linux/kernel/trace, branch v2.6.38-rc7

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2011-02-09T19:45:21Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: cdrom: support devices that have check_events but not media_changed cfq-iosched: Don't wait if queue already has requests. blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group cfq: rename a function to give it more appropriate name cciss: make cciss_revalidate not loop through CISS_MAX_LUNS volumes unnecessarily. drivers/block/aoe/Makefile: replace the use of -objs with -y loop: queue_lock NULL pointer derefence in blk_throtl_exit drivers/block/Makefile: replace the use of -objs with -y blktrace: Don't output messages if NOTIFY isn't set.

tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array

2011-02-03T14:29:06Z

Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall data is processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller Acked-by: David S. Miller Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array

2011-02-03T02:37:13Z

Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the events are processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

lockdep: Move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c

2011-01-20T12:32:33Z

During early boot, local IRQ is disabled until IRQ subsystem is properly initialized. During this time, no one should enable local IRQ and some operations which usually are not allowed with IRQ disabled, e.g. operations which might sleep or require communications with other processors, are allowed. lockdep tracked this with early_boot_irqs_off/on() callbacks. As other subsystems need this information too, move it to init/main.c and make it generally available. While at it, toggle the boolean to early_boot_irqs_disabled instead of enabled so that it can be initialized with %false and %true indicates the exceptional condition. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: Linus Torvalds LKML-Reference: <20110120110635.GB6036@htj.dyndns.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

blktrace: Don't output messages if NOTIFY isn't set.

2011-01-19T15:25:02Z

Now if we enable blktrace, cfq has too many messages output to the trace buffer. It is fine if we don't specify any action mask. But if I do like this: blktrace /dev/sdb -a issue -a complete -o - | blkparse -i - I only want to see 'D' and 'C', while with the following command dd if=/mnt/ocfs2/test of=/dev/null bs=4k count=1 iflag=direct I will get(with a 2.6.37 vanilla kernel): 8,16 0 0 0.000000000 0 m N cfq3805 alloced 8,16 0 0 0.000004126 0 m N cfq3805 insert_request 8,16 0 0 0.000004884 0 m N cfq3805 add_to_rr 8,16 0 0 0.000008417 0 m N cfq workload slice:300 8,16 0 0 0.000009557 0 m N cfq3805 set_active wl_prio:0 wl_type:2 8,16 0 0 0.000010640 0 m N cfq3805 fifo= (null) 8,16 0 0 0.000011193 0 m N cfq3805 dispatch_insert 8,16 0 0 0.000012221 0 m N cfq3805 dispatched a request 8,16 0 0 0.000012802 0 m N cfq3805 activate rq, drv=1 8,16 0 1 0.000013181 3805 D R 114759 + 8 [dd] 8,16 0 2 0.000164244 0 C R 114759 + 8 [0] 8,16 0 0 0.000167997 0 m N cfq3805 complete rqnoidle 0 8,16 0 0 0.000168782 0 m N cfq3805 set_slice=100 8,16 0 0 0.000169874 0 m N cfq3805 arm_idle: 8 group_idle: 0 8,16 0 0 0.000170189 0 m N cfq schedule dispatch 8,16 0 0 0.000397938 0 m N cfq3805 slice expired t=0 8,16 0 0 0.000399763 0 m N cfq3805 sl_used=1 disp=1 charge=1 iops=0 sect=8 8,16 0 0 0.000400227 0 m N cfq3805 del_from_rr 8,16 0 0 0.000400882 0 m N cfq3805 put_queue See, there are 19 lines while I only need 2. I don't think it is appropriate for a user. So this patch will disable any messages if the BLK_TC_NOTIFY isn't set. Now the output for the same command will look like: 8,16 0 1 0.000000000 4908 D R 114759 + 8 [dd] 8,16 0 2 0.000146827 0 C R 114759 + 8 [0] Yes, it is what I want to see. Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Tao Ma Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'x86-fixes-for-linus', 'timers-fixes-for-linus' and 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-01-15T20:45:00Z

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings rcu: demote SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY from kernel-parameter status rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi() * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, olpc: Add missing Kconfig dependencies x86, mrst: Set correct APB timer IRQ affinity for secondary cpu x86: tsc: Fix calibration refinement conditionals to avoid divide by zero x86, ia64, acpi: Clean up x86-ism in drivers/acpi/numa.c * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timekeeping: Make local variables static time: Rename misnamed minsec argument of clocks_calc_mult_shift() * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields tracing: Only process module tracepoints once perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by default perf sched: Fix list of events, dropping unsupported ':r' modifier Revert "perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return" perf top: Fix annotate segv perf evsel: Fix order of event list deletion

tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields

2011-01-14T23:06:35Z

There is no need for syscall_exit_fields as the syscall exit event class can already host the fields in its structure, like most other trace events do by default. Use that default behavior instead. Following this scheme, we don't need anymore to override the get_fields() callback of the syscall exit event class either. Hence both syscall_exit_fields and syscall_get_exit_fields() can be removed. Also changed some indentation to keep the following under 80 characters: ".fields = LIST_HEAD_INIT(event_class_syscall_exit.fields)," Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan LKML-Reference: <4D301C0E.8090408@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2011-01-13T18:45:01Z

* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits) block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue block: trace event block fix unassigned field block: add internal hd part table references block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges kref: add kref_test_and_get bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()" block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code. Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned) block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p) cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree() fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors cdrom: export cdrom_check_events() sd: implement sd_check_events() sr: implement sr_check_events() ...

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

2011-01-13T18:05:56Z

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits) Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send. writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable. m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable. wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable. media: comment typo fix diable -> disable. remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description Fix spelling mistakes in comments Revert conflicting V4L changes i7core_edac: fix typos in comments mm/rmap.c: fix comment sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'. hrtimer: fix a typo in comment init/Kconfig: fix typo anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment fix comment typos concerning "consistent" poll: fix a typo in comment ... Fix up trivial conflicts in: - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c) - fs/ext4/ext4.h Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.

Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-01-11T19:02:13Z

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits) perf session: Fix infinite loop in __perf_session__process_events perf evsel: Support perf_evsel__open(cpus > 1 && threads > 1) perf sched: Use PTHREAD_STACK_MIN to avoid pthread_attr_setstacksize() fail perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return perf stat: better error message for unsupported events perf sched: Fix allocation result check perf, x86: P4 PMU - Fix unflagged overflows handling dynamic debug: Fix build issue with older gcc tracing: Fix TRACE_EVENT power tracepoint creation tracing: Fix preempt count leak tracepoint: Add __rcu annotation tracing: remove duplicate null-pointer check in skb tracepoint tracing/trivial: Add missing comma in TRACE_EVENT comment tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h x86: Save rbp in pt_regs on irq entry x86, dumpstack: Fix unused variable warning x86, NMI: Clean-up default_do_nmi() x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI x86, NMI: Add priorities to handlers ...