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Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Richter c0868934e5 oprofile: warn on freeing event buffer too early
A race shouldn't happen since all workqueues or handlers are canceled
or flushed before the event buffer is freed. A warning is triggered
now if the buffer is freed too early.

Also, this patch adds some comments about event buffer protection,
reworks some code and adds code to clear buffer_pos during alloc and
free of the event buffer.

Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-10-09 21:32:05 +02:00
David Rientjes 066b3aa845 oprofile: fix race condition in event_buffer free
Looking at the 2.6.31-rc9 code, it appears there is a race condition
in the event_buffer cleanup code path (shutdown). This could lead to
kernel panic as some CPUs may be operating on the event buffer AFTER
it has been freed. The attached patch solves the problem and makes
sure CPUs check if the buffer is not NULL before they access it as
some may have been spinning on the mutex while the buffer was being
freed.

The race may happen if the buffer is freed during pending reads. But
it is not clear why there are races in add_event_entry() since all
workqueues or handlers are canceled or flushed before the event buffer
is freed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-10-09 18:02:01 +02:00
Robert Richter bd2172f580 oprofile: rename kernel-wide identifiers
This patch renames kernel-wide identifiers to something more oprofile
specific names.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-12-16 17:52:49 +01:00
Nick Piggin cae042a73b oprofile: fix memory ordering
Regular bitops don't work as locks on all architectures.

Also: can use non-atomic unlock as no concurrent stores to the word.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-10-27 19:15:41 +01:00
Robert Richter 6a18037d41 oprofile: fixing whitespaces in drivers/oprofile/*
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-10-16 15:01:40 +02:00
Robert Richter 25ad2913ca oprofile: more whitespace fixes
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-10-15 20:55:51 +02:00
Carl Love f4156d1cd1 powerpc/cell/oprofile: Avoid double vfree of profile buffer
If an error occurs on opcontrol start, the event and per cpu buffers
are released.  If later opcontrol shutdown is called then the free
function will be called again to free buffers that no longer
exist.  This results in a kernel oops.  The following changes
prevent the call to delete buffers that don't exist.

Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-08-26 10:24:46 +10:00
Jiri Kosina 4dfc896e90 [PATCH] oprofile: fix potential deadlock on oprofilefs_lock
nmi_cpu_setup() is called from hardirq context and acquires oprofilefs_lock.
alloc_event_buffer() and oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() acquire this lock
without disabling irqs, which could deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-28 13:58:02 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven d54b1fdb1d [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
Markus Armbruster 59cc185ada [PATCH] oprofile: convert from semaphores to mutexes
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:04 -07:00
Randy.Dunlap c59ede7b78 [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;

- Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used
	(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
	mm/, security/, & sound/;
	many more drivers/ to go)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00