linux/samples, branch v2.6.34-rc2

Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc1' into perf/urgent

2010-03-09T16:11:53Z

Conflicts: tools/perf/util/probe-event.c Merge reason: Pick up -rc1 and resolve the conflict as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

2010-03-08T01:04:49Z

Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy Acked-by: David Teigland Acked-by: Matt Domsch Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski Acked-by: Hans J. Koch Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kset-example: Spelling fixes.

2010-03-08T01:04:46Z

No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Radu Voicilas Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject-example: Spelling fixes.

2010-03-08T01:04:46Z

No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Radu Voicilas Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

percpu: Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint

2010-02-27T15:23:39Z

Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. In kernel/hw_breakpoint.c, per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned, cpu)'s will trigger spurious noderef related warnings from sparse. Changing it to &per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned[0], cpu) will work around the problem but deemed to ugly by the maintainer. Leave it alone until better solution can be found. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: K.Prasad LKML-Reference: <4B7B4B7A.9050902@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

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

2009-12-12T04:47:30Z

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (57 commits) x86, perf events: Check if we have APIC enabled perf_event: Fix variable initialization in other codepaths perf kmem: Fix unused argument build warning perf symbols: perf_header__read_build_ids() offset'n'size should be u64 perf symbols: dsos__read_build_ids() should read both user and kernel buildids perf tools: Align long options which have no short forms perf kmem: Show usage if no option is specified sched: Mark sched_clock() as notrace perf sched: Add max delay time snapshot perf tools: Correct size given to memset perf_event: Fix perf_swevent_hrtimer() variable initialization perf sched: Fix for getting task's execution time tracing/kprobes: Fix field creation's bad error handling perf_event: Cleanup for cpu_clock_perf_event_update() perf_event: Allocate children's perf_event_ctxp at the right time perf_event: Clean up __perf_event_init_context() hw-breakpoints: Modify breakpoints without unregistering them perf probe: Update perf-probe document perf probe: Support --del option trace-kprobe: Support delete probe syntax ...

Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus

2009-12-07T17:36:35Z

Conflicts: kernel/irq/chip.c

hw-breakpoints: Use overflow handler instead of the event callback

2009-12-06T07:27:18Z

struct perf_event::event callback was called when a breakpoint triggers. But this is a rather opaque callback, pretty tied-only to the breakpoint API and not really integrated into perf as it triggers even when we don't overflow. We prefer to use overflow_handler() as it fits into the perf events rules, being called only when we overflow. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: "K. Prasad"

hw-breakpoints: Use struct perf_event_attr to define kernel breakpoints

2009-11-27T05:22:59Z

Kernel breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length and type. Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across architectures that may support this api later as these may have more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure. Reported-by: K.Prasad Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

hw-breakpoints: Simplify error handling in breakpoint creation requests

2009-11-26T08:29:21Z

This simplifies the error handling when we create a breakpoint. We don't need to check the NULL return value corner case anymore since we have improved perf_event_create_kernel_counter() to always return an error code in the failure case. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Prasad LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-3-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar