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2010-09-24Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
2010-09-22jump label: Tracepoint support for jump labelsJason Baron
Make use of the jump label infrastructure for tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <a9ba2056e2c9cf332c3c300b577463ce66ff23a8.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22jump label: Add jump_label_text_reserved() to reserve jump pointsJason Baron
Add a jump_label_text_reserved(void *start, void *end), so that other pieces of code that want to modify kernel text, can first verify that jump label has not reserved the instruction. Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <06236663a3a7b1c1f13576bb9eccb6d9c17b7bfe.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22jump label: Initialize workqueue tracepoints *before* they are registeredJason Baron
Initialize the workqueue data structures *before* they are registered so that they are ready for callbacks. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <e3a3383fc370ac7086625bebe89d9480d7caf372.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22jump label: Base patch for jump labelJason Baron
base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto' statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed. Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> [ cleaned up some formating ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22Merge branch 'linus' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/hw_breakpoint.c Merge reason: resolve the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-21Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix nohz balance kick sched: Fix user time incorrectly accounted as system time on 32-bit
2010-09-21Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug x86: Fix instruction breakpoint encoding oprofile: Add Support for Intel CPU Family 6 / Model 22 (Intel Celeron 540) kprobes: Fix Kconfig dependency
2010-09-21perf: Avoid RCU vs preemption assumptionsPeter Zijlstra
The per-pmu per-cpu context patch converted things from get_cpu_var() to this_cpu_ptr(), but that only works if rcu_read_lock() actually disables preemption, and since there is no such guarantee, we need to fix that. Use the newly introduced {get,put}_cpu_ptr(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.308453028@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-21Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc5' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes in -rc5. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-21sched: Fix nohz balance kickSuresh Siddha
There's a situation where the nohz balancer will try to wake itself: cpu-x is idle which is also ilb_cpu got a scheduler tick during idle and the nohz_kick_needed() in trigger_load_balance() checks for rq_x->nr_running which might not be zero (because of someone waking a task on this rq etc) and this leads to the situation of the cpu-x sending a kick to itself. And this can cause a lockup. Avoid this by not marking ourself eligible for kicking. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1284400941.2684.19.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-17perf: Undo the per cpu-context timer stuffPeter Zijlstra
Revert the timer per cpu-context timers because of unfortunate nohz interaction. Fixing that would have been somewhat ugly, so go back to driving things from the regular tick. Provide a jiffies interval feature for people who want slower rotations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.519845633@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-17perf: Fix perf_event_exit_cpu_context()Peter Zijlstra
Use the right cpu-context.. spotted by preempt warning on hot-unplug Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.461794357@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-17perf: Complete software pmu groupingPeter Zijlstra
Aside from allowing software events into a !software group, allow adding !software events to pure software groups. Once we've moved the software group and attached the first !software event, the group will no longer be a pure software group and hence no longer be eligible for movement, at which point the straight ctx comparison is correct again. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.410784731@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-17perf_events: Fix broken event groupingStephane Eranian
Events were not grouped anymore. The reason was that in perf_event_open(), the field event->group_leader was initialized before the function looked up the group_fd to find the event leader. This patch fixes this by reordering the code correctly. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.360420946@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-17hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bugMatt Helsley
Hardware breakpoints can't be registered within pid namespaces because tsk->pid is passed rather than the pid in the current namespace. (See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 ) This is a quick fix demonstrating the problem but is not the best method of solving the problem since passing pids internally is not the best way to avoid pid namespace bugs. Subsequent patches will show a better solution. Much thanks to Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> for doing the bulk of the work finding this bug. Reported-by: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: 2.6.33-2.6.35 <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <f63454af09fb1915717251570423eb9ddd338340.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-09-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: add documentation
2010-09-15kprobes: Add sparse context annotationsNamhyung Kim
This removes following warnings when build with C=1 warning: context imbalance in 'kretprobe_hash_lock' - wrong count at exit warning: context imbalance in 'kretprobe_table_lock' - wrong count at exit warning: context imbalance in 'kretprobe_hash_unlock' - unexpected unlock warning: context imbalance in 'kretprobe_table_unlock' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> LKML-Reference: <1284512670-2369-6-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15kprobes: Make functions staticNamhyung Kim
Make following (internal) functions static to make sparse happier :-) * get_optimized_kprobe: only called from static functions * kretprobe_table_unlock: _lock function is static * kprobes_optinsn_template_holder: never called but holding asm code Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> LKML-Reference: <1284512670-2369-4-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15kprobes: Verify jprobe entry pointNamhyung Kim
Verify jprobe's entry point is a function entry point using kallsyms' offset value. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> LKML-Reference: <1284512670-2369-3-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15kprobes: Remove redundant address checkNamhyung Kim
Remove call to kernel_text_address() in register_jprobes() because it is called right after in register_kprobe(). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> LKML-Reference: <1284512670-2369-2-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15perf events: Clean up pid passingMatt Helsley
The kernel perf event creation path shouldn't use find_task_by_vpid() because a vpid exists in a specific namespace. find_task_by_vpid() uses current's pid namespace which isn't always the correct namespace to use for the vpid in all the places perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and thus find_get_context()) is called. The goal is to clean up pid namespace handling and prevent bugs like: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 Instead of using pids switch find_get_context() to use task struct pointers directly. The syscall is responsible for resolving the pid to a task struct. This moves the pid namespace resolution into the syscall much like every other syscall that takes pid parameters. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <a134e5e392ab0204961fd1a62c84a222bf5874a9.1284407763.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15perf events: Split out task search into helperMatt Helsley
Split out the code which searches for non-exiting tasks into its own helper. Creating this helper not only makes the code slightly more readable it prepares to move the search out of find_get_context() in a subsequent commit. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <561205417b450b8a4bf7488374541d64b4690431.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bugMatt Helsley
Hardware breakpoints can't be registered within pid namespaces because tsk->pid is passed rather than the pid in the current namespace. (See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 ) This is a quick fix demonstrating the problem but is not the best method of solving the problem since passing pids internally is not the best way to avoid pid namespace bugs. Subsequent patches will show a better solution. Much thanks to Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> for doing the bulk of the work finding this bug. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <f63454af09fb1915717251570423eb9ddd338340.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15watchdog: Avoid kernel crash when disabling watchdogStephane Eranian
In case you boot with the watchdog disabled, i.e., nowatchdog, then, if you try to disable it via /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog, you get a kernel crash. The reason is that you are trying to cancel a hrtimer which has never been initialized. This patch fixes this by skipping execution of watchdog_disable_all_cpus() when the watchdog is marked disabled from boot. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4c8f7a23.cae9d80a.2c11.0bb4@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15sched: Fix user time incorrectly accounted as system time on 32-bitStanislaw Gruszka
We have 32-bit variable overflow possibility when multiply in task_times() and thread_group_times() functions. When the overflow happens then the scaled utime value becomes erroneously small and the scaled stime becomes i erroneously big. Reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633037 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16559 Reported-by: Michael Chapman <redhat-bugzilla@very.puzzling.org> Reported-by: Ciriaco Garcia de Celis <sysman@etherpilot.com> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 2.6.32.19+ (partially) and 2.6.33+ LKML-Reference: <20100914143513.GB8415@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
2010-09-14tracing: Remove leftover FTRACE_ENABLE/DISABLE_MCOUNT enumsSteven Rostedt
The enums for FTRACE_ENABLE_MCOUNT and FTRACE_DISABLE_MCOUNT were used as commands to ftrace_run_update_code(). But these commands were used by the old nasty ftrace daemon that has long been slain. This is a clean up patch to remove the references to these enums and simplify the code a little. Reported-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-14tracing: Do not trace in irq when funcgraph-irq option is zeroSteven Rostedt
When the function graph tracer funcgraph-irq option is zero, disable tracing in IRQs. This makes the option have two effects. 1) When reading the trace file, do not display the functions that happen in interrupt context (when detected) 2) [*new*] When recording a trace, skip those that are detected to be in interrupt by the 'in_irq()' function Note, in_irq() is updated at irq_enter() and irq_exit(). There are still functions that are recorded by the function graph tracer that is in interrupt context but outside the irq_enter/exit() routines. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-14tracing: Add funcgraph-irq option for function graph tracer.Jiri Olsa
It's handy to be able to disable the irq related output and not to have to jump over each irq related code, when you have no interrest in it. The option is by default enabled, so there's no change to current behaviour. It affects only the final output, so all the irq related data stay in the ring buffer. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20100907145344.GC1912@jolsa.brq.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-14compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()H. Peter Anvin
compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could introduce problems on some architectures. This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length. The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the implementation of the new global function. This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space() for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers can also be removed. Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-09-14tracing: Fix reading of set_ftrace_filter across listsSteven Rostedt
If we do: # cd /sys/kernel/debug # echo 'do_IRQ:traceon schedule:traceon sys_write:traceon' > \ set_ftrace_filter # cat set_ftrace_filter We get the following output: #### all functions enabled #### sys_write:traceon:unlimited schedule:traceon:unlimited do_IRQ:traceon:unlimited This outputs two lists. One is the fact that all functions are currently enabled for function tracing, the other has three probed functions, which happen to have 'traceon' as their commands. Currently, when reading the first list (functions enabled) the seq_file code will receive a "NULL" from the t_next() function causing it to exit early. This makes "read()" from userspace stop reading the code at this boarder. Although read is allowed to do this, some (broken) applications might consider this an end of file and stop early. This patch adds the start of the second list to t_next() when it finishes the first list. It is a simple change and gives the set_ftrace_filter file nicer reading ability. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-14tracing: Keep track of set_ftrace_filter position and allow lseek againSteven Rostedt
This patch keeps track of the index within the elements of set_ftrace_filter and if the position goes backwards, it nicely resets and starts from the beginning again. This allows for lseek and pread to work properly now. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-14tracing: Replace typecasted void pointer in set_ftrace_filter codeSteven Rostedt
The set_ftrace_filter uses seq_file and reads from two lists. The pointer returned by t_next() can either be of type struct dyn_ftrace or struct ftrace_func_probe. If there is a bug (there was one) the wrong pointer may be used and the reference can cause an oops. This patch makes t_next() and friends only return the iterator structure which now has a pointer of type struct dyn_ftrace and struct ftrace_func_probe. The t_show() can now test if the pointer is NULL or not and if the pointer exists, it is guaranteed to be of the correct type. Now if there's a bug, only wrong data will be shown but not an oops. Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-14tracing: Do not reset *pos in set_ftrace_filterSteven Rostedt
After the filtered functions are read, the probed functions are read from the hash in set_ftrace_filter. When the hashed probed functions are read, the *pos passed in is reset. Instead of modifying the pos given to the read function, just record the pos where the filtered functions ended and subtract from that. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-13sched: Improve latencies under load by decreasing minimum scheduling granularityIngo Molnar
Mathieu reported bad latencies with make -j10 kind of kbuild workloads - which is mostly caused by us scheduling with a too coarse granularity. Reduce the minimum granularity some more, to make sure we can meet the latency target. I got the following results (make -j10 kbuild load, average of 3 runs): vanilla: maximum latency: 38278.9 µs average latency: 7730.1 µs patched: maximum latency: 22702.1 µs average latency: 6684.8 µs Mathieu also measured it: | | * wakeup-latency.c (SIGEV_THREAD) with make -j10 | | - Mainline 2.6.35.2 kernel | | maximum latency: 45762.1 µs | average latency: 7348.6 µs | | - With only Peter's smaller min_gran (shown below): | | maximum latency: 29100.6 µs | average latency: 6684.1 µs | Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <AANLkTi=8m4g01wZPacySoF7U0PevTNVgJoZZrHiUD-pN@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-13perf: Fix free_event()Peter Zijlstra
With the context rework stuff we can actually end up freeing an event before it gets attached to a context. Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-13perf: Sanitize the RCU logicPeter Zijlstra
Simplify things and simply synchronize against two RCU variants for PMU unregister -- we don't care about performance, its module unload if anything. Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-13workqueue: add documentationTejun Heo
Update copyright notice and add Documentation/workqueue.txt. Randy Dunlap, Dave Chinner: misc fixes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-By: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2010-09-11Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM / Hibernate: Avoid hitting OOM during preallocation of memory PM QoS: Correct pr_debug() misuse and improve parameter checks PM: Prevent waiting forever on asynchronous resume after failing suspend
2010-09-11PM / Hibernate: Avoid hitting OOM during preallocation of memoryRafael J. Wysocki
There is a problem in hibernate_preallocate_memory() that it calls preallocate_image_memory() with an argument that may be greater than the total number of available non-highmem memory pages. If that's the case, the OOM condition is guaranteed to trigger, which in turn can cause significant slowdown to occur during hibernation. To avoid that, make preallocate_image_memory() adjust its argument before calling preallocate_image_pages(), so that the total number of saveable non-highem pages left is not less than the minimum size of a hibernation image. Change hibernate_preallocate_memory() to try to allocate from highmem if the number of pages allocated by preallocate_image_memory() is too low. Modify free_unnecessary_pages() to take all possible memory allocation patterns into account. Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Tested-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <bicave@superonline.com>
2010-09-11Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, tsc: Fix a preemption leak in restore_sched_clock_state() sched: Move sched_avg_update() to update_cpu_load()
2010-09-11PM QoS: Correct pr_debug() misuse and improve parameter checksmark gross
Correct some pr_debug() misuse and add a stronger parameter check to pm_qos_write() for the ASCII hex value case. Thanks to Dan Carpenter for pointing out the problem! Signed-off-by: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-09-10perf: Fix perf_init_event()Peter Zijlstra
We ought to return -ENOENT when non of the registered PMUs recognise the requested event. This fixes a boot crash that occurs if no PMU is available but the NMI watchdog tries to register an event. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-10Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread perf symbols: Fix multiple initialization of symbol system perf: Fix CPU hotplug perf, trace: Fix module leak tracing/kprobe: Fix handling of C-unlike argument names tracing/kprobes: Fix handling of argument names perf probe: Fix handling of arguments names perf probe: Fix return probe support tracing/kprobe: Fix a memory leak in error case tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter
2010-09-10perf: Ensure we call add_event_to_ctx() with the right locks heldPeter Zijlstra
Even though we call it from the inherit path, where the child is not yet accessible, we need to hold ctx->lock, add_event_to_ctx() assumes IRQs are disabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/preadChris Wright
Be sure to avoid entering t_show() with FTRACE_ITER_HASH set without having properly started the iterator to iterate the hash. This case is degenerate and, as discovered by Robert Swiecki, can cause t_hash_show() to misuse a pointer. This causes a NULL ptr deref with possible security implications. Tracked as CVE-2010-3079. Cc: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-09swap: revert special hibernation allocationHugh Dickins
Please revert 2.6.36-rc commit d2997b1042ec150616c1963b5e5e919ffd0b0ebf "hibernation: freeze swap at hibernation". It complicated matters by adding a second swap allocation path, just for hibernation; without in any way fixing the issue that it was intended to address - page reclaim after fixing the hibernation image might free swap from a page already imaged as swapcache, letting its swap be reallocated to store a different page of the image: resulting in data corruption if the imaged page were freed as clean then swapped back in. Pages freed to si->swap_map were still in danger of being reallocated by the alternative allocation path. I guess it inadvertently fixed slow SSD swap allocation for hibernation, as reported by Nigel Cunningham: by missing out the discards that occur on the usual swap allocation path; but that was unintentional, and needs a separate fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Cc: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09kernel/groups.c: fix integer overflow in groups_searchJerome Marchand
gid_t is a unsigned int. If group_info contains a gid greater than MAX_INT, groups_search() function may look on the wrong side of the search tree. This solves some unfair "permission denied" problems. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09cgroups: fix API thinkoMichael S. Tsirkin
Add cgroup_attach_task_all() The existing cgroup_attach_task_current_cg() API is called by a thread to attach another thread to all of its cgroups; this is unsuitable for cases where a privileged task wants to attach itself to the cgroups of a less privileged one, since the call must be made from the context of the target task. This patch adds a more generic cgroup_attach_task_all() API that allows both the source task and to-be-moved task to be specified. cgroup_attach_task_current_cg() becomes a specialization of the more generic new function. [menage@google.com: rewrote changelog] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: address reviewer comments] Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>