/0x183
[<ffffffff81ca8d93>] get_current_resources+0x5a/0xc6
[<ffffffff81c5bedd>] pci_acpi_scan_root+0x13c/0x21c
[<ffffffff81c2a745>] acpi_pci_root_add+0x1e1/0x421
[<ffffffff81408f50>] acpi_device_probe+0x50/0x190
[<ffffffff8149edc7>] really_probe+0x99/0x126
[<ffffffff8149ef83>] driver_probe_device+0x3b/0x56
[<ffffffff8149effd>] __driver_attach+0x5f/0x82
[<ffffffff8149d860>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5c/0x88
[<ffffffff8149eb87>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
[<ffffffff8149e7cc>] bus_add_driver+0xca/0x21d
[<ffffffff8149f47b>] driver_register+0x91/0xfe
[<ffffffff81409d09>] acpi_bus_register_driver+0x43/0x45
[<ffffffff8278bdc9>] acpi_pci_root_init+0x20/0x28
[<ffffffff810001e7>] do_one_initcall+0x57/0x134
The system has _CRS for root buses, but they are not used because the machine
date is before the cutoff date for _CRS usage.
Try to free those unused resource arrays and names.
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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141168c36cde ("x86: Simplify code by removing a !SMP #ifdefs
from 'struct cpuinfo_x86'") removed a bunch of CONFIG_SMP ifdefs
around code touching struct cpuinfo_x86 members but also caused
the following build error with Randy's randconfigs:
mce_amd.c:(.cpuinit.text+0x4723): undefined reference to `cpu_llc_shared_map'
Restore the #ifdef in threshold_create_bank() which creates
symlinks on the non-BSP CPUs.
There's a better patch series being worked on by Kevin Winchester
which will solve this in a cleaner fashion, but that series is
too ambitious for v3.3 merging - so we first queue up this trivial
fix and then do the rest for v3.4.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120203191801.GA2846@x1.osrc.amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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For each logical CPU that is coming online, we spend 20msec for
checking the TSC synchronization. And as this is done
sequentially for each logical CPU boot, this time gets added up
depending on the number of logical CPU's supported by the
platform.
Minimize this by using the socket topology information.
If the target CPU coming online doesn't have any of its
core-siblings online, a timeout of 20msec will be used for the
TSC-warp measurement loop. Otherwise a smaller timeout of 2msec
will be used, as we have some information about this socket
already (and this information grows as we have more and more
logical-siblings in that socket).
Ideally we should be able to skip the TSC sync check on the
other core-siblings, if the first logical CPU in a socket passed
the sync test. But as the TSC is per-logical CPU and can
potentially be modified wrongly by the bios before the OS boot,
TSC sync test for smaller duration should be able to catch such
errors. Also this will catch the condition where all the cores
in the socket doesn't get reset at the same time.
For example, with this modification, time spent in TSC sync
checks on a 4 socket 10-core with HT system gets reduced from
1580msec to 212msec.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: venki@google.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328581940.29790.20.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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(And define it properly for x86-32, which had its 'current_task'
declaration in separate from x86-64)
Bitten by my dislike for modules on the machines I use, and the fact
that apparently nobody else actually wanted to test the patches I sent
out.
Snif. Nobody else cares.
Anyway, we probably should uninline the 'kernel_fpu_begin()' function
that is what modules actually use and that references this, but this is
the minimal fix for now.
Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Jongman Heo <jongman.heo@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus noticed that the cmp used to check if the code segment is
__KERNEL_CS or not did not specify a size. Perhaps it does not matter
as H. Peter Anvin noted that user space can not set the bottom two
bits of the %cs register. But it's best not to let the assembly choose
and change things between different versions of gas, but instead just
pick the size.
Four bytes are used to compare the saved code segment against
__KERNEL_CS. Perhaps this might mess up Xen, but we can fix that when
the time comes.
Also I noticed that there was another non-specified cmp that checks
the special stack variable if it is 1 or 0. This too probably doesn't
matter what cmp is used, but this patch uses cmpl just to make it non
ambiguous.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFxfAn9MWRgS3O5k2tqN5ys1XrhSFVO5_9ZAoZKDVgNfGA@mail.gmail.com
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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This makes us recognize when we try to restore FPU state that matches
what we already have in the FPU on this CPU, and avoids the restore
entirely if so.
To do this, we add two new data fields:
- a percpu 'fpu_owner_task' variable that gets written any time we
update the "has_fpu" field, and thus acts as a kind of back-pointer
to the task that owns the CPU. The exception is when we save the FPU
state as part of a context switch - if the save can keep the FPU
state around, we leave the 'fpu_owner_task' variable pointing at the
task whose FP state still remains on the CPU.
- a per-thread 'last_cpu' field, that indicates which CPU that thread
used its FPU on last. We update this on every context switch
(writing an invalid CPU number if the last context switch didn't
leave the FPU in a lazily usable state), so we know that *that*
thread has done nothing else with the FPU since.
These two fields together can be used when next switching back to the
task to see if the CPU still matches: if 'fpu_owner_task' matches the
task we are switching to, we know that no other task (or kernel FPU
usage) touched the FPU on this CPU in the meantime, and if the current
CPU number matches the 'last_cpu' field, we know that this thread did no
other FP work on any other CPU, so the FPU state on the CPU must match
what was saved on last context switch.
In that case, we can avoid the 'f[x]rstor' entirely, and just clear the
CR0.TS bit.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This inlines what is usually just a couple of instructions, but more
importantly it also fixes the theoretical error case (can that FPU
restore really ever fail? Maybe we should remove the checking).
We can't start sending signals from within the scheduler, we're much too
deep in the kernel and are holding the runqueue lock etc. So don't
bother even trying.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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