linux/kernel/trace, branch v3.1.2

tracing: Fix returning of duplicate data after EOF in trace_pipe_raw

2011-11-11T17:43:13Z

commit 436fc280261dcfce5af38f08b89287750dc91cd2 upstream. The trace_pipe_raw handler holds a cached page from the time the file is opened to the time it is closed. The cached page is used to handle the case of the user space buffer being smaller than what was read from the ring buffer. The left over buffer is held in the cache so that the next read will continue where the data left off. After EOF is returned (no more data in the buffer), the index of the cached page is set to zero. If a user app reads the page again after EOF, the check in the buffer will see that the cached page is less than page size and will return the cached page again. This will cause reading the trace_pipe_raw again after EOF to return duplicate data, making the output look like the time went backwards but instead data is just repeated. The fix is to not reset the index right after all data is read from the cache, but to reset it after all data is read and more data exists in the ring buffer. Reported-by: Jeremy Eder Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ftrace/kprobes: Fix not to delete probes if in use

2011-11-11T17:43:13Z

commit 02ca1521ad404cf566e0075848f80d064c0a0503 upstream. Fix kprobe-tracer not to delete a probe if the probe is in use. In that case, delete operation will return -EBUSY. This bug can cause a kernel panic if enabled probes are deleted during perf record. (Add some probes on functions) sh-4.2# perf probe --del probe:\* sh-4.2# exit (kernel panic) This is originally reported on the fedora bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742383 I've also checked that this problem doesn't happen on tracepoints when module removing because perf event locks target module. $ sudo ./perf record -e xfs:\* -aR sh sh-4.2# rmmod xfs ERROR: Module xfs is in use sh-4.2# exit [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.203 MB perf.data (~8862 samples) ] Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111004104438.14591.6553.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2011-08-19T17:47:07Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits) Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs." block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags block: improve rq_affinity placement blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH xen/blkback: Make description more obvious. cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show() drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse bsg-lib: add module.h include cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index ...

blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support

2011-08-11T08:36:05Z

Add FLUSH/FUA support to blktrace. As FLUSH precedes WRITE and/or FUA follows WRITE, use the same 'F' flag for both cases and distinguish them by their (relative) position. The end results look like (other flags might be shown also): - WRITE: W - WRITE_FLUSH: FW - WRITE_FUA: WF - WRITE_FLUSH_FUA: FWF Note that we reuse TC_BARRIER due to lack of bit space of act_mask so that the older versions of blktrace tools will report flush requests as barriers from now on. Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent

2011-08-05T08:33:55Z

Merge reason: Include most of the merge window trees, to do fixes on top. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

atomic: use

2011-07-26T23:49:47Z

This allows us to move duplicated code in (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Miller Cc: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

trace events: Update version number reference to new 3.x scheme for EVENT_POWER_TRACING_DEPRECATED

2011-07-25T07:37:21Z

What was scheduled to be 2.6.41 is now going to be 3.1 . Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1107250929370.8080@swampdragon.chaosbits.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core

2011-07-21T07:32:40Z

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

2011-07-21T07:29:21Z

Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes - they won't make v3.0. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing/kprobe: Update symbol reference when loading module

2011-07-15T19:45:32Z

Since the address of a module-local variable can only be solved after the target module is loaded, the symbol fetch-argument should be updated when loading target module. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110627072703.6528.75042.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt