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Linus Torvalds 12e24f34cb Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits)
  perfcounter: Handle some IO return values
  perf_counter: Push perf_sample_data through the swcounter code
  perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitions
  perf_counter: Close race in perf_lock_task_context()
  perf_counter, x86: Improve interactions with fast-gup
  perf_counter: Simplify and fix task migration counting
  perf_counter tools: Add a data file header
  perf_counter: Update userspace callchain sampling uses
  perf_counter: Make callchain samples extensible
  perf report: Filter to parent set by default
  perf_counter tools: Handle lost events
  perf_counter: Add event overlow handling
  fs: Provide empty .set_page_dirty() aop for anon inodes
  perf_counter: tools: Makefile tweaks for 64-bit powerpc
  perf_counter: powerpc: Add processor back-end for MPC7450 family
  perf_counter: powerpc: Make powerpc perf_counter code safe for 32-bit kernels
  perf_counter: powerpc: Change how processor-specific back-ends get selected
  perf_counter: powerpc: Use unsigned long for register and constraint values
  perf_counter: powerpc: Enable use of software counters on 32-bit powerpc
  perf_counter tools: Add and use isprint()
  ...
2009-06-20 11:29:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7f81890687 x86: don't use 'access_ok()' as a range check in get_user_pages_fast()
It's really not right to use 'access_ok()', since that is meant for the
normal "get_user()" and "copy_from/to_user()" accesses, which are done
through the TLB, rather than through the page tables.

Why? access_ok() does both too few, and too many checks.  Too many,
because it is meant for regular kernel accesses that will not honor the
'user' bit in the page tables, and because it honors the USER_DS vs
KERNEL_DS distinction that we shouldn't care about in GUP.  And too few,
because it doesn't do the 'canonical' check on the address on x86-64,
since the TLB will do that for us.

So instead of using a function that isn't meant for this, and does
something else and much more complicated, just do the real rules: we
don't want the range to overflow, and on x86-64, we want it to be a
canonical low address (on 32-bit, all addresses are canonical).

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-20 09:52:27 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 0c87197142 perf_counter, x86: Improve interactions with fast-gup
Improve a few details in perfcounter call-chain recording that
makes use of fast-GUP:

- Use ACCESS_ONCE() to observe the pte value. ptes are fundamentally
  racy and can be changed on another CPU, so we have to be careful
  about how we access them. The PAE branch is already careful with
  read-barriers - but the non-PAE and 64-bit side needs an
  ACCESS_ONCE() to make sure the pte value is observed only once.

- make the checks a bit stricter so that we can feed it any kind of
  cra^H^H^H user-space input ;-)

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-19 16:55:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 465a454f25 x86, mm: Add __get_user_pages_fast()
Introduce a gup_fast() variant which is usable from IRQ/NMI context.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-15 15:57:51 +02:00
Andy Grover a0d22f485a x86: Document get_user_pages_fast()
While better than get_user_pages(), the usage of gupf(),
especially the return values and the fact that it can
potentially only partially pin the range, warranted some
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Cc: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1239320729-3262-1-git-send-email-andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10 13:14:08 +02:00
Harvey Harrison 9352f5698d x86: two trivial sparse annotations
Impact: fewer sparse warnings, no functional changes

arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:87:14: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:87:14:    expected void const volatile [noderef] <asn:2>*addr
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:87:14:    got void *[assigned] address
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:88:22: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:88:22:    expected void const volatile [noderef] <asn:2>*addr
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:88:22:    got void *
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c💯23: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c💯23:    expected void volatile [noderef] <asn:2>*addr
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c💯23:    got void *
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:101:23: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:101:23:    expected void const volatile [noderef] <asn:2>*addr
arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c:101:23:    got void *
arch/x86/mm/gup.c:235:6: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
arch/x86/mm/gup.c:235:6:    expected void const volatile [noderef] <asn:1>*<noident>
arch/x86/mm/gup.c:235:6:    got unsigned long [unsigned] [assigned] start

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-29 08:02:28 +01:00
Jan Beulich 606ee44dbb x86: make mm/gup.c more virtualization friendly
Since pte_flags() is much cheaper than pte_val() in some virtualized
environments (namely, Xen), use the former whereever possible.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "Nick Piggin" <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13 10:21:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 9b79022ca9 Fix 'get_user_pages_fast()' with non-page-aligned start address
Alexey Dobriyan reported trouble with LTP with the new fast-gup code,
and Johannes Weiner debugged it to non-page-aligned addresses, where the
new get_user_pages_fast() code would do all the wrong things, including
just traversing past the end of the requested area due to 'addr' never
matching 'end' exactly.

This is not a pretty fix, and we may actually want to move the alignment
into generic code, leaving just the core code per-arch, but Alexey
verified that the vmsplice01 LTP test doesn't crash with this.

Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Debugged-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 17:54:21 -07:00
Nick Piggin 652ea69536 x86: support 1GB hugepages with get_user_pages_lockless()
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
Nick Piggin 8174c430e4 x86: lockless get_user_pages_fast()
Implement get_user_pages_fast without locking in the fastpath on x86.

Do an optimistic lockless pagetable walk, without taking mmap_sem or any
page table locks or even mmap_sem.  Page table existence is guaranteed by
turning interrupts off (combined with the fact that we're always looking
up the current mm, means we can do the lockless page table walk within the
constraints of the TLB shootdown design).  Basically we can do this
lockless pagetable walk in a similar manner to the way the CPU's pagetable
walker does not have to take any locks to find present ptes.

This patch (combined with the subsequent ones to convert direct IO to use
it) was found to give about 10% performance improvement on a 2 socket 8
core Intel Xeon system running an OLTP workload on DB2 v9.5

 "To test the effects of the patch, an OLTP workload was run on an IBM
  x3850 M2 server with 2 processors (quad-core Intel Xeon processors at
  2.93 GHz) using IBM DB2 v9.5 running Linux 2.6.24rc7 kernel.  Comparing
  runs with and without the patch resulted in an overall performance
  benefit of ~9.8%.  Correspondingly, oprofiles showed that samples from
  __up_read and __down_read routines that is seen during thread contention
  for system resources was reduced from 2.8% down to .05%.  Monitoring the
  /proc/vmstat output from the patched run showed that the counter for
  fast_gup contained a very high number while the fast_gup_slow value was
  zero."

(fast_gup is the old name for get_user_pages_fast, fast_gup_slow is a
counter we had for the number of times the slowpath was invoked).

The main reason for the improvement is that DB2 has multiple threads each
issuing direct-IO.  Direct-IO uses get_user_pages, and thus the threads
contend the mmap_sem cacheline, and can also contend on page table locks.

I would anticipate larger performance gains on larger systems, however I
think DB2 uses an adaptive mix of threads and processes, so it could be
that thread contention remains pretty constant as machine size increases.
In which case, we stuck with "only" a 10% gain.

The downside of using get_user_pages_fast is that if there is not a pte
with the correct permissions for the access, we end up falling back to
get_user_pages and so the get_user_pages_fast is a bit of extra work.
However this should not be the common case in most performance critical
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Kconfig fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Makefile fix/cleanup]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00