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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (163 commits)
tracing: Fix compile issue for trace_sched_wakeup.c
[S390] hardirq: remove pointless header file includes
[IA64] Move local_softirq_pending() definition
perf, powerpc: Fix power_pmu_event_init to not use event->ctx
ftrace: Remove recursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty
jump_label: Add COND_STMT(), reducer wrappery
perf: Optimize sw events
perf: Use jump_labels to optimize the scheduler hooks
jump_label: Add atomic_t interface
jump_label: Use more consistent naming
perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation
perf: Find task before event alloc
perf: Fix task refcount bugs
perf: Fix group moving
irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
perf_events: Fix transaction recovery in group_sched_in()
perf_events: Fix bogus AMD64 generic TLB events
perf_events: Fix bogus context time tracking
tracing: Remove parent recording in latency tracer graph options
tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (52 commits)
sched: fix RCU lockdep splat from task_group()
rcu: using ACCESS_ONCE() to observe the jiffies_stall/rnp->qsmask value
sched: suppress RCU lockdep splat in task_fork_fair
net: suppress RCU lockdep false positive in sock_update_classid
rcu: move check from rcu_dereference_bh to rcu_read_lock_bh_held
rcu: Add advice to PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY kernel config parameter
rcu: Add tracing data to support queueing models
rcu: fix sparse errors in rcutorture.c
rcu: only one evaluation of arg in rcu_dereference_check() unless sparse
kernel: Remove undead ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
rcu: fix _oddness handling of verbose stall warnings
rcu: performance fixes to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU callback checking
rcu: upgrade stallwarn.txt documentation for CPU-bound RT processes
vhost: add __rcu annotations
rcu: add comment stating that list_empty() applies to RCU-protected lists
rcu: apply TINY_PREEMPT_RCU read-side speedup to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: combine duplicate code, courtesy of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: Upgrade srcu_read_lock() docbook about SRCU grace periods
rcu: document ways of stalling updates in low-memory situations
rcu: repair code-duplication FIXMEs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: Check the depth of subclass
lockdep: Add improved subclass caching
affs: Use sema_init instead of init_MUTEX
hfs: Convert tree_lock to mutex
arm: Bcmring: semaphore cleanup
printk: Make console_sem a semaphore not a pseudo mutex
drivers/macintosh/adb: Do not claim that the semaphore is a mutex
parport: Semaphore cleanup
irda: Semaphore cleanup
net: Wan/cosa.c: Convert "mutex" to semaphore
net: Ppp_async: semaphore cleanup
hamradio: Mkiss: semaphore cleanup
hamradio: 6pack: semaphore cleanup
net: 3c527: semaphore cleanup
input: Serio/hp_sdc: semaphore cleanup
input: Serio/hil_mlc: semaphore cleanup
input: Misc/hp_sdc_rtc: semaphore cleanup
lockup_detector: Make callback function static
lockup detector: Fix grammar by adding a missing "to" in the comments
lockdep: Remove __debug_show_held_locks
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All security modules shouldn't change sched_param parameter of
security_task_setscheduler(). This is not only meaningless, but also
make a harmful result if caller pass a static variable.
This patch remove policy and sched_param parameter from
security_task_setscheduler() becuase none of security module is
using it.
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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The function start_func_tracer() was incorrectly added in the
#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER condition, but is still used even
when function tracing is not enabled.
The calls to register_ftrace_function() and register_ftrace_graph()
become nops (and their arguments are even ignored), thus there is
no reason to hide start_func_tracer() when function tracing is
not enabled.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Trades a call + conditional + ret for an unconditional jmp.
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101014203625.501657727@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Now that there's still only a few users around, rename things to make
them more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101014203625.448565169@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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hw_breakpoint creation needs to account stuff per-task to ensure there
is always sufficient hardware resources to back these things due to
ptrace.
With the perf per pmu context changes the event initialization no
longer has access to the event context, for the simple reason that we
need to first find the pmu (result of initialization) before we can
find the context.
This makes hw_breakpoints unhappy, because it can no longer do per
task accounting, cure this by frobbing a task pointer in the event::hw
bits for now...
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101014203625.391543667@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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So that we can pass the task pointer to the event allocation, so that
we can use task associated data during event initialization.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101014203625.340789919@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Currently it looks like find_lively_task_by_vpid() takes a task ref
and relies on find_get_context() to drop it.
The problem is that perf_event_create_kernel_counter() shouldn't be
dropping task refs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101014203625.278436085@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Matt found we trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() in perf_group_attach() when we take
the move_group path in perf_event_open().
Since we cannot de-construct the group (we rely on it to move the events), we
have to simply ignore the double attach. The group state is context invariant
and doesn't need changing.
Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1287135757.29097.1368.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.
Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.
The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.
Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The group_sched_in() function uses a transactional approach to schedule
a group of events. In a group, either all events can be scheduled or
none are. To schedule each event in, the function calls event_sched_in().
In case of error, event_sched_out() is called on each event in the group.
The problem is that event_sched_out() does not completely cancel the
effects of event_sched_in(). Furthermore event_sched_out() changes the
state of the event as if it had run which is not true is this particular
case.
Those inconsistencies impact time tracking fields and may lead to events
in a group not all reporting the same time_enabled and time_running values.
This is demonstrated with the example below:
$ task -eunhalted_core_cycles,baclears,baclears -e unhalted_core_cycles,baclears,baclears sleep 5
1946101 unhalted_core_cycles (32.85% scaling, ena=829181, run=556827)
11423 baclears (32.85% scaling, ena=829181, run=556827)
7671 baclears (0.00% scaling, ena=556827, run=556827)
2250443 unhalted_core_cycles (57.83% scaling, ena=962822, run=405995)
11705 baclears (57.83% scaling, ena=962822, run=405995)
11705 baclears (57.83% scaling, ena=962822, run=405995)
Notice that in the first group, the last baclears event does not
report the same timings as its siblings.
This issue comes from the fact that tstamp_stopped is updated
by event_sched_out() as if the event had actually run.
To solve the issue, we must ensure that, in case of error, there is
no change in the event state whatsoever. That means timings must
remain as they were when entering group_sched_in().
To do this we defer updating tstamp_running until we know the
transaction succeeded. Therefore, we have split event_sched_in()
in two parts separating the update to tstamp_running.
Similarly, in case of error, we do not want to update tstamp_stopped.
Therefore, we have split event_sched_out() in two parts separating
the update to tstamp_stopped.
With this patch, we now get the following output:
$ task -eunhalted_core_cycles,baclears,baclears -e unhalted_core_cycles,baclears,baclears sleep 5
2492050 unhalted_core_cycles (71.75% scaling, ena=1093330, run=308841)
11243 baclears (71.75% scaling, ena=1093330, run=308841)
11243 baclears (71.75% scaling, ena=1093330, run=308841)
1852746 unhalted_core_cycles (0.00% scaling, ena=784489, run=784489)
9253 baclears (0.00% scaling, ena=784489, run=784489)
9253 baclears (0.00% scaling, ena=784489, run=784489)
Note that the uneven timing between groups is a side effect of
the process spending most of its time sleeping, i.e., not enough
event rotations (but that's a separate issue).
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4cb86b4c.41e9d80a.44e9.3e19@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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You can only call update_context_time() when the context
is active, i.e., the thread it is attached to is still running.
However, perf_event_read() can be called even when the context
is inactive, e.g., user read() the counters. The call to
update_context_time() must be conditioned on the status of
the context, otherwise, bogus time_enabled, time_running may
be returned. Here is an example on AMD64. The task program
is an example from libpfm4. The -p prints deltas every 1s.
$ task -p -e cpu_clk_unhalted sleep 5
2,266,610 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,158,982, run=2,158,982)
0 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,158,982, run=2,158,982)
0 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,158,982, run=2,158,982)
0 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,158,982, run=2,158,982)
0 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,158,982, run=2,158,982)
5,242,358,071 cpu_clk_unhalted (99.95% scaling, ena=5,000,359,984, run=2,319,270)
Whereas if you don't read deltas, e.g., no call to perf_event_read() until
the process terminates:
$ task -e cpu_clk_unhalted sleep 5
2,497,783 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,376,899, run=2,376,899)
Notice that time_enable, time_running are bogus in the first example
causing bogus scaling.
This patch fixes the problem, by conditionally calling update_context_time()
in perf_event_read().
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <4cb856dc.51edd80a.5ae0.38fb@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Current look_up_lock_class() doesn't check the parameter "subclass".
This rarely rises problems because the main caller of this function,
register_lock_class(), checks it.
But register_lock_class() is not the only function which calls
look_up_lock_class(). lock_set_class() and its callees also call it.
And lock_set_class() doesn't check this parameter.
This will rise problems when the the value of subclass is larger than
MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES. Because the address (used as the key of class)
caliculated with too large subclass has a probability to point
another key in different lock_class_key.
Of course this problem depends on the memory layout and
occurs with really low probability.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286958626-986-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Current lockdep_map only caches one class with subclass == 0,
and looks up hash table of classes when subclass != 0.
It seems that this has no problem because the case of
subclass != 0 is rare. But locks of struct rq are
acquired with subclass == 1 when task migration is executed.
Task migration is high frequent event, so I modified lockdep
to cache subclasses.
I measured the score of perf bench sched messaging.
This patch has slightly but certain (order of milli seconds
or 10 milli seconds) effect when lots of tasks are running.
I'll show the result in the tail of this description.
NR_LOCKDEP_CACHING_CLASSES specifies how many classes can be
cached in the instances of lockdep_map.
I discussed with Peter Zijlstra in LinuxCon Japan about
this approach and he taught me that caching every subclasses(8)
is cleary waste of memory. So number of cached classes
should be configurable.
=== Score comparison of benchmarks ===
# "min" means best score, and "max" means worst score
for i in `seq 1 10`; do ./perf bench -f simple sched messaging; done
before: min: 0.565000, max: 0.583000, avg: 0.572500
after: min: 0.559000, max: 0.568000, avg: 0.563300
# with more processes
for i in `seq 1 10`; do ./perf bench -f simple sched messaging -g 40; done
before: min: 2.274000, max: 2.298000, avg: 2.286300
after: min: 2.242000, max: 2.270000, avg: 2.259700
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286269311-28336-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: Update to almost-final-.36
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Even though the parent is recorded with the normal function tracing
of the latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup), the function graph
recording is bogus.
This is due to the function graph messing with the return stack.
The latency tracers pass in as the parent CALLER_ADDR0, which
works fine for plain function tracing. But this causes bogus output
with the graph tracer:
3) <idle>-0 | d.s3. 0.000 us | return_to_handler();
3) <idle>-0 | d.s3. 0.000 us | _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore();
3) <idle>-0 | d.s3. 0.000 us | return_to_handler();
3) <idle>-0 | d.s3. 0.000 us | trace_hardirqs_on();
The "return_to_handle()" call is the trampoline of the
function graph tracer, and is meaningless in this context.
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The preempt and irqsoff tracers have three types of function tracers.
Normal function tracer, function graph entry, and function graph return.
Each of these use a complex dance to prevent recursion and whether
to trace the data or not (depending if interrupts are enabled or not).
This patch moves the duplicate code into a single routine, to
prevent future mistakes with modifying duplicate complex code.
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The wakeup tracer has three types of function tracers. Normal
function tracer, function graph entry, and function graph return.
Each of these use a complex dance to prevent recursion and whether
to trace the data or not (depending on the wake_task variable).
This patch moves the duplicate code into a single routine, to
prevent future mistakes with modifying duplicate complex code.
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add function graph support for wakeup latency tracer.
The graph output is enabled by setting the 'display-graph'
trace option.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1285243253-7372-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Move trace_graph_function() and print_graph_headers_flags() functions
to the trace_function_graph.c to be globaly available.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1285243253-7372-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The check_irq_entry and check_irq_return could be called
from graph event context. In such case there's no graph
private data allocated. Adding checks to handle this case.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100924154102.GB1818@jolsa.brq.redhat.com>
[ Fixed some grammar in the comments ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Unnecessary cast from void* in assignment.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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sysctl check complains with a WARN() when proc_doulongvec_minmax() or
proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax() are used by a vector of longs (with
more than one element), with no min or max value specified.
This is unexpected, given we had a bug on this min/max handling :)
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
arch/arm/oprofile/common.c
kernel/perf_event.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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The config option used by archs to let the build system know that
the C version of the recordmcount works for said arch is currently
called HAVE_C_MCOUNT_RECORD which enables BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT. To
be more consistent with the name that all archs may use, it has been
renamed to HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT. This will be less confusing since
we are building a C recordmcount and not a mcount_record.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core
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This patch adds the support for the C version of recordmcount and
compile times show ~ 12% improvement.
After verifying this works, other archs can add:
HAVE_C_MCOUNT_RECORD
in its Kconfig and it will use the C version of recordmcount
instead of the perl version.
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The race is described as follows:
CPU X CPU Y
remove_hrtimer
// state & QUEUED == 0
timer->state = CALLBACK
unlock timer base
timer->f(n) //very long
hrtimer_start
lock timer base
remove_hrtimer // no effect
hrtimer_enqueue
timer->state = CALLBACK |
QUEUED
unlock timer base
hrtimer_start
lock timer base
remove_hrtimer
mode = INACTIVE
// CALLBACK bit lost!
switch_hrtimer_base
CALLBACK bit not set:
timer->base
changes to a
different CPU.
lock this CPU's timer base
The bug was introduced with commit ca109491f (hrtimer: removing all ur
callback modes) in 2.6.29
[ tglx: Feed new state via local variable and add a comment. ]
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101012142351.8485.21823.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Fix selftest to clear flags field for reusing probes
because the flags field can be modified by Kprobes.
This also set NULL to kprobe.addr instead of 0.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101014031024.4100.50107.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Fix
kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c: In function ‘trace_print_graph_duration’:
kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c:652: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
when building 36-rc6 on a 32-bit due to the strict type check failing
in the min() macro.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20100929080823.GA13595@liondog.tnic>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Time stamps for the ring buffer are created by the difference between
two events. Each page of the ring buffer holds a full 64 bit timestamp.
Each event has a 27 bit delta stamp from the last event. The unit of time
is nanoseconds, so 27 bits can hold ~134 milliseconds. If two events
happen more than 134 milliseconds apart, a time extend is inserted
to add more bits for the delta. The time extend has 59 bits, which
is good for ~18 years.
Currently the time extend is committed separately from the event.
If an event is discarded before it is committed, due to filtering,
the time extend still exists. If all events are being filtered, then
after ~134 milliseconds a new time extend will be added to the buffer.
This can only happen till the end of the page. Since each page holds
a full timestamp, there is no reason to add a time extend to the
beginning of a page. Time extends can only fill a page that has actual
data at the beginning, so there is no fear that time extends will fill
more than a page without any data.
When reading an event, a loop is made to skip over time extends
since they are only used to maintain the time stamp and are never
given to the caller. As a paranoid check to prevent the loop running
forever, with the knowledge that time extends may only fill a page,
a check is made that tests the iteration of the loop, and if the
iteration is more than the number of time extends that can fit in a page
a warning is printed and the ring buffer is disabled (all of ftrace
is also disabled with it).
There is another event type that is called a TIMESTAMP which can
hold 64 bits of data in the theoretical case that two events happen
18 years apart. This code has not been implemented, but the name
of this event exists, as well as the structure for it. The
size of a TIMESTAMP is 16 bytes, where as a time extend is only
8 bytes. The macro used to calculate how many time extends can fit on
a page used the TIMESTAMP size instead of the time extend size
cutting the amount in half.
The following test case can easily trigger the warning since we only
need to have half the page filled with time extends to trigger the
warning:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
# echo function > current_tracer
# echo 'common_pid < 0' > events/ftrace/function/filter
# echo > trace
# echo 1 > trace_marker
# sleep 120
# cat trace
Enabling the function tracer and then setting the filter to only trace
functions where the process id is negative (no events), then clearing
the trace buffer to ensure that we have nothing in the buffer,
then write to trace_marker to add an event to the beginning of a page,
sleep for 2 minutes (only 35 seconds is probably needed, but this
guarantees the bug), and then finally reading the trace which will
trigger the bug.
This patch fixes the typo and prevents the false positive of that warning.
Reported-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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It needs to be investigated whether it can be replaced by a real
mutex, but that needs more thought.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100907125057.179587334@linutronix.de>
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Reason: Pull in the semaphore related changes
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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perf events: repair incorrect use of copy_from_user
This makes the perf_event_period() return 0 instead of
-EFAULT on success.
Signed-off-by: John Blackwood<john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100928220311.GA18145@tsunami.ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Introduce perf_pmu_name() helper function that returns the name of the
pmu. This gives us a generic way to get the name of a pmu regardless of
how an architecture identifies it internally.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/module.c
Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6:
HWPOISON: Stop shrinking at right page count
HWPOISON: Report correct address granuality for AO huge page errors
HWPOISON: Copy si_addr_lsb to user
page-types.c: fix name of unpoison interface
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When proc_doulongvec_minmax() is used with an array of longs, and no
min/max check requested (.extra1 or .extra2 being NULL), we dereference a
NULL pointer for the second element of the array.
Noticed while doing some changes in network stack for the "16TB problem"
Fix is to not change min & max pointers in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(),
so that all elements of the vector share an unique min/max limit, like
proc_dointvec_minmax().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This addresses the following RCU lockdep splat:
[0.051203] CPU0: AMD QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.12.4 stepping 03
[0.052999] lockdep: fixing up alternatives.
[0.054105]
[0.054106] ===================================================
[0.054999] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
[0.054999] ---------------------------------------------------
[0.054999] kernel/sched.c:616 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
[0.054999]
[0.054999] other info that might help us debug this:
[0.054999]
[0.054999]
[0.054999] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[0.054999] 3 locks held by swapper/1:
[0.054999] #0: (cpu_add_remove_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff814be933>] cpu_up+0x42/0x6a
[0.054999] #1: (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810400d8>] cpu_hotplug_begin+0x2a/0x51
[0.054999] #2: (&rq->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff814be2f7>] init_idle+0x2f/0x113
[0.054999]
[0.054999] stack backtrace:
[0.054999] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35 #1
[0.054999] Call Trace:
[0.054999] [<ffffffff81068054>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x9b/0xa3
[0.054999] [<ffffffff810325c3>] task_group+0x7b/0x8a
[0.054999] [<ffffffff810325e5>] set_task_rq+0x13/0x40
[0.054999] [<ffffffff814be39a>] init_idle+0xd2/0x113
[0.054999] [<ffffffff814be78a>] fork_idle+0xb8/0xc7
[0.054999] [<ffffffff81068717>] ? mark_held_locks+0x4d/0x6b
[0.054999] [<ffffffff814bcebd>] do_fork_idle+0x17/0x2b
[0.054999] [<ffffffff814bc89b>] native_cpu_up+0x1c1/0x724
[0.054999] [<ffffffff814bcea6>] ? do_fork_idle+0x0/0x2b
[0.054999] [<ffffffff814be876>] _cpu_up+0xac/0x127
[0.054999] [<ffffffff814be946>] cpu_up+0x55/0x6a
[0.054999] [<ffffffff81ab562a>] kernel_init+0xe1/0x1ff
[0.054999] [<ffffffff81003854>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[0.054999] [<ffffffff814c353c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[0.054999] [<ffffffff81ab5549>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1ff
[0.054999] [<ffffffff81003850>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
[0.056074] Booting Node 0, Processors #1lockdep: fixing up alternatives.
[0.130045] #2lockdep: fixing up alternatives.
[0.203089] #3 Ok.
[0.275286] Brought up 4 CPUs
[0.276005] Total of 4 processors activated (16017.17 BogoMIPS).
The cgroup_subsys_state structures referenced by idle tasks are never
freed, because the idle tasks should be part of the root cgroup,
which is not removable.
The problem is that while we do in-fact hold rq->lock, the newly spawned
idle thread's cpu is not yet set to the correct cpu so the lockdep check
in task_group():
lockdep_is_held(&task_rq(p)->lock)
will fail.
But this is a chicken and egg problem. Setting the CPU's runqueue requires
that the CPU's runqueue already be set. ;-)
So insert an RCU read-side critical section to avoid the complaint.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Using ACCESS_ONCE() to observe the jiffies_stall/rnp->qsmask value
due to the caller didn't hold the root_rcu/rnp node's lock. Although
use without ACCESS_ONCE() is safe due to the value loaded being used
but once, the ACCESS_ONCE() is a good documentation aid -- the variables
are being loaded without the services of a lock.
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
CC: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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> ===================================================
> [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
> ---------------------------------------------------
> /home/greearb/git/linux.wireless-testing/kernel/sched.c:618 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
>
> rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
> 1 lock held by ifup/23517:
> #0: (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<c042f782>] task_fork_fair+0x3b/0x108
>
> stack backtrace:
> Pid: 23517, comm: ifup Not tainted 2.6.36-rc6-wl+ #5
> Call Trace:
> [<c075e219>] ? printk+0xf/0x16
> [<c0455842>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x74/0x7d
> [<c0426854>] task_group+0x6d/0x79
> [<c042686e>] set_task_rq+0xe/0x57
> [<c042f79e>] task_fork_fair+0x57/0x108
> [<c042e965>] sched_fork+0x82/0xf9
> [<c04334b3>] copy_process+0x569/0xe8e
> [<c0433ef0>] do_fork+0x118/0x262
> [<c076302f>] ? do_page_fault+0x16a/0x2cf
> [<c044b80c>] ? up_read+0x16/0x2a
> [<c04085ae>] sys_clone+0x1b/0x20
> [<c04030a5>] ptregs_clone+0x15/0x30
> [<c0402f1c>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38
Here a newly created task is having its runqueue assigned. The new task
is not yet on the tasklist, so cannot go away. This is therefore a false
positive, suppress with an RCU read-side critical section.
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com
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Merge reason: Update from -rc3 to -rc7.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu
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The original hwpoison code added a new siginfo field si_addr_lsb to
pass the granuality of the fault address to user space. Unfortunately
this field was never copied to user space. Fix this here.
I added explicit checks for the MCEERR codes to avoid having
to patch all potential callers to initialize the field.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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