linux/kernel/events, branch v3.3

perf/hwbp: Fix a possible memory leak

2012-02-28T08:52:54Z

If kzalloc() for TYPE_DATA failed on a given cpu, previous chunk of TYPE_INST will be leaked. Fix it. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting this better solution. It should work as long as the initial value of the region is all 0's and that's the case of static (per-cpu) memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330391978-28070-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix double start/stop in x86_pmu_start()

2012-02-07T15:58:56Z

The following patch fixes a bug introduced by the following commit: e050e3f0a71b ("perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling") The patch caused the following warning to pop up depending on the sampling frequency adjustments: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c:995 x86_pmu_start+0x79/0xd4() It was caused by the following call sequence: perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context.part() { stop() if (delta > 0) { perf_adjust_period() { if (period > 8*...) { stop() ... start() } } } start() } Which caused a double start and a double stop, thus triggering the assert in x86_pmu_start(). The patch fixes the problem by avoiding the double calls. We pass a new argument to perf_adjust_period() to indicate whether or not the event is already stopped. We can't just remove the start/stop from that function because it's called from __perf_event_overflow where the event needs to be reloaded via a stop/start back-toback call. The patch reintroduces the assertion in x86_pmu_start() which was removed by commit: 84f2b9b ("perf: Remove deprecated WARN_ON_ONCE()") In this second version, we've added calls to disable/enable PMU during unthrottling or frequency adjustment based on bug report of spurious NMI interrupts from Eric Dumazet. Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: markus@trippelsdorf.de Cc: paulus@samba.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120207133956.GA4932@quad [ Minor edits to the changelog and to the code ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling

2012-01-27T11:06:39Z

This patch fixes the sampling interrupt throttling mechanism. It was broken in v3.2. Events were not being unthrottled. The unthrottling mechanism required that events be checked at each timer tick. This patch solves this problem and also separates: - unthrottling - multiplexing - frequency-mode period adjustments Not all of them need to be executed at each timer tick. This third version of the patch is based on my original patch + PeterZ proposal (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/7/87). At each timer tick, for each context: - if the current CPU has throttled events, we unthrottle events - if context has frequency-based events, we adjust sampling periods - if we have reached the jiffies interval, we multiplex (rotate) We decoupled rotation (multiplexing) from frequency-mode sampling period adjustments. They should not necessarily happen at the same rate. Multiplexing is subject to jiffies_interval (currently at 1 but could be higher once the tunable is exposed via sysfs). We have grouped frequency-mode adjustment and unthrottling into the same routine to minimize code duplication. When throttled while in frequency mode, we scan the events only once. We have fixed the threshold enforcement code in __perf_event_overflow(). There was a bug whereby it would allow more than the authorized rate because an increment of hwc->interrupts was not executed at the right place. The patch was tested with low sampling limit (2000) and fixed periods, frequency mode, overcommitted PMU. On a 2.1GHz AMD CPU: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate 2000 We set a rate of 3000 samples/sec (2.1GHz/3000 = 700000): $ perf record -e cycles,cycles -c 700000 noploop 10 $ perf report -D | tail -21 Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 80086 MMAP events: 88 COMM events: 2 EXIT events: 4 THROTTLE events: 19996 UNTHROTTLE events: 19996 SAMPLE events: 40000 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 40006 MMAP events: 5 COMM events: 1 EXIT events: 4 THROTTLE events: 9998 UNTHROTTLE events: 9998 SAMPLE events: 20000 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 39996 THROTTLE events: 9998 UNTHROTTLE events: 9998 SAMPLE events: 20000 For 10s, the cap is 2x2000x10 = 40000 samples. We get exactly that: 20000 samples/event. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: # v3.2+ Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120126160319.GA5655@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Call perf_cgroup_event_time() directly

2012-01-21T08:33:42Z

The perf_event_time() will call perf_cgroup_event_time() if @event is a cgroup event. Just do it directly and avoid the extra check.. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327021966-27688-2-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Don't call release_callchain_buffers() if allocation fails

2012-01-21T08:33:41Z

When alloc_callchain_buffers() fails, it frees all of entries before return. In addition, calling the release_callchain_buffers() will cause a NULL pointer dereference since callchain_cpu_entries is not set. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327021966-27688-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2012-01-09T20:59:24Z

* 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits) cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name cgroup: move assignement out of condition in cgroup_attach_proc() cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork() cgroup: add sparse annotation to cgroup_iter_start() and cgroup_iter_end() cgroup: mark cgroup_rmdir_waitq and cgroup_attach_proc() as static cgroup: only need to check oldcgrp==newgrp once cgroup: remove redundant get/put of task struct cgroup: remove redundant get/put of old css_set from migrate cgroup: Remove unnecessary task_lock before fetching css_set on migration cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork() cgroups: remove redundant get/put of css_set from css_set_check_fetched() resource cgroups: remove bogus cast cgroup: kill subsys->can_attach_task(), pre_attach() and attach_task() cgroup, cpuset: don't use ss->pre_attach() cgroup: don't use subsys->can_attach_task() or ->attach_task() cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach() cgroup: improve old cgroup handling in cgroup_attach_proc() cgroup: always lock threadgroup during migration threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem ... Fix up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c due to commit e0197aae59e5: "cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc" that already mentioned that the bug is fixed (differently) in Tejun's cgroup patchset. This one, in other words.

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2012-01-08T21:21:22Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (53 commits) Kconfig: acpi: Fix typo in comment. misc latin1 to utf8 conversions devres: Fix a typo in devm_kfree comment btrfs: free-space-cache.c: remove extra semicolon. fat: Spelling s/obsolate/obsolete/g SCSI, pmcraid: Fix spelling error in a pmcraid_err() call tools/power turbostat: update fields in manpage mac80211: drop spelling fix types.h: fix comment spelling for 'architectures' typo fixes: aera -> area, exntension -> extension devices.txt: Fix typo of 'VMware'. sis900: Fix enum typo 'sis900_rx_bufer_status' decompress_bunzip2: remove invalid vi modeline treewide: Fix comment and string typo 'bufer' hyper-v: Update MAINTAINERS treewide: Fix typos in various parts of the kernel, and fix some comments. clockevents: drop unknown Kconfig symbol GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR gpio: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol 'CS5535_GPIO' leds: Kconfig: Fix typo 'D2NET_V2' sound: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol ARCH_CLPS7500 ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/Kconfig (some new kconfig additions, close to removed commented-out old ones)

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-01-06T16:02:58Z

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (106 commits) perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in description perf script: Kill script_spec__delete perf top: Fix a memory leak perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper perf session: Remove impossible condition check perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variable perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section perf report: Accept fifos as input file perf tools: Moving code in some files perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_session perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown features perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_ops perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two. perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM. perf tools: Fix truncated annotation perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pid perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads ...

Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-01-06T16:02:40Z

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits) cpu: Export cpu_up() rcu: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_boost() return value Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled" docs: Additional LWN links to RCU API rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state rcu: Add rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw() rcu: Make rcutorture test for hotpluggability before offlining CPUs driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel rcu: Remove redundant rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declaration rcu: Adaptive dyntick-idle preparation rcu: Keep invoking callbacks if CPU otherwise idle rcu: Irq nesting is always 0 on rcu_enter_idle_common rcu: Don't check irq nesting from rcu idle entry/exit rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle() rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end ...

misc latin1 to utf8 conversions

2012-01-02T12:04:55Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina