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Linus Torvalds
f82c37e7bb Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of 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: (35 commits)
  perf: Fix unexported generic perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
  perf record: Don't try to find buildids in a zero sized file
  perf: export perf_trace_regs and perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
  perf, x86: Fix hw_perf_enable() event assignment
  perf, ppc: Fix compile error due to new cpu notifiers
  perf: Make the install relative to DESTDIR if specified
  kprobes: Calculate the index correctly when freeing the out-of-line execution slot
  perf tools: Fix sparse CPU numbering related bugs
  perf_event: Fix oops triggered by cpu offline/online
  perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace events
  perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace events
  perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshot
  perf/x86-64: Use frame pointer to walk on irq and process stacks
  lockdep: Move lock events under lockdep recursion protection
  perf report: Print the map table just after samples for which no map was found
  perf report: Add multiple event support
  perf session: Change perf_session post processing functions to take histogram tree
  perf session: Add storage for seperating event types in report
  perf session: Change add_hist_entry to take the tree root instead of session
  perf record: Add ID and to recorded event data when recording multiple events
  ...
2010-03-18 16:52:46 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
dcd5c1662d perf: Fix unexported generic perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() is exported for the overriden x86
version, but not for the generic weak version.

As a general rule, weak functions should not have their symbol
exported in the same file they are defined.

So let's export it on trace_event_perf.c as it is used by trace
events only.

This fixes:

	ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [fs/xfs/xfs.ko] undefined!
	ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] undefined!

-v2: And also only build it if trace events are enabled.
-v3: Fix changelog mistake

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268697902-9518-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-17 12:26:49 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
80a186074e Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of 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 pick_next_highest_task_rt() for cgroups
  sched: Cleanup: remove unused variable in try_to_wake_up()
  x86: Fix sched_clock_cpu for systems with unsynchronized TSC
2010-03-13 14:46:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4e3eaddd14 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  locking: Make sparse work with inline spinlocks and rwlocks
  x86/mce: Fix RCU lockdep splats
  rcu: Increase RCU CPU stall timeouts if PROVE_RCU
  ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw()
  rcu: Suppress RCU lockdep warnings during early boot
  rcu, ftrace: Fix RCU lockdep splat in ftrace_perf_buf_prepare()
  rcu: Suppress __mpol_dup() false positive from RCU lockdep
  rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() handle !PREEMPT
  rcu: Add control variables to lockdep_rcu_dereference() diagnostics
  rcu, cgroup: Relax the check in task_subsys_state() as early boot is now handled by lockdep-RCU
  rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock
  sched, rcu: Fix rcu_dereference() for RCU-lockdep
  rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use
  rcu: Fix holdoff for accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
  x86/gart: Unexport gart_iommu_aperture

Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2010-03-13 14:43:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8655e7e3dd Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Do not record user stack trace from NMI context
  tracing: Disable buffer switching when starting or stopping trace
  tracing: Use same local variable when resetting the ring buffer
  function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stack
  ring-buffer: Move disabled check into preempt disable section
  function-graph: Add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracer
  tracing: Update the comm field in the right variable in update_max_tr
  function-graph: Use comment notation for func names of dangling '}'
  function-graph: Fix unused reference to ftrace_set_func()
  tracing: Fix warning in s_next of trace file ops
  tracing: Include irqflags headers from trace clock
2010-03-13 14:40:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9fdfbc2bff Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of 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:
  perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization
  MAINTAINERS: Add Arnaldo as tools/perf/ co-maintainer
  perf trace: Don't use pager if scripting
  perf trace/scripting: Remove extraneous header read
  perf, ARM: Modify kuser rmb() call to compile for Thumb-2
  x86/stacktrace: Don't dereference bad frame pointers
  perf archive: Don't try to collect files without a build-id
  perf_events, x86: Fixup fixed counter constraints
  perf, x86: Restrict the ANY flag
  perf, x86: rename macro in ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE
  perf, x86: add some IBS macros to perf_event.h
  perf, x86: make IBS macros available in perf_event.h
  hw-breakpoints: Remove stub unthrottle callback
  x86/hw-breakpoints: Remove the name field
  perf: Remove pointless breakpoint union
  perf lock: Drop the buffers multiplexing dependency
  perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally things
  percpu: Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint
2010-03-13 14:39:42 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
b6345879cc tracing: Do not record user stack trace from NMI context
A bug was found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test that caused applications
to segfault during the test.

Placing a tracing_off() in the segfault code, and examining several
traces, I found that the following was always the case. The lock tracer
was enabled (lockdep being required) and userstack was enabled. Testing
this out, I just enabled the two, but that was not good enough. I needed
to run something else that could trigger it. Running a load like hackbench
did not work, but executing a new program would. The following would
trigger the segfault within seconds:

  # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/options/userstacktrace
  # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/lock/enable
  # while :; do ls > /dev/null ; done

Enabling the function graph tracer and looking at what was happening
I finally noticed that all cashes happened just after an NMI.

 1)               |    copy_user_handle_tail() {
 1)               |      bad_area_nosemaphore() {
 1)               |        __bad_area_nosemaphore() {
 1)               |          no_context() {
 1)               |            fixup_exception() {
 1)   0.319 us    |              search_exception_tables();
 1)   0.873 us    |            }
[...]
 1)   0.314 us    |  __rcu_read_unlock();
 1)   0.325 us    |    native_apic_mem_write();
 1)   0.943 us    |  }
 1)   0.304 us    |  rcu_nmi_exit();
[...]
 1)   0.479 us    |  find_vma();
 1)               |  bad_area() {
 1)               |    __bad_area() {

After capturing several traces of failures, all of them happened
after an NMI. Curious about this, I added a trace_printk() to the NMI
handler to read the regs->ip to see where the NMI happened. In which I
found out it was here:

ffffffff8135b660 <page_fault>:
ffffffff8135b660:       48 83 ec 78             sub    $0x78,%rsp
ffffffff8135b664:       e8 97 01 00 00          callq  ffffffff8135b800 <error_entry>

What was happening is that the NMI would happen at the place that a page
fault occurred. It would call rcu_read_lock() which was traced by
the lock events, and the user_stack_trace would run. This would trigger
a page fault inside the NMI. I do not see where the CR2 register is
saved or restored in NMI handling. This means that it would corrupt
the page fault handling that the NMI interrupted.

The reason the while loop of ls helped trigger the bug, was that
each execution of ls would cause lots of pages to be faulted in, and
increase the chances of the race happening.

The simple solution is to not allow user stack traces in NMI context.
After this patch, I ran the above "ls" test for a couple of hours
without any issues. Without this patch, the bug would trigger in less
than a minute.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12 20:31:49 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
a2f8071428 tracing: Disable buffer switching when starting or stopping trace
When the trace iterator is read, tracing_start() and tracing_stop()
is called to stop tracing while the iterator is processing the trace
output.

These functions disable both the standard buffer and the max latency
buffer. But if the wakeup tracer is running, it can switch these
buffers between the two disables:

  buffer = global_trace.buffer;
  if (buffer)
      ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer);

      <<<--------- swap happens here

  buffer = max_tr.buffer;
  if (buffer)
      ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer);

What happens is that we disabled the same buffer twice. On tracing_start()
we can enable the same buffer twice. All ring_buffer_record_disable()
must be matched with a ring_buffer_record_enable() or the buffer
can be disable permanently, or enable prematurely, and cause a bug
where a reset happens while a trace is commiting.

This patch protects these two by taking the ftrace_max_lock to prevent
a switch from occurring.

Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12 20:30:21 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
283740c619 tracing: Use same local variable when resetting the ring buffer
In the ftrace code that resets the ring buffer it references the
buffer with a local variable, but then uses the tr->buffer as the
parameter to reset. If the wakeup tracer is running, which can
switch the tr->buffer with the max saved buffer, this can break
the requirement of disabling the buffer before the reset.

   buffer = tr->buffer;
   ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer);
   synchronize_sched();
   __tracing_reset(tr->buffer, cpu);

If the tr->buffer is swapped, then the reset is not happening to the
buffer that was disabled. This will cause the ring buffer to fail.

Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12 20:29:20 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
ea14eb7140 function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stack
If the graph tracer is active, and a task is forked but the allocating of
the processes graph stack fails, it can cause crash later on.

This is due to the temporary stack being NULL, but the curr_ret_stack
variable is copied from the parent. If it is not -1, then in
ftrace_graph_probe_sched_switch() the following:

	for (index = next->curr_ret_stack; index >= 0; index--)
		next->ret_stack[index].calltime += timestamp;

Will cause a kernel OOPS.

Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12 20:28:02 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
52fbe9cde7 ring-buffer: Move disabled check into preempt disable section
The ring buffer resizing and resetting relies on a schedule RCU
action. The buffers are disabled, a synchronize_sched() is called
and then the resize or reset takes place.

But this only works if the disabling of the buffers are within the
preempt disabled section, otherwise a window exists that the buffers
can be written to while a reset or resize takes place.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B949E43.2010906@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12 20:26:56 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
64d5aea300 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timekeeping: Prevent oops when GENERIC_TIME=n
2010-03-12 16:27:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c32da02342 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
  doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
  Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
  doc: fix console doc typo
  doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
  Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
  Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
  Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
  doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
  tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments
  No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
  devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
  Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
  tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
  tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
  drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
  doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
  devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
  Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
  fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment
  tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
Dave Young
2edf5e4980 sysctl extern cleanup: lockdep
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move lockdep extern declarations to linux/lockdep.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
Dave Young
4f0e056fde sysctl extern cleanup: rtmutex
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move max_lock_depth extern declaration to linux/rtmutex.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
Dave Young
c55b7c3e82 sysctl extern cleanup: acct
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move acct_parm extern declaration to linux/acct.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
Dave Young
15485a4682 sysctl extern cleanup: sg
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move sg_big_buff extern declaration to scsi/sg.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
Dave Young
5ed109103d sysctl extern cleanup: module
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move modprobe_path extern declaration to linux/kmod.h
Move modules_disabled extern declaration to linux/module.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:10 -08:00
Dave Young
e5ab67726f sysctl extern cleanup: rcu
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move rcutorture_runnable extern declaration to linux/rcupdate.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:53:08 -08:00
Dave Young
d33ed52d57 sysctl extern cleanup: signal
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move print_fatal_signals extern declaration to linux/signal.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:44 -08:00
Dave Young
eb5572fed5 sysctl extern cleanup: C_A_D
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.

Move C_A_D extern variable declaration to linux/reboot.h

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:44 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
8467005da3 nsproxy: remove INIT_NSPROXY()
Remove INIT_NSPROXY(), use C99 initializer.
Remove INIT_IPC_NS(), INIT_NET_NS() while I'm at it.

Note: headers trim will be done later, now it's quite pointless because
results will be invalidated by merge window.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:40 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
13aa9a6b0f pid_ns: zap_pid_ns_processes: use SEND_SIG_NOINFO instead of force_sig()
zap_pid_ns_processes() uses force_sig(SIGKILL) to ensure SIGKILL will be
delivered to sub-namespace inits as well.  This is correct, but we are
going to change force_sig_info() semantics.  See
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15395#c31

We can use send_sig_info(SEND_SIG_NOINFO) instead, since
614c517d7c ("signals: SEND_SIG_NOINFO should
be considered as SI_FROMUSER()") SEND_SIG_NOINFO means "from user" and
therefore send_signal() will get the correct from_ancestor_ns = T flag.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:40 -08:00
Veaceslav Falico
93c59907c6 copy_signal() cleanup: clean thread_group_cputime_init()
Remove unneeded initializations in thread_group_cputime_init() and in
posix_cpu_timers_init_group().  They are useless after kmem_cache_zalloc()
was used in copy_signal().

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
Veaceslav Falico
4dd66e69d4 copy_signal() cleanup: kill taskstats_tgid_init() and acct_init_pacct()
Kill unused functions taskstats_tgid_init() and acct_init_pacct() because
we don't use them anywhere after using kmem_cache_zalloc() in
copy_signal().

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
Veaceslav Falico
a56704ef6b copy_signal() cleanup: use zalloc and remove initializations
Use kmem_cache_zalloc() on signal creation and remove unneeded
initialization lines in copy_signal().

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
a0a4db548e cgroups: remove events before destroying subsystem state objects
Events should be removed after rmdir of cgroup directory, but before
destroying subsystem state objects.  Let's take reference to cgroup
directory dentry to do that.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hioryu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:37 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
4ab78683c1 cgroups: fix race between userspace and kernelspace
Notify userspace about cgroup removing only after rmdir of cgroup
directory to avoid race between userspace and kernelspace.

eventfd are used to notify about two types of event:
 - control file-specific, like crossing memory threshold;
 - cgroup removing.

To understand what really happen, userspace can check if the cgroup still
exists.  To avoid race beetween userspace and kernelspace we have to
notify userspace about cgroup removing only after rmdir of cgroup
directory.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:37 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
0dea116876 cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notifications
This patchset introduces eventfd-based API for notifications in cgroups
and implements memory notifications on top of it.

It uses statistics in memory controler to track memory usage.

Output of time(1) on building kernel on tmpfs:

Root cgroup before changes:
	make -j2  506.37 user 60.93s system 193% cpu 4:52.77 total
Non-root cgroup before changes:
	make -j2  507.14 user 62.66s system 193% cpu 4:54.74 total
Root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds):
	make -j2  507.13 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.55 total
Non-root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds):
	make -j2  507.70 user 64.20s system 193% cpu 4:55.70 total
Root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed):
	make -j2  506.97 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.90 total
Non-root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed):
	make -j2  507.55 user 64.08s system 193% cpu 4:55.63 total

This patch:

Introduce the write-only file "cgroup.event_control" in every cgroup.

To register new notification handler you need:
- create an eventfd;
- open a control file to be monitored. Callbacks register_event() and
  unregister_event() must be defined for the control file;
- write "<event_fd> <control_fd> <args>" to cgroup.event_control.
  Interpretation of args is defined by control file implementation;

eventfd will be woken up by control file implementation or when the
cgroup is removed.

To unregister notification handler just close eventfd.

If you need notification functionality for a control file you have to
implement callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() in the
struct cftype.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Kconfig fix]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:37 -08:00
Li Zefan
b70cc5fdb4 cgroups: clean up cgroup_pidlist_find() a bit
Don't call get_pid_ns() before we locate/alloc the ns.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:36 -08:00
Ben Blum
67523c48aa cgroups: blkio subsystem as module
Modify the Block I/O cgroup subsystem to be able to be built as a module.
As the CFQ disk scheduler optionally depends on blk-cgroup, config options
in block/Kconfig, block/Kconfig.iosched, and block/blk-cgroup.h are
enhanced to support the new module dependency.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:36 -08:00
Ben Blum
cf5d5941fd cgroups: subsystem module unloading
Provides support for unloading modular subsystems.

This patch adds a new function cgroup_unload_subsys which is to be used
for removing a loaded subsystem during module deletion.  Reference
counting of the subsystems' modules is moved from once (at load time) to
once per attached hierarchy (in parse_cgroupfs_options and
rebind_subsystems) (i.e., 0 or 1).

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:36 -08:00
Ben Blum
e6a1105ba0 cgroups: subsystem module loading interface
Add interface between cgroups subsystem management and module loading

This patch implements rudimentary module-loading support for cgroups -
namely, a cgroup_load_subsys (similar to cgroup_init_subsys) for use as a
module initcall, and a struct module pointer in struct cgroup_subsys.

Several functions that might be wanted by modules have had EXPORT_SYMBOL
added to them, but it's unclear exactly which functions want it and which
won't.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:36 -08:00
Ben Blum
aae8aab403 cgroups: revamp subsys array
This patch series provides the ability for cgroup subsystems to be
compiled as modules both within and outside the kernel tree.  This is
mainly useful for classifiers and subsystems that hook into components
that are already modules.  cls_cgroup and blkio-cgroup serve as the
example use cases for this feature.

It provides an interface cgroup_load_subsys() and cgroup_unload_subsys()
which modular subsystems can use to register and depart during runtime.
The net_cls classifier subsystem serves as the example for a subsystem
which can be converted into a module using these changes.

Patch #1 sets up the subsys[] array so its contents can be dynamic as
modules appear and (eventually) disappear.  Iterations over the array are
modified to handle when subsystems are absent, and the dynamic section of
the array is protected by cgroup_mutex.

Patch #2 implements an interface for modules to load subsystems, called
cgroup_load_subsys, similar to cgroup_init_subsys, and adds a module
pointer in struct cgroup_subsys.

Patch #3 adds a mechanism for unloading modular subsystems, which includes
a more advanced rework of the rudimentary reference counting introduced in
patch 2.

Patch #4 modifies the net_cls subsystem, which already had some module
declarations, to be configurable as a module, which also serves as a
simple proof-of-concept.

Part of implementing patches 2 and 4 involved updating css pointers in
each css_set when the module appears or leaves.  In doing this, it was
discovered that css_sets always remain linked to the dummy cgroup,
regardless of whether or not any subsystems are actually bound to it
(i.e., not mounted on an actual hierarchy).  The subsystem loading and
unloading code therefore should keep in mind the special cases where the
added subsystem is the only one in the dummy cgroup (and therefore all
css_sets need to be linked back into it) and where the removed subsys was
the only one in the dummy cgroup (and therefore all css_sets should be
unlinked from it) - however, as all css_sets always stay attached to the
dummy cgroup anyway, these cases are ignored.  Any fix that addresses this
issue should also make sure these cases are addressed in the subsystem
loading and unloading code.

This patch:

Make subsys[] able to be dynamically populated to support modular
subsystems

This patch reworks the way the subsys[] array is used so that subsystems
can register themselves after boot time, and enables the internals of
cgroups to be able to handle when subsystems are not present or may
appear/disappear.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:36 -08:00
Daisuke Nishimura
d7b9fff711 cgroup: introduce coalesce css_get() and css_put()
Current css_get() and css_put() increment/decrement css->refcnt one by
one.

This patch add a new function __css_get(), which takes "count" as a arg
and increment the css->refcnt by "count".  And this patch also add a new
arg("count") to __css_put() and change the function to decrement the
css->refcnt by "count".

These coalesce version of __css_get()/__css_put() will be used to improve
performance of memcg's moving charge feature later, where instead of
calling css_get()/css_put() repeatedly, these new functions will be used.

No change is needed for current users of css_get()/css_put().

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:36 -08:00
Daisuke Nishimura
2468c7234b cgroup: introduce cancel_attach()
Add cancel_attach() operation to struct cgroup_subsys.  cancel_attach()
can be used when can_attach() operation prepares something for the subsys,
but we should rollback what can_attach() operation has prepared if attach
task fails after we've succeeded in can_attach().

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
5cacdb4add Add generic sys_olduname()
Add generic implementations of the old and really old uname system calls.
Note that sh only implements sys_olduname but not sys_oldolduname, but I'm
not going to bother with another ifdef for that special case.

m32r implemented an old uname but never wired it up, so kill it, too.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
e28cbf2293 improve sys_newuname() for compat architectures
On an architecture that supports 32-bit compat we need to override the
reported machine in uname with the 32-bit value.  Instead of doing this
separately in every architecture introduce a COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE define in
<asm/compat.h> and apply it directly in sys_newuname().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
baed7fc9b5 Add generic sys_ipc wrapper
Add a generic implementation of the ipc demultiplexer syscall.  Except for
s390 and sparc64 all implementations of the sys_ipc are nearly identical.

There are slight differences in the types of the parameters, where mips
and powerpc as the only 64-bit architectures with sys_ipc use unsigned
long for the "third" argument as it gets casted to a pointer later, while
it traditionally is an "int" like most other paramters.  frv goes even
further and uses unsigned long for all parameters execept for "ptr" which
is a pointer type everywhere.  The change from int to unsigned long for
"third" and back to "int" for the others on frv should be fine due to the
in-register calling conventions for syscalls (we already had a similar
issue with the generic sys_ptrace), but I'd prefer to have the arch
maintainers looks over this in details.

Except for that h8300, m68k and m68knommu lack an impplementation of the
semtimedop sub call which this patch adds, and various architectures have
gets used - at least on i386 it seems superflous as the compat code on
x86-64 and ia64 doesn't even bother to implement it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_ipc to sys_ni.c]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
3d07467b7a sched: Fix pick_next_highest_task_rt() for cgroups
Since pick_next_highest_task_rt() already iterates all the cgroups and
is really only interested in tasks, skip over the !task entries.

Reported-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 15:21:50 +01:00
Xiao Guangrong
639fe4b12f perf: export perf_trace_regs and perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
Export perf_trace_regs and perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs since module will
use these.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
[ use EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL() ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4B989C1B.2090407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 15:21:29 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
83ff56f46a kprobes: Calculate the index correctly when freeing the out-of-line execution slot
From : Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>

When freeing the instruction slot, the arithmetic to calculate
the index of the slot in the page needs to account for the total
size of the instruction on the various architectures.

Calculate the index correctly when freeing the out-of-line
execution slot.

Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B9667AB.9050507@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 14:06:16 +01:00
Dan Carpenter
ab3b3aa5dd sched: Cleanup: remove unused variable in try_to_wake_up()
We haven't used the "orig_rq" variable since
055a00865d "Fix/add missing update_rq_clock() calls"

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: efault@gmx.de
LKML-Reference: <20100306111752.GL4958@bicker>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 13:59:59 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
915a0b575f Merge branch 'tip/tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent 2010-03-11 13:39:33 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
007b09243b rcu: Increase RCU CPU stall timeouts if PROVE_RCU
CONFIG_PROVE_RCU imposes additional overhead on the kernel, so
increase the RCU CPU stall timeouts in an attempt to allow for
this effect.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1267830207-9474-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 13:38:01 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
3f379b03fb ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw()
Replace the calls to read_barrier_depends() in
ftrace_list_func() with rcu_dereference_raw() to improve
readability.  The reason that we use rcu_dereference_raw() here
is that removed entries are never freed, instead they are simply
leaked.  This is one of a very few cases where use of
rcu_dereference_raw() is the long-term right answer.  And I
don't yet know of any others.  ;-)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1267830207-9474-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 13:38:01 +01:00
Paul Mackerras
220b140b52 perf_event: Fix oops triggered by cpu offline/online
Anton Blanchard found that he could reliably make the kernel hit a
BUG_ON in the slab allocator by taking a cpu offline and then online
while a system-wide perf record session was running.

The reason is that when the cpu comes up, we completely reinitialize
the ctx field of the struct perf_cpu_context for the cpu.  If there is
a system-wide perf record session running, then there will be a struct
perf_event that has a reference to the context, so its refcount will
be 2.  (The perf_event has been removed from the context's group_entry
and event_entry lists by perf_event_exit_cpu(), but that doesn't
remove the perf_event's reference to the context and doesn't decrement
the context's refcount.)

When the cpu comes up, perf_event_init_cpu() gets called, and it calls
__perf_event_init_context() on the cpu's context.  That resets the
refcount to 1.  Then when the perf record session finishes and the
perf_event is closed, the refcount gets decremented to 0 and the
context gets kfreed after an RCU grace period.  Since the context
wasn't kmalloced -- it's part of a per-cpu variable -- bad things
happen.

In fact we don't need to completely reinitialize the context when the
cpu comes up.  It's sufficient to initialize the context once at boot,
but we need to do it for all possible cpus.

This moves the context initialization to happen at boot time.  With
this, we don't trash the refcount and the context never gets kfreed,
and we don't hit the BUG_ON.

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 12:43:51 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
97d5a22005 perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace events
Drop the obsolete "profile" naming used by perf for trace events.
Perf can now do more than simple events counting, so generalize
the API naming.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
2010-03-10 14:47:18 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c530665c31 perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace events
We are taking a wrong regs snapshot when a trace event triggers.
Either we use get_irq_regs(), which gives us the interrupted
registers if we are in an interrupt, or we use task_pt_regs()
which gives us the state before we entered the kernel, assuming
we are lucky enough to be no kernel thread, in which case
task_pt_regs() returns the initial set of regs when the kernel
thread was started.

What we want is different. We need a hot snapshot of the regs,
so that we can get the instruction pointer to record in the
sample, the frame pointer for the callchain, and some other
things.

Let's use the new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for that.

Comparison with perf record -e lock: -R -a -f -g
Before:

        perf  [kernel]                   [k] __do_softirq
               |
               --- __do_softirq
                  |
                  |--55.16%-- __open
                  |
                   --44.84%-- __write_nocancel

After:

            perf  [kernel]           [k] perf_tp_event
               |
               --- perf_tp_event
                  |
                  |--41.07%-- lock_acquire
                  |          |
                  |          |--39.36%-- _raw_spin_lock
                  |          |          |
                  |          |          |--7.81%-- hrtimer_interrupt
                  |          |          |          smp_apic_timer_interrupt
                  |          |          |          apic_timer_interrupt

The old case was producing unreliable callchains. Now having
right frame and instruction pointers, we have the trace we
want.

Also syscalls and kprobe events already have the right regs,
let's use them instead of wasting a retrieval.

v2: Follow the rename perf_save_regs() -> perf_fetch_caller_regs()

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
2010-03-10 14:40:38 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5331d7b846 perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshot
Events that trigger overflows by interrupting a context can
use get_irq_regs() or task_pt_regs() to retrieve the state
when the event triggered. But this is not the case for some
other class of events like trace events as tracepoints are
executed in the same context than the code that triggered
the event.

It means we need a different api to capture the regs there,
namely we need a hot snapshot to get the most important
informations for perf: the instruction pointer to get the
event origin, the frame pointer for the callchain, the code
segment for user_mode() tests (we always use __KERNEL_CS as
trace events always occur from the kernel) and the eflags
for further purposes.

v2: rename perf_save_regs to perf_fetch_caller_regs as per
Masami's suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
2010-03-10 14:39:35 +01:00