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Steven Rostedt
fed1939c64 ftrace: remove old pointers to mcount
When a mcount pointer is recorded into a table, it is used to add or
remove calls to mcount (replacing them with nops). If the code is removed
via removing a module, the pointers still exist.  At modifying the code
a check is always made to make sure the code being replaced is the code
expected. In-other-words, the code being replaced is compared to what
it is expected to be before being replaced.

There is a very small chance that the code being replaced just happens
to look like code that calls mcount (very small since the call to mcount
is relative). To remove this chance, this patch adds ftrace_release to
allow module unloading to remove the pointers to mcount within the module.

Another change for init calls is made to not trace calls marked with
__init. The tracing can not be started until after init is done anyway.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:12 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
28614889bc ftrace: move notrace to compiler.h
The notrace define belongs in compiler.h so that it can be used in
init.h

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:08 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
a9fdda33cd ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions
Seems that freed records can appear in the available_filter_functions list.
This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:05 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
732f3ca7d4 ftrace: use only 5 byte nops for x86
Mathieu Desnoyers revealed a bug in the original code. The nop that is
used to relpace the mcount caller can be a two part nop. This runs the
risk where a process can be preempted after executing the first nop, but
before the second part of the nop.

The ftrace code calls kstop_machine to keep multiple CPUs from executing
code that is being modified, but it does not protect against a task preempting
in the middle of a two part nop.

If the above preemption happens and the tracer is enabled, after the
kstop_machine runs, all those nops will be calls to the trace function.
If the preempted process that was preempted between the two nops is executed
again, it will execute half of the call to the trace function, and this
might crash the system.

This patch instead uses what both the latest Intel and AMD spec suggests.
That is the P6_NOP5 sequence of "0x0f 0x1f 0x44 0x00 0x00".

Note, some older CPUs and QEMU might fault on this nop, so this nop
is executed with fault handling first. If it detects a fault, it will then
use the code "0x66 0x66 0x66 0x66 0x90". If that faults, it will then
default to a simple "jmp 1f; .byte 0x00 0x00 0x00; 1:". The jmp is
not optimal but will do if the first two can not be executed.

TODO: Examine the cpuid to determine the nop to use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:01 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
0a37605c22 ftrace: x86 mcount stub
x86 now sets up the mcount locations through the build and no longer
needs to record the ip when the function is executed. This patch changes
the initial mcount to simply return. There's no need to do any other work.
If the ftrace start up test fails, the original mcount will be what everything
will use, so having this as fast as possible is a good thing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:58 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
e4b2b88661 ftrace: enable using mcount recording on x86
Enable the use of the __mcount_loc infrastructure on x86_64 and i386.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:54 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
29e71abf56 ftrace: rebuild everything on change to FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
When enabling or disabling CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD, we want a full
kernel compile to handle the adding of the __mcount_loc sections.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:51 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
90d595fe5c ftrace: enable mcount recording for modules
This patch enables the loading of the __mcount_section of modules and
changing all the callers of mcount into nops.

The modification is done before the init_module function is called, so
again, we do not need to use kstop_machine to make these changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:47 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
68bf21aa15 ftrace: mcount call site on boot nops core
This is the infrastructure to the converting the mcount call sites
recorded by the __mcount_loc section into nops on boot. It also allows
for using these sites to enable tracing as normal. When the __mcount_loc
section is used, the "ftraced" kernel thread is disabled.

This uses the current infrastructure to record the mcount call sites
as well as convert them to nops. The mcount function is kept as a stub
on boot up and not converted to the ftrace_record_ip function. We use the
ftrace_record_ip to only record from the table.

This patch does not handle modules. That comes with a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:44 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
8da3821ba5 ftrace: create __mcount_loc section
This patch creates a section in the kernel called "__mcount_loc".
This will hold a list of pointers to the mcount relocation for
each call site of mcount.

For example:

objdump -dr init/main.o
[...]
Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <do_one_initcall>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
[...]
000000000000017b <init_post>:
 17b:   55                      push   %rbp
 17c:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
 17f:   53                      push   %rbx
 180:   48 83 ec 08             sub    $0x8,%rsp
 184:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  189 <init_post+0xe>
                        185: R_X86_64_PC32      mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc
[...]

We will add a section to point to each function call.

   .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
[...]
   .quad .text + 0x185
[...]

The offset to of the mcount call site in init_post is an offset from
the start of the section, and not the start of the function init_post.
The mcount relocation is at the call site 0x185 from the start of the
.text section.

  .text + 0x185  == init_post + 0xa

We need a way to add this __mcount_loc section in a way that we do not
lose the relocations after final link.  The .text section here will
be attached to all other .text sections after final link and the
offsets will be meaningless.  We need to keep track of where these
.text sections are.

To do this, we use the start of the first function in the section.
do_one_initcall.  We can make a tmp.s file with this function as a reference
to the start of the .text section.

   .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
[...]
   .quad do_one_initcall + 0x185
[...]

Then we can compile the tmp.s into a tmp.o

  gcc -c tmp.s -o tmp.o

And link it into back into main.o.

  ld -r main.o tmp.o -o tmp_main.o
  mv tmp_main.o main.o

But we have a problem.  What happens if the first function in a section
is not exported, and is a static function. The linker will not let
the tmp.o use it.  This case exists in main.o as well.

Disassembly of section .init.text:

0000000000000000 <set_reset_devices>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
   1:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
   4:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  9 <set_reset_devices+0x9>
                        5: R_X86_64_PC32        mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc

The first function in .init.text is a static function.

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices

The lowercase 't' means that set_reset_devices is local and is not exported.
If we simply try to link the tmp.o with the set_reset_devices we end
up with two symbols: one local and one global.

 .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
 .quad set_reset_devices + 0x10

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices
                 U set_reset_devices

We still have an undefined reference to set_reset_devices, and if we try
to compile the kernel, we will end up with an undefined reference to
set_reset_devices, or even worst, it could be exported someplace else,
and then we will have a reference to the wrong location.

To handle this case, we make an intermediate step using objcopy.
We convert set_reset_devices into a global exported symbol before linking
it with tmp.o and set it back afterwards.

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices

Now we have a section in main.o called __mcount_loc that we can place
somewhere in the kernel using vmlinux.ld.S and access it to convert
all these locations that call mcount into nops before starting SMP
and thus, eliminating the need to do this with kstop_machine.

Note, A well documented perl script (scripts/recordmcount.pl) is used
to do all this in one location.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8b1fa1d7b2 ftrace: mark lapic_wd_event() notrace
it can be called in the NMI path:

[    0.645999] calling  ftrace_dynamic_init+0x0/0xd6
[    0.647521] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.647521] WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:348 ftrace_record_ip+0x4e/0x252()
[    0.647521] Modules linked in:
[    0.647521] Pid: 15, comm: kstop1 Not tainted 2.6.27-rc1-tip #22686
[    0.647521]
[    0.647521] Call Trace:
[    0.647521]  <NMI>  [<ffffffff8024593f>] warn_on_slowpath+0x5d/0x84
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80220b99>] ? lapic_wd_event+0xb/0x5c
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80287b3b>] ftrace_record_ip+0x4e/0x252
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80211274>] mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80220b9e>] ? lapic_wd_event+0x10/0x5c
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8083f3ec>] nmi_watchdog_tick+0x19d/0x1ad
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8083e875>] default_do_nmi+0x75/0x1e3
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8083f0b3>] do_nmi+0x5d/0x94
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8083e2d2>] nmi+0xa2/0xc2
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802b48c3>] ? check_bytes_and_report+0x11/0xcc
[    0.647521]  <<EOE>>  [<ffffffff80211274>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802b49df>] check_object+0x61/0x1b0
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802b502a>] __slab_free+0x169/0x2ae
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80242dbf>] ? __cleanup_sighand+0x25/0x27
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80242dbf>] ? __cleanup_sighand+0x25/0x27
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802b60cd>] kmem_cache_free+0x85/0xb9
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80242dbf>] __cleanup_sighand+0x25/0x27
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80247b3d>] release_task+0x256/0x339
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802490b4>] do_exit+0x764/0x7ef
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8027624c>] __xchg+0x0/0x38
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8027619a>] ? stop_cpu+0x0/0xb2
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8027619a>] ? stop_cpu+0x0/0xb2
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8025922f>] kthread+0x4e/0x7b
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80212979>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80211c17>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802283a5>] ? native_load_tls+0x14/0x2e
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802591e1>] ? kthread+0x0/0x7b
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8021296f>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x11
[    0.647521]
[    0.647521] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---
[    0.672032] initcall ftrace_dynamic_init+0x0/0xd6 returned 0 after 19 msecs

also mark it no-kprobes while at it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
36dcd67ae9 ftrace: ignore functions that cannot be kprobe-ed
kprobes already has an extensive list of annotations for functions
that should not be instrumented. Add notrace annotations to these
functions as well.

This is particularly useful for functions called by the NMI path.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:22 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
9795302acf tracepoints: use TABLE_SIZE macro
Steven Rostedt suggested:

| Wouldn't it look nicer to have: (TRACEPOINT_TABLE_SIZE - 1) ?

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:07 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
611b159768 x86: fix mmiotrace 8-bit register decoding
When SIL, DIL, BPL or SPL registers were used in MMIO, the datum
was extracted from AH, BH, CH, or DH, which are incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt" <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: proski@gnu.org
Cc: "Pekka Enberg"
	<penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:33:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5f87f11218 tracing: clean up tracepoints kconfig structure
do not expose users to CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS - tracers can select it
just fine.

update ftrace to select CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:33:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cf569a9322 sched: clean up tracepoints
make it a bit more structured hence more readable.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:33:14 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
fa340d9c05 tracing: disable tracepoints by default
while it's arguably low overhead, we dont enable new features by default.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:32:56 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
b07c3f193a ftrace: port to tracepoints
Porting the trace_mark() used by ftrace to tracepoints. (cleanup)

Changelog :
- Change error messages : marker -> tracepoint

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:32:26 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
0a16b60758 tracing, sched: LTTng instrumentation - scheduler
Instrument the scheduler activity (sched_switch, migration, wakeups,
wait for a task, signal delivery) and process/thread
creation/destruction (fork, exit, kthread stop). Actually, kthread
creation is not instrumented in this patch because it is architecture
dependent. It allows to connect tracers such as ftrace which detects
scheduling latencies, good/bad scheduler decisions. Tools like LTTng can
export this scheduler information along with instrumentation of the rest
of the kernel activity to perform post-mortem analysis on the scheduler
activity.

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added. See the "Tracepoints" patch header for
performance result detail.

Changelog :

- Change instrumentation location and parameter to match ftrace
  instrumentation, previously done with kernel markers.

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:30:52 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
4a0897526b tracing: tracepoints, samples
Tracepoint example code under samples/.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:29:05 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
24b8d831d5 tracing: tracepoints, documentation
Documentation of tracepoint usage.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:28:47 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
97e1c18e8d tracing: Kernel Tracepoints
Implementation of kernel tracepoints. Inspired from the Linux Kernel
Markers. Allows complete typing verification by declaring both tracing
statement inline functions and probe registration/unregistration static
inline functions within the same macro "DEFINE_TRACE". No format string
is required. See the tracepoint Documentation and Samples patches for
usage examples.

Taken from the documentation patch :

"A tracepoint placed in code provides a hook to call a function (probe)
that you can provide at runtime. A tracepoint can be "on" (a probe is
connected to it) or "off" (no probe is attached). When a tracepoint is
"off" it has no effect, except for adding a tiny time penalty (checking
a condition for a branch) and space penalty (adding a few bytes for the
function call at the end of the instrumented function and adds a data
structure in a separate section).  When a tracepoint is "on", the
function you provide is called each time the tracepoint is executed, in
the execution context of the caller. When the function provided ends its
execution, it returns to the caller (continuing from the tracepoint
site).

You can put tracepoints at important locations in the code. They are
lightweight hooks that can pass an arbitrary number of parameters, which
prototypes are described in a tracepoint declaration placed in a header
file."

Addition and removal of tracepoints is synchronized by RCU using the
scheduler (and preempt_disable) as guarantees to find a quiescent state
(this is really RCU "classic"). The update side uses rcu_barrier_sched()
with call_rcu_sched() and the read/execute side uses
"preempt_disable()/preempt_enable()".

We make sure the previous array containing probes, which has been
scheduled for deletion by the rcu callback, is indeed freed before we
proceed to the next update. It therefore limits the rate of modification
of a single tracepoint to one update per RCU period. The objective here
is to permit fast batch add/removal of probes on _different_
tracepoints.

Changelog :
- Use #name ":" #proto as string to identify the tracepoint in the
  tracepoint table. This will make sure not type mismatch happens due to
  connexion of a probe with the wrong type to a tracepoint declared with
  the same name in a different header.
- Add tracepoint_entry_free_old.
- Change __TO_TRACE to get rid of the 'i' iterator.

Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> :
Tested on x86-64.

Performance impact of a tracepoint : same as markers, except that it
adds about 70 bytes of instructions in an unlikely branch of each
instrumented function (the for loop, the stack setup and the function
call). It currently adds a memory read, a test and a conditional branch
at the instrumentation site (in the hot path). Immediate values will
eventually change this into a load immediate, test and branch, which
removes the memory read which will make the i-cache impact smaller
(changing the memory read for a load immediate removes 3-4 bytes per
site on x86_32 (depending on mov prefixes), or 7-8 bytes on x86_64, it
also saves the d-cache hit).

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added.

Quoting Hideo Aoki about Markers :

I evaluated overhead of kernel marker using linux-2.6-sched-fixes git
tree, which includes several markers for LTTng, using an ia64 server.

While the immediate trace mark feature isn't implemented on ia64, there
is no major performance regression. So, I think that we don't have any
issues to propose merging marker point patches into Linus's tree from
the viewpoint of performance impact.

I prepared two kernels to evaluate. The first one was compiled without
CONFIG_MARKERS. The second one was enabled CONFIG_MARKERS.

I downloaded the original hackbench from the following URL:
http://devresources.linux-foundation.org/craiger/hackbench/src/hackbench.c

I ran hackbench 5 times in each condition and calculated the average and
difference between the kernels.

    The parameter of hackbench: every 50 from 50 to 800
    The number of CPUs of the server: 2, 4, and 8

Below is the results. As you can see, major performance regression
wasn't found in any case. Even if number of processes increases,
differences between marker-enabled kernel and marker- disabled kernel
doesn't increase. Moreover, if number of CPUs increases, the differences
doesn't increase either.

Curiously, marker-enabled kernel is better than marker-disabled kernel
in more than half cases, although I guess it comes from the difference
of memory access pattern.

* 2 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      4.811   |       4.872  |  +0.061  |  +1.27  |
      100 |      9.854   |      10.309  |  +0.454  |  +4.61  |
      150 |     15.602   |      15.040  |  -0.562  |  -3.6   |
      200 |     20.489   |      20.380  |  -0.109  |  -0.53  |
      250 |     25.798   |      25.652  |  -0.146  |  -0.56  |
      300 |     31.260   |      30.797  |  -0.463  |  -1.48  |
      350 |     36.121   |      35.770  |  -0.351  |  -0.97  |
      400 |     42.288   |      42.102  |  -0.186  |  -0.44  |
      450 |     47.778   |      47.253  |  -0.526  |  -1.1   |
      500 |     51.953   |      52.278  |  +0.325  |  +0.63  |
      550 |     58.401   |      57.700  |  -0.701  |  -1.2   |
      600 |     63.334   |      63.222  |  -0.112  |  -0.18  |
      650 |     68.816   |      68.511  |  -0.306  |  -0.44  |
      700 |     74.667   |      74.088  |  -0.579  |  -0.78  |
      750 |     78.612   |      79.582  |  +0.970  |  +1.23  |
      800 |     85.431   |      85.263  |  -0.168  |  -0.2   |
--------------------------------------------------------------

* 4 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      2.586   |       2.584  |  -0.003  |  -0.1   |
      100 |      5.254   |       5.283  |  +0.030  |  +0.56  |
      150 |      8.012   |       8.074  |  +0.061  |  +0.76  |
      200 |     11.172   |      11.000  |  -0.172  |  -1.54  |
      250 |     13.917   |      14.036  |  +0.119  |  +0.86  |
      300 |     16.905   |      16.543  |  -0.362  |  -2.14  |
      350 |     19.901   |      20.036  |  +0.135  |  +0.68  |
      400 |     22.908   |      23.094  |  +0.186  |  +0.81  |
      450 |     26.273   |      26.101  |  -0.172  |  -0.66  |
      500 |     29.554   |      29.092  |  -0.461  |  -1.56  |
      550 |     32.377   |      32.274  |  -0.103  |  -0.32  |
      600 |     35.855   |      35.322  |  -0.533  |  -1.49  |
      650 |     39.192   |      38.388  |  -0.804  |  -2.05  |
      700 |     41.744   |      41.719  |  -0.025  |  -0.06  |
      750 |     45.016   |      44.496  |  -0.520  |  -1.16  |
      800 |     48.212   |      47.603  |  -0.609  |  -1.26  |
--------------------------------------------------------------

* 8 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      2.094   |       2.072  |  -0.022  |  -1.07  |
      100 |      4.162   |       4.273  |  +0.111  |  +2.66  |
      150 |      6.485   |       6.540  |  +0.055  |  +0.84  |
      200 |      8.556   |       8.478  |  -0.078  |  -0.91  |
      250 |     10.458   |      10.258  |  -0.200  |  -1.91  |
      300 |     12.425   |      12.750  |  +0.325  |  +2.62  |
      350 |     14.807   |      14.839  |  +0.032  |  +0.22  |
      400 |     16.801   |      16.959  |  +0.158  |  +0.94  |
      450 |     19.478   |      19.009  |  -0.470  |  -2.41  |
      500 |     21.296   |      21.504  |  +0.208  |  +0.98  |
      550 |     23.842   |      23.979  |  +0.137  |  +0.57  |
      600 |     26.309   |      26.111  |  -0.198  |  -0.75  |
      650 |     28.705   |      28.446  |  -0.259  |  -0.9   |
      700 |     31.233   |      31.394  |  +0.161  |  +0.52  |
      750 |     34.064   |      33.720  |  -0.344  |  -1.01  |
      800 |     36.320   |      36.114  |  -0.206  |  -0.57  |
--------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:28:28 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e7f2f9918c Merge phase #5 (misc) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
Merges oprofile, timers/hpet, x86/traps, x86/time, and x86/core misc items.

* 'x86-core-v4-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (132 commits)
  x86: change early_ioremap to use slots instead of nesting
  x86: adjust dependencies for CONFIG_X86_CMOV
  dumpstack: x86: various small unification steps, fix
  x86: remove additional_cpus
  x86: remove additional_cpus configurability
  x86: improve UP kernel when CPU-hotplug and SMP is enabled
  dumpstack: x86: various small unification steps
  dumpstack: i386: make kstack= an early boot-param and add oops=panic
  dumpstack: x86: use log_lvl and unify trace formatting
  dumptrace: x86: consistently include loglevel, print stack switch
  dumpstack: x86: add "end" parameter to valid_stack_ptr and print_context_stack
  dumpstack: x86: make printk_address equal
  dumpstack: x86: move die_nmi to dumpstack_32.c
  traps: x86: finalize unification of traps.c
  traps: x86: make traps_32.c and traps_64.c equal
  traps: x86: various noop-changes preparing for unification of traps_xx.c
  traps: x86_64: use task_pid_nr(tsk) instead of tsk->pid in do_general_protection
  traps: i386: expand clear_mem_error and remove from mach_traps.h
  traps: x86_64: make io_check_error equal to the one on i386
  traps: i386: use preempt_conditional_sti/cli in do_int3
  ...
2008-10-13 09:54:45 -07:00
Alan Cox
11a96d1820 tty: rename the remaining oddly named n_tty functions
Original idea for this from a patch by Rodolfo Giometti which merges various
bits of PPS support

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:45 -07:00
Alan Cox
a18992d465 fs3270: Correct error returns
Drop the kernel lock further and also correct cases where we set rc to an
error code, and then return 0

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Alan Cox
a90610e50b fs3270: remove extra locks
get_current_tty now does internal locking and returns a referenced object,
thus our use of tty_mutex here can go away.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Jason Wessel
402fda9201 tty: tty_io.c shadows sparse fix
drivers/char/tty_io.c:1413:17: warning: symbol 'buf' shadows an earlier one
drivers/char/tty_io.c:1379:20: originally declared here

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
David S. Miller
8440838bc5 serial: fix device name reporting when minor space is shared between drivers
The multiple drivers share the minor space occupied by a particular major
number, the actual index within the device name's space is indicated by
the tty_driver->name_base + uart_port->line

Another usable formula is (uart_driver->minor - MINOR_BASE) + port->line

Use those to print the device names properly in such situations in
serial_core.c and 8250.c

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Alan Cox
a7be18d436 applicom: Fix an unchecked user ioctl range and an error return
Closes bug #11408 by checking the card index range for command 0
Fixes the ioctl to return ENOTTY which is correct for unknown ioctls

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Alan Cox
17b820606e tty: Minor tidyups and document fixes for n_tty
Remove/fix some bogus NULL checks, comment some locking etc

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Alan Cox
51383f69ec tty: Remove lots of NULL checks
Many tty drivers contain 'can't happen' checks against NULL pointers passed
in by the tty layer. These have never been possible to occur. Even more
importantly if they ever do occur we want to know as it would be a serious
bug.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Alan Cox
ea1afd2562 tty: fix up gigaset a bit
Stephen's fixes reminded me that gigaset is still rather broken so fix it up
a bit

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
53e86317e9 tty: Fallout from tty-move-canon-specials
Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this:

/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c: In function 'change_termios':
drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c🔢 error: implicit declaration of function 'n_tty_ioctl'
drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c: In function 'gigaset_tty_ioctl':
drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c:648: error: implicit declaration of function 'n_tty_ioctl'

Introduced by commit 686b5e4aea05a80e370dc931b7f4a8d03c80da54
("tty-move-canon-specials").  I added the following patch (which may not
be correct).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Alan Cox
47afa7a5a8 tty: some ICANON magic is in the wrong places
Move the set up on ldisc change into the ldisc
Move the INQ/OUTQ cases into the driver not in shared ioctl code where it
gives bogus answers for other ldisc values

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Alan Cox
fe6e29fdb1 tty: simplify ktermios allocation
Copy the simplification from the pty unix98 special case to the generic one.
This allows us to kill off driver->termios_locked entirely which is nice. We
have to whack bits of the cris driver as it meddles in places it shouldn't
providing its own arrays that were never used anyway.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Alan Cox
8dff04ea31 pty: simplify unix98 allocation
We need both termios and termios_locked so allocate them as one

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Alan Cox
335adde689 pty: Fix allocation failure double free
The updating and moving around of the pty code added a bug where both the
helper and caller free the main tty struct (the pty driver must free the
o_tty pair itself however).

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:44 -07:00
Alan Cox
fe9cd962a6 pty: Coding style and polish
We've done the heavy lifting now its time to mop up a bit

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:43 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
a6f37daa8b Simplify devpts_pty_kill
When creating a new pty, save the pty's inode in the tty->driver_data.
Use this inode in pty_kill() to identify the devpts instance. Since
we now have the inode for the pty, we can skip get_node() lookup and
remove the unused get_node().

TODO:
	- check if the mutex_lock is needed in pty_kill().

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:43 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
89a52e109e Simplify devpts_pty_new()
devpts_pty_new() is called when setting up a new pty and would not
will not have an existing dentry or inode for the pty. So don't bother
looking for an existing dentry - just create a new one.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:43 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
527b3e4773 Simplify devpts_get_tty()
As pointed out by H. Peter Anvin, since the inode for the pty is known,
we don't need to look it up.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:43 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
15f1a6338d Add an instance parameter devpts interfaces
Pass-in 'inode' or 'tty' parameter to devpts interfaces.  With multiple
devpts instances, these parameters will be used in subsequent patches
to identify the instance of devpts mounted. The parameters also help
simplify devpts implementation.

Changelog[v3]:
	- minor changes due to merge with ttydev updates
	- rename parameters to emphasize they are ptmx or pts inodes
	- pass-in tty_struct * to devpts_pty_kill() (this will help
	  cleanup the get_node() call in a subsequent patch)

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:43 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
4a2b5fddd5 Move tty lookup/reopen to caller
Move tty_driver_lookup_tty() and tty_reopen() from tty_init_dev()
into tty_open() (one of the two callers of tty_init_dev()).  These
calls are not really required in ptmx_open(), the other caller,
since ptmx_open() would be setting up a new tty.

Changelog[v2]:
	- remove the lookup and reopen calls from ptmx_open
	- merge with recent changes to ttydev tree

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:43 -07:00
Alan Cox
bf970ee46e tty: extract the pty init time special cases
The majority of the remaining init_dev code is pty special cases. We
refactor this code into the driver->install method.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:43 -07:00
Alan Cox
73ec06fc5f tty: Finish fixing up the init_dev interface to use ERR_PTR
Original suggestion and proposal from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:43 -07:00
Alan Cox
8b0a88d591 tty: More driver operations
We have the lookup operation abstracted which is nice for pty cleanup but
we really want to abstract the add/remove entries as well so that we can
pull the pty code out of the tty core and create a clear defined interface
for the tty driver table.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:42 -07:00
Alan Cox
7d7b93c145 tty: kref the tty driver object
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:42 -07:00
Alan Cox
99f1fe189d tty: Clean up the tty_init_dev changes further
Fix up the naming, style and extract some bits of code into the driver
specific code

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:42 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2349970575 tty: Move parts of tty_init_dev into new functions
Move the 'find-tty' and 'fast-track-open' parts of init_dev() to
separate functions.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:42 -07:00
Alan Cox
d81ed10307 tty: Remove more special casing and out of place code
Carry on pushing code out of tty_io when it belongs to other drivers. I'm
not 100% happy with some of this and it will be worth revisiting some of the
exports later when the restructuring work is done.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:42 -07:00