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2009-04-16Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Fix branch tracer header tracing: Fix power tracer header
2009-04-16Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: Avoid printing sched_group::__cpu_power for default case tracing, sched: mark get_parent_ip() notrace
2009-04-16Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kernel/softirq.c: fix sparse warning rcu: Make hierarchical RCU less IPI-happy
2009-04-17kernel/softirq.c: fix sparse warningH Hartley Sweeten
Fix sparse warning in kernel/softirq.c. warning: do-while statement is not a compound statement Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> LKML-Reference: <BD79186B4FD85F4B8E60E381CAEE1909015F9033@mi8nycmail19.Mi8.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-17sched: Avoid printing sched_group::__cpu_power for default caseGautham R Shenoy
Commit 46e0bb9c12f4 ("sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power in sched_domain_debug") produces a messy dmesg output while attempting to print the sched_group::__cpu_power for each group in the sched_domain hierarchy. Fix this by avoid printing the __cpu_power for default cases. (i.e, __cpu_power == SCHED_LOAD_SCALE). [ Impact: reduce syslog clutter ] Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Fixed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl LKML-Reference: <20090414033936.GA534@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16blktrace: fix context-info when mixed-using blk tracer and trace eventsLi Zefan
When current tracer is set to blk tracer, TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO is unset, but actually context-info is printed: pdflush-431 [000] 821.181576: 8,0 P N [pdflush] And then if we enable TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO: # echo context-info > trace_options We'll see context-info printed twice. What's worse, when we use blk tracer and trace events at the same time, we'll see no context-info for trace events at all: jbd2_commit_logging: dev dm-0:8 transaction 333227 jbd2_end_commit: dev dm-0:8 transaction 333227 head 332814 rm-25433 [001] 9578.307485: 8,18 m N cfq25433 slice expired t=0 rm-25433 [001] 9578.307486: 8,18 m N cfq25433 put_queue This patch adds blk_tracer->set_flags(), and context-info flag is unset only when we set the output to classic mode. Note after this patch, one should unset context-info explicitly if he wants to get binary output that can be parsed by blkparse: # echo nocontext-info > trace_options # echo bin > trace_options # echo blk > current_tracer # cat trace_pipe | blkparse -i - Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E54E60.50408@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16blktrace: add trace/ to /sys/block/sdaLi Zefan
Impact: allow ftrace-plugin blktrace to trace device-mapper devices To trace a single partition: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/enable To trace the whole sda instead: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/enable Thus we also fix an issue reported by Ted, that ftrace-plugin blktrace can't be used to trace device-mapper devices. Now: # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable echo: write error: No such device or address # mount -t ext4 /dev/dm-0 /mnt # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable # echo blk > /debug/tracing/current_tracer Reported-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <49E42665.6020506@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16blktrace: support per-partition tracing for ftrace pluginLi Zefan
The previous patch adds support to trace a single partition for relay+ioctl blktrace, and this patch is for ftrace plugin blktrace: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda7/enable # cat start_lba 102398373 # cat end_lba 102703545 Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <49E42646.4060608@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16blktrace: support per-partition tracingShawn Du
Though one can specify '-d /dev/sda1' when using blktrace, it still traces the whole sda. To support per-partition tracing, when we start tracing, we initialize bt->start_lba and bt->end_lba to the start and end sector of that partition. Note some actions are per device, thus we don't filter 0-sector events. The original patch and discussion can be found here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrace&m=122949374214540&w=2 Signed-off-by: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <49E42620.4050701@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16perfcounters: export perf_tpcounter_eventSteven Whitehouse
Needed for modular tracepoint support. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-15RCU: Don't try and predeclare inline funcs as it upsets some versions of gccDavid Howells
Don't try and predeclare inline funcs like this: static inline void wait_migrated_callbacks(void) ... static void _rcu_barrier(enum rcu_barrier type) { ... wait_migrated_callbacks(); } ... static inline void wait_migrated_callbacks(void) { wait_event(rcu_migrate_wq, !atomic_read(&rcu_migrate_type_count)); } as it upsets some versions of gcc under some circumstances: kernel/rcupdate.c: In function `_rcu_barrier': kernel/rcupdate.c:125: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'wait_migrated_callbacks': function body not available kernel/rcupdate.c:152: sorry, unimplemented: called from here This can be dealt with by simply putting the static variables (rcu_migrate_*) at the top, and moving the implementation of the function up so that it replaces its forward declaration. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-15sched: use group_first_cpu() instead of cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus())Miao Xie
Impact: cleanup This patch changes cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus()) to group_first_cpu() for maintainability. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-15swap: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAITNikanth Karthikesan
Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-14tracing/events: move trace point headers into include/trace/eventsSteven Rostedt
Impact: clean up Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that declare trace points should be defined in this directory. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: fix compile for modules disabledSteven Rostedt
Impact: compile fix The addition of TRACE_EVENT for modules breaks the build for when modules are disabled. This code fixes that. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-15modules: Fix up build when CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=n.Stephen Rothwell
Commit 3d43321b7015387cfebbe26436d0e9d299162ea1 ("modules: sysctl to block module loading") introduces a modules_disabled variable that is only defined if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is enabled, despite being used in other places. This moves it up and fixes up the build. CC kernel/module.o kernel/module.c: In function 'sys_init_module': kernel/module.c:2401: error: 'modules_disabled' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/module.c:2401: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once kernel/module.c:2401: error: for each function it appears in.) make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENTSteven Rostedt
Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system. It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a module is removed. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: add export symbols for trace events in modulesSteven Rostedt
Impact: let modules add trace events The trace event code requires some functions to be exported to allow modules to use TRACE_EVENT. This patch adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the necessary functions. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: convert event call sites to use a link listSteven Rostedt
Impact: makes it possible to define events in modules The events are created by reading down the section that they are linked in by the macros. But this is not scalable to modules. This patch converts the manipulations to use a global link list, and on boot up it adds the items in the section to the list. This change will allow modules to add their tracing events to the list as well. Note, this change alone does not permit modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macros, but the change is needed for them to eventually do so. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: move the ftrace event tracing code to coreSteven Rostedt
This patch moves the ftrace creation into include/trace/ftrace.h and simplifies the work of developers in adding new tracepoints. Just the act of creating the trace points in include/trace and including define_trace.h will create the events in the debugfs/tracing/events directory. This patch removes the need of include/trace/trace_events.h Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: move declarations from trace directory to core includeSteven Rostedt
In preparation to allowing trace events to happen in modules, we need to move some of the local declarations in the kernel/trace directory into include/linux. This patch simply moves the declarations and performs no context changes. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing: make trace_seq operations available for core kernelSteven Rostedt
In the process to make TRACE_EVENT macro work for modules, the trace_seq operations must be available for core kernel code. These operations are quite useful and can be used for other implementations. The main idea is that we create a trace_seq handle that acts very much like the seq_file handle. struct trace_seq *s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s, GFP_KERNEL); trace_seq_init(s); trace_seq_printf(s, "some data %d\n", variable); printk("%s", s->buffer); The main use is to allow a top level function call several other functions that may store printf like data into the buffer. Then at the end, the top level function can process all the data with any method it would like to. It could be passed to userspace, output via printk or even use seq_file: trace_seq_to_user(s, ubuf, cnt); seq_puts(m, s->buffer); Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing: create automated trace definesSteven Rostedt
This patch lowers the number of places a developer must modify to add new tracepoints. The current method to add a new tracepoint into an existing system is to write the trace point macro in the trace header with one of the macros TRACE_EVENT, TRACE_FORMAT or DECLARE_TRACE, then they must add the same named item into the C file with the macro DEFINE_TRACE(name) and then add the trace point. This change cuts out the needing to add the DEFINE_TRACE(name). Every file that uses the tracepoint must still include the trace/<type>.h file, but the one C file must also add a define before the including of that file. #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include <trace/mytrace.h> This will cause the trace/mytrace.h file to also produce the C code necessary to implement the trace point. Note, if more than one trace/<type>.h is used to create the C code it is best to list them all together. #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include <trace/foo.h> #include <trace/bar.h> #include <trace/fido.h> Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers and Christoph Hellwig for coming up with the cleaner solution of the define above the includes over my first design to have the C code include a "special" header. This patch converts sched, irq and lockdep and skb to use this new method. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing: make the trace clocks available generallyIngo Molnar
Jeremy Fitzhardinge reported this build failure: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `ds_take_timestamp': git/linux/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:1380: undefined reference to `trace_clock_global' git/linux/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:1380: undefined reference to `trace_clock_global' Which is due to !CONFIG_TRACING && CONFIG_X86_DS=y. Expose the trace clock code to CONFIG_X86_DS as well. [ Unfortunately librarizing doesnt work well - ancient architectures with no raw_local_irq_save() primitive break the build. ] Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> LKML-Reference: <49E4413F.7070700@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14wait: don't use __wake_up_common()Johannes Weiner
'777c6c5 wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation' made __wake_up_common() global to be used from abort_exclusive_wait(). It was needed to do a wake-up with the waitqueue lock held while passing down a key to the wake-up function. Since '4ede816 epoll keyed wakeups: add __wake_up_locked_key() and __wake_up_sync_key()' there is an appropriate wrapper for this case: __wake_up_locked_key(). Use it here and make __wake_up_common() private to the scheduler again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1239720785-19661-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing: consolidate trace and trace_event headersSteven Rostedt
Impact: clean up Neil Horman (et. al.) criticized the way the trace events were broken up into two files. The reason for that was that ftrace needed to separate out the declarations from where the #include <linux/tracepoint.h> was used. It then dawned on me that the tracepoint.h header only needs to define the TRACE_EVENT macro if it is not already defined. The solution is simply to test if TRACE_EVENT is defined, and if it is not then the linux/tracepoint.h header can define it. This change consolidates all the <traces>.h and <traces>_event_types.h into the <traces>.h file. Reported-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14x86, irq: Remove IRQ_DISABLED check in process context IRQ movePallipadi, Venkatesh
As discussed in the thread here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123964468521142&w=2 Eric W. Biederman observed: > It looks like some additional bugs have slipped in since last I looked. > > set_irq_affinity does this: > ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ > if (desc->status & IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT || desc->status & IRQ_DISABLED) { > cpumask_copy(desc->affinity, cpumask); > desc->chip->set_affinity(irq, cpumask); > } else { > desc->status |= IRQ_MOVE_PENDING; > cpumask_copy(desc->pending_mask, cpumask); > } > #else > > That IRQ_DISABLED case is a software state and as such it has nothing to > do with how safe it is to move an irq in process context. [...] > > The only reason we migrate MSIs in interrupt context today is that there > wasn't infrastructure for support migration both in interrupt context > and outside of it. Yes. The idea here was to force the MSI migration to happen in process context. One of the patches in the series did disable_irq(dev->irq); irq_set_affinity(dev->irq, cpumask_of(dev->cpu)); enable_irq(dev->irq); with the above patch adding irq/manage code check for interrupt disabled and moving the interrupt in process context. IIRC, there was no IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT when we were developing this HPET code and we ended up having this ugly hack. IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT was there when we eventually submitted the patch upstream. But, looks like I did a blind rebasing instead of using IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT in hpet MSI code. Below patch fixes this. i.e., revert commit 932775a4ab622e3c99bd59f14cc and add PCNTXT to HPET MSI setup. Also removes copying of desc->affinity in generic code as set_affinity routines are doing it internally. Reported-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Li Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Cc: "lcm@us.ibm.com" <lcm@us.ibm.com> Cc: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com LKML-Reference: <20090413222058.GB8211@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14sched: Nominate a power-efficient ilb in select_nohz_balancer()Gautham R Shenoy
The CPU that first goes idle becomes the idle-load-balancer and remains that until either it picks up a task or till all the CPUs of the system goes idle. Optimize this further to allow it to relinquish it's post once all it's siblings in the power-aware sched_domain go idle, thereby allowing the whole package-core to go idle. While relinquising the post, nominate another an idle-load balancer from a semi-idle core/package. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090414045535.7645.31641.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14sched: Nominate idle load balancer from a semi-idle package.Gautham R Shenoy
Currently the nomination of idle-load balancer is done by choosing the first idle cpu in the nohz.cpu_mask. This may not be power-efficient, since such an idle cpu could come from a completely idle core/package thereby preventing the whole core/package from being in a low-power state. For eg, consider a quad-core dual package system. The cpu numbering need not be sequential and can something like [0, 2, 4, 6] and [1, 3, 5, 7]. With sched_mc/smt_power_savings and the power-aware IRQ balance, we try to keep as fewer Packages/Cores active. But the current idle load balancer logic goes against this by choosing the first_cpu in the nohz.cpu_mask and not taking the system topology into consideration. Improve the algorithm to nominate the idle load balancer from a semi idle cores/packages thereby increasing the probability of the cores/packages being in deeper sleep states for longer duration. The algorithm is activated only when sched_mc/smt_power_savings != 0. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090414045530.7645.12175.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14rcu: Add __rcu_pending tracing to hierarchical RCUPaul E. McKenney
Add tracing to __rcu_pending() to provide information on why RCU processing was kicked off. This is helpful for debugging hierarchical RCU, and might also be helpful in learning how hierarchical RCU operates. Located-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: schamp@sgi.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: ego@in.ibm.com Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1239683479943-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14rcu: Make hierarchical RCU less IPI-happyPaul E. McKenney
This patch fixes a hierarchical-RCU performance bug located by Anton Blanchard. The problem stems from a misguided attempt to provide a work-around for jiffies-counter failure. This work-around uses a per-CPU n_rcu_pending counter, which is incremented on each call to rcu_pending(), which in turn is called from each scheduling-clock interrupt. Each CPU then treats this counter as a surrogate for the jiffies counter, so that if the jiffies counter fails to advance, the per-CPU n_rcu_pending counter will cause RCU to invoke force_quiescent_state(), which in turn will (among other things) send resched IPIs to CPUs that have thus far failed to pass through an RCU quiescent state. Unfortunately, each CPU resets only its own counter after sending a batch of IPIs. This means that the other CPUs will also (needlessly) send -another- round of IPIs, for a full N-squared set of IPIs in the worst case every three scheduler-clock ticks until the grace period finally ends. It is not reasonable for a given CPU to reset each and every n_rcu_pending for all the other CPUs, so this patch instead simply disables the jiffies-counter "training wheels", thus eliminating the excessive IPIs. Note that the jiffies-counter IPIs do not have this problem due to the fact that the jiffies counter is global, so that the CPU sending the IPIs can easily reset things, thus preventing the other CPUs from sending redundant IPIs. Note also that the n_rcu_pending counter remains, as it will continue to be used for tracing. It may also see use to update the jiffies counter, should an appropriate kick-the-jiffies-counter API appear. Located-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: schamp@sgi.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: ego@in.ibm.com Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <12396834793575-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing: Fix branch tracer headerZhaolei
Before patch: # tracer: branch # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | <...>-2981 [000] 24008.872738: [ ok ] trace_irq_handler_exit:irq_event_types.h:41 <...>-2981 [000] 24008.872742: [ ok ] note_interrupt:spurious.c:229 ... After patch: # tracer: branch # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP CORRECT FUNC:FILE:LINE # | | | | | | <...>-2985 [000] 26329.142970: [ ok ] slab_free:slub.c:1776 <...>-2985 [000] 26329.142972: [ ok ] trace_kmem_cache_free:kmem_event_types.h:191 ... Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49E2F19A.3040006@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing, sched: mark get_parent_ip() notraceLai Jiangshan
Impact: remove overly redundant tracing entries When tracer is "function" or "function_graph", way too much "get_parent_ip" entries are recorded in ring_buffer. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49D458B1.5000703@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-13kernel/sys.c: clean up sys_shutdown exit pathAndi Kleen
Impact: cleanup, fix Clean up sys_shutdown() exit path. Factor out common code. Return correct error code instead of always 0 on failure. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13ptrace: fix exit_ptrace() vs ptrace_traceme() raceOleg Nesterov
Pointed out by Roland. The bug was recently introduced by me in "forget_original_parent: split out the un-ptrace part", commit 39c626ae47c469abdfd30c6e42eff884931380d6. Since that patch we have a window after exit_ptrace() drops tasklist and before forget_original_parent() takes it again. In this window the child can do ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) and nobody can untrace this child after that. Change ptrace_traceme() to not attach to the exiting ->real_parent. We don't report the error in this case, we pretend we attach right before ->real_parent calls exit_ptrace() which should untrace us anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13mm: move the scan_unevictable_pages sysctl to the vm tablePeter Zijlstra
vm knobs should go in the vm table. Probably too late for randomize_va_space though. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-14tracing/filters: allow on-the-fly filter switchingTom Zanussi
This patch allows event filters to be safely removed or switched on-the-fly while avoiding the use of rcu or the suspension of tracing of previous versions. It does it by adding a new filter_pred_none() predicate function which does nothing and by never deallocating either the predicates or any of the filter_pred members used in matching; the predicate lists are allocated and initialized during ftrace_event_calls initialization. Whenever a filter is removed or replaced, the filter_pred_* functions currently in use by the affected ftrace_event_call are immediately switched over to to the filter_pred_none() function, while the rest of the filter_pred members are left intact, allowing any currently executing filter_pred_* functions to finish up, using the values they're currently using. In the case of filter replacement, the new predicate values are copied into the old predicates after the above step, and the filter_pred_none() functions are replaced by the filter_pred_* functions for the new filter. In this case, it is possible though very unlikely that a previous filter_pred_* is still running even after the filter_pred_none() switch and the switch to the new filter_pred_*. In that case, however, because nothing has been deallocated in the filter_pred, the worst that can happen is that the old filter_pred_* function sees the new values and as a result produces either a false positive or a false negative, depending on the values it finds. So one downside to this method is that rarely, it can produce a bad match during the filter switch, but it should be possible to live with that, IMHO. The other downside is that at least in this patch the predicate lists are always pre-allocated, taking up memory from the start. They could probably be allocated on first-use, and de-allocated when tracing is completely stopped - if this patch makes sense, I could create another one to do that later on. Oh, and it also places a restriction on the size of __arrays in events, currently set to 128, since they can't be larger than the now embedded str_val arrays in the filter_pred struct. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com LKML-Reference: <1239610670.6660.49.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: merge latest tracing fixes to avoid conflicts in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c with upcoming change Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing/filters: use ring_buffer_discard_commit() in filter_check_discard()Tom Zanussi
This patch changes filter_check_discard() to make use of the new ring_buffer_discard_commit() function and modifies the current users to call the old commit function in the non-discard case. It also introduces a version of filter_check_discard() that uses the global trace buffer (filter_current_check_discard()) for those cases. v2 changes: - fix compile error noticed by Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <1239178554.10295.36.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing/infrastructure: separate event tracer from event supportTom Zanussi
Add a new config option, CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING that gets selected when CONFIG_TRACING is selected and adds everything needed by the stuff in trace_export - basically all the event tracing support needed by e.g. bprint, minus the actual events, which are only included if CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER is selected. So CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER can be used to turn on or off the generated events (what I think of as the 'event tracer'), while CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING turns on or off the base event tracing support used by both the event tracer and the other things such as bprint that can't be configured out. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <1239178441.10295.34.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing/filters: use ring_buffer_discard_commit for discarded eventsSteven Rostedt
The ring_buffer_discard_commit makes better usage of the ring_buffer when an event has been discarded. It tries to remove it completely if possible. This patch converts the trace event filtering to use ring_buffer_discard_commit instead of the ring_buffer_event_discard. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14ring-buffer: add ring_buffer_discard_commitSteven Rostedt
The ring_buffer_discard_commit is similar to ring_buffer_event_discard but it can only be done on an event that has yet to be commited. Unpredictable results can happen otherwise. The main difference between ring_buffer_discard_commit and ring_buffer_event_discard is that ring_buffer_discard_commit will try to free the data in the ring buffer if nothing has addded data after the reserved event. If something did, then it acts almost the same as ring_buffer_event_discard followed by a ring_buffer_unlock_commit. Note, either ring_buffer_commit_discard and ring_buffer_unlock_commit can be called on an event, not both. This commit also exports both discard functions to be usable by GPL modules. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing/filters: add TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT_NOFILTER event macroTom Zanussi
Frederic Weisbecker suggested that the trace_special event shouldn't be filterable; this patch adds a TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT_NOFILTER event macro that allows an event format to be exported without having a filter attached, and removes filtering from the trace_special event. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing/filters: add run-time field descriptions to TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT eventsTom Zanussi
This patch adds run-time field descriptions to all the event formats exported using TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT. It also hooks up all the tracers that use them (i.e. the tracers in the 'ftrace subsystem') so they can also have their output filtered by the event-filtering mechanism. When I was testing this, there were a couple of things that fooled me into thinking the filters weren't working, when actually they were - I'll mention them here so others don't make the same mistakes (and file bug reports. ;-) One is that some of the tracers trace multiple events e.g. the sched_switch tracer uses the context_switch and wakeup events, and if you don't set filters on all of the traced events, the unfiltered output from the events without filters on them can make it look like the filtering as a whole isn't working properly, when actually it is doing what it was asked to do - it just wasn't asked to do the right thing. The other is that for the really high-volume tracers e.g. the function tracer, the volume of filtered events can be so high that it pushes the unfiltered events out of the ring buffer before they can be read so e.g. cat'ing the trace file repeatedly shows either no output, or once in awhile some output but that isn't there the next time you read the trace, which isn't what you normally expect when reading the trace file. If you read from the trace_pipe file though, you can catch them before they disappear. Changes from v1: As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker: - get rid of externs in functions - added unlikely() to filter_check_discard() Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-13tracing: Fix power tracer headerZhaolei
Before patch: # tracer: power # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | [ 676.875865889] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.005911463 [ 676.882938805] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.104796532 ... After patch: # tracer: power # # TIMESTAMP STATE EVENT # | | | [ 676.875865889] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.005911463 [ 676.882938805] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.104796532 ... v2: Use seq_puts instead of seq_printf Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49E2E889.5000903@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-13PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resumeRafael J. Wysocki
There is a race between resume from hibernation and the asynchronous scanning of SCSI devices and to prevent it from happening we need to call scsi_complete_async_scans() during resume from hibernation. In addition, if the resume from hibernation is userland-driven, it's better to wait for all device probes in the kernel to complete before attempting to open the resume device. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter file tracing/filters: allow user input integer to be oct or hex tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereference tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filter ftrace: Output REC->var instead of __entry->var for trace format Make __stringify support variable argument macros too tracing: fix document references tracing: fix splice return too large tracing: update file->f_pos when splice(2) it tracing: allocate page when needed tracing: disable seeking for trace_pipe_raw
2009-04-13Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
2009-04-13Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: percpu: unbreak alpha percpu mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
2009-04-12lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taintsFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: broaden lockdep checks Lockdep is disabled after any kernel taints. This might be convenient to ignore bad locking issues which sources come from outside the kernel tree. Nevertheless, it might be a frustrating experience for the staging developers or those who experience a warning but are focused on another things that require lockdep. The v2 of this patch simply don't disable anymore lockdep in case of TAINT_CRAP and TAINT_WARN events. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: LTP <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>