One problem with frequency driven counters is that we cannot
predict the rate at which they trigger, therefore we have to
start them at period=1, this causes a ramp up effect. However,
if we fail to propagate the stable state on fork each new child
will have to ramp up again. This can lead to significant
artifacts in sample data.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264752266.4283.2121.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The return values of the kprobe's tracing functions are meaningless,
lets remove these.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B60E9A3.2040505@cn.fujitsu.com>
[fweisbec@gmail: whitespace fixes, drop useless void returns in end
of functions]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Introduce ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and ftrace_perf_buf_submit() to
gather the common code that operates on raw events sampling buffer.
This cleans up redundant code between regular trace events, syscall
events and kprobe events.
Changelog v1->v2:
- Rename function name as per Masami and Frederic's suggestion
- Add __kprobes for ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and make
ftrace_perf_buf_submit() inline as per Masami's suggestion
- Export ftrace_perf_buf_prepare since modules will use it
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B60E92D.9000808@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
On a given architecture, when hardware breakpoint registration fails
due to un-supported access type (read/write/execute), we lose the bp
slot since register_perf_hw_breakpoint() does not release the bp slot
on failure.
Hence, any subsequent hardware breakpoint registration starts failing
with 'no space left on device' error.
This patch introduces error handling in register_perf_hw_breakpoint()
function and releases bp slot on error.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100121125516.GA32521@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
There was a bug in the old period code that caused intel_pmu_enable_all()
or native_write_msr_safe() to show up quite high in the profiles.
In staring at that code it made my head hurt, so I rewrote it in a
hopefully simpler fashion. Its now fully symetric between tick and
overflow driven adjustments and uses less data to boot.
The only complication is that it basically wants to do a u128 division.
The code approximates that in a rather simple truncate until it fits
fashion, taking care to balance the terms while truncating.
This version does not generate that sampling artefact.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
clockevent: Don't remove broadcast device when cpu is dead
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.33:
mtd: tests: fix read, speed and stress tests on NOR flash
mtd: Really add ARM pismo support
kmsg_dump: Dump on crash_kexec as well
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: x86: Add support for the ANY bit
perf: Change the is_software_event() definition
perf: Honour event state for aux stream data
perf: Fix perf_event_do_pending() fallback callsite
perf kmem: Print usage help for unknown commands
perf kmem: Increase "Hit" column length
hw-breakpoints, perf: Fix broken mmiotrace due to dr6 by reference change
perf timechart: Use tid not pid for COMM change
Anton reported that perf record kept receiving events even after calling
ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE). It turns out that FORK,COMM and MMAP
events didn't respect the disabled state and kept flowing in.
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1263459187.4244.265.camel@laptop>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul questioned the context in which we should call
perf_event_do_pending(). After looking at that I found that it should be
called from IRQ context these days, however the fallback call-site is
placed in softirq context. Ammend this by placing the callback in the IRQ
timer path.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1263374859.4244.192.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Assume A->B schedule is processing, if B have acquired BKL before and it
need reschedule this time. Then on B's context, it will go to
need_resched_nonpreemptible for reschedule. But at this time, prev and
switch_count are related to A. It's wrong and will lead to incorrect
scheduler statistics.
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <2674af741001102238w7b0ddcadref00d345e2181d11@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
SD_PREFER_SIBLING is set at the CPU domain level if power saving isn't
enabled, leading to many cache misses on large machines as we traverse
looking for an idle shared cache to wake to. Change the enabler of
select_idle_sibling() to SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES, and enable same at the
sibling domain level.
Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1262612696.15495.15.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Marc reported that the BUG_ON in clockevents_notify() triggers on his
system. This happens because the kernel tries to remove an active
clock event device (used for broadcasting) from the device list.
The handling of devices which can be used as per cpu device and as a
global broadcast device is suboptimal.
The simplest solution for now (and for stable) is to check whether the
device is used as global broadcast device, but this needs to be
revisited.
[ tglx: restored the cpuweight check and massaged the changelog ]
Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1262834564-13033-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
When a task gets scheduled in. We don't touch the cpu bound events
so the priority order becomes:
cpu pinned, cpu flexible, task pinned, task flexible.
So schedule out cpu flexibles when a new task context gets in
and correctly order the groups to schedule in:
task pinned, cpu flexible, task flexible.
Cpu pinned groups don't need to be touched at this time.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
We don't need to schedule in/out pinned events on task tick,
now that pinned and flexible groups can be scheduled separately.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Tune the scheduling helpers so that we can choose to schedule either
pinned and/or flexible groups from a context.
And while at it, refactor a bit the naming of these helpers to make
these more consistent and flexible.
There is no (intended) change in scheduling behaviour in this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
__perf_event_sched_out doesn't need to be globally available, make
it static.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Update kprobe tracing self test for new syntax (it supports
deleting individual probes, and drops $argN support)
and behavior change (new probes are disabled in default).
This selftest includes the following checks:
- Adding function-entry probe and return probe with arguments.
- Enabling these probes.
- Deleting it individually.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100114051211.7814.29436.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing/filters: Add comment for match callbacks
tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FULL filter matching for PTR_STRING
tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_MIDDLE_ONLY filter matching
lib: Introduce strnstr()
tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY filter matching
tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FRONT_ONLY filter matching
ftrace: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY function filter
tracing/x86: Derive arch from bits argument in recordmcount.pl
ring-buffer: Add rb_list_head() wrapper around new reader page next field
ring-buffer: Wrap a list.next reference with rb_list_head()
The change in acpi_cpufreq to use smp_call_function_any causes a warning
when it is called since the function erroneously passes the cpu id to
cpumask_of_node rather than the node that the cpu is on. Fix this.
cpumask_of_node(3): node > nr_node_ids(1)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33-rc3-00097-g2c1f189 #223
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81028bb3>] cpumask_of_node+0x23/0x58
[<ffffffff81061f51>] smp_call_function_any+0x65/0xfa
[<ffffffff810160d1>] ? do_drv_read+0x0/0x2f
[<ffffffff81015fba>] get_cur_val+0xb0/0x102
[<ffffffff81016080>] get_cur_freq_on_cpu+0x74/0xc5
[<ffffffff810168a7>] acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init+0x417/0x515
[<ffffffff81562ce9>] ? __down_write+0xb/0xd
[<ffffffff8148055e>] cpufreq_add_dev+0x278/0x922
Signed-off-by: David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On my first try using them I missed that the fifos need to be power of
two, resulting in a runtime bug. Document that requirement everywhere
(and fix one grammar bug)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In some upcoming code it's useful to peek into a FIFO without permanentely
removing data. This patch implements a new kfifo_out_peek() to do this.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Right now for kfifo_*_user it's not easily possible to distingush between
a user copy failing and the FIFO not containing enough data. The problem
is that both conditions are multiplexed into the same return code.
Avoid this by moving the "copy length" into a separate output parameter
and only return 0/-EFAULT in the main return value.
I didn't fully adapt the weird "record" variants, those seem
to be unused anyways and were rather messy (should they be just removed?)
I would appreciate some double checking if I did all the conversions
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The pointers to user buffers are currently unsigned char *, which requires
a lot of casting in the caller for any non-char typed buffers. Use void *
instead.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Before scheduling an event group, we first check if a group can go
on. We first check if the group is made of software only events
first, in which case it is enough to know if the group can be
scheduled in.
For that purpose, we iterate through the whole group, which is
wasteful as we could do this check when we add/delete an event to
a group.
So we create a group_flags field in perf event that can host
characteristics from a group of events, starting with a first
PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE flag that reduces the check on the fast path.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
This is more proper that doing it through a list_for_each_entry()
that breaks after the first entry.
v2: Don't rotate pinned groups as its not needed to time share
them.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Split-up struct perf_event_context::group_list into pinned_groups
and flexible_groups (non-pinned).
This first appears to be useless as it duplicates various loops around
the group list handlings.
But it scales better in the fast-path in perf_sched_in(). We don't
anymore iterate twice through the entire list to separate pinned and
non-pinned scheduling. Instead we interate through two distinct lists.
The another desired effect is that it makes easier to define distinct
scheduling rules on both.
Changes in v2:
- Respectively rename pinned_grp_list and
volatile_grp_list into pinned_groups and flexible_groups as per
Ingo suggestion.
- Various cleanups
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
We should be clear on 2 things:
- the length parameter of a match callback includes
tailing '\0'.
- the string to be searched might not be NULL-terminated.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8770.7000608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
MATCH_FULL matching for PTR_STRING is not working correctly:
# echo 'func == vt' > events/bkl/lock_kernel/filter
# echo 1 > events/bkl/lock_kernel/enable
...
# cat trace
Xorg-1484 [000] 1973.392586: lock_kernel: ... func=vt_ioctl()
gpm-1402 [001] 1974.027740: lock_kernel: ... func=vt_ioctl()
We should pass to regex.match(..., len) the length (including '\0')
of the source string instead of the length of the pattern string.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8763.5070707@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The @str might not be NULL-terminated if it's of type
DYN_STRING or STATIC_STRING, so we should use strnstr()
instead of strstr().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8753.2000102@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
For '*foo' pattern, we should allow any string ending with
'foo', but event filtering incorrectly disallows strings
like bar_foo_foo:
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8735.6070604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
MATCH_FRONT_ONLY actually is a full matching:
# ./perf record -R -f -a -e lock:lock_acquire \
--filter 'name ~rcu_*' sleep 1
# ./perf trace
(no output)
We should pass the length of the pattern string to strncmp().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8721.5090301@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
perf_event_task_sched_in() expects interrupts to be disabled,
but on architectures with __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
defined, this isn't true. If this is defined, disable irqs
around the call in finish_task_switch().
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1262964453-27370-1-git-send-email-jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Drop function argument access syntax, because the function
arguments depend on not only architecture but also
compile-options and function API. And now, we have perf-probe
for finding register/memory assigned to each argument.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
LKML-Reference: <20100105224648.19431.52309.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently, futexes have two problem:
A) The current futex code doesn't handle private file mappings properly.
get_futex_key() uses PageAnon() to distinguish file and
anon, which can cause the following bad scenario:
1) thread-A call futex(private-mapping, FUTEX_WAIT), it
sleeps on file mapping object.
2) thread-B writes a variable and it makes it cow.
3) thread-B calls futex(private-mapping, FUTEX_WAKE), it
wakes up blocked thread on the anonymous page. (but it's nothing)
B) Current futex code doesn't handle zero page properly.
Read mode get_user_pages() can return zero page, but current
futex code doesn't handle it at all. Then, zero page makes
infinite loop internally.
The solution is to use write mode get_user_page() always for
page lookup. It prevents the lookup of both file page of private
mappings and zero page.
Performance concerns:
Probaly very little, because glibc always initialize variables
for futex before to call futex(). It means glibc users never see
the overhead of this patch.
Compatibility concerns:
This patch has few compatibility issues. After this patch,
FUTEX_WAIT require writable access to futex variables (read-only
mappings makes EFAULT). But practically it's not a problem,
glibc always initalizes variables for futexes explicitly - nobody
uses read-only mappings.
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100105162633.45A2.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When print-fatal-signals is enabled it's possible to dump any memory
reachable by the kernel to the log by simply jumping to that address from
user space.
Or crash the system if there's some hardware with read side effects.
The fatal signals handler will dump 16 bytes at the execution address,
which is fully controlled by ring 3.
In addition when something jumps to a unmapped address there will be up to
16 additional useless page faults, which might be potentially slow (and at
least is not very efficient)
Fortunately this option is off by default and only there on i386.
But fix it by checking for kernel addresses and also stopping when there's
a page fault.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The LTP cgroup test suite generates a "kernel BUG at kernel/cgroup.c:790!"
here in cgroup_diput():
/*
* if we're getting rid of the cgroup, refcount should ensure
* that there are no pidlists left.
*/
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cgrp->pidlists));
The cgroup pidlist rework in 2.6.32 generates the BUG_ON, which is caused
when pidlist_array_load() calls cgroup_pidlist_find():
(1) if a matching cgroup_pidlist is found, it down_write's the mutex of the
pre-existing cgroup_pidlist, and increments its use_count.
(2) if no matching cgroup_pidlist is found, then a new one is allocated, it
down_write's its mutex, and the use_count is set to 0.
(3) the matching, or new, cgroup_pidlist gets returned back to pidlist_array_load(),
which increments its use_count -- regardless whether new or pre-existing --
and up_write's the mutex.
So if a matching list is ever encountered by cgroup_pidlist_find() during
the life of a cgroup directory, it results in an inflated use_count value,
preventing it from ever getting released by cgroup_release_pid_array().
Then if the directory is subsequently removed, cgroup_diput() hits the
BUG_ON() when it finds that the directory's cgroup is still populated with
a pidlist.
The patch simply removes the use_count increment when a matching pidlist
is found by cgroup_pidlist_find(), because it gets bumped by the calling
pidlist_array_load() function while still protected by the list's mutex.
Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix resource (write-pipe file) leak in call_usermodehelper_pipe().
When call_usermodehelper_exec() fails, write-pipe file is opened and
call_usermodehelper_pipe() just returns an error. Since it is hard for
caller to determine whether the error occured when opening the pipe or
executing the helper, the caller cannot close the pipe by themselves.
I've found this resoruce leak when testing coredump. You can check how
the resource leaks as below;
$ echo "|nocommand" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
$ ulimit -c unlimited
$ while [ 1 ]; do ./segv; done &> /dev/null &
$ cat /proc/meminfo (<- repeat it)
where segv.c is;
//-----
int main () {
char *p = 0;
*p = 1;
}
//-----
This patch closes write-pipe file if call_usermodehelper_exec() failed.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.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>
If the very unlikely case happens where the writer moves the head by one
between where the head page is read and where the new reader page
is assigned _and_ the writer then writes and wraps the entire ring buffer
so that the head page is back to what was originally read as the head page,
the page to be swapped will have a corrupted next pointer.
Simple solution is to wrap the assignment of the next pointer with a
rb_list_head().
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This reference at the end of rb_get_reader_page() was causing off-by-one
writes to the prev pointer of the page after the reader page when that
page is the head page, and therefore the reader page has the RB_PAGE_HEAD
flag in its list.next pointer. This eventually results in a GPF in a
subsequent call to rb_set_head_page() (usually from rb_get_reader_page())
when that prev pointer is dereferenced. The dereferenced register would
characteristically have an address that appears shifted left by one byte
(eg, ffxxxxxxxxxxxxyy instead of ffffxxxxxxxxxxxx) due to being written at
an address one byte too high.
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1262826727-9090-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 35dead4 "modules: don't export section names of empty sections
via sysfs" changed the set of sections that have attributes, but did
not change the iteration over these attributes in add_notes_attrs().
This can lead to add_notes_attrs() creating attributes with the wrong
names or with null name pointers.
Introduce a sect_empty() function and use it in both add_sect_attrs()
and add_notes_attrs().
Reported-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf kmem: Fix statistics typo
kprobes: Fix distinct type warning
perf: Rename perf_event_hw_event in design document
perf tools: Add missing header files to LIB_H Makefile variable
perf record: We should fork only if a program was specified to run
perf diff: Fix usage array, it must end with a NULL entry
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Fix sign fields in ftrace_define_fields_##call()
tracing/syscalls: Fix typo in SYSCALL_DEFINE0
tracing/kprobe: Show sign of fields in trace_kprobe format files
ksym_tracer: Remove trace_stat
ksym_tracer: Fix race when incrementing count
ksym_tracer: Fix to allow writing newline to ksym_trace_filter
ksym_tracer: Fix to make the tracer work
tracing: Kconfig spelling fixes and cleanups
tracing: Fix setting tracer specific options
Documentation: Update ftrace-design.txt
Documentation: Update tracepoint-analysis.txt
Documentation: Update mmiotrace.txt
crash_kexec gets called before kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) if
panic_on_oops is set, so the kernel log buffer is not stored
for this case.
This patch adds a KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC dump type which gets called
when crash_kexec() is invoked. To avoid getting double dumps,
the old KMSG_DUMP_PANIC is moved below crash_kexec(). The
mtdoops driver is modified to handle KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC in the
same way as a panic.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Ingo Molnar
Peter Zijlstra
Xiao Guangrong
Mahesh Salgaonkar
Peter Zijlstra
Linus Torvalds
Yong Zhang
Mike Galbraith
Xiaotian Feng
Frederic Weisbecker
Masami Hiramatsu
David John
Andi Kleen
Li Zefan
Jamie Iles
KOSAKI Motohiro
Dave Anderson
Steven Rostedt
David Sharp
Ben Hutchings